One of the important things about his habitats is that they're slated to be at least as tough as the ISS/MIR. And at the lower cost, you can more afford to 'discard' a module if it becomes damaged.
Remember: The most dangerous parts are launch and reentry. Go with a inexpensive Soyuz style re-entry capsule, along with a relativly simple & dependable rocket for launching, and you should be just fine.*
*Risks no higher than being a race-car driving skateboarding rockclimbing base-jumper
And why wouldn't the american companies have a computerized milling machine? Come to think of it, Germany's workers are on the average more skilled, but american companies are more set up for massive amounts of production.
The american aerospace industry is so used to fat margins and unlimited budgets that in many ways they're 'fat and lazy'. This happens when compition doesn't exist.
Actually, the last thing you want to do when playing with large amounts of water and current is to ground yourself. It gives the current a path through you to ground.
Matter of fact, I've read that most fatal electricutions occur when the person tries to lift the appliance out of the water...
Actually, I've read that the truly rich had always paid about the same percentage in taxes no matter what the 'top bracket' was. It was just that as the tax rate increased they started meeting with lawyers and accountants more for avoiding taxes than working.
You'll also free up labor for usage in other things. More nursing care, maybe. More labor will be made available for industry as a whole, maybe allowing a new field that previously couldn't get workers to open up, providing new services, raising the standard of living.
That's why I noted that you could have either hung on a little and bought what they advertised at a good deal, or sued. I just didn't point out the Bait&Switch, as I don't know if they went far enough for you to get them for it in your jurisdiction (which varies widely in the USA, let alone in English speaking countries to the world).
Sometimes purchasing off the internet isn't a great option either.
For alot of things, I want to see the item, and I'd have to wait 3 days to get it (I know, impatient me). I've also had internet sales people call me to push the service plan, so they can be annoying too. Another thing is that I've gotten the wrong item quite a few times. At least with a brick and morter store you know you got what you wanted, and if it turns out to be broken when you get home, you can just go back and get it replaced (as long as they had more than one).
Cell phone company. If you went with two loss-leaders, including the plan, they aren't going to be making any money off from you for years.
In many places loss-leaders aren't to build 'customer loyalty', it's to get people into the store in the hopes that they'll buy other stuff. For example, I have a coupon that lets me get a free loaf of bread each week at the grocery store. While I'm there, do I just get the free bread, or do I buy other stuff?
Most plans I've seen for one of these involves starting construction on a second using materials lifted by the first.
Makes sense, as the second one would cost 1/100 of the first, doubling your capacity and reducing the chance of a breakage making you lift replacement materials by the expensive method again...
Simple enough to fix, you set the center of mass of the system, unloaded, to be slightly outside of geosync. That means that the system wants to fly off, but you keep running mass up to counteract the effect. If you don't want to run something up at the moment, you simply tie the tether down with a mass at the bottom, such as the oil type platform they propose.
About five years ago I was shopping for a laptop, saw one that looked good in an office supply store and was talking to a rep, who tried pushing a PSP that ran over 50% of the price of a 1k$ laptop. I was stretching my funds just to be able to afford that laptop. I ended up walking out and over to another store and picking up a virtually identical model at the same price without the hassle. I later called the store and complained, telling them that they had lost the sale due to their pushiness.
Well, if you managed to select a couple of loss leaders, where the company loses money selling them, the associate would be helping the company by not selling it to you without a fight. Now, you could probably sue over this, or if you'd stuck to your guns gotten a really good deal.
Despite any propaganda you're being fed, the US Military as a rule does not deliberately target civilians.
This does not mean that civilians are not hit, especially when you're using artillery and or bombs. The geneva conventions specifically allow this collateral damage, as well as directly targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure which is engaged in 'assisting the military'. Another problem in the area is that our enemies are not nice enough to wear uniforms, so like the video of the man who's shot while trying to use an RPG, if you remove the RPG, you could argue 'civilian death!'. Recovery of arms is a big thing over there, both for the political value and the value of the weapons.
In this you'd have a better argument about having the USAF hitting civilians, as a 2000 pound bomb is much less discriminatory than a M-16.
I'm not so worried about the fusion reaction being drowned, as I am about some other things.
It looks like a toned down sun. That close it should be blinding unless blocked by some sort of filter
It's not stopped by all the iron that gets sucked in. From what I remember, Iron is the heaviest element you can make by fusion and still get energy. So it's a kind of lowest energy thing, you can't make energy fusing or fissioning it.
No steam when drowned by water. The first one was generating "megawatts". The second was even larger. Where's the steam?
No No, Spider-man is correct. These terms are big-endian. The first word, "Spider", is a modifier to the second, "Man". So he's more Man than Spider.
Like "Wolf-Man", "Bat-Man" (contains 0% bat!), and "Aqua-Man" (little extra water compared to a normal man). Note, that there was a "Man-Bat", which showed many more bat characteristics than "Bat-Man", to the point that the creature displayed more qualities of a bat than a man.
And point two: These systems will be at least as armoured as the AI's are, as well as being set up so that a burn-out will result in a non-functional system, rather than a short bypassing the system.
Still, if I was a super-villian looking at questioning a normal for information, throwing a car in their general direction wouldn't be the first thing I'd do.
Also-Doc Oc throws Peter into a brick wall hard enough to shatter it. This is after threatening Peter with a 'You'll find Spider-man and have him meet me'. Unless in the Spider-man universe humans are tougher or brick is weaker, this is a bad idea for the Doc to do. Putting your gopher into the hospital or morgue wouldn't generally help their passing a message to somebody. Now I'll admit Doc wasn't firing on all cylinders at the time, but still....
They wouldn't open, it would just be that they can't operate the garage doors by remote. Jamming involves sending 'noise' of a high enough amplitude and variance that the electronics can't 'see' the proper signal.
But they're talking about coating the components that are shorted by the whiskers, not the source of the whiskers. So you get a condition where the whiskers can pile up all they want, and as long as they don't pile up so much that they interfere with airflow, they won't do a thing.
As for delaying/stopping whisker production, I guess it depends on what and how thick you coat something with. A 40mm coat of pretty much anything would certainly delay any relase for a good long time, 40+ years if the growth is 1mm/year.
Most of the world is no longer vaccinated. The USA stopped vaccinating in the 1970's for the most part, and the rest of the world lagged maybe into the 1980's. I was briefed that the vaccine is only good for ~20-30 years. This means that effectivly the world is wide open for smallpox now. As for your kids being vaccinated, are you sure? Are you thinking of smallpox, or polio?
They're terrorists because they concentrate on going after non-military, non-governmental targets like elementary schools, schoolbuses, random clubs and restraunts.
Because if 1 nuke is set off, as long as I'm not around it, I'm pretty safe. And scream what you like about radiation, it's controllable, just like poisons, industrial accidents and such.
If somebody lets loose with even a suitcase full of a unlimited bio-weapon. Anthrax is popular just because it is limited. Highly fatal, but humans are largly non-infectious for it.
Ever read about the black plagues? Something like a third to a half of the population died from them.
Take a disease as contagious as the common cold, those infected become contagious within 24 hours, and ~72 hours from infection before symptoms show. 90-95% death rate. Heck, even 50%. Figure out the total number of deaths. I'd have more to worry about with the bio-weapon than the nuke. Even living in a small town wouldn't protect me.
1: The USSR had stocks of artificially enhanced virus, designed to bypass the vaccine. Like how immunity to one flu strain doesn't work for others. 2: Smallpox vaccine is considered effective for only ~20 years. So except for certain health workers and the military, effectivly nobody in the USA, Europe, and most of the rest of the world are immune. 3: They didn't just load up with smallpox. Imagine trying to deal with a plague, pneumonia, smallpox, and polio pandemic all at the same time. Death rate would exceed 10% very easily.
Well how about this. I'm active duty. I watch the news. I get to hear about my brothers dying in Iraq and occasionally Afganistan. Is it worth it? I believe so. I believe that George Bush Senior should have deposed Saddam Hussein from the beginning. Remember, this is coming from somebody who in all probability will end up serving in Iraq, has served in the region, with all attendant risks.
Modern war cannot be fought at home without paying a far higher price.
That being said, on the subject of re-purposing ICBM's to launch satellites, I think it's a great usage of resources. With the ending of the cold war, they don't need the numbers, huge capacity and range of these types of missiles. Might as well make back some of the investment put into building them!
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One of the important things about his habitats is that they're slated to be at least as tough as the ISS/MIR. And at the lower cost, you can more afford to 'discard' a module if it becomes damaged.
Remember: The most dangerous parts are launch and reentry. Go with a inexpensive Soyuz style re-entry capsule, along with a relativly simple & dependable rocket for launching, and you should be just fine.*
*Risks no higher than being a race-car driving skateboarding rockclimbing base-jumper
And why wouldn't the american companies have a computerized milling machine? Come to think of it, Germany's workers are on the average more skilled, but american companies are more set up for massive amounts of production.
The american aerospace industry is so used to fat margins and unlimited budgets that in many ways they're 'fat and lazy'. This happens when compition doesn't exist.
Actually, the last thing you want to do when playing with large amounts of water and current is to ground yourself. It gives the current a path through you to ground.
Matter of fact, I've read that most fatal electricutions occur when the person tries to lift the appliance out of the water...
Actually, I've read that the truly rich had always paid about the same percentage in taxes no matter what the 'top bracket' was. It was just that as the tax rate increased they started meeting with lawyers and accountants more for avoiding taxes than working.
You'll also free up labor for usage in other things. More nursing care, maybe. More labor will be made available for industry as a whole, maybe allowing a new field that previously couldn't get workers to open up, providing new services, raising the standard of living.
That's why I noted that you could have either hung on a little and bought what they advertised at a good deal, or sued. I just didn't point out the Bait&Switch, as I don't know if they went far enough for you to get them for it in your jurisdiction (which varies widely in the USA, let alone in English speaking countries to the world).
Sometimes purchasing off the internet isn't a great option either.
For alot of things, I want to see the item, and I'd have to wait 3 days to get it (I know, impatient me). I've also had internet sales people call me to push the service plan, so they can be annoying too. Another thing is that I've gotten the wrong item quite a few times. At least with a brick and morter store you know you got what you wanted, and if it turns out to be broken when you get home, you can just go back and get it replaced (as long as they had more than one).
Most plans I've seen for one of these involves starting construction on a second using materials lifted by the first.
Makes sense, as the second one would cost 1/100 of the first, doubling your capacity and reducing the chance of a breakage making you lift replacement materials by the expensive method again...
Simple enough to fix, you set the center of mass of the system, unloaded, to be slightly outside of geosync. That means that the system wants to fly off, but you keep running mass up to counteract the effect. If you don't want to run something up at the moment, you simply tie the tether down with a mass at the bottom, such as the oil type platform they propose.
About five years ago I was shopping for a laptop, saw one that looked good in an office supply store and was talking to a rep, who tried pushing a PSP that ran over 50% of the price of a 1k$ laptop. I was stretching my funds just to be able to afford that laptop. I ended up walking out and over to another store and picking up a virtually identical model at the same price without the hassle. I later called the store and complained, telling them that they had lost the sale due to their pushiness.
Well, if you managed to select a couple of loss leaders, where the company loses money selling them, the associate would be helping the company by not selling it to you without a fight. Now, you could probably sue over this, or if you'd stuck to your guns gotten a really good deal.
Despite any propaganda you're being fed, the US Military as a rule does not deliberately target civilians.
This does not mean that civilians are not hit, especially when you're using artillery and or bombs. The geneva conventions specifically allow this collateral damage, as well as directly targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure which is engaged in 'assisting the military'. Another problem in the area is that our enemies are not nice enough to wear uniforms, so like the video of the man who's shot while trying to use an RPG, if you remove the RPG, you could argue 'civilian death!'. Recovery of arms is a big thing over there, both for the political value and the value of the weapons.
In this you'd have a better argument about having the USAF hitting civilians, as a 2000 pound bomb is much less discriminatory than a M-16.
Well, if he's willing to live with 1/4 the brightness of it new...
No No, Spider-man is correct. These terms are big-endian. The first word, "Spider", is a modifier to the second, "Man". So he's more Man than Spider.
Like "Wolf-Man", "Bat-Man" (contains 0% bat!), and "Aqua-Man" (little extra water compared to a normal man).
Note, that there was a "Man-Bat", which showed many more bat characteristics than "Bat-Man", to the point that the creature displayed more qualities of a bat than a man.
And point two: These systems will be at least as armoured as the AI's are, as well as being set up so that a burn-out will result in a non-functional system, rather than a short bypassing the system.
Still, if I was a super-villian looking at questioning a normal for information, throwing a car in their general direction wouldn't be the first thing I'd do.
Also-Doc Oc throws Peter into a brick wall hard enough to shatter it. This is after threatening Peter with a 'You'll find Spider-man and have him meet me'. Unless in the Spider-man universe humans are tougher or brick is weaker, this is a bad idea for the Doc to do. Putting your gopher into the hospital or morgue wouldn't generally help their passing a message to somebody. Now I'll admit Doc wasn't firing on all cylinders at the time, but still....
They wouldn't open, it would just be that they can't operate the garage doors by remote. Jamming involves sending 'noise' of a high enough amplitude and variance that the electronics can't 'see' the proper signal.
But they're talking about coating the components that are shorted by the whiskers, not the source of the whiskers. So you get a condition where the whiskers can pile up all they want, and as long as they don't pile up so much that they interfere with airflow, they won't do a thing.
As for delaying/stopping whisker production, I guess it depends on what and how thick you coat something with. A 40mm coat of pretty much anything would certainly delay any relase for a good long time, 40+ years if the growth is 1mm/year.
Most of the world is no longer vaccinated. The USA stopped vaccinating in the 1970's for the most part, and the rest of the world lagged maybe into the 1980's. I was briefed that the vaccine is only good for ~20-30 years. This means that effectivly the world is wide open for smallpox now. As for your kids being vaccinated, are you sure? Are you thinking of smallpox, or polio?
They're terrorists because they concentrate on going after non-military, non-governmental targets like elementary schools, schoolbuses, random clubs and restraunts.
Because if 1 nuke is set off, as long as I'm not around it, I'm pretty safe. And scream what you like about radiation, it's controllable, just like poisons, industrial accidents and such.
If somebody lets loose with even a suitcase full of a unlimited bio-weapon. Anthrax is popular just because it is limited. Highly fatal, but humans are largly non-infectious for it.
Ever read about the black plagues? Something like a third to a half of the population died from them.
Take a disease as contagious as the common cold, those infected become contagious within 24 hours, and ~72 hours from infection before symptoms show. 90-95% death rate. Heck, even 50%. Figure out the total number of deaths. I'd have more to worry about with the bio-weapon than the nuke. Even living in a small town wouldn't protect me.
1: The USSR had stocks of artificially enhanced virus, designed to bypass the vaccine. Like how immunity to one flu strain doesn't work for others.
2: Smallpox vaccine is considered effective for only ~20 years. So except for certain health workers and the military, effectivly nobody in the USA, Europe, and most of the rest of the world are immune.
3: They didn't just load up with smallpox. Imagine trying to deal with a plague, pneumonia, smallpox, and polio pandemic all at the same time. Death rate would exceed 10% very easily.
Well how about this. I'm active duty. I watch the news. I get to hear about my brothers dying in Iraq and occasionally Afganistan. Is it worth it? I believe so. I believe that George Bush Senior should have deposed Saddam Hussein from the beginning. Remember, this is coming from somebody who in all probability will end up serving in Iraq, has served in the region, with all attendant risks.
Modern war cannot be fought at home without paying a far higher price.
That being said, on the subject of re-purposing ICBM's to launch satellites, I think it's a great usage of resources. With the ending of the cold war, they don't need the numbers, huge capacity and range of these types of missiles. Might as well make back some of the investment put into building them!