What could go wrong ? Rockets have, at best, 98% reliability (Using old and proven tech, new one is muuch wooorse.). that means that 2% of the time, they explode and get dispersed in the atmosphere, low or high, soon or late. So it's a very very very very very very bad idea to send fissile material to orbit and then to escape velocities.
Fission designs have the advantage that a crew could be 'shaded' from solar flares by the heavy-isoptope fuel load. The ship's safe room would be positioned to exploit this effect.
Airbreathing modes? In open space nuclear designs could be the kings of specific impulse, but getting to LEO with one is going to be a lot more difficult, especially politically.
The airline ripoffs and excesses I'm talking about have nothing to do with flight safety. Fees for everything is one major area. Fees are supposed to apply to optional extras, such as extra bags, meals, drinks, special seats, and class upgrades. The huge fees for fixing a typo in your name in the ticket are a prize example. The operation is a SQL update in place to a single field in your passenger name record, for which airlines could still make money if they charged $25 for the validation and the few seconds of labor the fix would involve. Instead they have been charging $200 or more, and recently have been treating a name type as an excuse to cancel and remake a reservation, a screw job that allows them to charge a huge walkup fare in addition to the change fee.
Change fees are another example. Though this actually does require a cancel and rebook, every convention in the worlds charges on a sliding scale, with the price rising as the event date approaches. Airlines could easy do that, and still make plenty. Southwest gets by without charging change fees at all.
And did you ever book a premium seat in Business or First? If the premium service cannot be provided on flight day, because of some carrier issue like an equipment change, yuo should get a refund of the difference between what you would have paid for Coach and the premium fare. Instead, you get an artificial differential using phony "airline math."
Doesn't the State Department do security scans of our embassies and diplomatic residences for hazards if any kind, intentional or otherwise? Being posted to a location with plague rats would be just as big a problem.
Sending location data on an emergency call without asking is strictly a policy decision, rather than a technical issue. Apple would be flamed equally for assuming permission to use GPS on an emergency call.
The Brits have already discovered that when some event occurs that could be investigated using the nation's plethora of public cameras, that Big Brother happens to be off at the pub that moment and not at the police station monitor. This has led to increasing interest in automated interpretation of received images. License plate identification is an obvious first step, but the authorities are going to be very interested in this Chinese tech.
Wisconsin is applying the same form of governmental logic that motivates cities to build expensive stadiums to give away to sports franchises. Taxpayers have to hope that Foxconn innovates enough, such as by making robotic assembly better and cheaper than the slave assembly the company has been famous for at home, to make the deal pay off sooner.
"Aviation is one of the industries where the customer is almost never right." You're talking about flight safety. When you're talking about the business side, it's the airline that's almost never right.
Why not just bring up the "Do you want this app to use your location" in the calling app when it sees an emergency call being dialed? This mode can also be used when the 'emergency call from lock screen' feature is triggered.
This death rate increase is a statistical blip caused by the fad for opioid usage. As soon as the hopeless, worthless addict population has been self-cleared, life for the rest of us will be back to normal.
A rising death rate benefits all pension systems, including Social Security, in the early days of which the right imagined all kinds of conspiracy schemes that had the gummint secretly shortening our lifespans. At the same time, life insurance companies are threatened by a rising death rate. This is why life companies sell annuities as well as life insurance, as a hedge against changes in life expectancy.
How do you go about dating something that doesn't have carbon, or layers of sediment to compare with? I'm sure there are other methods, but the article doesn't elaborate.
Biologists use carbon dating because living organisms incorporate stable 12C and radioactive 14C into their bodies in the same ratio as in the surrounding environment, which is assumed not to change with time. After death, when the organism stops incorporating carbon, the 14C steadily decays at a constant rate, enable time-since-death to be computed. C dating is accurate out to about 50,000 years.
Geologists use the same system of dating, but with isotopes that have half-lives long enough for the measurement to be viable over geologic time spans.
Why is UK law relentlessly criminalizing everything except actual criminality? One of the major things the UK does criminalize is fighting back against criminals. Small wonder that gangs of kids on mopeds are ripping down London's sidewalks, snatching phones, purses and briefcases from pedestrians - and there's nothing that people can do about them.
Imagine a single drive train hybrid using this tech as the charging engine, running only at its most efficient speed. This could be the low-cost transition to electric that the industry has been waiting for.
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I grew up there. In California, you don't mess with public beach access.
I guess now we know where your money goes when your account gets mysteriously frozen.
What could go wrong ?
Rockets have, at best, 98% reliability (Using old and proven tech, new one is muuch wooorse.).
that means that 2% of the time, they explode and get dispersed in the atmosphere, low or high, soon or late.
So it's a very very very very very very bad idea to send fissile material to orbit and then to escape velocities.
This has already happened, on more than one occasion. Yet we're still here:
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Fission designs have the advantage that a crew could be 'shaded' from solar flares by the heavy-isoptope fuel load. The ship's safe room would be positioned to exploit this effect.
Airbreathing modes? In open space nuclear designs could be the kings of specific impulse, but getting to LEO with one is going to be a lot more difficult, especially politically.
Instead of going to Mars, let's use our resources to do things that actually benefit people, such as stopping global warming.
Which will require going nuclear. We tried burning liberals for power, but they proved even smokier and harder to keep lit than that German lignite.
The airline ripoffs and excesses I'm talking about have nothing to do with flight safety. Fees for everything is one major area. Fees are supposed to apply to optional extras, such as extra bags, meals, drinks, special seats, and class upgrades. The huge fees for fixing a typo in your name in the ticket are a prize example. The operation is a SQL update in place to a single field in your passenger name record, for which airlines could still make money if they charged $25 for the validation and the few seconds of labor the fix would involve. Instead they have been charging $200 or more, and recently have been treating a name type as an excuse to cancel and remake a reservation, a screw job that allows them to charge a huge walkup fare in addition to the change fee.
Change fees are another example. Though this actually does require a cancel and rebook, every convention in the worlds charges on a sliding scale, with the price rising as the event date approaches. Airlines could easy do that, and still make plenty. Southwest gets by without charging change fees at all.
And did you ever book a premium seat in Business or First? If the premium service cannot be provided on flight day, because of some carrier issue like an equipment change, yuo should get a refund of the difference between what you would have paid for Coach and the premium fare. Instead, you get an artificial differential using phony "airline math."
Doesn't the State Department do security scans of our embassies and diplomatic residences for hazards if any kind, intentional or otherwise? Being posted to a location with plague rats would be just as big a problem.
Sending location data on an emergency call without asking is strictly a policy decision, rather than a technical issue. Apple would be flamed equally for assuming permission to use GPS on an emergency call.
(b) the male engineer who forces his opinions about why women are bad at being useful on others
A manifesto is the author's opinion, not a forcing of opinion. Firing someone for writing a manifesto IS a forcing of opinion on others.
Corollary: a halfway decent password kept in a secure place is one that the same idiot will lose. I run into this with my IT customers all the time.
They don't even prevent the dumbest of passwords from being used. password becomes Password1!
And worse, it becomes more difficult to use those highly random generated passwords available from password managers.
The Brits have already discovered that when some event occurs that could be investigated using the nation's plethora of public cameras, that Big Brother happens to be off at the pub that moment and not at the police station monitor. This has led to increasing interest in automated interpretation of received images. License plate identification is an obvious first step, but the authorities are going to be very interested in this Chinese tech.
Wisconsin is applying the same form of governmental logic that motivates cities to build expensive stadiums to give away to sports franchises. Taxpayers have to hope that Foxconn innovates enough, such as by making robotic assembly better and cheaper than the slave assembly the company has been famous for at home, to make the deal pay off sooner.
"Aviation is one of the industries where the customer is almost never right."
You're talking about flight safety. When you're talking about the business side, it's the airline that's almost never right.
Why not just bring up the "Do you want this app to use your location" in the calling app when it sees an emergency call being dialed? This mode can also be used when the 'emergency call from lock screen' feature is triggered.
This death rate increase is a statistical blip caused by the fad for opioid usage. As soon as the hopeless, worthless addict population has been self-cleared, life for the rest of us will be back to normal.
A rising death rate benefits all pension systems, including Social Security, in the early days of which the right imagined all kinds of conspiracy schemes that had the gummint secretly shortening our lifespans. At the same time, life insurance companies are threatened by a rising death rate. This is why life companies sell annuities as well as life insurance, as a hedge against changes in life expectancy.
Nanotube condoms for ACs!
How do you go about dating something that doesn't have carbon, or layers of sediment to compare with? I'm sure there are other methods, but the article doesn't elaborate.
Biologists use carbon dating because living organisms incorporate stable 12C and radioactive 14C into their bodies in the same ratio as in the surrounding environment, which is assumed not to change with time. After death, when the organism stops incorporating carbon, the 14C steadily decays at a constant rate, enable time-since-death to be computed. C dating is accurate out to about 50,000 years.
Geologists use the same system of dating, but with isotopes that have half-lives long enough for the measurement to be viable over geologic time spans.
Disney, in a sense, effectively pirated the public domain. As far as I'm concerned, turnabout is fair play.
An increasing number of ordinary people, far beyond the original 'hacker' culture, are coming to the same conclusion.
Why is UK law relentlessly criminalizing everything except actual criminality? One of the major things the UK does criminalize is fighting back against criminals. Small wonder that gangs of kids on mopeds are ripping down London's sidewalks, snatching phones, purses and briefcases from pedestrians - and there's nothing that people can do about them.
That's an entire busload of Japanese tourists.
This CPU will deliver phenomenal performance but only during solar eclipses.
AMD will counter with a knockoff that works during those more common lunar eclipses.
Imagine a single drive train hybrid using this tech as the charging engine, running only at its most efficient speed. This could be the low-cost transition to electric that the industry has been waiting for.
North Korea's entire military strategy is the exposed position of Seoul.