If you're gonna use THAT much energy, and plan to (are able to) fire more than once, why not just nuke it from orbit?
All funnies aside, seriously though, i love the idea of a rail gun, but all the energy needed to use it once would make it
only reasonably useful if it was MASSIVE, and in an extinction level event.
In my country, we have silos FILLED with conventional arms that are more efficient, and through their development, maintenance and storage,
have a significant bit of our economy locked up. (In the US we need everything more than we need more weapons imo, use it for science:)
"Harold 'Sonny' White of NASA's Johnson Space Center said Friday (Sept. 14) at the 100 Year Starship Symposium"
After a line like this there needs to be math, lots of math, it's the whole "extraordinary claims require..." bit.
I'm probably the layman here (i still have some faith in/. apparently), but i thought this was about testing our ability to confirm relativity (warp up space-time), rather than breaking it (FTLT, that would be excellent if we had infinite energy, if so we would have infinite time so the energy would be negligible?)
Those that can hack these systems will hold their best exploits until they need them,
want to get famous, or just for the lulz. Nothing has changed, this was a problem from the beginning,
signed code or not (that is a step in the right direction though IMO).
I agree with the shaming, but keep in mind while doing so that these people will come and go,
some will be here always (people are assholes). Considering some of the most elaborated yet efficient
posts i've read here we're by "anonymous cowards", we must encourage the many constructively, and question
the few Destructively. This is the scientific method, otherwise, fuck them.
I wish i could mod you up. This is no different from back when i primarily used FTP, And IRC was nice,
you could get "infringing" things there aswell, but damn i miss the manuals and texts they used to have, in big piles everywhere,
people trading everything in to get their server ratio up.
I like what SETI is doing, but we're talking actual science here, the kind that allows us to learn.
In order to conduct science, we need to fund it. Rant aside, this is important enough
that i for one will contribute to the cause. AstronomyCast FTW.
Inspect every single one on arrival and place them into a pressure/temperature controlled chamber.
If these are all in the kinds of condition that would warrant such a high price per piece.... where is the inner geek here?
We must preserve these, as every good geek knows, you can emulate away, but nothing compares to the solid, mint, original.
To those that believe this is a rip-off: You now know how to make 1.2 million dollars, good luck hunting!
If we can't confirm it as a Higgs Boson, (1) we have many new toys to play with, investors, landlords, etc. are happy, science got done.
If we can however confirm, see (1) . What a great day.
The People are all pussies now, including You and I, because we discuss it now rather than taking to the streets.
OTOH, if we run to the streets, we are just as good as our ONE vote divided, so we must band together, and now we're labeled as terrorists
without all our money and power (we gave it to them), so they single us out on facebook, or better yet get us all in a Jon Doe indictment ala MPAA/RIAA.
*Removes Tinfoil-Hat*: i'd throw it away, but even when this is absolute reality people will still imagine it on my head.
Sometimes i have this idea that we should just launch our 5000 or how many we have straight up,
and once they reign down, the 8 of us that survive can feel the freedom our forefathers had, and we can do
like we did before and make a pilgrimage for the new homeland.../pissyrant
Being an American was once something to be proud of, granted far before i was born, but, wtf happened?
If i say we need to take the government back i'm red-flagged and a terrorist, i'm told to cast my vote to the pre-seeded bullshit,
i once saw the quote that said it better than i could: "If elections changed anything they'd have been outlawed years ago".
Almost had to LOL just looking at the pictures. This idea is great, he should make an entire series of dead animal RC vehicles. And then have some kind of epic death match crashing them into each other.
Maybe the zombie bit enters here, we start a Google+ hangout where we all use bath salts and fight our undead copters like that 90's robot wars shows.
I don't have a comment other than to say that I enjoy articles like this one. Please bring more like it and i will hit refresh 20 times to get yor page hit count up:)
I Third that, i'll be checking for AstronomyCast updates as i surely hope this will make it's way into an episode, there's nothing like
history being solved by science, rather than... spear-shaking.
In fact the idea of a devine creator is 2x as silly, since it requires that the devine creator was created and from nothing.
*THIS, when trying to come up with this answer it seems incredibly stupid for this exact reason: the best answer yields the same exact question, so we get nowhere.
Personally i don't care either way, we just need to do science, we see exactly what we can gain from it everyday, and should god exist, we'll all see him/her/it eventually, he's not going anywhere.
If you have the funding to make this choice, then you probably shouldn't be worried about it.
Where i live, and many surrounding cities, about 99% of us can't make that choice, and this is where this
discussion always goes.
We can't just point out a small part of the problem and run with it, this bad, little or no structure gives way to nothing but bias...
have we forgotton that we buy this shit by the cargo ship?
meh, mod me foolish but it seems improper that these
articles and news stories are the only push we have against said practices.
I use about 9 different passwords ranging from the 6 or 7 characters i'm allowed up to the 20's,
i tier them by importance, so if i ever come into any shit, i know what accounts will need to be checked.
I'll also add that i lock my doors and windows, and own a gun, but because i don't have top notch Ub3r l33t h4xoring
skills or a LOIC, i use the best passwords i'm able.
The poll of 1,004 adults nationwide was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications May 3-7 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
Slashdot Mirror
20,000 leagues under the sea?
If you're gonna use THAT much energy, and plan to (are able to) fire more than once, why not just nuke it from orbit?
:)
All funnies aside, seriously though, i love the idea of a rail gun, but all the energy needed to use it once would make it
only reasonably useful if it was MASSIVE, and in an extinction level event.
In my country, we have silos FILLED with conventional arms that are more efficient, and through their development, maintenance and storage,
have a significant bit of our economy locked up. (In the US we need everything more than we need more weapons imo, use it for science
"Harold 'Sonny' White of NASA's Johnson Space Center said Friday (Sept. 14) at the 100 Year Starship Symposium"
After a line like this there needs to be math, lots of math, it's the whole "extraordinary claims require..." bit.
/. apparently), but i thought this was about testing our ability to confirm relativity (warp up space-time), rather than breaking it (FTLT, that would be excellent if we had infinite energy, if so we would have infinite time so the energy would be negligible?)
I'm probably the layman here (i still have some faith in
Stuff like this is the reason i frequent Slashdot.
Those that can hack these systems will hold their best exploits until they need them,
want to get famous, or just for the lulz. Nothing has changed, this was a problem from the beginning,
signed code or not (that is a step in the right direction though IMO).
I agree with the shaming, but keep in mind while doing so that these people will come and go,
some will be here always (people are assholes). Considering some of the most elaborated yet efficient
posts i've read here we're by "anonymous cowards", we must encourage the many constructively, and question
the few Destructively. This is the scientific method, otherwise, fuck them.
Mod parent up.
I wish i could mod you up. This is no different from back when i primarily used FTP, And IRC was nice,
you could get "infringing" things there aswell, but damn i miss the manuals and texts they used to have, in big piles everywhere,
people trading everything in to get their server ratio up.
I like what SETI is doing, but we're talking actual science here, the kind that allows us to learn.
In order to conduct science, we need to fund it. Rant aside, this is important enough that i for one will contribute to the cause. AstronomyCast FTW.
Ha! Adding a captcha to an ad! I think that would tear Space/Time enough to create a Black-Hole that swallows us all.
Mod Parent +1 Realistic
Inspect every single one on arrival and place them into a pressure/temperature controlled chamber.
If these are all in the kinds of condition that would warrant such a high price per piece.... where is the inner geek here?
We must preserve these, as every good geek knows, you can emulate away, but nothing compares to the solid, mint, original.
To those that believe this is a rip-off: You now know how to make 1.2 million dollars, good luck hunting!
SKYNET Can has your kitty kat pics????!!?!
If we can't confirm it as a Higgs Boson, (1) we have many new toys to play with, investors, landlords, etc. are happy, science got done.
If we can however confirm, see (1) . What a great day.
Fear.
The People are all pussies now, including You and I, because we discuss it now rather than taking to the streets.
OTOH, if we run to the streets, we are just as good as our ONE vote divided, so we must band together, and now we're labeled as terrorists
without all our money and power (we gave it to them), so they single us out on facebook, or better yet get us all in a Jon Doe indictment ala MPAA/RIAA.
*Removes Tinfoil-Hat*: i'd throw it away, but even when this is absolute reality people will still imagine it on my head.
Sometimes i have this idea that we should just launch our 5000 or how many we have straight up, /pissyrant
and once they reign down, the 8 of us that survive can feel the freedom our forefathers had,
and we can do like we did before and make a pilgrimage for the new homeland...
Being an American was once something to be proud of, granted far before i was born, but, wtf happened?
If i say we need to take the government back i'm red-flagged and a terrorist, i'm told to cast my vote to the pre-seeded bullshit,
i once saw the quote that said it better than i could: "If elections changed anything they'd have been outlawed years ago".
Almost had to LOL just looking at the pictures. This idea is great, he should make an entire series of dead animal RC vehicles. And then have some kind of epic death match crashing them into each other.
Maybe the zombie bit enters here, we start a Google+ hangout where we all use bath salts and fight our undead copters like that 90's robot wars shows.
I don't have a comment other than to say that I enjoy articles like this one. Please bring more like it and i will hit refresh 20 times to get yor page hit count up :)
I Third that, i'll be checking for AstronomyCast updates as i surely hope this will make it's way into an episode, there's nothing like
history being solved by science, rather than... spear-shaking.
Sure it is.
Who created the devine creator?
In fact the idea of a devine creator is 2x as silly, since it requires that the devine creator was created and from nothing.
*THIS, when trying to come up with this answer it seems incredibly stupid for this exact reason: the best answer yields the same exact question, so we get nowhere.
Personally i don't care either way, we just need to do science, we see exactly what we can gain from it everyday, and should god exist, we'll all see him/her/it eventually, he's not going anywhere.
But i could totally be making wacky furniture in 12 days!
If you have the funding to make this choice, then you probably shouldn't be worried about it.
Where i live, and many surrounding cities, about 99% of us can't make that choice, and this is where this
discussion always goes.
We can't just point out a small part of the problem and run with it, this bad, little or no structure gives way to nothing but bias...
have we forgotton that we buy this shit by the cargo ship?
meh, mod me foolish but it seems improper that these
articles and news stories are the only push we have against said practices.
was add energy more in, get more energy out.
There's even a London in Canada which has a River Thames running through it!
I live in Connecticut, US, we have a New London County, and the Thames right behind it.
We're so original *ducks*
I use about 9 different passwords ranging from the 6 or 7 characters i'm allowed up to the 20's,
i tier them by importance, so if i ever come into any shit, i know what accounts will need to be checked.
I'll also add that i lock my doors and windows, and own a gun, but because i don't have top notch Ub3r l33t h4xoring
skills or a LOIC, i use the best passwords i'm able.
The poll of 1,004 adults nationwide was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications May 3-7 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
Why didn't they just ask Facebook?
*Ducks*