It's actually everyone who likes something other than stop-motion Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Maybe some people prefer other full-motion animation more than the anime style, but the mere level of detail is an attraction. And it's not as if it is new. I saw "StarBlazers" on broadcast TV decades ago; where was Mr. Mandel then?
As for how anime got into the 'mainstream': The Cartoon Network started showing it. They knew about anime because they're in the cartoon business and of course knew all the categories and styles.
There's an idea. Every Slashdotter at the head of the room should be issued a taped-into-a-cylinder "First Post!" T-shirt to toss at the first few people in the room. Or else just leave them draped over the chairs near the doors with "Take One If You Care" notes on them.
We already have two cheap designs to reach space: Reusable hydrogen-oxygen rockets, or Orion drive ships.
We don't yet have practical inertial-confinement fusion, so for Orion drives we'd have to use somewhat dirty fission bombs. So we won't be using them unless there's an emergency when we have to get a lot of mass out of our gravity well. (No, there's only a shortage of nuclear fuel down here. The Moon is probably coated with tritium and every metallic asteroid has some fissionables.)
We used liquid oxygen and hydrogen in the Saturn V, and the Shuttle ascent engines. We could create fully reusable H+O designs -- several were considered for the Shuttle. The easiest to create probably would be the piggyback -- a large aircraft which takes the orbiter partway up and gives it the initial acceleration. Most of the fuel would return to Earth as water. But now NASA thinks it can do surface-to-orbit in a single device.
It's really a matter of someone spending enough money to build the things. Right now several commercial firms are already in the rocketry business. The more business they get, the more launch vehicles will be developed.
That's why I phrased it the way I did. The two contestant robots would fight on JW. The winner would become a RW/BB contestant. If it's an American JW, BB; if it's a British JW, RW.
It's only a political problem if you intend to force other people to do it. Otherwise go buy as much land as you want in Egypt and start planting. Keep following the winds westward...
Robot avatars of the top 10 questions joining the line for the microphone?
Asking all questions in text form, and providing dozens of web terminals for live audience members to ask questions and moderate all the submitted questions?
Rate all questions ahead of time, then have all approved questions spoken aloud simultaneously?
Have Babelfish translations of all answers fed into all Slashboxes, so everyone can read something of their interests into every answer?
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The installation problems are due to Qwest.Com, the telephone company. The discussion here is about Qwest.Net the ISP.
Junkyard Wars should make the contestants build a robot for Robot Wars or Battle Bots...after arranging for the winner of JW to become an RW/BB contestant.
(1) There's plenty of space ice that can be dropped on Mars. As long as we're there we can put ice in orbit and drop small pieces.
(2) Earth people have trouble returning after living in zero gravity, although the amount of trouble depends upon how much exercise they do. We don't know the health effects of lifetime 0.3G, and the effect of Earth gravity does not matter to someone who does not go to Earth. People are not required to come to Earth, just as they're not required to travel to the North Pole...although some do.
Well, that's a bit of a project. Climate experts are still trying to figure out what caused that little dry spot. If you want to fix it by planting stuff, you'll have to supply a lot of water.
Oddly, the article is talking about using microorganisms to convert "rock" to "soil". Soil has to have a lot of organic material, which is rich in carbon. The article is about removing carbon from the atmosphere, not increasing it. The submitter's emotions saturated his/her writing.
Actually, to increase the greenhouse effect on Mars would require a lot of water. On Earth, water vapor is the major greenhouse gas and the same would probably be true on a terraformed Mars. The obvious method is to crash icy asteroids/comets into Mars. Probably have to scatter several carbon-rich asteroids around to increase the available carbon, also. That will be messy and noisy, as with most biology. Fortunately most of that can be done at the start of the process, and maintenance doesn't have to be so dramatic (ie, put ice in orbit and drop small pieces of it -- overly time consuming for huge quantity needed to start the process).
Yes, the cost of living in that country and in that city is important while you're there. Also consider how much you'll be able to save up and how much that will be worth where you will be in the future.
That is, consider where your savings will be and how much they're worth after the assignment. If you're going to continue working in that country and retire there, then you only have to examine the situation there. Otherwise you have global comparisons to make.
Yes, there are at least two PCMCIA video cards. Actually, "Cardbus PC Card". The specs for the Margi Display-to-go 4MB card are not very specific, but I don't think it and its little brother have 3D acceleration.
They're marketed toward specialized display interfaces, not as speedy graphic devices. But apparently Cardbus has indeed been used for graphical output devices.
It was quite apparent when the power went out last summer in the Bay area that there was a problem. There was a Report to Governor Davis about it. Plenty of explanation there. Of course, new plants should have been started ten years ago, not summer of 2000.
Gee, that's too bad. They're using bad data. Ocean temperatures are higher than air temps. Thus those studies which use air temperatures over land and ocean temperatures over ocean are using temps which are higher than true air temps.
Gee, if "many of the reactors in Canada had to be shut down after 10 years" then the 21 operational reactors in Canada suggests that Canada used to have many more. What was the total number -- 50, 100, 210 reactors? And most of those 21 seem to be older than 10 years...
So put all the nation's breeder reactors in one corner of Utah. Line losses to feed the electricity to the rest of the nation don't matter, as the nuclear fuel would be wasted if it wasn't used. Have all the reactors close together so they can have plenty of guards to stop people from eating the toxic plutonium before it is converted.
Don't worry, when enough science briefly penetrates Congress sometime in the next 500 years we'll mine Yucca Flats and recycle the usable stuff properly. The disposal facility can be easily mined, and a plasma torch will melt whatever containers are used. It's much easier to extract nuclear fuel from chunks of assorted metals than from raw ore, particularly as it's already much more concentrated than ore.
The protective feathers of the disposal facility design are intended to protect against accidental damage, particularly by those who don't know what they are doing. Retrieval with the blueprint (or ground-penetrating radar) with proper equipment is easy enough, although time consuming in sealed areas.
There's nothing half-hearted about the automobile industry attempts to make electric cars. They know the first to market with a practical design will sell a lot of them. The problem is there simply isn't yet a battery technology which can hold enough energy cheaply enough. (I put "cheap" in there because some high-density technologies presently wear out the batteries too quickly for automotive use) It's hard to approach the energy density of volatile liquids. Waving the magic wand harder doesn't seem to be producing denser energy storage.
Actually, Global Cooling was making headlines in the 1970s, when the 55 MPH energy-saving policy was adopted, so the science is more recent than 1920. Within five years Global Warming was in the headlines. And they've been tinkering with computer models for decades trying to prove the theory.
Mt Pinatubo emitted at least 42 Mt of CO2. The world total is 34,000 Mt (according to the "Explanation" link, the latter includes gases other than CO2). The former is clearly less than the latter, whatever the sources (ie, are natural sources such as tree carbon monoxide included or not?).
What was significant about the Pinatubo eruption was the 17 Megatons of sulphur dioxide (which measurably increased ozone damage for at least two years), and the sulfates in the cloud of debris (5 cubic kilometers of stuff, with much of the heavier stuff landing nearby) in the upper atmosphere which shaded the Earth and decreased global temperatures.
"The compounds released by burning hydrocarbon fuels DO INDEED contribute to contribute to global warming."
Please tell us how much carbon was released by the natural prairie and forest fires across North America before 1700. Also, how much carbon was deposited in topsoil annually?
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As for how anime got into the 'mainstream': The Cartoon Network started showing it. They knew about anime because they're in the cartoon business and of course knew all the categories and styles.
There's an idea. Every Slashdotter at the head of the room should be issued a taped-into-a-cylinder "First Post!" T-shirt to toss at the first few people in the room. Or else just leave them draped over the chairs near the doors with "Take One If You Care" notes on them.
We don't yet have practical inertial-confinement fusion, so for Orion drives we'd have to use somewhat dirty fission bombs. So we won't be using them unless there's an emergency when we have to get a lot of mass out of our gravity well. (No, there's only a shortage of nuclear fuel down here. The Moon is probably coated with tritium and every metallic asteroid has some fissionables.)
We used liquid oxygen and hydrogen in the Saturn V, and the Shuttle ascent engines. We could create fully reusable H+O designs -- several were considered for the Shuttle. The easiest to create probably would be the piggyback -- a large aircraft which takes the orbiter partway up and gives it the initial acceleration. Most of the fuel would return to Earth as water. But now NASA thinks it can do surface-to-orbit in a single device.
It's really a matter of someone spending enough money to build the things. Right now several commercial firms are already in the rocketry business. The more business they get, the more launch vehicles will be developed.
That's why I phrased it the way I did. The two contestant robots would fight on JW. The winner would become a RW/BB contestant. If it's an American JW, BB; if it's a British JW, RW.
It's only a political problem if you intend to force other people to do it. Otherwise go buy as much land as you want in Egypt and start planting. Keep following the winds westward...
The installation problems are due to Qwest.Com, the telephone company. The discussion here is about Qwest.Net the ISP.
Junkyard Wars should make the contestants build a robot for Robot Wars or Battle Bots...after arranging for the winner of JW to become an RW/BB contestant.
(2) Earth people have trouble returning after living in zero gravity, although the amount of trouble depends upon how much exercise they do. We don't know the health effects of lifetime 0.3G, and the effect of Earth gravity does not matter to someone who does not go to Earth. People are not required to come to Earth, just as they're not required to travel to the North Pole...although some do.
That's "translucent". A "translucid" rock is one which speaks and thinks, but not clearly.
Well, if a change in Earth's tilt triggered the change then fixing it will be an Earth-shaking project. If Himalayan erosion cooled Earth, the fix might be as simple as sealing the mountains in plastic.
Actually, to increase the greenhouse effect on Mars would require a lot of water. On Earth, water vapor is the major greenhouse gas and the same would probably be true on a terraformed Mars. The obvious method is to crash icy asteroids/comets into Mars. Probably have to scatter several carbon-rich asteroids around to increase the available carbon, also. That will be messy and noisy, as with most biology. Fortunately most of that can be done at the start of the process, and maintenance doesn't have to be so dramatic (ie, put ice in orbit and drop small pieces of it -- overly time consuming for huge quantity needed to start the process).
"Say, Harry, how do you know the emergency shutdown is broken?"
That is, consider where your savings will be and how much they're worth after the assignment. If you're going to continue working in that country and retire there, then you only have to examine the situation there. Otherwise you have global comparisons to make.
They're marketed toward specialized display interfaces, not as speedy graphic devices. But apparently Cardbus has indeed been used for graphical output devices.
It was quite apparent when the power went out last summer in the Bay area that there was a problem. There was a Report to Governor Davis about it. Plenty of explanation there. Of course, new plants should have been started ten years ago, not summer of 2000.
Gee, that's too bad. They're using bad data. Ocean temperatures are higher than air temps. Thus those studies which use air temperatures over land and ocean temperatures over ocean are using temps which are higher than true air temps.
Gee, if "many of the reactors in Canada had to be shut down after 10 years" then the 21 operational reactors in Canada suggests that Canada used to have many more. What was the total number -- 50, 100, 210 reactors? And most of those 21 seem to be older than 10 years...
So put all the nation's breeder reactors in one corner of Utah. Line losses to feed the electricity to the rest of the nation don't matter, as the nuclear fuel would be wasted if it wasn't used. Have all the reactors close together so they can have plenty of guards to stop people from eating the toxic plutonium before it is converted.
The protective feathers of the disposal facility design are intended to protect against accidental damage, particularly by those who don't know what they are doing. Retrieval with the blueprint (or ground-penetrating radar) with proper equipment is easy enough, although time consuming in sealed areas.
There's nothing half-hearted about the automobile industry attempts to make electric cars. They know the first to market with a practical design will sell a lot of them. The problem is there simply isn't yet a battery technology which can hold enough energy cheaply enough. (I put "cheap" in there because some high-density technologies presently wear out the batteries too quickly for automotive use) It's hard to approach the energy density of volatile liquids. Waving the magic wand harder doesn't seem to be producing denser energy storage.
Actually, Global Cooling was making headlines in the 1970s, when the 55 MPH energy-saving policy was adopted, so the science is more recent than 1920. Within five years Global Warming was in the headlines. And they've been tinkering with computer models for decades trying to prove the theory.
What was significant about the Pinatubo eruption was the 17 Megatons of sulphur dioxide (which measurably increased ozone damage for at least two years), and the sulfates in the cloud of debris (5 cubic kilometers of stuff, with much of the heavier stuff landing nearby) in the upper atmosphere which shaded the Earth and decreased global temperatures.
Please tell us how much carbon was released by the natural prairie and forest fires across North America before 1700. Also, how much carbon was deposited in topsoil annually?