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Ground effect is an increase in aerodynamic lift near the ground.

Wrong. Rockets very near the ground experience a ground-effect augmentation of thrust. Response to thrust vectoring will also be affected.

Thrust measurement experiment on the ground effect of a vertical landing rocket.

This means that the control algorithm must change as the vehicle lands.

where they can do no harm

    That ranks right up with "what could possibly go wrong", and "there's nothing to worry about".

    A nuke in the water is still a chunk of radioactive material in a steel casing, just waiting for the casing to rust away.

    If the TNT goes pop, then that's all fun and games (assuming the nuke wasn't armed). If the casing is compromised, you have three eyed fish and giant octopuses resulting from the radiation (note: sarcasm). A little extra radiation isn't really all that good for you, me, nor the ecosystem. Hell, looked at what happened to Japan. Just two small nukes, and now you have generations of short people with tiny hands,small penises, and some weird fantasies. (BTW, the last link is border line NSFW, use at your own risk when the boss isn't looking. :)

    I for one welcome our mutant three eyed octopus overlords.

Actually Venus and balloons do go together.

http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200210/000020021002A0351950.php
http://futureplanets.blogspot.com/2009/01/asrg-missions-venus-balloon.html

Long-term, what if we built a whole Cloud City up there where the atmosphere's thin-ish and the sulphuric acid rain slowed to a romantic drizzle? Maybe mine stuff from the atmosphere? There'd be one rule: don't look down, and don't breathe in. Two rules. Don't look down, don't breathe in, and don't tease the jellysquids. Three rules. I'll make orbit again.

With all it's magnets and electricity usage, you can't convince me they are anywhere near efficient enough to NOT generate loads of waste heat. In the winter -- especially during those '22 days', when electricity is at a premium, I suspect it has a good deal to due with those being the shortest and among the coldest days of winter. That means during the time of highest electrical cost, they are also likely to have the coldest outdoor temperatures.

There is a high amount of power going into the facility. The magnets can't take much power after they are energized, given they are being held at super-cool temperatures and are designed to function as 100% efficient super-conducting magnets -- then all of the power must be going into ... what? Varying the magnetic flux to accelerate the particles (which will generate heat), and running cooling compressors (which could have been designed to take advantage of cooler outdoor temperatures to decrease cooling load requirements, but I suspect not) takes some power but would generate heat as a by-product.

Then there are the beams -- very high energy cost beams that are colliding with each other. Except for parts of the beams which convert into matter, which sounds negligible, with most of the research going into analyzing the decay products of temporarily created particles, then all that energy must generate ALOT of heat. In the coldest months of winter, not only should they be able to use that waste heat to heat the non-refrigerated, human-inhabited parts of the facility, (reducing heating load), most importantly -- that waste heat combined with the outdoor temperatures that are among the lowest of the winter, should provide ideal conditions for electrical generation through Sterling engines. It seems that the colder it is outside, the better the conditions for turning their waste heat into [re]usable electricity via Sterling

Combined with the possibility of increased cooling operating efficiency in winter (less cooling requirements, if they designed their cooling system s to take advantage of lower outdoor temperatures to start from as a base for cold-air to refrigerate, or help to bring in cold-outdoor air to help insulate cold-areas, their winder electrical load could drop by some fraction, reducing electrical usage during peak-cold times, thus further dropping their electrical load and lowering their winter electric bill.

While the majority of power goes energizing the magnets, they should be very efficient, as the operate at absolute zero are are near 100% efficiency). However , the 'end' work is 'smashing' of particles together and watching decay patterns. Unless I am gravely mistaken, virtually none, or a nearly insignificant percentage of that collision results in the creation of matter (that would act as a very large energy sump).

Given those conditions, it is likely that about 95% or more of the energy used would be radiated out (after decay) as VERY hot "waste heat" -- with each beam having the excess heat to be able to drill 30cm holes in copper (that's alot of excess heat!!!).

Such high heat with the extra frigid temperatures outside should enable optimal power generation from numerous heat-differential engines that convert heat-differences into mechanical energy.

Peltier devices have potential for high efficiency as they skip a mechanical -> generator step) (Peltier Guide.
Mechanical devices such as those describe by the original (free-public domain), patented Stirling engine, US Patent 3995429, (a href="http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6804171/claims.html">US Patent 6804171, (OR), possibly, low-cost, licensable patents Method Accession# 01A0878780),

They want attribution

that is a fair point, I don't know much about the types of cases they use :) and when I read magnesium I read it as the metal rather than an alloy. On the upshot, I never did say it was pure Ti either, and in my line of work/study I have to be precise with what I mean when I start throwing around element names. Othwerwise it's like saying FePt and NiFe are the same, since they are both made of iron.

One's a hard magnet, FePt in the right phase which might be used for high density perpendicular recording in the future, possibly as nanowires, or nanoparticles link 2, and the other's a soft magnet, NiFe, or permalloy, which can be one of the layers in a TMR read head.

If I remember my theory correctly, then any of the NP-Complete problems would most likely be solvable in polynomial time using quantum computers. A couple of the problems have more obvious military uses than others; for example, the knapsack problem would allow for the optimization of logistics and it looks like there is already a quantum algorithm of knapsack problem.

Yes.
A) Consumer device PEDs are not design or rated for air travel.

B) You can't completly harden against all EMR

C) the shape of Aircraft can cause you signal to change.

http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/categories/commercial/12776.html

http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/publications/Incidents/DOCS/Research/Rvs/Article/EMI.html

http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200012/000020001200A0261018.php

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~jain/cse574-06/ftp/aircraft_wireless.pdf

While they due do 'bench test' with equipment Avionic equipment against devices that are done as individual units, not as the whole Avionics package. Adding to this, the same devices manufactured in two different locations may bleed AMI differently due to manufacturing difference.
For example someone decides to use cheaper capacitors. This results in 'spurious' EMI.

I'm wondering if it's based off this:

http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200416/000020041604A0544787.php but I'm still trying to figure out how it purifies the air, rather then cleaning the road surface. In the Japanese case, the material was applied into building panels which made them self-cleaning, with minimal discoloration after several years.

Maybe someone will be willing to explain it, otherwise the title/article are just misleading.

Nuclear district heating does exist, but is not so widespread.
Still:
http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200607/000020060706A0175205.php

i think that fellow might be referring more to the supercapacitors, not superconductors.

still not mass producable enough while being energy dense enough as far as I've read. If this was the case in Japan, i'm sure someone with enough jingo power would have updated the wikipedia entry.

In case i made an ass of u and me; As for superconductors, theoretical superconductor "flywheels" for current have been suggested but i'm not finding anything mentioning work outside of labs with low-temp superconductors.

Apparently, Chinese and Japanese are way ahead... Working prototypes and all that...

http://www.youtube.com/user/huyu0711

http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200523/000020052305A0951847.php

Figures.
It was always obvious that robotic overlords will NOT be speaking English as first language.

Well... At least we can eliminate a few more of "in charge of Gundam potentials".