PASADENA, Calif.
Stronger than steel or titanium—and just as tough—metallic glass is an ideal material for everything from cell-phone cases to aircraft parts. Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a new technique that allows them to make metallic-glass parts utilizing the same inexpensive processes used to produce plastic parts. With this new method, they can heat a piece of metallic glass at a rate of a million degrees per second and then mold it into any shape in just a few milliseconds.
[Reuser] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQJQapyHAQg&feature=related
[Reuser] In part five, the absolute revulsion of that mountain pro, while being completely, utterly polite delivers.
[Reuser] It’s a work of art.
[Reuser] “it’s delusional to say that they’re not responsible…”
[Reuser] -> badass <- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhYG-IgsRJ0
[Reuser] That motherfucker has balls of steel the size of Monfuckingtucky.
[Reuser] Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piNRRg7WuG8&feature=related
[Reuser] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Schoening
[Reuser] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Gilkey
[Reuser] Am I mountaingeeking again?
[Reuser] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bonatti
[Reuser] Epic ascents are full of assholes.
[Reuser] South Face or “Polish Line” (extremely exposed and most dangerous). In 1986, Jerzy Kukuczka and Tadeusz Piotrowski summitted on this route. Reinhold Messner called it a suicidal route and no one has repeated their achievement. “The route is so avalanche-prone, that no one else has ever considered a new attempt.”
[Reuser] HAHAHAHAHA!
[Reuser] When Messner calls you suicidal, you are dangerously insane.
[Reuser] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Wiessner
[Reuser] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kukuczka
[Reuser] “Jerzy Kukuczka died attempting an alpine style climb of the unclimbed South Face of Lhotse in Nepal on 24 October 1989. Leading a pitch at an altitude of about 8,200 meters on a 6 mm second-hand rope he had picked up in a market in Kathmandu, the cord cut or snapped from a fall, plunging Kukuczka to his death.”
[Reuser] This is the man that Messner called suicidal.
[Reuser] Consider what the fucker _DID_ though.
[Reuser] Alpine style means no siege tactics, no base camps.
[Reuser] You and your pack and your partners.
[Reuser] And look at those routes and winter ascents.
[Reuser] From 79 to 89.
[Reuser] 10 years of beating the odds doing the worst climbs on the fucking planet.
[Reuser] NEW ROUTES!
[Reuser] IN WINTER!
President Obama mandated Thursday that nearly all hospitals extend visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians and respect patients’ choices about who may make critical health-care decisions for them, perhaps the most significant step so far in his efforts to expand the rights of gay Americans.
Generating truly random numbers is notoriously difficult. But now, using a quantum system, researchers have managed to create 42 genuinely random numbers. Their discovery is a major breakthrough for cryptography, and could one day enable truly private communication online.
Really? “Reliable projections”? “Action in real time”? “Preventing criminal activities”? I don’t know about how reliable your system is, IBM, but have you ever heard of the 5th, the 6th, and the 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution? What about article 11 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? No? Let’s make this easy then: Didn’t you watch that scientology nutcase in Minority Report?
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, “Clinging to nuclear weapons in excess of our security needs does not make the United States safer. … And the nuclear status quo is neither desirable nor sustainable.”
Yet despite this, and other treaties, such as the recent one with Russia that overwhelmingly favored the US in terms of post-treaty capability, Obama is still getting drug across the coals by Conservative and Tea Bagger and the like. And even more insane, things like this: Obama’s disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summit
Disregard, or just trying to let a lot of people get the photos they need, and then get out. You know, because there is work to be done.
“If the Department of Defense can’t figure out a way to defend the United States on a budget of more than a half a trillion dollars a year, then our problems are much bigger than anything that can be cured by buying a few more ships and planes…” -Defense Secretary Robert Gates
The years have not been kind to you. I grew up in a profoundly Republican home, so I can remember when you wore a very different face than the one we see now. You’ve lost me and you’ve lost most of America. Because I believe having responsible choices is important to democracy, I’d like to give you some advice and an invitation.
“What fifty generations of silver foxes being domesticated and bred against aggressive traits has revealed to us about the long history of the domestic dog and why there is such a huge variety in traits in the various dog breeds.”
What Obama Stands For – by a “conservative” writing for a “liberal” rag… Still, very indicative about how those very characterizations are starting to break down.
“All this means that in a very real sense, the industrial barons of EVE who made their fortunes mining virtual asteroids and moons are turning their virtual wealth into physical life-saving supplies in Haiti.
Somebody announces that he’s built a large quantum computer. RSA is dead. DSA is dead. Elliptic curves, hyperelliptic curves, class groups, whatever, dead, dead, dead. So users are going to run around screaming and say ‘Oh my God, what do we do?’
