Could you imagine what it would be like to be on the ISS when the earth is destroyed by a LHC mbh.
The earth would fold up, only a 1% consumption would be needed to make it impossible to land on the earth and survive, but if the earth all went in a few hours or less. wow. And with the angular momemtum of the earth, the mbh would have to rotate on the earth's axis and the mbh would send its radiation beams away from the iss so the iss could be survivable from that prospective. Also, the aero drag would be gone and so orbital reboost would not be needed. I wonder how long they could survive? Also, since the mass of the earth/mbh doesn't change, all those nasty time-drag effects won't happen at the orbital distance of the iss.
It would make a nice sci-fi short story noir if a multi-year survival could be speculated.
Even if they doe(sic) form, and are stable, they will be so small so as to sink to the center of the earth and star[t] devouring it at the alarming pace of 1 atom a year
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I think this voilates newtons law that 'a body in motion remains in motion unless it is pushed/pulled by something' (paraphrasing)
The micro-black whole would only stop at the bottom of the gravity well if it was consuming matter.
btw, don't forget about the relativistic beams that shoot off of the mbh. A mbh could shoot off relativistic beams of matter that cause fission/fusion/reorganization of matter in a way that could destroy the earth without consuming a single atom.
We have pictures of the moon transiting the earth from 31M miles. Galaticly, Intersolarly(sic), or even on solar distance scales, yes that is a short distance.
BUT!
That is a farther and better picture than any other such picture we have. So, if you are clever, you might be able to figure out something new about what this would look like at 31parsecs that no one was considering before.
The Army Corps of Engineers (at a lab I used to work at) invented a Ceramic Anode. A 20oz Ceramic anode does the job of a 50lb Metalic one, huge-huge improvement.
1. In the 70's, our technology was not sufficient for reprocessing. It is arguably that we might have the ability to develop the tech now.
2. The HLW (high level waste) from reprocessing is hotter longer after final use than once through methods.
3. 10,000y is a design specification for HLW storage facilities. HLW is less radioactive than the materials dug up to make it after only 700y.
4. Furthermore, since HLW is loaded with rare earths and lanthanides, and our knowledge of their special and sometimes unique chemistry grows every day, and HLW is actually the only reasonable source for some of these elements, its possible that HLW would enter its own reprocessing cycle after just 200y.
Does anyone know what the cost of a laser is if I'm looking for 19grams*1G*1.2/(1.7)~=?0.020N of thrust and can maintain a beem width of 2cm at a distance of up to 0.5 R-earth?
It seems to me that such a laser could over the course of a few hours propel a gyroscopically stablized payload into geo-sync orbit.
I would need a very effiecient and tiny and well cooled mirror. I suppose an ablative mirror that resulted in a final payload in orbit of 10-19g would be ok.
Try a 'high gain wireless antenna' at the send end. They typically have a 5-10 degree 'on' zone which would give you a 45-90m wide 'on' zone at the far end. Enough to cover the whole house and deal with some wind.
I'm a DBA
You should not report off of a production Database.
Obviously, you will need to have a feed that looks like a report to the reporting DB but this is NOT a report, it is a feed.
Reporting will harm performance and reliability of the performance of the production db.
Also, reporting off of a simple copy of the production db is generally undesirable, generally you want to have a warehouse/flattenning/sumarization of some kind for reporting.
That's the stock reasons to keep this stuff seperated, its done me well for 20 years. :-)
You could save $ by buying used books at a place like BetterWorld.com
Goto http://www.betterworld.com/list.aspx?Category_ID=25 and click on Used-Only
Fahrenheit 451 for $4.48, that's less than the title :-)
Its my understanding that Rule 11 Sanctions are not punitive, but just componsation for costs incurred on the other side. Since the judge has already ruled, and stated 'no need for a response from...' I would say the other side has incurred almost no costs and is eligible for almost no seeking of sanction.
I have also noticed that the P2P softwares as a group seem to offer excellent features in the area of moving files, large and small, and not corrupting said files, even in high noise/disconnect environments. Its a feature set that should make its way into webbrowers/common-downloaders, but seems to just not happen. Anytime I see a file to download and it is over 300MB, I'm like, "oh-boy this could be an adventure" :-)
If someone else steps in and does the 'dirty work', perhaps more correctly 'evil deeds', that is what it is.
At least there is one less place in this world were this kind of evil is allowed.
Also, this will give euorpean groups working for the same kinds of laws there leverage.
if this actually gets enforced as we hope it will, I'm sure at some point this will be a talking point with our allies.
Stamp out this evil every place we can.:-)
The logical consequence of this is that people will:
1. Be reluctant to report a missing person missing since it could cost them money
2. Only Anonymously report people missing to not expose themselves financially
3. Report people missing but ask or refuse to get involved with the search to not expose themselves financially
4. Fill in your favorite set of twisted choices here.
To sum up, people with medium amounts of money may be inclined to odd behavior with missing persons.
Unless you can play basketball or drive a racecar, chances are your job is going to be boring.
Heck, there are boring streches in those jobs too.
At least it seems to pay well. :-)
One of the places considerred for finding 122,124,& 126 is in the X-ray adsobtion lines in super-novas. Then look at how those lines change over time, and half-lives can be measured.
btw we can be assured that it is VERY unlikely that 126 is stable since we can't find any of it. We can be quite sure that anything with a half-life of >1Byr would be findable in some amount in all the searching that has been done.
Also, although 126 is 'perfect' in terms of protons, it is far from perfect in nuetrons, that is why 122 and 124 are more often sought, a little low on protons and a little high on the nuetrons might still find a some-what stable nucleaus.
It is VERY exicting news though. Element 122 with such a massive nucleaus will have a number of very special properties.
My memory is blurry on this, but I'm sure Metallica is so greedy that they fired a bassist | drummer because they didn't think he was 'commerical' enough. Metallica's over the top greed turns me off to them.
Don't support Metallica.
Metallica = bad for music
Metallica = bad for music listeners
Metallica = bad for
I hope I don't get minussed for this, but I REALLY REALLY don't like those guys.
Quite simply, you CANNOT have excellent defence without a very-good knowledge of offence.
As long as the attacking code is open-source, awesome knowledge of how offence does/can work would be gained, and great knowledge of how to defend would be gleened.
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Could you imagine what it would be like to be on the ISS when the earth is destroyed by a LHC mbh.
The earth would fold up, only a 1% consumption would be needed to make it impossible to land on the earth and survive, but if the earth all went in a few hours or less. wow. And with the angular momemtum of the earth, the mbh would have to rotate on the earth's axis and the mbh would send its radiation beams away from the iss so the iss could be survivable from that prospective. Also, the aero drag would be gone and so orbital reboost would not be needed. I wonder how long they could survive? Also, since the mass of the earth/mbh doesn't change, all those nasty time-drag effects won't happen at the orbital distance of the iss.
It would make a nice sci-fi short story noir if a multi-year survival could be speculated.
Regards.
re:
Even if they doe(sic) form, and are stable, they will be so small so as to sink to the center of the earth and star[t] devouring it at the alarming pace of 1 atom a year
---------
I think this voilates newtons law that 'a body in motion remains in motion unless it is pushed/pulled by something' (paraphrasing)
The micro-black whole would only stop at the bottom of the gravity well if it was consuming matter.
btw, don't forget about the relativistic beams that shoot off of the mbh.
A mbh could shoot off relativistic beams of matter that cause fission/fusion/reorganization of matter in a way that could destroy the earth without consuming a single atom.
I recommend you buy it at:
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86.62 % off for a used version.
Also, your doing good stuff for the environment and literacy
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We have pictures of the moon transiting the earth from 31M miles.
Galaticly, Intersolarly(sic), or even on solar distance scales, yes that is a short distance.
BUT!
That is a farther and better picture than any other such picture we have.
So, if you are clever, you might be able to figure out something new about
what this would look like at 31parsecs that no one was considering before.
MAYBE
A live corpse is typically not very scary.
That is unless she is a REALLY mean person.
Zinc is old-tech for an anode.
The Army Corps of Engineers (at a lab I used to work at) invented a Ceramic Anode.
A 20oz Ceramic anode does the job of a 50lb Metalic one, huge-huge improvement.
Read all about it.
http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/pls/erdcpub/docs/erdc/images/ERDCFactSheet_Product_CeramicAnodes.pdf
USED BOOKS
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start with:
http://www.betterworldblog.com/CategoryView,category,Xavier%20and%20Erin's%20African%20Adventures.aspx
http://www.betterworldblog.com/CategoryView,category,Impact.aspx
and
http://www.betterworld.com/content/rss/staffpicks.xml
I'm a Nuclear Engineer.
Let me help clarify a few things.
1. In the 70's, our technology was not sufficient for reprocessing. It is arguably that we might have the ability to develop the tech now.
2. The HLW (high level waste) from reprocessing is hotter longer after final use than once through methods.
3. 10,000y is a design specification for HLW storage facilities. HLW is less radioactive than the materials dug up to make it after only 700y.
4. Furthermore, since HLW is loaded with rare earths and lanthanides, and our knowledge of their special and sometimes unique chemistry grows every day, and HLW is actually the only reasonable source for some of these elements, its possible that HLW would enter its own reprocessing cycle after just 200y.
Regards,
Jerry
10 years ago when Marcy, et al was leading the pack, we were finding planets down to about 1-10 Mass-Jupiter in a variety of orbits.
Now where are finding planets down to about 3.5-10 Mass-Earth (factor of ~30-ish reduction).
The trend has been 'fairly' linear along the way.
I would guess that another 5-10 years we will be finding down-to 0.5-2 Mass-Earth.
The Kepler mission should find planets that size.
Note: Please no nitpicking of my forward looking hand-waving estimates.
Wikipedia says:
332,946 Earths
so, 400K Mearth is very Sol-like
Does anyone know what the cost of a laser is if I'm looking for 19grams*1G*1.2/(1.7)~=?0.020N of thrust and can maintain a beem width of 2cm at a distance of up to 0.5 R-earth?
It seems to me that such a laser could over the course of a few hours propel a gyroscopically stablized payload into geo-sync orbit.
I would need a very effiecient and tiny and well cooled mirror. I suppose an ablative mirror that resulted in a final payload in orbit of 10-19g would be ok.
500M is not VERY far.
:-)
Try a 'high gain wireless antenna' at the send end. They typically have a 5-10 degree 'on' zone which would give you a 45-90m wide 'on' zone at the far end. Enough to cover the whole house and deal with some wind.
You put it in, you point it, you done.
I'm a DBA
:-)
You should not report off of a production Database.
Obviously, you will need to have a feed that looks like a report to the reporting DB but this is NOT a report, it is a feed.
Reporting will harm performance and reliability of the performance of the production db.
Also, reporting off of a simple copy of the production db is generally undesirable, generally you want to have a warehouse/flattenning/sumarization of some kind for reporting.
That's the stock reasons to keep this stuff seperated, its done me well for 20 years.
You could save $ by buying used books at a place like BetterWorld.com
Goto http://www.betterworld.com/list.aspx?Category_ID=25 and click on Used-Only
Fahrenheit 451 for $4.48, that's less than the title
:-)
I'm not a lawyer but:
:-)
Its my understanding that Rule 11 Sanctions are not punitive, but just componsation for costs incurred on the other side.
Since the judge has already ruled, and stated 'no need for a response from...' I would say the other side has incurred almost no costs and is eligible for almost no seeking of sanction.
AFAIK
I have also noticed that the P2P softwares as a group seem to offer excellent features in the area of moving files, large and small, and not corrupting said files, even in high noise/disconnect environments. Its a feature set that should make its way into webbrowers/common-downloaders, but seems to just not happen. Anytime I see a file to download and it is over 300MB, I'm like, "oh-boy this could be an adventure"
:-)
When I read Steve Ballmer's letter, it looks to me like a:
"Reasons why Mr. Jerry Yang should be fired" letter to the board/shareholders.
Am I the only one?
Jerry
If someone else steps in and does the 'dirty work', perhaps more correctly 'evil deeds', that is what it is. At least there is one less place in this world were this kind of evil is allowed. Also, this will give euorpean groups working for the same kinds of laws there leverage. if this actually gets enforced as we hope it will, I'm sure at some point this will be a talking point with our allies. Stamp out this evil every place we can. :-)
The logical consequence of this is that people will:
1. Be reluctant to report a missing person missing since it could cost them money
2. Only Anonymously report people missing to not expose themselves financially
3. Report people missing but ask or refuse to get involved with the search to not expose themselves financially
4. Fill in your favorite set of twisted choices here.
To sum up, people with medium amounts of money may be inclined to odd behavior with missing persons.
ug.
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:dCsWd6Hg31MJ:blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tamir/archive/2008/04/28/computer-languages-and-facial-hair-take-two.aspx+http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tamir/archive/2008/04/28/computer-languages-and-facial-hair-take-two.aspx&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us works. less of a /. effect
Yep, IT pays too much to free ones self from it.
:-)
Unless you can play basketball or drive a racecar, chances are your job is going to be boring.
Heck, there are boring streches in those jobs too.
At least it seems to pay well.
One of the places considerred for finding 122,124,& 126 is in the X-ray adsobtion lines in super-novas. Then look at how those lines change over time, and half-lives can be measured.
:-)
btw we can be assured that it is VERY unlikely that 126 is stable since we can't find any of it. We can be quite sure that anything with a half-life of >1Byr would be findable in some amount in all the searching that has been done.
Also, although 126 is 'perfect' in terms of protons, it is far from perfect in nuetrons, that is why 122 and 124 are more often sought, a little low on protons and a little high on the nuetrons might still find a some-what stable nucleaus.
It is VERY exicting news though. Element 122 with such a massive nucleaus will have a number of very special properties.
Looked it up, Ron McGovney, example of Metallica's poison. (Sorry this took too posts)
My memory is blurry on this, but I'm sure Metallica is so greedy that they fired a bassist | drummer because they didn't think he was 'commerical' enough. Metallica's over the top greed turns me off to them. Don't support Metallica. Metallica = bad for music Metallica = bad for music listeners Metallica = bad for I hope I don't get minussed for this, but I REALLY REALLY don't like those guys.
Quite simply, you CANNOT have excellent defence without a very-good knowledge of offence. As long as the attacking code is open-source, awesome knowledge of how offence does/can work would be gained, and great knowledge of how to defend would be gleened.