EdEarl

Very well, you cannot or will not explain. I.E., you have nothing.

Math is a language, but if you invent a math no one knows, it is your responsibility to teach others how to understand it.

ADID, you say that your pics contain a message that will change the world. However, that message is in an unusual form. The symbols do not appear to be part of a language because some symbols in a language repeat more often than others. But, as far as I can see, all your pics are unique. Thus, your message is very unusual and difficult to understand. Furthermore, you either cannot or will not translate it into either English or mathematics. If you can translate it, but will not, then you are being obtuse on purpose; why should we play that game? If you cannot translate it, but expect us to intuit the answer, you expect too much. And, we have a right to believe that you really have no message. It is always the responsibility of scientists who discover new things to communicate their ideas with the remainder of the scientific community, regardless of how ignorant the community may be.

https://www.facebook.com/adream.ivedreamt/media_set?set=a.229263927223582.1073741829.100004199289347&type=1 You have quite a menagerie of pics, but they do not relate to swansont's post, IMO. ADID, I think this thread will die out when everyone else tires of trying to help you. You desperately want everyone to understand you, but we cannot. We want you to understand, but you cannot. Everyone is frustrated. You will start other treads, but they will get little response. Then, I suspect you will eventually hijack posts until you are banned. If you want us to understand, you will have to find another way to communicate your ideas, a way that we can understand.

Do you have a video of this device in action?

To have any idea how to answer this question, I'd first need to know about the alien culture, in excruciating detail. Even then I could only guess. And, judging from human views about the panoply of human activity, individual aliens of the same species would have differing opinions. Your opinion is as valid as anyone else. Why do you ask this question, rather than stating your opinion?

The distinction between discovery and invention seems elusive. I'm sure fire was discovered, because it occurs in nature quite often, but was it also a discovery to capture fire for personal use, rather than run from it? For the same reasons, I consider the predecessor of writing, rhyme and song, the greatest invention. Without rhyme and song, cultural lessons would not have been carried as accurately from generation to generation. Even today, rhyme and songs teach basic counting and writing skills, for example, "One, two buckle my shoe, three, four shut the door, ...," and "A, B, C, D, E, F, G, ... Now I know my ABCs." An ancient Greek poem is a farmers almanac. Because of other advanced forms of communication, rhyme and song are less important than they once were, but they remain important to our culture.

I expect more than one paranoid programmer will now start writing machine code to detect whether their compilers and Login programs are infected.

There are few differences between analog and digital calculation, essentially digital calculations are more accurate.

One method of computing square root is the following: It allows us to calculate the value to any degree of accuracy we wish. The method shown above is generalized as follows: Several calculation methods are shown in Wikipedia.

That your post is allowed, rather than being deleted and your being banned, means the moderators are not abusive (Notice I am not a moderator). They are people, and do make mistakes, as we all do. I probably should not have defended the moderators, as it may result in your giving me a negative (red arrow) point. But, IMO the moderators do a good job overall, are among the most intelligent people on this forum, and try to be fair.

V amount of fluid falling from H height cannot return V amount of fluid to H height again; friction prevents it no matter what intermediate machines are used.

I am confident that one might design a matrix multiplication unit for arrays of 10002 x 10002 (or any other size) that theoretically operates slightly slower than a single floating point multiply-add. Matrix multiply is the kind of algorithm that requires the highest amount of data movement among multiple processing units. The communications hardware needed for moving this data requires many transistors, significant energy to operate, and corresponding heat dissipation. These costs are significant and irrelevant if one is doing many other algorithms, for example vector add. Consequently, parallel processors are designed in various ways, including single instruction stream with either single pipeline data processing (SISD) or multiple pipeline data processing (SIMD), and multiple instruction stream with either single pipeline data processing (MISD) or multiple pipeline data processing (MIMD) architectures. Each of these architectures efficiently processes a variety of algorithms, and does no efficiently process other algorithms. For cost and efficiency reasons, parallel processors are built to solve a particular set of problems, engineering tradeoffs are often considered, and there is no real low-cost parallel processor to solve all algorithms efficiently. It seems likely that most multiprocessor technology will be tuned for high volume applications, such as client-server. Moreover, as design and manufacturing costs become smaller, more special purpose multiprocessors will be developed for special applications. It seems unlikely that a general purpose multiprocessor will ever be practical.

The amount of energy needed today, especially by a growing global middle class, exceeds those of "several civilizations" in the past multiple-fold. For example, the U.S. alone, which has less than 5 pct of the world's population, requires up to 25 pct of world oil production to maintain economic growth. For the rest of the world to follow (and it has to given a global capitalist system) we will need several more earths. Again, these and other points, including bio-capacity, issues concerning phosphorus, petrochemicals, and more were explained to you thoroughly in another thread. The glut of energy used by people in the US is IMO unethical. While you may have inferred otherwise, I have not implied otherwise. Moreover, using energy indiscriminately is unnecessary to maintain a high standard of living, and the fact that corporations are implementing energy saving measures demonstrates that fact. It is my contention that people walking more and driving less would be better for everyone both ecologically and healthfully. The design of cities to promote driving is absurd. The capitalistic ethos has created a bizarre culture and is overall a disaster; although, there are some benefits. I can accept that capitalism has been necessary in the evolution of human culture, but do not accept that it is the best we can possibly achieve.

They don't due to lower energy returns. This was explained to you in another thread about peak oil. They don't My friend, people lived without either coal or oil for millennium, and they didn't have either solar PV or electricity generated by wind. Several civilizations became quite large and powerful, including the Romans. Water is essential for life, oil is a luxury. Although, I think it will be unnecessary, submarine robots could also mine the ocean floor for Thorium and/or Uranium and make nuclear reactors, which provide power with energy returns adequate for your expectations.

Welcome to SFN, Tancho.

Minoxidil is an antihypertensive vasodilator medication. It also slows or stops hair loss and promotes hair regrowth. This is an example of a discovery that occurred without first asking the question, "Is it possible to that Minoxidil will promote hair regrowth?"

Yes, there is a limit to how strong/fast/big a person can become. Otherwise, we would see people who could lift 10 tons, run 80 kmh, and weigh 100 tons.

Native Americans are a diverse group of people whose ancestors lived in the Americas before Columbus discovered the "New World." They include Eskimos, Inuits, Sioux, Cherokee, Mohawk, Pueblo and many more tribes/nations, with many cultural traditions and languages.

Unfortunately, this requires extensive availability of resources and energy, and something that cannot be achieved given a "capitalist ethos." Fortunately, sun and wind provide sufficient energy, the ocean is not claimed by anyone, and the ocean and the ocean floor have sufficient resources, regardless of how much land is owned by capitalists. People can live on floating farms near the equator, where there are no violent storms. The potential for livable surface is vast.

Is your rail a complaint about quantum mechanics in particular or about the way people latch onto fad ideas? IMO your statements are also appropriate for other subjects, for example: I'm not sure when UFOs caught the interest of the public, and people began "educating" themselves on the subject, but I want nothing more than for it to go away, and never be talked about on television, or at parties ever again. TV shows like "Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings" are literally making ignorant people who have no idea what the hell their talking about, even MORE ignorant.

There are monitors people can wear to report to their doctors on their condition. There are monitors that can be used to report levels of moisture in different parts of a field. There are mobile monitors that report on people in buildings, for example buildings that have been damaged by a bomb. There are cameras in most major cities that report crimes such as running stop lights, and others that monitor traffic. There are air quality monitors. There are weather monitors. Monitors are becoming ubiquitous.

It might help if you explain the exploration context. I can think of at least three, very different kinds of exploration: military, oceanic and space.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata

Temperature difference determines thermal efficiency, and 20C allows a small maximum efficiency of about seven percent, which means the amount of heat used is vast to power small things. Friction will further reduce efficiency. The low efficiency tends to increase the expense of machinery needed to capture and use the low temperatures and to generate mechanical power or electricity. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_efficiency#Mathematical_definition Sources and sinks of heat that provide higher temperatures differences than 20C are preferred for power generation. The higher the temperature difference the better, but low enough not to melt an engine.