Did you know?

[John.d.h]

I thought chimps were our closest evolutionary ancestor?  Aren't bonobos monkeys, bot great primates?

The bonobo, or Pan paniscus, is also known as the pygmy chimpanzee.  They are closely related to the common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes, and humans.  They are apes, not monkeys.

[Gabbe]

What are the differences with ape and monkey? 

[Zoythrus]

monkeys have tails, apes dont

[Gabbe]

US have been spying on Norwegian citizens for ten years, and PST didnt tell the governemtn anything, making the US think they had the right to! o.O

[Omega]

US have been spying on Norwegian citizens for ten years, and PST didnt tell the governemtn anything, making the US think they had the right to! o.O

I find that hard to believe. I trust you have proof?

[ultifd]

allegedly

[Gabbe]

PST is NDI btw

[Gabbe]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe-I

holy shit man! 

And it runs 92% Linux!

[Omega]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe-I

holy shit man! 

And it runs 92% Linux!

Good god.... that is powerful... I wanna play Glest on that!

[Gabbe]

And the big question; will it run crysis?

Originally, Tianhe-1 was powered by 4,096 Intel Xeon E5540 processors and 1,024 Intel Xeon E5450 processors, with 5,120 AMD graphics processing units (GPUs), which were made up of 2,560 dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics cards.In October 2010, Tianhe-1A, a separate supercomputer, was unveiled at HPC 2010 China.[11] It is now equipped with 14,336 Xeon X5670 processors and 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 general purpose GPUs. 2,048 NUDT FT1000 heterogeneous processors are also installed in the system, but their computing power was not counted into the machine's official Linpack statistics as of October 2010.

[-Archmage-]

Or Arma 2?

Man it'd be awesome to set Crysis in dev mode and watch as in max settings it says fps 300,080,000,504,042, on a massive screen.
Oops forgot motion blur, then set it on max, crap fps down to 300,080,000,504,016.

[Gabbe]

It got 14k XEON processors, and i suppose those are quad cored with watercooling and blacdk editions? Insane processing power, it would ,maybe run real life graphics with like 5 quadrillion polygons, for each object

EDIT: new news; or maybe old but anyways, translated from GT

To mars without return ticket

nrk.no

This case is taken from forskning.no

- It is important to understand that this is not a suicide mission, "the researchers Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Paul Davies in the Journal of Cosmology.

They suggest a process where four astronauts on two spacecraft lands near the caves by ancient lava times on Mars.

In these caves may astronauts camp. There they are protected from dangerous radiation, and can melt ice from the underground to the life-giving water.

    * Read: Collision on Mars created the moon

With preloaded supplies from Earth will be as the first colonists to prepare the ground for the many more who follow.

After a few decades is March 1 The colony has grown to 150 people, and the first child is born during the butter yellow, dusty sky in March.

After a few centuries, the colony has become one of several. They grow their own food and do not need any more supplies from the blue evening and the morning star they once came from.
March The journey Ryanair

Fantastic? Utopian? No, the article authors. On the contrary, this one-way mission to Mars solve problems for the manned exploration of the red planet.

First, they estimate that the mission will be about 80 percent cheaper.

When the astronauts do not have to have fuel to return, the spacecraft lighter and can carry more cargo. Thus, today's launchers and other space technologies are used.
Send old folks

Second, one-way flight to make it easier to live with two major health problems that occur during long space missions.
Mars (NASA)

Top left is seen a lava tubes, a mouth of an old volcano that can accommodate a cave where the future March colonists may seek refuge.
Photo: NASA

These problems are one of the largest brake pads for further manned exploration of space.

The first is particle radiation from the eruptions on the sun. It can provide the same diseases as radiation on Earth, such as the Chernobyl disaster: cancer and malformed children.

Schulze-Makuch and Davies addresses the issue in its own rough way.

They suggest that the first colonists should be older people with 20 years or less left of their lives. When they are finished having children, and the inevitable radiation damage will mean less.
Travel light

Moreover, the astronauts escape the strain of returning to the Earth's oppressive gravity after months and perhaps years as lightweights in weightlessness along the way, and in a weaker gravitational field down on the planet.

In March, they will in fact only weigh 0.38 times as much as on our own planet.

    * Read: Rehearse the trip to Mars

Mars is much better suited for a romkoloni than our own moon, according to article authors.

Here is the result of many more, not least the former månefareren Edwin Aldrin. He also defended the idea of a one-way process several times in March.
Not for the faint

- Set the pilgrims on the Mayflower around Plymouth Rock, waiting for a return trip? They came here to settle. And that's what we should do on Mars, "he said in an interview in Vanity Fair magazine in June this year.
Lavarørhule (Photo: NASA)

Cave in the lava tubes in Hawaii. Such caves can also be found on Mars, and be natural shelters for the first colonists.
Photo: NASA

It turns Aldrin on the strings of the deepest tone bottom of America's pioneering spirit.

It is such thoughts that are also behind a number of other American grassroots movements, such as Underground in March, Mars Homestead Foundation and especially March Artists Community.
- In the spirit of Amundsen

"Direct to Mars - cowards return to the moon," the top graphic on their site. March Artists Community has chosen what is now called "Mars To Stay" as their preferred strategy.

Also, Schulze-Makuch researchers Davies and let it shine through clearly that it is far more than dry knowledge that motivates their longing for other worlds.

"Mars two stay" means a return to discover the spirit and the courage with which Columbus and Amundsen showed, but that has now given way to a culture of safety and political correctness, they believe.
Gen-backup

In their article they point out that on March 1 colony can serve another, more macabre purpose.

If civilization were to collapse on the earth by a comet collision, a burst from a super volcano or an ecological disaster, the colony on Mars be a backup for human genes - for the human race.

    * Read: New pictures from March

Paul Davies is director of research BEYOND at Arizona State University.

According to their own websites, they will ask the big existential questions in cross-country research and philosophy meet: How did the universe? Is nature mathematical? Why are the physical laws adapted to life?
Man in the Moon

The idea of one-way space travel is not new. In 1962, Americans were desperate to catch up with the Soviet Union in the space race.

Engineer John Cord from Bell Aero Systems Company and psychologist Leonard Seale from the same company developed a plan that could disembark an American on the moon before the Russians.

A one-way expedition with an improved one-man Mercury capsule could land on the moon in 1964 or 1965, if they agreed to make it without the opportunity for re-entry.

Yet this was not a suicide expedition. The idea was that the man in the moon would gnaw at their cheese pieces in a few years until the engineers on the ground had developed a new and larger rescue rocket.

It would come with three astronauts and retrieve the solitary Robinson, who undoubtedly would be jerked out of their lunar loneliness to an overwhelming confetti parade on Broadway.

When the Apollo project gathered momentum and the Russians fell behind the times with its lunar plans, the project was shelved.
Earlier Mars plans

Also in March a one-way trips have been proposed previously.

George William Herbert from the now hensyknede firm Retro Aerospace proposed in 1996 to send middle-aged scientists to the red planet to cut costs and increase the scientific yield.

    * Read: - 100 million habitable planets

In 2009, the idea up again. Lawrence Krauss of Arizona State University was interviewed by the New York Times, and argued that the American pioneer spirit had revived.

He compared that right Aldrin with the American pilgrims.
More volunteers

Readers reacted negatively. One pointed out that the pilgrims knew that they could survive where they came. Another said the proposed one-way mission illustrated the moral decay.

But Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Paul Davies argues that they have support.

The article says that they have met many people who are willing to sign up volunteers for such an expedition, both because of scientific curiosity and because of the adventure and the big questions about humanity's final destiny.

Caves like these may be at mars, providing the astronauts with natural shelter; picture from Jamaica.

Go science

[Gabbe]

Norway ruled over large parts of England for a very long time, they also settled down and made several cities. Including Jorvik, wich became Yorvik, and then again York. After the viking empire had fallen England among many emigrated to America and they made New York, all from a small little settlement called Jorvik a thousand years before.

[the warlord of the reich]

did you know saudia arabia is rated world's first and best oil producing country?

did you know polar bears are not white? when they go at sunlight, their skins and fur mix making a strange chemistry colouring the bear in white.

did you know that ostrich's brain is smaller then its eye?

did you know that white ants use sticks and small fallens wood to fortify and entrench outskirts of their colony?

did you know when elephant dies it sometimes stay standing untill a few hours it falls off?

did you know elphants are most sensitive creatures? they mourn the dead combined with protecting each other and their males as very exelent dads, elephants make families, aunts and sisters and fathers, you know,

did you know the smartest bird is the crow? it was also mentioned in qouran

[Gabbe]

did you know saudia arabia is rated world's first and best oil producing country?

did you know polar bears are not white? when they go at sunlight, their skins and fur mix making a strange chemistry colouring the bear in white.

did you know that ostrich's brain is smaller then its eye?

did you know that white ants use sticks and small fallens wood to fortify and entrench outskirts of their colony?

did you know when elephant dies it sometimes stay standing untill a few hours it falls off?

did you know elphants are most sensitive creatures? they mourn the dead combined with protecting each other and their males as very exelent dads, elephants make families, aunts and sisters and fathers, you know,

did you know the smartest bird is the crow? it was also mentioned in qouran

nice, oil is good and makes riches, just make sure the people also get some of the riches.

This prooves our governments socialistic way works!

[Omega]

did you know saudia arabia is rated world's first and best oil producing country?

And that Canada's oil reserves are placed at having the longest oil life? ^[1]

[Gabbe]

I am just wildely guessing is because you aren`t using them as much?

[Mark]

did you know saudia arabia is rated world's first and best oil producing country?

How do you determine it to be best? 

did you know the smartest bird is the crow? it was also mentioned in qouran

Don't bring the qur'an into this.  Glest cannot handle sensitive topics, and religion is the most sensitive of all topics.  But it is a very interesting fact.  They make tools with their beaks.

[Gabbe]

Quality wise, Mongstad, Norway is the best oil refinery in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongstad

http://www.power-technology.com/projects/monstadchp/

For example, in Africa you would have oil that can tolerate heat well, while in Norway you would have oil that can withstand cold better than heat. At Mongstad they work to specialize the oil properties for the area where the customer will use it.