We would not have things like the Golden Gate Bridge, the Panama canal, or footprints on the moon if everyone thought like some of these "rational" people.
So we should spend 50 billion on a space station with _maybe_ 2 occupants? Keep our 30+ year old shuttle and spend another billion or so every time it goes up? I say NO! It is time to at least _try_ something new.
Scientists estimate there are about 1 million tons of helium 3 on the moon, enough to power the world for thousands of years. The equivalent of a single space shuttle load or roughly 25 tons could supply the entire United States' energy needs for a year, according to Apollo17 astronaut and FTI researcher Harrison Schmitt.
Here is the link: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/heliu m3_0006 30.html
How about this... Use precisely timed and synchronized clocks at each end. On the first "tick" I read the quantum pair. If it is not the value I want I simply read it again until it is the value I want. The next "tick" of the clock the other side will see the value I intended them to see. This is done in cryptography all the time by the military. Could someone punch a hole in that?
If they are going to require using a technology that doesn't exist and probably won't work why not require bullets be "smart"? How about this law - "By the year 2050 all bullets sold in New Jersey must be 'Smart Bullets'" - hey why not?
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http://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/helo-droptest.html
Wouldn't electric eel DNA work better?
I just hope the funding for this "research" doesn't have any public components.
When they programmed the controller - I wonder if they made use of Stream IO...
There is another story about this on PhysicsWeb. The story is short, but has some more technical details.
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Bravo! Well said!
We would not have things like the Golden Gate Bridge, the Panama canal, or footprints on the moon if everyone thought like some of these "rational" people.
So we should spend 50 billion on a space station with _maybe_ 2 occupants? Keep our 30+ year old shuttle and spend another billion or so every time it goes up? I say NO! It is time to at least _try_ something new.
Helium-3
u m3_0006 30.html
Here is a excerpt from a space.com story:
Scientists estimate there are about 1 million tons of helium 3 on the moon, enough to power the world for thousands of years. The equivalent of a single space shuttle load or roughly 25 tons could supply the entire United States' energy needs for a year, according to Apollo17 astronaut and FTI researcher Harrison Schmitt.
Here is the link:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/heli
I'd say that is a pretty good reason to go.
How about this... Use precisely timed and synchronized clocks at each end. On the first "tick" I read the quantum pair. If it is not the value I want I simply read it again until it is the value I want. The next "tick" of the clock the other side will see the value I intended them to see. This is done in cryptography all the time by the military. Could someone punch a hole in that?
If they are going to require using a technology that doesn't exist and probably won't work why not require bullets be "smart"? How about this law - "By the year 2050 all bullets sold in New Jersey must be 'Smart Bullets'" - hey why not?
Skip the NYTimes reg crap and read it here: STMicro claims light-emitting silicon breakthrough