It isn't going to be cold for very long once it starts travelling through the atmosphere at 8 km/s. I've seen tests of ICBM warheads. They look like meteors as they travel through the atmosphere during the terminal phase of their flight.
Yeah, but that has issues in and of itself. Waiting sucks, it favors those who don't have jobs, and you can't simply beat line-cutters to death on the street without having to explain yourself to the police.
It would be easy to design a cell phone that could irrevocably destroy itself upon external command. Internal fuses can be blown and the phone's firmware can be erased or disabled. I can think of several simple ways to do it.
There's a huge market for the export of stolen phones. Where do you think that they get all of the cheap second-hand phones sold in third-world countries?
The whole issue of 9/11 keeps reminding me of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the many investigations that followed it. Some people still think that there was a White House conspiracy to start a war by ignoring warnings of a imminent Japanese attack. The American government, and top military commanders, knew that there was a very high probability of military action by Japan. The problem was that the available intelligence left them guessing as to when and where the Japanese might attack. The warnings that Bin Laden was planning and preparing major operations posed similar problems. Without more specific intelligence, what do you do about it?
Pu-238 is not fissile, and an RTG (radioisotope thermoelectric generator) is not a nuclear reactor, it uses the decay heat of the radioisotope to produce electricity.
Customs and Immigration can be real jerks when the individual in question is wearing the wrong sort of clothes, belongs to the wrong ethnic group, has a passport or visa issued by the wrong country, etc. The problem is that they have near-absolute power to make your life miserable.
It was the Works Progress Administration, a relief program for the unemployed, run by the USA's federal government during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
It was a make-work program that put unemployed people to work and produced useful results.
It would be a regulatory and engineering nightmare. Low-voltage DC circuits avoid most of the rules that go along with high-voltage AC circuits. Hot chassis TV sets require interlocks and insulated cases to avoid electrocuting the user. They also don't have users opening them up on a regular basis to install and replace parts.
The problem is that voltage regulation and long cables are incompatible with each other. The voltage regulator in the power supply needs to be physically close to the load, and connected with short, heavy-gauge wiring, for proper operation.
The FCC rules for issuing FM broadcast licenses have nothing to do with preventing harmful interference to other licensed services. They are supposed to allow for orderly and fair access to the FM broadcast band by broadcasters and potential broadcasters. The problem is that the FM broadcast band is a limited resource and FCC deregulation has created a free market in broadcast licenses. This means that only people with large amounts of money can afford to purchase a license and put a station on the air. There are no frequencies set aside for low-power and limited-range broadcasting. Free markets may work for many things, but they have turned the FM broadcast band into a vast wasteland.
All fines, fees, taxes, etc. go into the U.S. Treasury's General Fund. Only the Congress has the constitutional authority to authorize spending by the federal government. If NASA discovers a pirate's chest full of gold at the Kennedy Space Center, they don't get to keep a single doubloon.
They are still going to have to flush out your gastrointestinal tract before deploying the robot.
When I had a colonoscopy done, the worst part was the doctor handing me a gallon jug of "colon flush" and telling me I had to drink the whole jug. Blech! Before the actual procedure, they gave me a shot of some nice drug that knocked me out.
It isn't just the batteries, there is a battery charge controller in the laptop. Improper charging can also cause a battery failure, as can physical abuse of the battery.
There is no "silver bullet" to stop terrorism. Stop claiming there is. Our best bet to end terrorism is making it a world wide effort and treating other countries with respect -- the same way our country would like to be treated.
Some fights are unavoidable, unless you would rather surrender or run away. The idea that we can end terrorism by treating everyone with "respect" is naïve.
It isn't just sulfer, I saw a documentary on television that said that the grounding of commercial air traffic after 9/11 had a very noticeable effect on the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface.
It's been well known for decades that Hezbollah gets large amounts of money, training, weapons, and equipment from Iran, via the Revolutionary Guards. It isn't a secret.
In terms of resources, money and warm bodies, I suspect that the NSA is way out in front of the Israelis. As Stalin said, quantity has a quality all its own.
It doesn't surprise me. The vendor sold them a packaged system. They probably kept all of the manufacturer-supplied documentation for the system's components and provided the customer with a user manual that was written for idiots. Part of locking-in the customer for after-sale parts and services is to keep them ignorant.
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It isn't going to be cold for very long once it starts travelling through the atmosphere at 8 km/s. I've seen tests of ICBM warheads. They look like meteors as they travel through the atmosphere during the terminal phase of their flight.
That's why the mobile wood chipper was invented.
It would be easy to design a cell phone that could irrevocably destroy itself upon external command. Internal fuses can be blown and the phone's firmware can be erased or disabled. I can think of several simple ways to do it.
There's a huge market for the export of stolen phones. Where do you think that they get all of the cheap second-hand phones sold in third-world countries?
The whole issue of 9/11 keeps reminding me of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the many investigations that followed it. Some people still think that there was a White House conspiracy to start a war by ignoring warnings of a imminent Japanese attack. The American government, and top military commanders, knew that there was a very high probability of military action by Japan. The problem was that the available intelligence left them guessing as to when and where the Japanese might attack. The warnings that Bin Laden was planning and preparing major operations posed similar problems. Without more specific intelligence, what do you do about it?
Pu-238 is not fissile, and an RTG (radioisotope thermoelectric generator) is not a nuclear reactor, it uses the decay heat of the radioisotope to produce electricity.
Pu-238 is not fissile.
Customs and Immigration can be real jerks when the individual in question is wearing the wrong sort of clothes, belongs to the wrong ethnic group, has a passport or visa issued by the wrong country, etc. The problem is that they have near-absolute power to make your life miserable.
It was the Works Progress Administration, a relief program for the unemployed, run by the USA's federal government during the Great Depression of the 1930s. It was a make-work program that put unemployed people to work and produced useful results.
It would be a regulatory and engineering nightmare. Low-voltage DC circuits avoid most of the rules that go along with high-voltage AC circuits. Hot chassis TV sets require interlocks and insulated cases to avoid electrocuting the user. They also don't have users opening them up on a regular basis to install and replace parts.
The problem is that voltage regulation and long cables are incompatible with each other. The voltage regulator in the power supply needs to be physically close to the load, and connected with short, heavy-gauge wiring, for proper operation.
The FCC rules for issuing FM broadcast licenses have nothing to do with preventing harmful interference to other licensed services. They are supposed to allow for orderly and fair access to the FM broadcast band by broadcasters and potential broadcasters. The problem is that the FM broadcast band is a limited resource and FCC deregulation has created a free market in broadcast licenses. This means that only people with large amounts of money can afford to purchase a license and put a station on the air. There are no frequencies set aside for low-power and limited-range broadcasting. Free markets may work for many things, but they have turned the FM broadcast band into a vast wasteland.
All fines, fees, taxes, etc. go into the U.S. Treasury's General Fund. Only the Congress has the constitutional authority to authorize spending by the federal government. If NASA discovers a pirate's chest full of gold at the Kennedy Space Center, they don't get to keep a single doubloon.
Nitrocellulose.
When I had a colonoscopy done, the worst part was the doctor handing me a gallon jug of "colon flush" and telling me I had to drink the whole jug. Blech! Before the actual procedure, they gave me a shot of some nice drug that knocked me out.
How does a fuse short-circuit?
It isn't just the batteries, there is a battery charge controller in the laptop. Improper charging can also cause a battery failure, as can physical abuse of the battery.
Some fights are unavoidable, unless you would rather surrender or run away. The idea that we can end terrorism by treating everyone with "respect" is naïve.
Besides the problems in moving them and keeping them in working order, they are susceptible to tampering.
Let's paint the environmentalists white, increasing the albedo of the planet.
See http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/08/07/co ntrails.climate/
It's been well known for decades that Hezbollah gets large amounts of money, training, weapons, and equipment from Iran, via the Revolutionary Guards. It isn't a secret.
In terms of resources, money and warm bodies, I suspect that the NSA is way out in front of the Israelis. As Stalin said, quantity has a quality all its own.
It doesn't surprise me. The vendor sold them a packaged system. They probably kept all of the manufacturer-supplied documentation for the system's components and provided the customer with a user manual that was written for idiots. Part of locking-in the customer for after-sale parts and services is to keep them ignorant.
Statistics are only valid if their underlying assumptions are also valid.