According to a tour guide, the powers that be at the national labs thought that "teraflop" sounded like a really, really bad mistake, so they decided to call a teraflop a teraop instead. In other words, the phrases refer to exactly the same thing.
Do you really think terrorists and anti-american contries can afford to sent weapons into space? While it might some day be possible for Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, and NASA to send items into space for under a thousand dollars, the R&D that goes into getting to that point is enough that those worries aren't yet well-founded. Russia can't afford to fund their responsiblities to the international space station, and orbiting armaments research is not likely the cause. France has a decent space program; should we be worreid about them?
Blue lasers and LEDs are fairly recent technology. 3 years ago, they were lucky to get a few seconds in the blue spectrum, and now blue lasers are practically as common as others. It should be expected that the life time of blue LEPs will increase exponentially over the next 2 yrs, just as the laser and LED lifetimes have done.
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According to a tour guide, the powers that be at the national labs thought that "teraflop" sounded like a really, really bad mistake, so they decided to call a teraflop a teraop instead. In other words, the phrases refer to exactly the same thing.
Do you really think terrorists and anti-american contries can afford to sent weapons into space? While it might some day be possible for Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, and NASA to send items into space for under a thousand dollars, the R&D that goes into getting to that point is enough that those worries aren't yet well-founded. Russia can't afford to fund their responsiblities to the international space station, and orbiting armaments research is not likely the cause. France has a decent space program; should we be worreid about them?
Blue lasers and LEDs are fairly recent technology. 3 years ago, they were lucky to get a few seconds in the blue spectrum, and now blue lasers are practically as common as others. It should be expected that the life time of blue LEPs will increase exponentially over the next 2 yrs, just as the laser and LED lifetimes have done.