As in, the infinite team of monkeys will soon have had enough time to allow the RIAA high command to copyright every possible work? This does not seem to be out of the question, at this rate.
Despite being offered by an AC, his point actually merits serious consideration. He's right -- we're slipping further and further back, and no right-thinking people actually do anything to counteract these terrible laws. Does nobody care?
Methane on Titan would flash-freeze you, since Titan's temperature is around 93.7 K (179.5 C), so AAAAAaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh is quite apt. Let's not forget that you'd have nothing to breathe, either.
As a fellow Zimbabwean, I agree with you 100%. Let's take out all the world's rotten despots one by one, and let's hope that Bob Mugabe is pretty high up on that list.
Do you know how far away South Africa is? Libya is well beyond the range of any of our planes. And we don't have any aircraft carriers. So, if SA were to get involved, it'd mean sending our warplanes on a multi-hop journey to one of the coalition air bases. Considering the logistical nightmare, and the very small resulting incremental improvement to coalition forces, it's really not worthwhile for SA to get involved.
As for the rest of the countries you mentioned, sure that'd be a great idea. (not sure Greece can afford it, though...)
So they should build the reactors like a submarine -- spot a tsunami coming, close the hatches. When the waters subside sufficiently, you can open up exhaust ports and inlet ports and whatnot, so you can run the backup generators. Seems to me to be the obvious solution.
Eh, you'd probably easily manage 100M just by eyeballing if you had a good sight, but with freaking expensive targeting sensors and horrendously accurate lenses and tracking mount... maybe the ISS? It'd come down to beam divergence.
Limited only by the time it spends travelling. 2,500,000 years would see it at Andromeda; over several billion years it'd reach the edge of the observable universe (as it is now, of course; when the universe is twice as old as it is now, the observable size of the universe will be double what it is now. (or 8x the volume))
But then again, in weapons terminology 'range' means 'useful range', i.e. you can make a sniper bullet travel 50km or more if you aim it at 45 degrees from vertical, but a practical effective range is probably in the 2km range. Therefore, the useful range of the laser is limited by how accurately you can aim it, and by the beam's divergence.
Depends on the wavelength. IR is absorbed quite strongly by glass, but a 1W blue laser will definitely be able to get through the glass and cut the string.
I'd like to know how humankind found that particular nugget of information. I can just picture the ad -- "wanted: volunteers for testing if our mega-powerful laser can pop your eyeballs". That'd work...
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As in, the infinite team of monkeys will soon have had enough time to allow the RIAA high command to copyright every possible work? This does not seem to be out of the question, at this rate.
Incorrect. You are now a criminal. This affects you.
It's not your fault, but it is your problem. The fault is crappy laws, your problem is you are now a criminal. Sucks to be human these days.
Despite being offered by an AC, his point actually merits serious consideration. He's right -- we're slipping further and further back, and no right-thinking people actually do anything to counteract these terrible laws. Does nobody care?
Thank you. Please mod parent up +5 Actually Useful In Contrast to the Original Poster
Er they're pulling the funding, hellooooo ? It'll be stopped soon enough.
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TL; DR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
Well, they recovered, but not without massive cost. Massive intervention (i.e. war) is the only thing that saved them.
Switzerland is landlocked and has some of the highest prices in the world. What kind of idiot mobster would pay you to build a boat for that purpose?!
This: fly UAV patterns in a grid over target area, plotting results into a map. Investigate anomalies.
Lies!!!
Yeah actually doc brown said "jiggawatts". Marty's got a point, what the hell IS a jiggawatt?
Methane on Titan would flash-freeze you, since Titan's temperature is around 93.7 K (179.5 C), so AAAAAaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh is quite apt. Let's not forget that you'd have nothing to breathe, either.
As a fellow Zimbabwean, I agree with you 100%. Let's take out all the world's rotten despots one by one, and let's hope that Bob Mugabe is pretty high up on that list.
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... South Africa ...
Do you know how far away South Africa is? Libya is well beyond the range of any of our planes. And we don't have any aircraft carriers. So, if SA were to get involved, it'd mean sending our warplanes on a multi-hop journey to one of the coalition air bases. Considering the logistical nightmare, and the very small resulting incremental improvement to coalition forces, it's really not worthwhile for SA to get involved.
As for the rest of the countries you mentioned, sure that'd be a great idea. (not sure Greece can afford it, though ...)
2 Lifesaver bottles. 6000 liter variety..
I'll bet. That's 12 tons of water alone ... my you're fit.
So they should build the reactors like a submarine -- spot a tsunami coming, close the hatches. When the waters subside sufficiently, you can open up exhaust ports and inlet ports and whatnot, so you can run the backup generators. Seems to me to be the obvious solution.
Probably the easiest/cheapest way is to build a simple site where students register and can then vote using a simple POST form.
I could extend this comment to two sentences, but to be honest that's all that needs to be said.
Reactors need copious amounts of water for cooling purposes, therefore they are usually located on the shore of a sea or lake.
Eh, you'd probably easily manage 100M just by eyeballing if you had a good sight, but with freaking expensive targeting sensors and horrendously accurate lenses and tracking mount ... maybe the ISS? It'd come down to beam divergence.
Limited only by the time it spends travelling. 2,500,000 years would see it at Andromeda; over several billion years it'd reach the edge of the observable universe (as it is now, of course; when the universe is twice as old as it is now, the observable size of the universe will be double what it is now. (or 8x the volume))
But then again, in weapons terminology 'range' means 'useful range', i.e. you can make a sniper bullet travel 50km or more if you aim it at 45 degrees from vertical, but a practical effective range is probably in the 2km range. Therefore, the useful range of the laser is limited by how accurately you can aim it, and by the beam's divergence.
Depends on the wavelength. IR is absorbed quite strongly by glass, but a 1W blue laser will definitely be able to get through the glass and cut the string.
I'd like to know how humankind found that particular nugget of information. I can just picture the ad -- "wanted: volunteers for testing if our mega-powerful laser can pop your eyeballs". That'd work...
Bollox. Next!
... or ultracapacitors ...