I thought we discussed China's space program over a year ago. The head of their space program mentioned at the United Nations that they intend to explore the Moon and use its resources. Lunar mining implies a significant presence on the Moon, and unless they're going to use all the resulting material to expand their lunar bases, it also implies a lot of materials ending up in lunar orbit (a lot easier to achieve from the surface of the Moon than is Earth orbit from the surface of Earth) for construction in space.
There have been experiments in
http://www.google.com/search?q=fertilization+space +zero+gravity">fertilization under zero gravity. The experiment you propose, with mouse fertilization in microgravity has been studied (not much detail in that article...).
I don't know if four engines are needed to keep a Skycar airborne. Definitely when hovering. When in level flight most of the lift comes from horizontal movement -- I don't know what combinations of engines can still keep it flying well enough to land conventionally (at least it's conventional while most aircraft use runways) on a runway.
Perhaps you should examine automobile fatality/injury rates, rush hour bumper-to-bumper traffic, and damage due to whatever one car hits...then consider your concept of the danger of cars.
As for landing on things, if both parachutes deploy a Skycar is supposed to land without much likelyhood of injury to occupants (paraphrase from Moller's info), thus they're landing at less than 20 MPH (my estimate based on insurance figures). That's similar to a fall of 1-2 stories. You don't want to be under it, but it's not going to smash through to bedrock.
For that matter, figure out the odds of landing on things. Look at an aerial or satellite picture of your favorite neighborhood and figure out what percent is ground level, rooftop, treetop...
The surrounding information also make it apparent that a Skycar society would use automated air traffic control and the Skycars would talk to nearby Skycars to fly in an orderly manner.
For several reasons, implementors would probably create highways, although they might arrange themselves automatically rather than being printed on maps. Vehicles in or near Des Moines which are headed toward Chicago might tend to be gathered into a pipe-shaped area (a "highway") and there may be similar standard air routes for moving around Chicago, with slower and vertical flight taking place at altitudes below the air routes. Direct travel would also be possible, but grouping traffic simplifies the navigation problems for all craft. Particularly around the borders of the various restricted airspaces, where traffic going around could get concentrated. Doing the geometry, it's apparent that whether routes are defined by maps or by calculations based on following standard rules, they're likely to appear in some form.
"What if..." Oh, yeah. OK, if those planes had been fueled with hydrogen the broken fuel tanks would have spewed liquid hydrogen down inside and outside the building, with gaseous hydrogen going upward. If the resulting mix went through an explosive level around the fires, the resulting fuel-air blast could have killed everyone inside the two buildings and for several blocks in all directions. The buildings would have only had to withstand being in the center of an explosion, rather than being exposed to fire for an hour. "What If..."
Well, if every car is replaced by Skycars there will be fewer airliners buzzing around and burning fuel. The Skycar might get 30 MPG, which is similar to many current automobiles, and can do more point-to-point travel rather than having to zigzag on existing roads. Can you do the math for your next comment?
And let's hope the parachutes tend to get used after an accident, to slow the falling objects.
(Yes, I know the Skycar was estimated to get 15 MPG, but you might have missed the new wing design and the doubled MPG estimate)
NT servers seem to crash often. Can you tell us what colleges, so I can avoid having my children wandering around halls whose lights are controlled by NT? I'd also like to donate some candles to those colleges.
Oh, if only these youngsters knew what a cathode and dynode were. They don't know why TUBES ROCK! Nor do they understand the mechanics behind Venus Equilateral, other than putting the experimenter in a can and the experiment outdoors in vacuum.
These tubes are vacuum tubes with metal assemblies of various shapes, each charged with various voltages. The outermost cathode is charged with electrons, but kept below the point where many electrons can flow from the cathode to the nearest dynode (which has a different charge). Part of the cathode has a light-sensitive coating which emits electrons when hit by a photon. As the previous poster mentioned, those electrons are attracted to the lesser-charged dynode. Impact of those electrons knocks loose a greater number of electrons which are attracted to the next dynode, etc. Ultimately the electrons hit an anode which is connected to electronics that detect and report the electrical pulse triggered by the photon.
It is suspected that neutrinos can oscillate between several types, and the detectors are sensitive to certain types. The MINOS project will test this starting in 2003, by firing neutrinos from Fermi Lab near Chicago, under Wisconsin, to the detector in a mine near Soudan, Minnesota.
It's also being reported in this http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20011113_ 172.html">ABC News story, although this is an early report without analysis.
You're trying to use technology to fight technology. It's easy to make scripts which untangle many of the existing text obfuscations. If enough people obfuscate with graphic images of text, OCR technology will be used to read the images.
Woohoo! No, I didn't notice the Linux mention. It must have been on page 2, which I avoid reading on Wired because their frame-breaking code messes up my read-daily-sites frame. I'll go read it again. My iPAQ runs Linux..although I haven't loaded any games in it yet.
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I thought we discussed China's space program over a year ago. The head of their space program mentioned at the United Nations that they intend to explore the Moon and use its resources. Lunar mining implies a significant presence on the Moon, and unless they're going to use all the resulting material to expand their lunar bases, it also implies a lot of materials ending up in lunar orbit (a lot easier to achieve from the surface of the Moon than is Earth orbit from the surface of Earth) for construction in space.
There have been experiments in http://www.google.com/search?q=fertilization+space +zero+gravity">fertilization under zero gravity. The experiment you propose, with mouse fertilization in microgravity has been studied (not much detail in that article...).
I don't know if four engines are needed to keep a Skycar airborne. Definitely when hovering. When in level flight most of the lift comes from horizontal movement -- I don't know what combinations of engines can still keep it flying well enough to land conventionally (at least it's conventional while most aircraft use runways) on a runway.
As for landing on things, if both parachutes deploy a Skycar is supposed to land without much likelyhood of injury to occupants (paraphrase from Moller's info), thus they're landing at less than 20 MPH (my estimate based on insurance figures). That's similar to a fall of 1-2 stories. You don't want to be under it, but it's not going to smash through to bedrock.
For that matter, figure out the odds of landing on things. Look at an aerial or satellite picture of your favorite neighborhood and figure out what percent is ground level, rooftop, treetop...
The surrounding information also make it apparent that a Skycar society would use automated air traffic control and the Skycars would talk to nearby Skycars to fly in an orderly manner.
For several reasons, implementors would probably create highways, although they might arrange themselves automatically rather than being printed on maps. Vehicles in or near Des Moines which are headed toward Chicago might tend to be gathered into a pipe-shaped area (a "highway") and there may be similar standard air routes for moving around Chicago, with slower and vertical flight taking place at altitudes below the air routes. Direct travel would also be possible, but grouping traffic simplifies the navigation problems for all craft. Particularly around the borders of the various restricted airspaces, where traffic going around could get concentrated. Doing the geometry, it's apparent that whether routes are defined by maps or by calculations based on following standard rules, they're likely to appear in some form.
"What if..." Oh, yeah. OK, if those planes had been fueled with hydrogen the broken fuel tanks would have spewed liquid hydrogen down inside and outside the building, with gaseous hydrogen going upward. If the resulting mix went through an explosive level around the fires, the resulting fuel-air blast could have killed everyone inside the two buildings and for several blocks in all directions. The buildings would have only had to withstand being in the center of an explosion, rather than being exposed to fire for an hour. "What If..."
And let's hope the parachutes tend to get used after an accident, to slow the falling objects.
(Yes, I know the Skycar was estimated to get 15 MPG, but you might have missed the new wing design and the doubled MPG estimate)
You didn't notice the Skycar has eight engines and two parachutes?
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Well, I suppose an app which is controlling the lights in hallways full of people who are walking around can be called a pedestrian app.
NT servers seem to crash often. Can you tell us what colleges, so I can avoid having my children wandering around halls whose lights are controlled by NT? I'd also like to donate some candles to those colleges.
Gee, they don't have a PayPal link so we can sponsor a PMT?
You're saying that a bunch of nuclear physicists didn't consider a chain reaction.
These tubes are vacuum tubes with metal assemblies of various shapes, each charged with various voltages. The outermost cathode is charged with electrons, but kept below the point where many electrons can flow from the cathode to the nearest dynode (which has a different charge). Part of the cathode has a light-sensitive coating which emits electrons when hit by a photon. As the previous poster mentioned, those electrons are attracted to the lesser-charged dynode. Impact of those electrons knocks loose a greater number of electrons which are attracted to the next dynode, etc. Ultimately the electrons hit an anode which is connected to electronics that detect and report the electrical pulse triggered by the photon.
It is suspected that neutrinos can oscillate between several types, and the detectors are sensitive to certain types. The MINOS project will test this starting in 2003, by firing neutrinos from Fermi Lab near Chicago, under Wisconsin, to the detector in a mine near Soudan, Minnesota.
The technical challenge is automatically painting bathing suits, sheets, spectators, blankets, or walls on scenes.
Or, for Frasier, having the psychoanalysing commentators inserted in every scene for ongoing examination and commentary of every situation.
It's also being reported in this http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20011113_ 172.html">ABC News story, although this is an early report without analysis.
You're trying to use technology to fight technology. It's easy to make scripts which untangle many of the existing text obfuscations. If enough people obfuscate with graphic images of text, OCR technology will be used to read the images.
Woohoo! No, I didn't notice the Linux mention. It must have been on page 2, which I avoid reading on Wired because their frame-breaking code messes up my read-daily-sites frame. I'll go read it again. My iPAQ runs Linux..although I haven't loaded any games in it yet.
Not in this timeline. However, contests like this encourage misuse of time machines to ensure that authors are eligible or ineligible for the contest.
Thanks for the link. I was wondering why I couldn't find his books, and now I know.