Your freedom to swing your fist wildly about ends at my face.
While I do not approve of the intrusive spying the NSA does there is a good reason to use laws to limit the constitution. You may have the right to bear arms and wear masks, that doesn't mean you should be allowed to walk into a bank with a few friends, all with masks on and AK-47's in your hands. The world is made of area's of gray. Navigating those grey area's requires a lot of judgement calls. On a government scale you must cross that with incompetence and malice, for both will be present in your workforce. That means the way of the judgement calls is highly flawed.
There is nothing OK about releasing materials that cause cancer, failed pregnancies, introduces transgenic disease by altering the genome of life itself in all species including humans.
Yes I agree, we should stop with coal. Nuclear releases less radioactive waste into the environment.
That's because the power is generated as close the user as possible. Only the balance is transmitted through long cables, and then even at high voltage to prevent losses.
Ports mean entry points for water and dust, crappy covers or expensive ports. Phones need to be waterproof IMHO. They get wet during an unexpected rain while commuting by bike, so they better be able to handle water. Data transfer via IEEE 802.11ac (theoretical 500 Mbit/s) is plenty fast for most cases. It's a phone, not a fileserver. For DisplayPort: there are a couple of companies quite busy with wireless HDMI. It would require another antenna and an additional chip, but that's where it's going.
For charging the protocol has been extended to 2100 mA @ 4.8V (approx 10 watt). That's what a standard USB wall wart delivers nowadays. A standard USB host is not suitable to charge a tablet from. That would only slow the power usage down (when the tablet is in full use)
That depends on 5 main factors: air density (depends on altitude) aerodynamic shape of the object Frontal surface of the object Mass of the object The gravitational acceleration on Mars (approx 4 m/s^2)
If I assume the air pressure of 1% of earth means that the density is also 1% then: p=0.1225 kg/m3. If I assume a C of 1 (approximately a man facing the planet, see here for more common C's), an A of 1m^2 and a m of 100kg
Then I get a terminal velocity of 82 m/s (or approx 300 km/u), if you drop down flat. For earth that is approximately 145 km/h. For 300 you have to go face down (lower C and lower A).
The quiet bloke may have a legitimate reason. His neighbors may be bigoted to the extent that he may not survive the year if he comes out of the closet. (While that is an effective method to get those bigoted idiots in jail, I would not consider it a valuable one.)
The driverless car will check conditions and adjust accordingly. Not all humans seem to do that. Also, the owner of a driverless car can just command it to get some winter tires while the owner is at work. Then it doesn't cost the owner any time. Thus the blizzard/sleeping issue is also a non-issue. The car will drive, but with speed and distance to other cars adjusted to match the conditions. You know, just like most human drivers do.
Why do you want to be on a snow covered road in January with cars around you that are being driven by some twenty-somethings with the standard overconfidence and thrill seeking that comes with that age group? I would prefer driverless cars over many human drivers nowadays. Especially in snowy conditions. I have had a tailgater while there was 20 cm snow. Winter tires are still uncommon here because it doesn't snow that much so (s)he probably didn't have those.
Nope. The photons are emitted in all directions. The photons that hit us are just not the photons that happened to be emitted straight at us (originally) . They are the photons that happened to hit us after they went through all these gravitational lenses after they were emitted. They are from another part of the surface of the supernova and were originally emitted in another direction. But all these effects are minute. If they do not pass close to a great mass the angle difference is not measurable with modern telescopes. However, the detours mean that their path is 4 light hours longer over a total trip length of 168000 light years. Which is only a minute part of the trip. We can only measure it because the neutrinos arrived before that (no detours).
They are sometimes pulled faster, sometimes pulled slower. Most likely these effects are just about equal. The delay is from the pair being pulled up, down, left and right. That makes for a longer path. The effect is minute, because most of the time even the main gravitational pull is really really small (there isn't much of anything between galaxies). Think "not even a millionth of what we often call "zero gravity" such as in the ISS". However, over a distance of 168000 light years even these minute detours add up to a detour of 4 light hours.
If they are wise than that is NOT what they'll do. If it is a scam and word gets around that they didn't care then the income from Kickstarter would stop quite fast. Even if they don't care for the platform itself but only the revenue stream from it they should actively block scams.
They meant Europe (in Dutch: Europa). Small typo, happens to everybody. Europe does have an atmosphere. To save on launch cost they'll bring the cubesat by plane. The rest of the 1 billion is beer and pizza money.
Warning: When stopping in these things they tilt forward. A car behind you will not stop as fast and could slide under it. When you have stopped you will fall back, crushing the car and the driver.
The problem is heat. There are integrated solar panels, mounted in insulation and all. Most of the solar energy gets turned to heat instead of electricity. The insulated panels do not allow airflow behind the panels so the panels overheat in the summer, damaging the panels, decreasing their efficiency A while back there was a batch of crappy panel controllers that actually caught fire. A normal, tiled, roof can reach temperatures well over 100 C (212F) on a sunny day. Solar panels need to be able to shed that heat, both on the sunny side and the back side, in order to stay functional.
Here most cities welcome no-smog cars so they cooperate with anyone who wants to have an electric car. Often if you buy an electric car (and have no driveway or somesuch to park it) the city will restrict a parking spot right in front of your house to electric only and allow the charger installing company to rip up the sidewalk to install the thing. In some cases they even pay for the electricity.
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That would help against CO2 pollution [/tongue_in_cheek]
Your freedom to swing your fist wildly about ends at my face.
While I do not approve of the intrusive spying the NSA does there is a good reason to use laws to limit the constitution. You may have the right to bear arms and wear masks, that doesn't mean you should be allowed to walk into a bank with a few friends, all with masks on and AK-47's in your hands.
The world is made of area's of gray. Navigating those grey area's requires a lot of judgement calls. On a government scale you must cross that with incompetence and malice, for both will be present in your workforce. That means the way of the judgement calls is highly flawed.
On hot, windless days of summer, when demand peaks for air conditioning, the back-ups kick-in for the useless wind turbines.
Nope, that's when solar is at it's peak power.
store hydro power
Hydro power is stored. You open the gates when you need power, you (mostly) close them when you don't need power.
There is nothing OK about releasing materials that cause cancer, failed pregnancies, introduces transgenic disease by altering the genome of life itself in all species including humans.
Yes I agree, we should stop with coal. Nuclear releases less radioactive waste into the environment.
That's because the power is generated as close the user as possible. Only the balance is transmitted through long cables, and then even at high voltage to prevent losses.
You might get some erroneous readings from frustration and anger.
I'd expect a simple course on body language to be more effective for most users.
If I lose a leg I want a cover that makes it look like a machine gun, separate from the one for daily use.
I want a GAU-8A Avenger (scaled to fit)!
"Well, you bastard, they you shouldn't have assigned that IRQ to two devices. Don't you keep a list?"
Yeah that time was "fun".
Ports mean entry points for water and dust, crappy covers or expensive ports.
Phones need to be waterproof IMHO. They get wet during an unexpected rain while commuting by bike, so they better be able to handle water.
Data transfer via IEEE 802.11ac (theoretical 500 Mbit/s) is plenty fast for most cases. It's a phone, not a fileserver.
For DisplayPort: there are a couple of companies quite busy with wireless HDMI. It would require another antenna and an additional chip, but that's where it's going.
For charging the protocol has been extended to 2100 mA @ 4.8V (approx 10 watt). That's what a standard USB wall wart delivers nowadays.
A standard USB host is not suitable to charge a tablet from. That would only slow the power usage down (when the tablet is in full use)
That depends on 5 main factors:
air density (depends on altitude)
aerodynamic shape of the object
Frontal surface of the object
Mass of the object
The gravitational acceleration on Mars (approx 4 m/s^2)
If I assume the air pressure of 1% of earth means that the density is also 1% then:
p=0.1225 kg/m3.
If I assume a C of 1 (approximately a man facing the planet, see here for more common C's), an A of 1m^2 and a m of 100kg
Plug all that in a calculator like this one.
Then I get a terminal velocity of 82 m/s (or approx 300 km/u), if you drop down flat.
For earth that is approximately 145 km/h. For 300 you have to go face down (lower C and lower A).
The quiet bloke may have a legitimate reason. His neighbors may be bigoted to the extent that he may not survive the year if he comes out of the closet.
(While that is an effective method to get those bigoted idiots in jail, I would not consider it a valuable one.)
Full disclosure is not always the answer.
The driverless car will check conditions and adjust accordingly. Not all humans seem to do that.
Also, the owner of a driverless car can just command it to get some winter tires while the owner is at work. Then it doesn't cost the owner any time.
Thus the blizzard/sleeping issue is also a non-issue. The car will drive, but with speed and distance to other cars adjusted to match the conditions. You know, just like most human drivers do.
A well setup lab would allow for the technician to work on a phone inside a faraday cage.
Time is a nonlinear wibbly wobbly mess.
Why do you want to be on a snow covered road in January with cars around you that are being driven by some twenty-somethings with the standard overconfidence and thrill seeking that comes with that age group?
I would prefer driverless cars over many human drivers nowadays. Especially in snowy conditions. I have had a tailgater while there was 20 cm snow. Winter tires are still uncommon here because it doesn't snow that much so (s)he probably didn't have those.
Nope. The photons are emitted in all directions. The photons that hit us are just not the photons that happened to be emitted straight at us (originally) . They are the photons that happened to hit us after they went through all these gravitational lenses after they were emitted.
They are from another part of the surface of the supernova and were originally emitted in another direction.
But all these effects are minute. If they do not pass close to a great mass the angle difference is not measurable with modern telescopes. However, the detours mean that their path is 4 light hours longer over a total trip length of 168000 light years. Which is only a minute part of the trip.
We can only measure it because the neutrinos arrived before that (no detours).
They are sometimes pulled faster, sometimes pulled slower. Most likely these effects are just about equal.
The delay is from the pair being pulled up, down, left and right. That makes for a longer path.
The effect is minute, because most of the time even the main gravitational pull is really really small (there isn't much of anything between galaxies). Think "not even a millionth of what we often call "zero gravity" such as in the ISS".
However, over a distance of 168000 light years even these minute detours add up to a detour of 4 light hours.
If they are wise than that is NOT what they'll do.
If it is a scam and word gets around that they didn't care then the income from Kickstarter would stop quite fast.
Even if they don't care for the platform itself but only the revenue stream from it they should actively block scams.
no. Nanobots made from graphene.
They meant Europe (in Dutch: Europa). Small typo, happens to everybody.
Europe does have an atmosphere.
To save on launch cost they'll bring the cubesat by plane.
The rest of the 1 billion is beer and pizza money.
How would you get the caribou to put on sunblock?
You don't want tires if you want to stop quickly.
Warning: When stopping in these things they tilt forward. A car behind you will not stop as fast and could slide under it. When you have stopped you will fall back, crushing the car and the driver.
The problem is heat. There are integrated solar panels, mounted in insulation and all. Most of the solar energy gets turned to heat instead of electricity.
The insulated panels do not allow airflow behind the panels so the panels overheat in the summer, damaging the panels, decreasing their efficiency
A while back there was a batch of crappy panel controllers that actually caught fire.
A normal, tiled, roof can reach temperatures well over 100 C (212F) on a sunny day. Solar panels need to be able to shed that heat, both on the sunny side and the back side, in order to stay functional.
It's not a solution for everyone.
Here most cities welcome no-smog cars so they cooperate with anyone who wants to have an electric car. Often if you buy an electric car (and have no driveway or somesuch to park it) the city will restrict a parking spot right in front of your house to electric only and allow the charger installing company to rip up the sidewalk to install the thing. In some cases they even pay for the electricity.