ah yes you mean like the lack of corruption, inefficiency and wasted resources that were part of such great corporations as enron, worldcom, tyco, etc. yeah private corporations they are god sent angels. a bugg
yeah except that gerald works AT CERN as a competing researcher, and that its probably just bitterness talking rather than county/lab pissing contests. a bugg
You know its funny, saying glass is not a liquid is like saying water is never a solid, cause we know thats untrue, it all depends on the temperature of the specimen. Trust me I have blown glass before and it is most certainly a liquid above 1300 C. A Bugg
I am an undergrad and while we only talked about the Stern Gerlach, we actually performed the Michelson morley experiment last semester. Anyways I think one of the most beautiful experiments I have done is measuring the Zeeman effect on a mercury discharge tube in a magnetic field. I don't know I just thought that experiment while long, was fairly cool. A Bugg
well technically we could if the colony was just one large tunnel from north to south remember there are like 3,600 or so miles of tunnels in that colony, thats more than enough to reach for south to north. a bugg
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i watched that too, and thought it was cool, but I missed the last 10 minutes of it did he finally get one to survive more than a few days, or did they all die soon. a bugg
I finally got around to installing linux on my machine after a couple of years of having the red hat CD's and i would love to work completely in linux cause i am sick and damned tired of windows crashing. So trillian will work under linux or is that srictly for windows, and what would you recommend i use to replace MSN under linux, because i need to talk to my girlfriend and thats pretty much the only reason i continue to boot into windows. Thanks. andrew bugg
actually the largest supertankers are on the order of up to 1500 feet long and can weigh up to 400,000 tons and aircraft carriers are 1000-1102 feet long, and slightly under 100,000 tons of displacement. and both are nearly 200 feet wide (the width is dictated by the width of the locks in panama). so the largest ships today are substantially larger than predicted size of noak's ark.
well i am not speaking of the methods in which the illness was obtained i am saying that veneral diseases are caused by virii or bacteria which is what causes them, thats what the vatican is trying to say that its not the bacteria its the sin that creates the illness. and i guess you could say that had you never had the sex you wouldn't have gotten the disease but that's not what the article is trying to say.
abugg
Its funny you should mention that disease is not caused by sin, because the vatican just released a press release saying that illness was caused by sin, its funny how you'd think we would have moved past ideas like that, anyways here's the link. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2002063681, 00.html
holy shit thats hilarious, it took me reading it twice but that needs to be modded up, i really think you should call them up and check that out
a bugg
it would make it faster in both reference frames if you went close to the speed of light because you are going faster. time dialation only appears to make time slow down from the view point of the earth to the people on the spaceship in actuality the people on the space ship would not notice too much was different with the way things were besides the stars red shifting away, and tunnel vision i think. remember with the time dialation the people on the ship would age at a substantially lesser rate than at a slower speed, which means the trip would seem to be faster to them too, and to the people on earth it would seem a little faster because the spaceship was traveling a little bit faster. time dialation doesn't actually drag out time, it's just the change in the way time is measured between two reference frames. the passage of time would feel the same in either reference frame but appear to travel either more slowly or faster in the opposing reference frame depending on which one you were in.
a bugg
hey i took modern physics i understand general relativity quite well, for starters i never said it would reach the speed of light my figure was only to point out that it came damned close. with the figures you give you are just presupposing masses you don't technically know you just made them up to fit particular numbers, use a 1 kg ship with 9999 kg of fuel and you will see what i mean (you should get 99.99999949), because the theoretical max speed of a photon drive is the speed of light for a object without mass, and for an object with mass, assuming continuous acceleration, and fuel is unlimited, the max speed is 99.99 with an infinite number of nines. and yes i realize that scenario is unrealistic as well as the one you proposed.
dude you have lots of your info wrong, fusion drives can get to much higher velocities than 1% the speed of light you could easily attain 10% probably even 20%. just do some research and you will find its theoretical max velocity.
and why exactly would you use solar panels on an interstellar craft, mars is essentially on the edge of effective solar power usage, any farther than that and it becomes to weak to power the craft (just consider the inverse square law and you will see). and why would you want to accelerate IONS up to 99% the speed of light, what you would want to accelerate are protons and what you are refering to would involve a linear accelerator, and that isn't the type of thing you want to have to lug around with you considering it would be sereval km long, and weigh an ungodly amount. you would want something like that to be stationary on an asteroid or something, this is discussed in an old (97'-98') Discover magazine. and antimatter space craft have theoretical velocities of approximately the speed of light (~99.999%) using the best of the best because the exhaust would have a velocity of the speed of light if it is a true photon rocket.
you know your idea about not going if its just to say we sent a man is bull because what if all of the explorers of the past had said "its too far", or "it is going to take to long", or "i am just going to wait for some more advanced tech to take me there" i personally would have called them pussies, hell i don't care if it would take 10 years to get to mars you can sign me up. while i do believe we should devote a large percentage to advanced propulsion research it shouldn't stop our explorationm you know we can't just wait for the magical technology that will transport us there instantanously otherwise we will never get there, and will have likely missed out.
a bugg (aka the rocketman)
yeah i got one of those for christmas and i love it, its one of the coolest presents my parents have ever gotten me way better than that damned cell phone from last year that a rarely use.
a bugg
Amen to that, everywhere I have been in Louisville I see plenty of X-Box's and PS2's but no Gamecubes, not only that the games for the Gmescube seem to be selling out too cause they are either sold out or there are only a few left. I don't know if I believe that article I would want to see the info in a formal report from credit suisse, then again maybe that's cause I want the gamecube to win cause it rocks.
that's funny you say photons have no rest mass because last time i checked no one had been able to slow a photon down to zero velocity (they might get close, but not zero), cause when that happens the B wave and the E wave collapse, so saying thet have no rest mass is something you can't substantiate.
a bugg
i think you have some of the numbers wrong, the persian gulf war did not cost 600 billion dollars even if you were to add up the costs of all the countries it wouldn't even come close to that, maybe 60 billion for all involved but even thats probably too high.
andrew bugg
actually that's not true, because at the beginning of August the US only had three nuclear bombs in their enitre arsenal, and they used two of them in combat. remember it took two weeks at minimum to build a complete nuclear device, so basically they just bluffed japan into thinking they had a whole lot more.
a bugg
DaVinci's David huh well I was unaware that DaVinci ever sculpted the Statue of David, must have been a copy since MICHAELANGELO was the one who sculpted David, not DaVinci.
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ah yes you mean like the lack of corruption, inefficiency and wasted resources that were part of such great corporations as enron, worldcom, tyco, etc. yeah private corporations they are god sent angels.
a bugg
you salute the BRAVE people of Iraq and their COURAGEOUS resistance, righhhhhhht, yet you are posting as an anonymous coward how fitting.
ideals are great for them as young politicians and college students but money talks and the older you get the louder it screams.
a bugg
yeah except that gerald works AT CERN as a competing researcher, and that its probably just bitterness talking rather than county/lab pissing contests.
a bugg
You know its funny, saying glass is not a liquid is like saying water is never a solid, cause we know thats untrue, it all depends on the temperature of the specimen. Trust me I have blown glass before and it is most certainly a liquid above 1300 C.
A Bugg
Damn I forgot about the Photoelectric effect, I am going to have to change my vote then. Playing with high intensity UV light is cool.
A Bugg
I am an undergrad and while we only talked about the Stern Gerlach, we actually performed the Michelson morley experiment last semester. Anyways I think one of the most beautiful experiments I have done is measuring the Zeeman effect on a mercury discharge tube in a magnetic field. I don't know I just thought that experiment while long, was fairly cool.
A Bugg
habitable Pronunciation Key (hb-t-bl) adj.
Suitable to live in or on; inhabitable: habitable land.
yeah, ummmmm, habitable is a word just do a check on dictionary.com it has 3 entries too.
a bugg
well technically we could if the colony was just one large tunnel from north to south remember there are like 3,600 or so miles of tunnels in that colony, thats more than enough to reach for south to north.
a bugg
i watched that too, and thought it was cool, but I missed the last 10 minutes of it did he finally get one to survive more than a few days, or did they all die soon.
a bugg
I finally got around to installing linux on my machine after a couple of years of having the red hat CD's and i would love to work completely in linux cause i am sick and damned tired of windows crashing. So trillian will work under linux or is that srictly for windows, and what would you recommend i use to replace MSN under linux, because i need to talk to my girlfriend and thats pretty much the only reason i continue to boot into windows. Thanks.
andrew bugg
actually the largest supertankers are on the order of up to 1500 feet long and can weigh up to 400,000 tons and aircraft carriers are 1000-1102 feet long, and slightly under 100,000 tons of displacement. and both are nearly 200 feet wide (the width is dictated by the width of the locks in panama). so the largest ships today are substantially larger than predicted size of noak's ark.
well i am not speaking of the methods in which the illness was obtained i am saying that veneral diseases are caused by virii or bacteria which is what causes them, thats what the vatican is trying to say that its not the bacteria its the sin that creates the illness. and i guess you could say that had you never had the sex you wouldn't have gotten the disease but that's not what the article is trying to say.
abugg
Its funny you should mention that disease is not caused by sin, because the vatican just released a press release saying that illness was caused by sin, its funny how you'd think we would have moved past ideas like that, anyways here's the link. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2002063681, 00.html
holy shit thats hilarious, it took me reading it twice but that needs to be modded up, i really think you should call them up and check that out
a bugg
it would make it faster in both reference frames if you went close to the speed of light because you are going faster. time dialation only appears to make time slow down from the view point of the earth to the people on the spaceship in actuality the people on the space ship would not notice too much was different with the way things were besides the stars red shifting away, and tunnel vision i think. remember with the time dialation the people on the ship would age at a substantially lesser rate than at a slower speed, which means the trip would seem to be faster to them too, and to the people on earth it would seem a little faster because the spaceship was traveling a little bit faster. time dialation doesn't actually drag out time, it's just the change in the way time is measured between two reference frames. the passage of time would feel the same in either reference frame but appear to travel either more slowly or faster in the opposing reference frame depending on which one you were in.
a bugg
hey i took modern physics i understand general relativity quite well, for starters i never said it would reach the speed of light my figure was only to point out that it came damned close. with the figures you give you are just presupposing masses you don't technically know you just made them up to fit particular numbers, use a 1 kg ship with 9999 kg of fuel and you will see what i mean (you should get 99.99999949), because the theoretical max speed of a photon drive is the speed of light for a object without mass, and for an object with mass, assuming continuous acceleration, and fuel is unlimited, the max speed is 99.99 with an infinite number of nines. and yes i realize that scenario is unrealistic as well as the one you proposed.
dude you have lots of your info wrong, fusion drives can get to much higher velocities than 1% the speed of light you could easily attain 10% probably even 20%. just do some research and you will find its theoretical max velocity.
and why exactly would you use solar panels on an interstellar craft, mars is essentially on the edge of effective solar power usage, any farther than that and it becomes to weak to power the craft (just consider the inverse square law and you will see). and why would you want to accelerate IONS up to 99% the speed of light, what you would want to accelerate are protons and what you are refering to would involve a linear accelerator, and that isn't the type of thing you want to have to lug around with you considering it would be sereval km long, and weigh an ungodly amount. you would want something like that to be stationary on an asteroid or something, this is discussed in an old (97'-98') Discover magazine. and antimatter space craft have theoretical velocities of approximately the speed of light (~99.999%) using the best of the best because the exhaust would have a velocity of the speed of light if it is a true photon rocket.
you know your idea about not going if its just to say we sent a man is bull because what if all of the explorers of the past had said "its too far", or "it is going to take to long", or "i am just going to wait for some more advanced tech to take me there" i personally would have called them pussies, hell i don't care if it would take 10 years to get to mars you can sign me up. while i do believe we should devote a large percentage to advanced propulsion research it shouldn't stop our explorationm you know we can't just wait for the magical technology that will transport us there instantanously otherwise we will never get there, and will have likely missed out.
a bugg (aka the rocketman)
yeah i got one of those for christmas and i love it, its one of the coolest presents my parents have ever gotten me way better than that damned cell phone from last year that a rarely use.
a bugg
Amen to that, everywhere I have been in Louisville I see plenty of X-Box's and PS2's but no Gamecubes, not only that the games for the Gmescube seem to be selling out too cause they are either sold out or there are only a few left. I don't know if I believe that article I would want to see the info in a formal report from credit suisse, then again maybe that's cause I want the gamecube to win cause it rocks.
that's funny you say photons have no rest mass because last time i checked no one had been able to slow a photon down to zero velocity (they might get close, but not zero), cause when that happens the B wave and the E wave collapse, so saying thet have no rest mass is something you can't substantiate.
a bugg
i think you have some of the numbers wrong, the persian gulf war did not cost 600 billion dollars even if you were to add up the costs of all the countries it wouldn't even come close to that, maybe 60 billion for all involved but even thats probably too high.
andrew bugg
actually that's not true, because at the beginning of August the US only had three nuclear bombs in their enitre arsenal, and they used two of them in combat. remember it took two weeks at minimum to build a complete nuclear device, so basically they just bluffed japan into thinking they had a whole lot more. a bugg
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