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- 2016-03-15 07:00pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Every English school to become an academy
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2942
Re: Every English school to become an academy
More unqualified teachers. Yay?
- 2016-02-25 04:06pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Some Shit India needs to sort out
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5562
Re: Some Shit India needs to sort out
This was the subject of a meme which originated on 4chan after an Indian poster on /int/ claimed that people only defecate in "designated shitting streets".
- 2016-02-25 02:57pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Biofuels are a waste of time
- Replies: 88
- Views: 28498
Re: Biofuels are a waste of time
Also relevant : https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/log_scale.png Isn't this energy density, amazing as it is, offset somewhat by the need to reprocess fuel elements (which costs energy)? Granted I'm of the opinion that nuclear fission should be part of any sustainable energy solution worth pursuing, but ...
- 2016-02-03 01:01am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: XBox Live / Wii Friend / PSN Codes / PC (Steam)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 67260
Re: XBox Live / Wii Friend / PSN Codes / PC (Steam)
I am noxion3000 or ÑóẊîöʼn on Steam, depending on how it's supposed to work. I've also joined the Steam group.
- 2015-10-21 02:59pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Breaking: Alzheimers disease the result of fungal infection
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6027
Re: Breaking: Alzheimers disease the result of fungal infect
Given that fungal cells possess a cell wall and animal cells do not, would it not be possible at least in principle to develop an anti-fungal medication that works by attacking fungal cell walls? Do fungal cell walls provide any protection from the immune system of the host?
- 2015-10-18 05:55pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Scientists suspect alien structure around star.
- Replies: 74
- Views: 15239
Re: Scientists suspect alien structure around star.
I think we might also be overestimating our ability to detect starfaring civilisations. The kind of things that seem to be most often talked about in terms of spotting evidence for ET civs include things like Dyson swarms and big fuck-off torchship rockets. But if most of them are building much smal...
- 2015-10-18 05:40pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: You see, money doesn’t exist in the 24th century
- Replies: 68
- Views: 8690
Re: You see, money doesn’t exist in the 24th century
Would the US Navy test its officers by making a captain take a 1950s era destroyer against an Arliegh Burke as a challenge? That would have no value for either side. They might if they were facing the prospect of fighting a massively superior foe in open warfare. Since the US Navy has never faced a...
- 2015-10-18 05:32pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Scientists suspect alien structure around star.
- Replies: 74
- Views: 15239
Re: Scientists suspect alien structure around star.
In the unlikely event that it is some kind of Dyson swarm, let's hope that it's not a Griefer.
- 2015-10-18 05:24pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Why don't we have an orbital ring?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8950
Re: Why don't we have an orbital ring?
Probably the same kind of reasons we don't have any supersonic passenger aircraft any more. The political will doesn't exist (looks like the ring would involve multiple countries thinking on the same page), and the blind idiot god of the market doesn't demand it badly enough. It's not just technical...
- 2015-10-18 05:06pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Megastructures
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5982
Re: Megastructures
You'd also need to be able to manufacture large amounts of highly reliable and energy-efficient redundant gravity generators if you want to be able to live on the inside surface like on a planet. If such a structure were to be constructed by some long-gone race and then discovered by an interstellar...
- 2015-10-17 11:01am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Megastructures
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5982
Re: Megastructures
I did some calculations because I was curious. For a population of a trillion people, a Ringworld provides 942km2 of space per inhabitant, assuming an inside radius of 1AU (1.5e8 km). That's a hell of a lot of room, especially when one considers that human inhabitants are likely to congregate in set...
- 2015-10-15 02:50pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Nudes Are Old News at Playboy
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3551
Re: Nudes Are Old News at Playboy
Even if you don't have a smartphone, I believe Razzle magazine is still putting out issues.
Heheh. Issues.
Heheh. Issues.
- 2015-10-06 08:56pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Sharpe's Arena
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1644
Re: Sharpe's Arena
Interesting. I didn't think that Gladiator fights were that tame. Here's a quote from a listicle from History.com: They didn’t always fight to the death. Hollywood movies and television shows often depict gladiatorial bouts as a bloody free-for-all, but most fights operated under fairly strict rules...
- 2015-10-06 06:14pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Sharpe's Arena
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1644
Sharpe's Arena
Richard Sharpe and his encounter with the Gladiators Had this idea on the way back from work. Not sure if this is the right sub-forum for it. Not long after the events of Sharpe's Sword , a bored Random Omnipotent Being plucks Our Hero from his home reality and dumps him in the Colosseum in Rome at...
- 2015-09-28 10:44am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: European refugee crisis thread
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 147095
Re: European refugee crisis thread
We don't have a housing shortage in the UK. What we have a shortage of are homes that are affordable to people who aren't yuppie scum or worse.
- 2015-09-11 04:59pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: European refugee crisis thread
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 147095
Re: European refugee crisis thread
How long would it take for the Middle East to run out of refugees? Since there aren't an infinite amount of people living there it stands to reason that such throughput can't be sustained indefinitely.
- 2015-08-21 04:03pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Sweden Democrats become Sweden’s largest party
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3016
Re: Sweden Democrats become Sweden’s largest party
Is this the same YouGov that publishes polls in the UK? Could reflect poorly on results here if so...
- 2015-08-21 03:59pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: ISIS destroys Mar Elian
- Replies: 71
- Views: 6840
Re: ISIS destroys Mar Elian
So which God would that be, hmmm?
- 2015-07-25 05:28am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UK Mps get 10% payrise after freezing public sector
- Replies: 68
- Views: 7076
Re: UK Mps get 10% payrise after freezing public sector
UK MPs are likely to directly compare themselves to MPs from other Anglosaxon countries and so looking at the posted data they probably do think themselves grossly underpaid. If someone feels that they are underpaid, even if they actually are not, then I would expect their performance to suffer and...
- 2015-07-16 04:34pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UK Mps get 10% payrise after freezing public sector
- Replies: 68
- Views: 7076
Re: UK Mps get 10% payrise after freezing public sector
Doesn't seem to be fucking working, does it?Dartzap wrote:Its depressing for two reasons ... 2) that's how much they need to ve paid to stave off the lure of bribery/corporate money.
- 2015-07-02 01:05pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Why are astronomical coordinates so horrendously complex?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2723
Why are astronomical coordinates so horrendously complex?
OK, so I'm mucking about in Celestia trying to rename a star, but apparently it's not enough to just supply the new name in a supplementary .STC file, you have to also include all the positional data of the star in question within said file. Now, this wouldn't be so difficult if Celestia and/or astr...
- 2015-06-28 01:10pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Another perspective on the recent Supreme Court decision
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2412
Re: Another perspective on the recent Supreme Court decision
It gets people's attention, though, I've got to give it that much. So would screaming "I'M A FUCKING FASCIST", but I don't think most reasonable people would be too mollified by subsequent explanations that "Actually I'm not a Fascist at all, I just wanted to draw your attention to t...
- 2015-06-28 12:00pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Another perspective on the recent Supreme Court decision
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2412
Re: Another perspective on the recent Supreme Court decision
It's one thing to recognise that the accomplishment of equal marriage across the States is by no means the end of the struggle for equality; there is still a lot of work to do. But to say that one is "against equality" especially when one is ostensibly not a bigot, strikes me as very poor ...
- 2015-06-20 05:31pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Why the UK Election Results are the Worst in History
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4372
Re: Why the UK Election Results are the Worst in History
This link might also be of interest. Also the DWP are acting like they have something to hide.
- 2015-05-06 07:22pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Freeing the Jem'Hadar from their drug-addiction - yes or no?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 17283
Re: Freeing the Jem'Hadar from their drug-addiction - yes or
Wasn't the reason that the Jem'Hadar rebels in "To The Death" were considered so dangerous by the Dominion leadership was because of the high risk that their rebellion would spread throughout the Jem'Hadar ranks? Granted in that case it was because the Jem'Hadar had an independent white su...