Nobody cares about the moon. We went, it was damn cool, and we learned a lot. Great! But it is useless to go again, until we advance in a couple areas.
Propulsion/launch systems. We need to get large chunks of stuff into orbit quickly, often, and cheaply.
Manufacturing in zero G. We need to be able to build things in orbit. Big, serious things, like space craft that are worthy of serious long distance space travel. The first big thing we need to build is a factory and housing!
Training. We will need to put large numbers of ordinary people in orbit to fill manufacturing jobs, and we need to be able to train them for such service quickly. There's no reason to have top notch fly boys turning wrenches in space.
Once we get those things figured out, we can build craft that are capable of going to the moon and back without breaking a sweat. Then perhaps we can begin mining on the moon, or on asteroids, where the low gravity will permit easier material removal. Then we can step up production of raw materials in space, which will greatly lessen the need to carry raw materials up from the Earth's surface.
Then we can build craft that can go to Mars and back without breaking a sweat. Or further. Once we can build very large craft that will never be subjected to gravity, the... uh... sky's the limit.
All this pussy footing around NASA has been doing since the space race is sickening.
Since building a computer to simulate the universe would require more matter than is available in the entire universe (which would entirely ignore the computer itself and the effect it has on the containing universe), the physical resolution of this particular simulation must be much less than that of the real universe.
Which could explain why the/. karma system is the way it is:-)
We all knew he was bad news from the get-go. It seems that Linus, of all people, was the only one who didn't see it, and, well, he does now. I wish he'd just go away.
Almost all cars have rear-wheel emergency brakes. Some Subarus also have (or had?) front-wheel e-brakes. As of five minutes ago, I know of only two manufacturers that have done that.
If you'd have hit the brakes, you'd have come to a stop just as quickly as normal. The engine barely has enough power in high gear to push the car up a little hill, it certainly won't have much more than a token effect on the brakes (which you could have overcome with slightly more pedal pressure)...
Where do you think all the idiots are coming from? If cars drive themselves, people will become even more dependant on things they don't understand, and therefore stupider.
Exactly. I drove my car for several months with a failed air-flow meter (kinda the big daddy of all the sensors) and you'de be amazed how well it still ran. So well, that I assumed I just had a bad oxygen sensor and continued to drive it, planning to replace it 'soon'. It didn't even get bad mileage, just surged a lot under accelleration.
OK so you're saying that in the time it takes for a Hyundai to accelerate from hiway speed to 90 MPH (which is a looooong time), your mother was unable to slow the car? What about the brakes??
"It's simply not designed to be operated without power."
On the contrary, it absolutely, 100 percent IS designed to work without power. Why do you suppose there is still a mechanical linkage between the steering wheel and the road wheels? The same applies to the brakes, plus one more safety backup: the cable operated emergency brake. If power fails to either system, you most certainly can bring the car to a safe stop, or drive the car to your local shop if you like. It'll take some muscle... Better than smashing into the car in front of you, don't you agree?
Also I've never heard of safety being a rationale for drum brakes. Wait, let me think... as a matter of fact, I don't think I've ever heard any rationale at all for drum brakes.
Religious? You mean you're unable to recognize wisdom thousands of years old just because the wording is badly out-dated? You shouldn't discount out of hand what someone says just because they have a belief system different than yours. Some things never change. People in power have always and will always strive to increase that power, and people have always know it.
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Congress also forced everyone,
small and great, rich and poor,
free and slave, to receive an ID
and a card,
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so that no one could buy or sell
unless he had the card, which bears
the number of his name.
Because of time dilation, below the event horizon, if you are at rest, you are exceeding the speed of light. If you've become part of the singularity, you're pretty much at rest within that frame of reference. So, either black holes are impossible, or time runs backward in them, or something entirely different and weird MUST be going on in there...
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Nobody cares about the moon. We went, it was damn cool, and we learned a lot. Great! But it is useless to go again, until we advance in a couple areas.
Propulsion/launch systems. We need to get large chunks of stuff into orbit quickly, often, and cheaply.
Manufacturing in zero G. We need to be able to build things in orbit. Big, serious things, like space craft that are worthy of serious long distance space travel. The first big thing we need to build is a factory and housing!
Training. We will need to put large numbers of ordinary people in orbit to fill manufacturing jobs, and we need to be able to train them for such service quickly. There's no reason to have top notch fly boys turning wrenches in space.
Once we get those things figured out, we can build craft that are capable of going to the moon and back without breaking a sweat. Then perhaps we can begin mining on the moon, or on asteroids, where the low gravity will permit easier material removal. Then we can step up production of raw materials in space, which will greatly lessen the need to carry raw materials up from the Earth's surface.
Then we can build craft that can go to Mars and back without breaking a sweat. Or further. Once we can build very large craft that will never be subjected to gravity, the... uh... sky's the limit.
All this pussy footing around NASA has been doing since the space race is sickening.
-1 redundant???
Holy fuck... Looks like a mod or two need to use their high priced PHD's and kill themselves...
I *think* I see what you're asking, and the answer is no (more or less).
If the earth suddenly disappeared, we would all remain in orbit around the sun. See what I mean?
I'm sure the force differentials you're talking about would be detectable, but only by sensative equpment.
That is if I understood what you're asking...
Oooops, 400 to 750 degrees Fahrenheit they think. Not exactly molten. That's what I get for not RTFA...
Kinda seems like at that proximity to it's star, the entire planet must me molten... Volcano? Uh...
That doesn't really make sense... You're saying that particles not entangled with others can be ignored altogether?
How would you store the state and location of every single partical and photon in the universe?
I'd rather get some DNA from Daryl Hannah in that one cave bear movie and clone her for my own naughty purposes...
Since building a computer to simulate the universe would require more matter than is available in the entire universe (which would entirely ignore the computer itself and the effect it has on the containing universe), the physical resolution of this particular simulation must be much less than that of the real universe.
/. karma system is the way it is :-)
Which could explain why the
Exactly. Anybody who believes differently is smoking the crack.
I'm really tired of hearing about this clown.
We all knew he was bad news from the get-go. It seems that Linus, of all people, was the only one who didn't see it, and, well, he does now. I wish he'd just go away.
Yes, but did you go to the window, stick your head out, and yell?
That entire article just drips, doesn't it?
Almost all cars have rear-wheel emergency brakes. Some Subarus also have (or had?) front-wheel e-brakes. As of five minutes ago, I know of only two manufacturers that have done that.
Interesting how, here on /., the established truth is considered 'overrated' by the mods...
Two problems? What would those have been?
If you'd have hit the brakes, you'd have come to a stop just as quickly as normal. The engine barely has enough power in high gear to push the car up a little hill, it certainly won't have much more than a token effect on the brakes (which you could have overcome with slightly more pedal pressure)...
The VW Beetle is many things, but reliable? You can't be serious...
Where do you think all the idiots are coming from? If cars drive themselves, people will become even more dependant on things they don't understand, and therefore stupider.
Exactly.
I drove my car for several months with a failed air-flow meter (kinda the big daddy of all the sensors) and you'de be amazed how well it still ran. So well, that I assumed I just had a bad oxygen sensor and continued to drive it, planning to replace it 'soon'. It didn't even get bad mileage, just surged a lot under accelleration.
OK so you're saying that in the time it takes for a Hyundai to accelerate from hiway speed to 90 MPH (which is a looooong time), your mother was unable to slow the car? What about the brakes??
"It's simply not designed to be operated without power."
On the contrary, it absolutely, 100 percent IS designed to work without power. Why do you suppose there is still a mechanical linkage between the steering wheel and the road wheels? The same applies to the brakes, plus one more safety backup: the cable operated emergency brake. If power fails to either system, you most certainly can bring the car to a safe stop, or drive the car to your local shop if you like. It'll take some muscle... Better than smashing into the car in front of you, don't you agree?
Also I've never heard of safety being a rationale for drum brakes. Wait, let me think... as a matter of fact, I don't think I've ever heard any rationale at all for drum brakes.
My linux box at home STILL runs on a K6III, and it would be a K6II if I haden't changed it out just for the hell of it a few years back :-)
Religious? You mean you're unable to recognize wisdom thousands of years old just because the wording is badly out-dated? You shouldn't discount out of hand what someone says just because they have a belief system different than yours. Some things never change. People in power have always and will always strive to increase that power, and people have always know it.
16
Congress also forced everyone,
small and great, rich and poor,
free and slave, to receive an ID
and a card,
17
so that no one could buy or sell
unless he had the card, which bears
the number of his name.
What's the difference? They (would be) both required by law.
Because of time dilation, below the event horizon, if you are at rest, you are exceeding the speed of light. If you've become part of the singularity, you're pretty much at rest within that frame of reference. So, either black holes are impossible, or time runs backward in them, or something entirely different and weird MUST be going on in there...