text: NASDAQ:COST - Costco Wholesale Stock Price, Forecast & News Adding Choose a watchlist: Adding You have already added five stocks to your watchlist. Upgrade to MarketBeat Daily Premium to add more stocks to your watchlist. Adding Costco Wholesale Co. Please log in to your account or sign up in order to add this asset to your watchlist. Log In and Add $278.84 -14.29 (-4.87 %) (As of 02/28/2020 04:00 PM ET) Add Compare Today's Range$271.52Now: $278.84▼$291.0050-Day Range$294.69MA: $309.82▼$324.0852-Week Range$215.77Now: $278.84▼$325.26Volume532,614 shsAverage Volume1.79 million shsMarket Capitalization$123.18 billionP/E Ratio33.08Dividend Yield0.85%Beta0.9 ProfileAnalyst RatingsAdvanced ChartDividendEarningsFinancialsInsider TradesInstitutional OwnershipHeadlinesOptions ChainSEC FilingsSocial Media Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on StocktwitsPrint this articleShare by Email Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates membership warehouses. It offers branded and private-label products in a range of merchandise categories. The company provides dry and packaged foods, and groceries; snack foods, candies, alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, and cleaning supplies; appliances, electronics, health and beauty aids, hardware, and garden and patio products; meat, bakery, deli, and produces; and apparel and small appliances. Read More… Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange NASDAQ Industry Variety stores Sub-IndustryHypermarkets & Super Centers SectorRetail/Wholesale Current SymbolNASDAQ:COST Previous Symbol CUSIP22160K10 CIK909832 Webhttp://www.costco.com/ Phone425-313-8100Debt Debt-to-Equity Ratio0.47 Current Ratio1.01 Quick Ratio0.49Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E Ratio33.08 Forward P/E Ratio32.24 P/E Growth4.36 Sales & Book Value Annual Sales$152.70 billion Price / Sales0.81 Cash Flow$10.62 per share Price / Cash Flow26.25 Book Value$35.44 per share Price / Book7.87Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$8.19 Net Income$3.66 billion Net Margins2.42% Return on Equity24.22% Return on Assets8.03%Miscellaneous Employees254,000 Outstanding Shares441,760,000Market Cap$123.18 billion Next Earnings Date3/5/2020 (Confirmed) OptionableOptionable Receive COST News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for COST and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. NASDAQ:COST Rates by TradingView Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST) Frequently Asked Questions What is Costco Wholesale's stock symbol? Costco Wholesale trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "COST." How often does Costco Wholesale pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Costco Wholesale? Costco Wholesale announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 23rd. Shareholders of record on Friday, February 7th will be given a dividend of $0.65 per share on Friday, February 21st. This represents a $2.60 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.93%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 6th. View Costco Wholesale's Dividend History. How will Costco Wholesale's stock buyback program work? Costco Wholesale declared that its board has authorized a stock repurchase plan on Friday, April 26th 2019, which allows the company to buyback $4,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire up to 3.8% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are often an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued. How were Costco Wholesale's earnings last quarter? Costco Wholesale Co. (NASDAQ:COST) posted its earnings results on Thursday, December, 12th. The retailer reported $1.73 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.71 by $0.02. The retailer earned $37.04 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $37.40 billion. Costco Wholesale had a return on equity of 24.22% and a net margin of 2.42%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 5.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $1.61 EPS. View Costco Wholesale's Earnings History. When is Costco Wholesale's next earnings date? Costco Wholesale is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, March 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Costco Wholesale. How can I listen to Costco Wholesale's earnings call? Costco Wholesale will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, March 5th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available. What price target have analysts set for COST? 26 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Costco Wholesale's stock. Their forecasts range from $230.00 to $345.00. On average, they expect Costco Wholesale's stock price to reach $305.27 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Costco Wholesale. What is the consensus analysts' recommendation for Costco Wholesale? 26 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Costco Wholesale in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 11 hold ratings and 14 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Costco Wholesale. How were Costco Wholesale's same store sales last quarter? Costco Wholesale same store sales climbed 6.6% during the month of January. Costco Wholesale stock rose by 0% in the first full-day of trading following the report. Has Costco Wholesale been receiving favorable news coverage? News articles about COST stock have been trending very negative on Friday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Costco Wholesale earned a media sentiment score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the retailer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Costco Wholesale. Are investors shorting Costco Wholesale? Costco Wholesale saw a decline in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 5,120,000 shares, a decline of 9.4% from the January 15th total of 5,650,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,980,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.6 days. Approximately 1.2% of the company's shares are short sold. View Costco Wholesale's Current Options Chain. Who are some of Costco Wholesale's key competitors? Some companies that are related to Costco Wholesale include Walmart (WMT), Target (TGT), Wal-mart de Mexico S A B de C V (WMMVY), Dollar General (DG), Tesco (TSCDY), Dollar Tree (DLTR), Five Below (FIVE), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), BJs Wholesale Club (BJ), PriceSmart (PSMT), Big Lots (BIG), Tuesday Morning (TUES) and Fred's (FRED). What other stocks do shareholders of Costco Wholesale own? Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Costco Wholesale investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Alibaba Group (BABA), Visa (V), Home Depot (HD), Netflix (NFLX), Boeing (BA), AT&T (T), Walmart (WMT) and Starbucks (SBUX). Who are Costco Wholesale's key executives? Costco Wholesale's management team includes the folowing people: Mr. W. Craig Jelinek, Pres, CEO & Director (Age 67)Mr. Richard A. Galanti, Exec. VP, CFO & Director (Age 63)Mr. Paul G. Moulton, Exec. VP & Chief Information Officer (Age 68)Mr. Joseph P. Portera, Exec. VP, COO of Eastern & Canadian Divisions and Chief Diversity Officer (Age 67)Mr. James P. Murphy, Exec. VP & COO of International (Age 66) Who are Costco Wholesale's major shareholders? Costco Wholesale's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (4.18%), FMR LLC (2.46%), Capital World Investors (1.62%), Capital Research Global Investors (1.54%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.47%) and Jennison Associates LLC (1.15%). Company insiders that own Costco Wholesale stock include Daniel M Hines, Franz E Lazarus, James C Klauer, James P Murphy, John W Meisenbach, Joseph P Portera, Patrick J Callans, Paul G Moulton, Richard A Galanti, Richard M Libenson, Roland Michael Vachris, Russell D Miller, Susan L Decker, Timothy L Rose and W Craig Jelinek. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Costco Wholesale. Which institutional investors are selling Costco Wholesale stock? COST stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Capital World Investors, Capital Research Global Investors, 1832 Asset Management L.P., FMR LLC, Jennison Associates LLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Alliancebernstein L.P. and Renaissance Technologies LLC. Company insiders that have sold Costco Wholesale company stock in the last year include Daniel M Hines, James C Klauer, James P Murphy, Joseph P Portera, Patrick J Callans, Paul G Moulton, Richard A Galanti, Richard M Libenson, Roland Michael Vachris, Russell D Miller and Susan L Decker. View Insider Buying and Selling for Costco Wholesale. Which institutional investors are buying Costco Wholesale stock? COST stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Geode Capital Management LLC, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Stifel Financial Corp, Prudential Financial Inc., Emerald Advisors LLC, Marshall Wace North America L.P. and Panagora Asset Management Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Costco Wholesale. How do I buy shares of Costco Wholesale? Shares of COST can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab. What is Costco Wholesale's stock price today? One share of COST stock can currently be purchased for approximately $280.39. How big of a company is Costco Wholesale? Costco Wholesale has a market capitalization of $123.87 billion and generates $152.70 billion in revenue each year. The retailer earns $3.66 billion in net income (profit) each year or $8.19 on an earnings per share basis. Costco Wholesale employs 254,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Costco Wholesale. What is Costco Wholesale's official website? The official website for Costco Wholesale is http://www.costco.com/. How can I contact Costco Wholesale? Costco Wholesale's mailing address is 999 LAKE DRIVE, ISSAQUAH WA, 98027. The retailer can be reached via phone at 425-313-8100 or via email at [email protected] MarketBeat Community Rating for Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ COST)Community Ranking: 3.0 out of 5 ( )Outperform Votes: 1,515 (Vote Outperform)Underperform Votes: 1,048 (Vote Underperform)Total Votes: 2,563MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about Costco Wholesale and other stocks. Vote "Outperform" if you believe COST will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote "Underperform" if you believe COST will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days. This page was last updated on 2/28/2020 by MarketBeat.com StaffFeatured Article: Correction


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A Day in the Life of an Anonymous Street Musician
I am a folk musician and I currently make my living in Berkeley, California. I sing in the downtown BART station Monday through Friday mornings. I sing at the Center Street Farmers' Market three Saturdays out of each month. I usually sing an hour-long shift at the BART station on weekday afternoons. Basically, I sing three hours a day for tips and occasional CD sales. I play guitar and sing without amplification, leaving my guitar case open to display my CD and to collect any money people wish to contribute for the music.
This afternoon I left my house later than usual and when I came to the BART station other musicians were playing, both inside the station and above ground near the entrance. Rather than go home without making a dime I decided to try singing across the street on Center Street. I chose a spot next to the side window of Games of Berkeley, tucking my guitar case under the window where the sidewalk is wider so as not to impede pedestrians. I stood next to my open case singing. I had been at it for about half an hour and earned one dollar when a Berkeley Ambassador showed up and interrupted my song.
He told me, "You can't play next to the building -- it's a business. You can play at the curb."
No musician would want to play at the curb where traffic and noisy traffic signals compete for the airwaves. No musician would want to breathe smog and exhaust.
I packed up my guitar and adjourned to the nearby bus stop to wait for my next bus home, but as I sat there I began to wonder, "Who are the Berkeley Ambassadors and what authority do they have to tell me where I can and cannot stand or sing on a public sidewalk?" I went home to research the question and could only find out that the Ambassadors are employed by a company headquartered in Kentucky, until I called an activist friend whom I thought might have some information. She told me that the Ambassadors have their own program for busking musicians involving getting a permit from them. Curiously, the Ambassador who told me I could not play next to a business neglected to tell me about the Ambassadors' music program."
Note from Carol Denney: Do you remember voting to let an unelected group of wealthy property owners hire people to control our public spaces? Neither do I. And yet the Kentucky-based Block by Block program continues to grow from coast to coast and internationally as a nonsensical response to poverty and the housing crisis. Let your City Council know that public spaces should be for everyone.


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50 Shades of Bizet #ROHCarmen
— Anna Ellis (@annaellis_net) March 6, 2018
#ROHCarmen - Best production of Carmen ever. Goryachova is the best Carmen ever. Wonderful.
— John Canmore (@JohnCanmore) March 6, 2018
#ROHcarmen love the singing and music, the staging, no, why mess with the original?
— ????travelprincess99???? (@ruth_clark) March 6, 2018
I don't know what show the critics in London saw... but this #ROHcarmen is phenomenal!!!
— Suzanne Frost (@suz_frost) March 6, 2018
That was lit #ROHcarmen
— Joe Brammer (@Joe_Brammer) March 6, 2018
#ROHcarmen Has to be the worst production of Carmen I have seen. For only the second time in my life I walked out at the interval of an opera. An absolute deplorable production.
— John Sumnall (@rjs1yorkshire) March 6, 2018
Thoroughly enjoyed the cinema streaming tonight in cineworld Birmingham! Particularly impressed by Frasquita, Escamillo, Micaëla and the stunning dancers!! ❤#ROHcarmen
— Jess Webber (@JessWebber3) March 6, 2018
#ROHcarmen brilliant production - it's very difficult to pull off an unusual take so well @RoyalOperaHouse #eshereveryman
— Zoë (@zoe_design2017) March 6, 2018
That was just fabulous. Funny, intelligent, full of drama and surprises... and what a cast! Thank you all @TheRoyalOpera ! #ROHCarmen
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— Cristina Marinero (@crismarinero) March 6, 2018
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— Deb Connor (@deb_connor) March 6, 2018
Magnificent performance! Amazing show! Gorgeous! My most sincere congratulations to @TheRoyalOpera and @BarrieKosky for such a worderful masterpiece! Anna Goryachova, brava!!
Thank you very much from Seville, the city of Carmen! #ROHcarmen #Carmen #Bizet #Seville @RoyalOperaHouse
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Virginia's own guide to great gardening and landscaping. A State-by-State Gardening Publication
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West Main 'pocket park' opens next week
Nestled between hotels, banks, and a busy downtown street, Charlottesville's latest island of green space in a sea of asphalt and concrete will open to the public next week. The so-called "pocket park" adjacent to Patton Mansion's UVA Community Credit Union on West Main Street is at the end of its construction process, just in time for its original mid-July deadline, according to UVA Foundation CEO Tim Rose.
"Possibly next week all will be complete, including the mansion," Rose said in an e-mail. The mansion underwent a face lift to remove the defunct Papa John's annex and return the building to its historic facade. With the completion of a few final touch-ups, such as trimming the trees and replacing some concrete, the park will be ready for use.
As an addendum to UVA's acquisition of space for the Core Laboratory, the pocket park was designed to aesthetically enhance the growing concrete jungle of West Main Street. Sticking to an original budget of $225,000, according to Rose, the park includes landscaped shrubbery, trees, light poles, and benches.
"I think we made the original design better," says architect David Anhold. "The original design didn't have plant material in the courtyard in the 'canyon' behind the retaining wall. We added plants for the folks in the Core Lab to have in their break area."


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The National Inventors Hall of Fame has named Institute Professor Barbara Liskov as one of its 2012 inductees. Liskov — who is also a principal investigator at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) — was honored for her contributions to programming languages and system design.
According to a statement on the National Inventors Hall of Fame website, "MIT Institute Professor Liskov is considered an innovator in the design of computer programming languages, largely for helping to make computer programs more reliable, secure, and easy to use. Her innovations can be found within almost all modern programming languages."
Liskov is world-renowned for her pioneering work in programming languages and distributed systems. In 2009, she received the A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recognizing and honoring invention and creativity.
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Why Does Herman Cain Get His Own Secret Service Detail?
Pity the Secret Service, a law enforcement agency positively stretched to its limits, what with all those mentally ill drifters from Idaho on missions from God trying to assassinate the president and whatnot. But no, that can wait, guys. Herman Cain needs some protection! (Incidentally, that's the same exclamation that began every National Restaurant Association job interview from 1997 to 1999.)
Cain asked for the security and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and congressional leaders approved his request Thursday, Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan confirmed.
There have been threats against Cain, who had been experiencing a bounce in the polls, according to an official with knowledge of the situation who asked not to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the situation. The nature of the threats was unclear.
According to federal law, if a candidate meets a "series of standards" — that includes "prominence as measured by polls" — then they have a right to free protection by the Secret Service. And voters love them some Cain! Thus a new codename ("Stuffed Crust") was born. So that's why Cain refuses to show up anywhere a video camera might be: It's not because he's afraid he'll look like a complete ignoramus on tape — it's because his high-tech enemies are tracking his every move! [AP, Photo via Getty]


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Occupy Boston, one of the few remaining protest encampments left in the United States, will stay up and running, at least for now.
Despite that temporary victory in court last week, and the continued presence of Occupiers in smaller cities, the "occupation" phase of the Occupy movement seems gradually to be coming to a close. Already, protesters evicted from their camps are gearing up with other forms of protest. On Tuesday, an offshoot of the Occupy movement protested foreclosures in some 25 cities around the US with talk in Los Angeles and elsewhere of helping families take back their foreclosed homes.
But can the Occupy movement survive if it's no longer occupying anything?
The breakup of the camps has advantages and disadvantages for the Occupiers, says David S. Meyer, a sociology professor at the University of California Irvine, who studies protest movements. 'The advantage of a geographical presence is visibility, and giving people stuff to do.... A disadvantage is that your community is defined by the people who show up, and that doesn't necessarily make for smart decisions."
Another drawback is that the encampments force the protesters to spend a lot of time on housekeeping matters, at the expense of fighting for their ideals.
"These general assembly meetings at the camps mostly deal with logistics," Dr. Meyer says. "Taking the occupation out of it means they have the time to focus on core issues, like income equality. There's more active civil disobedience, and some protesters are even starting to work in political campaigns. It should make for a more creative and diverse movement."
But members of Occupy Boston see maintaining their Dewey Square encampment as a top priority, intrinsic to their message. As they argued in court Thursday, the camp is in the city's financial district, highly visible from the buildings of banks and other financial institutions that the Occupiers see as responsible for the nation's financial problems. "There's been a lot of discussion as to whether or not the encampment phase is over, but having it in the financial district is very important," says Stephen Squibb, a protester and Occupy Boston spokesman .
"We have attempted to prioritize human needs – food, clothing, shelter, the freedom of speech and assembly – so as to highlight their betrayal by those working around us," the group stated in a press conference on the steps of the Suffolk County courthouse Dec. 1.
Thursday, Suffolk County Superior Court judge Frances McIntyre granted the Boston protesters an extension to a Nov. 16 restraining order against the city, protecting the camp from eviction until Dec. 15. Around that time, the judge will render a "final decision" on whether the Boston tent city will go the way of encampments shut down in several other major cities, including New York, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles.
"I'm feeling optimistic," protester David Lehnerd said during a court recess just before the judge handed down her extension. "Like more optimistic than cautiously optimistic, but not fully blown optimistic."
"We're very pleased that the judge is being as thoughtful about this as she is, how deeply she wants to consider these issues," says Mr. Squibb. "And we're pleased that a raid is no longer imminent.
The restraining order's extension will last as long as it takes for the judge to come to her final decision, which may be before Dec. 15, according to Squibb.
Compared with officials' attitudes in other cities, Boston officials have maintained fairly cordial relations with the local movement. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has publicly expressed his support for Occupy Boston, stating after the November raid of Occupy Wall Street's Zuccotti Park encampment in New York that there were no plans to evict the protesters.
"Good relationships with the Greenway [Conservancy, which maintains city parks] and the police department is why we're one of the last cities remaining," protester Ryan Cahill says.
But that seemed to change Wednesday, when the mayor's office filed papers with the Suffolk County Superior Court system that would give the city the right to evict the Occupy protesters "if necessary." The 200-page document pegs the Dewey Square encampment as a fire hazard and cites problems with violence, unsanitary living conditions, and drug sales in or around the camp.
"I think Menino's rhetoric has changed depending on who he's talking to," says protester Ryan Cahill. "At least he's giving us leeway. He's come out in support of us, but he has an entire city to look out for, not just the Occupy movement." Still, he adds, "I don't think the Boston Police Department wants a violent crackdown."
However long it hangs on, the Occupy Boston tent city will likely end up as the last standing of the major city encampments. Earlier this week, police cleared out camps in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. In San Francisco last week, Occupy protesters camping in the city's financial district were given a deadline to clear out. With that deadline long past, they are currently debating an offer from city officials to relocate to another site.
Tent cities in smaller metropolitan areas, like Des Moines and Providence, R.I., are still up and running.
In the event they are evicted eventually, the Boston protesters will have to refocus their efforts on other forms of protest, joining their counterparts in other cities. In New York, disbanded protesters have employed a number of tactics, including blocking the street in front of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's house for a 24-hour drum circle. In Los Angeles, recently evicted protesters are planning a series of smaller encampments outside of banks and country clubs.
"I think if we do end up getting evicted we have to react," says Mr. Cahill "That's just an opportunity for us to try different direct action. It takes us out of our comfort zone and will show us the type of movement that we really are."
He mentioned that the Occupiers might use the eviction itself as a cheeky opportunity for protest: "We might dress up like bankers, then do our tents up like banks, so we can say to the cops, 'thanks for getting rid of the problem.'"
Meyer argues that a movement operating mainly online might actually get more accomplished. "It used to be you started a movement you needed a place to meet. But now when the occupation site disappears, the meeting places don't have to be physical spaces." And, he adds, alluding to the frustration of the movement's in-camp general assembly meetings, "It's harder to veto things online."


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Pond & Lake Q & A
Q: How do I ensure my lake or pond gets sufficient aeration? – Jack of Maine
A: Take a deep breath. Living things, whether they're above water or below, require oxygen to thrive. If your pond or lake houses fish, then the aquatic environment needs to be rich with oxygen, and the best way to do that is by aerating the water. Pond aeration is simply diffusing life-giving oxygen into water evenly throughout the water column using surface aerators or bottom-mounted diffusers.
To determine whether your pond or lake requires aeration, take your pond's temperature. Measure the temperature of the water 1 foot below the pond's surface, and do the same at the bottom of the pond. If the results differ more than 3 degrees Fahrenheit, then your pond is not sufficiently aerated and it may need a little help. For a simpler test, JUMP IN! If you're warm above the waste and freezing at your toes, it's a good sign your pond is not being circulated or aerated enough. Here are the most common ways to churn up the water:
Bottom Bubblers: Bottom-mounted air diffusers, like the Airmax® Aeration System, are ideal for ponds and lakes deeper than 6 feet. They aerate ponds from bottom up, pushing air into the water via air stones or diffusers. These systems generally feature a shore-side cabinet that houses an air compressor, which is connected to diffusers at the bottom of the pond. The air is forced through the diffusers, which create medium-size bubbles that expand as they surface, releasing oxygen into the water and circulating the water column. These bottom bubblers are by far the most efficient at circulation and aeration.
Surface Aerators: Surface aerators, like fountains, provide pond aeration from the surface down. They agitate the surface of the pond, pulling water up from below and releasing into the air, where the droplets explode into a decorative spray pattern. The surface area on each droplet of water is saturated with oxygen, which it delivers back into the pond. Fountains pull water from about 6 feet down. For ponds and lakes 6 feet deep or less, a fountain can act as both a pond aerator and a decorative feature. Depending on your pond's size, you may need more than one fountain to properly aerate. When ponds are deeper than 6 feet, fountains become more for decoration and you need to think about a bottom bubbler.
Alternative Aeration – Wind Power: If power isn't available near your lake or pond, you can go with a wind aeration system to keep the air flowing. Windmills are primarily designed for decoration and they come with one air stones to aerate up to 1 acre. You'll need constant wind blowing at least 3 to 5 miles per hour for continuous aeration, but they are a great backup system to an electric air compressor or in a remote location. Windmills are available in 12-foot, 16-foot and 20-foot towers. Remember: Windmills do not provide continuous aeration and should not be used as a direct substitute for electrical powered continuous aeration systems.
Alternative Aeration – Solar Power: Solar powered aeration systems are another great alternative to aerating your pond without having to pay for electricity. Solar aeration systems are great for both remote
installation and environmental conscience applications. They are for aquatic environments ranging in size from small decorative water gardens up to ponds or lake up to 5 acres. These fully automatic systems are designed to run up to 20 hours per day under standard operating conditions. The battery backup system allows them to run like normal under less than optimal conditions. One of the biggest downfalls of solar powered aeration systems are their high price tag.
POND TALK: What do you do to aerate your pond?
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Author Jim Crace, whose archive resides at the Ransom Center, has been shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel Harvest (Nan A. Talese/Picador).
Crace was previously shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his 1997 novel Quarantine. The winner of the Booker will be announced at a ceremony in London on Ocober 15.
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I hurt.
A lot.
Every day.
But I wouldn't have it any other way.
Well, that's not entirely true. I am not addicted to pain, I'd rather not live with it, and I don't want to be a martyr to it, but if ever given the choice of going back and reliving the past 32 years without the chronic pain of Rheumatoid Arthritis, I'd say no thanks, I'll take it – and all of the life lessons the pain has brought.
I was diagnosed at age six with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. It immediately brought pain and stiffness…and bullying from young classmates who thought I was lucky to get to miss school. What they didn't realize was that I was getting blood tests, painful injections and physiotherapy sessions to manipulate my stiffening joints.
I was different than my peers at a tender time in life when different was the last thing most kids wanted to be. But over the years I have learned to not only come to terms with my disease but to also embrace it – accepting that what has made me different has also made me special, and it has made me strong.
My experiences with this disease and its debilitating pain, stiffness and deformation of joints that have required surgery, has been the greatest contributing factor to my character, work ethic and resiliency. Without this disease, who would I be, where would I be, and what would I be doing? Obviously I cannot know but one thing is for sure – I would be a very different person. I like who I am, where I am and what I have done, so it stands to reason that if there was any way to go back and change the course of my life, I'd choose to stay on the same path.
I've had an incredible career so far, excelling as a journalist. I have been a television reporter, host, writer and producer, a radio reporter and producer, writer for newspapers, magazines and web sites, editor-in-chief of a magazine and in March of this year I will debut my brand new e-magazine, co-created with two other superstars.
Sixteen years ago when I started my career in the media as a television reporter, a huge change came over me. Once I got over the astonishment of being asked to be on camera (me, the girl with the ugly hands and the stiff movements), I experienced an awakening. It was in watching myself on the screen that I finally began to see myself…and more importantly, to like and feel comfortable with what I saw.
I have been called an old soul by those who know me, and I like to think that I have lessons to teach others that come from the experiences I have had. I pepper presentations that I give school groups and classes of medical and physiotherapy students with these tidbits gleaned from my years with pain as my constant companion.
And so I'd like to share with you over the next five days, what pain has taught me.
Tough Luck
God, the universe, the world, the government (choose your deity/group/organization) doesn't owe anyone anything.
I guess this lesson could be called, Life Isn't Fair. Because, it isn't…but as the kids like to say these days, it is what it is. People in unfortunate circumstances sometimes get stuck in the rut of, "If only.." or, "It's not fair…" and that, frankly, is a waste of precious time.
Life won't be easier in some way (in any way) for someone in pain all the time.
I have met people who have a disease or disability, or who suffer from chronic pain like I do, who have a sense of entitlement, like they deserve only good things because of what they go through. Well, I do deserve good things — we all do, but for the good we do, not the pain we feel.
It is terribly easy to fall into the trap of, "I have a harder time of it and so it should be easier for me in another way." But life doesn't balance out that way. The fact is, you have to play the hand you've been dealt, no matter how awful the cards may be.
I hope you'll come back throughout this week to find out the other life lessons that chronic pain have taught me.


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Long before this whole dogfighting business, Michael Vick / Ron Mexico / Ookie was a popular guy around these parts. It is amazing to us, even to this day, how few people know about the Ron Mexico story. Now, ironically, this whole "electrocuting puppies" business may assure even fewer find out about it. Shame, too: It's still pretty hilarious.
Last year, Vick's brother was nominated for the Hall, but he fell just short. Despite the stingy nature of the voters this year ... we'd have to think his older bro's got a pretty good shot. But what do we know? The real question: Could he give an induction speech from jail? We do love that he's coming up for nomination the day of his guilty plea. That makes sense.
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Can Broncos DE Robert Ayers be 'The Man' to replace Elvis Dumervil?
The buzz at Broncos headquarters is defensive end Robert Ayers has finally grown up and is ready to be a major contributor after four unimpressive, uneven seasons in Denver. But can Ayers really replace what the Broncos lost when Pro Bowler Elvis Dumervil got shipped out of town on a slow fax machine to Baltimore? Isn't Ayers one of those bad draft picks of former coach Josh McDaniels?
For the Denver defense to improve, Ayers and young defensive lineman Derek Wolfe need to combine for at least 12 sacks. Is that possible? I say yes. Peter Burns is not so sure. Listen to us debate here:
What do you think: Do you believe Ayers has grown into "The Man," or is it wishful thinking by the Broncos? Should have the team instead spent big money to land free agent Dwight Freeney as a pass-rusher?
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After years of research, by government agencies, utilities, and others, much is known about energy hogs in the home, such as space heating, space cooling, and hot water. We know a lot less about the collection of so-called plug load devices that include everything from TVs to toasters—due in no small part to the very diversity and rapid evolution of these devices. Energy Center of Wisconsin recently completed a field study designed to address that gap for Minnesota homes. We wanted to know how much energy these devices use and to identify low- and no-cost savings opportunities for these devices.
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Letter to the full House Opposing the Cap, Cut, and Balance Act
July 18, 2011
Dear Representative:
On behalf of the 3.2 million members of the National Education Association, we strongly urge you to VOTE NO on the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act (H.R. 2560), scheduled for floor consideration in the House this week. While we understand the need to get our nation's fiscal house in order, this bill is not the right mechanism to achieve that goal. The effect of this proposal would be devastating for public education and retirement security, undermining economic recovery and jeopardizing our future strength as a nation. Votes associated with this issue may be included in the NEA Legislative Report Card for the 112th Congress.
The Cut, Cap, and Balance Act would write spending caps into law at the levels contained in the House-passed Ryan budget. It also would hold hostage the debt limit increase unless two-thirds of the House and the Senate agree to a constitutional balanced budget amendment. The required constitutional amendment would make all revenue-raising measures unconstitutional unless they secure a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers. In addition, the required amendment would cap total federal expenditures at 18 percent of GDP.
Overall, this plan, like other proposed spending caps and balanced budget amendments, would result in the largest cuts in federal spending in modern history. It will not be possible to achieve the spending levels required under any balanced budget amendment or spending cap proposal without massive cuts in education, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and other programs that meet crucial national needs. In fact, the bill would require an immediate, deep $47 billion aggregate cut to non-security discretionary spending, including an 11.7 percent cut to Labor-HHS-Education discretionary programs.
Educators understand that Congress must work to ensure America's long-term economic prosperity and that we must address the nation's serious fiscal challenges. However, cutting education funding and slashing programs that serve children, the elderly, and working families is not the answer. And, while we understand the need to address the nation's deficit, we also know that some debt is necessary to meet critical needs. Most families have mortgages and car loans, and take on other debt to provide for their children's futures. In addition, while many states must balance their operating budgets, they take on debt for capital costs and job-creating projects such as building roads, bridges, and schools.
NEA members see first-hand every day the struggles of many of their students and their families. The Cap, Cut, and Balance Act will make their struggles even harder - essentially abandoning them while continuing to cater to Wall Street and the wealthiest in our nation. In fact, unlike every law of the past quarter-century that has contained a fiscal target or standard enforced by across-the-board cuts, this proposal does not exempt the core basic assistance programs for the poorest Americans from such across-the-board cuts. It does so even as it seeks to erect a constitutional firewall to safeguard tax cuts and tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. Thus, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, an impoverished elderly widow living on Supplemental Security Income — which provides benefits that lift people to just 75 percent of the poverty line — could have her assistance cut back under the measure's across-the-board budget cuts even as millionaire hedge-fund managers retained their lucrative carried-interest tax breaks.
However well-intentioned the notion of capping discretionary spending may be, this type of fiscal proposal is akin to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) ballot measures which have been repeatedly defeated in states across this country. And, where enacted, TABOR has held policymakers hostage to simplistic formulas perpetrated by their predecessors. In Colorado, TABOR resulted in a drop in per pupil K-12 education funding from $200 less than the national average in 1992 to $1000 less than the national average in 2006.
This bill would constitute exceedingly unwise economic policy. It would risk tipping a faltering economy into recession and slowing economic recovery. It would determine spending levels for decades and tie future Congress' hands. And, it would render impossible the sorts of investments necessary to continue economic recovery and grow the skilled workforce necessary for future economic strength.
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SACRAMENTO - "The skaters have been speaking and I've been listening."
With those opening comments, Senator Bill Morrow (R-Carlsbad) announced his new legislation designed to provide more complete liability protection for local governments that build and operate public skateboard parks.
"This bill is for the skateboarders," said Morrow. "Senate Bill 1179 will protect local governments, encourage building of more public skateboard parks, and expand usage of existing parks. The bill will toss out the arbitrary age restrictions in current law, a restriction that excludes a huge percentage of young skateboarders from using public parks."
The North San Diego County Republican successfully authored legislation in 1996 and 2001 that increased liability protection for publicly owned and operated skateboard parks. Those laws contributed to a broad-based effort to encourage building safe, accessible public parks where skateboarders can congregate and ply their skills. But Morrow said that much more needs to be done.
The senator said, "The earlier bills were important steps. But, quite frankly, they are inadequate to keep up with the growing demand, evolving demographics and other dynamic realities of the skateboarding community. This new measure speaks directly to those problems."
Existing law provides liability protection to public agencies and public employees when recreational enthusiasts participate in certain popular activities designated as "hazardous recreational activities." The list of designated activities is contained in Section 831.7 of the California Government Code.
SB 1179 would add skateboarding to that list of activities, granting skateboarding what is termed as "straight HRA status." The bill would treat skateboarding in public skateparks with the same liability protections already afforded much riskier activities.
"We provide full HRA protection to activities such as skydiving, hang gliding, motor vehicle racing, off-road motorcycling and body contact sports," said Morrow. "It's ridiculous and discriminatory to treat skateboarding as if it is more dangerous than jumping out of an airplane at 10,000 feet."
The senator concluded, "It's time we stopped discriminating against skateboarders, marginalizing participants in what has become a dominant cultural activity. The State of California has an interest in encouraging, not discouraging, participation in a creative physical activity at well planned, responsibly designed skateboard parks."


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George Michael will release new music in 2013.
The 'Careless Whisper' hitmaker - who battled a bout of potentially-fatal pneumonia last year - took to Twitter yesterday after fans expressed concern that the normally-prolific user hadn't posted since mid-October and reassured them he was feeling very well and is excited for the coming year.
The 49-year-old star took a break from celebrating with partner Fadi Fawaz to write: "Hey everyone. Belated Happy Xmas. Sorry you haven't heard from your favourite singing greek for so long.
"You needn't worry, I'm doing great. Feeling so much better than I was.
"Must get back to my party, but looking forward to a great 2013, I promise it will be full of great new music, huge Xmas hug to you all. (sic)"
In September, George announced he was axing a string of Australian tour dates scheduled for November in order to receive treatment for "major anxiety" following his traumatic battle with pneumonia late last year.
In a statement, he said: "I have today announced the cancellation of the shows in Australia which breaks my heart.
"By way of explanation all I can say at this time is that since last year's illness I have tried in vain to work my way through the trauma that the doctors who saved my life warned me I would experience.
"They recommended complete rest and the type of post traumatic counselling which is available in cases like mine but I'm afraid I believed (wrongly) that making music and getting out there to perform for the audiences that bring me such joy would be therapy enough in itself.
"Unfortunately I seriously underestimated how difficult this year would be… I was wrong to think I could work my way through the major anxiety that has plagued me since I left Austria last December."


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About Peter Wells
Lots of points to address here, I'll take a few.
Re: Sadly, Silverman appears to have a good point... (by Lonnie E. Holder):
...I do not have hours to scour the internet for new bands and to then find a copy of that band's music. To do so is almost a hobby in itself. Perhaps I had that time as a teenager, but certainly not now.
I really ought to check TechDirt earlier--the threads build up here fast! I've been responding to so many blogs and reports, by the time I get here the conversation has already moved like a high tide.
So first, thanks everyone for the lively debate! I can clarify a few things.
That $31 thing is an example of a 10-song album, but it doesn't just include Amazon-On-Demand. For $0.99 more, you can add digital distribution into any iTunes store. $0.99 per store adds as many as you want, including AmazonMP3, eMusic, Napster, etc. So you don't have to rely on physical sales to make it back, you get worldwide digital distribution for a buck more.
As for how we make our money? The up-front delivery and yearly. THAT'S IT. We don't take a %, we don't have any kickback agreements with stores or vendors. We've put HALF A MILLION songs into iTunes alone so far, that kind of volume means we do just fine. The truth is, digital distribution isn't that expensive to do: other places have just been charging more because they can. We started TuneCore precisely to show the world that this can be done inexpensively, fairly, without exploiting people, and still generate great income for us.
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I read the book "Alone in the Universe" by John Gribbin recently. He argues that the conditions that produced intelligent (sort of) life on earth are incredibly rare, so this explains the "Fermi paradox": if there are aliens out there, why don't we see them? (assuming as seems reasonable, that we don't).
He gives a lot of plausible reasons for why the rareness of life. Like, only a certain part of the Milky Way is a good home for life. Our planet has a magnetic field that shields it from the solar wind - charged particles that stream out of the sun. Continental drift may not be common, and it's crucial for regulating the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is a kind of natural thermostat for Earth. He thinks there were serendipitous mass extinctions of life forms that were unlikely to become intelligent, like the Ediacarans. They were a weird kind of multicellular life that were around before the Cambrian. Strangely shaped things. And so on.
Some of it is very questionable to me. Like, he thinks that land life is much more likely to become technological, and that the reasons are obvious. I'm not sure what the obvious reasons are and I looked online and didn't find them. I wondered if part of the reason was that aquatic creatures would be less likely to develop hands, but then I found that octopi can manipulate objects with their tentacles. A lot of technology wouldn't work underwater, but being underwater would make some things easier, too. Aquatic intelligent creatures might be very good at spatial thinking since they live in 3 dimensions. He mentions the idea of an advanced civilization putting self-replicating machines out into the universe that would colonize everything in time, and report back what they found to the home planet. So why aren't there self-replicating alien machines on Earth, if there are alien civilizations? But I'm not convinced that an advanced civilization would necessarily want to do this, or that it would be at all practical or feasible.
He talks about a dinosaur called Troodon, which lived right before a 6-mile wide rock (probably) smashed into the earth, causing the end-Cretaceous extinction. He says based on its brain size, Troodon was about as smart as a small baboon. So the dinosaurs were on their way to evolving intelligence when they were wiped out.
It would be interesting to speculate what an intelligent creature that Troodon could have evolved into, would have been like. They might have been more warlike than us (NOT a happy thought) since they were carnivorous and we evolved as omnivores. Carnivores generally seem to be rather aggressive towards others of the same species.
There are obviously a lot of pitfalls with arguing that life is rare, based on lucky accidents that produced us. Evolution is very creative, and examples of convergent evolution show how the same solution to a problem that life is faced with, are found over and over. Why shouldn't intelligence be a solution that convergent evolution finds over and over, on different planets, even? And, different solutions to different problems posed by different circumstances, could be found by alien life, and the limitations of our imagination are no argument against this.
To me, the slow speed of light compared to the size of the cosmos seems a good reason why we'd be left alone by Them. The Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 light years in diameter. One could perhaps make a good argument that other intelligent life would exist on a roughly similar time scale to us, so that 100,000 years would look like a long time to Them, too.
If it's true that conscious life is very rare, then it returns the specialness to us that science took away so much, by discovering the hugeness of the universe, that the sun and stars don't revolve around us, etc. The wonderful nature of our world is partly explained by the fact that we are here to see its wonders - which is made possible by the enormous size of the universe.
For me, thinking about this kind of spacey thing is a mind-refreshing relief from the humdrum forced on me by health problems. And you can enjoy exploring the cosmos too in your imagination.
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That sounds like an interesting book. We really have no idea at this point if life is rare or not. The Fermi Paradox applies only to life more advanced than we (capable of interstellar travel). The ubiquitous nature of life on Earth even in extreme environments suggests to me that life may well be common in the galaxy, though technologically advanced civilizations may be rare or unique to us. The speed of light seems like a daunting barrier, but the basis of the Fermi Paradox is that even if interstellar travel were limited to, say, one tenth of one percent of the speed of light, it would only take 100 million years for life to spread across the galaxy. No individual civilization would embark on that journey; instead one planet would send a colony ship to the nearest habitable planet (10 light years is a likely distance), and that civilization would spawn its own colonies, so that eventually the galaxy would be spanned by this civilization in a time that is considerably shorter than the age of the galaxy. Of course, even at 10 light years it's going to take a very long time and a large amount of energy to make the trip. So another resolution to the Fermi Paradox is simply that civilizations don't get to the point (either voluntarily or involuntarily) of interstellar colonization.
I dunno, this sort of stuff seems to be wildly speculative. He's speculating about why intelligent life is so rare, without establishing that intelligent life is actually all that rare. How many assumptions deep do you have to go, before you're just being silly and making things up at random?
What makes our life and our technology possible is the fact that our solar system is the result of the blow-off of a previous gigantic star's supernova. We need those heavier elements. Considering that the universe has been around in it's current state for over 13 billion years, that's a lot of time for that series of events to happen.
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thanks for the topic, this looks like a must read for me, i LOVE this kind of thing.
it makes me wonder what constitutes "life?" i mean, i realize there are obvious characteristics, but i think that even the Curiosity mission has a specific model for what would qualify. our instruments and theoretical models are calibrated by humans, after all.
for that matter, what is "intelligence?" what about "technology?" i mean, these are assumptions, to a certain extent, innit? as a mythographer, i tend to think of our human view of the possibilities for "intelligent life" in the universe is filtered through our projection of ourselves onto that universe. we want to see our own future selves out there. UFOs are, in my view, symbolic of our own path on this linear trajectory we imagine for ourselves, the more complicated the gadgetry, the more intelligent the beings, thus justifying our own techno-fetishism. (the mini iPad? your iPad was too big, but your iPhone was too small?)
for that matter, Sasquatch is the marker for the other end of the spectrum, eh? Bigfoot at one end, E.T. on the other, and stuck in the middle with you...
the vastness of just our own galactic neighborhood is almost inconceivable, let alone beyond our galaxy group. who knows what kind of conditions exist elsewhere and what kind of stuff they produce? all the more reason to return some of the funding to the space program, IMHO...
Scientists are discovering exoplanets hand over fist now. Projecting on what they have discovered in a relatively small area compared to the size of the universe there must be hundreds of billions of them. As such, the probability is not low but very high that some of them are capable of sustaining life. Life to the degree of our intelligence could permeate the universe without being detectable to other such life. Life that is much more advanced than ours might not be interested in interfering with us. It might have the ability if it developed the capacity to travel through worm holes. However, in this case it wouldn't need our resources because it would have the whole universe to access in serving its purposes. It certainly wouldn't view a species of our development as a threat. As such, I don't think the Fermi Paradox is a paradox at all. To the contrary I think it is the case that we haven't noticed other life so far because we haven't been sophisticated enough to have done so.
I think a far simpler explanation is the distances involved. Intelligent life could be fairly common, and we still might not have gotten a visit, yet.
Really, how long have we been detectable from more than 10 or 20 light-years away? We've only had an effect on the radiation output of our planet for maybe 150 years, with the first wireless communication. The first intelligible transmissions were much later than that.
I don't think another species would have randomly discovered us, unless they were in the habit of cruising around searching for any possible life, on every planet. We're kind of out on the ass-end of nowhere, in a very sparse part of the galaxy. Of course, the backwaters are a more likely place for the development of intelligent life, since the galactic core and anywhere else high-traffic is going to cause problems from a stability perspective. Intelligent life needs a long time to develop.
But, assume that the speed of light holds and that even approaching the speed of light causes survival issues, due to the blue shifting of radiation into dangerous, high-energy, lethal rays. How long is it going to take for the nearest space-traveling race to each us, after we announced our presence with our high radio-wave output?
great point about our relative invisibility until recently (unless all the carbon here made us obvious, radioactively speaking). for me Fermi is essentially combining the size of the observable universe, the basic statistical likelihood for the existence of other civilizations, especially given our young star, and the complete lack of evidence of any contact. we should be lousy with aliens by now, but where are they? one potential answer is that, in spite of our ability to imagine interstellar travel possibilities such as warping space-time, or that our galactic neighbors are mostly liquid like jellyfish, traveling at even a tenth of the speed of light is simply an impossibility. or it takes so long that they just haven;t gotten here yet because we have only been formed as a planet for a fraction of the time it takes them to travel here.
I think it's something like 40% or 50% of the speed of light, at which point some of the higher-frequency background-radiation will blue-shift into cosmic rays that will penetrate pretty much any hull and kill the occupants.
The point of the Fermi paradox is that the distances are irrelevant because the length of time for interstellar travel is so great. It takes only a tiny fraction of the age of the galaxy to traverse the galaxy at even a very small fraction of the speed of light. So: IF life develops anywhere in the galaxy at least once to an interstellar-faring civilization, then it should spread to every habitable planet in the galaxy. Stars are the ultimate energy source, and energy is the ultimate resource, so advanced civilizations presumably would colonize every stellar system. That has not happened. The discussion in this thread touches on many possible explanations for why. Some are rather depressing, such as life not making it to interstellar capabilities, others less so (such as voluntary restraint from interstellar colonization for one reason or another), but the size of the galaxy and the speed of light are not explanations for the lack of contact. They are, quite the contrary, the cause of Fermi's initial query: "where are they?".
I don't particularly buy the Fermi paradox. I think there are a lot of details left out.
For one thing, the age of the universe gets trimmed down significantly, if you want to look at the fraction of the existence of the universe in which the existence of intelligent life is probable.
The first stars could not have developed intelligent life. They didn't have the requisite elements for ... well, anything, really. Any element higher on the periodic table than hydrogen was forged in the heart of a star. Then, the initial stars went supernova, blowing off material to later condense into daughter stars. The planets that formed around those stars would then have the higher elements necessary to develop life. The planets around those stars would then have to progress sufficiently through their cycle to develop life.
We're already down to much less than half of the time in the universe. How much less, I don't even know. I have a good background in physics, but not that good. I'd call it about 8 or 9 billion years along.
The distances involved are still significant. The Milky Way Galaxy is over 100,000 light years across, and over 1,000 light years thick. Space is three-dimensional. This isn't like exploring the "flat" surface of a planet.
If you crunch the numbers:
14,000,000,000 - 9,000,000,000 = 5,000,000,000
5,000,000,000 / 100,000 light years wide / 1,000 light years thick = 50 times the time necessary to explore everything linearly.
Now, that's not perfect, since you'll save some time in the outward expansion. We'd be expanding in more of a spherical pattern. However, there's also a lot of time lost in redundancy. You're not going to have a perfect leap-frog pattern, with new colonies immediately launching colonization missions to the next star outward. I'd say that if anything, we'd have a delay of several times the travel time, for consolidation and further exploration, before colonization.
On top of that, if we find that we're restricted to a third or a fourth of the speed of light, due to the blue-shifting I mentioned above, I can easily believe that large potions of the galaxy have not been colonized or even thoroughly explored, particularly out on the ass-end of nowhere, on a small spur of one of the lesser spiral arms, where we are.
To sum it all up, I think Fermi left out a large number of the potential problems with and realities of galactic exploration and colonization. I don't think the ratio of the time to the distances involved is anywhere near sufficient to say that it's irrelevant.
Joshua, thanks for referring to the Fermi paradox. I don't remember hearing of it before, and so far, it sounds interesting and reasonable. It's changing my thinking on the subject.
The title "alone in the universe" is misleading - Gribbin doesn't know the size of the universe, nobody does. Very likely we're effectively alone in the universe if we're alone in the Milky Way. Our galaxy has about a trillion stars. A civilization that started in a galaxy would have plenty of stars to expand to within the galaxy. There would be little incentive to travel a million light years to the next galaxy.
John Gribbin's contention is that there are a lot of factors that make us rare enough that likely, we would be alone in the Milky Way. Once you start multiplying together probabilities, it doesn't take many unlikely coincidences to make a species capable of interstellar travel, one in a trillion. Michio Kaku has said the same sort of thing although he didn't give as extensive a list of reasons.
Gribbin also thinks that many types of galaxies are unlikely homes for life, the stars are too close together and would be too disruptive; there's a supermassive black hole at the center that would bathe everything in radiation or disrupt the stars gravitationally, and so on, I don't remember very well.
He gives a lot of non-obvious reasons why our development is rare, that's the interesting thing about the book. So what I would like to hear about is if anyone has comments on how valid those reasons are. I mentioned some things I was skeptical about, like why would it be difficult for intelligent technological marine life to develop? I didn't mention a lot of his reasons, one would have to read the book for that.
Life is endangered a lot by objects colliding with the Earth, relatively small impacts have caused mass extinctions in the past and a big impact would sterilize the Earth.
Joshua Colwell writes:
The ubiquitous nature of life on Earth even in extreme environments suggests to me that life may well be common in the galaxy
Even the extreme environments on Earth are still on Earth - not bathed in a lot of radiation, near-circular planetary orbit, with the thermostat provided by continental drift, etc. Even environments in our solar system are still in a favorable part of the galaxy.
one planet would send a colony ship to the nearest habitable planet (10 light years is a likely distance)
10 light years seems very optimistic. Sure it would be easier to survive in a place than for people to evolve there - but what would be needed is a planet that isn't just habitable, but a place where a civilization can thrive well enough so it's capable of interstellar travel on its own, and has necessary resources for interstellar travel. Somalia is extremely habitable relative to most of the universe, but they aren't going to be sending a mission to Mars anytime soon. Our highly technological society can easily be disrupted enough to stop missions to outer space.
another resolution to the Fermi Paradox is simply that civilizations don't get to the point (either voluntarily or involuntarily) of interstellar colonization.
That is grim but plausible. With us, technological change has outrun our biological evolution, so we're maladapted. For example our estimates of risk are dramatically wrong. We evolved primarily to look out for our immediate interests and those of the people we're close to, not the interests of the human species. There seems to be such a thing as group selection, where traits are selected for that benefit a group as a whole, even though they may be anti-survival for individuals. But individual selection seems to have determined much more who we are.
Technology has protected us from many of the risks our ancestors faced, but the human species as a whole is subject to new dangers, like nuclear wars and global warming, which we cope with very badly. Most people spend little of their time thinking about what the human race as a whole could do.
We are aggressive towards other groups of people, which may have been important in developing intelligence, but we could wipe ourselves out with too much aggression.
People develop high technology in corporations that are in economic competition, but cooperation is important to cope with large-scale risks like wars.
So to what extent would these things be generally true of an intelligent evolved species? I don't know, but evolutionary exobiologists might have thought about it. I don't feel optimistic about humanity's next 100 years.
one resolution to the Fermi paradox is that aliens follow the Prime Directive.
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Thanks, JYC for your input! The fabric line is Mojito by Another Point of View/Windham Fabrics! It was featured in the M* Blog recently on June 6th for a reboot of the Double Slice quilt! And then, during the Re-Grand opening sale, the jelly roll for that fabric line was on special!
Thank you for the compliment on my baby quilt. I love the pastel colors, too. I pulled the darker colors of the charm packs on this one.
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Monday, May 16, 2005
Chocolate Caramel Hazelnut Shortbread
For the crust
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
16 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
For the filling
14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
1 cup packed brown sugar
8 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 tablespoons golden syrup
1/4 teaspoon salt
For the topping
2 cups whole hazelnuts, toasted and skins removed
9 ounces (about 1 1/2 cups) chopped bittersweet chocolate
3 ounces (about 1/2 cup) chopped white chocolate
To prepare the crust
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour and salt.
In a large mixing bowl, beat together butter and sugar until completely combined. Add dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Scoop mixture into a 9" square baking pan lightly coated with cooking spray - press dough over the bottom to form the crust. Place into the oven and bake until pale golden, about 30 minutes. Remove and let cool while you prepare the filling.
To prepare the filling
In a medium saucepan, add condensed milk, brown sugar, butter, syrup and salt - heat over low, stirring, until sugar dissolves. Bring mixture to a boil and cook, stirring constantly, until mixture darkens and reaches 237 degrees on a candy thermometer. Remove from the heat and whisk for 30 seconds. Pour mixture evenly over the cooled crust.
For the topping
Immediately scatter hazelnuts over the filling, pressing in lightly to adhere. Set aside and allow to cool.
Add bittersweet chocolate into a microwave safe bowl - place into the microwave and heat on 50% power, stirring every 30 seconds, until just melted. Pour over hazelnuts and spread to cover. Repeat process with white chocolate - drizzle lines of white chocolate all over the top. Allow to cool before cutting into squares.
Makes about 28 bars.
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Whoa. Those bars look absolutely delicious! At first I though the shortbread was actually a rice krispie treat base. I wonder if it would be possible to use that instead!ReplyDelete
I definitely want to try to make these sometime next week. I have a feeling the kids at sunday school would devour them... And the teachers, too :P
Alexandra - thats an interesting suggestion... I'm not sure how they would work, but it is worth the experiment I think.ReplyDelete
- Wiebke8/09/2011 10:03:00 AM
This fairly old post gave me the idea for a suberb, but decadent, dessert. Instead of caramel I made a peanutbutter-cheesecake-filling which I baked together with the shortbread. I added some cream and nougat to the topping and served it with a bit of sweetened condensed milk on the plate. A real sin for all the peanut butter lovers out there.ReplyDelete


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356: Nerd Sniping
|Nerd Sniping
Title text: I first saw this problem on the Google Labs Aptitude Test. A professor and I filled a blackboard without getting anywhere. Have fun.
Nerds have a way of getting distracted easily and focusing on one thing and ignoring the rest, when they feel their specific skills are challenged by an interesting problem. Black Hat has decided to make this into a disturbing game of getting nerds, in this case a physicist, to stop in the middle of a street and get crushed by a truck by showing them an interesting problem to solve.
The problem Black Hat shows is an electronics engineering thought experiment to find the resistance between two points. In normal wiring, a one-ohm resistor would result in one ohm of resistance. Two resistors connected in a series, where electricity has to go through each, has two ohms of resistance. Two one-ohm resistors in parallel give the circuit only half an ohm since you average the resistance of the path (1 ohm of resistance over 2 paths). With an infinite grid of equal resistors, you have an infinite number of paths to take, and for each path an infinite number of both series and parallel paths to consider, so much more advanced methods are needed. The exact answer to the question is 4/π − 1/2 ohms, or about 0.773 ohms. See Infinite Grid of Resistors.
Black Hat's final comment that "physicists are two points, mathematicians three" indicates that he considers a mathematician to be a more difficult target for his game than a physicist would be. It is unclear whether this is meant as a dig on physicists or on mathematicians; it might be because physicists are interested in a wider range of problems, or because mathematicians require a higher-quality problem to hold their interest.
The Google Labs Aptitude Test is a collection of puzzles published by Google as a parody of tests such as the SAT. Google is known for using logic & math puzzles in their job interviews. Randall explained in a speech at Google five days before this comic, that he was nerd-sniped, in a way, by that problem in this test, and got quite irritated when he ultimately found that it was actually a modern physics research problem, requiring very advanced math, far more complicated than the other puzzles.
- [Black Hat is sitting on a chair, Cueball is standing next to him. Across the street another man is coming from a building.]
- Black Hat: There's a certain type of brain that's easily disabled. If you show it an interesting problem, it involuntarily drops everything else to work on it.
- [The man across the street is about to enter a crosswalk.]
- Black Hat: This has led me to invent a new sport: nerd sniping. See that physicist crossing the road?
- [Black Hat holds up a sign.]
- Black Hat: HEY!
- [There is an image of a grid with resistors on every connection, two nodes a knight's move apart are marked with red circles.]
- Sign: On this infinite grid of ideal one-ohm resistors, what's the equivalent resistance between the two marked nodes?
- Physicist on the street: It's... Hmm. Interesting. Maybe if you start with... No. Wait. Hmm... You could—
- [A truck is zooming past, apparently where the physicist just stood.]
- Cueball: I will have no part in this.
- Black Hat: C'mon, make a sign. It's fun! Physicists are two points, mathematicians three.
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Just because the problem contains an infinite series (or parallel) doesn't mean that it's unsolvable. It's tricky, certainly, and getting the "true" answer involves some rather heavy math, but it's not impossible. Indeed, Google shows that it's already been answered. 126.96.36.199 20:42, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
I've always had an issue with this problem for one simple reason. In an infinite set of resistors, there is no space to apply a charge, thus there is no resistance. Ohm's law states Resistance = Voltage / I(current). So, in a system where there is no current (creating a divide by zero error), and there is no voltage (no change in electron work capacity, because we don't have a way to excite the electrons, because there is no power) Resistance is incalculable. lcarsos (talk) 22:22, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
- We live in 3 dimensions, just place a battery above the grid with wires going to the 2 points. --184.108.40.206 22:59, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
- Not everybody does... --FlatlandDweller 11:08, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
- baDumpBump! 22.214.171.124 16:22, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
- I believe the OP is referencing the issue that an infinite circuit could not hold a current. Connecting a battery would only work for a finite grid. In addition, the orientation of the battery in physical space has no relation to its behavior in a circuit, only the points of connection matter. Think about what the battery is doing to generate a current. How does electric potential apply over an infinite grid? Even moving it through a magnetic field won't work as the flux will be uniform across each cross section. You can't rotate an infinite grid either... -- Flewk (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- Not everybody does... --FlatlandDweller 11:08, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Just crocodidoodle the battery to the pencil lines as and where required for an infinity of varieteediddly. I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 18:51, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
This problem is "unsolvable" only if you try to just use the basic methods for finite networks. There is a page on this at http://mathpages.com/home/kmath668/kmath668.htm that reports that the cited points have a resistance of 4/pi - 1/2 ohms (.773234... ohms). The 1/2 ohm resistance between adjacent nodes is actually well known. Divad27182 (talk) 05:05, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Solution here as well: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2004-10-13/google/ Potie15 (talk) 03:50, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Nowhere it is said that the problem is unsolvable, just that it is interesting. Of course, the sniping is more effective if the problem is also difficult to solve, because otherwise the victim would get over it quickly. Dargor17 (talk) 17:47, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
That method for parallel resistors is wrong. You don't divide resistances by the number of paths, you sum the reciprocals and then take the reciprocal of that. The method described only works if every resistor has the same value. While that's true in this problem, it's misleading to pass that off as a method that works for all cases. --220.127.116.11 03:32, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
- Good point. I made some slight alterations to clarify that we are assuming the resistors are equal. It seems a better solution than getting into the more complex version of the problem. --BlueMoonlet (talk) 12:20, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
The real question is: why did the physicist cross the road? --Alcatraz ii (talk) 00:53, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Amazing. From the first comment the discussion is diverted from discussing the comic, to discussing the problem presented in the comic. The commentators have been nerd sniped by a demonstration of nerd sniping. Randall is just that good. 184.108.40.206 17:55, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
"Sniping" might also be a pun or have a deliberately dual meaning in this context, referring to both a sniper and a snipe hunt (do kids still practice the latter?). The former makes sense if Black Hat's purpose is to actually rid the world of physics and math nerds (consistent with his characteristic misanthropy and cynicism), but the latter also fits the theme of merely distracting a nerd with an impossible task, which the title text suggests may have been Randall's motivation for the strip. (On a side note, the Wikipedia article reveals that the terms sniper and snipe hunt have a common origin, which makes twice in the last month it's resolved a long-standing etymological puzzle for me. The other case united the multiple, seemingly unrelated meanings of minute ["tiny" vs. time] and second [ordinal vs. time]; see sexagesimal.) 126.96.36.199 01:40, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
I've been led to believe that 'minute' means 'tiny amount of time', 'second' is 'secondary tiny amount of time', and , I quote "Real snipe (a family of shorebirds) are difficult to catch for experienced hunters, so much so that the word "sniper" is derived from it to refer to anyone skilled enough to shoot one." from the snipe hunt wiki page. 126.96.36.199 23:45, 27 September 2014 (UTC)
Why doesn't someone solder together a thousand one ohm resistors into a grid then use an ohmmeter to measure the resistance? Then repeat with smaller and smaller grids to see if there's any effect on the measurement. If the resistance does not change, or at least doesn't change until the grid size gets quite small, then the "infinite" term in the problem is a 'red herring' to mislead. Pointless, useless, irrelevant etc information in problems is a common tactic for gauging the ability to recognize and reject such data. 18.104.22.168 00:35, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
Incidentally, should this page mention that what if 113 (I don't know how to do links, sorry) contains a picture of this comic? 22.214.171.124 23:36, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Yes I will do so. Have just referred to another what if where he is mentioning nerd sniping. --Kynde (talk) 11:40, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
188.8.131.52 12:17, 22 May 2015 (UTC) Am I the only one concerned with the fact that this poor guy was still on a crosswalk? The truck should have stopped. 22.214.171.124 12:17, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
When the number of parallel resistors increase, the equivalent resistance decreases. So, in an infinite grid, wouldn't it approach zero? UrubuSelvagem (talk) 03:43, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
- They are also in series. For each parallel group, there is, in fact a corresponding group in series.
It is not directly relevant to the discussion of the comic, but this needs to be posted here. Perhaps the best nerd snipe ever actually achieved and a nearly perfect match for the comic (my professor put it in the lecture notes for my group theory class): "Coxeter came to Cambridge and he gave a lecture, then he had this problem ... I left the lecture room thinking. As I was walking through Cambridge, suddenly the idea hit me, but it hit me while I was in the middle of the road. When the idea hit me I stopped and a large truck ran into me ... So I pretended that Coxeter had calculated the difficulty of this problem so precisely that he knew that I would get the solution just in the middle of the road ... One consequence of it is that in a group if a^2=b^3=c^5= (abc)^-1, then c^610=1." (J.H. Conway, Math. Intelligencer v. 23 no. 2 (2001)) I did a search, and the entire passage can be read here perhaps it is even possible that this event is the inspiration for this comic? The inclusion of the "large truck" is almost too perfect. 220.127.116.11 23:45, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
I know a solution that use random walks. :) 220.127.116.11 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
I really like this comic. It says a lot about Black Hat, but so much more about Randall :-) --Kynde (talk) 11:40, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
So, *that's* how they did Gaudi in! I always suspected a plot; now I see the method. 184.108.40.206 16:30, 28 June 2018 (UTC)


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We implemented a fix for this problem a few months ago (provided somewhere on the web by a member of the Excel team), and it worked just fine. Now, it doesn't (we're Army, and all sorts of things keep getting added to our networks).
Now, using either Excel or Access generates the same error:
"Cannot connect to the server at this time. Your table cannot be published."
Any ideas? We're MOSS.