I wouldn't mind paying a fee for using an MMORPG if it was something along the lines of paying for time spent online or how much throughput I used. I never got into playing games like EQ because I didn't want to pay a flat rate for service I might not use for a month or only use a little bit if school or work got intensive. Maybe even the game itself ought to be a subscription service. Instead of shelling out 60$ all at once for the game you could either download it or order a cheap cd (15$ including S&H) with the game. The publisher would sell an account on the network for playing of the game. They could save tons on physical distribution and use the subscription money to cover development cost and the maintainance of the network. I think one of the best examples of a MMO game is Subspace. It was a game of pretty simple concepts, it was a glorified Asteroids for the most part, yet had a ton of gameplay due to the multiplayer aspect. Even after VIE died and dropped all support the game lives on with a fair sized audience even after three years of no official support. The problem with Subspace as an example is VIE went out of business so we didn't get to see if their revenue model was going to work or not.
The production of hydrogen also makes it pretty inefficient. You're only going to get the same number of ergs out of the hydrogen as you put in to extract it. So the energy you spent getting the fuel for a plane you could have put into an magnetodynamic slingshot to shoot it into the air. Airplanes are also inconvenient shapes for storage of hydrogen which really wants to be stored in spherical chambers since you're going you have to keep it in a liquid for and thus under pressure. It works for the STS because the main fuel tank stores hygroen in a spherical tank inside the skin of it. To put hydrogen tanks inside of jet liners you'd need to put them in the cabin. Tanks aren't going in the wings like you can do with kerosene base jet fuels.
The DirectFB project is already doing this. They've got a setup to do entity rendering directly into the hardware framebuffer. Look around the site and see for yourself. It looks pretty impressive and does pretty much exactly what you're saying if I'm reading you correctly. GTK+ runs right now on top of DirectFB as well as directly on the system frame buffer. Gotta love GDK!
That is a metal hydride cell, these ae fine for cars where a little added weight doesn't harm your performance as much as an airplane. On a airplane you want as little fuel containment structure for as much fuel volume as possible. Metal hydrides don't store nearly enough hydrogen for its weight to make it effective in anything you have to put in the air. The most effective way to store hydrogen is in a cryogenic tank and even those are bulky.
WindowsXP == WindowsNT 5.1. For the personal edition they only provide a uniprocessor kernel and put some Millennium-like toys like the personal video editor and shit. It's memory management is also detuned similarly to the way memory is tuned differently between WinNT Pro and Server.
All the browsers have had the feature to automatically launch a binhexed file for a long time. What the site doesn't point out which is blatantly obvious is that this is not seen as a design flaw since you're not randomly downloading shit off the internet. You have to choose to download it and IE also allows you to set whether or not you want BinHex or MacBinary files run after they're downloaded. The fact this was labeled a huge security hole and blamed enitrely on Microsoft is ridiculous. Users who don't pay better attention to what they're downloading end up fucked in any event regardless of IE.
Weird how easily i set IE NOT to execute the output of a BinHex and MacBinary file by just going into preferences. People were equating BinHex with SEA or something which it isn't. It is just a fork packager. I've never had IE execute anything on download anyhow and neither do most people.
Uh I don't think the original poster has ever used a Mac and thus has no idea what a.bin or.hqx is. HFS stores files as what are called forks. A file has a resource fork and a data fork. The resource fork is the important part because it contains information about the file telling the system what type of file it is as well as who owns/created it. If you send a file from a Mac to a non-Mac system the resource fork is lost most of the time and you end up with a meaningless set of data. MacBinary and BinHex encoding came about because Mac files needed to be sent over network mediums possibly through systems that had no concept of data forks. They combine the data and resource forks in a single file system entity so they can be sent over a network. BinHex provides a little bit of compression with RLE encoding. The fact that IE automagically decodes either BinHex or MacBinary files means it does what it is supposed to do. This is not a security hole because it doesn't automatically run anything that was encoded. It just turns it into a normal Mac file entity. If you're set to automatically expand SIT or SEA files then you're asking for someone to fuck you over. This is NOT a security hole in IE. Geez
Yeah but alot of.hqx files automatically run install scripts when they are expanded. You could pretty easily stick something inside a.hqx that wipes out ~/ or infects a file. However you're right. Slashdot sees something that is sort of not even really anti-microsoft and jumps all over it. I haven't been seeing too many Mac novices running out and installing OSX on their systems. Anyone who's been using Macs even for just a little while knows better than to have archives expand as soon as they're downloaded.
Well firstly you can't use a "powerful antenna" operating on ISM bands. The highest PEP you're allowed is 1 watt will get you decent range in dry air. You also have to figure out if your phone company or whoever is providing your T1 is going to care if you're reselling your bandwidth. Freenets get away with being called freenets because they are essentially free. Someone has a high speed connection and sticks an AirPort base station on their roof so other people can access their network. You're looking to set up infrastructure which I doubt many people are going to want to foot the bill for. I'd say just stick with a small setup and let your local neighbors use your net.
Uh...spectrography works wonders when figuring out what something is made of. In fact that is where the whole asteroid naming convention FUCKING COMES FORM. Jesus get it through your fucking skull. Carbon is very useful for building lots of things as is iron and silicon. Energy in space is abundant especially if you start turning your raw silicon into brand spanking new solar panels and use carbon for making electrically conductive polymers. One of the reasons we're not doing stuff which is very feasible is there've been no pathfinder missions because of the politics involved in space travel. No one lives on the fucking Moon because it isn't politically viable to do so. Voters for the most part know dick about anything yet tell people whether or not they can spend money on Project X which they have absolutely no understanding of. Imagine if the budget for Vietnam was instead handed over to NASA? You'd be flying to work on a fucking jet pack. Instead a a political paradigm shift went from beating the USSR to the Moon which we did to fighting a bunch of natives in jungle covered hills and mountains. You'll notice how there were lots of projects scrapped after Apollo 11 because it accomplished its political mission and folks decided to use the money to kill people. We're a pretty advanced group of people dispite the occasional genetic miscreant like yourself. It's a shame you're so obtuse because you might have had a halfway decent argument to counter my extrapolation of the previous poster's comments which you decided to bash. Instead you throw big numbers around like I'm talking Star Trek pseudo-physics. Underclass engineering students learn the mechanics of taking shit apart in zero gravity. The cookie stand is not part of the food court, it isn't like we're talking quantum physics here.
What the fuck are you smoking. Mining an NEA isn't going to cost a billion dollars because you don't mine it conventionally. You send up a ship with a powerful little rocket that shoots an anchor into the rock and buries itself, you let the rotation of the asteroid wrap itself up. Then you pull the anchor counter to the rotation of the asteroid to negate its spin. Wrap it up in a giant mylar bad and concuss it into fragments or break it up with a lightweight solar mirror. H2) mined from such an asteroid makes good rocket fuel since you can break it up with electricity from solar panels and recombine it kablamo style for an appriciable delta-v. You also don't need to get much from Earth to a NEA but you can land alot back on Earth or the Moon fairly cheaply. You can also leave the fuel in its separates state for use of a Mars mission, maybe even slingshot it around a body into Mars orbit for later use by explorers. Geez dude.
Such big words from someone lacking the value of his own opinion to such a degree he can't even take responsibility for it. Shut the fuck up needle dick:)
It's my personal opinion that 3G is only going to be really useful in Japan and the technofetishist desire for it's use here is just silly. I mean look at it, what the fuck are you going to use a 384k download for on a fucking cell phone? We don't have anything remotely like i-mode here in the states, you might respond with wireless internet but i-mode is NOT the internet. The closest thing you can compare i-mode to is AOL in 1995. You paid for AOL access and got exactly that, access to AOL's internal network. Everything was hosted and maintained by AOL. I-mode though lets individual companies put up i-mode pages and allows for a pay per byte akin to charging by the minute on a 900 number. This is very different than in the US where we're trying to adapt either our phones or the internet for use on the phones. From the onset i-mode was designed for the phones and likewise the phones designed for i-mode. It is feasible in Japan to have high bandwidth connections on mobile devices because they are being charged by the byte (or packet I suppose) so they aren't going to hook up a phone to their laptop and download the latest Linux ISO. That is almost exactly what most people want to do with 3G networks assuming they proliferate in the US due to some miracle involving bandwidth and the military. Any time 3G networks are mentioned here everyone goes into "DSL replacement" mode where they look for yet another avenue of broadband. If DoCoMo somehow offered i-mode here but charged by the byte or packet nobody would use it because we've gotten too used to the internet essentially being free.
I wonder if this is a Boron-Hydrogen CBF reactor they are talking about. These sorts of reactors have two plasma streams guises by magnetic fields. The two plasma beams converge at high energy and Hydrogen whams into Boron fusing but causing the new Boron-12 radioisotope decays in about.0202 seconds down into three alpha particles with very high velocities which are guides through an energy converter (a magnetic coil) which generates electricity with a pretty high efficiency. You also end up with clean byproducts rather than Tritium-Deuterium fusion (heavy water fusion) I keep seeing pushed by researchers and oddly enough the DOE. I don't get how the DOE could keep a straight face whilst pushing the cleanliness of fusion power talking about heavy water plants. Tritium product isn't exactly cheap or easy considering you get it from sticking lithium into a laser implosion chamber because tritium is pretty damn rare naturally. Shit the only two facilities they've got working on the waste products are MIT and INEL (Idaho National Energy Laboratory) which is a fraction of the effort they're putting into everything else. This is what got us into the mess of nuclear waste disposal in the first place.
BTW, heavy water fusion (the fusion of H-2 and H-3) yields an alpha particle and a free neutron. Both of these byproducts are moving really fast after the reaction. The helium isn't much of a problem considering it has a charge and can be confinsed and controlled by magnetic fields. The neutrons however have no charge and thus fly in whatever direction they were originally headed. Thus heavy water reactors need lots of shielding and cooling systems due to the thermal pollution of the energetic neutrons. This adds up to alot of wasted energy in the form of heat (about two thirds of the total energy from the reaction). You can run the coolant through exchangers to get some energy back out of it but you're left with the same radiactive problems fission reactors have to deal with. Namely contamination. CBF's using Boron-Hydrogen or Helium3-Deuterium don't need this sort of extra bulk and also are more efficient since alot of their energy is being directed by the magnetic fields of the reactor and harnessed. They can thus be smaller and more efficient so instead of one big reactor you could have a handful of 100MW reactors distributed in a region. Oh yeah, for nuclear nuts I didn't go into He-3/H-2 fusion because He-3 is so fucking rare on Earth it would literally cost you billions of dollars to collect even a little bit for industrial use. Until we can efficnetly mine the Moon and asteroids and eventually the outer gas giants (Uranus and Neptune first and Jupiter and Saturn when we can have an efficient way of escaping their gravity) we're not going to be using He-3 for industrial purposes.
You're basically asking for a microkernel. This is exactly what Darwin and NT both do without most people really knowing it. On WinNT the entire Win32 subsystem is merely a service that runs on the NT kernel it also can run an OS/2 environment and POSIX if you'd like. On a microkernel you can run any system you want as a kernel service as long as stuff is binary compatible. As for OpenFirmware, I really wish PCs had it rather than the outdatted BIOS concept. On a PowerMac you can hold down the Option key on boot to select a partition or device to load a system off of. LILO itself is rather limited as the concept of it is derived from the whole IBM Comppatible paradigm of PCs.
What's even worse than people checking numbers and all that there's also people in support groups for people who check numbers. Trekkie bean counters have infrastructure now. *shakes head* We're doomed.
I missed the first half hour so I'll have to wait for the rerun to even hear the theme song but I noticed it had more commercials than when NBC broadcast both Alice in Wonderland and that little people show. You didn't even get a chance to get into the plot before it faded to black and ruined your hardon thinking about rubbing gel all over Jolene. I think I may go buy a Tivo now.
The primaries usually have bigger chests and make for more suitable whacking material while the secondaries are use for plot devices for the male characters more often. I think it's one of those Rick Berman things.
By the time I got to the end of the post I wanted to cry. Both because you forgot that it was mentioned a long time ago that the warp scale had changed between the old series and the TNG ones and that I knew that in the first place and then yet again when I realized someone took the time to calculate it out as if in some way it matters at all how accurate Star Trek is.
Formation flying with birds is still a very difficult thing to arrange. you'd also want something a little bit bigger than a 5-10kg nanosat as a functional unit of a swarm. Lets say you want to replace a comsat with a formation of small birds each with one or two transponders. You're not going to use a 10kg nanosat that can barely push a watt of PEP over the transponder. You need something a little bigger than can give you more power. With some nanosat designs you end up with sharply diminishing returns as the size decreases. Like the article says these really small sats might be best suited as ROVs controlled by the IIS crew that could at the very least just give them an eye in the sky of sorts. I mean look at when Mir was hit by the meteoroid which caused all their problems. They didn't know exactly how damaged Mir was until the shuttle went up and could get an external view. Now lets say they had a couple nanosats with cameras and maybe a little epoxy gun or something. They might have been able to more easily repair parts of the station. until we can stick little nuclear power supplies or 80% efficient solar panels on nanosats they aren't going to be flying in a communication array formation replacing comsats, they just haven't the power. Maybe we could just have one big sat that powers the formation by beaming nanosats power using microwaves.
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What exactly do you think HP uses on their servers? Doritos?
Well there are always the GTK+ and Qt running inside the system framebuffer.
I wouldn't mind paying a fee for using an MMORPG if it was something along the lines of paying for time spent online or how much throughput I used. I never got into playing games like EQ because I didn't want to pay a flat rate for service I might not use for a month or only use a little bit if school or work got intensive. Maybe even the game itself ought to be a subscription service. Instead of shelling out 60$ all at once for the game you could either download it or order a cheap cd (15$ including S&H) with the game. The publisher would sell an account on the network for playing of the game. They could save tons on physical distribution and use the subscription money to cover development cost and the maintainance of the network. I think one of the best examples of a MMO game is Subspace. It was a game of pretty simple concepts, it was a glorified Asteroids for the most part, yet had a ton of gameplay due to the multiplayer aspect. Even after VIE died and dropped all support the game lives on with a fair sized audience even after three years of no official support. The problem with Subspace as an example is VIE went out of business so we didn't get to see if their revenue model was going to work or not.
The production of hydrogen also makes it pretty inefficient. You're only going to get the same number of ergs out of the hydrogen as you put in to extract it. So the energy you spent getting the fuel for a plane you could have put into an magnetodynamic slingshot to shoot it into the air. Airplanes are also inconvenient shapes for storage of hydrogen which really wants to be stored in spherical chambers since you're going you have to keep it in a liquid for and thus under pressure. It works for the STS because the main fuel tank stores hygroen in a spherical tank inside the skin of it. To put hydrogen tanks inside of jet liners you'd need to put them in the cabin. Tanks aren't going in the wings like you can do with kerosene base jet fuels.
The DirectFB project is already doing this. They've got a setup to do entity rendering directly into the hardware framebuffer. Look around the site and see for yourself. It looks pretty impressive and does pretty much exactly what you're saying if I'm reading you correctly. GTK+ runs right now on top of DirectFB as well as directly on the system frame buffer. Gotta love GDK!
That is a metal hydride cell, these ae fine for cars where a little added weight doesn't harm your performance as much as an airplane. On a airplane you want as little fuel containment structure for as much fuel volume as possible. Metal hydrides don't store nearly enough hydrogen for its weight to make it effective in anything you have to put in the air. The most effective way to store hydrogen is in a cryogenic tank and even those are bulky.
WindowsXP == WindowsNT 5.1. For the personal edition they only provide a uniprocessor kernel and put some Millennium-like toys like the personal video editor and shit. It's memory management is also detuned similarly to the way memory is tuned differently between WinNT Pro and Server.
All the browsers have had the feature to automatically launch a binhexed file for a long time. What the site doesn't point out which is blatantly obvious is that this is not seen as a design flaw since you're not randomly downloading shit off the internet. You have to choose to download it and IE also allows you to set whether or not you want BinHex or MacBinary files run after they're downloaded. The fact this was labeled a huge security hole and blamed enitrely on Microsoft is ridiculous. Users who don't pay better attention to what they're downloading end up fucked in any event regardless of IE.
Weird how easily i set IE NOT to execute the output of a BinHex and MacBinary file by just going into preferences. People were equating BinHex with SEA or something which it isn't. It is just a fork packager. I've never had IE execute anything on download anyhow and neither do most people.
Uh I don't think the original poster has ever used a Mac and thus has no idea what a .bin or .hqx is. HFS stores files as what are called forks. A file has a resource fork and a data fork. The resource fork is the important part because it contains information about the file telling the system what type of file it is as well as who owns/created it. If you send a file from a Mac to a non-Mac system the resource fork is lost most of the time and you end up with a meaningless set of data. MacBinary and BinHex encoding came about because Mac files needed to be sent over network mediums possibly through systems that had no concept of data forks. They combine the data and resource forks in a single file system entity so they can be sent over a network. BinHex provides a little bit of compression with RLE encoding. The fact that IE automagically decodes either BinHex or MacBinary files means it does what it is supposed to do. This is not a security hole because it doesn't automatically run anything that was encoded. It just turns it into a normal Mac file entity. If you're set to automatically expand SIT or SEA files then you're asking for someone to fuck you over. This is NOT a security hole in IE. Geez
Yeah but alot of .hqx files automatically run install scripts when they are expanded. You could pretty easily stick something inside a .hqx that wipes out ~/ or infects a file. However you're right. Slashdot sees something that is sort of not even really anti-microsoft and jumps all over it. I haven't been seeing too many Mac novices running out and installing OSX on their systems. Anyone who's been using Macs even for just a little while knows better than to have archives expand as soon as they're downloaded.
Well firstly you can't use a "powerful antenna" operating on ISM bands. The highest PEP you're allowed is 1 watt will get you decent range in dry air. You also have to figure out if your phone company or whoever is providing your T1 is going to care if you're reselling your bandwidth. Freenets get away with being called freenets because they are essentially free. Someone has a high speed connection and sticks an AirPort base station on their roof so other people can access their network. You're looking to set up infrastructure which I doubt many people are going to want to foot the bill for. I'd say just stick with a small setup and let your local neighbors use your net.
So what pray tell is the half life of a neutron? Weird how shit works sometimes huh?
Uh...spectrography works wonders when figuring out what something is made of. In fact that is where the whole asteroid naming convention FUCKING COMES FORM. Jesus get it through your fucking skull. Carbon is very useful for building lots of things as is iron and silicon. Energy in space is abundant especially if you start turning your raw silicon into brand spanking new solar panels and use carbon for making electrically conductive polymers. One of the reasons we're not doing stuff which is very feasible is there've been no pathfinder missions because of the politics involved in space travel. No one lives on the fucking Moon because it isn't politically viable to do so. Voters for the most part know dick about anything yet tell people whether or not they can spend money on Project X which they have absolutely no understanding of. Imagine if the budget for Vietnam was instead handed over to NASA? You'd be flying to work on a fucking jet pack. Instead a a political paradigm shift went from beating the USSR to the Moon which we did to fighting a bunch of natives in jungle covered hills and mountains. You'll notice how there were lots of projects scrapped after Apollo 11 because it accomplished its political mission and folks decided to use the money to kill people. We're a pretty advanced group of people dispite the occasional genetic miscreant like yourself. It's a shame you're so obtuse because you might have had a halfway decent argument to counter my extrapolation of the previous poster's comments which you decided to bash. Instead you throw big numbers around like I'm talking Star Trek pseudo-physics. Underclass engineering students learn the mechanics of taking shit apart in zero gravity. The cookie stand is not part of the food court, it isn't like we're talking quantum physics here.
What the fuck are you smoking. Mining an NEA isn't going to cost a billion dollars because you don't mine it conventionally. You send up a ship with a powerful little rocket that shoots an anchor into the rock and buries itself, you let the rotation of the asteroid wrap itself up. Then you pull the anchor counter to the rotation of the asteroid to negate its spin. Wrap it up in a giant mylar bad and concuss it into fragments or break it up with a lightweight solar mirror. H2) mined from such an asteroid makes good rocket fuel since you can break it up with electricity from solar panels and recombine it kablamo style for an appriciable delta-v. You also don't need to get much from Earth to a NEA but you can land alot back on Earth or the Moon fairly cheaply. You can also leave the fuel in its separates state for use of a Mars mission, maybe even slingshot it around a body into Mars orbit for later use by explorers. Geez dude.
Such big words from someone lacking the value of his own opinion to such a degree he can't even take responsibility for it. Shut the fuck up needle dick :)
It's my personal opinion that 3G is only going to be really useful in Japan and the technofetishist desire for it's use here is just silly. I mean look at it, what the fuck are you going to use a 384k download for on a fucking cell phone? We don't have anything remotely like i-mode here in the states, you might respond with wireless internet but i-mode is NOT the internet. The closest thing you can compare i-mode to is AOL in 1995. You paid for AOL access and got exactly that, access to AOL's internal network. Everything was hosted and maintained by AOL. I-mode though lets individual companies put up i-mode pages and allows for a pay per byte akin to charging by the minute on a 900 number. This is very different than in the US where we're trying to adapt either our phones or the internet for use on the phones. From the onset i-mode was designed for the phones and likewise the phones designed for i-mode. It is feasible in Japan to have high bandwidth connections on mobile devices because they are being charged by the byte (or packet I suppose) so they aren't going to hook up a phone to their laptop and download the latest Linux ISO. That is almost exactly what most people want to do with 3G networks assuming they proliferate in the US due to some miracle involving bandwidth and the military. Any time 3G networks are mentioned here everyone goes into "DSL replacement" mode where they look for yet another avenue of broadband. If DoCoMo somehow offered i-mode here but charged by the byte or packet nobody would use it because we've gotten too used to the internet essentially being free.
I wonder if this is a Boron-Hydrogen CBF reactor they are talking about. These sorts of reactors have two plasma streams guises by magnetic fields. The two plasma beams converge at high energy and Hydrogen whams into Boron fusing but causing the new Boron-12 radioisotope decays in about .0202 seconds down into three alpha particles with very high velocities which are guides through an energy converter (a magnetic coil) which generates electricity with a pretty high efficiency. You also end up with clean byproducts rather than Tritium-Deuterium fusion (heavy water fusion) I keep seeing pushed by researchers and oddly enough the DOE. I don't get how the DOE could keep a straight face whilst pushing the cleanliness of fusion power talking about heavy water plants. Tritium product isn't exactly cheap or easy considering you get it from sticking lithium into a laser implosion chamber because tritium is pretty damn rare naturally. Shit the only two facilities they've got working on the waste products are MIT and INEL (Idaho National Energy Laboratory) which is a fraction of the effort they're putting into everything else. This is what got us into the mess of nuclear waste disposal in the first place.
BTW, heavy water fusion (the fusion of H-2 and H-3) yields an alpha particle and a free neutron. Both of these byproducts are moving really fast after the reaction. The helium isn't much of a problem considering it has a charge and can be confinsed and controlled by magnetic fields. The neutrons however have no charge and thus fly in whatever direction they were originally headed. Thus heavy water reactors need lots of shielding and cooling systems due to the thermal pollution of the energetic neutrons. This adds up to alot of wasted energy in the form of heat (about two thirds of the total energy from the reaction). You can run the coolant through exchangers to get some energy back out of it but you're left with the same radiactive problems fission reactors have to deal with. Namely contamination. CBF's using Boron-Hydrogen or Helium3-Deuterium don't need this sort of extra bulk and also are more efficient since alot of their energy is being directed by the magnetic fields of the reactor and harnessed. They can thus be smaller and more efficient so instead of one big reactor you could have a handful of 100MW reactors distributed in a region. Oh yeah, for nuclear nuts I didn't go into He-3/H-2 fusion because He-3 is so fucking rare on Earth it would literally cost you billions of dollars to collect even a little bit for industrial use. Until we can efficnetly mine the Moon and asteroids and eventually the outer gas giants (Uranus and Neptune first and Jupiter and Saturn when we can have an efficient way of escaping their gravity) we're not going to be using He-3 for industrial purposes.
You're basically asking for a microkernel. This is exactly what Darwin and NT both do without most people really knowing it. On WinNT the entire Win32 subsystem is merely a service that runs on the NT kernel it also can run an OS/2 environment and POSIX if you'd like. On a microkernel you can run any system you want as a kernel service as long as stuff is binary compatible. As for OpenFirmware, I really wish PCs had it rather than the outdatted BIOS concept. On a PowerMac you can hold down the Option key on boot to select a partition or device to load a system off of. LILO itself is rather limited as the concept of it is derived from the whole IBM Comppatible paradigm of PCs.
What's even worse than people checking numbers and all that there's also people in support groups for people who check numbers. Trekkie bean counters have infrastructure now. *shakes head* We're doomed.
I missed the first half hour so I'll have to wait for the rerun to even hear the theme song but I noticed it had more commercials than when NBC broadcast both Alice in Wonderland and that little people show. You didn't even get a chance to get into the plot before it faded to black and ruined your hardon thinking about rubbing gel all over Jolene. I think I may go buy a Tivo now.
The primaries usually have bigger chests and make for more suitable whacking material while the secondaries are use for plot devices for the male characters more often. I think it's one of those Rick Berman things.
By the time I got to the end of the post I wanted to cry. Both because you forgot that it was mentioned a long time ago that the warp scale had changed between the old series and the TNG ones and that I knew that in the first place and then yet again when I realized someone took the time to calculate it out as if in some way it matters at all how accurate Star Trek is.
Formation flying with birds is still a very difficult thing to arrange. you'd also want something a little bit bigger than a 5-10kg nanosat as a functional unit of a swarm. Lets say you want to replace a comsat with a formation of small birds each with one or two transponders. You're not going to use a 10kg nanosat that can barely push a watt of PEP over the transponder. You need something a little bigger than can give you more power. With some nanosat designs you end up with sharply diminishing returns as the size decreases. Like the article says these really small sats might be best suited as ROVs controlled by the IIS crew that could at the very least just give them an eye in the sky of sorts. I mean look at when Mir was hit by the meteoroid which caused all their problems. They didn't know exactly how damaged Mir was until the shuttle went up and could get an external view. Now lets say they had a couple nanosats with cameras and maybe a little epoxy gun or something. They might have been able to more easily repair parts of the station. until we can stick little nuclear power supplies or 80% efficient solar panels on nanosats they aren't going to be flying in a communication array formation replacing comsats, they just haven't the power. Maybe we could just have one big sat that powers the formation by beaming nanosats power using microwaves.
I'm a particular fan of both. Pee Wee for his taste in clothes and the Get Up Kids for harboring Reggie.