People have a new thing, 3d printing. They don't know what it's good for, and the printers themselves are achingly primitive, they just have a vague sense of potential. So as the technology becomes more widely available, creative types are exploring the idea-space. Over time, all the stupid ideas, like this mobius-house, will be chipped away, and what is left will be what 3d printing is good for.
(He paid other people less than the work was worth, he routinely breached company IT security policy, and he spent all day watching cat videos. He was perfect. Give him fifteen years and he'll be CEO.)
It's no worse than the President ending speeches with "God bless America", or opening sessions of Congress with group prayer, so it's unlikely to get spanked by the SC even if the author was serious.
[Although I'd love to see a bunch of right-wing cable TV anger monkeys getting their back up over the establishment clause if a non-Christian fringe-religion President started dropping references to his own wacky New Age religion everywhere. May the Earth-mother praise him.]
I appreciate what you're trying to do, but honestly, modern NASA sites are as badly designed as any click-bait "news" site. JS that breaks normal browser functionality (like right-click or back). "Interactive" elements that serve only to hide what you're actually looking for.
Their image sites worked better when they just threw up forty thumbnails per page.
Not my pic. I live on a different continent. Just googled it and that came up. I was curious what those large wall-plaques said. (Weirdly there were no better images than the "bin" one on Wikipedia. So I still don't know what they say.)
Actually it's more like a car dealership, where one customer is alleged by a private company to have driven their new car illegally, now all customers of that dealership have been banned from driving in any town that uses the "bad driver" list, for 7 days unless the dealer pays a fee on their behalf.
Guns are a high-priority target for thieves. They retain excellent value on the black market (unlike, say, electronics.) Letting thieves know you're a gun owner is like telling them you leave piles of hundred dollar bills lying around the house.
And since most burglaries are committed when the owner is absent, a thief might assume that a gun owner won't have a burglar alarm as well. (And alarms do have a strong deterrent effect, much moreso than guns.)
2500 years (less than recorded history) is roughly 100 generations, which is vastly more than enough for such a minor behavioural change as increased aggression (the original racist AC's suggestion), particularly if you can get most of it by an increase in adrenaline production (as the Russian experiments suggest.)
That's worse. That section is describing the capture mission. Ie, that the asteroid is between the Earth and the moon before the capture capsule reaches it. Which is utterly retarded.
The whole thing is a complete misreading of the concept, no wonder GP is confused.
It's a reference to the Western/Eastern Hemisphere, not magnetic or rotational west.
"West Antarctica" is the bit that's south of South America. "East Antarctica" is the bit that south of southern Asia. The dividing line is the Prime Meridian (ie, from Greenwich around the International Date Line, through both poles.)
Not to mention the Russian Arctic Fox program that turned the wild form into happy puppy-dogs in just 10 generations, simply by selecting for handleablility. Major change in behaviour (and appearance) in just a few generations. A hundred generations is plenty of time for culture to affect us.
(Belyaev did the opposite too. Selected a group for the least handleable. Now them's some fun doggies.)
Actually it's probably the nuke modelling that I'm remembering. The problem is that loose piles can shift internally to absorb energy, without actually breaking up. Bean bags. (Perhaps how they they are able to accumulate in the first place.)
IIRC, there was a method for breaking them up with a realistic number of nukes, but you had to detonate the bombs below the surface. (Lots of pop.sci giggling at the time about how the movie "Armageddon" actually got something right.)
No you clearly didn't. I explained how the two are not comparable. Twice. This is attempt three.
An object on a collision course with Earth may require only the slightest nudge to send it off-course enough to miss, a few tens of metres per second. Small amount of force.
But if you want to target something into Earth (or into a Lagrange capture), you are not starting with an asteroid that is in a convenient orbit that is just a few tens of metres per second away from a perfect intercept. Instead you will have to deal with whatever orbit it's in, and looking at actual asteroids, that typically requires several kilometres per second in order to move it into an intercept orbit. (Plus a second burn of about half a km/s if you want to capture it into orbit, in order to circularise apogee.) Large amount of force.
Several kilometres per second is not the same as a few tens of metres per second.
Do you understand? Whether you are using a change of albedo, a rocket, or wishful thinking. Kilometres are bigger than metres. They Are Not The Same.
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An added disadvanted of the printed building is that I see it being difficult to actually print "reinforced" concrete this way
Fibre reinforced concrete has been around for decades. There's even steel fibre reinforced concrete.
However, this project is using some wonder-resin mock-sandstone that is supposedly stronger than Portland and doesn't need reinforcing.
People have a new thing, 3d printing. They don't know what it's good for, and the printers themselves are achingly primitive, they just have a vague sense of potential. So as the technology becomes more widely available, creative types are exploring the idea-space. Over time, all the stupid ideas, like this mobius-house, will be chipped away, and what is left will be what 3d printing is good for.
"People were not meant to play at god!"
Then what else were people created for?
Nothing? Nothing?!
Sir, he was a Manager!
(He paid other people less than the work was worth, he routinely breached company IT security policy, and he spent all day watching cat videos. He was perfect. Give him fifteen years and he'll be CEO.)
On the other hand, if your ice cubes are sending you text messages, one way or another it's time to call it a night.
The bad part is that they had to cut funding for the local fire brigade.
It's no worse than the President ending speeches with "God bless America", or opening sessions of Congress with group prayer, so it's unlikely to get spanked by the SC even if the author was serious.
[Although I'd love to see a bunch of right-wing cable TV anger monkeys getting their back up over the establishment clause if a non-Christian fringe-religion President started dropping references to his own wacky New Age religion everywhere. May the Earth-mother praise him.]
While he was vacationing with his wife
...he's resting.
Manning had legal resources available to him to expose wrong doing in the classified world.
This assumes it is considered wrong-doing by the people he is required to report to.
So how did they view the wrong-doing? You'll notice the lack of arrests other than Manning.
Yeah, I would try to clear me name by claiming ultruistism too.
Do you mean "altruism"?
Except with rocket boots.
I appreciate what you're trying to do, but honestly, modern NASA sites are as badly designed as any click-bait "news" site. JS that breaks normal browser functionality (like right-click or back). "Interactive" elements that serve only to hide what you're actually looking for.
Their image sites worked better when they just threw up forty thumbnails per page.
Not my pic. I live on a different continent. Just googled it and that came up. I was curious what those large wall-plaques said. (Weirdly there were no better images than the "bin" one on Wikipedia. So I still don't know what they say.)
I assume you mean this? Neil Armstrong's bootprint.
http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/78a83d0a-889c-4d0a-9e90-aa8e42efaa74.jpg
Actually it's more like a car dealership, where one customer is alleged by a private company to have driven their new car illegally, now all customers of that dealership have been banned from driving in any town that uses the "bad driver" list, for 7 days unless the dealer pays a fee on their behalf.
Guns are a high-priority target for thieves. They retain excellent value on the black market (unlike, say, electronics.) Letting thieves know you're a gun owner is like telling them you leave piles of hundred dollar bills lying around the house.
And since most burglaries are committed when the owner is absent, a thief might assume that a gun owner won't have a burglar alarm as well. (And alarms do have a strong deterrent effect, much moreso than guns.)
2500 years (less than recorded history) is roughly 100 generations, which is vastly more than enough for such a minor behavioural change as increased aggression (the original racist AC's suggestion), particularly if you can get most of it by an increase in adrenaline production (as the Russian experiments suggest.)
That's worse. That section is describing the capture mission. Ie, that the asteroid is between the Earth and the moon before the capture capsule reaches it. Which is utterly retarded.
The whole thing is a complete misreading of the concept, no wonder GP is confused.
It's a reference to the Western/Eastern Hemisphere, not magnetic or rotational west.
"West Antarctica" is the bit that's south of South America. "East Antarctica" is the bit that south of southern Asia. The dividing line is the Prime Meridian (ie, from Greenwich around the International Date Line, through both poles.)
Pepsi?
Not to mention the Russian Arctic Fox program that turned the wild form into happy puppy-dogs in just 10 generations, simply by selecting for handleablility. Major change in behaviour (and appearance) in just a few generations. A hundred generations is plenty of time for culture to affect us.
(Belyaev did the opposite too. Selected a group for the least handleable. Now them's some fun doggies.)
brb, raising some zombies
That's not a nice thing to call your lawyers.
Actually it's probably the nuke modelling that I'm remembering. The problem is that loose piles can shift internally to absorb energy, without actually breaking up. Bean bags. (Perhaps how they they are able to accumulate in the first place.)
IIRC, there was a method for breaking them up with a realistic number of nukes, but you had to detonate the bombs below the surface. (Lots of pop.sci giggling at the time about how the movie "Armageddon" actually got something right.)
No you clearly didn't. I explained how the two are not comparable. Twice. This is attempt three.
An object on a collision course with Earth may require only the slightest nudge to send it off-course enough to miss, a few tens of metres per second. Small amount of force.
But if you want to target something into Earth (or into a Lagrange capture), you are not starting with an asteroid that is in a convenient orbit that is just a few tens of metres per second away from a perfect intercept. Instead you will have to deal with whatever orbit it's in, and looking at actual asteroids, that typically requires several kilometres per second in order to move it into an intercept orbit. (Plus a second burn of about half a km/s if you want to capture it into orbit, in order to circularise apogee.) Large amount of force.
Several kilometres per second is not the same as a few tens of metres per second.
Do you understand? Whether you are using a change of albedo, a rocket, or wishful thinking. Kilometres are bigger than metres. They Are Not The Same.
You are hung up on whether the application is high-tech enough,
[Sigh] Try reading what I actually wrote. Missing and hitting are not symmetrical situations.
Yes, well done you for missing the point.