Interesting post - How is far cry in terms of the ads? I have limited bandwidth and don't want to spend the few days dowloading it if I'm gonna be bombarded with ads to the point of ruining the game.... Thanks!
smelter This just brought an industrial quandry to mind. Many of our industrial process, like metal purification, smelting, etc rely heavily on gravity. Even the thermal-hydro-electric system takes gravity into account with its engineering. It's known that our plants also can sense gravity to grow in teh right direction. Obviously we could remedy this by having parts or the entire ship rotate, but, If I remember my physics right, wouldn't that generate a
its all good. I think the concept has a pretty good ground to stand on, so to speak. One ship traveling around "droping down" colonies certianly makes sense. The technology and resources are already there when a new colony is founded (courtesy of the ship), so it will establish much faster and will be able to repair, replensih, and even enhance the colony ship (YaY - A mother ship!!). The colony ship could then depart and start all over again. It certianly seems more efficient than
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Von Neumann ships I don't know the basis behind these ships, but the idea sounds really good. The problem with our earlier colony setups was that we treated the ship more like a gel capsule; delivering the colony to the planet. Resources are a huge problem. We couldn't start out with a very advanced colony, but if we made it too simple, its survival could easily be wiped out by something trivial. However, if the colony ship, built the colony, se
I think the term you're looking for is "Mercantilism" Thanks, I knew that didn't sound right I would think that the initial colony wouldn't require that much construction. There is also the option of biofuels; we could use processes that we have to create oil or ethanol with vegetatio
one dozzer, one crane. I think you underestimate the amount of work that goes into modern construction. Welders, front end loaders, requistie chemicals, machine shops, molds, presses, not to mention the needed logistical equipment for transporting the materials. In addition, you'll have to prefab more complex parts on Earth until fabrication facilites capable of building their own are built. That's a lot of metal and parts to be sending in a colony ship
i don't think human diaspora will abandon universals like art, music, spiritual exploration, or love for animal companions. I certianly agree. I think human culutural fundamentals will remain, just the way they are expressed will diverge. capitalism fueled the european age of colonial expansion and the industrial revolution - new markets The European colonial expansion (in the Americas, pre-Industrial re
Depending on the type of parts you buy, Overclocking is still an option. "Newer" old parts are more agreeable to over clock than bleeding age parts. An AMD XP Barton core, like the 2400+ Could be bumped up considerably and will fit in your A socket. Unfortunately, given your platform, none of your parts will carry over to a new machine (due to different memory, Expansion slots, and processor slots). So its not practical to buy a high quality part as you won't be able to use it when you
what sort of divergence to you all think could be possible I think, that while divergence will certianly occur, it'll keep the same pattern of development that we've seen here in Human history. Assuming that our initial colony is relatively small, and resources are very limited (just enough to survive), we'd have a rather simple egalitarian culture, atleast in terms of materialism. There will still some for of gov't, but probably more military/p
2012? did it make reference to Nostradamus or the Aztec calendar? Actually it made a lot of references to the aztec calandar and even set the doomsday date at Dec 20, 2012, matching the calendar. One of the big themes of the book (and the one I took the least seriously) was that the natural events described seem to culminate around 2012. For example, the solar maximum, where the sun will we outputting the most energy and flares will occur in 2012. The mi
Hey there! Sorry for disappearing - Been very busy with stuff. On the Solar Catastrophe front: I read a rather funny/weird/interesting book called "Apocolypse 2012". While it was a weird book and I'm not sure how much of it to take seriously, It did talk about a very interesting, semi-scientifucally possible solar doomsday event: Pardon my lack of physics/astronomy/spelling ability Essentially, The solar system is devoid of ISM (interstellar medium). We talked
sometimes the typing is faster than the thinking... haha, same thing happens to me too, Sorry for any mis-understanding. I'm really enjoying this thread. Can't really talk about scfi, planetary colonization, and genetics at the police academy Well, I guess I could, but I can see people looking at me really wierd, lol.
There are a large diversity of small changes in the DNA of most genes, that can manifest in single amino acid changes in proteins, which can affect functions like catalytic rates. these are called polymorphisms, and different "versions" of a gene are called "alleles". a certain set of alleles versus another would define a "race". You are pretty much correct. Perhaps I was vague in my explanation, but I was trying to point out that genetic variation betw
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Hey, I'm back. Happy Hump Day!! if a big part of development is controlled by the mother's genes and biochemistry, then another avenue of bio-engineering more broadly could be carried out by introducing (or removing) proteins to the uterus (or egg) to affect the embryo's development. it also highlights the ways that DNA controlling reproduction could be altered to produce stronger specimens of a particular species. Very true. One must remem
are you familiar at all with current nanotechnology research, or scientifically grounded speculation about where it could go? I'm very very familliar with the latter. And you kinda answere you own question here: ut being so short, the GATACCA sequence can be found on many points in the whole genome. what you'd need to do, then, is start looking at the base pairs on either or both sides of the particular GATACCA occuran
Dystopic I'd be glad to answer your questions. Keep in mind though, I haven't worked in a lab for over a year (I'm doing the police thing now, lol). I went to school for forensic Chemistry (half chemistry, half genetics+micro). I also did Lab work mutating E coli and Yeast for about a year (part of a larger project studying specific proteins), So I hope I can answer all your questions. so i guess the broadest question i have about the point you made i
we wouldn't even necessarily have to modify them by replacing genes through direct molecular engineering; it'd probably be cheaper and more stable to slowly introduce environmental factors more like those of Mars to various populations of simple, fast-reproducing life forms. it's also thought that though, i suspect a combination of the two methods would be used; if we have a tool to do something, we tend to use it. It's actually easier to mutate the
I'll add that' I've had some good experience with Avast, Thouhg I use AVG now. Mystik - I just though of something - You said you have Hyjack This right? Do you know when you got the spywhere? You should be able to use hyjack this to ID the process (if its running one) by comparing a current scan with say the original (or best guess date scan before you got the spyware). That'll atleast give you the process name, allowing you to find it in the registry, prefectch (clean that out, btw!)
Sory, couldn't edit my last post, but we could use genetic to alter the growth cycle of the plant, surplanting its circadian rythmn. Year round harvests anyone? That would destroy the soil, I know, but if the colony was receiveing fresh "fertilizer" every day, that wouldn't be a hug problem. That largest problem you would have is the gradual salination of the soil (becomes to salty) We currently can make Salt resistant plants via genetic modification, but there is a limit to how effecti
I think the issue of brining livestock and agriculture to mars and the concept of teraforming are kinda hitting the same nail with two different hammers. The be truely self sufficent, we need to implant an entire cyclic ecosystem on Mars. Everythign from Nitrogen fixing bacteria, to plants, to "wildlife". Whether on the surface, in domes, or underground, you must have 100% conservation of mass (specifically organic mass) for the ecosystem to survive or have to Import resources from Ear
but the bigger point i had is, does a base on mars actually use less resources than a base in orbit? i don't think so. I think it's totally dependant on what you want to do with the base. They both have advantages and disadvantages. Ground base: Easier to build More space to build on Gravity Ability to harvest resources locally Space travel very difficult Orbit base No gravity (can be plus) More dificult to
If you can rmeember teh name of teh spyware or more specifcally the name of the files that you deleted, the exe, and associated files, try searching the registry for references using those names as parameters. Since it's spyware, any reference you find can be deleted, and that might kill the notification. Also, you can try googling the spyware name. Usually there are a few forums out there that specialize in removing these things. When I got a Trojan a few years ago, I managed to find
IIRC there's an international treaty, similar to the one concerning antarctica, that states no government can own celestial bodies. You are correct. But one must remember that the intent of that treaty was primarily scientific in nature. Antartica has no known resources that we need - Same with other celestrial bodies (for the time being anyway). If there were an attempt to colonize Antartica (aside from the current scientific bases there), the setting u
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