from the article, the planet is about 1.5 times the size of Jupiter with 5 times the mass. The "star" is a brown dwarf, with 25 times the mass of Jupiter, but it's not fusing, but it is outputting copious amounts of infrared energy.
Now we just need to figure out how to classify brown dwarfs. Are they stars? Are they planets? Are they something in between?
I think a cntral signatory agency would be kinda neat. If I could walk into my local post office or DMV with my drivers liscence and public key and have them sign it. Then, if I get an email from some 'Carol' or 'Charlie' that none of my friends know, I can at least verify that he is who he says he is.
Then again, that could be business opportunity...imagine the same thing but with, like, kinko's. Walk in with a valid picture ID, and for a small fee ($2?) they'll sign you're public key.
He says this is for the 2000 election. Wasn't that the one where we had weeks and weeks of vote workers looking at dangling chad? That is, the ballots were peices of cardboard that people poked holes through. How the hell do you program a piece of paper?
but it was a "conspiracy"! And "interstate shipment"!... So this Verizon building is exactly on the state border ? They got cauched at the door - whers this shipment and conspiracy ?
from the article: According to the complaint filed in Southern District of New York, the circuit boards ranged in value from $5,000 to $70,000 each and, all told, were worth in excess of $1 million. The plan was to deliver them to an unnamed co-conspirator who, in turn, planned to sell them to an unnamed company in California, according to the complaint.
That second sentance explains it. They, as in more than one, planned, as in conspiracy, to steal the boards in NY and sell them in CA, as in interstate shipment.
Imagine a police force based on capitalism.. what would be it's return on investment
There was a small town in Arizona or New Mexico somewhere that privitized thier police force. They actually lowered thier crime rate. If I remember correctly, the town hired a company to do the police work and paid bonuses for lowered crime stats. This made the police do crime prevention measures, instead of just post crime clean up. I wish I could remember the name of the town.
To everyone that says a lunar elevator would be useless right now, did you read the article? He says we can make this thing right now. With current materials, and launch cababilities. All that it needs is money and people to build the flipping thing and it can be done. Now.
And just because it's on the moon and not earth, doesn't mean it can't be quite useful. Imagine being able to send lunar rovers with return capabilities without having to give them heavy expensive fuel for the return trip. Just hop on the elevator and from L1, just a small thruster push and back it comes.
if we had a Libertarian President, the $400-500 billion DoD budget would be heavily slashed, and perhaps even get a fairer tax system.
No, then yes. I don't see a Libertarian President necessarily making big DoD budget cuts. I do, however, see one making huge Social Security budget cuts.
The main reason for this is because Libertarians believe in self-defense. And a super powerfull military, used only for self defense of the nation is a good thing. Even if it's expensive and never gets used. Social security, on the other hand, is seen as wealth redistribution at best and a huge impediment to the operation of free market and therefore prime for dissolution...very anti-liberal-green-democrat.
Wormholes are described by relativity not quantum mechanics. The equations for black holes led to the equations for wormholes, which is why I said they were cousins. And all those sci-fi writers know that too. Quantum mechanics only comes in when you want small or stable wormholes. Interesting things happen when you add small wormholes quantum mechanices(i'd list a few, but i don't have a reference book near me). And stable wormholes involve negative mass/energy, which nobody's seen, except in certain quantum mechanical experiments, like those involving the Cashmir force.
I've read most of the authors you've listed. I'd like to suggest Isaac Asimov. He's written hundreds of books both sci-fi and sci-fact, and a few other gengres.
As a long time science fiction fan, i can say that I find that part about black holes not forming links betweek universes fascinating. But what I really want to know is; what does his new math say about the blackholes first cousin, the wormhole? Does the wormhole still exist but the new math taking away the wild, wild possibility of time travel? Or maybe make wormholes easier to traverse/contruct? I'm actually willing to give up time travel stories, if faster than light travel via wormholes becomes more feasible.
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from the article, the planet is about 1.5 times the size of Jupiter with 5 times the mass. The "star" is a brown dwarf, with 25 times the mass of Jupiter, but it's not fusing, but it is outputting copious amounts of infrared energy.
Now we just need to figure out how to classify brown dwarfs. Are they stars? Are they planets? Are they something in between?
Why would the Food and Drug Administration have anything to do with either guns or electronic devices like this?
Do I get modded up now, too?
yes. yes you do.
I think a cntral signatory agency would be kinda neat. If I could walk into my local post office or DMV with my drivers liscence and public key and have them sign it. Then, if I get an email from some 'Carol' or 'Charlie' that none of my friends know, I can at least verify that he is who he says he is.
Then again, that could be business opportunity...imagine the same thing but with, like, kinko's. Walk in with a valid picture ID, and for a small fee ($2?) they'll sign you're public key.
I didn't read the article to well the first time around...devil's in the details and all.
I say he should produce his source code.
He says this is for the 2000 election. Wasn't that the one where we had weeks and weeks of vote workers looking at dangling chad? That is, the ballots were peices of cardboard that people poked holes through. How the hell do you program a piece of paper?
but it was a "conspiracy"! And "interstate shipment"! ... So this Verizon building is exactly on the state border ? They got cauched at the door - whers this shipment and conspiracy ?
from the article:
According to the complaint filed in Southern District of New York, the circuit boards ranged in value from $5,000 to $70,000 each and, all told, were worth in excess of $1 million. The plan was to deliver them to an unnamed co-conspirator who, in turn, planned to sell them to an unnamed company in California, according to the complaint.
That second sentance explains it. They, as in more than one, planned, as in conspiracy, to steal the boards in NY and sell them in CA, as in interstate shipment.
Dork.
Lisp needs an application server like Zope
Isn't there an EMACS plugin for this?
Imagine a police force based on capitalism .. what would be it's return on investment
There was a small town in Arizona or New Mexico somewhere that privitized thier police force. They actually lowered thier crime rate. If I remember correctly, the town hired a company to do the police work and paid bonuses for lowered crime stats. This made the police do crime prevention measures, instead of just post crime clean up. I wish I could remember the name of the town.
Dude, you just gave me a chubby.
or a sundish shared in small community groups? Like shared water wells and such. That'd eliminate the middle man.
You mean,like if, say, 6 dishes could power about 40 homes?
To everyone that says a lunar elevator would be useless right now, did you read the article? He says we can make this thing right now. With current materials, and launch cababilities. All that it needs is money and people to build the flipping thing and it can be done. Now.
And just because it's on the moon and not earth, doesn't mean it can't be quite useful. Imagine being able to send lunar rovers with return capabilities without having to give them heavy expensive fuel for the return trip. Just hop on the elevator and from L1, just a small thruster push and back it comes.
For those looking for Pivot Tables in Open Office, they are for some strange reason called "DataPilot"
if we had a Libertarian President, the $400-500 billion DoD budget would be heavily slashed, and perhaps even get a fairer tax system.
No, then yes. I don't see a Libertarian President necessarily making big DoD budget cuts. I do, however, see one making huge Social Security budget cuts.
The main reason for this is because Libertarians believe in self-defense. And a super powerfull military, used only for self defense of the nation is a good thing. Even if it's expensive and never gets used. Social security, on the other hand, is seen as wealth redistribution at best and a huge impediment to the operation of free market and therefore prime for dissolution...very anti-liberal-green-democrat.
Most importantly the Smart Car looks cool
It does not. What kind of funky aesthetic sense does a person have to have, to make that look cool?
you: haha! why don't I play a trick on my wife that will put her, myself and the others around us, on the freeway, in grave danger. It'll be great.
WTF is the matter with you?
"It's nice to know, if only for a few minutes, that we're not the only two people up here."
HEY! Damnit! You made me cry.
Yes! I too think we should thank Paul Allen for his vi$ion and $upport. :P
Why would Bush have to refute the claims of false documents?
You want to respond to the interstellar equivelant of "Marco!" with "ack"?
WTF is wrong with you.
We should send out a high energy response with the ever decipherable "POLO!" encoded...Then imediately move our entire civilisation to Barnard's star.
Because, I don't want those fscking squirrels hogging all the glory, damnit!
but emacs is a lifeform, not commercial software.
Wormholes are described by relativity not quantum mechanics. The equations for black holes led to the equations for wormholes, which is why I said they were cousins. And all those sci-fi writers know that too. Quantum mechanics only comes in when you want small or stable wormholes. Interesting things happen when you add small wormholes quantum mechanices(i'd list a few, but i don't have a reference book near me). And stable wormholes involve negative mass/energy, which nobody's seen, except in certain quantum mechanical experiments, like those involving the Cashmir force.
I've read most of the authors you've listed. I'd like to suggest Isaac Asimov. He's written hundreds of books both sci-fi and sci-fact, and a few other gengres.
As a long time science fiction fan, i can say that I find that part about black holes not forming links betweek universes fascinating. But what I really want to know is; what does his new math say about the blackholes first cousin, the wormhole? Does the wormhole still exist but the new math taking away the wild, wild possibility of time travel? Or maybe make wormholes easier to traverse/contruct? I'm actually willing to give up time travel stories, if faster than light travel via wormholes becomes more feasible.
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Fred is one mean looking insect, the go-lucky demon and the fat penguin are TOAST!
Oh, it's ON now!