And of course they are only made in 2.5 inch size, so you'll have to buy a bracket to put one in your desktop. Actually I have a spare 5.25 in bay I would like to put one in there.so I guess I would need two brackets.
I am not sure about whether you need adapter cables for the power and data connections - I have an old HP 2450.
Hands up all those who saw the liower case s at the end of F2Fs and thought that it meant it was a plural of F2F which is presumably a fighter plane made by Grumman
A ringworld is a lot easier to build than a Dyson Sphere, you could do it with the material from one solar system. And you can spin it for gravity. For a dydson sphere you need to invent some sort of artificial gravity (even a sphere made of a thin layer of neutronium isnt going to work
Books to read: Orbitsville , Orbitsville Deoarture by Bob Shaw
Ringworkd , Ringworld Engineers, Ringworld Throne by Larry Niven
Anyway a Dyson Sphere is an example of a type 2 civilization (one that utilizes the entire resources of its star A type 1 civilization utilizes the entire resources of its planet and we have only scratched the surface of this one - just think how many zigawatt millenia of energy lies in the molten rock just a hundred km below your feet and all the way to the core
"The universe is about 14,000 megaparsecs in radius"
A parsec is about 3.26 light years therefore a MegaParsec is 3.26 million light years
Say if you have velocity per distance thats distance per distance per time, the distances cancel out so the value would be a per time in other words a frequency
a very small frequency of course, but still could be expressed in hertz
I don't think your car would get that far - Nuke plants would have concrete barriers and stuff to prevent some suicidal terrorist from ramming a pickup loaded with fertalizer explosive into them.
But its melting fast due to global warming, which is due to increased Co2 levels, caused by the burning of fossil fuels. It has been suggested that the polar regions of the moon may have Helium 3 - which would make it easier to achieve a working fusion plant. So the reason to go to the moon is not because there is ice there, although that would make setting up a base possible, and also provide the fuel for sending stuff (like He3 ) back from the moon.
I liked the Stars at War series by Steve White and David Weber which had Carriers and Battleships in the fleets, and some alien races that made good use of fighters (most notably the "Tabbies" which were kind of a cross between Kzinti and Klingoms.)
Of course you have to have some way of protecting the crews of all space combat vessels from the acceleration needed to have a battle take place in a reasonable time,and of course the FTL capablity to get your ships there before everybody dies of boredom and old age.
But really the most unrealistic thing about space combat is that of having 2 or more species/civilization at close enough levels of technology at the same time so that there can be any possibilty of a balanced conflict.when it would be the more advanced race wiping out the less advanced people in very short time.
Someone who would buy and sell stolen moon rocks, and pieces of crashed satellites
But I did think of another idea.
If you wanted to build a space fence, you would need a very high fence post, going up to 50,000 miles or so. (well it could be shorted but it would have to have a counterweight at the top, so that the center of mass is at 25,000 miles, and it would orbit above a spot on the equator without needing any fuel to keep it there. You could also call it a 'Clarke Tower' after the guy who wrote about it.
(NASA could never get funding to build a space elevator, but maybe the Air Force Space Command could get funding for a Space Fence
"If you are fighting a war against terrorists, you are never going to win because that's one of the least defined terms. If we were at least talking about one organization... but we are talking about an extensive list of unrelated organizations that changes periodically (usually growing)."
So you would just give up, and let them keep attacking you?
I agree with many people who think we should pull out of Afghanistan as soon as possible, we have already gotten out of Iraq. However at the time of 9/11 we had not invaded any Muslim country,( our forces were in Kuwait and Saudi arbia at the request of the Saudi Government) and we still got attacked.
Anyway an isolationist foreign policy is not an option on the ballot, if we vote Romney in, we will probably end up in a war with Iran.
"How do you imagine that you can lose a war against terrorists, playing by the rules? There aren't very many of them"
15 suicidal fanatics armed with box cutters couldn't possibly kill thousands of people and do billions of dollars worth of immediate damage to buildings could they?
The price of iPhones (well Apple products in general) is artificially high due to one company (apple) having a monopoly. Whereas bacon is a commodity that has a multitude of suppliers, so supply and demand are what drives the price.
In the long rin though, climate cghange will reduce the amount of land suitable for agriculture, and there will be a global food shortage. Having more wars in the middle east isn't going to help - Muslims and Jews don't eat pork.
Yeah, Its something farmers put out in the fields to scare birds at harvest time. They seem to be common household ornaments in october for some reason.
Slashdot Mirror
Means 'after mail in rebate'
And of course they are only made in 2.5 inch size, so you'll have to buy a bracket to put one in your desktop.
Actually I have a spare 5.25 in bay I would like to put one in there.so I guess I would need two brackets.
I am not sure about whether you need adapter cables for the power and data connections - I have an old HP 2450.
Hands up all those who saw the liower case s at the end of F2Fs and thought that it meant it was a plural of F2F which is presumably a fighter plane made by Grumman
A ringworld is a lot easier to build than a Dyson Sphere, you could do it with the material from one solar system. And you can spin it for gravity.
For a dydson sphere you need to invent some sort of artificial gravity (even a sphere made of a thin layer of neutronium isnt going to work
Books to read:
Orbitsville , Orbitsville Deoarture by Bob Shaw
Ringworkd , Ringworld Engineers, Ringworld Throne by Larry Niven
Anyway a Dyson Sphere is an example of a type 2 civilization (one that utilizes the entire resources of its star
A type 1 civilization utilizes the entire resources of its planet and we have only scratched the surface of this one - just think how many zigawatt millenia of energy lies in the molten rock just a hundred km below your feet and all the way to the core
"The universe is about 14,000 megaparsecs in radius"
A parsec is about 3.26 light years therefore a MegaParsec is 3.26 million light years
Say if you have velocity per distance thats distance per distance per time, the distances cancel out so the value would be a per time in other words a frequency
a very small frequency of course, but still could be expressed in hertz
Gil Hamilton is one of Larry Nivens best characters
Include a Donald Duck cartoon - that will fool them
(Expedition to Earth by Arthur C Clarke)
You need to get a better dentist
Say are they still worried about Mercury in fillings?
Are they getting more energy out than they put in yet?
I don't think your car would get that far - Nuke plants would have concrete barriers and stuff to prevent some suicidal terrorist from ramming a pickup loaded with fertalizer explosive into them.
"We have plenty of ice right here."
But its melting fast due to global warming, which is due to increased Co2 levels, caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
It has been suggested that the polar regions of the moon may have Helium 3 - which would make it easier to achieve a working fusion plant.
So the reason to go to the moon is not because there is ice there, although that would make setting up a base possible, and also provide the fuel for sending stuff (like He3 ) back from the moon.
A ZPM for independant power supply
WTE is the St Louis Fed ?
I thought all Fed(eral institutions) were based in DC
The quote was from 73 years ago, and an alternate universe (Future History) at that.
I liked the Stars at War series by Steve White and David Weber which had Carriers and Battleships in the fleets, and some alien races that made good use of fighters (most notably the "Tabbies" which were kind of a cross between Kzinti and Klingoms.)
Of course you have to have some way of protecting the crews of all space combat vessels from the acceleration needed to have a battle take place in a reasonable time,and of course the FTL capablity to get your ships there before everybody dies of boredom and old age.
But really the most unrealistic thing about space combat is that of having 2 or more species/civilization at close enough levels of technology at the same time so that there can be any possibilty of a balanced conflict.when it would be the more advanced race wiping out the less advanced people in very short time.
Toddlers have been doing this for decades
Someone who would buy and sell stolen moon rocks, and pieces of crashed satellites
But I did think of another idea.
If you wanted to build a space fence, you would need a very high fence post, going up to 50,000 miles or so. (well it could be shorted but it would have to have a counterweight at the top, so that the center of mass is at 25,000 miles, and it would orbit above a spot on the equator without needing any fuel to keep it there.
You could also call it a 'Clarke Tower' after the guy who wrote about it.
(NASA could never get funding to build a space elevator, but maybe the Air Force Space Command could get funding for a Space Fence
So the images are out of copyright then? Who would pay for it?
"If you are fighting a war against terrorists, you are never going to win because that's one of the least defined terms. If we were at least talking about one organization... but we are talking about an extensive list of unrelated organizations that changes periodically (usually growing)."
So you would just give up, and let them keep attacking you?
I agree with many people who think we should pull out of Afghanistan as soon as possible, we have already gotten out of Iraq.
However at the time of 9/11 we had not invaded any Muslim country,( our forces were in Kuwait and Saudi arbia at the request of the Saudi Government) and we still got attacked.
Anyway an isolationist foreign policy is not an option on the ballot, if we vote Romney in, we will probably end up in a war with Iran.
"How do you imagine that you can lose a war against terrorists, playing by the rules? There aren't very many of them"
15 suicidal fanatics armed with box cutters couldn't possibly kill thousands of people and do billions of dollars worth of immediate damage to buildings could they?
If you are fighting a war against terrorists, and you play by the rules, and they don't, you are going to lose.
The price of iPhones (well Apple products in general) is artificially high due to one company (apple) having a monopoly.
Whereas bacon is a commodity that has a multitude of suppliers, so supply and demand are what drives the price.
In the long rin though, climate cghange will reduce the amount of land suitable for agriculture, and there will be a global food shortage.
Having more wars in the middle east isn't going to help - Muslims and Jews don't eat pork.
He was only 24 hours from Tesla
What exactly is natural about robot snakes up your ass ?
I thought it might be that the new employees get a milligram of His ashes that they can put on their wall (or sell on eBay)
"Do you know what a straw man is?"
Yeah, Its something farmers put out in the fields to scare birds at harvest time. They seem to be common household ornaments in october for some reason.