But ATM really, really, really sucks for anything other than phone company to phone company connections...
Huh? The promise of ATM was not its data-carrying capability; rather its ability to guarantee bandwidth and jitter on a per VC basis. I've long said that I'd rather have 5 ATM video channels that I can connect to whatever I want to watch versus 500 channels of what the cable company thinks I want to watch. Why shouldn't I be able to connect to the news across the country? Why shouldn't I be able to watch any football game I want instead of what my 'viewing area' gets to see? Are you a gamer? Imagine being able to get a low latency connection, guaranteed.
I'm not saying these things are not possible today with fast internet access - clearly they are. But they could have been available 20+ years ago if we'd decided as a country to leverage ATM as a utility and allow competition for generic phone and data service. For video, I would've loved to see the actual content creators/providers compete for my virtual circuit/hour.
The US Postal Service has similar rules, except their limit is 108 inches, IIRC. I once exploited that fact to ship a 10m X-Beam antenna to an island in the harbor of Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, USVI. It consisted of a bundle of 1/2 inch PVC pipes with 1/2 inch copper pipes inside. The thing was _just_ under the combined 108 inches. The clerk saw me in line with that and yelled out, "Nuh uh!" - I looked at her and said, "Uh uh!". Sure enough, it arrived in one piece after being shipped there and brought across to the island on a little USPS dinghy.
The comet is already going pretty close to escape velocity for the Sun's gravity well, so if it is speed up much at all, definitely as it would if deflected to come within Earth's orbit, it would be flung out of the solar system.
If it doesn't impact Mars and what you say is indeed true, let's start RIGHT NOW developing a nuclear-powered probe to rendezvous with/land on the comet and ride it out of the solar system. It's unfortunate that the comet is in a retrograde orbit since that means we'd have to expend a huge amount of energy to match its trajectory.
Of course there's always the 1983 gem Brainstorm starring creepy-as-always Christopher Walken as a researcher who develops a way to record a person's 'higher brain functions.' Naturally the tech is put to a whole variety of uses, both good and bad.
[Ab]Using google maps I get 23. I'm not sure what you call outside downtown - I'm a country boy - it's ALL downtown to me!
Peachtree St NE Peachtree St NW Peachtree Rd NE Peachtree Center Ave NE Peachtree Ave NE Peachtree Battle Ave NW Peachtree Circle NE Peachtree Dunwoody Road Peachtree Dunwoody Road Northeast Peachtree Dunwoody Circle Peachtree Dunwoody Court NE Peachtree Drive Peachtree Rd NW Old Peachtree Rd NW Peachtree Hills Ave NE Peachtree Hills Circle NE Peachtree Industrial Blvd Peachtree Industrial Court Peachtree Pkwy Peachtree Place NE Peachtree Place NW Peachtree North Court West Peachtree St NE
You can get it to freeze below -56 C, BTW at a pressure of about 5 atmospheres
Even if you increase the pressure to 5 atm and 'freeze' it at -56C, are you going to store it at that pressure forever? In not, you still have to chill it to at least -78.5C so that it remains solid at 1 atm. Also, increasing the pressure by a factor of 5x also changes the temperature by the same factor (PV=nRT, isochoric process and all that), so you're fighting a losing battle by pressurizing it.
You missed a sign there.
I didn't miss a sign, I used the wrong word [sublimate vs deposit] and I forgot about the Coefficient of Performance for refrigerators. Let me try again:
The Scherer plant in Juliet, GA generates 25.3 million tons of CO2 annually. That 69,315 tons/day or 62.88 millon kg/day. Ignoring the energy required to take the exhaust gas from post-scrubber temps to -78.5C and just considering getting the gaseous CO2 to deposit into solid CO2 would take 571 kJ/kg / COP or 35904 GJ/day / COP. a Ton-equivalent of coal [wikipedia.org] is 29.3076 GJ, so you'd be burning 1225 / COP tons of coal a day just to take -78.5C CO2 to -78.5C dry ice.
The Scherer plant in Juliet, GA generates 25.3 million tons of CO2 annually. That 69,315 tons/day or 62.88 millon kg/day. Ignoring the energy required to take the exhaust gas from post-scrubber temps to -78.5C and just considering getting the CO2 to sublimate would take 571 kJ/kg or 35904 GJ/day. a Ton-equivalent of coal is 29.3076 GJ, so you'd be burning 1225 tons of coal a day just to take -78.5C CO2 to -78.5C dry ice.
A perfect example. I just fixed a Motorola MaxTrac radio. The connector on the main logic board that goes to the front panel consists of about 60 naked pins - that's usually a disaster waiting to happen. They were smart, however - on the left end of the row of pins, the 3rd pin from the left is missing. On the right side, the 4th pin from the right is missing. On the connector intended for the left side, the 3rd hole is plugged; similarly the 4th pin on the right connector is plugged. That makes it impossible to install the connectors incorrectly without great difficultly, and the solution is incredibly cheap.
Remember too that the radar equation come into play: doubling the distance to an object reduces the returned signal by a factor of 16. (1/r^2 out * 1/r^2 back).
It's not their statements, it's their actions. One of the so-called green movement front men, Al Gore, despite all of his whining about global warming, has been called out as a hypocrite by more than a few people.
Except that those tree-hugging hypocrites still drive cars and take advantage of every benefit of modern life while smugly denouncing the very same lifestyle they're accustomed to.
The Turks have built numerous dams on the Euphrates 'n Tigris & their tributaries & are diverting a significant percentage of their waters that traditionally flowed through to Syria & Iraq.
Charismatic yet devious and subversive "leaders" that flaunt the very laws they're supposed to uphold and amass fervent followers and know what's best for everyone? Yeah, I know who fit that bill for my parent's generation.
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But ATM really, really, really sucks for anything other than phone company to phone company connections...
Huh? The promise of ATM was not its data-carrying capability; rather its ability to guarantee bandwidth and jitter on a per VC basis. I've long said that I'd rather have 5 ATM video channels that I can connect to whatever I want to watch versus 500 channels of what the cable company thinks I want to watch. Why shouldn't I be able to connect to the news across the country? Why shouldn't I be able to watch any football game I want instead of what my 'viewing area' gets to see? Are you a gamer? Imagine being able to get a low latency connection, guaranteed.
I'm not saying these things are not possible today with fast internet access - clearly they are. But they could have been available 20+ years ago if we'd decided as a country to leverage ATM as a utility and allow competition for generic phone and data service. For video, I would've loved to see the actual content creators/providers compete for my virtual circuit/hour.
Nope, different awesome Dave. Sorry. I was introduced to ATM working for Concurrent Computer Corp back in the late 80's/early 90's.
The US Postal Service has similar rules, except their limit is 108 inches, IIRC. I once exploited that fact to ship a 10m X-Beam antenna to an island in the harbor of Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, USVI. It consisted of a bundle of 1/2 inch PVC pipes with 1/2 inch copper pipes inside. The thing was _just_ under the combined 108 inches. The clerk saw me in line with that and yelled out, "Nuh uh!" - I looked at her and said, "Uh uh!". Sure enough, it arrived in one piece after being shipped there and brought across to the island on a little USPS dinghy.
Maybe. Where'd you meet this amazing-sounding Dave?
...deterministic Ethernet defined by ARINC Specification 664 Part 7.
That rang a token-bus bell, so I dug a little deeper. It seems they borrowed the token-bucket concept from ATM to get their deterministic behavior. Pretty clever.
On a side note, how I wish we'd standardized on ATM-to-the-premises!
If you want to opt-out of direct mailing, not only do you have to give them your personal information, they charge $1 for it! The actual site: https://www.dmachoice.org/
And if you tried to lick his "utensils", that dog would bite you!
What's that old saying, "A fool and his money are soon partying"?
The comet is already going pretty close to escape velocity for the Sun's gravity well, so if it is speed up much at all, definitely as it would if deflected to come within Earth's orbit, it would be flung out of the solar system.
If it doesn't impact Mars and what you say is indeed true, let's start RIGHT NOW developing a nuclear-powered probe to rendezvous with/land on the comet and ride it out of the solar system. It's unfortunate that the comet is in a retrograde orbit since that means we'd have to expend a huge amount of energy to match its trajectory.
Of course there's always the 1983 gem Brainstorm starring creepy-as-always Christopher Walken as a researcher who develops a way to record a person's 'higher brain functions.' Naturally the tech is put to a whole variety of uses, both good and bad.
Plot Summary here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl
[Ab]Using google maps I get 23. I'm not sure what you call outside downtown - I'm a country boy - it's ALL downtown to me!
Peachtree St NE
Peachtree St NW
Peachtree Rd NE
Peachtree Center Ave NE
Peachtree Ave NE
Peachtree Battle Ave NW
Peachtree Circle NE
Peachtree Dunwoody Road
Peachtree Dunwoody Road Northeast
Peachtree Dunwoody Circle
Peachtree Dunwoody Court NE
Peachtree Drive
Peachtree Rd NW
Old Peachtree Rd NW
Peachtree Hills Ave NE
Peachtree Hills Circle NE
Peachtree Industrial Blvd
Peachtree Industrial Court
Peachtree Pkwy
Peachtree Place NE
Peachtree Place NW
Peachtree North Court
West Peachtree St NE
The the San Andreas is a strike-slip fault, not a subduction fault.
Yeah, like every single road being named Peachtree something-or-other.
You can get it to freeze below -56 C, BTW at a pressure of about 5 atmospheres
Even if you increase the pressure to 5 atm and 'freeze' it at -56C, are you going to store it at that pressure forever? In not, you still have to chill it to at least -78.5C so that it remains solid at 1 atm. Also, increasing the pressure by a factor of 5x also changes the temperature by the same factor (PV=nRT, isochoric process and all that), so you're fighting a losing battle by pressurizing it.
You missed a sign there.
I didn't miss a sign, I used the wrong word [sublimate vs deposit] and I forgot about the Coefficient of Performance for refrigerators. Let me try again:
The Scherer plant in Juliet, GA generates 25.3 million tons of CO2 annually. That 69,315 tons/day or 62.88 millon kg/day. Ignoring the energy required to take the exhaust gas from post-scrubber temps to -78.5C and just considering getting the gaseous CO2 to deposit into solid CO2 would take 571 kJ/kg / COP or 35904 GJ/day / COP. a Ton-equivalent of coal [wikipedia.org] is 29.3076 GJ, so you'd be burning 1225 / COP tons of coal a day just to take -78.5C CO2 to -78.5C dry ice.
There are a variety of ways to simply separate carbon dioxide from most other combustion products based on its mass or freezing point.
So you're suggesting we take screaming hot exhaust gas from coal plants and chill it to -109.3F or -78.5C to separate the CO2 as a solid?
Here's an example of what would be required of a single coal-fired plant:
The Scherer plant in Juliet, GA generates 25.3 million tons of CO2 annually. That 69,315 tons/day or 62.88 millon kg/day. Ignoring the energy required to take the exhaust gas from post-scrubber temps to -78.5C and just considering getting the CO2 to sublimate would take 571 kJ/kg or 35904 GJ/day. a Ton-equivalent of coal is 29.3076 GJ, so you'd be burning 1225 tons of coal a day just to take -78.5C CO2 to -78.5C dry ice.
A perfect example. I just fixed a Motorola MaxTrac radio. The connector on the main logic board that goes to the front panel consists of about 60 naked pins - that's usually a disaster waiting to happen. They were smart, however - on the left end of the row of pins, the 3rd pin from the left is missing. On the right side, the 4th pin from the right is missing. On the connector intended for the left side, the 3rd hole is plugged; similarly the 4th pin on the right connector is plugged. That makes it impossible to install the connectors incorrectly without great difficultly, and the solution is incredibly cheap.
"Windows Blue ... it needed the money."
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I head that this so-called 'meteor' was actually just Putin skydiving, without his shirt, naturally.
Remember too that the radar equation come into play: doubling the distance to an object reduces the returned signal by a factor of 16. (1/r^2 out * 1/r^2 back).
It's not their statements, it's their actions. One of the so-called green movement front men, Al Gore, despite all of his whining about global warming, has been called out as a hypocrite by more than a few people.
Except that those tree-hugging hypocrites still drive cars and take advantage of every benefit of modern life while smugly denouncing the very same lifestyle they're accustomed to.
The Turks have built numerous dams on the Euphrates 'n Tigris & their tributaries & are diverting a significant percentage of their waters that traditionally flowed through to Syria & Iraq.
That's nobody's business but the Turks'.
About the same amount, plus or minus the amount that this puppy's impactor added to the equation or blasted into space.
You may not be a shill, but you are tediously repetitive. Four identical posts and counting.
People of his mien come once a generation FFS.
Charismatic yet devious and subversive "leaders" that flaunt the very laws they're supposed to uphold and amass fervent followers and know what's best for everyone? Yeah, I know who fit that bill for my parent's generation.