The phraseology in the article is misleading. The energy and gas jets are emitted as matter falls towards the black hole and becomes superheated from the falling. Once the matter crosses the boundary ( event horizon ) into the back hole itself it disappears from the rest of the universe.
The Swiss have long protected all their military force in underground bunkers. This is one reason Hitler did not attack them. For details, see The Swiss Army by John McPhee.
When I lived there 25 years ago all houses and workplaces a nuclear bomb shelters.
The density of interstellar space is about one atom per cubic centimeter [hypertextbook.com]. If the spaceship were going near the speed of light (3 x 10^10 cm/sec), it would be hit by 3 x 10^10 relativistic particles per cm^2/sec. This is about the equivalent of one Curie [wikipedia.org] per cm^2, which would kill a human and cripple any electronics on board
A very heavy magnet could deflect the protons, but the neutral atoms would be unaffected by the magnetic field.
Most credit cards ( at least in the USA ) will double the manufacturer's warranty at no cost for items you buy with the card. That extends a one year warranty to two years.
The card provider is doing it as a free add-on. This shows how little the warranty really costs the provider.
I had installed Google Gears as a precaution against Google losing my email. Does this work. Gears does have a copy on your local computer. Is this sufficient?
In 1994 I worked for a company setting up an ISP. We called in the phone company to order 50 lines. (Dial up was all there was then ). The company was not happy, especially that we were ordering business lines, with a low cost, 15 cents for each outgoing call but no cost for incoming calls .
As an ISP we only had incoming calls. They had no choice, since phone systems had to sell lines to anyone ( oh the joys of regulation! ). Had the phone version of net neutrality not been in place, the phone companies would have throttled or taken over the internet - and we would not have the open net we have now.
When I started reading MAD in the 50's ( shows my age! ) its cool sardonic madcap view of the world was unique, and a breath of fresh air in the stultifying climate of the times.
Now its outlook is mainstream, on shows such as SNL, on Jon Stewart's arched eyebrows.
It is hard for MAD to stand out in this environment.
I have a large bookshelf of IT tech books, mostly O'Reilly, but they are all gathering dust.
Whenever I need some technical information,I just google it, and it appears instantaneously. For items that are new to me I look for an online tutorial. Why ruffle through the contents and index of a book, often more than once, to find information.
I can't remember when I last bought a new tech book.
I live in Washington DC. I am a rail fan, but when I go to New York, I take the $25 Chinatown bus rather than pay $100-$250 to take Amtrak. (Both fairs one way ).
The train is already more comfortable and faster, I cannot justify the extra dollars.
It will take some amazing increase in rail speed for me to even think of taking the train at these prices.
Hey. This is not global warming, this is ocean acidification. The rise in CO2 in the last two centuries coincides exactly with the burning of fossil fuel. The acidification, which will kill of corals and other shellfish is an easily derived consequence of rising CO2.
If you want to dispute the effect of CO2 on climate, fine. I disagree with you, but there are valid questions. There are no valid questions on ocean acidification.
I have a pacemaker. The manufacturer ( St. Jude ) claims that the battery will last 6-8 years.
In the old days pacemakers used a plutonium powered thermoelectric battery. This lasted forever, or about 25,000 years to be precise. They are now banned in the US because of the danger that the plutonium could be released in some way, such as a plane crash, a gunshot wound, or crematorium . They actually had to dig up some bodies because the undertaker did not remove the battery.
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Every six months my pacemaker is checked. Part of the test is to speed and slow down the pacemaker and my heart for a short time.
Self winding watches do take extra energy. Every time you move your wrist you expend energy to set the winding mechanism going.
The amount of energy is so small as to be trivial and unnoticeable.
I suspect that 80 milliwatt per square meter is also unnoticeable, as we expend several hundred watts in ordinary motion.
When we worship philosophers, simply because they are philosophers, and denigrate plumbers simply because they are plumbers, we will soon find that neither our theories nor our pipes hold water.
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The phraseology in the article is misleading. The energy and gas jets are emitted as matter falls towards the black hole and becomes superheated from the falling. Once the matter crosses the boundary ( event horizon ) into the back hole itself it disappears from the rest of the universe.
Information is released, but very very slowly.
The Swiss have long protected all their military force in underground bunkers. This is one reason Hitler did not attack them. For details, see The Swiss Army by John McPhee.
When I lived there 25 years ago all houses and workplaces a nuclear bomb shelters.
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The density of interstellar space is about one atom per cubic centimeter [hypertextbook.com]. If the spaceship were going near the speed of light (3 x 10^10 cm/sec), it would be hit by 3 x 10^10 relativistic particles per cm^2/sec. This is about the equivalent of one Curie [wikipedia.org] per cm^2, which would kill a human and cripple any electronics on board
A very heavy magnet could deflect the protons, but the neutral atoms would be unaffected by the magnetic field.
Most credit cards ( at least in the USA ) will double the manufacturer's warranty at no cost for items you buy with the card. That extends a one year warranty to two years.
The card provider is doing it as a free add-on. This shows how little the warranty really costs the provider.
I had installed Google Gears as a precaution against Google losing my email. Does this work. Gears does have a copy on your local computer. Is this sufficient?
Every six months my pacemaker is checked. Part of the test is to speed and slow down the pacemaker and my heart for a short time.
It is a truly a scary and heartfelt experience.
It's a religion too.
There are many charities that lost much of all of their endowments. Some closed down. The people and causes that depended on them are innocent losers.
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Let's also paint all the Grizzly bears white. That will address the problem of disappearing polar bears.
This will disturb the bears to the point that they become bipolar bears.
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In 1994 I worked for a company setting up an ISP. We called in the phone company to order 50 lines. (Dial up was all there was then ). The company was not happy, especially that we were ordering business lines, with a low cost, 15 cents for each outgoing call but no cost for incoming calls .
As an ISP we only had incoming calls. They had no choice, since phone systems had to sell lines to anyone ( oh the joys of regulation! ). Had the phone version of net neutrality not been in place, the phone companies would have throttled or taken over the internet - and we would not have the open net we have now.
Bookwormhole.net -- over 11,000 published book reviews.
You never need to daydream now
With instant entertainment available through your iPhone, iPod or cell phone in your pocket.
I wonder what effect lack of daydreams have on kids growing up now?
Bookwormhole.net -- over 11,000 published book reviews.
When I started reading MAD in the 50's ( shows my age! ) its cool sardonic madcap view of the world was unique, and a breath of fresh air in the stultifying climate of the times.
Now its outlook is mainstream, on shows such as SNL, on Jon Stewart's arched eyebrows.
It is hard for MAD to stand out in this environment.
Bookwormhole.net -- over 7000 published book reviews.
I have a large bookshelf of IT tech books, mostly O'Reilly, but they are all gathering dust.
Whenever I need some technical information,I just google it, and it appears instantaneously. For items that are new to me I look for an online tutorial. Why ruffle through the contents and index of a book, often more than once, to find information.
I can't remember when I last bought a new tech book.
Bookwormhole.net -- over 7000 published book reviews.
The Goethermal Heat Pump Consortium is an industry group. Their site is full of information resources, blogs,and forums.
Bookwormhole.net -- over 7500 published book reviews.
I live in Washington DC. I am a rail fan, but when I go to New York, I take the $25 Chinatown bus rather than pay $100-$250 to take Amtrak. (Both fairs one way ).
The train is already more comfortable and faster, I cannot justify the extra dollars.
It will take some amazing increase in rail speed for me to even think of taking the train at these prices.
Bookwormhole.net over 6600 published book reviews
If unions are so bad, why do the unionized states get higher test scores than the non-unionized ones?
They can just enter "man bash" on the command line
Hey. This is not global warming, this is ocean acidification. The rise in CO2 in the last two centuries coincides exactly with the burning of fossil fuel. The acidification, which will kill of corals and other shellfish is an easily derived consequence of rising CO2.
If you want to dispute the effect of CO2 on climate, fine. I disagree with you, but there are valid questions. There are no valid questions on ocean acidification.
It produced plasma stable structures which were then compressed. If was de-funded before it could be proven ( or disproven ).
Disclaimer: I worked on it.
I have a pacemaker. The manufacturer ( St. Jude ) claims that the battery will last 6-8 years.
In the old days pacemakers used a plutonium powered thermoelectric battery. This lasted forever, or about 25,000 years to be precise. They are now banned in the US because of the danger that the plutonium could be released in some way, such as a plane crash, a gunshot wound, or crematorium . They actually had to dig up some bodies because the undertaker did not remove the battery.
Every six months my pacemaker is checked. Part of the test is to speed and slow down the pacemaker and my heart for a short time.
It is a truly heartfelt experience.
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The amount of energy is so small as to be trivial and unnoticeable.
I suspect that 80 milliwatt per square meter is also unnoticeable, as we expend several hundred watts in ordinary motion.
When we worship philosophers, simply because they are philosophers, and denigrate plumbers simply because they are plumbers, we will soon find that neither our theories nor our pipes hold water.
Dysfunction grows to consume all the money made available to combat it. -- Theodore Dalrymple
man bash
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble
Hubble finds an Einstein double
Give a shivering man a lit match and it will warm him for a few minutes.
Set him on fire and it will keep him warm for the rest of his life.