You got it in one. In Ender's game, the people in charge of the school tried to train students using games which pulled images from their subconscious and made them confront their deepest fears/psychological limitations etc in a fantasy environment.
In the story, the game was designed to bring out certain features of Ender's personality which he didn't want to accept (specifically that he could be a stone cold killer under the right conditions).
One of the sub themes of the story is that when humans are trying to guide and shape you they have moral dilemmas about whether they are going to harm you, when it is a machine that is training you it may not know how to care.
thanks for telling me about the USS Akron (ZRS-4)! sorry to read that she killed so many sailors though. I've always wondered why the flying airbase never eventuated, but I guess it's just hard to handle them.
oh well, as another poster said in another discussion airship carriers are cool in an anime sort of way.
But when you turn the sea water to steam, all the salt and solids that were in the sea water will scale all over the vessle you were making the steam in. If it stops taking the heat away from the reactor, then the heat exchanger loop had better find someplace else to put the heat in a hurry.
So if your boiler fouls, you might have a meltdown, a scram, or be dead in the water venting precious heat instead of going somewhere.
"But Terry's plan about requires about eight kilos the more fissile Uranium-235 to give her submarine extra staying power."
Team maddog member: Hey expert, is this ok? It's making my hair fall out just like you said.
Terry: Nah. That's full of U-238. It doesn't even get warm when I mash it into the other block U-235 that we found under the coke machine. See?
Team maddog member #2: Ok, how about this thing I found - I think it's some kind of centrifuge... and here's a couple of toothbrushes.
"With only eight hours to go, will team maddog or team smoke hammer be the first to retrieve the lost case of original kenner Star Wars merchandise from the bottom of this six inch deep lake?"
If we are boiling seawater for steam, the toughest thing would be keeping the boiler clear of fouling, scaling or similar failure. Anything that attacks the heat exchange characteristics of the boiler could make your pile overheat.
Either a high throughput filtration plant inline, or a large reservoir of filtered water for short dashes might be in order.
I don't know. It depends on how clever we are. The stealth bomber is jet propelled and yet the can hush it by mixing cold air with the hot exhaust and carefully shaping the jet so that you only hear it with sensative microphones when its directly overhead. Or so the govt said in 1991 on the news.
It's a pity that the stall speed of most modern fighter aircraft is around 150 knots. Imagine how easy carrier landings would be if you and the carrier could head into the wind and the carrier would match speed with the fighter!
Maybe they only did safety factor calculations out to 10x? It might require a slightly different shaped engine for higher horespowers to avoid the KABOOM failure mode.
Also, the article says that part of the engine was demonstration was to shove large amounts of lard and cardboard through it, so I would say Yes it is a machine potato gun... so long as your potatos start out underwater. (no water, no jet)
hmmm. as an afterthought, have you ever heard about the Archerfish? It's a firefighting boat which uses a jet ski engine to get to the fire, and then reroutes the engine through the firehose to put out the fire. Secondary propulsion allows the boat to manouver in firefighting mode.
If you fitted a grille over the intake of the super water jet engine, you could put out the fire with a more powerfull blast from a more reliable engine and not have any disadvantages like slugging the burning marina with underwater potatoes and sucked up fish.
(one more thought)
since the water is only 3 or 4 degrees warmer after it exhausts from the blast chamber, would trout that has been killed by being sucked up by the engine be in one piece and good to eat if you turned around and began to scoop up your trail of dead sucked up fish? It would be the simplest fishing trip since the invention of dynamite.
One thought though, if you're doing 90 knots underwater when the sea is full of debris, you might want really good maps and a kick ass gps+VR rig to guide you through the canyons, because I doubt sonar will be able to image for you fast enough.
Nah, they'll just outfit them with those russian underwater guns and we'll see mercinaries being hired to protect the country from incursion... wasn't that the plot of anachronox?
Look at it this way: Hospitals have labs which can raise small cultures of dangerous pathogens. They also have access to a large sample of sick people, some of which are actually suffering from weaponisable diseases.
A research hospital might also be able to request a bioreactor or two for "research purposes" or "drug development".
Furthermore, a hospital might even be able to purchase weaponised diseases "to find a cure".
If I was an evil overlord, I'd have a bioweapons lab in an old Veterans Affairs hospital near a middle sized population center. Not a famous hospital, but a well equipped one.
I'd also take in civilian casualties in time of war, and maybe genuinely treat the wounds of the captured enemy there under the goodwill of the geneva convention.
Nobody need ever know. A hospital would certainly not be on any bombing target list.
If I was a good overlord, and wanted to take out the evil overlords bioweapons hospital, I might be reduced to using spies and sabouteurs rather than blowing it up... unless there was a better way.
I don't know about the taiwan thing. China is offering taiwan businesses crazy labour and material rates and tempting most buisness onto the mainland.
They pretty much seem to be running a state industry designed to service taiwan with the eventual goal of making it totally dependant on red China. Not to mention offering taiwan the huge chinese market on a platter.
The taiwanese government can't really legislate to stop it, ironically because they are for free trade so taxes, tarifs and price controls are not a done thing.
I guess once that process is complete, China wouldn't need tanks or nukes or guns. The PRC would already own all the factories and centers of production (now safely on mainland china), and taiwan would be nothing more than a gateway to the west... just as beijing wants it to be.
The only thing anybody can do to combat that is to offer material, labour and a market at better prices than the chinese... good luck!
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>light lantern
No, it's english for something you don't know about.
Depends, some people feel that life is all about the journey (the sims players) and others believe that the end justifies the means (counterstrike).
There's room enough in the world for both kinds of people.
only if you like watching your big bro eat snakes... :)
You got it in one. In Ender's game, the people in charge of the school tried to train students using games which pulled images from their subconscious and made them confront their deepest fears/psychological limitations etc in a fantasy environment.
In the story, the game was designed to bring out certain features of Ender's personality which he didn't want to accept (specifically that he could be a stone cold killer under the right conditions).
One of the sub themes of the story is that when humans are trying to guide and shape you they have moral dilemmas about whether they are going to harm you, when it is a machine that is training you it may not know how to care.
"Ok, I turn and walk out the door."
"You start to walk out the door, but the door is locked."
"Damnit. ok. sense."
"You successfully sense something strange."
"You said that there was a spooky looking chest in the room right?"
"Yup."
" Detect trap"
"The whole room detects as a trap."
"What do you mean the whole room detects as a trap?!"
So what will you do when you are stuck at the Giant's Drink?
Wow!
thanks for telling me about the USS Akron (ZRS-4)! sorry to read that she killed so many sailors though. I've always wondered why the flying airbase never eventuated, but I guess it's just hard to handle them.
oh well, as another poster said in another discussion airship carriers are cool in an anime sort of way.
crimson skies anyone?
But when you turn the sea water to steam, all the salt and solids that were in the sea water will scale all over the vessle you were making the steam in. If it stops taking the heat away from the reactor, then the heat exchanger loop had better find someplace else to put the heat in a hurry.
So if your boiler fouls, you might have a meltdown, a scram, or be dead in the water venting precious heat instead of going somewhere.
"But Terry's plan about requires about eight kilos the more fissile Uranium-235 to give her submarine extra staying power."
Team maddog member: Hey expert, is this ok? It's making my hair fall out just like you said.
Terry: Nah. That's full of U-238. It doesn't even get warm when I mash it into the other block U-235 that we found under the coke machine. See?
Team maddog member #2: Ok, how about this thing I found - I think it's some kind of centrifuge... and here's a couple of toothbrushes.
"With only eight hours to go, will team maddog or team smoke hammer be the first to retrieve the lost case of original kenner Star Wars merchandise from the bottom of this six inch deep lake?"
If we are boiling seawater for steam, the toughest thing would be keeping the boiler clear of fouling, scaling or similar failure. Anything that attacks the heat exchange characteristics of the boiler could make your pile overheat.
Either a high throughput filtration plant inline, or a large reservoir of filtered water for short dashes might be in order.
I don't know. It depends on how clever we are. The stealth bomber is jet propelled and yet the can hush it by mixing cold air with the hot exhaust and carefully shaping the jet so that you only hear it with sensative microphones when its directly overhead. Or so the govt said in 1991 on the news.
It's a pity that the stall speed of most modern fighter aircraft is around 150 knots. Imagine how easy carrier landings would be if you and the carrier could head into the wind and the carrier would match speed with the fighter!
Maybe they only did safety factor calculations out to 10x? It might require a slightly different shaped engine for higher horespowers to avoid the KABOOM failure mode.
Also, the article says that part of the engine was demonstration was to shove large amounts of lard and cardboard through it, so I would say Yes it is a machine potato gun... so long as your potatos start out underwater. (no water, no jet)
hmmm. as an afterthought, have you ever heard about the Archerfish? It's a firefighting boat which uses a jet ski engine to get to the fire, and then reroutes the engine through the firehose to put out the fire. Secondary propulsion allows the boat to manouver in firefighting mode.
If you fitted a grille over the intake of the super water jet engine, you could put out the fire with a more powerfull blast from a more reliable engine and not have any disadvantages like slugging the burning marina with underwater potatoes and sucked up fish.
(one more thought)
since the water is only 3 or 4 degrees warmer after it exhausts from the blast chamber, would trout that has been killed by being sucked up by the engine be in one piece and good to eat if you turned around and began to scoop up your trail of dead sucked up fish? It would be the simplest fishing trip since the invention of dynamite.
why electrolosys of course, just like in all the serious boats out there.
Imagine if the drive which produces steam is not desiel or petrol, but nuclear!
Enough "air" and steam for everybody.
Moreover, imagine if the sub doesn't use neutral bouyancy but flies through the water.
One thought though, if you're doing 90 knots underwater when the sea is full of debris, you might want really good maps and a kick ass gps+VR rig to guide you through the canyons, because I doubt sonar will be able to image for you fast enough.
So eventually it'll be just like startrek the search for spock where you get a hit to the automation center and then have to self destruct yourself...
ahh well, at least we won't see any of scotty's engine room whiteshirts toasted again due to warp core breaches.
of the message at the very, very bottom of the faq page. (after the spoiler space)
I hope this won't be like newtonquake.
I dont know, unlike a personal helicopter, if this sub is involved in a colission it will simply float back up to the surface.
Much safer than falling onto my house, or running into my front fence.
Nah, they'll just outfit them with those russian underwater guns and we'll see mercinaries being hired to protect the country from incursion... wasn't that the plot of anachronox?
Gee damn, now you've done it and given the weapons designers the idea of shooting bose-einstein condensates at people....
I wonder, if I stand at the nodal point behind a double slit wall, will I survive?
Actually, I wasn't being entirely sarcastic
Look at it this way: Hospitals have labs which can raise small cultures of dangerous pathogens. They also have access to a large sample of sick people, some of which are actually suffering from weaponisable diseases.
A research hospital might also be able to request a bioreactor or two for "research purposes" or "drug development".
Furthermore, a hospital might even be able to purchase weaponised diseases "to find a cure".
If I was an evil overlord, I'd have a bioweapons lab in an old Veterans Affairs hospital near a middle sized population center. Not a famous hospital, but a well equipped one.
I'd also take in civilian casualties in time of war, and maybe genuinely treat the wounds of the captured enemy there under the goodwill of the geneva convention.
Nobody need ever know. A hospital would certainly not be on any bombing target list.
If I was a good overlord, and wanted to take out the evil overlords bioweapons hospital, I might be reduced to using spies and sabouteurs rather than blowing it up... unless there was a better way.
Maybe if we could encase the incoming warhead in a huge gelatinous baggie... sort of like a hagfish encasing a predator
I don't know about the taiwan thing. China is offering taiwan businesses crazy labour and material rates and tempting most buisness onto the mainland.
They pretty much seem to be running a state industry designed to service taiwan with the eventual goal of making it totally dependant on red China. Not to mention offering taiwan the huge chinese market on a platter.
The taiwanese government can't really legislate to stop it, ironically because they are for free trade so taxes, tarifs and price controls are not a done thing.
I guess once that process is complete, China wouldn't need tanks or nukes or guns. The PRC would already own all the factories and centers of production (now safely on mainland china), and taiwan would be nothing more than a gateway to the west... just as beijing wants it to be.
The only thing anybody can do to combat that is to offer material, labour and a market at better prices than the chinese... good luck!
what if they're dual use?