Yes, it's called terminal velocity. Anything that survives the "burning up" on reentry will survive because the atmosphere slowed it down and it stopped burning. By the time any of the shuttle debris hit the ground it wouldn't be moving any faster than if it was dropped off the roof of a tall building. For something to leave a crater it needs to be hit the atmosphere fast enough to go all the way through without being slowed significantly.
Small meteors that make it to the ground are almost always cool to the touch, because it takes a couple minutes of freefall to get to the ground once they've slowed to termincal velocity.
Because it takes ASSLOADS (pun intended) of water to cover the ski trails in artificial snow, which has a major impact on the environment. When ski resorts were getting water from snowmaking straight from local natural sources, they were lowering the watershed, draining small lakes, and in a nutshell totally f'ing the local wildlife. Many mountains now has artificial streams and lakes built in now to collect the manmade snow as it melts so it can be reused, but even this isn't a perfect solution. If filtering wastewater can give them another cheap water supply then i'm all for it.
And you can do all that with tivo too, it's just less publicized. I share content between multiple tivos and have loads of shows archived on my pc. You can do more with the tivo than the replay, it's just not as user friendly.
I don't think it's uncertainty of location that allows them to have the same state, I think it's just the fact that they are moving slow enough that they can 'sync up' with each other and share the same quantum state. Throw in any heat and they start bouncing around too much to remain close together.
Think of it this way... take to pieces that interlock, like a set of gears, and bring them together while they are rotating rapidly, they will just bounce apart. Bring them together while they are moving slowly and they can fall into place and mesh together.
I don't think the uncertainty principle is anything more than a consequence of measurement, not of reality. A particle can have a definte velocity AND position, we just can't measure one without changing the other (because the only way to measure either is to bounce photons off it).
Posted that last one anonymous since i was at a different pc...
I don't think you understand the uncertainty principle correctly. The uncertainty principle doesn't allow you to "rotate" values like you are describing. The uncertainty principle just states that you can't measure one value without disturbing the others, and the smaller the object you are trying to measure the greater the uncertainty effect. For example uncertainty does not mean that by measuring the position of a particle the velocity becomes undefined, it just means that measuring the position will affect the velocity such that the original velocity can't be measured. And uncertainty diminishes VERY rapidly with increasing scale, there is basically nothing uncertain about something the size of a spaceship.
That's the dumbest thing I've read in a while. Basically you're saying "I know how to travel really fast, all we need to do is create some new technology that violates all the laws of physics we know already, I have no idea how it would work but I think it's possible!"
It's like saying "I know how to create free energy, we just need a machine that creates free energy"
a) Yes, magnetism has a speed, the speed of light.
b) Actually, the inverse square law makes MORE sense if gravity travels at light speed. With gravity waves and light travelling at the same speed, the strength of gravity between you and a large object moving towards or away from you would match the distance to the object that you observed. If gravity travelled at infinite speed, you would feel the effect of a large object moving toward or away from you before you saw it.
BTW, can you give 1 example of the measurement of the force of gravity between object moving at relativistic speeds?
What the article describes is not httpd pipelining, it is below the http level, not a part of tcp/ip standards, and causes problems with IE talking to non IIS sites.
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Moore's law doesn't go on forever, it'll hit the physical limits in much less than 50 years.
It could resolve them, if it had sunglasses. Hubble isn't designed to look at anything as bright as the moon, it looks at things millions of light years away and millions of times fainter. Aiming hubble at the moon would give you a solid white image and probably damage the sensors.
Hey guess what... optonline isn't capping people based on what they send, only how much. VPN isn't going to make a single bit of difference. There have been several complaints already of people being capped for uploading content to their websites or sending home videos to granny.
They block port 80. Basically they don't want you running ANY servers, not even sshd so you can connect to your own box remotely.
And they don't stop kazaa and those things by blocking ports, they have some software they've been testing that automagically lowers your upload cap to 128kbit (from 1Mbit) if you exceed some threshhold. And they won't admit it or tell anyone what the threshhold is.
What about LIVE streaming? Should the audio source encode 10 different versions at once, and send double the bandwidth to the repeaters? Bitrate peeling is a great benefit for live streaming, it will reduce the upload to a single stream and take processing power requirements away from the encoder.
How about the fact that *I* pay for my bandwidth, and they are costing me money by making me download extra popup ads? Where's my compensation for viewing them?
I'm sure this was supposed to be a joke, but everyone seems to be saying it so let me point out the obvious flaw. If magnetic recordings of any kind could be affected by the earths magnetic field switching, then you would be able to destroy them by just picking them up and turning them around.
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incoming ballistic missiles travel much slower than mach 17.
Yes, it's called terminal velocity. Anything that survives the "burning up" on reentry will survive because the atmosphere slowed it down and it stopped burning. By the time any of the shuttle debris hit the ground it wouldn't be moving any faster than if it was dropped off the roof of a tall building. For something to leave a crater it needs to be hit the atmosphere fast enough to go all the way through without being slowed significantly.
Small meteors that make it to the ground are almost always cool to the touch, because it takes a couple minutes of freefall to get to the ground once they've slowed to termincal velocity.
Because it takes ASSLOADS (pun intended) of water to cover the ski trails in artificial snow, which has a major impact on the environment. When ski resorts were getting water from snowmaking straight from local natural sources, they were lowering the watershed, draining small lakes, and in a nutshell totally f'ing the local wildlife. Many mountains now has artificial streams and lakes built in now to collect the manmade snow as it melts so it can be reused, but even this isn't a perfect solution. If filtering wastewater can give them another cheap water supply then i'm all for it.
You're right, instead of paying $250 for a tivo and $250 for a lifetime subscription, lets pay $500 for a replaytv. That's soo much better!
BTW it does more than just set your clock, it downloads listings daily and gives you software updates that add new features and improve existing ones.
If you have a hard time finding something to watch, why are you even reading a thread about tivo?
And you can do all that with tivo too, it's just less publicized. I share content between multiple tivos and have loads of shows archived on my pc. You can do more with the tivo than the replay, it's just not as user friendly.
I don't think it's uncertainty of location that allows them to have the same state, I think it's just the fact that they are moving slow enough that they can 'sync up' with each other and share the same quantum state. Throw in any heat and they start bouncing around too much to remain close together.
Think of it this way... take to pieces that interlock, like a set of gears, and bring them together while they are rotating rapidly, they will just bounce apart. Bring them together while they are moving slowly and they can fall into place and mesh together.
I don't think the uncertainty principle is anything more than a consequence of measurement, not of reality. A particle can have a definte velocity AND position, we just can't measure one without changing the other (because the only way to measure either is to bounce photons off it).
Just my theory, could be wrong (and probably is!)
Posted that last one anonymous since i was at a different pc...
I don't think you understand the uncertainty principle correctly. The uncertainty principle doesn't allow you to "rotate" values like you are describing. The uncertainty principle just states that you can't measure one value without disturbing the others, and the smaller the object you are trying to measure the greater the uncertainty effect. For example uncertainty does not mean that by measuring the position of a particle the velocity becomes undefined, it just means that measuring the position will affect the velocity such that the original velocity can't be measured. And uncertainty diminishes VERY rapidly with increasing scale, there is basically nothing uncertain about something the size of a spaceship.
Well since you said "This has not been noted in any observations" I would have to say an observational measurement.
That's the dumbest thing I've read in a while. Basically you're saying "I know how to travel really fast, all we need to do is create some new technology that violates all the laws of physics we know already, I have no idea how it would work but I think it's possible!"
It's like saying "I know how to create free energy, we just need a machine that creates free energy"
a) Yes, magnetism has a speed, the speed of light.
b) Actually, the inverse square law makes MORE sense if gravity travels at light speed. With gravity waves and light travelling at the same speed, the strength of gravity between you and a large object moving towards or away from you would match the distance to the object that you observed. If gravity travelled at infinite speed, you would feel the effect of a large object moving toward or away from you before you saw it.
BTW, can you give 1 example of the measurement of the force of gravity between object moving at relativistic speeds?
What the article describes is not httpd pipelining, it is below the http level, not a part of tcp/ip standards, and causes problems with IE talking to non IIS sites.
Moore's law doesn't go on forever, it'll hit the physical limits in much less than 50 years.
It already exists, although not run by nasa.
It could resolve them, if it had sunglasses. Hubble isn't designed to look at anything as bright as the moon, it looks at things millions of light years away and millions of times fainter. Aiming hubble at the moon would give you a solid white image and probably damage the sensors.
Really? How do they cool them now in orbit? Are you saying all spacewalks are faked?
Hmmm. Nope. They don't advertise the ability to upload to p2p networks anywhere.
Hey guess what... optonline isn't capping people based on what they send, only how much. VPN isn't going to make a single bit of difference. There have been several complaints already of people being capped for uploading content to their websites or sending home videos to granny.
They block port 80. Basically they don't want you running ANY servers, not even sshd so you can connect to your own box remotely.
And they don't stop kazaa and those things by blocking ports, they have some software they've been testing that automagically lowers your upload cap to 128kbit (from 1Mbit) if you exceed some threshhold. And they won't admit it or tell anyone what the threshhold is.
And they still can, it'll just be 1/100 the speed of what we have now.
What about LIVE streaming? Should the audio source encode 10 different versions at once, and send double the bandwidth to the repeaters? Bitrate peeling is a great benefit for live streaming, it will reduce the upload to a single stream and take processing power requirements away from the encoder.
How about the fact that *I* pay for my bandwidth, and they are costing me money by making me download extra popup ads? Where's my compensation for viewing them?
I'm paying $29/95/month, get 10M down 1M up, and have no limit. Had it over a year now, dunno how much longer it'll last though.
I'm sure this was supposed to be a joke, but everyone seems to be saying it so let me point out the obvious flaw. If magnetic recordings of any kind could be affected by the earths magnetic field switching, then you would be able to destroy them by just picking them up and turning them around.
The earth's spin isn't "controled" by anything other than inertia (and gravity of the moon but that's a minor effect).
It's only 100 meters across. It would have to hit earth to have any effect. It also wouldn't be visible to the naked eye at 3.6M miles.