It's not a moon nor satellite. It's best described as a companion because the asteriod and earth follow SIMILAR ORBIT around the sun. Nothing more.
It's more complicated than that. Even our Moon, the original satellite, orbits the Sun more than the Earth: The Sun's force on the Moon is larger than the Earth's, so that when the Moon is between the Sun and Earth, it's falling _away_ from Earth.
Yet the Earth's orbit is "straight enough", because it's a really bit circle, that the Moon looks like it's going around us. And so we say that it does.
That really depends:
(If the enemy still has an air defense system of any sort) the A-10 is completely and totally useless, because they're death traps if they might encounter a missile of any kind.
Actually, it does. The Space X escape system may well have been able to separate from the second stage in time. It would still be available at that point.
A true explosion happens a lot faster.
Their numbers work when they encode the positions of all the stars in the Universe to the Planck scale. But there's nothing magic about stars: They're just big (and hot), fluffy objects. What about encoding dust outside stars? The positions of the particles that make up the stars? Etc. And it's not at all clear that the position of a _star_ is meaningful on the Planck scale. So this is all just numerology.
This isn't even the first time a Gilbert Atomic Energy set has been in a museum. There's been one on display in the National Toy Train Museum on Pennsylvania (USA) for quite a while. You can (barely) see it off to the left at the 0:21 mark in this train video: http://nttmuseum.org/exhibits/...
They don't make any extra-ordinary claims about its danger or cost. It's just an example of how people thought about things in a different time.
Xenon makes a nice flash because it's so white. And it's so white because its emission spectra is so wide, going well into the UV. Some lamps filter the UV out, some don't; there's not enough light in a typical photographic flash for the UV to have any impact.
But UV photons are important for upsetting electronics because they have enough energy to pop electrons out of potential wells in silicon/silicon-oxide IC circuits. Visible and IR photons generally don't.
Remember the 2708 series of NVROM memories? They had a transparent window that let you erase them with a UV lamp (and a long wait); regular visible light had no effect on them. The visible photons, for any practical flux, just didn't have enough energy.
Here a better link to the Wall Street Journal article that'll work for non-subscribers.
Summary: Switzerland recently put in place some transparency rules and limits on golden parachutes, etc, but the voters decided against a strict limit on salaries (or. more properly, salary ratio) by a wide margin.
The "maximum lifetime dose" bit is already disproven. The "maximum lifetime dose" isn't a single number, the NRC defines it differently for different ages and populations, but it's typically well above 10rem, often above 20. But 5rem is enough to completely blacken ASA 100 film. Back in the days of vacationers with film cameras, every airplane flight was a test for the "maximum lifetime dose from lightening" hypothesis.
Anybody ever hear of an entire planeload of angry people who'd lost their vacation snapshots? No? Well, there you go.
Yes, it does. And that will determine how bright _all_ the LEDs are. But the LEDs are all getting the same current because they're in series: All of the current goes through one, then the next, then the next. Each gets no more or less current than the others. So, if they're all the same type of LED, they'll all be the same brightness.
The Wired article even got this partly right:
"Chain multiple LEDs through the conductive dough, and you’ll notice the ones at the end are far dimmer than the first few. That’s because less current is making its way down the series; the current only has one path, and that’s through each LED."
I think they were trying to say "as you add more and more LEDs, they get dimmer", not that the LEDs in any particular setup are different from each other.
It's part of a Wiki, but you can't edit it (though it says you can). If you try, you get "The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups trusted, Sysops."
You even get that on the discussion page for that article.
i'm a fucking idiot apparently with a lower chance of dying than you. simply because i have realized an implement whose only use in a household context is the ending of another human life is simply unnecessary
If you believe that everybody would be safer without weapons in homes, that there's no deterrent value to them, then you should be happy to put a large sign on your front door that says "No weapons inside". That would be the practical way for to refute people who like their NRA or "protected by Smith & Wesson" stickers.
But somehow, nobody ever boasts of "Gun free household". Even the most vehement believers in gun control (and I live in Berkeley, where they're pretty think on the ground) just laugh nervously when you hand them a sticker and ask if they'll take it right home and post it. They know that's asking for more trouble than they can handle....
You can also say that there weren't any problems from the TMI accident - unless you consider 40,000 curies of radioactive krypton released to the atmosphere minor. It certainly wasn't as bad as Chernobyl, but 40,000 curies is a lot.
That 40,000 Curies of Krypon-85 released into the atmosphere is _not_ a lot. Don't take my word for it, calculate the consequences and see for yourself.
The expected cancer rate from being exposed to 1pCi/cm3 air for a year results in 1 eventual death per 100,000 people, (ANL writeup: http://www.ead.anl.gov/pub/doc/krypton.pdf) as compared to 20,000 eventual cancer deaths in that population. That's a completely non-detectible increase.
And the only way that 40,000 Curies of Kr-85 you continue to harp on could even reach _that_ negligible dose would be for it to be confined to about a 5km-diameter area for a _year_, without any dispersal. I very much doubt that the weather in Pennsylvania would cooperate.
Seriously, you need to do some calculations before a number like "40,000 Curies" means anything.
Katzer really has used many different legal and illegal tactics to try to kill JMRI. There's a list on the
JMRI web page, along with documentation. The purpose of the suit is to make him stop.
If he hadn't done all those things in the first place, none of this would have been necessary.
I'm the developer who's currently involved in the legal battle over the JMRI software with Matt Katzer.
First, thanks for all the moral and financial support. It's really appreciated.
I'd also like to clarify a couple of points.
I'm working with an attorney, Victoria Hall of Rockville, MD, on this. I'm not a lawyer, and have only a civilian's idea of intellectual property law, so I'm not certain how all this is going to go. But I am absolutely, 100% determined to do whatever I legally can to ensure that Katzer's behavior is not allowed to continue. Originally this was about the damage he was doing to my fellow hobbyists in the model railroad community, but now it's about protecting the rights of open source groups. I simply cannot allow him to succeed in destroying this open-source project, or other people will adopt his tactics.
About anti-SLAPP: I think it is important to point out that Katzer KNEW that the Department of Energy wasn't involved in the JMRI model-railroad project, but he lied in declaration and stated otherwise. Because of the way anti-SLAPP works, the Court had to accept that as fact, and that's the reason Katzer and Russell prevailed. If Katzer had told the truth, none of this would have happened. We left off certain state law claims from the Amended Complaint out of concern that Katzer would again lie his way to another anti-SLAPP award. I paid his legal fees because the Court ordered me to do so, but we intend to seek the return of that money once we show that Katzer lied in his declaration. And we intend to seek criminal charges against Katzer.
For those of you who are lawyers, have lawyers, or are with open source interest groups, we would welcome you to file an amicus brief in support of copyright and license protection for open source groups. Some groups are considering filing amicus briefs, and others are taking a pass during this round.The next hearing is December 15th. For more information, please contact Victoria Hall at victoria@vkhall-law.com.
For those of you in the San Francisco area, it would be great if you could come out and attend the hearing to respectfully support open-source software. The hearing will be held at 9AM in Judge Jeffrey S. White's courtroom, Courtroom 2 on the 17th floor of the Federal Court Building, 450 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco.
For those of you who'd like to hear more as future events unfold, please subscribe to the
"jmri-legal-announce"
mailing list on SourceForge. This will carry short announcements occasionally as news happens; there won't be a lot of traffic. It's not a list for discussion and strategizing; for various reasons, we can't do that on a public list.
Thanks again for the support,
Bob
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Yet again we see free software proponents arguing that other people's work isn't sufficiently pure, and therefore shouldn't be used.
Its as if they believe software should be free, but people shouldn't be free to use the tools that suit them best.
From my point of view, SourceForge provides a service that some people (including myself) find useful. They should be applauded, not hassled.
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It's not a moon nor satellite. It's best described as a companion because the asteriod and earth follow SIMILAR ORBIT around the sun. Nothing more.
It's more complicated than that. Even our Moon, the original satellite, orbits the Sun more than the Earth: The Sun's force on the Moon is larger than the Earth's, so that when the Moon is between the Sun and Earth, it's falling _away_ from Earth. Yet the Earth's orbit is "straight enough", because it's a really bit circle, that the Moon looks like it's going around us. And so we say that it does.
That really depends: (If the enemy still has an air defense system of any sort) the A-10 is completely and totally useless, because they're death traps if they might encounter a missile of any kind.
Like this one did, taking a hit and still flying 120 miles home? http://www.mlive.com/news/kala...
Or this one? http://www.womensmemorial.org/...
Or, best of all, these A-10s that were able to neutralize the threat with tactics and flares: http://theaviationist.com/2015...
The A-10 is loved because it fights despite the threat environment. When the F-35 shows it can do that, perhaps there will be a comparison.
Then the info was doctored. There's no way a shotgun could have taken it down at that distance.
Actually, it does. The Space X escape system may well have been able to separate from the second stage in time. It would still be available at that point. A true explosion happens a lot faster.
Their numbers work when they encode the positions of all the stars in the Universe to the Planck scale. But there's nothing magic about stars: They're just big (and hot), fluffy objects. What about encoding dust outside stars? The positions of the particles that make up the stars? Etc. And it's not at all clear that the position of a _star_ is meaningful on the Planck scale. So this is all just numerology.
This isn't even the first time a Gilbert Atomic Energy set has been in a museum. There's been one on display in the National Toy Train Museum on Pennsylvania (USA) for quite a while. You can (barely) see it off to the left at the 0:21 mark in this train video: http://nttmuseum.org/exhibits/... They don't make any extra-ordinary claims about its danger or cost. It's just an example of how people thought about things in a different time.
Except that covering one chip with some goop that blocks light fixed it. So it's not EMP. It's the light, probably UV.
Xenon makes a nice flash because it's so white. And it's so white because its emission spectra is so wide, going well into the UV. Some lamps filter the UV out, some don't; there's not enough light in a typical photographic flash for the UV to have any impact. But UV photons are important for upsetting electronics because they have enough energy to pop electrons out of potential wells in silicon/silicon-oxide IC circuits. Visible and IR photons generally don't. Remember the 2708 series of NVROM memories? They had a transparent window that let you erase them with a UV lamp (and a long wait); regular visible light had no effect on them. The visible photons, for any practical flux, just didn't have enough energy.
Here a better link to the Wall Street Journal article that'll work for non-subscribers. Summary: Switzerland recently put in place some transparency rules and limits on golden parachutes, etc, but the voters decided against a strict limit on salaries (or. more properly, salary ratio) by a wide margin.
For an interesting declassified report on using the B52/bomb failsafes, see: http://www.ufosnw.com/documents/projectdominic1962/projectdominicreport.pdf
The "maximum lifetime dose" bit is already disproven. The "maximum lifetime dose" isn't a single number, the NRC defines it differently for different ages and populations, but it's typically well above 10rem, often above 20. But 5rem is enough to completely blacken ASA 100 film. Back in the days of vacationers with film cameras, every airplane flight was a test for the "maximum lifetime dose from lightening" hypothesis. Anybody ever hear of an entire planeload of angry people who'd lost their vacation snapshots? No? Well, there you go.
I thought we were talking about Finns. You put enough Finns on anything and it's cool.
Yes, it does. And that will determine how bright _all_ the LEDs are. But the LEDs are all getting the same current because they're in series: All of the current goes through one, then the next, then the next. Each gets no more or less current than the others. So, if they're all the same type of LED, they'll all be the same brightness. The Wired article even got this partly right: "Chain multiple LEDs through the conductive dough, and you’ll notice the ones at the end are far dimmer than the first few. That’s because less current is making its way down the series; the current only has one path, and that’s through each LED." I think they were trying to say "as you add more and more LEDs, they get dimmer", not that the LEDs in any particular setup are different from each other.
It's part of a Wiki, but you can't edit it (though it says you can). If you try, you get "The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups trusted, Sysops." You even get that on the discussion page for that article.
i'm a fucking idiot apparently with a lower chance of dying than you. simply because i have realized an implement whose only use in a household context is the ending of another human life is simply unnecessary
If you believe that everybody would be safer without weapons in homes, that there's no deterrent value to them, then you should be happy to put a large sign on your front door that says "No weapons inside". That would be the practical way for to refute people who like their NRA or "protected by Smith & Wesson" stickers.
But somehow, nobody ever boasts of "Gun free household". Even the most vehement believers in gun control (and I live in Berkeley, where they're pretty think on the ground) just laugh nervously when you hand them a sticker and ask if they'll take it right home and post it. They know that's asking for more trouble than they can handle....
You can also say that there weren't any problems from the TMI accident - unless you consider 40,000 curies of radioactive krypton released to the atmosphere minor. It certainly wasn't as bad as Chernobyl, but 40,000 curies is a lot.
That 40,000 Curies of Krypon-85 released into the atmosphere is _not_ a lot. Don't take my word for it, calculate the consequences and see for yourself.
The expected cancer rate from being exposed to 1pCi/cm3 air for a year results in 1 eventual death per 100,000 people, (ANL writeup: http://www.ead.anl.gov/pub/doc/krypton.pdf) as compared to 20,000 eventual cancer deaths in that population. That's a completely non-detectible increase.
And the only way that 40,000 Curies of Kr-85 you continue to harp on could even reach _that_ negligible dose would be for it to be confined to about a 5km-diameter area for a _year_, without any dispersal. I very much doubt that the weather in Pennsylvania would cooperate.
Seriously, you need to do some calculations before a number like "40,000 Curies" means anything.
Katzer really has used many different legal and illegal tactics to try to kill JMRI. There's a list on the JMRI web page, along with documentation. The purpose of the suit is to make him stop.
If he hadn't done all those things in the first place, none of this would have been necessary.
First, thanks for all the moral and financial support. It's really appreciated.
I'd also like to clarify a couple of points.
I'm working with an attorney, Victoria Hall of Rockville, MD, on this. I'm not a lawyer, and have only a civilian's idea of intellectual property law, so I'm not certain how all this is going to go. But I am absolutely, 100% determined to do whatever I legally can to ensure that Katzer's behavior is not allowed to continue. Originally this was about the damage he was doing to my fellow hobbyists in the model railroad community, but now it's about protecting the rights of open source groups. I simply cannot allow him to succeed in destroying this open-source project, or other people will adopt his tactics.
About anti-SLAPP: I think it is important to point out that Katzer KNEW that the Department of Energy wasn't involved in the JMRI model-railroad project, but he lied in declaration and stated otherwise. Because of the way anti-SLAPP works, the Court had to accept that as fact, and that's the reason Katzer and Russell prevailed. If Katzer had told the truth, none of this would have happened. We left off certain state law claims from the Amended Complaint out of concern that Katzer would again lie his way to another anti-SLAPP award. I paid his legal fees because the Court ordered me to do so, but we intend to seek the return of that money once we show that Katzer lied in his declaration. And we intend to seek criminal charges against Katzer.
For those of you who are lawyers, have lawyers, or are with open source interest groups, we would welcome you to file an amicus brief in support of copyright and license protection for open source groups. Some groups are considering filing amicus briefs, and others are taking a pass during this round.The next hearing is December 15th. For more information, please contact Victoria Hall at victoria@vkhall-law.com.
For those of you in the San Francisco area, it would be great if you could come out and attend the hearing to respectfully support open-source software. The hearing will be held at 9AM in Judge Jeffrey S. White's courtroom, Courtroom 2 on the 17th floor of the Federal Court Building, 450 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco.
For those of you who'd like to hear more as future events unfold, please subscribe to the "jmri-legal-announce" mailing list on SourceForge. This will carry short announcements occasionally as news happens; there won't be a lot of traffic. It's not a list for discussion and strategizing; for various reasons, we can't do that on a public list.
Thanks again for the support,
Bob
Yet again we see free software proponents arguing that other people's work isn't sufficiently pure, and therefore shouldn't be used.
Its as if they believe software should be free, but people shouldn't be free to use the tools that suit them best.
From my point of view, SourceForge provides a service that some people (including myself) find useful. They should be applauded, not hassled.