If only for showing that there is a moderator out there who thought that this was informative.
Hehe.
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No need for the Fermat bit...
Surface area varies with the square of the radius, volume varies with the cube of the radius. So, as you increase radius, the ratio of surface area to volume decreases, and vice versa.
Einstein, I think, said that gravity was the curvature of space-time. If the universe is flat, I guess that goes out the door. Of course, my perception of this may be completely wrong - if the universe as a whole is fairly flat, does it allow for variations near massive objects?
...what were supposedly slaves, were treated like royalty. (Judging from the medical care they received)
Isn't it possible that because this was such an important task, the authorities of the day deemed it best to keep the slaves in good health? If the ancients were smart enough to build the pyramids, they might have had the brains to decide that a healthier and happier group of slaves was simply more efficient.
Not that I have any authority here, these are just my thoughts.
The experts have claimed that water has been responsible for a number of landforms on Mars (starting of course with the "rivers"). Oftentimes a new theory will present itself, landforms resembling those on Earth, etc. and a plausible theory based on (say) CO2 flows could account for it. So we shouldn't get all excited over this.
If these new lasers are 100 times smaller than the old ones, would I be correct in guessing that the optical discs resulting from this new technology would store 100 times more data (or maybe 10000 times, if it works in two dimesions)? How long then, would it be before such discs could replace your old hard disks?
One day, you know, this miniaturisation will just stop... there has to be a limit to it.
A couple of people have mentioned the UQ Scramjet project... I think the interesting thing is that UQ's budget is $1.25 million, as compared to NASA's somewhat more ($400 million?). And the UQ tests are coming along fairly well, see this story.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rlv-01k.html
Makes you wonder just how hard NASA are trying for the "cheaper" bit of their new motto.
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One of the nastier things our gov has done is nuclear bomb testing on our own continent.
Yes, it was much better when they started testing bombs in the Pacific, meaningly only some primitives got cancer more often.
If only for showing that there is a moderator out there who thought that this was informative. Hehe.
No need for the Fermat bit...
Surface area varies with the square of the radius, volume varies with the cube of the radius. So, as you increase radius, the ratio of surface area to volume decreases, and vice versa.
Einstein, I think, said that gravity was the curvature of space-time. If the universe is flat, I guess that goes out the door. Of course, my perception of this may be completely wrong - if the universe as a whole is fairly flat, does it allow for variations near massive objects?
...what were supposedly slaves, were treated like royalty. (Judging from the medical care they received)
Isn't it possible that because this was such an important task, the authorities of the day deemed it best to keep the slaves in good health? If the ancients were smart enough to build the pyramids, they might have had the brains to decide that a healthier and happier group of slaves was simply more efficient.
Not that I have any authority here, these are just my thoughts.
The experts have claimed that water has been responsible for a number of landforms on Mars (starting of course with the "rivers"). Oftentimes a new theory will present itself, landforms resembling those on Earth, etc. and a plausible theory based on (say) CO2 flows could account for it. So we shouldn't get all excited over this.
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eg, http://www.spacedaily.com/news/lunarplanet-2001-0
If these new lasers are 100 times smaller than the old ones, would I be correct in guessing that the optical discs resulting from this new technology would store 100 times more data (or maybe 10000 times, if it works in two dimesions)? How long then, would it be before such discs could replace your old hard disks?
One day, you know, this miniaturisation will just stop... there has to be a limit to it.
A couple of people have mentioned the UQ Scramjet project... I think the interesting thing is that UQ's budget is $1.25 million, as compared to NASA's somewhat more ($400 million?). And the UQ tests are coming along fairly well, see this story.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rlv-01k.html
Makes you wonder just how hard NASA are trying for the "cheaper" bit of their new motto.