I don't think there is a "true" impact crater per se, but more like the possibility that the explosion of the object very low off the ground causing a very strong blast wave that did result in something that looks like a crater. It would be akin to the low-altitude air burst nuclear explosions of over 1 MT during the early 1960's atmospheric tests from nuclear bombs dropped from B-52 bombers.
However, the S-300V still might not be able to intercept this unmanned vehicle because traveling at Mach 6 and 100,000 feet with a very low radar signature and using new means to cool the structure to lower the IR signature, any interceptor missile will probably require a nuclear warhead to do a successful intercept, because at Mach 6, by the time the S-300V missile reaches the altitude of this UAV it maybe out of range for destruction by a conventional warhead.
Interestingly enough, the A-12 project stayed classified for only a short period. From the approval of development to the unveiling of the SR-71 in 1964, it was only five years!
I wonder does anyone remember Project Tagboard, the Lockheed D-21 unmanned drone that could fly at around 2,700 mph to fly a pre-programmed course before ejecting its camera pack? While the idea worked it was not a paragon of reliability and the project was cancelled in 1971.
However, thanks to technology improvements since then, this new drone could probably work, thanks to better materials, fly-by-wire systems, and GPS navigation for more precise control of flight path. It would probably be launched off modified B-52 bombers like the D-21 drone.
I think now that there is very serious research into solving the problem in battery packs in electric cars (e.g., the MIT-developed carbon nanotube supercapacitor pack), I think by 2025 the average new car won't even be a fuel cell vehicle.
It will look like a "tall wagon," but because it's all electric with a battery pack beneath the floor of the car and each wheel driven by its own small electric motor, the vehicle could seat seven comfortably but the vehicle's length will be about same as the current European Ford C-Max wagon (we can claim back the space wasted for the engine compartment). The battery pack will charge to full power in only a few minutes, and you can go as far as 500 km (310 miles) on a single charge. Since electric motors can be perfectly controlled by computers, we'll not only have true four-wheel drive, but also built-in stability/traction control and antilock braking for extremely safe handling even in wet and snowy conditions.
The biggest surprise is that with such a vehicle, acceleration will be surprisingly strong, especially since electric motors have extremely high torque when first starting up. In fact, it would not surprise me that by 2020 the all-time record for the Pike's Peak hill climb will be done by an all-electric vehicle, since electric motors don't lose power going from the base to the top of Pike's Peak like you do with fossil-fueled vehicles, and computer control of the electric motors on each wheel will allow for extremely high traction on the dirt surface of the road.
The safety of Civics and Corollas has never been their selling point.
You've GOT to be kidding. The current model Civic is truly one of the safest cars out there period, thanks to Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS) Gold Star rating, meaning superb passenger safety regardless of size of vehicle. This is tribute to Honda's dedication to safety at their crash test research facility in Japan, considered by many to be the best in the world.
Yes, but those Disney direct to video (DTV) releases are movies. What I mean by TV series is that you get new episodes released on a monthly to bimonthly schedule as a DVD release only, something I've never heard done anywhere in the world....
The Apple TV device and the on-demand service available from cable companies is a preview of what will be the future of television watching.
Except for "live" events like sports, news and a very small selection of entertainment programming, I think we are on the verge of a major revolution where instead of being tied down to a broadcast schedule, we can get programming by either downloading it to a home server machine or by the on-demand playback through your digital cable box. That essentially makes the whole idea of prime time television obselete, to say the least. Also, with DVD players so widely used, don't be surprised that we will start seeing TV series done specifically for DVD distribution, unfettered by FCC censorship regulation; they could also be distributed through a service like NetFlix or Blockbuster Video's new DVD rental system.
However, if you want to make biofuels on a truly massive scale, you need to go to growing oil-laden algae in large tank farms. Not only do you get huge quantities of diesel fuel and heating oil, but the "waste" from the processing is an excellent source to make ethanol on a large scale, too.
Of course, given the development of better means of electrical energy storage using nanotube-based supercapcitors, by 2025 the average personal motor vehicle might be using electric power, now that the biggest issue--storage the electric power--has finally been overcome.
One big problem with DSL in the past was that up until recently in the USA you were limited to 12,000 feet from the main central switching center for decent DSL connections. However, with new technology that essentially "mimics" the central switching center on a smaller scale, many more people now can get DSL broadband access. As such, at least in metropolitan areas broadband adoption has dramatically increased.
I'm not going to bother with Safari for Windows because I've already heavily invested my time setting up Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 on my Windows XP Pro machine. While not the fastest browser out there, at least Firefox has a strong developer community to implement useful extensions and themes for the browser, and Firefox renders most web pages pretty accurately.
Somehow, Mr. Chase forgot how powerfully effective The Fugitive was when that series finally ended with a pretty satisfying conclusion back in the 1960's.
One of my former employers (Northwest Airlines) went the Mac route in many departments because PC networking sucked rocks in the early 1990's.
Of course, back then different platforms used different networking protocols to communicate between other. It wasn't until the middle 1990's that the standardization towards TCP/IP took place (especially with Microsoft offering a TCP/IP stack built into Windows 95), and today pretty much everybody uses TCP/IP, given that's the protocol of the public Internet, too.
I think people also forget that modern popular music generally have pretty low dynamic range to start with. As such, they suffer less in terms of dynamic range compression.
Don't even try that with classical music or even popular music before rock and roll, because the use of all acoustic instruments means there is a lot of dynamic range to deal with (for example, with Big Band music of the 1930's and 1940's you go all the way from soft cymbals and piano playing all the way to the full blast of the brass section, quite a huge difference in dynamic range).
While I do agree that Apple II's taught a lot of people about how to use a desktop computer, that didn't translate to the corporate environment at the time because Apple machines couldn't really interface easily with corporate computer environments using local area networks. IBM's legitimizing of the desktop computer for corporate use spurred on the development of means to connect every desktop computer in a corporate environment, if you note the rise of things like NetWare in the early 1980's.
While Apple obvious doesn't have the experience of SonyEricsson or Nokia making cellphones, it has one major thing in its favor: the interface of the iPhone is a potential major leap forward compared to the Nokia N95 or SonyEricsson W880i, both of which still have a lot of buttons to deal with.
I think within a year we'll see iPhone models with these features:
1. More flash memory storage--probably in the 16-20 GB range. 2. Longer battery life. 3. Support for CDMA digital cellular phone service, which makes it possible for the iPhone to run on Verizon and Sprint networks, including full EV-DO support.
This second-generation iPhone will likely be available worldwide with either GSM or CDMA support.
While I agree that Apple Computer did a lot to popularize desktop computers, these things would have stayed a "curiosity for nerds" if it weren't for the fact a company named IBM made them legitimate for serious corporate use. Back around 1980, the IBM name had huge influence, and the arrival of the IBM PC changed the entire desktop computer industry, putting them in corporate environments on a huge scale.
Also, artificial noise-cancelling headphones could sometimes introduce distortion from the noise-canelling effect, not a good idea either.
I myself use a pair of Creative Labs EP-630 in-ear headphones, which offer excellent noise isolation and very good sound at a surprisingly reasonable price (US$30 at most retailers). They sound very good with my 2G Apple iPod nano.:-)
But I LIKE the taste that petroleum coke, lignite coal, wooden pallets, limestone, starch, and triple distilled jet fuel gives to food! MMMMmmmm... Brisket... droooooool...
I would still suggest you invest in a Big Green Egg, where you don't need to use ridiculous amounts of wood/charcoal to grill the food. I've read that it's probably the one of the very best barbecue units on Earth, period.
What's interesting is that many barbecue chefs are switching to propane-fired infrared grills because you have the fast heat up speed of gas combined with the high temperature cooking of charcoal (conventional gas grills cook at around 500 F., charcoal grills cook at around 700 F., and infrared grills cook at around 750 F.). At least with an infrared grill, you don't waste time waiting for the the grill to reach the right cooking temperature (even with a charcoal chimney starter, it takes several minutes to bring the cooking temperature up) and definitely not bother with cleaning up the ashes afterwards.
If I remember correctly, the IPv6 stack for Windows 2000 was developed before the final IPv6 specs were published. That might explain why it's still considered "experimental." If we do see a quick adoption of IPv6, then we could see from Microsoft a final version of the IPv6 stack, if only for compatibility purposes.
I don't think it will be as frightening as people think.
After all, most recent network hardware are more or less ready to make the transition, and anyone running Windows 2000 Professional or later, MacOS X variants, and more recent Linux distributions could make the jump to IPv6 either natively or by installing a patch program.
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I don't think there is a "true" impact crater per se, but more like the possibility that the explosion of the object very low off the ground causing a very strong blast wave that did result in something that looks like a crater. It would be akin to the low-altitude air burst nuclear explosions of over 1 MT during the early 1960's atmospheric tests from nuclear bombs dropped from B-52 bombers.
However, the S-300V still might not be able to intercept this unmanned vehicle because traveling at Mach 6 and 100,000 feet with a very low radar signature and using new means to cool the structure to lower the IR signature, any interceptor missile will probably require a nuclear warhead to do a successful intercept, because at Mach 6, by the time the S-300V missile reaches the altitude of this UAV it maybe out of range for destruction by a conventional warhead.
Interestingly enough, the A-12 project stayed classified for only a short period. From the approval of development to the unveiling of the SR-71 in 1964, it was only five years!
I wonder does anyone remember Project Tagboard, the Lockheed D-21 unmanned drone that could fly at around 2,700 mph to fly a pre-programmed course before ejecting its camera pack? While the idea worked it was not a paragon of reliability and the project was cancelled in 1971.
However, thanks to technology improvements since then, this new drone could probably work, thanks to better materials, fly-by-wire systems, and GPS navigation for more precise control of flight path. It would probably be launched off modified B-52 bombers like the D-21 drone.
I think now that there is very serious research into solving the problem in battery packs in electric cars (e.g., the MIT-developed carbon nanotube supercapacitor pack), I think by 2025 the average new car won't even be a fuel cell vehicle.
It will look like a "tall wagon," but because it's all electric with a battery pack beneath the floor of the car and each wheel driven by its own small electric motor, the vehicle could seat seven comfortably but the vehicle's length will be about same as the current European Ford C-Max wagon (we can claim back the space wasted for the engine compartment). The battery pack will charge to full power in only a few minutes, and you can go as far as 500 km (310 miles) on a single charge. Since electric motors can be perfectly controlled by computers, we'll not only have true four-wheel drive, but also built-in stability/traction control and antilock braking for extremely safe handling even in wet and snowy conditions.
The biggest surprise is that with such a vehicle, acceleration will be surprisingly strong, especially since electric motors have extremely high torque when first starting up. In fact, it would not surprise me that by 2020 the all-time record for the Pike's Peak hill climb will be done by an all-electric vehicle, since electric motors don't lose power going from the base to the top of Pike's Peak like you do with fossil-fueled vehicles, and computer control of the electric motors on each wheel will allow for extremely high traction on the dirt surface of the road.
The safety of Civics and Corollas has never been their selling point.
You've GOT to be kidding. The current model Civic is truly one of the safest cars out there period, thanks to Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS) Gold Star rating, meaning superb passenger safety regardless of size of vehicle. This is tribute to Honda's dedication to safety at their crash test research facility in Japan, considered by many to be the best in the world.
I agree. For almost the same price I could get a Toyota Yaris sedan or a Honda Fit hatchback that actually has decent interior space.
Yes, but those Disney direct to video (DTV) releases are movies. What I mean by TV series is that you get new episodes released on a monthly to bimonthly schedule as a DVD release only, something I've never heard done anywhere in the world....
The Apple TV device and the on-demand service available from cable companies is a preview of what will be the future of television watching.
Except for "live" events like sports, news and a very small selection of entertainment programming, I think we are on the verge of a major revolution where instead of being tied down to a broadcast schedule, we can get programming by either downloading it to a home server machine or by the on-demand playback through your digital cable box. That essentially makes the whole idea of prime time television obselete, to say the least. Also, with DVD players so widely used, don't be surprised that we will start seeing TV series done specifically for DVD distribution, unfettered by FCC censorship regulation; they could also be distributed through a service like NetFlix or Blockbuster Video's new DVD rental system.
However, if you want to make biofuels on a truly massive scale, you need to go to growing oil-laden algae in large tank farms. Not only do you get huge quantities of diesel fuel and heating oil, but the "waste" from the processing is an excellent source to make ethanol on a large scale, too.
Of course, given the development of better means of electrical energy storage using nanotube-based supercapcitors, by 2025 the average personal motor vehicle might be using electric power, now that the biggest issue--storage the electric power--has finally been overcome.
One big problem with DSL in the past was that up until recently in the USA you were limited to 12,000 feet from the main central switching center for decent DSL connections. However, with new technology that essentially "mimics" the central switching center on a smaller scale, many more people now can get DSL broadband access. As such, at least in metropolitan areas broadband adoption has dramatically increased.
I'm not going to bother with Safari for Windows because I've already heavily invested my time setting up Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 on my Windows XP Pro machine. While not the fastest browser out there, at least Firefox has a strong developer community to implement useful extensions and themes for the browser, and Firefox renders most web pages pretty accurately.
Somehow, Mr. Chase forgot how powerfully effective The Fugitive was when that series finally ended with a pretty satisfying conclusion back in the 1960's.
One of my former employers (Northwest Airlines) went the Mac route in many departments because PC networking sucked rocks in the early 1990's.
Of course, back then different platforms used different networking protocols to communicate between other. It wasn't until the middle 1990's that the standardization towards TCP/IP took place (especially with Microsoft offering a TCP/IP stack built into Windows 95), and today pretty much everybody uses TCP/IP, given that's the protocol of the public Internet, too.
I think people also forget that modern popular music generally have pretty low dynamic range to start with. As such, they suffer less in terms of dynamic range compression.
Don't even try that with classical music or even popular music before rock and roll, because the use of all acoustic instruments means there is a lot of dynamic range to deal with (for example, with Big Band music of the 1930's and 1940's you go all the way from soft cymbals and piano playing all the way to the full blast of the brass section, quite a huge difference in dynamic range).
While I do agree that Apple II's taught a lot of people about how to use a desktop computer, that didn't translate to the corporate environment at the time because Apple machines couldn't really interface easily with corporate computer environments using local area networks. IBM's legitimizing of the desktop computer for corporate use spurred on the development of means to connect every desktop computer in a corporate environment, if you note the rise of things like NetWare in the early 1980's.
While Apple obvious doesn't have the experience of SonyEricsson or Nokia making cellphones, it has one major thing in its favor: the interface of the iPhone is a potential major leap forward compared to the Nokia N95 or SonyEricsson W880i, both of which still have a lot of buttons to deal with.
I think within a year we'll see iPhone models with these features:
1. More flash memory storage--probably in the 16-20 GB range.
2. Longer battery life.
3. Support for CDMA digital cellular phone service, which makes it possible for the iPhone to run on Verizon and Sprint networks, including full EV-DO support.
This second-generation iPhone will likely be available worldwide with either GSM or CDMA support.
While I agree that Apple Computer did a lot to popularize desktop computers, these things would have stayed a "curiosity for nerds" if it weren't for the fact a company named IBM made them legitimate for serious corporate use. Back around 1980, the IBM name had huge influence, and the arrival of the IBM PC changed the entire desktop computer industry, putting them in corporate environments on a huge scale.
Also, artificial noise-cancelling headphones could sometimes introduce distortion from the noise-canelling effect, not a good idea either.
:-)
I myself use a pair of Creative Labs EP-630 in-ear headphones, which offer excellent noise isolation and very good sound at a surprisingly reasonable price (US$30 at most retailers). They sound very good with my 2G Apple iPod nano.
But I LIKE the taste that petroleum coke, lignite coal, wooden pallets, limestone, starch, and triple distilled jet fuel gives to food! MMMMmmmm... Brisket... droooooool...
I would still suggest you invest in a Big Green Egg, where you don't need to use ridiculous amounts of wood/charcoal to grill the food. I've read that it's probably the one of the very best barbecue units on Earth, period.
By the way, if you insist on cooking with wood or charcoal, get a Big Green Egg--you might not want to use anything else afterwards.
What's interesting is that many barbecue chefs are switching to propane-fired infrared grills because you have the fast heat up speed of gas combined with the high temperature cooking of charcoal (conventional gas grills cook at around 500 F., charcoal grills cook at around 700 F., and infrared grills cook at around 750 F.). At least with an infrared grill, you don't waste time waiting for the the grill to reach the right cooking temperature (even with a charcoal chimney starter, it takes several minutes to bring the cooking temperature up) and definitely not bother with cleaning up the ashes afterwards.
If I remember correctly, the IPv6 stack for Windows 2000 was developed before the final IPv6 specs were published. That might explain why it's still considered "experimental." If we do see a quick adoption of IPv6, then we could see from Microsoft a final version of the IPv6 stack, if only for compatibility purposes.
I don't think it will be as frightening as people think.
After all, most recent network hardware are more or less ready to make the transition, and anyone running Windows 2000 Professional or later, MacOS X variants, and more recent Linux distributions could make the jump to IPv6 either natively or by installing a patch program.