I know its MS, but is there really any such thing as bad research? Barring obviously nazi experimentation and whatnot. Maybe it will fail, maybe it will bring something new to the table, maybe it will inspire someone to do something completely different, even if it does fail.
If they were foolish enough to attempt such a plea, it might very well become the first instance of a duly appointed Judge entering "LOL WTF GTFO" in the court record.
All they would have to do is say the PI truly was interested, but then didn't like the price.
Right, so a private investigator hired to investigate this couple is going to convince a judge he was only innocently interested in their house, the sale of which presumably didn't include the computer equipment he took many photos of.
You see beaver means vagina in the USA, so he's clearly got some angle about using vaginas to build dams. Not quite sure how that would work, one would imagine the general grappling and lifting would be better done by hand or even by large machines, unless you're talking about Thai professionals of course, man some of them can put a ping pong ball into orbit. One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble, indeed.... wait what was I saying?
Funny cos its true, in the last episode of Supernatural, the devil was haggling with the head of the leviathans, and at one point went like "you can have Canda, we get all the rest" "The whole United States?". Argh.
It can't be legal to gain access to someone's house under false pretences, can it? Its trespassing at the least. If the couple doesn't have recourse to sue the hell out of the MPAA and the local plods, the UK justice system is badly broken. Not to say that what the couple were doing was right, but you can't break the law to catch lawbreakers. Not for moral ground reasons, but if you cross that line pretty soon you start finding lines everywhere are getting blurry.
Is it not normal practise to give companies a chance to rectify complaints before going to formal legal proceedings anyway? Unless serious harm has been done, like an oil spill.
Its called a murder board, not a murder squad. Quicklaunch is interesting, but like all gun technologies, it is extremely limited by the g-forces and small payloads it produces.
Being honest, there are some questions here, but not the ones you might think, your nose is atwitch for the wrong reasons. There were plans for a spaceport drawn up ten years ago. http://www.angelfire.com/biz6/mythicprojects/PUR-19.pdf
The murder board might not appear on the SNL website because it was completed seven years ago, its probably deep in the archives by now. The original idea goes back twelve years. http://www.angelfire.com/biz6/mythicprojects/PUR-19.pdf
Take a look at the credentials of the idea originators: http://www.startram.com/startram-inventor The question that needs to be asked is what's the delay? Why has it taken so long to surface? The only answer apparently is benign neglect - Dr James Powell has always focused on maglev trains as his main interest, his son Jesse has taken on the project on the side, by trade he's an Oceanographer currently completing his PhD. This is why its so important that word about this spreads and momentum gains, so it doesn't slip back into forgetfulness. What we have here are numerous very intelligent and successful people with other things to do.
If you are still concerned, by all means contact Sandia and ask them - given the high media profile of the original press release, they would surely have made a statement if it were false by now.
Sad really when you think about it. Citizen Assange can be set up, framed and generally gone after with impunity. Politician Assange, dearie me no, he's important! Might cause an international incident!
Eh all of that is well covered in the documentation, the pod exits the tube at mach 25 or thereabouts, and experiences 10-15g deceleration. If you can't distinguish that from a bomb I'm not sure what more can be said here. There is no explosion, no blast, and of course you're going to need high energy to get to orbit.
As for costs, SpaceX could spend 500 times more than they already have, and they still wouldn't be within an order of magnitude of what the Star Tram can do. Its not possible, due to the rocket equation among other things. Bottom line is, as per my original point, rockets have no real future in orbital launches.
The entire design has been examined by Sandia National Laboratories and found to be sound, so pretty far from a back of the envelope calculation. Myself I'd have gone for pylons in support instead, but how and ever - Gen 2 is very far off. Gen 1 can not only be built rapidly, it absolutely will revolutionise space, and there are proposals on the table to produce a gen 1.5 thus removing the need for Gen2.
Check out the documentation at startram.com. And then help spread the word! Evangelise! There's just so little awareness of it out there at the moment. Admittedly if it went wrong it wouldn't be pretty, but the engineers estimate one accident every 2800 years or so.
Short of someone inventing wormhole technology, I don't think it actually gets any better within the laws of physics.:D It even beats out hypothetical space elevators in cost per kilo. Not in individual volume mind you, but one can always build more Star Trams.
Kinda hard to aim a gun a hundred kilometers long! There will be no shortage of wild claims about "death rays" from the solar power satellite tech the Star Tram enables however.
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Wouldn't worry about it, the French will most likely tell them to get stuffed regardless. They take their food seriously over there.
What internet are you surfing.
To be henceforth called naroom's paradox! :D
I know its MS, but is there really any such thing as bad research? Barring obviously nazi experimentation and whatnot. Maybe it will fail, maybe it will bring something new to the table, maybe it will inspire someone to do something completely different, even if it does fail.
If they were foolish enough to attempt such a plea, it might very well become the first instance of a duly appointed Judge entering "LOL WTF GTFO" in the court record.
I have to say this doesn't look like a good idea.
All they would have to do is say the PI truly was interested, but then didn't like the price.
Right, so a private investigator hired to investigate this couple is going to convince a judge he was only innocently interested in their house, the sale of which presumably didn't include the computer equipment he took many photos of.
You see beaver means vagina in the USA, so he's clearly got some angle about using vaginas to build dams. Not quite sure how that would work, one would imagine the general grappling and lifting would be better done by hand or even by large machines, unless you're talking about Thai professionals of course, man some of them can put a ping pong ball into orbit. One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble, indeed. ... wait what was I saying?
Funny cos its true, in the last episode of Supernatural, the devil was haggling with the head of the leviathans, and at one point went like "you can have Canda, we get all the rest" "The whole United States?". Argh.
It can't be legal to gain access to someone's house under false pretences, can it? Its trespassing at the least. If the couple doesn't have recourse to sue the hell out of the MPAA and the local plods, the UK justice system is badly broken. Not to say that what the couple were doing was right, but you can't break the law to catch lawbreakers. Not for moral ground reasons, but if you cross that line pretty soon you start finding lines everywhere are getting blurry.
And it took this long to mention this woefully obvious point? Slashdot, you have failed.
This whole article has a reek about it, and I like the pong not at all.
Great, so now lets build it!
Fair play to the SpaceX team, its a world first for private enterprise.
Is it not normal practise to give companies a chance to rectify complaints before going to formal legal proceedings anyway? Unless serious harm has been done, like an oil spill.
Plus, although I haven't a gay bone in my body, damn thats one sexy dwarf.
Clearly you don't recognise just how awesome a show it is.
Oops spaceport here
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/nexgen/Nexgen_Downloads/Spaceport_Visioning_Final_Report.pdf
Its called a murder board, not a murder squad. Quicklaunch is interesting, but like all gun technologies, it is extremely limited by the g-forces and small payloads it produces.
Being honest, there are some questions here, but not the ones you might think, your nose is atwitch for the wrong reasons. There were plans for a spaceport drawn up ten years ago.
http://www.angelfire.com/biz6/mythicprojects/PUR-19.pdf
The murder board might not appear on the SNL website because it was completed seven years ago, its probably deep in the archives by now. The original idea goes back twelve years.
http://www.angelfire.com/biz6/mythicprojects/PUR-19.pdf
Take a look at the credentials of the idea originators:
http://www.startram.com/startram-inventor
The question that needs to be asked is what's the delay? Why has it taken so long to surface? The only answer apparently is benign neglect - Dr James Powell has always focused on maglev trains as his main interest, his son Jesse has taken on the project on the side, by trade he's an Oceanographer currently completing his PhD. This is why its so important that word about this spreads and momentum gains, so it doesn't slip back into forgetfulness. What we have here are numerous very intelligent and successful people with other things to do.
If you are still concerned, by all means contact Sandia and ask them - given the high media profile of the original press release, they would surely have made a statement if it were false by now.
Sad really when you think about it. Citizen Assange can be set up, framed and generally gone after with impunity. Politician Assange, dearie me no, he's important! Might cause an international incident!
The system is so broken.
Eh all of that is well covered in the documentation, the pod exits the tube at mach 25 or thereabouts, and experiences 10-15g deceleration. If you can't distinguish that from a bomb I'm not sure what more can be said here. There is no explosion, no blast, and of course you're going to need high energy to get to orbit.
As for costs, SpaceX could spend 500 times more than they already have, and they still wouldn't be within an order of magnitude of what the Star Tram can do. Its not possible, due to the rocket equation among other things. Bottom line is, as per my original point, rockets have no real future in orbital launches.
The entire design has been examined by Sandia National Laboratories and found to be sound, so pretty far from a back of the envelope calculation. Myself I'd have gone for pylons in support instead, but how and ever - Gen 2 is very far off. Gen 1 can not only be built rapidly, it absolutely will revolutionise space, and there are proposals on the table to produce a gen 1.5 thus removing the need for Gen2.
This is in fact the real deal.
Well this news should satisfy both those that wish him well, and those that wish him pain and suffering.
Check out the documentation at startram.com. And then help spread the word! Evangelise! There's just so little awareness of it out there at the moment. Admittedly if it went wrong it wouldn't be pretty, but the engineers estimate one accident every 2800 years or so.
Short of someone inventing wormhole technology, I don't think it actually gets any better within the laws of physics. :D It even beats out hypothetical space elevators in cost per kilo. Not in individual volume mind you, but one can always build more Star Trams.
Kinda hard to aim a gun a hundred kilometers long! There will be no shortage of wild claims about "death rays" from the solar power satellite tech the Star Tram enables however.