Generally laser target designators use infrared wavelengths. Apparantly blinding someone is against the geneva convention, plus you don't want to (in war) give away your position in visible light.
Compared to fossil fuels it isn't going to run out any time soon. Peak oil is in a few years to a few decades, peak solar output is just before it turns into a red giant a few billion years from now.
Don't you pay more for data traffic than you do for voice traffic? Skype can give you free VOIP but then you have to pay more to the carrier for the data traffic. About the only thing I can see this being good for is international calls, which usually aren't included in your free minutes you get in your plan.
If you live 100 miles or more from the big city, and your vehicle is an SUV, then you can bet getting your stuff online would use less gas and cause less CO2 emmissions. Fedex and UPS are fairly efficient at delivery since they have to be to make a profit.
I guess it would be different if you lived in a major city and drove a Prius..
If it is an orbital flight I would guess it counts as international, although I remember another tourist flight that went from Aucklnad to Chistchurch via antarctica. It was 'officially a domestic flight (even when the last one ended up slamming into MT Erebus (but hey thats in the part of antarctica claimed by NZ)
"And if so, are alcoholic beverages included in the ticket price?"
I'm thinking that consuming alcohol before or during time in zero gravity is probably not recommended. You should wait until landing to have your Pan-Galactic Gargle-blaster
"The efficiency is 85% at 15cm, and much higher at closer distances, since the efficiency drops off with the cube of the distance."
So at 7.5cm it would be (8 x 85%) = 680% efficient? Thats cool feed that energy back into the charger enough times and the worlds energy problems are solved...
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from TFA:
"its closest approach to Earth's surface at an altitude of about 45,000 kilometers"
Only in astronomical terms would 45,000 KM be called close...
"At that time, the asteroid will be over southeastern Asia in the vicinity of Singapore. "
And I would not call 45,000km as "in the vicinity of' when even South America is only about 1/5 of the distance further away...
I didn't know Captain Nemo was an Iranian, until I watched LXG. I guess they had a nuclear program way back in the 19th Century...
I use either dd-mmm-yy where mmm ranges from JAN to DEC to avoid confusion. (It also the AmigaDOS standard)
The helium stays in the airship, it doesn't use it up when lifting.
Generally laser target designators use infrared wavelengths. Apparantly blinding someone is against the geneva convention, plus you don't want to (in war) give away your position in visible light.
Compared to fossil fuels it isn't going to run out any time soon. Peak oil is in a few years to a few decades, peak solar output is just before it turns into a red giant a few billion years from now.
You make a nuclear powered tank the size of a battleship, with enough armor and firepower to fend off any attack. Add a self-aware computer brain.
I thought the Canadian dollar was worth more than the US$ these days?
Don't you pay more for data traffic than you do for voice traffic? Skype can give you free VOIP but then you have to pay more to the carrier for the data traffic. About the only thing I can see this being good for is international calls, which usually aren't included in your free minutes you get in your plan.
Why aren't there giant penguins around today? It must be due to global warming...
Is that the one with the likeness of a jumping mouse on? (The Freman call it Muad'dib)
Religions have been using to steal money from the believers for thousands of years, its about time the ancient Greeks had a go at it...
The tern Kiwi has a number of meanings
1) A flightless bird with a long bill, very endangered
2) Short form of Kiwifruit, (originally called Chinese Gooseberry
3) the currency of NZ (Kiwi dollar)
4) A person born and raised in New Zealand - eg Peter Jackson, Lucy Lawless , Sir Edmund Hillary and Temuara Morrison
The UK Govt can put that on the agenda, after repealing the laws of thermodynamics.
I guess here in the USA the Republicans will also promise to repeal the law of gravity if/when they gain control of the House and Senate.
Say, what country was King Canute from?
How does NASA know what frequencies alien's eyes work best in?. They may see more infrared if they were originally night hunters for example.
Someone has been watching "the Brave Little Toaster goes to Mars" too many times.
I agree - I can understand Fahrenheit for weather and human body temps, but for cryogenics you should be using kelvin.
ELO ?
I didn't know the Electric Light Orchestra was still around
Sounds like a good project to unite humanity. However theres too many fault lines, its gonna break at the first quake. (continental drift etc.
If you live 100 miles or more from the big city, and your vehicle is an SUV, then you can bet getting your stuff online would use less gas and cause less CO2 emmissions. Fedex and UPS are fairly efficient at delivery since they have to be to make a profit.
I guess it would be different if you lived in a major city and drove a Prius..
What idiot would bring in possums to catch rats? Possums are herbivores.
"Does this count as an international flight?"
If it is an orbital flight I would guess it counts as international, although I remember another tourist flight that went from Aucklnad to Chistchurch via antarctica. It was 'officially a domestic flight (even when the last one ended up slamming into MT Erebus (but hey thats in the part of antarctica claimed by NZ)
"And if so, are alcoholic beverages included in the ticket price?"
I'm thinking that consuming alcohol before or during time in zero gravity is probably not recommended. You should wait until landing to have your Pan-Galactic Gargle-blaster
As made popular in the Pirates of the Caribbean films? Fortunately theres plenty of prior art on this legendary sea monster, so they can't sue you.
"The efficiency is 85% at 15cm, and much higher at closer distances, since the efficiency drops off with the cube of the distance."
So at 7.5cm it would be (8 x 85%) = 680% efficient? Thats cool feed that energy back into the charger enough times and the worlds energy problems are solved...
Compucolor II Hit the key labeled Auto . CTRL-A did the same thing I think
Apple ][ PR#6
C=64 Load "*",8,1