hey man, if i could get a lcd shutter flip down for my prescription glasses, id be pretty much there already. well, that and head tracking, so the point of view on the screen could change with my eye location. though i wonder why there not doing head tracking now, with the kinect or something.
you ignore the essential difference between animals and crops, the animal pretty much poops most of the nutrients back onto the soil, but the crop depletes the land of nutrients, which need to be replenished. its not about the amount of land used, its about the amount of nutrients you remove from the soil per calorie. and you also ignore the fact that meat is nessecary to a healthy diet, no matter what vegans say.
GO HARVEY GO HARVEY NORMAN GO! yeah. that shit is permanently emblazoned on my brain. fuck harvey norman, fuck gerry harvey, fuck their exorbitant markups, and dont let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
change weight! wow! its almost as if your listing all the things that people can change, that a authoritarian government dosent really particularly care about, in the hopes that people will ignore the lack of choice in things that actully really matter. its kinda like being able to choose what color you want to paint the wall of your prison cell.
the keyboard and mouse combo are inherently better for fps, as the mouse position is a direct translation to shooting direction. the gamepad analog stick position is a direct translation of how fast the crosshairs are moving to who you want to shoot, which is much slower.
hey man, dont diss on julia gillard just because tony abbott isnt competent enough to negotiate forming a minority government with notionally conservative independents. and if you wanna talk about brownnosing, perhaps we should talk about john howard and his love affair with dubya.
it sounds like you want the public to lift the steers tail and not see a shit stained asshole, for you dont know what they will do in distress at such a sight! But the alternative is to block up the asshole. and then eventully, the cow explodes and everyones covered in shit.
and here i thought journalism was a good part about reporting facts, free of interpretation or analysis. indeed thats pretty much the definition of the 'news'. you seem to think that the more raw the data, the less that makes wikileaks 'journalism'. i contend that it makes it more so. According to you, its not enough for someone to make information public to be considered a journalist. they need to do some interpretive dance too. Fortunately, you dont get to define what a journalist is. nor do you get to determine what information they are 'allowed' to report. if you did, i presume your definition of journalist would grow as skinny as your definition of secret would grow fat.
the entire first stage of the saturn v rocket got the rocket to about mach 7 before it dropped off. and it was about 2000 of the 3000 tonnes of the fully fuelled saturn v. the point is, any launch assist also gets rid of the weight of fuel you have to accelerate along with the payload, which pretty much squares any benefits in terms of payload and energy expenditure.
the angle of the track is not really a problem. you bore a tunnel straight down, or at a angle, to get the desired angle. this also allows you to have a track a few kilometers long. and you dont rely on the track to provide all the acceleration. the launch assist from such a track would be enough for a practical, reusable, single stage rocket with a reasonable amount of payload.
the US government feels the need to xray my junk every time i get on a airplane. so im trying really hard to give a crap about 'responsible disclosure', whatever the hell that means, but frankly a little bringing down to our level the privileged opaqueness of their operations is long overdue IMHO.
reckless spending? youve been listening to Baillieu and Abbot a bit too much methinks. there like fucking parrots with that phrase. meanwhile the economys steaming along and the dollar is at parity with the us dollar.
well actully, the high maintainence costs of the shuttle were due to everything *needing* to be quadruple checked because there wasnt a effective crew escape system, like you had on the saturn rockets. and the engines that were machined to such fine tolerances that they needed to be pretty much pulled apart and inspected for cracks after every mission. and the enormous shuttle heat shield, with tens of thousands of tiles that had to be individually inspected.
project orion wasnt really a good idea. what you really need is something more like NERVA for the upper stage, or some sort of nuclear reactor powered ion engine. like a scaled up VASIMR for in space travel.
yeah theres nothing else that could possibly power them. like nuclear batteries, small nuclear reactors, sending electricity along the carbon nanotube cable itself, etc etc. indeed, 7000km is the effective maximum range for *cost effective* electrical cable transmission. along regular metal.
what is really needed is a laser powered rocket. you shine the lasers on a heat exchanger on the rocket, through which hydrogen is pumped, and the superheated hydrogen is blasted out the back. i believe it has the specific impulse for a single stage to orbit vehicle
riiiight. direct transfer of electricity over a short, thick cable from a trickle charged bank of capacitors at the station where you would fill this thing up is gonna be damn near 100% efficient transfer. how bout you keep your feelings to yourself.
you are of course wilfully ignorant of the fact that while your car effectively makes about 60kg of fuel dissappear every other week, a lithium polymer battery is only about a couple hundered kilograms of recyclable lithium. once. over the entire life of that car and all the cars the recycled lithium will go into after that. and electricity is a hell of a lot easier to transmit than hydrogen,
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hey man, if i could get a lcd shutter flip down for my prescription glasses, id be pretty much there already. well, that and head tracking, so the point of view on the screen could change with my eye location. though i wonder why there not doing head tracking now, with the kinect or something.
low energy, high power, this sort of thing is ideally suited to regenerative braking.
you ignore the essential difference between animals and crops, the animal pretty much poops most of the nutrients back onto the soil, but the crop depletes the land of nutrients, which need to be replenished. its not about the amount of land used, its about the amount of nutrients you remove from the soil per calorie. and you also ignore the fact that meat is nessecary to a healthy diet, no matter what vegans say.
wow anecdotal evidence! thats the best kind! please tell us more while contributing nothing significant to the thread!
GO HARVEY GO HARVEY NORMAN GO! yeah. that shit is permanently emblazoned on my brain. fuck harvey norman, fuck gerry harvey, fuck their exorbitant markups, and dont let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
yeah. bend over baby. its just so easy, why not do it.
change weight! wow! its almost as if your listing all the things that people can change, that a authoritarian government dosent really particularly care about, in the hopes that people will ignore the lack of choice in things that actully really matter. its kinda like being able to choose what color you want to paint the wall of your prison cell.
the keyboard and mouse combo are inherently better for fps, as the mouse position is a direct translation to shooting direction. the gamepad analog stick position is a direct translation of how fast the crosshairs are moving to who you want to shoot, which is much slower.
hey man, dont diss on julia gillard just because tony abbott isnt competent enough to negotiate forming a minority government with notionally conservative independents. and if you wanna talk about brownnosing, perhaps we should talk about john howard and his love affair with dubya.
it sounds like you want the public to lift the steers tail and not see a shit stained asshole, for you dont know what they will do in distress at such a sight! But the alternative is to block up the asshole. and then eventully, the cow explodes and everyones covered in shit.
and here i thought journalism was a good part about reporting facts, free of interpretation or analysis. indeed thats pretty much the definition of the 'news'. you seem to think that the more raw the data, the less that makes wikileaks 'journalism'. i contend that it makes it more so. According to you, its not enough for someone to make information public to be considered a journalist. they need to do some interpretive dance too. Fortunately, you dont get to define what a journalist is. nor do you get to determine what information they are 'allowed' to report. if you did, i presume your definition of journalist would grow as skinny as your definition of secret would grow fat.
the entire first stage of the saturn v rocket got the rocket to about mach 7 before it dropped off. and it was about 2000 of the 3000 tonnes of the fully fuelled saturn v. the point is, any launch assist also gets rid of the weight of fuel you have to accelerate along with the payload, which pretty much squares any benefits in terms of payload and energy expenditure.
the angle of the track is not really a problem. you bore a tunnel straight down, or at a angle, to get the desired angle. this also allows you to have a track a few kilometers long. and you dont rely on the track to provide all the acceleration. the launch assist from such a track would be enough for a practical, reusable, single stage rocket with a reasonable amount of payload.
the US government feels the need to xray my junk every time i get on a airplane. so im trying really hard to give a crap about 'responsible disclosure', whatever the hell that means, but frankly a little bringing down to our level the privileged opaqueness of their operations is long overdue IMHO.
your utter lack of comprehension of grammar is making my eyes bleed.
reckless spending? youve been listening to Baillieu and Abbot a bit too much methinks. there like fucking parrots with that phrase. meanwhile the economys steaming along and the dollar is at parity with the us dollar.
a apple a day. im gonna go sit in the corner now.
well actully, the high maintainence costs of the shuttle were due to everything *needing* to be quadruple checked because there wasnt a effective crew escape system, like you had on the saturn rockets. and the engines that were machined to such fine tolerances that they needed to be pretty much pulled apart and inspected for cracks after every mission. and the enormous shuttle heat shield, with tens of thousands of tiles that had to be individually inspected.
project orion wasnt really a good idea. what you really need is something more like NERVA for the upper stage, or some sort of nuclear reactor powered ion engine. like a scaled up VASIMR for in space travel.
yeah theres nothing else that could possibly power them. like nuclear batteries, small nuclear reactors, sending electricity along the carbon nanotube cable itself, etc etc. indeed, 7000km is the effective maximum range for *cost effective* electrical cable transmission. along regular metal.
what is really needed is a laser powered rocket. you shine the lasers on a heat exchanger on the rocket, through which hydrogen is pumped, and the superheated hydrogen is blasted out the back. i believe it has the specific impulse for a single stage to orbit vehicle
if its a battery technology, you can assume that the efficiency from plug to battery to electric motor to wheel is gonna be around 80%.
if only there was some sort of 'place' where you could go to 'fuel' your car for 6 minutes while its 'stationary'. like some sort of 'fuel station'
riiiight. direct transfer of electricity over a short, thick cable from a trickle charged bank of capacitors at the station where you would fill this thing up is gonna be damn near 100% efficient transfer. how bout you keep your feelings to yourself.
you are of course wilfully ignorant of the fact that while your car effectively makes about 60kg of fuel dissappear every other week, a lithium polymer battery is only about a couple hundered kilograms of recyclable lithium. once. over the entire life of that car and all the cars the recycled lithium will go into after that. and electricity is a hell of a lot easier to transmit than hydrogen,