Because it's a micro-think carbon nanotube ribbon that isn't even close to possible to manufacture at this point and has unknown properties (maybe it's a semiconductor?).
We're not talking about a steel cable. Steel isn't nearly strong enough (by a factor of like 15).
The weight of a "transmission line" that is a ten thousand miles long is more than the entire annual payload of rocket launches in the world.
I think the payload could still be sufficient.
I'll point out that there are no metals who could even hold their own weight at that length. The cable's own weight would tear itself apart. That's why we're using nanotubes in the first place.
So think of it more like hitting an unconscious fly that is traveling as fast as a fastball, could at any moment wake up and start flapping, and you aren't trying to catch it in a glove, you're trying to spear it with a toothpick before it gets too close.
The mental image of Albert Pujols flinging toothpicks at a high speed unconscious fly made me ROFL
I believe these cables will be micro-fine carbon nanotube weaves.
I'm not sure they're conductive, but the "strength to weight" ratio requirement for a space elevator tether pretty much rules out "insulation" and such.
In fact, the tether's tensile strength would have to be near the theoretical maximum of covalent bonds... which makes it pretty damn hard to build and maintain.
That would be all well and good if the application of law was actually clearly dictated to solve a problem.
However, if you've ever watched a court case involving a victim (or a victim's family), especially one with a jury and ESPECIALLY one involving the media, the closing statement is always hinged on "help the victim feel that justice was done". And inevitably, the jury decision hinges strongly on the victim (and family) on the stand, crying about how they won't ever feel whole until this crazy man is locked up forever.
On the macro and philosophical level the justice system may be about solving a problem, but on the micro psychological level, it's about revenge and retribution.
While I don't necessarily disagree with you, I just want to make sure you understand that when you consider both sides.
Hertz and bits are independent. You can sample something at 150kHz but then compress it to 14kbps. You can likewise, sample something at 14kHz and then encode it at 1.5Mbps.
There was absolutely no (none, zero) discussion on the sampling rate and I was correcting that.
Most lossy music formats totally submarine a lot of detail at 48Kbps and I would wager that almost everyone has the auditory acuity to recognize it. They simply don't have the mental acuity to care.
I agree, so much auto-tone (big air quotes) "music" and they hardly notice gross clipping and drastic tone flattening.:-)
Well, I got two roommates, so my rent was about $240 and my portion of the $49 DSL bill was $16, though we built a "can-tenna" for $12 at one point and snatched it off a nearby University building for part of the year for free. Electricity was about $35/mo ($100 total for apartment). I actually got to eat out now and then and the three of us cooked together on about $600/mo ($200 each), which while heavy on rice, wasn't "starvation" and was probably the healthiest I've ever been.
I also had a $39 cell phone plan. That was many years ago, but they're still available if you don't care about a touch screen and nationwide calling areas. Cricket Wireless offers $30/mo unlimited calling plans in many major cities.
I don't think I need to delve too far into the obvious point that spending between 1/4 and 1/3 of the proposed budget on "smokes and beer"... is the most substantial item that puts your budget over the $1000/mo limit you set out to disprove.
Get a roommate quit smoking and make some other minor changes.... and...
$280/mo rent ($840 will get a quite nice 3br in many places) $69/mo auto ins $19/mo internet (skip TV, hulu is your friend) $45/mo fuel $35/mo cell phone (Cricket FTW) $250/mo food (extra there to eat out once a week) $40/mo electricity $40/mo beer $50/mo "rainy day fund" $30/mo "entertainment fund"
TOTAL: $858/mo (allowing for travel and entertainment funds)
If you have car payments, add those. A friend of mine just leased a 2009 Subaru Impreza for $99/mo. I'm sure a brand new Kia is similar but 20 year old cars have always suited me better.
Dating shouldn't cost you anything. I wouldn't want to be with a woman who couldn't appreciate a good home cooked meal and a few candles. If she expects "bling" she's obviously shallow and needy and I don't need any of that. A picnick and a hike at sunset is the most successful date I've ever been on, I don't know about you. Cheaper than a movie.
I could easily spend a lot more than this because I can afford it. I could live in a 5 bedroom house by myself, but there's no reason other than our cultural inferiority complex to do so.
I finished college years ago and ended up working in my chosen field and make more than I would have guessed back then, but I still drive a 1991 car because new cars are wasteful.
I live in a 2br condo with a roommate.
My budget would STILL barely higher than your proposed $1114 if it weren't for the small yacht (ahem, sailboat) I picked up for a song in a down market. I'm still using the computer I built in 2003 FFS. Why? Because it still works just fine.
Hmmm. When I was a college student, I supported myself on under $1k/mo total expenses (not counting tuition).
Lots of rice and ramen and no beer, yes, but it is possible if you're willing enough to make it happen. It may involve moving if you live in California or New England, since you can't even get housing for $1k/mo, but most other places in the world are plenty cheap.
Unless it's UC Irvine, it might as well think of itself as a private school. They charge more than most private schools.
but you have ton consider.... UCSD is smack in the middle of LA JOLLA. When your dorm is fronted by $40 million homes, you would figure it might be expensive.
I went to school in BFE in the midwest, but I'm in my 20s and completely debt free and making 6 figures. Choices, choices.
You sound like an idealogue. The rightest of rightiests (aside from the libertarians) were all for the TARP funds with Bush/Cheney was handing them out.
There is a concept of sacrificing a few to save the sinking ship. The problem was already there and "bailing out" and most smart people understood that the "bailout" action prevented the Titanic.
In context, on September 18, 2008, the federal government froze credit markets in light of a $10 trillion run on banks during a 2 hour period.
Had they not done that, by 4pm, the US Dollar would have been worth less than the paper it is printed on and we would probably be trading Euros and gold coins right now, while burning those dollars for fuel to heat our dark, frozen houses.
But, context not appearing to be your strong point, I defer.
EVERY single CV class/book/speaker/advise bit suggests fitting your CV on a single page unless you would consider yourself "senior" at which point you might justify a second page.
The reasoning is (and research/survey backs it up) that more content simply goes unread.
antimatter is like molecular hydrogen as a fuel for fuel cells. It's more of a storage device of energy than it is a a way to "produce" energy.
At this point it's terribly inefficient, but theoretically, it could be a viable means of taking an enormous amount of energy and storing it in a small place.:-)
While marginally chronologically correlated, LBJ's "War on Poverty" had absolutely no direct effect on urban decay.
Evidenced by the fact that other countries, such as Canada and France were moving in the opposite direction at the exact same time (more conservative) and were experiencing the exact same increase in urban crime and poverty.
This must, therefore, be the result of something else, such as the growth of suburbs and decline of neighborhood-based employment, to only scratch the surface.
Cool. I agree with his decision. The Denver Police Department is a poorly run organization and that extra 1% staffing contributes less to the greater good than a good one-time purchase put toward homeless shelters. There is a relative shortage of highly qualified security personnel in Denver right now (evidenced by job postings with very high pay), so it's unlikely these men will become unemployed, so as a result, I see a net positive to society.
I think this is a great decision (even if I recognize that it wasn't a decision made quite as overtly as you seem to imply). Out of a 50,000 item budget, you seem to have cherry picked two items which are most likely to rile a conservative and focused on them as if they were made independently of the other 50,000 budget decisions. That, my friend, is demagoguery, whether you like the word or not.
Given your particular wording, it's easy to cry foul, but I think on balance (and in the scope of hundreds of other budget decisions), this isn't a very persuasive line of reasoning, in my opinion.
It says they can be mixed with regular shingles, so I would imagine one would make "walkways" of regular shingles to access things like roof-vents, gutters, swamp coolers, chimneys, etc.
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Except that the machine would take 3 years of dedicated design time and the cable is likely 50-80 years in the future, to be honest.
Won't somebody PLEASE Think of the TAXPAYERS!!!?!!!!!!111one!!!
There.
Because it's a micro-think carbon nanotube ribbon that isn't even close to possible to manufacture at this point and has unknown properties (maybe it's a semiconductor?).
We're not talking about a steel cable. Steel isn't nearly strong enough (by a factor of like 15).
The weight of a "transmission line" that is a ten thousand miles long is more than the entire annual payload of rocket launches in the world.
I think the payload could still be sufficient.
I'll point out that there are no metals who could even hold their own weight at that length. The cable's own weight would tear itself apart. That's why we're using nanotubes in the first place.
The only "rope" we know of that would have the strength is a high-tensile, ultra thin, uninsulated "ribbon" of solid woven carbon nanotubes.
What's the conductivity of a micro-think carbon nanotube ribbon and how would you go about carrying a current (in a circle) through it? :-)
So think of it more like hitting an unconscious fly that is traveling as fast as a fastball, could at any moment wake up and start flapping, and you aren't trying to catch it in a glove, you're trying to spear it with a toothpick before it gets too close.
The mental image of Albert Pujols flinging toothpicks at a high speed unconscious fly made me ROFL
This one's sarcasm circuit is malfunctioning. Take it away for recycling.
I believe these cables will be micro-fine carbon nanotube weaves.
I'm not sure they're conductive, but the "strength to weight" ratio requirement for a space elevator tether pretty much rules out "insulation" and such.
In fact, the tether's tensile strength would have to be near the theoretical maximum of covalent bonds... which makes it pretty damn hard to build and maintain.
That would be all well and good if the application of law was actually clearly dictated to solve a problem.
However, if you've ever watched a court case involving a victim (or a victim's family), especially one with a jury and ESPECIALLY one involving the media, the closing statement is always hinged on "help the victim feel that justice was done". And inevitably, the jury decision hinges strongly on the victim (and family) on the stand, crying about how they won't ever feel whole until this crazy man is locked up forever.
On the macro and philosophical level the justice system may be about solving a problem, but on the micro psychological level, it's about revenge and retribution.
While I don't necessarily disagree with you, I just want to make sure you understand that when you consider both sides.
Hertz and bits are independent. You can sample something at 150kHz but then compress it to 14kbps. You can likewise, sample something at 14kHz and then encode it at 1.5Mbps.
There was absolutely no (none, zero) discussion on the sampling rate and I was correcting that.
it said 48Kbps, not kHZ.
Most lossy music formats totally submarine a lot of detail at 48Kbps and I would wager that almost everyone has the auditory acuity to recognize it. They simply don't have the mental acuity to care.
I agree, so much auto-tone (big air quotes) "music" and they hardly notice gross clipping and drastic tone flattening. :-)
Well, I got two roommates, so my rent was about $240 and my portion of the $49 DSL bill was $16, though we built a "can-tenna" for $12 at one point and snatched it off a nearby University building for part of the year for free. Electricity was about $35/mo ($100 total for apartment). I actually got to eat out now and then and the three of us cooked together on about $600/mo ($200 each), which while heavy on rice, wasn't "starvation" and was probably the healthiest I've ever been.
I also had a $39 cell phone plan. That was many years ago, but they're still available if you don't care about a touch screen and nationwide calling areas. Cricket Wireless offers $30/mo unlimited calling plans in many major cities.
I don't think I need to delve too far into the obvious point that spending between 1/4 and 1/3 of the proposed budget on "smokes and beer"... is the most substantial item that puts your budget over the $1000/mo limit you set out to disprove.
Get a roommate quit smoking and make some other minor changes.... and...
$280/mo rent ($840 will get a quite nice 3br in many places)
$69/mo auto ins
$19/mo internet (skip TV, hulu is your friend)
$45/mo fuel
$35/mo cell phone (Cricket FTW)
$250/mo food (extra there to eat out once a week)
$40/mo electricity
$40/mo beer
$50/mo "rainy day fund"
$30/mo "entertainment fund"
TOTAL: $858/mo (allowing for travel and entertainment funds)
If you have car payments, add those. A friend of mine just leased a 2009 Subaru Impreza for $99/mo. I'm sure a brand new Kia is similar but 20 year old cars have always suited me better.
Dating shouldn't cost you anything. I wouldn't want to be with a woman who couldn't appreciate a good home cooked meal and a few candles. If she expects "bling" she's obviously shallow and needy and I don't need any of that. A picnick and a hike at sunset is the most successful date I've ever been on, I don't know about you. Cheaper than a movie.
I could easily spend a lot more than this because I can afford it. I could live in a 5 bedroom house by myself, but there's no reason other than our cultural inferiority complex to do so.
I finished college years ago and ended up working in my chosen field and make more than I would have guessed back then, but I still drive a 1991 car because new cars are wasteful.
I live in a 2br condo with a roommate.
My budget would STILL barely higher than your proposed $1114 if it weren't for the small yacht (ahem, sailboat) I picked up for a song in a down market. I'm still using the computer I built in 2003 FFS. Why? Because it still works just fine.
But by all means, keep feeling downtrodden.
Hmmm. When I was a college student, I supported myself on under $1k/mo total expenses (not counting tuition).
Lots of rice and ramen and no beer, yes, but it is possible if you're willing enough to make it happen. It may involve moving if you live in California or New England, since you can't even get housing for $1k/mo, but most other places in the world are plenty cheap.
Unless it's UC Irvine, it might as well think of itself as a private school. They charge more than most private schools.
but you have ton consider.... UCSD is smack in the middle of LA JOLLA. When your dorm is fronted by $40 million homes, you would figure it might be expensive.
I went to school in BFE in the midwest, but I'm in my 20s and completely debt free and making 6 figures. Choices, choices.
You DO havea point there.
Maybe more to the point, there will be less teachers and architects and artists and writers.
Is that a better society than one with less lawyers and politicians?
sigh.
You sound like an idealogue. The rightest of rightiests (aside from the libertarians) were all for the TARP funds with Bush/Cheney was handing them out.
There is a concept of sacrificing a few to save the sinking ship. The problem was already there and "bailing out" and most smart people understood that the "bailout" action prevented the Titanic.
In context, on September 18, 2008, the federal government froze credit markets in light of a $10 trillion run on banks during a 2 hour period.
Had they not done that, by 4pm, the US Dollar would have been worth less than the paper it is printed on and we would probably be trading Euros and gold coins right now, while burning those dollars for fuel to heat our dark, frozen houses.
But, context not appearing to be your strong point, I defer.
EVERY single CV class/book/speaker/advise bit suggests fitting your CV on a single page unless you would consider yourself "senior" at which point you might justify a second page.
The reasoning is (and research/survey backs it up) that more content simply goes unread.
Anything that produces more energy than it expends is a non-renewable resource. The energy came from somewhere. Ultimately, it was from the sun.
So... the only real "renewable" energy in a civilization-scale, is fusion (likely only solar fusion), which limits us.
Any other technology we come up with are merely creative means of "storing" energy, or releasing stored energy (as is the case with fossil fuels).
Dilithium is just two lithium molecules which would be a squishy soft metal that is reactive with water.
Not much of a "magic antimatter control device" happening there.
antimatter is like molecular hydrogen as a fuel for fuel cells. It's more of a storage device of energy than it is a a way to "produce" energy.
At this point it's terribly inefficient, but theoretically, it could be a viable means of taking an enormous amount of energy and storing it in a small place. :-)
While marginally chronologically correlated, LBJ's "War on Poverty" had absolutely no direct effect on urban decay.
Evidenced by the fact that other countries, such as Canada and France were moving in the opposite direction at the exact same time (more conservative) and were experiencing the exact same increase in urban crime and poverty.
This must, therefore, be the result of something else, such as the growth of suburbs and decline of neighborhood-based employment, to only scratch the surface.
But I must say, nice try. :-)
Cool. I agree with his decision. The Denver Police Department is a poorly run organization and that extra 1% staffing contributes less to the greater good than a good one-time purchase put toward homeless shelters. There is a relative shortage of highly qualified security personnel in Denver right now (evidenced by job postings with very high pay), so it's unlikely these men will become unemployed, so as a result, I see a net positive to society.
I think this is a great decision (even if I recognize that it wasn't a decision made quite as overtly as you seem to imply). Out of a 50,000 item budget, you seem to have cherry picked two items which are most likely to rile a conservative and focused on them as if they were made independently of the other 50,000 budget decisions. That, my friend, is demagoguery, whether you like the word or not.
Given your particular wording, it's easy to cry foul, but I think on balance (and in the scope of hundreds of other budget decisions), this isn't a very persuasive line of reasoning, in my opinion.
but it would still be illegal to steal the car, keys, radio, or anything else.
He shouldn't be charged, by GOD, these analogies are terrible. :-)
You sound absolutely desperate to look for "indoctrination conspiracy" that you can't see past your own nose.
Nothing else to say.
It says they can be mixed with regular shingles, so I would imagine one would make "walkways" of regular shingles to access things like roof-vents, gutters, swamp coolers, chimneys, etc.