Basically there are three other ways that can help to alleviate the problem and any or all of them could be used:
* Seeding the oceans with iron to promote algae growth and thus CO2 sequestration * Introducing Sulfur Dioxide into the upper atmosphere (per wired article) which deflects sunlight. * Detonate nukes to inject dust into the upper atmosphere which also deflects sunlight.
Hmmm a bird feeder eh? That gives me an idea: If you connect up a magnetron from an old microwave at the focus I bet you could lie in wait and when birds come to feed, turn it on. Voila, wrenburgers for lunch!
What's curious is that a year ago AeroVironment initially announced this aircraft to be Fuel Cell powered, but apparently they've backed off and are going for high-efficiency I.C.E. instead.
Autorotation requires the ability to control your pitch. From the article, it sounds like this helicopter relies solely on engine RPM to generate vertical lift using a fixed-pitch main rotor. You'd need to be able to completely reverse your pitch in order to autorotate. So, I'm with the previous poster--lose an engine and come tumbling out of the sky.
Today, hobbyists, i.e. skilled individuals without govt./corp. funding are able to make radio-controlled (or at least infrared controlled) electric-powered aircraft that weigh less than a gram. Many of these hobbyists frequent this forum: http://www.rcgroups.com/indoor-and-micro-models-85. Also note that you can go to most any Target store and buy an off-the-shelf IR-controlled helicopter that measures 6" long at 10 grams and costs around $35. Ten years ago, AeroVironments was building a disk-shaped Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) with a 6" wingspan and was semi-autonomous, had GPS and video and employed a nearly silent direct-drive electric motor.
I was thinking about this idea a few months ago: You create a realistic sim-type game that when played, it encourages the player learn or develop a particular political point-of-view, simply by demonstrating how things work or don't work together. There was an old game from the mid-late 80's that sort of worked that way called Spheres of Influence.
This should be a pretty easy patent to invalidate. There are individuals who had developed web-based geographic interfaces prior to 1995 (including myself--basing my work on pioneering work done by Dr. Susan Huse in San Jose, CA). The GIS known as Grass was particularly well suited to the early web due to it being UNIX based and open source. GeoNorth in Anchorage AK did some early work in this area as well using ESRI based tools and some in-house-developed software. And that's only what I have personal knowledge of!
It was 27 days aloft, not merely 36 hours (recall that Lindberg's solo non-stop unrefueled flight across the Atlantic was 33 hours back in 1927). This record set in 1935 still stands.
I wonder why they said in the article "Scientists have little information on how the storms that produce the northern lights affect spacecraft." Scientific research on the Aurora Borealis has been ongoing at the Poker Flat Research Range, located 30 miles north of Fairbanks Alaska, for almost 40 years where they have been routinely launching sounding rockets into the Aurora Borealis to study it's characteristics. http://www.pfrr.alaska.edu/ .
Dealing with jetlag would not have to be a concern if you plan it right. What I mean is, plan your trip so as to keep your same wake/sleep schedule as your point of origin. This works best, of course, if you have a short stay. The payoff is you won't suffer any jetlag when you return either.
I would say that the first company logo seen from space or even anywhere in the solar system would have to be Orion pictures. BTW, Orion, is that movie company that models its logo after that Irish constellation O'Ryan.
Okian Warriors argument is sound at first, but the argument, I think, unravels when you ask: "How is telepathy genetic?" Since we don't know how telepathy works, it's odd to assume that there would be a genetic component. For example, what if telepathy worked only when you were standing at a particular location? When you moved, no more telepathy. This would clearly be an environmental factor NOT genetic.
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Directly improving the climate falls under the term Geoengineering. Here's a wired article on the subject that explores other viable ways to solve the CO2 problem or help cool the planet: http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-07/ff_geoengineering
More is here:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/10/geoengineering-.html
Basically there are three other ways that can help to alleviate the problem and any or all of them could be used:
* Seeding the oceans with iron to promote algae growth and thus CO2 sequestration
* Introducing Sulfur Dioxide into the upper atmosphere (per wired article) which deflects sunlight.
* Detonate nukes to inject dust into the upper atmosphere which also deflects sunlight.
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Hmmm a bird feeder eh? That gives me an idea: If you connect up a magnetron from an old microwave at the focus I bet you could lie in wait and when birds come to feed, turn it on. Voila, wrenburgers for lunch!
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Spair - Adj. Heightened feeling of well being. Opposite of despair.
Hmmm, I'm trying isbn://978-0521370950 and isbn://978-0521377096. but nothings coming up!
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Hey look, my nano-replicator just made me a Gold and Platinum Ferrari for free! Too bad I weigh 10^17 piconewtons!
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the solution we employ for getting rid of unwanted loitering teens is to blast out country/western music.
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Ethanol is for drinking, not for driving.
What's curious is that a year ago AeroVironment initially announced this aircraft to be Fuel Cell powered, but apparently they've backed off and are going for high-efficiency I.C.E. instead.
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Autorotation requires the ability to control your pitch. From the article, it sounds like this helicopter relies solely on engine RPM to generate vertical lift using a fixed-pitch main rotor. You'd need to be able to completely reverse your pitch in order to autorotate. So, I'm with the previous poster--lose an engine and come tumbling out of the sky.
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Today, hobbyists, i.e. skilled individuals without govt./corp. funding are able to make radio-controlled (or at least infrared controlled) electric-powered aircraft that weigh less than a gram. Many of these hobbyists frequent this forum: http://www.rcgroups.com/indoor-and-micro-models-85. Also note that you can go to most any Target store and buy an off-the-shelf IR-controlled helicopter that measures 6" long at 10 grams and costs around $35. Ten years ago, AeroVironments was building a disk-shaped Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) with a 6" wingspan and was semi-autonomous, had GPS and video and employed a nearly silent direct-drive electric motor.
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...that Microsoft really hasn't provided the foundation for ANYTHING in computing.
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I was thinking about this idea a few months ago: You create a realistic sim-type game that when played, it encourages the player learn or develop a particular political point-of-view, simply by demonstrating how things work or don't work together. There was an old game from the mid-late 80's that sort of worked that way called Spheres of Influence.
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This should be a pretty easy patent to invalidate. There are individuals who had developed web-based geographic interfaces prior to 1995 (including myself--basing my work on pioneering work done by Dr. Susan Huse in San Jose, CA). The GIS known as Grass was particularly well suited to the early web due to it being UNIX based and open source. GeoNorth in Anchorage AK did some early work in this area as well using ESRI based tools and some in-house-developed software. And that's only what I have personal knowledge of!
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It was 27 days aloft, not merely 36 hours (recall that Lindberg's solo non-stop unrefueled flight across the Atlantic was 33 hours back in 1927). This record set in 1935 still stands.
BTM
I thought it should have been Edamburgh, but that would be sort of cheesy.
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I wonder why they said in the article "Scientists have little information on how the storms that produce the northern lights affect spacecraft." Scientific research on the Aurora Borealis has been ongoing at the Poker Flat Research Range, located 30 miles north of Fairbanks Alaska, for almost 40 years where they have been routinely launching sounding rockets into the Aurora Borealis to study it's characteristics. http://www.pfrr.alaska.edu/ .
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How many Theodore Kaczynski Unibomber Manifestoes can it store? That's the real question.
Dealing with jetlag would not have to be a concern if you plan it right. What I mean is, plan your trip so as to keep your same wake/sleep schedule as your point of origin. This works best, of course, if you have a short stay. The payoff is you won't suffer any jetlag when you return either.
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My fantasy of the U.S. becoming more and more like the Minority Report utopia is being foiled by pesky civil-rights laws.
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I would say that the first company logo seen from space or even anywhere in the solar system would have to be Orion pictures. BTW, Orion, is that movie company that models its logo after that Irish constellation O'Ryan.
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I'm not sure there's enough room. If you're trying to get to LEO you need to get to 8km/s.
No, I think they'd want to go for VIRGO or CANCER first, IMHO.
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WTF exactly is your problem with DU?
Hmmm, what's so bad about DU? Well, if you subject it to an alpha source it turns into Plutonium. Other than that, it's peachy.
I stood up and lifted my toes and I immediately fell over!
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Okian Warriors argument is sound at first, but the argument, I think, unravels when you ask: "How is telepathy genetic?" Since we don't know how telepathy works, it's odd to assume that there would be a genetic component.
For example, what if telepathy worked only when you were standing at a particular location? When you moved, no more telepathy. This would clearly be an environmental factor NOT genetic.
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