I've thought about some sort of biologically inert sheathing that would allow for out-patient (or in-store) type cut-and-replace upgrades, otherwise digging audiovisual chips out would get unnecessarily messy as the speed of improvements increased. (Either that or early adopters would be stuck with inferior systems for a while, and that would never do...)
On the face of it, the only problem I can see would be fabricating a shell strong enough to resist the pressure the atmosphere would exert upon it (which I tried working out, but only found I need more coffee...), whilst being light enough to float.
The MTBF of some of them is 300,000 hours.
I can't remember figures for current high flux emitters like Rebels or Crees but Nichia CS series LEDs had a ~500hr burntime (this was a few years ago, (2005 ish) they'll have improved it by now)
Also, LEDs don't have the colour range of CFLs or incans - they're generally cold, harsh, high temp light emitters (the Lumileds Rebel and certain bins of Luxeon III are the warmest tinted LEDs I've personally seen.
True - they won't even spend £8M, was it? for some telescopes (or was that £20M, and I'm getting it mixed up with the (rather more important - see A. Einstein) 'save the honeybees' thing), so what hope has manned space exploration got?
TFA doesn't say how these detectors are going to work, but it could be a sort of scintilloscope meets betavoltaic generator setup, taking the electricity generated by each 'count', graphing the counts per minute and sending an alert over $MOBILE_NETWORK to the command centre if it rises above the nominal background count (20CPM IIRC).
Whilst I'm not entirely sure how the above system would work in the finer details, I assume it's possible to differentiate between different types of radiation, develop a database of 'fingerprints' and squelch out the ones that are fairly ubiquitous.
That's how I'd do it, and that's after only a few minutes of thinking about it.
It isn't an analogy.
Each observatory supports an L-shaped ultra high vacuum system, measuring 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) on each side. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO/
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I've thought about some sort of biologically inert sheathing that would allow for out-patient (or in-store) type cut-and-replace upgrades, otherwise digging audiovisual chips out would get unnecessarily messy as the speed of improvements increased. (Either that or early adopters would be stuck with inferior systems for a while, and that would never do...)
Well, he has a French sounding name, an email address from altiva.fr, his sig has a URL in French with the French TLD...
is there a new rating system i don't know about? what are the other options besides "very high geek-hacker level"?
I think it's based on something like the rate of neologisms/minute and the viewer's ability to parse them out based upon context.
Metric for ESA and Long Ton for NASA, how else are they going to continue the (albeit nascent) tradition of unit-mismatch induced failures?
Ours is 'Honeypot'.
Wake me up when they bring back the Transatlantic Zeppelin flights
And me.
Hell, I'd build one, if the certification process wasn't so onerous. And had the money. (Time, now that I have plenty of...)
On the face of it, the only problem I can see would be fabricating a shell strong enough to resist the pressure the atmosphere would exert upon it (which I tried working out, but only found I need more coffee...), whilst being light enough to float.
Been (or being, at least) done.
I can't find the site in question, but they had about half a dozen adapters to go with their charging plate.
Pricy though. (~$80?)
Bindun.
'Are you smarter than a ten year old?' - a quiz (on Sky 1, I think).
Approximately 14,600.
I have. And I cleaned up (or, am cleaning up) the special characters...
Feh. Lightweight.
[Curses lack of mod points]
IIRC it's once every seven years.
Ask Akhillius.
Who?
I deselect that option on any windows box I use, as a matter of principle.
Another vote for Irfanview here.
Hmm... Wiki doesn't have a page on it (or fused/sintered regolith either)
here's the NS article:
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn8320-lunar-lawnmower-to-deal-with-moon-dust-menace-.html/
The MTBF of some of them is 300,000 hours.
I can't remember figures for current high flux emitters like Rebels or Crees but Nichia CS series LEDs had a ~500hr burntime (this was a few years ago, (2005 ish) they'll have improved it by now)
Also, LEDs don't have the colour range of CFLs or incans - they're generally cold, harsh, high temp light emitters (the Lumileds Rebel and certain bins of Luxeon III are the warmest tinted LEDs I've personally seen.
They have some way to go yet.
True - they won't even spend £8M, was it? for some telescopes (or was that £20M, and I'm getting it mixed up with the (rather more important - see A. Einstein) 'save the honeybees' thing), so what hope has manned space exploration got?
I despair of this bloody country sometimes...
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TFA doesn't say how these detectors are going to work, but it could be a sort of scintilloscope meets betavoltaic generator setup, taking the electricity generated by each 'count', graphing the counts per minute and sending an alert over $MOBILE_NETWORK to the command centre if it rises above the nominal background count (20CPM IIRC).
Whilst I'm not entirely sure how the above system would work in the finer details, I assume it's possible to differentiate between different types of radiation, develop a database of 'fingerprints' and squelch out the ones that are fairly ubiquitous.
That's how I'd do it, and that's after only a few minutes of thinking about it.
BBLean http://bb4win.org/ is another one similar to Fluxbox.
Gravity waves travel at C (±20%) http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=speed+of+propagation+of+gravity+waves/