Can't argue with logic like that.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com http://www.highlandtechnology.com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom laser drivers and controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME thermocouple, LVDT, synchro acquisition and simulation
I can assure you that the scientist didn't get to review the article. That is not terribly common from what I've been told.
Stock in what? My point is that you are attributing a lot of claims to the researcher who has not said any of this. He may talk about where the research is heading, but he is doing research, not design.
Top down is not -all at once-. You decompose the design so that you can then design the pieces. This man's research is on one piece of the problem. He is not trying to design a working solution.
-- Rick
Someone take note!!! I wrote something John Larkin can't argue with!!!
-- Rick
:)
Jon
Is that my tongue in my cheek?
George H.
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dHi Rick, don't get all worked up, it's not that important.
I'm reminded of one of Muller's theorems.
"We tend to believe everything we read in the newspaper, unless we know something about the story, and then the newspaper is not just wrong, it's completely backwards."
Maybe this guy can can train microbes to do some chemical process better.
But it aint gonna reduce our carbon footprint by making fuel.
George H.
Burn the bacteria.
-- Cheers, James Arthur
Atmosphere Popeye sez "I yam dizzypointed, where are the polytissns?"
Atmosphere
It's nuze and points for grants.
My wheels are all non-ferrous. :)
-- Politicians should only get paid if the budget is balanced, and there is enough left over to pay them. Sometimes Friday is just the fifth Monday of the week. :(
Do you understand why?
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Too true for English-language science journalism. Dutch science journalists are much better, and often have a degree in the subject they are reporting on. English language science journalists see science journalism as a stepp ing stone to reporting a more prestigious area.
Very rare. New Scientist may do better, and Scientific American may have do ne better back when it was worth reading.
Science journalists are notorious for taking quotes out of context to maxim ise their impact.
He's part of a process that may well lead to a working solution, but a lot of the work is put into working out which approaches won't work.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
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Atmosphere
The work was done with DoE grant money.
Oh...the IRONy of it all..
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Atmosphere
OK, give US the Grants (the bills)..
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Done with hardworking taxpayers money. Mikek
As a minor diversion from the discussion in progress, I'd like to put in a "plug" for the science journal I moved to when Scientific American stopped holding my iterest:
American Scientist
It's not as thick as SciAm, and it's only published six times a year, but I have enjoyed it for more than a decade now.
Here in Richmond you can browse a copy at the magazine racks at Barnes & Noble.
Enjoy...
Frank McKenney
--
Nearly every feature of the American system of manufacturing, from
the elements of the new textile machinery to the concept of
interchangeable parts, had actually been conceived earlier by
Europeans. But while a few Europeans could see the possibilities,
their communities kept them powerless to give their ideas a free
trial. Too many had a stake in the older ways. Industrial progress
in Europe required extraordinary courage to break the prevailing
pattern; in America it required a willingness to try the obvious.
American genius was less for invention or discovery than for
experiment.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin / The Americans: The National Experience
Hah. Not even 1%.
?-)
Methinks you are way too generous.
?-(
Or is it that it just doesn't work on you?
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