Nope - the gravity is too strong. Gravity is very wimpy when dealing with low mass - say like the mass of the earth, but exceed the Chandrasekhar limit of mass an all of a sudden gravity becomes more powerful than ANY known force.
So powerful that at about pi * Chandrasekhar light itself cannot escape.
Quiz - why iron (and a bit of cobalt)? Hint: carbon, nitrogen, oxygen.
It is my personal belief that there is no other force other than gravity, and that when God/god/gods/G-d/ad mauseum created the universe all s/he/it did was create gravity, and disturb it.
However if you think we are going to start using less oil, stop polluting, pay off our credit cards, learn French, and stop bombing smaller nations, think again.
Oh yeah, we could use about $700,000,000,000 right about now.... I won't bother to convert that figure to yen or euro.
If it actually happened you could provide a news link, if it was classified then you wouldn't be posting it here.
18 years of working for and with the DOD in the DC area, and 6 in the active military, I have never heard of such a thing. When there is a breach they call the cops - Federal preferably but will settle for local if they have to (who will secure the scene until Federal cops with clearances show up who can handle the material or go inside the site) and then the FBI. That is it.
It is the electrons that make it a superconductor. They are floating around in that neuton degenerate liquid doing fuck knows what, and even of the pressure and gravity were not enough to trap them, the mile or so thick solid crust would.
I once saw a similar situation go down at NSA at Ft Meade, MD, but all they did was call the cops.
NSA does have their own police force, but they are in fact simply cops. Fat, donuts, late model American sedans with light bars on top... you get the picture.
A few weeks later it came out the the guy was not a spy - but he was a Bell Atlantic employee.
The star was very hot (as you might imagine) when it collapsed after the super nova event. Not massive enough to form a black hole, the very very dense neutron matter stopped the collapse. All protrons and most electrons (a 1-1 relationship) were squeezed into neutrons forming a solid crust, a liquid "mantle" of neutrons and electrons, and possibly a solid core, but no one really knows what the interior is like.)
The resultant body is very small - about the same diameter as the Washington DC beltway. It is still hot as fuck (you think?). However it is also very small, with the following results: 1) it will take a long time for the heat to radiate away from such a small surface area, and 2) conserving angular momentum, it started to spin really really fast.
With the resultant spin, a gigantor magnetic field is produced.
The gravity of this object is very strong - a feather dropped onto it from 1 AU will produce the same amount of energy as an exploding 3 megaton nuclear warhead when it hits the surface. Some of this radiation and shit gets channelled away from the object from the poles. Since the thing is spiining and wobbling, occaisionally one of these poles point toward earth... then away... then back... sweeping the beam of particles and shit produced by matter falling on the surface across our radio telescopes... producing the pulsing effect that gives it it's name.
The period of these events is very small. Like I said, that f-er is spinning fast as shit.
That is what I remember, anyway. Most of that is probably wrong. Sigh. I am getting old.
From what I remember from a sophmore astronomy class, the matter inside the neutron stars is a liquid mixture of neutrons as well as electrons, is a superconductor, and is spinning around at an incredible rate - thus producing the immense magnetic field.
Well, atleast this is what some brainy f-ers theorized. Who knows. All I know for sure is that I was a math major, and took that class because I thought it would be easy. Such a fool in my youth.
Matter falling onto the stars surface, getting all combobulated, and the resulting radiation from the combobulation shot out at the magnetic poles (which are rotating on a different axis than the star iself) is basically how I remember it from long ago.
Admittedly, some minor details are being glossed over.
But actually, "combobulated" is not a bad summary of the series of lectures in a long ago Astronomy 201 class that covered pulsars.
I simply put my server in a closet and was done with it. 4 drives, dual CPU with god knows how many fans (probably too many) - the thing was just way too loud. So in the closet it went.
I wonder, will it come out of the closet? Harharharhar, ahem.
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I forget their name, but I actually used a working prototype that used this exact method of biometric identification.
Of course, there are no schedules in the work world.
Usually works for me. :P
Nope - the gravity is too strong. Gravity is very wimpy when dealing with low mass - say like the mass of the earth, but exceed the Chandrasekhar limit of mass an all of a sudden gravity becomes more powerful than ANY known force.
So powerful that at about pi * Chandrasekhar light itself cannot escape.
Quiz - why iron (and a bit of cobalt)? Hint: carbon, nitrogen, oxygen.
It is my personal belief that there is no other force other than gravity, and that when God/god/gods/G-d/ad mauseum created the universe all s/he/it did was create gravity, and disturb it.
Solid crust is mainly iron and cobolt nuclei packed together at electron degenerate densities.
It is wascky - wiki it for yourself... or better yet crack an intro to Astronomy text. It is pretty intense.
And while I don;t doubt that I have misstated things, I have painted a fairly accurate picture with very broad strokes.
...for those wiley Chinese.
See? We aren't ALL cross burning rednecks!
However if you think we are going to start using less oil, stop polluting, pay off our credit cards, learn French, and stop bombing smaller nations, think again.
Oh yeah, we could use about $700,000,000,000 right about now.... I won't bother to convert that figure to yen or euro.
Actually, I just read the same thing (the gist of it) on the Washington Post.
I don;t think it is bitterness - I think it is reality.
FTR I voted for Obama.... but I don't see change coming nearly as fast or nearly as much as everyone likes to say.
Perhaps you should reread my post.
And yes, you are full of it.
hahaha - I was actually going to include that one!
True, but I nailed your grandma.
I don't believe it.
Horse shit. Pureset ray scerene.
If it actually happened you could provide a news link, if it was classified then you wouldn't be posting it here.
18 years of working for and with the DOD in the DC area, and 6 in the active military, I have never heard of such a thing. When there is a breach they call the cops - Federal preferably but will settle for local if they have to (who will secure the scene until Federal cops with clearances show up who can handle the material or go inside the site) and then the FBI. That is it.
It is the electrons that make it a superconductor. They are floating around in that neuton degenerate liquid doing fuck knows what, and even of the pressure and gravity were not enough to trap them, the mile or so thick solid crust would.
You are full of shit.
I once saw a similar situation go down at NSA at Ft Meade, MD, but all they did was call the cops.
NSA does have their own police force, but they are in fact simply cops. Fat, donuts, late model American sedans with light bars on top... you get the picture.
A few weeks later it came out the the guy was not a spy - but he was a Bell Atlantic employee.
They thought is was a signal from another civilization, and they called pulsars LGM's (for Little Green men).
That is a true story!
The star was very hot (as you might imagine) when it collapsed after the super nova event. Not massive enough to form a black hole, the very very dense neutron matter stopped the collapse. All protrons and most electrons (a 1-1 relationship) were squeezed into neutrons forming a solid crust, a liquid "mantle" of neutrons and electrons, and possibly a solid core, but no one really knows what the interior is like.)
The resultant body is very small - about the same diameter as the Washington DC beltway. It is still hot as fuck (you think?). However it is also very small, with the following results: 1) it will take a long time for the heat to radiate away from such a small surface area, and 2) conserving angular momentum, it started to spin really really fast.
With the resultant spin, a gigantor magnetic field is produced.
The gravity of this object is very strong - a feather dropped onto it from 1 AU will produce the same amount of energy as an exploding 3 megaton nuclear warhead when it hits the surface. Some of this radiation and shit gets channelled away from the object from the poles. Since the thing is spiining and wobbling, occaisionally one of these poles point toward earth... then away... then back... sweeping the beam of particles and shit produced by matter falling on the surface across our radio telescopes... producing the pulsing effect that gives it it's name.
The period of these events is very small. Like I said, that f-er is spinning fast as shit.
That is what I remember, anyway. Most of that is probably wrong. Sigh. I am getting old.
From what I remember from a sophmore astronomy class, the matter inside the neutron stars is a liquid mixture of neutrons as well as electrons, is a superconductor, and is spinning around at an incredible rate - thus producing the immense magnetic field.
Well, atleast this is what some brainy f-ers theorized. Who knows. All I know for sure is that I was a math major, and took that class because I thought it would be easy. Such a fool in my youth.
Matter falling onto the stars surface, getting all combobulated, and the resulting radiation from the combobulation shot out at the magnetic poles (which are rotating on a different axis than the star iself) is basically how I remember it from long ago.
Admittedly, some minor details are being glossed over.
But actually, "combobulated" is not a bad summary of the series of lectures in a long ago Astronomy 201 class that covered pulsars.
Computers with moving parts. How quaint.
The only useful apps bundled with Windows. Please don't mess with them, primitive as they may be.
I simply put my server in a closet and was done with it. 4 drives, dual CPU with god knows how many fans (probably too many) - the thing was just way too loud. So in the closet it went.
I wonder, will it come out of the closet? Harharharhar, ahem.
Scientists. Always ignoring the important questions.
If it is dead, swap it out. (Conceptually simple, perhaps difficult to execute esp in space.)
Only if we start with Bush.
Pay the trucking company. Keep a 5 or so percent skim as a finders fee or whatever they want to call it.
Then, instead of criminals they would be called "entrepreneurs."