Nitpick : nits, locusts, weevils, grubs and whole hordes of insects always have been, still are, and increasingly will be major sources of human dietary protein.
Look at you relatives as they indulge in mutual grooming.
4. a strong enough loop suspension structure may add significant weight to the barge, but more importantly moves it's CofG upwards, making it less stable and giving more roll in the waves, quite possibly negating any benefit from the loop (in terms of chance success)
That's a well-known problem, with a playbook of solutions in Departments of Nautical Engineering around the world.
Solution (1) - the semi-submersible route (relatively cheap - go buy a redundant offshore drilling rig. Personally I like Aker-H4s, but there are plenty of designs with different motion characteristics and waterplane areas. Chop the derrick off and restructure the deckspace to give the area you want. Build what craneage you want. When landing time approaches, ballast-down to lower the CoG to what you want.)
Solution (2) - Couple the ascent of your "loop suspension structure" to the lowering of massive objects down into the water to get the CoG you want. the Aker-H4 design, for example, can accommodate 2 or 3 25-tonne dead weight anchors at each corner without any re-working - the structure accommodates mounting space and strength for appropriate winches and chain stowage. There's a wheel-reinvention avoidance strategic consideration here.
You know... decades of design and use of MODUs (Mobile Offshore Driling Units - drilling rigs to those who don't work on them) have led to (a) recognition of the problem of not being able to reach a part of the deck with a crane, when one of the cranes is out of service for [reason], and (b) various different craneage layouts to provide adequate lift/ slew capabilities to the deck area for the design purposes of the particular unit.
Now, I know this may be heretical to the Slashdotter in the street, but, since these are very thoroughly studied problems, and SpaceX don't seem to be using these fairly obvious solutions, then just possibly SpaceX have thought further on this than the Slashdotter in the street an see a problem which we don't, or they've costed it and decided that it isn't worth the money. I'm not going to judge between those two possibilities.
Larry Niven was a friend of Robert Forward, a physicist and aerospace engineer who made various proposals for gravity wave detectors and other over-the-horizon technologies throughout the 1960s to 1990s. He (Forward) is considered one of the doyens of "hard" SF. (As is Niven himself.)
I'm not certain how they manage to set the azimuthal angle and decide whether the source is on the northwest or southeast side of the plane
Each of the two sites has two legs of their detector perpendicular to the other - a necessary part of the design. But if the legs at (say) LIGO-NW are oriented to bearing 000deg and 090deg, then the ones at LIGO-SE can be oriented at 045deg and 135deg.
Actually, it only requires that the legs not be parallel between the two sites, though you get a higher signal-to-noise ratio if the sites are at 45deg to each other, it's not much worse if hey're at 30deg or 60 deg. Further complicating matters is that you have to take the curvature of the Earth into account, because it's the bearing in three dimensions that you need, so again ideally you would want the sites at 45deg of latitude between each other, and 45 deg of longitude, but I'm not sure that can be accommodated within the USA, raising political pork barrel problems. But it's not critical, as long as there is a significant separation between the two stations.
They've been covering this for decades, since the proposal phase of the projects - including the international aspects, trying to combine data from LIGO with the other detectors in operation or under construction (VIRGO, MiniGRAIL, KAGRA...).
The maths is actually congruent to analysing the birefringence figure of a mineral under crossed-polarisers, if you've ever had to do optical mineralogy. I couldn't do the spherical trigonometry these decades, but I passed the exam back in the 1980s.
Did you have the NDAs signed with "representatives of Google Corp", or individually and personally signed by each person to who you gave access to your source code, with dire warnings of personal liability etc. Or did you get NDAs signed by both groups?
That you need to go back and check your basic chemistry. Which, since you tried adding atomic numbers to atomic weights, is obvious. Or check your posts before hitting "submit".
Of course there were ethnic enclaves in Europe. As for whether some of them are Muslim or not, I really couldn't give a rat's turd. The Christians, as you say (about 1 x 2001-09-11 spread over a generation and a bit - though the final body count is probably not in yet) have been as bad as the Muslims. Hindus, Wiccans and Buddhists are negligible in population and lethality. The Romans and Vikings probably beat the rest of the religions hands down. (You do know that most of the "barbarian tribes" were Christian by the time they came onto the historical scene? Arian "heretics" mostly, but that's like splitting hairs between Sunnis and Shias.)
Why did you re-create Marketing after the first couple of tries?
Unless you have a really imaginative and spectacularly gory way of dealing with Marketing, which deserves to be shared.
"World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History" - It's only the worst mass shooting in U.S. history SO FAR.
Don't worry, there will be an even larger shooting, and probably sooner than you think.
Actually, I just spent a couple of tedious hours crunching the numbers (I had to re-start the post - form expired.). About 50% chance of the next record breaker being between 5 and 9 years from now, with between 51 and 63 casualties. (The variance in date is greater than the variance in body count.) All, of course, assuming there isn't something significant happen, like Americans taking guns out of the hands of civilians. Which isn't likely for at least a couple of electoral cycles.
Which one? The owner, the operator (which for a robot, should be no-one??) or the maintainer? Or, for that matter, the seller, the installer, or the manufacturer? Or the designer (who may have specified "appropriate" guarding, leaving the details to seller, installer or maintainer)?
Asmiov's Laws of Robotics tapped into the 1950s American paranoia
Considering that he wrote a lot of them in the 1940 - first half-dozen before 1945, IIRC.
You're putting a construction on things that the man himself didn't, and didn't when he wrote the forward to his first 3-laws anthology "I, Robot" in 1950.
Bring back the gibbet for making or selling unlicensed ammunition. A few people starving, dieing and then rotting in cages above the entrance to your food-shops might encourage a few people to give up their illicit murder-assistance businesses.
They're doing better than many places, but they too have significant problems with Uighir Islamist terrorists.
Think of that next time you use something built with Chinese rare-earth element concentrates - most of heir production and processing is in areas suffering from Uighir problems.
Weight of O (oxygen) is 8, weight of C (carbon) is 12.
You need to go back to your kindergarden (OK, infants school?) chemistry book and do some revision.
Alternatively, it could be amusing to watch you using lithium where you should be using oxygen. Just a second while I get some binoculars and a cheese and biscuits board (I can't stand popcorn).
Oh, and incidentally, the CCS chemistry that they're trialling in Iceland has almost nothing to do with hydraulic cement. The rocks involved are at far ends of the normal range of igneous rocks.
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Look at you relatives as they indulge in mutual grooming.
Unless it gets them salivating.
That's a well-known problem, with a playbook of solutions in Departments of Nautical Engineering around the world.
Solution (1) - the semi-submersible route (relatively cheap - go buy a redundant offshore drilling rig. Personally I like Aker-H4s, but there are plenty of designs with different motion characteristics and waterplane areas. Chop the derrick off and restructure the deckspace to give the area you want. Build what craneage you want. When landing time approaches, ballast-down to lower the CoG to what you want.)
Solution (2) - Couple the ascent of your "loop suspension structure" to the lowering of massive objects down into the water to get the CoG you want. the Aker-H4 design, for example, can accommodate 2 or 3 25-tonne dead weight anchors at each corner without any re-working - the structure accommodates mounting space and strength for appropriate winches and chain stowage. There's a wheel-reinvention avoidance strategic consideration here.
You know ... decades of design and use of MODUs (Mobile Offshore Driling Units - drilling rigs to those who don't work on them) have led to (a) recognition of the problem of not being able to reach a part of the deck with a crane, when one of the cranes is out of service for [reason], and (b) various different craneage layouts to provide adequate lift/ slew capabilities to the deck area for the design purposes of the particular unit.
Now, I know this may be heretical to the Slashdotter in the street, but, since these are very thoroughly studied problems, and SpaceX don't seem to be using these fairly obvious solutions, then just possibly SpaceX have thought further on this than the Slashdotter in the street an see a problem which we don't, or they've costed it and decided that it isn't worth the money. I'm not going to judge between those two possibilities.
Larry Niven was a friend of Robert Forward, a physicist and aerospace engineer who made various proposals for gravity wave detectors and other over-the-horizon technologies throughout the 1960s to 1990s. He (Forward) is considered one of the doyens of "hard" SF. (As is Niven himself.)
Each of the two sites has two legs of their detector perpendicular to the other - a necessary part of the design. But if the legs at (say) LIGO-NW are oriented to bearing 000deg and 090deg, then the ones at LIGO-SE can be oriented at 045deg and 135deg.
Actually, it only requires that the legs not be parallel between the two sites, though you get a higher signal-to-noise ratio if the sites are at 45deg to each other, it's not much worse if hey're at 30deg or 60 deg. Further complicating matters is that you have to take the curvature of the Earth into account, because it's the bearing in three dimensions that you need, so again ideally you would want the sites at 45deg of latitude between each other, and 45 deg of longitude, but I'm not sure that can be accommodated within the USA, raising political pork barrel problems. But it's not critical, as long as there is a significant separation between the two stations.
They've been covering this for decades, since the proposal phase of the projects - including the international aspects, trying to combine data from LIGO with the other detectors in operation or under construction (VIRGO, MiniGRAIL, KAGRA ...).
The maths is actually congruent to analysing the birefringence figure of a mineral under crossed-polarisers, if you've ever had to do optical mineralogy. I couldn't do the spherical trigonometry these decades, but I passed the exam back in the 1980s.
Anything - electron, proton, neutrino, banana - travelling faster than the speed of light in a particular medium will generate Cherenkov radiation.
As far as I'm aware, my laptop doesn't have location services.
Plus, of course, I don't have a Facebook account any more.
So, how are Facebook going to track which stores I go into again?
Did you have the NDAs signed with "representatives of Google Corp", or individually and personally signed by each person to who you gave access to your source code, with dire warnings of personal liability etc. Or did you get NDAs signed by both groups?
That you need to go back and check your basic chemistry. Which, since you tried adding atomic numbers to atomic weights, is obvious. Or check your posts before hitting "submit".
Of course there were ethnic enclaves in Europe. As for whether some of them are Muslim or not, I really couldn't give a rat's turd. The Christians, as you say (about 1 x 2001-09-11 spread over a generation and a bit - though the final body count is probably not in yet) have been as bad as the Muslims. Hindus, Wiccans and Buddhists are negligible in population and lethality. The Romans and Vikings probably beat the rest of the religions hands down. (You do know that most of the "barbarian tribes" were Christian by the time they came onto the historical scene? Arian "heretics" mostly, but that's like splitting hairs between Sunnis and Shias.)
Yes, I've found forged squidlets myself - and refused to accept them from the shop. Their loss.
What jokes?
The papers are available here, if you really want them. â18 a pop. Enjoy!
Why did you re-create Marketing after the first couple of tries? Unless you have a really imaginative and spectacularly gory way of dealing with Marketing, which deserves to be shared.
Don't worry, there will be an even larger shooting, and probably sooner than you think.
Actually, I just spent a couple of tedious hours crunching the numbers (I had to re-start the post - form expired.). About 50% chance of the next record breaker being between 5 and 9 years from now, with between 51 and 63 casualties. (The variance in date is greater than the variance in body count.) All, of course, assuming there isn't something significant happen, like Americans taking guns out of the hands of civilians. Which isn't likely for at least a couple of electoral cycles.
Which one? The owner, the operator (which for a robot, should be no-one??) or the maintainer? Or, for that matter, the seller, the installer, or the manufacturer? Or the designer (who may have specified "appropriate" guarding, leaving the details to seller, installer or maintainer)?
Considering that he wrote a lot of them in the 1940 - first half-dozen before 1945, IIRC.
You're putting a construction on things that the man himself didn't, and didn't when he wrote the forward to his first 3-laws anthology "I, Robot" in 1950.
Bring back the gibbet for making or selling unlicensed ammunition. A few people starving, dieing and then rotting in cages above the entrance to your food-shops might encourage a few people to give up their illicit murder-assistance businesses.
And we had the massacres to go with them too.
And rocks at #2 (combining availability and effectiveness)? Or are cars at #2?
Think of that next time you use something built with Chinese rare-earth element concentrates - most of heir production and processing is in areas suffering from Uighir problems.
Execute the religious? After testing their children for religious belief and executing them as necessary.
Having swum in warm-water springs in Britain with the snow settling in my hair, I look forward to visiting the Blue Lagoon one winter.
What's an Icelandic Slashdottir's favourite song? "Thorn in my side?"
You need to go back to your kindergarden (OK, infants school?) chemistry book and do some revision.
Alternatively, it could be amusing to watch you using lithium where you should be using oxygen. Just a second while I get some binoculars and a cheese and biscuits board (I can't stand popcorn).
Oh, and incidentally, the CCS chemistry that they're trialling in Iceland has almost nothing to do with hydraulic cement. The rocks involved are at far ends of the normal range of igneous rocks.