"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
~William Tecumseh Sherman
Hmmm, I wonder if this also applies to the genocide happening over in Africa. Seems pretty cruel to dismember, scar and cut into people with machetes and the like, yet that seems to be amazingly cruel and also seems to have been around for a good while indeed.
>>>best spot for observational astronomy has to be the far side of the Moon... What's not to love?
Funny you mention "love" because there's no women on the moon, or on that ridge in Antarctica, which is a major drawback of accepting either of those jobs. Oh wait. It's just like my current job.
Oh, you work on the dark side of the moon too? We should meet up for coffee sometime!
Your opinion are irrelevant, uninformed, and meaningless.
Yeah? Well, you have bad grammar or failed to hit a keystroke, so there!
Meanwhile, back in the land of the actual point here rather than being picky and pedantic - the guy promoting it does in fact work there. That doesn't mean he isn't making a huge sales pitch for a government sized order. A salesman for your local telco doesn't have to know the inside out of how the entire communications system operates.
I ain't saying that this isn't feasible, but you certainly seem to be shutting out what would appear to be a considerably simpler alternative by having an object apply some sort of direct (even if small) force to the asteroid.
I can think of a few possible hurdles, like the spin of these asteroids and therefore unsteady application of directional movement, but seeing as you clamped down on the original with nothing but a glib:
Ah yes. As always, the random Slashdot poster is smarter and knows better than whole legions of physicists and engineers.
Why don't you fill us in on why that's such a bad idea and clearly second rate to the idea in the article?
Ah yes. As always, the random Slashdot poster is smarter and knows better than whole legions of physicists and engineers.
Actually, he doesn't have to be smarter than legions of physicists and engineers. So far, this is in a very early planning stage. Therefore, changes are he only has to beat a board of executives who knows nothing about physics or science (on average) who have been given a high level executive summary of this great idea that they should invest in and how it can both lead to a better world (not being smashed up by said cosmic nasty) and possibly making a good deal of money based on their investment (after all, what government wouldn't be chipping in if cosmic nasty was hurtling towards their patch of Earth?) and the rest... that's for the project managers, development managers, customer representative managers and all those other managers to solve. The guy who knows his physics and engineering inside out might actually propose "Hey why don't we just stick an ion drive onto it and push it out? Will be better than a gravity tractor!" and his comments might get slowly fed up the chain of command, but likely it will hit somewhere and stop before it gets to anyhow who can make that sensible decision.
Seeing as this company has "decided to create a gravity tractor ship", I wouldn't be surprised at all if there hasn't actually been a surprisingly LACK of physicists and engineers involved at this point in time.
I think they're talking about the modern channel and its overall ludicrousness. Any entity is going to change over the course of 20-60 years, leading to different types of material being produced, if they're talking about movies.
David Attenborough hasn't changed the sorts of movies he is making over the 60 odd years he has been at it:)
Slashdot, where any comment is followed by some wiseass just being a wiseass.
However, a couple of weeks ago, my wife managed to drop her phone in the path of a tractor I was driving.
Had she been trying to drop her phone there for a while unsuccessfully? Is it like a secret little game you two play? "Hun, I think it's time to drop that Razr under the tractor again... Ohhh yeah..."
Yeah, I got to say that I am quite curious about this. I recall seeing something a while back on the tele about it being used to make new shock/impact protection, but both THAT show and this article/website seem very thin on facts and "how it works".
Don't even bother trying to watch the youtube movie they have on their website. It provides less information than picking your nose in the dark.
If you're so intelligent, why can't you figure out how to be happy?
Because the things that make people happy don't seem to make me so. Most people would be happy to have a comfortable job where they are respected. To earn over 100K a year in that job would also make them happy. To have lots of good friends is generally a reason to be happy. A nice house and place to stay. Food to eat and drink. Pleasant things to do during time off work.
I have all those things, yet sometimes I just can't see the point in anything. I don't see what having all these things does to me. Yes, it's easier than not having them, but it's not what brings a happy mood into my head. You tell me what I am missing to make me happy.
The meteor would be traveling at supersonic speeds so you wouldn't hear anything until after the impact.
If the trajectory of the falling object carried it over the viewers (especially at a low angle of decline), then even at supersonic speeds, the viewers may well encounter the sonic boom before the actual impact behind them. Of course it's rather unlikely.
So it is somewhat obvious that your mood is low today. The interesting question is whether you think the same way about trading places when you're high?
Because we find futility in what we do. Sometimes you realize that even if you solve your current problem, there is still no solution to the other stuff going on.
people get suicidal when they cannot find any way out and are unable to find someone who can communicate to anyone who they see as understanding. I know, I have been there.
Yeah, it's fucking great for me. Great till one day I end up failing to find a solution to the shit that's going on.
Yes, I am very intelligent. I am very successful in my career. I have a lot of people telling me how they would love to swap positions. I can tell you that for every person that I meet who is dumb and unsuccessful, yet happy in their lives, I would swap places in an instant.
I got asked once, if I would prefer to live intelligently in a prison knowing I was in one, or stupidly in the same place not knowing what it was. I would choose the latter.
They are VERY deep in the ground, so you have natural cooling there, they are on the side of a mountain with lots of wind, more cooling, and if you put the racks into the silos themselves you could have fresh air blowing straight up and out through the silos.
Ummm, look, interesting post till I read that statement and your logic just went naked, purple and dancing a jig.
Yes, you have natural cooling deep underground. That also stops any WIND. Wind doesn't work through the ground. I got buried once just to test this too, it's a mistake anyone can make, but it's true. There is no wind deep underground.
If you put the racks directly into the silo so that the fresh air could blow straight up and out through the silos, it would generally probably work really well until your first rainy day where things might then get a little less working. Like totally not working.
Well, it seems that the server there is too busy trying to cope with that huge URL and has too little resources left to actually display the page. It's Slashdotted as slashdotted can be.
When you come up with a way to make the jet fuel directly out of CO2, water, and the energy in the uranium, let us know. I'm sure someone can find a use for that somehow.
What, you never heard of a steam powered jet? Pffft. What world are you living in? Let me spell it out for you!
1) Uranium heats water.
2) Water turns to steam and spins engines and makes jet fly
3)...
4) Profit!
I don't see how my logic is absurd. Let me go through the steps:
The "Making Available" clause that the RIAA has been using states that any file left available for others to download is an infringement.
(Real life equivalent)
If I leave something in my house and someone steals it, it is THEFT from their end, not my crime for "making it available" as is the case currently in the software world.
Therefore, the only way to have music files on your PC without them being "made available" is to ensure that your PC is totally secure. Seeing as there are ways to hack past every operating system out there that people use, by their own definition, EVERYONE with a copyright track (legal or otherwise) on their PC is "making them available" for others.
Ergo, the EFF files a suit against the RIAA for the music files that they have on their own machines, which by their very own RIAA definition are being "made available" as they are not secure.
The absurdity in this isn't my logic, it's that me having a file on my PC, and someone else stealing it is a crime with damages in dollars that will take me years to earn on MY PART.
Of course it never repeats - we kind of knew that already.
Goodness me, so many holes in this.
Firstly, just because something isn't repeating doesn't mean there isn't a pattern.
1,2,4,8 isn't repeating, but the pattern is there. (Each number doubles the previous)
1,1.5,2.25,3.375 also doesn't repeat but there is a pattern.(Each number is the previous number plus half the previous number)
Knowing (thinking) that something doesn't repeat and PROVING that it doesn't repeat are two ENTIRELY different things. I am guessing your maths/science education either stopped very early or you didn't do too well in either.
If they found out there was a pattern, would I make a change in my life tomorrow? Nope. Am I glad they are actually doing something like this? Yes. Physics, chemistry and mathematics research fields are very much interested in "pure" research. However, the funding behind them generally has excellent applications in mind that we don't know about.
So perhaps, rather than just mocking it and blowing it off, think back to all the other useless research done by people and what it has paid off. How about a simple transistor. Current goes one way, there are two ways out depending on an ON/OFF choice. Useless huh? Really useless. Can't think of a damn application for that at all.
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"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over." ~William Tecumseh Sherman Hmmm, I wonder if this also applies to the genocide happening over in Africa. Seems pretty cruel to dismember, scar and cut into people with machetes and the like, yet that seems to be amazingly cruel and also seems to have been around for a good while indeed.
>>>best spot for observational astronomy has to be the far side of the Moon... What's not to love?
Funny you mention "love" because there's no women on the moon, or on that ridge in Antarctica, which is a major drawback of accepting either of those jobs. Oh wait. It's just like my current job.
Oh, you work on the dark side of the moon too? We should meet up for coffee sometime!
What, Warner Bros. anti-piracy strategy? Suing people?
Warner Bros. anti-piracy strategy is suing people. What?
There, fixed it for you.
Your opinion are irrelevant, uninformed, and meaningless.
Yeah? Well, you have bad grammar or failed to hit a keystroke, so there!
Meanwhile, back in the land of the actual point here rather than being picky and pedantic - the guy promoting it does in fact work there. That doesn't mean he isn't making a huge sales pitch for a government sized order. A salesman for your local telco doesn't have to know the inside out of how the entire communications system operates.
I ain't saying that this isn't feasible, but you certainly seem to be shutting out what would appear to be a considerably simpler alternative by having an object apply some sort of direct (even if small) force to the asteroid.
I can think of a few possible hurdles, like the spin of these asteroids and therefore unsteady application of directional movement, but seeing as you clamped down on the original with nothing but a glib:
Ah yes. As always, the random Slashdot poster is smarter and knows better than whole legions of physicists and engineers.
Why don't you fill us in on why that's such a bad idea and clearly second rate to the idea in the article?
Ah yes. As always, the random Slashdot poster is smarter and knows better than whole legions of physicists and engineers.
Actually, he doesn't have to be smarter than legions of physicists and engineers. So far, this is in a very early planning stage. Therefore, changes are he only has to beat a board of executives who knows nothing about physics or science (on average) who have been given a high level executive summary of this great idea that they should invest in and how it can both lead to a better world (not being smashed up by said cosmic nasty) and possibly making a good deal of money based on their investment (after all, what government wouldn't be chipping in if cosmic nasty was hurtling towards their patch of Earth?) and the rest... that's for the project managers, development managers, customer representative managers and all those other managers to solve. The guy who knows his physics and engineering inside out might actually propose "Hey why don't we just stick an ion drive onto it and push it out? Will be better than a gravity tractor!" and his comments might get slowly fed up the chain of command, but likely it will hit somewhere and stop before it gets to anyhow who can make that sensible decision.
Seeing as this company has "decided to create a gravity tractor ship", I wouldn't be surprised at all if there hasn't actually been a surprisingly LACK of physicists and engineers involved at this point in time.
I think they're talking about the modern channel and its overall ludicrousness. Any entity is going to change over the course of 20-60 years, leading to different types of material being produced, if they're talking about movies.
David Attenborough hasn't changed the sorts of movies he is making over the 60 odd years he has been at it :)
Slashdot, where any comment is followed by some wiseass just being a wiseass.
However, a couple of weeks ago, my wife managed to drop her phone in the path of a tractor I was driving.
Had she been trying to drop her phone there for a while unsuccessfully? Is it like a secret little game you two play? "Hun, I think it's time to drop that Razr under the tractor again... Ohhh yeah..."
Yeah, I got to say that I am quite curious about this. I recall seeing something a while back on the tele about it being used to make new shock/impact protection, but both THAT show and this article/website seem very thin on facts and "how it works".
Don't even bother trying to watch the youtube movie they have on their website. It provides less information than picking your nose in the dark.
Or more often than not, too sensationalistic or too "fluffy."
What have you got against being Fluffy? @_@
If you're so intelligent, why can't you figure out how to be happy?
Because the things that make people happy don't seem to make me so. Most people would be happy to have a comfortable job where they are respected. To earn over 100K a year in that job would also make them happy. To have lots of good friends is generally a reason to be happy. A nice house and place to stay. Food to eat and drink. Pleasant things to do during time off work.
I have all those things, yet sometimes I just can't see the point in anything. I don't see what having all these things does to me. Yes, it's easier than not having them, but it's not what brings a happy mood into my head. You tell me what I am missing to make me happy.
Haha, thanks. That put a smile on my dial today :)
The meteor would be traveling at supersonic speeds so you wouldn't hear anything until after the impact.
If the trajectory of the falling object carried it over the viewers (especially at a low angle of decline), then even at supersonic speeds, the viewers may well encounter the sonic boom before the actual impact behind them. Of course it's rather unlikely.
So it is somewhat obvious that your mood is low today. The interesting question is whether you think the same way about trading places when you're high?
Heh, good god no :P
Because we find futility in what we do. Sometimes you realize that even if you solve your current problem, there is still no solution to the other stuff going on.
people get suicidal when they cannot find any way out and are unable to find someone who can communicate to anyone who they see as understanding. I know, I have been there.
Yeah, it's fucking great for me. Great till one day I end up failing to find a solution to the shit that's going on.
Yes, I am very intelligent. I am very successful in my career. I have a lot of people telling me how they would love to swap positions. I can tell you that for every person that I meet who is dumb and unsuccessful, yet happy in their lives, I would swap places in an instant.
I got asked once, if I would prefer to live intelligently in a prison knowing I was in one, or stupidly in the same place not knowing what it was. I would choose the latter.
Have a read of some of my musings and art to see some of my side of the coin:
Normal
Two Little Boys
Positive and Negative
and finally Depression the file in my sig.
For the record I am bipolar (Manic Depressive in old terminology).
They are VERY deep in the ground, so you have natural cooling there, they are on the side of a mountain with lots of wind, more cooling, and if you put the racks into the silos themselves you could have fresh air blowing straight up and out through the silos.
Ummm, look, interesting post till I read that statement and your logic just went naked, purple and dancing a jig.
Yes, you have natural cooling deep underground. That also stops any WIND. Wind doesn't work through the ground. I got buried once just to test this too, it's a mistake anyone can make, but it's true. There is no wind deep underground.
If you put the racks directly into the silo so that the fresh air could blow straight up and out through the silos, it would generally probably work really well until your first rainy day where things might then get a little less working. Like totally not working.
Well, it seems that the server there is too busy trying to cope with that huge URL and has too little resources left to actually display the page. It's Slashdotted as slashdotted can be.
And when all of the botnet operators are in Eastern Europe and China, then what?
Well, in a Bush era, this would have been easy... 3. 2.. 1.... INVADE!
I can high five a robot and get it to do it PROPERLY.
Not only does their production get delayed all the time but it turns out they have environmental impact!
Having that dream you walk into the wrong class naked?
But can it the same place twice ?
If your delete key can, it can too.
sorry, this joke kinda wrote itself.
I wish it was a joke.
Yeah, the joke is on us really. Really.
When you come up with a way to make the jet fuel directly out of CO2, water, and the energy in the uranium, let us know. I'm sure someone can find a use for that somehow.
What, you never heard of a steam powered jet? Pffft. What world are you living in? Let me spell it out for you!
...
1) Uranium heats water.
2) Water turns to steam and spins engines and makes jet fly
3)
4) Profit!
I don't see how my logic is absurd. Let me go through the steps:
The "Making Available" clause that the RIAA has been using states that any file left available for others to download is an infringement.
(Real life equivalent)
If I leave something in my house and someone steals it, it is THEFT from their end, not my crime for "making it available" as is the case currently in the software world.
Therefore, the only way to have music files on your PC without them being "made available" is to ensure that your PC is totally secure. Seeing as there are ways to hack past every operating system out there that people use, by their own definition, EVERYONE with a copyright track (legal or otherwise) on their PC is "making them available" for others.
Ergo, the EFF files a suit against the RIAA for the music files that they have on their own machines, which by their very own RIAA definition are being "made available" as they are not secure.
The absurdity in this isn't my logic, it's that me having a file on my PC, and someone else stealing it is a crime with damages in dollars that will take me years to earn on MY PART.
Of course it never repeats - we kind of knew that already.
Goodness me, so many holes in this.
Firstly, just because something isn't repeating doesn't mean there isn't a pattern.
1,2,4,8 isn't repeating, but the pattern is there. (Each number doubles the previous)
1,1.5,2.25,3.375 also doesn't repeat but there is a pattern.(Each number is the previous number plus half the previous number)
Knowing (thinking) that something doesn't repeat and PROVING that it doesn't repeat are two ENTIRELY different things. I am guessing your maths/science education either stopped very early or you didn't do too well in either.
If they found out there was a pattern, would I make a change in my life tomorrow? Nope. Am I glad they are actually doing something like this? Yes. Physics, chemistry and mathematics research fields are very much interested in "pure" research. However, the funding behind them generally has excellent applications in mind that we don't know about.
So perhaps, rather than just mocking it and blowing it off, think back to all the other useless research done by people and what it has paid off. How about a simple transistor. Current goes one way, there are two ways out depending on an ON/OFF choice. Useless huh? Really useless. Can't think of a damn application for that at all.