The system code named DESCH (named for Joseph Desch, who led the secret WWII project which developed a decoder for the Nazi Enigma encrypted messages.) collects terabytes of raw data gathered by the USAF Gotcha's synthetic aperture radar equipped UAV's orbiting over an area of interest in a war zone.
The system images a 5km dia "city sized" view and processes the result into 3D image maps while recording to disk for review. The 400 Megapixel per second streaming images allow zooms into areas of interest, observation of minute changes and the ability to track personel and vehicals in the urban battle field.
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123165818/
Actually, The designation of "Air Force 1" is only used when the commander in chief (See President) is onboard. Otherwise it is refered to by it's tail number. Any aircraft flown by a branch of the US military can carry the designation of "1" when transporting the president. Hence the designation on the presidential helicopter as "Marine 1"...
There's a difference between skimming a posting and reading it.
If you actually read the post you would have understood that your described needs are not what I'm talking about. You want to build semiconductor manufacturing and I'm talking about earth movers. (I guess we need to come up with a new term for that.)
You need to walk before you run and we don't have an infrastructure to crawl yet. I don't want Von Neumann's machine. I want to start by moving rocks around.
There's no reason to lift the mass from one gravity well to another. The real challenge is to design a robotic device that can make useful stuff from Moon dust and rocks. You have lots of raw material and an abundance of sunshine to produce power. If you focus a large enough parabolic mirror at the dust you can melt it or at least sinter it into potentially useful parts. Make them precise enough and you can build a large device out of the parts. It gives new meaning to Stone Age Technology, "Fred Flintstone's Moon Buggy and Bulldozer Emporium!"
After you make the shapes, you need is to add a power source to make it move and assemble it. If you are impatient, you ship the power source from the earth to the moon. We need to think small and make it work. Then build bigger and bigger stuff there. Of course the next step will be to mine the moon for metal and other resources to make your stuff with.
We also need to adjust our sense of time. The devices don't need to operate at a rate of motion that appeals to the "short attention span" people of today. Design a mechanism that accomplishes the task by moving from place to place on nothing more than thermal expansion of the parts. Shade your crawler device with a movable sheet of Mylar mirror film to block the sun and the parts will shrink. Let the sun hit it and it expands. design it for this and you could make a zigzag shaped device that snakes across the surface without any power source (as we would define it) Don't think it will work? Those tar strips in the road are there for a reason. It's called thermal expansion, and it moves mountains on earth.
Be that as it may... it's a greater likelyhood that the home enthusiast has no PCB layout program to create the board either. A used Laser printer with many home hobbiest years of life left on it costs no more than a cheep inkjet printer. Much like the folks who complain that they don't have access to a magical fabrication machine (ala Star Trek Mater replicator), they also would have no way of programming it to produce anything original. Since making a copy of an existing item would probably be a violation of someones patent or copyright.
By the way, you can take your inkjetted PCB layout up to any Kinko's and get a conductive copy made for pennies.
since we are just holographic projections from a 2D image into a 3D existence. There is no "Where" and there is no "When" to adjust to. As previously discussed, the universe may be a hologram theory would support the concept that all our perceptions of space and time and motion are based on our interpretation of the hologram as we sense it. Since we construct sensors to detect what we perceive to be true how would we know otherwise.
There's no limit to what you can accomplish... if you don't demand credit.
Install your rack of servers in an upright freezer. Or use a commercial grocery store version with nice glass doors and flourescent lighting inside.
I've built systems in dorm/bar refrigerators I bought for $50 on Craigslist.com. You end up with a clean, dust free computer case that silences all that pesky cooling fan noise.
Remember: Put a lock on the door to keep your drunken roommate from emptying it out while looking for beer.
Do the math... I doubt your ultralight would ever make it to the necessary altitude.
12 Hours X 60 Minutes X 60 Seconds = 43,200 seconds to climb 100,000 feet...
Your plane would need to climb at greater than 2.31 feet per second to make it to 100,000ft in a 12 light cycle. Tough to do with a plane that flys at a walking pace.
Another idea could be to find a (non-obscene) picture that Goolge does not have the right to reproduce on the Internet (for instance, with an appropriate copyright).
Then you could be charged with "Making copyrighted material available for distribution"...
You'd freeze to death (Liquid hydrogen is at 20.27 K (423.17 F/252.87C) before you had a chance to asphyxiate (1 gallon H2 = 848 gallons of gaseous H2 or 114 cubic feet) and then were burned in the explosion (H2 ignites with 1/10th the energy needed to ignite gasoline)...
Have you filed the patent disclosure yet?
Sounds like a genetic engineering potential.
I'll give you the sales pitch.... "Sap away the heat!"
Sometimes the silliest ideas are marketable.
Ops... looks like someone is selling a mechanical version of it now. http://www.mkicorp.com/a-t-transpiration.asp
Volkswagon has a 285mpg car on their website... Although it's not available yet, I'd be interested in buying one.
http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/volkswagen-world/futures/1-litre-car
Anybody with info or a good design for a kit car version... I'd be interested in that too.
I also wonder why no one has done a peltier thermoelectric module built into the chip http://www.overclockers.com/tips45/ to transfer directly to a cooling system. (water block or finned heat sink) With today's 3D chip technology, you could even build your chip on a curved surface to mate to a coolant tube...
According to the article it can be attached to an actively networked pc allowing a search without rebooting, if this is true, they could access data in locations that they have do not have a search warrant for... right?
Since there is now a precedent established, (Captiol v Thomas ) Perhaps I should copyright my Social Security Number. Then, if my personal identification was lost by incompetent security procedures and as such "Made Available" for theft. I would be entitled to dammages...
IANAL... But what is actually copyrighted? The analog sound waves created by the artist as it was performed, or the digital recording of the same? Since the act of playing a digital recording requires a device be used to convert the copyrighted material from one form into another, doesn't the "Act" of playing the CD violate the copyright? (I won't even go into the electronic/mechanical conversion that takes place in the microphone/speaker.)
Also, there is an anti-skip feature in your CD player that stores the digital recording in a memory buffer to reduce the gaps caused mis-reads on playback. Does it violate the copyright?
Fair use could apply if you modified the stored signal to contain a running dialogue about how much you like or dislike the artist... just store it in such a way that you can selectively listen to it or not on the device you use to produce the sound waves.
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The system code named DESCH (named for Joseph Desch, who led the secret WWII project which developed a decoder for the Nazi Enigma encrypted messages.) collects terabytes of raw data gathered by the USAF Gotcha's synthetic aperture radar equipped UAV's orbiting over an area of interest in a war zone. The system images a 5km dia "city sized" view and processes the result into 3D image maps while recording to disk for review. The 400 Megapixel per second streaming images allow zooms into areas of interest, observation of minute changes and the ability to track personel and vehicals in the urban battle field. http://www.wpafb.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123165818/
Insert old joke about Engineering student who took the bike over the naked girl
Actually, The designation of "Air Force 1" is only used when the commander in chief (See President) is onboard. Otherwise it is refered to by it's tail number. Any aircraft flown by a branch of the US military can carry the designation of "1" when transporting the president. Hence the designation on the presidential helicopter as "Marine 1"...
There's a difference between skimming a posting and reading it. If you actually read the post you would have understood that your described needs are not what I'm talking about. You want to build semiconductor manufacturing and I'm talking about earth movers. (I guess we need to come up with a new term for that.) You need to walk before you run and we don't have an infrastructure to crawl yet. I don't want Von Neumann's machine. I want to start by moving rocks around.
There's no reason to lift the mass from one gravity well to another. The real challenge is to design a robotic device that can make useful stuff from Moon dust and rocks. You have lots of raw material and an abundance of sunshine to produce power. If you focus a large enough parabolic mirror at the dust you can melt it or at least sinter it into potentially useful parts. Make them precise enough and you can build a large device out of the parts. It gives new meaning to Stone Age Technology, "Fred Flintstone's Moon Buggy and Bulldozer Emporium!"
After you make the shapes, you need is to add a power source to make it move and assemble it. If you are impatient, you ship the power source from the earth to the moon. We need to think small and make it work. Then build bigger and bigger stuff there. Of course the next step will be to mine the moon for metal and other resources to make your stuff with.
We also need to adjust our sense of time. The devices don't need to operate at a rate of motion that appeals to the "short attention span" people of today. Design a mechanism that accomplishes the task by moving from place to place on nothing more than thermal expansion of the parts. Shade your crawler device with a movable sheet of Mylar mirror film to block the sun and the parts will shrink. Let the sun hit it and it expands. design it for this and you could make a zigzag shaped device that snakes across the surface without any power source (as we would define it) Don't think it will work? Those tar strips in the road are there for a reason. It's called thermal expansion, and it moves mountains on earth.
Be that as it may... it's a greater likelyhood that the home enthusiast has no PCB layout program to create the board either. A used Laser printer with many home hobbiest years of life left on it costs no more than a cheep inkjet printer. Much like the folks who complain that they don't have access to a magical fabrication machine (ala Star Trek Mater replicator), they also would have no way of programming it to produce anything original. Since making a copy of an existing item would probably be a violation of someones patent or copyright.
By the way, you can take your inkjetted PCB layout up to any Kinko's and get a conductive copy made for pennies.
Uhh... It's called a Laser printer dude.
Toner is just carbon black with fusable binders in it. It's been possible to print and copy circuit boards for decades.
You gotta move beyond the inkjet technology and spread your wings and fly.
since we are just holographic projections from a 2D image into a 3D existence. There is no "Where" and there is no "When" to adjust to. As previously discussed, the universe may be a hologram theory would support the concept that all our perceptions of space and time and motion are based on our interpretation of the hologram as we sense it. Since we construct sensors to detect what we perceive to be true how would we know otherwise. There's no limit to what you can accomplish... if you don't demand credit.
Also at the show were examples of Samsungs prototype transparent OLED screens. It offers another way to "put yourself in the picture" http://www.oled-info.com/files/images/Samsung_Transparent_OLED_Ces_2009.jpg and http://www.oled-info.com/files/images/Samsung_Transparent_OLED_Ces_2009_2.jpg
Install your rack of servers in an upright freezer. Or use a commercial grocery store version with nice glass doors and flourescent lighting inside. I've built systems in dorm/bar refrigerators I bought for $50 on Craigslist.com. You end up with a clean, dust free computer case that silences all that pesky cooling fan noise. Remember: Put a lock on the door to keep your drunken roommate from emptying it out while looking for beer.
Do the math... I doubt your ultralight would ever make it to the necessary altitude. 12 Hours X 60 Minutes X 60 Seconds = 43,200 seconds to climb 100,000 feet... Your plane would need to climb at greater than 2.31 feet per second to make it to 100,000ft in a 12 light cycle. Tough to do with a plane that flys at a walking pace.
"Law enforcement experts say that homemade subs are becoming ever more sophisticated..." http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico17-2008jul17,0,9344.story
Cool Photos and Everything! http://www.oobject.com/category/drug-smuggling-submarines/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_keyhole
I don't know, but here's one by way of StereoLithography http://emsh.calarts.edu/~mathart/sw/klein/Klein.html
Sorry, links are fixed here: If you are really interested in the technology of rapid prototyping and would like to learn more, goto: http://www.prototypemagazine.com/ And Yes it's possible to build a "Klien Bottle" http://emsh.calarts.edu/~mathart/sw/klein/Klein.html Full color parts and moving assemblies, http://www.zcorp.com/Solutions/Rapid-Prototypes---CAD/spage.aspx, Transparent, Opaque, Elastomeric, Rigid, Plastic, Metal, Ceramic, Wax... Allare available as a service from a prototype house somewhere in your area. http://wohlersassociates.com/service-providers.html All you need is a good solid or surface model to work from. I spent 14 years in the RP business, just about anything is possible, it just costs $$$.
If you are really interested in the technology of rapid prototyping and would like to learn more, goto: http://www.prototypemagazine.com/ And Yes it's possible to build a "Klien Bottle" http://emsh.calarts.edu/~mathart/sw/klein/Klein.html/ Full color parts and moving assemblies, http://www.zcorp.com/Solutions/Rapid-Prototypes---CAD/spage.aspx/, Transparent, Opaque, Elastomeric, Rigid, Plastic, Metal, Ceramic, Wax... Allare available as a service from a prototype house somewhere in your area. http://wohlersassociates.com/service-providers.html/ All you need is a good solid or surface model to work from. I spent 14 years in the RP business, just about anything is possible, it just costs $$$.
Then you could be charged with "Making copyrighted material available for distribution"...
You'd freeze to death (Liquid hydrogen is at 20.27 K (423.17 F/252.87C) before you had a chance to asphyxiate (1 gallon H2 = 848 gallons of gaseous H2 or 114 cubic feet) and then were burned in the explosion (H2 ignites with 1/10th the energy needed to ignite gasoline)...
Have you filed the patent disclosure yet? Sounds like a genetic engineering potential. I'll give you the sales pitch.... "Sap away the heat!" Sometimes the silliest ideas are marketable. Ops... looks like someone is selling a mechanical version of it now. http://www.mkicorp.com/a-t-transpiration.asp
Volkswagon has a 285mpg car on their website... Although it's not available yet, I'd be interested in buying one. http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/volkswagen-world/futures/1-litre-car Anybody with info or a good design for a kit car version... I'd be interested in that too.
I also wonder why no one has done a peltier thermoelectric module built into the chip http://www.overclockers.com/tips45/ to transfer directly to a cooling system. (water block or finned heat sink) With today's 3D chip technology, you could even build your chip on a curved surface to mate to a coolant tube...
According to the article it can be attached to an actively networked pc allowing a search without rebooting, if this is true, they could access data in locations that they have do not have a search warrant for... right?
That would be the Chinese who control the weather... http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20463/ not Google.
Since there is now a precedent established, (Captiol v Thomas ) Perhaps I should copyright my Social Security Number. Then, if my personal identification was lost by incompetent security procedures and as such "Made Available" for theft. I would be entitled to dammages...
IANAL... But what is actually copyrighted? The analog sound waves created by the artist as it was performed, or the digital recording of the same? Since the act of playing a digital recording requires a device be used to convert the copyrighted material from one form into another, doesn't the "Act" of playing the CD violate the copyright? (I won't even go into the electronic/mechanical conversion that takes place in the microphone/speaker.) Also, there is an anti-skip feature in your CD player that stores the digital recording in a memory buffer to reduce the gaps caused mis-reads on playback. Does it violate the copyright? Fair use could apply if you modified the stored signal to contain a running dialogue about how much you like or dislike the artist... just store it in such a way that you can selectively listen to it or not on the device you use to produce the sound waves.