Great! So, now you have half the garbage burning up, and half of it in a different orbit. Oh, and you better hope your "trash bags" don't break apart during the throwing phase, or you're going to spew rubbish in thousands of unpredictable directions.
I was thinking about the Appolo re-entries earlier today. It is always mentioned that if they came in too steep, they would burn up, and if they came in too shallow, they would skip off the atmosphere and return to space. For some reason, I never thought beyond that. Disaster if too steep. Disaster if too shallow. However, today I was thinking, that if they skipped off the atmosphere, they would merely return to orbit. Where's the big disaster in that. They would just fall back into the atmosphere later on. The only drawbacks I can think of is that they may not have the correct attitude/orientation when they re-enter, and they may re-enter at a point that has them doing a splashdown in an unanticipated place.
Drunk teenagers and road death statistics have absolutely nothing to do with keeping airlines in business. What keeps them in business is that it is faster and cheaper to fly to most places than to take a car, especially if you have to cross an ocean.
Other problem is, that to have a true system like this, non-AI controlled cars cannot be on the road, as they will add randomness to the central control.
Actually, you wouldn't need to ban non-AI cars. If the AI couldn't cope with something as random, but relatively predictable as human drivers, it shouldn't be on the road in the first place.
In my country, the population is (supposedly equally) divided into a number of regions called ridings. Each riding is given a seat in Parliment. The various political parties run candidates in whatever ridings they wish. The people vote to determine which candidate will represent their riding. The party that ends up with the most ridings (seats in Parliment) forms the government, with the leader of that party becoming the Prime Minister.
London hosts one of the largest airshows in Ontario. Aside from the usual areobatic displays, there is a huge ground display. Besides, I don't think 2hrs outside of the fifth largest city in North America, just off of North America's busiest highway is the middle of nowhere.
Let's not forget the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books, and the Infocom interactive fiction software (Planetfall, Zork, Leather Goddesses of Phobos). Heck, back in the long ago, a troupe of actors came to my school and performed Treasure Island. At various points in the play, they asked the audience what they would like the characters to do. They then took the story in that direction.
The Canadian Arrow team has put together the world's first private astronaut training centre. If they were only in it for the X-Prize, they wouldn't have built the training centre. They are looking to space tourism, and are also hoping to start a new extreme sport: Space-diving (like sky-diving, except from space).
Instead of a wire, you use a PN junction (for example, a solar cell). Yes, you can do that.
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There are a number of ways of harnessing power from a lump of nuclear fuel. RTGs are basically a heat engine, harnessing the heat given off by the decay. There are also nuclear batteries that use a PN junction to capture the radiation given off (basically strapping the radioactive material to a solar cell). One of the batteries mentioned in the article captures the electrons given off, and uses the resultant charge to bend a piezoelectric crystal, much like a reed in a musical instrument.
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I have never heard it pronounced the way you suggest. The dictionary has it listed as either new-klee-ur or newk-you-lur.
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When a cue ball strikes the other balls at the start of a pool game, does it not loose its kinetic energy upon them.
Not only is there a Canadian team, but there are actually TWO Canadian teams, as well as two teams from the UK, and one each from Romania, Argentina, Israel, and Russia.
In the movie Toy Story, as with many animated movies, there are many people involved with animating each character. The stories themselves may be the collaberation of multiple writers. Who then is the CREATOR of the work? Beyond the death of which artist should this work be protected? Do we have to wait 70 years past the death of the last Beatle, or 70 years past when they broke up? Or do we have to wait 70 years after Michael Jackson dies before Yellow Submarine becomes public domain?
Backup: (n) The three girls off to the side of the stage who sway to the music, and sing "Doo-wap Ah!" whilst the main vocalist is singing about a boy meeting a girl under the light of a full moon.
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Are you trying to tell us that the British need to have a license to have a television?
Doozers made the girders out of radishes, not feces. And the Gorgs don't eat Fraggles, they eat peach and garlic pies.
Great! So, now you have half the garbage burning up, and half of it in a different orbit. Oh, and you better hope your "trash bags" don't break apart during the throwing phase, or you're going to spew rubbish in thousands of unpredictable directions.
I was thinking about the Appolo re-entries earlier today. It is always mentioned that if they came in too steep, they would burn up, and if they came in too shallow, they would skip off the atmosphere and return to space. For some reason, I never thought beyond that. Disaster if too steep. Disaster if too shallow. However, today I was thinking, that if they skipped off the atmosphere, they would merely return to orbit. Where's the big disaster in that. They would just fall back into the atmosphere later on. The only drawbacks I can think of is that they may not have the correct attitude/orientation when they re-enter, and they may re-enter at a point that has them doing a splashdown in an unanticipated place.
The "ballast" should be available on E-Bay by the end of the day.
Drunk teenagers and road death statistics have absolutely nothing to do with keeping airlines in business. What keeps them in business is that it is faster and cheaper to fly to most places than to take a car, especially if you have to cross an ocean.
Other problem is, that to have a true system like this, non-AI controlled cars cannot be on the road, as they will add randomness to the central control.
Actually, you wouldn't need to ban non-AI cars. If the AI couldn't cope with something as random, but relatively predictable as human drivers, it shouldn't be on the road in the first place.
OK, so basically you guys elect a handful of people who's job it is to elect a president.
In my country, the population is (supposedly equally) divided into a number of regions called ridings. Each riding is given a seat in Parliment. The various political parties run candidates in whatever ridings they wish. The people vote to determine which candidate will represent their riding. The party that ends up with the most ridings (seats in Parliment) forms the government, with the leader of that party becoming the Prime Minister.
What is an Electoral College?
London hosts one of the largest airshows in Ontario. Aside from the usual areobatic displays, there is a huge ground display. Besides, I don't think 2hrs outside of the fifth largest city in North America, just off of North America's busiest highway is the middle of nowhere.
Let's not forget the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books, and the Infocom interactive fiction software (Planetfall, Zork, Leather Goddesses of Phobos). Heck, back in the long ago, a troupe of actors came to my school and performed Treasure Island. At various points in the play, they asked the audience what they would like the characters to do. They then took the story in that direction.
Oh come now! Everyone knows that the password to a rocket is gonna be
5 4 3 2 1
The Canadian Arrow team has put together the world's first private astronaut training centre. If they were only in it for the X-Prize, they wouldn't have built the training centre. They are looking to space tourism, and are also hoping to start a new extreme sport: Space-diving (like sky-diving, except from space).
Instead of a wire, you use a PN junction (for example, a solar cell). Yes, you can do that.
There are a number of ways of harnessing power from a lump of nuclear fuel. RTGs are basically a heat engine, harnessing the heat given off by the decay. There are also nuclear batteries that use a PN junction to capture the radiation given off (basically strapping the radioactive material to a solar cell). One of the batteries mentioned in the article captures the electrons given off, and uses the resultant charge to bend a piezoelectric crystal, much like a reed in a musical instrument.
I have never heard it pronounced the way you suggest. The dictionary has it listed as either new-klee-ur or newk-you-lur.
When a cue ball strikes the other balls at the start of a pool game, does it not loose its kinetic energy upon them.
Are you trying to encourage them? "Hey Clem, watch this explode when I throw it on the fire."
13hrs? You're only going to watch two out of the three then?
Not only is there a Canadian team, but there are actually TWO Canadian teams, as well as two teams from the UK, and one each from Romania, Argentina, Israel, and Russia.
Old Radio Ad:
I have my mother in law suspended over a pit of ravenous wolverines. Unless you buy our product I will lower her into the pit.
Please save the wolverines from this horrible fate.
In the movie Toy Story, as with many animated movies, there are many people involved with animating each character. The stories themselves may be the collaberation of multiple writers. Who then is the CREATOR of the work? Beyond the death of which artist should this work be protected? Do we have to wait 70 years past the death of the last Beatle, or 70 years past when they broke up? Or do we have to wait 70 years after Michael Jackson dies before Yellow Submarine becomes public domain?
Just out of curiousity, what is the Grateful Dead's enlightened position and attitude to the recording and distribution of their live performances?
Backup: (n) The three girls off to the side of the stage who sway to the music, and sing "Doo-wap Ah!" whilst the main vocalist is singing about a boy meeting a girl under the light of a full moon.