> According to the letter of their AUP......they can terminate your service for any reason or none. Consequently, all the examples in the AUP are just that: examples. They could and should reduce the damn thing to a single sentence: "We can terminate service at any time without notice." You, of course, can do likewise.
Aside from the fact there is a great deal that can and will be done with the machine in addition to looking for the Higgs, failing to find it would be far more interesting than finding it. The researchers would be thrilled, not saddened.
No. Iron oxide+aluminum=thermite. Rust catalyzes the reaction between potassium chlorate and sugar. Mix your fuel in a rusty container and it may ignite while you are mixing it.
A glass container is a good choice, but wash it when you are finished. We once mixed fuel in an ashtray and then failed to clean it...
So what's the beam current and how fast are they ramping it up? Multi-Tev collisions at very low beam currents won't produce enough events to be useful.
I should be paid an infinite amount of money for doing nothing.
When my father was "on call" for Michigan Bell he got his regular wages for his regular 40 hours plus double-time for the time he put in when actually called out (but of course he had a contract).
> If so, you could add a liquid oxygen tank, inject LOX upstream of the nozzle > and burn the hydrogen that's freed up to produce even more thrust, and more > importantly, a higher specific impulse.
True, but that gives you an engine with all the complexity of liquid fuel and all the limitations of solid.
You mean you never made potassium chlorate and sugar rockets? Just fill an empty CO2 cartridge with the mixture and ignite it with a hot wire. Hint: don't mix the fuel with or in anything rusty.
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> According to the letter of their AUP... ...they can terminate your service for any reason or none. Consequently, all the examples in the AUP are just that: examples. They could and should reduce the damn thing to a single sentence: "We can terminate service at any time without notice." You, of course, can do likewise.
> I don't recall the "Straight to the moon!" line as being a laugh line even
> back in the day.
The humor (such as it was) was in the fact that Alice was utterly unimpressed by the threat.
> Or perhaps we could add some peroxides to the ice...
Interesting idea, but I think stability would be a problem.
> Also, you might want to use the quote tags when quoting.
I know how to write html. I choose not to do so here.
> Now; time to find Bauxite on the moon or asteroids.
Aluminum is very common on the moon (as it is everywhere else). The highland regolith is 10% aluminum by weight.
The fact that they are using any "filter" at all is a reason never to use the service.
> No one likes it, but no one has anything better (and this hasn't changed for
> decades thanks to the horrific string theory boondoggle).
What is your theory?
Aside from the fact there is a great deal that can and will be done with the machine in addition to looking for the Higgs, failing to find it would be far more interesting than finding it. The researchers would be thrilled, not saddened.
And in the USA the hotspot operators have immunity under the DMCA "safe harbor" provision.
> Standard, classic, perfect rocket fuel.
Which requires "standard", "classic" _perfect_ cryogenic pumps, valves, fuel lines, regeneratively-cooled combustion chambers...
Everything you saw on that show was complete and utter horseshit.
> Burning Iron Oxide+Reactive= Thermite.
No. Iron oxide+aluminum=thermite. Rust catalyzes the reaction between potassium chlorate and sugar. Mix your fuel in a rusty container and it may ignite while you are mixing it.
A glass container is a good choice, but wash it when you are finished. We once mixed fuel in an ashtray and then failed to clean it...
> How long would it take to grow some ribeye's in my backyard?
About two years.
> Do you have to water them daily?
Yes. And feed them.
> Do they just have a total ignorance of basic business law?
Most people do.
Well, ok. "Porky Little".
> ...the outcome is both easy to predict...
And your prediction is...
So what's the beam current and how fast are they ramping it up? Multi-Tev collisions at very low beam currents won't produce enough events to be useful.
> What on call policies are you used to...
Whatever is in the contract I agreed to.
> ...how should it work in an ideal world?
I should be paid an infinite amount of money for doing nothing.
When my father was "on call" for Michigan Bell he got his regular wages for his regular 40 hours plus double-time for the time he put in when actually called out (but of course he had a contract).
The damage in the breakdown was all caused by the energy stored in the magnets that failed and by the pressure of the vaporizing helium.
> If so, you could add a liquid oxygen tank, inject LOX upstream of the nozzle
> and burn the hydrogen that's freed up to produce even more thrust, and more
> importantly, a higher specific impulse.
True, but that gives you an engine with all the complexity of liquid fuel and all the limitations of solid.
You mean you never made potassium chlorate and sugar rockets? Just fill an empty CO2 cartridge with the mixture and ignite it with a hot wire. Hint: don't mix the fuel with or in anything rusty.
> ...more oxygen...
There is no oxygen present except for that in the water molecules.
Hmm. One _could_ make solid fuel with rice flour and potassium chlorate or a similar oxidizer...
> The oxygen and hydrogen in water molecules enhance the combustion of the
> aluminum.
"Enhance"? Um, the water _is_ the oxidizer.
> I'm not a US citizen, I'm German. So can anyone please explain to me how
> this can be legal?
It may not be. Note that they haven't actually done it.
> Microsoft has a monopoly in one market and is already convicted multiple
> times of illegal practices.
"Convicted" implies criminal charges. Their antitrust cases were all in civil court.
> Isn't it using a monopoly in one market to hinder competition in an another
> market?
In what way are they using their OS monopoly for this?