In Canada there are local police departments (municipal or regional), provincial police forces (e.g Ontario Provincial Police or OPP) and the federal police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or RCMP.
Even if they were dragging planets with them (is it possible for planets to orbit that fast?)
Velocity is relative. If such a hypervelocity star did have a planetary system, then from the reference frame of that system, its own centre of mass would be stationary and it would be the rest of the universe that's whizzing by at relativistic speeds.
It's even older than that. Here's an article on the subject dating back to 1998. Jeffrey Turner was one of the early pioneers of this research, and co-founded a company, Nexia Biotechnologies, to commercialize the idea in 1993. I swear these "spider goat" articles have been popping up several times a year for the last fifteen years in various media outlets.
It ain't that easy to throw away 25Mw of generation at the drop of a hat
Why can't you just disconnect some fraction of the solar panels? Just run them as open circuits.
But I agree that underproduction is much more difficult to deal with than overproduction. The only practical solution I know of is to use some sort of energy storage system like pumped water storage, batteries (e.g. vanadium redox), or, and I'm speculating here, possible next-generation graphene ultracapacitors.
You look for cellular activities which correspond to cancerous behavior, and when you see them, you tell that cell to kill itself
That's kind of what's already supposed to happen naturally inside the human body. Cells are supposed to kill themselves if they are severely malfunctioned or are likely to become cancerous. However, if enough of these fail-safe mechanisms are damages within a cell, then that cell becomes cancerous. That's why cancer is so difficult to treat, and why your own immune system has difficulty attacking it -- the cancer cells have gone rogue and are no longer "following orders" to kill themselves.
So, if you were able to insert genes into cells, which would allow the cells to kill themselves upon activation by a certain light wavelength, then what would happen? Say you illuminate the tumour with that particular wavelength. Perhaps 99.9% of the cells will undergo apoptosis, as instructed. But maybe 0.1% acquired a mutation which disabled your fail-safe genes. Now what? Congratulations -- the cancer has now evolved to be resistant to your light-induced apoptosis commands. And you're back to square one.
The article says that these images are produced from radar scans. Why, then, does the asteroid look like it's illuminated from the side? If the asteroid was "illuminated" with a radar beam from an earth-based antenna, while the reflected radar waves were also detected using earth-based dishes, then shouldn't the asteroid look like it's illuminated head-on? Am I missing something here?
1. Sign up for "internet solar roof" 2. Connect to your own router as an anonymous public device 3. ???? 4. Profit! (Or at least never having to pay a dime for your internet bill)
I read sometime last year that Windows 8.1 introduced a bug related to mouse latency, which was especially noticeable for gamers using high-dpi mice. Apparently, many games became unplayable because of the greatly increased mouse lag. Microsoft issued a temporary "fix" (patch KB2908279), which from what I've read only corrected the issue for a few specific games -- i.e., it was not a true, universal fix. Does anyone know if they have finally fixed this issue? I've been holding off from upgrading to Windows 8.1 for this very reason.
I was expecting this to be a true volumetric display. Nope. It's just a standard 2D projector projecting images on flat sheets of flowing water droplets.
Chernobyl was a fission plant. Mankind has yet to create a viable fusion power plant. And even if we were able to make a fusion plant, it would be impossible for a fusion reactor to "go critical" since "criticality" is not even a concept applicable to fusion reactions.
Solar power uses rare metals whose use could be just as bad as fossil fuels.
Huh? Yes, certain types of thin-film cells use rare and toxic metals. But what about plain old silicon cells, which make up a majority of the PV market? They consist of:
- silicon (extremely abundant and non-toxic) - aluminum for the contacts - tiny amounts of boron and phosphorus as dopants.
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In Canada there are local police departments (municipal or regional), provincial police forces (e.g Ontario Provincial Police or OPP) and the federal police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or RCMP.
Do existing computer science programs "tacitly serve men first"? In what way?
Why?
Even if they were dragging planets with them (is it possible for planets to orbit that fast?)
Velocity is relative. If such a hypervelocity star did have a planetary system, then from the reference frame of that system, its own centre of mass would be stationary and it would be the rest of the universe that's whizzing by at relativistic speeds.
It's even older than that. Here's an article on the subject dating back to 1998. Jeffrey Turner was one of the early pioneers of this research, and co-founded a company, Nexia Biotechnologies, to commercialize the idea in 1993. I swear these "spider goat" articles have been popping up several times a year for the last fifteen years in various media outlets.
I think he was implying that the robot itself would be the operator. I.e., an autonomous A.I. running directly on the robotic probe's computer.
A point cloud, while similarly named, has nothing to do with cloud computing.
Whoosh.
You're implying that people at bars and clubs are only ever drugged and raped by their dates.
It ain't that easy to throw away 25Mw of generation at the drop of a hat
Why can't you just disconnect some fraction of the solar panels? Just run them as open circuits.
But I agree that underproduction is much more difficult to deal with than overproduction. The only practical solution I know of is to use some sort of energy storage system like pumped water storage, batteries (e.g. vanadium redox), or, and I'm speculating here, possible next-generation graphene ultracapacitors.
Yes, we know : ) . The idea is to supply the chemical reactor with heat from the ship's nuclear reactor.
You look for cellular activities which correspond to cancerous behavior, and when you see them, you tell that cell to kill itself
That's kind of what's already supposed to happen naturally inside the human body. Cells are supposed to kill themselves if they are severely malfunctioned or are likely to become cancerous. However, if enough of these fail-safe mechanisms are damages within a cell, then that cell becomes cancerous. That's why cancer is so difficult to treat, and why your own immune system has difficulty attacking it -- the cancer cells have gone rogue and are no longer "following orders" to kill themselves.
So, if you were able to insert genes into cells, which would allow the cells to kill themselves upon activation by a certain light wavelength, then what would happen? Say you illuminate the tumour with that particular wavelength. Perhaps 99.9% of the cells will undergo apoptosis, as instructed. But maybe 0.1% acquired a mutation which disabled your fail-safe genes. Now what? Congratulations -- the cancer has now evolved to be resistant to your light-induced apoptosis commands. And you're back to square one.
The article says that these images are produced from radar scans. Why, then, does the asteroid look like it's illuminated from the side? If the asteroid was "illuminated" with a radar beam from an earth-based antenna, while the reflected radar waves were also detected using earth-based dishes, then shouldn't the asteroid look like it's illuminated head-on? Am I missing something here?
1. Sign up for "internet solar roof"
2. Connect to your own router as an anonymous public device
3. ????
4. Profit! (Or at least never having to pay a dime for your internet bill)
I read sometime last year that Windows 8.1 introduced a bug related to mouse latency, which was especially noticeable for gamers using high-dpi mice. Apparently, many games became unplayable because of the greatly increased mouse lag. Microsoft issued a temporary "fix" (patch KB2908279), which from what I've read only corrected the issue for a few specific games -- i.e., it was not a true, universal fix. Does anyone know if they have finally fixed this issue? I've been holding off from upgrading to Windows 8.1 for this very reason.
It's no stranger than building a computer out of sand and minerals.
the electric force weakens linearly with distance
If by "electric force" you mean electric field strength, then no, it does not fall off linearly. It obeys the inverse square law -- same as gravity.
I was expecting this to be a true volumetric display. Nope. It's just a standard 2D projector projecting images on flat sheets of flowing water droplets.
Oxygen is most definitely not flammable. Please take a grade-six science class.
Jesus, does no one even read the summary? The drug isn't nicotine -- it's a genetically-engineered monoclonal antibody produced by the tobacco.
You're thinking of Pluto.
Chernobyl was a fission plant. Mankind has yet to create a viable fusion power plant. And even if we were able to make a fusion plant, it would be impossible for a fusion reactor to "go critical" since "criticality" is not even a concept applicable to fusion reactions.
Why do you keep posting that?
Solar power uses rare metals whose use could be just as bad as fossil fuels.
Huh? Yes, certain types of thin-film cells use rare and toxic metals. But what about plain old silicon cells, which make up a majority of the PV market? They consist of:
- silicon (extremely abundant and non-toxic)
- aluminum for the contacts
- tiny amounts of boron and phosphorus as dopants.
I know you're joking, but how can an ablative process be used to deposit material? They're kinda the opposite of each other.