"Shorties" may have a use but I can only see bad coming from it as they dig up the dirt (the spot on the clean page) to look full page. We see this all the time with graphs cropped to give the negative view that suits. At the end of the day the shorties are in the business of making money and will do (as we all see) anything to turn that profit. I would go so far as to say that shorts are anti-capitalist; working to damage a potentially profitable company.
If you need "Stock market police" then get the government to do it rather than a business as the business is in the business of profit.
It's like privatised prisons being pushed here in NZ; it profit them not to reduce the number of residents rather grow the population. More prisons = more profit. Rehabilitation? Silly idea from a profit perspective. Long term incarceration? Great! Inmates train other inmates on tricks to do when they get out increases the odds of returning customers.
Basically they might be stockpiling cars until after the next quarter starts (July) so that the maximum number of buyers can take advantage of the full tax credit.
They don't need to generate the whole image full resolution, most of the image can be low-res blurred. It's just the fovea that needs to be painted hi-res. They will need eye tracking though...
Not a fan of the death penalty but if you're going to check-out, be it by choice or inflicted then this is one of the nicest ways to go (& cheap/simple). Light headed & pass out. Helium balloons work too but you need a mask to keep the thing in place.
What's good for CO2 scrubbing? A simple balloon rebreather & CO2 absorber should do the job if a bit slower while the O2 converts. I guess I'm coming at this problem from the euthanasia angle rather than the "kill our citizens" one... Not speaking from experience realise...;) [well I think we've all gone light-headed with the Helium thing]
True, but no different than being in microgravity during orbit. This is also due to being in free-fall.
[We could be talking about different things here... but I've typed it up so out it goes...]
Not quite... During orbit you have the orbital velocity to create the centripetal force to constantly counter the fall (aka orbit). This rocket is just strait up & down. This certainly makes re-entry simple as you don't have to deal with the orbital deceleration energies (ablation / retros) but you'll never attain orbit or leave this planet for more than a few minutes with "this" setup. With this you do get to tick the 100km altitude attained checkbox which is what it's primarily about for now.
That said, I do salute them and the setup will almost certainly evolve... Great times!:)
The Mile High Club has a new goal; perhaps the Kármán Club? How long do you have weightlessness in the Blue Origin (aptly named colour)? I'd only need a minute or two...
Gravitational acceleration at the Kármán line, the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space which lies at an altitude of 100 km, is only about 3% lower than at sea level.
If I weigh 100kg (ok, 100lb, this is/.) then I would weigh 97 at 100km. The majority of the 'weightlessness' is just free-fall; sort of a massive erect vomit-comet.:)
---and as spares I bought 2 second hand for nix off TradeMe (eBay equiv in NZ). The newer models have higher res (but beyond my unassisted resolution), better cameras (my one is good enough), faster/more cores (no processing issues) and more RAM (well that's something that would help but not a show-stopper yet).
There's just no good reason for me to change yet... And I won't be crying if I break it... just swap in more bits from the other carcasses. When I can't fix it any more... well then I'll upgrade then & celebrate the good run that I have had.
The basic construction is similar to ICFs (Insulating Concrete Forms) in that there are 2 outer layers of foam with ties (manually placed in this robot build) and rebar/reinforcing-bar in the cavity.
While the robot arm does place the foam it looks like there is a lot of manual interventions... typically ties are placed 150mm (6") to 200mm (8") horizontally & 300mm (12") to 450mm (18") vertically. The ties are to resist the pressure of the concrete inside the foam walls from splitting the walls apart. Even so you only fill the walls 1m (3') and let the concrete set a bit (~20-30min) before doing the next lift (layer). Also you generally put horizontal rebar in every 450mm (18") to 600mm (2') though it's not uncommon to use little stainless steel toothpicks (eg Helix) mixed in the concrete to save the hassle esp in curved walls.
Foam is a good insulator & concrete is solid/quiet/fire-resistant/storm-resistant. There's could be good thermal mass too but it's inaccessible because of the dual foam sandwich.
Yes, I'm researching building a house out or ICFs...:) The blocks can be done by anyone though you need to understand all the pitfalls (of which there are many).
Here's a rough outline of what ICFs are (low quality video but gives you the idea in a few minutes):
We used to heat with fan heaters / gas heaters. The heatpump we installed made a huge difference. Much more output for less power consumed. Don't tend to use if in Summer (now, NZ); just open a couple of windows and the cross-ventilation is enough.
LEDs for sure too but for us the power consumed in winter is^H^H was significant.
I don't know a lot about it but I believe people track these things for fun (& it sounds like fun too!). I would expect that they pour this info into a global database too. It would make sense for Google to tap this info and use a planes location & expected location as part of its prediction.
Actually, I think there's a scheme (possibly active) out to have LEO satellites tracking this info to mitigate the "lost aircraft" events that we had a cluster of not so long ago. It cost lots of $ trying to find planes full of people that disappear without a trace.
I wonder if SpaceX / RocketLab etc. have transponders? I would expect so but what about those military launches? Probably turned off for those...
If we were to go computer based voting, make it so you can keep changing your vote right up to the cut-off period. This would be done to minimise the vote-buying that might occur if you only had one [SUBMIT]. Vote buying would be meaningless if the voter could change their vote at a later date.
Drugs don't seem to work 100% for her so she can't drive. The elderly & the blind (vision impaired) are all early candidates. I like driving but even I'd prefer to/. , gander or snooze. Bring it on.
...as they can cast it into "solid" forms. Try plastering your head with wet cornflour... Apart from the obvious mess & amusement, it will drip off the areas where you want the fluid to stay. The video on the site isn't half bad, watch it...
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"Shorties" may have a use but I can only see bad coming from it as they dig up the dirt (the spot on the clean page) to look full page. We see this all the time with graphs cropped to give the negative view that suits. At the end of the day the shorties are in the business of making money and will do (as we all see) anything to turn that profit. I would go so far as to say that shorts are anti-capitalist; working to damage a potentially profitable company.
If you need "Stock market police" then get the government to do it rather than a business as the business is in the business of profit.
It's like privatised prisons being pushed here in NZ; it profit them not to reduce the number of residents rather grow the population. More prisons = more profit. Rehabilitation? Silly idea from a profit perspective. Long term incarceration? Great! Inmates train other inmates on tricks to do when they get out increases the odds of returning customers.
This could be the reason why "Tesla is still in the process of moving from 3,500 to 5,000-6,000 per week by the end of this quarter".
Basically they might be stockpiling cars until after the next quarter starts (July) so that the maximum number of buyers can take advantage of the full tax credit.
They don't need to generate the whole image full resolution, most of the image can be low-res blurred. It's just the fovea that needs to be painted hi-res. They will need eye tracking though...
Not a fan of the death penalty but if you're going to check-out, be it by choice or inflicted then this is one of the nicest ways to go (& cheap/simple). Light headed & pass out. Helium balloons work too but you need a mask to keep the thing in place.
What's good for CO2 scrubbing? A simple balloon rebreather & CO2 absorber should do the job if a bit slower while the O2 converts. I guess I'm coming at this problem from the euthanasia angle rather than the "kill our citizens" one... Not speaking from experience realise... ;) [well I think we've all gone light-headed with the Helium thing]
EMPs?
Microwaves (as used in The Pentagons latest iteration of their recently revealed ray gun)?
Same question applies for pacemakers and no doubt more things as technology advances, we age and augment (Cybermen anyone?)
Seen this happen a zillion times... person enters password in the "Username: " field.
Eg (synthesised, from memory):
Failed login for "secret" on tty04
Successful login by "jbloggs" on tty04
But going "solo" doesn't count.
Handy hint there...
Han[d] Solo? (well we had Luke this time...)
I'll go away now...
But going "solo" doesn't count.
Handy hint there...
True, but no different than being in microgravity during orbit. This is also due to being in free-fall.
[We could be talking about different things here... but I've typed it up so out it goes...]
Not quite... During orbit you have the orbital velocity to create the centripetal force to constantly counter the fall (aka orbit). This rocket is just strait up & down. This certainly makes re-entry simple as you don't have to deal with the orbital deceleration energies (ablation / retros) but you'll never attain orbit or leave this planet for more than a few minutes with "this" setup. With this you do get to tick the 100km altitude attained checkbox which is what it's primarily about for now.
That said, I do salute them and the setup will almost certainly evolve... Great times! :)
The Mile High Club has a new goal; perhaps the Kármán Club? How long do you have weightlessness in the Blue Origin (aptly named colour)? I'd only need a minute or two...
From WikiPedia:
Gravitational acceleration at the Kármán line, the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space which lies at an altitude of 100 km, is only about 3% lower than at sea level.
If I weigh 100kg (ok, 100lb, this is /.) then I would weigh 97 at 100km. The majority of the 'weightlessness' is just free-fall; sort of a massive erect vomit-comet. :)
---and as spares I bought 2 second hand for nix off TradeMe (eBay equiv in NZ). The newer models have higher res (but beyond my unassisted resolution), better cameras (my one is good enough), faster/more cores (no processing issues) and more RAM (well that's something that would help but not a show-stopper yet).
There's just no good reason for me to change yet... And I won't be crying if I break it... just swap in more bits from the other carcasses. When I can't fix it any more... well then I'll upgrade then & celebrate the good run that I have had.
I doubt that anyone has given serious thought to how landmark navigation could be used for advertising purposes.
Seriously?
The basic construction is similar to ICFs (Insulating Concrete Forms) in that there are 2 outer layers of foam with ties (manually placed in this robot build) and rebar/reinforcing-bar in the cavity.
While the robot arm does place the foam it looks like there is a lot of manual interventions... typically ties are placed 150mm (6") to 200mm (8") horizontally & 300mm (12") to 450mm (18") vertically. The ties are to resist the pressure of the concrete inside the foam walls from splitting the walls apart. Even so you only fill the walls 1m (3') and let the concrete set a bit (~20-30min) before doing the next lift (layer). Also you generally put horizontal rebar in every 450mm (18") to 600mm (2') though it's not uncommon to use little stainless steel toothpicks (eg Helix) mixed in the concrete to save the hassle esp in curved walls.
Foam is a good insulator & concrete is solid/quiet/fire-resistant/storm-resistant. There's could be good thermal mass too but it's inaccessible because of the dual foam sandwich.
Yes, I'm researching building a house out or ICFs... :) The blocks can be done by anyone though you need to understand all the pitfalls (of which there are many).
Here's a rough outline of what ICFs are (low quality video but gives you the idea in a few minutes):
Goldfish in a glass?
Nemo?
Bloody Mary? (Horror imagery here)
Isn't Elon one of those people from shithole countries? that Trump wants banned?
...given that fusion is always 20 years away...
We used to heat with fan heaters / gas heaters. The heatpump we installed made a huge difference. Much more output for less power consumed. Don't tend to use if in Summer (now, NZ); just open a couple of windows and the cross-ventilation is enough.
LEDs for sure too but for us the power consumed in winter is^H^H was significant.
Peter Thiel is a New Zealand citizen.
I didn't vote for him... :)
Dang... there was supposed to be a question-mark at the end of my title... as in...
"Taps into ADS-B & open tracking of flight info?"
I don't know if Googles system actually does use ADS-B and was just pondering rather than stating (which it looks like without the "?")
I think most aircraft already broadcast their location via ADS-B:
Flight info.
I don't know a lot about it but I believe people track these things for fun (& it sounds like fun too!). I would expect that they pour this info into a global database too. It would make sense for Google to tap this info and use a planes location & expected location as part of its prediction.
Actually, I think there's a scheme (possibly active) out to have LEO satellites tracking this info to mitigate the "lost aircraft" events that we had a cluster of not so long ago. It cost lots of $ trying to find planes full of people that disappear without a trace.
I wonder if SpaceX / RocketLab etc. have transponders? I would expect so but what about those military launches? Probably turned off for those...
Questions:
Where are Elon's Solar Tiles manufactured?
Where is SunPower (one of the most efficient [when I last looked] cell makers) based?
I suspect both in the USA. If so then possibly levelling the playfield might be in order.
Don't get me wrong, I hate Trump more than most but even a broken clock...
If we were to go computer based voting, make it so you can keep changing your vote right up to the cut-off period. This would be done to minimise the vote-buying that might occur if you only had one [SUBMIT]. Vote buying would be meaningless if the voter could change their vote at a later date.
Drugs don't seem to work 100% for her so she can't drive. The elderly & the blind (vision impaired) are all early candidates. /. , gander or snooze. Bring it on.
I like driving but even I'd prefer to
...as they can cast it into "solid" forms. Try plastering your head with wet cornflour... Apart from the obvious mess & amusement, it will drip off the areas where you want the fluid to stay. The video on the site isn't half bad, watch it...