Haha. Well, now they know that nerds are not only crappy team players despite being good at problem solving, they also don't lie.
Honestly, I can't see why they even considered hiring someone who isn't good at being in a team. Everyone knows thats essential in the workplace these days and is usually easy to spot those questions and answer them correctly.
No, what he's describing is the centripetal force, and that is not gravity. Sure, it's moving in a straight line, but that line forces the cable up from the earth. That is the force that acts as correction.
The thing with space elevators is that they can be built on any body in space. Its a silly idea for earth, but for Mars its theoretically possible, for the moon it might be practically possible for a high cost, and for some asteroid, it might be better than rockets even if its built for only one take-off.
So while it's usually presented as a crack pot vision, it's not at all worthless to do research into this field. It will without a doubt have some application, what that application might be depends on how effective we can make this stuff.
Hmm, I can't see anyone pointing out the obvious thing here:
Amazon has sold a lot because their stuff happens to be really cheap right now, which it is because amazon is not trying to make a profit. They're just trying to get rid of the stuff they have already bought. I bet they've take a huge loss, but will argue that thats better than being stuck with a lot of stuff you can't sell.
Oh come on! This "American't"-attitude always amazes me when it comes to rail.
The washington-new york area is THE metropolitan area of the world! I don't know what the population density is in that corridor, but its way above the average of most european countries and it has a population of something like 30 million people with very high incomes, thats like a large western european country right there. Yet your rail sysmtem there is utter crap. Its identical to the rail system Sweden uses between its two largest cities, that system serves something like 3 million people and a region with much lower pop density.
So don't tell me america isn't made for rail. No one's talking about building high speed rail in north dakota. We're talking about building decent rail in the most populous regions of the earth.
As a side note, I don't think passenger rail is truly profitable in any country, atleast not when you consider the costs of actually building the rail needed.
But in europe and other places where passenger rail is popular, the government supports its use in various ways because for the community as whole, rail is cheaper than cars. Its just very difficult for "railroad service providers" (better word for that, please?) to actually capitalize on the full service provided. The service is so much more than providing trips to customers, it has much more to do with shaping the city into something cheaper and more efficient.
With that said, I don't see what amtraks profitability has to do with anything. It's government owned, and the advantage of that is that it doesn't HAVE to make a profit. Sure, the people working at amtrak should obviously strive for profit, but I don't see why the profitability of amtrak should dictate when to expand passenger rail in America.
What you need to realize that all the energy humans produce is completely and utterly insignificant to the amount of energy the sun brings to the earth. Now, the thing with global warming and all that is that CO2 captures a very slight percentage of the energy from the sun, and that tiny percentage is also huge compared to all the energy humans produce. Even though it's huge, it only has a slight impact on global temperatures.
The solar panels in space would, in turn, amount to only a tiny fraction of the energy we produce, and as such, the heating from them could not even be compared to the heating that CO2 makes. It would not have any measurable effect on global temperatures.
Obviously, this is just an experiment, but to get some perspective, how much drag does ISS experience?
From wikipedia: "Assuming expected ion boosting efficiently of 80%, at low end of the throttle VX-200 will be capable of producing 9.24 N of thrust (at an Isp of 3,000 seconds) and in high efficiency mode it can be expected to produce less than 1 N of thrust (at 30,000 s)."
Would that be in the same magnitude as the drag? If so, could this be used for altitude control?
Sure that is a multiplayer feature, but it still doesn't really give players a reason to play online since there is a program out there that easily exchangeds bones files between players on different computers.
Uh, sex is only half the equation here... Killing humans who have a very different set of genes from your own works too. It increases the "weight" of your genes in the human genome, thus bringing long term evolution.
Like it or not, the killing of jews during world war II has changed the human species. Some genes are much more rare now than they used to be, not that I (or anyone) know what those genes might be. Perhaps the nuclear attacks in japan killed enough closely related people to give that effect as well, I don't know.
A world with 7 billion people in which you can kill 7 million people in one strike is the same as a world with 1000 people in which you can only kill one human with one strike. With that in mind, I think there's a good chance evolution is happening very fast right now.
And it is a lame argument. He's trying to tie peoples opinions in one issue to their opinions in a completely unrelated issue.
Iraq has nothing to do with New Orleans. Nothing. You don't have to choose between Iraq and New Orleans, you could just drop both of them and let the average american keep some more of his money.
So if New Orleans is so great......why do you want it to be destroyed every now and then? Is the history and traditions tied to living below sealevel? Do people in New Orleans have to live in a dangerous spot to feel proud?
To put it simply: That is not a big problem, there are many ways around it. The big problem, I would say, is that refrigeration requires energy which is in short supply for laptops. Whats even worse is that refrigeration allows the computer itself to consume more energy, which creates a circle that just isnt sustainable.
This basic idea has been around for ages, and it has never been put to use simply because it creates more problems than it solves. Do we really need more CPU power in laptops? Is that really what we need from them? No, improved human interface devices, uptime and bandwidth are more important goals.
Well, it hasn't been great for consumers, but for producers, it was THE thing to make printers a standard household product.
So maybe we won't se a total industry standard, but so what? Ok, you have to refuel at the gas stations designated by your manufacturer, and you have to pay a rediculously high price for something as cheap as electricity. But if this works for manufacturers, atleast plug-ins would be common because it would be in the manufacturers interest to make them common.
Well, the average human life spans in the western world increases 3 months every year. It's beeen like that for 40 years, and close that for over 100 years. The idea that this increse would level out is simply a guess, it has no support in the statistics.
But maybe you are thinking about individuals? That would be harder to prove...
Wow, how observant of you. In that case, oil and coal aren't used up when we burn them. Its still there. Bound to oxygen, sure, but they can be recycled. Simple as that, nothing else to consider.
There might be asteroids out there with insane cocentrations of some rare metal, but it might also be that the concentrations never get much greater than what can be found on earth, and in that case, asteroid mining might never really take off.
So it depends on wether someone will go out and look at asteroids. Now, the potential profits for someone who does this are huge with or without increasing prices for some rare metals, so I don't think thats the actual issue. The problem is that human experience with space flight isnt at the level where we can give investors any reasonable estimate on how good the chances are for a prospecting mission in space. That stuff prevents private inititative.
So no, I don't think this will actually bring us asteriod mining sooner.
Hah, copper is always in risk of theft, even before the current metal boom. Whats interesting is that even steel is worth stealing now. Here in sweden, a few km of railroad was stolen in broad daylight recently.
I don't think he qualifies as a bad boy, mostly because he sounds a lot like me.
If he was like me, I think the thing was that he cared more for attention than he did for love and sex. That's not to say he was insecure or anything like that, I'ts just that some people like being a bit like rockstars, being watched by everyone.
So I think you may be wrong here, it might very well have been that he did not really try to get any girls, and that's why he failed so often. He just wanted to flirt with as many as possible and make their boyfriends mad because that gave him the attention he craved for.
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Haha. Well, now they know that nerds are not only crappy team players despite being good at problem solving, they also don't lie.
Honestly, I can't see why they even considered hiring someone who isn't good at being in a team. Everyone knows thats essential in the workplace these days and is usually easy to spot those questions and answer them correctly.
No, what he's describing is the centripetal force, and that is not gravity. Sure, it's moving in a straight line, but that line forces the cable up from the earth. That is the force that acts as correction.
The thing with space elevators is that they can be built on any body in space. Its a silly idea for earth, but for Mars its theoretically possible, for the moon it might be practically possible for a high cost, and for some asteroid, it might be better than rockets even if its built for only one take-off.
So while it's usually presented as a crack pot vision, it's not at all worthless to do research into this field. It will without a doubt have some application, what that application might be depends on how effective we can make this stuff.
Uh...
Yeah, if it increases global temperatures, it's part of global warming. If it doesn't, it's not. There's not much to consider here.
Hmm, I can't see anyone pointing out the obvious thing here:
Amazon has sold a lot because their stuff happens to be really cheap right now, which it is because amazon is not trying to make a profit. They're just trying to get rid of the stuff they have already bought. I bet they've take a huge loss, but will argue that thats better than being stuck with a lot of stuff you can't sell.
Oh come on! This "American't"-attitude always amazes me when it comes to rail.
The washington-new york area is THE metropolitan area of the world! I don't know what the population density is in that corridor, but its way above the average of most european countries and it has a population of something like 30 million people with very high incomes, thats like a large western european country right there. Yet your rail sysmtem there is utter crap. Its identical to the rail system Sweden uses between its two largest cities, that system serves something like 3 million people and a region with much lower pop density.
So don't tell me america isn't made for rail. No one's talking about building high speed rail in north dakota. We're talking about building decent rail in the most populous regions of the earth.
As a side note, I don't think passenger rail is truly profitable in any country, atleast not when you consider the costs of actually building the rail needed.
But in europe and other places where passenger rail is popular, the government supports its use in various ways because for the community as whole, rail is cheaper than cars. Its just very difficult for "railroad service providers" (better word for that, please?) to actually capitalize on the full service provided. The service is so much more than providing trips to customers, it has much more to do with shaping the city into something cheaper and more efficient.
With that said, I don't see what amtraks profitability has to do with anything. It's government owned, and the advantage of that is that it doesn't HAVE to make a profit. Sure, the people working at amtrak should obviously strive for profit, but I don't see why the profitability of amtrak should dictate when to expand passenger rail in America.
Yeah, you're missing something.
What you need to realize that all the energy humans produce is completely and utterly insignificant to the amount of energy the sun brings to the earth. Now, the thing with global warming and all that is that CO2 captures a very slight percentage of the energy from the sun, and that tiny percentage is also huge compared to all the energy humans produce. Even though it's huge, it only has a slight impact on global temperatures.
The solar panels in space would, in turn, amount to only a tiny fraction of the energy we produce, and as such, the heating from them could not even be compared to the heating that CO2 makes. It would not have any measurable effect on global temperatures.
Obviously, this is just an experiment, but to get some perspective, how much drag does ISS experience?
From wikipedia:
"Assuming expected ion boosting efficiently of 80%, at low end of the throttle VX-200 will be capable of producing 9.24 N of thrust (at an Isp of 3,000 seconds) and in high efficiency mode it can be expected to produce less than 1 N of thrust (at 30,000 s)."
Would that be in the same magnitude as the drag? If so, could this be used for altitude control?
Sure that is a multiplayer feature, but it still doesn't really give players a reason to play online since there is a program out there that easily exchangeds bones files between players on different computers.
Uh, sex is only half the equation here... Killing humans who have a very different set of genes from your own works too. It increases the "weight" of your genes in the human genome, thus bringing long term evolution.
Like it or not, the killing of jews during world war II has changed the human species. Some genes are much more rare now than they used to be, not that I (or anyone) know what those genes might be. Perhaps the nuclear attacks in japan killed enough closely related people to give that effect as well, I don't know.
A world with 7 billion people in which you can kill 7 million people in one strike is the same as a world with 1000 people in which you can only kill one human with one strike. With that in mind, I think there's a good chance evolution is happening very fast right now.
But seriously, what about space suits? They allow people to survive in absolute 0. Why can't they be used?
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The point is, its not a rock.
Romans and middle ages-people didn't die? Oh, I see... Gotta admit, thats news to me.
And it is a lame argument. He's trying to tie peoples opinions in one issue to their opinions in a completely unrelated issue.
Iraq has nothing to do with New Orleans. Nothing. You don't have to choose between Iraq and New Orleans, you could just drop both of them and let the average american keep some more of his money.
So if New Orleans is so great... ...why do you want it to be destroyed every now and then? Is the history and traditions tied to living below sealevel? Do people in New Orleans have to live in a dangerous spot to feel proud?
Because rocket fuel is made of two parts, and the other part is obviously very rare in this case.
Ordinary oxygen is also rocket fuel, yet the earth doesnt look like a fireball.
To put it simply: That is not a big problem, there are many ways around it. The big problem, I would say, is that refrigeration requires energy which is in short supply for laptops. Whats even worse is that refrigeration allows the computer itself to consume more energy, which creates a circle that just isnt sustainable.
This basic idea has been around for ages, and it has never been put to use simply because it creates more problems than it solves. Do we really need more CPU power in laptops? Is that really what we need from them? No, improved human interface devices, uptime and bandwidth are more important goals.
Well, it hasn't been great for consumers, but for producers, it was THE thing to make printers a standard household product.
So maybe we won't se a total industry standard, but so what? Ok, you have to refuel at the gas stations designated by your manufacturer, and you have to pay a rediculously high price for something as cheap as electricity. But if this works for manufacturers, atleast plug-ins would be common because it would be in the manufacturers interest to make them common.
Well, the average human life spans in the western world increases 3 months every year. It's beeen like that for 40 years, and close that for over 100 years. The idea that this increse would level out is simply a guess, it has no support in the statistics.
But maybe you are thinking about individuals? That would be harder to prove...
Wow, how observant of you. In that case, oil and coal aren't used up when we burn them. Its still there. Bound to oxygen, sure, but they can be recycled. Simple as that, nothing else to consider.
There might be asteroids out there with insane cocentrations of some rare metal, but it might also be that the concentrations never get much greater than what can be found on earth, and in that case, asteroid mining might never really take off.
So it depends on wether someone will go out and look at asteroids. Now, the potential profits for someone who does this are huge with or without increasing prices for some rare metals, so I don't think thats the actual issue. The problem is that human experience with space flight isnt at the level where we can give investors any reasonable estimate on how good the chances are for a prospecting mission in space. That stuff prevents private inititative.
So no, I don't think this will actually bring us asteriod mining sooner.
Hah, copper is always in risk of theft, even before the current metal boom. Whats interesting is that even steel is worth stealing now. Here in sweden, a few km of railroad was stolen in broad daylight recently.
Damn, failed on the last point.
I don't think he qualifies as a bad boy, mostly because he sounds a lot like me.
If he was like me, I think the thing was that he cared more for attention than he did for love and sex. That's not to say he was insecure or anything like that, I'ts just that some people like being a bit like rockstars, being watched by everyone.
So I think you may be wrong here, it might very well have been that he did not really try to get any girls, and that's why he failed so often. He just wanted to flirt with as many as possible and make their boyfriends mad because that gave him the attention he craved for.