You do have a laboratory with millions of tons of mass. Go check whether the Earth orbits the point where the Sun is at right now, or the point where the Sun appears to be at the time when its light arrives at Earth.
(For those who don't see the relevance, "where the Sun is" is different than where its light is coming from because it takes a while for the Sun's light to reach Earth and the Sun is in a different place than we see it -- both relative to Earth's orbit and in its orbit around the Milky Way.)
Matter and energy are equivalent. Hitting an aircraft with a missile is actually the delivery of a huge amount of energy which happens to be in a form which machine tools can manipulate. Of course, using an explosive chemical warhead is trivial compared to what would happen if one could convert all of the missile's matter back to energy when it was in the vicinity of the aircraft (well, actually "vicinity" would be anywhere on the same continent).
I hope the power consumption increases for an arbitrarily heavy object. Otherwise, if that thing was pointed at the Moon or the Sun... Well, has anyone checked the orbits of the Moon and Earth recently?
I suppose a levitating force could actually be due to the apparatus pushing the Earth away from the "rising" object. To lift a bottle ten feet in ten seconds, you just have to accelerate the Earth away at 32 feet per second plus one foot per second for ten seconds.
The tanks are refilled until shortly before launch. One of the umbilicals connects to the liquid hydrogen tank. It's removed just minutes before launch.
Note that the hydrogen is circulated through the engine feed pipes to chill them. This means that the hydrogen isn't just sitting in the tank, it's moving through pipes which are not as well insulated as the tank, which would cause warming and venting.
I also see that the pressure relief valve is set at 38 psi, but during prelaunch the tank is pressurized to 44.1 psi -- unless there's something not mentioned on that page, as long as the tank is at the 44.1 pressure needed for ignition, there will be continual venting.
"I'm very interested in seeing someone get a positive result replicating this, don't care much about negative results becuase it's probably fairly touchy, like semicondutors, superconductors, cold fusion, etc."
I'd also like to see only the positive results of a few things...mind control, seances, telepathy, polywater, magnetic medicine, the Democratic Party...
MS Problems Cause Patch Failures
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A recent issue of RISKS Digest pointed out that the site with the patch to fix this IIS problem has problems itself. FTP downloads of the patch are often being disconnected, resulting in receipt of only a partial patch file.
This partial patch file can be "run" without any error messages popping up, causing some admins to erroneously believe that they've applied a patch.
The only indication that something went wrong is if the window with file size is visible, and if the person doing the download notices that the amount of data is less than the size of the file to be downloaded.
Well, a search on the US PTO web site for "password AND change AND AN/Microsoft" comes up with only 49 hits.
Someone who knows the.NET protocols will have to figure out if one of these applies. The obvious one "5,719,941 Method for changing passwords on a remote computer" might not happen to be the method used by.NET.
Well, if the web server which you're running is IIS and you're affected...then you can't trust your logs as you don't know how many types of attacks have succeeded and how many people are using your system.
The purpose of DCMA is to protect encrypted data with laws. A good encryption method only delays decryption. A known decryption is no actual protection, and laws can not change that fact.
Nobody can know whether this document which you are reading was actually written and encrypted by someone else other than me, and someone illegally decrypted and gave me the plain text. Now that you know that this is a possibility, aren't you a coconspirator if you don't report me?
The U.S. Department of Defense was the major sponsor of the project. The data will be used for simulations and real war. (I could say "real world" war, but "world war" has a certain meaning...)
Yes, I believe that if a document is sent to you and you did nothing illegal to acquire it then there you have some freedom. Members of the press have numerous examples.
However, what if you sent them the virus intentionally? What if someone else from your company sent them the virus intentionally? What if someone from your company got infected and sent them the virus? What if your server sent out a virus-laden document (and thus no human action was directly involved)?
"North American Airlines rejects this month's issue of your in-flight magazine. One of the advertisers is an automobile rental company which violates our standards. We remind you that any advertisement for automobile rental must include a mention of North American Auto Rental, our affiliated company."
The problem is that actually finding life on another planet would be extremely significant. The indications were not as definite as needed to be definite, so NASA is on record as not being sure.
And this temperature-related result can be related to the increast in chemical reactions with warmer temperatures. The rule of thumb is that each degree C in rise will double a the speed of a chemical reaction. The problem with that theory is that most of the reaction should have happened quickly, with quick tapering off -- this may have a different pattern than an unknown metabolic process would. There are many unknowns.
Holy cow, don't you remember using mag tape? There were only two common tape formats, the one-half inch reel-to-reel tapes visible in every Hollywood visualization of computers, and the DEC tape on small reels. The one-half inch tape was by far the more popular, and data was physically written in 7 and 9 track formats. Only a few tape densities were used.
The format of the NASA tapes is not mentioned, but the physical format was probably one of the above. There are plenty of such tape drives available, some are new and most are used.
Reading the tape should not involve any dead people, so the problem probably is with the format of the data.
Well, they don't say how they are "processing" the data from the paper printouts. Maybe the 30% means that they've used OCR to convert 30% of the pages to ASCII text.
If the thief is still using your service, he's also stealing that. At any rate, as you're the customer, the ISP should be helpful in giving you information about "your" access.
Re:Inverse Square Law
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According to the mathematics, yes, "infinitely wide" is needed -- and size 0 is undefined.
In practice, a laser is formed by the photons which happen to bounce back and forth between two mirrors (a miniscule percent leaks through the beam mirror to create the usable beam). In most designs, photons going in other directions may contribute to the energy level but will not themselves emerge in the beam.
The geometry for a photon-as-a-particle requires the largest divergence angle to be from a photon which begins travel toward one edge of a mirror, and bounces between the mirrors umpteen times before escaping at the opposite edge of the mirror. Basically, draw a line from one side of one mirror to the opposing side of the other mirror, and that's the maximum for a photon with one pass at both mirrors. Most photons have to bounce back and forth a huge number of times, so the angle has to be much smaller in order for the photon to bounce back and forth "enough" times. Photons at too large an angle hit the wall and never come out as the beam.
Photon-as-a-wave doesn't use the same line-drawing geometry, but the above shows why the beam is narrow and the photons are nearly parallel. There are other effects due to the lasing medium and optics outside the lasing chamber.
Slashdot Mirror
Shush. Yes, I know that, but he's supposed to look it up. Unless he doesn't check for prior research before doing it himself...
Finally, a tool for removing tobacco smoke!
(For those who don't see the relevance, "where the Sun is" is different than where its light is coming from because it takes a while for the Sun's light to reach Earth and the Sun is in a different place than we see it -- both relative to Earth's orbit and in its orbit around the Milky Way.)
Oh, good, so we have a device which affects pendulum string no matter what material is in the pendulum....
Actually, your cat trained you to dislike flying frogs so you'd help stop the frog conspiracy.
Matter and energy are equivalent. Hitting an aircraft with a missile is actually the delivery of a huge amount of energy which happens to be in a form which machine tools can manipulate. Of course, using an explosive chemical warhead is trivial compared to what would happen if one could convert all of the missile's matter back to energy when it was in the vicinity of the aircraft (well, actually "vicinity" would be anywhere on the same continent).
I suppose a levitating force could actually be due to the apparatus pushing the Earth away from the "rising" object. To lift a bottle ten feet in ten seconds, you just have to accelerate the Earth away at 32 feet per second plus one foot per second for ten seconds.
Note that the hydrogen is circulated through the engine feed pipes to chill them. This means that the hydrogen isn't just sitting in the tank, it's moving through pipes which are not as well insulated as the tank, which would cause warming and venting.
I also see that the pressure relief valve is set at 38 psi, but during prelaunch the tank is pressurized to 44.1 psi -- unless there's something not mentioned on that page, as long as the tank is at the 44.1 pressure needed for ignition, there will be continual venting.
I'd also like to see only the positive results of a few things...mind control, seances, telepathy, polywater, magnetic medicine, the Democratic Party...
This partial patch file can be "run" without any error messages popping up, causing some admins to erroneously believe that they've applied a patch.
The only indication that something went wrong is if the window with file size is visible, and if the person doing the download notices that the amount of data is less than the size of the file to be downloaded.
Someone who knows the .NET protocols will have to figure out if one of these applies. The obvious one "5,719,941 Method for changing passwords on a remote computer" might not happen to be the method used by .NET.
Maybe he just needs an excuse to get a faster system. Everything else is being blamed on Code Red...
Well, if the web server which you're running is IIS and you're affected...then you can't trust your logs as you don't know how many types of attacks have succeeded and how many people are using your system.
Nobody can know whether this document which you are reading was actually written and encrypted by someone else other than me, and someone illegally decrypted and gave me the plain text. Now that you know that this is a possibility, aren't you a coconspirator if you don't report me?
The U.S. Department of Defense was the major sponsor of the project. The data will be used for simulations and real war. (I could say "real world" war, but "world war" has a certain meaning...)
However, what if you sent them the virus intentionally? What if someone else from your company sent them the virus intentionally? What if someone from your company got infected and sent them the virus? What if your server sent out a virus-laden document (and thus no human action was directly involved)?
"North American Airlines rejects this month's issue of your in-flight magazine. One of the advertisers is an automobile rental company which violates our standards. We remind you that any advertisement for automobile rental must include a mention of North American Auto Rental, our affiliated company."
Both of you spelled SQL wrong, as sequal. I look forward to the Tron database. It should have an interesting user interface.
And this temperature-related result can be related to the increast in chemical reactions with warmer temperatures. The rule of thumb is that each degree C in rise will double a the speed of a chemical reaction. The problem with that theory is that most of the reaction should have happened quickly, with quick tapering off -- this may have a different pattern than an unknown metabolic process would. There are many unknowns.
The format of the NASA tapes is not mentioned, but the physical format was probably one of the above. There are plenty of such tape drives available, some are new and most are used.
Reading the tape should not involve any dead people, so the problem probably is with the format of the data.
Well, they don't say how they are "processing" the data from the paper printouts. Maybe the 30% means that they've used OCR to convert 30% of the pages to ASCII text.
"Ow, I slipped and fell on my own arrow! Do I feel stupid! Well, at least nobody will know..."
If the thief is still using your service, he's also stealing that. At any rate, as you're the customer, the ISP should be helpful in giving you information about "your" access.
In practice, a laser is formed by the photons which happen to bounce back and forth between two mirrors (a miniscule percent leaks through the beam mirror to create the usable beam). In most designs, photons going in other directions may contribute to the energy level but will not themselves emerge in the beam.
The geometry for a photon-as-a-particle requires the largest divergence angle to be from a photon which begins travel toward one edge of a mirror, and bounces between the mirrors umpteen times before escaping at the opposite edge of the mirror. Basically, draw a line from one side of one mirror to the opposing side of the other mirror, and that's the maximum for a photon with one pass at both mirrors. Most photons have to bounce back and forth a huge number of times, so the angle has to be much smaller in order for the photon to bounce back and forth "enough" times. Photons at too large an angle hit the wall and never come out as the beam.
Photon-as-a-wave doesn't use the same line-drawing geometry, but the above shows why the beam is narrow and the photons are nearly parallel. There are other effects due to the lasing medium and optics outside the lasing chamber.