Ok, I'm not trying to be pedantic here. Is there any chance that a VASIMR-based engine could be used for a lunar takeoff? How much would you need to improve the efficiency in terms of power to weight to achieve that?
Well, it's not like there aren't any good, ethical people even at the highest levels of corporate power. There are good, ethical politicians, too. Heck, I've met some of both.
I'm sure the research team have already considered this aspect of a gun launch. Chimborazo is possibly the best site on the planet for getting stuff into orbit. Not necessarily the best for getting stuff into the same orbit as the ISS, but a plasma powered tug would help with that problem. Another possible site would be Kilimanjaro.
Looking at Chimborazo, there seems to be a stretch of the West side of the mountain that is fairly uniform and about 1km in length. Perhaps that is why they picked 1.1km as a target design length for the launch gun.
Ok, so you are asserting that the Iranians are dangerous, murderous warmongers. I get it. The only problem with that theory is that they've never attacked another country. Sure, they probably have spies and agents doing some underhanded work, but then again who doesn't. That's international politics.
I know you specifically asked for museums in North America, but you'd save a lot of travel time and get to see some of the best museums in the world within walking distance of each other if you go to London. I spent a week there once, just going to museums and I wanted to stay for a month. Hyde Park is the best place to start IMHO.
Hmmm, that opens up the possibility of a new business model. It should now be profitable to sell $100 bills for $120 dollars. Get all your friends/family in on the act and get them to use bing to find your website. At 35% cashback, they will get $48 for each purchase so the real cost to them is $78, leaving them with $22 profit. In the meantime you are making $20 clear profit on each sale. No manufacturing costs. An almost infinite supply of new product... I think it's a winner.
It was discovered today that newborn humans still grow teeth. Scientists are baffled because the human species developed the technology to build smoothie machines 3 generations ago.
If only we had a cheap way to create this "hydrocarbon" liquid. The ideal thing would be some kind of self-replicating nano-machines that run on solar energy.
Sorry but I completely disagree with you. And I slightly resent being told that I'm playing Nethack the wrong way. I've been playing since it was called Hack and I needed to use 2x5.25" floppies get in running on a HDD-less machine. I still haven't ascended, but I have got the AoY several times, and most importantly of all, I've had uncountable hours of fun. For me the best buzz is when I find myself in an apparently fatal situation but somehow I still manage to pull through. Sometimes this requires luck to be on my side, but life can be like that too. I've fallen through trapdoors into zoo rooms where I was certain I was toast but sometimes I somehow managed to escape. It's the richness of detail in the game that keeps me coming back, the engraving, the dipping, the praying, the polymorphing, the sacrificing, the taming, the stealing, the corpse eating, the attributes, the random maps, the unidentified objects, all those easter eggs, and lets not forget the tombstone. It's a different game every time.
To take your way of playing to an extreme, I could just record a macro of "left arrow, right arrow", find a suitable corridor on level 1 and run the macro for a month until I'm level eleventyfive. That sounds like more fun than sitting in front of the PC for a week playing conservatively.
I've tried a lot of modern MMOJOBs and I always get bored with them within a couple of months. But I know plenty of people that are happy to play the same raids, with the same groups, on the same night each week, over and over and over again. To each their own, but I'd like to suggest that if you don't appreciate Nethack, you are the one who is playing it wrong. Life is a journey, not a destination.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some gridbugs to squash.
We are all members of a single ring species that encompasses all of life on Earth. It's just that the ring is separated by time, rather than geography or physiology.
While I accept that a lot of people think that all life on Earth comes from a common ancestor, I personally think it's unlikely. Richard Dawkins explanation of the origins of life in The Selfish Gene and other books, leaves room for life to have started as a number of different replicating molecules which competed with each other. Since the Earth was not a homogenous environment, it's likely that there were many genesis events in a variety of different conditions. It's possible that bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes all arose from different genesis events. It's also possible that the parts of a eukaryote cell such as mitochondria were initially different organisms that formed a symbiotic relationship with each other. It's even possible that these organelles were also the descendants of discrete genesis events.
If you over-simplify an explanation, it can become contradictory when the subject is examined in more depth. Electrical engineers know this.
In terms of the animal kingdom, the concept of 'species' may easily be understood in terms of the concept of breeding. When two organisms cannot produce fertile offspring, they are separate species. This is a well defined barrier. A population does not become a new species overnight.
How do Ring Species fit into your understanding of the barriers between species?
Bzzzt! Wrong. Thanks for playing anyway. There was no original debate on which path to take after the shuttle. The DIRECT design is a result of a grassroots movement which developed AFTER the Ares designs had been unveiled. During the intervening period the top brass have never entered into discussion with the DIRECT team. Real engineers were appalled at the braindead decisions taken during the initial Ares design phase. Ares 1 is an impossible to implement design. Well maybe "impossible" is too strong a word to use but "impractical" just doesn't cover how bad it is. It's top-heavy, both in terms of mass and aerodynamic stability. It relies solely on a solid rocket for the first stage of it's ascent! WFT! No vectoring capability, no throttling capability and no evidence that the required extra segment can be produced using the existing shuttle support infrastructure. This thing is basically a dangerous bottle rocket and it's supposed to be man-rated! Ares V isn't quite as bad as Ares 1, but that's only because they share very little in common. That's the other major booger hanging out of the Ares nose. Reuse of common elements would help to keep down costs, but it seems that no attempt has been made to do this.
tl;dr. You don't have a clue what you're talking about, but you'dlike people to believe you do. You're just a conservative that wants to keep the status quo. I didn't know W posted on slashdot.
If this really works there might even be enough people around to eat all that surplus food that's available in 3rd world countries. Not to mention the water and energy surpluses that we've been trying to get rid of for decades. People even try to dispose of their excess water by flushing it down the toilets in some countries.
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Me too. For years I had a problem with my right hip. I went to a few GPs over the years and they never did anything that helped. After 3 visits to a chiropractor the pain stopped, and over the next few months and several more visits my overall strength improved by approx 50%. She told me I would have to keep coming back for treatments but I haven't been to see her in about 5 years and the problem hasn't come back.
Just my experience, I know it's not enough of a dataset to base any scientific study on.
You used to be able to buy an anti-theft device for cars in South Africa that used a flamethrower to "dissuade" the thief. It was legal but never succeeded commercially.
If you take a look at this thread you might appreciate what I am talking about. It's not just related to speed nerfs, blaster specialists have also been hit very hard, just so that the speed issue could be "re-balanced". There is a multitude of well though out suggestions in this thread which are superior to CCPs solution.
I include it as a demonstration of CCPs unwillingness to listen to player feedback. They seem to have forgotten that in a player-defined universe, the players opinions are as important as the developers.
I've no problem with being charged to play a game or avail of a service. I never said I did. What I object to is when I put in a lot of time (and money) to get something out of a game, and then the company running it decides that my skills are now useless. I'm speaking about T2 large blasters, it that makes my comments any clearer. Several months were spent training those skills, admittedly the last month of that was during my exams and my account was inactive at the time. I reactivated my account when my exams were over, mainly to play with the new toys that I had finally got and they will be nerfed to death with the new patch on Tuesday next week.
I've been playing for 2 years, and loved playing it for most of that time. Recently there was a staff reshuffle and things have gone downhill since then. So-called "game re-balancing" is nerfing months of skill training in gunnery and speed modules to make it completely useless. That means 100 euros worth of subscription money paid for training which is worthless now. Players have tested the changes on the test server and given feedback to the new CCP dev team, but it was completely ignored.
On top of that insult, they have nerfed the old feature that allowed you to continue training 1 level in 1 skill when your account expired. Apparently they think it's unfair to them if people get any training for free! This change was made with 2 days notice and resulted in the largest discussion thread ever on the forums. Also completely ignored by the CCP dev team.
I'm still playing a bit at the moment because I like talking to the friends I've made in the game, but I'll be quitting when the current months subscription expires. It's not the same game it was when I started playing, server population has been declining for the last 6 months. I think it's going to die off in a few years.
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Ok, I'm not trying to be pedantic here. Is there any chance that a VASIMR-based engine could be used for a lunar takeoff? How much would you need to improve the efficiency in terms of power to weight to achieve that?
Well, it's not like there aren't any good, ethical people even at the highest levels of corporate power. There are good, ethical politicians, too. Heck, I've met some of both.
Heck, I've met both of them. (ftfy)
I'm sure the research team have already considered this aspect of a gun launch. Chimborazo is possibly the best site on the planet for getting stuff into orbit. Not necessarily the best for getting stuff into the same orbit as the ISS, but a plasma powered tug would help with that problem. Another possible site would be Kilimanjaro.
Looking at Chimborazo, there seems to be a stretch of the West side of the mountain that is fairly uniform and about 1km in length. Perhaps that is why they picked 1.1km as a target design length for the launch gun.
Ok, so you are asserting that the Iranians are dangerous, murderous warmongers. I get it. The only problem with that theory is that they've never attacked another country. Sure, they probably have spies and agents doing some underhanded work, but then again who doesn't. That's international politics.
I didn't RTFA, but this must surely be a record bid for an auction on Ebay.
I know you specifically asked for museums in North America, but you'd save a lot of travel time and get to see some of the best museums in the world within walking distance of each other if you go to London. I spent a week there once, just going to museums and I wanted to stay for a month. Hyde Park is the best place to start IMHO.
I think that using tools makes people smarter, not dumber.
That's because you're dumb.
Hmmm, that opens up the possibility of a new business model. It should now be profitable to sell $100 bills for $120 dollars. Get all your friends/family in on the act and get them to use bing to find your website. At 35% cashback, they will get $48 for each purchase so the real cost to them is $78, leaving them with $22 profit. In the meantime you are making $20 clear profit on each sale. No manufacturing costs. An almost infinite supply of new product... I think it's a winner.
It was discovered today that newborn humans still grow teeth. Scientists are baffled because the human species developed the technology to build smoothie machines 3 generations ago.
If only we had a cheap way to create this "hydrocarbon" liquid. The ideal thing would be some kind of self-replicating nano-machines that run on solar energy.
Sorry but I completely disagree with you. And I slightly resent being told that I'm playing Nethack the wrong way. I've been playing since it was called Hack and I needed to use 2x5.25" floppies get in running on a HDD-less machine. I still haven't ascended, but I have got the AoY several times, and most importantly of all, I've had uncountable hours of fun. For me the best buzz is when I find myself in an apparently fatal situation but somehow I still manage to pull through. Sometimes this requires luck to be on my side, but life can be like that too. I've fallen through trapdoors into zoo rooms where I was certain I was toast but sometimes I somehow managed to escape. It's the richness of detail in the game that keeps me coming back, the engraving, the dipping, the praying, the polymorphing, the sacrificing, the taming, the stealing, the corpse eating, the attributes, the random maps, the unidentified objects, all those easter eggs, and lets not forget the tombstone. It's a different game every time.
To take your way of playing to an extreme, I could just record a macro of "left arrow, right arrow", find a suitable corridor on level 1 and run the macro for a month until I'm level eleventyfive. That sounds like more fun than sitting in front of the PC for a week playing conservatively.
I've tried a lot of modern MMOJOBs and I always get bored with them within a couple of months. But I know plenty of people that are happy to play the same raids, with the same groups, on the same night each week, over and over and over again. To each their own, but I'd like to suggest that if you don't appreciate Nethack, you are the one who is playing it wrong. Life is a journey, not a destination.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some gridbugs to squash.
We are all members of a single ring species that encompasses all of life on Earth. It's just that the ring is separated by time, rather than geography or physiology.
While I accept that a lot of people think that all life on Earth comes from a common ancestor, I personally think it's unlikely. Richard Dawkins explanation of the origins of life in The Selfish Gene and other books, leaves room for life to have started as a number of different replicating molecules which competed with each other. Since the Earth was not a homogenous environment, it's likely that there were many genesis events in a variety of different conditions. It's possible that bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes all arose from different genesis events. It's also possible that the parts of a eukaryote cell such as mitochondria were initially different organisms that formed a symbiotic relationship with each other. It's even possible that these organelles were also the descendants of discrete genesis events.
If you over-simplify an explanation, it can become contradictory when the subject is examined in more depth. Electrical engineers know this.
In terms of the animal kingdom, the concept of 'species' may easily be understood in terms of the concept of breeding. When two organisms cannot produce fertile offspring, they are separate species. This is a well defined barrier. A population does not become a new species overnight.
How do Ring Species fit into your understanding of the barriers between species?
Bzzzt! Wrong. Thanks for playing anyway.
There was no original debate on which path to take after the shuttle. The DIRECT design is a result of a grassroots movement which developed AFTER the Ares designs had been unveiled. During the intervening period the top brass have never entered into discussion with the DIRECT team.
Real engineers were appalled at the braindead decisions taken during the initial Ares design phase. Ares 1 is an impossible to implement design. Well maybe "impossible" is too strong a word to use but "impractical" just doesn't cover how bad it is. It's top-heavy, both in terms of mass and aerodynamic stability. It relies solely on a solid rocket for the first stage of it's ascent! WFT! No vectoring capability, no throttling capability and no evidence that the required extra segment can be produced using the existing shuttle support infrastructure. This thing is basically a dangerous bottle rocket and it's supposed to be man-rated!
Ares V isn't quite as bad as Ares 1, but that's only because they share very little in common. That's the other major booger hanging out of the Ares nose. Reuse of common elements would help to keep down costs, but it seems that no attempt has been made to do this.
tl;dr. You don't have a clue what you're talking about, but you'dlike people to believe you do. You're just a conservative that wants to keep the status quo. I didn't know W posted on slashdot.
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If this really works there might even be enough people around to eat all that surplus food that's available in 3rd world countries. Not to mention the water and energy surpluses that we've been trying to get rid of for decades. People even try to dispose of their excess water by flushing it down the toilets in some countries.
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Me too. For years I had a problem with my right hip. I went to a few GPs over the years and they never did anything that helped. After 3 visits to a chiropractor the pain stopped, and over the next few months and several more visits my overall strength improved by approx 50%. She told me I would have to keep coming back for treatments but I haven't been to see her in about 5 years and the problem hasn't come back.
Just my experience, I know it's not enough of a dataset to base any scientific study on.
You used to be able to buy an anti-theft device for cars in South Africa that used a flamethrower to "dissuade" the thief. It was legal but never succeeded commercially.
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I dunno if that project is still maintained though.
I got bored with fancy data visualisations a few years ago.
That's a lot of computing power to use just to get 4,000,000,000,000 0s and 4,000,000,000,000 1s.
If you take a look at this thread you might appreciate what I am talking about.
It's not just related to speed nerfs, blaster specialists have also been hit very hard, just so that the speed issue could be "re-balanced". There is a multitude of well though out suggestions in this thread which are superior to CCPs solution.
http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=831524
WARNING! it may take you a few days to read the 4275 comments.
Another 5406 comments on an unrelated issue can also be found here.
http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=896318
I include it as a demonstration of CCPs unwillingness to listen to player feedback. They seem to have forgotten that in a player-defined universe, the players opinions are as important as the developers.
I've no problem with being charged to play a game or avail of a service. I never said I did. What I object to is when I put in a lot of time (and money) to get something out of a game, and then the company running it decides that my skills are now useless. I'm speaking about T2 large blasters, it that makes my comments any clearer. Several months were spent training those skills, admittedly the last month of that was during my exams and my account was inactive at the time. I reactivated my account when my exams were over, mainly to play with the new toys that I had finally got and they will be nerfed to death with the new patch on Tuesday next week.
That is what I would call unreasonable.
Not trolling.
http://eve.coldfront.net/status/tranquility
I've been playing for 2 years, and loved playing it for most of that time. Recently there was a staff reshuffle and things have gone downhill since then. So-called "game re-balancing" is nerfing months of skill training in gunnery and speed modules to make it completely useless. That means 100 euros worth of subscription money paid for training which is worthless now. Players have tested the changes on the test server and given feedback to the new CCP dev team, but it was completely ignored.
On top of that insult, they have nerfed the old feature that allowed you to continue training 1 level in 1 skill when your account expired. Apparently they think it's unfair to them if people get any training for free! This change was made with 2 days notice and resulted in the largest discussion thread ever on the forums. Also completely ignored by the CCP dev team.
I'm still playing a bit at the moment because I like talking to the friends I've made in the game, but I'll be quitting when the current months subscription expires. It's not the same game it was when I started playing, server population has been declining for the last 6 months. I think it's going to die off in a few years.
Pity, it had so much potential.