main() { if(rorshack_test!=intelligent) { cout "All my years of looking at inkblots to study for my MS ceritification were wasted!" endl; life--; } else { cout "Is that so, pysch boy? I have undeniable proof: a sentient inkblot named Fred! endl"; life=1; }
if(life1) { cout "Life has no meaning!" endl; target=Digitalia; caliber=howitzer; bullet(target); } }
We have baboons who can finger paint, and machines who ghost write short stories. But what quality do we see in this art? So the question is raised: how will the scripts cope with poetry, one of the most complicated writing areas there is? Haiku is a favorite of the web. Even back in the early days, you could find haiku generators. But often, their haikus were jumbled and inane, such as that written by a crack smoking monkey. I offer, as State's evidence, exhibit A: the defunct r33t.org and their haiku generator.
Thats funny, but charged particle drives are not as effective on earth. If you want to hit mach 2, stick to a JATO unit. Or better yet, eat a Dilberito while on rollerblades.
I was under the impression this technology had been developed along with the original ion drive. If you want more information on thrust comparisons between the avaliable engines, check out the March 2000 issue of Scientific American.
The best part of the VASIMR system comes from the first word in it's acronym: Variable. The thrust can be adjusted such that you can aim for speed, or you can aim to push a heavy payload. It's like having an engine that works in a Ferrari, and after minimal adjustment, works in a Semi.
Despite the promise of this system, it will require other technology. In low gear, it would take 2.1 days to escape our planet's gravity well. In high gear, an un-bearable 53 days. So, we still face a problem. Either we need to build our crafts in space, such as Utopia Planitia in Star Trek, or we need to find a cheaper launch alternative that is akin to the 21 minute burn time required by a chemical rocket.
Still, this method is only good for interplanetary travel. If we want to go to the next star system, the most efficient means of travel within our grasp is that of a Solar Sail. NASA plans on testing a carbon composite sail in 2010 that, if succesful, would make speeds approaching 10% of the great c, possible. That means it would only take 40 years to reach Proxima Centauri. A 4 generation trip, there and back. Thats pretty good.
Back a century into the past, there was a story about a man who built a ship that was shielded from gravity. He would break down the shielding in the direction of a massive gravitational body and allow himself to be pulled towards it. I have heard that most innovation comes from ideas in the past, but this is ridiculous. Half way through reading the page, I expected him to mention lowering the shielding to travel. Thankfully he did not. This is all I can offer. Even if the school I go to taught more than classical physics and calculus AB, the math would still be beyond me. In a school of 1500 students, only 8 care about gravitational lensing, or the possibility that millions upon billions of nanoscopic black holes exist in the world around us. Non-Euclidian geometry? Too advanced for the stupid people, and too expensive for the smart people. Sorry to turn this into a rant about education, but this guy obviously went to as bad a school as I do. This isn't an idea that would work. Even if we were a type 3 society, this idea would not work.
By the passage you included in your response, I would have to wonder if you knew what a hypocrite is. If I were to state that your opinion is wrong, then I would most surely be a hypocrite. No one can say if a man's opinion is correct or not. Behold the hypocrisy that is Digitalia.
Do you think that because someone is a Nobel winner, he must use 'proper' words? I think it is awful ignorant to accuse someone of being wrong, and in the same sentence stating that such is your opinion. Intelligence does not depend upon the way you state your ideas, but on the originality and import of them. I would have much rather had a teacher who didn't care whether it is 'who' or 'whom' and who was not afraid to tell me what he really thinks.
I want an Ehydrino laptop case. The first person to mess with my laptop would get 120 volts of AC fun! Seriously, however, I think that the doctor may be on to something. His research sounds implausible to most physicists, and to me, but even what we accept today was once ridiculed. Also, if Hydrogen can be 'compressed' then what about the heavier elements? And what about the lab tests on the Ehydrino compounds? If the orbitals on a hydrogen atom are shrunk, then wouldn't bonding be more difficult with traditional atoms?
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#include
#include
main()
{
if(rorshack_test!=intelligent)
{
cout "All my years of looking at inkblots to study for my MS ceritification were wasted!" endl;
life--;
}
else
{
cout "Is that so, pysch boy? I have undeniable proof: a sentient inkblot named Fred! endl";
life=1;
}
if(life1)
{
cout "Life has no meaning!" endl;
target=Digitalia;
caliber=howitzer;
bullet(target);
}
}
void bullet(char target)
{
fire(target,caliber);
}
We have baboons who can finger paint, and machines who ghost write short stories. But what quality do we see in this art? So the question is raised: how will the scripts cope with poetry, one of the most complicated writing areas there is? Haiku is a favorite of the web. Even back in the early days, you could find haiku generators. But often, their haikus were jumbled and inane, such as that written by a crack smoking monkey. I offer, as State's evidence, exhibit A: the defunct r33t.org and their haiku generator.
Thats funny, but charged particle drives are not as effective on earth. If you want to hit mach 2, stick to a JATO unit. Or better yet, eat a Dilberito while on rollerblades.
I was under the impression this technology had been developed along with the original ion drive. If you want more information on thrust comparisons between the avaliable engines, check out the March 2000 issue of Scientific American.
The best part of the VASIMR system comes from the first word in it's acronym: Variable. The thrust can be adjusted such that you can aim for speed, or you can aim to push a heavy payload. It's like having an engine that works in a Ferrari, and after minimal adjustment, works in a Semi.
Despite the promise of this system, it will require other technology. In low gear, it would take 2.1 days to escape our planet's gravity well. In high gear, an un-bearable 53 days. So, we still face a problem. Either we need to build our crafts in space, such as Utopia Planitia in Star Trek, or we need to find a cheaper launch alternative that is akin to the 21 minute burn time required by a chemical rocket.
Still, this method is only good for interplanetary travel. If we want to go to the next star system, the most efficient means of travel within our grasp is that of a Solar Sail. NASA plans on testing a carbon composite sail in 2010 that, if succesful, would make speeds approaching 10% of the great c, possible. That means it would only take 40 years to reach Proxima Centauri. A 4 generation trip, there and back. Thats pretty good.
Back a century into the past, there was a story about a man who built a ship that was shielded from gravity. He would break down the shielding in the direction of a massive gravitational body and allow himself to be pulled towards it. I have heard that most innovation comes from ideas in the past, but this is ridiculous. Half way through reading the page, I expected him to mention lowering the shielding to travel. Thankfully he did not. This is all I can offer. Even if the school I go to taught more than classical physics and calculus AB, the math would still be beyond me. In a school of 1500 students, only 8 care about gravitational lensing, or the possibility that millions upon billions of nanoscopic black holes exist in the world around us. Non-Euclidian geometry? Too advanced for the stupid people, and too expensive for the smart people. Sorry to turn this into a rant about education, but this guy obviously went to as bad a school as I do. This isn't an idea that would work. Even if we were a type 3 society, this idea would not work.
Buddhanet.net. How about the smell of teen spirit? Help all of those buddhists attain Nirvana.
By the passage you included in your response, I would have to wonder if you knew what a hypocrite is. If I were to state that your opinion is wrong, then I would most surely be a hypocrite. No one can say if a man's opinion is correct or not. Behold the hypocrisy that is Digitalia.
Do you think that because someone is a Nobel winner, he must use 'proper' words? I think it is awful ignorant to accuse someone of being wrong, and in the same sentence stating that such is your opinion. Intelligence does not depend upon the way you state your ideas, but on the originality and import of them. I would have much rather had a teacher who didn't care whether it is 'who' or 'whom' and who was not afraid to tell me what he really thinks.
I want an Ehydrino laptop case. The first person to mess with my laptop would get 120 volts of AC fun! Seriously, however, I think that the doctor may be on to something. His research sounds implausible to most physicists, and to me, but even what we accept today was once ridiculed. Also, if Hydrogen can be 'compressed' then what about the heavier elements? And what about the lab tests on the Ehydrino compounds? If the orbitals on a hydrogen atom are shrunk, then wouldn't bonding be more difficult with traditional atoms?