im suprised noone has mentioned this before.
The goal of the project is breakthrough propulsion research and this would be a massive breakthrough if it worked like a shield.
Suppose you want to go somewhere in space, build a nice big ship (dont bother with thrusting engines, maybe just some manuvering rockets) and stick an array of these disks behind it.. The array will shield the craft from whatever gravitational mass happens to be behind it. While the other half of the universe continues its relentless gravitational pull the craft should experience a net forward motion.. You dont need to worry about how heavy the craft is, because everything will 'fall' at the same constant acceleration. this could also help us find out where we are in relation to the 'center of the universe' (it would probably be the direction with the strongest pull). I know very little about physics and could have interpreted the whole thing wrong.. but if anyone is game enough to speculate on how much thrust (acceleration due to universe) would be achieveable with this hypothetical setup, i would be interested.
note: i doubt the thrust would be sufficient for 'lift off', so assume the craft is assembled in orbit.
This could prove to be microsofts ultimate and complete undoing! Has anyone looked at what would be required to aquire either of these keys using reverse engineering and/or cracking the encryption?? (im far from an expert.. but there has to be some way to brute force it?) Hmmm.. funny how recently introduced laws would make this highly illegal.
How about an opensource distributed processing project?
Consider the situation M$ would face if it happened...!
Noone would feel safe using their products and open source software would probably explode.
Oh yeah.. and the NSA would be very annoyed.
despite being almost ambidexterous (dominant left)...
I believe these things should be designed for either handedness.
Their are 5 people im my immediate family and 3 of them are left handed. Since we (lefties) are no
longer seen as the creation of satan... there might be more of us around soonish....
I seem to recall (either from slashdot or some science mag?) that the iridium network was purchased by some part of the american military.
I looked at the iridium site but couldnt find any mention of this. Does anyone know if im completely deluded or does anyone remember reading about this?
I know its a bit off topic, but if I was using the iridium network for data or voice I would be a bit worried about a secret military leaseing plan.
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im suprised noone has mentioned this before. The goal of the project is breakthrough propulsion research and this would be a massive breakthrough if it worked like a shield. Suppose you want to go somewhere in space, build a nice big ship (dont bother with thrusting engines, maybe just some manuvering rockets) and stick an array of these disks behind it.. The array will shield the craft from whatever gravitational mass happens to be behind it. While the other half of the universe continues its relentless gravitational pull the craft should experience a net forward motion.. You dont need to worry about how heavy the craft is, because everything will 'fall' at the same constant acceleration. this could also help us find out where we are in relation to the 'center of the universe' (it would probably be the direction with the strongest pull). I know very little about physics and could have interpreted the whole thing wrong.. but if anyone is game enough to speculate on how much thrust (acceleration due to universe) would be achieveable with this hypothetical setup, i would be interested. note: i doubt the thrust would be sufficient for 'lift off', so assume the craft is assembled in orbit.
This could prove to be microsofts ultimate and complete undoing! Has anyone looked at what would be required to aquire either of these keys using reverse engineering and/or cracking the encryption?? (im far from an expert.. but there has to be some way to brute force it?) Hmmm.. funny how recently introduced laws would make this highly illegal. How about an opensource distributed processing project? Consider the situation M$ would face if it happened...! Noone would feel safe using their products and open source software would probably explode. Oh yeah.. and the NSA would be very annoyed.
despite being almost ambidexterous (dominant left)... I believe these things should be designed for either handedness. Their are 5 people im my immediate family and 3 of them are left handed. Since we (lefties) are no longer seen as the creation of satan... there might be more of us around soonish....
I seem to recall (either from slashdot or some science mag?) that the iridium network was purchased by some part of the american military.
I looked at the iridium site but couldnt find any mention of this. Does anyone know if im completely deluded or does anyone remember reading about this?
I know its a bit off topic, but if I was using the iridium network for data or voice I would be a bit worried about a secret military leaseing plan.