Technically possible? Yes. Anywhere near practical? Probably not.
The body would still contain a great amount of mass, and therefore gravity.
Problem one: Pretty much any matter would still be ripped apart when it touches down on the surface (or anywhere near it). Good luck creating equipment that can survive. Basically the only matter that would probably be strong enough to stay cohesive, would be the type of dense matter you could actually get from a neutron star.
Problem two: Assuming you could actually create equipment capable of surviving the gravitational forces of the star, the energy or resources you pull out of the star would not be greater than the energy required to lift it off the star and escape the star's gravity for use. So you'd have to somehow convert it and transfer the energy from afar. Basically the only way to transfer energy from a large body of mass is how all stars do it. Light. So to mine energy from a dead neutron star, you'd want to ship a nebulous cloud of hydrogen right next to it. Wait a good eon or too for the pressure and gravity forces to start up another fusion reaction inside the star. Then you could mine the star from afar... with solar energy.:D
Basically an active star is about the best energy resource phsyics can imagine using the elements we know about. Fusing hydrogen.
Depends on which branch of phsyics you want to use. If you use general relativity, then the math says that the space time curvature would be so great, that time would curve back in on itself. Since we think of time as linear, this would indicate time would stop all together when compared to any other frame of reference. This is one of the major reasons why GR breaks down under black hole conditions.
Qauntum mechanics gives us a different picture. It basically would describe any matter crossing the event horizon being destroyed and converted into what basically amounts to energy waves with mass. Then, really crazy shit happens. Or, uhh quantum shit rather. It's theorized that the electrons that form these waves cross the event horizon traveling backward in time, scatter, and then radiate out of the black hole traveling forward in time. This is what causes the "black hole evaporation" that Hawking now recongnizes as information leaving a black hole.
Well I hate to nitpick a nitpicker, but actually it is in orbit. Everything everywhere, including galaxies are in some form of orbit. There is some evidence of some black holes orbiting super massive black holes. It just so happens that the gases tangential velocity and/or momentum (gas would have very little) puts it in an orbit where it's perigee (the minimum distance of the orbital path and the orbital body) actually crosses the mass itself. So yes, it is in fact in orbit. Just not a stable one with good eccentric circle:D
Think more relative. The old formula speed = distance over time doesn't fully apply to light since it doesn't care about time. The fact that it took longer due to a curve in space, also means a curve in team, which means technically, in both spaces, light was slowed. Remember, the same phenomenom that changed the space vector also curved time. So while you could technically say: The light beam, or in this case radio beam, was still a relative C velocity, it's momentum and therefore overall speed in our frame of reference was slowed by the time and vector change. I guess the net of it is, we're both right.
Even if we could travel at say,.75c, anything "near" a black hole any living thing would be hosed. The g forces of orbit insertion would likely tear our fragile bodies and crafts apart. Additionally the Xrays, gamma particles, and other nasty radiation would cook and fry everything.
Achieving neccesary velocity to not fall into a black hole would be easiest part. Even if we got into some kind of orbit, at near C speeds, you'd never leave. You'd need even closer to C speeds, and if you were near the event horizon, you'd need to actually achieve C to escape, should you ever want to extend your orbit beyond the black holes sphere of influence. IE come home. Which would require infinite energy.
SO in short, I suggest we just stay the hell away from black holes:D
The speed of light would not be at its C constant near a black hole. GR states that light is affected by large bodies of mass. Large bodies of mass warp both space AND time. This experiment was validated (I hate to use the term prove) by the radio transmissions the Cassini space probe shot across the sun towards Earth. The radio transmissions took a longer amount of time than predicted using the C Constant and the distance from the trasnmitter and Earth. This and other experiments, as well as General and Special Relativity theory math, suggests that gravity does in fact curve and slow spacetime. And that radio waves (traveling at the speed of light as well as much of the same behavoir as a light wave) are in fact affected by this spacetime warping.
More information is available about this experiment at wikipedia.
I'm curious what his equations would reveal about dinosaur locomotion. I've seen a lot of people claim that dinosaurs could never move under today's Earth gravity, or that pterodactyls could never fly.
Source?
Since when was gravity ever different? The mass of the Earth, and therefore its gravitional effect, is the same as it was 65 million years ago. Dinosaurs obviously moved and traveled when they were alive.
If all movies were being killed by piracy, all movies would have below average ticket sales. That is not the case. Crappy movies, like "The Island" or "Stealth" did bad, but good movies like "Batman" did pretty well. Ditto "Wedding Crashers". I mean, if piracy was the only problem, shouldn't all of the movies this summer have done poorly?
I agree with you...
However, the arguement isn't that the movie companies are making enough money. No, that is [enough money] the motivation. The supporting arguement is that they would make more money if it weren't for piracy. Which may or may not be true. That supporting arguement is designed to make them look like the victim, and is for public relations only. Which I don't understand since it just makes them look greedy. The bottom line and main arguement is that despite our opinions on what is right or wrong, the law was broken. Hopefully one day popular opinion and moral consensus will supercede and change laws. We don't live in that day. We live in a day where money changes laws.
Despite the fact that some of you feel we've been ripped off by sub-standard entertainment, it does not change the fact that what occured was illegal.
I personally feel that entertainment is a privelage and not a right. It's not written that we deserve awesome movies all the time, and bad entertainment excuses violation of copyright laws. However evil these companies seem; it is the PUBLIC that funds them. The public complains and complains and complains, but the industry still makes money. Why is that?
Did it ever occur to anyone that if everyone just boycotts all this crap it will go away? Did it ever occur to anyone that you don't HAVE to go see this crap, pirated or not? A lot of people, including me, refuse to buy certain products due to the labor conditions they were created in. Not seeing Star Wars or not buying a RIAA supported album is the same thing.
If a large number of people stop seeing movies, the movie industry dies and gets reborn. Stop bitching and go vote with your money. The consumer still holds all the power. It's really not the movie industries fault that the populas is too involved in BS that they fall for marketing, and mindlessly go see movies. All the while feeling that they are owed entertainment.
Just something I'll never understand...
I'll end this rant with one final thought: If you see a shitty movie, it's no one's fault but your own. You got tricked into it by fancy marketing. Underhanded or not, it's still your fault you got tricked. No one forced you to hand over your buck oh' five for the movie ticket. No one forced you to download it, or to buy it off of a street corner vendor.
I am honestly looking forward to the day when wireless Internet is combined with Internet mapping software (i.e. GMaps) and an online collaboration. Say goodbye to speed traps (your autorouting will know the locations of the traps and route you around it or warn you to slow down).
A nice outlook, but probably not accurate. In all probability, your GPS link to google maps will also submit data to a local "saftey enforcement" group and when your speed exceeds the limit, you get an automated ticket printed out on your laptop. In your car. While you are still driving.
Of course, cars like BMW will come with "one touch" ticket payments where you can click a button on your steering wheel and pay all tickets drafted from your credit accounts:D
This is microsoft we're talking about here. And that's not true. I work for a very large PC vendor & I've heard of least 3 non-compete clauses at a VP level being enforced. I've also heard of one being waved.
1. Hire person you don't like.
2. Sneak egregious non-compete clause into hiring agreement.
3. Get hiring agreement signed.
4. Fire person.
5. Wait until they go back to working for an open-source company making even the slightest bit of income.
6. Sue everyone involved.
7. Profit!
8. Dismantle the company, you know, just for kicks.
We found out fast things hitting big things make big collisions. This is great science.
We make dumb posts that over-simplify and generalize events. This is great commentary.
If you don't have anything worthwhile to post, don't post at all. I know you're just a silly troll, but a lot science has been at the hest of speeding things up and mashing them together to create collisions. Ever heard of a particle accelerator?
I am so sick and tired of this uncomprehensible juvenile attitude 'I can do everything', 'I am entitled to everything': the moment you start to do illegal stuff you give up your integrity and can get caught. There you have it. Think movies are too expensive: don't go to the theatre. Don't like the music industry: don't buy records. Dont like M$: use linux. But please stop abusing the fruit of other people's creativity and complain about getting caught. BIASED news for weenies, allright.
I have mod points, but you're already +5. I'd mod you higher if it was allowed. I'm so sick and tired of people thinking they are entitled to entertainment. If you want the movie / music industry to change, stop using their products. Don't buy it, don't steal it, don't even acknowledge they exist.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is called a boycott, and has been proven effective in the past. What "we" are doing today is only fueling the demand by stealing these works.
I would say that certifications are mostly worthless, but do tend to get you past HR trolls, as already mentioned in this thread.
Wait, I've got it. The people that do the hiring could structure their interviews around determining that their candidates can do the job! What a novel idea.
I don't really do IT work, but there are a lot of certifications in my field. Six Sigma belt certs, PmP certs ect. I've worked for a company that will hire you based on paper, and I've worked for a company that would put you through a multi tiered several day interview process. Complete with shadowing with current employees and then getting feedback from the employees on if the candidate knew their stuff.
Sure, the latter costs more and is a more complex hiring process. But take a guess which hired better candidates that fit the company's needs exactly?
Between this and the "$50 credit," does this seem like it's not really that great a deal for the people that were impacted by these defective batteries? I mean, aren't they still losing money because of a defective product?
The product was not really defective. The cause for the suit was that Apple failed to advertise the term "rechargable" properly. The batteries are actually failing as specificed by the manufactures of the battery.
This is not really about defective products at all, but deceptive advertising. Deceptive advertising in this case being: Apple's use of the term rechargeable in their advertising, but failing to also specify that the recharges were not infinite and limited.
I don't really understand all these worst-case-scenario horror stories about going to the movies. You guys must go to some crappy theaters. Here's a tip, don't go to the huge 24 screen multiplex with the neon pink and green sign on the outside. Don't go on opening weekend.
Most cities will have a few smaller theaters with much better conditions. The screen may not as big, but it is plenty big. Also, the sound systems generally sound much better.
Luckily I also live in Austin Texas, and we have the Drafthouse. A wonderful theater that serves food and beer. Get a bucket of beer, and a couple pizzas and you're good to go. I don't even care I just dropped 40 bucks at the theater cuz it's just a better experience.
When I'm not seeing a movie at the drafthouse, there is still a nice "normal" theater we go to. It only has like 8 screens, but has all the latest flicks. The screens are big, the sound system is excellent, the conditions are clean, the seats are comfortable, and the ushers will respond to noise complaints. Not that there really are any, the theater is in a kind of a posh shopping center. Any kids there must have good parents, because they are well-behaved. The ticket prices cost.50 less than the tinseltown multiplex down the street.
If you have a shitty movie going experience, switch theaters. Stay away from the huge multiplexes and theaters inside malls. Find the good ones. Or start a drafthouse franchise in your city:D
Nope, they are just going to wing it. According to the article, there aren't even any engineers on the project. Only anime artists who are concerned with making the shape "as arrow as possible".
On some PvE Servers there is a tremendous faction imbalance that makes playing in battlegrounds very difficult. The few times I've managed to get into battlegrounds have been very fun experiences. However, in order to play, one must sign up alone, and go adventure for 30-45 minutes hoping to get an invite. And forget trying to sign up to play with your friends, because the queue will just be that much longer. I realize that being on a PvP server would fix my craving for good PvP content, but I went where my friends went. Also, to date, there have been no PvE to PvP charecter transfers.
Can you tell us what is being done to help the faction imbalances on these servers?
Are there any plans to open up battlegrounds to any players who wish to join regardless of faction? Or perhaps faction vs faction guild battle grounds?
Except there's no actual proof those same people would have finished college without the existence of the game. Be it Quake, Everquest, World of Warcraft, or competative drinking; people will find whatever excuse neccesary to have a good time on their parents dime under the guise of getting an education. Some kids just aren't ready for college after high school.
I you were to expose a young infant to a breast, there is no telling how they will turn out.
Every year, thousands, no MILLIONS of America's youth are exposed to breasts at a young age. What's worse, they are exposed to the insides of female genetalia at an even younger age!
We MUST stop this horrible practice of defiling our youth. Ban breast feeding and birth canals! Better yet, lets ban the female body all together! After we get rid of all women, the world will be a safe place from the dangers of sex. Us men can get back to the good wholesome activities sexually frusterated men always revert to.
Mindless tribal warfare and violence! Wholesome, sweet, good for youth, violence.
Boo to boobs, down with vaginas! Chant it with me now!
It's not that they honestly believe that every single time you download something, they lose a sale. They do know better.
But they do need to cry foul, and keep up the appearances that every single download is a crime, and a lost sale. They are using the same strategy of fear mongering that our government is fond of.
The reasons are simple. If they were to let up and say, ok so some music downloads are ok, but we still think we are losing sales, then their entire basis for legislation is thrown out the window.
I hope it doesn't sound like I'm defending them. I think the RIAA, and cooperations like them, are some of the absolute WORST things about this country.
But I can understand why they are keeping up the public relations stint of crying foul. They don't need music fans to believe them. They just need congress to. As soon as they "convince" congress with their "arguements" ($$$,$$$,$$$) they will get more legislation that will introduce more DRM, and possibly even remove the free-use clauses from current law.
They know full well that some bands are discovered soley through the internet. They just don't care. That is a small drop in the bucket compared to the marketing machine that makes acts like Britney Spears and The Backstreet Boys sucessfull. They don't need underground marketing when they have pepsi jingles and MTV in the middle of time square.
What I can't figure out is why they pay so much for marketing crap bands when we would be just as happy with zero marketing for good bands. We'll find the music on our own. The RIAA could probably make just as much money if they just gave up. But I hope they don't. I hope they legislate themselves into the grave.
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The body would still contain a great amount of mass, and therefore gravity.
Problem one: Pretty much any matter would still be ripped apart when it touches down on the surface (or anywhere near it). Good luck creating equipment that can survive. Basically the only matter that would probably be strong enough to stay cohesive, would be the type of dense matter you could actually get from a neutron star.
Problem two: Assuming you could actually create equipment capable of surviving the gravitational forces of the star, the energy or resources you pull out of the star would not be greater than the energy required to lift it off the star and escape the star's gravity for use. So you'd have to somehow convert it and transfer the energy from afar. Basically the only way to transfer energy from a large body of mass is how all stars do it. Light. So to mine energy from a dead neutron star, you'd want to ship a nebulous cloud of hydrogen right next to it. Wait a good eon or too for the pressure and gravity forces to start up another fusion reaction inside the star. Then you could mine the star from afar... with solar energy. :D
Basically an active star is about the best energy resource phsyics can imagine using the elements we know about. Fusing hydrogen.
Qauntum mechanics gives us a different picture. It basically would describe any matter crossing the event horizon being destroyed and converted into what basically amounts to energy waves with mass. Then, really crazy shit happens. Or, uhh quantum shit rather. It's theorized that the electrons that form these waves cross the event horizon traveling backward in time, scatter, and then radiate out of the black hole traveling forward in time. This is what causes the "black hole evaporation" that Hawking now recongnizes as information leaving a black hole.
Well I hate to nitpick a nitpicker, but actually it is in orbit. Everything everywhere, including galaxies are in some form of orbit. There is some evidence of some black holes orbiting super massive black holes. It just so happens that the gases tangential velocity and/or momentum (gas would have very little) puts it in an orbit where it's perigee (the minimum distance of the orbital path and the orbital body) actually crosses the mass itself. So yes, it is in fact in orbit. Just not a stable one with good eccentric circle :D
Think more relative. The old formula speed = distance over time doesn't fully apply to light since it doesn't care about time. The fact that it took longer due to a curve in space, also means a curve in team, which means technically, in both spaces, light was slowed. Remember, the same phenomenom that changed the space vector also curved time. So while you could technically say: The light beam, or in this case radio beam, was still a relative C velocity, it's momentum and therefore overall speed in our frame of reference was slowed by the time and vector change. I guess the net of it is, we're both right.
Achieving neccesary velocity to not fall into a black hole would be easiest part. Even if we got into some kind of orbit, at near C speeds, you'd never leave. You'd need even closer to C speeds, and if you were near the event horizon, you'd need to actually achieve C to escape, should you ever want to extend your orbit beyond the black holes sphere of influence. IE come home. Which would require infinite energy.
SO in short, I suggest we just stay the hell away from black holes :D
More information is available about this experiment at wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini_probe#Test_of _Einstein.27s_theory_of_general_relativity
And don't ask again, or we'll fine you.
Source?
Since when was gravity ever different? The mass of the Earth, and therefore its gravitional effect, is the same as it was 65 million years ago. Dinosaurs obviously moved and traveled when they were alive.
Or the dumb blokes who watch reality TV show actually thinking those are real people?
I agree with you...
However, the arguement isn't that the movie companies are making enough money. No, that is [enough money] the motivation. The supporting arguement is that they would make more money if it weren't for piracy. Which may or may not be true. That supporting arguement is designed to make them look like the victim, and is for public relations only. Which I don't understand since it just makes them look greedy. The bottom line and main arguement is that despite our opinions on what is right or wrong, the law was broken. Hopefully one day popular opinion and moral consensus will supercede and change laws. We don't live in that day. We live in a day where money changes laws.
Despite the fact that some of you feel we've been ripped off by sub-standard entertainment, it does not change the fact that what occured was illegal.
I personally feel that entertainment is a privelage and not a right. It's not written that we deserve awesome movies all the time, and bad entertainment excuses violation of copyright laws. However evil these companies seem; it is the PUBLIC that funds them. The public complains and complains and complains, but the industry still makes money. Why is that?
Did it ever occur to anyone that if everyone just boycotts all this crap it will go away? Did it ever occur to anyone that you don't HAVE to go see this crap, pirated or not? A lot of people, including me, refuse to buy certain products due to the labor conditions they were created in. Not seeing Star Wars or not buying a RIAA supported album is the same thing.
If a large number of people stop seeing movies, the movie industry dies and gets reborn. Stop bitching and go vote with your money. The consumer still holds all the power. It's really not the movie industries fault that the populas is too involved in BS that they fall for marketing, and mindlessly go see movies. All the while feeling that they are owed entertainment.
Just something I'll never understand...
I'll end this rant with one final thought: If you see a shitty movie, it's no one's fault but your own. You got tricked into it by fancy marketing. Underhanded or not, it's still your fault you got tricked. No one forced you to hand over your buck oh' five for the movie ticket. No one forced you to download it, or to buy it off of a street corner vendor.
A nice outlook, but probably not accurate. In all probability, your GPS link to google maps will also submit data to a local "saftey enforcement" group and when your speed exceeds the limit, you get an automated ticket printed out on your laptop. In your car. While you are still driving.
Of course, cars like BMW will come with "one touch" ticket payments where you can click a button on your steering wheel and pay all tickets drafted from your credit accounts
This is microsoft we're talking about here. And that's not true. I work for a very large PC vendor & I've heard of least 3 non-compete clauses at a VP level being enforced. I've also heard of one being waved.
1. Hire person you don't like.
2. Sneak egregious non-compete clause into hiring agreement.
3. Get hiring agreement signed.
4. Fire person.
5. Wait until they go back to working for an open-source company making even the slightest bit of income.
6. Sue everyone involved.
7. Profit!
8. Dismantle the company, you know, just for kicks.
We make dumb posts that over-simplify and generalize events. This is great commentary.
If you don't have anything worthwhile to post, don't post at all. I know you're just a silly troll, but a lot science has been at the hest of speeding things up and mashing them together to create collisions. Ever heard of a particle accelerator?
I have mod points, but you're already +5. I'd mod you higher if it was allowed. I'm so sick and tired of people thinking they are entitled to entertainment. If you want the movie / music industry to change, stop using their products. Don't buy it, don't steal it, don't even acknowledge they exist.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is called a boycott, and has been proven effective in the past. What "we" are doing today is only fueling the demand by stealing these works.
Wait, I've got it. The people that do the hiring could structure their interviews around determining that their candidates can do the job! What a novel idea.
I don't really do IT work, but there are a lot of certifications in my field. Six Sigma belt certs, PmP certs ect. I've worked for a company that will hire you based on paper, and I've worked for a company that would put you through a multi tiered several day interview process. Complete with shadowing with current employees and then getting feedback from the employees on if the candidate knew their stuff.
Sure, the latter costs more and is a more complex hiring process. But take a guess which hired better candidates that fit the company's needs exactly?
The product was not really defective. The cause for the suit was that Apple failed to advertise the term "rechargable" properly. The batteries are actually failing as specificed by the manufactures of the battery.
This is not really about defective products at all, but deceptive advertising. Deceptive advertising in this case being: Apple's use of the term rechargeable in their advertising, but failing to also specify that the recharges were not infinite and limited.
Most cities will have a few smaller theaters with much better conditions. The screen may not as big, but it is plenty big. Also, the sound systems generally sound much better.
Luckily I also live in Austin Texas, and we have the Drafthouse.
A wonderful theater that serves food and beer. Get a bucket of beer, and a couple pizzas and you're good to go. I don't even care I just dropped 40 bucks at the theater cuz it's just a better experience.
When I'm not seeing a movie at the drafthouse, there is still a nice "normal" theater we go to. It only has like 8 screens, but has all the latest flicks. The screens are big, the sound system is excellent, the conditions are clean, the seats are comfortable, and the ushers will respond to noise complaints. Not that there really are any, the theater is in a kind of a posh shopping center. Any kids there must have good parents, because they are well-behaved. The ticket prices cost
If you have a shitty movie going experience, switch theaters. Stay away from the huge multiplexes and theaters inside malls. Find the good ones. Or start a drafthouse franchise in your city
Nope, they are just going to wing it. According to the article, there aren't even any engineers on the project. Only anime artists who are concerned with making the shape "as arrow as possible".
Kids need to learn that work, which may not be fun, but will end up in a positive pay-out is a neccesary thing in life.
By removing the work-ethic aspect of it, we're teaching kids that if they don't have fun it's not worth doing.
Kids NEED to understand that sometimes you gotta grit your teeth, suck-it-up, and do some work to get a the pay-off.
Unless, that is, we're also planning to make all future activities and work into video games as well.
Can you tell us what is being done to help the faction imbalances on these servers?
Are there any plans to open up battlegrounds to any players who wish to join regardless of faction? Or perhaps faction vs faction guild battle grounds?
What other PvP plans are there for the future?
Except there's no actual proof those same people would have finished college without the existence of the game. Be it Quake, Everquest, World of Warcraft, or competative drinking; people will find whatever excuse neccesary to have a good time on their parents dime under the guise of getting an education. Some kids just aren't ready for college after high school.
Afteralll, it's a Brave New World.
I you were to expose a young infant to a breast, there is no telling how they will turn out.
Every year, thousands, no MILLIONS of America's youth are exposed to breasts at a young age. What's worse, they are exposed to the insides of female genetalia at an even younger age!
We MUST stop this horrible practice of defiling our youth. Ban breast feeding and birth canals! Better yet, lets ban the female body all together! After we get rid of all women, the world will be a safe place from the dangers of sex. Us men can get back to the good wholesome activities sexually frusterated men always revert to.
Mindless tribal warfare and violence! Wholesome, sweet, good for youth, violence.
Boo to boobs, down with vaginas! Chant it with me now!
But they do need to cry foul, and keep up the appearances that every single download is a crime, and a lost sale. They are using the same strategy of fear mongering that our government is fond of.
The reasons are simple. If they were to let up and say, ok so some music downloads are ok, but we still think we are losing sales, then their entire basis for legislation is thrown out the window.
I hope it doesn't sound like I'm defending them. I think the RIAA, and cooperations like them, are some of the absolute WORST things about this country.
But I can understand why they are keeping up the public relations stint of crying foul. They don't need music fans to believe them. They just need congress to. As soon as they "convince" congress with their "arguements" ($$$,$$$,$$$) they will get more legislation that will introduce more DRM, and possibly even remove the free-use clauses from current law.
They know full well that some bands are discovered soley through the internet. They just don't care. That is a small drop in the bucket compared to the marketing machine that makes acts like Britney Spears and The Backstreet Boys sucessfull. They don't need underground marketing when they have pepsi jingles and MTV in the middle of time square.
What I can't figure out is why they pay so much for marketing crap bands when we would be just as happy with zero marketing for good bands. We'll find the music on our own. The RIAA could probably make just as much money if they just gave up. But I hope they don't. I hope they legislate themselves into the grave.