Or in the way I've been suggesting for years; with the fine structure constant actually being variable depending on electro-magnetc-gravitic fields, at Voyager distances, light propagates at a higher rate, making it seem as if the Voyagers were closer to Earth than they actually are.
As they already are designed to make things. Virii don't, they are essentially inert information bombs.
The virii infect bacteria. Can you imagine the destruction of our civilization by these bacteria getting into electronics world-wide and these nano-scale wires being produced, shorting out electronics?
Like the American carbon-fiber bomb used to short out power transformers, but on the micro scale.
Court?
Yeah, so I want to upgrade my HD in my Thinkpad, so I have to image and reinstall. Then say I want to put in more RAM, later, I want a faster wifi card. Oh, wait, XP is now an invalid copy? At that point the user has an ethical basis for hacking it.
Though if Ubuntu supported cisco wifi cards and Lenovo put big enough HDs and fast enough wifi in these things, that problem could be avoided.
California supreme court decides that the 1st Amendment doesn't apply in their State. Federal District court in Oregon and the 9th Circus decide that the people of Oregon do not have the right to petition for redress of grievances and vote on laws passed by their legislature - which is the procedure in Oregon's constitution. Don't forget VAAPCON and the FBI files, when the Clinton's used the FBI and the IRS to intimidate political opponents.
deliberately, in order to keep anyone about rethinking the whole shuttle issue.
Now, we -can- start over and make liquid rockets to do the job, though lacking the F-1 engine - and engines are expensive to design and test - we might have to use lots of smaller engines, such as the Falcon-9 uses.
Which is the whole point of using inherently man-unratable solids for Ares. It is a stupid idea, and if actually implemented, will take lives.
There are lots of better options out there from Delta Clipper, which would have been flying for years now if Algore hadn't granted Lockmart a boondoggle with the X-33, Delta IV Ultra-Heavy, the Jupiter mod of the shuttle stack, using delta cores instead of SRBs, Energiya, and many more.
Sensor size and quality and the quality of the lenses are -far- superior with DSLRs than with point-and-shoots. This is well-known. And I've had it proven to me with my own pictures from my high-zoom DSLR. Megapixels alone do not determine image quality. A large and quality sensor, quality lens, and no lossy compression determine image quality.
Of the lost coin at night - you look by the streetlight, not because that is where it is most likely to be, but because that is where you can see.
We can detect 'hot jupiters' We cannot detect Earthlike planets. Jupiters and Saturns are very hard to find, and take many years to prove, so even most of the ones found won't have been reported yet.
Don't they teach logic to science students anymore? Afraid it will lead them to question the Dogma of Evolution?
There are a number of problems and unexamined assumptions here, starting with the rate of mitochondrial mutation, comparative attractiveness of neandertal females to african males, and african females to neandertal males, and that 13 samples is by no means sufficient to evaluate a race that lived from Gibraltar to England, to Israel, to the Himalayas.
companies will have in the fine print that all legal actions must be taken in a State where non-competes are upheld.
Further, even if it were to go as high as the Ninth Circus, it wouldn't go further than that, since that court is universally vilified and laughed at due to its complete rejection of the Constitution.
I think that non-competes have moral and legal problems, but I don't see this California act as benefiting in the medium time frame.
When they get the bugs out. All liquid, no solids. Solids should never be used for a man-rated system. It should be expandable to an ultra-heavy version out-lifting the proposed Nova.
You aren't missing anything. They have planned out how to quickly get the shavings of ice and permafrost into the wet lab as fast as possible, just because of that.
it still uses solids for a human launch vehicle. That is a really stupid thing, which was known before Congress limited the Shuttle design, forcing the move to SRBs, and which caused the Challenger accident and loss of 7 crew.
This is potentially a true aerospace vehicle. It apparently was being tested in the early '90s, then disappeared.
The pulse detonation wave engine can use oxygen from the air for oxidizer, or from on-board LOX, hence the many references in the piece to the shuttle. This may be the intelligence community's follow-on to the SR-71 and the shuttle, as the Constellation isn't really suited for that sort of work. This design should scale, not only for orbit with a small crew, but for orbit with cargo capacity for the station, or for unpredictable overflights of hostile installations, as our recon bird's orbits are pretty well-known.
What the cost to orbit is for this compared to the DCX, Blue Horizon or other competing projects is, I do not know. It would be interesting to find out.
The rejection of the metaphysical basis for knowing that there is an objective reality that can be known by the human mind.
It was nearly totally destroyed with the recent politicization of science 'by consensus' by the IPCC, James Hansen and other fraudsters, and the insistence that the experimental method can only be called science if those experimenting happen to also be atheists - a religious test for being a scientist!
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Where the lander is, there is a range between 32*F and 40*F where water would exist as a liquid, and evaporation would depend upon the ability of the atmosphere to hold more water (in most places it is close to saturation on Mars - very thin air doesn't hold much water.
If that -is- water in the white bands and not hardpan and a little seasonal frost, that might explain the darker areas within the streak - some localized melting in the sun.
It is true that the average daily high at this site at this point in time is -25*, but as anyone from northern States knows, surface temperature can be quite a bit higher than atmospheric temperature, and with the various salts we know are in the soil, the actual melting point can be below that daily average high. (Just as you have to walk through puddles to get to Stuffmart when it is that cold up here, because of all the salt they put down).
As to the probable frost in the soil, things like insulation from the sun (though at 1 inch depth, that wouldn't be much) tending the temp towards the daily average, isolation from the air (again, not much at that depth) and the added pressure of the soil bringing up the boiling point, could all be factors.
Personally, I don't think that they have ruled out that it -is- hardpan held together with either electrostatic force, or by a tiny amount of frost, which did then sublimate.
They say that Phoenix can't dig into the ice layer. Say -What-? Isn't that what they sent it to do? We really need to be willing to spend an extra 10 million per launch to use heavier lifters and more robust machinery! Very cost effective compared to what it costs to lighten and miniaturize things - just ask the Russians, they know this.
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It is a very illogical unit, though, it isn't even divisible by two or eight!
The octal/hexadecimal system we use in America is far superior for anyone who doesn't count on their fingers. It also ties into the size of the Earth and its rotation with the nautical mile and the degree.
If an apple from my tree falls in your yard, you are allowed to eat it.
This is illegally ignored a good deal of the time when it comes to modern technology.
Yet, by this ancient principle, if your radio waves land on my property, they are mine to do with as I wish, or I can sue you. It doesn't matter if we are talking about apples, broadcast communications, including those from orbital repeaters, or wi-fi.
That is the legal, moral and ethical position.
However, do note that those promoting an illegal 'law' have the guns and the prisons. Don't be stupid.
I agree. SwiftFuel and e-85 for flex fuel vehicles like mine, and e-20 for everyone else until SwiftFuel comes online are the way to go for the time being, while we build the fusion reactors and thorium breeders to provide the electricity for the electrical forms.
Some caveats
batteries don't work so well in winter north of the Mason Dixon line.
Electrical vehicles create ozone pollution.
There is no good way to store that electrical energy at present.
We might be better off switching to fuel-cell driven electrical vehicles in the next 20 years, but that still means using ethanol and biodiesel as the storage media.
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Or in the way I've been suggesting for years; with the fine structure constant actually being variable depending on electro-magnetc-gravitic fields, at Voyager distances, light propagates at a higher rate, making it seem as if the Voyagers were closer to Earth than they actually are.
As they already are designed to make things. Virii don't, they are essentially inert information bombs. The virii infect bacteria. Can you imagine the destruction of our civilization by these bacteria getting into electronics world-wide and these nano-scale wires being produced, shorting out electronics? Like the American carbon-fiber bomb used to short out power transformers, but on the micro scale.
Court? Yeah, so I want to upgrade my HD in my Thinkpad, so I have to image and reinstall. Then say I want to put in more RAM, later, I want a faster wifi card. Oh, wait, XP is now an invalid copy? At that point the user has an ethical basis for hacking it. Though if Ubuntu supported cisco wifi cards and Lenovo put big enough HDs and fast enough wifi in these things, that problem could be avoided.
Just like 'dark energy' and 'dark matter'. The standard model is crumbling. I do not predict where it will go.
I suppose it is about time that was updated. . .
California supreme court decides that the 1st Amendment doesn't apply in their State. Federal District court in Oregon and the 9th Circus decide that the people of Oregon do not have the right to petition for redress of grievances and vote on laws passed by their legislature - which is the procedure in Oregon's constitution. Don't forget VAAPCON and the FBI files, when the Clinton's used the FBI and the IRS to intimidate political opponents.
Back in 1775-83. . . This is *highly* unConstitutional. The several States should resist this with all their might.
deliberately, in order to keep anyone about rethinking the whole shuttle issue. Now, we -can- start over and make liquid rockets to do the job, though lacking the F-1 engine - and engines are expensive to design and test - we might have to use lots of smaller engines, such as the Falcon-9 uses.
Which is the whole point of using inherently man-unratable solids for Ares. It is a stupid idea, and if actually implemented, will take lives. There are lots of better options out there from Delta Clipper, which would have been flying for years now if Algore hadn't granted Lockmart a boondoggle with the X-33, Delta IV Ultra-Heavy, the Jupiter mod of the shuttle stack, using delta cores instead of SRBs, Energiya, and many more.
Sensor size and quality and the quality of the lenses are -far- superior with DSLRs than with point-and-shoots. This is well-known. And I've had it proven to me with my own pictures from my high-zoom DSLR. Megapixels alone do not determine image quality. A large and quality sensor, quality lens, and no lossy compression determine image quality.
Of the lost coin at night - you look by the streetlight, not because that is where it is most likely to be, but because that is where you can see. We can detect 'hot jupiters' We cannot detect Earthlike planets. Jupiters and Saturns are very hard to find, and take many years to prove, so even most of the ones found won't have been reported yet. Don't they teach logic to science students anymore? Afraid it will lead them to question the Dogma of Evolution?
There are a number of problems and unexamined assumptions here, starting with the rate of mitochondrial mutation, comparative attractiveness of neandertal females to african males, and african females to neandertal males, and that 13 samples is by no means sufficient to evaluate a race that lived from Gibraltar to England, to Israel, to the Himalayas.
companies will have in the fine print that all legal actions must be taken in a State where non-competes are upheld. Further, even if it were to go as high as the Ninth Circus, it wouldn't go further than that, since that court is universally vilified and laughed at due to its complete rejection of the Constitution. I think that non-competes have moral and legal problems, but I don't see this California act as benefiting in the medium time frame.
Which the Clinton's provided donors. Besides, they already have the MSM to parrot their talking points.
When they get the bugs out. All liquid, no solids. Solids should never be used for a man-rated system. It should be expandable to an ultra-heavy version out-lifting the proposed Nova.
You aren't missing anything. They have planned out how to quickly get the shavings of ice and permafrost into the wet lab as fast as possible, just because of that.
it still uses solids for a human launch vehicle. That is a really stupid thing, which was known before Congress limited the Shuttle design, forcing the move to SRBs, and which caused the Challenger accident and loss of 7 crew.
No, no, no, it is the Slitheen!
And they think that Barak Hussein is the Messiah and wish to give him total power. Very scary.
The pulse detonation wave engine can use oxygen from the air for oxidizer, or from on-board LOX, hence the many references in the piece to the shuttle. This may be the intelligence community's follow-on to the SR-71 and the shuttle, as the Constellation isn't really suited for that sort of work. This design should scale, not only for orbit with a small crew, but for orbit with cargo capacity for the station, or for unpredictable overflights of hostile installations, as our recon bird's orbits are pretty well-known.
What the cost to orbit is for this compared to the DCX, Blue Horizon or other competing projects is, I do not know. It would be interesting to find out.
The rejection of the metaphysical basis for knowing that there is an objective reality that can be known by the human mind. It was nearly totally destroyed with the recent politicization of science 'by consensus' by the IPCC, James Hansen and other fraudsters, and the insistence that the experimental method can only be called science if those experimenting happen to also be atheists - a religious test for being a scientist!
If that -is- water in the white bands and not hardpan and a little seasonal frost, that might explain the darker areas within the streak - some localized melting in the sun.
It is true that the average daily high at this site at this point in time is -25*, but as anyone from northern States knows, surface temperature can be quite a bit higher than atmospheric temperature, and with the various salts we know are in the soil, the actual melting point can be below that daily average high. (Just as you have to walk through puddles to get to Stuffmart when it is that cold up here, because of all the salt they put down).
As to the probable frost in the soil, things like insulation from the sun (though at 1 inch depth, that wouldn't be much) tending the temp towards the daily average, isolation from the air (again, not much at that depth) and the added pressure of the soil bringing up the boiling point, could all be factors.
Personally, I don't think that they have ruled out that it -is- hardpan held together with either electrostatic force, or by a tiny amount of frost, which did then sublimate.
They say that Phoenix can't dig into the ice layer. Say -What-? Isn't that what they sent it to do? We really need to be willing to spend an extra 10 million per launch to use heavier lifters and more robust machinery! Very cost effective compared to what it costs to lighten and miniaturize things - just ask the Russians, they know this.
It is a very illogical unit, though, it isn't even divisible by two or eight! The octal/hexadecimal system we use in America is far superior for anyone who doesn't count on their fingers. It also ties into the size of the Earth and its rotation with the nautical mile and the degree.
If an apple from my tree falls in your yard, you are allowed to eat it. This is illegally ignored a good deal of the time when it comes to modern technology. Yet, by this ancient principle, if your radio waves land on my property, they are mine to do with as I wish, or I can sue you. It doesn't matter if we are talking about apples, broadcast communications, including those from orbital repeaters, or wi-fi. That is the legal, moral and ethical position. However, do note that those promoting an illegal 'law' have the guns and the prisons. Don't be stupid.
Some caveats
batteries don't work so well in winter north of the Mason Dixon line.
Electrical vehicles create ozone pollution.
There is no good way to store that electrical energy at present.
We might be better off switching to fuel-cell driven electrical vehicles in the next 20 years, but that still means using ethanol and biodiesel as the storage media.