dig a canal from the mediterranian to the dead sea. 810 square km surface area, 422 metres below sea level - a very decent volume...
think it worked out to be (conservatively - assuming no gradient, i.e. surrounded by vertical cliffs) something like a 2mm drop for the world as a whole.
could generate a bit of hydro-electricity along the way...
50 launches? thats 400 tonnes a launch, not 400 kilos... Plus the ISS has a mass of 303,663kg as of june 10th - that would take 674 launches at 450kg a launch with no loss (so say 1,000 to be remotely realistic).
If we could launch once an hour that would take just over a month. not bad at all... the question to ask, what is the cost per launch and how often could you launch?
In any case a space colony to support 100 people could be made much lighter... scaleability and all... probably half what you suggest... but a couple of years doesnt seem unfeasible to get something together... if youre working over a decade and are happy to build a couple of these guys (maybe scale it up if it works well? could get lower G's with a longer tube for slighly more delicate objects...) then you could build something a lot more substantial than anything currently feasibly.
We'd still need classical launches for people, etc, but for building materials, resupply, blah, this would be very useful.
question - what would be the feasibility of heating up x litres of water to whatever temperature and to whatever pressure and use that as a propulsion jet to get up to stupidly high speed?
what does the record define as a steam engine? does the engine have to be carried in the vehicle or can the water be pre-heated? how would this compare to a compressed air engine?
Havent used magnetic strips in years... All about the chips these days. (Chip & Pin)
On another not, completely agreed, having coins is a nightmare, different meters around London have different coins that they accept and some of them are pretty expensive... I, for one, would not want to be carrying around £16 in the form of 8 coins at best or 80 at worst.
The benefit over here is that there's a regulation stating that there has to be a meter within 30 metres of each space and I have yet to see a queue...
EXACTLY!!! There was an issue not that long ago regarding sexism inside the IOC - my first thought was "WTF? Isn't this the competition that they are still forcing the sexes to compete seperately?"
then again, that would mean that women would be more or less completely exluded from many sports...
How about mobile phones? Each one has fixed hardware, having such a small footprint and that type of efficiency would be nothing short of phenomenal...
Phones are getting more and more bloated, if we could get something like this running on them and some dedicated coders energy efficiency could be improved massively for a given workload.
So either we could have much more powerful software (blah) or substantially extended battery lives (well... need to work on the screen some more but the CPU on phones these days is starting to get quite hungry too)
3) use their sentences at random to reply to examiners question
4) ?????
5 profit...
it might not be easy to appear to be a sobre intelligent human, however telling the difference between a stoned teanager and something sprewing forth random crap is not as easy...
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No, That would be Tourette Syndrome...
oh wait! how about: ...because everyone knows that Europeans already live in a bubble, so the transition should be no problem for them.
are you f*cking kidding me? compared to who?
Just make sure you use children!
Turn based? (chess? civilisation?)
actually did the calculations a while back...
dig a canal from the mediterranian to the dead sea. 810 square km surface area, 422 metres below sea level - a very decent volume...
think it worked out to be (conservatively - assuming no gradient, i.e. surrounded by vertical cliffs) something like a 2mm drop for the world as a whole.
could generate a bit of hydro-electricity along the way...
would someone kindly explain how this is "troll"?
Moving from 98 to XP wasnt a big issue...
Moving from 2000 to XP was...
50 launches? thats 400 tonnes a launch, not 400 kilos... Plus the ISS has a mass of 303,663kg as of june 10th - that would take 674 launches at 450kg a launch with no loss (so say 1,000 to be remotely realistic).
If we could launch once an hour that would take just over a month. not bad at all... the question to ask, what is the cost per launch and how often could you launch?
In any case a space colony to support 100 people could be made much lighter... scaleability and all... probably half what you suggest... but a couple of years doesnt seem unfeasible to get something together... if youre working over a decade and are happy to build a couple of these guys (maybe scale it up if it works well? could get lower G's with a longer tube for slighly more delicate objects...) then you could build something a lot more substantial than anything currently feasibly.
We'd still need classical launches for people, etc, but for building materials, resupply, blah, this would be very useful.
do you have a scanned page/photo to see what this looks like?
GEEKS REJOICE!!!
When will people understand that making science popular through education isnt the way?!
We need another cold war... and James Bond to have cool gadgets again, what the hell happened to those?!
How do you define "economy"?
Isn't it all relative?
Compare a bus ticket, to a plane ticket, to a cruise ticket...
question - what would be the feasibility of heating up x litres of water to whatever temperature and to whatever pressure and use that as a propulsion jet to get up to stupidly high speed?
what does the record define as a steam engine? does the engine have to be carried in the vehicle or can the water be pre-heated? how would this compare to a compressed air engine?
... support of the porn industry
Havent used magnetic strips in years... All about the chips these days. (Chip & Pin)
On another not, completely agreed, having coins is a nightmare, different meters around London have different coins that they accept and some of them are pretty expensive... I, for one, would not want to be carrying around £16 in the form of 8 coins at best or 80 at worst.
The benefit over here is that there's a regulation stating that there has to be a meter within 30 metres of each space and I have yet to see a queue...
EXACTLY!!! There was an issue not that long ago regarding sexism inside the IOC - my first thought was "WTF? Isn't this the competition that they are still forcing the sexes to compete seperately?"
then again, that would mean that women would be more or less completely exluded from many sports...
I havent RTFA but...
females tend to be depressed
males tend to be overweight
sounds about right for the USA... is there a control for this based on the gaming + non-gaming demographic?
How about mobile phones? Each one has fixed hardware, having such a small footprint and that type of efficiency would be nothing short of phenomenal...
Phones are getting more and more bloated, if we could get something like this running on them and some dedicated coders energy efficiency could be improved massively for a given workload.
So either we could have much more powerful software (blah) or substantially extended battery lives (well... need to work on the screen some more but the CPU on phones these days is starting to get quite hungry too)
I for one welcome our new bloat-free overlords
*WHOOSH*
Ahh... The daily american tradition of filing lawsuits...
How is this different from "unlocking" parts of a game after achieving certain achievements?
"you dies 10 times by falling - you now have access to level x"
On another note: http://armorgames.com/play/2893/achievement-unlocked/
Statistics are like a bikini...
What they reveal is suggestive
What they conceal is vital
the wood-based artificial bones flex slightly much like real bone
oh, come on... i expect terrible sentence structure in posts, but in submissions? it's seeping EVERYWHERE!
1) get many, many teenagers VERY stoned
2) get them on IRC
3) use their sentences at random to reply to examiners question
4) ?????
5 profit...
it might not be easy to appear to be a sobre intelligent human, however telling the difference between a stoned teanager and something sprewing forth random crap is not as easy...
Spunklings