First, pulsed fusion engines. They're tremendously efficient in fuel to weight ratio and they don't blow up! We're probably at least 50 years away from this though.
Second, warp engines. We unfortunately have no idea how to make these engines.
Actually some DO want them launched from Earth. And back in the '60s when they were being tested by the US, they were testing them above ground! They managed twice the specific impulse (power per pound of fuel) as hydrogen. That means you can put more weight into orbit than you have in fuel!!! People like Zubrin have proposed using fission rockets regularly for manned Mars and Luna missions. It's not as dangerous as you may think.
Rocket accidents have killed people and once even fell down on a village (China). The point is that a rocket may kill a few hundred, a cable wrapping around Earth would kill hundreds of Millions! BIG difference.
It's stupid to build a space elevator as useful as they may seem. If one is shot down (such as in war) or it falls for any other reason, the cable would wrap around the entire Earth and kill everyone within quite a few miles of the equator. For a good example of what could happen, read Red Mars.
Louisiana does just fine with computer ballots. We've had them for years now without any problems. I was surprised to hear that Florida still uses paper ballots. With a computerized ballot, there's no chance of double punched cards or anything like that.
I'll give you a reason. I do mpeg encoding all the time. I've got a Athlon 750 and can easily keep it busy for 6 to 8 hours at a time. I'd _love_ to have a faster processor.
The stock price is being manipulated down for 2 main reasons. First is that they are bringing Intel stock down to about 35 (next week) and they needed to bring down the other silicon stocks so as to not scare investors too early and cause a market panic. (INTC has too many shares to let it fall like a brick.) The second is that they want AMD cheap so that they can buy the stock cheap and run up the price. I think it's likely that AMD will go up by 50 to 100 percent in the next couple weeks or so. It'll probably start when earnings come out on the 11th. That'll make the already low PE of 7 even lower until it goes up.
While that may be fast enough for you, and honestly for most people, there are some of us that *need* as fast as we can get. I've been converting a video with my Athlon 750 that's even overclocked and it's been going for 4 and a half hours and still has over an hour to go. I'd love to have a processor 5 or 10 times as fast.
Thank you. As a pedophile, I've never been in a sexual relationship with a child or attempted to. (though I have no problem with consensual intergenerational relationships)
I'm not even around children much, but when I am, they really like me.:) I actually pay attention to them and they notice. Children actually like that.
Why do some people assume that sexual attraction of children = desire to rape them? I have *no* desire to rape or molest a child!!! I enjoy making young girls happy, not hurting them. Most children who are molested are molested by rapists who are opportunists, not people with a preference towards children.
I wouldn't reccomend a space elevator. If it falls, no one within wide radius of the fall zone would survive! Having it fall around Earth more than once would not be fun!
Read Red Mars to see what can happen when one falls. It's an obvious military target.
We did *not* have laissez-faire capitalism a hundred years ago! We've never had it in the US. Back then either Unions/strikes were illegal explicitly or implicitly. When strikes occured, the National Guard or Army was sent to stop them. Workers did *not* have an equal footing with employers.
My mom started using napster when she heard about it in the media a week ago when they were talking about shutting it down. All this media attention is probably *increasing* the use of napster!
Our star is NOT average. It's about half the size of the largest stars, true, but it's larger than 97% of the stars out there. Most stars are *small* stars. We've got a G2 type star, most are the smallest "M" type star.
If you want to know Zubrin's ideas on going to Mars, read his "The Case for Mars". He lays out a plan that the US government could do in 10 years for $20 billion dollars. You don't need to refuel once you launch. It's more feasible currently to launch from Earth and go straight there. In the future it would be nice to build and launch from Luna, but you wouldn't want to go from Earth to Luna to refuel since it takes a dV of about 6 km/s to get to the moon and only a dV of 4 km/s to go to Mars directly! Mars is easier to launch to than the moon. We could have had a 500 day Mars mission for the cost of the scientifically marginal ISS.
I'd still say NO. The police should not and under the 4th Amendment can't go on fishing expeditions like that. Even if a crime might have been committed, the police can't just go around searching for it like that when they have no evidence against a certain individual. In my state, oral sex is illegal. Should the police hide cameras in some people's bedrooms to catch offenders?
Why is it that whenever someone defends a right, child porn is the excuse to take it away? Should we ban digital cameras since those make it easy to produce CP? Should we take other rights away "for the children"?
Besides, the 1st Amendment was written in absolute language. It didn't say free speech except... It says FREE SPEECH. While I'm against forcing a child to pose for it as anyone, I fail to see the "crime" in having a scan of a old Dutch magazine.
I'm glad you didn't have any problems with Gateway, but I did. I had a monitor, power supply and sound card go out from a PPro system. A hard drive too, but by then it was a few years old so that's not their fault.
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You're forgetting a couple of options.
First, pulsed fusion engines. They're tremendously efficient in fuel to weight ratio and they don't blow up! We're probably at least 50 years away from this though.
Second, warp engines. We unfortunately have no idea how to make these engines.
Actually some DO want them launched from Earth. And back in the '60s when they were being tested by the US, they were testing them above ground! They managed twice the specific impulse (power per pound of fuel) as hydrogen. That means you can put more weight into orbit than you have in fuel!!! People like Zubrin have proposed using fission rockets regularly for manned Mars and Luna missions. It's not as dangerous as you may think.
Rocket accidents have killed people and once even fell down on a village (China). The point is that a rocket may kill a few hundred, a cable wrapping around Earth would kill hundreds of Millions! BIG difference.
Mod the above idiot pretending to be me down. I didn't write that.
It would have to be long enough to reach geosync orbit with a counterweight or twice geyosync without a counterweight.
It's stupid to build a space elevator as useful as they may seem. If one is shot down (such as in war) or it falls for any other reason, the cable would wrap around the entire Earth and kill everyone within quite a few miles of the equator. For a good example of what could happen, read Red Mars.
A friend of mine is working on a gui client (windows and unix) and he hopes to have it working by Christmas. That should make it much more popular.
No, it's buttons. Highlight the votes you want and when you're finished and sure the correct buttons are highlited, press a submit button.
Louisiana does just fine with computer ballots. We've had them for years now without any problems. I was surprised to hear that Florida still uses paper ballots. With a computerized ballot, there's no chance of double punched cards or anything like that.
How does downloading any type of porn deprive people of life, liberty, etc...? Your logic fails. It's not just illegal to produce it.
I'll give you a reason. I do mpeg encoding all the time. I've got a Athlon 750 and can easily keep it busy for 6 to 8 hours at a time. I'd _love_ to have a faster processor.
The stock price is being manipulated down for 2 main reasons. First is that they are bringing Intel stock down to about 35 (next week) and they needed to bring down the other silicon stocks so as to not scare investors too early and cause a market panic. (INTC has too many shares to let it fall like a brick.) The second is that they want AMD cheap so that they can buy the stock cheap and run up the price. I think it's likely that AMD will go up by 50 to 100 percent in the next couple weeks or so. It'll probably start when earnings come out on the 11th. That'll make the already low PE of 7 even lower until it goes up.
While that may be fast enough for you, and honestly for most people, there are some of us that *need* as fast as we can get. I've been converting a video with my Athlon 750 that's even overclocked and it's been going for 4 and a half hours and still has over an hour to go. I'd love to have a processor 5 or 10 times as fast.
Thank you. As a pedophile, I've never been in a sexual relationship with a child or attempted to. (though I have no problem with consensual intergenerational relationships)
:) I actually pay attention to them and they notice. Children actually like that.
I'm not even around children much, but when I am, they really like me.
Why do some people assume that sexual attraction of children = desire to rape them? I have *no* desire to rape or molest a child!!! I enjoy making young girls happy, not hurting them. Most children who are molested are molested by rapists who are opportunists, not people with a preference towards children.
NASA wants to start a MAXIM (aka, a mens magazine) project so that they can see a BLACK HOLE. :)
I know this is rare, but when I bought a Athlon 750, it was DOA, no overclocking. The second overclocks just fine. :)
I wouldn't reccomend a space elevator. If it falls, no one within wide radius of the fall zone would survive! Having it fall around Earth more than once would not be fun!
Read Red Mars to see what can happen when one falls. It's an obvious military target.
We did *not* have laissez-faire capitalism a hundred years ago! We've never had it in the US. Back then either Unions/strikes were illegal explicitly or implicitly. When strikes occured, the National Guard or Army was sent to stop them. Workers did *not* have an equal footing with employers.
My mom started using napster when she heard about it in the media a week ago when they were talking about shutting it down. All this media attention is probably *increasing* the use of napster!
Our star is NOT average. It's about half the size of the largest stars, true, but it's larger than 97% of the stars out there. Most stars are *small* stars. We've got a G2 type star, most are the smallest "M" type star.
If you want to know Zubrin's ideas on going to Mars, read his "The Case for Mars". He lays out a plan that the US government could do in 10 years for $20 billion dollars. You don't need to refuel once you launch. It's more feasible currently to launch from Earth and go straight there. In the future it would be nice to build and launch from Luna, but you wouldn't want to go from Earth to Luna to refuel since it takes a dV of about 6 km/s to get to the moon and only a dV of 4 km/s to go to Mars directly! Mars is easier to launch to than the moon. We could have had a 500 day Mars mission for the cost of the scientifically marginal ISS.
The federal law related to this is only regulating *commercial* automated phone calls. Political and other non-commercial calls are exempt.
I'd still say NO. The police should not and under the 4th Amendment can't go on fishing expeditions like that. Even if a crime might have been committed, the police can't just go around searching for it like that when they have no evidence against a certain individual. In my state, oral sex is illegal. Should the police hide cameras in some people's bedrooms to catch offenders?
Why is it that whenever someone defends a right, child porn is the excuse to take it away? Should we ban digital cameras since those make it easy to produce CP? Should we take other rights away "for the children"?
Besides, the 1st Amendment was written in absolute language. It didn't say free speech except... It says FREE SPEECH. While I'm against forcing a child to pose for it as anyone, I fail to see the "crime" in having a scan of a old Dutch magazine.
I'm glad you didn't have any problems with Gateway, but I did. I had a monitor, power supply and sound card go out from a PPro system. A hard drive too, but by then it was a few years old so that's not their fault.