So it can go up to 5000 ft if it uses up all its fuel getting there, and then parachutes back down? Still not totally practical. Also they used a crash test dummy? Couldn't they find a darwin award volunterr?
I am not sure what size an average US house is (in sq ft) but the power usage would be very dependent on the number of people living there, and the weather/climate. In summer a house in the southern US will use a lot more power to run the A/C and in the winter a house heated only by electricity here in the northern midwest will use more just to remain comfortable.
The other main usage of power for people not involved in pot farming or running a server farm would be hot water used for showers and laundry. Especially if there are more people living there and their ages. (babies can cause a lot of laundry especially for people that don't use disposable diapers.
Of course the average slashdotter living in mom's basement wouldn't use much power for washing and laundry...
Why would you want to watch a movie on a small phone sized screen? (Shouldn't you be keeping an eye on the road?)
I can understand watching 'live' events (like news, weather and sport)on a mobile device, you can't be home at the time its happening. But a movie can wait until you are sitting down in comfort in front of a big (er) screen)
Dr Michio Kaku raves about graphene a lot.. He did mention using it to make a Dyson phere (of the capture all the energy of the sun kind, not necessarily the live on like Shaw's Orbitsville kind.
And the Blackbirds could fly at nearly 30Km. However its the effect on commercial jets that will be the problem. (as it was with the previous major icelandic eruption.
When I go to the supermarket I take my own cart. I don't drive, so I can't load the groceries into a car. If I was to carry all the items all the way home (15 min walk) my arms would get sore, so I bought a little shopping cart from Amazon a few years ago. Best purchase I ever made.
I believe there exist states that do not have state sales tax. If Amazon was to move all its functions to those states, they would not have to charge sales tax to residents of those states, and because of the interstate commerce clause they wouldn't have to charge sales tax on stuff exported to the other 45 stateMore and more online purchases are for digital downloads, licenses, and other online services these days , they can't tax that.-
Who are they racing? They were sitting around on the pad for so long its a wonder one of the commercial space tourist companies didn't beat them up there..
In 13 hours they only went 660 km? Thats not likely to be a practical alternative to jet powered planes. And its not like they can keep going much longer than that, solar power is not so good at night.
I think all states have a minimum age for (human) drivers, so that should have to apply to computers driving cars too. They would have to show stability and reliablty before being let loose on the roads.
"There are no vast fields of Hydrogen waiting to be mined (at least not on this planet)."
Who says energy has to be 'mined' anyway?
And theres a few gazillion tonnes of hydrogen about 93 million miles away - where do you think the energy to make the deposits of carbon based fuels came from in the first place (and most of the other forms of energy we can use. The only exceptions are nuclear fission and geothermal.)
"Currently hydrogen is an energy storage medium, not an energy source."
Hydrogen has been the major source of energy for the universe for the last 13 billion years or so, and in this neck of the woods for nearly 5 billion, just look up in the sky sometime.
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So it can go up to 5000 ft if it uses up all its fuel getting there, and then parachutes back down? Still not totally practical.
Also they used a crash test dummy? Couldn't they find a darwin award volunterr?
In the UK, cookies are called biscuits.
I miss Shareware that you didn't have to register. Either it wasn't time limited, or if it was, you could just delete it and reinstall.
Being able to read the readme before installing the program.
The concept of 'screens' that you could drag down, with different colors and resolutions.
file extensions with more than 3 letters
Sensible version numbers ( 6.4 is higher than 6.12 so it should be the newer version
memory, and storage sizes expressed in powers of 2 not 10. A kilobyte is 1024 bytes, a megabyte is 1048576 bytes and a gigabyte is 1073741824 bytes
A CTRL key next to the caps lock key, and a little LED on the caps lock key so you can see its on (not way over to the far right of the kybd.
screensaver thats off by default (whats the point of a screensaver these days, LCD screens don't have burn-in problems like the old b/w CRT's )
Somebody failed statistics/probability 101
on TV saying T-Mibiles unlimited is truly unlimited
I am not sure what size an average US house is (in sq ft) but the power usage would be very dependent on the number of people living there, and the weather/climate. In summer a house in the southern US will use a lot more power to run the A/C and in the winter a house heated only by electricity here in the northern midwest will use more just to remain comfortable.
The other main usage of power for people not involved in pot farming or running a server farm would be hot water used for showers and laundry. Especially if there are more people living there and their ages. (babies can cause a lot of laundry especially for people that don't use disposable diapers.
Of course the average slashdotter living in mom's basement wouldn't use much power for washing and laundry...
16th century French metaphors so you can decode the prophecies of Nostradamus
It would be simple to prevent speeding, with GPS enabled black boxes, they know you're in a 30mph zone, so it won't let the car exceed that.
Maybe they can get Lockheed to make them a private stealth airplane...
Why would you want to watch a movie on a small phone sized screen? (Shouldn't you be keeping an eye on the road?)
I can understand watching 'live' events (like news, weather and sport)on a mobile device, you can't be home at the time its happening. But a movie can wait until you are sitting down in comfort in front of a big (er) screen)
Dr Michio Kaku raves about graphene a lot.. He did mention using it to make a Dyson phere (of the capture all the energy of the sun kind, not necessarily the live on like Shaw's Orbitsville kind.
And the Blackbirds could fly at nearly 30Km. However its the effect on commercial jets that will be the problem.
(as it was with the previous major icelandic eruption.
However the French did conquer England, whereas the Germans were' foiled by a few brave RAF chaps.
When I go to the supermarket I take my own cart. I don't drive, so I can't load the groceries into a car. If I was to carry all the items all the way home (15 min walk) my arms would get sore, so I bought a little shopping cart from Amazon a few years ago. Best purchase I ever made.
I believe there exist states that do not have state sales tax. If Amazon was to move all its functions to those states, they would not have to charge sales tax to residents of those states, and because of the interstate commerce clause they wouldn't have to charge sales tax on stuff exported to the other 45 stateMore and more online purchases are for digital downloads, licenses, and other online services these days , they can't tax that.-
Does this alter where the galactic plane is, and the date at which the earth will pass through it (ie the end of the world on Dec 21 , 2012)
If the Mayans didn't know about this their predictions may be wrong.
"it's an incredible race to orbit,"
Who are they racing? They were sitting around on the pad for so long its a wonder one of the commercial space tourist companies didn't beat them up there..
In 13 hours they only went 660 km? Thats not likely to be a practical alternative to jet powered planes. And its not like they can keep going much longer than that, solar power is not so good at night.
The US Navy has the rights to the name. Did they sell the rights to Disney?
I think all states have a minimum age for (human) drivers, so that should have to apply to computers driving cars too. They would have to show stability and reliablty before being let loose on the roads.
"There are no vast fields of Hydrogen waiting to be mined (at least not on this planet)."
Who says energy has to be 'mined' anyway?
And theres a few gazillion tonnes of hydrogen about 93 million miles away - where do you think the energy to make the deposits of carbon based fuels came from in the first place (and most of the other forms of energy we can use. The only exceptions are nuclear fission and geothermal.)
"Currently hydrogen is an energy storage medium, not an energy source."
Hydrogen has been the major source of energy for the universe for the last 13 billion years or so, and in this neck of the woods for nearly 5 billion, just look up in the sky sometime.
Isaac Asimov wrote a short story called Marooned off Vesta
tried floating trains, but that didn't work so well...
That does make sense - who carries their cellphone when swimming or surfing (the real kind)