Well, yes, with a bit of ingenuity they could rig something up like you suggest. Given only the resources they would have, it's questionable whether they could supply enough fresh water that way to meet all their needs.
I apologize for giving the impression that I was saying desalination was HARD. Obviously, it's not that hard; it's done every day. But it isn't so trivial that a half-dozen guys stranded in the middle of the sea could bet their lives on getting it done. If it were that easy, there would never be a need for water rationing in California. Unless maybe they run out of power.;)
About making my point... my original post was to someone who said that "ignoring the salt, they have all the water they need". My point was you can't "ignore" the salt, and there's work involved to get rid of it. Describing how to deal with it is not the same as ignoring it.
Perhaps I would have done better just to reply with the old familiar Coleridge quote: "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink."
And how does someone without physical superiority defend him/HERself? A GUN! It is EXACTLY the same! A gun can be used for GOOD or EVIL.
Killing someone in self-defense is justified by most people's moral codes, but calling it GOOD is stretching a bit. I imagine most people who have put in that situation would agree that the experience was not positive.
YOU just are stupid enough NOT to know....
You sound like the Timecube guy when you talk like that.
He was appalled that his gun was used by criminals.
Appalled, maybe. If he was surprised, he was an idiot. ---
Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day So he set out for Biafra to join the bloody fray
Through sixty-six and seven they fought the Congo war With their fingers on their triggers, knee-deep in gore For days and nights they battled the Bantu to their knees They killed to earn their living and to help out the Congolese
Roland the Thompson gunner...
His comrades fought beside him - Van Owen and the rest But of all the Thompson gunners, Roland was the best So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead That son-of-a-bitch Van Owen blew off Roland's head
Roland the headless Thompson gunner (Time, time, time For another peaceful war) Norway's bravest son (But time stands still for Roland 'Til he evens up the score) You can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
Roland searched the continent for the man who'd done him in He found him in Mombassa in a barroom drinking gin Roland aimed his Thompson gun - he didn't say a word But he blew Van Owen's body from there to Johannesburg
Roland the headless Thompson gunner...
The eternal Thompson gunner, still wandering through the night Now it's ten years later, but he still keeps up the fight In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley... Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun And bought it!
I'm not sure the 10GB iPod can hold 300 CDs worth of music of comparable quality.
Easy enough to figure out. Assume the average CD holds 50 minutes of music. That's 900k seconds of music. So, to fit it in 10GB you'd need an average rate of 11kB/s or 88kb/s. I'd prefer to have about double that bitrate minimum. Incidentally, I'm about halfway through ripping all my CDs, and have used 20GB for 3,267 tracks on 257 CDs.
IIRC, someone once calculated from the quantities of kryptonite that have turned up on Earth and the inverse square law, that Krypton must have been so massive it collapsed into a black hole.
Not necessarily true. Remember Richard Pryor's supercomputer from Superman.. uh, 3 I think? There's no telling how much kryptonite it might have synthesized once it got the formula right.
Hey, there's an idea... Batman vs. Superman, with Superman's brain all contaminated with the messed up 'kryptonite' with tar so he'd be almost as big an asshole as Batman. I might pay to see that.
Oh, who am I kidding, I would wait for it on video. Heck, I'm passing on seeing a Star Wars movie in the theater, for crying out loud.
No kidding. And of course, we have more than a few tons to deal with. I guess I should have added that launches will have to be a lot cheaper, as well as more reliable, before we can do that.
Yeah, it's real simple, except for the fact that if they were cut off from the outside world, they'd have no way to generate power to boil the water. Not to mention having trouble finding the containers.
Incidentally, I could post a description of building an atomic bomb that sounds just as simple and is technically correct, but seriously understates the engineering difficulties. I mean, all you have to do is slam two hunks of uranium together really hard and make a critical mass, right?
Ignoring the salt, they have at least one ocean's worth of water at their disposal.
Umm, yeah. Problem is, you can't ignore the salt. You can't drink seawater, and desalination is not as simple as you'd like it to be. It's like saying "Ignoring their venom glands, rattlesnakes make great pets."
Myself, I'd prefer to have a nuclear waste dump on the back side of the moon.
Putting waste in space seems like a great idea on the surface, but remember all the furor over the Cassini probe? Imagine the crazed protesters when we try to put a few tons of spent nuclear fuel on a rocket.
Therefore, the fuel cell-powered SUVs, to be available by lease, will be offered only to select private sectors, technology related companies, institutional organizations and research facilities. Although terms have yet to be determined, Toyota plans to lease a total of approximately 20 units during the first year to entities that have access to hydrogen-supply infrastructure and after-sales service.
Doesn't sound like this is going to be available to the unwashed masses for a while still.
Great idea. You go build one, and let us know how it works out. Don't forget to allow for the weight of shielding. Oh, and the huge cooling tower. Yeah, it'll look weird driving down the road, but think of the fuel sasvings.
Appropriate quote from BTTF: "I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available at every corner drug store, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by." - Dr. Emmett Brown
That's $#*&! hilarious! I had never seen that cartoon before making my comment - it was just an obvious thing to say given the mention of Ozzy and the topic at hand.
Erm, I merely corrected a post that had an incorrect price comparison between the Radeon 8500 and the GeForce4 Ti4200. Call me a TRUTH afficionado if you like. I have no special love for ATI, in fact I'm considering buying a GeForce because my old Rage 128 card rarely breaks 40fps in Q3, and I have no idea when good Radeon drivers for Linux will materialise.
My Pricewatch search found the cheapest Ti4200 card to be a Gainward at $138. I found a Radeon 8500 for $93. Both prices include shipping. Looks to me like the Ti4200 is about 50% more expensive for the 50% greater performance. The performance difference is even debatable; the price is not.
Have you considered copying this letter and sending it to your representative, so they know your feelings on the issue? It doesn't do Mr. Boucher much good to know he has support from folks that aren't his constituents. Now, if he knows where you are, and knows that you've copied his letter to your rep, next time they play golf he might bring up the issue.
When you use low quality textures, small bit-depths, simple vertex lighting, etc there winds up being less 'noise' to filter out making it much to both spot your enemies and aim at them.
Hm, maybe that's why I'm so terrible. Or at least, that gives me an excuse to whine to myself when I get fragged.
What about 18 years ago, when you used to hear it pronounced Zed Zed Top quite often on MTV? At the time, MTV had a decided "British" flavour, mostly due to the fact that few American bands made videos when the channel debuted, and much of the material came from across the pond.
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Well, yes, with a bit of ingenuity they could rig something up like you suggest. Given only the resources they would have, it's questionable whether they could supply enough fresh water that way to meet all their needs.
;)
I apologize for giving the impression that I was saying desalination was HARD. Obviously, it's not that hard; it's done every day. But it isn't so trivial that a half-dozen guys stranded in the middle of the sea could bet their lives on getting it done. If it were that easy, there would never be a need for water rationing in California. Unless maybe they run out of power.
About making my point... my original post was to someone who said that "ignoring the salt, they have all the water they need". My point was you can't "ignore" the salt, and there's work involved to get rid of it. Describing how to deal with it is not the same as ignoring it.
Perhaps I would have done better just to reply with the old familiar Coleridge quote: "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink."
Anyone else see the irony in 'Doc Brown' replying to the flux capacitor comment?
And how does someone without physical superiority defend him/HERself? A GUN! It is EXACTLY the same! A gun can be used for GOOD or EVIL.
Killing someone in self-defense is justified by most people's moral codes, but calling it GOOD is stretching a bit. I imagine most people who have put in that situation would agree that the experience was not positive.
YOU just are stupid enough NOT to know....
You sound like the Timecube guy when you talk like that.
He was appalled that his gun was used by criminals.
Appalled, maybe. If he was surprised, he was an idiot.
---
Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun
With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done
The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day
So he set out for Biafra to join the bloody fray
Through sixty-six and seven they fought the Congo war
With their fingers on their triggers, knee-deep in gore
For days and nights they battled the Bantu to their knees
They killed to earn their living and to help out the Congolese
Roland the Thompson gunner...
His comrades fought beside him - Van Owen and the rest
But of all the Thompson gunners, Roland was the best
So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead
That son-of-a-bitch Van Owen blew off Roland's head
Roland the headless Thompson gunner (Time, time, time
For another peaceful
war)
Norway's bravest son (But time stands still
for Roland
'Til he evens up the
score)
You can still see his headless body stalking through the night
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
Roland searched the continent for the man who'd done him in
He found him in Mombassa in a barroom drinking gin
Roland aimed his Thompson gun - he didn't say a word
But he blew Van Owen's body from there to Johannesburg
Roland the headless Thompson gunner...
The eternal Thompson gunner, still wandering through the night
Now it's ten years later, but he still keeps up the fight
In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley...
Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun
And bought it!
I'm not sure the 10GB iPod can hold 300 CDs worth of music of comparable quality.
Easy enough to figure out. Assume the average CD holds 50 minutes of music. That's 900k seconds of music. So, to fit it in 10GB you'd need an average rate of 11kB/s or 88kb/s. I'd prefer to have about double that bitrate minimum. Incidentally, I'm about halfway through ripping all my CDs, and have used 20GB for 3,267 tracks on 257 CDs.
Batman ethical and boring? I suppose next you'll be telling me the Batman movie in the '60s was campy.
Oh, wait...
IIRC, someone once calculated from the quantities of kryptonite that have turned up on Earth and the inverse square law, that Krypton must have been so massive it collapsed into a black hole.
Not necessarily true. Remember Richard Pryor's supercomputer from Superman.. uh, 3 I think? There's no telling how much kryptonite it might have synthesized once it got the formula right.
Hey, there's an idea... Batman vs. Superman, with Superman's brain all contaminated with the messed up 'kryptonite' with tar so he'd be almost as big an asshole as Batman. I might pay to see that.
Oh, who am I kidding, I would wait for it on video. Heck, I'm passing on seeing a Star Wars movie in the theater, for crying out loud.
No kidding. And of course, we have more than a few tons to deal with. I guess I should have added that launches will have to be a lot cheaper, as well as more reliable, before we can do that.
Yeah, it's real simple, except for the fact that if they were cut off from the outside world, they'd have no way to generate power to boil the water. Not to mention having trouble finding the containers.
Incidentally, I could post a description of building an atomic bomb that sounds just as simple and is technically correct, but seriously understates the engineering difficulties. I mean, all you have to do is slam two hunks of uranium together really hard and make a critical mass, right?
Ignoring the salt, they have at least one ocean's worth of water at their disposal.
Umm, yeah. Problem is, you can't ignore the salt. You can't drink seawater, and desalination is not as simple as you'd like it to be. It's like saying "Ignoring their venom glands, rattlesnakes make great pets."
Myself, I'd prefer to have a nuclear waste dump on the back side of the moon.
Putting waste in space seems like a great idea on the surface, but remember all the furor over the Cassini probe? Imagine the crazed protesters when we try to put a few tons of spent nuclear fuel on a rocket.
One small problem:
Therefore, the fuel cell-powered SUVs, to be available by lease, will be offered only to select private sectors, technology related companies, institutional organizations and research facilities. Although terms have yet to be determined, Toyota plans to lease a total of approximately 20 units during the first year to entities that have access to hydrogen-supply infrastructure and after-sales service.
Doesn't sound like this is going to be available to the unwashed masses for a while still.
Great idea. You go build one, and let us know how it works out. Don't forget to allow for the weight of shielding. Oh, and the huge cooling tower. Yeah, it'll look weird driving down the road, but think of the fuel sasvings.
Appropriate quote from BTTF:
"I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available at every corner drug store, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by." - Dr. Emmett Brown
That's $#*&! hilarious! I had never seen that cartoon before making my comment - it was just an obvious thing to say given the mention of Ozzy and the topic at hand.
Erm, I merely corrected a post that had an incorrect price comparison between the Radeon 8500 and the GeForce4 Ti4200. Call me a TRUTH afficionado if you like. I have no special love for ATI, in fact I'm considering buying a GeForce because my old Rage 128 card rarely breaks 40fps in Q3, and I have no idea when good Radeon drivers for Linux will materialise.
I don't know, but I have this great mental image of Ozzy biting off Hilary Rosen's head.
My Pricewatch search found the cheapest Ti4200 card to be a Gainward at $138. I found a Radeon 8500 for $93. Both prices include shipping. Looks to me like the Ti4200 is about 50% more expensive for the 50% greater performance. The performance difference is even debatable; the price is not.
Have you considered copying this letter and sending it to your representative, so they know your feelings on the issue? It doesn't do Mr. Boucher much good to know he has support from folks that aren't his constituents. Now, if he knows where you are, and knows that you've copied his letter to your rep, next time they play golf he might bring up the issue.
When you use low quality textures, small bit-depths, simple vertex lighting, etc there winds up being less 'noise' to filter out making it much to both spot your enemies and aim at them.
Hm, maybe that's why I'm so terrible. Or at least, that gives me an excuse to whine to myself when I get fragged.
That can work if you're deaf due to ear damage, but not if there's a problem with your auditory nerve or the hearing parts of the brain.
No, it'll be the Department of Homeland Security before then.
You should have put them on hold listening to Mr. Roboto. That woulda backed their noodles.
Domo aurigato, Mr. Roboto, domo (domo) domo (domo)
What about 18 years ago, when you used to hear it pronounced Zed Zed Top quite often on MTV?
At the time, MTV had a decided "British" flavour, mostly due to the fact that few American bands made videos when the channel debuted, and much of the material came from across the pond.
'bout time we had what fighter pilots have...
I agree. I want one of these on my next car. That ought to do wonders on the idiots driving 40mph in the fast lane.
The PINT, on the other hand...
Maybe your pubs should start selling liter beers. The pint would be forgotten soon enough.