When a master paints a picture of paris be it impressionist, realist, modern, or even cubist it is still paris. What PJ did here is fall victim to hubris and stopped painting the story Tolken told and started doodling in the corner. You can expreses and infinate amount of talent and art in the retelling of anothers work with out breaking the basic concepts of the source. Jackson started to belive his own bullshit and in doing so lost his muse.
This is clear becasuse the 1st movie was great. Its alos a crime coming from PJ becasue his movie Heavely Creatures is a cautionary tale about not beliving your own bullshit. To comit a crime you have castised others for is just more hubris.
No speed up the halflife and turn it into lead and radon. Do you really want 10 grams of plutonium to come out of a volcano at some point in the furture?
I bet you can get 18% of Americans to eat a turd too. The bottom of the bell curve is a scarey place esp. if you take into account the kind of self selection for dumb people going to Wal-Mart.
Such a stupid decision. Windows is a universal computing term that they adopted, I'd have more sympthy if Xerox Park sued. And there is no reasonable cause to assume that a consumer could mistake Windows for Lindows. It's a pretty clear case I'm very suprised that a judge supported this pile of steaming horse crap.
Why not wall paper the inside of the ship with Demron [sciam.com] for the outside use a the foam/armid lamiante process developed for the Cassini probe for the outer shell. All of it could be made out of plyable frabrics and assempled in space. No metal, so its easy to bring up on ship rolled up in bolts of cloth, the foam can come up as a liquid. Just a big ass micrometor and radiation proof ball with a truster on one end. Let it spin and even hav a parital G for the ride.
The polis is not responsible if they have been lied to. They are responsible for not learning the lessons of history, and not knowing a liar when they see one, or even more importantly being complicit in that lie to serve their own fears.
In response to the orginal issue of radiation why not wall paper the inside of the ship with Demron for the outside use a the foam/armid lamiante process developed for the Cassini probe. All of it could be made out of plyable frabrics the assempled in space. No metal, so its easy to bring up on ship rolled up in bolts of cloth, the foam can come up as a liquid. Just a big ass micrometor and radiation proof ball with a truster on one end. Let it spin and even hav a parital G for the ride.
Ahhhh Yvon Chouinard, how I respected you for you clean climbing approach and great technical gear at Black Diamond. Ahhh Patagonia how I laugh at you latte sipping bitchs in Yukons with $600 coated fabric jackets.
This is a re-hash of the fight here in the U.S. of the HDTV givaway by the FCC.
Back when people were dumb and pork tasted like a congressman's ass the FCC "gave" every TC station a free VHF channel so they could mirgrate to HDTV. But instead of doing just that they decided to devide up that fat pipe into interlaced 640x480 DTV channels and various "services" for their customers, e.g. "broadband" by broadcast TV.
What a crock of shit. All this is is another way for TV to dodge having to break its addiction to a crappy picture quality. What's more is that according to Lawrence Livermore Labs they can now fit a full HDTV signal into the unused portion of the current NTSC broadcast standard and continue to be backwards compatible with "regular" tv.
Will the FCC realize that technology has side stepped thier giveway? Will Broadcasters give us HDTV? Will the shows that they broadcast continue to spend all of their time pretending to swear and show nudity? Tune in next week for more of the same shit.
Highlift Systems is quoting 15 billion for the space elevator. Thats for production. Materials research is not finised so that is THE limiting factor. As soon as we can produce long nanofibers we are good to go. The whole thing is made out of a 3 foot wide ribbon of carbon. Carbon is cheap. Granted it 22,000 km long but hey we have more than 22,000 km of High Tension Power lines in the US already. So its all a matter of perspective. Up rather than over.
EXPENSIVE? HAVE YOU ANY IDEA HOW MUCH THE SATRUN V COST? For the love of god, the richest nation in the world put a high percent of GDP into it, that's some serious freaking money. I seem to rember and correct me if I'm wrong but, didn't each launch of a Saturn V express half or the world's energy expenditure for the planet for one year? 15 Billion isn't shit for capital cost for a physical link to space.
You forget that despite the retoric we are a socalist country just like everyone else. Its just where you draw the line. Make it a federal municipal power station and devide the profit amoung the memebers. e.g. all U.S. Citizens.
Either way it totally unimportant because windmills just plain suck compared to Gyromills. There is no competition here. Surface winds are slow and irregular where the jet stream is VERY fast and consistent. I mean just look at a Gyromills. its 20 feet of square steel tubing and two electric motor/generators and a tether. Not a very big capital expenditure, in fact it's so elegant and simple and profoundly smart it boggles the mind but no one is doing shit about it. It makes me sick.
Dams? Dams suck but did you know that a array of micro turbines would generate more power without disrupting the rivers? It all about people not wanting to change because they spent so much money on building a wall of concrete that they don't want to admit that something better might have come along. Its Galileo vs. the Church.
Nuclear? Did you read the article in Wired some time ago that they now have a process where you expose waste to a high-energy gamma ray and speed up the half-life? It even generates waste heat that can be turned into power. When you're done you just have the results of the 60/40 split.
So in conclusion it's not how fast the rotors go, its price/dollar. Its antiquated-flat-world-no-such-thing-as-germs-desig n vs. elegant. It just happens that the most efficient, cheapest, and most easily deployed happens to be environmentally friendly too. Wow what a concept.
I think the worst assumption is that it is a good idea to abdicate our intellectual abilities to a machine. I say we invoke the first commandment of the Orange Catholic Bible and say, "Though shalt not make a machine in the image of a human mind." I believe this because I believe humans right now are like a white trash family, they have rotting garbage all over the property, most of the kids are hungry, and pa is a freaking moron. Now granted there's the Lisa in every family but I we'll ignore that for the moment. So this is my fear... we create a true A.I. (something that could take a Turning Test from the Freud, Jonny Cochran, and James Brown and pass with flying colors. (Yeah it might be a long ass way off esp. bringing Freud back form the dead but I digress.) So we have this A.I. who has been brought up by a white trash family i.e. Humanity what are the chances its going to be a great person. I'm betting the same chances are that its a total asshole. (You know the bell curve and all that.) So now we have a new form of life that if Moore's law applies can double its intellect in 18 months. Pretty soon we could have some serious problems. Now don't get me wrong this is only a problem at the bottom of the bell curve but none the less, I say we wait till we have our own house in order before we have kids.
Another side note on the whole Frank Herbert thing. Lets assume people are computers right? So why do we insist on installing the worst software? Instead of buying palm pilots and abdicating our memory to a machine we should teach mnemonics in schools. Every kid should be able to memorize the Iliad and 5 decks of shuffled cards (with obvious caveats for people with disabilities.) e.g. Mentats.
This is why Qubec want to suceed from Canada. ~70% of money generated in Canada is in Qubec, and ~70% of that money comes from exporting power to the US from the Qubec Hydro. (These people have so much money they use areogel windows for insulation.)
Also like Alaska, residents get a ~2000 check each year from the sale of oil.
Same concept. If we get a moon or orbital solar farm going we can sell power to the rest of the world. Imagine wireless power anywhere in the world. All you need is a phased array dish attenna, and billing address.
1st Wind farms suck. They are expensive, inefficent , hard to maintain, they kill birds, and they are unslightly.
2nd Wind power is a form of solar power so why bother letting the sun heat the air pressurie it and have it move when you can have the sun hiit a solar arry in space with no atmosphere and beam the power to earth using a phased arry microwave laser?
3rd if you are really hooked on wind... wind farms are bad. Gyromills are good. Surface winds are slow and irregular, the jet stream is FAST and consistant. People worry about planes but that's what no fly zones are for. Plus they sit at 20,000 feet, far below the crusing altitude of commercial jets.
Funny, sounds like your talking about the Space Elevator or the LEO Crane!
If we want to get off this friken rock the Space Elevator is the only choice. 2 ton payloads, 8 climbers per ribbon 2 ribbons. A DEAL at 15 billion. So like I've said before...
HEY NANOFIBER ENGINEERS, STOP READING SLASHDOT AND GET BACK TO WORK!!!
Did you read the report on Slashdot a few weeks ago? It said that solar farms on the moon could increase the average income of a U.S. Citizen form ~$30,000 to ~130,000. So if they are right this could be VERY good for the poor and middle class. We just better make sure that its power AND its money flow down to Earth.
Never forget the lessons Gundam has taught us. Don't try and take advantage of people living in space, its easy to drop stuff from up there.
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You could always form a union of Wal-Mart greeters!
When your on strike you could just kick everyone in the balls when they walk in and yell "GO TO A FUCKING LOCAL MERCHANT ASSHOLE!"
It would be awesome.
Why not just use Gyromills. They work better, cost less, and generate far more power.
That should be a European D'oh e.g Le Dough or Bloody D'oh
OK. I've said it before but I'll say it again.
When a master paints a picture of paris be it impressionist, realist, modern, or even cubist it is still paris. What PJ did here is fall victim to hubris and stopped painting the story Tolken told and started doodling in the corner. You can expreses and infinate amount of talent and art in the retelling of anothers work with out breaking the basic concepts of the source. Jackson started to belive his own bullshit and in doing so lost his muse.
This is clear becasuse the 1st movie was great. Its alos a crime coming from PJ becasue his movie Heavely Creatures is a cautionary tale about not beliving your own bullshit. To comit a crime you have castised others for is just more hubris.
No speed up the halflife and turn it into lead and radon. Do you really want 10 grams of plutonium to come out of a volcano at some point in the furture?
I bet you can get 18% of Americans to eat a turd too. The bottom of the bell curve is a scarey place esp. if you take into account the kind of self selection for dumb people going to Wal-Mart.
I liked a bridge better, this stinks of Virtual Light.
Such a stupid decision. Windows is a universal computing term that they adopted, I'd have more sympthy if Xerox Park sued. And there is no reasonable cause to assume that a consumer could mistake Windows for Lindows. It's a pretty clear case I'm very suprised that a judge supported this pile of steaming horse crap.
Why not wall paper the inside of the ship with Demron [sciam.com] for the outside use a the foam/armid lamiante process developed for the Cassini probe for the outer shell. All of it could be made out of plyable frabrics and assempled in space. No metal, so its easy to bring up on ship rolled up in bolts of cloth, the foam can come up as a liquid. Just a big ass micrometor and radiation proof ball with a truster on one end. Let it spin and even hav a parital G for the ride.
The polis is not responsible if they have been lied to. They are responsible for not learning the lessons of history, and not knowing a liar when they see one, or even more importantly being complicit in that lie to serve their own fears.
In response to the orginal issue of radiation why not wall paper the inside of the ship with Demron for the outside use a the foam/armid lamiante process developed for the Cassini probe. All of it could be made out of plyable frabrics the assempled in space. No metal, so its easy to bring up on ship rolled up in bolts of cloth, the foam can come up as a liquid. Just a big ass micrometor and radiation proof ball with a truster on one end. Let it spin and even hav a parital G for the ride.
Padaguchi you meant to say Padaguchi.
Ahhhh Yvon Chouinard, how I respected you for you clean climbing approach and great technical gear at Black Diamond. Ahhh Patagonia how I laugh at you latte sipping bitchs in Yukons with $600 coated fabric jackets.
Its all about image and FUD.
This is a re-hash of the fight here in the U.S. of the HDTV givaway by the FCC.
Back when people were dumb and pork tasted like a congressman's ass the FCC "gave" every TC station a free VHF channel so they could mirgrate to HDTV. But instead of doing just that they decided to devide up that fat pipe into interlaced 640x480 DTV channels and various "services" for their customers, e.g. "broadband" by broadcast TV.
What a crock of shit. All this is is another way for TV to dodge having to break its addiction to a crappy picture quality. What's more is that according to Lawrence Livermore Labs they can now fit a full HDTV signal into the unused portion of the current NTSC broadcast standard and continue to be backwards compatible with "regular" tv.
Will the FCC realize that technology has side stepped thier giveway? Will Broadcasters give us HDTV? Will the shows that they broadcast continue to spend all of their time pretending to swear and show nudity? Tune in next week for more of the same shit.
In that case every armed man woman and child walks into the voting booth and puts a hollow point throught he screen. Problem solved.
Highlift Systems is quoting 15 billion for the space elevator. Thats for production. Materials research is not finised so that is THE limiting factor. As soon as we can produce long nanofibers we are good to go. The whole thing is made out of a 3 foot wide ribbon of carbon. Carbon is cheap. Granted it 22,000 km long but hey we have more than 22,000 km of High Tension Power lines in the US already. So its all a matter of perspective. Up rather than over.
"You can't just request the whole damned OS source code."
Ahhh but you can! Its Open Source!
EXPENSIVE? HAVE YOU ANY IDEA HOW MUCH THE SATRUN V COST? For the love of god, the richest nation in the world put a high percent of GDP into it, that's some serious freaking money. I seem to rember and correct me if I'm wrong but, didn't each launch of a Saturn V express half or the world's energy expenditure for the planet for one year? 15 Billion isn't shit for capital cost for a physical link to space.
You forget that despite the retoric we are a socalist country just like everyone else. Its just where you draw the line. Make it a federal municipal power station and devide the profit amoung the memebers. e.g. all U.S. Citizens.
Either way it totally unimportant because windmills just plain suck compared to Gyromills. There is no competition here. Surface winds are slow and irregular where the jet stream is VERY fast and consistent. I mean just look at a Gyromills. its 20 feet of square steel tubing and two electric motor/generators and a tether. Not a very big capital expenditure, in fact it's so elegant and simple and profoundly smart it boggles the mind but no one is doing shit about it. It makes me sick.
g n vs. elegant. It just happens that the most efficient, cheapest, and most easily deployed happens to be environmentally friendly too. Wow what a concept.
Its just like the energy bill, if they just put some money into these things, and Changing the World Technologies Thermal Depolymerization process we could stop importing oil, stop putting shit in our rivers, and taking carbon from the ground and putting into the air.
Dams? Dams suck but did you know that a array of micro turbines would generate more power without disrupting the rivers? It all about people not wanting to change because they spent so much money on building a wall of concrete that they don't want to admit that something better might have come along. Its Galileo vs. the Church.
Nuclear? Did you read the article in Wired some time ago that they now have a process where you expose waste to a high-energy gamma ray and speed up the half-life? It even generates waste heat that can be turned into power. When you're done you just have the results of the 60/40 split.
So in conclusion it's not how fast the rotors go, its price/dollar. Its antiquated-flat-world-no-such-thing-as-germs-desi
I think the worst assumption is that it is a good idea to abdicate our intellectual abilities to a machine. I say we invoke the first commandment of the Orange Catholic Bible and say, "Though shalt not make a machine in the image of a human mind." I believe this because I believe humans right now are like a white trash family, they have rotting garbage all over the property, most of the kids are hungry, and pa is a freaking moron. Now granted there's the Lisa in every family but I we'll ignore that for the moment. So this is my fear... we create a true A.I. (something that could take a Turning Test from the Freud, Jonny Cochran, and James Brown and pass with flying colors. (Yeah it might be a long ass way off esp. bringing Freud back form the dead but I digress.) So we have this A.I. who has been brought up by a white trash family i.e. Humanity what are the chances its going to be a great person. I'm betting the same chances are that its a total asshole. (You know the bell curve and all that.) So now we have a new form of life that if Moore's law applies can double its intellect in 18 months. Pretty soon we could have some serious problems. Now don't get me wrong this is only a problem at the bottom of the bell curve but none the less, I say we wait till we have our own house in order before we have kids.
Another side note on the whole Frank Herbert thing. Lets assume people are computers right? So why do we insist on installing the worst software? Instead of buying palm pilots and abdicating our memory to a machine we should teach mnemonics in schools. Every kid should be able to memorize the Iliad and 5 decks of shuffled cards (with obvious caveats for people with disabilities.) e.g. Mentats.
This is why Qubec want to suceed from Canada. ~70% of money generated in Canada is in Qubec, and ~70% of that money comes from exporting power to the US from the Qubec Hydro. (These people have so much money they use areogel windows for insulation.)
Also like Alaska, residents get a ~2000 check each year from the sale of oil.
Same concept. If we get a moon or orbital solar farm going we can sell power to the rest of the world. Imagine wireless power anywhere in the world. All you need is a phased array dish attenna, and billing address.
1st Wind farms suck. They are expensive, inefficent , hard to maintain, they kill birds, and they are unslightly.
2nd Wind power is a form of solar power so why bother letting the sun heat the air pressurie it and have it move when you can have the sun hiit a solar arry in space with no atmosphere and beam the power to earth using a phased arry microwave laser?
3rd if you are really hooked on wind... wind farms are bad. Gyromills are good.
Surface winds are slow and irregular, the jet stream is FAST and consistant.
People worry about planes but that's what no fly zones are for. Plus they sit at 20,000 feet, far below the crusing altitude of commercial jets.
Funny, sounds like your talking about the Space Elevator or the LEO Crane!
If we want to get off this friken rock the Space Elevator is the only choice. 2 ton payloads, 8 climbers per ribbon 2 ribbons. A DEAL at 15 billion. So like I've said before...
HEY NANOFIBER ENGINEERS, STOP READING SLASHDOT AND GET BACK TO WORK!!!
Did you read the report on Slashdot a few weeks ago? It said that solar farms on the moon could increase the average income of a U.S. Citizen form ~$30,000 to ~130,000. So if they are right this could be VERY good for the poor and middle class. We just better make sure that its power AND its money flow down to Earth.
Never forget the lessons Gundam has taught us. Don't try and take advantage of people living in space, its easy to drop stuff from up there.
Shades of The Abyss. Wait where did that crane go?
+1 Sarcasm