Neither i mistook a gravity well for some fancy anti gravity device. Didn't look it up on google. >Earth to a few tens of thousands of miles higher does not require an understanding of the mechanism of gravity Are you an idiot or a troll? Don't you think i know that. Huh : - ( ) I takes a massive amount of kinetic energy. That's why we need to run the whole operation from the moon. moteyalpha: Sorry i missed your point:)
I should have said, when golf club production drove up titanium demand. It actually was on the news back in 2005--2006 when production of titanium golf cubs surged and people stated to buy these insanely large drivers that sounded like half empty coke bottles.
I have a suggest to that problem. We have already seen how golf clubs have driven up titanium production to the level were it almost stalled jet turbine blades production. So why not make golf balls with plutonium cores? They will be dead easy to find using a geiger counter.
Then i will add an other bullet to the list. * Understand how a H3 fusion reactor works. That part could actually be solved on earth. However It's almost 35 years ago that i read an article that the scientists where almost there. And I thought they actually cracked it, but just needed a steady supply of H3 . hmm.
There is no such thing as a gravity well. Space travel still follows the same basic rules since the forties. Nobody understands gravity. I mean nobody! There is a lot of crazy theories out there. Even the higgs boson haven't been finally confirmed yet. Thinking about gravity well's for space exploration is not going to be productive until there is a better understanding of gravity. Even if we understood gravity perfectly. It wouldn't necessary mean that we would be able to manipulate gravity at all. We have to use what ever technology that is available today, if we wan't to push the boundaries in space travel. The longer we sit and debate about star trek technology, the more we will miss out.
* Build a moon base * Setup solarpanels for lots of power generation * Build infrastructure * Extract lots of Helium 3 * Build a monorail assisted launch system * Build space ship parts * Build a Tokamak in parts, small enough to assemble in space * Launch all the s#!+ into space and assemble all the parts * Remember to launch a couple of tons of H3 too * Go!
If not for the plain arrogance towards both the market and it's customers that often comes with to much success. In that respect the just team up with a partner with the exact same problem. Or should i say gotten owned by. They should have listened to all the critics back in 2006-2007 when they started to produce perfectly engineered smartphones that met all the specs on paper, but never really worked in practice, ie. N96. Nokia + Microsoft are just like to middle aged guys that found each other, sunday morning at six o'clock when all the hot girls ( or guys:/ ( no pun intended ) ) left the bar. The whole town is empty. They need all the luck they can get or it could get ugly. Had Nokia just teamed up with Intel, way earlier and kep focus on meego and perhaps Qt, it could have been a great party. Had they focused on Android already back in 2005 as a plan b, they would have been safe by now. Now it's just two battered old guys holding hands, sun is rising. Hum!
All you need is one power plant to fail catastrophically per company to ruin the whole deal. Like Three Mile Island, Tjernobyl or Fukushima. Human error is all it takes. External events such as earthquakes, meteor strikes and world wide economical disasters are a matter of statistics and difficult to relate to, for most people. But as you know it, shit happens. You can't predict the future. That is why nuclear power is so risky. Risk being chance multiplied with consequences.
It might sound silly, but it is much more cost effective than nuclear power. Look at how much damage the Fukushima has already cost TEPCO and the Japanese government. And it is not over yet: Fukushima's Radioactive Plume Could Reach U.S. Waters By 2014 Everybody get are "fair" share. Just one of these accidents every twenty years and it is goodbye turnover.
It might sound silly, but it is much more cost effective than nuclear power. Look at how much damage the Fukushima has already cost TEPCO and the Japanese government. And it is not over yet: Fukushima's Radioactive Plume Could Reach U.S. Waters By 2014 Everybody get are "fair" share. Just one of these accidents every twenty years and it is goodbye turnover.
>"This is why you don't hire brilliant people for jobs like this. You hire smart people. Brilliant people get you in trouble"
Sounds like the good old and worn out spaghetti western frase. "He new too much". Well Snowden definitely new too much. Perhaps if he was really brilliant, he would be seated in Congress. But anyways. Now it is not only dangerous to know too much. Being very smart is suddenly also dangerous. Duh..ok boss.
>You would have to take into account the one variable he doesn't... the speed of light.
I just watched "The shooter" on Netflix yesterday. Lee Swagger would hit his target across the galaxy without any booster corrections, taking into account, the heat radiation, electromagnetic forces, space and time warping, gravity shearing, gravity pull from black matter, resistance from the microscopic amounts of hydrogen gas. Boom shaka laka.
>Stars move. You'd be adding hundreds of years to your travel time by taking a curved path You could bring a sniper to do the aiming. Beside 100, plus minus compared to 100.000 years wouldn't be my biggest concern.
Then i would turn the ship around and go the other way around the galaxy and set the cryo-beds and the alarm clock for an other 250 million years, or what ever it takes for the galaxy to revolve.
Just add a cross hair to the "windscreen" of the space ship and point it at the damn star that you are going to pay a visit. There will be plenty of time for fine tuning. As a matter of fact, it would be a real good recreational job for the 10.000 year long trip. As the star got bigger you would simply change the velocity accordingly. Not such a big deal. I know, because i used to play Elite on a C64.
You are probably right about coal and fossil fuel in general. That's a slow death. Nuclear on the other hand is a random killer, striking without warning. Kind of like a mad terrorist with access to radioactive material. Then again, what about the wast problem. Can we administrate waste over a 10.000 year period ? I don't think so. Sun power is good, especially near equator. Wind power is good wherever there is wind. Same with water power (wind=>waves). But i would much rather like to see the next moon project being about helium 3 harvesting. Imagine one ton of H3 arriving at earth every month. That would be the biggest change in energy production ever.
I remember all the neglecting comments about nuclear safety. Hmm. Now listen up! Nuclear power is unsafe! It is not that nuclear material can't be safely maintained or stored. The problem is we as a human race are just not up for it. Nuclear material is stored safely on Earth by nature, inside bedrocks, deep below in the ground. As soon as we start digging it up and start playing with it, that is when it starts to become a real problem. So leave it where it is!
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, it is thruster beams.
And yes it is an asteriod.
Is it the new nuclear deterrence?
I'm sure that someone will claim it has something to do with Nibiru. :)
Whohoo, It's a bird [boid]
Great stuff
You forgot the for loop, or while.
Ex:
while (1) { serve_alcohol() }
Slam,slam,slam,slam,slam,slam,slam,slam......
That's better
Neither i mistook a gravity well for some fancy anti gravity device. Didn't look it up on google. :)
>Earth to a few tens of thousands of miles higher does not require an understanding of the mechanism of gravity
Are you an idiot or a troll?
Don't you think i know that. Huh : - ( )
I takes a massive amount of kinetic energy. That's why we need to run the whole operation from the moon.
moteyalpha: Sorry i missed your point
I should have said, when golf club production drove up titanium demand.
It actually was on the news back in 2005--2006 when production of titanium golf cubs surged and people stated to buy these insanely large drivers that sounded like half empty coke bottles.
I have a suggest to that problem.
We have already seen how golf clubs have driven up titanium production to the level were it almost stalled jet turbine blades production.
So why not make golf balls with plutonium cores?
They will be dead easy to find using a geiger counter.
Then i will add an other bullet to the list. * Understand how a H3 fusion reactor works.
That part could actually be solved on earth.
However It's almost 35 years ago that i read an article that the scientists where almost there.
And I thought they actually cracked it, but just needed a steady supply of H3 . hmm.
There is no such thing as a gravity well.
Space travel still follows the same basic rules since the forties.
Nobody understands gravity. I mean nobody! There is a lot of crazy theories out there.
Even the higgs boson haven't been finally confirmed yet.
Thinking about gravity well's for space exploration is not going to be productive until there is a better understanding of gravity.
Even if we understood gravity perfectly. It wouldn't necessary mean that we would be able to manipulate gravity at all.
We have to use what ever technology that is available today, if we wan't to push the boundaries in space travel.
The longer we sit and debate about star trek technology, the more we will miss out.
* Build a moon base
* Setup solarpanels for lots of power generation
* Build infrastructure
* Extract lots of Helium 3
* Build a monorail assisted launch system
* Build space ship parts
* Build a Tokamak in parts, small enough to assemble in space
* Launch all the s#!+ into space and assemble all the parts
* Remember to launch a couple of tons of H3 too
* Go!
If not for the plain arrogance towards both the market and it's customers that often comes with to much success. :/ ( no pun intended ) ) left the bar. The whole town is empty. They need all the luck they can get or it could get ugly.
In that respect the just team up with a partner with the exact same problem. Or should i say gotten owned by.
They should have listened to all the critics back in 2006-2007 when they started to produce perfectly engineered smartphones that met all the specs on paper, but never really worked in practice, ie. N96.
Nokia + Microsoft are just like to middle aged guys that found each other, sunday morning at six o'clock when all the hot girls ( or guys
Had Nokia just teamed up with Intel, way earlier and kep focus on meego and perhaps Qt, it could have been a great party.
Had they focused on Android already back in 2005 as a plan b, they would have been safe by now.
Now it's just two battered old guys holding hands, sun is rising. Hum!
What, what... what does it mean?
... Mood, Stress level, etc. If your hungry and so on.
And if your hungry it will start carpet bomb you with burger adds.
For recognizing that too much surveillance can be a doubled edged sword.
All you need is one power plant to fail catastrophically per company to ruin the whole deal. Like Three Mile Island, Tjernobyl or Fukushima.
Human error is all it takes.
External events such as earthquakes, meteor strikes and world wide economical disasters are a matter of statistics and difficult to relate to, for most people.
But as you know it, shit happens. You can't predict the future. That is why nuclear power is so risky. Risk being chance multiplied with consequences.
Invest in offshore wind power and water power.
It might sound silly, but it is much more cost effective than nuclear power.
Look at how much damage the Fukushima has already cost TEPCO and the Japanese government.
And it is not over yet: Fukushima's Radioactive Plume Could Reach U.S. Waters By 2014
Everybody get are "fair" share.
Just one of these accidents every twenty years and it is goodbye turnover.
Invest in offshore wind power and water power.
It might sound silly, but it is much more cost effective than nuclear power.
Look at how much damage the Fukushima has already cost TEPCO and the Japanese government.
And it is not over yet: Fukushima's Radioactive Plume Could Reach U.S. Waters By 2014
Everybody get are "fair" share.
Just one of these accidents every twenty years and it is goodbye turnover.
>"This is why you don't hire brilliant people for jobs like this. You hire smart people. Brilliant people get you in trouble"
Sounds like the good old and worn out spaghetti western frase. "He new too much".
Well Snowden definitely new too much. Perhaps if he was really brilliant, he would be seated in Congress.
But anyways. Now it is not only dangerous to know too much. Being very smart is suddenly also dangerous.
Duh..ok boss.
What about emotions or perhaps even thoughts?
Will it be possible?
ThatIsOneOfTheBestIdeasThatIHaveHeardInALongLongTime
>You would have to take into account the one variable he doesn't... the speed of light.
I just watched "The shooter" on Netflix yesterday.
Lee Swagger would hit his target across the galaxy without any booster corrections, taking into account, the heat radiation, electromagnetic forces, space and time warping, gravity shearing, gravity pull from black matter, resistance from the microscopic amounts of hydrogen gas. Boom shaka laka.
>Stars move. You'd be adding hundreds of years to your travel time by taking a curved path
You could bring a sniper to do the aiming.
Beside 100, plus minus compared to 100.000 years wouldn't be my biggest concern.
Then i would turn the ship around and go the other way around the galaxy and set the cryo-beds and the alarm clock for an other 250 million years, or what ever it takes for the galaxy to revolve.
Just add a cross hair to the "windscreen" of the space ship and point it at the damn star that you are going to pay a visit.
There will be plenty of time for fine tuning. As a matter of fact, it would be a real good recreational job for the 10.000 year long trip.
As the star got bigger you would simply change the velocity accordingly. Not such a big deal. I know, because i used to play Elite on a C64.
You are probably right about coal and fossil fuel in general. That's a slow death.
Nuclear on the other hand is a random killer, striking without warning. Kind of like a mad terrorist with access to radioactive material.
Then again, what about the wast problem. Can we administrate waste over a 10.000 year period ?
I don't think so.
Sun power is good, especially near equator.
Wind power is good wherever there is wind.
Same with water power (wind=>waves).
But i would much rather like to see the next moon project being about helium 3 harvesting.
Imagine one ton of H3 arriving at earth every month.
That would be the biggest change in energy production ever.
I remember all the neglecting comments about nuclear safety. Hmm.
Now listen up!
Nuclear power is unsafe!
It is not that nuclear material can't be safely maintained or stored.
The problem is we as a human race are just not up for it.
Nuclear material is stored safely on Earth by nature, inside bedrocks, deep below in the ground.
As soon as we start digging it up and start playing with it, that is when it starts to become a real problem.
So leave it where it is!
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Try again next year.