Extracting nitrogen out of the air? That's where the nitrogen in ammonia fertilizer comes from. If that's the same technique, it's being used all over the place.
We also know how to control rainfall. Just schedule a picnic.
I wonder if he needs a nightclub network admin. I'll have to find very sturdy Cat 5 jack mountings...Oh, and I'll need a half-dozen motor-aimed pin spots for marking net abusers.
There's nothing like keeping a network clean with bouncers...
You can see THOR in action in the "David's Sling", along with the first information war. You can buy the book but I noticed a reference that it might have also been in Hypercard. Anyone know more about the electronic form? If I buy a copy, is there a Linux viewer?
Never heard of that. A steel ball would have a high terminal velocity and a lot of inertia, but not enough for a kinetic blast. Dropping it from orbit it would reach much higher speeds...and only be in atmosphere for the last 10 miles.
Wasn't Heinlein the only major SF author who said we'd leave the Moon once we reached it? I'm sure he was not trying to predict that, it just happened...
We'd prospect for the kind of asteroid we want. Metal or fluff, depending upon whether we need metal framework or acoustic tiles.
Any part of the surface is "a place to land". Low gravity. Harpoons probably needed to stay in solid contact.
Smelt with mirrors. On Earth we can melt metals with mirrors. A lot easier when we don't have to hold mirrors in place against gravity.
Space colonization is not a population growth measure. Not enough people can be moved...unless we can build space elevators. Colonists would be a few people and their children. Population growth can happen off-planet also.
Space is enormous. Plenty of room for some humans.
Um.. you think using up the metal supply will destroy it? No, it can be recycled. If nothing else, toss your garbage in a solar furnace and everything will melt/vaporize and you can smelt it down to what you want. Remember, when you're in space you can make large enough mirrors to get a lot of heat.
The worst that could happen is a lot of the metal gets dropped in the sun. But a single asteroid has more metals than we have here on the surface of the Earth. And if we really needed the metals we might make some really big magnetic tubes and distill what's floating in the sun...but first we can mine Mercury and Venus if we're that desperate...or help Io spray itself into space more quickly.
You don't understand. You keep your metals in orbit, where they're useful to build your space infrastructure very quickly.
A single nickel-iron asteroid has more metals than we have available in the Earth's crust, so that's a lot of building material. You might find it useful to bring down some platinum, gold, and titanium if you really need it...and those aren't as abundant here.
Of course, if you really want to bring down iron you can. You can deliver a lot more of it to any location on Earth than the competition could...just start building iron gliders in orbit, or iron darts if you have enough room for the crater.
Well, it depends. I think it was US West Wireless that I saw giving one free text news service. Obviously the amount of data per user will be tiny, and they're hoping you'll pay to subscribe to more. And competition can do interesting things...
You can consider the value of the domain name as a return on the effort required to create the domain in the first place. Getting up early requires a certain amount of effort and planning, and now you're seeing some of the value from that effort.
Not every product is a success. When a failed product is stopped, the company should get as much of their investment back as possible. Sell or reuse the conveyor, bubble wrap, signs, letterhead... if you're stuck with a bunch of Edsels, you should sell them to collectors or someone who'll pay more than the scrap iron dealer.
You got the domain for legitimate purposes. If you're no longer using it, it is an unused asset. An unused asset should either be used or sold. If there is no market for the asset then it should be junked.
There is a gray area between domain name ownership and cybersquatting. Unlike land squatting, a cybersquatter might not occupy the asset. But a cybersquatter might have content on the domain, and then one has to judge whether or not there is "enough content" to be considered legitimate. (and I note that an email-only domain might seem to have zero content if viewed with a web browser...)
If you don't have use for the domain, the clock is ticking. Anyone could claim you're not "using" it. Use it, sell it, or junk it.
Just ask if they'll give you permission to build your limited run. A few hundred wouldn't affect their company income much. They'd be letting you do a market test and there'd be several hundred more developers out here tinkering with the devices. This license forbids your doing this, so simply try to get a different license from them.
"Ansible" is the device, not the composition. What better material for instant communications than "Instable"? (Hey, if they can't spell well, we have to do something with their product...)
Let's not forget the other accessibility problem: sites which are full of info except how to contact the company.
There are major corporations with web sites which have no addresses nor phone numbers listed. A potential customer has to do separate searches and filter out the companies with the same name which are in other fields of business.
The Secret Service wouldn't appreciate having to deal with Mounties. Next thing you'd know, President Clinton would find himself on trial. Oh, wait, we tried that ourselves, and it doesn't work.
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I'm wondering why both my home and work computers are viewing the NYT links without registration...
We also know how to control rainfall. Just schedule a picnic.
Well, you can read some about Edison on Project Gutenberg's "Edison, His Life and Inventions". Tesla is mentioned once.
Before you leave, you will make an entry in Everything.
There's nothing like keeping a network clean with bouncers...
You can see THOR in action in the "David's Sling", along with the first information war. You can buy the book but I noticed a reference that it might have also been in Hypercard. Anyone know more about the electronic form? If I buy a copy, is there a Linux viewer?
I did, however find: "Glenn Dropped From Shuttle Experiment"
Wasn't Heinlein the only major SF author who said we'd leave the Moon once we reached it? I'm sure he was not trying to predict that, it just happened...
Read the article again. They hired a consulting company. A big consulting company. They'd have Linux expertise.
Maybe NEAR status will help. Diagrams and numbers.
The worst that could happen is a lot of the metal gets dropped in the sun. But a single asteroid has more metals than we have here on the surface of the Earth. And if we really needed the metals we might make some really big magnetic tubes and distill what's floating in the sun...but first we can mine Mercury and Venus if we're that desperate...or help Io spray itself into space more quickly.
You can see the effects of a 150-foot piece. It's called Meteor Crater. Crater 2.4 miles in circumference.
I agree with the previous poster. Read The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress for the classic rocks-from-space show. Follow it up with Footfall.
A single nickel-iron asteroid has more metals than we have available in the Earth's crust, so that's a lot of building material. You might find it useful to bring down some platinum, gold, and titanium if you really need it...and those aren't as abundant here.
Of course, if you really want to bring down iron you can. You can deliver a lot more of it to any location on Earth than the competition could...just start building iron gliders in orbit, or iron darts if you have enough room for the crater.
Well, it depends. I think it was US West Wireless that I saw giving one free text news service. Obviously the amount of data per user will be tiny, and they're hoping you'll pay to subscribe to more. And competition can do interesting things...
Not every product is a success. When a failed product is stopped, the company should get as much of their investment back as possible. Sell or reuse the conveyor, bubble wrap, signs, letterhead... if you're stuck with a bunch of Edsels, you should sell them to collectors or someone who'll pay more than the scrap iron dealer.
There is a gray area between domain name ownership and cybersquatting. Unlike land squatting, a cybersquatter might not occupy the asset. But a cybersquatter might have content on the domain, and then one has to judge whether or not there is "enough content" to be considered legitimate. (and I note that an email-only domain might seem to have zero content if viewed with a web browser...)
If you don't have use for the domain, the clock is ticking. Anyone could claim you're not "using" it. Use it, sell it, or junk it.
Check if your library's blocking software will let you read an online copy of "Moby Dick"...
Just ask if they'll give you permission to build your limited run. A few hundred wouldn't affect their company income much. They'd be letting you do a market test and there'd be several hundred more developers out here tinkering with the devices. This license forbids your doing this, so simply try to get a different license from them.
"Ansible" is the device, not the composition. What better material for instant communications than "Instable"? (Hey, if they can't spell well, we have to do something with their product...)
Is "Instable" the media of which Ender's communication devices were made?
There are major corporations with web sites which have no addresses nor phone numbers listed. A potential customer has to do separate searches and filter out the companies with the same name which are in other fields of business.
The Secret Service wouldn't appreciate having to deal with Mounties. Next thing you'd know, President Clinton would find himself on trial. Oh, wait, we tried that ourselves, and it doesn't work.
CAVE has been mentioned in /. before.
Wouldn't Torvalds 0.0.7 be his eighth grandchild?