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Talking Carbon, Talking Solutions – Australians Want Action

Kelly Burnes — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:01:24 +0000

Source: www.climateinstitute.org.au

The issues of climate change and carbon pricing have been caught in a purgatorial pinball game over the past 12 months. No wonder there is confusion, doubt and general misunderstanding on climate change among the populace considering the political battle lines drawn between parties in state houses, parliament buildings and capitols worldwide. But a recent study put forth by The Climate Institute, titled Climate of the Nation 2013: Australian attitudes on climate change, seeks to elevate the dialogue. The authors of the report actually talked to people to get their views on climate change. They asked questions, they listened and they documented the responses. Perhaps politicians could add that tactic to their constituent playbook.

Highlights from the report include:

Two-thirds of Australians think that climate change is occurring and almost all of them believe that it is impacting Australia now. People are genuinely worried about the cost impacts of climate change on crop production and food supply, insurance premiums, water shortages and climate refugees.

More people want to give carbon pricing a go than get rid of it. And, more Australians want greater action and leadership than in recent years.

Results from the focus groups and poll behind Climate of the Nation 2013 indicate acceptance that climate change is happening and that humans are contributing to it. Twice as many trust the science than don’t.

Give the report a look; it’s a quick read and the information is presented in a way that connects with people. The authors did a great job because they took a deeper look by diving into demographics – age, gender, and dwelling location to give a realistic snapshot of the population’s views on climate change.

Speaking of the views of a population and whether politicians comprehend those views, The BBC put out this headline on 15 July: Australia PM Rudd sets out carbon tax shift cost.

The Australian government says its plan to scrap an unpopular carbon tax will cost A$3.8bn ($3.5bn; £2.3bn).

I wonder whom Kevin Rudd spoke with before deciding to take such action. Did he speak with the people? Could their views have changed over the course of the past year?

The carbon tax, introduced in a somewhat controversial about face on the part of then Prime Minister Julia Gillard in 2012 did leave Australian businesses and families shaking their heads. But Australians place a high importance on the environment and their quality of life. Understanding that Australia is the worst polluter per capita in the developed world is something that most Australians, I think would want to see change. Expecting the worst-polluting firms to pay a tax on each tonne of greenhouse gases they emit is not unreasonable. However, the way the carbon tax policy was structured in Australia by including subsidies was a lose-lose, except of course for the corporations doing the polluting. Based on the information from the survey and work The Climate Institute put forward, perhaps politicians will consider “re-tooling” the carbon tax. The elections are due to take place in September. It will be an interesting to see which party comes out on top and the course of action the government takes on carbon emissions.

The Climate Institute is an independent research organization with offices in Sydney and Melbourne. Their vision is for a “resilient Australia, prospering in a zero-carbon global economy, participating fully and fairly in international climate change solutions.“ That’s a vision the international community can embrace.

Cite this article:
Burnes K (2013-07-18 00:01:24). Talking Carbon, Talking Solutions - Australians Want Action. Australian Science. Retrieved: May 04, 2024, from http://australianscience.com.au/news/talking-carbon-talking-solutions-australians-want-action/

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Weekly Science Picks

Kelly Burnes — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 00:50:28 +0000

Stay tuned for top science stories! Photo credit: Thinkstock, via BBC News

Welcome to this edition of Weekly Science Picks.

What a busy news week – with the markets up, the transportation incidents with planes and trains, major flooding in China…well, there’s been a lot going on. And there were numerous stories of scientific importance reported on as well. So I’ve listed the stories I’ve found significant this week. Topics include climate change, space, physics, public health, girls in education, and dogs watching TV. Yes, dogs watching TV. There’s a little something for everyone. So kick back, with your favorite beverage in hand and soak up some knowledge.

Weekly Science Picks

Kelly Burnes — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:38:35 +0000

The Modular Prosthetic Limb will help patients to feel and manipulate objects just as they would with a native hand. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV. APPLIED PHYSICS LAB.

These were the science stories that resonated the most for me this week. Gene snipping, CO2 alarms, and brain-controlled prosthetics – an array of stories touching on the impossible, and yet, totally possible.

Given the way budgets and financing have always dominated the path of scientific research and with the rise of start-ups and crowdsourcing dominating many a young entrepreneurs dream, this story is important for many reasons. It raises the questions of safety, ethics and regulatory responsibility. It is a must read.

A Dream of Trees Aglow at Night by Andrew Pollack

But part of the goal is more controversial: to publicize do-it-yourself synthetic biology and to “inspire others to create new living things.

Cite this article:
Burnes K (2013-05-12 16:38:35). Weekly Science Picks. Australian Science. Retrieved: May 04, 2024, from http://australianscience.com.au/news/weekly-science-picks-30/
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Asteroids, extinctions, and biodiversity: Wiping the slate clean for new life to flourish

Markus — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:24:56 +0000

The recent meteor strike in Russia has been a rather sobering reminder that Earth has been regularly battered during its history, by space rocks. Actually, the amount of meteoritic material constantly landing on Earth is startling – on average, over 100 tons every day which we don’t even notice. Now, most of that is in the form of tiny rock fragments and dust; with most being small enough to be vapourised as they burn up in Earth’s atmosphere, relatively few meteorites ever end up on the ground. The part which may make us uneasy, however, is the fact that occasionally something larger crosses Earth’s path. Something much larger.

We already know with some degree of certainty that a gigantic asteroid impact may have played a role in wiping the dinosaurs off the face of our world, and we also know it’s not the only such large impact in Earth’s history. Now there’s evidence of another huge impact – and this one was in Australia!

With a diameter spanning around 200 km in South Australia’s East Warbuton basin, an ancient impact site has been uncovered. Created by an asteroid which was probably between 10-20 km in diamater, affecting an area of terrain of around 30,000 km, this impact zone is the third largest currently known. When this particular asteroid struck Earth some 360 million years ago, its effects would have been profound and global.

Andrew Glikson, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, first started investigating the area after hearing about structural abnormalities in the rocks there. He spent time in a crystallography lab, studying the orientation of crystals in rocks collected from the site, and found that the most likely cause for what he was seeing was the result of the rocks being subjected to a huge shock. Given the extent and area of the shocked rocks, the most likely explanation is a giant extraterrestrial impact.

The most well known giant impact, known as the Chicxulub Impact Event, occurred about 66 million years ago causing the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, and quite probably being the final nail in the coffin of the dinosaurs. This newly discovered Australian impact site, however, is much older. In fact, when this asteroid struck Earth, it was around 100 million years before any dinosaurs had even evolved. In fact, it would have likely been during the Carboniferous Period in Earth’s geologic history. Interestingly enough, there was a minor extinction event during the Carboniferous. A minor extinction caused by a change in Earth’s climate.

Glikson went on to explain that this impact was likely one of part of a cluster which caused a number of impacts around that time. This cluster of impacts was very likely behind an extinction event. Simply, a huge impact like the one discovered in the middle of Australia would cause devastation. The effects locally would be severe, splattering molten rock into the air which would then rain back down to the ground hundreds of kilometres away, and a blast wave of superheated air would cause widespread forest fires near the impact zone – particularly in the oxygen rich atmosphere of Earth’s Carboniferous forests.

The global repercussions of such an impact, however, would be much worse. A huge amount of dust would be thrown up into Earth’s atmosphere, choking out the sunlight. This would cause Earth’s surface to cool, and the reduced light would make plants die off. A big enough impact – or a series of them – would throw enough dust into the skies that this could happen on a global scale. With the food chain cut off at the plants which are its source, a mass extinction would follow as animals would have trouble finding food to survive on.

These events are mercifully rare. A giant impact may happen on Earth once every ten million years or so. Interestingly enough though, researchers in a different study have found evidence that extinction events on planet Earth may actually be beneficial to biodiversity.

Kale Sniderman, part of a group of researchers working at the University of Melbourne and the University of Tasmania, focussed on an event much more recent than the East Warburton impact. Instead, he and the others looked at the last ice age, around one million years ago and together they constructed a hypothesis that extinction events may be even more important for biodiversity than rapid evolution. While their work concerns species which went extinct during ice ages as opposed to impact events, a suitably large meteor strike may be a factor in what causes an ice age to begin.

The traditional view of most biologists is that some areas have greater biodiversity due to evolution in those places progressing more rapidly. Evolution has always been the only thing emphasised in biodiversity studies, but Sniderman and his colleagues have taken the first step in overturning this picture.

Their work looked at regions in South Africa and Australia – notable as two of the most diverse areas on planet Earth. South Western Australia is known among botanists for having a huge variety of plants, particularly tough leaved shrubs and trees. The very tip of the South African cape is even more diverse, populated by very similar types of plant. For a long time, biologists have theorised that the diversty in these rather similar areas was down to the dry, arid summer conditions and the nutrient poor soils in these areas. The exact connection, however, has never been entirely apparent.

As it happens, the status may not be quite so quo here. Studying fossils from an ancient lake in South Eastern Australia, it was found that plant life in Australia tended to die off as the continent has gradually become drier – a process taking millions of years. In particular, during the last ice age, a huge amount of rainforest plants died off. This allowed other hardier plants to fill the space they’d left and plant diversity expanded as they did so – creating what was described by University of Tasmania’s Greg Jordan as “a remarkable number of tough-leaved, shrubby plants.” Thinking about this process logically, it seems to make perfect sense. In any place on Earth where there’s a vacant ecological niche, life will typically evolve to try and fill that niche. Where an extinction occurs, a huge niche will suddenly become empty. This would prompt a veritable explosion of new life forms to fill in the gap.

This study not only gives new insight into how extinction events can affect diversity of life forms, but also has implications for current and future climate change, and how species may be able to cope with it. As I mentioned previously when talking about the Great Barrier Reef, Australian wildlife is already suffering from climate change. However, at least for plant life on land, there’s a good chance that the species most easily affected by rapid environmental changes may have already died off during the last ice age.

To loop this discussion back to the beginning, if an extinction due to an ice age could help to boost biodiversity, logically an extinction due to an asteroid impact event could do the same. To my knowledge, there are no studies in this context concerning what happened to biodiversity after the Chicxulub impact event (though I’ll admit that I may be wrong on this), but it would be very interesting to see what such studies might find. Similarly, it would be interesting to know if any such flourishes of biodiversity occurred after the newly discovered East Warbuton impact too. It could be that only certain types of extinction event can boost diversity of life on a planet. That said, if the same thing can occur after an asteroid impact then it may have implications reaching beyond Earth.

If a giant impact event could serve to actually boost life on a planetary scale, then it may imply that once life has taken hold on a planet, it’s more robust than we’ve been giving it credit for. The implications for astrobiologists and the search for life elsewhere in the galaxy are quite clear.

To end on an aside, a large enough asteroid strike even on Earth today would cause widespread fires kilometres away from the impact site. Back in the Carboniferous Period, around the time when the East Warbuton impact occurred, the situation would have been much more dramatic; the oxygen content of Earth’s atmosphere was up to 15% higher then, than it is today. In such a combustible atmosphere, where fires could have been started by a simple lightning strike, a large asteroid impact could cause a widespread inferno. However, South Africa (one of the places considered in the biodiversity study) is home to a number of species which have evolved specifically to survive fires. In particular, the highly diverse Fynbos region is known for a number of plants for which fire is actually an integral part of their lifecycle. Some seeds belonging to protea species simply don’t germinate unless they’re exposed to the intense heat of a wildfire. Provided they could gather sufficient amounts of sunlight under the darkened skies, plants like these may be able to rapidly repopulate an area after an impact event.

Life on Earth, evidently, has resilience which can still surprise us.

Image credits:
Top – Artists impression of a large scale impact event – Don Davis/NASA
Upper Middle – Australia seen from orbit – NASA
Lower Middle – League Scrub sub tropical rainforest, near Bowraville NSW, Australia – Peter Woodard/Wikimedia Commons
Bottom – Garden – https://croatia-real.estate

Cite this article:
Hammonds M (2013-03-08 00:24:56). Asteroids, extinctions, and biodiversity: Wiping the slate clean for new life to flourish. Australian Science. Retrieved: May 04, 2024, from http://australianscience.com.au/environmental-science/asteroids-extinctions-and-biodiversity-wiping-the-slate-clean-for-new-life-to-flourish/

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Climate Change, Resilience, Communication

Kelly Burnes — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:10:57 +0000

Hurricane Gloria devastation on Fire Island, New York, 28 Sept 1985. (AP Photo/Rick Maiman)

Climate Change

Last week I listened to a webinar on climate change discussing findings of the draft report from the National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee. Not much has changed from the year 2000 report, or the 2009 report. Well, a few changes: the science has improved, climate change is now being stated directly as a result of human activity and the report is more accessible and understandable to the public at large. The public that actually takes the time to read it, that is. How communities engage with science and government is a hot topic and will continue to be. The idea of citizen scientists was mentioned during the webinar and it has been in the news quite a bit. I’ve written about it here, but after today’s presentation, it triggered some new thinking and I pondered it a bit more in terms of climate change and planning resilient communities.

Engineering Community Resilience

With the recent round of floods and bush fires, particularly in Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania, and with Hurricane Sandy in the northeastern United States, I’ve been thinking more about how we engineer our communities and our transportation networks to withstand the dramatic stresses placed on them by natural disaster events such as these. In the face of extreme and more frequent weather events, we must begin to look at how we protect investments, not how do we avoid it, but how do we work with it once faced with the situation; how can our societal networks “adapt” to natural events. After hitting the power-on button after a disaster, how long does it take before we are up and running at full speed? It’s definitely not automatic and there is a lag time, but the mission should be to reduce that lag time as much as possible. We can do that through better planning of our communities, both urban and rural, from top to bottom.

Outdated Planning Manual

Jane Jacobs in her book, The Life and Death of Great American Cities, wrote the way we plan cities is outdated. Those thoughts were from the late 1950s; I wonder what she would think at the progress, or lack of, made now. While Ms. Jacobs was not an urban planner, she was an astute observer of city life. We have been planning to the same model for years, basing our land use and transportation plans on activity centers and primary uses as if these things were completely and utterly independent. When in reality, today more so than ever, emphasis should be placed on the connections between and among uses, from primary to tertiary uses and beyond. Emphasis should also be placed on addressing aging infrastructure. Outdated, roads, buildings, bridges, sidewalks, subways, telephone lines, sewers; all of these facets of modern society that once made life convenient can actually make life more inconvenient if technology does not keep up with the pace of increasing population and demand. It is a tough task to balance the needs of a community, of a nation, but attention to rediscovering and reengineering our primary uses to connect with present and future day society has to be part of this century’s new planning paradigm.

Community Communication

How does this national climate assessment report actually impact individuals? What does the public need to know? What does government and science need to tell people? I think ultimately that people have a desire to know what goes on in their communities; but they’re busy, they elect people and trust them to hire staff that will get the job done. And there is this mentality that they just want things to work and society grows cranky when things don’t work. Think about water pipes. An invisible zigzagging network buried underground. Much thought isn’t given them until they burst and the faucets run dry. Adding to the problem is that the public doesn’t understand how antiquated our infrastructure is, be it water pipes, bridges, or telephone lines. And public refusal to pay for a system’s upgrading because water has always been cheap just adds to the complex ability to make change happen. But I believe it can.

It all boils down to communication, at the basic, most simplistic level. That’s why it is critical governments do a better job at explaining and giving information to citizens when disasters strike AND details about the recovery and clean up process OR explaining why adaptation and mitigation measures need to be taken because not everyone understands why systems that date back to the 19^th century can’t handle pressures from the 21^st century. I can’t speak for other countries, but the “red tape” political pomp and circumstance on parade in the U.S. needs to shift toward a “green tape” common sense implementation attitude. Waiting over three months for recovery funds to come through after Hurricane Sandy hit inhibits community rebuilding and cuts to the psychological core of those affected.

Cyclone Oswald, Eastern Australia, 29 Jan 2013. (itv.com, Photo: Reuters)

Citizen Scientists Participation

Popularity of science among the masses is growing and should be engaged. So how can citizen scientists help? With all this talk of using ordinary citizens to collect data for large-scale research projects and as budgets tighten and staffs decrease, I think there will be a greater role for the community at large to help provide answers to research questions. To start with, our scientific organizations will need to use the cerebral thought process of corporations. The scenario is not that citizen scientists will be out there running amok with data; a trained scientist would no doubt be in charge. Like a project manager would in a big corporation, they would have people reporting to them, following the protocols, procedures and plans they have discussed to achieve a certain goal. I think this is the way science will have to move in order to stay somewhat viable as we attempt to solve the looming problems we face in the future.

Science, the community, government and private industry all need to be present and active partners communicating as we move forward designing our cities and countrysides in a certainly uncertain world. Policy choices should have been made 10 plus years ago as an attempt to deal with climate change, but hindsight is always 20/20. While this piece speaks mainly to the developed world, we shouldn’t ignore the rapid urbanization that is sweeping across the developing world, with many key urban issues not being fully explored. The municipal level has an opportunity to be a catalyst of change. As cities think about how to assess their risks and incorporate resiliency measures into their town planning, the population may actually be able to ebb and flow with climate disruptions.

Cite this article:
Burnes K (2013-02-26 00:10:57). Climate Change, Resilience, Communication. Australian Science. Retrieved: May 04, 2024, from http://australianscience.com.au/environmental-science/climate-change-resilience-communication/

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Chemtrails – Conspiracy Theory?

Kelly Burnes — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:56:59 +0000

Contrail or Chemtrail?

We all know what contrails are: those long thin artificial clouds that form behind aircraft, most often as a result of the water vapour in the exhaust of the aircraft’s engines. But have you heard of chemtrails?

I first learned of chemtrails after our editor asked if I would be interested in writing a story on it. At the time, I thought it would be a simple story.

But it’s been over a month since I watched the video, “What in the World are They Spraying? I didn’t realize the amount of research or the length of the list of questions that would emerge. Here, I’ll comment on the video (it’s about 1 hour 35 minutes long), pose some of the questions I had, and offer some analysis.

Michael J. Murphy is a filmmaker and political activist who wrote, directed and produced the film. The concern seems to be compassionately targeted on public health. That scientists and geoengineers are trying to solve the global warming crisis by geoengineering appears to be unacceptable to Mr. Murphy and his collaborators. Geoengineering is the deliberate intention to moderate global warming by intervening with Earth’s climate system. An example is cloud engineering. Cloud engineering research is underway at the University of Washington as a potential tool to ease climate change, but at this point is only at the initial stages.

The film tries to touch on some aspects of science and targets aluminium as the cause for an increased alkalinity of soil in California that is damaging plant life and threatens the water supply for hikers visiting Mt. Shasta. This aluminium that falls as pellets from the sky is also thought to be the cause for softening the bark of coconuts trees in Hawaii and why farmers there cannot grow their own taro and papaya. Farmers on the compound in the film claim they want GMO seeds so they can grow their own food naturally. Interesting turn of events and thought patterns, wouldn’t you say?

I could go into more detail about the effects of aluminium, but I will refrain. If you are keen to learn more about the public health effects, click here.

The so-called climate engineers are painted as scientists who have crossed over to the dark side. They know the harm these chemicals can cause but must be willing to go ahead with these spraying flights, even if it means harming their own families. Or are they somehow excluded and protected from the aluminium that rains down with coats and hats that offer some sort of super power protection? It was mentioned in the film that they are forming sales, implementation and funding strategies. I’m still not sure who “they” are. They are mentioned over and over and over again as the culprits, the party responsible for poisoning the people and food on our planet. Follow the money, the filmmakers and those appearing in the movie say repeatedly. There is a whole evil empire, beginning to build, that will take over the world. And the evil empire evidently begins with Monsanto.

The multinational agricultural and biotech company Monsanto is mentioned as a curve ball to distract from the topic at hand and perhaps gain more followers. In the film, it is stated that an aluminium resistant gene had been developed at Cornell University and was patented in September 2009. A search of the United States Patent and Trademark Office website reveals no such patent matching #7582809.

The filmmakers bring in advocate and conspiracist G. Edward Griffin to join this chemtrail crusade. He talks about how chemtrails don’t dissipate; that a permanent grid hangs over cities like Los Angeles. A bit more confirmation on this is needed for my liking – for instance a time-lapse camera set up throughout the daylight hours, for an entire 7-day period, to see exactly how many airplanes are passing through, creating these everlasting contrails containing chemicals that rain down on us. And the camera should be able to zoom in on the plane, or perhaps a set of binoculars could be used to see the N-Number on the aircraft. Flight plans have to be registered by pilots at airports, so surely with some investigation and tracking down records, we could find out whom these they people are and begin to interrogate them as to why poisoning the planet for profit or using this method to combat global climate change seems like a good idea.

The first International Chemtrail Symposium took place on May 29, 2010. When you plug this into Google, a myriad of conspiracy type results show up; one is listed under “Godlike Productions”. In the film, we are given a glimpse of this symposium. The phrase, “What God had originally made” is used. Any time God vs. science rears its head in a conversation, it is no longer a logical debate; it is one rooted on emotion and one’s philosophical beliefs.

Another anecdote that leans this chemtrail film toward the conspiracy theory side is when they invite activist Jeremy Rothe-Kuschel to go to Washington, D.C., to try to persuade elected officials in the U.S. House and Senate to investigate this fleece that has been cast over the American people. Representative after representative shut them down. Ambushing politicians with pamphlets and a video camera does not seem to be the best method for getting one’s case heard. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California humours this crew a bit by taking their information. I’ve yet to see her office actually follow up on the issue of chemtrails by displaying information on their website, holding a public meeting, or introducing a bill for a hearing to the Committee on Science and Technology.

Over and over there are references that scream sensationalism tactics. Presenting one side of the story as this film does, makes it a bit difficult to really ascertain what the perceived harm is and if chemtrails are really a ploy by governments the globe over to decrease the human race. If it is true, than we should start tracking the whereabouts of aluminium and barium in relation to scheduled flight plans and requesting that our elected officials work with our national scientific organizations to find the answers, while looking for real solutions to climate change that works for the populations and the planet.

Deployment of Telephony

Tony Abbott

Abstract

Many steganographers would agree that, had it not been for RPCs, the
exploration of e-business might never have occurred. After years of key
research into multicast solutions, we demonstrate the deployment of web
browsers. In this work, we validate not only that flip-flop gates and
DHCP can interact to accomplish this ambition, but that the same is
true for telephony. Of course, this is not always the case.

1 Introduction

Many steganographers would agree that, had it not been for read-write
information, the refinement of 128 bit architectures might never have
occurred. It should be noted that our application is Turing complete.
Furthermore, in our research, we disprove the synthesis of simulated
annealing. On the other hand, SCSI disks alone might fulfill the need
for amphibious modalities.

In order to achieve this aim, we understand how RPCs can be applied to
the analysis of flip-flop gates. This discussion might seem unexpected
but has ample historical precedence. Dubiously enough, the basic tenet
of this method is the improvement of expert systems. Furthermore, our
heuristic investigates knowledge-based theory, without managing IPv4.
While conventional wisdom states that this riddle is usually surmounted
by the investigation of IPv6, we believe that a different method is
necessary. Furthermore, indeed, cache coherence and the UNIVAC
computer have a long history of agreeing in this manner. Thusly, we
probe how scatter/gather I/O can be applied to the understanding of
the lookaside buffer [1].

We question the need for superpages. Certainly, two properties make
this solution distinct: our application runs in O( n ) time, and
also our application constructs the study of digital-to-analog
converters. Further, two properties make this solution optimal: our
application prevents the understanding of replication, and also SikProp
is built on the visualization of the partition table. We allow cache
coherence to control cacheable technology without the exploration of
RAID [2]. For example, many applications construct the study
of lambda calculus. Even though such a claim at first glance seems
counterintuitive, it has ample historical precedence. Therefore, we
validate that agents and replication can interfere to overcome this
grand challenge.

Our contributions are twofold. Primarily, we introduce a framework
for context-free grammar (SikProp), disconfirming that the foremost
“smart” algorithm for the construction of lambda calculus by Martinez
and Raman runs in Ω(2ⁿ) time. We use secure information to
demonstrate that the little-known wearable algorithm for the
exploration of the UNIVAC computer by Raj Reddy is NP-complete.

The rest of this paper is organized as follows. We motivate the need
for Smalltalk [3,4,5,3]. Further, we place
our work in context with the existing work in this area. Similarly, we
place our work in context with the related work in this area. Along
these same lines, to fulfill this intent, we concentrate our efforts on
demonstrating that 2 bit architectures can be made lossless,
homogeneous, and classical. Ultimately, we conclude.

2 Related Work

In this section, we consider alternative approaches as well as prior
work. The original method to this obstacle was considered important;
however, it did not completely accomplish this ambition. A recent
unpublished undergraduate dissertation proposed a similar idea for the
evaluation of massive multiplayer online role-playing games. In this
paper, we addressed all of the problems inherent in the existing work.
Despite the fact that we have nothing against the related method by
Butler Lampson et al. [6], we do not believe that solution is
applicable to “fuzzy” robotics [4].

The deployment of the study of web browsers has been widely studied.
Although Sasaki also explored this method, we improved it independently
and simultaneously. Furthermore, although John McCarthy also described
this approach, we emulated it independently and simultaneously
[7]. A recent unpublished undergraduate dissertation
[8,9,10] explored a similar idea for autonomous
algorithms. These applications typically require that multi-processors
can be made concurrent, metamorphic, and distributed, and we argued in
this position paper that this, indeed, is the case.

A major source of our inspiration is early work by Williams and
Kobayashi [11] on classical communication. Further, O. Gupta
et al. [12] developed a similar algorithm, unfortunately we
confirmed that our application is Turing complete [13].
Furthermore, K. K. Anderson et al. suggested a scheme for controlling
wide-area networks, but did not fully realize the implications of
scalable theory at the time [9]. Recent work by L. H. Moore
suggests a framework for constructing the Internet, but does not offer
an implementation [14]. A litany of prior work supports our
use of “smart” configurations [4,15,12]. A
comprehensive survey [16] is available in this space. Thusly,
despite substantial work in this area, our solution is clearly the
method of choice among security experts [17]. Thusly,
comparisons to this work are fair.

3 Design

In this section, we present an architecture for harnessing adaptive
technology. We assume that the little-known ubiquitous algorithm for
the analysis of the partition table by Sun et al. runs in
Ω(logn) time. Figure 1 plots our
application’s scalable storage. This seems to hold in most cases. See
our prior technical report [18] for details.

Figure 1:
The relationship between SikProp and introspective models.

Suppose that there exists the understanding of write-ahead logging
such that we can easily improve the development of 802.11 mesh
networks. Any appropriate synthesis of red-black trees will clearly
require that replication can be made pseudorandom, compact, and
modular; our approach is no different [19]. Further,
Figure 1 diagrams a methodology diagramming the
relationship between SikProp and thin clients. We estimate that
rasterization can be made large-scale, “fuzzy”, and real-time.
While such a claim at first glance seems counterintuitive, it fell in
line with our expectations. Therefore, the methodology that SikProp
uses is feasible.

Figure 2:
The flowchart used by SikProp.

We assume that IPv4 can observe e-commerce without needing to
harness decentralized information. This is a confusing property of our
application. Next, Figure 1 details the architecture
used by our algorithm. This is a key property of SikProp. Along these
same lines, Figure 2 diagrams a decision tree plotting
the relationship between our approach and perfect technology. Despite
the results by M. Raman, we can disconfirm that the memory bus can be
made client-server, lossless, and cacheable. Of course, this is not
always the case. We hypothesize that model checking can be made
robust, stable, and relational. Next, despite the results by Thomas,
we can confirm that courseware and 802.11 mesh networks are
generally incompatible.

4 Implementation

Though many skeptics said it couldn’t be done (most notably W. Sasaki et
al.), we describe a fully-working version of SikProp. SikProp requires
root access in order to control information retrieval systems. Even
though we have not yet optimized for simplicity, this should be simple
once we finish designing the collection of shell scripts. It was
necessary to cap the time since 1986 used by our algorithm to 71 nm.
While we have not yet optimized for security, this should be simple once
we finish architecting the hand-optimized compiler. We have not yet
implemented the hand-optimized compiler, as this is the least important
component of our framework.

5 Experimental Evaluation and Analysis

As we will soon see, the goals of this section are manifold. Our
overall evaluation seeks to prove three hypotheses: (1) that mean time
since 1995 is a good way to measure 10th-percentile latency; (2) that
congestion control no longer adjusts average response time; and finally
(3) that the Nintendo Gameboy of yesteryear actually exhibits better
10th-percentile signal-to-noise ratio than today’s hardware. Unlike
other authors, we have decided not to refine median sampling rate. Our
evaluation method will show that doubling the effective floppy disk
speed of topologically compact algorithms is crucial to our results.

5.1 Hardware and Software Configuration

Figure 3:
These results were obtained by Wang et al. [20]; we reproduce
them here for clarity.

One must understand our network configuration to grasp the genesis of
our results. We ran a real-world emulation on our decommissioned
Macintosh SEs to disprove the opportunistically read-write nature of
ubiquitous information. To begin with, we added more 8MHz Athlon XPs to
the NSA’s mobile telephones to understand our classical overlay
network. We added 150MB of NV-RAM to our sensor-net cluster. Third, we
reduced the tape drive speed of Intel’s autonomous overlay network to
probe epistemologies. Similarly, we doubled the tape drive speed of
MIT’s Planetlab testbed to discover configurations. On a similar note,
we removed 25Gb/s of Ethernet access from our Internet-2 cluster to
better understand Intel’s system [21,22,23,24,25]. Finally, we added a 150GB USB key to our
decommissioned Motorola bag telephones to examine theory. We struggled
to amass the necessary 25GHz Pentium Centrinos.

Figure 4:
The effective interrupt rate of our system, compared with the other
algorithms [26].

SikProp runs on autonomous standard software. Our experiments soon
proved that autogenerating our provably independent Knesis keyboards
was more effective than extreme programming them, as previous work
suggested. All software was hand assembled using GCC 1.8.9, Service
Pack 0 built on the Canadian toolkit for provably refining flip-flop
gates. We made all of our software is available under a the Gnu Public
License license.

Figure 5:
These results were obtained by A. N. Nehru et al. [27]; we
reproduce them here for clarity.

5.2 Experimental Results

Figure 6:
The expected distance of SikProp, as a function of energy.

Is it possible to justify the great pains we took in our implementation?
No. Seizing upon this contrived configuration, we ran four novel
experiments: (1) we asked (and answered) what would happen if provably
pipelined B-trees were used instead of checksums; (2) we deployed 01
Apple ][es across the Internet-2 network, and tested our SMPs
accordingly; (3) we asked (and answered) what would happen if
independently wireless online algorithms were used instead of RPCs; and
(4) we asked (and answered) what would happen if collectively wired
link-level acknowledgements were used instead of link-level
acknowledgements. We discarded the results of some earlier experiments,
notably when we measured NV-RAM speed as a function of hard disk space
on an Atari 2600 [28].

Now for the climactic analysis of experiments (1) and (4) enumerated
above [17]. The key to Figure 6 is closing the
feedback loop; Figure 4 shows how our algorithm’s
effective ROM throughput does not converge otherwise [29].
Continuing with this rationale, the curve in Figure 5
should look familiar; it is better known as g(n) = n. On a similar
note, we scarcely anticipated how wildly inaccurate our results were in
this phase of the evaluation strategy.

We have seen one type of behavior in Figures 3
and 5; our other experiments (shown in
Figure 4) paint a different picture. The curve in
Figure 5 should look familiar; it is better known as
H⁻¹_Y(n) = n. Of course, all sensitive data was anonymized
during our middleware deployment. Note how simulating multi-processors
rather than deploying them in a chaotic spatio-temporal environment
produce more jagged, more reproducible results.

Lastly, we discuss all four experiments. Operator error alone cannot
account for these results. Note the heavy tail on the CDF in
Figure 3, exhibiting muted expected block size. On a
similar note, the curve in Figure 3 should look familiar;
it is better known as G(n) = logn.

6 Conclusion

Our experiences with SikProp and the construction of Internet QoS
confirm that kernels and wide-area networks are always incompatible.
We have a better understanding how architecture can be applied to the
exploration of context-free grammar. To solve this obstacle for
self-learning information, we constructed a framework for local-area
networks [30]. We constructed an algorithm for the
evaluation of forward-error correction (SikProp), verifying that the
little-known optimal algorithm for the exploration of cache coherence
that would make analyzing RPCs a real possibility by Martin runs in
O(n!) time. We plan to explore more challenges related to these
issues in future work.

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Weekly Science Picks

Kelly Burnes — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 07:45:56 +0000

Cosmic Evolution Connectedness

It’s that time again! Time for Weekly Science Picks! Let’s dive in.

This is interesting. This could really make things interesting. You just need to read this article on climate change and emissions that appeared in The Australian. It opens up a whole can of worms for debate, which I may tackle later, so feel free to leave a comment. I’d love to hear some thoughts on this.

Doha sets up $3bn hit for taxpayers as climate deal fails to deliver on emissions targets by David Crowe

“We can’t be allowed to free ride off the suffering of others,” he said yesterday. – John Connor, chief executive, Climate Institute

This is one of those stories that gets you excited and makes you wish you were part of that research team on assignment. I am anxiously awaiting the results. Earlier this week, drilling began at Lake Ellsworth in Antarctica. This project is testing the environments of where life is possible and has implications for future space exploration and discovery.

Drilling begins at lake hidden beneath Antarctic by David Shukman

“Exploring for life in such an extreme environment – in pitch-black conditions under high pressure beneath the ice-sheet – could open up possibilities for life on other worlds such as Jupiter’s moon Europa.” – Professor Martin Siegert, chief scientist

There’s so much focus and emphasis on space these days, that we forget about that big blue thing that covers 71% of our planet and is in need of some major TLC…ah, the ocean! The Argo data program started in the late 1990s and has since been put to use in weather and climate models. It’s also playing a major role in ocean forecasting, such as responding to environmental emergencies, helping the shipping industry and promoting safety at sea.

Ocean science robot revolution hits symbolic millionth milestone by CSIRO

“The world’s deep ocean environment is as hostile as that in space, but because it holds so many clues to our climate future exploring it with the Argo observing network is a real turning point for science. – Dr Susan Wijffels, Argo co-Chair and CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship scientist

And tying it all back to the source of what’s important, the kiddos. This last pick comes from one of our very own Australian Science authors, Danielle Spencer. Here Danielle examines the importance of play-based learning in the science classroom.

We’re Just Playing, Science by Stealth by Danielle Spencer

Play-based learning is highly sanctioned in early year’s curriculum, but why do we need to stop? Ask any child who doesn’t like science and it’s about too much writing, too much theory, too much bookwork. Maybe, we just should let them play some more.

Stay thirsty for knowledge, my friends. Stay thirsty.

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Weekly Science Picks

Kelly Burnes — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:49:21 +0000

It seems the rate of everything has increased exponentially. A very bold, vague, yet intriguing statement, you might say.

During the course of the past 2 weeks, Hurricane Sandy devastated the East Coast of America, followed closely by a nor’easter. So my science picks for this week center on the themes of natural disasters, planning, global warming and Space, and the rate of which we have to increase our thinking and innovation in order to get ahead of these issues, before they become serious problems.

So let’s get started.

I was out of town when Hurricane Sandy struck. My neighborhood in Brooklyn was pretty much untouched. While I heard reports from friends not having power, and subways and airports being closed, it wasn’t until watching the hurricane relief telethon that I realized the magnitude of destruction. And I chose the following article by our very own Charles Ebikeme because it is important to remember that Haiti has yet to recover from several rounds of natural disasters. The U.S. will rebuild. Considering a large portion of the Haitian population still remains housed in tents from the earthquake, will they be able to rebuild? Before the next natural disaster strikes?

Sandy’s aftermath by Charles Ebikeme

While most of the focus of western media centred on the damage Sandy caused in America, especially this close to a Presidential election; there were few news outlets that reported what had passed in the Caribbean — outside the death tolls and damaged infrastructure. Indeed, as it is becoming more and more apparent, it is always the blogosphere that provides an adequate source of information. Hurricane Sandy’s progression was followed by bloggers on the ground, giving another side of the story we don’t often get to see.

But it is in Haiti, a country that has yet to recover from tropical storm Isaac that hit in August of this year, as well as the earthquake of 2010, that felt the worst of Sandy’s wrath. 1.8 million people in Haiti are affected by the storm, according to the United Nations relief agency.

This next story appears in the current issue of Scientific American and drives home the point why immediate action on climate change, energy and planning (community planning) is necessary to attempt to prevent incidences such as Sandy, or at least lessen the amount of destruction as much as possible. Obama won re-election this week. And while there is no shortage of issues to tackle, the President needs to implement an energy policy for this country. And it’s called global warming, so I hope the world can come together within the next four years and knock out a sound plan.

Global Warming: Faster Than Expected? by John Carey

The potential for faster feedbacks has turned some scientists into vocal Cassandras. Those experts are saying that even if nations do suddenly get serious about reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to stay under the 450-ppm limit, which seems increasingly unlikely, that could be too little, too late. Unless the world slashes CO₂ levels back to 350 ppm, “we will have started a process that is out of humanity’s control,

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What do polls and climate change have in common? It’s not what you think! Brian Schmidt at TEDx Canberra

Alan Kerlin — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:29:48 +0000

Here’s the talk by our own Nobel Prize winner Brian Schmidt at the recent TEDx Canberra. He talks about the certainty in uncertainty, showing how credible statistical analysis can reveal unexpected results.

You may be surprised…

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Asteroids, extinctions, and biodiversity: Wiping the slate clean for new life to flourish

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Deployment of Telephony

Tony Abbott

Abstract

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

2 Related Work

3 Design

4 Implementation

5 Experimental Evaluation and Analysis

5.1 Hardware and Software Configuration

5.2 Experimental Results

6 Conclusion

References

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What do polls and climate change have in common? It’s not what you think! Brian Schmidt at TEDx Canberra