The 730,720,000,000 anti-protons at Fermilab are thus 1096 joules (1.096 * 10E3). A gallon of gasoline has 1.3 * 10E8 joules, so Fermilab antiprotons have an energy less than 1 * 10E-5 (0.00001) gallons of gasoline.
Yes, I'm sure they used a lot more energy than that to produce those antiprotons.
No, you can't store them in a magnetic field because they obey the laws of physics.
The antiHydrogen was produced by collecting antiprotons (antihydrogen nucleus) and positrons (antielectrons) in magnetic bottles, mixing them so the antiprotons collected positrons...and the antiHydrogen atoms then wandered around because the magnetic bottle could not hold them due to their neutral charge.
The resulting annihilation of the uncontrolled antimatter is what was detected. No nihilists were detected.
No, he can get as far up as the Moon fairly easily. Any geosynchronous launch technology can reach the Moon (years ago Hughes actually sent a geosynch bird around the Moon to move it from an accidental orbit to a more useful orbit).
Oh, you want him to reach there alive and to return? That's going to require more mass. I thought he was going for distance...
Linux? What's that? "
From their email I got a thing like "Market forces.... drop support for Mac.... not in the foreseeable future'
I used to hear that from hardware companies five years ago. I'd invite them to ask their technical staff about Linux, as a significant percent of them are using Linux at home (How did I know? That's what I heard from companies where tech staff answered queries.)...and if Linux has penetrated widely enough that even your staff is using it, consider again its market forces.
I stopped hearing "What's Linux?" from hardware manufacturers within a year. Even their marketing staff now knows.
Small software companies are less likely to know of alternatives, as their few people are less likely to have much experience. (The math is obvious: there are a huge number of small software companies and few people with much experience)
The advantage which many companies have is in their data, not their software. Mapping, geneological, news organizations are selling data.
In the case of mapping, all those dependent upon publicly available data are fighting a losing battle as the public data is massaged and used for public software. Routing algorithms can be a marketing advantage briefly, as there are public routing algorithms and a little public code (some not intended for geographic mapping, such as in circuit layout).
The companies which generate their own mapping data have the greatest data advantage and should be selling the data for any application which wants to use it. Note that any set of data might be sold to a single customer if that customer is willing to pay a sufficiently large price. The creator/user of that data only has an advantage if their data is not available from someone else. And that's a matter of whether or not someone else wants to devote the amount of effort needed to create the data from the publicly available real world. Technology is a strong influence -- mappers used to have to have people extracting data points from photographs, maps, and surveys. Now a computer might be scanning a photo and comparing it with previous maps.
There also are specialty maps, where again it's the effort to create the data which makes it of value. The market for maps of underground mines is small but there are a few mining companies willing to pay a large price. A larger number, such as companies involved in drilling, is less concerned about underground hollows but would be willing to pay a smaller amount for purposes such as reducing the shock on equipment. A much larger number is willing to pay even less, such as prospectors looking for types of minerals previously encountered, environmental groups examining an area, or home shoppers wanting to get a site suitable for trying a geothermal system.
The problem is in how to market the data so as to maximize the profit. Publishing all the data for the many cheap users might mean the few high-priced users won't need to pay the high price. Such things can be handled by methods such as making the price cheaper with a decreasing resolution. The cheapest data might only show there is a mine within a circle of a certain size. The most expensive may be a three-dimensional representation of all the mines in a specific area or highest price for the most recent data.
So... How can you present a business case to Delorme or someone else to make the definition of one of their data sets public? Do they have a product which already only has a data advantage over public code? For years people have been buying CD-ROMs of games solely to get the data file needed for the public code. If a public map program does what I want, I'd gladly buy a reasonably priced set of data for it. Just as I have bought computers preloaded with software priced at thousands of dollars, and immediately erased it all to put Linux on the hardware.
Or urge them to keep their route planning secret if they offer it as a service. So if I want a route my handheld can request it over the Internet and get back an XML reply with an advertisement (or I can pay to get it without the ad). My handheld's software, whatever it is, would know how to use the route data...and as an honorable gentleman would, display the ad.
An app which creates its own maps will know the street names and could say them. Otherwise some sort of markup may have to be added which labels such lines and points. If routing software is used it's not even necessary to have markup for the entire map, only for a swath along the route.
Actually, when I decide to put a GPS app in a computer in my car (I already have three suitable portable computers) the first thing I'll add is an audio pointer. Merely saying the direction to a goal relative to the current path is enough to let one drive to a destination and know when one is close...because the direction changes more rapidly as one gets closer. The major problem is that GPS does not know when a car has turned -- until two new readings, which can be difficult if the sky is blocked; adding a compass or accelerometer can help with that.
That's the idea. A road is built with vehicles in mind. A sidewalk is built with pedestrians in mind. A bike path is built with bicycles in mind.
And when you encounter a bicycle or a semitrailer truck on the road, remember they're both vehicles and treat them as such. Pedestrians show up anywhere...particularly as they can get anywhere until their car breaks down.
It's your responsibility as a driver to hit nothing and if you don't want to behave appropriately then you're not a driver.
"... prohibition of forces greater than 5.6 that last longer than one second" "Sure you can do 10Gs and over but that's only momentarily, not for longer than one second."
Although legal, somehow I think chairs on top of a ton of dynamite would not be particularly safe.
Yes, floating algae would give up its carbon when it rotted into the air. But some of it sinks.
And the ocean has more than algae. Plankton consists of many creatures, many of which build shells. Carbonate shells. The same stuff as the white cliffs of Dover. That stuff sinks. Some of it also dissolves at a certain depth.
What happens to fish skeletons? And fish waste? Sinks.
Well, yes, dihydrogen monoxide vapor does cause well over 90% of the Earth's greenhouse effect. But carbon dioxide has a better public relations staff so it gets more publicity.
"And generally when timber companies come in, it's much more economical to clear-cut, which leads to erosion and makes the land unsuitable for the wildlife that was living there."
In what way is bare clear-cut land different from the result of a natural forest fire? The difference would be the greater layer of natural ash. Ash isn't particularly suitable to wildlife in the short term.
"...would yo want a house built out of recycled wood?"
Aren't you aware that taking a tree and sealing it inside a wall is carbon sequestration? You're taking that carbon and locking it away so it doesn't reenter the environment. So you do want the trees to be used for something.
Whoa...I forgot that sometimes water or steam is pumped into an oil field. And any rock below the water table may have water present.
So by pumping the CO2 back down there...they are already providing carbon for whatever wants it. Assuming there are carbonate rocks which are unsatisfactory...and oil has been found in areas with no sedimentary rock, so carbonate rocks (and possible organic fossil material) are not required anyway.
Well, if Dr. Gold is right... the bacteria which created the first batch of oil will get back to work and process the new stuff.
It probably would be more efficient to pump H2O with the CO2, then let them trickle down to a depth where the heat provides enough energy for the bacteria to process them.
And as the H2O and CO2 mix is acidic and dissolves some rock...good. That will make larger channels for faster upwelling of all the hydrocarbons...unless calcium deposits where the processing takes place ends up blocking those channels. But the bacterial action is probably eroding the rock in that area anyway.
Uh... This CO2 was being pumped back where it came from. Anything which releases it -- would have released it without we humans having removed the useful gases...along with releasing the other stuff.
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The hard part was training the rats to eat the acetamitophen tablets.
...to mass produce antimatter, but my solution will not fit in this space.
The 730,720,000,000 anti-protons at Fermilab are thus 1096 joules (1.096 * 10E3). A gallon of gasoline has 1.3 * 10E8 joules, so Fermilab antiprotons have an energy less than 1 * 10E-5 (0.00001) gallons of gasoline.
Yes, I'm sure they used a lot more energy than that to produce those antiprotons.
But we really need scientists to create the crucial elements which are used by science fiction interstellar drives: Handwavium and Analogousite.
The antiHydrogen was produced by collecting antiprotons (antihydrogen nucleus) and positrons (antielectrons) in magnetic bottles, mixing them so the antiprotons collected positrons...and the antiHydrogen atoms then wandered around because the magnetic bottle could not hold them due to their neutral charge.
The resulting annihilation of the uncontrolled antimatter is what was detected. No nihilists were detected.
That's a quote from the project's News page. They do indeed want to see if it falls up.
Oh, you want him to reach there alive and to return? That's going to require more mass. I thought he was going for distance...
Oh, good, I can find my own petroleum for the road trip. Oops...the database says there's a flatcat around here too.
From their email I got a thing like "Market forces.... drop support for Mac.... not in the foreseeable future'
I used to hear that from hardware companies five years ago. I'd invite them to ask their technical staff about Linux, as a significant percent of them are using Linux at home (How did I know? That's what I heard from companies where tech staff answered queries.)...and if Linux has penetrated widely enough that even your staff is using it, consider again its market forces.
I stopped hearing "What's Linux?" from hardware manufacturers within a year. Even their marketing staff now knows.
Small software companies are less likely to know of alternatives, as their few people are less likely to have much experience. (The math is obvious: there are a huge number of small software companies and few people with much experience)
The advantage which many companies have is in their data, not their software. Mapping, geneological, news organizations are selling data.
In the case of mapping, all those dependent upon publicly available data are fighting a losing battle as the public data is massaged and used for public software. Routing algorithms can be a marketing advantage briefly, as there are public routing algorithms and a little public code (some not intended for geographic mapping, such as in circuit layout).
The companies which generate their own mapping data have the greatest data advantage and should be selling the data for any application which wants to use it. Note that any set of data might be sold to a single customer if that customer is willing to pay a sufficiently large price. The creator/user of that data only has an advantage if their data is not available from someone else. And that's a matter of whether or not someone else wants to devote the amount of effort needed to create the data from the publicly available real world. Technology is a strong influence -- mappers used to have to have people extracting data points from photographs, maps, and surveys. Now a computer might be scanning a photo and comparing it with previous maps.
There also are specialty maps, where again it's the effort to create the data which makes it of value. The market for maps of underground mines is small but there are a few mining companies willing to pay a large price. A larger number, such as companies involved in drilling, is less concerned about underground hollows but would be willing to pay a smaller amount for purposes such as reducing the shock on equipment. A much larger number is willing to pay even less, such as prospectors looking for types of minerals previously encountered, environmental groups examining an area, or home shoppers wanting to get a site suitable for trying a geothermal system.
The problem is in how to market the data so as to maximize the profit. Publishing all the data for the many cheap users might mean the few high-priced users won't need to pay the high price. Such things can be handled by methods such as making the price cheaper with a decreasing resolution. The cheapest data might only show there is a mine within a circle of a certain size. The most expensive may be a three-dimensional representation of all the mines in a specific area or highest price for the most recent data.
So... How can you present a business case to Delorme or someone else to make the definition of one of their data sets public? Do they have a product which already only has a data advantage over public code? For years people have been buying CD-ROMs of games solely to get the data file needed for the public code. If a public map program does what I want, I'd gladly buy a reasonably priced set of data for it. Just as I have bought computers preloaded with software priced at thousands of dollars, and immediately erased it all to put Linux on the hardware.
Or urge them to keep their route planning secret if they offer it as a service. So if I want a route my handheld can request it over the Internet and get back an XML reply with an advertisement (or I can pay to get it without the ad). My handheld's software, whatever it is, would know how to use the route data...and as an honorable gentleman would, display the ad.
Actually, when I decide to put a GPS app in a computer in my car (I already have three suitable portable computers) the first thing I'll add is an audio pointer. Merely saying the direction to a goal relative to the current path is enough to let one drive to a destination and know when one is close...because the direction changes more rapidly as one gets closer. The major problem is that GPS does not know when a car has turned -- until two new readings, which can be difficult if the sky is blocked; adding a compass or accelerometer can help with that.
And when you encounter a bicycle or a semitrailer truck on the road, remember they're both vehicles and treat them as such. Pedestrians show up anywhere...particularly as they can get anywhere until their car breaks down.
It's your responsibility as a driver to hit nothing and if you don't want to behave appropriately then you're not a driver.
10 print "This application requires the installation of the Red Hat CD-ROMs."
20 end
"Sure you can do 10Gs and over but that's only momentarily, not for longer than one second."
Although legal, somehow I think chairs on top of a ton of dynamite would not be particularly safe.
What's your point?
Scot Wilcoxon
So which Springfield do you find when you call 636-555-1212 and 939-555-1212 and ask for the phone number for Springfield City Hall?
You're right, he doesn't know all the addresses.
He'll just have to mail letters to every home and business in Washington.
And the ocean has more than algae. Plankton consists of many creatures, many of which build shells. Carbonate shells. The same stuff as the white cliffs of Dover. That stuff sinks. Some of it also dissolves at a certain depth.
What happens to fish skeletons? And fish waste? Sinks.
Well, yes, dihydrogen monoxide vapor does cause well over 90% of the Earth's greenhouse effect. But carbon dioxide has a better public relations staff so it gets more publicity.
In what way is bare clear-cut land different from the result of a natural forest fire? The difference would be the greater layer of natural ash. Ash isn't particularly suitable to wildlife in the short term.
Aren't you aware that taking a tree and sealing it inside a wall is carbon sequestration? You're taking that carbon and locking it away so it doesn't reenter the environment. So you do want the trees to be used for something.
So by pumping the CO2 back down there...they are already providing carbon for whatever wants it. Assuming there are carbonate rocks which are unsatisfactory...and oil has been found in areas with no sedimentary rock, so carbonate rocks (and possible organic fossil material) are not required anyway.
It probably would be more efficient to pump H2O with the CO2, then let them trickle down to a depth where the heat provides enough energy for the bacteria to process them.
And as the H2O and CO2 mix is acidic and dissolves some rock...good. That will make larger channels for faster upwelling of all the hydrocarbons...unless calcium deposits where the processing takes place ends up blocking those channels. But the bacterial action is probably eroding the rock in that area anyway.
Or limestone can be added to the material to balance the pH.
Ocean Sequestration of CO2
Uh... This CO2 was being pumped back where it came from. Anything which releases it -- would have released it without we humans having removed the useful gases...along with releasing the other stuff.