Engines are metal, and under extreme pressure. Metal does not break, unless you hit it really hard, or heat it up a ton. Putting cheap or expensive gas through an engine does not break the engine. Aside from the parts that break intentionally, such as oil filters and brake pads (that wear out), a car should not break unless you crash it into something, hit it with a bomb, or possibly disassemble it with tools and then reassemble it incorrectly, in such a way that the awesome power generated by the fuel burning inside the engine damages the parts. Even running an engine with no oil in it to lubricate the moving parts and reduce friction will not break metal, it will simply reduce the power and efficiency of the engine. The same goes for the transmission. Metal does not wear out or break, at least not in our lifetimes. Ironically, I tried a variety of gasses in my motorbike, and there didn't appear to be any noticable difference between 85 (en mexico and arizona) and 91. Jet fuel works pretty good, if you have an engine that can withstand the extra heat and force. To get an idea of how powerful the fuel inside the engine is, try pushing a car by hand with the car in neutral...that's how strong the engine is, and how much force is on the parts inside it during normal usage. Of course, there's an easy way to break an engine on a manual transmission, overrev it and the force of the engine breaks itself...otherwise, they're pretty close to indestructable. (Not counting the soft outer paint, which is easily scratched, or the soft fuel tank that is mandatory and explodes.) A turbocharger (actually an air compressor) that injects extra air into the engine, along with fuel injectors that inject extra fuel at the same time does increase the power of the car...but why not just get a 440 stainless turbine engine and put jet fuel in it, then use a standard air intake that is much more effective at higher velocities? Last time I checked, jet airplane gas was $.30 per gallon at the airports. Plus, then you'll have a car that goes 0-600, and can spin the tires against the road at any speed up to ~500...or alternatively, a car that doesn't need refueling for 5000 miles with a bit less power. I assume that turbine engines aren't popular for the same reason metal, non-wearing-out brake pads aren't popular, too...there's only one moving part, they're more fuel efficient that the 4-stroke engine, they're silent when muffled, and easier to muffle, otherwise they're the same loudness as the 4-stroke, easy to manufacture due to the one part, and less prone to break (unless you rev the heck out of them, as always) than the fragile crankshafts and valve stems of the 4-stroke, and the clutch and rev style of the turbine is much more suited to the speed up and slow down style of the roads, since you can go faster on the straight parts of the road, then let the engine spin up while breaking for the turns, then clutch to convert the revs of the engine into rear-wheel power. Of course, a properly sized turbine has plenty of power without clutching, too.
As long as we're quoting songs about space, does anyone have the lyrics to the song from the Project Entropia background music with the female voice saying something about spacetravel? From memory, it's "what are we supposed to do, billow our sails and fly home?" And, uh, there's some pretty awesome other (fake?) space-flight quotes in that song too...
They're not individuals, they're a group. The dems and reps are the ruling party, and they print the ballots. Bribes go directly to them. And the only proof I have of this, besides the common knowledge of corrupt politics, is my personal experiences interrogating politicians via torture. They are very bad people, I swear, although I could be lying. There is little common knowledge of the censorship that they impose upon the media via the laws that their party predecessors passed, and the people who appear on the television and/or podcasts are the actors employed by this ruling party. The proof is the reason that these politicians run for office, perhaps? Do most politians have a reasonable, and vocal agenda, or do they simply run for no particular reason? Other reasons, that may or may not constitute proof may be such things as the missing information from the common knowledge of the source of materials (the earth), nor any pictures in existance on the new, uncensored media of the internet of a hole in the ground deeper than 3 feet that matches the picture of the hole in my randomly located backyard. If there was no evil group in control of the government, why is the information of the layers of earth nonexistant? (That is, the different colors and densitys of clay, each one 3 feet deep, everywhere and anywhere on earth. Each layer is well defined, and a different color. No pictures of these layers exist on the internet, or anywhere else. I'll provide a picture if someone wants to host it...although it's easy to verify with a shovel if you don't believe me.)
Although C++ is the current standard, it seems very inefficient to start a large project over in a new language, unless the old language has a flaw that prevents the products from getting marketed. I would be extremely hesitant to replace the language everybody is familiar with, and which all the product writing and debugging was already completed in...unless I absolutely had to. I'm not familiar with matlab, so I can't say if C++ is either a better solution, or a solution that is so much better that it's worth starting over...although if it is the second case, I would discard matlab and only use one language, so that testing and coding could be done with ~20-50% less effort...I've tried knowing and coding in two languages at the same time, and it's extremely difficult, I always forget what function names are associated with which languages, and that kind of thing. Plus you'll need to do the testing/debugging/coding twice for everything with two languages...
There's no reason for a serious politician to podcast. The votings been rigged for a long time, and it's common knowledge that politicians are in it for the money that they get from businesses in the form of contributions and bribes to pass laws that give the business paying the politician a financial advantage in the short or long term, usually at the detriment to everybody else.
If you listen to the speeches, the politicans just repeat the same pointless nothings, without any connection to serious and mostly unknown modern issues. They silence their opponents through anti-1st amendment libel and slander laws, since the truth usually cannot be explicitly proven. The entire notion of a ballot, with a very limited number of people to choose from, was created by nearly ancient corrupt, cheating polititians, who after winning the cheating contest that we call elections, made new laws to ensure that they and their team could stay in office and accept large quantities of money in the form of bribes.
It's more than a thrill. Doing something extreme, such as space flight, or even parachuting, bungee jumping, or armed combat increases a person's natural abilities. Although not commonly known, I would assume that if an ordinary person, with little or no building or moneymaking abilities did something as amazing as ascending to a million feet up in the air (or however high up this spacewalk is), their building and/or moneymaking abilities, and also their decisionmaking and other mental and physical abilities, should increase dramatically. Other, cheaper ways than spacewalking (wtf is up with $15 million? Is this only for Bill?) include blowtorching, shooting, fighting, using explosions for a variety of things, trapping animals, extreme and other sports...pretty much anything dangerous should increase a person's abilities, provided they survive intact. The amount of risk is usually proportional to the increase, and should be easy to measure for both the person partaking in the extreme, and the people around that person.
A good way to decrease a person's abilities is to sit around in a classroom, listening to a person talk about pointless, useless topics, then writing what they said on a piece of paper. Do that for 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, and you'll get a world of useless idiots. Then, when people wonder why there seems to not be enough money, remember that if there existed a ficticious society of 1000 people, and each person on average built 100 things, then they all traded the things they made through fair trade with money in a scattered way, each person on average would end up with 100 things. Extending that to the American population, each person should get a ton of papers...and little else. Luckily food grows itself, or we all would have starved by now.
Yeah, so it's off topic. Anyways, as I'm sure you all already knew, layer 5 of the earth has no rocks! (Unlike layers 3 & 4) Layer 5 appears to be bright red clay, that probably hardens into brick (although I don't have a pure sample yet)... although layer 4 kind of looks like brick when it's cooked, too....anyways, there's no rocks in layer 5, which makes digging much, much easier. For those of you not familiar with the layers of earth, each layer is ~ 1 meter deep, so I'm around 15 feet in. Does anyone want to respond with what color layer 6 is, and if there's rocks or not? Also I'm curious about layers 7 - 6000, too. Finally, does someone want to donate some TNT to the earth exploration and digging project? Or a website, I should make one of those.
I've seen motion sensitive camera software...how tricky would it be to mod this robot into a motion sensing attack robot with a motion sensitive firearm or bomb thrower? Has anyone attempted this tricky of a project? Is the motion sensing software (and facial recognition software) accurate enough to target soft vital areas, such as the eyes, on a fast moving target? Could these robots be useful as attack robots, especially since there doesn't seem to be any use for robots aside from housekeeping and defusing bombs, and the bomb defusing robots are RC...Is there already a linux project that accomplishes any of these goals, that could run on this or a similar platform? Or even better, an already built weapon with a camera that didn't need any modding...
Isn't maintenance rebuilding the car? There exists things that do not break...doesn't there? And although most people can easily maintain and/or build a car, how is this clock maintained and built? The explanation I read didn't say anything useful, just a bunch of gibbrish, that perhaps I am too nontechnical to understand...how is it that one atom is isolated? Is my understanding correct that when a person speaks of 'atoms', they're actually talking about gasses? That is to say, when something is converted into atoms, (iron, for instance), it is first liquified over a flame, then boiled until it is iron gas. This iron gas is then said to be made of 'atoms', right? Or are atoms something else?
Would you build one for personal use, or for others? How much could you sell such a box for, and how would you sell it? Is there a different custom PC you could build to sell, and how would you sell it?
I can find gold in my own backyard. As I'm sure you're all familiar with, there's around 3 feet of topsoil (aka dirt) at most sea-level places. Dig past the first 1m, and you'll find another meter of tan colored clay. This is similar to pottery clay, and can be baked in the sun for a few days, or in an oven for a few hours, to form hard clay. You'll need to add some glaze, of course. Under the tan clay is a gray clay, and under the gray clay is a red clay. (That's how far I've gotten so far...) As for the gold, altuogh layers 1 and 2 are pure, layers 3 and 4 are rocky, and I've found a variety of elements, including little gold nuggets that are worth a ton of money! (Assuming I can find a buyer and obtain a sales permit, of course) I'm hoping there's a gold layer that's 3 feet thick of a nice, soft gold, but I'm not sure how deep I'll have to dig for that. I've already got a water pump on the hole to pump out the water that flows in, although at this time of the year the water doesn't start until ~6 ft deep, in the winter it's almost at ground level.
On a side note, sometimes the dirt mixes with the clay. Is there any way to seperate dirt from clay? Also, the red clay appears to harden into a brick-like substance when dried for a pretty long time in the sun or oven...and I've also found a clay that was black and white, and hardened into a little piece of granite in ~ 6 months next to the computer.
Is this bacteria able to seperate the clay from the dirt? Also, I'm finding tons of shiny, golden metals mixed into the gray and red clays, and other elements also, is there a way to seperate these from the surrounding elements?
Why is it that cars break in 15 years, and most other things are extremely fragile, but this clock can last 40 billion years? Is it made from some kind of super-dense material? Why is the quality of this timepiece so great, and how is it made? It would be nice to have some technical information on how an ordinary person could manufacture a timepiece of this exact precision. Are the materials from a very deep mine? Are they hydrogen materials? Why is this clock so accurate?
What happened to the free exchange of money for goods and services? Are people no longer free to trade money with each other, and with companies that offer 'gambling' services? Regardless of location, Capitalism is all about trade. The government should not be able to limit trade between people and companies, as long as that trading is voluntary, regardless of what kind of company it is. If a person is too stupid to not spend all their money gambling, perhaps that is economic evolution? And perhaps if people were free to trade money for any goods and services, money would not be so tight for most people, and most people would not have to work all the time to earn enough to 'get by'.
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Engines are metal, and under extreme pressure. Metal does not break, unless you hit it really hard, or heat it up a ton. Putting cheap or expensive gas through an engine does not break the engine. Aside from the parts that break intentionally, such as oil filters and brake pads (that wear out), a car should not break unless you crash it into something, hit it with a bomb, or possibly disassemble it with tools and then reassemble it incorrectly, in such a way that the awesome power generated by the fuel burning inside the engine damages the parts. Even running an engine with no oil in it to lubricate the moving parts and reduce friction will not break metal, it will simply reduce the power and efficiency of the engine. The same goes for the transmission. Metal does not wear out or break, at least not in our lifetimes. Ironically, I tried a variety of gasses in my motorbike, and there didn't appear to be any noticable difference between 85 (en mexico and arizona) and 91. Jet fuel works pretty good, if you have an engine that can withstand the extra heat and force. To get an idea of how powerful the fuel inside the engine is, try pushing a car by hand with the car in neutral...that's how strong the engine is, and how much force is on the parts inside it during normal usage. Of course, there's an easy way to break an engine on a manual transmission, overrev it and the force of the engine breaks itself...otherwise, they're pretty close to indestructable. (Not counting the soft outer paint, which is easily scratched, or the soft fuel tank that is mandatory and explodes.) A turbocharger (actually an air compressor) that injects extra air into the engine, along with fuel injectors that inject extra fuel at the same time does increase the power of the car...but why not just get a 440 stainless turbine engine and put jet fuel in it, then use a standard air intake that is much more effective at higher velocities? Last time I checked, jet airplane gas was $.30 per gallon at the airports. Plus, then you'll have a car that goes 0-600, and can spin the tires against the road at any speed up to ~500...or alternatively, a car that doesn't need refueling for 5000 miles with a bit less power. I assume that turbine engines aren't popular for the same reason metal, non-wearing-out brake pads aren't popular, too...there's only one moving part, they're more fuel efficient that the 4-stroke engine, they're silent when muffled, and easier to muffle, otherwise they're the same loudness as the 4-stroke, easy to manufacture due to the one part, and less prone to break (unless you rev the heck out of them, as always) than the fragile crankshafts and valve stems of the 4-stroke, and the clutch and rev style of the turbine is much more suited to the speed up and slow down style of the roads, since you can go faster on the straight parts of the road, then let the engine spin up while breaking for the turns, then clutch to convert the revs of the engine into rear-wheel power. Of course, a properly sized turbine has plenty of power without clutching, too.
As long as we're quoting songs about space, does anyone have the lyrics to the song from the Project Entropia background music with the female voice saying something about spacetravel? From memory, it's "what are we supposed to do, billow our sails and fly home?" And, uh, there's some pretty awesome other (fake?) space-flight quotes in that song too...
They're not individuals, they're a group. The dems and reps are the ruling party, and they print the ballots. Bribes go directly to them. And the only proof I have of this, besides the common knowledge of corrupt politics, is my personal experiences interrogating politicians via torture. They are very bad people, I swear, although I could be lying. There is little common knowledge of the censorship that they impose upon the media via the laws that their party predecessors passed, and the people who appear on the television and/or podcasts are the actors employed by this ruling party. The proof is the reason that these politicians run for office, perhaps? Do most politians have a reasonable, and vocal agenda, or do they simply run for no particular reason? Other reasons, that may or may not constitute proof may be such things as the missing information from the common knowledge of the source of materials (the earth), nor any pictures in existance on the new, uncensored media of the internet of a hole in the ground deeper than 3 feet that matches the picture of the hole in my randomly located backyard. If there was no evil group in control of the government, why is the information of the layers of earth nonexistant? (That is, the different colors and densitys of clay, each one 3 feet deep, everywhere and anywhere on earth. Each layer is well defined, and a different color. No pictures of these layers exist on the internet, or anywhere else. I'll provide a picture if someone wants to host it...although it's easy to verify with a shovel if you don't believe me.)
Although C++ is the current standard, it seems very inefficient to start a large project over in a new language, unless the old language has a flaw that prevents the products from getting marketed. I would be extremely hesitant to replace the language everybody is familiar with, and which all the product writing and debugging was already completed in...unless I absolutely had to. I'm not familiar with matlab, so I can't say if C++ is either a better solution, or a solution that is so much better that it's worth starting over...although if it is the second case, I would discard matlab and only use one language, so that testing and coding could be done with ~20-50% less effort...I've tried knowing and coding in two languages at the same time, and it's extremely difficult, I always forget what function names are associated with which languages, and that kind of thing. Plus you'll need to do the testing/debugging/coding twice for everything with two languages...
There's no reason for a serious politician to podcast. The votings been rigged for a long time, and it's common knowledge that politicians are in it for the money that they get from businesses in the form of contributions and bribes to pass laws that give the business paying the politician a financial advantage in the short or long term, usually at the detriment to everybody else.
If you listen to the speeches, the politicans just repeat the same pointless nothings, without any connection to serious and mostly unknown modern issues. They silence their opponents through anti-1st amendment libel and slander laws, since the truth usually cannot be explicitly proven. The entire notion of a ballot, with a very limited number of people to choose from, was created by nearly ancient corrupt, cheating polititians, who after winning the cheating contest that we call elections, made new laws to ensure that they and their team could stay in office and accept large quantities of money in the form of bribes.
It's more than a thrill. Doing something extreme, such as space flight, or even parachuting, bungee jumping, or armed combat increases a person's natural abilities. Although not commonly known, I would assume that if an ordinary person, with little or no building or moneymaking abilities did something as amazing as ascending to a million feet up in the air (or however high up this spacewalk is), their building and/or moneymaking abilities, and also their decisionmaking and other mental and physical abilities, should increase dramatically. Other, cheaper ways than spacewalking (wtf is up with $15 million? Is this only for Bill?) include blowtorching, shooting, fighting, using explosions for a variety of things, trapping animals, extreme and other sports...pretty much anything dangerous should increase a person's abilities, provided they survive intact. The amount of risk is usually proportional to the increase, and should be easy to measure for both the person partaking in the extreme, and the people around that person.
A good way to decrease a person's abilities is to sit around in a classroom, listening to a person talk about pointless, useless topics, then writing what they said on a piece of paper. Do that for 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, and you'll get a world of useless idiots. Then, when people wonder why there seems to not be enough money, remember that if there existed a ficticious society of 1000 people, and each person on average built 100 things, then they all traded the things they made through fair trade with money in a scattered way, each person on average would end up with 100 things. Extending that to the American population, each person should get a ton of papers...and little else. Luckily food grows itself, or we all would have starved by now.
It appears as though an evil group of people has censored the popular medias, causing widespread stupidity & ignorance.
Yeah, so it's off topic. Anyways, as I'm sure you all already knew, layer 5 of the earth has no rocks! (Unlike layers 3 & 4) Layer 5 appears to be bright red clay, that probably hardens into brick (although I don't have a pure sample yet) ... although layer 4 kind of looks like brick when it's cooked, too....anyways, there's no rocks in layer 5, which makes digging much, much easier. For those of you not familiar with the layers of earth, each layer is ~ 1 meter deep, so I'm around 15 feet in. Does anyone want to respond with what color layer 6 is, and if there's rocks or not? Also I'm curious about layers 7 - 6000, too. Finally, does someone want to donate some TNT to the earth exploration and digging project? Or a website, I should make one of those.
Could the intelligent users post more factual, personal experience information, and not BS from the media and TV?
Why are most of the slashdot posts movie quotes, or references to movies?
I've seen motion sensitive camera software...how tricky would it be to mod this robot into a motion sensing attack robot with a motion sensitive firearm or bomb thrower? Has anyone attempted this tricky of a project? Is the motion sensing software (and facial recognition software) accurate enough to target soft vital areas, such as the eyes, on a fast moving target? Could these robots be useful as attack robots, especially since there doesn't seem to be any use for robots aside from housekeeping and defusing bombs, and the bomb defusing robots are RC...Is there already a linux project that accomplishes any of these goals, that could run on this or a similar platform? Or even better, an already built weapon with a camera that didn't need any modding...
There's gold in your backyard too.
Isn't maintenance rebuilding the car? There exists things that do not break...doesn't there? And although most people can easily maintain and/or build a car, how is this clock maintained and built? The explanation I read didn't say anything useful, just a bunch of gibbrish, that perhaps I am too nontechnical to understand...how is it that one atom is isolated? Is my understanding correct that when a person speaks of 'atoms', they're actually talking about gasses? That is to say, when something is converted into atoms, (iron, for instance), it is first liquified over a flame, then boiled until it is iron gas. This iron gas is then said to be made of 'atoms', right? Or are atoms something else?
Would you build one for personal use, or for others? How much could you sell such a box for, and how would you sell it? Is there a different custom PC you could build to sell, and how would you sell it?
I can find gold in my own backyard. As I'm sure you're all familiar with, there's around 3 feet of topsoil (aka dirt) at most sea-level places. Dig past the first 1m, and you'll find another meter of tan colored clay. This is similar to pottery clay, and can be baked in the sun for a few days, or in an oven for a few hours, to form hard clay. You'll need to add some glaze, of course. Under the tan clay is a gray clay, and under the gray clay is a red clay. (That's how far I've gotten so far...) As for the gold, altuogh layers 1 and 2 are pure, layers 3 and 4 are rocky, and I've found a variety of elements, including little gold nuggets that are worth a ton of money! (Assuming I can find a buyer and obtain a sales permit, of course) I'm hoping there's a gold layer that's 3 feet thick of a nice, soft gold, but I'm not sure how deep I'll have to dig for that. I've already got a water pump on the hole to pump out the water that flows in, although at this time of the year the water doesn't start until ~6 ft deep, in the winter it's almost at ground level.
On a side note, sometimes the dirt mixes with the clay. Is there any way to seperate dirt from clay? Also, the red clay appears to harden into a brick-like substance when dried for a pretty long time in the sun or oven...and I've also found a clay that was black and white, and hardened into a little piece of granite in ~ 6 months next to the computer.
Is this bacteria able to seperate the clay from the dirt? Also, I'm finding tons of shiny, golden metals mixed into the gray and red clays, and other elements also, is there a way to seperate these from the surrounding elements?
Why is it that cars break in 15 years, and most other things are extremely fragile, but this clock can last 40 billion years? Is it made from some kind of super-dense material? Why is the quality of this timepiece so great, and how is it made? It would be nice to have some technical information on how an ordinary person could manufacture a timepiece of this exact precision. Are the materials from a very deep mine? Are they hydrogen materials? Why is this clock so accurate?
What happened to the free exchange of money for goods and services? Are people no longer free to trade money with each other, and with companies that offer 'gambling' services? Regardless of location, Capitalism is all about trade. The government should not be able to limit trade between people and companies, as long as that trading is voluntary, regardless of what kind of company it is. If a person is too stupid to not spend all their money gambling, perhaps that is economic evolution? And perhaps if people were free to trade money for any goods and services, money would not be so tight for most people, and most people would not have to work all the time to earn enough to 'get by'.