Ball Lightning is a stable plasma structure. Paul Koloc thought that they were a field-reversed configuration and created these is his garage on his Plasmak machine. I saw it myself. Paul was a plasma physicist, not a nut job.
Some companies are talking about providing internet service from a swarm of low orbiting mini-satellites. If this comes about, in spite of the reservation in the article, would they be censorship proof?
As far as I can tell, it looks like a high tech variation of the Trisops machine I worked on 40 years ago.
Trisops was an experimental machine for the study of magnetic confinement of plasmas with the ultimate goal of producing fusion power. The configuration was a variation of a compact toroid, a toroidal (doughnut-shaped) structure of plasma and magnetic fields with no coils penetrating the center. It lost funding in its original form in 1978.
The configuration was produced by combining two individual toroids produced by two conical pinch guns, located at either end of a length of Pyrex pipe with a constant magnetic guide field. The toroidal currents in the toroids were in opposite directions, so that they repelled each other. After coming to an equilibrium, they were adiabatically compressed by increasing the external field.
Venus could still have life like this life on Earth, which can survive any surface conditions.
A Princeton-led research group has discovered an isolated community of bacteria nearly two miles underground that derives all of its energy from the decay of radioactive rocks rather than from sunlight. According to members of the team, the finding suggests life might exist in similarly extreme conditions even on other worlds.
Yann Martel's book, Life of Pi, and the movie based on it feature a puzzling algae island.
The algae island might be the second weirdest part of the book. (Second only to Pi's conversation with the blind Frenchman.) It's an island made entirely of seaweed, full of meerkats and freshwater ponds. It gets even stranger: dead fish rise to the surface of the ponds at night and disappear by morning
My site, Interguru.com , set up in 1995, may well be the first site to use then then-new file upoad facility. It performed a service, translating email address books from one format to another, such as Eudora to Pine, rather than just displaying information.
Does anyone know of a earlier site that used file uploads?
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I am against nuclear power for the same reason I am against the death penalty. Both require a level perfection and infallibility that humans are incapable of reaching.
The first computer I worked on in 1960, an IBM 1620, was the size of an office desk. It cost ten times more than the value of my parents' house and had 40k decimal digits of memory ( With a 10ms memory cycle time), just enough to support a Fortran II compiler.
It was the physics department's computer and we did a lot with it. It was light years better than our mechanical Frieden calculators.
The core fusion plasma must not actually touch the first wall. ITER and many other current and projected fusion experiments, particularly those of the tokamak and stellarator designs, use intense magnetic fields in an attempt to achieve this, although plasma instability problems remain. Even with stable plasma confinement, however, the first wall material would be exposed to a neutron flux higher than in any current nuclear power reactor, which leads to two key problems in selecting the material: It must withstand this neutron flux for a sufficient period of time to be economically viable. It must not become sufficiently radioactive so as to produce unacceptable amounts of nuclear waste when lining replacement or plant decommissioning eventually occurs.
As a former program officer for the Office of Fusion Energy, US Department of Energy I can assure you even if the Stellarator "works", it will not be a practical source of power. The complex engineering and cost make harvesting energy from fusion impractical.
I could fill a page on enumerating them. For one -- fast neutrons can destroy any material known. No one has come up with a design for the the first wall that captures the neutrons and energy.
The old quip is "Fusion has been 25 years in the future for the last 50 years.
The largest bill is now $100. This is equivalent to $10 in 1948 according to the CPI inflation indicator. .
As time goes on, I doubt ( barring runaway inflation ), the US will print larger bills, so the $100 will become less and less.
During the Iraq war, the US airlifted $12 billion of $100 bills, which weighed in at 363 tons. This shows that cash is no longer useful for large transactions already.
As a side note: most of it was untracked, and melted away. I know of a distant relative who worded as contractor and returned home to Turkey with suitcases full of cash.
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Ball Lightning is a stable plasma structure. Paul Koloc thought that they were a field-reversed configuration and created these is his garage on his Plasmak machine. I saw it myself. Paul was a plasma physicist, not a nut job.
Since his death (he was near eighty) his website went down. I found this article https://www.wired.com/2009/02/... .
As the article notes it received very little funding.
"she is hit by the toilet seat of the re-entering Space Station"
An ass toroid
I was just talking to an HR professional. She said that the traits that are in most short supply are focus and social skills.
Some companies are talking about providing internet service from a swarm of low orbiting mini-satellites. If this comes about, in spite of the reservation in the article, would they be censorship proof?
As far as I can tell, it looks like a high tech variation of the Trisops machine I worked on 40 years ago.
We are all grateful to be heirs of the industrial revolution, but it was pure hell for those living through it.
" have it within you and need no tech,"
The technology to read DNA is complex. Who knows if we will have it in the future. Clay tablets may be limited, but they can be read by eye.
At level 2 and above, I saw 22 comments, only three of which were serious. The comments by jfdavis668 and associated replies.
If this continues, I will just stay off the site.
Venus could still have life like this life on Earth, which can survive any surface conditions.
A Princeton-led research group has discovered an isolated community of bacteria nearly two miles underground that derives all of its energy from the decay of radioactive rocks rather than from sunlight. According to members of the team, the finding suggests life might exist in similarly extreme conditions even on other worlds.
Yann Martel's book, Life of Pi, and the movie based on it feature a puzzling algae island .
(http://www.shmoop.com/life-of-pi/algae-island-symbol.html)
Maybe the island is made of plastic.
Would this infect a Chromebook? I am told they are virus proof.
Observers would say "Look at that S car go!'
My site, Interguru.com , set up in 1995, may well be the first site to use then then-new file upoad facility. It performed a service, translating email address books from one format to another, such as Eudora to Pine, rather than just displaying information.
Does anyone know of a earlier site that used file uploads?
You said it first. I do the same thing.
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I am against nuclear power for the same reason I am against the death penalty. Both require a level perfection and infallibility that humans are incapable of reaching.
The first computer I worked on in 1960, an IBM 1620, was the size of an office desk. It cost ten times more than the value of my parents' house and had 40k decimal digits of memory ( With a 10ms memory cycle time), just enough to support a Fortran II compiler.
It was the physics department's computer and we did a lot with it. It was light years better than our mechanical Frieden calculators.
The lefi wing nutjobs are on campus, the right wing nutjobs are in Congress, governors chairs and state legislatures.
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As a former program officer for the Office of Fusion Energy, US Department of Energy I can assure you even if the Stellarator "works", it will not be a practical source of power. The complex engineering and cost make harvesting energy from fusion impractical.
I could fill a page on enumerating them. For one -- fast neutrons can destroy any material known. No one has come up with a design for the the first wall that captures the neutrons and energy.
The old quip is "Fusion has been 25 years in the future for the last 50 years.
The largest bill is now $100. This is equivalent to $10 in 1948 according to the CPI inflation indicator. .
As time goes on, I doubt ( barring runaway inflation ), the US will print larger bills, so the $100 will become less and less.
During the Iraq war, the US airlifted $12 billion of $100 bills, which weighed in at 363 tons. This shows that cash is no longer useful for large transactions already.
As a side note: most of it was untracked, and melted away. I know of a distant relative who worded as contractor and returned home to Turkey with suitcases full of cash.
Actually, I should have asked megawatt-hours.
I wonder how many megawatts such a calculation takes?
We complain that politicians lie, but the ones that tell the truth never get elected.