The submitter wants an exercise in the home and as far as biking in the home goes, stationary bikes are really lousy in terms of comfort and overall workout, IMO. Elliptical machines, however, are a pretty good workout. A good one is about 600$ or so and can be found at Sears or similar. This satisfies 1. done at home and 2. good exercise and even 3. you can watch SciFi channel at the same time.
At the very least, create a standardized, pluggable bay and protocol for gadgets down the road, akin to the ubiquitous cigarette lighter
What you're looking for is called the EmPower socket that's used on airline seats to provide DC power. They're far superior to the cigarette lighter type thing - there's a clip that releases easily as opposed to just pressure. And it's smaller too.
You can probably buy the socket somewhere and wire it in to your car and then replace the cig style plugs on all your devices. Alas, they chose a name the same an a standard English word so it's a pain to google for it. Ask at your local electronic widgets supply shop.
I'll reply to the AC since he was the most incorrect and rudest of the would-be correctors. See the DOE's list of electricity by power source here: Fuel oil is 17% and that's hardly the inconsequential amount everyone ranting on seems to think it is. AC even imagines the 10% of electricity from nuclear power is 20%. Get YOUR facts straight, ass.
You'd need to keep adding to the station's angular momentum to make up the difference, but that's no biggie
It would cost the same as launching whatever object from a standstill. There isn't any energy savings benefit unless you can figure out a way to get the station to spin for free. Don't forget you'd have to decellerate to dock at the station hub in the first place so it's really energy inefficient to stop by a station to get a boost from ring rotation.
Whatever oil costs, oil will be fueling the Volt. Where is all this electricity coming from? T Boone's wind farm won't be online to power it. Oil burning power plants, that's where. Plug in cars just shift the oil consumption to a different route. Where's the plan for nuclear reactors to power all these cars?
No, to go to Venus you need to expend your fuel to slow your solar orbital velocity to drop towards the Sun, hoping your spaceship doesn't incorrectly convert imperial and metric units and you get caught by Venus's gravity before you fry to a crisp.
Going to Jupiter, you expend fuel to accellerate your solar orbital velocity to fly up away from the Sun and if you miss, well, there's just a looooong elliptical ride while some clever fellows back at mission control figure out how to get you back.
Assuming you're willing to just coast longer going to Jupiter, either mission could use the same fuel load. Call me a safety nut but I'd vote for the Jupiter trip.
Zero g for people who want to keep living at the station is out the airlock at the hub. The zero g express to parts uncharted is out the nearest airlock along the ring.
from searching for microscopic traces of water a few years ago we're now "finding data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter revealing that the Red Planet once hosted vast lakes, flowing rivers
Think back even further and it's come full circle. When Mars was first viewed through telescopes it was 'the place is full of canals of water!' Then for a long time it was 'No, no way there was ever any water on Mars.' Now we're back to there having been lots of water.
It'd be great if some laptops were sold with a blank harddrive
You mean, "Isn't it great that plenty of laptops are sold with blank hard drives." Go to pricewatch.com and check the 'laptops, no OS' section or google for 'laptop barebones'. They'll all be the original brands, Clevo, Compal, Asus, etc, and not the reseller brands, Sony, Dell, HP, etc. But it'll be the same thing and cost less. What you get with the big names is 1: a support phone line, 2: the exact same laptop with a brand name sticker strangers will respect you for being able to afford and, of course 3: Windows.
I assume the satellite was geostationnary (35786 km from earth)
Dude, they're geostationary over the equator. That place with palm trees and eternal tropical weather. God only knows how much extra distance it adds to go all the way up to northern Canada.
Just curious, wouldn't it only need to be able to go as fast as the ISS for a much shorter period of time? It seems like that would be cheaper than a vehicle that needed to go that fast all the way to the moon
Thanks for the laugh; I was having a rough day!
In space, getting to speed momentarily is the same cost as sustaining that speed, duh.
No it doesn't; since they've issued me a laptop but denied VPN access the only thing I can do if I lug the thing home is play video games. Needless to say without admin rights to install anything it stays cabled locked to the desk all the time. Straight out of User Friendly, I swear.
It permits the government to monitor the communications of U.S. Citizens and residents
The aclu seems to think that a us phone number confers us citizenship / permanent residency upon the answerer. Since the bill allows instant tapping of calls to/from joe terrorist's known overseas number and some number in the us, it really isn't so unreasonable.
The constitution is not a suicide pact; there, I got in my cute truism, now you can post your cute truism like the one about trading freedoms for security is deserving of neither or somesuch.
I think the most likely reason is that he uses cheap crappy consumer routers
My rev A1 D-Link was so damn cheap it was free after mail in rebate and the uptime for the thing is that it's has been running for almost a year now since I moved here and I don't think there's been a power outage since. I wonder if wierd and / or wrong configurations and / or the ISP doing funky things are more likely culprits.
... I just had a thought: why not make the thing positively bouyant with the rotors tilted upward holding it down? Then the rotors could rotate around when it picks up a load. Then it could carry a heck of a lot more stuffs. Brilliant!
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you'd find you're more likely to get hit by a car when you're in one rather than on a bicycle
Not in Beijing.
The submitter wants an exercise in the home and as far as biking in the home goes, stationary bikes are really lousy in terms of comfort and overall workout, IMO. Elliptical machines, however, are a pretty good workout. A good one is about 600$ or so and can be found at Sears or similar. This satisfies 1. done at home and 2. good exercise and even 3. you can watch SciFi channel at the same time.
Yep, that's them; sorry I only knew the one brand name. Anyway the best thing is a most laptop mobile power adapters come with that plug already.
At the very least, create a standardized, pluggable bay and protocol for gadgets down the road, akin to the ubiquitous cigarette lighter
What you're looking for is called the EmPower socket that's used on airline seats to provide DC power. They're far superior to the cigarette lighter type thing - there's a clip that releases easily as opposed to just pressure. And it's smaller too.
You can probably buy the socket somewhere and wire it in to your car and then replace the cig style plugs on all your devices. Alas, they chose a name the same an a standard English word so it's a pain to google for it. Ask at your local electronic widgets supply shop.
the City should never have allowed
Did you just say a city government should proactively manage potential problems?
Hahahahahahaha!!!
Yeah, those white cats are really pricy...
I'll reply to the AC since he was the most incorrect and rudest of the would-be correctors. See the DOE's list of electricity by power source here: Fuel oil is 17% and that's hardly the inconsequential amount everyone ranting on seems to think it is. AC even imagines the 10% of electricity from nuclear power is 20%. Get YOUR facts straight, ass.
You'd need to keep adding to the station's angular momentum to make up the difference, but that's no biggie
It would cost the same as launching whatever object from a standstill. There isn't any energy savings benefit unless you can figure out a way to get the station to spin for free. Don't forget you'd have to decellerate to dock at the station hub in the first place so it's really energy inefficient to stop by a station to get a boost from ring rotation.
Whatever oil costs, oil will be fueling the Volt. Where is all this electricity coming from? T Boone's wind farm won't be online to power it. Oil burning power plants, that's where. Plug in cars just shift the oil consumption to a different route. Where's the plan for nuclear reactors to power all these cars?
That extra fuel is a deal breaker
No, to go to Venus you need to expend your fuel to slow your solar orbital velocity to drop towards the Sun, hoping your spaceship doesn't incorrectly convert imperial and metric units and you get caught by Venus's gravity before you fry to a crisp.
Going to Jupiter, you expend fuel to accellerate your solar orbital velocity to fly up away from the Sun and if you miss, well, there's just a looooong elliptical ride while some clever fellows back at mission control figure out how to get you back.
Assuming you're willing to just coast longer going to Jupiter, either mission could use the same fuel load. Call me a safety nut but I'd vote for the Jupiter trip.
And zero-G is just outside the nearest airlock
Zero g for people who want to keep living at the station is out the airlock at the hub. The zero g express to parts uncharted is out the nearest airlock along the ring.
from searching for microscopic traces of water a few years ago we're now "finding data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter revealing that the Red Planet once hosted vast lakes, flowing rivers
Think back even further and it's come full circle. When Mars was first viewed through telescopes it was 'the place is full of canals of water!' Then for a long time it was 'No, no way there was ever any water on Mars.' Now we're back to there having been lots of water.
It'd be great if some laptops were sold with a blank harddrive
You mean, "Isn't it great that plenty of laptops are sold with blank hard drives." Go to pricewatch.com and check the 'laptops, no OS' section or google for 'laptop barebones'. They'll all be the original brands, Clevo, Compal, Asus, etc, and not the reseller brands, Sony, Dell, HP, etc. But it'll be the same thing and cost less. What you get with the big names is 1: a support phone line, 2: the exact same laptop with a brand name sticker strangers will respect you for being able to afford and, of course 3: Windows.
Modded down; what is it, insecure Canadian mods day? "Tropical equator to northern Canada = god only knows how far" is mild mannered humor.
I assume the satellite was geostationnary (35786 km from earth)
Dude, they're geostationary over the equator. That place with palm trees and eternal tropical weather. God only knows how much extra distance it adds to go all the way up to northern Canada.
Just curious, wouldn't it only need to be able to go as fast as the ISS for a much shorter period of time? It seems like that would be cheaper than a vehicle that needed to go that fast all the way to the moon
Thanks for the laugh; I was having a rough day!
In space, getting to speed momentarily is the same cost as sustaining that speed, duh.
a plane that uses a flying wing design
The B2 is a blended wing body, not a flying wing. For an example of a flying wing, see the YB-49.
it removes the separation of work and recreation
No it doesn't; since they've issued me a laptop but denied VPN access the only thing I can do if I lug the thing home is play video games. Needless to say without admin rights to install anything it stays cabled locked to the desk all the time. Straight out of User Friendly, I swear.
What are you talking about? The constitution was written 6 years after the revolutionary war was over.
but the aclu will fail as always
Fail as always? What are you smoking? They frequently win. Don't forget their former solicitor general is on the supreme court.
It permits the government to monitor the communications of U.S. Citizens and residents
The aclu seems to think that a us phone number confers us citizenship / permanent residency upon the answerer. Since the bill allows instant tapping of calls to/from joe terrorist's known overseas number and some number in the us, it really isn't so unreasonable.
The constitution is not a suicide pact; there, I got in my cute truism, now you can post your cute truism like the one about trading freedoms for security is deserving of neither or somesuch.
No, the first words were Mrs Caveman asking Mr Caveman why exactly was he so late coming back from the hunt.
I think the most likely reason is that he uses cheap crappy consumer routers
My rev A1 D-Link was so damn cheap it was free after mail in rebate and the uptime for the thing is that it's has been running for almost a year now since I moved here and I don't think there's been a power outage since. I wonder if wierd and / or wrong configurations and / or the ISP doing funky things are more likely culprits.
All TV characters should have e-mail addresses. It's a no-brainer
Yeah, but only Homer Simpson should have an @aol.com address.
... I just had a thought: why not make the thing positively bouyant with the rotors tilted upward holding it down? Then the rotors could rotate around when it picks up a load. Then it could carry a heck of a lot more stuffs. Brilliant!