When Gallileo ffirst started using the telescope, most people thought that what he was seeing through them was some sort of optical illusion, like a funhouse mirror. No doubt conspiracy theorists will latcch on to that "Its only an optical illusion caused by natural processes on the moons surface" If somone doesnt want to believe something, no amount of factual evidence is satisfactory. Even if you shot somone to the moons surface, they would still say "well im only in some nasa sound stage" or "this is some sort of hypnotically induced suggestion" People have an amazing capacity to believe things in spite of overwhelming evidence to the opposite, or lack of evidence whatsoever, despite the extremity of implausibility (see scientology)
They talk about how Strange Quark Nuggets contain...snip... The ground up waste that you get when you slaughter Strange Quarks. Essentially Quark plywood.
Actually, I switched to MCI because it has lower rates. I get Unlimited long distance anywhere in america plus unlimited local calling, caller id, call waiting and voicemail. This is costing me a flat rate of $54 a month. Considering i was spending over $100 on ling distance a month plus $25 for local phone service, MCI is great.
Oops, you used a credit card. That info goes into the new nationwide database thats being established by the Homeland Security Act. Whats that you say, you purchased the "declaration of independance" That document advocates overthrow of a duly established American government. Expect a call from the FBI. And by call I mean raid.
The same thing will happen that happened to the bill that was going to get rid of webcaster fees for small webcasters. Sen. Disney (TM) and Sen. TimeWarner (tm) will amend the bill to do exactly the opposite of what it was originally intended to do. Then theyll have the gall to say "vote for this bill, its EFF sponsored" neglecting to mention that by this time EFF will haveremoved its sponsorship.
Ive heard the "keep the ET in orbit" bit alot. What are you going to do with it? Its a big empty tank. You could fill it up with oxygen and hydrogen again, except that its very hard to pump flids on orbit. You could use it as a habitat. Ok first you would have to empty out all the residual propellants, hard to do because of the pumping issues. Next you would have to make it habitable, which means cutting a hole in it for at least a door, hauling up an airlock, and welding it into place. Then you need to haul up all the internals, life support, etc. Third you could melt it down and use the metal. All you need is an on orbit smelting facility, and factory to manufacture stuff out of the metal.
On the other hand, youre absolutely right about the cargo bit. The ET/SSME/booster combo can launch over 100 tons into LEO, but the cargo capacity of the shuttle is only about 25 tons. So straight away you can reduce your launch costs by a factor of four by making a cargo pod instead of a shuttle.
>For supertankers, which now must sail all the >way around Cape Horn at the tip of South America, >the trip would be shortened by 11,800 miles.
Well thank god, I was worried that my supply of precious, precious oil might be delayed a few weeks in transit, now i can refine it into gas and burn it right away! Thank you global warming!
Dying in a vacuum is not as gruesome as its made out to be in movies. Only the sensitive tissues would rupture in the vacuum. For example, your hand can be exposed to a total vacuum with no apparant damage. Your skin is strong enough to provide pressure such that yoru blood doesnt boil. If you had a cut youd be in trouble. Heres what happens in a vacuum: All the barriers inside yoru lungs, throat and nasal cavities rupture simultaneously, the blood boils internally, fairly quickly causing the remaining blood to freeze solid. The tears on the surface of your eyes boil off, freezing their surface. The eyes may rupture. From the outside this would appear to be a vapor coming out of the mouth ears and eyes. After enough blood boils off to freeze the remaining blood to a solid, your body will remain intact indefinitly.
Thats not entirely true. Adding power will inccrease your altitude, but pulling up will too. When you pull up, you trade altitude for speed. In other words, youll go higher but your plane will be goins slower. Eventually you arent going fast enough to maintain level flight characteristics, so you have to add power or stop trying to go higher. In some cases youre right though, if you already are only going fast enough to maintain level flight, pulling back on the stick will slow you down and decrease your altitude, but this isnt always true. As for the person who didnt understand how adding power increased altitude, when you go faster, you increase the lift coming from your wings (since lift is a function of speed and angle of attack) so there is a net upward force on the aircraft, causing it to go upwards.
Washington State has a significant history of major earthquakes. It is part of the pacific ring of fire. See the USGS site here But really, you have to ask yourself, what are you going to do when Mt Ranier blows and your server farrm is buried under 1 Million tons of liquid hot magma?
I believe south carolina and a bunch of other rag-tag states tried this awhile back. Its called seceeding from the union, and I dont thenk the federal government would be down with that. No state can opt out of federal laws.
Careful, or steve jobs will put out a fatwa on Jake Barnes, the writer/director of the film. Then all true apple fanatics will be required to try and kill him by whipping their ipods at him.
no, it cant. Because the way orbits work is wacky. When you slow down in an orbit you move farther away from the gravitational center. (absent of other forces like air drag) You need to speed up in order to move closer to a gravitational center. On earth spacecraft eventually enter the earths atmosphere which slows them down enough such that they are no longer in orbit and orbital mechanics no longer applies. In order for something to stop orbiting and fall into the center of a black hole some force other than gravity must be applied to it. This is why black holes have jets of matter shooting out of the poles at near the speed of light. As material falls into the hole the energy of some particles is transferred to the jets and that allows some material into the event horizon.
*Editor's Note: Now that we've successfully converted our writer to a Windows PC, we will be working on getting her to try a Pocket PC. Stay tuned for more developments!
What are they odds that they successfully get "her" to try a pocket PC? Its written like theyre trying really hard just to convert this one person.
Wel yes, esssentially youre right, it could be due to higher temperatures and pressures. But the problem with that is that its a testable hypothesis on earth. We oviously know quite alot about the chemical makeup of the venusian atmosphere. Stick a reasonable facsimile into a pressure vessel, crank up the pressure and temperature and see what happens. If it changes to what we think it should, then maybe there is life, if it changes to what it actually is, then probably no life.
The problem with you is that you think that rome was built in a day. It wasnt. Copyright is too entrenched to destroy with a single court verdict. You have to convince people that first of all, extending copyrights is bad, and hopefully lessig has. Just because lessig may or may not believe in copyright does nothing to detract from the blow hes struck against it. And youll recall that slavery wasnt destroyed with one court verdict, and marxism wasnt destroyed in one battle. This is just one battle in the war against copyright, and if its a victory its a victory, regardless of what the lawyer who argued its personal thoughts on the subject are.
If you read the PDF linked to in the articlee, youll see that this guy did this about 6 times with no incident. On the 7th try, the LN2 contacted his tooth and shattered the enamel. His dentist reccommended that he stop doing the experiment.
Youre right, it isnt ferromagnetic, but when a large alternating current is applied to the solenoid, it induces a current in the aluminum, since its a good conductor. The current that is induced produces a magnetic field that is opposite to the one produced by the current in the wires. This rips the can apart in a very cool and explosive manner.
Well, given unlimited access to equipment (as in your vat of molten lead example) Here are some good demos that ive personaly seen:
1: Using compressed air to shoot a pencil through a peice off 1/2 inch thick plywood
2: Using a large solenoid to magnetically rip apart an aluminum can (can is placed in the center of the circle of wires and large AC is momentarily applied)
3: Pouring liquid nitrogen on your hand (the back, not your cupped hand)
4: Making liquid nitrogen ice cream (pour some LN2 into a cup of milk, stir rapidly)
5 Superconducting magnetic levitation (small permanent magnet over a critically cooled superconductor)
6:The ever classic fire extinguisher used to propel a person across a room in a rolling chair
7: compairing the explosions made by a baloon filled with air and h2, h2, and one with both H2 and O2 in proper amounts
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When Gallileo ffirst started using the telescope, most people thought that what he was seeing through them was some sort of optical illusion, like a funhouse mirror. No doubt conspiracy theorists will latcch on to that "Its only an optical illusion caused by natural processes on the moons surface" If somone doesnt want to believe something, no amount of factual evidence is satisfactory. Even if you shot somone to the moons surface, they would still say "well im only in some nasa sound stage" or "this is some sort of hypnotically induced suggestion" People have an amazing capacity to believe things in spite of overwhelming evidence to the opposite, or lack of evidence whatsoever, despite the extremity of implausibility (see scientology)
They talk about how Strange Quark Nuggets contain ...snip...
The ground up waste that you get when you slaughter Strange Quarks. Essentially Quark plywood.
Actually, I switched to MCI because it has lower rates. I get Unlimited long distance anywhere in america plus unlimited local calling, caller id, call waiting and voicemail. This is costing me a flat rate of $54 a month. Considering i was spending over $100 on ling distance a month plus $25 for local phone service, MCI is great.
Actually God holds the patent on that and all DNA, but he doesnt have any Lawyers available to back up the claim.
Or the King 'O England
Chances are this is how we would first detect an asteroid withh our name on it.
'not tracking or tethering the user in any way'
I buy. I leave the store. End of story.
Oops, you used a credit card. That info goes into the new nationwide database thats being established by the Homeland Security Act. Whats that you say, you purchased the "declaration of independance" That document advocates overthrow of a duly established American government. Expect a call from the FBI. And by call I mean raid.
The same thing will happen that happened to the bill that was going to get rid of webcaster fees for small webcasters. Sen. Disney (TM) and Sen. TimeWarner (tm) will amend the bill to do exactly the opposite of what it was originally intended to do. Then theyll have the gall to say "vote for this bill, its EFF sponsored" neglecting to mention that by this time EFF will haveremoved its sponsorship.
On the other hand, youre absolutely right about the cargo bit. The ET/SSME/booster combo can launch over 100 tons into LEO, but the cargo capacity of the shuttle is only about 25 tons. So straight away you can reduce your launch costs by a factor of four by making a cargo pod instead of a shuttle.
Well using that logic, Im going to burn my house down, but im not going to douse it in gasoline first, that way it will take a few minutes longer.
>For supertankers, which now must sail all the
>way around Cape Horn at the tip of South America,
>the trip would be shortened by 11,800 miles.
Well thank god, I was worried that my supply of precious, precious oil might be delayed a few weeks in transit, now i can refine it into gas and burn it right away! Thank you global warming!
We have conjecture and heresay your honor, those are kinds.. of evidence
Have you ever posted on slashdot, and if so, have you ever used the acronym IAAL instead of IANAL?
Dying in a vacuum is not as gruesome as its made out to be in movies. Only the sensitive tissues would rupture in the vacuum. For example, your hand can be exposed to a total vacuum with no apparant damage. Your skin is strong enough to provide pressure such that yoru blood doesnt boil. If you had a cut youd be in trouble. Heres what happens in a vacuum: All the barriers inside yoru lungs, throat and nasal cavities rupture simultaneously, the blood boils internally, fairly quickly causing the remaining blood to freeze solid. The tears on the surface of your eyes boil off, freezing their surface. The eyes may rupture. From the outside this would appear to be a vapor coming out of the mouth ears and eyes. After enough blood boils off to freeze the remaining blood to a solid, your body will remain intact indefinitly.
Thats not entirely true. Adding power will inccrease your altitude, but pulling up will too. When you pull up, you trade altitude for speed. In other words, youll go higher but your plane will be goins slower. Eventually you arent going fast enough to maintain level flight characteristics, so you have to add power or stop trying to go higher. In some cases youre right though, if you already are only going fast enough to maintain level flight, pulling back on the stick will slow you down and decrease your altitude, but this isnt always true. As for the person who didnt understand how adding power increased altitude, when you go faster, you increase the lift coming from your wings (since lift is a function of speed and angle of attack) so there is a net upward force on the aircraft, causing it to go upwards.
Washington State has a significant history of major earthquakes. It is part of the pacific ring of fire. See the USGS site here But really, you have to ask yourself, what are you going to do when Mt Ranier blows and your server farrm is buried under 1 Million tons of liquid hot magma?
I believe south carolina and a bunch of other rag-tag states tried this awhile back. Its called seceeding from the union, and I dont thenk the federal government would be down with that. No state can opt out of federal laws.
Careful, or steve jobs will put out a fatwa on Jake Barnes, the writer/director of the film. Then all true apple fanatics will be required to try and kill him by whipping their ipods at him.
no, it cant. Because the way orbits work is wacky. When you slow down in an orbit you move farther away from the gravitational center. (absent of other forces like air drag) You need to speed up in order to move closer to a gravitational center. On earth spacecraft eventually enter the earths atmosphere which slows them down enough such that they are no longer in orbit and orbital mechanics no longer applies. In order for something to stop orbiting and fall into the center of a black hole some force other than gravity must be applied to it. This is why black holes have jets of matter shooting out of the poles at near the speed of light. As material falls into the hole the energy of some particles is transferred to the jets and that allows some material into the event horizon.
What are they odds that they successfully get "her" to try a pocket PC? Its written like theyre trying really hard just to convert this one person.
Wel yes, esssentially youre right, it could be due to higher temperatures and pressures. But the problem with that is that its a testable hypothesis on earth. We oviously know quite alot about the chemical makeup of the venusian atmosphere. Stick a reasonable facsimile into a pressure vessel, crank up the pressure and temperature and see what happens. If it changes to what we think it should, then maybe there is life, if it changes to what it actually is, then probably no life.
The problem with you is that you think that rome was built in a day. It wasnt. Copyright is too entrenched to destroy with a single court verdict. You have to convince people that first of all, extending copyrights is bad, and hopefully lessig has. Just because lessig may or may not believe in copyright does nothing to detract from the blow hes struck against it. And youll recall that slavery wasnt destroyed with one court verdict, and marxism wasnt destroyed in one battle. This is just one battle in the war against copyright, and if its a victory its a victory, regardless of what the lawyer who argued its personal thoughts on the subject are.
If you read the PDF linked to in the articlee, youll see that this guy did this about 6 times with no incident. On the 7th try, the LN2 contacted his tooth and shattered the enamel. His dentist reccommended that he stop doing the experiment.
Youre right, it isnt ferromagnetic, but when a large alternating current is applied to the solenoid, it induces a current in the aluminum, since its a good conductor. The current that is induced produces a magnetic field that is opposite to the one produced by the current in the wires. This rips the can apart in a very cool and explosive manner.
1: Using compressed air to shoot a pencil through a peice off 1/2 inch thick plywood
2: Using a large solenoid to magnetically rip apart an aluminum can (can is placed in the center of the circle of wires and large AC is momentarily applied)
3: Pouring liquid nitrogen on your hand (the back, not your cupped hand)
4: Making liquid nitrogen ice cream (pour some LN2 into a cup of milk, stir rapidly)
5 Superconducting magnetic levitation (small permanent magnet over a critically cooled superconductor)
6:The ever classic fire extinguisher used to propel a person across a room in a rolling chair
7: compairing the explosions made by a baloon filled with air and h2, h2, and one with both H2 and O2 in proper amounts