Four VR cameras are mounted on the sides of the tank to give the soldier inside donning the headset a full 360 degree view of what's going on outside, like X-ray vision.
The objects are, as we see them now on earth, over 13 billion light years away
I'm not sure you should infer that from the article. All it says is (roughly) when the light was emitted; not how far away the object was at the time.
The object could have been, say, 5 billion light years away at the time of emission, but the expansion of space means the light has taken 13 billion light years to get here.
why can we detect objects that are as far as 13.3 billion light years away?
"...years ago", rather than "light years away," really. The light has taken 13.3 billion light years to get here, but the source was closer than 13.3 billion light years away when the light was emitted, and is further than 13.3 billion lights years now* (by about 3-4 times).
Never mind all that. How did it feel to travel thirty years into the future from 1984 after winning first place in the Mary-Beth Lacey look-a-like contest? And how much meth were you on at the time?
No, I'm pretty sure he means that the computer is going to put the "stay between the lane lines" rule before the "dodge the pothole" rule in the list.
There you go, you've solved the problem. Put the "dodge the pothole" rule above the "stay between the lane lines" rule, but below the "mow down little timmy" rule.
How does radar detect negative space?[like pot holes]
It doesn't. It detects that the distance to the ground is greater than the surrounding road and infers the "negative space" (whatever that means) from that information.
Is the car aware of where each tire is relative to a pothole, and can it plot a course around it?
I don't remember anyone mentioning a black hole! In any case, they're both accelerating in an exactly opposite and symmetrical manner. There'd be no way to determine which of the two spaceships you were on if you were randomly teleported onto one of them (unless you had details of their positions at a particular time, so let's pretend you don't, or there are no useful navigational markers) so there can be no difference in their clocks if they meet up in a symmetrical way (and no practical difference if they stop and make non-symmetrical manoeuvres to rendezvous at non-relativistic speeds).
At least I think so. I'm not an astro- or any other kind of physicist.
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I've heard... That may be mythical, of course.
Sounds like something a fanboy came up with after getting fed up of everyone pointing out how stupid the concept was.
Or, watch it if you want to, and make up your own mind.
Pershing's Punitive Expedition.
<daffy>A Perfectly Pusillanimous Portrait of Perfidity!</daffy>
Four VR cameras are mounted on the sides of the tank to give the soldier inside donning the headset a full 360 degree view of what's going on outside, like X-ray vision.
Or like a window.
Article is wrong, there were some stars around in the first billion years.
taking "proprietary technology and know-how" with him
Look, if you forgot to administer the mind-wipe when he left the company, that's your own look-out.
The objects are, as we see them now on earth, over 13 billion light years away
I'm not sure you should infer that from the article. All it says is (roughly) when the light was emitted; not how far away the object was at the time.
The object could have been, say, 5 billion light years away at the time of emission, but the expansion of space means the light has taken 13 billion light years to get here.
why can we detect objects that are as far as 13.3 billion light years away?
"...years ago", rather than "light years away," really. The light has taken 13.3 billion light years to get here, but the source was closer than 13.3 billion light years away when the light was emitted, and is further than 13.3 billion lights years now* (by about 3-4 times).
*for a certain value of "now"
if the headline really meant what you think it meant it would have said "Valve's sponsors..." instead.
That would be the unambiguous way of saying it, but that doesn't mean that's how it would have been written.
wearing handcuffs and a muzzle.
Go ooooon...?
Sorry but yes. The Earth is always spinning on its axis, so whenever and however you see it, that is what it's doing.
"if it isn't broke, don't fix it"
FTFY.
3... 2... 1... there it is.
Never mind all that. How did it feel to travel thirty years into the future from 1984 after winning first place in the Mary-Beth Lacey look-a-like contest? And how much meth were you on at the time?
Keyser Soze killed Dumbledore.
By making up a quote that includes the name of a character from 2001, but isn't actually in Kubrick's film at all
FTFY.
No mod points here, but hopefully my reply will draw some your way. Seems like a pretty reasonable assumption.
I agree - that's nowhere near 13cm, unless the demonstrator is Andre the Giant.
Which it can't be :(
two other doe defendants
They're suing a deer? A female deer?
This may come as a surprise to you, but you're not the only person in existence.
You can be just as wrong as them for now.
FTFY.
No, I'm pretty sure he means that the computer is going to put the "stay between the lane lines" rule before the "dodge the pothole" rule in the list.
There you go, you've solved the problem. Put the "dodge the pothole" rule above the "stay between the lane lines" rule, but below the "mow down little timmy" rule.
How does radar detect negative space?[like pot holes]
It doesn't. It detects that the distance to the ground is greater than the surrounding road and infers the "negative space" (whatever that means) from that information.
Is the car aware of where each tire is relative to a pothole, and can it plot a course around it?
Why wouldn't it be?
Goddamn hippy.
Have they read this article?
Proposed Indicator of Life On Alien Worlds May Be Bogus
(disclaimer: I haven't read either of them. Just thought it was mildly amusing to have these two articles come along within days of each other)
I don't remember anyone mentioning a black hole! In any case, they're both accelerating in an exactly opposite and symmetrical manner. There'd be no way to determine which of the two spaceships you were on if you were randomly teleported onto one of them (unless you had details of their positions at a particular time, so let's pretend you don't, or there are no useful navigational markers) so there can be no difference in their clocks if they meet up in a symmetrical way (and no practical difference if they stop and make non-symmetrical manoeuvres to rendezvous at non-relativistic speeds).
At least I think so. I'm not an astro- or any other kind of physicist.