I have a binocular dissection scope that has two settings, 10x and 30x. It's not for examining invisibly small objects, but it's fascinating to look at tiny objects with. You get a full 3-D image that enlarges a penny to the size of a dinner plate. I highly recommend it.
It came with some 1.5x objectives that give it magnifications of 15x and 45x, but I haven't even put those in yet.
If I were The Government (any government), the last thing in the world I'd want my general population to have is flying cars. Imagine how much harder it becomes to secure *anything*.
You're an idiot. If 1.01024 were significant to 100 places, it would have 95 zeroes after it, or it would specify its accuracy. In the absence of either of those, it's assumed accurate to as many places as were given.
As far as aerospace applications, i doubt this very much. Being that they are a vast sea of SRAM, charged particles and radiation in outerspace would make the sram grids very unreliable. bits could be flipping right and left and totally changing the behavior of the underlying logic.
I...AM...NOMAD!! You are imperfect! STERILIZE! STERILIZE!
Actually...the current generation of spy satellites is very close in design to the Hubble. I think it was ground "wrong" on purpose so it could look at the earth.
What I've noticed is that people seem to have a great need to feel unique, and making up wacky-ass medical anomalies seems to be a popular means. "Oh, tylenol doesn't work for me..." or "My body eliminates anesthetics at 4x the normal rate" or "anesthetic gel actually CAUSES me pain" or this git above. You're not a beautiful snowflake, get over it.
I'm not sure that "conservation of momentum" necessarily prevents a sonic gun of this type from knocking someone over. Think about how it operates...a pair of ultrasonic waves interfere at the distination to produce a lower-frequency wave. Now, the ultrasonic waves are directional, but is the resultant wave? If it radiated from the destination in all directions, then the user of the gun wouldn't feel any reaction force.
It's not the wavelength of the sound you're sending that matters. It sends a couple of ultrasonic waves that interfere with each other at the destination to produce the result. The ultrasonic waves are, of course, highly directional and controllable. The article did say that they had trouble producing the lower tones of music, however. I would imagine the 10Hz "brown note" isn't workable (yet).
Actually if either of you had bothered to do a Google search for "Lagrange Points", you'd know (at least) three things:
Lagrange Points don't just refer two any two bodies, but to two bodies orbiting each other.
They are not points where gravity "exactly balances out", but rather where the combined gravity of the two bodies exactly cancels the centripetal acceleration needed to rotate along with them.
There are exactly five. (But two are unstable if the mass ratio is too low, below 25 or so)
But typically there will only be two massive bodies in the neighborhood at any one time, and those are the ones you consider. As previously mentioned, the probe, being sufficiently small, doesn't constitute a third body.
Just don't watch TV. I'm not trying to be a pretentious bastard like this guy (Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television), I just want to stand up and say "hey, I did it, and it didn't kill me...in fact, it's rather nice." I got rid of it 3 months back and I don't miss it. I miss it even less when I read stories like this.
You know, there are altogether too many posts like this: "Why bother making the game more realistic, I'll just go play the real thing."
I'll tell you why. When you're playing pingpong at the rec center, can you cause the ball to catch on fire, split into three, grow to the size of a beachball, speed up, slow down, teleport, wiggle, or otherwise behave in novel ways?
No.
The point of making games more and more realistic is not to somehow asymptotically approach an exact copy of the real world. It's to give more and more reality and substance to a world where you, as the programmer, are essentially god. Tell me that isn't cool.
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The American flag has thirteen stripes, not twelve.
Bush was basically appointed by the Supreme Court. He didn't win based on vote counts, but rather by virtue of a judicial decision. I don't call that elected. IANAL, so this is more of an opinion than a fact. Heavens!
Hmm...let me think real hard here. How about DAT decks that couldn't make second-generation copies? How about "consumer-grade" DVD writers that can't write to the key sector? Region encoding? Child-proof lighters?
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I have a binocular dissection scope that has two settings, 10x and 30x. It's not for examining invisibly small objects, but it's fascinating to look at tiny objects with. You get a full 3-D image that enlarges a penny to the size of a dinner plate. I highly recommend it.
It came with some 1.5x objectives that give it magnifications of 15x and 45x, but I haven't even put those in yet.
If I were The Government (any government), the last thing in the world I'd want my general population to have is flying cars. Imagine how much harder it becomes to secure *anything*.
You're an idiot. If 1.01024 were significant to 100 places, it would have 95 zeroes after it, or it would specify its accuracy. In the absence of either of those, it's assumed accurate to as many places as were given.
As far as aerospace applications, i doubt this very much. Being that they are a vast sea of SRAM, charged particles and radiation in outerspace would make the sram grids very unreliable. bits could be flipping right and left and totally changing the behavior of the underlying logic.
I...AM...NOMAD!! You are imperfect! STERILIZE! STERILIZE!
Life on Venus wouldn't need to eat, it could just sit there and absorb all the 800 degree goodness in little bio-capacitors.
Didn't pay much attention in Thermodynamics class, did we?
Actually...the current generation of spy satellites is very close in design to the Hubble. I think it was ground "wrong" on purpose so it could look at the earth.
Tinfoil hat firmly in place.
Riiight...because as we all know, the reason people are hungry is because there just isn't enough food to go around.
Idiot.
What I've noticed is that people seem to have a great need to feel unique, and making up wacky-ass medical anomalies seems to be a popular means. "Oh, tylenol doesn't work for me..." or "My body eliminates anesthetics at 4x the normal rate" or "anesthetic gel actually CAUSES me pain" or this git above. You're not a beautiful snowflake, get over it.
I guess medicine isn't the best laughter.
What you're missing is the explanation which can be found in the goddam article.
I'm pretty sure the device is tuned to a particular wavelength. So as long as the only illumination around is from a laser, it might be possible.
I'm not sure that "conservation of momentum" necessarily prevents a sonic gun of this type from knocking someone over. Think about how it operates...a pair of ultrasonic waves interfere at the distination to produce a lower-frequency wave. Now, the ultrasonic waves are directional, but is the resultant wave? If it radiated from the destination in all directions, then the user of the gun wouldn't feel any reaction force.
It's not the wavelength of the sound you're sending that matters. It sends a couple of ultrasonic waves that interfere with each other at the destination to produce the result. The ultrasonic waves are, of course, highly directional and controllable. The article did say that they had trouble producing the lower tones of music, however. I would imagine the 10Hz "brown note" isn't workable (yet).
How often do you hear of something being made top secret when its a failure?
Well I can give you one good example. Missile defense.
Trademarks, I believe, must be actively protected in order to be valid. I don't think patents are under the same requirement.
But typically there will only be two massive bodies in the neighborhood at any one time, and those are the ones you consider. As previously mentioned, the probe, being sufficiently small, doesn't constitute a third body.
Just don't watch TV. I'm not trying to be a pretentious bastard like this guy (Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television), I just want to stand up and say "hey, I did it, and it didn't kill me...in fact, it's rather nice." I got rid of it 3 months back and I don't miss it. I miss it even less when I read stories like this.
You know, there are altogether too many posts like this: "Why bother making the game more realistic, I'll just go play the real thing."
I'll tell you why. When you're playing pingpong at the rec center, can you cause the ball to catch on fire, split into three, grow to the size of a beachball, speed up, slow down, teleport, wiggle, or otherwise behave in novel ways?
No.
The point of making games more and more realistic is not to somehow asymptotically approach an exact copy of the real world. It's to give more and more reality and substance to a world where you, as the programmer, are essentially god. Tell me that isn't cool.
The American flag has thirteen stripes, not twelve.
Yes it's off-topic, but it's informative, too.
Bush was basically appointed by the Supreme Court. He didn't win based on vote counts, but rather by virtue of a judicial decision. I don't call that elected. IANAL, so this is more of an opinion than a fact. Heavens!
Just because Bush would have been elected had all the votes been properly tallied doesn't mean he was elected. He wasnt.
Man, your English is fine. Don't bother apologizing for it. It's better than 90% of the native speakers here. False modesty pisses me off.
I believe the author meant "panacea", not "placebo".
panacea, noun: a remedy for all ills or difficulties : CURE-ALL
(Definition plagiarized from Mirriam-Webster)
Hmm...let me think real hard here. How about DAT decks that couldn't make second-generation copies? How about "consumer-grade" DVD writers that can't write to the key sector? Region encoding? Child-proof lighters?