Re: Mention of David Brin

2009-07-11 Thread Dave Land
On Jul 10, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Charlie Bell wrote: On 11/07/2009, at 1:25 AM, Dave Land wrote: On Jul 9, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 07:07 PM Thursday 7/9/2009, hkhenson wrote: snip (considerable) On the other hand, also coming into my screen today was a blog entry

Re: Mention of David Brin

2009-07-11 Thread Dave Land
On Jul 11, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Dave Land wrote: On Jul 10, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Charlie Bell wrote: On 11/07/2009, at 1:25 AM, Dave Land wrote: On Jul 9, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 07:07 PM Thursday 7/9/2009, hkhenson wrote: snip (considerable) On the other hand, also

Population growth rate differentials and consequences

2009-07-11 Thread Dan M
-Original Message- From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On Behalf Of Charlie Bell Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 5:28 PM To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Subject: Re: Mention of David Brin And anyway - reducing populations by lowering

Drinking Water From Air Humidity

2009-07-11 Thread net_democracy
In the seminal science fiction book 'Dune,' Frank Herbert envisioned the Fremen collecting water from the air via moisture traps and dew collectors. Science Daily reprints a press release from the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart, where scientists working with colleagues from Logos

Re: In despair for the state of SF

2009-07-11 Thread Damon Agretto
I'm sorry you read this turkey, but the KJA is a hack and has been for years... Damon. On Jul 4, 2009 4:19 AM, Warren Ockrassa war...@nightwares.com wrote: A week or so back I finished _Hidden Empire_, the first book in Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of Seven Suns:

Re: In despair for the state of SF

2009-07-11 Thread Danny O'Dare
There is so much good science fiction - not to mention 'slipstream', 'New Weird', etc - out there (old and new) why waste your time reading the crap? DANNY 2009/7/5 Doug Pensinger brig...@zo.com xponent Matter Maru rob Or Anathem, eh? Doug

Re: Google Operating System

2009-07-11 Thread Lance A. Brown
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Other than by breaking the M$ pay to play licensing paradigm and leveling the playing field for open source developers? Who says M$ won't have users pay to play M$-Linux? It's possible that the worse nightmare of the free-software sjihad/s community happens: M$ may

Re: Population growth rate differentials and consequences

2009-07-11 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 11 Jul 2009 at 13:59, Dan M wrote: The US is almost perfectly on the ZPG point. It accepts far more immigrants than anyone else, so it will continue to grow. China has a big demographic Um, quite apart from the issues with that being cracked down on for the sort of people you'd think

RE: Population growth rate differentials and consequences

2009-07-11 Thread Dan M
Behalf Of Andrew Crystall Also, the European trends are based mostly on the analysis of the old EU countries, and not the countries the EU has more recently expanded to cover, which have younger and more fertile populations. OK, let's look at the fertility rate for countries added since

Re: Mention of David Brin

2009-07-11 Thread hkhenson
At 11:00 AM 7/11/2009, Charles Bell wrote: And anyway - reducing populations by lowering breeding rates is just as effective, and as has been shown the world over, as populations become more affluent and better educated they breed later and less (often choosing to have none or one child). So

Re: Drinking Water From Air Humidity

2009-07-11 Thread Charlie Bell
On 16/06/2009, at 2:22 PM, net_democr...@yahoo.com wrote: In the seminal science fiction book 'Dune,' Frank Herbert envisioned the Fremen collecting water from the air via moisture traps and dew collectors. Science Daily reprints a press release from the Fraunhofer Institute in

Re: Drinking Water From Air Humidity

2009-07-11 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jul 11, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Charlie Bell wrote: There are several devices to do this, some of them actually on the market. One is a wind turbine arrangement that produces around 10 litres an hour (plenty for drinking purposes for several people!). Vaporators? My first job was programming