Oxygen isn't as hard to bring from Earth as you might think. Not only do you have to bring air to breath, you have to bring water, both for drinking and for cooling
TFA doesn't go into it, but the major use of a lunar oxygen plant would be as fuel, rather than breathing. For return trips to earth, or hopefully to orbit, asteroids, Mars.... Of course, they'd also need hydrogen, but even if that can't be found easily on the Moon, it's a lot lighter than oxygen to haul up.
I am no chemist, but I thought that with enough energy it is usually possible to break up compounds into their constituent elements.
Which is exactly what they propose doing. To do it on an industrial scale; under lunar conditions (vacuum, solar heating) details need to be worked out. The basic chemistry is trivial. Si02 + energy = Si + O2
Only the English are inconsistent with their acronyms where they capitalize BBC but not NASA. So much for the cradle of their namesake language.
That modded "informative"? How about "ignorant flamebait"?
The usual UK rule is to preserve caps when you pronounce the letters:
(B-B-C) but to use normal case when you pronounce it as syllables. Thus: Nasa, UN, Nato, snafu, UK.
So you believe that most real world math problems yield answers that are less than or equal to 144?
Yes. And when larger numbers arise, you just use "hundreds", "millions", "billions" as your unit. Basically, you can get to at least one significat figure, two with a little more thought, which is often all you need.
The number of multiplication problems that can be "instantly" solved by the times tables is such a tiny fraction of the set possible problems, that it's really negligible.
The number of REAL LIFE math problems that can be solved by times tables is, however, most of them. Maybe you just don't care how much anything costs, how long it takes to go somewhere, etc, but kindergarten arithmetic, applying your times tables, will answer most of those questions. That people are trying to make excuses for not knowing basic arithmetic is an excellent example of the dire state of science education.
Memorizing multiplication tables is a bad idea. Take two kids. One memorizes up to 20x20, the other just learns how to do multiplication in their head. The first kid can spit out 17*19 faster, but what happens when you ask them both for 21*23?
If you don't remember any tables, how can you "do multiplication in your head"?
Personally, I learnt my tables very early in primary school, just to 12x12. Because ab=ba, that's only 72 results to remember. Also several are so easy, eg the 1x, 10x and only slightly harder, 5x, there are only about 40 that have to be learnt purely by rote.
In any case, I don't freeze when I need to work out something larger, I USE THE TABLES I KNOW to calculate.
just have 2 stations. One on earth, one in orbit. In between the two would be nothing but space.
Have the station on earth "launch" the "elevator" and the station in space "catch" it.
What you're talking about is then a tower; which has to support itself like any tall building, which is very hard to get more than a mile or so high. A lot easier and cheaper just to build on a mountain top, or a giant dirigible. The space elevator's raison d'etre is not the "elevator" idea, but the cable reaching beyond geosynchronous orbit, thus pulling it up.
and the comments in the google groups page discovered its not working outside the US made the "apparantly" there.
I'm glad it works for you in Asia, but it doesn't work here in England.
It doesn't work in Hong Kong, so I don't know what definition of "Asia" is being used. It's bad enough they block us arbitrarily; but it's even more insulting that instead of an explanation we just get a 404.
I've read this story on about 4 news sites now and if I hear one more bloody site telling the public that this is 'Harry Potter' inspired I am going to have to cloak my foot up their asses. The mere thought of a scientist being inspired by Harry Potter pisses me off enough, but that they are perpetuating the idea that a childrens book written relatively recently is superceeding 150 years of SCIENCE fiction is what inspires stuff like this.
I feel your pain... but whether termed SF or not, I haven't read any stories concerning invisibility that aren't basically magic, including the original, HG Wells' Invisible Man in 1898. And of course, here on Slashdot it's Trek that gets the "credit".
We never meet the eccentric scientist who established the Torchwood Estate. The way the name stretches through history, "Bad Wolf" style, implies some kind of connection to the Doctor, don'tcha think?
I haven't seen any series 2 episodes myself. Wikipedia has a list of Torchwood references. Most of these look like plausible connections rather than the "Bad Wolf"-style of omen.
It seems inevitable there will be some crossover episodes; which however are rarely good ideas, no matter how much the fans geek out.
("Torchwood" an anagram of "Doctor Who." Whether that's a clue to anything or just the writers trying to be clever, we will see as the season goes on.)
OK, so it's legal in Russia. What about other countries, like the USA? I know downloading a work that is copyrighted here is illegal even if it's public domain in another country.
These aren't "public domain". It's claimed, and as above there is official opinion, that these are legally licenced for sale, at least in Russia. Various industries try to discourage "grey market" imports to protect their prices; often loudly proclaiming they are illegal. Sometimes governments go along with this and actually make laws to protect company profits. Whether the USA has such laws I don't know. If so, however, importing any CDs, books, DVDs, or software etc, from overseas would be illegal, and it seems that this is not enforced. The government may well feel it necessary to regulate the sale of pharmaceuticals, why they should do so for pop music I don't know.
By using allofmp3.com you are directly supporting an organization that is involved in child prostitution (pedophilia) and black market arms deals (terrorism)
Right. And you know this how? Becasue the RIAA told you?
Moscow Southwest regional prosecutor's office has apparently decided that a loophole in Russian copyright law (it only covers infringement via physical media, e.g., CDs and DVDs) allows Allofmp3.com to continue operations. In addition, Russia employs the concept of compulsory copyrights, where the copyrights belong to the artist or music label, but copyright owners are required to license it to anyone who making a request.
allofmp3.com violates the spirit of the law, if not the exact wording. It is like saying that identity theft was legal because when it first started happening, there was no specific law against it
Why don't you just say it's "like pedophilia" or "supports terrorism" if you're going to use absurd analogies. As for the "letter" and "spirit" of the law; the mechanism AllofMP3 is using is basically the same as applies to radio stations; they don't have to negotiate with every label for every song, they just pay a lump sum to a collection agency. If AllofMP3 isn't making these payments, they would presumably have been prosecuted.
I think a vulnerability can be reported anonymously quite safely (for a good deal of people anyway). Try the following:
1) Get a laptop with wireless....
Everyone is trying to find an anonymous way to report VIA THE INTERNET. There are other ways. Telephone them from a public phone; ask to speak to the admin. See what his attitude is; depending on that, either share the details with him or hang up. Or snail mail -- print out using a common printer, then photocopy it and drop it in an envelope without getting your prints on it.
If the 2-3 US reps don't like.xxx, but a dozen european reps approve it,.xxx goes ahead and the repressive fucks in washington can bite my crank.
However, the only people who like the.xxx idea are a different bunch of repressive fucks, in Florida. Both sets are deluded if they imagine.xxx would make any difference, positive or negative, to porn.
Christian Moralist groups rejected the idea because it would in some way sanction the appearance of porn on the net and make it integral it's structure or backbone. That and they couldn't figure out that it would make it easier to block porn.
As I am far from the first to state: it WOULD NOT make it easier to block porn. Why would porn sites all meekly relocate their sites to a.xxx domain from which many potential customers will be blocked? NONE of the new "themed" TLDs have ever been used for their intended purpose, (the older.mil..gov..edu being basically governmental have). Do you automatically search a.aero list to find an airline or airport? If you do, all you'll get are placeholders redirecting you to a.com or a CCTLD. I'm only grateful that one bunch of religious fanatics has blocked this stupid idea of another bunch or rightwing idiots.
I wonder if they have the dilithium crystals from "Mudd's Women"?
They don't mention a single object from TOS. TFA says something about some costumes of guest stars. I doubt there's anything recognisable left after all these years. If you watch TOS episodes now the props seem rather unconvincing by current standards.
I note also Christies are selling the catalogues for $90; or $500 for a "limited edition". Amazing.
That's a HUGE user interface problem, actually.
The best round-trip time you'll get across the Atlantic is about 200ms.
What the they thinking of when they talk about doing this in OUTER SPACE for God's sake? Where would it be sensible to do this? In low-earth orbit they should be able to de-orbit in a few hours in an emergency. Further out, near the moon it's 3 seconds round trip. En-route to Mars; forget it.
Wait till they can build a Known-Space-style autodoc.
it's better to have a power and not need it, than not have a power and find you need it.
IF you trust the government, and all future governments. Otherwise anytime you piss off someone in power, by pointing out corruption say, they have a perfectly legal way to lock you up, or threaten to do so.
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Well, you stumped me! I'll just try to forget those useless tables I learned when I was 4.
TFA doesn't go into it, but the major use of a lunar oxygen plant would be as fuel, rather than breathing. For return trips to earth, or hopefully to orbit, asteroids, Mars.... Of course, they'd also need hydrogen, but even if that can't be found easily on the Moon, it's a lot lighter than oxygen to haul up.
Try reading it.
Which is exactly what they propose doing. To do it on an industrial scale; under lunar conditions (vacuum, solar heating) details need to be worked out. The basic chemistry is trivial. Si02 + energy = Si + O2
That modded "informative"? How about "ignorant flamebait"?
The usual UK rule is to preserve caps when you pronounce the letters: (B-B-C) but to use normal case when you pronounce it as syllables. Thus: Nasa, UN, Nato, snafu, UK.
Yes. And when larger numbers arise, you just use "hundreds", "millions", "billions" as your unit. Basically, you can get to at least one significat figure, two with a little more thought, which is often all you need.
The number of REAL LIFE math problems that can be solved by times tables is, however, most of them. Maybe you just don't care how much anything costs, how long it takes to go somewhere, etc, but kindergarten arithmetic, applying your times tables, will answer most of those questions. That people are trying to make excuses for not knowing basic arithmetic is an excellent example of the dire state of science education.
If you don't remember any tables, how can you "do multiplication in your head"?
Personally, I learnt my tables very early in primary school, just to 12x12. Because ab=ba, that's only 72 results to remember. Also several are so easy, eg the 1x, 10x and only slightly harder, 5x, there are only about 40 that have to be learnt purely by rote.
In any case, I don't freeze when I need to work out something larger, I USE THE TABLES I KNOW to calculate.
No, it's a child porn thing. RTFA. But these excuses are interchangeable; they'll be using it to track down everyone from Mafioso to school truants.
What you're talking about is then a tower; which has to support itself like any tall building, which is very hard to get more than a mile or so high. A lot easier and cheaper just to build on a mountain top, or a giant dirigible. The space elevator's raison d'etre is not the "elevator" idea, but the cable reaching beyond geosynchronous orbit, thus pulling it up.
It doesn't work in Hong Kong, so I don't know what definition of "Asia" is being used. It's bad enough they block us arbitrarily; but it's even more insulting that instead of an explanation we just get a 404.
Also, it's "apparently".
I feel your pain... but whether termed SF or not, I haven't read any stories concerning invisibility that aren't basically magic, including the original, HG Wells' Invisible Man in 1898. And of course, here on Slashdot it's Trek that gets the "credit".
I haven't seen any series 2 episodes myself. Wikipedia has a list of Torchwood references. Most of these look like plausible connections rather than the "Bad Wolf"-style of omen.
It seems inevitable there will be some crossover episodes; which however are rarely good ideas, no matter how much the fans geek out.
It's the name of a spinoff series with Captain Jack.
These aren't "public domain". It's claimed, and as above there is official opinion, that these are legally licenced for sale, at least in Russia. Various industries try to discourage "grey market" imports to protect their prices; often loudly proclaiming they are illegal. Sometimes governments go along with this and actually make laws to protect company profits. Whether the USA has such laws I don't know. If so, however, importing any CDs, books, DVDs, or software etc, from overseas would be illegal, and it seems that this is not enforced. The government may well feel it necessary to regulate the sale of pharmaceuticals, why they should do so for pop music I don't know.
Right. And you know this how? Becasue the RIAA told you?
"Many people", including the Moscow Southwest regional prosecutor.
Allofmp3.com let off the hook
allofmp3.com violates the spirit of the law, if not the exact wording. It is like saying that identity theft was legal because when it first started happening, there was no specific law against it3/7/2005
Why don't you just say it's "like pedophilia" or "supports terrorism" if you're going to use absurd analogies. As for the "letter" and "spirit" of the law; the mechanism AllofMP3 is using is basically the same as applies to radio stations; they don't have to negotiate with every label for every song, they just pay a lump sum to a collection agency. If AllofMP3 isn't making these payments, they would presumably have been prosecuted.
1) Get a laptop with wireless....
Everyone is trying to find an anonymous way to report VIA THE INTERNET. There are other ways. Telephone them from a public phone; ask to speak to the admin. See what his attitude is; depending on that, either share the details with him or hang up. Or snail mail -- print out using a common printer, then photocopy it and drop it in an envelope without getting your prints on it.
However, the only people who like the .xxx idea are a different bunch of repressive fucks, in Florida. Both sets are deluded if they imagine .xxx would make any difference, positive or negative, to porn.
As I am far from the first to state: it WOULD NOT make it easier to block porn. Why would porn sites all meekly relocate their sites to a .xxx domain from which many potential customers will be blocked? NONE of the new "themed" TLDs have ever been used for their intended purpose, (the older .mil. .gov. .edu being basically governmental have). Do you automatically search a .aero list to find an airline or airport? If you do, all you'll get are placeholders redirecting you to a .com or a CCTLD. I'm only grateful that one bunch of religious fanatics has blocked this stupid idea of another bunch or rightwing idiots.
They don't mention a single object from TOS. TFA says something about some costumes of guest stars. I doubt there's anything recognisable left after all these years. If you watch TOS episodes now the props seem rather unconvincing by current standards.
I note also Christies are selling the catalogues for $90; or $500 for a "limited edition". Amazing.
Or the Carpenter's Level Dashboard Widget.
Osama's dad was a billionaire. That helps somewhat in the "attractivenes" stakes. And though he's not my type, I wouldn't say he was ugly.
What the they thinking of when they talk about doing this in OUTER SPACE for God's sake? Where would it be sensible to do this? In low-earth orbit they should be able to de-orbit in a few hours in an emergency. Further out, near the moon it's 3 seconds round trip. En-route to Mars; forget it.
Wait till they can build a Known-Space-style autodoc.
IF you trust the government, and all future governments. Otherwise anytime you piss off someone in power, by pointing out corruption say, they have a perfectly legal way to lock you up, or threaten to do so.