But when you catch the "track" to gain orbital velocity, wouldn't that just decay the track's orbit? You'd have to keep adding energy to the "track." I thought the rail gun concept was trying to avoid having to generate all that energy in space (thereby avoiding the need to launch all that extra weight)?
built alongside the crawlerway? Just when I thought real estate prices in the Space Coast of Florida couldn't drop any lower, now we have sonic booms being generated at ground level just a couple miles from Merritt Island and Cocoa Beach.
In related news, I just opened "Space Coast Window Repair."
According to TFA, the sled will be "hitting speeds of about Mach 10." That's fast, but then the TFA says, "electric tracks catapult rollercoaster riders daily at theme parks. But those tracks call for speeds of 60 mph -- enough to thrill riders, but not nearly fast enough to launch something into space. The launcher would need to reach at least 10 times that speed"
Sorry, but 10x roller coaster speeds isn't close to Mach 10.
NASA is on to something interesting here. It would seem that MagLev is required (no wheels can handle that speed), and it would be interesting to see what kind of acceleration they can get out of LIM's. Rocket propulsion seems a waste in this application. It might help bullet-train technology, and we can get some new spin-off inventions from NASA.
No, I don't think De Beers will be funding NASA. They may start blowing up any attempts to get into space. They might even want to take out the ISS (and as anyone who has seen Congo can tell you, with De Beers' massive diamond-powered lasers, the ISS is a sitting duck!) You see, they already have enough (should I say more than enough) diamonds. They just have to stop everyone else from getting access to diamonds, which would cause the price to fall.
If this is "really the big news we have been waiting for all along," then we can officially proclaim this as a Slow News Week!.
Who didn't expect Firefox 4 to beat IE9 and narrow the performance gap to Safari, Opera, Chrome? Wake me up when Firefox 4 blows them all out of the water!
The book should be called "Chew the Wookie". Giving up the poetic link to Milne's book not only makes the title syntactically correct, but the double entendre would probably increase books sales dramatically.
Is this just an advance posting of a presentation at MalCon?
These guys really need a conference to hone their skills, and take advantage of everyone who doesn't read/. daily (because those of us who do read/. daily are too smart to be conned by these losers). Right?
Snoop has finally jumped the shark. Looking at the trajectory of his career, it's not really surprising. I'm just glad his shark is Norton/Symantec instead of some brand of adult disposable undergarments.
After a dozen re-reads of TFA, my head came away from the wall, and I can now understand your rewrite.
My manager, however, will have to wait for the powerpoint presentation with pie charts and bar graphs. As we all know, 73% of managers can't understand more than three quarters of the information you present to them.
73% came across a misconfigured network more than three quarters of the time – which, according to 76% of the sample, was the easiest IT resource to exploit.
So are we to believe that 73% is more than three quarters, or is this a case where 90% of IT is half-mental?
I doubt there's a teacher on the planet who thinks they can get away with something like this, so I'm guessing this teacher just needed some time away
While I don't think assignments like this should be taboo, I do worry that if a student aces the assignment, he'd either be under constant surveillance, or he'd get enough attention that the real terrorists in the school might avail themselves of his services.
Of course, these students might want to enlist the help of The guy with the laser cutter. It might not get the most kills, but it sure would make a statement!
Your blimp might be fuel efficient, but going from Los Angeles to Sydney at the mind-numbing speed of 45 MPH doesn't appeal to everyone.
I'm also guessing you want us to give up those wasteful automobiles, because your horse-drawn carriage uses less fuel, provides you with a cheap source of fertilizer, and is oh-so-comfortable?
I suspect the literacy rate among people who would be inclined to steal books was pretty high.
Because all of our modern-day jewel thieves go around adorned like Mr. T? You steal something, not because it is valuable to you, but because it is valuable to someone.
Guessing at the literacy rates in 1229, what are the chances that a sticky-fingered thief would also be able to read the curse in order to feel the dread that it was meant to create? Did they have a literacy program for miscreants?
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and I can get out of all those volunteer jobs they make us parents do at our kids' school? Sweet!
But when you catch the "track" to gain orbital velocity, wouldn't that just decay the track's orbit? You'd have to keep adding energy to the "track." I thought the rail gun concept was trying to avoid having to generate all that energy in space (thereby avoiding the need to launch all that extra weight)?
In related news, I just opened "Space Coast Window Repair."
Sorry, but 10x roller coaster speeds isn't close to Mach 10.
NASA is on to something interesting here. It would seem that MagLev is required (no wheels can handle that speed), and it would be interesting to see what kind of acceleration they can get out of LIM's. Rocket propulsion seems a waste in this application. It might help bullet-train technology, and we can get some new spin-off inventions from NASA.
No, I don't think De Beers will be funding NASA. They may start blowing up any attempts to get into space. They might even want to take out the ISS (and as anyone who has seen Congo can tell you, with De Beers' massive diamond-powered lasers, the ISS is a sitting duck!) You see, they already have enough (should I say more than enough) diamonds. They just have to stop everyone else from getting access to diamonds, which would cause the price to fall.
If this is "really the big news we have been waiting for all along," then we can officially proclaim this as a Slow News Week!. Who didn't expect Firefox 4 to beat IE9 and narrow the performance gap to Safari, Opera, Chrome? Wake me up when Firefox 4 blows them all out of the water!
It'll be a problem when they decide to lie of their own accord.
The book should be called "Chew the Wookie". Giving up the poetic link to Milne's book not only makes the title syntactically correct, but the double entendre would probably increase books sales dramatically.
Is this just an advance posting of a presentation at MalCon?
These guys really need a conference to hone their skills, and take advantage of everyone who doesn't read /. daily (because those of us who do read /. daily are too smart to be conned by these losers). Right?
Snoop has finally jumped the shark. Looking at the trajectory of his career, it's not really surprising. I'm just glad his shark is Norton/Symantec instead of some brand of adult disposable undergarments.
After a dozen re-reads of TFA, my head came away from the wall, and I can now understand your rewrite.
My manager, however, will have to wait for the powerpoint presentation with pie charts and bar graphs. As we all know, 73% of managers can't understand more than three quarters of the information you present to them.
73% came across a misconfigured network more than three quarters of the time – which, according to 76% of the sample, was the easiest IT resource to exploit.
So are we to believe that 73% is more than three quarters, or is this a case where 90% of IT is half-mental?
Heaven is: an American salary, a Chinese Cook, a British Home, and a Japanese Wife.
...and a virtual girlfriend.
Are those steamed buns real, or just virtual. I'm guessing they'll be a popular room-service item.
The Department of defense has the idea of cheaper in their vocabulary? News to me!
Of course, when you say you want an armor-plated flying humvee, he might just drop dead of a heart attack, so break it to him gently, please?
Wait...are you saying there was a third Crocodile Dundee movie? I must've missed that while I was recuperating from #2.
I doubt there's a teacher on the planet who thinks they can get away with something like this, so I'm guessing this teacher just needed some time away
While I don't think assignments like this should be taboo, I do worry that if a student aces the assignment, he'd either be under constant surveillance, or he'd get enough attention that the real terrorists in the school might avail themselves of his services.
Of course, these students might want to enlist the help of The guy with the laser cutter. It might not get the most kills, but it sure would make a statement!
So, since when are Amish encouraged to post on /.?
Your blimp might be fuel efficient, but going from Los Angeles to Sydney at the mind-numbing speed of 45 MPH doesn't appeal to everyone.
I'm also guessing you want us to give up those wasteful automobiles, because your horse-drawn carriage uses less fuel, provides you with a cheap source of fertilizer, and is oh-so-comfortable?
I suspect the literacy rate among people who would be inclined to steal books was pretty high.
Because all of our modern-day jewel thieves go around adorned like Mr. T? You steal something, not because it is valuable to you, but because it is valuable to someone.
Guessing at the literacy rates in 1229, what are the chances that a sticky-fingered thief would also be able to read the curse in order to feel the dread that it was meant to create? Did they have a literacy program for miscreants?
We can all agree that all the Anthropogenic Climate Change data is just a bunch of hooey! "Sticky Numbers," indeed!
I dunno, I think she looks kinda hot.
$70-125 to install and another $70-110 per month isn't cheap, especially on top of the major bump in car insurance that they already ate
Yeah, that is pretty outrageously expensive. I bet it'd be cheaper to call a cab.
If only people were able to do this kind of deductive reasoning while they were drunk, we'd be able to completely eliminate drunk driving.
where I can buy a USB pad currently to add multi-touch support for a Windows desktop. Thanks
From Wacom. I have one of these, and use it on a Windows system. I haven't plugged it into my Lucid system...yet.