Could a small nuke set off on the ocean floor near the leak possibly seal it? It seems that the right sized device would create molten rock and just seal things off. Appears this is called a melt cavity. Might vaporize some of the oil concentrated in the area of the leak too. Doesn't seem the atmospheric fallout would be too bad at that depth.
Guessing downsides include igniting the entire reserve (although I think an oxygen source would be needed), making the leak worse, & 3 eyed fish, etc.
Probably obvious, but I have no practical knowledge in any of the domains involved here.
Louisiana also has a very aggressive tax credit program. It is capped at 50% of a 25k system (12.5k), but you can install multiple systems to offset your average usage.
We just installed a 4.6kW grid-tie system using Enphase microinverters. Its the 2nd "working system" shown on the LSES site.
I'll probably regret sharing this on/., but a group called RBS also filmed a short "documentary" of us installing & explaining the system for the local public access station. If you really have nothing better to do for the next 17 minutes, it can be seen on the Rural Broadcasting Service site under "Solarcentric" Be forewarned that it was very much unscripted.
Tried just the other day with the latest OO on Fedora. Maybe its keeping keyboard configs from earlier installs. Will have a look at the mappings.
I realize that there was probably a solution all along, but thought this a good example of why people don't use some OSS. Sometimes a simple feature is the first thing you check and if its doesn't work out of the box you might not have the time, interest, ability, etc. to investigate the fix. In my case it was time/interest...to easy to open Excel. Take Excel away & my motivations change, but I generally use it for for quick coding calc checks or for data manipulation prior to loading into Postgres and its 2nd nature to do that in Excel.
If you make it to the DC area and like the Air & Space museum on the National Mall, take a day to visit the Udvar-Hazy Air & Space museum where they have everything they couldn't fit into the National Mall site. http://www.nasm.si.edu/UdvarHazy/
I participated in early voting last week in rural Louisiana so I barely had to wait to have my vote not counted. No worries though because all of my dead relatives are voting today.
My dissertation research introduced an open computational framework for visual perception and grounded language acquisition called Experience-Based
Language Acquisition (EBLA). EBLA can "watch" a series of short videos and acquire a simple language of nouns and verbs corresponding to the objects and object-object relations in those videos. Upon acquiring this protolanguage, EBLA can perform basic scene analysis to generate descriptions of
novel videos.
In short, it stored meta information about objects and relations and then used a database and some inference algorithms to resolve these entities to protolanguage "nouns" and "verbs."
Interesting that any life insurance he held will still go to any named beneficiaries and cannot be tapped to help settle for any judgments/judgements against him.
Sure there are some ethical questions surrounding this, but he is making a huge personal sacrifice in the name of science and has insured that reasonable safeguards are in place. This could provide incredible insights into the language acquisition process.
I like our President enjoy making up words. My criteria is that my message is clear. I mostly do it to amuse myself or to cover the lack of a clear word in a given situation. If someone calls me on it then I ask them, "Did you understand what I meant?" After they answer "Yes," I note that it was a "word," just not part of the currently accepted English language.
Headphones are an even better solution....
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This is cool, but headphones provide the added benefit of canceling out the buzz & whirring of co-workers.
I bet the PETA people will make a bunch of noise over this. Remember when they portrayed that fish out of water at the end of that Faith No More video?
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I agree its worth investigating. Made a comment the other day on this.
Guessing downsides include igniting the entire reserve (although I think an oxygen source would be needed), making the leak worse, & 3 eyed fish, etc.
Probably obvious, but I have no practical knowledge in any of the domains involved here.
Wish they would just tell us that we'll be on Mars in five years, give the 18B to James Cameron, and have him fake one hell of a Mars expedition.
More info at the Louisiana Solar Energy Society.
We just installed a 4.6kW grid-tie system using Enphase microinverters. Its the 2nd "working system" shown on the LSES site.
I'll probably regret sharing this on /., but a group called RBS also filmed a short "documentary" of us installing & explaining the system for the local public access station. If you really have nothing better to do for the next 17 minutes, it can be seen on the Rural Broadcasting Service site under "Solarcentric" Be forewarned that it was very much unscripted.
I realize that there was probably a solution all along, but thought this a good example of why people don't use some OSS. Sometimes a simple feature is the first thing you check and if its doesn't work out of the box you might not have the time, interest, ability, etc. to investigate the fix. In my case it was time/interest...to easy to open Excel. Take Excel away & my motivations change, but I generally use it for for quick coding calc checks or for data manipulation prior to loading into Postgres and its 2nd nature to do that in Excel.
Thanks.
Drives me nuts. Try each new version of Calc, no easy "fill down" & its back to Excel. Other than that I use open source apps whenever possible.
If you make it to the DC area and like the Air & Space museum on the National Mall, take a day to visit the Udvar-Hazy Air & Space museum where they have everything they couldn't fit into the National Mall site. http://www.nasm.si.edu/UdvarHazy/
Yes.
We've been using an RBFH for years to destroy harddrives. Just make sure you have some eye protection.
I participated in early voting last week in rural Louisiana so I barely had to wait to have my vote not counted. No worries though because all of my dead relatives are voting today.
In short, it stored meta information about objects and relations and then used a database and some inference algorithms to resolve these entities to protolanguage "nouns" and "verbs."
Here is workshop paper on the research.
No...I wasn't sure so I checked and discovered that both spellings are correct.
Interesting that any life insurance he held will still go to any named beneficiaries and cannot be tapped to help settle for any judgments/judgements against him.
Now that Tulane only has the slightest engineering presence & no computer science department to speak of, you'll see fewer & fewer Tulanians posting on /.
Sure there are some ethical questions surrounding this, but he is making a huge personal sacrifice in the name of science and has insured that reasonable safeguards are in place. This could provide incredible insights into the language acquisition process.
He might as well yell "Move to the food! Move to the food!!!"
Nothing to see here. Please move along.
Bah...one kid only tinkers with the sleep schedule. If you're really committed you need to have multiple births (e.g. >=twins).
I like our President enjoy making up words. My criteria is that my message is clear. I mostly do it to amuse myself or to cover the lack of a clear word in a given situation. If someone calls me on it then I ask them, "Did you understand what I meant?" After they answer "Yes," I note that it was a "word," just not part of the currently accepted English language.
This is cool, but headphones provide the added benefit of canceling out the buzz & whirring of co-workers.
I bet the PETA people will make a bunch of noise over this. Remember when they portrayed that fish out of water at the end of that Faith No More video?
Forgot about the glider. I was thinking more of that crazy helicopter thing.
The bigger news here is that the Wired article also contained my obituary!
...but the real headline will be when someone successfully pilots one of his flying machines!