I wonder if a huge nuke would be cheaper and easier to construct and launch?
A large nuke would only generate a burst of gamma radiation and atomic particles. In Earth's atmosphere this is rapidly converted into lower wavelengths like infra-red, ultra-violet and visible light which heats up the atmosphere and creates a pressure wave. In space, this isn't going to do much except give the asteroid a nasty sunburn.
Perhaps they could launch a vehicle to land on the Moon, scoop up some moon dirt and use that for gravitational ballast.
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Especially, a whole load of "blind spot mirrors" around the windscreen. Or a "mini disco-ball" car ornament hanging from the roof.
first is that the school acts in loco parentis while the student is traveling to/from school. so, if a teacher sees a kid jaywalking on her way home, the school may legally respond to that
Interesting. Many schools deny they have any responsibility if a kid gets injured due to bullying or fighting.
... it is reported that SCO have subpoened an individual named John Titor, in the belief that he may have a copy of the 2.7 release or later, although lawyers are unsure where to send the letter as the address does not exist yet.
I can think of a few uses, but they all involve something you science geeks don't seem to be interested in: colonization.
The ultimate penthouse bachelor pad. Exclusive one unit development with a breathtaking view of the planet and free parking. Utilities include air-conditioning, triple layer wall insulation, solar panel technology, washing machine and dryer, satellite TV. Viewing by appointment with owners only.
Buckminster Fuller had the idea of sky cities. If a balloon made of steel was one mile in radius, then the skin could be the thickness of an apartment, and there would still be enough difference in air pressure between the inside and outside for the structure to float in the sky.
I'm worried by the fact that ATI can't seem to keep up. Ever since they lost the dominance they had aquired with their 9700/9800 series, They've been behind in performance, street dates, availability AND prices. It's already been 2 generations now. Any gamer knows that, today, nVidia reigns supreme.
Two generations - with one generation being six months, one year isn't that much to worry about. Who knows what new DirectX/OpenGL extensions will be invented in the future; superbuffers, real-time ray-tracing, rasterisation shaders, SLI etc...
And yet, we have not detected a coherent signal of gravitational wave from local sources. This science is that hard. And that's why this is so fascinating.
And all these billions of years, these electrons haven't bothered to make this energy transition until you came along because...?
Quantum theory predicts that the electrons can never get close enough to the protons because quantum flux keeps adding orbital energy to electrons. Even chilling Hydrogen down to close to absolute zero doesn't stop this.
From their web site, the basic principle is that they take water, apply electrolysis to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen, discard the oxygen atoms, split the H2 molecules into atoms. Potassium and strontium is then used to absorb the orbital energy of the electrons from the Hydrogen atoms, by absorbing the energy from the Hydrogen electrons faster than it can build up.
The last bit is the controversial bit, but it would seem to be the same principle as laser cooling.
We are looking into the Dellschau manuscripts and further researches on this mysterious N.B. gas. From the work of Walter Russell and his development of the Octave Periodic Progression of elements, there would appear to be somewhere on the order of 26 elements BELOW HYDROGEN. This is TOTALLY CONTRARY to any modern understanding of chemistry.
Airship inventors originally tried pumping all of the air out of their balloons figuring the vacuum would be lighter than air, but then they realized they had to fill it with something other than air otherwise the container would just collapse. So they had to start looking for different types of lighter than air gas (Hydrogen, Helium, etc...).
Obviously, if everyone has be cheerful, they will also have to look cheerful and demonstrate that they have plenty of personality by wearing badges and colourful clothing, which will undoubtably lead to this conversation:
Joanna: You know what, Stan, if you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there Bryan, why don't you make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?
Stan, Chotchkie's Manager: Well, I thought I remembered you saying that you wanted to express yourself.
Joanna: You know what, I do want to express myself, okay. And I don't need 37 pieces of flair to do it. [flips off Stan]
Often, when trying to find some information at work, I'll try a Google search, and make a note of the search terms in order to continue working at home. Then when I go home and type in the same set of keywords, I'll get a completely different set of search results, with the articles I was reading now missing.
After seeing the traffic jams due to hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, I was wondering whether hybrid cars could recharge using solar cells on the roof. If this were possible, being stuck in a traffic jam wouldn't be slightly less worrying, as I wouldn't be wasting money on keeping an engine going.
I used to work in a large building which had air ducts for heating/cooling. Unfortunately, the air pressure wasn't well balanced to compensate for the location of the Sun and office walls (which were added after the office block was built). So people ended up with either freezing cold blasts of air (the North/West sides), or being cooked by the heat of the Sun ( South/East sides). Those in the centre got no natural daylight at all and in those offices at the end of the air duct the air would become stale if the doors were closed.
I heard there's a startup who have just announced a slashdot coprocessor board - it automatically searches for and downloads slashdot articles you might be interested in reading - unfortunately, it never stops and completely hogs your bandwidth connection, even with a 1 Terabit connection.
Nonsense. Books are far less fragile than any of this digital crap. Drop a book, and nothing bad happens to it (unless you drop it into water). Drop a hard drive, and it's dead. All in all, it is more likely that digitally stored information will be lost forever than a book.
In a dry environment, both paper and stone carvings have been known to last over 6000 years. But for all the documents we have found that are this old, in many cases there is only one copy and with words or the ends missing.
Having a digital copy increases the chances of the document surviving, and with some server technologies, the system will regularly make backups and automatically use a hard new disk drive if it starts to detect errors with the current hard disk drives.
Walk around the campus at Microsoft, or across to Cafe Macs in Cupertino, and you come across the same sort of casual arrogance - both sets of employees generally (there are exceptions:-) think they're in the best place to be.
If I made it to being a software/hardware architect/engineer at a large corporate campus who manufactured computer systems used all over the world, I'd probably be fairly chuffed with myself as well.
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The Tripods by John Christopher, adapted for TV by the BBC. Great series.
I wonder if a huge nuke would be cheaper and easier to construct and launch?
A large nuke would only generate a burst of gamma radiation and atomic particles. In Earth's atmosphere this is rapidly converted into lower wavelengths like infra-red, ultra-violet and visible light which heats up the atmosphere and creates a pressure wave. In space, this isn't going to do much except give the asteroid a nasty sunburn.
Perhaps they could launch a vehicle to land on the Moon, scoop up some moon dirt and use that for gravitational ballast.
Microsoft online Pizza delivery service... delivered to your house within 5 minutes of ordering or we will give you discount vouchers for your next purchase.
Especially, a whole load of "blind spot mirrors" around the windscreen. Or a "mini disco-ball" car ornament hanging from the roof.
first is that the school acts in loco parentis while the student is traveling to/from school. so, if a teacher sees a kid jaywalking on her way home, the school may legally respond to that
Interesting. Many schools deny they have any responsibility if a kid gets injured due to bullying or fighting.
... it is reported that SCO have subpoened an individual named John Titor, in the belief that he may have a copy of the 2.7 release or later, although lawyers are unsure where to send the letter as the address does not exist yet.
Even luckier was the lady whose cabin was hit by the RPG. Fortunately, she was in the bathroom at the time.
I can think of a few uses, but they all involve something you science geeks don't seem to be interested in: colonization.
The ultimate penthouse bachelor pad. Exclusive one unit development with a breathtaking view of the planet and free parking. Utilities include air-conditioning, triple layer wall insulation, solar panel technology, washing machine and dryer, satellite TV. Viewing by appointment with owners only.
Buckminster Fuller had the idea of sky cities. If a balloon made of steel was one mile in radius, then the skin could be the thickness of an apartment, and there would still be enough difference in air pressure between the inside and outside for the structure to float in the sky.
The Modular Microsat Bus utilizes such things as plug and play USB, Ethernet, and other standards
Does the USB cable double as a space elevator when not in use?
I'm worried by the fact that ATI can't seem to keep up. Ever since they lost the dominance they had aquired with their 9700/9800 series, They've been behind in performance, street dates, availability AND prices. It's already been 2 generations now. Any gamer knows that, today, nVidia reigns supreme.
Two generations - with one generation being six months, one year isn't that much to worry about. Who knows what new DirectX/OpenGL extensions will be invented in the future; superbuffers, real-time ray-tracing, rasterisation shaders, SLI etc...
And yet, we have not detected a coherent signal of gravitational wave from local sources. This science is that hard. And that's why this is so fascinating.
That is the really weird part. The people at fourmilab have a video of a basement torsion bar experiment that demonstrates that objects create their own space-time curvature.
But there's no way of demonstrating that such curvature will ripple across space-time.
And all these billions of years, these electrons haven't bothered to make this energy transition until you came along because...?
Quantum theory predicts that the electrons can never get close enough to the protons because quantum flux keeps adding orbital energy to electrons. Even chilling Hydrogen down to close to absolute zero doesn't stop this.
From their web site, the basic principle is that they take water, apply electrolysis to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen, discard the oxygen atoms, split the H2 molecules into atoms. Potassium and strontium is then used to absorb the orbital energy of the electrons from the Hydrogen atoms, by absorbing the energy from the Hydrogen electrons faster than it can build up.
The last bit is the controversial bit, but it would seem to be the same principle as laser cooling.
That brings to mind the following web page on the great airship UFO flap of 1897.
We are looking into the Dellschau manuscripts and further researches on this mysterious N.B. gas. From the work of Walter Russell and his development of the Octave Periodic Progression of elements, there would appear to be somewhere on the order of 26 elements BELOW HYDROGEN. This is TOTALLY CONTRARY to any modern understanding of chemistry.
Airship inventors originally tried pumping all of the air out of their balloons figuring the vacuum would be lighter than air, but then they realized they had to fill it with something other than air otherwise the container would just collapse. So they had to start looking for different types of lighter than air gas (Hydrogen, Helium, etc...).
Obviously, if everyone has be cheerful, they will also have to look cheerful and demonstrate that they have plenty of personality by wearing badges and colourful clothing, which will undoubtably lead to this conversation:
Joanna: You know what, Stan, if you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there Bryan, why don't you make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?
Stan, Chotchkie's Manager: Well, I thought I remembered you saying that you wanted to express yourself.
Joanna: You know what, I do want to express myself, okay. And I don't need 37 pieces of flair to do it.
[flips off Stan]
This has been driving me nuts for some time now.
Often, when trying to find some information at work, I'll try a Google search, and
make a note of the search terms in order to continue working at home. Then when I go
home and type in the same set of keywords, I'll get a completely different set of
search results, with the articles I was reading now missing.
After seeing the traffic jams due to hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, I was wondering whether hybrid
cars could recharge using solar cells on the roof. If this were possible, being stuck in a traffic jam
wouldn't be slightly less worrying, as I wouldn't be wasting money on keeping an engine going.
Why should they be allowed to tap into the intellectual centres of their country?
Because these centres are promoting radical beliefs such as Evolution, instead of Intelligent Design.
Yeah, now it's a tourist attraction in Egypt :)
I used to work in a large building which had air ducts for heating/cooling. Unfortunately, the air pressure wasn't well balanced to compensate for the location of the Sun and office walls (which were added after the office block was built). So people ended up with either freezing cold blasts of air (the North/West sides), or being cooked by the heat of the Sun ( South/East sides). Those in the centre got no natural daylight at all and in those offices at the end of the air duct the air would become stale if the doors were closed.
I heard there's a startup who have just announced a slashdot coprocessor board - it automatically searches for and downloads slashdot articles you might be interested in reading - unfortunately, it never stops and completely hogs your bandwidth connection, even with a 1 Terabit connection.
Has anyone tried playing the original (ultrasonic) tracks in a room where there are cats?
I am wondering if the cats would react?
Nonsense. Books are far less fragile than any of this digital crap. Drop a book, and nothing bad happens to it (unless you drop it into water). Drop a hard drive, and it's dead. All in all, it is more likely that digitally stored information will be lost forever than a book.
In a dry environment, both paper and stone carvings have been known to last over 6000 years.
But for all the documents we have found that are this old, in many cases there is only one copy
and with words or the ends missing.
Having a digital copy increases the chances of the document surviving, and with some server technologies,
the system will regularly make backups and automatically use a hard new disk drive if it starts to detect errors with the current hard disk drives.
That would be the CEO of Verizon.
Walk around the campus at Microsoft, or across to Cafe Macs in Cupertino, and you come across the same sort of casual arrogance - both sets of employees generally (there are exceptions :-) think they're in the best place to be.
If I made it to being a software/hardware architect/engineer at a large corporate campus who manufactured computer systems used all over the world, I'd probably be fairly chuffed with myself as well.