Might as well take the S out of NASA since they are no longer interested in Space. Then it becomes NAA, or maybe NAH (No Astronauts here)
Hopefully congress can just close down NASA, and give the meager budjet to private space exploration. The bureaucrats at NASA can be sent to the gulf to clean up the oil spill.
What Millennium are we talking about? The previous Millennium ended nearly 9 and a half years ago (31st Dec 2000), the current Millennium has still over 990 years to run.
"We need to stop using cellphones unless we actully need them,"
I have my cellphone switched off when I am not using it. But cellphones don't use a lot of power anyway.
"we need to forbid any kind of personal cars and force people to use bikes"
I don't know where you live, but in some parts of the country we have this phenomena call weather. Cars have protection against rain, hail snow and cold, bikes do not. Also trying to ride any 2 wheeled vehicle on ice covered streets is very dangerous.
"(what, are you really going to tell me that a car is faster than a bike in a big city? be serious)"
I presume in 'a big city' the commute would be further and so the relative speed of a car would make even more difference. Unless of course the city has bike pathways that are shorter than the roads.
All you need to make most of the 'undrinkable' (and not suitable for irrigating crops) water from nearly pure water is energy (to power the distillation or filtration problem, and to pump it to the areas it is needed.
What we need is a cheap, nearly unlimited source of energy (that does not produce CO2), and the means to harness it. Fusion seems to be our best bet, either by a breakthrough in controlled fusion plants here, or better harnessing of the existing reactor that is 93 million miles away.
"No it isn't. Mach is the speed sound travels in a medium"
So what is the speed sound travels in a large?
"As there is no atmosphere in orbit, you can't associate a mach speed value to orbital velocities."
In low earth orbit there is a small amount of atmosphere, and the drag it causes is why stuff orbitting there can't stay up forever (like the ISS needs a boost from time to time.
Weather is a local phenomena. I am not interested in knowing the weather 200 miles away, especially if it is "downstream" (Weather systems come form the west. The weather channel used to have on the bottom of the screen the local conditions, but now it just scrolls through major cities nationwide. We have to wait for 'the local on the 8's
The use of a nuclear force as a deterrent is fine if your probable adversaries are sane. It worked during the cold war, and since then against other superpowers like Russia and China because the leaders of those countries would not risk the destruction of their people. However with nuclear proliferation and 'rogue states' like North Korea and Iran, not tp mention the possibilty of terrorsts getting hold of nukes, deterence isnt going to work so well. If a rogue state does send one or two nukes at the USA, the pssibility of maybe stopping the with an antimissile defense system is worth spending mony on (compared to the lost of a major city.
OTOH Reagans "Strategic Defense Initiative would never have worked against a major attack from either Russia or China. (BTW Star Wars is a trademark of LucasFilms and has nothing to do with Reagans SDI program in spite of media attempts to imply that.
"Just all the analogue ones. The media industry is convinced that HDMI with HDCP is completely uncrackable and thus what they need to go with. Output over HDMI only, and then nobody can capture your signal."
I have still got an analog TV you insensitive clods!
And the cable guy told me I didn't need to buy a new TV. Of course that advice may change.
BTW I thought that analogue was the English spelling, isn't this an american website?
Or is this something to do with the trademark of the magazine once edited by John W Campbell...
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Might as well take the S out of NASA since they are no longer interested in Space. Then it becomes NAA, or maybe NAH (No Astronauts here)
Hopefully congress can just close down NASA, and give the meager budjet to private space exploration. The bureaucrats at NASA can be sent to the gulf to clean up the oil spill.
Prior art:
The Wind from the sun - Arthur C Clarke
The Mote in God's Eye - Niven/Pournelle
The Flight of the Dragonfly - Robert L Forward
Not to mention an episode of DS9 where Sisko recreates a Bajoran solar sail.
What Millennium are we talking about? The previous Millennium ended nearly 9 and a half years ago (31st Dec 2000), the current Millennium has still over 990 years to run.
Or do the Finns use some other calendar?
"We need to stop using cellphones unless we actully need them,"
I have my cellphone switched off when I am not using it. But cellphones don't use a lot of power anyway.
"we need to forbid any kind of personal cars and force people to use bikes"
I don't know where you live, but in some parts of the country we have this phenomena call weather. Cars have protection against rain, hail snow and cold, bikes do not. Also trying to ride any 2 wheeled vehicle on ice covered streets is very dangerous.
"(what, are you really going to tell me that a car is faster than a bike in a big city? be serious)"
I presume in 'a big city' the commute would be further and so the relative speed of a car would make even more difference. Unless of course the city has bike pathways that are shorter than the roads.
The Internet is a global phenomena. Many countries with repressive Governments are afraid of it. Thats why they try to limit it in their jurisdiction.
Sp which country were we talking about again? China? Iran ? UK ? Australia?
What is the effective range, and what calibre projectiles does it fire?
Can it be equipped with smart munitions? I hear they have even developed anti-tank rounds for 81mm and 120mm mortars.
What does OMG stand for in Hungarian then
HTML has got my vote
I use my desktop to read books (from Baen)
All you need to make most of the 'undrinkable' (and not suitable for irrigating crops) water from nearly pure water is energy (to power the distillation or filtration problem, and to pump it to the areas it is needed.
What we need is a cheap, nearly unlimited source of energy (that does not produce CO2), and the means to harness it. Fusion seems to be our best bet, either by a breakthrough in controlled fusion plants here, or better harnessing of the existing reactor that is 93 million miles away.
"But Luna has lots of rocks" - Mycroft Holmes
"0.000048828125 LOC/s"
You can't use that sort of precision with the Library-Of-Congress unit, since its not a static amount - it keeps growing.
"No it isn't. Mach is the speed sound travels in a medium"
So what is the speed sound travels in a large?
"As there is no atmosphere in orbit, you can't associate a mach speed value to orbital velocities."
In low earth orbit there is a small amount of atmosphere, and the drag it causes is why stuff orbitting there can't stay up forever (like the ISS needs a boost from time to time.
I was using Amiga Workbench 2.04 back then
Weather is a local phenomena. I am not interested in knowing the weather 200 miles away, especially if it is "downstream" (Weather systems come form the west.
The weather channel used to have on the bottom of the screen the local conditions, but now it just scrolls through major cities nationwide. We have to wait for 'the local on the 8's
The use of a nuclear force as a deterrent is fine if your probable adversaries are sane. It worked during the cold war, and since then against other superpowers like Russia and China because the leaders of those countries would not risk the destruction of their people. However with nuclear proliferation and 'rogue states' like North Korea and Iran, not tp mention the possibilty of terrorsts getting hold of nukes, deterence isnt going to work so well. If a rogue state does send one or two nukes at the USA, the pssibility of maybe stopping the with an antimissile defense system is worth spending mony on (compared to the lost of a major city.
OTOH Reagans "Strategic Defense Initiative would never have worked against a major attack from either Russia or China.
(BTW Star Wars is a trademark of LucasFilms and has nothing to do with Reagans SDI program in spite of media attempts to imply that.
Are you likely to be nominated for a federal judicial position? If not I wouldn't worry about it.
There used to be a Dutch car maker DAF They got taken over by Volvo. . Made small cars with CVT since the 70's or before.
There are a few safety issues with the shuttle, and when they fail, they fail spectacularly.
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise a kid
The molten rock is another source of energy.
That means its orbiting above a fixed point on the equator. its sti8ll moving fast. - about 5235 km/hr by my rough calculation
"Just all the analogue ones. The media industry is convinced that HDMI with HDCP is completely uncrackable and thus what they need to go with. Output over HDMI only, and then nobody can capture your signal."
I have still got an analog TV you insensitive clods!
And the cable guy told me I didn't need to buy a new TV. Of course that advice may change.
BTW I thought that analogue was the English spelling, isn't this an american website?
Or is this something to do with the trademark of the magazine once edited by John W Campbell...
I thought the bidding would start at $0.99999574
Let them have Challenger or Columbia
At some time in the future, aliens will be trying to decode OUR signals...
(The information they broadcast must be very important. It is repeated many times - they had rotary wing VTOL craft, wore Khaki and lived in tents)