You're right, of course - if a large portion of the mass comes into contact with the atmosphere.
Newton's First Law (aka law of inertia) says that things will keep going in a straight line, unless acted upon by an outside force. We apply such an outside force when we break the asteroid apart; the pieces start dispersing on new courses.
Doing this at a far enough distance from Earth (not unlike nudging the asteroid's course slightly when it's quite far away) means that the parts will be dispersed enough to not all hit the planet, if we do it right.
Back-of-the-envelope math says that if it's broken into a cloud of particles expanding at 20cm/s 20 years before it's supposed to hit us, it will be 100 times the diameter of the earth when we encounter it... I would guess that means we're not going to encounter all the particles.
It's easy to get by with less management if the team is more capable.
The common hierarchical management systems are better suited to organizing groups of people towards achieving a common goal when those people aren't all above average.
No, it won't. The surface/mass ratio will be different (smaller pieces can burn up more readily), and if they're spread out enough, instead of all that mass hitting at once, we just get a few nights of falling stars of little consequence.
We seem to survive the Leonids OK, and we've been surviving them for a long time.
That would be dumb. In the upper UHF and higher, you can go as fast as you want. 2.4Ghz WiFi (54megabits/second) at high power is legal for hams.... if you wanted to (and had the technical wherewithal), 10gigabits/second is legal (provided you stay within the band edges and aren't using excessive power).
That means that you cannot even browse Google, since it would transmit advertisements over an amateur band
Wouldn't that fall under the "pizza rule"?
(Background - it used to be fairly strictly enforced that you couldn't order a pizza over an amateur radio-telephone link (patch or autopatch), since that was a commercial transaction. This got clarified in the 1990's (iirc), where you can't operate an amateur station in furtherance of your own business (can't use it to dispatch taxis, for instance), but you can use it to conduct your own occasional personal business (like ordering a pizza for delivery or arranging to trade, sell, or buy personally owned amateur radio gear (but not a radio dealership advertising sales)).
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Except for the last hundred years or so, it seemed to...
You're right, of course - if a large portion of the mass comes into contact with the atmosphere.
Newton's First Law (aka law of inertia) says that things will keep going in a straight line, unless acted upon by an outside force. We apply such an outside force when we break the asteroid apart; the pieces start dispersing on new courses.
Doing this at a far enough distance from Earth (not unlike nudging the asteroid's course slightly when it's quite far away) means that the parts will be dispersed enough to not all hit the planet, if we do it right.
Back-of-the-envelope math says that if it's broken into a cloud of particles expanding at 20cm/s 20 years before it's supposed to hit us, it will be 100 times the diameter of the earth when we encounter it... I would guess that means we're not going to encounter all the particles.
It's easy to get by with less management if the team is more capable.
The common hierarchical management systems are better suited to organizing groups of people towards achieving a common goal when those people aren't all above average.
If you turn an asteroid headed this way into a dust could...
You really want to avoid any pieces going even near orbit. We have a mess of expensive stuff up there.
It is not difficult to choose between "survival of the planet" and "doing without TV and GPS for a few years".
No, it won't. The surface/mass ratio will be different (smaller pieces can burn up more readily), and if they're spread out enough, instead of all that mass hitting at once, we just get a few nights of falling stars of little consequence.
We seem to survive the Leonids OK, and we've been surviving them for a long time.
It may not be much, but those little tiny bits of acceleration add up.
You know it's quality cinema when the same individual is directing, writing, and starring...
I'd prefer it to be called the Olympic - the one of the three that didn't sink.
... which really doesn't help if you want to get cash out of the system anonymously.
When I am old and decrepit, I would like to look back fondly through my revisionist memory and think of the good times - whether I had them or not.
As my grandmother once said, "Don't confuse me with facts - I know what the truth is."
Is there an open source design I can download, so I can build my own ruggedized kid?
Really... which bitcoin exchange today lets me trade physical currency for bitcoin and vice versa?
Possibly related question, what's the physical address I go to do this?
This isn't a gambling machine; it's an exchange machine that could be used for commodity speculation.
... and until it can buy bitcoins and pay dollars, it's a bitcoin vending machine, not an exchange machine.
First, outright theft isn't compatible with my personal moral code.
Second, the bitcoins themselves are almost certainly stored in a wallet elsewhere.
It will be a far more useful offering when I can both give it currency to be credited bitcoins, and transfer bitcoins to it to receive currency.
The spell check is strong with this one.
Apparently not.
Why not take those bitcoin each month and put them on red?
Green pays better. (When it hits.)
“I even called them and said we’d like to purchase 10,000 iPads, but we’d need to modify [iOS] slightly,” Porcello says.
Apple said “no.”
Translated: We don't want your $7million, since you're not just going to hand it over. You don't want our product, you want a customized product.
That would be dumb. In the upper UHF and higher, you can go as fast as you want. 2.4Ghz WiFi (54megabits/second) at high power is legal for hams.... if you wanted to (and had the technical wherewithal), 10gigabits/second is legal (provided you stay within the band edges and aren't using excessive power).
I laugh every time.
Maybe not laugh, but at least half a snicker.
Arrington is an interesting person but it's a stretch to say the he's either a terrorist or natural disaster.
Perhaps he's somewhere in between.
According to 47 CFR 2.101, they currently seem to stop caring at 3000GHz - the .1mm band.
This doesn't mean the scope of authority couldn't be extended, but that's likely to be an international treaty (Thanks, ITU).
only allow RTTY speeds up to 1200 bauds due to bandwidth limitations. Of course, that could be changed with any new laws/specrtum allowance.
RTTY is considered different from "data", and the speeds aren't capped from 33cm and up, IIRC.
Heck, 9600 baud packet isn't unheard of on 70cm...
That means that you cannot even browse Google, since it would transmit advertisements over an amateur band
Wouldn't that fall under the "pizza rule"?
(Background - it used to be fairly strictly enforced that you couldn't order a pizza over an amateur radio-telephone link (patch or autopatch), since that was a commercial transaction. This got clarified in the 1990's (iirc), where you can't operate an amateur station in furtherance of your own business (can't use it to dispatch taxis, for instance), but you can use it to conduct your own occasional personal business (like ordering a pizza for delivery or arranging to trade, sell, or buy personally owned amateur radio gear (but not a radio dealership advertising sales)).