Having read the Fermilab report I see that there is no point in making the windows tungsten. I also see that if they really wanted to know what the beam would do to a slab of meat they could model it pretty accurately.
> It would be hard to get your hand into vacuum...
The only "practical" way to do it would be to modify the line running to the beam dump by inserting an air gap (the windows would have to be tungsten or something). You'd place the hand in the gap and then divert the beam into the dump line.
>...imagine a space suit arm attached to a sandblast cabinet.
As you swung your arm into position the beam would blow a hole in the edge of the glove. Hitting the glove would disrupt it enough that it would scatter into the walls of the tube before making it around again. You'd get a bad burn on the side of your hand and perhaps a notch. You might not lose the hand.
...I'm always a sceptic about our confidence when predicting unforeseen consequences.
I'm not. I'm quite confident of our inability to predict unforeseen consequences, because if we did predict them they would not be unforeseen. On the other hand I am also quite confident about our ability to predict that every act (or inaction) will have unforeseen consequences. Fortunately, most are not consequential.
Actually, most of the european governments would like to see more and stricter privacy laws...
Which they themselves would, of course, scrupulously obey. No democratic government would ever spy on its own citizens. That would violate "human rights" and no politican would ever do that. Unless, of course, it is for your own good. And the government always knows what is best for you, so it's ok.
> The ISPs will have to hire more staff to cope with the demand.
Wouldn't it be simpler for the government to hire people to go around vandalizing property, thereby creating work for tradesmen? That should help mollify the unions while providing employment to young men from the suburbs doing something they enjoy. Break enough windows and soon the economy will be booming (and they can blame all the damage on the Roma!)
Another interesting question would be what kind of wattage the operator is putting out. Is it something the average human can do or did the guy train for it for months?
Read the article. He's a world-class cyclist (as are the pilots of the human-powered prop planes).
> An ornithopter is really the only practical aircraft on Mars
Why?
> Human powered fuelless flight for when the oil dries up.
Human powered propeller-driven flight is more efficient but still not practical. Aircraft with alcohol burning engines would be more efficient. People are extremely inefficient engines.
they should not be able to fly if the current laws of psychics were correct
Fotunately, the laws of "psychics" are not correct. For that matter, I'm not aware of any laws regulating psychics at all. Perhaps laws against witchcraft apply?
However, "Medical Daily" sounds like it's targeted at an audience that might not be expected to know what "absolute zero" means, so it's appropriate to put at least a token explanation
"What's known as" is not an explanation. It's utterly pointless.
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It'll be a dismal failure and give biometrics a black eye.
You can even get just the chip (in a DIP package if you wish) programmed with the bootloader for about $5.00.
So don't use USB at all. The FTDI chip is just a USBserial translator anyway. Works fine with a serial port.
Having read the Fermilab report I see that there is no point in making the windows tungsten. I also see that if they really wanted to know what the beam would do to a slab of meat they could model it pretty accurately.
> It would be hard to get your hand into vacuum...
The only "practical" way to do it would be to modify the line running to the beam dump by inserting an air gap (the windows would have to be tungsten or something). You'd place the hand in the gap and then divert the beam into the dump line.
> ...imagine a space suit arm attached to a sandblast cabinet.
As you swung your arm into position the beam would blow a hole in the edge of the glove. Hitting the glove would disrupt it enough that it would scatter into the walls of the tube before making it around again. You'd get a bad burn on the side of your hand and perhaps a notch. You might not lose the hand.
DuckDuckGo is located in the USA, not in Europe.
I'm not. I'm quite confident of our inability to predict unforeseen consequences, because if we did predict them they would not be unforeseen. On the other hand I am also quite confident about our ability to predict that every act (or inaction) will have unforeseen consequences. Fortunately, most are not consequential.
Right. One must remember that the original article did not assert that solar neutrinos were cause. They merely speculated that they might be.
"Normal humans"? This is Slashdot. If you don't find science intrinsically interesting you don't belong here.
> They did confirm nuclear decay rate constancy.
No. They confirmed that nuclear decay rate is independent of shape.
...but the reference to the DMCA is horseshit.
Opaque proxies and deep packet inspection.
You'll pay for your sheet music, right? And you will be careful to perform only for very small family groups?
Or perhaps you could simply listen to the radio...
No, for a "developed nation" it's about average. This is what governments do.
Which they themselves would, of course, scrupulously obey. No democratic government would ever spy on its own citizens. That would violate "human rights" and no politican would ever do that. Unless, of course, it is for your own good. And the government always knows what is best for you, so it's ok.
No, no, no. That could never happen in Europe. European governments have infinite respect for privacy.
> The ISPs will have to hire more staff to cope with the demand.
Wouldn't it be simpler for the government to hire people to go around vandalizing property, thereby creating work for tradesmen? That should help mollify the unions while providing employment to young men from the suburbs doing something they enjoy. Break enough windows and soon the economy will be booming (and they can blame all the damage on the Roma!)
But nobody sees any need to run Windows legacy software on cellphones.
Read the article. He's a world-class cyclist (as are the pilots of the human-powered prop planes).
> It does take off like a bird; it takes off like a very big bird.
Though big birds run to take off they do so under their own power. Maybe he needs to add leg holes?
> An ornithopter is really the only practical aircraft on Mars
Why?
> Human powered fuelless flight for when the oil dries up.
Human powered propeller-driven flight is more efficient but still not practical. Aircraft with alcohol burning engines would be more efficient. People are extremely inefficient engines.
Fotunately, the laws of "psychics" are not correct. For that matter, I'm not aware of any laws regulating psychics at all. Perhaps laws against witchcraft apply?
If you believe that, nothing.
So you are saying that Microsoft's firewall is not stateful? That's ...remarkable.
"What's known as" is not an explanation. It's utterly pointless.