you get it ALL wrong!
Please everyone remember this: astonomy is NOT astrology.
Astrology is the silly 'science' which claims that your future depends on the position of planets.
Atronomy is the real science about the space out there and how it all works.
You can make BIG money by telling stupid things to people wanting to believe that and call it astrology. You usually do not make money when researching in astronomy.
I seen a BSOD on one of the huge displays they
have on the strip. Then an award bios and
memory counter. A windows boot... a mouse moving
to the correct icon and starting the show.
Is that what people think of fully automatic?
I doubt the bosses would like that to be built into their slots.
Last year I read a scientific report (scientific american I think) about creating the perfect ship hull.
The idea is to use the reflection effect which
occurs if a ship moves along a linear channel.
The front wave reflects off the channel walls and cancels out the rear wave thus cancelling out all energy loss.
But this only happens if you have ONE wave, not
multiples ones a normal ship generates. So the scientists created a special ship shape whcih creates one single wave: a soliton wave. This wave bounces off the wall and cancels out the second (also soliton wave) generates at the end of the hull.
But in the sea you don't have a wall. So you need to take a wall with you. The trick is to cut the ship in 2 along the middle. Then put the left side on the right creating outside of the ship a flat surface. Inside you have a hollow passage with half a ship geometry on each side.
As this is symetrical, it's as if in the middle you had a virtual wall. This looks like a catamaran swallowing all water inside and producing no waves outside. Inside the wave is twice as big because the usual right and left waves are superposed.
Slashdot Mirror
you get it ALL wrong!
Please everyone remember this: astonomy is NOT astrology.
Astrology is the silly 'science' which claims that your future depends on the position of planets.
Atronomy is the real science about the space out there and how it all works.
You can make BIG money by telling stupid things to people wanting to believe that and call it astrology. You usually do not make money when researching in astronomy.
Georges
Is that what people think of fully automatic?
I doubt the bosses would like that to be built into their slots.
The idea is to use the reflection effect which occurs if a ship moves along a linear channel. The front wave reflects off the channel walls and cancels out the rear wave thus cancelling out all energy loss.
But this only happens if you have ONE wave, not multiples ones a normal ship generates. So the scientists created a special ship shape whcih creates one single wave: a soliton wave. This wave bounces off the wall and cancels out the second (also soliton wave) generates at the end of the hull.
But in the sea you don't have a wall. So you need to take a wall with you. The trick is to cut the ship in 2 along the middle. Then put the left side on the right creating outside of the ship a flat surface. Inside you have a hollow passage with half a ship geometry on each side.
As this is symetrical, it's as if in the middle you had a virtual wall. This looks like a catamaran swallowing all water inside and producing no waves outside. Inside the wave is twice as big because the usual right and left waves are superposed.
I don't remember all details right now, here is the german text I found talking about the "supersonic" ship. http://www.spektrum.de/archiv/artikel.phtml?from=r echerche&artikel_id=4059
it has no pictures. All this is still at a theoretical stage.
Georges