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Commercial success is the objective measure of quality. Proof: Justin Bieber, the NHS, mass immigration in the UK.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Solar Roadways
« on: June 13, 2014, 03:24:55 PM »
But hey. Slash all of his numbers by a factor of 100. Guess what? Still doesn't help.

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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.
« on: June 13, 2014, 01:05:48 PM »
Rushy, how hard will Bitcoin crash once this happens?

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Solar Roadways
« on: June 13, 2014, 09:00:28 AM »
Is that.. .is that asphalt with aggregate in it?
Yes, the kind that you make roads out of. Why would he be using anything else?

And why did he only show us a few seconds of scratches?  I watched it a few times
If you watched it a few times, then you must have heard him a few times when he said he's got more details in his other video (the one markjo linked), and this one is just for laughs.

Aggregate is what scratched it.  I'd like to see him try that shit with PURE asphalt.  Which, according to the table of hardness, is much softer than glass.  But let him ignore such scientific details.
Why? It would have absolutely nothing to do with actual roads. It'd be an exercise in futility.

I got through about 3 minutes of that video and noticed he is once again using retail price as well as assuming 100% conversion right off the bat.  He also assumes every LED will be on 100% of the time for his energy use calculation, when you can probably figure roughly 50% of the LEDs on a panel may be turned on at the same time, and not every panel in America would be on all the time.  Plus his voice is annoying.
He already assumed 50 LEDs per tile, so that's your main concern covered. But hey. Slash all of his numbers by a factor of 100. Guess what? Still doesn't help.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Solar Roadways
« on: June 12, 2014, 11:03:53 PM »
I don't know if it can be done, but it's certainly not practical.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Ask a Flat Earth Theorist Anything
« on: June 12, 2014, 11:01:21 PM »
I certainly hope that  this "new" website will not sink to the depths of the "old" website with all the insults and vulgarity from both sides.
Well, you're doing a "great" job at trying to prevent that.

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Charging electric cars using electricity sourced from coal burning power plants is much better.
Hey, this won't be a problem once we get SOLAR FREAKIN' ROADWAYS.

...I'm really sorry. Please, let's not make this another solar roadways thread.

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Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world’s most talented engineers. We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla’s position in this regard.

See full announcement here. I think this is a fantastic move, especially with today's world being haunted by patent trolls and legal disputes slowing down technological progress. Hopefully more companies will follow suit!

Importantly, this means that electric cars might actually become common now. And, you know, not burning gas is a good thing.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Ask a Flat Earth Theorist Anything
« on: June 12, 2014, 08:34:46 PM »
I just discovered this "new flat earth society website" and I can't detect any difference from the "old" one. ??? ::)
Hopefully I can be of assistance here. We offer:
  • A less broken forum (you can actually use the search and it won't crash the server!), with publicly-available code!
  • Proper spambot-prevention measures that don't randomly ban users for silly reasons like using a proxy
  • An active administration that cares™
  • Very frequent (by the minute) database backups, guaranteeing that we won't suddenly lose 6 weeks of posts, and allowing us to do things like restoring a thread that someone accidentally deleted
  • As few pointless restrictions on the users as possible. Want to rename your account? Go right ahead. Want to delete it? No problem. Want to post more frequently than once per 20 seconds? Why not (given that we took care of spambots)?
  • Very little downtime, and it's generally announced well in advance. I think our longest unannounced downtime was when I cocked up a thing and we ended up serving a blank page instead of the forum for 10 minutes.
  • No arbitrarily-forbidden words
  • Some minor enhancements like a spoiler tag, better Facebook integration, a public ban log, and the ignore function actually working in CN
  • Probably a lot of stuff I forgot about, generally falling under the categories of smooth user experience
Now, we do not consider ourselves to be anything other than the Flat Earth Society, so our mentality is pretty much identical between the sites (i.e. the Earth is still flat). Our strength compared to the old site is technical competency and more active management.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Solar Roadways
« on: June 12, 2014, 07:26:53 PM »
The guy was just using stock footage to show using "recycled glass", I wouldn't take it too literally.
Stock footage specifically featuring himself and his wife?

He does.
He also doesn't seem to understand that glass comes in a wide variety of makeup.
This argument is simultaneously used to argue two points:
  • The glass will be cheap.
  • The glass will be sturdy.

In either case, it won't be cheap enough or sturdy enough, but a much more pressing problem here is that you can't have it both ways.

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I'm willing to bet if everyone in that store had a gun no one would run in and try to start shooting, the problem here is that out of all the people in that store, only one had a weapon.
Alternatively, one person would be crazy enough to start shooting (n.b. we're talking about crazy people here, common sense needn't apply), and then a whole bunch of people would panic and start shooting too and it'd become WWI2 (World War I: 2: The Sequel) very soon.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Nuclear Freakin' Roadways
« on: June 12, 2014, 08:19:46 AM »
Okay, guys, I think we need to clear the freakin' air, so here we go:


False claim: Nuclear roadways are bad for you.

Haha, no. That'd be just silly, you silly goose. Freakin' nope.


False claim: Nuclear roadways are more radioactive than asphalt.

Now, this one is just hilarious. Obviously, our answer is "no".


False claim: Nuclear roadways would be expensive.

u wot m8? Roads are cheap, and nuclear power will make them literally negative cost!

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Solar Roadways
« on: June 11, 2014, 08:53:25 PM »
lol but no. Just because its high energy doesn't mean we should just shrug when it explodes.
We shouldn't shrug, and I never claimed we should. However, we're not banning coal because zomg it might break. Hilariously enough, that would be more harmful to people than a modern nuclear plant "disaster".

there's no denying that Fukushima wasn't an accident.
Erm, then what was it? Did the Jews do it?

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Solar Roadways
« on: June 11, 2014, 07:50:00 PM »
This is not safe:



An explosion (that ends up harming nobody - safe!) can happen to most types of high-energy power plants. It's kind of implied by the "high-energy" part of it.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Solar Roadways
« on: June 11, 2014, 07:02:04 PM »
Thunderf00t really hates solar freakin' roadways.


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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Nuclear Freakin' Roadways
« on: June 11, 2014, 07:01:41 PM »
OMG THIS IS THE WORST IDEA
NO IT'S GREAT YOU'RE JUST A HATER

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Nuclear Freakin' Roadways
« on: June 11, 2014, 04:59:53 PM »
Is it harmful for animals to cross? Can I ride my bike on it? What happens if an earthquake or sinkhole breaks the road?
Stop impeding our progress. Pah, typical naysayer. :(

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Nuclear Freakin' Roadways
« on: June 11, 2014, 10:15:46 AM »
Sold!

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Solar Roadways
« on: June 11, 2014, 06:50:41 AM »
It also brought no harm to anyone whatsoever. Yes, sometimes shit breaks. We're talking about safety, not hype.
it's 2014 and not 1986

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Nuclear Freakin' Roadways
« on: June 11, 2014, 06:49:53 AM »
But do you use recycled coloured glass that you personally shoveled onto a wheelbarrow, despite it being inappropriate for the purpose?

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