While in principle it SHOULD work, in reality they just laugh at you and hand you your ticket. Take it to trial and only one thing matters. "Sir, were you speeding?" "Yes, but..." "You can pay your fine to the clerk on your way out. Next!"
Human flesh is found to grow quickly and cheaply under certain laboratory conditions. In other news, Oscar Meyer has just announced a new "Long Pork" flavor hot dog.
It will be even easier to convince a jury to convict someone when you show a CGI "photo" that looks like him. Lots of people trust computer output and ignore the human link.
I dunno, should we rush the biggest, most complex project ever undertaken by the human race? If you don't have the time and resources to do it right, how will you have the time and resources to do it over?
If WWII were fought the way we fight "wars" today, after D-Day and liberating France we would have simply tried to hold France without making further headway.
In the ideal case I agree with you, but often management doesn't let you code to the ideal case. They want it to work now, and while your at it get this and that working too. Oh, and before you do that fix this other thing, but don't let it slow you down on those other things.
Railgun tests would say otherwise. Sure the projectile is a little cylinder of Plexiglas with aluminum foil on the back, and sure it will vaporize a significant chunk of armor plate, but the projectile is also vaporized in the process.
The problem with leaving the big pieces up there is that over time they WILL hit each other at high relative velocities and create many more small fragments. Someone did a projection of what the current debris would become in 200 years if no further debris were added, and the piece count rose exponentially over time due to collision fragmentation.
Because the weight of the cargo and vehicle is finite. Adding conductive pathways to the ribbon would increase the weight by a certain amount per unit length, and there's an awfully large number of length units. Grams per meter would add up to a huge weight, plus they would have to be nearly superconductive to be anywhere near efficient.
ICBM's don't strictly adhere to a ballistic trajectory anymore. I believe both Russia and China have missiles designed to thrust laterally in a difficult to predict manner to avoid kinetic kill devices.
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While in principle it SHOULD work, in reality they just laugh at you and hand you your ticket. Take it to trial and only one thing matters. "Sir, were you speeding?" "Yes, but..." "You can pay your fine to the clerk on your way out. Next!"
News Flash! There was a questionable story posted last year! As a new development, some people still think it's questionable!
If there's any trickery it will be the other way around, people using cheap vat meat and claiming it to be animal meat.
Imagine the smell when you forget to feed and water it for a couple weeks.
Bacon wrapped? My boy, you're not using your head. Take full advantage of the technology at hand. Think; bacon MARBLED fillet minions.
You want a Nuka-Cola to go with that?
I've long thought that the best way to make a leather jacket would be to grow it over a scaffold. It could be form fitting, yet seamless.
Human flesh is found to grow quickly and cheaply under certain laboratory conditions. In other news, Oscar Meyer has just announced a new "Long Pork" flavor hot dog.
It will be even easier to convince a jury to convict someone when you show a CGI "photo" that looks like him. Lots of people trust computer output and ignore the human link.
I dunno, should we rush the biggest, most complex project ever undertaken by the human race? If you don't have the time and resources to do it right, how will you have the time and resources to do it over?
I understand it's an evolutionary algorithm, but it has nothing to do with DNA.
Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of Cat Brainz!!!
Now your brain can catch a virus just by reading!!!1
They're pretty effective at taking your money and giving it to their friends in the defense industry.
Mod parent funny.
If WWII were fought the way we fight "wars" today, after D-Day and liberating France we would have simply tried to hold France without making further headway.
All your cores are belong to us!
In the ideal case I agree with you, but often management doesn't let you code to the ideal case. They want it to work now, and while your at it get this and that working too. Oh, and before you do that fix this other thing, but don't let it slow you down on those other things.
Railgun tests would say otherwise. Sure the projectile is a little cylinder of Plexiglas with aluminum foil on the back, and sure it will vaporize a significant chunk of armor plate, but the projectile is also vaporized in the process.
The problem with leaving the big pieces up there is that over time they WILL hit each other at high relative velocities and create many more small fragments. Someone did a projection of what the current debris would become in 200 years if no further debris were added, and the piece count rose exponentially over time due to collision fragmentation.
I've seen that episode of Secret Saturdays. Someone on board must have had a sonic mind control device that attracted them.
Because the weight of the cargo and vehicle is finite. Adding conductive pathways to the ribbon would increase the weight by a certain amount per unit length, and there's an awfully large number of length units. Grams per meter would add up to a huge weight, plus they would have to be nearly superconductive to be anywhere near efficient.
ICBM's don't strictly adhere to a ballistic trajectory anymore. I believe both Russia and China have missiles designed to thrust laterally in a difficult to predict manner to avoid kinetic kill devices.
That's the way the DOOM II engine worked. No gaps = good.
Legally, yes. Morally, no. There happens to be a difference between the two.