Among other suggestions, a near-ship defense which most ships can make: Gravity-powered anti-pirate missile
Best to have guns on board too. They might get a little mad.
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Which is a good thing since at 1:37 they discuss the He penguins and claim "A micro-controller gives the penguins free will to explore this space"
Fortunately, the added weight of the laser will require H instead of He. That tends to complicate their experimentation.
Isn't he still "a post-graduate"?
I think the sentence is referring to a period of several decades, not one ambiguously timed academic achievement. I think he did not become post-grad when he was 15 years old, so the error range is only a few years.
Lightning researchers use a rocket to carry up a thin wire. All that's needed is an encouraging guide for lightning. But we don't have technology to convert much of that power into a useful form.
Someone mentioned 1 terawatt in a lightning bolt. OK, so that's equivalent to 10,000 100MW power plants. But the lightning bolt is brief; being generous, let's say it lasts a second. After 10,000 seconds the power plants have matched the power. That's 2.78 hours. So in this region, if you have a 100% conversion lightning power-and-storage plant, you have less than 3 hours for one of the lightning plants to capture another lightning bolt. If this "region" is North America, you'll have some difficulty in the morning or in winter.
We could mount the device on a platform fired from an aircraft, with a parachute, and a long grounding cable fired into the ground from the platform before the plasma fires at the lightning cloud. So county/municipal helicopters or cargo planes could do this work.
So we run 3,000 meters of cable to the ground and use lasers to add another 100 meters of range? 3,100 meters of cable would be simpler.
This is not a "thundercloud discharger" unless your thundercloud is within 100 meters of the ground. They aren't, and most of those who are get called "tornadoes", but we can use blades of curved ionized air to cover a building's roof. So it could be used as a local lightning guide.
And if it glows, it can also be used as decoration.
Must it be about places where we are actually typing, or can we include situations where we were writing a program in our minds for later entry?
I sometimes wonder what people think as they walk by while I'm typing with my eyes closed.
You'd think someone with such a low UID would get that. Just shows that simply because you've been around for a long time it doesn't mean you actually understand things any better.
So not only does a First Post not necessarily deliver information, the same goes for a First Poster.
I'm not sure which will be the bigger headache when my internet breaks: waiting in line at the new government internet office, or waiting on hold for cable tech support.
Or as your mandatory government volunteer work, being assigned to fix your Internet.
And when you return to your government public works administration job, being assigned to break your Internet. And then break CowboyNeal's Internet.
On a dark and dreary night I searched far and wide for the answer to your quest and despite the best of my efforts I must report that there were no results to be reported within the database which you told me to search. Please take a deep breath, relax, and try another inquiry if you wish, my master.
There once was a file named mybest.gif
whose owner wanted to replace it.
That act it did not permit,
the file did not have the write bit,
and out this error did spit.
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Among other suggestions, a near-ship defense which most ships can make: Gravity-powered anti-pirate missile Best to have guns on board too. They might get a little mad.
Fortunately, the added weight of the laser will require H instead of He. That tends to complicate their experimentation.
I think I can, I think I cam!
Also, most students don't have much originality.
Isn't he still "a post-graduate"?
I think the sentence is referring to a period of several decades, not one ambiguously timed academic achievement. I think he did not become post-grad when he was 15 years old, so the error range is only a few years.
Someone mentioned 1 terawatt in a lightning bolt. OK, so that's equivalent to 10,000 100MW power plants. But the lightning bolt is brief; being generous, let's say it lasts a second. After 10,000 seconds the power plants have matched the power. That's 2.78 hours. So in this region, if you have a 100% conversion lightning power-and-storage plant, you have less than 3 hours for one of the lightning plants to capture another lightning bolt. If this "region" is North America, you'll have some difficulty in the morning or in winter.
Optional?
So we run 3,000 meters of cable to the ground and use lasers to add another 100 meters of range? 3,100 meters of cable would be simpler.
This is not a "thundercloud discharger" unless your thundercloud is within 100 meters of the ground. They aren't, and most of those who are get called "tornadoes", but we can use blades of curved ionized air to cover a building's roof. So it could be used as a local lightning guide. And if it glows, it can also be used as decoration.
Obviously a masochist is doing a thorough job hunt.
Must it be about places where we are actually typing, or can we include situations where we were writing a program in our minds for later entry? I sometimes wonder what people think as they walk by while I'm typing with my eyes closed.
So not only does a First Post not necessarily deliver information, the same goes for a First Poster.
Parent should be modded +1, Troll, but there seems to be some difficulty with that.
China is way ahead of us at protecting the planet with particulates.
You're a new luddite? Don't you know how dangerous those are?
Their common ancestor is a carpenter.
This is a job for Streaming BitTorrent.
Or as your mandatory government volunteer work, being assigned to fix your Internet.
And when you return to your government public works administration job, being assigned to break your Internet. And then break CowboyNeal's Internet.
Humbly I remain,
Your User Interface.
There once was a file named mybest.gif
whose owner wanted to replace it.
That act it did not permit,
the file did not have the write bit,
and out this error did spit.
Yeah, we can use the graphene in space if it survives the X-rays from the tape.
I'm sure you can buy cables for 40 grand from anyone here.
Sure, it's -4.15 Edsels.
But they didn't sort the Library of Congress by relevance to me.
Oooklahoma!
Where the wind sweeps change across the plains...