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The discussion is kind of moving away from the foundational problem. Two sides classics and quantum physics, it actually one side but the old school could not accept non-determinism. The basic problem is that at very small scales the realism of locality, so called local realism is not confined by space or time apparently. Our wonderful classical physicist either publically or privately promoted the concept of a hidden reality. This was eventually molded to a form https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_hidden_variable_theory that was tested by Bell. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem Since that time almost all of experimental evidence has supported The quantum purist https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement#Other_types_of_experiments The caveot is that when you go about assaying a decidedly non-deterministic system rather poweful statistics are require because the are inherant variances and systemic variation. With QM these attempt to cipher 'reality' invariably create loopholes, the next guy dealing with and creating his own. I put my money on QM. BTW, OP cant really compare a viscous oil drop on a slide to truely simulate a quantum system, it lacks degrees of freedom that a true independent quantum system might have. The proof of QM is in its non deterministic core model, that is prove local quantum determinism false. Simple as that. Fix that argument and the various challenges by deBroglie and Einstein fall on their own. I should add replace aether with the feild that carries local realism, and then simply disprove it. lol.

But the US has done alot, the problem is that we can't piece together something big by ourselves due to, fo lack of a better word, legacy problems. As said space pays off and pays back, so throwing money at it, as long as its an actual high tech project pays back. Unfortunately multiplyer effects are over the head of most politicians, particularly of the current vintage. My only thing is what are they going to do on the south pole of the moon. I am task oriented, are they going to place an observatory, some sort of lunar staging area, check the availability of water? If its not about the science its a vanity trip that is hard to justify.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34504067 I think its kind of weird given the situation in Europe that the EU and Russia would be planning a joint mission. Probably from the European point of view its necessity, the Russians have the power to get them there.

If you want favorite chemical, double stranded polydeoxyribonuceic acid. If you want most imporatnt, hydrogen. If you want life you need stability, if you want stability you need H, alot and some contaminates.

If you want to build a dyson the best place to start is at the equator and the extend from the equator outward.

This is my VB code it creates a nice table. (this is excel, little active X button to create a code block and the immediate window) On the fly I would have to determine the bits then use those to append the value of the target. Private Sub CommandButton1_Click() Dim L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, L7, L8 Dim Zbytes(255) As Byte Count = 0 For L1 = 0 To 1 For L2 = 0 To 1 For L3 = 0 To 1 For L4 = 0 To 1 For L5 = 0 To 1 For L6 = 0 To 1 For L7 = 0 To 1 For L8 = 0 To 1 target = 255 - L1 - L2 * 2 - L3 * 4 - L4 * 8 - L5 * 16 - L6 * 32 - L7 * 64 - L8 * 128 Zbytes(Count) = target Debug.Print Count; " "; target, Count = Count + 1 If Count Mod 8 = 0 Then Debug.Print Next L8 Next L7 Next L6 Next L5 Next L4 Next L3 Next L2 Next L1 Debug.Print End Sub Number combination is relevant but order is irrelevant in the pairs. 0 255 1 127 2 191 3 63 4 223 5 95 6 159 7 31 8 239 9 111 10 175 11 47 12 207 13 79 14 143 15 15 16 247 17 119 18 183 19 55 20 215 21 87 22 151 23 23 24 231 25 103 26 167 27 39 28 199 29 71 30 135 31 7 32 251 33 123 34 187 35 59 36 219 37 91 38 155 39 27 40 235 41 107 42 171 43 43 44 203 45 75 46 139 47 11 48 243 49 115 50 179 51 51 52 211 53 83 54 147 55 19 56 227 57 99 58 163 59 35 60 195 61 67 62 131 63 3 64 253 65 125 66 189 67 61 68 221 69 93 70 157 71 29 72 237 73 109 74 173 75 45 76 205 77 77 78 141 79 13 80 245 81 117 82 181 83 53 84 213 85 85 86 149 87 21 88 229 89 101 90 165 91 37 92 197 93 69 94 133 95 5 96 249 97 121 98 185 99 57 100 217 101 89 102 153 103 25 104 233 105 105 106 169 107 41 108 201 109 73 110 137 111 9 112 241 113 113 114 177 115 49 116 209 117 81 118 145 119 17 120 225 121 97 122 161 123 33 124 193 125 65 126 129 127 1 128 254 129 126 130 190 131 62 132 222 133 94 134 158 135 30 136 238 137 110 138 174 139 46 140 206 141 78 142 142 143 14 144 246 145 118 146 182 147 54 148 214 149 86 150 150 151 22 152 230 153 102 154 166 155 38 156 198 157 70 158 134 159 6 160 250 161 122 162 186 163 58 164 218 165 90 166 154 167 26 168 234 169 106 170 170 171 42 172 202 173 74 174 138 175 10 176 242 177 114 178 178 179 50 180 210 181 82 182 146 183 18 184 226 185 98 186 162 187 34 188 194 189 66 190 130 191 2 192 252 193 124 194 188 195 60 196 220 197 92 198 156 199 28 200 236 201 108 202 172 203 44 204 204 205 76 206 140 207 12 208 244 209 116 210 180 211 52 212 212 213 84 214 148 215 20 216 228 217 100 218 164 219 36 220 196 221 68 222 132 223 4 224 248 225 120 226 184 227 56 228 216 229 88 230 152 231 24 232 232 233 104 234 168 235 40 236 200 237 72 238 136 239 8 240 240 241 112 242 176 243 48 244 208 245 80 246 144 247 16 248 224 249 96 250 160 251 32 252 192 253 64 254 128 255 0 I could go to 65536 and do an idiv of to long long into 65536, 65536^2, 65536^3 From here then convert all values with the table and then multiply the low word by 65536^3, 2nd word by 65536^2, 3rdWord by 65536, and the high word remained unchanged

Here's a challenge. What if you want flip the order of bits in a register and also not them So for instance if you have 10110001 -- how to make it go to ----> 01110010 I have a rough idea how i might do it in assembly, how to do it slowly in VB, no idea how to do it efficiently in C. Forgot to add its a 64 bit unsigned integer.

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/indonesian-volcano-erupts-electric-blue-burning-lava

No, its the sun when its lit.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34546042

Its only a few 1000 ly away lets test this, need a warp drive a probe with ability to warp space, several, a subspace communicator...........a few space aliens for drama......and of course a global warning because making a supernova may not be a good thing, and those space aliens may hate us for thrashing their area of space.

No because the published data sets are the starting points, you believe that gigabytes of informstion is the data set, in reality that is the starting point, once you have your initials the responsibly you have to sequence you patient poulations and family trios, in that case youbcould have 100 genomes of data, then that could could gonthrough its own genomewide association study. so for example, if we are to talk about a shortish region, mtDNA, the last time i checked there were 10000 or so published variants, probably more. The y-chromosomal variants are probably equal to the number of men walk on the earth, for the most part we don't care. In the HLA region there are something like 3000 DRB1 variants or B variants. This is the thing you fail to understand, there is a reason for the cliche, the biology always gets you. We can add to this, prolly for a non geneticist, he looks at a book and he sees a pretty picture of a gene in a box that comes from some 'model' organism and is inclined to believe that a gene is something that is 3000 or so nt and fits in a quadpartite structure. QTLs for genes can be founds 100000s of nt away from the gene. Human genome variation project reveals that there can be 1000s of variants within the range of QTLs for a gene. You might argue that these are trivialities, but the QTLs for low penetrance diseases are the lingua franca of genetics. Most of the newly discovered links are best described as QTL. One particular example resides in a region that would be otherwise considered junk DNA between three other genes at a spread of 0.5M nt. It turned out to be the master control locus of all three genes. if you can imagine your first dimension is the chromosome, the second dimension has the origin at the centromer, the third dimension are all the possible variants at each locus, then cross product of which are all the epistatic locus, you havent even crossed. Then there is logical processing, individual genomes have two superposed haplotypes strucutes that are generally not known but can be inferred based on population data, these structures are almost as important as the variation itself since most control elemnts are cis acting.

If the sun did not produce blackbody radiation everything in the solar system would be black. Lets think about that, imagine if the sun had all its energy zapped out of it, the layers would separate, the would be a ocean of hydrogen, followed by helium, oxygen and carbon, the core would collapse, and it would nova, becoming the brightest object in this part of the galaxy. It not just a little taint of carbon, it has so much carbon that it absorbs or scatters most of the 'transmitted' light.

In the old days 64k was the limit on a text file, now the sky is the limit, though I wonder what the string limit is for C++, cause I need to pack in a 250M. Thanks for the snippet.

Because our society became so much more efficient at doing everything else but appeared to fall backwards with manned exploration of space, in 1976 we traveled to 250,000 miles from the earth, since then we have scarcely traveled 500 miles from the earth. BTW, people are prone to make theories about everything. So I hardly find NASA singled out, the age of information has largely been a miss.

No joke, but this stuff comes in as a text files with the occasional or frequent delimiter. In a way the ASCII stuff is good for confirmation, in a way its bad because I cannot go directly into processing, and every string that needs high level processing will have to be processed from string into quads. You could say the same thing about chickens with regard to eggs. Its one of the most expensive things you can do in VB, the printing is not to bad, the line feeding is like temporal black hole. With most modern video cards the character writing is instanteous, but when you scroll in a child window most of the screen needs to be reformulated. I used to cramp the output into lines using For L1 = 1 to Whatever: Debug.Print VarX;" ";: IF L1 MOD 100 = 0 Then Debug.Print: Next L1 '100 bits of output with spaces on a line After I read your previous message, I looked ' ' versus " " up , better yet I can define constants makes the code look even better.

This is what actually worked: public static void Main (string[] args) {[INDENT] string rawSequence = "ACTG"; char[] Nt = rawSequence.ToCharArray(); int a = 64, lenRS = rawSequence.Length; byte[] encNt = new byte[lenRS]; //WinDef.h for (a = 0; a < lenRS; a++) {[/INDENT] [INDENT=2] if([B]Nt[a] == 65[/B]) {encNt[a] = 0; Console.Write (" {0}", encNt [0]); continue;}; if(Nt[a] == 67) {encNt[a] = 1; Console.Write (" {0}", encNt [1]); continue;}; if(Nt[a] == 71) {encNt[a] = 2; Console.Write (" {0}", encNt [2]); continue;}; if(Nt[a] == 84) {encNt[a] = 3; Console.Write (" {0}", encNt [3]); continue;}; encNt [a] = 255; } [/INDENT] [INDENT] Console.WriteLine (rawSequence); [/INDENT] } bolded was the problem statement. I really thought I was going to end up doing a conversion nested into an if statement.

i was responding to this 'nugget' Ok but they are talking about the cause of the light scattering as being large amount of ice, carbon, and frozen nitrogen. These elements are not the favored materials of stars. Stars that start out burning lots of carbon tend to go poof.

You like to shoot first and asked questions later. Sscanf() maybe useful in the future but not right now. The base issue was the comparisons weren't working, the compiler was rejecting every data type that I could try for the char type comparison, I thought the 0x would work, it failed so I tried "A" which failed. Not sure why but only immediate decimal is working at the moment. Also tried byte to char. Thats why I asked about comparison and conversion. Wasn't trying to VB your beloved C, simply tying to do a conversion that anyone who knows how to do assembly language can do.

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1539/ How is this dust going to ignite?

By 2035 antibiotics wont work anywhere, problem solved; the bugs in the compost will use it as growth substrate.

Running into a bit of a snag in C++. Apparently, i am finding that generic C string processing does not exist. Instead string processing functions are left to variable included libraries. In fact, i learned that the char type is good for little more than holding. Manipulating char apparently thows a warning message. I think i have all th tools i need for capturing strings, but the problem is that character processing seems to be very ineffecient, I will have to 2 to 4 type conversions to get what i want. Does anyone know of a GNU library for C that has a broad spectrum of char comparison, manipulation or conversion functions. Right now because of my IDE i'de like to have something that works well in # and ++.

This thing has been known about for 2 or 3 years, I saw all the links showing up a few days back, but, really, some reporter got a hold of the hype and started making a big deal, and the hype train followed behind.

In that case its A Polar Jet and its bout to spawn the next universe, arrrrgggggghhhhhhh, everyone run........ well no, maybe not, just a little dark screedy gas, maybe the dwarf ate to many onions for dinner.

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy/410023/ Here's anither, less click baity, link. <----- before you click, want to save time read below first. In another thread (Feynman lectures) I talked about large scale quantum uncertainty. Rather than aliens this is likely to be an example of a black swan. In this idea we assume that humans have familiarity of elements in a distribution up to a certain level of certainty, but we may not be familiar with the extremes, but we often assume that since we can predict most events that we can often anticipate the extremes; howvere this historically has proven to be wrong. IOW, this seems a bit like hype with historical blinders on.