It's a complicated question. There's a whole spectrum of ice capability for ships. There are ships with some extra hull protection and some extra protection for propellers and rudders that can go through very light ice, and it goes all the way up to strong and powerful ships that can go through just about anything. And there's not a real good terminology. It's like saying something is a "truck." Well, that can mean anything from a pickup to a huge semi. People ask, "What's an icebreaker like?" There are all kinds of them, and you've got to dig a lot deeper to know what it's capable of doing."
You beat me to it, it's called the "Biosuit". Here are some more-recent articles, including photos of Professor Dava Newman modelling the skin-tight suit.
One of the most famous of the late Monsignor Ronald Knox's witticisms was a verse built on the Berkleyan idea that things exist only when they have an observer:
There once was a man who said: "God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there's no one about in the Quad."
This promptly drew the anonymous reply:
"Dear Sir, Your astonishment's quite odd; I am always about in the Quad; And that's why the tree Will continue to be Since observed by Yours Faithfully, God."
There are a few more lines at the end of that quote...
"During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents" http://www.wanttoknow.info/warisaracket
Reminds me of an execution method that I read about many years ago. The person to be put to death would have their pulse taken by a drummer while the drummer would beat a drum in-time to the victim's heartbeat. After a while, the drummer would suddenly stop beating the drum, then the victim's heart would stop too.
Three graduate engineers were discussing who might have been responsible for the design of the human body.
The first one said "Think of all the joints etc. it must have been a mechanical engineer".
The second one said "No no, what about all the electrical impulses and nerves etc? It must have been an electrical engineer".
The third graduate was shaking his head, "You are both wrong, the human body was designed by a civil engineer - who else would run a waste pipe through a recreational area"?
AltaVista was the first web searcher that I used. When Google came out I gradually switched to it because it gave me much more relevant results. I could make much more sophisticated searches using AltaVista's Boolean grammar, and it also allowed wild-cards for the ends of words. Alas, the wild-card feature did not seem to work when I tried it out again a few years ago.
The RocketMotorTwo engine was designed and built by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), the company that is also developing its own space plane, the lifting-body Dream Chaser.
Many years ago, when I was aged about 12, I recall reading about a ship that had sunk and was drifting around underwater. I have heard about shipping containers doing this sort of thing, but I was wondering if you had ever seen a ship or a boat drifting around underwater.
That's a good question and it does. The fuel and oxygen are combined together in the gas generator which drives the compressor turbine. The incompletely combusted exhaust from the turbine is either diverted into the engine nozzle bell to add extra power (Rocketdyne F-1) or is vented through a small rocket nozzle near the main engine nozzle (SpaceX Merlin).
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Men of lofty genius are most active when they are doing the least work. - Leonardo da Vinci
3-D printing is now being used to make a modern version of the F1 rocket engines used in the Saturn V moon rocket.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/08/dynetics-reporting-outstanding-progress-on-f-1b-rocket-engine/
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/08/nasa-test-fires-3d-printed-rocket-parts-low-cost-high-power-innovation/
Here's a car analogy from National Geographic
"What is an icebreaker?
It's a complicated question. There's a whole spectrum of ice capability for ships. There are ships with some extra hull protection and some extra protection for propellers and rudders that can go through very light ice, and it goes all the way up to strong and powerful ships that can go through just about anything. And there's not a real good terminology. It's like saying something is a "truck." Well, that can mean anything from a pickup to a huge semi. People ask, "What's an icebreaker like?" There are all kinds of them, and you've got to dig a lot deeper to know what it's capable of doing."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140103-antarctica-ship-icebreakers-science-ice-trapped
There's a theory that the Titanic sank so quickly because it was weighed down by a huge number of time-travelers from the future.
My mind, by contrast, goes to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7_Od9CmTu0 when someone says "Big O"
You beat me to it, it's called the "Biosuit". Here are some more-recent articles, including photos of Professor Dava Newman modelling the skin-tight suit.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/dava-newmans-skintight-spacesuit-could-be-nasas-future-2013-12
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oce/appel/ask/issues/45/45s_building_future_spacesuit.html
That's the first comment on Slashdot that I laughed at until I cried!
One of the most famous of the late Monsignor Ronald Knox's witticisms was a verse built on the Berkleyan idea that things exist only when they have an observer:
There once was a man who said: "God
Must think it exceedingly odd
If he finds that this tree
Continues to be
When there's no one about in the Quad."
This promptly drew the anonymous reply:
"Dear Sir, Your astonishment's quite odd;
I am always about in the Quad;
And that's why the tree
Will continue to be
Since observed by Yours Faithfully, God."
There are a few more lines at the end of that quote...
"During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents" http://www.wanttoknow.info/warisaracket
Had something similar happen to me when I replied to your first post. I clicked on "Load All Comments" and then I could see my comment.
Reminds me of an execution method that I read about many years ago. The person to be put to death would have their pulse taken by a drummer while the drummer would beat a drum in-time to the victim's heartbeat. After a while, the drummer would suddenly stop beating the drum, then the victim's heart would stop too.
I believe it's already been invented, sounds very much like teledildonics
You mean something like this? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LiteralGenie
Three graduate engineers were discussing who might have been responsible for the design of the human body.
The first one said "Think of all the joints etc. it must have been a mechanical engineer".
The second one said "No no, what about all the electrical impulses and nerves etc? It must have been an electrical engineer".
The third graduate was shaking his head, "You are both wrong, the human body was designed by a civil engineer - who else would run a waste pipe through a recreational area"?
... and Sherlock Holmes' arch-enemy is Moriarty - a Professor of Mathematics
AltaVista was the first web searcher that I used. When Google came out I gradually switched to it because it gave me much more relevant results. I could make much more sophisticated searches using AltaVista's Boolean grammar, and it also allowed wild-cards for the ends of words. Alas, the wild-card feature did not seem to work when I tried it out again a few years ago.
There are already guns at the International Space Station. The Soyuz spaceships have a "survival gun" stored inside. http://www.jamesoberg.com/russiangun_tec.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP-82
In the early 1960's, General Electric was working on an emergency "bail-out" system for astronauts in low-earth orbit. http://www.astronautix.com/craft/moose.htm
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSE
The RocketMotorTwo engine was designed and built by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), the company that is also developing its own space plane, the lifting-body Dream Chaser.
Instead of eating food that's been in animal shit, how about eating animals that have been using shit as food?
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/there-is-a-staggering-amount-of-feces-in-our-food
Men of lofty genius are most active when they are doing the least work. - Leonardo da Vinci
Many years ago, when I was aged about 12, I recall reading about a ship that had sunk and was drifting around underwater. I have heard about shipping containers doing this sort of thing, but I was wondering if you had ever seen a ship or a boat drifting around underwater.
That's a good question and it does. The fuel and oxygen are combined together in the gas generator which drives the compressor turbine. The incompletely combusted exhaust from the turbine is either diverted into the engine nozzle bell to add extra power (Rocketdyne F-1) or is vented through a small rocket nozzle near the main engine nozzle (SpaceX Merlin).
"You're wearing it wrong!"
Me too, that would solve the battery-life problem and it would not require its own charger