". Of course it could be bypassed by having a non-drunk passenger touch the wheel first, but then again, if there was a passenger present that's sober enough to drive, they should be driving in the first place"
What if the passenger was a child? Or blind? (I am not blind but I can't see well enough to drive a car)
Or someone who lost their licence already (but is currently sober)
I am sure such devices could save lives, as long as it doesn't prevent the car from starting, but just locks the transmission and steering. If it prevented the car from starting in the winter then the person could freeze to death while they are sleeping it off.
Most of them are fairly shallow though. Not a lot of temperature gradient, and they are warm in the summer and ice in the winter. (No I havent tested the temperature this year yet)
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You have a point about the gloves, but how much cold can a cellphone stand anyway? Would it even work at -40 degrees, or would the display freeze, and what about the battery?
Aren't time trave;;ers likely to be more interested in important or spectacular events, like the crash of the space shuttle, the hindenberg, titanic, the surrender of japan at the end of WWII, and so on.
Exactly. We don't get UPN in this town, and haven't had it for the last 2 and a half years. Its not even included in the enhanced digital cable package.
Maybe if they let the SciFi channel do reruns it might get more popular.
It may be theoretically possible once it was built and connectied to the graound, but it would be impossible to build. with the normal equatorial elevator you just start out at geostationary orbit and unroll the cable outward and inward at the same time and that keeps it in balance. Theres no way to keep a non equatorial cable there until you connect it.
'ISTR you aren't necessarily infringing on the name if it's not the same kind of product. There's probably lots of legalese wrapped around this, but Ford's gonna go after someone who makes a vehicle named "Thunderbird" but there's damn little they can do if someone names a piece of software "Thunderbird."'
I don't recall them suing "International Rescue" (Or Gerry Anderson etc)
"IIRC there was a "Mustang BBS" way back when, and Ford didn't pester Mustang Software overmuch about that either."
They did't complain about North American aircraft company making the P51 but I think that predates the car made by Ford.
I think the rules are different for common words made into trademarks, (like mustang, or Apple) than for totally new made up Trademarks (Like Xerox or Viagra).
"What you're talking about is escaping by just continually going upward, like climbing a ladder. Which you could, if there were a big enough ladder - but of course there isn't."
There isn't yet.
However there are plans for a space elevator, going from a spot on the equator to, and beyond geosynchonous orbit.
I thought that the coastline from Alaska to Maine was Canadian teritory, or do they mean going the long way around including South America (which would also be outside the US coast guard jurisdiction.)
The topography of the ocean bottom makes a lot of difference to the effect of a tsunami. some islands are not affected much since they dont have a sloping continental shelf to concentrate the wave.
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NaN ? Sodium Nitride? I suppose such a compound could exist, but I don't think it would be very stable> Cpme to think of it it should be Na3N .
". Of course it could be bypassed by having a non-drunk passenger touch the wheel first, but then again, if there was a passenger present that's sober enough to drive, they should be driving in the first place"
What if the passenger was a child? Or blind? (I am not blind but I can't see well enough to drive a car)
Or someone who lost their licence already (but is currently sober)
I am sure such devices could save lives, as long as it doesn't prevent the car from starting, but just locks the transmission and steering. If it prevented the car from starting in the winter then the person could freeze to death while they are sleeping it off.
Actually in europe its only 200 million, since they use the comma as a decimal point. (and vice versa)
If the area covered by the maps and forecast did not include the US then the US Govt could not complain about it.
And of course they could use metric measurements so that the USians couldnt understand them anyway.
Most of them are fairly shallow though. Not a lot of temperature gradient, and they are warm in the summer and ice in the winter. (No I havent tested the temperature this year yet)
You have a point about the gloves, but how much cold can a cellphone stand anyway? Would it even work at -40 degrees, or would the display freeze, and what about the battery?
Didn't VW do an autonomous vehicle back about 1970 (in association with Disney)
Cheyenne Mountain isnt one of the bases on the closure list.
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From Niven & Pournelle's Footfall)
Didn't Larry Niven invent sensor webs in the Ringworld series?
Aren't time trave;;ers likely to be more interested in important or spectacular events, like the crash of the space shuttle, the hindenberg, titanic, the surrender of japan at the end of WWII, and so on.
Exactly. We don't get UPN in this town, and haven't had it for the last 2 and a half years. Its not even included in the enhanced digital cable package.
Maybe if they let the SciFi channel do reruns it might get more popular.
It may be theoretically possible once it was built and connectied to the graound, but it would be impossible to build. with the normal equatorial elevator you just start out at geostationary orbit and unroll the cable outward and inward at the same time and that keeps it in balance. Theres no way to keep a non equatorial cable there until you connect it.
"Hint: if you're not american, after billion comes billiard."
And what comes after Billiards?
Snooker ?
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"No, I'm sure they can explain this via another Enterprise time travel plot."
... Oh wait...
We can prevent that happening by termonating Enterprise
'ISTR you aren't necessarily infringing on the name if it's not the same kind of product. There's probably lots of legalese wrapped around this, but Ford's gonna go after someone who makes a vehicle named "Thunderbird" but there's damn little they can do if someone names a piece of software "Thunderbird."'
I don't recall them suing "International Rescue" (Or Gerry Anderson etc)
"IIRC there was a "Mustang BBS" way back when, and Ford didn't pester Mustang Software overmuch about that either."
They did't complain about North American aircraft company making the P51 but I think that predates the car made by Ford.
I think the rules are different for common words made into trademarks, (like mustang, or Apple) than for totally new made up Trademarks (Like Xerox or Viagra).
Who cares (We don't get UPN in this town anyway)
"What you're talking about is escaping by just continually going upward, like climbing a ladder. Which you could, if there were a big enough ladder - but of course there isn't."
There isn't yet.
However there are plans for a space elevator, going from a spot on the equator to, and beyond geosynchonous orbit.
Never mind the source code - modify the executable!
I think you mean 30 thousand feet
I thought that the coastline from Alaska to Maine was Canadian teritory, or do they mean going the long way around including South America (which would also be outside the US coast guard jurisdiction.)
Wasn't that a story by James Blish?
The topography of the ocean bottom makes a lot of difference to the effect of a tsunami. some islands are not affected much since they dont have a sloping continental shelf to concentrate the wave.
"Paper currency is often referred as fiat money."
You should be able to buy italian cars with it then...