One of the solutions to moon dust in probes was to keep articulating members inside a compartment. Wheels and speeds were designed to minimize the amount of dust thrown up. Neither is practical when talking about construction.
Second factor is mass of objects to be moved. A design that is built to manipulate ounces of mass doesn't work so well when scaled up for hundreds of pounds or tons of mass.
Get something to work in a desert environment, say Death Valley or the Chilean deserts, and then we can start talking about the moon.
One day, the world will end, and there isn't a damn thing that anyone will be able to do about it. Whether its caused by a natural disaster, a man made disaster, or a combo of the two, its going to happen. Unless you have some way to stop the life cycle of the sun, deal with it.
The world has been hotter than it is now. The world has been colder than it is now. Life still managed to thrive. CO2 levels have been 10 to 15 times higher than the current levels, and life still thrived.
The climate has changed in the past. The climate will continue to change in the future. Are humans responsible for current global climate change? Maybe, but I doubt it. Can we stop the climate from changing? No.
My cats must just be cruel then. I have one in particular that likes to catch and injure prey, then drag it to the middle of the drive way and waits to see if its going to try and get away. If it does, he pounces again, drags it back and repeats. I've come home to squirrels, mice, rats, snakes, birds, just about anything he can catch. But he never eats it.
Instead of highly poisonous, how about something that is just highly unpleasant?
I live on a farm, and have had good luck getting things to not chew on my cables, or power wires for that matter, by rubbing them with habanero peppers. Poison takes time to work. Habaneros work damn near instantly.
The law of inverse squares always seems to get overlooked in these discussions. Its the law that is used to measure distances using standard candle stars. We know how much light a star of a particular age and mass should be emitting and measuring how bright it really is gives us an idea of how far away the star is.
Following the law if inverse squares, ALL commercial signals from earth fall below the level of interstellar space background radiation in less than 2 light years, not even enough range to reach the next star system.
If the entire world's power grid was dedicated to the purpose of powering a radio beacon, it would only reach about 50 light years.
SETI makes for a good array of radio telescopes, but the odds of them finding a radio signal from an intelligent civ is between zero and none.
I'm just terrified that the execs won't get the point of Ender's Game, and will make all sorts of stupid changes to increase its market appeal, there by destroying the story.
I still think that everyone involved with the Starship Troopers movie should be burned at the stake as a warning to others.
Well, since Islamic extremists find the female body to be sinful, why don't we just require that all messages from now on be embedded in porn?
Every web page is required to have some porn image on it.
Telephones must have a screen close by and you would be required to view porn before making or receiving any call. Run it like a pay phone, you have to view porn every few minutes to continue talking.
For the military, EMP frying computers is a major concern in the event of a nuclear attack. Protections were developed and are known as hardened systems.
This is the same thing, just on a smaller scale. The same tech used to keep things running after a nuke should be able to prevent a wireless charger from inducting a current in a circuit that its not supposed to.
Unfortunately, 400 hertz is about the optimum frequency for inductive loads to be as efficient without a core as a 60 hertz inductive load is with a core.
And then there is the whole thing about the established power grid running at 50 to 60 hertz.
The Blue Force Tracker system is an OK navigation system. The daggers, military hand held GPS sytems, are total and complete shit. Your lucky if you can find your own ass with one of those things.
When I first got into Iraq, we where told we didn't need strip maps because our convoy commander had a GPS and and "had driven the route dozens of times." We took several wrong turns in Baghdad and were lost for over an hour. We ran into a EOD cordon around an IED, and they pointed us in the right direction. On the up side, we missed 2 IED's along our planned route.
3 points to consider.
First, that freedom of expression or speech isn't important. If you've never had it, you can't miss it, or decide that its unimportant.
Second, lets just say that from the time a person is 3 years old all the way into their adult life, they are taught that the government is infallible. All the information they are given from childhood into their adult life supports this. All dissenting information is suppressed. Lets also say that this person is told that other governments that allow individual freedoms are bad for whatever reasons. All the information that this person is given from childhood to adulthood also supports this. All dissenting information is again suppressed. Given this type of upbringing, how do you think this person would view their government?
Third, the people of China did not pick their government, nor do they have much of choice in its continuance. True, there were several revolutions in China in a very short period of time. When the communists took over, they just learned from the mistakes of the government that they overthrew. Its very hard to start a revolution in a population that is thoroughly indoctrinated and where dissent is brutally squashed.
I know that the tech items being taxed are getting a lot of play here, but did anybody else notice that a key part of the budget revolves around increased gambling and increased alcohol sales?
I'm sure that the re-education camps for those that disagree with the Chinese government too much have nothing to do with average person saying the government should control the internet too.
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I don't know where you are from, but i know that the school can't trump parental rights in most parts of the country.
One of the solutions to moon dust in probes was to keep articulating members inside a compartment. Wheels and speeds were designed to minimize the amount of dust thrown up. Neither is practical when talking about construction.
Second factor is mass of objects to be moved. A design that is built to manipulate ounces of mass doesn't work so well when scaled up for hundreds of pounds or tons of mass.
Get something to work in a desert environment, say Death Valley or the Chilean deserts, and then we can start talking about the moon.
One day, the world will end, and there isn't a damn thing that anyone will be able to do about it. Whether its caused by a natural disaster, a man made disaster, or a combo of the two, its going to happen. Unless you have some way to stop the life cycle of the sun, deal with it.
The world has been hotter than it is now. The world has been colder than it is now. Life still managed to thrive. CO2 levels have been 10 to 15 times higher than the current levels, and life still thrived.
The climate has changed in the past. The climate will continue to change in the future. Are humans responsible for current global climate change? Maybe, but I doubt it. Can we stop the climate from changing? No.
My cats must just be cruel then. I have one in particular that likes to catch and injure prey, then drag it to the middle of the drive way and waits to see if its going to try and get away. If it does, he pounces again, drags it back and repeats. I've come home to squirrels, mice, rats, snakes, birds, just about anything he can catch. But he never eats it.
Instead of highly poisonous, how about something that is just highly unpleasant?
I live on a farm, and have had good luck getting things to not chew on my cables, or power wires for that matter, by rubbing them with habanero peppers. Poison takes time to work. Habaneros work damn near instantly.
Indeed. The correct title is, Finding Syngergies with Valued Customers Through Web 2.0 Social Methodologies.
I refuse to take anyone or anything seriously that the word, or any form of the word "Synergy"
Talks cheap, action costs. Glad to hear that there are still people out there that are willing to put their money with their mouth is.
It would be great for the people if every bill had a clear title and everything in the bill had to be related to the title.
Too bad that its not going to happen until after then next revolution.
There's talk of adding GPS to cars in the US too. Seems that we aren't making enough money in gas taxes. Yeah Hybrids!
Nice joke, I sure some people will even believe it, but save things like this for April Fools Day.
The law of inverse squares always seems to get overlooked in these discussions. Its the law that is used to measure distances using standard candle stars. We know how much light a star of a particular age and mass should be emitting and measuring how bright it really is gives us an idea of how far away the star is.
Following the law if inverse squares, ALL commercial signals from earth fall below the level of interstellar space background radiation in less than 2 light years, not even enough range to reach the next star system.
If the entire world's power grid was dedicated to the purpose of powering a radio beacon, it would only reach about 50 light years.
SETI makes for a good array of radio telescopes, but the odds of them finding a radio signal from an intelligent civ is between zero and none.
But the mercury from the standard incandescent lights is not concentrated in my living room.
I'm just terrified that the execs won't get the point of Ender's Game, and will make all sorts of stupid changes to increase its market appeal, there by destroying the story.
I still think that everyone involved with the Starship Troopers movie should be burned at the stake as a warning to others.
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Why should we care about this? Its not like someones SSN or Credit Card info was stolen. Stuff like this happens all the time.
If you want to defame someone, its a lot easier to just make some wild and unprovable claim on the right webs sites and let the internet do its thing.
Well, since Islamic extremists find the female body to be sinful, why don't we just require that all messages from now on be embedded in porn?
Every web page is required to have some porn image on it.
Telephones must have a screen close by and you would be required to view porn before making or receiving any call. Run it like a pay phone, you have to view porn every few minutes to continue talking.
Since when has anything that the government done been required to make sense?
It is if your research relies on government grants.
Politicians need to be kept as far away from science and scientists as possible for the good of everyone.
Yes coldest since 2000. Spinning the data point in the opposite direction - it was the 10th hottest year on record.
Wasn't that claim based on September's temp data being "accidentally" being entered as Octobers data?
There are lots of shielding options for ICs.
For the military, EMP frying computers is a major concern in the event of a nuclear attack. Protections were developed and are known as hardened systems.
This is the same thing, just on a smaller scale. The same tech used to keep things running after a nuke should be able to prevent a wireless charger from inducting a current in a circuit that its not supposed to.
Unfortunately, 400 hertz is about the optimum frequency for inductive loads to be as efficient without a core as a 60 hertz inductive load is with a core.
And then there is the whole thing about the established power grid running at 50 to 60 hertz.
The Blue Force Tracker system is an OK navigation system. The daggers, military hand held GPS sytems, are total and complete shit. Your lucky if you can find your own ass with one of those things.
When I first got into Iraq, we where told we didn't need strip maps because our convoy commander had a GPS and and "had driven the route dozens of times." We took several wrong turns in Baghdad and were lost for over an hour. We ran into a EOD cordon around an IED, and they pointed us in the right direction. On the up side, we missed 2 IED's along our planned route.
3 points to consider. First, that freedom of expression or speech isn't important. If you've never had it, you can't miss it, or decide that its unimportant. Second, lets just say that from the time a person is 3 years old all the way into their adult life, they are taught that the government is infallible. All the information they are given from childhood into their adult life supports this. All dissenting information is suppressed. Lets also say that this person is told that other governments that allow individual freedoms are bad for whatever reasons. All the information that this person is given from childhood to adulthood also supports this. All dissenting information is again suppressed. Given this type of upbringing, how do you think this person would view their government? Third, the people of China did not pick their government, nor do they have much of choice in its continuance. True, there were several revolutions in China in a very short period of time. When the communists took over, they just learned from the mistakes of the government that they overthrew. Its very hard to start a revolution in a population that is thoroughly indoctrinated and where dissent is brutally squashed.
I know that the tech items being taxed are getting a lot of play here, but did anybody else notice that a key part of the budget revolves around increased gambling and increased alcohol sales?
I'm sure that the re-education camps for those that disagree with the Chinese government too much have nothing to do with average person saying the government should control the internet too.