There are things just really wrong with your idea of how networks works. VPN/IPsec etc won't all each trigger retransmits on TCP (in fact VPN is on top, IPSec in a layer below.. sort of). Each layer that requests a retransmit does so in a way that is transparent to the layer above it. That is the next layer does not "see" a missing packet because it was already taken care of.
Just because you sending a ACK does not mean you can't use the packet you just received right now. ACK are collapsed so its very little over. Games that use UDP end up adding acks anyway. Usually in a way that is less efficient that TCP sometimes even without flow control.
Methanes mean life time in the atmosphere is something like 7 years. This is why its not that important in the models. Its also why fart tax and claims like " its X times worse than CO2" are political and propaganda statements. Not science ones.
Run the numbers. You find that even with very optimistic wave+wind+geothermal you going to a *lot* of money, its going to cost a *lot* to maintain (big seas are good for wave, and bad) and finally a *lot* of time to build. Well not finally because it is truly an enormous undertaking and even then. You still don't have enough energy *when* you need it.
UDP has checksums. It also can fragment packets that need to be reassembled. Most of the UDP is faster myth is just that, a myth. Most games network is total crap written by people who have never heard of flow control or 2 generals problem and therefore have no idea what problems TCP solves. And then go about solving the same problems badly.
The problem with something this small is that you need billions of them to explain dark matter from the missing mass perspective (You need about 1000 of them per "sun"). You would see them if there where that many. Even if all they do is block light (hint: they do).
That leads to the other point. Dark matter is not just dark, as in hard to see. Its dark as in it only interacts via gravity. So light etc passes right through it and is not influenced by dark matter other than via gravity. The bullet cluster illustrates this well.
Don't know why so many are dead against dark matter. Sure its got issues. But it does fit the observations far better than anything else proposed.
Well really, if we look at history. The big discoveries were made by incremental efforts. Sometimes the next step looks really big and important. But you don't get there without the rest of the staircase.
It takes 10 years to build a plain power plant. 10 for a new design is dreaming. Your going to need at least 5 years of regulatory stuff at the very outside, then add live reprocess (kinda needed for the neutron economy). After its built it needs to be run for some years before you can call it validated.
MSR do have one very large advantage here. They don't need to validate the fuel element which takes years and is very expensive. Of course again this has nothing to do with Th.
We have had 2 molten salt reactors and none did *any* breading at all, aka there was no thorium. There was a little 233U. They where tiny and current plans are delayed or planed to take 20years or more. Its a long way from mature and as i said its not the Thorium make them good. In fact the whole molten salt thing was suggested to solve all the issues with Thorium fuel cycles. For example the really nasty gamma emitters that are suppose to make proliferation so hard, also make reprocessing very hard. Then there are neutron economy issues with the 233Pa... The list goes on, including the marginal breeding ratios.
32P is used as a tracer and is not even a gamma emitter, has a short half life and is reasonable safe to deal with on the scale of things (aka 234U etc). At least in the quantities that its available in. Deuterium is not radioactive at all, and is only dangerous if you drink it in quantities that will replace a significant portion of your current body water. Its controlled, but not much, we used it all the time in NMR.
You clearly know much less about nuclear physics that you are pretending to know. I don't believe for a second you have ever worked with a nuke.
This does not address the issue of running such plants safely. And please don't start with the "LFTR are 100% safe and nothing bad can happen", because if you do it demonstrates a pretty big misunderstanding of nuclear power in general. In particular you still have decay heat and if there is a core breach, the hot salts are either reactive with water or soluble. Making then just as problematic.
Sure they have advantages but almost all of these advantages have nothing to do with Thorium. But rather the fact that they are a homogeneous reactor (primary coolant is also the fuel). You get just about every advantage with U as you do with Th. And to top it all off a breading ratio of 1 has not been shown with Th either.
The problem with kicking that particular can down the road is that it causes just as much trouble. There where more leaks in the last few months, and issues continue to grow. Basically not dealing with waste is not safe and is another form of mismanagement. On top of the that the economics of nuclear is still rather debatable given that one of the biggest costs has yet to be paid.
On paper nuclear could work. However a large dose of practical implementation issues, human nature and all the wrong economic and political incentives are IMO pretty big show stoppers right now.
If they were so good at what they do, this change would never have been proposed in the first place. It was people with stupid high pay+payouts even after they sunk the ship that caused this. We won't miss them.
Note that the salary cap is 15M. That is still quite a bit of walking around money.
The names of Armstrong and Aldrin will be remembered by the average man on the street as long as our species survives.
A lot of the current generation don't know who they are. And really why should they? What did they do really? They where part of a billion dollar cold war pissing contest. I blame the apollo program for the current obsession with pointless space tourism for a few "elite" astronauts.
Mmmm.. how about to test out technology that hasn't been tried before?
That has got to be close the most stupid reason ever.
How about we just build a big vacuume chamber, but the craft in that. Bath the whole thing in radiation for the 800 days. Throw away the key so that everyone dies if anything fails. We are testing the technology right? And it would be cheaper.
A manned fly buy of mars is only slightly more stupid that landing someone on mars. Its cost way more than remote sensor platforms with far more fall out when/if it fails for ZERO gain. Replacing all that life support equipment will always produce a better scientific return.
The worse thing that ever happend for space exploration was the cold war that gave us apollo.
You mite want to read this. The section on geothermal is accurate enough for our use.
Yes there is geothermal, but if you run the numbers (I have) its easy to see it really is only a very regional solution and not a very sustainable one at that. In NZ as posted below uses geothermal. But the outputs had to be reduced because it was reducing the entire area activity. Sooner or later the rock lower down cools down. Same thing for the few plants in the US. Closed loop systems have their own issues. In particular you get a few decades before that cubic kilometer has cooled down.
Seriously it gets tiresome that so many *know* the solution but then won't do even the most basic analysis on that claimed solution.
Can nuclear work for a while (100s even 1000s of years)? Yes. Can we do it safely?That is a much harder question to answer. Technically i am somewhat pro nuclear. However that is not the same as saying i trust the companies or governments or even the IAEA for that matter to do nuclear safe. And we still are not dealing with the waste we already have.
I was living in Austria till about a month ago. You don't even need a licence to own/buy rifles as long as your over 18. Licence requirements for pistols are pretty easy too. I now live in Switzerland. Gun ownership here is quite high.
A spinning black hole is distinct because the way space time is draged with the spinning. Basically the only 2 properties left with a black hole is mass and spin.
then this would cause a significant mass increase due to this relativistic effect.
Sorry no. Relativistic mass increase is not the same as rest mass. So no, when get a particle close enough to the speed of light and it stops accelerating. Its local gravity is determined by its rest mass not its relativistic mass.
Lots of ideas here. Why don't you run the numbers? Turns out if you do neither of these get close to explaining galatic rotation or other "dark matter" stuff. The facts are that from what we observe, the best explanation/theory right now is dark matter.
There is a big catch with ISM bands. Interference is YOUR problem. So when a teleco wanted to not use anything but ISM (in canada IIRC) it was ruled that they could not because they cannot give assurances about the QoS.
The earth has a mass of 6x10^24 kg. Even catching all the solar wind (impossible) it would still take millions of years before you would have any significant effect.
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There are things just really wrong with your idea of how networks works. VPN/IPsec etc won't all each trigger retransmits on TCP (in fact VPN is on top, IPSec in a layer below.. sort of). Each layer that requests a retransmit does so in a way that is transparent to the layer above it. That is the next layer does not "see" a missing packet because it was already taken care of.
Just because you sending a ACK does not mean you can't use the packet you just received right now. ACK are collapsed so its very little over. Games that use UDP end up adding acks anyway. Usually in a way that is less efficient that TCP sometimes even without flow control.
Methanes mean life time in the atmosphere is something like 7 years. This is why its not that important in the models. Its also why fart tax and claims like " its X times worse than CO2" are political and propaganda statements. Not science ones.
Run the numbers. You find that even with very optimistic wave+wind+geothermal you going to a *lot* of money, its going to cost a *lot* to maintain (big seas are good for wave, and bad) and finally a *lot* of time to build. Well not finally because it is truly an enormous undertaking and even then. You still don't have enough energy *when* you need it.
The main reason is cost. Sending a ton of probe to mars is a lot cheaper than sending it to Europa or Titan.
UDP has checksums. It also can fragment packets that need to be reassembled. Most of the UDP is faster myth is just that, a myth. Most games network is total crap written by people who have never heard of flow control or 2 generals problem and therefore have no idea what problems TCP solves. And then go about solving the same problems badly.
The problem with something this small is that you need billions of them to explain dark matter from the missing mass perspective (You need about 1000 of them per "sun"). You would see them if there where that many. Even if all they do is block light (hint: they do).
That leads to the other point. Dark matter is not just dark, as in hard to see. Its dark as in it only interacts via gravity. So light etc passes right through it and is not influenced by dark matter other than via gravity. The bullet cluster illustrates this well.
Don't know why so many are dead against dark matter. Sure its got issues. But it does fit the observations far better than anything else proposed.
Well really, if we look at history. The big discoveries were made by incremental efforts. Sometimes the next step looks really big and important. But you don't get there without the rest of the staircase.
And let me guess, on every IPv6 story you comment that they can pry NAT from your cold dead hands?
It takes 10 years to build a plain power plant. 10 for a new design is dreaming. Your going to need at least 5 years of regulatory stuff at the very outside, then add live reprocess (kinda needed for the neutron economy). After its built it needs to be run for some years before you can call it validated.
MSR do have one very large advantage here. They don't need to validate the fuel element which takes years and is very expensive. Of course again this has nothing to do with Th.
We have had 2 molten salt reactors and none did *any* breading at all, aka there was no thorium. There was a little 233U. They where tiny and current plans are delayed or planed to take 20years or more. Its a long way from mature and as i said its not the Thorium make them good. In fact the whole molten salt thing was suggested to solve all the issues with Thorium fuel cycles. For example the really nasty gamma emitters that are suppose to make proliferation so hard, also make reprocessing very hard. Then there are neutron economy issues with the 233Pa... The list goes on, including the marginal breeding ratios.
32P is used as a tracer and is not even a gamma emitter, has a short half life and is reasonable safe to deal with on the scale of things (aka 234U etc). At least in the quantities that its available in. Deuterium is not radioactive at all, and is only dangerous if you drink it in quantities that will replace a significant portion of your current body water. Its controlled, but not much, we used it all the time in NMR.
You clearly know much less about nuclear physics that you are pretending to know. I don't believe for a second you have ever worked with a nuke.
This does not address the issue of running such plants safely. And please don't start with the "LFTR are 100% safe and nothing bad can happen", because if you do it demonstrates a pretty big misunderstanding of nuclear power in general. In particular you still have decay heat and if there is a core breach, the hot salts are either reactive with water or soluble. Making then just as problematic.
Sure they have advantages but almost all of these advantages have nothing to do with Thorium. But rather the fact that they are a homogeneous reactor (primary coolant is also the fuel). You get just about every advantage with U as you do with Th. And to top it all off a breading ratio of 1 has not been shown with Th either.
The problem with kicking that particular can down the road is that it causes just as much trouble. There where more leaks in the last few months, and issues continue to grow. Basically not dealing with waste is not safe and is another form of mismanagement. On top of the that the economics of nuclear is still rather debatable given that one of the biggest costs has yet to be paid.
On paper nuclear could work. However a large dose of practical implementation issues, human nature and all the wrong economic and political incentives are IMO pretty big show stoppers right now.
If they were so good at what they do, this change would never have been proposed in the first place. It was people with stupid high pay+payouts even after they sunk the ship that caused this. We won't miss them.
Note that the salary cap is 15M. That is still quite a bit of walking around money.
The names of Armstrong and Aldrin will be remembered by the average man on the street as long as our species survives.
A lot of the current generation don't know who they are. And really why should they? What did they do really? They where part of a billion dollar cold war pissing contest. I blame the apollo program for the current obsession with pointless space tourism for a few "elite" astronauts.
Thats a lot of money for a tourist trip. How about we let the "mountain climber" pay for his/own gear and trip?
Mmmm .. how about to test out technology that hasn't been tried before?
That has got to be close the most stupid reason ever.
How about we just build a big vacuume chamber, but the craft in that. Bath the whole thing in radiation for the 800 days. Throw away the key so that everyone dies if anything fails. We are testing the technology right? And it would be cheaper.
A manned fly buy of mars is only slightly more stupid that landing someone on mars. Its cost way more than remote sensor platforms with far more fall out when/if it fails for ZERO gain. Replacing all that life support equipment will always produce a better scientific return.
The worse thing that ever happend for space exploration was the cold war that gave us apollo.
You mite want to read this. The section on geothermal is accurate enough for our use.
Yes there is geothermal, but if you run the numbers (I have) its easy to see it really is only a very regional solution and not a very sustainable one at that. In NZ as posted below uses geothermal. But the outputs had to be reduced because it was reducing the entire area activity. Sooner or later the rock lower down cools down. Same thing for the few plants in the US. Closed loop systems have their own issues. In particular you get a few decades before that cubic kilometer has cooled down.
Seriously it gets tiresome that so many *know* the solution but then won't do even the most basic analysis on that claimed solution.
Can nuclear work for a while (100s even 1000s of years)? Yes. Can we do it safely?That is a much harder question to answer. Technically i am somewhat pro nuclear. However that is not the same as saying i trust the companies or governments or even the IAEA for that matter to do nuclear safe. And we still are not dealing with the waste we already have.
I was living in Austria till about a month ago. You don't even need a licence to own/buy rifles as long as your over 18. Licence requirements for pistols are pretty easy too. I now live in Switzerland. Gun ownership here is quite high.
A spinning black hole is distinct because the way space time is draged with the spinning. Basically the only 2 properties left with a black hole is mass and spin.
then this would cause a significant mass increase due to this relativistic effect.
Sorry no. Relativistic mass increase is not the same as rest mass. So no, when get a particle close enough to the speed of light and it stops accelerating. Its local gravity is determined by its rest mass not its relativistic mass.
Lots of ideas here. Why don't you run the numbers? Turns out if you do neither of these get close to explaining galatic rotation or other "dark matter" stuff. The facts are that from what we observe, the best explanation/theory right now is dark matter.
Do you think that a do not track switch would do anything if there was one?
There is a big catch with ISM bands. Interference is YOUR problem. So when a teleco wanted to not use anything but ISM (in canada IIRC) it was ruled that they could not because they cannot give assurances about the QoS.
Which is even weaker by a factor of millions. So now we are at 10x the age of the universe before you get even a cm of movement.
The earth has a mass of 6x10^24 kg. Even catching all the solar wind (impossible) it would still take millions of years before you would have any significant effect.