"Actually gasoline is typically octane.. not methane."
True, the major components of gasoline are Octane and he[iane. Of course thare are many other additives including ethano;.
"Methane is very flammable.. you'd have to keep the gas compressed all the time.."
You'd have to keep it compressed because it is a gas at room temperature, so it would take up a lot of space. Of course you could keep it in a gas bag on the roof of the vehicle like people did in WWII with coal gas.
Methane is the major component of 'natural gas' which can be used as an automotive fuel in compressed tanks (Called CNG) It could also be converted into synthetic gasoline. There is a plant that does this in NZ.
What gives the UN (an Earth organisation) the right to decide ownership over the moon, or 'other celestial bodies? (and the phrase other celestial bodies would seem to include planets around other stars as well as our own. I don't think Klingons (or any other warlike alien races that may be out there) are going to look kindly on us when thay hear that.
All you need to say is -40 degrees. (Since that is the same for both celcius and Fahrenheit, and the other 2 temperature scales (Kelvin and Rankine) are both absolute scales, you can't have negatives.
We can see other galaxies rhat are millions and billions of light years away. If the universe was created less than 30,000 years ago there wouldn't even be room for our galaxy in it.
" It doesn't occur to too many people to sue GM over the actions of a drunk driver, but political correctness makes it attractive to sue, say, gun makers when someone decides to commit a crime."
However the main purpose of an automoble is to transport people from A to B. The main purpose of a (hand)gun is to kill people. Therefore the manufacturers do have some responsibilty.
Since the standard amiga relied on floppy drives rather than hard drives and most software was on bootable disks, boot sector viruses were a big problem. A little bit later someone came out with the disk validator virus which only had to be inserted into a (WB1.3 or earlier) amiga for it to be infected.
Fortuantely there were some excellent anti-virus tools that were either shareware or freeware.
In fact the huge amount of freely distributable software was one of its biggest strengths. (Thanks to Fred Fiah and Urban Mueller)
Don't you normally need H2O in its liquid form in order to swim?
While Europa may have liquid beneath the ice crust, the probe will still have to get through that crust first. Will it be taking along the necessary tools (Icehouse, auger and sufficient quantities of alcohol which seem to be required by ice fishermen to get through the ice on the lakes around here?
Not to mention that the 'noise' of the explosion coincides with the flash of the explosion, the debris would take time to reach your ship since its not travelling at the speed of light (eg the delay beween seeing lightning and hearing thunder)
One other way of dealing with the asymetric lift in high speed rotorcraft is to use 2 contra rotating rotors, for example the russian Kamov helicopters.
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AFAIK Braeburn is a type of apple (the fruit not the computer) variety #4103 We grow a lot of them in New Zealand.
But this story doesnt seem to be anything to do with either apples (fruit of computer) and is not exactly news.
"Does the world really need a single user OS?"
/. Most of the people here are single users.
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But seriously, the term PC means Personal Computer. In many cases there is only one person using it.
Is it the Fithp?
"Actually gasoline is typically octane.. not methane."
True, the major components of gasoline are Octane and he[iane. Of course thare are many other additives including ethano;.
"Methane is very flammable.. you'd have to keep the gas compressed all the time.."
You'd have to keep it compressed because it is a gas at room temperature, so it would take up a lot of space. Of course you could keep it in a gas bag on the roof of the vehicle like people did in WWII with coal gas.
Methane is the major component of 'natural gas' which can be used as an automotive fuel in compressed tanks (Called CNG) It could also be converted into synthetic gasoline. There is a plant that does this in NZ.
What gives the UN (an Earth organisation) the right to decide ownership over the moon, or 'other celestial bodies? (and the phrase other celestial bodies would seem to include planets around other stars as well as our own. I don't think Klingons (or any other warlike alien races that may be out there) are going to look kindly on us when thay hear that.
WWII german rifles used a 7.92mm calibre round.
And CSI can't figure out which of the two of you should be charged with vehicular homicde.
It just went to the other side of the galaxy (delta quadrant), but came back at the end ofd season 7
All you need to say is -40 degrees.
(Since that is the same for both celcius and Fahrenheit, and the other 2 temperature scales (Kelvin and Rankine) are both absolute scales, you can't have negatives.
"Are you sure, sir? It means changing the bulb...
There is an Aurora in the Southern Hemisphere - its called the Aurora Australis.
Of course you have to be further south than Aussie to see it, try the Siuth Island of NZ, or souther Chile or Argentina.
I thought Iceland ran on gethermal rather than hydroelectric power.
Anyway there are countries where the majority of electric generation is hydro.
We can see other galaxies rhat are millions and billions of light years away. If the universe was created less than 30,000 years ago there wouldn't even be room for our galaxy in it.
" It doesn't occur to too many people to sue GM over the actions of a drunk driver, but political correctness makes it attractive to sue, say, gun makers when someone decides to commit a crime."
However the main purpose of an automoble is to transport people from A to B. The main purpose of a (hand)gun is to kill people. Therefore the manufacturers do have some responsibilty.
Since the standard amiga relied on floppy drives rather than hard drives and most software was on bootable disks, boot sector viruses were a big problem. A little bit later someone came out with the disk validator virus which only had to be inserted into a (WB1.3 or earlier) amiga for it to be infected.
Fortuantely there were some excellent anti-virus tools that were either shareware or freeware.
In fact the huge amount of freely distributable software was one of its biggest strengths. (Thanks to Fred Fiah and Urban Mueller)
Rossdee (Amiga owner from July 86 to July 2002)
Don't you normally need H2O in its liquid form in order to swim?
While Europa may have liquid beneath the ice crust, the probe will still have to get through that crust first. Will it be taking along the necessary tools (Icehouse, auger and sufficient quantities of alcohol which seem to be required by ice fishermen to get through the ice on the lakes around here?
So you use biodiesel orf ethanol to run the farm machinery needed to harvest the corn and transport it to the procrdding plant.
Not to mention that the 'noise' of the explosion coincides with the flash of the explosion, the debris would take time to reach your ship since its not travelling at the speed of light (eg the delay beween seeing lightning and hearing thunder)
They cheated! It has wings.
One other way of dealing with the asymetric lift in high speed rotorcraft is to use 2 contra rotating rotors, for example the russian Kamov helicopters.
I think the quote is actually from Randall Garrets parody "Backstage Lensmen"
Wouldn't have minded some 50 nano kelvin air here today, it got up to about 310K in MN this afternoon - even the mosquitoes thought it was too hot.
What about the one created when that meteor hit the Yucatan 65 million years ago?
In the mathematics that I had at school, the radius is half the diameter, therefore the centre of the earth would be 3,800 miles down.
They'd have to have pitstops a lot more often, just to change batteries.
Magrathea sues for copyright infringment.