Electric engines would either use solar panels or RTG for power, not batteries. Hell, they'd use fuel cells before they used batteries. any of these options are much much lighter than normal fuel, but even if they were equal for certain sized payloads, electric engines are much more efficient, so as payload mass increases, fuel mass scales at a much smaller rate.
And Ion Thrusters of various types have been used as primary propulsion n space successfully ever since Deep Space 1. They've been used for satellite orientation and station keeping for decades. They are vastly more efficient than chemical thrusters, reducing the amount of propellant you need to carry, and therefore reducing launch costs.
I'm sure if Richard Feynman were alive today he would be a very vocal proponent of OS text books. In fact, I'm sure he'd probably spend an inordinate amount of time editing them himself!
"Wanna see my moon rock? take a look at that!" "What do you mean it looks like a piece of gravel from the driveway?" "Where did i get it? off ebay, why?"
end scene: So the whole point of having a moon rock is showing it off, like a diamond. The act of proving it's a moon rock (e.g. sending it to a lab for testing) would probably end with it being confiscated from you. If you can't prove it's a moon rock, it might as well be any old piece of gravel, of which we have trillions right hear on earth.
Isn't this much better than a static photo of a real model that meets their ideal measurements? After all, if they CAN find a live female model to meet their ideals, then they aren't "unrealistic".
Surely, if there is enough backlash against "perfect" women, then they'll just add the option to input whatever measurements you like and re-render.
I'm guessing that the vast majority of the people who live in the area are unaware of the existence of the range.
Sure, except for all those unexplained, window shaking explosions they keep hearing every once and a while
People don't go outside as much as they used to, but nobody is that unaware of what is within a half mile of their home. Otherwise, how do you explain NIMBY?
If you cancel altogether, they probably wouldn't even bother sending someone out to disconnect you. That's what happened to me. I still get basic service, but pay $0.
I applaud the efforts of the Arizona officials. A smooth English accent makes the speaker sound smarter and more attractive. I hope my children can learn to speak with English accents instead of the muddled Mid-Atlantic American that is so common in these parts.
Not saying it makes a lot of sense, but it's the law.
'Cause otherwise, we might as well institute this at the Federal level. Everyone must conform to the Federal way of speaking, which should be standardized as Washington DC/Mid-Atlantic accent. This is the accent of most mass market, national media, as well as the accent of our seat of government.
I think a key here is that the employees are being singled out. if every teacher had to attend an accent-nomalization class, there is no discrimination.
In fact, the summary even states that this is exactly what IBM did.
that's kinda odd. i wonder why they don't spread the data out over each platter, like a raid array. ie read 8 bits off each platter to get one 32 bit block.
If I told my parents I was leaving google to go start my own undersea data collecting company, they'd look askance at one another and wonder what type of mid-life crisis i was having. But I guess once you start something like java, you get free rein to do whatever-the-hell crazy-assed thing you want, even if it means leaving a steady job behind, and nobody thinks it's that crazy.
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Electric engines would either use solar panels or RTG for power, not batteries. Hell, they'd use fuel cells before they used batteries. any of these options are much much lighter than normal fuel, but even if they were equal for certain sized payloads, electric engines are much more efficient, so as payload mass increases, fuel mass scales at a much smaller rate.
If you want to get paid by insurance, you'd better have a license.
Meanwhile: Facebook changes it's privacy policy for the 20th time since the announcement of google's policy change.
Do you mean VaSIMR?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_Specific_Impulse_Magnetoplasma_Rocket
Or Hall Effect Thrusters?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect_thruster
And Ion Thrusters of various types have been used as primary propulsion n space successfully ever since Deep Space 1. They've been used for satellite orientation and station keeping for decades. They are vastly more efficient than chemical thrusters, reducing the amount of propellant you need to carry, and therefore reducing launch costs.
I'm sure if Richard Feynman were alive today he would be a very vocal proponent of OS text books. In fact, I'm sure he'd probably spend an inordinate amount of time editing them himself!
first of all, it's Reprap. and they use the GPL and CC licenses.
But they only cover the documentation and the CAD files, of course. The actual ideas and aren't covered by copyright, but by patents.
"Wanna see my moon rock? take a look at that!"
"What do you mean it looks like a piece of gravel from the driveway?"
"Where did i get it? off ebay, why?"
end scene:
So the whole point of having a moon rock is showing it off, like a diamond. The act of proving it's a moon rock (e.g. sending it to a lab for testing) would probably end with it being confiscated from you. If you can't prove it's a moon rock, it might as well be any old piece of gravel, of which we have trillions right hear on earth.
Isn't this much better than a static photo of a real model that meets their ideal measurements? After all, if they CAN find a live female model to meet their ideals, then they aren't "unrealistic".
Surely, if there is enough backlash against "perfect" women, then they'll just add the option to input whatever measurements you like and re-render.
Also, night shift workers are probably more likely to live in the cheaper part of town. Say, like next to a bomb range.
I'm guessing that the vast majority of the people who live in the area are unaware of the existence of the range.
Sure, except for all those unexplained, window shaking explosions they keep hearing every once and a while
People don't go outside as much as they used to, but nobody is that unaware of what is within a half mile of their home. Otherwise, how do you explain NIMBY?
If you cancel altogether, they probably wouldn't even bother sending someone out to disconnect you. That's what happened to me. I still get basic service, but pay $0.
I'm not really sure what your saying here, AC.
Are you equating TV watching to a fulfilling life, that it helps form interpersonal connections, and inhibits incest fantasies?
I think maybe the Time Warner rapid-response shills are trolling our forums as AC's
I'm stanlyb too. And there are more stanlyb's every day.
And i think it's appropriate to say this.
(flashback to mid '90's)
"you think they give a shit about Linus Torvalds and his half-baked opinions?"
A couple more scenes of plot wouldn't have made Space Mutiny any better. The mst3k riff track, on the other hand made me watch the "whole" thing.
The only problem i have with cutting scenes is that they also probably cut out some good riffs.
I applaud the efforts of the Arizona officials. A smooth English accent makes the speaker sound smarter and more attractive. I hope my children can learn to speak with English accents instead of the muddled Mid-Atlantic American that is so common in these parts.
Not saying it makes a lot of sense, but it's the law.
'Cause otherwise, we might as well institute this at the Federal level. Everyone must conform to the Federal way of speaking, which should be standardized as Washington DC/Mid-Atlantic accent. This is the accent of most mass market, national media, as well as the accent of our seat of government.
I think a key here is that the employees are being singled out. if every teacher had to attend an accent-nomalization class, there is no discrimination.
In fact, the summary even states that this is exactly what IBM did.
I think this is a sign that Cthulhu is coming. maybe the Mayans were right about 2012.
Works for Big Oil
that's kinda odd. i wonder why they don't spread the data out over each platter, like a raid array. ie read 8 bits off each platter to get one 32 bit block.
That would make IO speeds faster too.
If I told my parents I was leaving google to go start my own undersea data collecting company, they'd look askance at one another and wonder what type of mid-life crisis i was having. But I guess once you start something like java, you get free rein to do whatever-the-hell crazy-assed thing you want, even if it means leaving a steady job behind, and nobody thinks it's that crazy.
Someone should manufacture industrial sized hard drives for this type of application. Like full height x2, so you could cram 30 platters in there.
Stairway to Heaven, over and over and over again.
or just don't use the maps/gps
dammit, meant "commonplace to think about government debt in a microeconomic way?"