The friction between the tires and the road is static friction, which keeps the tire from slipping. Only kinetic friction would result in loss of energy as heat.
Someone up there mentioned David Brin, so here's a second for him. Epecially the Uplift Series, and Kiln People. Also, Heart of the Comet with Gregory Benford.
Many people mentioned Ender's Game...this is a perfect, empowering book for kids.
I just read Peter F Hamilton's The Dreaming Void recently and loved it.
David Weber's whole Honor Harrington series, or Bujold's Miles what's-his-name series. Weber's more recent one, Armageddon Reef, was good.
Robert Sawyer.
Andromeda Strain. (Great Train Robbery by Crichton isn't sci fi but a fun read for a summer car ride)
Stephen Baxter's Evolution if you want to blow their minds, or his NASA Trilogy if they're space nuts like we used to be.
Besides Clarke's 2001 etc., his large short story collection is good.
Snow Crash.
Brave New World.
McCaffrey, only if your kids already like dragons. Otherwise, it's not really that great.
A Fire Upon the Deep, a Deepness in the Sky, everything else by Vinge.
The Mote in God's Eye.
Iain M Banks Culture stuff (keep them away from his non-scifi stuff for now!)
You obviously don't know what visual voicemail is. It's not a video of someone talking to you, it's a method of displaying the voicemails in your box graphically without having to sit through each one to see who it's from and how long it is.
'In an open-access model, though, Verizon Wireless won't offer the same level of customer service as it does for the roughly 50 phone models featured in its handset lineup.'
They sold my personal information to dozens of other organizations that I was not interested in being affiliated with. Isn't privacy one of the liberties they should be defending?
From reading that article you linked to (gasp!), it seems like they were trying to publicize their march in DC tomorrow. By having "mounted police charge" them, the cops have just helped them publicize more. Sort of a win-win for the protesters.
In China, this would likely be a lose-lose. > bless the USA!
Seriously, old dude, I think you placed your one paragraph early. Realize that I'm only saying this because I care: there are a lot of decaf coffees on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Or you've been math trolled. Imagine how many math Nazis there are here compared to grammar Nazis. This is a whole new level of trolling.
I wonder, how many recruits did OBL generated for the US Armed Forces?
Windmills do not work that way.
No, they're not, unless you've been drifting.
The friction between the tires and the road is static friction, which keeps the tire from slipping. Only kinetic friction would result in loss of energy as heat.
Click the pencil/paper icon on the right hand side of the bar above the first comment. There's a pref for the old system.
Took me about 15 minutes to find it, since it wasn't in my user prefs.
Sure, it escapes straight up if it's diatomic tritium, like the usual hydrogen molecule.
Not so much if the tritium atom takes the place of a hydrogen atom in water.
Someone up there mentioned David Brin, so here's a second for him. Epecially the Uplift Series, and Kiln People. Also, Heart of the Comet with Gregory Benford.
Many people mentioned Ender's Game...this is a perfect, empowering book for kids.
I just read Peter F Hamilton's The Dreaming Void recently and loved it.
David Weber's whole Honor Harrington series, or Bujold's Miles what's-his-name series. Weber's more recent one, Armageddon Reef, was good.
Robert Sawyer.
Andromeda Strain. (Great Train Robbery by Crichton isn't sci fi but a fun read for a summer car ride)
Stephen Baxter's Evolution if you want to blow their minds, or his NASA Trilogy if they're space nuts like we used to be.
Besides Clarke's 2001 etc., his large short story collection is good.
Snow Crash.
Brave New World.
McCaffrey, only if your kids already like dragons. Otherwise, it's not really that great.
A Fire Upon the Deep, a Deepness in the Sky, everything else by Vinge.
The Mote in God's Eye.
Iain M Banks Culture stuff (keep them away from his non-scifi stuff for now!)
That should keep them busy for a while.
Kim Stanley Robinson.
You obviously don't know what visual voicemail is. It's not a video of someone talking to you, it's a method of displaying the voicemails in your box graphically without having to sit through each one to see who it's from and how long it is.
I don't even own an iPhone and I know that.
I suggest you talk to the director and cameramen and ask them if there's no creative work going on.
Rigid, lightweight/high volume outriggers. Hard foam and tube steel.
Hopefully if you're taking out satellites you don't have to be going ahead full.
You had me until your last sentence.
Air made of SOLID gold? What're you smoking?
The problem with that logic is that this device can allow dumbasses to remove other people, with the brains to survive, from the gene pool.
Sure, we hope they'll point this at themselves, but what if they miss and hit you square in the face?
What about the NSF?
'In an open-access model, though, Verizon Wireless won't offer the same level of customer service as it does for the roughly 50 phone models featured in its handset lineup.'
Surely less of a bad thing is a good thing.
check out travian.com for a real-time, massively multiplayer, simcity/civ/diplomacy (sorta) free online game.
server 6 (s6.travian.com) just started yesterday, so now is the time to start!
I'm sorry, the accepted response is:
In Soviet Russia, Uranus probes you!
-1, Alanis (not irony)
My wife saw that one too. She even called me into the room so I could see. (Gosh, I love my wife.)
Item had already been removed by that point though. IIRC, it was "991 sexy pics of my ex-girlfriend."
I donated money to the ACLU once.
Once.
Why once?
They sold my personal information to dozens of other organizations that I was not interested in being affiliated with. Isn't privacy one of the liberties they should be defending?
From reading that article you linked to (gasp!), it seems like they were trying to publicize their march in DC tomorrow. By having "mounted police charge" them, the cops have just helped them publicize more. Sort of a win-win for the protesters.
In China, this would likely be a lose-lose. > bless the USA!
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Yep, they just burn and kill everything! Lousy, worthless weapons, those FAEs...
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welcome to the turing test for nations!
is the above poster discussing:
a) Mexico
b) USA
based on your nick, i'd be interested in seeing how you bring smells to your audience.
or am i?
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4) Ferret out every GOP minion, operative, flunkie, and vote-rigger who had a hand in Bush's election(s) and investigate the life out of them.
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I will investigate you....TO THE DEATH!
Seriously, old dude, I think you placed your one paragraph early. Realize that I'm only saying this because I care: there are a lot of decaf coffees on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.