The above is so true. It is really a "coup" for oil interests that the greenies hate nuclear. The only thing holding back nuclear is fear and regulation. The engineering challenges are pretty well solved.
As for waste... the best plan I have heard is bury it in a geologic subduction zone. The plates move VERY slowly and it takes dozens of millenia before that chunk of crust can resurface.
Oh, another thing on waste... the greenies complain that nuclear waste is dangerous for thousands of years??? Welp, what about all the heavy metals that are realised into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels?
Last I checked arsenic, mercury, lead, etc last - oh let's see - FOREVER. And it is being sprayed all over the place by our current power plants.
We have 22 year old flight-schol funkies running submarine reactors which are 200 yards away from an armageddon level nuclear arsenal. Can we really not run fixed plants properly with teams of experts?
M1 Abrams uses a turbine engine like a helicopter. It is so quiet already that its nickname is "Whispering Death"
The real benefit of hybrid vehicles will come from the ability to BEAM the fuel to the forward areas via microwaves. I'm thinking of the same technique proposed for orbital solar power. This energy is used to top off the batteries.
This refueling technique is particularly useful if the tank uses a rail gun. Freed from carrying huge shells the tank won't have to reload projectiles (It will carry hundreds on board) and the energy needs can be supplied by a support vehicle that captures the microwaves.
Now we just need to figure out what to do after we "win"
Those mini-disc players only read the disc once into memory and then function like memory chip based mp3 players - ie no moving parts. You are gettin 80 hours of life because you probably aren't changing the disc very often.
The ipod has a buffer as well but with 10+ gigs on the hard drive it can't store all the songs in the buffer. The ipod spins up its hard drive and stores those songs in the buffer then powers the HD down to save energy.
Electronic devices are already being designed with energy efficiency as a major design parameter. Some things just take a lot of power ie transceivers, color/backlit screens, speedy cpus.
The anthropic pricipal mandates that no human disease has even been 100% fatal but that doesn't prevent an engineered pathogen from being a "perfect" killer.
Fusion bombs arenn't biological but I doubt anyone would argue that they are 100% sure to kill humans (and everything else) within a certain radius.
This is so true. No matter home many mp3s I have they all seem canned and stale. I am constantly skipping songs and when I finally hit one of my favorites it's one (by definition) I've heard a million times.
I have one of the those PC Power & Cooling supplies as well. I openned mine up and swapped out the stock fan for a quiet fan (also from PC P&C). Because the output was lower on the new fan I added a second one to the inside grill. Hey kids at home - don't play inside power supplies without knowing what you are doing. Those capacitors can kill you and cook off fingers.
Between the the modded PSU, a Zalaman flower on my CPU, a Zalman passive cooler on my 9700 Pro, retro fitting new quiet fans across my Lian-Li case and hydrodynamic bearing HDs my PC is VERY quiet -almost silent.
My wife though the computer was broken and rebooted it a bunch of times.
I'd like to see more articles on quieting 400+ watt power supplies. That is the really tough one. Hard drives are EASY and are more heat tolerant than most PSUs.
The way to create that socialism is to make numbers count in PvP. that way the noobs can gang up on the leets.
How do you think socialism works in the real world???? I would say though that unlike the real world noobs can leave a MUD. They may never achieve critical mass to overthrow their oppressors.
Maybe the "real" truth of the movie is that alien technology inspired Apple's designers and that is the reason for the compatibility. Apple zelots would love that rationale. Granted movie indicates that the 50s era alien ship had been "dead" (unpowered) until the motherships showed up. That would seem to preclude its use as direct research but atleast they'd get some hints on jack shape.
You set up your passive cooler poorly if you can't get your 4200 cool enough.
I lapped my cooler pads and used arctic silver 3 instead of the grease supplied. I also made sure that all the attachments were square and uniform. I also pried the shim off my radeon 9700 pro.
My Radeon 9700 Pro now runs cooler than it did stock and my whole PC is silent. My wife kept cycling the power b/c she didn't hear a fan firing up.
It doesn't have to deface the moon. The "dark" side of the moon isn't dark at all. It is getting light when we see a new moon.
You could put the panels on the side we can't see on earth and bounce the power off an extra satellite.
The real problem with this to that you either need to A) Build the panels on earth and transport them to the moon (which is insanely expensive), or b) Build the solar panels on the moon with lunar materials
My wife is taiwanese and still has relatives on the mainland.
We visited the mainland in January and I met her cousin who is an organ transplant surgeon. He spoke openly about how in China you can can examine a catalog of potential donors on death row with blood and tissue work already done. If you find a match you can designate ahead of time who will donate the body part that you need. When that persons time is up the surgeons are waiting to harvest.
The surgeon said he couldn't drink that night because he had surgery the next day. He joked how you wouldn't be able to do that in the US, ie schedule your transplant surgeries in advance. Many executions are done around the new year as a sort of cleansing/celebration/unrest quelling. The surgeon said that was a very busy time for him. I asked him whether they still bill the prisoners family for the bullet - they do. Strange when the body parts are worth much more than the bullet huh?
Given all that I bet if you are VIP in China and deathly ill that the execution of "your" prisoner might be pushed up?
One last thing people may not know that mitigates some of this. There are no voluntary donors. Everyone in China wants to be buried whole. It is VERY important to them. I joked that the world should adopt a system where only people who are willing to donate should receive organs because not every country allowed what China did.
My wife made a funny face and then translated. To the mainlanders at the dinner THAT was a funny idea. Why not use the prisoners that are full of shame and have hurt society?
No you don't b/c at those speeds you can just redownload what you need when you need it. If you haven't used something for a few days... just delete it.
Yea... I meant wouldn't. I agree that carriers aren't the most mobile things in existence but atleast they aren't stationary. On the flip side I don't think of satellites as especially "mobile" either. They move fast.... sure but they can't change course very well at all.
Remember that lasers are line of sight weapons. Aircraft are easily tracked over the horizon and a carrier has plenty of air superiority at their disposal. That 747 outfitted with a big laser is toast before it gets within range. Think about it....
Other posters picked up on the main issue confronting aircraft carriers in the 21st Century: tactical nukes and cruise missiles. Both can score HEAVY damage on a carrier
Um..... the US was ALWAYS a republic and almost always had a two party system. Originally the senate was elected from the STATE legislators. IE another level removed from direct democracy
I'm a libertarian and hate both parties. I think our current crop of politicians are generally scum - both democrats and republicans.
We need to fix campain funding NOW. Money taints both parties. A well functioning republic demands that politicians represent the people rather than donors.
If you think direct democracy is a panecia look at CA. It is in a shambles partially because of the direct democracy of their referendum system.
I know, I know, don't feed the trolls... but is this supposed to be funny?
Water-borne craft have almost unlimited power and tonnage capacity and mobility. Contrast this to the power and weight constraint of an airplane or a satellite.
How is the laser supposed to cut through an aircraft carrier? Why would the aircraft carrier shoot its own laser first?
I think a better analogy than a bank robber is two people consenting to a transaction that happens privately. The majority of these transactions involve stolen property, human organs, blood diamonds, etc ie illegal things. Is it moral or legal to force scrutiny on all private transactions because of a high frequency of illegal ones?
What about the recent court decision striking down anti-sodomy laws because the violated privacy? Roe v Wade used the same legal framework to legalize abortion. Why can't you make the same argument for striking down consumer level copyright enforcement? All rely on violating privacy.
They have been around long enough that they finally own a decent share of the profits of their work. Perhaps that is why? Perhap they should sell mp3s on their own site or use one of the services.
This AC has an interesting perspective and I'll hazard a bonus point to help people see it.
The dogma that information wants to be free seems to trump national legal issues in most people's minds. What about Columbia developing a foolproof drug distribution technology? What about a universal decryption technology a la "Sneakers"? How much chaos is it worth to us?
Yea silly Von Braun and his small rockets hitting London from Germany... such a small technological feat for the time and I'm sure he'd never amount to much.
I bet if US ever put its resources at his disposal he could never put a man in space... oh wait that's what happened.
The US took most of the German scientists while Russia was able to claim a few. The best part was how neither cared about war crimes and Nazi leanings. Hey we were at war! (er a cold war)
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The above is so true. It is really a "coup" for oil interests that the greenies hate nuclear. The only thing holding back nuclear is fear and regulation. The engineering challenges are pretty well solved.
As for waste... the best plan I have heard is bury it in a geologic subduction zone. The plates move VERY slowly and it takes dozens of millenia before that chunk of crust can resurface.
Oh, another thing on waste... the greenies complain that nuclear waste is dangerous for thousands of years??? Welp, what about all the heavy metals that are realised into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels?
Last I checked arsenic, mercury, lead, etc last - oh let's see - FOREVER. And it is being sprayed all over the place by our current power plants.
We have 22 year old flight-schol funkies running submarine reactors which are 200 yards away from an armageddon level nuclear arsenal. Can we really not run fixed plants properly with teams of experts?
M1 Abrams uses a turbine engine like a helicopter. It is so quiet already that its nickname is "Whispering Death"
The real benefit of hybrid vehicles will come from the ability to BEAM the fuel to the forward areas via microwaves. I'm thinking of the same technique proposed for orbital solar power. This energy is used to top off the batteries.
This refueling technique is particularly useful if the tank uses a rail gun. Freed from carrying huge shells the tank won't have to reload projectiles (It will carry hundreds on board) and the energy needs can be supplied by a support vehicle that captures the microwaves.
Now we just need to figure out what to do after we "win"
Those mini-disc players only read the disc once into memory and then function like memory chip based mp3 players - ie no moving parts. You are gettin 80 hours of life because you probably aren't changing the disc very often.
The ipod has a buffer as well but with 10+ gigs on the hard drive it can't store all the songs in the buffer. The ipod spins up its hard drive and stores those songs in the buffer then powers the HD down to save energy.
Electronic devices are already being designed with energy efficiency as a major design parameter. Some things just take a lot of power ie transceivers, color/backlit screens, speedy cpus.
The anthropic pricipal mandates that no human disease has even been 100% fatal but that doesn't prevent an engineered pathogen from being a "perfect" killer.
Fusion bombs arenn't biological but I doubt anyone would argue that they are 100% sure to kill humans (and everything else) within a certain radius.
This is so true. No matter home many mp3s I have they all seem canned and stale. I am constantly skipping songs and when I finally hit one of my favorites it's one (by definition) I've heard a million times.
I have one of the those PC Power & Cooling supplies as well. I openned mine up and swapped out the stock fan for a quiet fan (also from PC P&C). Because the output was lower on the new fan I added a second one to the inside grill. Hey kids at home - don't play inside power supplies without knowing what you are doing. Those capacitors can kill you and cook off fingers.
Between the the modded PSU, a Zalaman flower on my CPU, a Zalman passive cooler on my 9700 Pro, retro fitting new quiet fans across my Lian-Li case and hydrodynamic bearing HDs my PC is VERY quiet -almost silent.
My wife though the computer was broken and rebooted it a bunch of times.
I'd like to see more articles on quieting 400+ watt power supplies. That is the really tough one. Hard drives are EASY and are more heat tolerant than most PSUs.
The way to create that socialism is to make numbers count in PvP. that way the noobs can gang up on the leets.
How do you think socialism works in the real world???? I would say though that unlike the real world noobs can leave a MUD. They may never achieve critical mass to overthrow their oppressors.
I feel the same way. I think self learners and interactive learners need to use your strategy to anything out of lectures.
Maybe the "real" truth of the movie is that alien technology inspired Apple's designers and that is the reason for the compatibility. Apple zelots would love that rationale. Granted movie indicates that the 50s era alien ship had been "dead" (unpowered) until the motherships showed up. That would seem to preclude its use as direct research but atleast they'd get some hints on jack shape.
You set up your passive cooler poorly if you can't get your 4200 cool enough.
I lapped my cooler pads and used arctic silver 3 instead of the grease supplied. I also made sure that all the attachments were square and uniform. I also pried the shim off my radeon 9700 pro.
My Radeon 9700 Pro now runs cooler than it did stock and my whole PC is silent. My wife kept cycling the power b/c she didn't hear a fan firing up.
It doesn't have to deface the moon. The "dark" side of the moon isn't dark at all. It is getting light when we see a new moon.
You could put the panels on the side we can't see on earth and bounce the power off an extra satellite.
The real problem with this to that you either need to
A) Build the panels on earth and transport them to the moon (which is insanely expensive), or
b) Build the solar panels on the moon with lunar materials
It may be a Windows tip but it deserves to be bumped.
My mother can't use anything but windows and has eye trouble. Changing the DPI was a godsend for her.
My wife is taiwanese and still has relatives on the mainland.
We visited the mainland in January and I met her cousin who is an organ transplant surgeon. He spoke openly about how in China you can can examine a catalog of potential donors on death row with blood and tissue work already done. If you find a match you can designate ahead of time who will donate the body part that you need. When that persons time is up the surgeons are waiting to harvest.
The surgeon said he couldn't drink that night because he had surgery the next day. He joked how you wouldn't be able to do that in the US, ie schedule your transplant surgeries in advance. Many executions are done around the new year as a sort of cleansing/celebration/unrest quelling. The surgeon said that was a very busy time for him. I asked him whether they still bill the prisoners family for the bullet - they do. Strange when the body parts are worth much more than the bullet huh?
Given all that I bet if you are VIP in China and deathly ill that the execution of "your" prisoner might be pushed up?
One last thing people may not know that mitigates some of this. There are no voluntary donors. Everyone in China wants to be buried whole. It is VERY important to them. I joked that the world should adopt a system where only people who are willing to donate should receive organs because not every country allowed what China did.
My wife made a funny face and then translated. To the mainlanders at the dinner THAT was a funny idea. Why not use the prisoners that are full of shame and have hurt society?
No you don't b/c at those speeds you can just redownload what you need when you need it. If you haven't used something for a few days... just delete it.
Yea... I meant wouldn't. I agree that carriers aren't the most mobile things in existence but atleast they aren't stationary. On the flip side I don't think of satellites as especially "mobile" either. They move fast.... sure but they can't change course very well at all.
Remember that lasers are line of sight weapons. Aircraft are easily tracked over the horizon and a carrier has plenty of air superiority at their disposal. That 747 outfitted with a big laser is toast before it gets within range. Think about it....
Other posters picked up on the main issue confronting aircraft carriers in the 21st Century: tactical nukes and cruise missiles. Both can score HEAVY damage on a carrier
Um..... the US was ALWAYS a republic and almost always had a two party system. Originally the senate was elected from the STATE legislators. IE another level removed from direct democracy
I'm a libertarian and hate both parties. I think our current crop of politicians are generally scum - both democrats and republicans.
We need to fix campain funding NOW. Money taints both parties. A well functioning republic demands that politicians represent the people rather than donors.
If you think direct democracy is a panecia look at CA. It is in a shambles partially because of the direct democracy of their referendum system.
I know, I know, don't feed the trolls... but is this supposed to be funny?
Water-borne craft have almost unlimited power and tonnage capacity and mobility. Contrast this to the power and weight constraint of an airplane or a satellite.
How is the laser supposed to cut through an aircraft carrier? Why would the aircraft carrier shoot its own laser first?
I think a better analogy than a bank robber is two people consenting to a transaction that happens privately. The majority of these transactions involve stolen property, human organs, blood diamonds, etc ie illegal things. Is it moral or legal to force scrutiny on all private transactions because of a high frequency of illegal ones?
What about the recent court decision striking down anti-sodomy laws because the violated privacy? Roe v Wade used the same legal framework to legalize abortion. Why can't you make the same argument for striking down consumer level copyright enforcement? All rely on violating privacy.
They have been around long enough that they finally own a decent share of the profits of their work. Perhaps that is why? Perhap they should sell mp3s on their own site or use one of the services.
This AC has an interesting perspective and I'll hazard a bonus point to help people see it.
The dogma that information wants to be free seems to trump national legal issues in most people's minds. What about Columbia developing a foolproof drug distribution technology? What about a universal decryption technology a la "Sneakers"? How much chaos is it worth to us?
Yea silly Von Braun and his small rockets hitting London from Germany... such a small technological feat for the time and I'm sure he'd never amount to much.
I bet if US ever put its resources at his disposal he could never put a man in space... oh wait that's what happened.
The US took most of the German scientists while Russia was able to claim a few. The best part was how neither cared about war crimes and Nazi leanings. Hey we were at war! (er a cold war)
Yea but the TNT radiates it's energy in all directions from a volume that isn't as concentrated as a kinetic weapon.
All of the kinetic energy in a titanium rod by contrast would be directed on the target. It would penetrate a hardened target extremely well.
If TNT worked was effective against armored targets wouldn't modern tanks use explosive shells rather than depleted uranium darts????
As long as you spike the ethanol with something that makes humans sick (like they do with the lab supply products) it ISN'T controlled by the ATF.
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