You just have to short circuit a large area coil (a loop if you will). With these motions the the earth's magnetic field will induce a large current in the loop. This current will induce a drag force. No need to absorb charges from high speed collisions (while it's possible to do so).
Since all the large objects in a geostationary orbit travel at much the same speed and direction the speed difference to your target is not important. The biggest problem you have is hitting the damn thing. Space is big and you have very little maneuvering capability (by comparison). This is where the size of the net helps. Small particles at high speed could be a problem: they have been created by a collision or explosion and have different orbits, at the same (high) speed: 3.1 km/s, so the maximum speed difference is 6.2km/s (bullets have a muzzle velocity in the range between 240 m/s to 1.2km/s). The net will probably be mostly empty, so the chance of a small particle hitting it will be small. A single strand getting destroyed is not a problem (or their engineers are morons, which they are generally not). If the net is designed the way I would there would be several "pulling coils" included (long wires with a short circuit, they create drag over earth's magnetic field). One lost (due to being hit by a high speed particle) would slow the de-orbit down but not disable it.
Please restrain yourself from calling it "1G WIFI". Not for the sake of the Chosen Ones who only deal with other Chosen Ones, but for the Ones who have to deal with the Luddites. They will see 3G wireless network, and think "1G WIFI" is slower. Please add the "b" (1Gb WIFI).
Here in the Netherlands people use Ideal If you want to use that to steal from me you have two options
1. Hack the bank. You'd probably steal from someone with money instead of from me.
2. Steal my PIN card (Just the data on the chips isn't even enough, you also need the 4 digit card number. The magnetic strip is useless for this) and I would notice that and block the card.
It's an argument for the "apple fanboys": Apple has produced so many good products they have build such a trust with their consumers they could polish a turd (which is quite a feat in and of itself, see mythbusters 113) and sell it. Disclaimer: I do not have any apple products, I dislike the price.
To brew coffee? Now use the surface to grow coffee beans and invent reusable coffee filters that actually work and we have a perpetual coffee producing machine!
If we wish to have a "clean" system, then we need to get rid of that subsidy by buying a copy of Windows on top of the OEM copy preloaded.
Dunno about the US, but in the EU you are allowed to download/borrow a Windows CD and use your official license key (the one you got with your new system). Just don't share it unless you can be reasonably sure it will not be used to pirate (so no bittorrent).
To bad I hate the evil part so much the non-evil part has to suffer. If I have a choice I prefer to buy other brands. Things I cannot choose (CD's and perhaps blue rays. Didn't check) I will buy from them, for I don't like to pirate (not judging. You may choose to do so, but I prefer to buy good things, although I will check some things before buying and have CD's ripped to a library, for convenience).
Big bang type events may actually be generating energy, but other than that everything is conversion. The common definition of generating energy can be seen as converting it from a useless type (tied up in an atom, in oil or flowing as radiation) to a more useful type (electricity or molecular bonds).
Is the center of a sphere at the surface? Of course not. Just the same the center of the Big Bang doesn't have to be inside space. It can be at a point outside of it.
Except that it seems to be different. In all directions the expansion is measured, and in all directions it's about the same (correcting for our speed through the solar system and the milky way Galaxy). If your sub-FTL theory would be true, the galaxies that are further away from the big bang would be going at a lower speed. The balloon analogy is more accurate although it has it's problems, like the "where is it expanding in to" question.
The Flying Spaghetty monster did it. Space does not expand, He just adds a bit each time He recreates it. It will appear to shrink again when He decides to remove stuff again (or the space between stuff).
It depends on what the dark energy is "planning" to do. Will it continue to push expansion faster and faster? Will it slow down to an asymptote at 0 expansion? Will it reverse at some point? Since we have no clue what the stuff is* we cannot be sure.
* There are some theories, like the matter and the energy in a different universe, only a short distance (nanometers) away through the 4th spacial dimension. Difficult to prove though.
The question I would have is this: Would the MS system have held better? I am not a Linux nor a MS lover. I see the limitations of both OS-es. Neither are absolute secure, and I can hack neither (since I can't hack).
It really depends. A short lived waste that sends out alpha radiation is less toxic: don't eat, drink or breath it and you'll be fine since the radiation is stopped by your skin. You just have to cool the casings really good since the will get hot. But if you use that heat to heat a city you are golden. The amount of waste is less as well, since a tonne of thorium contains as much energy as 200 tonnes of uranium
No. The real reason is: To much sodium is bad for you. It increases blood pressure. Disclaimer: There is no long term research that indicates this, although it seems like it does. Funny how they always forget that disclaimer. Disclaimer on the disclaimer: I have lowered my sodium intake.
If the traditional coal/gas plants would not be allowed to dump their waste in the air but had to get the CO2 out of it again (by planting new forests or scrubbing the air) the nuclear reactors would definitely be commercial feasible, even if they would also have to take care of a safe place to store or reprocess the spent fuel. The spare patches of earth would soon be covered with trees so scrubbing would be the only thing left. The problem with scrubbing: it's not energetically feasible. To get the CO2 out again costs more energy than you got (due to not 100% efficiency).
Please correct me if I am wrong. I am not a native English speaker and may have confused Dutch stuff with it. Assuming he currently lives in the US he would be emigrating from the US and immigrating to Sweden. True? Now he wants to live in Sweden, so his spelling and grammar were correct, true?
I stand corrected. Beta decay increases the proton count.
And hydrogen is a slippery bitch, so they may have lost it through the side of the container.
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You just have to short circuit a large area coil (a loop if you will). With these motions the the earth's magnetic field will induce a large current in the loop. This current will induce a drag force. No need to absorb charges from high speed collisions (while it's possible to do so).
Since all the large objects in a geostationary orbit travel at much the same speed and direction the speed difference to your target is not important. The biggest problem you have is hitting the damn thing. Space is big and you have very little maneuvering capability (by comparison). This is where the size of the net helps.
Small particles at high speed could be a problem: they have been created by a collision or explosion and have different orbits, at the same (high) speed: 3.1 km/s, so the maximum speed difference is 6.2km/s (bullets have a muzzle velocity in the range between 240 m/s to 1.2km/s). The net will probably be mostly empty, so the chance of a small particle hitting it will be small. A single strand getting destroyed is not a problem (or their engineers are morons, which they are generally not). If the net is designed the way I would there would be several "pulling coils" included (long wires with a short circuit, they create drag over earth's magnetic field). One lost (due to being hit by a high speed particle) would slow the de-orbit down but not disable it.
Please restrain yourself from calling it "1G WIFI". Not for the sake of the Chosen Ones who only deal with other Chosen Ones, but for the Ones who have to deal with the Luddites. They will see 3G wireless network, and think "1G WIFI" is slower. Please add the "b" (1Gb WIFI).
On a sidenote: Damn, still no numbers in an ol.
It's an argument for the "apple fanboys": Apple has produced so many good products they have build such a trust with their consumers they could polish a turd (which is quite a feat in and of itself, see mythbusters 113) and sell it.
Disclaimer: I do not have any apple products, I dislike the price.
To brew coffee? Now use the surface to grow coffee beans and invent reusable coffee filters that actually work and we have a perpetual coffee producing machine!
If we wish to have a "clean" system, then we need to get rid of that subsidy by buying a copy of Windows on top of the OEM copy preloaded.
Dunno about the US, but in the EU you are allowed to download/borrow a Windows CD and use your official license key (the one you got with your new system). Just don't share it unless you can be reasonably sure it will not be used to pirate (so no bittorrent).
Seems not everyone at Sony is evil.
To bad I hate the evil part so much the non-evil part has to suffer. If I have a choice I prefer to buy other brands. Things I cannot choose (CD's and perhaps blue rays. Didn't check) I will buy from them, for I don't like to pirate (not judging. You may choose to do so, but I prefer to buy good things, although I will check some things before buying and have CD's ripped to a library, for convenience).
Ubuntu can have Amarok, which can sync with an ipod. Although I don't suppose it can play DRM'ed files. Then again they are crap anyway.
and open office users having their own mess.
Once again, it is Microsoft's fault.
A problem in Open Office is a fault of Microsoft? How?
Big bang type events may actually be generating energy, but other than that everything is conversion. The common definition of generating energy can be seen as converting it from a useless type (tied up in an atom, in oil or flowing as radiation) to a more useful type (electricity or molecular bonds).
Is the center of a sphere at the surface?
Of course not. Just the same the center of the Big Bang doesn't have to be inside space. It can be at a point outside of it.
Damn, this deserves a +5 Funny, and I already posted!
Except that it seems to be different. In all directions the expansion is measured, and in all directions it's about the same (correcting for our speed through the solar system and the milky way Galaxy). If your sub-FTL theory would be true, the galaxies that are further away from the big bang would be going at a lower speed.
The balloon analogy is more accurate although it has it's problems, like the "where is it expanding in to" question.
The Flying Spaghetty monster did it. Space does not expand, He just adds a bit each time He recreates it. It will appear to shrink again when He decides to remove stuff again (or the space between stuff).
It depends on what the dark energy is "planning" to do. Will it continue to push expansion faster and faster? Will it slow down to an asymptote at 0 expansion? Will it reverse at some point?
Since we have no clue what the stuff is* we cannot be sure.
* There are some theories, like the matter and the energy in a different universe, only a short distance (nanometers) away through the 4th spacial dimension. Difficult to prove though.
I think he asked the Nibbolonians.
The question I would have is this: Would the MS system have held better?
I am not a Linux nor a MS lover. I see the limitations of both OS-es. Neither are absolute secure, and I can hack neither (since I can't hack).
It really depends. A short lived waste that sends out alpha radiation is less toxic: don't eat, drink or breath it and you'll be fine since the radiation is stopped by your skin. You just have to cool the casings really good since the will get hot. But if you use that heat to heat a city you are golden.
The amount of waste is less as well, since a tonne of thorium contains as much energy as 200 tonnes of uranium
No. The real reason is: To much sodium is bad for you. It increases blood pressure.
Disclaimer: There is no long term research that indicates this, although it seems like it does.
Funny how they always forget that disclaimer.
Disclaimer on the disclaimer: I have lowered my sodium intake.
"Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen...Uh, he's already got one, you see?"
If the traditional coal/gas plants would not be allowed to dump their waste in the air but had to get the CO2 out of it again (by planting new forests or scrubbing the air) the nuclear reactors would definitely be commercial feasible, even if they would also have to take care of a safe place to store or reprocess the spent fuel.
The spare patches of earth would soon be covered with trees so scrubbing would be the only thing left. The problem with scrubbing: it's not energetically feasible. To get the CO2 out again costs more energy than you got (due to not 100% efficiency).
Please correct me if I am wrong. I am not a native English speaker and may have confused Dutch stuff with it.
Assuming he currently lives in the US he would be emigrating from the US and immigrating to Sweden. True?
Now he wants to live in Sweden, so his spelling and grammar were correct, true?
I stand corrected. Beta decay increases the proton count.
And hydrogen is a slippery bitch, so they may have lost it through the side of the container.
Someone should start selling chemical castrations as Viagra via spam. This will increase the average intelligence over time.