usually won't hit the ground, but particularly dense , iron rich asteroids can punch through the atmosphere even if they are only 30M across. Unlikely to leave a crater since it would reach terminal velocity before it hit the ground, but i wouldn't want it hitting my house.
That's not true at all. We find new asteroids all the time that aren't within any reasonable distance of earth. Who says we won't find one that might still be a few orbits away from hitting us?
Freedom of speech does not mean you can say whatever you want to whoever you want whenever you want, and I'm sick of people who should know better interpreting it that way. Freedom of speech is about not being persecuted for what you say, it's not about being allowed to call my house and harrass me about some product you are trying to sell, after I clearly stated that I didn't want the call.
Because the parents don't have millions of dollars. That's right, these people are trying to make money of a tragedy. If the lawsuit had anything to do with right & wrong they would be suing the parents. It's shit like this that makes ME want to go out and shoot people who start lawsuits like this. I wonder if they would have to sue themselves for inspiring me to shoot them?
The pacific ocean near the equator is fairly calm, and is most likely where it would be anchored. Oil rigs are built to survive some of the harshest ocean conditions imaginable, and the cable base station would be a similar structure. Plus, there are ways to avoid a disaster. Just off the top of my head I came up with one, i'm sure there are others.
You put enough weight on the cable to equal the tension that's holding the low end down, then detach the end. Then the weight climbs up above the storm, rolling the cable behind it, and when it's all over lower the cable and reattach. It would be tricky but there's no reason it couldn't be done. You could pull the end right out of the atmosphere and use ion engines at each end to keep the orbit stable indefinitly while detached.
No, it will make an astonishingly hard target for terrorists. It will be in the middle of the ocean with a no-fly zone for at least 100 miles in every direction and i'm sure will be permanently guarded by the military. Not to mention the fact the the end of the cable that's atcually in the atmosphere will be 1M wide, paper thin, and probably invisible to radar (a missle would have a hard time finding it).
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That's not even remotely correct. The tether is under tension, and to lower the remote end you would need to lift a mass that is heavier than the tension of the cable, which would be hundreds of tons if I remember correctly. Angular momentum does come into effect, but for different reasons. For example, if you were to lift an entire mountain into space (a piece at a time) the rotation of earth would slow a tiny bit. Also, the tether will swing like a pendulum if the elevator launches aren't timed right (but it would be a small easily correctable effect).
Maybe when you see revolutions it'll all be wrapped up nicely. If the "real world" is just another layer of the matrix where they send the people who have trouble "accepting" the main matrix, then the whole humans as batteries thing and the war against the machines is just the story fed to the escapees to keep them too occupied to realize they haven't escaped. Think about it, at the end of reloaded neo uses his matrix "powers" in the supposed real world. Other than magic (I really hope they didn't go there) there's no good explanation other than the real world being a matrix too.
What I think is funny is that they still have linux on their ftp site. If their argument is correct and the gpl is invalid, then they don't have the right to distribute linux and they are breaking the law. If they are wrong and the gpl is valid, then they are still breaking the law by disagreeing with the licence and still distributing it. Either way they are screwed, right?
There is no missing link between us and chimps and gorillas because we didn't evolve from them. Humans and apes split from a common ancestor a few million years ago and since then have each gone our own way. The missing link would be that long dead ancestor that both species evolved from, not anything still alive today.
You left out one of the more violent ends that was thought up recently. If the acceleration is increasing indefinitly, eventually it will be so great that it overwhelms even the forces holding together atoms and molecules. The "Big Rip" as it is called would end the universe by first blowing apart clusters of galaxies, then galaxies, then solar systems, then the planets themselves and anything bigger than a subatomic particle. The universe ends by basically being diluted to nothingness by expanding space.
Actually I'm making 3.5M times (wow that sounds like more than it is) but 0.02 is all the effort I'll put into a discussion on telemarketer's so called "rights".
Back in school we always had a saying, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with backup tapes." Seems like that still holds true.
Of course if still holds true, storage capacity is increasing faster than bandwidth is. A station wagon full of tapes holds alot more than it did when that saying started out.
They have, and it's not proof of anything. If the bag is big enough, the device will just fly within the bag. If the bag is tight around the device, the electric fields will just go right through it and create the ion wind outside the bag, lifting the bag too (if it's not too heavy).
Free energy would take the ion drive concept to a new extreme. Basically, with free energy you replace the ion drive with a particle accelerator pointing out the back of the ship and have a specific thrust that's several orders of magnitude higher than anything that exists now. The thrust might not be huge but it can be sustained for long periods with small amounts of fuel.
Also, for this wierd time loop of t1 and t2 to have begun in the first place, skynet would have to have been created without the leftover terminator parts at least once. My theory is that the first terminator to come back mearly accelerated the creation of skynet, and when they destroyed the research they mearly pushed it back to the original date. Either that, or offsite backups... I mean, they did only destroy 1 building.
Take another look at the one you have at home, it spins away from the black side not towards it. There's a tiny bit of air left in there still, and since the black side absorbs light more than the white side, it is warmer on the black side and the air pushes that side slightly as it warms too.
Think about it. split the force into it's components and you have half going directly away from the sun and half tangental to the orbit (but in the opposite direction). The orbit will slow, the component pushing away from the sun won't be enough to counter the sun's gravity, and the orbit will lower. If the sail is kept 45 degrees from the sun until the orbital velocity is canceled, the sail could just drop straight into the sun.
That's not true, it's actually simple to move towards the sun. You don't need a keel in space because the pressure on the sail isn't the only force you have to work with. The sun's gravity can be used very easily to move towards the sun, all you have to do is point the sail 45 degrees from the sun so that its pressure slows your orbital velocity and gravity will do the rest and put you in a lower orbit around the sun.
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usually won't hit the ground, but particularly dense , iron rich asteroids can punch through the atmosphere even if they are only 30M across. Unlikely to leave a crater since it would reach terminal velocity before it hit the ground, but i wouldn't want it hitting my house.
That's not true at all. We find new asteroids all the time that aren't within any reasonable distance of earth. Who says we won't find one that might still be a few orbits away from hitting us?
Freedom of speech does not mean you can say whatever you want to whoever you want whenever you want, and I'm sick of people who should know better interpreting it that way. Freedom of speech is about not being persecuted for what you say, it's not about being allowed to call my house and harrass me about some product you are trying to sell, after I clearly stated that I didn't want the call.
Because the parents don't have millions of dollars. That's right, these people are trying to make money of a tragedy. If the lawsuit had anything to do with right & wrong they would be suing the parents. It's shit like this that makes ME want to go out and shoot people who start lawsuits like this. I wonder if they would have to sue themselves for inspiring me to shoot them?
The pacific ocean near the equator is fairly calm, and is most likely where it would be anchored. Oil rigs are built to survive some of the harshest ocean conditions imaginable, and the cable base station would be a similar structure. Plus, there are ways to avoid a disaster. Just off the top of my head I came up with one, i'm sure there are others.
You put enough weight on the cable to equal the tension that's holding the low end down, then detach the end. Then the weight climbs up above the storm, rolling the cable behind it, and when it's all over lower the cable and reattach. It would be tricky but there's no reason it couldn't be done. You could pull the end right out of the atmosphere and use ion engines at each end to keep the orbit stable indefinitly while detached.
No, it will make an astonishingly hard target for terrorists. It will be in the middle of the ocean with a no-fly zone for at least 100 miles in every direction and i'm sure will be permanently guarded by the military. Not to mention the fact the the end of the cable that's atcually in the atmosphere will be 1M wide, paper thin, and probably invisible to radar (a missle would have a hard time finding it).
That's not even remotely correct. The tether is under tension, and to lower the remote end you would need to lift a mass that is heavier than the tension of the cable, which would be hundreds of tons if I remember correctly. Angular momentum does come into effect, but for different reasons. For example, if you were to lift an entire mountain into space (a piece at a time) the rotation of earth would slow a tiny bit. Also, the tether will swing like a pendulum if the elevator launches aren't timed right (but it would be a small easily correctable effect).
Might be a better idea to wait until there is more than a weeks worth of observation before trying to predict 75 years in the future.
Maybe when you see revolutions it'll all be wrapped up nicely. If the "real world" is just another layer of the matrix where they send the people who have trouble "accepting" the main matrix, then the whole humans as batteries thing and the war against the machines is just the story fed to the escapees to keep them too occupied to realize they haven't escaped. Think about it, at the end of reloaded neo uses his matrix "powers" in the supposed real world. Other than magic (I really hope they didn't go there) there's no good explanation other than the real world being a matrix too.
What I think is funny is that they still have linux on their ftp site. If their argument is correct and the gpl is invalid, then they don't have the right to distribute linux and they are breaking the law. If they are wrong and the gpl is valid, then they are still breaking the law by disagreeing with the licence and still distributing it. Either way they are screwed, right?
They are talking about predicting earthquakes, not trying to stop them. She kicks our ass the worst when we don't see it coming.
There is no missing link between us and chimps and gorillas because we didn't evolve from them. Humans and apes split from a common ancestor a few million years ago and since then have each gone our own way. The missing link would be that long dead ancestor that both species evolved from, not anything still alive today.
You left out one of the more violent ends that was thought up recently. If the acceleration is increasing indefinitly, eventually it will be so great that it overwhelms even the forces holding together atoms and molecules. The "Big Rip" as it is called would end the universe by first blowing apart clusters of galaxies, then galaxies, then solar systems, then the planets themselves and anything bigger than a subatomic particle. The universe ends by basically being diluted to nothingness by expanding space.
Do they have to refund everyone who paid for a license before the trial?
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Actually I'm making 3.5M times (wow that sounds like more than it is) but 0.02 is all the effort I'll put into a discussion on telemarketer's so called "rights".
An industry's right to profit should end the moment it interfers with my rights.
There is no "right to profit", profit has to be earned and if you can't earn it you're screwed. If your business model is shit then too damn bad.
just my $0.02
Back in school we always had a saying, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with backup tapes." Seems like that still holds true.
Of course if still holds true, storage capacity is increasing faster than bandwidth is. A station wagon full of tapes holds alot more than it did when that saying started out.
They have, and it's not proof of anything. If the bag is big enough, the device will just fly within the bag. If the bag is tight around the device, the electric fields will just go right through it and create the ion wind outside the bag, lifting the bag too (if it's not too heavy).
Free energy would take the ion drive concept to a new extreme. Basically, with free energy you replace the ion drive with a particle accelerator pointing out the back of the ship and have a specific thrust that's several orders of magnitude higher than anything that exists now. The thrust might not be huge but it can be sustained for long periods with small amounts of fuel.
Nobody is speaking latin here, the correct ENGLISH plural of virus is viruses.
Also, for this wierd time loop of t1 and t2 to have begun in the first place, skynet would have to have been created without the leftover terminator parts at least once. My theory is that the first terminator to come back mearly accelerated the creation of skynet, and when they destroyed the research they mearly pushed it back to the original date. Either that, or offsite backups... I mean, they did only destroy 1 building.
Take another look at the one you have at home, it spins away from the black side not towards it. There's a tiny bit of air left in there still, and since the black side absorbs light more than the white side, it is warmer on the black side and the air pushes that side slightly as it warms too.
Think about it. split the force into it's components and you have half going directly away from the sun and half tangental to the orbit (but in the opposite direction). The orbit will slow, the component pushing away from the sun won't be enough to counter the sun's gravity, and the orbit will lower. If the sail is kept 45 degrees from the sun until the orbital velocity is canceled, the sail could just drop straight into the sun.
That's not true, it's actually simple to move towards the sun. You don't need a keel in space because the pressure on the sail isn't the only force you have to work with. The sun's gravity can be used very easily to move towards the sun, all you have to do is point the sail 45 degrees from the sun so that its pressure slows your orbital velocity and gravity will do the rest and put you in a lower orbit around the sun.
Just include some glass cleaner with the collection plate so you could wipe off the platten.
WTF is a platten?