They (MIT) state in their video a spill of 5,000,000 barrels. I'm using MIT's own figures. So no, the only bad math is theirs, not mine. Just like they think that it would be easy to heat the collected crude to the point of combustion. It's not, and they only have 100 watts (300 btu) to play with. You can't even light up a puddle of refined #2 diesel by throwing a lit match on it. How much worse a waterlogged mat? All you'll do is liquify a small area, which will then flow, and dissipate the heat.
If it would burn on its own, there wouldn't have been a problem - the entire gulf would have burned off instead of spreading in a widening slick.
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The Seaswarm robot uses a conveyor belt covered with a thin nanowire mesh to absorb oil. The fabric, developed by MIT Visiting Associate Professor Francesco Stellacci, and previously featured in a paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, can absorb up to twenty times its own weight in oil while repelling water. By heating up the material, the oil can be removed and burnt locally and the nanofabric can be reused.
I'm assuming burnt locally isn't necessarily the same as burnt onboard, and also note the absorbent wire repells water so it will only pick up oil. Heating the nanonwire absorbent may not be that energy demanding either, a laser can heat things quite efficiently especially if your need is for a higher temperature for a short time, lots of degrees but not many calories. I'd like to see a number of things operating in the real world to prove the concept.
It's even wackier than that, New York state has an equal rights amendment to their constitution, it's perfectly legal for both men and women to walk around on the street bare-chested and showing a street scene of what's happening outside their doors, on the news can get the network fined.
If Gibson is a cock, then Cruise would be more like a penile sheath; Gibson can be crazy on his own, but Cruise seems to need a supporting crew of loonies.
We had a car converted to CNG that had a fuel tank explode a few years ago, which caused the Nat Gas company to close the only public CNG fueling station, now it's just the buses fueled with CNG.
3D object creation is in it's infancy right now. The hardware is expensive and still quite primitive, with a limited number of things it can use as a medium. In time.. Who knows. Making a cup with a 3D printer of any kind would be pretty slow. Fine for one cup, but not for mass production.
Actually you would be surprised, 3D printing is the cutting edge in dental technology, but milling is more advanced such as the D4D labworks system that scans, designs and mills, Wielandmanufacture milling machine that is more production orientated. The industry is moving toward digital from beginning to end by using intraoral scanners and not even taking traditional impressions; the biggest holdup is capitalization of equipment systems that often costs 6 figures.
I woke up from surgery, and found I was wearing pneumatic compression leggings and the hoses coming out of them was very typical clear, 2mm vinyl tubing, used in everything from naso-gastric catheters, urinary catheters an even IV tubing; getting that crossed with an IV line would have been catastrophic. Of course I don't think the problem is when there are a few lines, but when the lines turn into a mess of spaghetti; such as a main IV line with another bag of antibiotics and possibly an analgesic hanging on the side. Now add in a gastric tube into the nose, and an oxygen cannula, then there is a urinary catheter. If your at that point there might be a suction line going into the chest to keep the lungs inflated and maybe a few surgical drains; oh don't forget the pulse-oxymeter wires, the EKG wires.
Sure everybody knows you can't confuse the RJ45 connector on a cat3 cable to the telephone system with a RJ45 connector on a cat6 cable to the gigabit ethernet and the 100VAC ring signal isn't going to smoke-test your network card.
I doubt this will work, 1, to label, the packages would have to be opened which contained the tubing that are frequently sterile and temperature sensitive; 2, doing this is probably considered manufacturing by the FDA requiring 501K registration 3, a 501K registered medical device manufacturing requires everything to be documented even how you mop the floor. 4, a medical device manufacturer has significant produce liability.
How bloody hard is it to get together with your industry standards organization and publish a standard that says all IV tubes have a plug type A, all air tubes have plug type B, etc?? This is basic industrial and safety engineering--it's not rocket science.
It's very hard because to establish a standard, you need to demonstrate a need, but a need implies a short-coming and of course known short-comings demonstrate liability.
We already know that being deeper in a gravity well slows time (and radioactive decay). So... is radioactive decay suppressed at perihelion? Or is it the other way around? (No, I didn't RTFA, why should I start now?)
We're in the same gravity well so we'd never see any difference in time-space dilatation
The mental image of the Palestinians being given back the land they though was theirs, and finding it had been turned into trinitite, is just to apropos. The Palestinians, a people screwed over for millenia, finally get to make their homes out of glass, where they can't throw stones!
There is no way I'm ever going to except that the attack on the USS Liberty was anything than a deliberate calculated attack on a specific identified ship; friendly fire is miss-identification, the Israelis knew who and what they were shooting at and why.
Yeah like anybody is going to believe somebody actually involved. There are probably people thinking that the CIA had them first make the charges, then recant to set up plausible deniablity later.
It's a lot easier to redact names than it is to protect identities, and I'm sure Wikileaks has no idea how far down the rabbit hole you go to protect the identities from their would be murders.
It's obvious to me that by aligning with a particular political party, Wikileaks is publicly announcing the abandonment of any semblance of editorial neutrality. Their Noble effort to bring additional transparency to the world is now forever tainted.
Depends on how badly you want to trace it, "a gun with no serial number" is more likely to be a gun without an easily visable serial number than a "a gun with no serial number"
There are places in the US, Canada and Russia where Humans aren't the pinnacle of the food chain, and having a reliable and powerful weapon on your person is the difference between taking a trophy and being somethings lunch.
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They (MIT) state in their video a spill of 5,000,000 barrels. I'm using MIT's own figures. So no, the only bad math is theirs, not mine. Just like they think that it would be easy to heat the collected crude to the point of combustion. It's not, and they only have 100 watts (300 btu) to play with. You can't even light up a puddle of refined #2 diesel by throwing a lit match on it. How much worse a waterlogged mat? All you'll do is liquify a small area, which will then flow, and dissipate the heat.
If it would burn on its own, there wouldn't have been a problem - the entire gulf would have burned off instead of spreading in a widening slick.
FTA
I'm assuming burnt locally isn't necessarily the same as burnt onboard, and also note the absorbent wire repells water so it will only pick up oil. Heating the nanonwire absorbent may not be that energy demanding either, a laser can heat things quite efficiently especially if your need is for a higher temperature for a short time, lots of degrees but not many calories. I'd like to see a number of things operating in the real world to prove the concept.
It's even wackier than that, New York state has an equal rights amendment to their constitution, it's perfectly legal for both men and women to walk around on the street bare-chested and showing a street scene of what's happening outside their doors, on the news can get the network fined.
If Gibson is a cock, then Cruise would be more like a penile sheath; Gibson can be crazy on his own, but Cruise seems to need a supporting crew of loonies.
We had a car converted to CNG that had a fuel tank explode a few years ago, which caused the Nat Gas company to close the only public CNG fueling station, now it's just the buses fueled with CNG.
3D object creation is in it's infancy right now. The hardware is expensive and still quite primitive, with a limited number of things it can use as a medium. In time.. Who knows.
Making a cup with a 3D printer of any kind would be pretty slow. Fine for one cup, but not for mass production.
Actually you would be surprised, 3D printing is the cutting edge in dental technology, but milling is more advanced such as the D4D labworks system that scans, designs and mills, Wielandmanufacture milling machine that is more production orientated. The industry is moving toward digital from beginning to end by using intraoral scanners and not even taking traditional impressions; the biggest holdup is capitalization of equipment systems that often costs 6 figures.
But he should get points for a toy laser device that actually destroys a physical object; especially one that doesn't involve a fricken shark!
Dude just take out your credit card, and order the plates and memorize them
I woke up from surgery, and found I was wearing pneumatic compression leggings and the hoses coming out of them was very typical clear, 2mm vinyl tubing, used in everything from naso-gastric catheters, urinary catheters an even IV tubing; getting that crossed with an IV line would have been catastrophic. Of course I don't think the problem is when there are a few lines, but when the lines turn into a mess of spaghetti; such as a main IV line with another bag of antibiotics and possibly an analgesic hanging on the side. Now add in a gastric tube into the nose, and an oxygen cannula, then there is a urinary catheter. If your at that point there might be a suction line going into the chest to keep the lungs inflated and maybe a few surgical drains; oh don't forget the pulse-oxymeter wires, the EKG wires.
Sure everybody knows you can't confuse the RJ45 connector on a cat3 cable to the telephone system with a RJ45 connector on a cat6 cable to the gigabit ethernet and the 100VAC ring signal isn't going to smoke-test your network card.
I doubt this will work,
1, to label, the packages would have to be opened which contained the tubing that are frequently sterile and temperature sensitive;
2, doing this is probably considered manufacturing by the FDA requiring 501K registration
3, a 501K registered medical device manufacturing requires everything to be documented even how you mop the floor.
4, a medical device manufacturer has significant produce liability.
How bloody hard is it to get together with your industry standards organization and publish a standard that says all IV tubes have a plug type A, all air tubes have plug type B, etc?? This is basic industrial and safety engineering--it's not rocket science.
It's very hard because to establish a standard, you need to demonstrate a need,
but a need implies a short-coming and of course known short-comings demonstrate liability.
We already know that being deeper in a gravity well slows time (and radioactive decay). So... is radioactive decay suppressed at perihelion? Or is it the other way around? (No, I didn't RTFA, why should I start now?)
We're in the same gravity well so we'd never see any difference in time-space dilatation
... or say "make sure you wash your hands often, sweetie" which covers 95% of the health department's concerns with a lemonade stand.
The mental image of the Palestinians being given back the land they though was theirs, and finding it had been turned into trinitite, is just to apropos. The Palestinians, a people screwed over for millenia, finally get to make their homes out of glass, where they can't throw stones!
Evangelicals are a vocal minority in the US, in Iran they are the vocal majority; Imagine Bush without political restraints.
There is no way I'm ever going to except that the attack on the USS Liberty was anything than a deliberate calculated attack on a specific identified ship; friendly fire is miss-identification, the Israelis knew who and what they were shooting at and why.
Yeah like anybody is going to believe somebody actually involved. There are probably people thinking that the CIA had them first make the charges, then recant to set up plausible deniablity later.
No it's more like placing the balloon inside a vacuum chamber and reducing the external pressure a bit.
The universe was always as big as the whole universe, so how can it expand? How do we know we're not shrinking inside a fixed size universe?
Would that be an American Football or an European Football?
It's a lot easier to redact names than it is to protect identities, and I'm sure Wikileaks has no idea how far down the rabbit hole you go to protect the identities from their would be murders.
It's obvious to me that by aligning with a particular political party, Wikileaks is publicly announcing the abandonment of any semblance of editorial neutrality. Their Noble effort to bring additional transparency to the world is now forever tainted.
Depends on how badly you want to trace it, "a gun with no serial number" is more likely to be a gun without an easily visable serial number than a "a gun with no serial number"
There are places in the US, Canada and Russia where Humans aren't the pinnacle of the food chain, and having a reliable and powerful weapon on your person is the difference between taking a trophy and being somethings lunch.
But not good guns. If it was that easy to make reliable, accurate, durable guns then no one would ever buy them at American prices.
Yes but the AK47/AK74 and variants demonstrate that 2 out of 3 ain't bad.