"It would [make] nukes look like firecrackers."...and make the Saturn V look like a bottle rocket. Yes, it's very hard to work with. That's why it took so many years to finally get some to work with. And yes, they use powerful magnetic fields to contain it. That's also why it will take ten or more years to make a prototype rocket, and only with a lot of funding to do things like develop new materials that can withstand new levels heat and pressure.
Oil of Olay, Maybelline and the other cosmetics companies will definitely be investing in this technology. "In these days of bionic vision a woman can't get by with just ordinary makeup. She needs something that can hide even the tiniest of facial lines. That's why you need..."
The October Sky "rocket boy" Homer Hickam is researching the prospects of antimatter rockets. This technology is predicted to be 100 times more efficient than chemical rockets, and a journey to Mars could be done in "weeks". I read about a lecture he gave where he said that with the right funding, we could see antimatter rockets in ten years. He said they got the first shipment of antimatter to his lab something like a year ago. Here is a related article in ABC News.
Please read the article. Then read my post. There is a connection, even besides the fact that I quoted from it word for word with 'music' in place of 'text adventure'. The article is about text adventures on cell phones. But the real question the article poses is at the end, "What happens when a company brings commercial opportunities into what has been a mostly-commercial-free zone?" Text adventures were once a profitable thing for companies to create. Music is currently a profitable thing for companies to create. So I raise a subtle question (if you didn't get the implication from the previous post): Does this pattern of moving from commercial entity to no-longer-profitable freeware-only entity happen inevitably, or is it more selective, and can it be changed by companies and/or laws? Yes, my question plays with some broad-based ideas, but it relates very much to the spirit of the article.
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out of Legos that could build more legos. Then, just dump in some plastic and you have as many as you need. Then use these to build more factories...
"It would [make] nukes look like firecrackers." ...and make the Saturn V look like a bottle rocket. Yes, it's very hard to work with. That's why it took so many years to finally get some to work with. And yes, they use powerful magnetic fields to contain it. That's also why it will take ten or more years to make a prototype rocket, and only with a lot of funding to do things like develop new materials that can withstand new levels heat and pressure.
Didn't you notice the big weird glasses worn by the kid on The Sixth Sense?
Oil of Olay, Maybelline and the other cosmetics companies will definitely be investing in this technology. "In these days of bionic vision a woman can't get by with just ordinary makeup. She needs something that can hide even the tiniest of facial lines. That's why you need..."
The October Sky "rocket boy" Homer Hickam is researching the prospects of antimatter rockets. This technology is predicted to be 100 times more efficient than chemical rockets, and a journey to Mars could be done in "weeks". I read about a lecture he gave where he said that with the right funding, we could see antimatter rockets in ten years. He said they got the first shipment of antimatter to his lab something like a year ago. Here is a related article in ABC News.
Chalk up one more success for Ethan Hunt.
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Please read the article. Then read my post. There is a connection, even besides the fact that I quoted from it word for word with 'music' in place of 'text adventure'. The article is about text adventures on cell phones. But the real question the article poses is at the end, "What happens when a company brings commercial opportunities into what has been a mostly-commercial-free zone?" Text adventures were once a profitable thing for companies to create. Music is currently a profitable thing for companies to create. So I raise a subtle question (if you didn't get the implication from the previous post): Does this pattern of moving from commercial entity to no-longer-profitable freeware-only entity happen inevitably, or is it more selective, and can it be changed by companies and/or laws? Yes, my question plays with some broad-based ideas, but it relates very much to the spirit of the article.