Yep but in most recent games you also have a rate setting that allows you to use more bw ifyou have a better connection. But having 70 users all knowing the rate setting and all going to play at the same time seems a bit weird.
It is true that building the space elecator would allow us to do lots of things, including making lenses in 0 grav, which i think should allow us to make far better and far wider lenses than we have already.
However the problem remains with the project that not only it is economically impossible to realise, but it is not even technically possible, and might not be for a very long time.
I don't have the reference nor the time to look it up, but i remember reading that only carbon nano tubes could be used to realise the cable for the space elevator. Now, a few days ago there was that funny little post on slashdot about nanotubes exploding after a flash of light, so that's it for the space elevator.
in addition i am not even sure your 12 satellites could perform so well, there are too many variables in the orbits calculus, which would make it virtually impossible to have them move in a precise formation, not to say that between mars and jupiter we have a nice little asteroid belt ( therefore high particle density).. guess what a dust particle could do to your lenses not to mention a rock the size of your fist.
However we still have to remember that one of these ice cap is not over water but over land , the volume of this end cap (the south one if i remember correctly and yes i am too lazy to check) will add to the volume of the ocean so the level should rise
take it like this if you prefer
if you put an ice cube in a glass when it melts, the level of the watr won't rise now take the same glass and put the ice cube on a fork over the glass and watch how the level of the water rises (if the glass is big enough you can put the fork just level with the water put the ice cube over it and watch the fork be submerged)
sorry for our friends from netherland but the full melting of both ice cap would make the general level of oceans rise
is the penguin so slooowww! only 73km/h as maximum speed (at least on the screenshot) if not fun enough, i hope they will have introduced a bonus to boost it up to 300km/h:)
Are not the things we create naturual? (Would not you consider the damns created by beavers natural?)
no, most of what we create is not natural, on the contrary to what animals create, animals create no more than needed to satify their needs, and everything they create is integrated into the natural environnement and contributes to the ecosystem diversity.
on the contrary human creates more than he needs, and even creates virtual needs so he can justify creating even more, i don't say art is wrong (though it is most unnatural), nor that i don't like having a chilled coke, but what i say is that these things are definitely not natural. It often takes years after a new product is introduced to take in account its effects on our environnement and even then it takes years before negativ effects are reduced to an acceptable level.
take chemicals, cars, nuclear wastes... all made from natural materials and combined in unnatural ways to fit our purposes, becoming dangerous for the environnement.
I do say we should be more careful of our environnement which would avoid having to use money to prevent us from fallin in the extinct species category, i don't say we must abandon all technology, just that we must use our knowledge to have it both ways (and i am sure it can be done)
BTW have the modified files been published?
if not infogram hasn't lost any money yet, and it would have been a better move for them to exploit the fan's work to speed up their translation and boost their christmas sales instead of undertaking a useless and shameful attack on these guys.
Well maybe i missed some important point here and infogram's gail is not to make money but to prove the world it can make a release all by itself even though they are slow to it
Why should the crater have to be on earth surface?
Since most of earth is covered with water AFAIK, an asteroid would most probably fall in an ocean.
Nom I remember my geology courses well enough, the ocean floor is "replaced" (subduction...) much faster than earth surface. Added to that the energy released into the crust would be much reduced thanks to the water absorbing a good deal of it.
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ask the Jedi council surely eveyone trusts je the jedis :)
Yep but in most recent games you also have a rate setting that allows you to use more bw ifyou have a better connection.
But having 70 users all knowing the rate setting and all going to play at the same time seems a bit weird.
ever asked a dinosaur about noone being hit by an asteroid? :p
i don't think it would agree with your stats
It is true that building the space elecator would allow us to do lots of things, including making lenses in 0 grav, which i think should allow us to make far better and far wider lenses than we have already. However the problem remains with the project that not only it is economically impossible to realise, but it is not even technically possible, and might not be for a very long time. I don't have the reference nor the time to look it up, but i remember reading that only carbon nano tubes could be used to realise the cable for the space elevator. Now, a few days ago there was that funny little post on slashdot about nanotubes exploding after a flash of light, so that's it for the space elevator. in addition i am not even sure your 12 satellites could perform so well, there are too many variables in the orbits calculus, which would make it virtually impossible to have them move in a precise formation, not to say that between mars and jupiter we have a nice little asteroid belt ( therefore high particle density) .. guess what a dust particle could do to your lenses not to mention a rock the size of your fist.
sorry hadn't seen all the comments
However we still have to remember that one of these ice cap is not over water but over land , the volume of this end cap (the south one if i remember correctly and yes i am too lazy to check) will add to the volume of the ocean so the level should rise take it like this if you prefer if you put an ice cube in a glass when it melts, the level of the watr won't rise now take the same glass and put the ice cube on a fork over the glass and watch how the level of the water rises (if the glass is big enough you can put the fork just level with the water put the ice cube over it and watch the fork be submerged) sorry for our friends from netherland but the full melting of both ice cap would make the general level of oceans rise
is the penguin so slooowww! only 73km/h as maximum speed (at least on the screenshot) if not fun enough, i hope they will have introduced a bonus to boost it up to 300km/h :)
Are not the things we create naturual? (Would not you consider the damns created by beavers natural?) no, most of what we create is not natural, on the contrary to what animals create, animals create no more than needed to satify their needs, and everything they create is integrated into the natural environnement and contributes to the ecosystem diversity.
on the contrary human creates more than he needs, and even creates virtual needs so he can justify creating even more, i don't say art is wrong (though it is most unnatural), nor that i don't like having a chilled coke, but what i say is that these things are definitely not natural. It often takes years after a new product is introduced to take in account its effects on our environnement and even then it takes years before negativ effects are reduced to an acceptable level.
take chemicals, cars, nuclear wastes... all made from natural materials and combined in unnatural ways to fit our purposes, becoming dangerous for the environnement. I do say we should be more careful of our environnement which would avoid having to use money to prevent us from fallin in the extinct species category, i don't say we must abandon all technology, just that we must use our knowledge to have it both ways (and i am sure it can be done)
BTW have the modified files been published?
if not infogram hasn't lost any money yet, and it would have been a better move for them to exploit the fan's work to speed up their translation and boost their christmas sales instead of undertaking a useless and shameful attack on these guys.
Well maybe i missed some important point here and infogram's gail is not to make money but to prove the world it can make a release all by itself even though they are slow to it
Why should the crater have to be on earth surface? Since most of earth is covered with water AFAIK, an asteroid would most probably fall in an ocean. Nom I remember my geology courses well enough, the ocean floor is "replaced" (subduction...) much faster than earth surface. Added to that the energy released into the crust would be much reduced thanks to the water absorbing a good deal of it.