Let's make a couple of quick assumptions: 1. Lossless, perfect vacuum. 2. Height difference = 0 and line of sight. 3. Minimum detectable = 1mW. 4. Omni-directional antenna, since they aren't aiming at us. 5. Let's also simplify by assuming there are no equipment or connector losses. 6. We'll also go with a 20MHz transmission.
P(rx) = P(tx) - L(fs)
L(fs) = 32.45 + 20 x log(20MHz ) + 20 x log (1.1 × 10^16 km) 380dB loss.
Heh, that converts to 100 x 10^30 W. It might get a little warm near the transmitter. Do we have an SI prefix for that high a number? Nope, looks like we go up to yotta at 10^24 and that's it. Unless we can use mega-yotta-watts. Sure, let's use those. 100 Mega-Yotta-Watts.
I beleive the leading guess is that the universe expands to its limit, then gravity asserts itself, causing all matter in the universe to compress into an unstable singularity.
This unstable singularity explodes.
Repeat.
Where did everything come from for the first iteration, and why is there something instead of nothing? That's what philosophers have been trying to figure out for thousands of years, why religion holds so many in its grasp, and why we've built machines to find the Higgs Boson. We simply don't know. We may never know. We'll try our best to find those answers with the tools we have.
Exactly. You can't shoot all of us, and I'm going to grab as many of those bullets as I can before I drag you to hell with me.
Before 9/11, it was "pfft, we'll ride this out, settle with the airline for stress and discomfort, this guy with the box cutter just made me $50k quick and easy."
So I'm sort of upset that GooTube / Facebook push for realname ids. But for the most part they let you get away with using your alternicks... for now. But that's the right we need to fight to preserve.
That's why I have a "novelty" ID with the name "Fakename McGee" on it. If a company says that's not my real name, I just send `em a scan of the novelty ID.
Toddlers were eating those tiny magnet balls... which is a problem since it'll effectively punch holes in your intestines and kill you. It's not like it was grown men doing it.
What I heard was teenagers were using them as impromptu toungue studs.
I distinctly remember going out and buying a $500 upgrade. I got an additional 4MB of RAM for $250, and upgraded from a 33MHz processor to a 66MHz for $250. That must have been a 486, it was a Compaq IIRC.
I've taken it diving and biking. It was down deep enough that I am undergoing continued health problems from that dive. (looong story) but the camera did fine. Diving cameras and housing start around $600, so the 960 was about half that price when I got it.
The problem with the camera is that it shows you what happened, but not in a lot of detail. You can't get really close to stuff and it's always fish-eyed. The basic models don't have an LCD display so you don't know what you've filmed.
The interface is also totally stupid (I've used worse, but only for weirdly specific electronics). They fixed that on the newer versions apparently. Same with the case, there was a chance it would pop open when surfacing. Workarounds exist but again, it was fixed in the 3.
The Hero2 suffers from too much heat, so taking it diving can make it foggy. That'll ruin a day's photos. Turns out you can cut up a tampon and that will do enough of a job dessicating the case that you can get a good day's shots.
Check out the threads on Scubaboard. They don't pull punches anywhere on that forum.
Would I get another one? No. It's great to have as a fun toy, but for getting really good pictures I'm going to have to spend double or more compared to what the GoPro sells for.
Why didn't you extend the analogy even further to cyber-raping my daughters and cyber-defecating in my bed? I mean, why not go all out in the attempt to generate an emotional response to a completely unrelated problem?
Right, but if Mars was one warm and squishy, then it gradually cooled off and hardened internally.
So each successive generation would have selective pressure to survive a slightly lower temperature, a slightly weaker em field, a slightly more hostile environment. That's happening in geological time, and it's perfect for an evolutionary development of a species that could survive there.
It's unlikely though, and until they see fossils or movement, then it's still just potential. If we all lived up to our potential half of us would be living in space.
A few options: 1. Marvin himself, filling out the forms. Since they can time travel, the rest of the crew knew how long it would take to get the release forms sorted out and left him there for 100,000 years. 2. A robot built out of the replacement parts, that, due to a shipping accident, ended up with a new bank of left-side diodes.
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It's 100 MYW:
Let's make a couple of quick assumptions:
1. Lossless, perfect vacuum.
2. Height difference = 0 and line of sight.
3. Minimum detectable = 1mW.
4. Omni-directional antenna, since they aren't aiming at us.
5. Let's also simplify by assuming there are no equipment or connector losses.
6. We'll also go with a 20MHz transmission.
P(rx) = P(tx) - L(fs)
L(fs) = 32.45 + 20 x log(20MHz ) + 20 x log (1.1 × 10^16 km)
380dB loss.
Heh, that converts to 100 x 10^30 W. It might get a little warm near the transmitter. Do we have an SI prefix for that high a number? Nope, looks like we go up to yotta at 10^24 and that's it. Unless we can use mega-yotta-watts. Sure, let's use those. 100 Mega-Yotta-Watts.
Except they'll Waco anyone that doesn't do exactly what they say.
I beleive the leading guess is that the universe expands to its limit, then gravity asserts itself, causing all matter in the universe to compress into an unstable singularity.
This unstable singularity explodes.
Repeat.
Where did everything come from for the first iteration, and why is there something instead of nothing? That's what philosophers have been trying to figure out for thousands of years, why religion holds so many in its grasp, and why we've built machines to find the Higgs Boson. We simply don't know. We may never know. We'll try our best to find those answers with the tools we have.
Hey, that's more Teslas than the other telescopes are bringing to the table!
I throw out half of all applications without reading them.
I don't want to hire someone that's unlucky.
Indeed, there's a fog over Celadon city.
That's why I always fly with garrotting wire.
What, you think they search that hard?
Exactly. You can't shoot all of us, and I'm going to grab as many of those bullets as I can before I drag you to hell with me.
Before 9/11, it was "pfft, we'll ride this out, settle with the airline for stress and discomfort, this guy with the box cutter just made me $50k quick and easy."
I'd just win the lotto once and invest in real estate.
They found what? Again? Well I'll be damned. So many monies. What will I do with them all?
What I'd like to know is what the hell is on the sandwich?
Not everyone is from Yale and Brown, whoever wrote the summary and article.
So I'm sort of upset that GooTube / Facebook push for realname ids. But for the most part they let you get away with using your alternicks... for now. But that's the right we need to fight to preserve.
That's why I have a "novelty" ID with the name "Fakename McGee" on it. If a company says that's not my real name, I just send `em a scan of the novelty ID.
"I'm sorry, Mr. McGee, I..."
"It's all right, I get that a lot."
Toddlers were eating those tiny magnet balls... which is a problem since it'll effectively punch holes in your intestines and kill you. It's not like it was grown men doing it.
What I heard was teenagers were using them as impromptu toungue studs.
If you take "Keen Intellect" you can pretty much dump WIS -- it lets you use INT instead for every roll.
I distinctly remember going out and buying a $500 upgrade. I got an additional 4MB of RAM for $250, and upgraded from a 33MHz processor to a 66MHz for $250. That must have been a 486, it was a Compaq IIRC.
I own a GoPro, a version 1, the Hero 960.
I've taken it diving and biking. It was down deep enough that I am undergoing continued health problems from that dive. (looong story) but the camera did fine. Diving cameras and housing start around $600, so the 960 was about half that price when I got it.
The problem with the camera is that it shows you what happened, but not in a lot of detail. You can't get really close to stuff and it's always fish-eyed. The basic models don't have an LCD display so you don't know what you've filmed.
The interface is also totally stupid (I've used worse, but only for weirdly specific electronics). They fixed that on the newer versions apparently. Same with the case, there was a chance it would pop open when surfacing. Workarounds exist but again, it was fixed in the 3.
The Hero2 suffers from too much heat, so taking it diving can make it foggy. That'll ruin a day's photos. Turns out you can cut up a tampon and that will do enough of a job dessicating the case that you can get a good day's shots.
Check out the threads on Scubaboard. They don't pull punches anywhere on that forum.
Would I get another one? No. It's great to have as a fun toy, but for getting really good pictures I'm going to have to spend double or more compared to what the GoPro sells for.
Ever hear of GMUD? Used the same idea.
The guy had less than a dozen paying customers.
are we supposed to fight the sharks?
Just claim to be a member of the NRA and any attempt by the gummint to lower power is infringing your 2nd amendment rights.
It's the NLA, the National LASER Association, and we do have a serious lobbying effort underway.
If the founding fathers had had lasers, then they'd have done fine without France's support.
Why didn't you extend the analogy even further to cyber-raping my daughters and cyber-defecating in my bed? I mean, why not go all out in the attempt to generate an emotional response to a completely unrelated problem?
FTFY
My router drops all ping requests.
I always use the "Beardo gets kicked in the nuts and everyone else gets $500" Act as an example.
Sure, it would pass but that doesn't make it legal / constitutional.
We can be, we can be.
We've also got Medicine sans Frontier, Engineers without Borders, Save the Children, and footprints on the moon.
So we can also be pretty fucking rad when we want to be.
Right, but if Mars was one warm and squishy, then it gradually cooled off and hardened internally.
So each successive generation would have selective pressure to survive a slightly lower temperature, a slightly weaker em field, a slightly more hostile environment. That's happening in geological time, and it's perfect for an evolutionary development of a species that could survive there.
It's unlikely though, and until they see fossils or movement, then it's still just potential. If we all lived up to our potential half of us would be living in space.
A few options:
1. Marvin himself, filling out the forms. Since they can time travel, the rest of the crew knew how long it would take to get the release forms sorted out and left him there for 100,000 years.
2. A robot built out of the replacement parts, that, due to a shipping accident, ended up with a new bank of left-side diodes.
That's Broga.
When men do yoga the poses are usually ones that require more strength.
You and me both, I've convinced Google that I'm a gay male yoga instructor.
Also, I've been shaving since 2004.