it's not a tokamak. there is no torus. There are neutrons, which will make something radioactive, eventually, but it'll take a while at the rate a device like this produces neutrons.
As Far as I've heard, the orbit of the ISS is not a good one for lunar transfer. ISS is at 51 degrees inclination and the moon varies between ~18-28 degrees. Inclination changes use lots of fuel.
I'm thinking at best you could send the parts up to the ISS, have them assemble it, and then send it off to slowly change it's orbit unmanned using an electric thruster like an ion engine. It would take a long time, but once it got there you'd fly a crew up to dock with it and go off to the moon
However, there is no hardware designed for in orbit assembly of ships on the ISS. ideally, you'd want lots of robotic arms that could do the assembly automatically, so that you wouldn't need to risk any astronauts lives with spacewalks. ISS isn't equipt for that, and your be risking the investment in the ISS and the crew's lives unnecessarily by trying to keyhole it into that role.
An orbital construction facility at an inclination of ~23 degrees WOULD be great for getting to the moon, but not the ISS.
I get WHY Kevin Costner is getting so much press with his oil separation machine; it's not like he has to work hard to get a camera in front of his face. But it's not like the separation process is what is causing an environmental disaster; it's all that oil out in the ocean. If Kevin Costner was selling a machine that can suck up cubic miles of water, that would be newsworthy
For what it's worth, the highest resolution photographs are typically printed ~300ppi. This is the standard used by glossy magazines (Playboy is the canonical reference mag here).
Yeah, i can't WAIT to see Playboy on the new iPhone.
That and the fact that H.264 is already on every device on the planet.
The only devices I own that will play h.264 are my computers. Only in the past 2 years have devices come out that can play h264. Of those, there are even fewer that you would actually want to watch stuff on. Most of those devices have only come out in the past year
And if your talking about web connected devices that can play h264, you have an even smaller pool.
It is defiantly used a lot, but it's impact in the mobile device space is not this huge entrenched market that some think.
If you are the leader of an up and coming rogue state with nuclear ambitions, you just make lots of missiles. maybe you build 10,000 missiles, with only 5 having nuclear warheads on them. As long as your missiles are reliable, it's a credible threat to the US, as only one has to get through, and MAD rules apply.
In this example, what good was all the time and money spent on a missile shield? It is, at best, a sieve, not a shield. At worst, it's a welfare program for defense contractors.
this has been discussed at great length over the past couple of weeks on most of the big yoyo forums.
Most? you mean there are Multiple Big yoyo forums?
Well i'll take your word that there's some huge stealth yoyo community out there on the internet. What are the other yoyo forums saying about this? Do they think that he's just a misunderstood artist? An Avant-garde experimentalist working outside the box?
The type D is specifically designed to work with existing airports without drastically changing the terminals.
The type H, however, would require changes to current airports. The article says that these designs are planed for a 2035 deployment, though, so plenty of time to make the requisite changes, if the airlines so chose.
I think people defiantly compare flight time to, say, taking a train or car. But do customers really care that much about flight time? it's not like that's a big selling point when you chose your flight.
If your flight from new york to LA took an extra half hour and cost 30% less, i don't think anybody would complain
The type D is to replace a 737 class for domestic flights (about 180 passengers), While the type H is to replace a 777 class international sized plane (about 350 passengers)
Where does all that energy come from? The Sun.
all atmospheric processes are driven by the heat energy from the sun. Heat transfer between the poles, which get less sun heat, and the equator, which gets more, creates the jet streams (plus Coriolis effect).
So this is just another method to extract solar energy. the question is; Is it the most cost effective and least destructive?
A whole branch of my family was fathered by ball lightning! Happened back in the Great Storm of 1806. Granted, they always were the black sheep at the family reunions, but they were certainly real!
I don't know who this guy is. He might be some teenager sitting in his parents basement. There's no explanation in the post why i should care what this guy thinks. And it is just one guy; it's not like this is a link to an article about how "some study finds devs hate Chrome OS." It's just a blog post.
The law says nothing about food brought from home. It only requires school-provided food meet minimum guidelines. There is nothing in there about giving detention to a student for having junk food.
This is just an over-zealous administrator trying to make a statement about regulation, and using a child as a pawn. Pretty low.
You obviously have NO idea how big the marijuana black market is in the US. It's not like having dogs at the airport is stopping the people who want weed from getting it.
Your analogy is actually pretty apt. Having a.xxx TLD would be as effective at preventing porn viewing as drug dogs at the airport are at stemming the flow of marijuana.
unless the government forces porn sites to use.xxx, it won't make much difference. Sure, a porn site might get a.xxx domain, but they'll also get the.com because they sure as hell don't want to prevent 95% of their customers from viewing their site.
Deep hot biosphere theory has been disproved. The theory is that the oil we use isn't millions of years old and made from ancient plants and jellyfish, but actually bubbles up from microbes (or morlocks) that produce it down down down in the depths of the earth. If we just keep drilling deeper and deeper we'll find enough oil to turn our skies a healthy black.
The origin of the theory came from Thomas Gold, who had a number of wild theories prove to be true, like how the cochlea works, and lots of astronomical stuff. He speculated that since there is methane just floating out there in nebula, then maybe there is methane trapped in the mantle of the earth, below the crust. he speculated that large gas pockets moving and rupturing caused earthquakes. This was before plate tectonics were conclusively proven, so it's an understandable theory in that context.
However, it's been shown over and over again that below a certain depth, there is no oil. Evidence
against
Slashdot Mirror
it's not a tokamak. there is no torus. There are neutrons, which will make something radioactive, eventually, but it'll take a while at the rate a device like this produces neutrons.
As Far as I've heard, the orbit of the ISS is not a good one for lunar transfer. ISS is at 51 degrees inclination and the moon varies between ~18-28 degrees. Inclination changes use lots of fuel.
I'm thinking at best you could send the parts up to the ISS, have them assemble it, and then send it off to slowly change it's orbit unmanned using an electric thruster like an ion engine. It would take a long time, but once it got there you'd fly a crew up to dock with it and go off to the moon
However, there is no hardware designed for in orbit assembly of ships on the ISS. ideally, you'd want lots of robotic arms that could do the assembly automatically, so that you wouldn't need to risk any astronauts lives with spacewalks. ISS isn't equipt for that, and your be risking the investment in the ISS and the crew's lives unnecessarily by trying to keyhole it into that role.
An orbital construction facility at an inclination of ~23 degrees WOULD be great for getting to the moon, but not the ISS.
I get WHY Kevin Costner is getting so much press with his oil separation machine; it's not like he has to work hard to get a camera in front of his face. But it's not like the separation process is what is causing an environmental disaster; it's all that oil out in the ocean. If Kevin Costner was selling a machine that can suck up cubic miles of water, that would be newsworthy
I thought the first picture in the gallery was a joke for a couple seconds. The angle of the shot makes it look like it's the size of a coffee table!
For what it's worth, the highest resolution photographs are typically printed ~300ppi. This is the standard used by glossy magazines (Playboy is the canonical reference mag here).
Yeah, i can't WAIT to see Playboy on the new iPhone.
It still needs its skin, engines, a compartment for pilot and or crew.
They have the air part down, now they just need the ship part.
Yeah, except that your totally wrong.
read the article.
That and the fact that H.264 is already on every device on the planet.
The only devices I own that will play h.264 are my computers. Only in the past 2 years have devices come out that can play h264. Of those, there are even fewer that you would actually want to watch stuff on. Most of those devices have only come out in the past year
And if your talking about web connected devices that can play h264, you have an even smaller pool.
It is defiantly used a lot, but it's impact in the mobile device space is not this huge entrenched market that some think.
If you are the leader of an up and coming rogue state with nuclear ambitions, you just make lots of missiles. maybe you build 10,000 missiles, with only 5 having nuclear warheads on them. As long as your missiles are reliable, it's a credible threat to the US, as only one has to get through, and MAD rules apply.
In this example, what good was all the time and money spent on a missile shield? It is, at best, a sieve, not a shield. At worst, it's a welfare program for defense contractors.
this has been discussed at great length over the past couple of weeks on most of the big yoyo forums.
Most? you mean there are Multiple Big yoyo forums?
Well i'll take your word that there's some huge stealth yoyo community out there on the internet. What are the other yoyo forums saying about this? Do they think that he's just a misunderstood artist? An Avant-garde experimentalist working outside the box?
Fuel is a HUGE expense for airlines. and it's only a 10% reduction in flight time!
Your just pulling numbers out of your ass
The type D is specifically designed to work with existing airports without drastically changing the terminals.
The type H, however, would require changes to current airports. The article says that these designs are planed for a 2035 deployment, though, so plenty of time to make the requisite changes, if the airlines so chose.
I think people defiantly compare flight time to, say, taking a train or car. But do customers really care that much about flight time? it's not like that's a big selling point when you chose your flight.
If your flight from new york to LA took an extra half hour and cost 30% less, i don't think anybody would complain
The type D is to replace a 737 class for domestic flights (about 180 passengers), While the type H is to replace a 777 class international sized plane (about 350 passengers)
"Are there people out there who don't like me because of race? I'm sure there are. That's not the overriding issue here,"
does not equal
"obama says criticism is racist"
Your not seriously saying that the KKK only disagrees with his policies and not some... physical aspects of his person, are you?
I beg to differ
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186566/
(Space Cowboys)
Buzz Aldrin disagrees
Neil Armstrong Vs. Buzz Aldrin Over Obama's Space Plans
CBSNews URL: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002451-503544.html
Who do you think would win in a fight, Buzz Ald(I won't even finish the question)
Where does all that energy come from? The Sun. all atmospheric processes are driven by the heat energy from the sun. Heat transfer between the poles, which get less sun heat, and the equator, which gets more, creates the jet streams (plus Coriolis effect). So this is just another method to extract solar energy. the question is; Is it the most cost effective and least destructive?
A whole branch of my family was fathered by ball lightning! Happened back in the Great Storm of 1806. Granted, they always were the black sheep at the family reunions, but they were certainly real!
Now tell me that's a hallucination. I dare you!
They could not get something as simple as a large box to work at these depths.
That being the case, I wouldn't assume they could get a nuclear bomb to work any better. Even conventional explosives might behave unpredictably
I don't know who this guy is. He might be some teenager sitting in his parents basement. There's no explanation in the post why i should care what this guy thinks. And it is just one guy; it's not like this is a link to an article about how "some study finds devs hate Chrome OS." It's just a blog post.
Why is this on Slashdot?
The law says nothing about food brought from home. It only requires school-provided food meet minimum guidelines. There is nothing in there about giving detention to a student for having junk food.
This is just an over-zealous administrator trying to make a statement about regulation, and using a child as a pawn. Pretty low.
You obviously have NO idea how big the marijuana black market is in the US. It's not like having dogs at the airport is stopping the people who want weed from getting it.
Your analogy is actually pretty apt. Having a .xxx TLD would be as effective at preventing porn viewing as drug dogs at the airport are at stemming the flow of marijuana.
Well it's have to be all of them to make it work, and that's not going to happen. There's just too much money to be made.
unless the government forces porn sites to use .xxx, it won't make much difference. Sure, a porn site might get a .xxx domain, but they'll also get the .com because they sure as hell don't want to prevent 95% of their customers from viewing their site.
Deep hot biosphere theory has been disproved. The theory is that the oil we use isn't millions of years old and made from ancient plants and jellyfish, but actually bubbles up from microbes (or morlocks) that produce it down down down in the depths of the earth. If we just keep drilling deeper and deeper we'll find enough oil to turn our skies a healthy black.
The origin of the theory came from Thomas Gold, who had a number of wild theories prove to be true, like how the cochlea works, and lots of astronomical stuff. He speculated that since there is methane just floating out there in nebula, then maybe there is methane trapped in the mantle of the earth, below the crust. he speculated that large gas pockets moving and rupturing caused earthquakes. This was before plate tectonics were conclusively proven, so it's an understandable theory in that context.
However, it's been shown over and over again that below a certain depth, there is no oil.
Evidence against