...replace electrically powered refrigerators and their compressors and coils. The researchers are focusing on ferroelectric polymers that exhibit temperature changes at room temperature under an electrical field.
So they're going to replace electrically powered refrigerators with refrigerators that are powered by electricity?
Why does NASA have to do this for the moon. Why doesn't the moon just develop it's own nuclear reactor if it wants one? It's not like NASA has extra money and resources to be doing every other planet's work.
...little children are being eaten by monsters at the worlds edge.
Oh, that one's not a theory. People have known about it for centuries. That's why you never see your children again if you put them in a small boat and push it out into the ocean.
Yes, it is history since it happened in the past. That's how history works. It's probably not a piece of history that will hold great meaning for many people, but this is the "News for Nerds" website. Nope, there's not a lot of other significance, unless you're interested in things like radio wave propagation or the effect of solar weather on space hardware.
...The site was supposed to be targeted to people who play traditional games (pen&paper, tabletop, board, card, etc). These gamers can't really play over the Internet...
Uh, people have been playing these games over the internet since before there was a www.
Really. All you have to do to hide a 2d object is keep the edge pointed at the observer. Well, the very thin ones anyway. I don't know how well that would work with a thick one.
... 3 out of 4 super volcanoes should be in ocean areas. What happens when they go boom?
Well, it doesn't exactly work that way. The "super volcanoes" that would go boom tend to occur under the continents. Most undersea volcanoes have a completely different chemistry which lends itself to less viscuous, gently flowing lava (as in Hawaii) so you don't get the boom.
Who modded the parent "insightful". The answer is pretty simple, and is even illustrated in the article. The picture shows a craft with three thrusters all angled away from the asteroid. The resulting thrust is a vector normal to the target. Sure, it sacrifices efficiency, but it works.
So, following your logic, that would mean that VIA CPUs run better with either AMD or Intel instruction sets than they do with their own. That would seem a bit odd.
Ahh. The Renaissance gamers. Now those guys knew how to have fun. Games just haven't been the same since they replaced quill pens with graphite pencils.
Me, too. But I know how this stuff works. There could be 800,000,000,000 of them on Earth, and none of them would ever pop over to visit either one of us.
They forgot to mention that there isn't any rocket capable of sending that capsule to Moon orbit.
Unless you count the part that says, "But if the agencies want a manned craft capable of reaching the Moon, they will need to develop new, more powerful rockets than those on the drawing board today."
...writes Time vs Signal values as a CSV file. Now the funny thing is you can't open files with more than 65000 rows in excel...
So what? CSV isn't an Excel-specific format. It's a text file of Comma Separated Values. I don't think Tux Racer could open that file either. Open it with Wordpad if you're adventurous. It would take most of an afternoon to write up a VB program that can read, display, do statistical analysis, etc. on that file. I would even hazard to guess that the scope manufacturer either has an analysis app available, or can tell you who to contact.
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...replace electrically powered refrigerators and their compressors and coils. The researchers are focusing on ferroelectric polymers that exhibit temperature changes at room temperature under an electrical field.
So they're going to replace electrically powered refrigerators with refrigerators that are powered by electricity?
Why does NASA have to do this for the moon. Why doesn't the moon just develop it's own nuclear reactor if it wants one? It's not like NASA has extra money and resources to be doing every other planet's work.
...very close to satisfying the conditions for being 'alive'
That's the same thing my wife says about me. Hey, I'm a science experiment!
OK. Where do I go to turn in my geek card.
I couldn't figure out this reference until I saw "Fantastic Four" in another post.
Shouldn't this article have been posted in the Humor section? I know I got a chuckle out of it.
...little children are being eaten by monsters at the worlds edge.
Oh, that one's not a theory. People have known about it for centuries. That's why you never see your children again if you put them in a small boat and push it out into the ocean.
Yes, it is history since it happened in the past. That's how history works. It's probably not a piece of history that will hold great meaning for many people, but this is the "News for Nerds" website.
Nope, there's not a lot of other significance, unless you're interested in things like radio wave propagation or the effect of solar weather on space hardware.
Did anybody else who's dowloaded the high res pic notice the white plastic pill bottle just right of center, about 1/3 of the way up from the bottom?
...The site was supposed to be targeted to people who play traditional games (pen&paper, tabletop, board, card, etc). These gamers can't really play over the Internet...
Uh, people have been playing these games over the internet since before there was a www.
It sounds like a lot of fun though.
What an amateur.
I use ROT14. That really screws 'em up.
Is it just an accident that Usenix is an anagram of Unisex? Or did somebody plan it that way?
Really. All you have to do to hide a 2d object is keep the edge pointed at the observer. Well, the very thin ones anyway. I don't know how well that would work with a thick one.
If your name is Steve Austin, and you're a teenager, then this would be about the right time to start your test pilot career.
... 3 out of 4 super volcanoes should be in ocean areas. What happens when they go boom?
Well, it doesn't exactly work that way. The "super volcanoes" that would go boom tend to occur under the continents. Most undersea volcanoes have a completely different chemistry which lends itself to less viscuous, gently flowing lava (as in Hawaii) so you don't get the boom.
Who modded the parent "insightful". The answer is pretty simple, and is even illustrated in the article. The picture shows a craft with three thrusters all angled away from the asteroid. The resulting thrust is a vector normal to the target. Sure, it sacrifices efficiency, but it works.
So, following your logic, that would mean that VIA CPUs run better with either AMD or Intel instruction sets than they do with their own. That would seem a bit odd.
The article is dated tomorrow...
So is half of the mail in my inbox. Most of the rest is dated 2038.
Naw. I'm guessing that he ran out to the receptionist desk, and cried in his mommy's lap.
I don't plan to try without it.
Ahh. The Renaissance gamers. Now those guys knew how to have fun. Games just haven't been the same since they replaced quill pens with graphite pencils.
Just to be clear, we're talking about space aliens, and not girls, right?
As long as you keep the units consistent the math works out either way.
Me, too. But I know how this stuff works. There could be 800,000,000,000 of them on Earth, and none of them would ever pop over to visit either one of us.
They forgot to mention that there isn't any rocket capable of sending that capsule to Moon orbit.
Unless you count the part that says, "But if the agencies want a manned craft capable of reaching the Moon, they will need to develop new, more powerful rockets than those on the drawing board today."
...writes Time vs Signal values as a CSV file. Now the funny thing is you can't open files with more than 65000 rows in excel ...
So what? CSV isn't an Excel-specific format. It's a text file of Comma Separated Values. I don't think Tux Racer could open that file either.
Open it with Wordpad if you're adventurous. It would take most of an afternoon to write up a VB program that can read, display, do statistical analysis, etc. on that file. I would even hazard to guess that the scope manufacturer either has an analysis app available, or can tell you who to contact.