Not really.
A Quick check of Wiki shows that India is definitely not the first or only to have a supersonic cruise missile. This is just India's first... not a world first.
How viable would it be to in say, 25 to 50 years have huge orbiting farming (greenhouse) satellites, fully automated (sorry farmers) and we (er, machines) harvest them year round. Forget the seasonal growing limitations here on earth, and there's no shortage of "real estate" to grow crops on in space, either.
Its obviously not fiesable right now, but if we could get the cost per pound of placing something in orbit down, it could be a reality.
I've wondered this for some time now, and with such developments as VoIP and G3, why don't telco's increase audio fidelity?
I think that if a telephone call could have the same bandwidth as (for example) a 22khz 16bit wav file, then people would feel better about using such archaic technology as the telephone. If 3G phones used more bandwidth for audio, rather than using some crappy lossy compression scheme, more people would think "hey, cool, my new cell phone sounds much better than my landline"
in short, if you can't compete with the same ol' bag of tricks, improve your service so it's at least on par with the competition.
Handicapping competing technologies is a silly way to innovate.
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Not really. A Quick check of Wiki shows that India is definitely not the first or only to have a supersonic cruise missile. This is just India's first... not a world first.
How viable would it be to in say, 25 to 50 years have huge orbiting farming (greenhouse) satellites, fully automated (sorry farmers) and we (er, machines) harvest them year round. Forget the seasonal growing limitations here on earth, and there's no shortage of "real estate" to grow crops on in space, either. Its obviously not fiesable right now, but if we could get the cost per pound of placing something in orbit down, it could be a reality.
I've wondered this for some time now, and with such developments as VoIP and G3, why don't telco's increase audio fidelity?
I think that if a telephone call could have the same bandwidth as (for example) a 22khz 16bit wav file, then people would feel better about using such archaic technology as the telephone. If 3G phones used more bandwidth for audio, rather than using some crappy lossy compression scheme, more people would think "hey, cool, my new cell phone sounds much better than my landline"
in short, if you can't compete with the same ol' bag of tricks, improve your service so it's at least on par with the competition.
Handicapping competing technologies is a silly way to innovate.