It's been too long since I had to do any kind of complex math. So trying to figure out how far from the anchor point the end could possibly land, if it broke just short of the 36,000 KM point is beyond me. But I wouldn't think it wouldn't be too far since it's going to fall very fast, within 6 minutes it would be falling faster than the tip could have been moving horizontally. Do you know of any good write ups for this kind of event?
I'm hoping to buy an American car the next time I'm up for a new commuter. I just hope that Tesla does as nice of a job on the next round as they have on the Model S. The S being what I dreamed cars would look like today, when I was a kid.
1. Because it's stationary the cable would not wrap around anything. The cable between the break point and the ground station would pile up on and around the ground station, with probably a little movement in one direction or another depending on prevailing winds and the force of the impact explosion or whatever that caused the cable to break.
2. Everything above the break point would just continue to hang straight down towards earth once any occilations caused by the break settled out. And the whole mass would start drifting out to a different orbit since the counter weight is no longer tied to the earth. But the vast bulk of the involved materials would still be in one connected piece. The only bits that might be free floating would be debris from the actual cable break, which should fall to earth pretty rapidly since their only horizontal momentum would have been imparted by the forces causing the break.
3. Packing it with explosives to me seems unnecessary because the area of impact is already going to be pretty limited and by necessity of where the ground station would be located it should be pretty low pop. You are correct that blowing it up would not reduce the mass, but it would increase the surface area of the mass and so it's descent could be slower and the pieces distributed over a wider area hence causing less catastrophic damage. I still think it'd be a waste of effort though.
I agree with a lot of what you said, but cooking before sunrise and sunset is probably more a factor of how much time they have to spend in the field to survive than some village elder's opinion. I could be wrong though as I didn't RTFA.
When I think of splash screens I don't think of loading screens. A loading screen can be used as a splash screen but to me a vanilla splash screen has always been about forcing me to look at brand name propaganda, which I've already bought. So frequently one of the first hacks I do to a new game when I first install it is disabling the pointless splash screens and movies.
Exactly, it's inconsequential. And that's in the most vulnerable population. We kill 100 infants a year doing cosmetic circumcisions and that's a "safe" and often recommended procedure.
So why are we risking creating whole generations of Varicella vulnerable adults?
One hole, or even many isn't likely to have much immediate impact against a ship in space. The atmospheric pressures are pretty low so it'd take a long time for holes to disable a ships crew. Compartmentalization, reserves of oxygen, and simple foaming sealants could keep a crew going for a long time. To quickly remove their atmosphere you'd want either very large holes or a fire.
I am, one twinkie at a time... Okay, I haven't actually eaten a twinkie in decades.
But I still wonder why we feel the need to evangelize other people into extending their lifetimes through exercise. Especially when they don't appear to be willing to do it on their own. I can see the issue of people who have hormone imbalances and such where they are not able to stay fit and trim without medical intervention. We should be trying to help them, but most of us are just too lazy and apathetic to care personally for ourselves. So where does it fall onto others to push for it?
This is pretty much my take on the whole thing more and more these days.
Purely from a logical perspective, God as described by most Christian denominations is a logical fallacy. Supposedly he knows everything including the future. He's not good at guessing or making predictions based on estimates, but he actually knows factually what is going to happen. This is only possible if there is no randomness in the universe. And hence he's responsible for everything that he sets in motion.
After all I can't hold a rock responsible for it's fall to the earth when I toss it into the air, it is merely acting in accordance to the laws of physics that govern it's motion. The laws that govern how a human mind will react to any given stimuli are obviously far more complex and well beyond our understanding currently. But for a god to know the future it would be a necessity.
Basically for god to exist in the standard Chrisitian sense you have to forgo the idea of free will. I would say that it's entirely possible that there is a god like being out there whom the Chrisitian God is based on. And if there comes a time when I get to stand before him in judgement I'll be happy to tell him he can shove his manipulative, lying, geonocidal, hypocritical opinions up his own ass.
And by "save millions of lives" I think you actually mean "prolong millions of lives" and frankly that isn't something we need in the next few decades. Shrinking the Baby Boomer generation by a significant percentage could do wonders for our economic outlook this century. Is there really any concrete reason, other than sentimental ones, to prolong so many lives?
Exactly, which is why I'll always take the chance to trash talk the Chair Force for it's PT testing system, where 30% of the score is based entirely on abdominal fat. And that 30% is scored in such an arbitrary manner that you can max or come very close to maxing all the other aspects of the test and still fail. A failure exposing you to being summarily dismissed from service.
When it was a concern for me, less than one whole inch on my waist made the difference between scoring in the mid 80's on the test and failing with a score under 75. I gamed the system by temporarily shrinking my waist so that I could stay in long enough to finish my contract instead of being kicked out.
I think we called it resistance training when I was in High School.
We'd do things like wrap long heavy chains around the ends of the bar when doing bench presses and the like. That way as you pushed up and it pulled chain off the floor the weight gradually increased, and when you slowly lowered it the weight gradually came off.
I'm not sure if we've had to decide on HepB with my daughter yet or not. But we have refused the Chickenpox one, what are your thoughts on that one, or is it not state required where you live?
While it's a nice cavalier attitude you have there, those patients will likely just end up in the ER for things that a family doctor could have easily treated. And that ends up meaning that we as tax payers end up paying more to subsidize their care. It also means that if you need to go to the ER for a real emergency you'll have to deal with a more crowded situation and slower service.
If that was true then Vaccination related lawsuits would be treated just like any other medical lawsuit and tried in the normal civil courts. But here in the USA you will find that they are not. There is a special judicial system setup to give the vaccine manufacturers an extra edge, as if they needed one, in lawsuits brought against them.
Seriously? The risks of chicken pox are already crazy low. The large majority of related deaths from it among children is untreated or improperly treated secondary infections.
The vaccine isn't very effective, as in the "immunity" is more like a moderate resistance. It is also not a long lasting resistance with boosters recommened every few years. It is a live virus vaccination so every time you get a booster you have a chance of having an outbreak. The main danger from Chicken Pox is in children is it turning into Shingles. And every time you have a booster you are essentially rerolling the dice on it developing into Shingles.
The real danger in Chickenpox is for adults and the elderly. Because the immune system is more likely to over react. With the vaccine not being very effective in the long term we are running the risk of creating entire generations of adults with weak or no real immunity.
So why are we wasting money and time on a vaccine for something that has a negligible mortality rate in the targeted population, and already achieves a 98% immunity rate among survivors? Our pediatrician actually told us that the only reason it was added to the mandatory vaccine list for our state was so that health insurance companies would cover it. Our daughter has had all the other Vaccines the State requires, but that one we're passing on unless it appears that she'll make it to puberty without catching the natural strain.
What books are you reading that don't have any action? Even my daughters Winnie the Pooh books have action in them. Are you reading technical manuals for entertainment?
The best stories that I remember from games that I've played are always about what happened or how I overcame something. Not some comically horrible plot twist or generic background expose.
Well if it's electric motor(s) is/are beefy enough to get a 4.4 second 0 to 60 time then it should be clear it's got plenty of power to accelerate. All wheel drive means better application of the available power to whichever wheel can utilize it. The battery pack being in the floor boards gives it a lower center of gravity than most cars can manage. I don't see why it wouldn't be able to match a generic mini cooper. The more sporty ones might have it beat out on acceleration but I don't know where else they could gain an edge that the tesla's couldn't be modified to match or beat.
One the subject of mini's an EV's, I wish that the PML QED Mini had gone into production.
If you would like to drive it further than it's engineered limit per fill up maybe you should think of a work around instead of expecting the manufacture to include it in a product not designed for you.
The answer will likely end up being a small petrol powered generator trailer hitch thingy for sale or rent. I think some government agency has said the average driver goes less than 30 miles in a day. How many times in the lifetime of a vehicle does it end up needing more than 300 miles of capacity? If the cost of adding that extra capacity was not so cheap for todays vehicles they wouldn't have it, and there's no good reason for it to be standard in the vehicles of tomorrow.
It's a crossover suv so it shouldn't be as tall as a suburban or some such. The doors aren't purely gullwings either, they do a bit of folding. In the pictures they don't look like they'll be that much higher, when opened fully, than the roof of the vehicle, maybe 12 inches at most. Think of a mini van where instead of the rear doors sliding back they slide up and rotate to a horizontal plane instead of vertical.
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It's been too long since I had to do any kind of complex math. So trying to figure out how far from the anchor point the end could possibly land, if it broke just short of the 36,000 KM point is beyond me. But I wouldn't think it wouldn't be too far since it's going to fall very fast, within 6 minutes it would be falling faster than the tip could have been moving horizontally. Do you know of any good write ups for this kind of event?
I'm hoping to buy an American car the next time I'm up for a new commuter. I just hope that Tesla does as nice of a job on the next round as they have on the Model S. The S being what I dreamed cars would look like today, when I was a kid.
1. Because it's stationary the cable would not wrap around anything. The cable between the break point and the ground station would pile up on and around the ground station, with probably a little movement in one direction or another depending on prevailing winds and the force of the impact explosion or whatever that caused the cable to break.
2. Everything above the break point would just continue to hang straight down towards earth once any occilations caused by the break settled out. And the whole mass would start drifting out to a different orbit since the counter weight is no longer tied to the earth. But the vast bulk of the involved materials would still be in one connected piece. The only bits that might be free floating would be debris from the actual cable break, which should fall to earth pretty rapidly since their only horizontal momentum would have been imparted by the forces causing the break.
3. Packing it with explosives to me seems unnecessary because the area of impact is already going to be pretty limited and by necessity of where the ground station would be located it should be pretty low pop. You are correct that blowing it up would not reduce the mass, but it would increase the surface area of the mass and so it's descent could be slower and the pieces distributed over a wider area hence causing less catastrophic damage. I still think it'd be a waste of effort though.
I agree with a lot of what you said, but cooking before sunrise and sunset is probably more a factor of how much time they have to spend in the field to survive than some village elder's opinion. I could be wrong though as I didn't RTFA.
When I think of splash screens I don't think of loading screens. A loading screen can be used as a splash screen but to me a vanilla splash screen has always been about forcing me to look at brand name propaganda, which I've already bought. So frequently one of the first hacks I do to a new game when I first install it is disabling the pointless splash screens and movies.
Exactly, it's inconsequential. And that's in the most vulnerable population. We kill 100 infants a year doing cosmetic circumcisions and that's a "safe" and often recommended procedure. So why are we risking creating whole generations of Varicella vulnerable adults?
One hole, or even many isn't likely to have much immediate impact against a ship in space. The atmospheric pressures are pretty low so it'd take a long time for holes to disable a ships crew. Compartmentalization, reserves of oxygen, and simple foaming sealants could keep a crew going for a long time. To quickly remove their atmosphere you'd want either very large holes or a fire.
I am, one twinkie at a time... Okay, I haven't actually eaten a twinkie in decades.
But I still wonder why we feel the need to evangelize other people into extending their lifetimes through exercise. Especially when they don't appear to be willing to do it on their own. I can see the issue of people who have hormone imbalances and such where they are not able to stay fit and trim without medical intervention. We should be trying to help them, but most of us are just too lazy and apathetic to care personally for ourselves. So where does it fall onto others to push for it?
This is pretty much my take on the whole thing more and more these days.
Purely from a logical perspective, God as described by most Christian denominations is a logical fallacy. Supposedly he knows everything including the future. He's not good at guessing or making predictions based on estimates, but he actually knows factually what is going to happen. This is only possible if there is no randomness in the universe. And hence he's responsible for everything that he sets in motion.
After all I can't hold a rock responsible for it's fall to the earth when I toss it into the air, it is merely acting in accordance to the laws of physics that govern it's motion. The laws that govern how a human mind will react to any given stimuli are obviously far more complex and well beyond our understanding currently. But for a god to know the future it would be a necessity.
Basically for god to exist in the standard Chrisitian sense you have to forgo the idea of free will. I would say that it's entirely possible that there is a god like being out there whom the Chrisitian God is based on. And if there comes a time when I get to stand before him in judgement I'll be happy to tell him he can shove his manipulative, lying, geonocidal, hypocritical opinions up his own ass.
And by "save millions of lives" I think you actually mean "prolong millions of lives" and frankly that isn't something we need in the next few decades. Shrinking the Baby Boomer generation by a significant percentage could do wonders for our economic outlook this century. Is there really any concrete reason, other than sentimental ones, to prolong so many lives?
Exactly, which is why I'll always take the chance to trash talk the Chair Force for it's PT testing system, where 30% of the score is based entirely on abdominal fat. And that 30% is scored in such an arbitrary manner that you can max or come very close to maxing all the other aspects of the test and still fail. A failure exposing you to being summarily dismissed from service.
When it was a concern for me, less than one whole inch on my waist made the difference between scoring in the mid 80's on the test and failing with a score under 75. I gamed the system by temporarily shrinking my waist so that I could stay in long enough to finish my contract instead of being kicked out.
I think we called it resistance training when I was in High School.
We'd do things like wrap long heavy chains around the ends of the bar when doing bench presses and the like. That way as you pushed up and it pulled chain off the floor the weight gradually increased, and when you slowly lowered it the weight gradually came off.
Thanks too you, a simple elevator ride becomes a descent into the very bowels of Hell!
I'm not sure if we've had to decide on HepB with my daughter yet or not. But we have refused the Chickenpox one, what are your thoughts on that one, or is it not state required where you live?
While it's a nice cavalier attitude you have there, those patients will likely just end up in the ER for things that a family doctor could have easily treated. And that ends up meaning that we as tax payers end up paying more to subsidize their care. It also means that if you need to go to the ER for a real emergency you'll have to deal with a more crowded situation and slower service.
If that was true then Vaccination related lawsuits would be treated just like any other medical lawsuit and tried in the normal civil courts. But here in the USA you will find that they are not. There is a special judicial system setup to give the vaccine manufacturers an extra edge, as if they needed one, in lawsuits brought against them.
Seriously? The risks of chicken pox are already crazy low. The large majority of related deaths from it among children is untreated or improperly treated secondary infections.
The vaccine isn't very effective, as in the "immunity" is more like a moderate resistance. It is also not a long lasting resistance with boosters recommened every few years. It is a live virus vaccination so every time you get a booster you have a chance of having an outbreak. The main danger from Chicken Pox is in children is it turning into Shingles. And every time you have a booster you are essentially rerolling the dice on it developing into Shingles.
The real danger in Chickenpox is for adults and the elderly. Because the immune system is more likely to over react. With the vaccine not being very effective in the long term we are running the risk of creating entire generations of adults with weak or no real immunity.
So why are we wasting money and time on a vaccine for something that has a negligible mortality rate in the targeted population, and already achieves a 98% immunity rate among survivors? Our pediatrician actually told us that the only reason it was added to the mandatory vaccine list for our state was so that health insurance companies would cover it. Our daughter has had all the other Vaccines the State requires, but that one we're passing on unless it appears that she'll make it to puberty without catching the natural strain.
"Stupidity is not a protected group" Wait, I thought you said they couldn't/shouldn't discriminate based on religion.
What books are you reading that don't have any action? Even my daughters Winnie the Pooh books have action in them. Are you reading technical manuals for entertainment?
The best stories that I remember from games that I've played are always about what happened or how I overcame something. Not some comically horrible plot twist or generic background expose.
Well if it's electric motor(s) is/are beefy enough to get a 4.4 second 0 to 60 time then it should be clear it's got plenty of power to accelerate. All wheel drive means better application of the available power to whichever wheel can utilize it. The battery pack being in the floor boards gives it a lower center of gravity than most cars can manage. I don't see why it wouldn't be able to match a generic mini cooper. The more sporty ones might have it beat out on acceleration but I don't know where else they could gain an edge that the tesla's couldn't be modified to match or beat.
One the subject of mini's an EV's, I wish that the PML QED Mini had gone into production.
If you would like to drive it further than it's engineered limit per fill up maybe you should think of a work around instead of expecting the manufacture to include it in a product not designed for you.
The answer will likely end up being a small petrol powered generator trailer hitch thingy for sale or rent. I think some government agency has said the average driver goes less than 30 miles in a day. How many times in the lifetime of a vehicle does it end up needing more than 300 miles of capacity? If the cost of adding that extra capacity was not so cheap for todays vehicles they wouldn't have it, and there's no good reason for it to be standard in the vehicles of tomorrow.
It's a crossover suv so it shouldn't be as tall as a suburban or some such. The doors aren't purely gullwings either, they do a bit of folding. In the pictures they don't look like they'll be that much higher, when opened fully, than the roof of the vehicle, maybe 12 inches at most. Think of a mini van where instead of the rear doors sliding back they slide up and rotate to a horizontal plane instead of vertical.
Don't be silly, Marshmallow fluff is delicous! I'm fairly sure my 2yr old daughter would gladly trade me for a six pack of the stuff.
So, largest publicly traded company then.
"largest company in the world"
By what measure?