Except you are solving a known problem, after it happened.
It's much harder to solve problems before they are known.
It's much harder to build a robot that can solve unknown problems.
What might be useful though is a general purpose manipulator that can be controlled by humans on the ground.
Humans are useful because they have brains, eyes and general purpose hands, the combination of which can solve a huge number of problems.
Give the robot cameras, hands so that it can pick-up and use other tools or even non-tools (ie whatever is laying around the craft but wasn't explicitly designed as a tool) and a link to a human controller.
It comes from a command in Leviticus 19:9
"When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest."
The idea is that landowners should NOT reap every single thing in the field that is owned by them (as they could claimed the right) but that they should leave some bits for the poor people to gather.
The landowner is wealthy enough to not worry about a few percentage loss and the poor people don't need any state welfare.
Of course, this is totally against the practice of modern businesses where very single scrap is gathered up in the name of the almighty dollar and screw anybody else.
In Ruth 2 there is an example of a poor women gleaning behind the rightful workers who eventually marries the boss, so it turned out well for him to let them take the gleanings.
Whether you believe the Bible or not, it's good social economics against being too greedy.
I grew up in Australia on the edge of a desert - without air conditioning.
Air conditioning is a very much appreciated luxury but not strictly necessary for the locals.
There is no prior art.
Only Apple has the smarts to invent the iSht.
Those so called "auto flush" toilets have a man behind a fake partition who's job it is to push the button for you.
Say "hello" to them next time you use their services - being appreciated makes them less likely to flush while you're still in position.
In that worse case you are assuming that the craft takes a direct path.
But there's a big yellow object in the way...
Wouldn't it have taken a nice curved path from Earth's orbit to Mar's orbit?
Worse case would be if Earth and Mars were at the opposite ends of a huge ellipse and the craft had to ride the along the ellipse instead of cutting through the middle. Assuming this ellipse has 2A+38M mi diameter, multiply by 3 to get a (very) rough estimate of the worst case travel distance.
1. Yes, I used to beat her but now I have stopped.
2. No, I am still beating her
3. No, I can not stop what was never started.
4. Yes, but the woman I am beating now is not my wife.
I hacked on the Microbee in my last year of high school (1983).
Wrote my own disassembler and disassembled it's ROM.
Even then the 64KB limit of it's Z80 CPU was holding us back.
It had 2 incompatible versions of BASIC
- one with graphics
- and MS-BASIC (had to implement my own in assembly)
The Microbee was adequate as a toe-in-the water exercise for schools wanting to teach computing but it had no hope of being the wave of the future.
How much does an accident cost?
Remember to include:
- physical damage to property (your car, other car, fence, brick wall, light poles, baby carriage, etc)
- ambulance, police, fire, tow truck costs
- hospital costs
- funeral costs
- litigation costs (your car ran into my garden and destroyed my prize winning roses, so I'm going to sue you)
Preventing at least a few accidents costs way less than these machines used to educate drivers.
Knowing the stopping distance of your car at 60mph in the wet is way more important than knowing the 0-60mph time.
I'll play Devil's advocate - just for the fun of it.
Surely a geodesic dome could be built that big.
Granted that all the ones we know of don't have a vacuum inside.
But the external air pressure would be coming from the sides as well as the top (ie not just squishing in downwards), so perhaps that might not be a big deal.
Also, it wouldn't have to be a perfect vacuum, it only needs to be good enough to not cause anything to obviously flap in the wind.
My guess is that ordinary air pressure and attention to detail would cover it.
Sequential activation would still fall to quickly shoving backwards and forwards (or up/down, or left/right depending on the orientation of the lock).
Shove it in one direction to trip the first latch, then quickly shove it in the other direct ion to trip the second latch.
Your first idea of simultaneous activation in opposite directions is harder to jog loose.
Those of us not from the US are less than keen on your idea.
Wouldn't it be lovely for us Australians to have to register with a foreign power in order to:
* log onto an Australian bank
* pay our local Australian council rates
* do anything on the cloud
Admittedly, most of this already goes through US corporations anyway but at least it isn't mandated (yet) that it MUST go through the US.
Horses also produce a lot of pollution.
Hint: bring a shovel.
Large scale use of horses could potentially lead to large scale epidemics from organisms breeding in the faeces.
The smell probably won't be enjoyed either.
Cannabis sativa L. subsp. sativa var. sativa is the variety grown for industrial use, while C. sativa subsp. indica generally has poor fiber quality and is primarily used for recreational and medicinal purposes.
So, the type used for making things with is not the type the druggies like.
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In the southern hemisphere Dec 1986 was summertime. It would have been the only one with the correct name as far as we Australians are concerned.
Windows 95 came out in 1995.
Windows NT 4.0 came out in 1996.
Windows 98 came out in 1998.
Except you are solving a known problem, after it happened.
It's much harder to solve problems before they are known.
It's much harder to build a robot that can solve unknown problems.
What might be useful though is a general purpose manipulator that can be controlled by humans on the ground.
Humans are useful because they have brains, eyes and general purpose hands, the combination of which can solve a huge number of problems.
Give the robot cameras, hands so that it can pick-up and use other tools or even non-tools (ie whatever is laying around the craft but wasn't explicitly designed as a tool) and a link to a human controller.
A friend of mine said he didn't mine the cavity searches but sometimes the dog's nose is cold
It comes from a command in Leviticus 19:9
"When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest."
The idea is that landowners should NOT reap every single thing in the field that is owned by them (as they could claimed the right) but that they should leave some bits for the poor people to gather.
The landowner is wealthy enough to not worry about a few percentage loss and the poor people don't need any state welfare.
Of course, this is totally against the practice of modern businesses where very single scrap is gathered up in the name of the almighty dollar and screw anybody else.
In Ruth 2 there is an example of a poor women gleaning behind the rightful workers who eventually marries the boss, so it turned out well for him to let them take the gleanings.
Whether you believe the Bible or not, it's good social economics against being too greedy.
Dilbert: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2000-05-28/
I grew up in Australia on the edge of a desert - without air conditioning.
Air conditioning is a very much appreciated luxury but not strictly necessary for the locals.
There is no prior art.
Only Apple has the smarts to invent the iSht.
Those so called "auto flush" toilets have a man behind a fake partition who's job it is to push the button for you.
Say "hello" to them next time you use their services - being appreciated makes them less likely to flush while you're still in position.
I like the sly reference to yanks in 3.0 :)
Thinking about the Grey Men and the training methods still makes me uneasy.
Point taken. I'd mixed up travel distance of the craft vs travel distance of the signal.
1,701.45 big Macs per second.
Wow!
In that worse case you are assuming that the craft takes a direct path. But there's a big yellow object in the way...
Wouldn't it have taken a nice curved path from Earth's orbit to Mar's orbit? Worse case would be if Earth and Mars were at the opposite ends of a huge ellipse and the craft had to ride the along the ellipse instead of cutting through the middle. Assuming this ellipse has 2A+38M mi diameter, multiply by 3 to get a (very) rough estimate of the worst case travel distance.
The answers for different situations are:
1. Yes, I used to beat her but now I have stopped.
2. No, I am still beating her
3. No, I can not stop what was never started.
4. Yes, but the woman I am beating now is not my wife.
Two of the designer's aims were 'while remaining at a reasonable size and cost'.
I hacked on the Microbee in my last year of high school (1983).
Wrote my own disassembler and disassembled it's ROM.
Even then the 64KB limit of it's Z80 CPU was holding us back.
It had 2 incompatible versions of BASIC
- one with graphics
- and MS-BASIC (had to implement my own in assembly)
The Microbee was adequate as a toe-in-the water exercise for schools wanting to teach computing but it had no hope of being the wave of the future.
How much does an accident cost?
Remember to include:
- physical damage to property (your car, other car, fence, brick wall, light poles, baby carriage, etc)
- ambulance, police, fire, tow truck costs
- hospital costs
- funeral costs
- litigation costs (your car ran into my garden and destroyed my prize winning roses, so I'm going to sue you)
Preventing at least a few accidents costs way less than these machines used to educate drivers.
Knowing the stopping distance of your car at 60mph in the wet is way more important than knowing the 0-60mph time.
I'll play Devil's advocate - just for the fun of it.
Surely a geodesic dome could be built that big.
Granted that all the ones we know of don't have a vacuum inside.
But the external air pressure would be coming from the sides as well as the top (ie not just squishing in downwards), so perhaps that might not be a big deal.
Also, it wouldn't have to be a perfect vacuum, it only needs to be good enough to not cause anything to obviously flap in the wind.
My guess is that ordinary air pressure and attention to detail would cover it.
Sequential activation would still fall to quickly shoving backwards and forwards (or up/down, or left/right depending on the orientation of the lock).
Shove it in one direction to trip the first latch, then quickly shove it in the other direct ion to trip the second latch.
Your first idea of simultaneous activation in opposite directions is harder to jog loose.
But will we be using the Scaletrix or the Aurora AFX standard?
Which explains the charred spots on his tongue...
Those of us not from the US are less than keen on your idea.
Wouldn't it be lovely for us Australians to have to register with a foreign power in order to:
* log onto an Australian bank
* pay our local Australian council rates
* do anything on the cloud
Admittedly, most of this already goes through US corporations anyway but at least it isn't mandated (yet) that it MUST go through the US.
Here's where the quote came from:
http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_01_12_a_suv.html
The rest of the article is good reading for why people buy SUVs (to look down on others) and why SUVs are not safe.
Horses also produce a lot of pollution.
Hint: bring a shovel.
Large scale use of horses could potentially lead to large scale epidemics from organisms breeding in the faeces.
The smell probably won't be enjoyed either.
Cannabis sativa L. subsp. sativa var. sativa is the variety grown for industrial use, while C. sativa subsp. indica generally has poor fiber quality and is primarily used for recreational and medicinal purposes.
So, the type used for making things with is not the type the druggies like.