Why make the camel effeminate? Just bring Eddie Murphy back. He's got TONS of experience voicing wise-cracking animal sidekicks. And if the formula works, why try to be original, amirite?~
(Yes, I know Shrek isn't a Disney property. Eddie Murphy has done more than just the donkey.)
The only thing preventing us from recycling nuclear waste is government regulations inspired by hippy FUD. If we could get past those artificial roadblocks we'd find ourselves with a much longer timeline to deal with peak uranium (it's still a finite resource, after all) and we wouldn't have to squabble over Yucca Mountain and other potential repositories.
I think perhaps the GP meant "commercially" competitive. The Navy's reactors are certainly economical for the criteria they have: quiet, high power density, infrequent refueling, no oxygen requirement, reliable, etc.
Cost still factors in to the equation, but it would seem that gas turbines aren't cheap enough to offset the other benefits nuclear provides.
...but then you still have to re-radiate that heat someplace.
The way I read TFA is that the N2 coolant is consumable. Rather than circulating it to a heatsink, they just expel it through pores in the surface, allowing the gas to buffer the compressed air during reentry. It brings cooling back into a convective mode.
Sure you have to refill the tanks prior to the next launch, but liquid nitrogen is (relatively) cheap.
Nitroglycerin is formed by mixing nitric acid and sulfuric acid (both highly concentrated, purified forms).
Atmospheric nitrogen, on the other hand is remarkably stable. At very high temperatures, (such as you might find at the leading edges of a reentry vehicle) nitrogen can be oxidized to to various forms of NOx. These can form acids in solution, but not in concentrations high enough to worry about.
And when you consider that there is plenty of naturally-available nitrogen in the atmosphere, this small addition probably isn't enough to worry about.
I tend to agree with your post, but I would caution that whether or not you respect a law doesn't matter in the end. If/when someone chooses to enforce it, you're just as incarcerated (or whatever other punishment they hand down).
I think it's a much smarter (if depressing) course to educate the electorate and push for repeal of unjust laws.</idealism>
For the non-EEs out there, the Nyquist frequency is the highest frequency that can be resolved at a given sampling rate. It's just less than half the sampling frequency. Any frequencies higher than that will be aliased to a lower frequency, with signals equal to the sampling frequency appearing at DC.
So given the GP's ocular resolution of 400 dpi, we'd need something over 800 dpi printed in order for the print to appear non-pixellated (ignoring any ink/toner blending). Add to that the fact that most people don't hold a printed document at 1m from their eyes for reading, (if they even have arms that long) and I can see a market for the 1200 dpi printers.
You mean like feet, inches, pounds, ounces (fluid or weight), calories, furlongs, fortnights, etc.?
Disclaimer: Yes, I'm American; but I'm also an engineer. I would love to use SI in "real" life.
Ignoring for a moment that/. receives visitors from numerous countries, I think the relative comment count says a lot more about the expertise of the typical/. user than it does about their priorities.
Wait. No. That would mean people were only discussing things they actually understood. That can't be right.
So overbooking is now the patient's fault? Most doctors of any specialty already charge at least a full copay for a late cancellation or no-show. Why do they feel the need to double and triple book things?
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Why make the camel effeminate? Just bring Eddie Murphy back. He's got TONS of experience voicing wise-cracking animal sidekicks. And if the formula works, why try to be original, amirite?~
(Yes, I know Shrek isn't a Disney property. Eddie Murphy has done more than just the donkey.)
Assuming you were thinking about having sunshine on a cloudy day, you may want to listen to a little more of The Temptations.
;-)
As for the "young people" comment, I'll just sign this as:
--A 27-year-old Motown fan
There is no way to recycle it...
Here, let me give you a couple citations to look at.
The only thing preventing us from recycling nuclear waste is government regulations inspired by hippy FUD. If we could get past those artificial roadblocks we'd find ourselves with a much longer timeline to deal with peak uranium (it's still a finite resource, after all) and we wouldn't have to squabble over Yucca Mountain and other potential repositories.
I think perhaps the GP meant "commercially" competitive. The Navy's reactors are certainly economical for the criteria they have: quiet, high power density, infrequent refueling, no oxygen requirement, reliable, etc.
Cost still factors in to the equation, but it would seem that gas turbines aren't cheap enough to offset the other benefits nuclear provides.
I'll take three.
THEY CAME FIRST for the marketing department, and I said "They're on the third floor, next to legal. Tell them I sent you."
...but then you still have to re-radiate that heat someplace.
The way I read TFA is that the N2 coolant is consumable. Rather than circulating it to a heatsink, they just expel it through pores in the surface, allowing the gas to buffer the compressed air during reentry. It brings cooling back into a convective mode.
Sure you have to refill the tanks prior to the next launch, but liquid nitrogen is (relatively) cheap.
There's plenty of truth in that post.
The reason the Soviets beat us to space is that their German scientists were better than our German scientists.~
In short, no.
Nitroglycerin is formed by mixing nitric acid and sulfuric acid (both highly concentrated, purified forms).
Atmospheric nitrogen, on the other hand is remarkably stable. At very high temperatures, (such as you might find at the leading edges of a reentry vehicle) nitrogen can be oxidized to to various forms of NOx. These can form acids in solution, but not in concentrations high enough to worry about.
And when you consider that there is plenty of naturally-available nitrogen in the atmosphere, this small addition probably isn't enough to worry about.
I tend to agree with your post, but I would caution that whether or not you respect a law doesn't matter in the end. If/when someone chooses to enforce it, you're just as incarcerated (or whatever other punishment they hand down).
I think it's a much smarter (if depressing) course to educate the electorate and push for repeal of unjust laws.</idealism>
Is this some kind of reverse Poe's law?
Needs more cowbell. And cocktail sauce.
It's pheromones!
Mod Parent Up.
For the non-EEs out there, the Nyquist frequency is the highest frequency that can be resolved at a given sampling rate. It's just less than half the sampling frequency. Any frequencies higher than that will be aliased to a lower frequency, with signals equal to the sampling frequency appearing at DC.
So given the GP's ocular resolution of 400 dpi, we'd need something over 800 dpi printed in order for the print to appear non-pixellated (ignoring any ink/toner blending). Add to that the fact that most people don't hold a printed document at 1m from their eyes for reading, (if they even have arms that long) and I can see a market for the 1200 dpi printers.
No, no, no! Quicker. Easier. More seductive.
Neither: DNF
If they're using Facebook and Twitter, I think the whole point is that everyone has their data.
Maybe they're being sued for bad taste?
To be ludicrously pedantic, (and at the risk of invoking Muphry's law) "unbelievable" is an adjective. The adverb form is "unbelievably."
You mean like feet, inches, pounds, ounces (fluid or weight), calories, furlongs, fortnights, etc.? Disclaimer: Yes, I'm American; but I'm also an engineer. I would love to use SI in "real" life.
Ignoring for a moment that /. receives visitors from numerous countries, I think the relative comment count says a lot more about the expertise of the typical /. user than it does about their priorities.
Wait. No. That would mean people were only discussing things they actually understood. That can't be right.
Yeah, what a money pit.
At least one of those is fictional. And I'm not too sure about the lightsabers, either, come to think of it.
The key difference being that, at some point in the future, someone may actually want to access the contents of an XP install disk.
a one hour wait time in the waiting room
So overbooking is now the patient's fault? Most doctors of any specialty already charge at least a full copay for a late cancellation or no-show. Why do they feel the need to double and triple book things?