After a while, I'd guess all explosions start to look the same... unless the blasts just got bigger and bigger until you were working on nuclear bombs. But maybe I'm wrong. Good luck on those job searches -- you probably don't want to mention your penchant for explosives too early on in your interviewing process, though.
The takeaways from the Finnish system don't seem that clear. Finland has a completely different set of demographics than the US, so what works in Finland might not work in other countries.
The electrolysis of water to get hydrogen doesn't seem like a great way to store surplus energy.... and storing hydrogen isn't exactly a fun task either.
I think NASA is actually making a wise business move by promoting competition in the satellite-launching market. There are a few private companies that have mature rocket platforms that might be adapted to NASA missions, but the prices for launching custom rockets are pretty expensive. Funding a few low-cost carriers seems like a good idea to try to keep space monopolies from forming.
Also, technically.. you have to find someone who will accept a trillion dollar coin as payment. Otherwise the Fed runs into the exact same problem it has with dollar coins -- as well as the problem of how to store such a valuable single coin.
Hmmm. That penny-rounding process seems like there's some potential for a Superman III plot to scam lots of small transactions into serious money... :P
Ryan,
The (not) "being rich" part should stop you... making scientific discoveries is becoming more and more a hobbyist realm -- as long as you aren't trying to discover the bottom of the ocean, interplanetary space or fundamental particle physics... :P
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I guess it depends on how literal you are with that....
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where 4th graders basically play a world simulation with the teacher being the dungeon master.
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Good luck on the competition (if you're still in it, not just an observer)!
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The (not) "being rich" part should stop you... making scientific discoveries is becoming more and more a hobbyist realm -- as long as you aren't trying to discover the bottom of the ocean, interplanetary space or fundamental particle physics... :P
Try Foldit at home?
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