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And if you are low on resources, why not send your army next door? If you can mobilize the maximum percent, and send them, resource grabs make sense. Look at the Japanese in WWII. If they had stuck with the resource grab, and not picked a fight on top of it, things probably would have been differen...

http://tutorialfeed.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/jquery-facial-recognition.jpg http://tutorialfeed.net/development/jquery-facial-recognition Above is a link to a page showing what appears to be C++ algorithms for doing facial recognition on the fly. (real time.) It is a short step from locating a...

Absolutely agree with Firefly and Rome. Very good shows. I'm going to agree with honorable mention for Lost here, and also add in X-Files. On that point, I'm going to add this idea: X-Files Syndrome. X-Files Syndrome is when you have a sci-fi show with good actors, good production values, and a ver...

I did like some of Monk, and stuff like Mythbusters. The episode of Mythbusters where the revisit the car cut in half by snowplow myth by building a steel wedge onto a rocket powered sled, launching it at 550 MPH, and cutting a car in half, engine block and all, might be my single favorite moment i...

Firefly BSG (reimagined) SG-SG1/SGA Supernatural X-Files Fringe (essentially X-Files II but funnier) Last Exile Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood Sanctuary American Dad Family Guy Simpsons Doctor Who (new shows, esp latest season) Farscape Lost The Prisoner (I dispute that The Prisoner doesnt make a...

Seems to me like these brain differences between careful and adventurous people had already been identified and the only actual new thing they figured out was that: Careful people tend to answer "conservative". Adventurous people tend to answer "liberal". Wow. Amazing. If that is so, why do liberal...

Also, the cnt would need an insulating coating, no? Just as raw copper wire is not as good as wire that has an enamel coating. The electrons have to go round and round. A bunch of cnt formed into a doughnut will just act like a big doughnut of copper-instant short circuit. Maybe we could geneticall...

The arguement was that for primates to develop brains from the size of a chimp to a modern human would require an easy to digest high energy cooked animal protein diet. The rational being that a diet of raw meat or raw vegetables requires too much energy to digest, leaving too little energy to supp...

And, on the AGW topic: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-climate-berkeley-20110404,0,772697.story Best wishes, Tom Problem with that story is that BEST hasn't actually completed their work, Muller was just spewing his prejudices backed up by a random sampling of a small number of temperature ...

A magnetic field of a certain strength has a certain amount of energy stored in it, no? And if that energy dumps instananeously, either due to short circuit or quenching, that energy will be released. Shazam, big explosion. The SCs tend to be more spectacular because they can create stronger fields...

How do these results affect, if at all, thermalization issues as well as radiation shielding requirements?

Personally, I think that Moore is an IDIOT on many levels. I also find it amusing for him to make the argument. How much is he worth these days? It would appear his net worth is directly proportional to his net mass. Beyond being rich, while he claims to support unions, he has been rather vicious a...

Any high power magnet will produce the same degree of spectacular end result if it "fails". The faily low power WB6 fried itself pretty good. My question is whether it is practical to superpose a whole bunch of low field SC magnets (parallel windings) rather than dump the entire current thru one wi...

Several pieces of information would be required to answer your question. First, how sensitive is the nano-tube to neutron bombardment? Second, are there magnetic field effects on that conductivity? Third, how does temperature effect the conductivity? The answers to these and other such questions, w...

You act as if all that $50 trillion held by the top 25% is just a lot of bricks of gold or specie, cash that can easily be spread around so everyone can go on a, eat/drink/be merry binge. It isn't. The value of those assets plummets if you try to liquidate it all at once, because of course, when you...