So you are telling me if the orbit was changed to being much lower and closer to the atmosphere that it would not end up slowing down and re-entering?
Possibly, yes. Depending on where it is and how fast it's going, simply vectoring it "downward" might only push it into a more-elliptical, but still stable, orbit. Slowing itself down (i.e. doing to itself what it's just been doing to loads of space junk) would be more surefire.
Geostationary orbits are extremely tricky mathematically - it's not just about your velocity, it's about your orbital radius, too. There's literally only one altitude/velocity combination where Earth's gravity can keep you in a stable, circular, stationary orbit. And you have to be above the equator, too. Not much chance of that for something whose primary goal is intercepting other satellites' orbits.
The problem is that creating a competitive problem-solving environment requires you to design an AI with questionable ethical constraints to run the experiments.
Old paradigms can be revived by new technology. We brought back body armor centuries after it was made obsolete. Why is it so wrong to bring back the battleship?
Battleships became useless because they couldn't get in range of their targets before they were sunk by aircraft. There are two options to fix this - extend their range, or make them impervious to aircraft. This is a step towards option 1. This doesn't mean we're going to go back to old dreadnought battles, since planes and anti-ship missiles aren't going anywhere. But a bullet is faster and more precise than a missile and less costly than an aircraft (and no pilot's life to worry about). Depending on how they solve the need-to-replace-the-rails-every-three-shots problem, this could find great use as artillery support for ground forces, as medium-range anti-ship weapons, possibly even as CIWS/point defense.
Also, artillerymen have been hitting moving targets since the invention of the cannon, and using observer-directed blind fire for an only slightly-shorter period of time. Why not bring up the actual flaws in the system instead of bringing up problems that were solved centuries ago?
Appeasing the Muslim lunatic fringe is not a "win" for anyone. We should not apologize for free speech, no matter who it offends. If anything, authorities should have gone the other direction and NOT arrested him despite his parole transgressions, in light of the political statement it creates.
And what political statement would that be? "Ridicule a large fraction of the world's population, and we'll let you out of jail free"?
Keep in mind that the best and brightest of England left to make their fortunes in the colonies long ago. The ones that stayed behind were, well, the "special" types.
Hey, someone had to sanitize the telephones and look at moodily-lit photos of toothpaste.
Yeah, you know, in his whole long-winded post where he talked about how one unit was "bigger is better" and one was "smaller is better", I don't think he realized that he was talking about inverses. Thanks, though, I don't think the rest of us realized either that the metric equivalent of a mile isn't a liter.
I don't use Linux, so I've always been baffled by this: why do you need to swap distros? What's up with this OS that everyone feels the need to jump around all the time? It's like a geek rite of passage to find the most obscure distro you can, it seems. I don't get it.
"How much heat I get out of each unit of energy I pay for" is not distracting into meaninglessness - it's probably the #1 most meaningful thing you're looking for when you shop for a heating system.
Since the definition of efficiency when it comes to heat pumps is controversial (for obvious reasons), it's much more common to refer to what we're talking about as the pump's coefficient of performance. A heat pump with a CoP of 3 brings in 3J of heat for every 1J of input power. It's all there in the wiki.
Balderdash. It's well known that North Korea has probably the most extensive and sophisticated system of tunnels and underground bomb shelters in the world. If we based our policies on perceived threats, we never would have allowed a mine shaft gap!
Hate to deviate from the bandwagon, but there is a big downside to MSE. MSE is the program that every piece of malware tries to disguise itself as when they do their "a threat has been found! Click this button to remove it, then restart your computer!" routine to try and install themselves and take over your OS. It's a lot easier to tell the fake warnings from the real warnings when the fake warnings are claiming to be a program you don't even use.
Given the situation you describe, it won't be long before the whole system falls into corruption. Your only hope is to save two lines from every script on a USB stick, then flood the rest.
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So you are telling me if the orbit was changed to being much lower and closer to the atmosphere that it would not end up slowing down and re-entering?
Possibly, yes. Depending on where it is and how fast it's going, simply vectoring it "downward" might only push it into a more-elliptical, but still stable, orbit. Slowing itself down (i.e. doing to itself what it's just been doing to loads of space junk) would be more surefire.
Geostationary orbits are extremely tricky mathematically - it's not just about your velocity, it's about your orbital radius, too. There's literally only one altitude/velocity combination where Earth's gravity can keep you in a stable, circular, stationary orbit. And you have to be above the equator, too. Not much chance of that for something whose primary goal is intercepting other satellites' orbits.
Apparently coffee is dangerous. I'm switching to amphetamines.
The problem is that creating a competitive problem-solving environment requires you to design an AI with questionable ethical constraints to run the experiments.
Also you have to learn to bake.
Nonsense. I was already interconnected with your mother; the "all other things" bit was merely coincidental.
Battleships became useless because they couldn't get in range of their targets before they were sunk by aircraft. There are two options to fix this - extend their range, or make them impervious to aircraft. This is a step towards option 1. This doesn't mean we're going to go back to old dreadnought battles, since planes and anti-ship missiles aren't going anywhere. But a bullet is faster and more precise than a missile and less costly than an aircraft (and no pilot's life to worry about). Depending on how they solve the need-to-replace-the-rails-every-three-shots problem, this could find great use as artillery support for ground forces, as medium-range anti-ship weapons, possibly even as CIWS/point defense.
Also, artillerymen have been hitting moving targets since the invention of the cannon, and using observer-directed blind fire for an only slightly-shorter period of time. Why not bring up the actual flaws in the system instead of bringing up problems that were solved centuries ago?
And how do we currently get into space? Oh right, via that other tech that started as a long-range weapons system.
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Really?
...if ever, that you punched someone in the face? Was it a bar fight? High school bully? Someone hitting on your girl?
I know I'm supposed to be asking techie stuff, but I just like the idea of Woz flipping out and decking someone.
Suspending the rule of law because you agree with someone is justifiable, civilized behavior, though, if you believe the OP.
Maybe you can design Project Scorpio to supplant it, slowly draining it of funds until only you remain?
Appeasing the Muslim lunatic fringe is not a "win" for anyone. We should not apologize for free speech, no matter who it offends. If anything, authorities should have gone the other direction and NOT arrested him despite his parole transgressions, in light of the political statement it creates.
And what political statement would that be? "Ridicule a large fraction of the world's population, and we'll let you out of jail free"?
Not Lindsey Lohan. He's the new Billy Mays. He's already sold us one product. Next, he'll unveil OrthodOxy-Clean and the Sham-Tao!
Keep in mind that the best and brightest of England left to make their fortunes in the colonies long ago. The ones that stayed behind were, well, the "special" types.
Hey, someone had to sanitize the telephones and look at moodily-lit photos of toothpaste.
Yeah, you know, in his whole long-winded post where he talked about how one unit was "bigger is better" and one was "smaller is better", I don't think he realized that he was talking about inverses. Thanks, though, I don't think the rest of us realized either that the metric equivalent of a mile isn't a liter.
Shut up! That's why!
If you thought your keyboard was dirty now...
(Not trolling, genuinely puzzled)
Well, that's great for Walt. Personally, I'd rather learn to fly an airplane than stare at a flock of seagulls.
Oh, you were replying to the other guy, not me. Didn't realize that replies stopped indenting after a certain number. Whoops.
How am I wrong? I know all that. Nothing you said is in disagreement with anything I said.
Since the definition of efficiency when it comes to heat pumps is controversial (for obvious reasons), it's much more common to refer to what we're talking about as the pump's coefficient of performance. A heat pump with a CoP of 3 brings in 3J of heat for every 1J of input power. It's all there in the wiki.
Balderdash. It's well known that North Korea has probably the most extensive and sophisticated system of tunnels and underground bomb shelters in the world. If we based our policies on perceived threats, we never would have allowed a mine shaft gap!
"As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball" is something I would be utterly unsurprised to hear coming out of Romney's mouth.
Hate to deviate from the bandwagon, but there is a big downside to MSE. MSE is the program that every piece of malware tries to disguise itself as when they do their "a threat has been found! Click this button to remove it, then restart your computer!" routine to try and install themselves and take over your OS. It's a lot easier to tell the fake warnings from the real warnings when the fake warnings are claiming to be a program you don't even use.
Given the situation you describe, it won't be long before the whole system falls into corruption. Your only hope is to save two lines from every script on a USB stick, then flood the rest.