Using steel at a density of 7.9 g/cc and a working strength of 15,000 PSI (call it 100 megapascals), you'd have a weight of about 77000 N per cubic meter; 1e8 N/m^2 / 7.7e4 N/m^3 = 1298 meters, or about 4250 feet (even without tapering to reduce stress). You can get ten times that with Kevlar, easily.
The elevators would be the smallest of the problems. You couldn't build a structure that tall out of anything other than steel; weaker materials would fail, and stronger materials would be too expensive. --
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the Verance watermark... is designed to survive lossy compression and analog copying. Of course, in order to do that, it has to be so obtrusive that you can hear it, despite the company's claims to the contrary.
Just as there are people with televisions which show visible artifacts when supplied with Macrovision-encoded video, there will be people whose ears can hear this and want to get their music without it. Because the watermarking uses a detectable scheme, it should be quite feasible to make a filter to remove it. It looks to me like a delay line with a couple variable taps (varied according to the echo schedule) would do it. Voila, de-echoed audio. Also, copyable audio. Unfortunately for the RIAA, the latter is required by the former. --
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Well, no. Seeing as how the technical challenges of building a booster as big as a Sat V were overcome in my father's time, all we'd have to do is spend less than $100m (as aerospace goes, this is nothing) on tools, dies, and materials.
When Boeing was looking at using the F-1 for the booster engine of their proposed Jarvis, they found that it would cost over $1 billion (IIRC) just to re-engineer a 20-odd-year-old (then) engine. You forget that most of the drawings are missing, and essential elements like heat-treatment schedules for turbopump parts were never part of the drawings. Most of that was lost when the contractors went on to other things and they tossed their files in the trash.
I wish it was as easy as starting production of F-1's and J-2's again and plugging in modern electronics, but it's not. --
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So how will this work? Unless this software is integrated into current clients, where will this "fingerprinting" take place?
It will be integrated into the clients, where the acoustic fingerprinting will take place. (Duh!)
This just sets the stage for another step in the arms race, where people screw with the files to make them yield different fingerprints or with the fingerprinting code to produce "non-infringing" fingerprints from files which aren't supposed to be shared. The only solution is to have an OS where the owner of the machine has no control over the code it is running (see Microsoft). --
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The only reason the Apollo program produced economic benefits is because it was cranking out solutions to problems nobody had solved before. The benefits fell out when those solutions turned out to be applicable to other things. If you commissioned somebody to build Saturn V's today, you'd have piles of money going into the solution of problems that were solved as much as 35 years ago. Who's going to have a use for that? It would just be useless make-work, as economically damaging as western water projects and inner-city job training for jobs that no longer exist or have a union keeping new people out of the craft.
If you wanted to jump-start the economy, you'd put up money for solving new problems. Better yet, you'd put up money for certain scientific and environmental achievements, with the requirement that the technology developed for them would be available royalty-free to everyone in the USA. Instead of just going to the moon, have a prize for delivering water to the ISS. You might have some people building robots to make a mass-driver near the lunar pole and send crater-ice down to LEO, and some other people building a laser to launch frisbees of ice into orbit from the Mojave desert. You'd have solutions that could then be applied to all kinds of other things, and you'd get a boom. --
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the truth is that we aren't putting enough money into our schools.
There are districts which spend over $10,000 per student per year. That is $250,000 plus for a classroom of 25. For that kind of money you should be able to hire top-notch teaching talent and build a new building every five years.
It doesn't happen because the money never makes it to the classroom. The money all goes to pay layers of deadwood administration, mostly composed of the in-laws and nephews of people who run the show. Everything gets eaten by graft, nepotism and simple inefficiency. This is why administration of schools should have been privatized twenty years ago. The problem is that the creation of sinecures in the school administration creates a powerful lobby for its perpetuation. The only way to get away from it is to move, leaving schools and entire cities as empty shells. (You wonder why charter schools are opposed so violently in the places which need them the most? There's one of the reasons.)
Part of the problem is that if Sean is being bullied by Bad Johnny, Johnny probably lives half way accross town from Sean and Seans parents have no idea who the hell Johnny is or who his parents are.
Part of the problem is that schools accept bullying. There are a few clueful districts which have learned something from the few high-profile disasters like Columbine and the much lower-profile but overall deadlier phenomenon of teen suicide and are moving to address bullying. This may, someday, cause this problem to wind down. --
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I didn't see any explanation of how to feed more hydrogen to the fuel cell by using solar cells.
Chalk up another win for the "science is irrelevant" school of journalism...
If you use a proton-exchange membrane fuel cell, the water will pile up at the oxygen electrode. Using a membrane like silicone you can hold the water but let oxygen diffuse in and out. Running the fuel cell backwards, at the oxygen electrode you have the reaction:
2 H2O -> 4H+ + O2 + 4e-
The hydrogen electrode has the reaction:
4H+ + 4e- -> 2H2
You can stuff the H2 right back into your storage, which could be a metal-hydride unit right out of a NiMH battery. Voila, you've gotten rid of the nickel electrode and all its weight, substituting air (and the bit of water you keep to regenerate the H2). --
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Do we take what AIDS drugs we have and say we'll never need any more, or do we give money to the drug companies to make better ones? When you peel off all the layers of "advocacy" and politicking, that's what the issue amounts to.
This is one of the unintended consequences of a combination of factors, including the WTO and the elderly lobby in the USA. The USA does not regulate drug prices (yet), so consumers in the US wind up subsidizing research and development of drugs which then wind up being available much cheaper in places like France and Canada. Medicines are so much cheaper in Canada (due to price controls) that people cross the border to order their prescriptions. The money lost comes straight off the drug companies' bottom line. (They spend a heck of a lot on promotion as well, but given that most of their trials come up duds they have to make it up on the few successes they have.)
AIDS is a horrific phenomenon, but the drug companies are legally responsible for their own survival first and foremost (see "fiduciary duty" and "shareholder lawsuit"). If Brazil and South Africa declare a national emergency and make the patented substances available essentially at cost, the profit disappears in those nations. Not only does this destroy the incentive to market or research for those nations, but under the WTO rules it becomes very difficult to prevent those generic drugs from going to the rest of the world. The drug companies could see their entire market for AIDS drugs wiped out. Their shareholders would demand a pullback from research on the unprofitable sector, and that's it for AIDS drug development. This same phenomenon could spill over to drugs for other conditions. I know there are a lot of people who are strapped to pay for medicine for their conditions, but 40 or even 20 years ago they probably had less-effective drugs with worse side effects or even no drugs at all. For some reason they prefer the new, expensive stuff to the old, cheap stuff that's now generic. What's worse: being broke or being disabled/dead? I hate to put it in those terms but I think I'd prefer being broke.
All in all, it's a really tough situation and it stinks. Mostly it stinks because there's something we can do about it in any individual case, but the scale of the need overwhelms what we can afford. It's not unlike trying to keep a nation full of old people alive; no matter how much money you throw at it you are not going to eliminate the problem because it keeps getting worse at the margins. Solution? I wish I had a solution that was both palatable and affordable without any dangerous pitfalls for the future.
One thing that is certain: the person who never contracts HIV (or Ebola, or tuberculosis) is never going to need treatment. Prevention should be at the top of every nation's priority. --
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Just use foil-faced radiant barrier insulation in the walls and metallic screen in all the windows. If you are blowing insulation, put lots of chopped-up aluminum foil in it (chaff). That will make your house proof against this kind of spy gear, and probably bollux up millimeter-wave radar as well.
The big question is, do you want to? If the firefighters are using these things to locate people trapped in burning houses, you'd be making a tradeoff between safety in a police invasion scenario versus safety in a fire scenario. I'd be inclined to treat the police as the bigger threat (by the time the firefighters arrive, anyone who isn't already out of the house is probably dead of smoke inhalation already) but you might not want to. From what I can tell, the same areas where cops do a lot of raids are also the areas where fires kill people frequently (and are also the areas least likely to have people taking radar into account when making home improvements). --
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The article was unclear, but it looks to me like it can see 3 feet beyond a 4-inch-thick wall. How much of that 4 inches has to be empty space is not obvious.
If you know the local cops are using these things, you could play nasty tricks on them. Put a corner cube (or even a little dipole) on an oscillating base at about 6 RPM; there's your "breathing" signature. Give it a little sub-shake at about 70-80 RPM; there's your "heartbeat" signature. Stick a few of these around the house and then hide behind a door in a closet with foil-face insulation in all the walls and Alcoa's finest beneath the cedar on the inside surface. SURPRISE! --
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You don't seem to realize that volt-amperes are not the same as watts. You can literally have 1000 volt-amps of draw and have zero (real) power flowing. To convert VA's to watts you have to multiply by the power factor, which (for sinusoidal waveforms) is the cosine of the angle between current and voltage. Total volt-amps times the sine of the angle gives you volt-amps reactive (VARs).
Most PC power supplies are switchers which operate by rectifying the line voltage and running it through a chopper to drive the primary coil of a small toroidal transformer. The secondary coils yield +5, +12, -12 and the other outputs required by the computer; the chopper duty cycle is regulated to keep the output voltage correct. It wouldn't be much of a trick to use a different primary coil (heavier wire, fewer turns) and chopper designed to operate off 12 VDC instead of 135-350 VDC. Voila, 12-volt-capable PC power supply. Mind the input connector, that thing is going to draw some amps. --
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However, 10 court dates (somebody had to be paid to appear in court) and 10 judgements for $77 and you've substantially multiplied the cost of spamming.
You are thinking much too small. Consider a California attorney who operates a web site on which he collects and consolidates spams submitted to him by members of the public. For those which come from sources he can identify, he sues for $50 per spam, plus costs. A spammer sending a million spams per day could be liable for fifty million dollars a day. Bingo, instant bankruptcy and receivership. Even if the response rate was only 0.01%, that's still $5000/day liability. How many spamming outfits can handle $25,000 a week in damages?
That kind of response would end spam in an instant. It would disappear from the Internet just like horse-drawn wagons from New York City. --
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If you have a deep-cycle battery which gives you 50 amp-hours of capacity at 12 volts nominal terminal voltage, that's 600 watt-hours. If your laptop consumes 50 watts average, that's 12 hours running time more or less. If you can pare that down to 30 watts, you'd get 20 hours or so. The running time will probably increase faster than the power consumption goes down because resistive losses in the battery are decreased (this assumes a switching regulator in the laptop instead of a linear regulator). --
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If you are looking at $1200 instead of one of the $79.95 X-10 cheapies, you are probably considering some fairly serious gear.
If you are considering this, you probably know that obeying the KISS principle is the way to get things to work. Here's my take on it:
Forget 2-way video and data. You need two-way voice and a video downlink, and you probably have the voice already.
If all you need is a video downlink, put the complexity on the ground. A 2.4 GHz transmitter is a piece of cake to find; put the antenna on the bottom of the aircraft with double-sided tape or something. Power it with aircraft power if you can, but batteries will probably do just fine.
On the ground you need an antenna, receiver and video gear. Take your cheapo receiver and put its antenna at the focus of a 3 or 4 foot parabolic dish on an az-el mount. Have someone track the plane with the dish while you are doing video (only a few minutes per flight, I'd assume). As soon as the last jumper is out of camera range, you're done and your plane-tracker can lock the dish and go do other things.
Motorized dish controls would be nice, but a small dish is fairly easy to move using the Armstrong method as long as it's balanced. Remember, you are after cheap and reliable. Once it starts making a lot of money you can think about making it fancy. Note: You could probably use the same dish to capture video from a jumper's helmet camera, even using the same dish. You would just want some way of switching between cameras as that jumper left the aircraft. --
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You'd have to race your nuclear toys up to an unsuspecting asteroid, somehow land your payload at just the right places with very little gravity to help, then detonate everything at just the right time.
Let's look at the recent list of accomplishments of Johns Hopkins University, shall we?
Racing (non-nuclear) toy [NEAR] up to the asteroid Eros: Check.
Landing the entire spacecraft (which was not designed to land): Check.
Firing rocket thrusters at just the right time: Check.
Aside from putting a bomb on board, what else would they need? The rest of the job can be - has been - done by a school. (It's not a terrorist threat, it's a stealth threat from hostile governments with nuclear weapons. There are still a couple of those on Earth, you know.) --
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The USA spells it "Chernobyl", which appears to be a pure phonetic transliteration.
Bikini atoll was only used to test the effects of hydrogen bombs on ships, so far as I can determine (link). It was no longer being used as a test range when the above-ground test ban treaty went into effect. The development of the neutron bomb did not begin until many years later, so there could not have been a neutron-bomb test at Bikini atoll.
Bikini atoll is now one of the richest reef systems in the Pacific, because it is off-limits to fishing and over-fished species are still plentiful there. --
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They have no intention of giving us cars that can do 100mpg...
And people prefer the guzzling, rollover-prone SUV's to the cars. They do it because, in the horizon as far as they think ahead (maybe a year) they see no downside.
If the average person drives 13,000 miles a year and their car gets 26 MPG, that's 500 gallons of gas. Add a $3/gallon fuel tax and add a $1500 tax credit, and the net financial situation doesn't change but it suddenly becomes a whole lot more attractive to drive more efficiently. Financial incentives have this funny way of changing what the consumer wants; just look at Arizona. --
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This is "lost" and makes a rendezvous with the asteroid... (ideally an otherwise unidentified one about 100m across).
If it's previously identified, it gets "lost". Astronomers lose small objects all the time. You could probably do this with a previously-identified object and not get "caught" at it because the orbit would be so different. Worst case, if the rock wedre tracked back people might believe that the known rock had been struck by another and diverted by accident. Unless there was residual gamma-activated matter in the rock that landed, you'd be clean. --
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And companys continuously getting variances and waivers so they DON'T have to comply..
Yet our cities have air and water that's far cleaner than the ex-Communist bloc's, not to mention cleaner than it used to be. Even if there are some things left un-done, a lot has been accomplished. The glass is half-full, at worst. --
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We already force the manufacturers to "get of the pots" by mandating an average fuel economy standard across their product line - a "fleet average".
And there is one "fleet average" for passenger cars (27.5 MPG), another for "light trucks" (20.7 MPG, IIRC) and if there's any such requirement for heavier trucks it's a different one. IIRC, one of the big new SUV's (Expedition?) has a GVW above the cutoff point for the light-truck fuel economy standards, so by making the thing heavier and more wasteful the manufacturer raised their CAFE ratings in both categories. It's called "gaming the system".
Just goes to show how dumb the regulation-happy legislators are. They should have gone for a fuel tax. --
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I wonder if NASA will ever admit that we DIDN'T land on the moon.
To "admit" it, it would have to be true.
There were tens of thousands of people involved in the effort to go to the moon. Eight missions with three people each went, and six landed. You should know something about conspiracies; how could those umpteen astronauts have kept the secret for so long, let alone the tens of thousands who would have had to have been part of the conspiracy? Not to mention:
The millions who watched live TV coverage which would have been utterly impossible to fake with the technology of the time (difficult even today).
The laser retroreflectors which were left by the six landings, and which are still there today.
The communications from the Apollo spacecraft to the ground, which were independently intercepted by amateur radio operators.
If it were a hoax, thousands of people would have spilled the beans by now. They haven't. Therefore, you're on crack. --
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The worst part about the cold war is that the US thinks they won.
Does the Soviet Union still exist? It went down without a shot fired; sounds like victory (in the Sun Tzu sense) to me! --
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Too bad that Capitalism is an unstoppable (and possibly planet killing) meme...
And (to give one example) communism, with its complete disregard of niceties such as the environment (look at their multiple debacles all over Europe and the perpetually-smogged cities in China), is what exactly? What allows you to single out capitalism (under which the USA got the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act...)?
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If you think that, you must also think the Wright Brothers were stupid.
It's often dangerous to do something that nobody has ever done before, but we'd never get anywhere if nobody did anything until it could be pronounced "safe". That's why we have test pilots. --
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Using steel at a density of 7.9 g/cc and a working strength of 15,000 PSI (call it 100 megapascals), you'd have a weight of about 77000 N per cubic meter; 1e8 N/m^2 / 7.7e4 N/m^3 = 1298 meters, or about 4250 feet (even without tapering to reduce stress). You can get ten times that with Kevlar, easily.
The elevators would be the smallest of the problems. You couldn't build a structure that tall out of anything other than steel; weaker materials would fail, and stronger materials would be too expensive.
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I wish it was as easy as starting production of F-1's and J-2's again and plugging in modern electronics, but it's not.
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This just sets the stage for another step in the arms race, where people screw with the files to make them yield different fingerprints or with the fingerprinting code to produce "non-infringing" fingerprints from files which aren't supposed to be shared. The only solution is to have an OS where the owner of the machine has no control over the code it is running (see Microsoft).
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If you wanted to jump-start the economy, you'd put up money for solving new problems. Better yet, you'd put up money for certain scientific and environmental achievements, with the requirement that the technology developed for them would be available royalty-free to everyone in the USA. Instead of just going to the moon, have a prize for delivering water to the ISS. You might have some people building robots to make a mass-driver near the lunar pole and send crater-ice down to LEO, and some other people building a laser to launch frisbees of ice into orbit from the Mojave desert. You'd have solutions that could then be applied to all kinds of other things, and you'd get a boom.
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It doesn't happen because the money never makes it to the classroom. The money all goes to pay layers of deadwood administration, mostly composed of the in-laws and nephews of people who run the show. Everything gets eaten by graft, nepotism and simple inefficiency. This is why administration of schools should have been privatized twenty years ago. The problem is that the creation of sinecures in the school administration creates a powerful lobby for its perpetuation. The only way to get away from it is to move, leaving schools and entire cities as empty shells. (You wonder why charter schools are opposed so violently in the places which need them the most? There's one of the reasons.)
Part of the problem is that schools accept bullying. There are a few clueful districts which have learned something from the few high-profile disasters like Columbine and the much lower-profile but overall deadlier phenomenon of teen suicide and are moving to address bullying. This may, someday, cause this problem to wind down.--
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If you use a proton-exchange membrane fuel cell, the water will pile up at the oxygen electrode. Using a membrane like silicone you can hold the water but let oxygen diffuse in and out. Running the fuel cell backwards, at the oxygen electrode you have the reaction:
2 H2O -> 4H+ + O2 + 4e-
The hydrogen electrode has the reaction:
4H+ + 4e- -> 2H2
You can stuff the H2 right back into your storage, which could be a metal-hydride unit right out of a NiMH battery. Voila, you've gotten rid of the nickel electrode and all its weight, substituting air (and the bit of water you keep to regenerate the H2).
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This is one of the unintended consequences of a combination of factors, including the WTO and the elderly lobby in the USA. The USA does not regulate drug prices (yet), so consumers in the US wind up subsidizing research and development of drugs which then wind up being available much cheaper in places like France and Canada. Medicines are so much cheaper in Canada (due to price controls) that people cross the border to order their prescriptions. The money lost comes straight off the drug companies' bottom line. (They spend a heck of a lot on promotion as well, but given that most of their trials come up duds they have to make it up on the few successes they have.)
AIDS is a horrific phenomenon, but the drug companies are legally responsible for their own survival first and foremost (see "fiduciary duty" and "shareholder lawsuit"). If Brazil and South Africa declare a national emergency and make the patented substances available essentially at cost, the profit disappears in those nations. Not only does this destroy the incentive to market or research for those nations, but under the WTO rules it becomes very difficult to prevent those generic drugs from going to the rest of the world. The drug companies could see their entire market for AIDS drugs wiped out. Their shareholders would demand a pullback from research on the unprofitable sector, and that's it for AIDS drug development. This same phenomenon could spill over to drugs for other conditions. I know there are a lot of people who are strapped to pay for medicine for their conditions, but 40 or even 20 years ago they probably had less-effective drugs with worse side effects or even no drugs at all. For some reason they prefer the new, expensive stuff to the old, cheap stuff that's now generic. What's worse: being broke or being disabled/dead? I hate to put it in those terms but I think I'd prefer being broke.
All in all, it's a really tough situation and it stinks. Mostly it stinks because there's something we can do about it in any individual case, but the scale of the need overwhelms what we can afford. It's not unlike trying to keep a nation full of old people alive; no matter how much money you throw at it you are not going to eliminate the problem because it keeps getting worse at the margins. Solution? I wish I had a solution that was both palatable and affordable without any dangerous pitfalls for the future.
One thing that is certain: the person who never contracts HIV (or Ebola, or tuberculosis) is never going to need treatment. Prevention should be at the top of every nation's priority.
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The big question is, do you want to? If the firefighters are using these things to locate people trapped in burning houses, you'd be making a tradeoff between safety in a police invasion scenario versus safety in a fire scenario. I'd be inclined to treat the police as the bigger threat (by the time the firefighters arrive, anyone who isn't already out of the house is probably dead of smoke inhalation already) but you might not want to. From what I can tell, the same areas where cops do a lot of raids are also the areas where fires kill people frequently (and are also the areas least likely to have people taking radar into account when making home improvements).
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If you know the local cops are using these things, you could play nasty tricks on them. Put a corner cube (or even a little dipole) on an oscillating base at about 6 RPM; there's your "breathing" signature. Give it a little sub-shake at about 70-80 RPM; there's your "heartbeat" signature. Stick a few of these around the house and then hide behind a door in a closet with foil-face insulation in all the walls and Alcoa's finest beneath the cedar on the inside surface. SURPRISE!
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Most PC power supplies are switchers which operate by rectifying the line voltage and running it through a chopper to drive the primary coil of a small toroidal transformer. The secondary coils yield +5, +12, -12 and the other outputs required by the computer; the chopper duty cycle is regulated to keep the output voltage correct. It wouldn't be much of a trick to use a different primary coil (heavier wire, fewer turns) and chopper designed to operate off 12 VDC instead of 135-350 VDC. Voila, 12-volt-capable PC power supply. Mind the input connector, that thing is going to draw some amps.
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That kind of response would end spam in an instant. It would disappear from the Internet just like horse-drawn wagons from New York City.
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If you have a deep-cycle battery which gives you 50 amp-hours of capacity at 12 volts nominal terminal voltage, that's 600 watt-hours. If your laptop consumes 50 watts average, that's 12 hours running time more or less. If you can pare that down to 30 watts, you'd get 20 hours or so. The running time will probably increase faster than the power consumption goes down because resistive losses in the battery are decreased (this assumes a switching regulator in the laptop instead of a linear regulator).
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If you are considering this, you probably know that obeying the KISS principle is the way to get things to work. Here's my take on it:
- Forget 2-way video and data. You need two-way voice and a video downlink, and you probably have the voice already.
- If all you need is a video downlink, put the complexity on the ground. A 2.4 GHz transmitter is a piece of cake to find; put the antenna on the bottom of the aircraft with double-sided tape or something. Power it with aircraft power if you can, but batteries will probably do just fine.
- On the ground you need an antenna, receiver and video gear. Take your cheapo receiver and put its antenna at the focus of a 3 or 4 foot parabolic dish on an az-el mount. Have someone track the plane with the dish while you are doing video (only a few minutes per flight, I'd assume). As soon as the last jumper is out of camera range, you're done and your plane-tracker can lock the dish and go do other things.
Motorized dish controls would be nice, but a small dish is fairly easy to move using the Armstrong method as long as it's balanced. Remember, you are after cheap and reliable. Once it starts making a lot of money you can think about making it fancy. Note: You could probably use the same dish to capture video from a jumper's helmet camera, even using the same dish. You would just want some way of switching between cameras as that jumper left the aircraft.--
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- Racing (non-nuclear) toy [NEAR] up to the asteroid Eros: Check.
- Landing the entire spacecraft (which was not designed to land): Check.
- Firing rocket thrusters at just the right time: Check.
Aside from putting a bomb on board, what else would they need? The rest of the job can be - has been - done by a school. (It's not a terrorist threat, it's a stealth threat from hostile governments with nuclear weapons. There are still a couple of those on Earth, you know.)--
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Bikini atoll was only used to test the effects of hydrogen bombs on ships, so far as I can determine (link). It was no longer being used as a test range when the above-ground test ban treaty went into effect. The development of the neutron bomb did not begin until many years later, so there could not have been a neutron-bomb test at Bikini atoll.
Bikini atoll is now one of the richest reef systems in the Pacific, because it is off-limits to fishing and over-fished species are still plentiful there.
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If the average person drives 13,000 miles a year and their car gets 26 MPG, that's 500 gallons of gas. Add a $3/gallon fuel tax and add a $1500 tax credit, and the net financial situation doesn't change but it suddenly becomes a whole lot more attractive to drive more efficiently. Financial incentives have this funny way of changing what the consumer wants; just look at Arizona.
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Just goes to show how dumb the regulation-happy legislators are. They should have gone for a fuel tax.
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There were tens of thousands of people involved in the effort to go to the moon. Eight missions with three people each went, and six landed. You should know something about conspiracies; how could those umpteen astronauts have kept the secret for so long, let alone the tens of thousands who would have had to have been part of the conspiracy? Not to mention:
- The millions who watched live TV coverage which would have been utterly impossible to fake with the technology of the time (difficult even today).
- The laser retroreflectors which were left by the six landings, and which are still there today.
- The communications from the Apollo spacecraft to the ground, which were independently intercepted by amateur radio operators.
If it were a hoax, thousands of people would have spilled the beans by now. They haven't. Therefore, you're on crack.--
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I know, I know. IHBT, IHL, IgoandHAND.
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It's often dangerous to do something that nobody has ever done before, but we'd never get anywhere if nobody did anything until it could be pronounced "safe". That's why we have test pilots.
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