The MagBeam still requires fuel. MagBeam is a plasma engine, which means that material is ionized and ejected out the back of engine to provide the thrust
No, it's not. Read the description. A plasma beam is used alright, but it's on the in-orbit system, not the crew carrier. The point is that the energy is gathered by solar panels over a long period of time and used to heat a small amount of plasma to very hot temperatures. The m2p2 system on the crew carrier deflects the plasma beam which causes thrust. You'd have to restock the plasma material on the in-orbit system pretty rarely.
Depends what you classify Feminism as. So many people seem to think that Feminism means treating men and women equally. This is, quite simply, not the case. Feminism is about accepting women as women and not making them subservient to men. It's about women being given the liberty to be women. So yeah, look around at all the women who put on a pants suit to go to work in a man's world and be sad. But don't get all upity about women who choose to wear pretty things and raise children.
As for how women treat each other.. I've learnt the hard way that these are things men are best staying out of.
According to NASA the russian spacecraft Soyuz chases the station for two days before it docks. Considering that the Soyuz is the smallest manned spacecraft to dock with the ISS you gotta wonder how much of its total mass is fuel needed for that maneuver. According to the russian space web the total mass of the Soyuz at launch is 7.1 tons. The propulsion module takes up 2.6 tons of that. Note the amount of payload the Soyuz can actually deliver - 3 crew and 30kg. Less than 1% of the total mass. Oxygen aint that heavy. So other than the heat shield on the descent module (total weight 2.9 tons) what's taking up so much of the total mass? It's gotta be fuel right? So what happens if you gather solar power in space and use it to propel your orbiter? You could use a MagBeam to do it. All of a sudden you havn't got much to lift up to orbit. Just those nice light humans and some nice light oxygen so they don't suffocate on the way and a nice light inflatable heat shield so they don't burn up when you take them home.
But here's a silly question. Who says we have to take up a whole heat shield on every launch? We could send up parts of the heat shield, sew em together in orbit, tie together all the descent modules we've launched in the last 10 flights and send everyone home together.
The room for innovation in manned space flight is astronomical. We just havn't seen any because there's no motivation to reduce costs when your space program is funded by taxpayer dollars.
Well ya know, if we were truely talking about revolutionary designs it'd be an Inflatable Re-Entry and Descent Technology (IRDT) heat shield. Such technology has flown in space and proven it is effective, despite actually being damaged by the deployment system. If you have an IRDT you can cut a lot of mass off your launch vehicle.
No. The police will ignore you unless there's a guard on the property who has confirmed that he has a burglar caught. There's absolutely no point for the police to up and rush over to your place whenever the wind blows your curtain and a motion detector goes off.
That the usual kind of stupid response I expect from you. Can you please answer the question(s). Of course you won't. You'll just get out your megaphone and yell into it that there is no slippery slope.
So how do you feel about being searched as you get on the subway? Is the freedom to ride public transport without being searched by police worth the "security" you get from that? Or do you just avoid catching the subway now? What happens when the police say they need power to search anyone at any time because the next terrorist attack doesn't happen at some well defined checkpoint like an airport or a subway? At what point will you say enough and by then don't you think it will be too late?
You can't even travel on the subway in NYC without getting your bags checked by police. If it wasn't for the terrorist threat that kind of shit would never be accepted. So what's next? They'll ask everyone for ID. No doubt. They probably already do this and note down the name of anyone who "looks suspicious" but you can guarentee that before the end of the year they will be asking everyone for ID and a pat down with a metal detector. So now we've got cameras and motion detectors as well. Great.
All this means that anyone who can afford to avoid the subway will do so (even more than people already do in NYC). Which means it's the poor who are going to receive most of the scrutiny from the police. A false arrest will not result in a speedy dismissal, so what have we got? A new and improved way for NYC cops to round up the poor.
Constant police presence in public places with the power to search and harrass people who have broken no laws is how totalitarian states are born.
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Add an AIM/Yahoo/MSN gateway to their Jabber server so we don't have to have 4 different IM connections. Then people could easily transition without having to use a multiservice IM client like Miranda or GAIM.
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Maybe you were thinking of The Sims Online (TSO) or you just thought you'd make up your own acronym and hoped no-one would notice. Fair enough.
BTW, the transition to SOE billing happened on the 15th of August. It's now the 22nd of August. So most people have already gone through the (mostly painless) process. We had one faction member lose his character for an hour or two, but for most people it was flawless.
The next major development event is the integration of the SOE cross game chat protocol. When that's done maybe we'll hear something from the Live Events team... and life inside MxO will continue to be interesting.
Where the most sophisticated life support systems ever deployed will be available and said nerds will continue to live in their virtual world for 100s of years. As such, no replacements will be necessary.
duh. LiftPort and they're responsible for most of the nanotube based materials production that is going on right now. The key point about developing any new technology is the spinoffs. They tend to make more money than the target use. Especially in the case of space technology.
I ment it's totally inefficient for you. As in, you can do something more efficient, saving you money, and therefore economic theory tells us that continuing to do something which is not efficient will render you unable to compete.
As for costs, yes, you pay more, and you wait longer and it appears you have further to go. Now go ask someone who lives in London or New York if they own a car.. it's just not affordable. When we have automated cabs I'd expect that people living in more spreadout cities will find it is more efficient not to own a car too.
Seeing as most of us nerds don't create or improve on another other than software I hardly see why anything would change. Holodecks won't ruin economies. We'll still need to buy energy from someone (and shitloads of it) so we'll still need to code. We'll just do it from the comfort of a holodeck instead of being crammed into a cube farm.
computers can't do anything they havn't been told how to do
Sigh. Genetic algorithms, neural networks, or hell, even unintended complexity effects are all examples of computers doing things no-one told them how to do. Ultimately we can claim that a person is unable to do anything that society hasn't told them how to do.. it's all programming.
The key point of your post is personal ownership. If you own the car you keep it clean. Of course, here in Australia our cabs are always clean as it is a government regulation. This is the opposite of the UK (and the US?) where anyone who wants to claim they are a cab can do so. But how rediculously wasteful is this? Owning your own automated car is much the same as phone ordering an automated cab to your current location, except that you have to service it and store it when you're not using it. If you removed the driver from a cab you can be sure that eventually it would be cheaper than having a driver.. I argue that catching cabs is cheaper than owning your own car today so I can only imagine that an automated cab would be so much cheaper than owning your own car that someday only the rich will be able to afford to drive.
The point of the "holodeck" was that it wasn't all just illusion. If you picked an apple from a tree the holodeck would use replicator technology to make you an apple. So it was feasible to live in the holodeck and never leave. The only thing you needed to supply the holodeck was fuel. In a world with fusion technology the smallest reactor will provide more energy than your average human will ever need. As for maintaining the systems, heard of teleoperated robots? Of course, the key point of a holodeck was that it was a world built around you. The people on a holodeck remained human.. often engaging in ancestor simulations. With that kind of technology it seems more feasible that people would elect to go beyond their current capabilities and become something unrecognisable as human. They when you throw in full fledged nanotechnology you see that eventually controlling reality will be just as easy as simulating it.
I'm sorry, no. At least 26 people modded me down as "Troll" for trying to defend this guy. It's the most I've ever been modded down in a single story. Even when I defended replacing the patent system with something well thought out that encourages software patents on algorithms I wasn't modded down as much as I was for defending this guy. Moderators on Slashdot are too easily influenced by the moderation that has happen before them. If something is moderated +5 Insightful and someone who is replying to them disagrees, no matter how well they disagree, they get moderated down. The result is exactly the same as the cause: groupthink.
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No, it's not. Read the description. A plasma beam is used alright, but it's on the in-orbit system, not the crew carrier. The point is that the energy is gathered by solar panels over a long period of time and used to heat a small amount of plasma to very hot temperatures. The m2p2 system on the crew carrier deflects the plasma beam which causes thrust. You'd have to restock the plasma material on the in-orbit system pretty rarely.
Depends what you classify Feminism as. So many people seem to think that Feminism means treating men and women equally. This is, quite simply, not the case. Feminism is about accepting women as women and not making them subservient to men. It's about women being given the liberty to be women. So yeah, look around at all the women who put on a pants suit to go to work in a man's world and be sad. But don't get all upity about women who choose to wear pretty things and raise children.
As for how women treat each other.. I've learnt the hard way that these are things men are best staying out of.
How many pairs of shoes do you need?
According to NASA the russian spacecraft Soyuz chases the station for two days before it docks. Considering that the Soyuz is the smallest manned spacecraft to dock with the ISS you gotta wonder how much of its total mass is fuel needed for that maneuver. According to the russian space web the total mass of the Soyuz at launch is 7.1 tons. The propulsion module takes up 2.6 tons of that. Note the amount of payload the Soyuz can actually deliver - 3 crew and 30kg. Less than 1% of the total mass. Oxygen aint that heavy. So other than the heat shield on the descent module (total weight 2.9 tons) what's taking up so much of the total mass? It's gotta be fuel right? So what happens if you gather solar power in space and use it to propel your orbiter? You could use a MagBeam to do it. All of a sudden you havn't got much to lift up to orbit. Just those nice light humans and some nice light oxygen so they don't suffocate on the way and a nice light inflatable heat shield so they don't burn up when you take them home.
But here's a silly question. Who says we have to take up a whole heat shield on every launch? We could send up parts of the heat shield, sew em together in orbit, tie together all the descent modules we've launched in the last 10 flights and send everyone home together.
The room for innovation in manned space flight is astronomical. We just havn't seen any because there's no motivation to reduce costs when your space program is funded by taxpayer dollars.
Well ya know, if we were truely talking about revolutionary designs it'd be an Inflatable Re-Entry and Descent Technology (IRDT) heat shield. Such technology has flown in space and proven it is effective, despite actually being damaged by the deployment system. If you have an IRDT you can cut a lot of mass off your launch vehicle.
No. The police will ignore you unless there's a guard on the property who has confirmed that he has a burglar caught. There's absolutely no point for the police to up and rush over to your place whenever the wind blows your curtain and a motion detector goes off.
What a surprise.
That the usual kind of stupid response I expect from you. Can you please answer the question(s). Of course you won't. You'll just get out your megaphone and yell into it that there is no slippery slope.
So how do you feel about being searched as you get on the subway? Is the freedom to ride public transport without being searched by police worth the "security" you get from that? Or do you just avoid catching the subway now? What happens when the police say they need power to search anyone at any time because the next terrorist attack doesn't happen at some well defined checkpoint like an airport or a subway? At what point will you say enough and by then don't you think it will be too late?
Go back to Kuro5hin.
AT WHAT COST
You can't even travel on the subway in NYC without getting your bags checked by police. If it wasn't for the terrorist threat that kind of shit would never be accepted. So what's next? They'll ask everyone for ID. No doubt. They probably already do this and note down the name of anyone who "looks suspicious" but you can guarentee that before the end of the year they will be asking everyone for ID and a pat down with a metal detector. So now we've got cameras and motion detectors as well. Great.
All this means that anyone who can afford to avoid the subway will do so (even more than people already do in NYC). Which means it's the poor who are going to receive most of the scrutiny from the police. A false arrest will not result in a speedy dismissal, so what have we got? A new and improved way for NYC cops to round up the poor.
Constant police presence in public places with the power to search and harrass people who have broken no laws is how totalitarian states are born.
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Add an AIM/Yahoo/MSN gateway to their Jabber server so we don't have to have 4 different IM connections. Then people could easily transition without having to use a multiservice IM client like Miranda or GAIM.
Maybe you were thinking of The Sims Online (TSO) or you just thought you'd make up your own acronym and hoped no-one would notice. Fair enough.
BTW, the transition to SOE billing happened on the 15th of August. It's now the 22nd of August. So most people have already gone through the (mostly painless) process. We had one faction member lose his character for an hour or two, but for most people it was flawless.
The next major development event is the integration of the SOE cross game chat protocol. When that's done maybe we'll hear something from the Live Events team... and life inside MxO will continue to be interesting.
Where the most sophisticated life support systems ever deployed will be available and said nerds will continue to live in their virtual world for 100s of years. As such, no replacements will be necessary.
duh. LiftPort and they're responsible for most of the nanotube based materials production that is going on right now. The key point about developing any new technology is the spinoffs. They tend to make more money than the target use. Especially in the case of space technology.
I ment it's totally inefficient for you. As in, you can do something more efficient, saving you money, and therefore economic theory tells us that continuing to do something which is not efficient will render you unable to compete.
As for costs, yes, you pay more, and you wait longer and it appears you have further to go. Now go ask someone who lives in London or New York if they own a car.. it's just not affordable. When we have automated cabs I'd expect that people living in more spreadout cities will find it is more efficient not to own a car too.
Seeing as most of us nerds don't create or improve on another other than software I hardly see why anything would change. Holodecks won't ruin economies. We'll still need to buy energy from someone (and shitloads of it) so we'll still need to code. We'll just do it from the comfort of a holodeck instead of being crammed into a cube farm.
9. Monkeys will fly out of my ass.
Sigh. Genetic algorithms, neural networks, or hell, even unintended complexity effects are all examples of computers doing things no-one told them how to do. Ultimately we can claim that a person is unable to do anything that society hasn't told them how to do.. it's all programming.
The key point of your post is personal ownership. If you own the car you keep it clean. Of course, here in Australia our cabs are always clean as it is a government regulation. This is the opposite of the UK (and the US?) where anyone who wants to claim they are a cab can do so. But how rediculously wasteful is this? Owning your own automated car is much the same as phone ordering an automated cab to your current location, except that you have to service it and store it when you're not using it. If you removed the driver from a cab you can be sure that eventually it would be cheaper than having a driver.. I argue that catching cabs is cheaper than owning your own car today so I can only imagine that an automated cab would be so much cheaper than owning your own car that someday only the rich will be able to afford to drive.
The point of the "holodeck" was that it wasn't all just illusion. If you picked an apple from a tree the holodeck would use replicator technology to make you an apple. So it was feasible to live in the holodeck and never leave. The only thing you needed to supply the holodeck was fuel. In a world with fusion technology the smallest reactor will provide more energy than your average human will ever need. As for maintaining the systems, heard of teleoperated robots? Of course, the key point of a holodeck was that it was a world built around you. The people on a holodeck remained human.. often engaging in ancestor simulations. With that kind of technology it seems more feasible that people would elect to go beyond their current capabilities and become something unrecognisable as human. They when you throw in full fledged nanotechnology you see that eventually controlling reality will be just as easy as simulating it.
I'm sorry, no. At least 26 people modded me down as "Troll" for trying to defend this guy. It's the most I've ever been modded down in a single story. Even when I defended replacing the patent system with something well thought out that encourages software patents on algorithms I wasn't modded down as much as I was for defending this guy. Moderators on Slashdot are too easily influenced by the moderation that has happen before them. If something is moderated +5 Insightful and someone who is replying to them disagrees, no matter how well they disagree, they get moderated down. The result is exactly the same as the cause: groupthink.
It's the trip there that's hard. You can't carry 10k ton trucks to the moon with a chemical rocket.
A war ended.. that wasn't happy enough for you? I guess it is old hat, people don't dance in the street anymore.