This reminds me of one of my favorite books, by Poul Anderson, "Boat of a Million Years". It follows the lives of 11 individuals whose DNS allows them to be immortal with respect to aging. They can still be injured just like anyone else. It starts around 300BC and goes into the future. Much of human history is portrayed through the eyed of those who don't age. It also goes into what happens to the world when this gift is finally shared with everyone.
If you are being half-way serious. Try downloading Space Monger. On Windows at least it does a Great! job of helping you understand what the "dark data" on every hard disk actually is. Always amazes me how much of it is under the Windows directory.
That makes sense. However, due to the distance from the earth, the ribbon would still be almost perfectly perpendicular to the equator. So at -31 degrees where Perth is, the ribbon would leave the ground at at angle of 31 degrees from the vertical. This means that until the gondola rose far enough along the ribbon so that "down" would be parallel to the ribbon, there would be a significant amount of lateral force on the ribbon. That would greatly increase the stresses that the ribbon would have to be able to withstand. Fairly close to the equator, it would not be much of a problem, but 31 degrees is pretty significant. I assume they know what they are doing though.
How can the anchor point be anywhere between +45 -45 degrees? The space elevator basically runs between a fixed point on the Earth and a point in space that is slightly beyond geosync. A geosynchronous satellite must be directly over the equator in order for it to be stationary relative to the earth. If the satellite was placed in an orbit that revolved around the earth every 24 hours but was in an orbit that was 45 degrees below the equator at one point then the orbit would would trace an elliptical path over the surface of the earth between +45 and -45 degrees latitude. This would be very bad for a space elevator as the distance between the anchor point and end point in orbit would be constantly changing. Am I missing something or is the article in error... The FAQ on the High Lift Systems site mentions that the first anchor point would be in the Equatorial Pacific. That claim seems much more in line with Physics than Perth.
See this site from an explanation of a geosynchronous orbit: http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/rocket_sci/sa tellites/geo-high.html
Try reading over how a Steam Injector works. The workings of this engine should click for you fairly quickly. http://ukhrail.uel.ac.uk/glossary/inject .html
If you are using Debian, you should add security.debian.org to your package source list. As usual with most problems like this, a patched version has already been released. Take a look at http://www.debian.org/security/ for more info on how to set your system up to take advantage of security patches.
Re:Some SF books (Paul Anderson's Fireball series)
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You should check out the Fireball series by Paul Anderson. The main character in the first couple books of the series is a "download".
You can read up on them a bit on the product pages.
My favorite of his books though is The Boat of a Million Years. It is about imortals living among us, and our history viewed through their eyes.
Cheers
Life can learn to be hearty, But...
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People always give examples of how life is found in the most extreme conditions on Earth. But where did that life originally form. It seems a lot more likely that life started in a more hospitable location and then gradually evolved is such a way as to allow them to survive in their current locations...
But would like really have been able to start on its own under some of those extreme conditions?
How are these percentages calculated for Linux? Just last month, I wiped NT off one of my machines and replaced it with Debian Linux. The thing is that nobody knows that I did it, so I can't be in that 3.9% I have done some browsing from that machine, so the numbers could be gleamed from web server logs I guess... At any rate, update those numbers to Linux: 3.9% + 1 Windows: 9x% - 1:-)
Also about installing Linix; I had put if off for a long time fearing how difficult it would be to install. Boy was I surprised at how easy it was. The X server wouldn't start by default, but it was easily fixed. All drivers were handled correctly by default. Much easier than doing a clean NT install ever was. Anyone else putting off the move. Just do it! You will not be disappointed.
If you want to actually get people to start "calling their congressmen" to increase funding, you have to make it more personal.
It would be interresting to see where the asteroid passed in relation to the earth. Which countries did it pass over as it went by. Where would it have hit if it had been just a little closer.
I have a Toshiba Libretto with a 800Mhz Crusoe chip in it and love it. You can actually run the thing for a few hours. Every other notebook has always said 2.x hrs but usually runs out in around 90 minutes.
But the best thing is the low amount of heat that the thing kicks out. Anyone who has ever sat with a P3/4 notebook on their lap for any amount of time knows how hot they get. These get a little warm after an hour or so, but not hot.
Bought mine in Japan, not sure what is available elsewhere.
Another great system is Lasy http://www.lasy.com They have three sizes of blocks which all interconnect. This is great because you can give them to a todler and then expand to new sets with smaller pieces as they get older. The largest size of blocks let the kids (or parents) make thinks like bikes that the kids can actually ride in.
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This reminds me of one of my favorite books, by Poul Anderson, "Boat of a Million Years". It follows the lives of 11 individuals whose DNS allows them to be immortal with respect to aging. They can still be injured just like anyone else. It starts around 300BC and goes into the future. Much of human history is portrayed through the eyed of those who don't age. It also goes into what happens to the world when this gift is finally shared with everyone.
If you are being half-way serious. Try downloading Space Monger. On Windows at least it does a Great! job of helping you understand what the "dark data" on every hard disk actually is. Always amazes me how much of it is under the Windows directory.
Cheers, Leif
That makes sense. However, due to the distance from the earth, the ribbon would still be almost perfectly perpendicular to the equator. So at -31 degrees where Perth is, the ribbon would leave the ground at at angle of 31 degrees from the vertical. This means that until the gondola rose far enough along the ribbon so that "down" would be parallel to the ribbon, there would be a significant amount of lateral force on the ribbon. That would greatly increase the stresses that the ribbon would have to be able to withstand. Fairly close to the equator, it would not be much of a problem, but 31 degrees is pretty significant. I assume they know what they are doing though.
How can the anchor point be anywhere between +45 -45 degrees? The space elevator basically runs between a fixed point on the Earth and a point in space that is slightly beyond geosync. A geosynchronous satellite must be directly over the equator in order for it to be stationary relative to the earth. If the satellite was placed in an orbit that revolved around the earth every 24 hours but was in an orbit that was 45 degrees below the equator at one point then the orbit would would trace an elliptical path over the surface of the earth between +45 and -45 degrees latitude. This would be very bad for a space elevator as the distance between the anchor point and end point in orbit would be constantly changing. Am I missing something or is the article in error...
a tellites/geo-high.html
The FAQ on the High Lift Systems site mentions that the first anchor point would be in the Equatorial Pacific. That claim seems much more in line with Physics than Perth.
See this site from an explanation of a geosynchronous orbit: http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/rocket_sci/s
Try reading over how a Steam Injector works. The workings of this engine should click for you fairly quickly.t .html
http://ukhrail.uel.ac.uk/glossary/injec
If you are using Debian, you should add security.debian.org to your package source list. As usual with most problems like this, a patched version has already been released. Take a look at http://www.debian.org/security/ for more info on how to set your system up to take advantage of security patches.
You should check out the Fireball series by Paul Anderson. The main character in the first couple books of the series is a "download".
You can read up on them a bit on the product pages.
1) Harvest of Stars
2) The Stars are Also Fire
3) Harvest the Fire
4) The Fleet of Starts
My favorite of his books though is The Boat of a Million Years. It is about imortals living among us, and our history viewed through their eyes.
Cheers
People always give examples of how life is found in the most extreme conditions on Earth. But where did that life originally form. It seems a lot more likely that life started in a more hospitable location and then gradually evolved is such a way as to allow them to survive in their current locations...
But would like really have been able to start on its own under some of those extreme conditions?
How are these percentages calculated for Linux? Just last month, I wiped NT off one of my machines and replaced it with Debian Linux. The thing is that nobody knows that I did it, so I can't be in that 3.9% I have done some browsing from that machine, so the numbers could be gleamed from web server logs I guess... At any rate, update those numbers to Linux: 3.9% + 1 Windows: 9x% - 1 :-)
Also about installing Linix; I had put if off for a long time fearing how difficult it would be to install. Boy was I surprised at how easy it was. The X server wouldn't start by default, but it was easily fixed. All drivers were handled correctly by default. Much easier than doing a clean NT install ever was.
Anyone else putting off the move. Just do it! You will not be disappointed.
Cheers,
Leif
If you want to actually get people to start "calling their congressmen" to increase funding, you have to make it more personal.
It would be interresting to see where the asteroid passed in relation to the earth. Which countries did it pass over as it went by. Where would it have hit if it had been just a little closer.
Of course mine isn't 256 bit :-)
I have a Toshiba Libretto with a 800Mhz Crusoe chip in it and love it. You can actually run the thing for a few hours. Every other notebook has always said 2.x hrs but usually runs out in around 90 minutes.
But the best thing is the low amount of heat that the thing kicks out. Anyone who has ever sat with a P3/4 notebook on their lap for any amount of time knows how hot they get. These get a little warm after an hour or so, but not hot.
Bought mine in Japan, not sure what is available elsewhere.
Cheers.
You should go take a look at the Celestia project on Sourceforge. It is very well made. And free
http://celestia.sourceforge.net
here here here and here
No signs of life there, some say that these ones show life: "Banyan Trees", "Hot Spring??", "Leopard spots"
Personally, at this resolution, they could be anything, but they are still fun to look at.
I haven't seen them myself, but they also have some robotic kits which can be controlled from a computer. http://www.lasy.com/products/robot.html