I am going to name my first child:-) . Because he/she will the happiest child in the world with a name like:-)
* Captain Nitpick walks up to the mic.
Captain Nitpick: *cough*
Captain Nitpick: That's because he/she will be the only child in the world with a name like that.
* Captain Nitpick bows and leaves the stage.
So I asked him if they have it working yet and the answer was yes. Then I asked him if they can get more energy out in a controlled fashion than is put in and again the answer was yes. Finally I asked him to give a concrete example and he said that everything actually at this point works on paper!
This, friends, is the difference between a theoretical physicist, and an engineer.
(Speaking of which, while Spiderweb Software isn't UK-based, does anyone else think that they do a nice job of dark English-style humor? If it weren't for American spellings, I would have thought that the Exile series had British roots.)
But 6 inputs only gives you 720 different combinations, which is not enough IMHO.
This is only true if you have 6 fixed-position outputs as well.
The number of outputs is likely to be the same as the number of inputs, but nothing says their position has to be the same from one key/lock to the next.
Exit signs are powered by radioactive Cadmium. They last ~20 years. The level of radiation is low enough that they are safe for preschools!
No, they're powered by a chemical Nickel Cadmium (NiCad) battery.
Getting a building built is hard enough without making yourself fall under NRC jurisdiction because you installed an RTG.
There are tritium-based emergency exit signs, but they are more expensive than battery-backed signs, and are typically only used in aircraft, or where power is unavailable.
if you have an object made of two parts (e.g 'gun and bullet' or 'rocket and exhaust gas') which is initially stationary, then if one part moves forwards, the other part MUST move backwards to conserve linear momentum.
There aren't two parts in a gun/bullet system. There are three, the gun, the bullet, and the expanding gas.
The expanding gas exerts a force on both the gun and the bullet. This can be considered, in layman's terms, a push. There is no direct transfer of momentum from the bullet to the gun itself (neglecting friction).
A rocket is not a comparable system to a gun, because a rocket only has two components, which exert forces only on each other.
Continuing the uber-Scrabble theme, I'd like the nominate Zzyzx as the new name. Sure, it isn't in any way mythological, but it has nice legends attached to it. And it's halfway to Vegas from here, so what more do you want?;)
A few more letters so I can hit the triple word score square: Zzyzzyxx
As for "Wrap in cobalt" you must've been watching too much star trek...
Actually, the so-called cobalt bomb is one of the nastier dirty bomb designs ever proposed. The Co-60 in the fallout has the right combination of half-life and gamma ray production to render a large area uninhabitable for years.
I was wondering if NASA has actually disclosed the details of what they believe was the malfunction of the Spirit rover?
Space.com quoting Glenn Reeves, the JPL Flight Software Architect for the project, on Feb. 6:
"The first problem is that we ran out of memory. A subsequent problem after that is we managed to corrupt the file system."
My understanding is that the memory problem occurred because they were trying to load the FAT into memory, and it had grown too large from files accumulated during the flight to Mars.
Wouldn't that assume some compressability? If there were absolutely none, would this still an issue? Obviously this is only theory, but I'm just trying to see what's possible out there.
An object's structure comes from the electromagnetic forces between the atomic nuclei and electrons in the material. When you move an object, the electric repulsion between the atoms in your hand pushes the atoms in the object that are on the surface. These atoms in turn push on the atoms below them, which push on the next layer, and so on until the motion reaches the end of the object being moved.
An ASCII diagram:
A ~~~~~> A ~~~~~> A ~~~~~> A
Even in a hyopthetical "perfectly" rigid material, these atomic-scale EM forces still only travel at c.
By the time a scholar checked a Wikipedia citation, it might have changed from the time another scholar cited it. You'd need some way to specify and retrieve a particular version of an article.
A quick check shows that most citation formats for web sites include "Date of electronic publication or latest update, whichever is most recent (if known)". Every Wikipedia article has the date of last modification printed in its footer.
Anyone who actually wants to look at a cited Wikipedia article can use the "Page History" function to display the revision that was current at the time of citation.
Click on the rover picture on the upper right hand corner, or search for the work "Rover" on the site and choose the third link. Very cool Lego rover kit for about $80.
They gave one of these as a birthday present to Sean O'Keefe during the 1:30am EST news briefing. There were jokes about keeping him away from the real hardware.
this got me thinking.. how about making a insulated (to keep the helium inside) board large enough to lift one person with some mechanism to keep it at a low enough altitude?
Morbo: Morbo demands an answer to the following question!
Morbo: If you saw delicious candy in the hands of a small child, would you seize and consume it?
John Jackson: Unthinkable!
Jack Johnson: I wouldn't think of it!
Morbo: What about you, Mr. McBride? I remind you, you are under a Truth-o-scope.
[Truth-o-scope flies into frame, begins quietly inspecting McBride]
McBride's head: Uh...we-well...uh...the question is...is vague! You don't say what kind of candy...whether anyone is watching, or um... At any rate, I certainly wouldn't harm the child.
If the SCO stock keeps going down like it has the past 3 days, they will need to jump ship soon. Perhaps the rats are swimming already for paradise island.
Perhaps you should try looking at a longer view. Short-term dips in stock prices are normal. There's nothing here to get excited about (yet).
Avoid these inexpensive mountains. They often turn out to be vulcanos or have other flaws like hairline cracks or cave trolls.
Volcano-equipped mountains are not cheap. The hordes of mad scientists and villains, all wanting their own out-of-the-way place, have driven the price up.
Can you explain to me why it really is exponential?
It isn't.
I can see that it might be quadratic (n sets of wires to n people = n*n wires), but how do you get exponential?
The folks over at Wolfram tell us that a complete graph, that is, one where every node is connected to every other node, has n(n - 1)/2 edges. Which is quadratic.
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Captain Nitpick: *cough*
Captain Nitpick: That's because he/she will be the only child in the world with a name like that.
* Captain Nitpick bows and leaves the stage.
"FORTRAN? Wasn't he the one that turned into a dump truck?"
This isn't a hanging rope, it's a +1 bungee cord of lawsuits.
IBM waited for SCO to measure out their cord, and decided that SCO had five hundred meters of cord for a hundred meter drop.
IBM's asking the judge to let them shoot SCO and save the trouble of waiting for SCO to hit bottom.
This, friends, is the difference between a theoretical physicist, and an engineer.
In the future, all restaurants will be Taco Bell.
If you like Spiderweb's stuff, you should take a look at Jeff Vogel's other site, Irony Central.
Yeah, but when you're trying to jump the chasm of disbelief, that single step will send you falling onto the sharp pointy rocks of obscurity.
This is only true if you have 6 fixed-position outputs as well.
The number of outputs is likely to be the same as the number of inputs, but nothing says their position has to be the same from one key/lock to the next.
No, they're powered by a chemical Nickel Cadmium (NiCad) battery.
Getting a building built is hard enough without making yourself fall under NRC jurisdiction because you installed an RTG.
There are tritium-based emergency exit signs, but they are more expensive than battery-backed signs, and are typically only used in aircraft, or where power is unavailable.
There aren't two parts in a gun/bullet system. There are three, the gun, the bullet, and the expanding gas.
The expanding gas exerts a force on both the gun and the bullet. This can be considered, in layman's terms, a push. There is no direct transfer of momentum from the bullet to the gun itself (neglecting friction).
A rocket is not a comparable system to a gun, because a rocket only has two components, which exert forces only on each other.
A few more letters so I can hit the triple word score square: Zzyzzyxx
Of course it's distinguishible from 'atatat'. What you typed is morse for 'www'.
*Cough*
Actually, the so-called cobalt bomb is one of the nastier dirty bomb designs ever proposed. The Co-60 in the fallout has the right combination of half-life and gamma ray production to render a large area uninhabitable for years.
Space.com quoting Glenn Reeves, the JPL Flight Software Architect for the project, on Feb. 6:
My understanding is that the memory problem occurred because they were trying to load the FAT into memory, and it had grown too large from files accumulated during the flight to Mars.
An object's structure comes from the electromagnetic forces between the atomic nuclei and electrons in the material. When you move an object, the electric repulsion between the atoms in your hand pushes the atoms in the object that are on the surface. These atoms in turn push on the atoms below them, which push on the next layer, and so on until the motion reaches the end of the object being moved.
An ASCII diagram:
A ~~~~~> A ~~~~~> A ~~~~~> A
Even in a hyopthetical "perfectly" rigid material, these atomic-scale EM forces still only travel at c.
A quick check shows that most citation formats for web sites include "Date of electronic publication or latest update, whichever is most recent (if known)". Every Wikipedia article has the date of last modification printed in its footer.
Anyone who actually wants to look at a cited Wikipedia article can use the "Page History" function to display the revision that was current at the time of citation.
They gave one of these as a birthday present to Sean O'Keefe during the 1:30am EST news briefing. There were jokes about keeping him away from the real hardware.
I did the math on this one a while back.
The short version: Unless your idea of a hoverboard is something the size of a boat, it's not going to work.
Morbo: Morbo demands an answer to the following question!
Morbo: If you saw delicious candy in the hands of a small child, would you seize and consume it?
John Jackson: Unthinkable!
Jack Johnson: I wouldn't think of it!
Morbo: What about you, Mr. McBride? I remind you, you are under a Truth-o-scope.
[Truth-o-scope flies into frame, begins quietly inspecting McBride]
McBride's head: Uh...we-well...uh...the question is...is vague! You don't say what kind of candy...whether anyone is watching, or um... At any rate, I certainly wouldn't harm the child.
[Truth-o-scope beeps and graphs furiously]
Perhaps you should try looking at a longer view. Short-term dips in stock prices are normal. There's nothing here to get excited about (yet).
Volcano-equipped mountains are not cheap. The hordes of mad scientists and villains, all wanting their own out-of-the-way place, have driven the price up.
It isn't.
The folks over at Wolfram tell us that a complete graph, that is, one where every node is connected to every other node, has n(n - 1)/2 edges. Which is quadratic.
Super Mario RPG Online?
Which misses the point about powering things from USB entirely.
Amps are for measuring current. You want watts.
Given that USB's power is at 5V DC, that comes out to 2.5W of power.