What if a prankster did drop one of these in the ocean and it wasn't equipped with any transmitters. Imagine the S&R effort! You'd only know a general 3D radii of where it should be located based on the speed of the robot but would have no idea which direction it had gone. I wonder if there is forensic evidence which could allow the searchers to follow the trail of the runaway robot fish??????
Besides, those missiles that COULD reach those altitudes and can pack enough punch to bring an airship down and lie within the zone of vulnerability will probably be destroyed by preparatory fire before the cargo aircraft fly in.
Good point. This brings back the dogfight in a sense. Modern air-to-air warfare (if it ever happens) doctrine, I would imagine, focuses on the missile as opposed to the Gatling guns. With today's superfast fighters Within Visual Range warfare would be very difficult. However, since lasers travel at the speed of light I can foresee future 'dogfights' where our fighters use the modern day Gatling gun, a laser. Let's hope the lasers stay on our side and aren't exported to China and Russia somehow
Granted, it's better to be invisible to radar and visual ID but with todays anti-air weapons and countermeasures visual sight of a target has little to do with whether you'll be able to shoot it down, especially with our Fighter and Attack aircraft. An F-22 can be lit up like a Christmas tree but you'll still have a hard time knocking it down.
That's quite alot but I can definitely see where elephants could be a nuisance as they move onto cultivated lands. Also, it is important to consider how much of this 266,000 square miles is continuous?
story. Yes, future launches should be postponed until the problem of falling tiles(off of the rocket booster) can be solved satisfactorily. However, I am more worried about the chunk of shuttle that fell off of the orbiter.
Since the launch of the original Playstation Sony's financial statements have curiously avoided stating # of consoles/games that were actually sold. Rather, they would speak of the # of units shipped that quarter. Be mindful of this language usage as it can be very deceiving. The number of units shipped has little to do with the number sold.
"Speaking of language and "humanity", which is more human: a human raised by wolves [wikipedia.org] or an ape that's learned sign language [wikipedia.org]?"
God created the man as a man so naturally he is a human. As far as perspectives and thought processes he might be more animal than the ape who learned a form of human communication.
The idea of a human brain (and mind?) developing in a non-human skull was discussed when mice were the subject of choice. It was generally agreed that the size of a mouse's skull and therefore the size of the human/mouse brain would not result in a creature with thought processes similar to a human's. Now I am not familiar with the diameter of a sheep's skull compared to a human's but they're pretty close. What WOULD happen if a "human brain" was grown in a sheep?????
Wow! I must have been under a rock these past few years. I thought the only extra-solar system stellar object to be imaged with as much clarity as this photo of a Brown Dwarf (w/ companion planet) was Betelgeuse! What other stars have been resolved so that you can make out or almost make out the disk????
There are a few game composers who I want to see working on soundtracks for films. Joel McNeely(Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire) would have been my replacement if John Williams croaked. I desperately would like to see Koji Kondo(Mario,Zelda) and Nubuo Uematsu(Final Fantasy series) making movie soundtracks.
Fortunately there is the case of the Spielberg prodigy Michael Giacchino who scored the Medal of Honor series. He has done work on tv shows such as Alias and Lost and composed the soundtrack for Pixar's Invincibles. He will score the next Mission Impossible film with Tom Cruise.
I am sure some of the elite units are trained in airborne rescue missions. The services have special ops guys who among other things perform daring rescues. Not quite Rambo, rah-rah stuff you see in the movies but still things you should never try at home.
There are so many other interesting ideas out there. Why spend tens(hundreds) of millions on a mapping of the so-called interstellar boundary. Besides, it's not like they're going to the Oort Cloud. Why not revisit Venus, send a probe to Io, plug that money into Pluto Express. I can't see how anyone can be too enthusiastic about this mission. lilmac558@gmail.com
Nothing we know of zips along more quickly than light. Einstein, nearly 100 years ago, said it's not possible. For us, the speed limit makes strange sense: Go faster than light, and you could return before you've left, become your own grandpa, or other perform other leaps of cosmic logic.
Why is it that an object would go back in time if it travelled faster than c? It sounds like light is this all-powerful substance that dictates time. Why is c the fasted known speed?
Underwhelming and disappointing pictures lead to public apathy. I sure hope someone renders these images in more detail than what are provided in the link.
I suggest reading Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. It was written by an African American academician and explores the disparities between blacks and whites/asians. His conclusions differ from the Bells Curve theory but are equally, if not more, persuading.
I thought the NBA 2K series was better than the NBA Live games. Even the venerable Madden football games had a VERY SLIGHT edge over the NFL 2K games. I hope Sega can hold on...
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What if a prankster did drop one of these in the ocean and it wasn't equipped with any transmitters. Imagine the S&R effort! You'd only know a general 3D radii of where it should be located based on the speed of the robot but would have no idea which direction it had gone. I wonder if there is forensic evidence which could allow the searchers to follow the trail of the runaway robot fish??????
Besides, those missiles that COULD reach those altitudes and can pack enough punch to bring an airship down and lie within the zone of vulnerability will probably be destroyed by preparatory fire before the cargo aircraft fly in.
Good point. This brings back the dogfight in a sense. Modern air-to-air warfare (if it ever happens) doctrine, I would imagine, focuses on the missile as opposed to the Gatling guns. With today's superfast fighters Within Visual Range warfare would be very difficult. However, since lasers travel at the speed of light I can foresee future 'dogfights' where our fighters use the modern day Gatling gun, a laser. Let's hope the lasers stay on our side and aren't exported to China and Russia somehow
Granted, it's better to be invisible to radar and visual ID but with todays anti-air weapons and countermeasures visual sight of a target has little to do with whether you'll be able to shoot it down, especially with our Fighter and Attack aircraft. An F-22 can be lit up like a Christmas tree but you'll still have a hard time knocking it down.
That's quite alot but I can definitely see where elephants could be a nuisance as they move onto cultivated lands. Also, it is important to consider how much of this 266,000 square miles is continuous?
story. Yes, future launches should be postponed until the problem of falling tiles(off of the rocket booster) can be solved satisfactorily. However, I am more worried about the chunk of shuttle that fell off of the orbiter.
Since the launch of the original Playstation Sony's financial statements have curiously avoided stating # of consoles/games that were actually sold. Rather, they would speak of the # of units shipped that quarter. Be mindful of this language usage as it can be very deceiving. The number of units shipped has little to do with the number sold.
I shudder to ponder how much education and experience one will need to build/operate/maintain spaceships and flying buses during the Jetson's era.
"Speaking of language and "humanity", which is more human: a human raised by wolves [wikipedia.org] or an ape that's learned sign language [wikipedia.org]?" God created the man as a man so naturally he is a human. As far as perspectives and thought processes he might be more animal than the ape who learned a form of human communication.
The idea of a human brain (and mind?) developing in a non-human skull was discussed when mice were the subject of choice. It was generally agreed that the size of a mouse's skull and therefore the size of the human/mouse brain would not result in a creature with thought processes similar to a human's. Now I am not familiar with the diameter of a sheep's skull compared to a human's but they're pretty close. What WOULD happen if a "human brain" was grown in a sheep?????
Wow! I must have been under a rock these past few years. I thought the only extra-solar system stellar object to be imaged with as much clarity as this photo of a Brown Dwarf (w/ companion planet) was Betelgeuse! What other stars have been resolved so that you can make out or almost make out the disk????
...and create even more space junk (assuming this battle happens in Earth orbit)
I wonder what the verdict will be should the technology performs better than expected during the close proximity testing.
1. "Sir, we just collided with a $400 million satellite"
2. Success!
Yea, where's the so called denuded Amazonian rainforest. It looks great.
But you are no Jedi yet.
There are a few game composers who I want to see working on soundtracks for films. Joel McNeely(Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire) would have been my replacement if John Williams croaked. I desperately would like to see Koji Kondo(Mario,Zelda) and Nubuo Uematsu(Final Fantasy series) making movie soundtracks. Fortunately there is the case of the Spielberg prodigy Michael Giacchino who scored the Medal of Honor series. He has done work on tv shows such as Alias and Lost and composed the soundtrack for Pixar's Invincibles. He will score the next Mission Impossible film with Tom Cruise.
I am sure some of the elite units are trained in airborne rescue missions. The services have special ops guys who among other things perform daring rescues. Not quite Rambo, rah-rah stuff you see in the movies but still things you should never try at home.
Gamecube's project name was the inspiration for my moniker...honest
There are so many other interesting ideas out there. Why spend tens(hundreds) of millions on a mapping of the so-called interstellar boundary. Besides, it's not like they're going to the Oort Cloud. Why not revisit Venus, send a probe to Io, plug that money into Pluto Express. I can't see how anyone can be too enthusiastic about this mission. lilmac558@gmail.com
Nothing we know of zips along more quickly than light. Einstein, nearly 100 years ago, said it's not possible. For us, the speed limit makes strange sense: Go faster than light, and you could return before you've left, become your own grandpa, or other perform other leaps of cosmic logic.
Why is it that an object would go back in time if it travelled faster than c? It sounds like light is this all-powerful substance that dictates time. Why is c the fasted known speed?
You don't?? You're fortunate. I do, during the warmer months, when I want to leave the windows open (with screens in the window of course)
Want to repel mosquitos? A fan and baby powder works just fine.
Underwhelming and disappointing pictures lead to public apathy. I sure hope someone renders these images in more detail than what are provided in the link.
I suggest reading Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. It was written by an African American academician and explores the disparities between blacks and whites/asians. His conclusions differ from the Bells Curve theory but are equally, if not more, persuading.
I thought the NBA 2K series was better than the NBA Live games. Even the venerable Madden football games had a VERY SLIGHT edge over the NFL 2K games. I hope Sega can hold on...