(b) you need to be able to pull away from the rocket at any time during launch in case of emergency.
As I understand it, this part is quite uncomfortable if you have to experience it. The astronauts are already experiencing 4-5 Gs of acceleration on the rocket. If you need to use the escape system, you have to exceed that to pull away... something like 15 Gs = not fun, but hey, it's better than dieing.
It's kind of funny that the Buran (Russian space shuttle, presumably built using stolen blueprints) could and did fly completely autonomously (no crew even on board) 21 years ago, yet for the shuttle to do it today requires a bit of hardware hacking.
As a gather, ground-based optical telescopes are getting very large and very good at correcting atmospheric distortion.
Also, the mirror that is used in the Hubble is already about the max that we can reasonably get into orbit. We could probably go a bit bigger, but why should we if we can just build a land based scope that can achieve similar results?
No. It would apply to any executable that specifies a custom icon of any sort. It wouldn't have to be a document icon, or a pdf icon or whatever. Just a different icon than default.
Except what you describe is a wormhole, not a warp drive.
A warp drive actually makes the distance between the two points smaller or alternatively moves a bubble of space containing a spacecraft while the craft itself remains stationary.
The funny thing is that this is so simple that just about anyone that can cut and weld sheet metal could build one. Magnetrons are easily accessible, as are precise scales/force gauges.
In order to create a standing wave you would need a material that reflects gravity waves. Being that we don't have gravity shields yet, I'm pretty sure we can't do what you are suggesting. At least not right now.
Try this, photons are graviton clusters created by stressing the attractive and repulsive bonds between atoms and are formed until equilibrium is achieved;).
If that were true, neutron stars would have no gravity. Also wouldn't the gravity of VERY cold objects (ie: near absolute zero) drop to near nothing?
Yep it WOULD create a massive dune. But you would just keep injecting more bacteria and building the dune higher. Eventually it would become tall enough (1000ft might do it) to start to create local rainfall as the air-mass has to rise up over the dune. The rain would allow plants to take root on the windward side of the dune and the dune could eventually become a self-stabilizing oasis.
Well, it will always find a new balance, though we may not like it.
Think of where we are right now as being a local minimum. All we have to do to screw it up is to push a little to far in the wrong direction and boom, we fall to a new minimum, possibly quite rapidly (geologically speaking).
If by "releasing" you mean forming into solid blocks and storing for later use, then yes, this technology will release tons of carbon... into a nice tidy pile. Not the atmosphere.
Certainly it is not a permanent solution, but we have massive amounts of natural gas, and it will last a while till we manage to arrange some sustainable source of energy that works as well as what we now have
You are saying that it is ok do do something illegal as long as the result of that action has a reasonable probability of occurring on its own in the near future.
For example: It would be ok to kill anyone who is in very poor health/most likely terminal. [sarcasm] I mean what's the point of filing a murder charge? they were going to die anyway. [/sarcasm]
Right, so If I have 10 billion in cash, and you have 1 billion in cash, I can drop the price on my product to well below cost, and take the hit. If you try to do the same you will run out of money before I do, and I will win. And THEN i can raise my price back to where I think it should be, ie 2 or three times the cut rate price.
So what you are suggesting is that you want to pay a higher price for what will become a rather mediocre product. (why try to make a better product if you don't have any competition? Research costs a lot of money.)
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There was a problem with cattle dung... ... several feet across
Eww.
And if you are the first to develop tanks, then you are practically unstoppable...
except for that random spearman...
If I see a spearman destroy my another one of my tanks, my head is going to explode.
A 4GB one and an 8GB OCZ one.
see this post
(b) you need to be able to pull away from the rocket at any time during launch in case of emergency.
As I understand it, this part is quite uncomfortable if you have to experience it. The astronauts are already experiencing 4-5 Gs of acceleration on the rocket. If you need to use the escape system, you have to exceed that to pull away... something like 15 Gs = not fun, but hey, it's better than dieing.
Wow... there's a great example of jumping to conclusions.
...reminds me of the opening sequence of "Dead like me" where the main character gets killed by a space toilet.
Ha ha... ok it wouldn't be funny it it happened in real life, but her reaction to seeing the flaming toilet approaching is great.
It's kind of funny that the Buran (Russian space shuttle, presumably built using stolen blueprints) could and did fly completely autonomously (no crew even on board) 21 years ago, yet for the shuttle to do it today requires a bit of hardware hacking.
As a gather, ground-based optical telescopes are getting very large and very good at correcting atmospheric distortion.
Also, the mirror that is used in the Hubble is already about the max that we can reasonably get into orbit. We could probably go a bit bigger, but why should we if we can just build a land based scope that can achieve similar results?
At home? who reads /. at home?
No. It would apply to any executable that specifies a custom icon of any sort. It wouldn't have to be a document icon, or a pdf icon or whatever. Just a different icon than default.
Except what you describe is a wormhole, not a warp drive.
A warp drive actually makes the distance between the two points smaller or alternatively moves a bubble of space containing a spacecraft while the craft itself remains stationary.
The funny thing is that this is so simple that just about anyone that can cut and weld sheet metal could build one. Magnetrons are easily accessible, as are precise scales/force gauges.
Why haven't the mythbusters done this one yet???
In order to create a standing wave you would need a material that reflects gravity waves. Being that we don't have gravity shields yet, I'm pretty sure we can't do what you are suggesting. At least not right now.
Try this, photons are graviton clusters created by stressing the attractive and repulsive bonds between atoms and are formed until equilibrium is achieved ;).
If that were true, neutron stars would have no gravity. Also wouldn't the gravity of VERY cold objects (ie: near absolute zero) drop to near nothing?
Yep it WOULD create a massive dune. But you would just keep injecting more bacteria and building the dune higher. Eventually it would become tall enough (1000ft might do it) to start to create local rainfall as the air-mass has to rise up over the dune. The rain would allow plants to take root on the windward side of the dune and the dune could eventually become a self-stabilizing oasis.
Well, it will always find a new balance, though we may not like it.
Think of where we are right now as being a local minimum. All we have to do to screw it up is to push a little to far in the wrong direction and boom, we fall to a new minimum, possibly quite rapidly (geologically speaking).
in his post, "real" time equates to the time it would take for a human to complete the task.
err... usage cap, not bandwidth.
You know, for $140/month you could probably get a 40Gbps point to point wifi connection, with no bandwidth cap and a static IP.
at least that is what I found when I was looking around here.
if you completely maxed your connection, you would hit your cap in about 1hr 20min.
Lame.
If by "releasing" you mean forming into solid blocks and storing for later use, then yes, this technology will release tons of carbon... into a nice tidy pile. Not the atmosphere.
Certainly it is not a permanent solution, but we have massive amounts of natural gas, and it will last a while till we manage to arrange some sustainable source of energy that works as well as what we now have
You are saying that it is ok do do something illegal as long as the result of that action has a reasonable probability of occurring on its own in the near future.
For example: It would be ok to kill anyone who is in very poor health/most likely terminal.
[sarcasm] I mean what's the point of filing a murder charge? they were going to die anyway. [/sarcasm]
Absolutely yes!, if their success is based on sleazy business practices such as paying your clients not to do business with your competitor.
Right, so If I have 10 billion in cash, and you have 1 billion in cash, I can drop the price on my product to well below cost, and take the hit. If you try to do the same you will run out of money before I do, and I will win. And THEN i can raise my price back to where I think it should be, ie 2 or three times the cut rate price.
So what you are suggesting is that you want to pay a higher price for what will become a rather mediocre product. (why try to make a better product if you don't have any competition? Research costs a lot of money.)
As I understand it, you don't need stem cells for that. Just get more sleep and you should be good to go, and healthier in general.