Since the moon orbit the sun, not the Earth, doesn't the definition of a planet not apply to the Earth ? (the moon always curves toward the sun, never away, during it's 1 year journey. It does wobble on a montly basis that allows the earh and it to swap arouind as being furthest from the sun.)...
Yes, the Earth-Moon system is double planets sharing an orbit. But that doesn't mean they can't be planets. It's the common definition of the Moon that is wrong.
3 movies for such a short story was what killed it. I mean did it have to take 1 whole movie just reach the damn mountain?
You are just accustomed to the usual Hollywood hack job on movies!
It is true that a normal novel is about three movies long. Particularly now-days when they tend to be three or four hundred pages. But people don't want to sit for a movie that long, so two thirds of the story is left out and the rest glued together in a mish-mash.
If you only need a small storage system, try a UPS like we use for computers. Some good ones even allow you to connect larger batteries for longer runtime. And the converter hardware has "economy of scale" that brings the price down.
But don't try to run your air conditioner off of it! 8-P
.... And if one is a smaller, isolated grid, such as many islands, this problem is even more severe. But you are right that "vast majority" was probably too strong especially in the context of Western and Central Europe which has done a good job integrating their grids.
Interesting concept: Storage as an alternative to Transmission.
Maybe it would not replace Generation, so much as Transmission. (Explains why the power companies are scared.) But transmission is still more efficient, so I see them working together. Except for the isolated places, as you mention.
By the way, power companies have tested other means of storage (besides hydro pumping). I remember a couple of reports of large flywheels in a vacuum on magnetic bearings, which is surprisingly efficient.
Many things have very different values depending on -time-. If it was cheap then and is expensive now, you need to take that into account in your calculations.
If there is no other source of power right -now-, then your battery pack might have a value that is three or four orders of magnitude greater! 8-)
Some uneducated rich people talk about Tradesmen as if they were monkeys or something. But that is just an insecure ignorant person trying to make others think they have some status. And perhaps some just repeating what they have heard.
The truth is that the "Working people" are usually smarter and often more educated than the management types. And more entrepreneurial, often having their own businesses. How many low level managers would know how to start their own business?
As if the co-pilot couldn't have made the exact same mistake with a calculator or even paper.
It seems like the Pilot did make a different mistake on paper, that resulted in a very similar value. So it looked like the value was verified, even though it was way wrong!
There must have been some things, an aweful lot of people were explicitly working on it!
I worked on a number of PCs that refused to boot during that January. In those day many PCs had to have the ROM chip replaced, no flashing. Luckily many were in sockets back then. Some people that couldn't get updates, or didn't want to bother, just set the date back 4 years, so the days of the month would be the same.
Many applications could not find data in their databases. Some had unchecked error conditions that caused GPFs. In those day a lot less machinery had computer controls. But, many did and some of it was very old, just like today.
Much effort was spent on dangerous machines and I am not aware of any that were still giving problems in the date tests, on January first. After all, the computers and networks could have the date changed for testing, before it actually happened. Some companies built extensive isolated systems just to simulate what would happen. By the time year 2000 came everyone (well most) had been fixing for a while.
And then when we were successful, the news media said that it had all been a fraud! 8-( But then this was often the same news people that had been encouraging people to spit on the returning soldiers from Vietnam, a few years before! So we sort of expected it...
This is just yet more proof that the Y2K bug was overblown (as if we needed more evidence).
Ha! Y2K was not overblown, even though the media had fun with it. Thousands of people worked very long hours to make sure it -seemed- overblown. And were mostly successful!
I worked on a lot of PC programs that malfunctioned after 2000. Luckily none of those were critical... but others were.
I remember it too, but I was a bit older. I remember that the video shown live was much clearer than the later recordings.
This, by it's self, made it "worth it". The whole world saw it at the same time, and that was -also- a first for mankind! 8-)
The reason that you think it did not cause other developments to happen, is that you think all of that amazing stuff is "normal" and always existed. 8-P
Still got my Pickett Log-Log Decitrig. With leather case and belt clip. If you pull out the slide and flip it end-for-end you can "program" it for L-C Resonance calculations.
Also still have my HP 35 "sliderule calculator" with field case. But no battery...
Programming is different from Engineering, in a lot of ways.
There is such a thing as a "Software Engineer", such as myself. They have a degree in Electical Engineering, specializing in Electronics, and a degree in Computer Science, specializing in system design.
And twenty year's experience, to learn Murphy's Law! 8-)
The article mentions "Professional Engineers", but that is different from most Engineers. A "PE" is regulated and certified by the state, as in: taking a big test.
And:
"If Engineers built buildings the way Programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization!"
Consider how you would feel, if you could be arrested and jailed for a software bug...
Don't be silly. Words like "Conflict of interest", "Fraud", "Kickbacks" and "Unbecoming behavior" only apply to "Those evil business people", not to University Administrators! 8-}
They probably have done this for so long that they don't even know it is wrong, anymore...
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Since the moon orbit the sun, not the Earth, doesn't the definition of a planet not apply to the Earth ? ...
(the moon always curves toward the sun, never away, during it's 1 year journey. It does wobble on a montly basis
that allows the earh and it to swap arouind as being furthest from the sun.)
Yes, the Earth-Moon system is double planets sharing an orbit. But that doesn't mean they can't be planets. It's the common definition of the Moon that is wrong.
3 movies for such a short story was what killed it. I mean did it have to take 1 whole movie just reach the damn mountain?
You are just accustomed to the usual Hollywood hack job on movies!
It is true that a normal novel is about three movies long. Particularly now-days when they tend to be three or four hundred pages. But people don't want to sit for a movie that long, so two thirds of the story is left out and the rest glued together in a mish-mash.
I had exactly the same thought. No matter which director, a boring script/book is just that....boring.
"Boring" is not something that happens to you from outside, it is something that you do to yourself. It is a choice. 8-)
But how would you ever find out if you eschew science and instead rely in your sky daddy to tell you everything you ever need to know?
That would depend on who the "sky daddy" -is-.
What, don't you watch "Ancient Aliens" on TV?? 8-)
If you only need a small storage system, try a UPS like we use for computers. Some good ones even allow you to connect larger batteries for longer runtime. And the converter hardware has "economy of scale" that brings the price down.
But don't try to run your air conditioner off of it! 8-P
.... And if one is a smaller, isolated grid, such as many islands, this problem is even more severe. But you are right that "vast majority" was probably too strong especially in the context of Western and Central Europe which has done a good job integrating their grids.
Interesting concept: Storage as an alternative to Transmission.
Maybe it would not replace Generation, so much as Transmission. (Explains why the power companies are scared.)
But transmission is still more efficient, so I see them working together. Except for the isolated places, as you mention.
By the way, power companies have tested other means of storage (besides hydro pumping). I remember a couple of reports of large flywheels in a vacuum on magnetic bearings, which is surprisingly efficient.
Many things have very different values depending on -time-. If it was cheap then and is expensive now, you need to take that into account in your calculations.
If there is no other source of power right -now-, then your battery pack might have a value that is three or four orders of magnitude greater! 8-)
That's how they get treated.
Some uneducated rich people talk about Tradesmen as if they were monkeys or something. But that is just an insecure ignorant person trying to make others think they have some status. And perhaps some just repeating what they have heard.
The truth is that the "Working people" are usually smarter and often more educated than the management types. And more entrepreneurial, often having their own businesses. How many low level managers would know how to start their own business?
Are they trying to save money on takeoff wtf.
Full thrust means a much greater chance of blowing up the engine on takeoff! That is a really Bad Thing...
As if the co-pilot couldn't have made the exact same mistake with a calculator or even paper.
It seems like the Pilot did make a different mistake on paper, that resulted in a very similar value. So it looked like the value was verified, even though it was way wrong!
There must have been some things, an aweful lot of people were explicitly working on it!
I worked on a number of PCs that refused to boot during that January. In those day many PCs had to have the ROM chip replaced, no flashing. Luckily many were in sockets back then. Some people that couldn't get updates, or didn't want to bother, just set the date back 4 years, so the days of the month would be the same.
Many applications could not find data in their databases. Some had unchecked error conditions that caused GPFs. In those day a lot less machinery had computer controls. But, many did and some of it was very old, just like today.
Much effort was spent on dangerous machines and I am not aware of any that were still giving problems in the date tests, on January first.
After all, the computers and networks could have the date changed for testing, before it actually happened. Some companies built extensive isolated systems just to simulate what would happen. By the time year 2000 came everyone (well most) had been fixing for a while.
And then when we were successful, the news media said that it had all been a fraud! 8-(
But then this was often the same news people that had been encouraging people to spit on the returning soldiers from Vietnam, a few years before! So we sort of expected it...
Imagine that you had a password for everything, and it was known to be stolen or broken. And, that you could not ever change it!!
However, they can be used -with- a password and be better than just a password by it's self.
This is just yet more proof that the Y2K bug was overblown (as if we needed more evidence).
Ha! Y2K was not overblown, even though the media had fun with it.
Thousands of people worked very long hours to make sure it -seemed- overblown. And were mostly successful!
I worked on a lot of PC programs that malfunctioned after 2000. Luckily none of those were critical... but others were.
Do you realize how old it makes you sound when you say that?
You have no idea! I was old before you were born.
You are but a dayfly, destined to live out your life before the sun sets... 8-}
No offence meant. 8-)
I hope that's a generic you and not a you that refers to me. ;-) ...
Yes, that was a "generic you". sorry... 8-)
Why is the square root of -1 so provocative?
It's not.
It just means that your equations have an inherent variable or "dimension" that is orthogonal to the explicit variables.
See the derivation of the calculations of phase shift in AC motors.
LOL... It's mind-boggling that anyone would believe someone will mine asteroids, let alone "race" for it. ...
Sure, you could no more do that that fly to the moon!
That was a common phrase when I was growing up, before the moon landings. Strange, it fell out of use after that... 8-)
What a Space Nutter....
" to risk it all for science" ... speechless.
If you don't have -something- to risk it all for, then your life will be dry and grey!
I remember it too, but I was a bit older. I remember that the video shown live was much clearer than the later recordings.
This, by it's self, made it "worth it". The whole world saw it at the same time, and that was -also- a first for mankind! 8-)
The reason that you think it did not cause other developments to happen, is that you think all of that amazing stuff is "normal" and always existed. 8-P
Still got my Pickett Log-Log Decitrig. With leather case and belt clip.
If you pull out the slide and flip it end-for-end you can "program" it for L-C Resonance calculations.
Also still have my HP 35 "sliderule calculator" with field case. But no battery...
Programming is different from Engineering, in a lot of ways.
There is such a thing as a "Software Engineer", such as myself. They have a degree in Electical Engineering, specializing in Electronics, and a degree in Computer Science, specializing in system design.
And twenty year's experience, to learn Murphy's Law! 8-)
The article mentions "Professional Engineers", but that is different from most Engineers. A "PE" is regulated and certified by the state, as in: taking a big test.
And:
"If Engineers built buildings the way Programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization!"
Consider how you would feel, if you could be arrested and jailed for a software bug...
Around here, where people used to replace the catalitic converter with a piece of pipe*, VW is probably a Hero.
*By the way, don't do that, these days it messes up the engine operation.
England is a conquered country, run by the invaders. It has been since 1066 AD. All of the society and political systems are built on that.
England is now a "Gun Free Zone", and all of the shootings in the news have been in gun free zones!
What we need to outlaw are Gun Free Zones.
Lol, scrapyard likely wants more money than NASA received when it sold the rover in the auction.
And he should, too!
Why should he give it away, when he was the one who recognized it and saved it. If it were not for him it would already be Gone.
If he were rich and wanted to donate it, then that would be his choice. But not everyone is a billionare... 8-)
Don't be silly. Words like "Conflict of interest", "Fraud", "Kickbacks" and "Unbecoming behavior" only apply to "Those evil business people", not to University Administrators! 8-}
They probably have done this for so long that they don't even know it is wrong, anymore...