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So CNN is trolling it's readers? I can agree with that.
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Donald Gurnett first heard the sounds on a spacecraft in 1962 He was never on a spacecraft, especially in 1962. The only manned flights were Mercury 7 and 8. Would have been better put as "Heard the first recorded space sounds from a spacecraft" or something... CNN yeah thats quality.
You people worry about the strangest things. In the US for example (it may be the same in other countries) theyv'e been tracking you since the day you were born. Ask your mothers how much mail from babyfood and diaper companies she recieved soon after your birth. Then you went to school and got a "permanent record" started. Then you went to work and guess what they used to track you??? Social Security Card.
YOU CANNOT WIN give in. sign up. they will find you anyway you paranoid bastards.
Ok so they do this, Does this "fritz" thingy get installed on all motherboards or just Dells, Hpaq's, Ibm's... It seems to me that if the hardware isn't forced we end up with 2 distinct branches of the computing world. those that will still bow to the MS gods and those who do what the hell they want. Basically nothing changes???
I'm just wondering if it is the Top Troll of all time? Is there a troll hall of fame? Klerk won his induction with that one. I can see it now... Annual Troll of the Year awards...
Mine has run 24/7 for the past 6 months with no problem. my cooling consists of CPU fan, 1 slot fan, PS fan and intake fan in the front of the box. what are you people doing to your drives?
So you are implying that the internet is a device the aliens are using to distract us long enough to sneak onto the planet??? Hrrmm, Al Gore does look a little bit like an alien.
I might have been thinking about the Caspian when I wrote that. I think the thought of the surface area made me think of the Black Sea. Need to dig out the National Geo's or an almanac when I get home to compare surface area.
Better alternatives? (Score:5, Interesting) by NewtonsLaw on Tuesday February 19, @04:01AM (#3030892) (User #409638 Info) Clearly using free-floating weather balloons has a number of limitations and disadvantages.
Now we know that NASA has great plans for its solar-powered airplane -- including acting as a semi-permanent flying repeater-station, but I wonder if smaller, cheaper options might not be available.
For example... what about a much smaller (say 20-30 foot span) autonomous craft designed to soar thermals during the day (while charging its batteries and gaining as much altitude as it can) -- then revert to battery power and/or gradually descend during the hours of darkness.
If the energy required to keep these craft airborn in the longer nights of winter was greater than that availble to be stored during the day then they could carry a fuel-load to power a high-efficiency internal combustion engine (probably a very small diesel engine). Every week or so the craft would have to land for refueling and maintenance -- but that's not a big deal.
Just like the US military's Predator RPV, they could be programmed to land on a runway set aside specially for the purpose.
The cost of a smaller craft, particularly one that wasn't totally reliant on solar-cells, would likely be much less than NASA's efforts -- thus allowing more of them to be built for a given budget.
By using more craft, they could cruise at a much lower altititude than either the weather balloon or the NASA craft.
Using modern composites, low cost GPS, and other "affordable" technologies, such a craft could likely be built for less than US$10K.
Assuming a 50% duty cycle, a fleet of 10 craft could cover a huge area at a much lower cost than towers, and with the ability to dynamically vary the coverage area if required -- simply by repositioning the craft.
I actually got modded up once by cutting and pasting the top five comments from an original story when there was a repeat. heres the kicker. I copied the whole post uid and all and still got modded.
HAH. I read the article but not the blurb. Is that a/. first? The paper is a year old. I wonder what the review of it was or if the prof or assistant even caught it.
I hope you didn't submit this yet... In the abstract you have a sentence: "Our analysis of the model leads to three potential strategies." You then list 4 points. Is this one of those multiple choice papers?
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So CNN is trolling it's readers?
I can agree with that.
Donald Gurnett first heard the sounds on a spacecraft in 1962
He was never on a spacecraft, especially in 1962. The only manned flights were Mercury 7 and 8.
Would have been better put as "Heard the first recorded space sounds from a spacecraft" or something...
CNN yeah thats quality.
You people worry about the strangest things.
In the US for example (it may be the same in other countries) theyv'e been tracking you since the day you were born.
Ask your mothers how much mail from babyfood and diaper companies she recieved soon after your birth.
Then you went to school and got a "permanent record" started.
Then you went to work and guess what they used to track you??? Social Security Card.
YOU CANNOT WIN
give in. sign up. they will find you anyway you paranoid bastards.
Ok so they do this, Does this "fritz" thingy get installed on all motherboards or just Dells, Hpaq's, Ibm's...
It seems to me that if the hardware isn't forced we end up with 2 distinct branches of the computing world. those that will still bow to the MS gods and those who do what the hell they want.
Basically nothing changes???
peace
Bah you forgot to add the Simpsons and Monty Python.
Oh hell he should film the appendices which take up the latter third of ROTK, that will lengthen the movie a bit...
I'm just wondering if it is the Top Troll of all time?
Is there a troll hall of fame?
Klerk won his induction with that one.
I can see it now... Annual Troll of the Year awards...
the ball bearing cartel has very strong connections.
Mine has run 24/7 for the past 6 months with no problem. my cooling consists of CPU fan, 1 slot fan, PS fan and intake fan in the front of the box.
what are you people doing to your drives?
So you are implying that the internet is a device the aliens are using to distract us long enough to sneak onto the planet???
Hrrmm, Al Gore does look a little bit like an alien.
I might have been thinking about the Caspian when I wrote that. I think the thought of the surface area made me think of the Black Sea.
Need to dig out the National Geo's or an almanac when I get home to compare surface area.
with that amount of area wouldn't it be better referred to as an inland sea like the Great Lakes or the Black sea?
It's probably better for his health than some fucktard in a van hitting him.
Better alternatives? (Score:5, Interesting)
by NewtonsLaw on Tuesday February 19, @04:01AM (#3030892)
(User #409638 Info)
Clearly using free-floating weather balloons has a number of limitations and disadvantages.
Now we know that NASA has great plans for its solar-powered airplane -- including acting as a semi-permanent flying repeater-station, but I wonder if smaller, cheaper options might not be available.
For example... what about a much smaller (say 20-30 foot span) autonomous craft designed to soar thermals during the day (while charging its batteries and gaining as much altitude as it can) -- then revert to battery power and/or gradually descend during the hours of darkness.
If the energy required to keep these craft airborn in the longer nights of winter was greater than that availble to be stored during the day then they could carry a fuel-load to power a high-efficiency internal combustion engine (probably a very small diesel engine). Every week or so the craft would have to land for refueling and maintenance -- but that's not a big deal.
Just like the US military's Predator RPV, they could be programmed to land on a runway set aside specially for the purpose.
The cost of a smaller craft, particularly one that wasn't totally reliant on solar-cells, would likely be much less than NASA's efforts -- thus allowing more of them to be built for a given budget.
By using more craft, they could cruise at a much lower altititude than either the weather balloon or the NASA craft.
Using modern composites, low cost GPS, and other "affordable" technologies, such a craft could likely be built for less than US$10K.
Assuming a 50% duty cycle, a fleet of 10 craft could cover a huge area at a much lower cost than towers, and with the ability to dynamically vary the coverage area if required -- simply by repositioning the craft.
I actually got modded up once by cutting and pasting the top five comments from an original story when there was a repeat.
heres the kicker. I copied the whole post uid and all and still got modded.
Damn, I believe you made the first UCB reference on /.
Solid!
why do you store your pr0n 12 dirs deep?
just put it in a dir named "work".
Wives never look in that one.
You totally missed the point of the post.
Read it again slowly and clench your teeth so your lips dont move.
thanks for the link bro, you rule!
somebody mod this fuckin troll up!!
I fear the day Mr. FullOfHate and Mr. Obvious team up as a diabolical duo.
Amen Brother!
How can the first post to note this fact be redundant?
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HAH. I read the article but not the blurb. Is that a /. first?
The paper is a year old.
I wonder what the review of it was or if the prof or assistant even caught it.
I hope you didn't submit this yet...
In the abstract you have a sentence: "Our analysis of the model leads to three potential strategies." You then list 4 points.
Is this one of those multiple choice papers?