Ask a physicist anything. (7)

[Wiccan_Child]

That was the other denabd you mentioned, but this was in response to your disbelief that Single Mothers and criminal kids go hand in hand.

I don't know what 'denabd' is suppose to mean. There are two discussions going on between me and you: one about single parents (to which you've largely ignored most of what I've said), and one about drug use. The Bill Cosby thing was in relation to the latter.

Well Mr Wicca had said that he thought the whole religious community ought be excluded from consideration, meaning the christians.

No, I did not. It's also interesting to note how you equate the whole religious community with Christianity - this is either supremely arrogant, or indicative of a severe persecution complex.

my point is that the politicians and the drug dealers are into profit end of the equation, so who is left to stop this except the religious rightin the Institution of Religion.

You assume that "the religious rightin [sic] the Institute of Religion" has had no hand in political corruption. You couldn't be more wrong.

the Institution of Law and Order has clearly failed.

Wicca said he didn't even believe the religious people could get results, so i mentioned the muslim efforts.

This is another lie. You brought up the whole Muslim thing apropos of nothing, to which I queried why your solution must be wholly religious and not secular. My exact quote is on post #255:

"Why not, as per the ideals of the Founding Fathers, a secular revival, embraced by people of all religions and none? I would have thought it's easier for a US Christian to embrace a secular idea over a Muslim one."

Emphasis mine. If you had actually read what I wrote, you'd see that I was advocating an all-inclusive project. I never once said, implied, or even thought that religious people couldn't get results (my post was after you said Muslims got results, so I don't know how you got that idea). I never once said that religious people should be excluded from all consideration, and even made explicitly stated that they should be included in the project.

But the Christians in some places do the same ting:

Combating fear with nonviolence
by Andrew Clouse

If you're going to so blatantly copy-and-paste from another website, it's good manners to cite which website you got it from. And as heart-warming a tale as that is, I'm still waiting to see hard facts and figures. All you've cited thus far is a comedian's stand-up routine (far and away the most inane attempt to substantiate a claim that I've ever seen) and an anecdote.

 

[cupid dave]

If you're going to so blatantly copy-and-paste from another website, it's good manners to cite which website you got it from.

see...
you finger isn;['t vroken.
i knew you scietists could do these things.
Now check out the research on Single Mothers and kids with sociopathic behavior and you will be doing us all a favor.

You know that you woul never agree with me now that you have taken the other side.But as a scientist, you OUGHT care about the Truth rather than winning here cross examing me.

 

[Zippy the Wonderslug]

..."a few passages that gave specific dimensions and constructions of what Heaven would be like"...

Which passages?

I can't post links yet but if you Google, heaven dimensions wiki, it will be the first search result.

 

[Chalnoth]

see...
you finger isn;['t vroken.
i knew you scietists could do these things.
Now check out the research on Single Mothers and kids with sociopathic behavior and you will be doing us all a favor.

You know that you woul never agree with me now that you have taken the other side.But as a scientist, you OUGHT care about the Truth rather than winning here cross examing me.

And you should care about not plagiarizing.

 

[Self Improvement]

Star Trek-like replicators and teleporters. I'm tired of driving and buying my groceries. What gives fancy shmancy physicists? With your fancy labs and white coats n' such you just think you're so great and smart, what would Hovind say? For shame...

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Star Trek-like replicators and teleporters. I'm tired of driving and buying my groceries. What gives fancy shmancy physicists? With your fancy labs and white coats n' such you just think you're so great and smart, what would Hovind say? For shame...

We're working on the Heisenberg Compensators. Once we've got that nailed, we'll have transporters (and replicators and holodecks, which all run on the same technology)

 

[Tuddrussell]

When will we have laser pistols?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

see...
you finger isn;['t vroken.
i knew you scietists could do these things.
Now check out the research on Single Mothers and kids with sociopathic behavior and you will be doing us all a favor.

Why should I? My problem isn't with the research, it's with the conclusions you drew from it. You've yet to rebuttal my post.

You know that you woul never agree with me now that you have taken the other side.

If you need to start making presumptions about your opponent in a debate, then you've already lost.

But as a scientist, you OUGHT care about the Truth rather than winning here cross examing me.

Luckily for me, I can do both. You made a claim that you've yet to substantiate. Why should I take you seriously? Why should I waste my time researching your claim? Give me hard evidence that what you're saying is right, and I'll go out and investigate it myself. Thus far, all you've done is cite (or should I say plagiarise) openly biased hate-mongerers making fallacious conclusions from otherwise sound data. I've given lengthy explanations for why the 'evidence' you've cited is not worth the paper it's printed on, so, in my opinion, you've yet to give me any reason to take your claims seriously.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

When will we have laser pistols?

When confinement beams and power technology catch up to our unrealistic expectations of science! That said we've developed lasers that can ignite a deuterium-tritium slug into thermonuclear exothermic fusion, so we can't be far off.

 

[Zippy the Wonderslug]

Most DVDs seem to be recorded in 720x480 formatting.

How is it not possible to spot these pixels when the images are completely blown up, out, and projected on a huge theater screen when you are at the movies?

I never understood this.

 

[Tuddrussell]

Is this too much to ask for? (Ignore the alien parasite.)

 

[Nabobalis]

When will we have laser pistols?

We do have ray guns.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Most DVDs seem to be recorded in 720x480 formatting.

How is it not possible to spot these pixels when the images are completely blown up, out, and projected on a huge theater screen when you are at the movies?

I never understood this.

I worked in a cinema once, and they don't prepare you for the sheer size of physical-film movie reels - it was wider than I am tall.

Anyway, the reason you don't see pixellation is for two reasons: when using physical film, the film doesn't have pixels, it has grades of colour and whatnot that don't pixellate when blown up, they blur. It's like projecting your shadow onto a really distant white wall: you won't see any pixels because there are none. What you would see is blurring.

Second, for digital movies, the movie itself is of much higher quality than what you might get in a DVD; one of my friends is a director, and I was amazed at just how high-quality some of the more expensive cameras can be. There's also some very nifty algorithms for getting rid of pixellation when blowing up an image, some of which stem from efficiency algorithms (such as splitting the image into square chunks, and only changing those chunks that need changing; this saves time and energy when displaying mostly static imagery, such as a large backdrop).

So, the reason you don't see pixellation when in the movies, is because the 'grains' that make up each 'pixel' on a reel of film are so phenomenally small that the theoretical maximum resolution is several orders of magnitude larger than 720x480. In reality, in cinemas, digital films are displayed at something like 6000x6000 pixels, making pixellation ten-times smaller by the sheer size of the pixels.

 

[Zippy the Wonderslug]

So these "high-quality, expensive cameras", what is the actual format that they are recording on the film?

 

[Chalnoth]

When will we have laser pistols?

Right now:
Blue Laser Pointer 1 Watt | S3 Arctic | Spyder III | Wicked Lasers

At one Watt with a 5mm diameter beam, this laser is about ten times brighter than the Sun.

 

[Tuddrussell]

But can it explode heads?

 

[mzungu]

But can it explode heads?

Yes if you stick one of these on your head and use a laser to light it: Nexus 95mW Wicked Laser Lights Firecracker - YouTube

 

[Zippy the Wonderslug]

What is the overall fuel/energy/resources still left on this Earth?

Can we make it another 50 years and have 10 billion people here?

Is there a chance for 500 additional years or perhaps even a thousand more?

Excluding such things as earthquake burps and nuclear plant shut downs that go mental, if the planet stayed somewhat normal, about how long could we sustain ourselves without a terrifying loss of life?



EDIT:
I was asking for a best case scenario on this.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

So these "high-quality, expensive cameras", what is the actual format that they are recording on the film?

The medium is a film stock characterised by its gauge (its width in millimetres). There is no 'format' analogous to .mp4 or .mkv, it's just a physical medium run through a projector. Movies shot with digital cameras are moving more towards a resolution of 4096×1714. The actual format is complicated, as a single pure file is too large to stream - you wouldn't want to go to a cinema and have the film keep stalling while it buffers. Instead, they tend to split the film up onto arrays to speed up data transfer, and this is the complicating factor. As far as I can tell, there's no conveniant standard that can be named (like '.avi').

 

[mzungu]

What is the overall fuel/energy/resources still left on this Earth?

Can we make it another 50 years and have 10 billion people here?

Is there a chance for 500 additional years or perhaps even a thousand more?

Excluding such things as earthquake burps and nuclear plant shut downs that go mental, if the planet stayed somewhat normal, about how long could we sustain ourselves without a terrifying loss of life?



EDIT:
I was asking for a best case scenario on this.

Considering that ENERGY EFFICIENCY on most products has gone up faster than we can make babies then the future looks good. We have the technology to feed the whole population of the planet without depleting supplies.

If we get rid of the greed that is inherent in some industries like the logging, oil, etc then we have a good chance of making this a truly wonderful planet to live in!