why don't they drop the silly daylight saving time thing. Its been proved that nowdays it doesn't save any electricity, and just messes up peoples schedules and biological clocks. In the latest issue of SciAm its listed and one of the inventions humanity would be better off without. (along with the space shuttle)
Apart from fusion of hydrogen, which we will have to get around to soon if we are to survive , isn't helium produced in some fission reactions. An alpa particle is a He nucleus.
"it takes approximately 4 layers of aluminum foil"
Maybe aluminium would work better, after all this is EU where English is spelt correctly.
Just wondering would a thicker foil be better or would multiple layers of foil separated by a non-conductor (eg plastic) Or a heavier metal (lead, silver, gold...)
Yeah, then it should be the Lidenbrock Sea that is the Centre of Europe. (Note the European spelling of Centre)
I guess this is similar to the town of Rugby ND claiming to be the center of North America. I don't think the IRB would let them get away with patenting Rugby especially as they don't play the game in the USA
"What's the difference between this and Google sniffing wi-fi, and getting flack for it?"
It is probably too small to hit with a full size Flak gun, probably the best thing would be one of those fully auto shotguns with the 29 round magazine
If you put wings and jet engines on a bus it would be an airliner..
Is there some specific asteroid that is going to be coming close enough to the ISS that it could be reached by detaching one of the modules?
You are probably going to need a lot of delta-v to match obits with the asteroid unless you 'visit' consists of hitting it or watching it whoosh past you at umpteen km/sec
Actually I remember reading a 21st Century comic that had T2's engines getting stuck on full throttle, and it went into orbit, and they had to send T3 after it.
But I also remember that the top speed of T2 was quoted as 5000 mph (cf T1 top speed of 15000 mph) both presumably in the atmosphere) I don't think Gerry Anderson ever did any wind tunnel tests on his models...
So what is the advantage of a hybrid plane? Unless there has been some sort of breakthrough in battery technology, the extra weight your carrying around is going to use more energy. A discharged battery is not substantially lighter than a full one, whereas with liquid fuel tanks weigh a lot less when (nearly ) empty..
I guess you can get a bit of energy back on landing with regenerative braking, but not enough to make up for the extra weight.
I would guess it would be moving in nearly a straight line, after all the sun is the biggest gravity field in the vicinity and its moving away from that so its path won't be curved.
In fact the main effect of the suns gravity would be to slow it down. Bur the since its a Corona it might be accelerating still due to a stuck gas pedal.
"There isn't an intelligent person the planet who denies that global warming is real."
There are many people who also deny that there were ice ages tens and hundreds of thousands of years ago. In fact they deny that there was an earth or even universe) before 4004 BC
By "Earth" like they mean rocky, as opposed to gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn. In this solar system we have Venus - very similar in size to earth and made of rock. However it in no way could be described as habitable by even the toughest forms of life found here.
Theres an article in this months SciAm,(by the same guys, referring to 'super-earths' Rocky planets twice the size of earth or more. They could have life if they were at the right distance from their star, but so far we have only been able to detect close in planets (by their effect on the star. Its possible with these new instruments that we could detect planets transiting their star, but that of course depends on us being in the same plane as the orbit of the planet
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Did they find Arrakis (Gune) ?
But seriously, the richest solar system would be one that contains a habitable planet. Gas Giants are 10 a penny...
why don't they drop the silly daylight saving time thing.
Its been proved that nowdays it doesn't save any electricity, and just messes up peoples schedules and biological clocks.
In the latest issue of SciAm its listed and one of the inventions humanity would be better off without. (along with the space shuttle)
Apart from fusion of hydrogen, which we will have to get around to soon if we are to survive , isn't helium produced in some fission reactions. An alpa particle is a He nucleus.
Farsi is the language spoken by the Persians.
"it takes approximately 4 layers of aluminum foil"
Maybe aluminium would work better, after all this is EU where English is spelt correctly.
Just wondering would a thicker foil be better or would multiple layers of foil separated by a non-conductor (eg plastic)
Or a heavier metal (lead, silver, gold...)
This is the UK. They are not subject to the US constitution, or acts of congress.
First Post becomes common
Yeah, then it should be the Lidenbrock Sea that is the Centre of Europe.
(Note the European spelling of Centre)
I guess this is similar to the town of Rugby ND claiming to be the center of North America. I don't think the IRB would let them get away with patenting Rugby especially as they don't play the game in the USA
"What's the difference between this and Google sniffing wi-fi, and getting flack for it?"
It is probably too small to hit with a full size Flak gun, probably the best thing would be one of those fully auto shotguns with the 29 round magazine
If you put wings and jet engines on a bus it would be an airliner..
Is there some specific asteroid that is going to be coming close enough to the ISS that it could be reached by detaching one of the modules?
You are probably going to need a lot of delta-v to match obits with the asteroid unless you 'visit' consists of hitting it or watching it whoosh past you at umpteen km/sec
Actually I remember reading a 21st Century comic that had T2's engines getting stuck on full throttle, and it went into orbit, and they had to send T3 after it.
But I also remember that the top speed of T2 was quoted as 5000 mph (cf T1 top speed of 15000 mph) both presumably in the atmosphere)
I don't think Gerry Anderson ever did any wind tunnel tests on his models...
WTF is a hovercraft landing system?
Do you throw out the eels to slow down your descent?
How does the insurgent get up to 20,00 feet?
So what is the advantage of a hybrid plane? Unless there has been some sort of breakthrough in battery technology, the extra weight your carrying around is going to use more energy. A discharged battery is not substantially lighter than a full one, whereas with liquid fuel tanks weigh a lot less when (nearly ) empty..
I guess you can get a bit of energy back on landing with regenerative braking, but not enough to make up for the extra weight.
I would guess it would be moving in nearly a straight line, after all the sun is the biggest gravity field in the vicinity and its moving away from that so its path won't be curved.
In fact the main effect of the suns gravity would be to slow it down. Bur the since its a Corona it might be accelerating still due to a stuck gas pedal.
You know Firefox has an en-gb version, I'll bet the French and Germans aren't using that one...
NASA can finally have a mission...
"There isn't an intelligent person the planet who denies that global warming is real."
There are many people who also deny that there were ice ages tens and hundreds of thousands of years ago. In fact they deny that there was an earth or even universe) before 4004 BC
By "Earth" like they mean rocky, as opposed to gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn.
In this solar system we have Venus - very similar in size to earth and made of rock. However it in no way could be described as habitable by even the toughest forms of life found here.
Theres an article in this months SciAm,(by the same guys, referring to 'super-earths' Rocky planets twice the size of earth or more. They could have life if they were at the right distance from their star, but so far we have only been able to detect close in planets (by their effect on the star. Its possible with these new instruments that we could detect planets transiting their star, but that of course depends on us being in the same plane as the orbit of the planet
Democracy is more common than we thought, and the aliems governments cut their funding too.
A law requiring all cellphones to have a warning label:
"use of this device while driving a motor vehicle is dangerous, and against the law in most states"
Or something, since cellphones have killed more people that way than by the radiation they emit.
It's the Fithp
Say did Niven & Pournelle ever write a sequel to that?
I think you're almost certain to have to fix problems in the middle of the night down there, after all they are about 6 months long...
Recorded by who?
"Nuclear energy is probably the best chance we have are breaking our addiction to oil."
I think you mean "addiction to coal"
There isnt a lot of oil fired electric power plants.
Nuclear powered cars and trucks (and aircraft) are not gonna happen.