At 12MPH I can stop within a foot. Which I cant do on a bike.
Absolute crap. Assume you are going 12 mph. To stop within one foot, that means you are travelling an average of 6 mph for one foot, which means you are able to stop in 0.114 seconds (1 foot / 6 mph). To decelerate from 12 mph to 0 in.114 seconds, you must decelerate at 4.8 g (12 mph/.114 seconds in g).
What are your tires made of, superglue?
In addition to having tires made of unobtanium, you'd have to lean your segway back almost horizontally to avoid going over the front. It's simple physics - on a bicycle, in order to avoid flipping over the handle bars, your center of mass must be behind the axle of the front wheel. As you decelerate, the line that defines "behind" tilts backwards. At 1 g deceleration, that line is tilted at 45 degrees.
On a segway, your center of mass must always be exactly above the axle of the wheels. When decelerating, the line that defines exactly above tilts backwards in exactly the same manner. You cannot possibly stop a segway as fast as an experienced cyclist can stop a bicycle.
This is also why those little scooter things with the tiny wheels can't stop quickly - the front axle is so low that you are almost guaranteed to go over if you had front brakes. The solution they use is to give you only a rear brake, meaning you are at a huge braking disadvantage.
I'm not saying the segway is unsafe, just that your claims are completely unbelievable on their face.
The description reads like Jeff Foxworthy: "You might be a redneck if your airport has..."
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Seriously, this email address is a complete waste of time. Do you really think there are 421 other users of Yahoo email that are also named Scott Richter? The second that address gets more than ten spams per day I guarantee he'll abandon it.
You're right about alpha being much worse than gamma, but that's only if it gets to you. Alpha is stopped by a decent amount of air, or your clothing or even your epidermis without harming you. It really harms you if you ingest it and it can get to your cells without passing through clothes first.
So, since she's not eating any of the dirt around her, she'll be fine. I suppose she should watch for dust storms, though.
Roentgens, the unit used in her journal, measure ionization of the air. The general conversion is that 1 Roentgen = 1 REM, the unit we use for human radiation exposure in the US.
In one transcontinental roundtrip flight, you get 6 millirem, which is equal to 6000 microroentgen. Her little counter is reading microroentgen per hour, so she can go somewhere where her counter is reading 500 and it's just like she's sitting on an airliner at 35000 feet.
Your yearly dose is about 300 millirem, so in order for her to soak that up in hours, as you claim, she'd have to sit somewhere that her counter reads 100000 or more. She's being very smart. If she were walking around without the dosimeter, she could get in trouble.
This is what she means when she says people fear what they don't understand. Once you understand the risks involved, you see her radiation exposure is much less risky than, say, smoking, or even riding motorcycles at all.
Because all magnetic fields are dipole fields at best, the field drops with the cube of distance, not the square of distance. So, it is even harder to get that field into your skull.
This is because there is no such thing as a "magnetic charge" like there is for electric charge.
(note to pedants: magnetic monopoles are too exotic to comment on, assuming they exist.)
I don't understand why a dish would receive less signals if as you say the networks will compress digital signals into the same space as an old analog signal. Can't you just buy new decompression boxes to hook up to your satellite? Or are you saying that these would be encrypted as well as compressed?
ReplayTV comes with an ethernet port. You plug it in to your LAN, download dvarchive and you're in business. No hardware hacking, no dongles, and while this is "special software" it's free (beer).
Other folks are integrating ReplayTV interoperability in things like xbox media center, etc.
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At least he writes & sings better songs than John Ashcroft.
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How about making that PDF available as a torrent?
Maybe next year...
Check out the picture of Linus in the linked story.
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Absolute crap. Assume you are going 12 mph. To stop within one foot, that means you are travelling an average of 6 mph for one foot, which means you are able to stop in 0.114 seconds (1 foot / 6 mph). To decelerate from 12 mph to 0 in
What are your tires made of, superglue?
In addition to having tires made of unobtanium, you'd have to lean your segway back almost horizontally to avoid going over the front. It's simple physics - on a bicycle, in order to avoid flipping over the handle bars, your center of mass must be behind the axle of the front wheel. As you decelerate, the line that defines "behind" tilts backwards. At 1 g deceleration, that line is tilted at 45 degrees.
On a segway, your center of mass must always be exactly above the axle of the wheels. When decelerating, the line that defines exactly above tilts backwards in exactly the same manner. You cannot possibly stop a segway as fast as an experienced cyclist can stop a bicycle.
This is also why those little scooter things with the tiny wheels can't stop quickly - the front axle is so low that you are almost guaranteed to go over if you had front brakes. The solution they use is to give you only a rear brake, meaning you are at a huge braking disadvantage.
I'm not saying the segway is unsafe, just that your claims are completely unbelievable on their face.
Do you realize that any time you try to take even 1 square mile for renewable energy, some environmentalist will sue you?
Good luck finding 10000 square miles without a brine shrimp or a yellow bellied snail darter or something that will launch a thousand lawsuits.
Do you realize that's the size of Maryland? Unbefreakinglievable.
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As of 12:49 PDT, his email address is
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Seriously, this email address is a complete waste of time. Do you really think there are 421 other users of Yahoo email that are also named Scott Richter? The second that address gets more than ten spams per day I guarantee he'll abandon it.
That was a haiku!
The holes didn't need to be rectangular. You just had to use a hole puncher to punch a half circle where the rectangle would be.
The only advantage to making a rectangular hole is to fool your friends into thinking you could afford double-sided disks.
You're right about alpha being much worse than gamma, but that's only if it gets to you. Alpha is stopped by a decent amount of air, or your clothing or even your epidermis without harming you. It really harms you if you ingest it and it can get to your cells without passing through clothes first.
So, since she's not eating any of the dirt around her, she'll be fine. I suppose she should watch for dust storms, though.
Roentgens, the unit used in her journal, measure ionization of the air. The general conversion is that 1 Roentgen = 1 REM, the unit we use for human radiation exposure in the US.
In one transcontinental roundtrip flight, you get 6 millirem, which is equal to 6000 microroentgen. Her little counter is reading microroentgen per hour, so she can go somewhere where her counter is reading 500 and it's just like she's sitting on an airliner at 35000 feet.
Your yearly dose is about 300 millirem, so in order for her to soak that up in hours, as you claim, she'd have to sit somewhere that her counter reads 100000 or more. She's being very smart. If she were walking around without the dosimeter, she could get in trouble.
This is what she means when she says people fear what they don't understand. Once you understand the risks involved, you see her radiation exposure is much less risky than, say, smoking, or even riding motorcycles at all.
Imminent death of net predicted.
Most Obscure Example of Godwin's Law.
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Following that link will register your vote for "water on mars" - you won't get to see what the poll is first.
Follow this link instead if you want to see your options before voting.
Because all magnetic fields are dipole fields at best, the field drops with the cube of distance, not the square of distance. So, it is even harder to get that field into your skull.
This is because there is no such thing as a "magnetic charge" like there is for electric charge.
(note to pedants: magnetic monopoles are too exotic to comment on, assuming they exist.)
Yeah! How dare George not tell us his plans for the DVD or even VHS release in 1977!
I don't understand why a dish would receive less signals if as you say the networks will compress digital signals into the same space as an old analog signal. Can't you just buy new decompression boxes to hook up to your satellite? Or are you saying that these would be encrypted as well as compressed?
The newton was quite a bit bigger.
See here:
8.3 x 4.7 x 1.1 inches - 1.4 pounds
ReplayTV comes with an ethernet port. You plug it in to your LAN, download dvarchive and you're in business. No hardware hacking, no dongles, and while this is "special software" it's free (beer).
Other folks are integrating ReplayTV interoperability in things like xbox media center, etc.
What idiot would buy 100 shares of SCOX for 4 cents? I've got better things to do with my money.
My house is a Klein bottle. I have to sleep in my car.
When Apple comes out with the G5 powerbook he'll just say it's the first 64-bit laptop. Nobody will know the difference.
Google for one solar mass in kilograms.