is to fool our brains into thinking the lights not bright so we can continue to use them(melatonin supplements should do the trick). Also, n sample size = 1.
Well if I recall correctly the military tried doing something like this(sans gene therapy) with fighter pilots during WWII. There was a research project to administer fighter pilots a chemical that would make their eyes sensitive to infrared light(night vision infrared not thermal infrared) so they would be better adapted to fighting at night. I don't think much became of it though.
Now the only problem with doing this with gene therapy is the effects would be permanent.
Why don't they try doing something that'd be more useful like sending a robot capable of mining regolith, scrapping ice off of rocks and collecting it(if they find it), or at the very least capable of moving dirt around? IE do stuff that needs to be done if we want to live there.
Perhaps he's trying to get people to inadvertantly sequester carbon by using more paper and throwing it away, because if it gets buried deep enough it's effectively getting sequestered. We might even be able to enhance the process by treating the paper with chemicals so stuff can't eat it. Though annual paper production is only 1%(by mass not by amount of carbon) of the CO2 emmissions of the United States, so it probably won't have much of an impact.
So the question is, is it possible to request data on ANY publicly funded research going on in the UK?
What about research on SILEX(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silex_Process), a laser based uranium enrichment process that is much more efficient than other enrichment processes(currently very very classified) or military research?
Thermodynamically it's probably close to the same efficiency you'd get if you burned the corn, muscle is about as efficient as a gasoline engine on a per weight basis when you take conversion of food into ATP into account. However, unlike an engine, prime mover(moover?) ends up being edible so you don't have the problem of "burning food for fuel" that your corn burning engine would have.
because what's not cool about having a sensor in my phone capable of detecting many different chemicals that I can opt out on not sending data to the government? Given that there was a recent fluorine leak on my campus(no one was hurt or injured, though someone did gain the nickname of fluorine boy), these might be useful.
Also, given that the chips will cost next to nothing and will be produced in high quantities, they could become as ubiquitous as accelerometers are today. Just imagine all the cool things hardware hackers could do with them.
But the most interesting effect these could have is stricter environmental restrictions. Something like "Opt-in cellphone data shows that pesticide levels are higher than we initial thought in homes" or "people who were around this brand of housepaint were more likely to develop cancer."
Then again, these sensors are pretty much vaporware at this point.
I don't think so, looks like there's a large gash in the ballast tanks. Besides it'd make more sense to fill it with gasoline(or attach large bags of it as is done in salvage operations), which is incompressible and doesn't expand like air as your Russian submarine, soon to be converted into floating nuclear powered datacenter, gets closer to the surface.
Though, this submarine wasn't really in prime condition before it sunk(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-159)....
Good luck flying inside a building to a target, especially if there's smoke from the explosion. Flying inside closed spaces can be done, it's just hard.
In a place like a nuclear powerplant, where there are armed guards, the UAV's probably going to get shot at.
Why launch pizza and ice cream, which might not withstand the 5000 G acceleration when you can launch a bunch of cubesats or microsatellites.
In fact there's a microsatellite(it's name escapes me) up there that's a web server. If you have some amateur radio equipment you can download and upload files to it. It can't store much, only enough for about an email or so.
But with improvements in electronics it'll be possible to store even more data on a microsatellite. So eventually the Pirate Bay or Wikileaks or any other dubiously legal website might consider moving some of their servers 'to the stars.'
Now the question is, is the video coming out of this thing in real time or near real time(laggy)? Soldiers testing man portable reconnaissance UAVs found the latency of near-real time video to be extremely annoying....
Why not put the iphone on the helicopter and use it to control it. Use the accelerometer data to stabilize the helicopter, the wifi geolocation ability to figure out where it is(for the most part...), and the camera to avoid obstacles using some sort of optic flow algorithm. Maybe even use google maps imagery to figure out where it is even better.
First they copy a cellphone, they add a pocket knife to it so it doesn't violate the patent. That gets patented, so they add microscope to it. That gets patented, so they add a printing press to it. And before long we're all carrying around =!iphones with all the useless features of Sharper Image products in our pockets. I can't wait to see what they do with a swiss army knife.
Heck, just the other day I had an IRC chat with some people in the Second Life. Awhile later, the people in the Second Life forgot there was a chat application there, and proceeded to do things that were better done in an IRC channel that wasn't about programming. Hilarity ensued.
Probably by Thursday. Unfortunately this technology has just become unregulatable, given high-availability of cheap microcontrollers, RC-planes, and GPS units.
Here's the challenge though, the human can't choose a landing spot or the human can give a low-res picture of the landing spot from google maps. Oh and not to mention the UAV has to land in when it's windy, sunny, snowy, or while high-rise construction is happening in the area.
Aren't current UAVs capable of flying from waypoint to waypoint with little human intervention. Call me back when they're capable of landing in a crowded urban area autonomously, then taking off again.
When I download a huge file, I always, always do it on sunday, because my ISP caps the bandwidth at something like 10 gigs a week, they reset the amount used at midnight on sunday, when a new week starts and bandwidth goes to 0 no matter how much you use.
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that it isn't a Hahn configuration tritium moderated fission reactor.
is to fool our brains into thinking the lights not bright so we can continue to use them(melatonin supplements should do the trick). Also, n sample size = 1.
Well if I recall correctly the military tried doing something like this(sans gene therapy) with fighter pilots during WWII. There was a research project to administer fighter pilots a chemical that would make their eyes sensitive to infrared light(night vision infrared not thermal infrared) so they would be better adapted to fighting at night. I don't think much became of it though. Now the only problem with doing this with gene therapy is the effects would be permanent.
Why don't they try doing something that'd be more useful like sending a robot capable of mining regolith, scrapping ice off of rocks and collecting it(if they find it), or at the very least capable of moving dirt around? IE do stuff that needs to be done if we want to live there.
Perhaps he's trying to get people to inadvertantly sequester carbon by using more paper and throwing it away, because if it gets buried deep enough it's effectively getting sequestered. We might even be able to enhance the process by treating the paper with chemicals so stuff can't eat it. Though annual paper production is only 1%(by mass not by amount of carbon) of the CO2 emmissions of the United States, so it probably won't have much of an impact.
So the question is, is it possible to request data on ANY publicly funded research going on in the UK? What about research on SILEX(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silex_Process), a laser based uranium enrichment process that is much more efficient than other enrichment processes(currently very very classified) or military research?
Thermodynamically it's probably close to the same efficiency you'd get if you burned the corn, muscle is about as efficient as a gasoline engine on a per weight basis when you take conversion of food into ATP into account. However, unlike an engine, prime mover(moover?) ends up being edible so you don't have the problem of "burning food for fuel" that your corn burning engine would have.
that's enough to produce 11,755.1486 horsepower hours in a year!
because what's not cool about having a sensor in my phone capable of detecting many different chemicals that I can opt out on not sending data to the government? Given that there was a recent fluorine leak on my campus(no one was hurt or injured, though someone did gain the nickname of fluorine boy), these might be useful. Also, given that the chips will cost next to nothing and will be produced in high quantities, they could become as ubiquitous as accelerometers are today. Just imagine all the cool things hardware hackers could do with them. But the most interesting effect these could have is stricter environmental restrictions. Something like "Opt-in cellphone data shows that pesticide levels are higher than we initial thought in homes" or "people who were around this brand of housepaint were more likely to develop cancer." Then again, these sensors are pretty much vaporware at this point.
I don't think so, looks like there's a large gash in the ballast tanks. Besides it'd make more sense to fill it with gasoline(or attach large bags of it as is done in salvage operations), which is incompressible and doesn't expand like air as your Russian submarine, soon to be converted into floating nuclear powered datacenter, gets closer to the surface. Though, this submarine wasn't really in prime condition before it sunk(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-159)....
The Spirit of Butt's Farm, the first model plane to cross the Atlantic, probably didn't cost much more than $500. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_Butts_Farm
Good luck flying inside a building to a target, especially if there's smoke from the explosion. Flying inside closed spaces can be done, it's just hard. In a place like a nuclear powerplant, where there are armed guards, the UAV's probably going to get shot at.
Why launch pizza and ice cream, which might not withstand the 5000 G acceleration when you can launch a bunch of cubesats or microsatellites. In fact there's a microsatellite(it's name escapes me) up there that's a web server. If you have some amateur radio equipment you can download and upload files to it. It can't store much, only enough for about an email or so. But with improvements in electronics it'll be possible to store even more data on a microsatellite. So eventually the Pirate Bay or Wikileaks or any other dubiously legal website might consider moving some of their servers 'to the stars.'
Now the question is, is the video coming out of this thing in real time or near real time(laggy)? Soldiers testing man portable reconnaissance UAVs found the latency of near-real time video to be extremely annoying....
It became extinct fairly recently, why don't we clone it? Surely these things will make a great addition to the New Zealand Air Defense Force.
Why not make the parachute out of carbon fiber or something that doesn't melt at those temperatures?
Well at one point someone devised a way to store video on phonograph discs so...
Why not put the iphone on the helicopter and use it to control it. Use the accelerometer data to stabilize the helicopter, the wifi geolocation ability to figure out where it is(for the most part...), and the camera to avoid obstacles using some sort of optic flow algorithm. Maybe even use google maps imagery to figure out where it is even better.
First they copy a cellphone, they add a pocket knife to it so it doesn't violate the patent. That gets patented, so they add microscope to it. That gets patented, so they add a printing press to it. And before long we're all carrying around =!iphones with all the useless features of Sharper Image products in our pockets. I can't wait to see what they do with a swiss army knife.
Heck, just the other day I had an IRC chat with some people in the Second Life. Awhile later, the people in the Second Life forgot there was a chat application there, and proceeded to do things that were better done in an IRC channel that wasn't about programming. Hilarity ensued.
Probably by Thursday. Unfortunately this technology has just become unregulatable, given high-availability of cheap microcontrollers, RC-planes, and GPS units.
Here's the challenge though, the human can't choose a landing spot or the human can give a low-res picture of the landing spot from google maps. Oh and not to mention the UAV has to land in when it's windy, sunny, snowy, or while high-rise construction is happening in the area.
Aren't current UAVs capable of flying from waypoint to waypoint with little human intervention. Call me back when they're capable of landing in a crowded urban area autonomously, then taking off again.
Do I really want to download "Strawberry Shortcake: The Four Seasons Cake?" I think not.
When I download a huge file, I always, always do it on sunday, because my ISP caps the bandwidth at something like 10 gigs a week, they reset the amount used at midnight on sunday, when a new week starts and bandwidth goes to 0 no matter how much you use.