The caps in my nick actually came about as a parody of those AOL lamers, around the time when AOL was just starting up. It's not quite as funny anymore since so many choads seriously have nicks like that, but at least I haven't gone and changed it because of what anonymous cowards might say about it.
If it was, would the galaxy be emiting light normally? I would think time flowing backwards would make very strange things happen optically. And what about the area in between, at what point do you leave "normal" time and enter "backwards time, and what heppens when you do? I would think it would be an impassible barrier to even light. Think about it, if light left normal space into space with backwards time, it would immediatly reverse direction wouldn't it? And as it came back into normal space it would reverse again. It would essentially be traped at the boundry. I can't think of a way that time could flow in a different directions in 2 parts of the universe without very strange easily observeable consequences.
Tivo doesn't need to remove it, the info isn't there in the first place. It would take alot of trouble to gather that info. They would need to find the specific upload in their ftp logs (uploads are through anonymous ftp), and then contact their dialup provider (tivo uses earthlink I think) to find out who was on that ip at the time of the upload, then lookup the tivo subscriber in their database based on the serial number of the unit that dialed up. To do this requires cooperation between tivo and the users isp, and probably a federal search warrant to get ths isp to give up its logs.
Somehow i don't think the cable will be water soluble. It would be trivial to pick up the remaining piece that landed in the water, just grab and end and reel it in.
That is so unrealistic it's not even funny. The cable will be at most a few meters wide at it's widest point. And most of it would burn up on reentry if the counterweight were destroyed. Even if the entire mass of the cable (sans counterweight) somehow fell in one piece and wrapped around the earth several times, it would only cause a path of damage a few meters wide (and most of that damage would be negligible, think about how something flat, wide, and very lightweight falls). I would imagine the terminal velocity of the cable would be quite slow. Similar to a piece of cardboard.
Oh not to mention that it would take quite a while to fall, and the population along the equator (which is mostly ocean) is very light. With a little warning, you could stand outside and watch it fall, and step out of the way if it was coming towards you. It would fall that slow.
The hear sheild isn't really for getting into space. It's for getting back. And the only way to not generate this heat on the way back is a powered descent, which would cost a hell of a lot more than heat shields, especially considering the extra launch weight of all that fuel fo rhte descent.
The ARMOR, just like current thermal tiles, is modular and easy to replace. What they are trying to do here isn't make an indestructable heat sheild, they are trying to make one that works better than the current one and is faster and cheaper to maintain.
It won't be travelling nearly that fast when it hits the ground. Terminal velocity is much lower. There is at least 1 case of someone being hit by a meteor and surviving with only a bruise.
Actually, a chunk won't have much more energy than if it was dropped from a tall building, nor will it be flaming. It would certainly do damage to whatever it hits, but it's not catastrophic. After the initial burning up in the atmosphere, anything surviving will quickly decelerate to terminal velocity, and will also be cooled by the atmosphere. Small meteorites do the same thing, they hit the ground relativly slow and are cool to the touch immediatly.
No, I was saying the input looks like a sine wave, and the output looks like a cosine. The peaks of the sine wave get to the output ahead of where they should be.
I forgot to mention how this IS important. What this type of research will lead to is reduced latency. Instead of information traveling down a cable at 2/3 of the speed of light, they can use methods like this to send data at much closer to the speed of light. Not more data, but slightly lower ping times.
This actually has nothing to do with bandwidth, nor will it make ftl communications possible. Think of it this way. Put in a sine wave, and it shifts it 90 degrees out of phase. So when the leading edge of the wave hits the other end, it makes it a peak, and when the peak gets there, it is at the trough of the output. It looks like the peak got to the output faster than light, but in reality it was just the leading edge of the wave being amplified.
Radioactive plasma wouldn't melt a big hole in the ground. It probably wouldn't even burn down the building. In the event of a containment loss, fusion will stop instantly. Hot plasma coming into contact will cold air outside the chamber would quickly cool, all you would need is a nice ventilation system.
What he was saying is that your browser will run a javascript that will send the ip that your browser is running on to the server. That is NOT translated by nat.
Yes but anything using that electricity produces heat. Make electricity free and its use will skyrocket, homes and businesses will pump out heat at rates that will make the greenhouse effect look like someone farted.
My genius ISP, optimum online, decided that blocking INCOMING connections to port 25 would stop spam. So now I have to point my MX to another machine that forwards to mine on another port to get around this, in the meantime they do nothing to stop someone from sending all the spam they want from their network. I can still send mail just fine from my domains (and any I wanted to spoof, if I was a spammer). Genius.
Think of it this way. If you understand the process of how hawking radiation works, you should see how this makes sense...
The initial event horizon is formed as the density of matter passes the point where nuclear forces can no longer hold neutrons apart from each other. Under this kind of intense pressure, there is no empty space around the initial event horizon for hawking radiation to have any effect. If spontaneous pair generation can even occur with such a huge density of matter there, the particles generated would have no room for one of them to escape as hawking radiation, they would all be swept up in the infalling matter, and the event horizon would be growing so fast that it would almost instantly reach a size where it would take a relativly large amount of time to evaporate through hawking radiation.
This is just a hunch, I dont even know where to start on the math, but I think that while the event horizon is still inside the collapsing star, it would be expanding outward at near the speed of light in a vacuum, while any hawking radiation would be limited to the speed of light in the infalling matter, which would be quite slow due to the huge density.
I think you missed the point on why these might form in the first place. The theory is that when enough mass is compressed into a small enough volume, space itself oges through a kind of "hase change" into a new form that exerts outward pressure on the mass in it. This is what keeps pushes outward making it form a shell. I don't know what the based this theory on, but it seems to me that adding more mass would increase the outward pressure, making the shell's radius larger. That way, there would be no limit on how much you could add without it collapsing, it would just get bigger. It may sound strange, but no stranger than the "cosmological constant" that is accelerating the expansion of the universe. We have no idea what that is, but it's been fairly well proven to exist.
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Not me, but if I were a cartoon I'd bang Amy.
But it's just one more component that could be a very useful thing to have when we start using nanotech and mems on a larger scale.
The caps in my nick actually came about as a parody of those AOL lamers, around the time when AOL was just starting up. It's not quite as funny anymore since so many choads seriously have nicks like that, but at least I haven't gone and changed it because of what anonymous cowards might say about it.
Nobody, the rest of us who actually read are thinking brave new world.
If it was, would the galaxy be emiting light normally? I would think time flowing backwards would make very strange things happen optically. And what about the area in between, at what point do you leave "normal" time and enter "backwards time, and what heppens when you do? I would think it would be an impassible barrier to even light. Think about it, if light left normal space into space with backwards time, it would immediatly reverse direction wouldn't it? And as it came back into normal space it would reverse again. It would essentially be traped at the boundry. I can't think of a way that time could flow in a different directions in 2 parts of the universe without very strange easily observeable consequences.
Maybe if you cold see it, you'd be motivated to open it every now and then and clear out the dust before it's 3" thick.
The govt didn't say popular. The govt just released numbers, hemos made up the stupid title.
Tivo doesn't need to remove it, the info isn't there in the first place. It would take alot of trouble to gather that info. They would need to find the specific upload in their ftp logs (uploads are through anonymous ftp), and then contact their dialup provider (tivo uses earthlink I think) to find out who was on that ip at the time of the upload, then lookup the tivo subscriber in their database based on the serial number of the unit that dialed up. To do this requires cooperation between tivo and the users isp, and probably a federal search warrant to get ths isp to give up its logs.
Somehow i don't think the cable will be water soluble. It would be trivial to pick up the remaining piece that landed in the water, just grab and end and reel it in.
That is so unrealistic it's not even funny. The cable will be at most a few meters wide at it's widest point. And most of it would burn up on reentry if the counterweight were destroyed. Even if the entire mass of the cable (sans counterweight) somehow fell in one piece and wrapped around the earth several times, it would only cause a path of damage a few meters wide (and most of that damage would be negligible, think about how something flat, wide, and very lightweight falls). I would imagine the terminal velocity of the cable would be quite slow. Similar to a piece of cardboard.
Oh not to mention that it would take quite a while to fall, and the population along the equator (which is mostly ocean) is very light. With a little warning, you could stand outside and watch it fall, and step out of the way if it was coming towards you. It would fall that slow.
The hear sheild isn't really for getting into space. It's for getting back. And the only way to not generate this heat on the way back is a powered descent, which would cost a hell of a lot more than heat shields, especially considering the extra launch weight of all that fuel fo rhte descent.
The ARMOR, just like current thermal tiles, is modular and easy to replace. What they are trying to do here isn't make an indestructable heat sheild, they are trying to make one that works better than the current one and is faster and cheaper to maintain.
It won't be travelling nearly that fast when it hits the ground. Terminal velocity is much lower. There is at least 1 case of someone being hit by a meteor and surviving with only a bruise.
Actually, a chunk won't have much more energy than if it was dropped from a tall building, nor will it be flaming. It would certainly do damage to whatever it hits, but it's not catastrophic. After the initial burning up in the atmosphere, anything surviving will quickly decelerate to terminal velocity, and will also be cooled by the atmosphere. Small meteorites do the same thing, they hit the ground relativly slow and are cool to the touch immediatly.
No, I was saying the input looks like a sine wave, and the output looks like a cosine. The peaks of the sine wave get to the output ahead of where they should be.
I forgot to mention how this IS important. What this type of research will lead to is reduced latency. Instead of information traveling down a cable at 2/3 of the speed of light, they can use methods like this to send data at much closer to the speed of light. Not more data, but slightly lower ping times.
This actually has nothing to do with bandwidth, nor will it make ftl communications possible. Think of it this way. Put in a sine wave, and it shifts it 90 degrees out of phase. So when the leading edge of the wave hits the other end, it makes it a peak, and when the peak gets there, it is at the trough of the output. It looks like the peak got to the output faster than light, but in reality it was just the leading edge of the wave being amplified.
Radioactive plasma wouldn't melt a big hole in the ground. It probably wouldn't even burn down the building. In the event of a containment loss, fusion will stop instantly. Hot plasma coming into contact will cold air outside the chamber would quickly cool, all you would need is a nice ventilation system.
What he was saying is that your browser will run a javascript that will send the ip that your browser is running on to the server. That is NOT translated by nat.
Yes but anything using that electricity produces heat. Make electricity free and its use will skyrocket, homes and businesses will pump out heat at rates that will make the greenhouse effect look like someone farted.
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My genius ISP, optimum online, decided that blocking INCOMING connections to port 25 would stop spam. So now I have to point my MX to another machine that forwards to mine on another port to get around this, in the meantime they do nothing to stop someone from sending all the spam they want from their network. I can still send mail just fine from my domains (and any I wanted to spoof, if I was a spammer). Genius.
Think of it this way. If you understand the process of how hawking radiation works, you should see how this makes sense...
The initial event horizon is formed as the density of matter passes the point where nuclear forces can no longer hold neutrons apart from each other. Under this kind of intense pressure, there is no empty space around the initial event horizon for hawking radiation to have any effect. If spontaneous pair generation can even occur with such a huge density of matter there, the particles generated would have no room for one of them to escape as hawking radiation, they would all be swept up in the infalling matter, and the event horizon would be growing so fast that it would almost instantly reach a size where it would take a relativly large amount of time to evaporate through hawking radiation.
This is just a hunch, I dont even know where to start on the math, but I think that while the event horizon is still inside the collapsing star, it would be expanding outward at near the speed of light in a vacuum, while any hawking radiation would be limited to the speed of light in the infalling matter, which would be quite slow due to the huge density.
I think you missed the point on why these might form in the first place. The theory is that when enough mass is compressed into a small enough volume, space itself oges through a kind of "hase change" into a new form that exerts outward pressure on the mass in it. This is what keeps pushes outward making it form a shell. I don't know what the based this theory on, but it seems to me that adding more mass would increase the outward pressure, making the shell's radius larger. That way, there would be no limit on how much you could add without it collapsing, it would just get bigger. It may sound strange, but no stranger than the "cosmological constant" that is accelerating the expansion of the universe. We have no idea what that is, but it's been fairly well proven to exist.
His immortality device didn't prevent accidental death, just aging and illness. Still a giant load of crap, but not really a contradiction.