Also, the MagLev rails going over the mountain would be exactly the same as those being used elsewhere on the MagLev network, except for being more rugged. The vehicles wouldn't notice any difference.
The MagLev rails are elevated on pylons above the terrain. If they tend to accumulate too much snow, sleet, or rime ice, then built-in electric heaters can melt enough of the ice so that the rest would fall off.
Fifty years ago, Drs. Gordon T. Danby and James R. Powell of Brookhaven National Labs on Long Island, New York, invented first-generation Superconducting Magnetic Levitation (SC MagLev) Rail, using dipole magnets. This was used for the current JR Central MagLev system in Japan.
Since then, they have developed their far-superior second-generation system, using quadrupole magnets. In this system, the vehicles are not so much levitated above the rail, but suspended by the sides of the rail, so that any effort to move the vehicle up, down, or to the left or right, elicits strong restoring forces, meaning it can resist all but the strongest winds. Also, since the gap between the rail and the vehicle is about 4" (10 cm), if the rail gets iced up,it is only necessary to de-ice it to a depth of about 2½" (6 cm). Thus, second-generation MagLev is almost impervious to weather.
Also, this MagLev system can handle the steep grades needed when crossing a mountain. With external propulsion power, as much energy as is needed can be used to raise each vehicle over the mountain, and most all that energy would be recovered as it descends the mountain on the other side.
Thus, you could have ordinary MagLev vehicles, some as small as individual passenger cars, that could cross over the mountains on open-air MagLev monorails. For details, see www.LeviCar.com/, with links to Danby and Powell's work in Group A (Antecedents and Allies). Tunnels are expensive and of limited capacity. MagLev rails are a lot cheaper, and just as good.
My experience with Alta Vista was that sometimes it seemed to go "off-track", answering, not my question, but a similar question. When I tried to refine my query, it still seemed stuck on what it thought I asked before, not what I was asking.
I later found out that they used "Bayesian Logic", where the answers to the previous questions guided the answer to the new question. No wonder I had this problem!
When Google came along, of course I went with them, and still do. They are still the #1 Search Engine, although some of their other services, like Google Maps, have become untrustworthy.
If I had a billion dollars, I would invest in perfecting Danby-Powell superconducting MagLev. See http://www.levicar.com/. For three-quarters of that amount, a test facility could be built in Nevada (see http://www.readinessresource.n...). This would eventually lead to a nationwide MagLev net that could bring MagLev depots to within ten miles of any point in any built-up (urban or suburban) area.
In ten years, this can replace existing passenger and freight rail, and displace a lot of air travel. In forty years, this could be a multi-trillion dollar industry satisfying most of the county's transportation needs cleanly and efficiently.
One of the strange things about a tachyon is that it can be traveling in one direction for some real inertial reference frame, and be traveling in another direction for some other inertial reference frame. For yet another reference frame intermediate between those two, the tachyon is traveling at infinite speed, yet has zero dynamic mass and a finite momentum of +/- i mc, where i is the square root of -1, m is the imaginary rest mass of the tachyon, and c is the speed of light.
The direction of the momentum vector is ambiguous.
Since this is a total contradiction, I assume that tachyons cannot exist.
I have an idea -- add a small excise (sales) tax on electronics and other high-tech good, with that money dedicated to NASA and a few similar agencies, such as NOAA and NIST. Then there would be a guaranteed source of funding for the very important research these agencies do.
I use NoScript, and only allow Javascripts that I trust.
I am also a Comcast customer. The cable connection is through an old, weak cable that goes through the apartment downstairs, and it slows down my connection a bit, but that is tolerable. To fix it, they would have to rip apart the walls in a bedroom occupied by an eight-year-old girl, and I don't want to put any child through that trauma. If I allow Comcast to share my cable connection, then I might be slowed down to an unacceptable level.
Also, their new cable modems DO NOT come with a battery backup -- they make you buy the battery from them.
They say that nobody can take advantage of you without your permission. Well, I'm paying enough in cable bills, and I'm not going to let them. Unfortunately, FiOS is not available in my apartment complex, so Comcast has a monopoly.
Perhaps the Federal Government should is its power of eminent domain to seize XP and all its source code, supporting documents, etc., and then maintain it as a public good.
I understand that she handed out "light-nanoseconds", copper wires 11.8" long. Actually, 11.8" is how fast light travels in a vacuum. Electrical signals travel slower than that in copper, a little bit slower in unshielded wire, and 2/3c in coaxial cable (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity)
It has also been alleged that H2 is a greenhouse gas.
Another point — there has been some work on converting light and water directly into H2 and O2 gas much more efficiently that powering electrolysis from photovoltaic electricity.
Since the internet was an outgrowth of US-government-supported research, how about a flat sales tax (say 5%) on internet sales, not otherwise subject to state sales tax, that would go to fund scientific research of all sorts, including both basic and applied research. The government can take the difference from what it now spends on research, and give it to the states to compensate for lost revenue.
This way, scientists can be assured of a consistent source of funding. This will make America smarter, and more competitive.
In a sense, ancient texts, including the Bible, are little-children's books that God inspired His Prophets to write for us, so that things will be explained to us. Even though the Biblical accounts of the Creation of the Universe are not scientific, they do contain moral lessons which we should still heed.
Dr. James Powell, co-inventor of superconducting Magnetic Levitation (MagLev), is also a co-inventor of a system called StarTram, that uses similar electromagnetic technology to launch manned and unmanned vehicles into space.
I use the NoScript add-on the block JavaScript, and I have no such problems.
I also find that previous version of FF would slow down after a while, especially if they were chewing up a lot of Gigs (I have 8 GB RAM on this computer), and I had to restart. Fortunately, I always got my tabs back, and there must be a couple of hundred of them.
FF 11 does not seem to have that problem anymore. I guess I'll stop referring to it as Firefux!
I thought of something along very similar lines about a decade ago, and rejected the concept because of overriding safety concerns. Besides which, how do you transfer yourself and all your luggage in the short period of time allowed before the vehicles undock?
Instead, I propose a system of modular cars that can travel on regular roads for local travel, and high-speed MagLev rail for longer travel. The vehicles are stationary when transferred from one mode to another, avoiding most all the safety problems. The same rail network can also be used for freight. Please, please, check out http://www.levicar.com/ for more details.
Anyone in for a Class-Action lawsuit against S&P? The plaintiffs will be just about all US citizens, with certain obvious exceptions like guys who work for S&P, judges, and twelve randomly-chosen people to be the jury.
We'll sue them for $14 trillion, or about $40,000 for each plaintiff. I could use an extra $40,000.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot is as much a perpetrator of this as anyone. Check out my websites, http://www.levicar.com/ and http://www.proacctive.info/ and see how dense they are, with limited wasted space.
I do almost all my work on an old Asus laptop. Black is 000000, and white is FFFFFF, as they should be.
Also, the MagLev rails going over the mountain would be exactly the same as those being used elsewhere on the MagLev network, except for being more rugged. The vehicles wouldn't notice any difference.
The MagLev rails are elevated on pylons above the terrain. If they tend to accumulate too much snow, sleet, or rime ice, then built-in electric heaters can melt enough of the ice so that the rest would fall off.
Fifty years ago, Drs. Gordon T. Danby and James R. Powell of Brookhaven National Labs on Long Island, New York, invented first-generation Superconducting Magnetic Levitation (SC MagLev) Rail, using dipole magnets. This was used for the current JR Central MagLev system in Japan. Since then, they have developed their far-superior second-generation system, using quadrupole magnets. In this system, the vehicles are not so much levitated above the rail, but suspended by the sides of the rail, so that any effort to move the vehicle up, down, or to the left or right, elicits strong restoring forces, meaning it can resist all but the strongest winds. Also, since the gap between the rail and the vehicle is about 4" (10 cm), if the rail gets iced up,it is only necessary to de-ice it to a depth of about 2½" (6 cm). Thus, second-generation MagLev is almost impervious to weather. Also, this MagLev system can handle the steep grades needed when crossing a mountain. With external propulsion power, as much energy as is needed can be used to raise each vehicle over the mountain, and most all that energy would be recovered as it descends the mountain on the other side. Thus, you could have ordinary MagLev vehicles, some as small as individual passenger cars, that could cross over the mountains on open-air MagLev monorails. For details, see www.LeviCar.com/, with links to Danby and Powell's work in Group A (Antecedents and Allies). Tunnels are expensive and of limited capacity. MagLev rails are a lot cheaper, and just as good.
My experience with Alta Vista was that sometimes it seemed to go "off-track", answering, not my question, but a similar question. When I tried to refine my query, it still seemed stuck on what it thought I asked before, not what I was asking.
I later found out that they used "Bayesian Logic", where the answers to the previous questions guided the answer to the new question. No wonder I had this problem!
When Google came along, of course I went with them, and still do. They are still the #1 Search Engine, although some of their other services, like Google Maps, have become untrustworthy.
In ten years, this can replace existing passenger and freight rail, and displace a lot of air travel. In forty years, this could be a multi-trillion dollar industry satisfying most of the county's transportation needs cleanly and efficiently.
One of the strange things about a tachyon is that it can be traveling in one direction for some real inertial reference frame, and be traveling in another direction for some other inertial reference frame. For yet another reference frame intermediate between those two, the tachyon is traveling at infinite speed, yet has zero dynamic mass and a finite momentum of +/- i mc, where i is the square root of -1, m is the imaginary rest mass of the tachyon, and c is the speed of light.
The direction of the momentum vector is ambiguous.
Since this is a total contradiction, I assume that tachyons cannot exist.
I have an idea -- add a small excise (sales) tax on electronics and other high-tech good, with that money dedicated to NASA and a few similar agencies, such as NOAA and NIST. Then there would be a guaranteed source of funding for the very important research these agencies do.
I use NoScript, and only allow Javascripts that I trust.
I am also a Comcast customer. The cable connection is through an old, weak cable that goes through the apartment downstairs, and it slows down my connection a bit, but that is tolerable. To fix it, they would have to rip apart the walls in a bedroom occupied by an eight-year-old girl, and I don't want to put any child through that trauma. If I allow Comcast to share my cable connection, then I might be slowed down to an unacceptable level.
Also, their new cable modems DO NOT come with a battery backup -- they make you buy the battery from them.
They say that nobody can take advantage of you without your permission. Well, I'm paying enough in cable bills, and I'm not going to let them. Unfortunately, FiOS is not available in my apartment complex, so Comcast has a monopoly.
Enuf said
Perhaps the Federal Government should is its power of eminent domain to seize XP and all its source code, supporting documents, etc., and then maintain it as a public good.
I understand that she handed out "light-nanoseconds", copper wires 11.8" long. Actually, 11.8" is how fast light travels in a vacuum. Electrical signals travel slower than that in copper, a little bit slower in unshielded wire, and 2/3c in coaxial cable (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity)
Apparently, life has existed on Earth for one-quarter of the time since the Big Bang.
It has also been alleged that H2 is a greenhouse gas.
Another point — there has been some work on converting light and water directly into H2 and O2 gas much more efficiently that powering electrolysis from photovoltaic electricity.
Since the internet was an outgrowth of US-government-supported research, how about a flat sales tax (say 5%) on internet sales, not otherwise subject to state sales tax, that would go to fund scientific research of all sorts, including both basic and applied research. The government can take the difference from what it now spends on research, and give it to the states to compensate for lost revenue.
This way, scientists can be assured of a consistent source of funding. This will make America smarter, and more competitive.
I have summed this up as four principles:
God is a loving Parent to all humankind - and Who made the universe such that we could live in it.
God is Unique and is One, each human being is unique and different, and so humankind is diverse.
God is Perfect, we are imperfect - therefore God has made us diverse, so that, in our diversity, we can approach, but never reach, Perfection.
God has given us free will, and wants us to grow in understanding - to grow towards, even if we never reach, His Wisdom.
See http://www.godsgrownchildren.org/.
In a sense, ancient texts, including the Bible, are little-children's books that God inspired His Prophets to write for us, so that things will be explained to us. Even though the Biblical accounts of the Creation of the Universe are not scientific, they do contain moral lessons which we should still heed.
Dr. James Powell, co-inventor of superconducting Magnetic Levitation (MagLev), is also a co-inventor of a system called StarTram, that uses similar electromagnetic technology to launch manned and unmanned vehicles into space.
Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarTram
http://www.startram.com/
This is also described in the book "The Fight for Maglev"; see http://www.amazon.com/Fight-Maglev-America-Century-Transport/dp/1468144804/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330015138&sr=8-1
I use the NoScript add-on the block JavaScript, and I have no such problems.
I also find that previous version of FF would slow down after a while, especially if they were chewing up a lot of Gigs (I have 8 GB RAM on this computer), and I had to restart. Fortunately, I always got my tabs back, and there must be a couple of hundred of them.
FF 11 does not seem to have that problem anymore. I guess I'll stop referring to it as Firefux!
I thought of something along very similar lines about a decade ago, and rejected the concept because of overriding safety concerns. Besides which, how do you transfer yourself and all your luggage in the short period of time allowed before the vehicles undock? Instead, I propose a system of modular cars that can travel on regular roads for local travel, and high-speed MagLev rail for longer travel. The vehicles are stationary when transferred from one mode to another, avoiding most all the safety problems. The same rail network can also be used for freight. Please, please, check out http://www.levicar.com/ for more details.
Anyone in for a Class-Action lawsuit against S&P? The plaintiffs will be just about all US citizens, with certain obvious exceptions like guys who work for S&P, judges, and twelve randomly-chosen people to be the jury. We'll sue them for $14 trillion, or about $40,000 for each plaintiff. I could use an extra $40,000.