Yes, but with only about 1% of the density of Earth's atmosphere, the wind would be nearly imperceptible.
Well I'm certainly no astrophysicist or even the armchair version. But it seems to me that wind levels on Mars can be quite energetic (relatively speaking). At least enough to throw up some dust and act as dust devils.
These have also been postulated to be on of the reason why the solar panels seemed to get cleaned from time to time for no apparent reason.
5 Years on an other planet, think about it. Imagine the amount of food, water, O2 and energy that would have been required if they had sent humans instead of machines.
Never mind the fact that they extended the original mission by more than 2000% and the fact that they never needed resupply missions.
When you read the mission reports for the ISS and see that they need a two man crew just to keep stuff from breaking too badly, it's hard to imagine the size of the crew that would be needed for a 5 year mission to Mars.
Yet one of the two (ISS vs Mars rovers), has a budget at least one order of magnitude larger than the other and has yet to produce any real science (unless teeing off a gold plated golf ball from the ISS is ones idea of science)
The engines in Europe probably require premium gasoline, while the ones in America run with regular. Yes, but no. Check out this Wikipedia entry on octane calculations between the US and Europe
Here's snippet: It should be noted that this higher rating seen in Europe is an artifact of a different underlying measuring procedure[...]Because of the 8 to 10 point difference noted above, this means that the octane in the United States will be about 4 to 5 points lower than the same fuel elsewhere
So cars in Europe do not in fact "require premium gasoline".
I realize that everyone has it's own great idea for a game to be turned into a movie. Yet I still feel compeld to illuminate you with my brilliant ideas:)
Monkey Island. Imagine a Monty Python style movie, with very witty British humor behind it.
Larry Laffer. No wait it's already been done, it's called soft-porn.
Day of the Tentacle. Cheesy 50s or 60s horror movie.
And while you are at it making a Doom movie, why not make a Commander Keen movie. Imagine the hero spending a great deal of his time jumping about on a pogo stick
I do medical imaging in the U.S. for a livelihood....[snip]... If leaked, the header info that comes with a DICOM formatted data set easily violates privacy at a level sufficient to trigger a $15k slap on the wrist and/or 6months jail time.
Ahh yes, welcome to the wonderfull land of the free, but be feerfull of te lawsuit. I guess it's a good thing this developped in a country which doesn't put lawsuits before inovation.
I personnaly think that we should have more of a "common sense" set of privacy rules about health records, and more importantly, strong law against using said records in any way that would be discriminatory to the owner.
That's one nice joke, but this beeing/. I can nitpick all i want, and might even be moded up for it. So I have to point out that the "official" address is actually : 122.13013W x 47.64483N Your coords point to something that looks like an empty field near residential housing a few KM North. You wouldn't want the Air Force to hit the wrong target.
P.S. I had to lookup the coords using NASA's excellent Open Source WorldWind. Did you just happen to have the coordinates written on a post-it or something ?:)
There will be no space elevator. Not now. Not 200 years from now.
I bet our futrure generations, say in 199 years from now, will be thinking "Gee we should have listened to him", while beeing stuck in a small space with the worst possbile music, for 5 days.
Man, I hope for you that you didn't download and RUN the linked file:
Half-Life 2 v1.0 ENG Reloaded - No steam athentication patch
HALF.LIFE.2.NSAP.RELOADED.ZIP
Because that's a nice trojan IRC eggdrop style program.
If you did, then these are the thing you need to do: 1) remove from the registry local_machine\...\run\svhost.exe 2) delete %systemroot%\system\svhost.exe 3) delete %systemroot%\system32\gre.exe 4) delete %systemroot%\system32\unet.txt
and reboot, or try killing all instances of 'svhost' (you can't kill the real ones).
Even low-budget games have staffs of at least 20 people and usually many more.
Well I guess that statement is true in about 99%, one excellent exception to it is Chris Sawyer's Locomotion, which is a brand new game and was made by juste one person (well to be honest I recall that Chris mentioned that for the first time he contracted some of the graphic work to an artist, but still that's at most a 2 man team). Now granted it's distributed by a large publisher, and they might have done some Q&A on it but that is exptected from any big publisher today.
So back to the point, yes it's still is possible to have one man made games come out on the market and still sell a fair a nice amount of copies. Not to mention beeing great fun to play.
I know we are talking only about a heat shield in this design, but the TransHab module (wiki, Howstuffworks) is even more resistant to puncture than the actual "skin" of the ISS.
For the little story, TransHab was really a great project but got canned by congress because it was way over budget. NASA still decided to fund a research project on it and that time Congress actually forbad NASA any new research on an inflatable habitation module. So NASA gave it of the Italian contractor that was building parts for the ISS and had them continue the work on it.
You forgot to mention that you actually got to play part of "Space Quest XII : Latex Babes of Esteros", in Space Quest IV.
If my memory serves me, after you exit your time pod in some canyon landscape, get nabbed buy a huge flying bird and fall off in some water, you then get rescued by a submarin "maned" by the babes in question (and full 256Color VGA goodness).
You leave SpaceQuest XII when they all decide to go shopping at the Space Mall, and after interrogating you with a hair puller.
Hey I'm all for funky gadgets that fly around in space, and these are really incredibly cool. And getting more exposure is always good, but judging by the comments so far a lot of you were not aware of these funky orbs. But, I do have to point out that this is really old news, as a matter of fact it goes back at least to 18 October 2001. courtesy of the Waybackmachine
The sad part is, that I haven't seen any news on the project since.
Okay so it isn't electric and doesn't have funky drive-by-someone (tm) technolofy, but it's already commercialized and viable.
Murphy(c)
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Actually, no.
The movie you linked to (Kaena) is already on DVD over here in the EU. I've seen it, and it isn't bad, really. But in all honesty, it's about as good visually as the Diablo2 Cutsceens. Well, ok maybe a bit better but the animation wasn't up to Pixar/Dreamworks level. And to me the worst part was that the story heavily relied on a form of water (some kind of goo) and it really didn't look all that good.
So don't hold your breath for it, allthough it's still is entertaining.
What about corrosion? If you increase the surface area so much it'll be very quick to corrode (rust) and then all the hooks will fall apart
That's an excellent point, but I would like to point out this little quote from the article:
"Surfi-Sculpt has so far been successfully tested on stainless steel, aluminium and titanium"
So given that stainless steel doesn't corrode too much and that aluminium and titanium don't rust, I think that the rust problem for the 1st batch of applications might not be a problem.
I'm really sory if my question sounds stupid, but...
I thought that the fact that, time was distorted by variation in relative speed was already proven and actually had to be taking in account with GPS sattelites.
Or did I misunderstand and it is another property of General Relativity, that they are trying to prove.
the common refridgerator, and I mean modern, not the one's from the 70s and 80s, as they improve with time, but the modern fridge draws about 700 - 750W. This is about double that of a computer loaded with hardware doing average browsing or word processing.
Man... I really don't know where you took those numbers from but let's just say I can guess (and your fingers probably smell now:) ).
I've been playing with a great little Amp-meter, and since it goes from 0 to 4500 W, I've really plugged it everywhere around the house.
So let me give some real numbers: AMD2400+ using a 400W Power supply, +6 IDE HD:
running 100% CPU Load = 301W
running < 2% CPU Load = 266W
30 year old GE double door large format fridge:
comppressor runnig = 330W
comppressor off = 0W (Duhh!)
Please note that I haven't checked the power consumption of a brand new equivalently sized fridge, but I'm guessing that with the improved insulation it's probably lower that my 330W, 30 year old fridge.
Murphy(c) P.S. The PC power consumption is only for the PC, and not for CRTs, loudpseakers, toasters and whatnots.
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Yes, but with only about 1% of the density of Earth's atmosphere, the wind would be nearly imperceptible.
Well I'm certainly no astrophysicist or even the armchair version. But it seems to me that wind levels on Mars can be quite energetic (relatively speaking).
At least enough to throw up some dust and act as dust devils.
These have also been postulated to be on of the reason why the solar panels seemed to get cleaned from time to time for no apparent reason.
Murphy(c)
5 Years on an other planet, think about it.
Imagine the amount of food, water, O2 and energy that would have been required if they had sent humans instead of machines.
Never mind the fact that they extended the original mission by more than 2000% and the fact that they never needed resupply missions.
When you read the mission reports for the ISS and see that they need a two man crew just to keep stuff from breaking too badly, it's hard to imagine the size of the crew that would be needed for a 5 year mission to Mars.
Yet one of the two (ISS vs Mars rovers), has a budget at least one order of magnitude larger than the other and has yet to produce any real science (unless teeing off a gold plated golf ball from the ISS is ones idea of science)
Murphy(c)
Check out this Wikipedia entry on octane calculations between the US and Europe
Here's snippet:
It should be noted that this higher rating seen in Europe is an artifact of a different underlying measuring procedure[...]Because of the 8 to 10 point difference noted above, this means that the octane in the United States will be about 4 to 5 points lower than the same fuel elsewhere
So cars in Europe do not in fact "require premium gasoline".
Murphy(c)
That has to be one of the best analogies.
If I could I would simply say : +1 Insightful
Murphy(c)
I realize that everyone has it's own great idea for a game to be turned into a movie. Yet I still feel compeld to illuminate you with my brilliant ideas :)
Monkey Island. Imagine a Monty Python style movie, with very witty British humor behind it.
Larry Laffer. No wait it's already been done, it's called soft-porn.
Day of the Tentacle. Cheesy 50s or 60s horror movie.
And while you are at it making a Doom movie, why not make a Commander Keen movie. Imagine the hero spending a great deal of his time jumping about on a pogo stick
I do medical imaging in the U.S. for a livelihood. ...[snip]... If leaked, the header info that comes with a DICOM formatted data set easily violates privacy at a level sufficient to trigger a $15k slap on the wrist and/or 6months jail time.
Ahh yes, welcome to the wonderfull land of the free, but be feerfull of te lawsuit.
I guess it's a good thing this developped in a country which doesn't put lawsuits before inovation.
I personnaly think that we should have more of a "common sense" set of privacy rules about health records, and more importantly, strong law against using said records in any way that would be discriminatory to the owner.
Just my 0.2 Sfr.
Murphy(c)
Let me point out to Bob Park's point of view on the way science is viewed by the current administration.
For those of you who don't know who Park is or have not read the excellent Voodoo Science, he is the president of the American Physical Society.
Murphy(c)
That's one nice joke, but this beeing /. I can nitpick all i want, and might even be moded up for it.
:)
So I have to point out that the "official" address is actually : 122.13013W x 47.64483N
Your coords point to something that looks like an empty field near residential housing a few KM North.
You wouldn't want the Air Force to hit the wrong target.
P.S. I had to lookup the coords using NASA's excellent Open Source WorldWind.
Did you just happen to have the coordinates written on a post-it or something ?
Murphy(c)
Right, what do I have to do with it ?
There will be no space elevator. Not now. Not 200 years from now.
I bet our futrure generations, say in 199 years from now, will be thinking "Gee we should have listened to him", while beeing stuck in a small space with the worst possbile music, for 5 days.
Murphy(c)
2 minutes to find a no steam crack.
:
Man, I hope for you that you didn't download and RUN the linked file
Half-Life 2 v1.0 ENG
Reloaded - No steam athentication patch
HALF.LIFE.2.NSAP.RELOADED.ZIP
Because that's a nice trojan IRC eggdrop style program.
If you did, then these are the thing you need to do:
1) remove from the registry local_machine\...\run\svhost.exe
2) delete %systemroot%\system\svhost.exe
3) delete %systemroot%\system32\gre.exe
4) delete %systemroot%\system32\unet.txt
and reboot, or try killing all instances of 'svhost' (you can't kill the real ones).
Murphy(c)
On a hunch I converted my entire MP3 collection into waves and ran a search for 'deepz0ne'.
And guess what, all the Mettallica tracks were made with a pirated copy of Sound Forge. Bastards!
Murphy(c)
Even low-budget games have staffs of at least 20 people and usually many more.
Well I guess that statement is true in about 99%, one excellent exception to it is Chris Sawyer's Locomotion, which is a brand new game and was made by juste one person (well to be honest I recall that Chris mentioned that for the first time he contracted some of the graphic work to an artist, but still that's at most a 2 man team).
Now granted it's distributed by a large publisher, and they might have done some Q&A on it but that is exptected from any big publisher today.
So back to the point, yes it's still is possible to have one man made games come out on the market and still sell a fair a nice amount of copies. Not to mention beeing great fun to play.
Murphy(c)
My dishwaster just starting leaking all over the floor btw. Damn you murphy!
Whaaa ?
Wasn't me, I was here reading Slashdot.
But they look awfully alien - are we entirely certain they're not actually being used to contact hostile intergalactic forces?!?!?
you might have something there. Take three of them and it might even look like a Tripod.
I wonder if there is some green goo inside too ?
Murphy(c)
I know we are talking only about a heat shield in this design, but the TransHab module (wiki, Howstuffworks) is even more resistant to puncture than the actual "skin" of the ISS.
For the little story, TransHab was really a great project but got canned by congress because it was way over budget. NASA still decided to fund a research project on it and that time Congress actually forbad NASA any new research on an inflatable habitation module. So NASA gave it of the Italian contractor that was building parts for the ISS and had them continue the work on it.
Murphy
You forgot to mention that you actually got to play part of "Space Quest XII : Latex Babes of Esteros", in Space Quest IV.
If my memory serves me, after you exit your time pod in some canyon landscape, get nabbed buy a huge flying bird and fall off in some water, you then get rescued by a submarin "maned" by the babes in question (and full 256Color VGA goodness).
You leave SpaceQuest XII when they all decide to go shopping at the Space Mall, and after interrogating you with a hair puller.
That's what I called adventure games !
Murphy(c)
That would work, but the article states that there are no patches as of yet for these two secuirty holes...
:
Well I might be missing something but the patches seems to have been availble for a couple of days
for Windows2000, since 12-Apr-2004.
for Win2003 12-Apr-2004.
for XP SP1 (SP2 fixes it) 12-Apr-2004.
Murphy(c)
Hey I'm all for funky gadgets that fly around in space, and these are really incredibly cool. And getting more exposure is always good, but judging by the comments so far a lot of you were not aware of these funky orbs.
But, I do have to point out that this is really old news, as a matter of fact it goes back at least to 18 October 2001. courtesy of the Waybackmachine
The sad part is, that I haven't seen any news on the project since.
Murphy(c)
Well I like the concept and all, but what is the big fuss about a small urban car ?
The Smart has been on the road for some years now, and is about the same size but seats 2, and has a trunk big enough to put a box of ceral.
Smart dimensions (length, width, height) : 2.5/1.5/1.55 [meters]
Toyota Egg (length, width, height) : 2.65/1.47/1.85 [meters]
Okay so it isn't electric and doesn't have funky drive-by-someone (tm) technolofy, but it's already commercialized and viable.
Murphy(c)
Actually, no.
The movie you linked to (Kaena) is already on DVD over here in the EU. I've seen it, and it isn't bad, really. But in all honesty, it's about as good visually as the Diablo2 Cutsceens.
Well, ok maybe a bit better but the animation wasn't up to Pixar/Dreamworks level. And to me the worst part was that the story heavily relied on a form of water (some kind of goo) and it really didn't look all that good.
So don't hold your breath for it, allthough it's still is entertaining.
Murphy(c)
That's an excellent point, but I would like to point out this little quote from the article
- "Surfi-Sculpt has so far been successfully tested on stainless steel, aluminium and titanium"
So given that stainless steel doesn't corrode too much and that aluminium and titanium don't rust, I think that the rust problem for the 1st batch of applications might not be a problem.Murphy(c)
the entire MIT technical staff breathes a collective sigh of relief as the nightmare of getting all that beard fluff out of keyboards ends.
Bread fluffs ? man did you see RMS's picture ?
With a beard such as his, there are NO bread fluff in the keyboad, well as long as he doesn't nervously shake his head to hard...
Murphy(c)
I'm really sory if my question sounds stupid, but...
I thought that the fact that, time was distorted by variation in relative speed was already proven and actually had to be taking in account with GPS sattelites.
Or did I misunderstand and it is another property of General Relativity, that they are trying to prove.
Murphy(c)
Man... I really don't know where you took those numbers from but let's just say I can guess (and your fingers probably smell now
I've been playing with a great little Amp-meter, and since it goes from 0 to 4500 W, I've really plugged it everywhere around the house.
So let me give some real numbers
AMD2400+ using a 400W Power supply, +6 IDE HD
running 100% CPU Load = 301W
running < 2% CPU Load = 266W
:
30 year old GE double door large format fridge
comppressor runnig = 330W
comppressor off = 0W (Duhh!)
Please note that I haven't checked the power consumption of a brand new equivalently sized fridge, but I'm guessing that with the improved insulation it's probably lower that my 330W, 30 year old fridge.
Murphy(c)
P.S. The PC power consumption is only for the PC, and not for CRTs, loudpseakers, toasters and whatnots.