Are you NUTS? A full 3D course work for biology, MATH (did i say MATH, not LOUD ENOUGH!), geology, etc. would be awesome! You're quite the curmudgeon, and, I suppose, unaware that for some people, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Back in school I took a geology sequence, and one of the aids we used were these stereoscopic maps. 'Course you had to lay the maps flat, position a viewer over the top,& for some of the students it wouldn't work - but when it finally popped it could be quite useful, if one were viewing unvisited terrain. Also, just made the course more interesting, and full-bodied.
Yeah, over the years I've seen vaporplans for absurdly long rails; however, since the projectile pops out of the thickest parts of the atmosphere in just a few seconds, it seems to me that a sacrificial, ablative shield (like an attritive, onion skin) could possibly sink away the "frying" heat. Who knows, maybe the sheer pressures of the airflow would force the ablated vapors into a boundary layer around the rest of the craft, thus protecting it from friction, and possibly sponsoring a transient, superlaminar flow, reducing friction (I suppose I should have inserted a "Star Trek Jargon Alert" into this post earlier:^) ).
When it comes to money spent, NASA is still the Red Headed Step Child. But from my backyard view of the Multi-verse, humanity currently comprehends 3 curious methods to climb out of our gravity well. Rockets, Elevator, and Anti-Gravity. One works,(but NASA Administrators act like Edith Bunker and won't use Burt Rutan's solution set). The Elevator is still being developed, and looks to be serviceable, eventually, given humanities comprehension of applied Newtonian Mechanics. Anti-Gravity is still the High School Prom Royalty that can not see me for dirt. The first two are mechanically problematic; but the third one, oh the third one, is the one I still have thoughts for.
Don't forget mass-drivers/electromagnetic launchers. I am not a physicist, but it seems to me that EM launchers (of some sort) should be an area of more than passing interest, for both ground- and space-based launches. Oh yeah,$$...Forgot about that.
"... once it's on the Net it's about as easy to remove as crazy glue on the ass of a rhino."
Your sig is eerily prophetic, relative to this story. Maybe substitute out "Net" with "Government lists"? (BTW, my version is "Once it's in the Google aether, it never goes away").
I wonder if it's more resistant to the very butanol it produces? Some yeasts seem to have a higher tolerance for the stuff. It'll be interesting to see which, if any of these technologies take off, or if they all wind up becoming unintended vaportech.
Seriously, I couldn't tell you how much shit I've learned off of this site over the last 12 years or so! Weird shit,too! ; ) Anyhow,Good Luck on wherever your road of life leads you!
For some of us, $.99 for 12 albums - with the obligation to buy just one more during the following year (at a much higher price, of course). I wonder if, or how that model might fly today? Maybe 50 albums for 99c, & buy two more?
Our species is so shallow sometimes. I wonder if people named "Jesus" (Hey-Zeus) are more likely to become preachers, or if "Johns" are more likely to get hookers.
Not to mention people burning additional fossil fuels, to stave off the cold of the little ice age...brrr. Especially if they believe that GW is a sham.
"Buffer until your hard drive is almost out of memory is more like it haha"
(Ha! I got rid of cable a month ago, & haven't looked back!) Just last night I was playing a stream on VLC, & had to set my buffer to 60000 ms; but the annoyance of that & the occasional freeze are insignificant compared to: Saving well over a US$100/month; and reducing my tv time by half or more. I prepared for the coax umbilical cut by gathering a plethora of pd movies from archive.org, cultofuhf.com, etc, as well as making a large number of "dollar DVD" purchases (not all of them "used"!). I'm also lucky (?) enough to receive perfect reception from all of the local television stations. So far, I'm much happier* now than I was in the past, when I would drop cable for a year at a time - I guess I need some level of a/v entertainment... Honestly, I can't see any reason why I would get cable again-just hoping for a faster DSL connection!
Right about the Super 8 (we also had a Super 8 - with a zoom button!). In fact, to avoid being pedantic I'm going to take back the last sentence of my previous post; if someone last week had asked me what this camera produced, I would've said "Home...movies". But I understood the AC's pov: I tend to think of movies as something commercial, not me running around the yard with a Frito Bandito mustache on my face.
I hold in my lap, as I type this a wind-up, Kodak Brownie Movie Camera Model 2, 8mm. It advertises that it make "marvelous full-color movies...outdoors, indoors". Given the times (late fifties), that is simply sensationalistic advertising (much like today?). I would call it a motion film camera, and the device in this story a motion film projector, or something along those lines.
"Nope. Outer Space Treaty makes it impossible to recover the costs of exploration, since you're not allowed to actually claim anything up there as belonging to you. "
Unless it's a hotel/rec center, and you charge beau coup bucks to allow others to spend time in your facility.
Maybe he dripped water onto calcium carbide, burned the resultant acetylene gas, & the illuminati overreacted. Sounds like a good story for The Mythbusters.;)
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With this piece of law, you have to do it immediately (48 hours) and publish whatever the offended party send you to publish.
What if the offended party sends you something to publish which offends yet another party?
Resort to castor oil.
Are you NUTS? A full 3D course work for biology, MATH (did i say MATH, not LOUD ENOUGH!), geology, etc. would be awesome! You're quite the curmudgeon, and, I suppose, unaware that for some people, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Back in school I took a geology sequence, and one of the aids we used were these stereoscopic maps. 'Course you had to lay the maps flat, position a viewer over the top,& for some of the students it wouldn't work - but when it finally popped it could be quite useful, if one were viewing unvisited terrain. Also, just made the course more interesting, and full-bodied.
Yeah, over the years I've seen vaporplans for absurdly long rails; however, since the projectile pops out of the thickest parts of the atmosphere in just a few seconds, it seems to me that a sacrificial, ablative shield (like an attritive, onion skin) could possibly sink away the "frying" heat. Who knows, maybe the sheer pressures of the airflow would force the ablated vapors into a boundary layer around the rest of the craft, thus protecting it from friction, and possibly sponsoring a transient, superlaminar flow, reducing friction (I suppose I should have inserted a "Star Trek Jargon Alert" into this post earlier :^) ).
When it comes to money spent, NASA is still the Red Headed Step Child. But from my backyard view of the Multi-verse, humanity currently comprehends 3 curious methods to climb out of our gravity well. Rockets, Elevator, and Anti-Gravity. One works,(but NASA Administrators act like Edith Bunker and won't use Burt Rutan's solution set). The Elevator is still being developed, and looks to be serviceable, eventually, given humanities comprehension of applied Newtonian Mechanics. Anti-Gravity is still the High School Prom Royalty that can not see me for dirt. The first two are mechanically problematic; but the third one, oh the third one, is the one I still have thoughts for.
Don't forget mass-drivers/electromagnetic launchers. I am not a physicist, but it seems to me that EM launchers (of some sort) should be an area of more than passing interest, for both ground- and space-based launches. Oh yeah,$$...Forgot about that.
Your sig is eerily prophetic, relative to this story. Maybe substitute out "Net" with "Government lists"? (BTW, my version is "Once it's in the Google aether, it never goes away").
Meh - Let's just put everybody on the list; this way, we can be absolutely, 100% certain that we have all the bad people on the list. Efficiency.
I wonder if it's more resistant to the very butanol it produces? Some yeasts seem to have a higher tolerance for the stuff. It'll be interesting to see which, if any of these technologies take off, or if they all wind up becoming unintended vaportech.
Seriously, I couldn't tell you how much shit I've learned off of this site over the last 12 years or so! Weird shit,too! ; ) Anyhow,Good Luck on wherever your road of life leads you!
For some of us, $.99 for 12 albums - with the obligation to buy just one more during the following year (at a much higher price, of course). I wonder if, or how that model might fly today? Maybe 50 albums for 99c, & buy two more?
That's why I tended to use dogpile. Apparently, it's still going strong, though I haven't used it in 10years.
Our species is so shallow sometimes. I wonder if people named "Jesus" (Hey-Zeus) are more likely to become preachers, or if "Johns" are more likely to get hookers.
Meh, just cuss a few times, then you'll be good to go.
Not to mention people burning additional fossil fuels, to stave off the cold of the little ice age...brrr. Especially if they believe that GW is a sham.
Just imagine an astronaut floating inside one SSME bell - helps me to put in a size perspective!
Alpha the Ultimate Mutant works in mysterious ways.
MMM
(Ha! I got rid of cable a month ago, & haven't looked back!) Just last night I was playing a stream on VLC, & had to set my buffer to 60000 ms; but the annoyance of that & the occasional freeze are insignificant compared to: Saving well over a US$100/month; and reducing my tv time by half or more. I prepared for the coax umbilical cut by gathering a plethora of pd movies from archive.org, cultofuhf.com, etc, as well as making a large number of "dollar DVD" purchases (not all of them "used"!). I'm also lucky (?) enough to receive perfect reception from all of the local television stations. So far, I'm much happier* now than I was in the past, when I would drop cable for a year at a time - I guess I need some level of a/v entertainment... Honestly, I can't see any reason why I would get cable again-just hoping for a faster DSL connection!
*I feel freer somehow, can't put my finger on it.
Right about the Super 8 (we also had a Super 8 - with a zoom button!). In fact, to avoid being pedantic I'm going to take back the last sentence of my previous post; if someone last week had asked me what this camera produced, I would've said "Home...movies". But I understood the AC's pov: I tend to think of movies as something commercial, not me running around the yard with a Frito Bandito mustache on my face.
I hold in my lap, as I type this a wind-up, Kodak Brownie Movie Camera Model 2, 8mm. It advertises that it make "marvelous full-color movies...outdoors, indoors". Given the times (late fifties), that is simply sensationalistic advertising (much like today?). I would call it a motion film camera, and the device in this story a motion film projector, or something along those lines.
Heck with the news networks, comedy central predicted a shot in the head on South Park.
Unless it's a hotel/rec center, and you charge beau coup bucks to allow others to spend time in your facility.
Maybe he dripped water onto calcium carbide, burned the resultant acetylene gas, & the illuminati overreacted. Sounds like a good story for The Mythbusters. ;)
Film at elevenish on Hulu.
Sincerely, DOD (Roswell Div.).
Reed Richards is so obvious, he should be excluded from consideration. All others walk in his shadow. 'Nuff said.
What??? He nailed She-Hulk!!