They probably wouldn't need a warhead, just make sure there's enough unspent fuel remaining. The explosion conflagration? Don't know the yield of that but HF is pretty lethal in minute amounts.
I'll usually believe something if it appears in the media but I'm not sure I believe this one. OTFA, The blogger says the group in question has a DIY hacking tool, yet there's no link.
If this is all made up, OTOH, I could see how governments publicizing supposed attacks by Wikileak sympathizers would sway general opinion against WikiLeaks as being aggressive nuisances.
There are many rare-earth materials but as far as Neodymium and magnets are concerned, Neodymium is probably going to get replaced by Fe16N2 magnets as soon as they figure out how to mass-produce the particular crystal that makes this type of magnet. Of course the nice thing is no exotic rare-earth materials required.
"The weapons malfunctioned": How? they tried to launch them toward a target and they veered off course and detonated nearby causing a horrible but remarkably suppressed nuclear accident?
"A disc-shaped object silently hovered nearby": Wow, eerie. Oh, wait, that was just a mylar balloon on a string. I think it read "Happy Birthday"
I don't see this working for anyone inside a building. Especially when a fair percentage of them are taller than the range of the vehicle's WiFi.
On the other hand, I could see people putting repeaters at street level that could boost the signal to/through buildings and surrounding ares. A repeater would be economical too being a one time expense plus a bit of electricity.
Timothy, Hopefully you read Slashdot from the bottom up like I do. A lot better signal to noise ratio that way!
Consider getting hands on with hardware and robotics and do the programming as well. The robotics field is only going to continue grow. Simple single-purpose robots are common. Think in terms of 3-D printers, Automated labs in a box, Beer brewing machines, CAM robots, etc. All of these are can be controlled by microcontrollers. A microcontroller (mcu) is a true computer on a chip. Even the memory is contained on the single chip CPU. What would be neat about going into this industry is the programming will start out pretty simply--pretty much where you left off in the 80's. This is because the mcu's are still pretty simple (cheap too--you can buy 5 Arduino mcu kits for $50). You can start by building simple robots and go to more complex ones and relearn/transition into the trade as you go. Also as far as programming languages go, you can use BASIC for PIC, C for Arduino and Java is available for some mcu's as well.
I read it. Actually, the best way to read Slashdot is from the bottom up. Going from the top down, you mainly get the "frist posters", the folks that have too much time on their hands to be able to make interesting comments and "spammers" who figure out clever ways to get their message near the top. The bottom is where the actual content shows up.
I think another solution to using excess capacity is to produce energy intensive products. For example ammonia is like the second or third most produced chemical because the fertilizer industry buys mass quantities of it. You could think of ammonia as a nifty way of storing hydrogen because it's very easy to compress it into a liquid. For a windmill farm you would probably want to start by eletrolyzing water into O2 & H2. Then take the H2 and Air and produce your ammonia. A windmill farm might build a small mostly automated ammonia plant on site that can be switched on when the wind is blowing hard and be able to store the product for later transportation by truck.
I think ideally the structure would have a fur coat exterior or some sort of hide. Otherwise the bare meat would get infected. Still you'd have trouble with things like fleas. How would the structure fend off mosquitoes and other parasites? Might prove to be a maintenance nightmare.
Sounds like a valid approach and relatively simple to do. You could even go a step further and set up more rooms with increasing levels of RF, different frequencies and mixes of frequencies.
You are right. I was just about to write this but found your posting first. In addition to the Zeppelin NT being bigger and having more useful lift, it is also being operated commercially. I saw a photo journal of a customer's flight around S.F. It looks like airship ventures http://www.airshipventures.com/ is offering scenic flights in San Diego and San Franisco.
Yep, I came to the exact same conclusion (although different numbers). In 1999 the suicide rate per 100,000 was 13.9 and a web search found 800,000 employees for Foxconn, so 9 / 800,000 * 100,000 = 1.1. So if you are living in China and not employed by Foxconn then you are about 13 times more likely to commit suicide.
No one yet has developed fusion on Earth that exceeds unity (i.e. more energy out than what you put in), but from the looks of it it seems that the Farnsworth Fusor has as much chance of exceeding unity as all the other huge projects. But the cool thing is the Farnsworth Fusor is very small compared to ITER and the National Ignition Facility or just about any other Tokomak reactor that's being experimented with currently.
Also note that fusion that generates heat which boils water that runs a steam turbine is a grossly inefficient way way to generate energy. Much better is the pB (proton + Boron 11) reaction that generates electrons that can be harvested directly as electricity.
And finally, from TFA, while it is true that the Deuterium-Tritium reaction does not produce neutrons, when you have those materials in a Confined Reaction Fusion, I think it's exceedingly difficult to prevent Deuterium-Deuterium reactions from taking place which DOES produce neutrons (contrary to what TFA states). And the problem with generating neutrons is they bugger up and transmute all your new and shiny pieces and parts into undesirable yucky materials.
All Google needs to do is modify their search bar to encrypt the outbound search string using Google's public key. By doing that, it makes it difficult to intercept whatever search is being done.
If this accelerated thorium you talk about was an interesting technology there would be more information on it on the web, but it's just not there, but, hey, thanks for playing and you may try again as often as you wish.
Do a google search on LFTR, a Liquid Fluoridic Thorium Reactor. A LFTR does the same thing as described: It consumes 99 percent of its waste or, even better, you can feed it existing nuclear waste and it will happily consume most of it while generating electrical energy. Check this Youtube video out (16 minutes) Thorium LFTR described in 16 minutes
Also this forum is, in a sense, developing the "open source reactor" by its forum members Click Here
Some argue that typical waste contains way to much Plutonium 240 along with the Plutonium 239 (Pu-239 is what Plutonium bombs use) for making bombs out of it. Pu-240 causes the would-be bomb to pre-detonate. So yes, it explodes, but only in a small area. It's the so-called fizzle. And Pu-239, being chemically identical to Pu-240 presents a problem of separation, in the same way that it's hard to enrich uranium without gas diffusion or centrifuge techniques.
If you ask me, I think it was very irresponsible of them to put all of that material in a swimming pool. They are lucky they didn't suffer a massive criticality accident.
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They probably wouldn't need a warhead, just make sure there's enough unspent fuel remaining. The explosion conflagration? Don't know the yield of that but HF is pretty lethal in minute amounts.
Yeah, plus there is a really good chance there's one near you so you no longer have any excuses (they are currently popping up like mushrooms):
Hacker Space Finder
Official word from Wikileaks:
We neither condemn nor applaud DDoS attacks
From this website: wikileaks-we-neither-condemn-nor-applaud-ddos-attacks
So it's sort of like I thought. An apparently unrelated group conducting attacks.
I'll usually believe something if it appears in the media but I'm not sure I believe this one. OTFA, The blogger says the group in question has a DIY hacking tool, yet there's no link.
If this is all made up, OTOH, I could see how governments publicizing supposed attacks by Wikileak sympathizers would sway general opinion against WikiLeaks as being aggressive nuisances.
Yeah except that summery is a word--it's the opposite of wintry.
Is she going to have a robot in front that says:
"Welcome to Megaton, friendliest town a-round!"?
There are many rare-earth materials but as far as Neodymium and magnets are concerned, Neodymium is probably going to get replaced by Fe16N2 magnets as soon as they figure out how to mass-produce the particular crystal that makes this type of magnet. Of course the nice thing is no exotic rare-earth materials required.
Here's some random reference that describes it: http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/03/fe16n2-crystals-most-magnetic-material.html You could probably find a better one but you won't because you're too lazy!
BTM
I'll sure be happy when the figure out how to grow mass quantities of Fe16N2 crystals to make even stronger magnets so we can forget about rare-earth.
"The weapons malfunctioned": How? they tried to launch them toward a target and they veered off course and detonated nearby causing a horrible but remarkably suppressed nuclear accident?
"A disc-shaped object silently hovered nearby": Wow, eerie. Oh, wait, that was just a mylar balloon on a string. I think it read "Happy Birthday"
Yeah, they put this in toothpaste. That's probably why it costs upwards of $1.99 per frickin tube.
I don't see this working for anyone inside a building. Especially when a fair percentage of them are taller than the range of the vehicle's WiFi.
On the other hand, I could see people putting repeaters at street level that could boost the signal to/through buildings and surrounding ares. A repeater would be economical too being a one time expense plus a bit of electricity.
BTM
Timothy, Hopefully you read Slashdot from the bottom up like I do. A lot better signal to noise ratio that way!
Consider getting hands on with hardware and robotics and do the programming as well. The robotics field is only going to continue grow. Simple single-purpose robots are common. Think in terms of 3-D printers, Automated labs in a box, Beer brewing machines, CAM robots, etc. All of these are can be controlled by microcontrollers. A microcontroller (mcu) is a true computer on a chip. Even the memory is contained on the single chip CPU. What would be neat about going into this industry is the programming will start out pretty simply--pretty much where you left off in the 80's. This is because the mcu's are still pretty simple (cheap too--you can buy 5 Arduino mcu kits for $50). You can start by building simple robots and go to more complex ones and relearn/transition into the trade as you go. Also as far as programming languages go, you can use BASIC for PIC, C for Arduino and Java is available for some mcu's as well.
BTM
I read it. Actually, the best way to read Slashdot is from the bottom up. Going from the top down, you mainly get the "frist posters", the folks that have too much time on their hands to be able to make interesting comments and "spammers" who figure out clever ways to get their message near the top. The bottom is where the actual content shows up.
I think another solution to using excess capacity is to produce energy intensive products. For example ammonia is like the second or third most produced chemical because the fertilizer industry buys mass quantities of it. You could think of ammonia as a nifty way of storing hydrogen because it's very easy to compress it into a liquid. For a windmill farm you would probably want to start by eletrolyzing water into O2 & H2. Then take the H2 and Air and produce your ammonia. A windmill farm might build a small mostly automated ammonia plant on site that can be switched on when the wind is blowing hard and be able to store the product for later transportation by truck.
BTM
I think ideally the structure would have a fur coat exterior or some sort of hide. Otherwise the bare meat would get infected. Still you'd have trouble with things like fleas. How would the structure fend off mosquitoes and other parasites? Might prove to be a maintenance nightmare.
BTM
Sounds like a valid approach and relatively simple to do. You could even go a step further and set up more rooms with increasing levels of RF, different frequencies and mixes of frequencies.
BTM
You are right. I was just about to write this but found your posting first. In addition to the Zeppelin NT being bigger and having more useful lift, it is also being operated commercially. I saw a photo journal of a customer's flight around S.F. It looks like airship ventures http://www.airshipventures.com/ is offering scenic flights in San Diego and San Franisco.
Yep, I came to the exact same conclusion (although different numbers). In 1999 the suicide rate per 100,000 was 13.9 and a web search found 800,000 employees for Foxconn, so 9 / 800,000 * 100,000 = 1.1. So if you are living in China and not employed by Foxconn then you are about 13 times more likely to commit suicide.
Did someone just learn to cut and paste today? Hmmm?
What? Nobody's mentioned the Farnsworth Fusor yet?
No one yet has developed fusion on Earth that exceeds unity (i.e. more energy out than what you put in), but from the looks of it it seems that the Farnsworth Fusor has as much chance of exceeding unity as all the other huge projects. But the cool thing is the Farnsworth Fusor is very small compared to ITER and the National Ignition Facility or just about any other Tokomak reactor that's being experimented with currently.
Also note that fusion that generates heat which boils water that runs a steam turbine is a grossly inefficient way way to generate energy. Much better is the pB (proton + Boron 11) reaction that generates electrons that can be harvested directly as electricity.
And finally, from TFA, while it is true that the Deuterium-Tritium reaction does not produce neutrons, when you have those materials in a Confined Reaction Fusion, I think it's exceedingly difficult to prevent Deuterium-Deuterium reactions from taking place which DOES produce neutrons (contrary to what TFA states). And the problem with generating neutrons is they bugger up and transmute all your new and shiny pieces and parts into undesirable yucky materials.
BTM
All Google needs to do is modify their search bar to encrypt the outbound search string using Google's public key. By doing that, it makes it difficult to intercept whatever search is being done.
If this accelerated thorium you talk about was an interesting technology there would be more information on it on the web, but it's just not there, but, hey, thanks for playing and you may try again as often as you wish.
BTM
Do a google search on LFTR, a Liquid Fluoridic Thorium Reactor. A LFTR does the same thing as described: It consumes 99 percent of its waste or, even better, you can feed it existing nuclear waste and it will happily consume most of it while generating electrical energy. Check this Youtube video out (16 minutes) Thorium LFTR described in 16 minutes
Also this forum is, in a sense, developing the "open source reactor" by its forum members Click Here
BTM
Some argue that typical waste contains way to much Plutonium 240 along with the Plutonium 239 (Pu-239 is what Plutonium bombs use) for making bombs out of it. Pu-240 causes the would-be bomb to pre-detonate. So yes, it explodes, but only in a small area. It's the so-called fizzle. And Pu-239, being chemically identical to Pu-240 presents a problem of separation, in the same way that it's hard to enrich uranium without gas diffusion or centrifuge techniques.
If you ask me, I think it was very irresponsible of them to put all of that material in a swimming pool. They are lucky they didn't suffer a massive criticality accident.
BTM