Please don't confuse a "totalitarian regime" with a "sadly out of touch and misinformed politician with a track record of spouting whatever tripe will get him the most coverage in the tabloids."
There's plenty going on in the U.K. that I disagree with these days, but this moron is the least of our worries.
But my question is what do you think is going to happen when it hits the sun?
A similar sort of thing as to when a Mosquito hits the windshield of a Semi. The Semi's not going to notice, but it's going to be a really bad day for the Mosquito.
Not really. Low Earth Orbit is within the protective coccoon of the Earth's magnetic field, while the Moon is not. Not only would you require more significant shielding on the Moon, but it's 240,000 miles away as opposed to 300 miles away. Shipping all that heavy shielding the quarter of a million miles to the Moon and landing it there safely is going to cost a LOT of money.
I think this is a sign that asteroid mining could be feasible (the average nickel iron monster is worth several trillian.. not counting any incidental precious metals)
It could be worth significantly more than that if you threaten to smash it into somewhere important!
One MILLION dollars! Muahahahaha! Muahahahahahaha!
We do not no enough to say for sure that all dinos and humans are bazillion years apart.
Science doesn't deal in absolute proof of anything, but it require that we follow the simplest and most reasonable explanation that best fits the evidence we find and observations we make. It would be an extraordinary claim indeed to say that 'man and dinosaurs co-existed' when absolutely every fossil dig ever performed has found no dinosaur fossils beyond the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago, and the earliest hominid fossil ever discovered is dated at between 6 and 7 million years old.
I prefer to interpret that statement as "...because we're going to build a 150,000 mile long cable tehtered securely to the Earth's surface, but won't be able to work out how to shield the contents from radiation?"
Actually, no. If an astronaut were to throw a bag of trash 'downwards' towards the Earth then its orbital velocity relative to the space station would increase (since it is moving into a lower orbit) so it would start to overtake the space station below it. As the orbital velocity increases it would start to again climb to a higher orbit, passing above the space station in front of it. As it gained a higher orbit than the space station its orbital velocity relative to the ISS would drop, causing the trash to drop to a lower orbit. In summary, if you throw anything out of the ISS down towards the Earth it will in fact pull a complete loop and end up impacting the top of the ISS.
There is only one safe direction to throw anything out of an orbiting spacecraft - backwards, in the opposite direction of your orbit. By doing this you reduce the orbital velocity of the object relative to your spacecraft thereby guaranteeing that the object will enter a lower orbit from which it is guaranteed not to climb. At this point atmospheric drag will continue to degrade the objects orbit until it eventually burns up.
Looking for extraterrestrial nuclear detonations would probably make a fine grad school project!
GRB's (Gamma Ray Bursts) were first detected when U.S. satellites put into space to monitor the U.S.S.R. for nuclear detonations were pointed away from the Earth (they were testing the satellites detectors for false positives, and instead found gigantic gamma ray events coming from the edge of the observable universe.)
Not quite. It means that space-time was expanding faster than the speed of light for a while. Within space-time nothing was travelling faster than the speed of light.
Yeah, a ducted fan would definitely be driven by a two-stroke glow powered engine, but there's no way that it would generate the thrust needed for that application. They're a lot less powerful than a true jet turbine.
As far as I was aware model jet turbines run on Kerosene, just like their bigger brethren. Glow fuel is Nitromethane mixed with a lubricant such as Castor or Synthetic oil.
I think the phrase 'ground down' used in the summary is a little misleading. It's not an abrasive process which is used to reshape the cornea; rather a laser is used to ablate it.
Not that the word 'ablate' is any more paletable than 'grind' when it's coupled with the word 'cornea.'
one of the most arrogant comments I've ever seen out of a Microsoft shill, and we've all seen our share
To be fair, the Microsoft guy/gal is hardly going to say "iTunes is everything you'd ever want from an online music store and more. Ours is going to suck fetid Dingo's kidneys compared to it."
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Please don't confuse a "totalitarian regime" with a "sadly out of touch and misinformed politician with a track record of spouting whatever tripe will get him the most coverage in the tabloids."
There's plenty going on in the U.K. that I disagree with these days, but this moron is the least of our worries.
Good point. I forgot that Fokker equipped all aerial dinosaurs with synchronization gears.
*sigh*
Steel plating on the leading edges of the prop blades of course. You just have to hope that you don't get a 180 degree ricochet.
But my question is what do you think is going to happen when it hits the sun?
A similar sort of thing as to when a Mosquito hits the windshield of a Semi. The Semi's not going to notice, but it's going to be a really bad day for the Mosquito.
Not really. Low Earth Orbit is within the protective coccoon of the Earth's magnetic field, while the Moon is not. Not only would you require more significant shielding on the Moon, but it's 240,000 miles away as opposed to 300 miles away. Shipping all that heavy shielding the quarter of a million miles to the Moon and landing it there safely is going to cost a LOT of money.
I think this is a sign that asteroid mining could be feasible (the average nickel iron monster is worth several trillian.. not counting any incidental precious metals)
It could be worth significantly more than that if you threaten to smash it into somewhere important!
One MILLION dollars! Muahahahaha! Muahahahahahaha!
*ahem*
We do not no enough to say for sure that all dinos and humans are bazillion years apart.
Science doesn't deal in absolute proof of anything, but it require that we follow the simplest and most reasonable explanation that best fits the evidence we find and observations we make. It would be an extraordinary claim indeed to say that 'man and dinosaurs co-existed' when absolutely every fossil dig ever performed has found no dinosaur fossils beyond the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago, and the earliest hominid fossil ever discovered is dated at between 6 and 7 million years old.
Eating meat, of course - Panda's are omnivores, just like we are. It's just that they prefer bamboo.
That should read "Cannot find file "WMD.IRAQ". Staying the Course."
I prefer to interpret that statement as "...because we're going to build a 150,000 mile long cable tehtered securely to the Earth's surface, but won't be able to work out how to shield the contents from radiation?"
Actually, no. If an astronaut were to throw a bag of trash 'downwards' towards the Earth then its orbital velocity relative to the space station would increase (since it is moving into a lower orbit) so it would start to overtake the space station below it. As the orbital velocity increases it would start to again climb to a higher orbit, passing above the space station in front of it. As it gained a higher orbit than the space station its orbital velocity relative to the ISS would drop, causing the trash to drop to a lower orbit. In summary, if you throw anything out of the ISS down towards the Earth it will in fact pull a complete loop and end up impacting the top of the ISS.
There is only one safe direction to throw anything out of an orbiting spacecraft - backwards, in the opposite direction of your orbit. By doing this you reduce the orbital velocity of the object relative to your spacecraft thereby guaranteeing that the object will enter a lower orbit from which it is guaranteed not to climb. At this point atmospheric drag will continue to degrade the objects orbit until it eventually burns up.
Looking for extraterrestrial nuclear detonations would probably make a fine grad school project!
GRB's (Gamma Ray Bursts) were first detected when U.S. satellites put into space to monitor the U.S.S.R. for nuclear detonations were pointed away from the Earth (they were testing the satellites detectors for false positives, and instead found gigantic gamma ray events coming from the edge of the observable universe.)
Not quite. It means that space-time was expanding faster than the speed of light for a while. Within space-time nothing was travelling faster than the speed of light.
Trust me pal, there comes a time in your life where you take being carded as a complement!
I wonder what kind of drinks they offer...
Shakes.
Yeah, a ducted fan would definitely be driven by a two-stroke glow powered engine, but there's no way that it would generate the thrust needed for that application. They're a lot less powerful than a true jet turbine.
As far as I was aware model jet turbines run on Kerosene, just like their bigger brethren. Glow fuel is Nitromethane mixed with a lubricant such as Castor or Synthetic oil.
I think the phrase 'ground down' used in the summary is a little misleading. It's not an abrasive process which is used to reshape the cornea; rather a laser is used to ablate it.
Not that the word 'ablate' is any more paletable than 'grind' when it's coupled with the word 'cornea.'
Pretty soon, people in Zimbabwe will be coding :)
Don't you mean Elbonia?
one of the most arrogant comments I've ever seen out of a Microsoft shill, and we've all seen our share
To be fair, the Microsoft guy/gal is hardly going to say "iTunes is everything you'd ever want from an online music store and more. Ours is going to suck fetid Dingo's kidneys compared to it."
Sorry for stating the obvious, but doesn't color depths beyond what the human eye can perceive just seem really... pointless?
They're planning for the point where every human on the planet owns an HDMI television and they have to start marketing to insects instead.
You don't have a wife, children and a mortgage do you?
Could prove inconvenient to say the least if your partner happens to have a ferrous tongue piercing.
A slashdotter who did not build his own computer is like a jedi who did not build his own lightsaber.
Imaginary?
...until someone straps some of THESE BABIES onto it!