Oh, someone thinks Hollywood creates documentaries?
I met a Brazilian a few months ago who was worried about how safe any American city was due to all the gunplay. The next day I saw in a newspaper from his Brazilian town that 30 people had died of gunshots in one day (no mention of how many wounded), and it was in the back of the paper with minor news. 30 is much more than most American states, much less their cities.
Well, if you're happy with servers that can't stay up longer than 3 months then you have what you want. Do you have 30 servers yet, so you and the users get to deal with a crash every three days?
A sailboat can go in other directions because it has a keel. The keel can block the vector away from the wind, allowing the various forces toward the side to be used.
If a field can be generated which is not a sphere, the distortion may generage some sideways motion. But then the sail would have to be turned off for a while to allow the Sun's gravity to slow the ship's away motion, thus leaving the sideways motion.
If an off-center sail can be created which has no more outward force than the Sun's gravity, the resulting sideways force would dominate. But it won't provide as much acceleration as running with the wind with all sheets out.
You use gravity to swing around in another direction. Or if you're someplace interesting such as Jupiter's intense electromagnetic fields, you might be able to get a kick from those.
And I won't mention setting off a fusion explosion nearby so your sail can get a kick from that...
Oops, Voyager is not being abandoned, actually Pioneer 10 being abandoned. It might have passed out of the heliopause in May, but further readings should be taken. They won't be.
Click on the "related press release" link at the bottom of the page. A big communications satellite ended up in an unusable orbit. Hughes engineers managed to get it to a good orbit by sending it around the Moon. A Google search finds several reports.
I can't find the recent news item that Voyager has been sent its last commands. It has a few instruments still operating, but its antenna will drift away from the Earth in September unless new commands are sent. It has to be kept operating until its instruments report it has left the Sun's influence or the size won't be known (I don't remember whether solar magnetism or solar wind is still being measured). I think funding is the problem.
To go in any direction, you put your ship in a path where the magnetic sail accelerates it toward a planet. Then use the planet's gravity to swing around in the direction you want to go.
Of course because radio is carrying sound and television carries light obviously radio travels at the speed of sound and TV at the speed of light.
And a pager message of the number zero travels at zero speed, while a three-dimensional TV signal travels at the cube of the speed of light.
The right answer, of course, is that they all travel at the speed of radio signals, which is approximately the speed of light (the speed of light differs between materials, and electromagnetic effects affect signals and the signal path).
Astronomers sort of know about the other extreme forms of matter. They probably already tried to eliminate those possibilities. Perhaps they calculated that the largest possible neutron star could not accelerate to that speed. Perhaps they looked for the blasts which would be caused by so much matter accumulating on the surface of a neutron star. Or they see a doppler shift away, but none toward so it's not a stream or rotating object with a corresponding approaching emission.
I try to remember that people who deal with their area of specialty do have experience with things which are novel to me. Just last week I noticed there were two astronomical research projects with similar purposes operating independently. I was able to connect them, and left them to figure out for themselves how their differing techniques benefit both of them. They know how to do their jobs.
It?s like a bully that goes around making fun of everyone; they end up making a lot of enemies. It wouldn?t be much of a problem if slashdot was a small site but it is not.
Say, do you know how to type that without the question marks on your operating system?
So MCI can't fix the problem because it is Lucent software? So because MCI does not have the source code their entire network business is at risk. Were their licenses of proprietary software listed as a liability?
So you make your sound card say "one" and "zero" and the computer on the other end of the phone line uses voice recognition to rebuild the data stream.
Once you have that working you set up a constellation where 64 different words represent various combination of bit sequences so you send several bits per word...
Now look what you've done. You've spawned a definition of foobar which is different from other foobars. From now on web searchers will be distracted from their search for the common ancestor of foobar by finding this foobar discussion. And now that you've created this foobar meaning, all other foobars will vanish.
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Was your submission handled by one of those new fluor escent monkeys?
A lot of those parts originated in Asia. It's not the transport across the Atlantic which is causing price differences.
OK, so run MOSIX so processes will the automatically scattered across the cluster.
Making a system play music on an AM radio is a 30-year-old trick. Making it be done on FM is magic.
I met a Brazilian a few months ago who was worried about how safe any American city was due to all the gunplay. The next day I saw in a newspaper from his Brazilian town that 30 people had died of gunshots in one day (no mention of how many wounded), and it was in the back of the paper with minor news. 30 is much more than most American states, much less their cities.
Ask them how much of their favorite chemical is pumped into the atmosphere annually by volcanoes.
Well, if you're happy with servers that can't stay up longer than 3 months then you have what you want. Do you have 30 servers yet, so you and the users get to deal with a crash every three days?
If a field can be generated which is not a sphere, the distortion may generage some sideways motion. But then the sail would have to be turned off for a while to allow the Sun's gravity to slow the ship's away motion, thus leaving the sideways motion.
If an off-center sail can be created which has no more outward force than the Sun's gravity, the resulting sideways force would dominate. But it won't provide as much acceleration as running with the wind with all sheets out.
And I won't mention setting off a fusion explosion nearby so your sail can get a kick from that...
Oops, Voyager is not being abandoned, actually Pioneer 10 being abandoned. It might have passed out of the heliopause in May, but further readings should be taken. They won't be.
Click on the "related press release" link at the bottom of the page. A big communications satellite ended up in an unusable orbit. Hughes engineers managed to get it to a good orbit by sending it around the Moon. A Google search finds several reports.
I can't find the recent news item that Voyager has been sent its last commands. It has a few instruments still operating, but its antenna will drift away from the Earth in September unless new commands are sent. It has to be kept operating until its instruments report it has left the Sun's influence or the size won't be known (I don't remember whether solar magnetism or solar wind is still being measured). I think funding is the problem.
I'm sure people with the proper tools, such as the Satellite Tool Kit orbit calculator or Orbital Mechanics CDROM, can make some interesting launches by using the Earth and Moon to redirect trajectories.
And a pager message of the number zero travels at zero speed, while a three-dimensional TV signal travels at the cube of the speed of light.
The right answer, of course, is that they all travel at the speed of radio signals, which is approximately the speed of light (the speed of light differs between materials, and electromagnetic effects affect signals and the signal path).
I try to remember that people who deal with their area of specialty do have experience with things which are novel to me. Just last week I noticed there were two astronomical research projects with similar purposes operating independently. I was able to connect them, and left them to figure out for themselves how their differing techniques benefit both of them. They know how to do their jobs.
It won't go through the floor if you put it in orbit. You also won't have to put brakes in your car.
Anyone else notice on Netscape that the RC camera image does not stay on screen when the site is slow?
So MCI can't fix the problem because it is Lucent software? So because MCI does not have the source code their entire network business is at risk. Were their licenses of proprietary software listed as a liability?
Once you have that working you set up a constellation where 64 different words represent various combination of bit sequences so you send several bits per word...
Now look what you've done.
You've spawned a definition of foobar which is different from other foobars. From now on web searchers will be distracted from their search for the common ancestor of foobar by finding this foobar discussion. And now that you've created this foobar meaning, all other foobars will vanish.
If you want to GPL your JavaScript, just include the GPL in your JavaScript. Well, there may be a few K of implementation difficulty...