How clever is this?
 

Wow. That really is very clever.

Truly.

Not surprising at all to me and a perfect example of how the entitled view themselves as superior to those who aren't given the same opportunities as themselves®.

Hurrah for the gamers.

WTF?

who are "the entitled" ... the scientists? ... do you know alot of scientists?...

ok, there are people who have had privileges, but there are also many ordinary people just slogging it out

Brings to mind "Ender's Game".
Warning: spoiler alert

This reminds me of reCAPTCHA. It's about time people started figuring out ways that all this wasted brain power could be put to better use. Very nice.

Of course, it's important to remember that these gamers did this for free. If this thing gets too common, they might start realizing what their skills are worth and refuse to play online puzzle games unless adequately compensated for it. :)

I'm not really sure what I'm trying to say here. I have quit coffee a few days ago and I think my Lyme disease is back, but I promise you, I have a good idea in there and I will ferret it out and make it clear. And yes, I do know a fair number of docs, lawyers, and scientists, the majority of whom had enough money to go to college and get advanced degrees.

It's a long story. Just take my word for it.

Maybe what you mean is not the entitled, but the highly-formally-educated who look down on those who don't have the same degrees as they do, even though the un-degreed may be just as smart or smarter than the guy who has the piece of paper to prove it?

gamers ?

I knew you would be able to explain this. You truly have a gift, cf.

My mind has a crush on your mind.

get in line, buddy.

Oh! Completely random thing, but before I've forgotten it again...

The contestant on the far right totally looks like a punk rock version of you.

lol God you're right. That's Peter Serafinowiz (sp?) btw.

Excellent episode too!

Dana, you going to watch This Is Jinsy?
Peter Serafinowicz (I looked it up) stars in one episode. As do Tennant and Tate.

Opinion seems divided but I thought I'd at least have a look, "Has the wit to become a less malevolent League of Gentlemen".
Although part of what I love about the League is of course their malevolence...

Oooooh. How's this managed to pass me by? I've heard the name, but not sure where I've come across it. Having just wikid it, yes I am going to watch it.

Looks damn fine.

How would you like to be a graduate student and be the lead author on this...


Univ of Texas
June 27, 2013
Chemists Work to Desalt the Ocean for Drinking Water, One Nanoliter at a Time

And she's hott, too. Damn shame we didn't get a chance to party in swimsuits, but that's Texas weather for ya.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/34.../1545.abstract

Be sure to click the Editor's summary tab, to get it explained in regular English, but the key points are

Per nanoliter?

Nanoliters today, oceans tomorrow :D

I think this is something like a gate-keeper, where the voltage
only opens and closes the gate to the flow of the (purified) liquid.

It's not like reverse osmosis where (larger amounts of)
continuous energy is needed to remove the contaminants.

tha's nanoliters of 25% desalted water.

I can't say how promising this is, but the idea of using energy to move the water and leave the salt behind isn't new, nor difficult to scale up. Just look up, to the clouds.

You say 25% desalted, I say 75% salted.

Yuck.

right.

it's a proof of concept, needing dramatic increases in volume and thoroughness before it can produce drinking water (the article itself says that drinking water needs to be 99% desalted. the authors/researchers are confident [of course] that this level "can be reached".)

good on them, and good luck.

Then again there's always the old tin can under the funnel shaped plastic sheet.

How much does sun cost again? Remind me.

I also vote for the tin can under the plastic sheet with a stone on top to create a funnel effect. Why can't we scale this concept up? We already know it works.

Cost of the sun, let's see ... sorry, foot, I'll have to get back to you on that complicated formula.

I've placed the order for Apple replace all your iPhones
with the tin cans and the appropriate lengths of string.

Solar powered desalination stills exist and work. I forget the figures but they're big and produce only small amounts of water. Once built, they pretty much run themselves, apart from changing the water.

How about encouraging the boiling of water using vacuum tubes to heat the water? Those fuckers get hot.

http://www.contemporaryenergy.co.uk/glasstube1.jpg

You just re-invented the dipping duck ... perpetual motion toy.

:D
Wait until you see my latest, I call it "the wheel"

;)

I guess we'll be seeing it once you get those problematic corners solved.

Only an MBA would try to cut corners like that.

OMG. A disciple.

Use Google's waste heat to desalinate water, or condense all that vapor coming off the nuke cooling towers.

Univ of Rochester News.
7/23/13

Observation of transformation of muon neutrino to electron neutrino
is first step for experiment to explore matter-antimatter mystery.

It just takes hitting a target (underground) 185 miles away, and a lot of $

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But what have done for me lately ?

Or upper management. :D

They're all MBAs.