New Aluminum Cell batteries by Europositron should take care of the battery issue to some degree, they are far and away many times better than what we use now .
282 miles per gallon for a non hybrid is pretty amazing even if it is a small car made with expensive parts .
Very posssible to make one twice as big with parts that weigh , 50% more , and still hit gas mileage near 100 mpg w/o it being a hybrid . As a hybrid prolly over 100 mpg .
Bio-disel from algae would solve the fuel issue , and burns cleaner .
* Soybean: 40 to 50 US gal/acre (40 to 50 m/km)
* Rapeseed: 110 to 145 US gal/acre (100 to 140 m/km)
* Mustard: 140 US gal/acre (130 m/km)
* Jatropha: 175 US gal/acre (160 m/km)
* Palm oil: 650 US gal/acre (610 m/km) [2]
* Algae: 10,000 to 20,000 US gal/acre (10,000 to 20,000 m/km)
As you can see the Algae outperforms by a massive amount .
We just need a Apollo program level of devotion to it .
University of Wisconsin has a working 3HE reactor, he fuel is just the issue, the moon is the answer.
Helium-3 on the moon, and the new finding of altering Hydrogen atoms molecular orbits in a manner unknown before and pointing to fundamental errors in physics/Calculus .
Keep in mind he has had some peer review on this before chucking it on the bone pile .
The Algae that makes enormous amounts of oil for biodiesel and other uses also gives as a short term methodolgy vs. drilling for oil . It also burns cleaner .
* Soybean: 40 to 50 US gal/acre (40 to 50 m/km)
* Rapeseed: 110 to 145 US gal/acre (100 to 140 m/km)
* Mustard: 140 US gal/acre (130 m/km)
* Jatropha: 175 US gal/acre (160 m/km)
* Palm oil: 650 US gal/acre (610 m/km) [2]
* Algae: 10,000 to 20,000 US gal/acre (10,000 to 20,000 m/km)
By the time the moonbase is built it will be more like 20 years .
I think we could send robots to the moon to dig tunnels and setup power panels to extract oxygen from the lunar soil/rock, but it is STILL gonna be decades before the seething bureaucracy can go from first square to last square .
Bush and his family will be a distant memory, Ppl are not going to elect another republican according to the polls so your gonna get Billary or Skerry.
We are hitching rides to ISS right now due to the shuttle problems .
I do not take the US seriously when it comes to anything anymore, and I was born and raised here, and live here now 40 yrs on .
I served in the military, and one word comes to mind, "FUBAR" .
I worked on Missile Guidance Radar for a Experimental weapons test platform SM2-ER.
Another word comes to mind "sad", they loaded a missile with the vertical launch bit set for a Aegis class cruiser , they damn thing did a hard turn in front of the ship and damn near hit the masthead where I was standing wearing a gas mask as a observer . I nearly crapped my pants .
The turnover rate on my ship was over 70% it was so bad .
Power tripping senoir military, Dear john letters, drunken madness at every port, we had a few suicides and a few suspected shark feedings of ppl that were not liked .
When at sea hard steamin we were 12 on 12 off 7 days a week with heavy seas as often as calms ones .
For a lot ppl the military is not there first choice, it is their last choice .
We were the 2nd most underway ship on the east coast in the late 80's, and our Mustang Capt was bucking for Admiral . So we'd go float every chance he got .
Advice to ppl, join the military if you FULLY understand what your getting into, talk to a lot of former military before you take the plunge .
Advice for ppl join the navy, careful who you piss off, 1,000 miles from land at night you too can be shark food .
I think 40 million is a little on the conservative side .
I am thinking it is more than that, corporate provided health care is at a all new low and the 35,000 just cut at GM , and the 20,000+ to be cut at Delphi as the "first" domino effect of it are joining those ranks .
The DOT COM BUST alone put I don't know how many ppl out of work, but I am pretty sure it is a huge number .
Also in the US alone illegal immigrants is now over 35 million .
When GM shutters 9 plants, ppl are not buying cars from them, and ppl in general are finding times a bit thin unless they are top of the tier .
The lowly worker serfs are left to pick up the scraps .
If they cant ship the jobs overseas they will ship ppl here from overseas under the absolutely wonderful unlimited L1 visa program .
I am beginning to think it is just a race to the bottom, and we have no idea how low the bottom is if we cannot compete with countries that have few to near zero workers rights .
So I am pretty sure ur 40 million is quite conservative .
I served in the US military on a weapons test platform built on a old DLG destroyer renamed a CG cruiser class, think vietnam era .
The ship was nearly 25 yrs old and in bad shape .
Needless to say we are not anywhere near a 100% target rate .
Taking it a step further, if we have had more than one shuttle blow up just trying to fly we are in VERY sad shape if a alien race did decide to take us out .
I think what you see in "War of the Worlds" would be a friggin joke compared to pinpoint strikes from space by a Instellar Battleship with multiple fusion reactors .
Cloaking technology maybe ??? I think if they didn't want us to see them they could do that as well, even our gimp tech has stealth .
We have a weak version of the cloak due to a US general wanting the predator tech .
I think the might just bombard the earth with short lived radiation that affects certain DNA strands and leave the planet completely unscathed but devoid of humans .
What they "could" do is so far and beyond what we can imagine, we would be stunned .
Hell one guy in scooter could fly by and release a bio weapon and we wouldn't even know, imagine what their molecular biologists could design .
Poof bye humans !
We better hope that so called aliens that can wormhole across the universe are friendly or else we are so very very screwed .
NYC is not a cheap place to live, and it is not a place most ppl would consider for relocation for MANY reasons .
The cost of living there is one of the highest in the nation as are the taxes there .
You have to buy/lease parking spaces at a VERY high price in most of the city center .
Traffic is UNREAL, and crime is pretty substantial .
With IT jobs receiving right-sizing and right-pricing thru the not enough workers FUD that was falsely pushed thru congress, A "C++ coder" will choose almost any other location other than NYC for home unless he is from there and likes it there .
A LOT of HR departments also have a extreme method of filtering applicants, and some are openly looking for Visa workers looking for a xfer here in the US .
Visa workers tend to work past 7 pm for salary when deportation looms over them .
I saw many of these fear/incentive tactics used on Indians, Pakistanis, and Chinese while at Cisco Systems in Herndon Virginia working in their Voice over Ip lab there .
Keep in mind H1-b is just one type in a alphabet soup of visa's .
With the L1 visa #'s being unlimited still to this day .
It is all a cheap labor scam, and the never ending race for the bottom .
GM's 35,000 jobs cut, and Delphi as a GM supplier cutting 20,000+ is just the creaking sound before the crash , and trust me it's on the way .
Until they can get the labor laws revoked, and wages driven down to compete with 3rd world wages the downsizing of US industry of all types is going into over drive .
Our government is not for the ppl by the ppl, but for the Corporation by the Campaign funding and graft.
The US has failed to learn from the fall of Rome, and the Bread and Circuses has the masses distracted with the latest mongoloid chasing a animal skin inflated with air or filled with string .
Million dollar reality TV shows that have nothing to do with the reality of the average american .
The IT sellout is just a small sample of the total sellout of the manufacturing sector, and the Electronics sector, and anything and everything they can near/out-source .
They care not for their own, and spite those that buy their products and live next to them in hopes of squeezing a few dollars more to push that stock price a few dollars higher .
But they cannot see that when the neighbor cannot buy their product because his job was outsourced, then it will effect their long term recurring profits .
And thus they will reap what they sow, and if ppl can't see it I say they are blind .
There are too many dead zones between major cities .
Great distances of rural farmland .
http://www.locustworld.com/ is a awesome idea, and they have done some great things, but there are many places off the coast where distances between cities is greater than the range of WiFi unless u use the ballon trick .
But long shots in the midwest are going to have to route via conventional telecom unless we setup telecommunications WiFi ballons .
www.21stcenturyairships.com
Someone has to pay for them... At least they are cheaper than satellites and fly high enough to avoid all wind .
Oh, what is Paris wearing , we can't get the routers to route or the servers to serve with the latest Avante Garde' !!!!!
Yeah right, and plumbers and electricians are Johnny GQ too .
Mechanical Engineers working with metal cutting lathes look pristine too .
If fashion is the yardstick you measure your IT infrastructure by, then I'd say your fate is predetermined .
Some good geek types dress well, but to most, appearances are just a charade .
Social camouflage...
Based on appearances the days Einstein looked dishelved they would have relegated him to the loser bracket as well . Sam Walton was not a snappy dresser, and he made Wal-mart .
1) War is usually between 2 or more countries . 2) At this time the countries supporting Osama are somewhat anonymous . 3) War "by the rules" with a enemy that beheads unarmed women for PR is not goin to work . 4) Freedom of Speech in its purest form has NEVER existed, period, and it NEVER will . 5) The human capacity for hate FAR exceeds the capacity for compassion and caring . 6) Humans are destructive by nature . 7) Humans are hard wired for power, control, domination, and greed . 8) No government run by humans has been free of corruption or hypocrisy . 9) Elitism seeks to subjugate the masses to sustain their plutocracy . 10)The worst is yet to come .
There are always exceptions to the rules, but you will find all of what I have said above if you look at the past .
Tibet, Switzerland and a few other peaceful nations are the RARE exception in the past .
Until humans chose to face their inner demons and seek a solution for all mankind together, we will be doomed to repeat history as we have not learned from it .
It is not vaporware, they are making progress, and they are picking up sponsors and interested parties .
Apple obviously saw the potential, but their motives were quetioned so they got put on the back burner .
I think as to open source, they are referring to when ever it is possible .
Hardware by and large is not, as of yet .
As to MIT designing their own, you could say the same for a free *nix kernel, but that didn't happen either did it ????
As long as they show progress, and the # of "sincerely" dedicated ppl/countries/organizations continue to rise it is possible for them to succeed .
Bigger projects have had smaller beginnings, aka Linux & GNU .
Laptops used to be inordinately expensive, but are now under $400 for a 1 ghz refurb per www.pricewatch.com .
A lower end model with a 500 - 800 mhz cpu should be doable for a fair bit less, and with it being built smaller than a regular full size laptop it will have lower material costs .
Right now the majority of the world cannot afford a computer, if they could they could receive the knowledge of all books in the public domain translated to their language .
It has the power to change the world drastically in less than 20 years .
I just hope they build them to last, and it is a sustainable idea .
What they need is a team of top flight CCIE's that also have the high end network design cert, AND a SONET/ATM telecom team of experts .
Between the Telco ppl and the network ppl, as they often do not master both sides of the fence, they should be able to sort it out .
A real time world wide traffic analysis tool would really help too , so bottlenecks could be flagged , and then those corps that are too cheap to upgrade them can be helped by the other corps effected by said bottleneck .
Diet and excercise, there, mean "near starvation" and "work all day in the fields".
Yeah, you got a DAMN good point there .
They serve and sell insects in a lot of asian countries because they simply do not have enough food to go around .
I think some modern science and mass distributed knowledge to the rural poor of most of the world might help their situation .
Aka the proverb, Give a man a fish he eats for a day, teach a man to fish he eats for life .
Ex-MislTech
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Take your inclintion a GIANT step forward .
In 1918 we did not have international airline travel .
We did not have large scale private aircraft ownership .
We did not have large scale charter flights .
Take these 3 and a few unforseen paradigms of the more modern world, and what you have mentioned and you have a recipe for much more than a few million dead .
a mortaity rate of 50% dropping to 5% is a tad hopeful I am thinking too .
As soon as I hear human-to-human hits in some third world nation I will be leaving the city I live in immediately for a VERY rural unpopulated area for a extended vacation .
In the research concerning the plague, they found that ppl with 2 markers were totally immune to the plague, and ppl with a single marker CCR5 delta 32 could get sick and then recover .
They also could die .
It would tend to explain why some ppl are now living with AIDs for over 10 years .
Ppl have said it before to some extent NASA is a jobs program .
Why build shuttles unless u have somewhere to go .
Why build space station unless u have a way to get there .
Some good science has come out of the space station, but some of it could have been done on the ground .
What was not done on the ground might have been done with robotic control instruments from earth after just the experiment was delivered via remote control .
I think we stand more to gain from a robotic return to the moon and possibly mining Helium-3 for the "working" helium-3 reactor in wisconsin .
Helium-3 with a billion dollar a ton return cost would equal oil at $7 a barrel .
Just getting us out of the middle east would be damn nice too .
Not to mention the zero pollution aspect...
It could be dropped back to earth much like the apollo capsules after a rail mass driver tosses it off the moon's surface much like NASA planned in the past already .
Sending a rover to mars is hard, sending a robot to the moon should be a bit easier, and a LOT cheaper than sending a human .
Humans require h2o+o2+food and don't have the best tolerance for radiation .
cryogenics for a robot is an off switch...
It is just not as glorious and all that macho BS .
If we can get a underground chamber dug on the moon and then use solar electricity over time to extract material from lunar soil to process and make oxygen, it could be stored in the cave til we are ready for ppl to arrive .
Still alot of issues to work out, but it is cheaper, and nobody dies .
Build a moon base underground, protected from radiation, build ur spaceships and space stations up there and it is easier to launch from the much weaker lunar gravity, 1.6 vs. 9.8, roughly 600% less .
Here are the lab locations of prominent scientists that have put alot of time and money into what they think can fix the world's energy needs .
Slashdot Mirror
Behold...
The power of the sun....with no radioactive waste either !
http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/iec/GeneralOpPics.htm
Ex-MislTech
New Aluminum Cell batteries by Europositron should take care of the battery issue
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to some degree, they are far and away many times better than what we use now .
http://www.europositron.com/en/techniques.html
Using Hybrid Tech and maybe Diesel engines like the prototype VW made could help our
car situation world wide .
http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/gw/vw1litr
282 miles per gallon for a non hybrid is pretty amazing even if it is a small car
made with expensive parts .
Very posssible to make one twice as big with parts that weigh , 50% more , and still
hit gas mileage near 100 mpg w/o it being a hybrid . As a hybrid prolly over 100 mpg .
Bio-disel from algae would solve the fuel issue , and burns cleaner .
* Soybean: 40 to 50 US gal/acre (40 to 50 m/km)
* Rapeseed: 110 to 145 US gal/acre (100 to 140 m/km)
* Mustard: 140 US gal/acre (130 m/km)
* Jatropha: 175 US gal/acre (160 m/km)
* Palm oil: 650 US gal/acre (610 m/km) [2]
* Algae: 10,000 to 20,000 US gal/acre (10,000 to 20,000 m/km)
As you can see the Algae outperforms by a massive amount .
Ref : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel
Diesel Electric Hybrid running on algae based bio-diesel could solve a lot of problems .
Ex-MislTech
Yeah infinite taxes, because we all know the government will spend the money well and wisely .
Maybe the day monkeys fly out of my butt .
Ex-MislTech
Well the Tech is out there to reverse this .
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We just need a Apollo program level of devotion to it .
University of Wisconsin has a working 3HE reactor, he fuel is just the issue, the moon is the answer.
Helium-3 on the moon, and the new finding of altering Hydrogen atoms molecular
orbits in a manner unknown before and pointing to fundamental errors in physics/Calculus .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,16
Keep in mind he has had some peer review on this before chucking it on the bone pile .
The Algae that makes enormous amounts of oil for biodiesel and other uses also
gives as a short term methodolgy vs. drilling for oil . It also burns cleaner .
* Soybean: 40 to 50 US gal/acre (40 to 50 m/km)
* Rapeseed: 110 to 145 US gal/acre (100 to 140 m/km)
* Mustard: 140 US gal/acre (130 m/km)
* Jatropha: 175 US gal/acre (160 m/km)
* Palm oil: 650 US gal/acre (610 m/km) [2]
* Algae: 10,000 to 20,000 US gal/acre (10,000 to 20,000 m/km)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel
There is yet Hope, but stray a little and you will fail to the ruin of us all - LOTR
Ex-MislTech
By the time the moonbase is built it will be more like 20 years .
I think we could send robots to the moon to dig tunnels and setup power panels
to extract oxygen from the lunar soil/rock, but it is STILL gonna be decades
before the seething bureaucracy can go from first square to last square .
Bush and his family will be a distant memory, Ppl are not going to elect
another republican according to the polls so your gonna get Billary or Skerry.
We are hitching rides to ISS right now due to the shuttle problems .
I do not take the US seriously when it comes to anything anymore,
and I was born and raised here, and live here now 40 yrs on .
I served in the military, and one word comes to mind, "FUBAR" .
I worked on Missile Guidance Radar for a Experimental weapons test platform SM2-ER.
Another word comes to mind "sad", they loaded a missile with the vertical launch
bit set for a Aegis class cruiser , they damn thing did a hard turn in front
of the ship and damn near hit the masthead where I was standing wearing a gas mask
as a observer . I nearly crapped my pants .
The turnover rate on my ship was over 70% it was so bad .
Power tripping senoir military, Dear john letters, drunken madness at every port,
we had a few suicides and a few suspected shark feedings of ppl that were not liked .
When at sea hard steamin we were 12 on 12 off 7 days a week with heavy seas as often as calms ones .
For a lot ppl the military is not there first choice, it is their last choice .
We were the 2nd most underway ship on the east coast in the late 80's, and
our Mustang Capt was bucking for Admiral . So we'd go float every chance he got .
Advice to ppl, join the military if you FULLY understand what your getting into,
talk to a lot of former military before you take the plunge .
Advice for ppl join the navy, careful who you piss off, 1,000 miles from land at night
you too can be shark food .
Ex-MislTech
I think 40 million is a little on the conservative side .
I am thinking it is more than that, corporate provided health care is at a
all new low and the 35,000 just cut at GM , and the 20,000+ to be cut at Delphi
as the "first" domino effect of it are joining those ranks .
The DOT COM BUST alone put I don't know how many ppl out of work, but
I am pretty sure it is a huge number .
Also in the US alone illegal immigrants is now over 35 million .
When GM shutters 9 plants, ppl are not buying cars from them, and ppl
in general are finding times a bit thin unless they are top of the tier .
The lowly worker serfs are left to pick up the scraps .
If they cant ship the jobs overseas they will ship ppl here from overseas
under the absolutely wonderful unlimited L1 visa program .
I am beginning to think it is just a race to the bottom, and we have no
idea how low the bottom is if we cannot compete with countries that have
few to near zero workers rights .
So I am pretty sure ur 40 million is quite conservative .
Ex-MislTech
Trip I don't think I can agree with you enough .
I served in the US military on a weapons test platform built on a
old DLG destroyer renamed a CG cruiser class, think vietnam era .
The ship was nearly 25 yrs old and in bad shape .
Needless to say we are not anywhere near a 100% target rate .
Taking it a step further, if we have had more than one shuttle blow
up just trying to fly we are in VERY sad shape if a alien race
did decide to take us out .
I think what you see in "War of the Worlds" would be a friggin joke compared to
pinpoint strikes from space by a Instellar Battleship with multiple fusion reactors .
Cloaking technology maybe ??? I think if they didn't want us to see them they
could do that as well, even our gimp tech has stealth .
We have a weak version of the cloak due to a US general wanting the predator tech .
I think the might just bombard the earth with short lived radiation that affects certain
DNA strands and leave the planet completely unscathed but devoid of humans .
What they "could" do is so far and beyond what we can imagine, we would be stunned .
Hell one guy in scooter could fly by and release a bio weapon and we wouldn't even know,
imagine what their molecular biologists could design .
Poof bye humans !
We better hope that so called aliens that can wormhole across the universe are friendly or else
we are so very very screwed .
Ex-MislTech
One poster nailed it on the head .
NYC is not a cheap place to live, and it is not a place most ppl would consider
for relocation for MANY reasons .
The cost of living there is one of the highest in the nation as are the taxes there .
You have to buy/lease parking spaces at a VERY high price in most of the city center .
Traffic is UNREAL, and crime is pretty substantial .
With IT jobs receiving right-sizing and right-pricing thru the not enough workers FUD
that was falsely pushed thru congress, A "C++ coder" will choose almost any other location
other than NYC for home unless he is from there and likes it there .
A LOT of HR departments also have a extreme method of filtering applicants, and some
are openly looking for Visa workers looking for a xfer here in the US .
Visa workers tend to work past 7 pm for salary when deportation looms over them .
I saw many of these fear/incentive tactics used on Indians, Pakistanis, and Chinese
while at Cisco Systems in Herndon Virginia working in their Voice over Ip lab there .
Norman Mattloff a professor @ UC Davis in california has written extensively and presented
his case in washington . http://www.vdare.com/pb/matloff_h1b.htm
Keep in mind H1-b is just one type in a alphabet soup of visa's .
With the L1 visa #'s being unlimited still to this day .
It is all a cheap labor scam, and the never ending race for the bottom .
GM's 35,000 jobs cut, and Delphi as a GM supplier cutting 20,000+ is just the creaking sound
before the crash , and trust me it's on the way .
Until they can get the labor laws revoked, and wages driven down to compete with 3rd world wages
the downsizing of US industry of all types is going into over drive .
Our government is not for the ppl by the ppl, but for the Corporation by the Campaign funding and graft.
The US has failed to learn from the fall of Rome, and the Bread and Circuses has the masses
distracted with the latest mongoloid chasing a animal skin inflated with air or filled with string .
Million dollar reality TV shows that have nothing to do with the reality of the average american .
The IT sellout is just a small sample of the total sellout of the manufacturing sector, and
the Electronics sector, and anything and everything they can near/out-source .
They care not for their own, and spite those that buy their products and live next to them
in hopes of squeezing a few dollars more to push that stock price a few dollars higher .
But they cannot see that when the neighbor cannot buy their product because his job
was outsourced, then it will effect their long term recurring profits .
And thus they will reap what they sow, and if ppl can't see it I say they are blind .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5254291.html
Ex-MislTech
There are too many dead zones between major cities .
... At least they are cheaper than satellites and fly
Great distances of rural farmland .
http://www.locustworld.com/ is a awesome idea, and they have done some
great things, but there are many places off the coast where distances
between cities is greater than the range of WiFi unless u use the ballon trick .
But long shots in the midwest are going to have to route via
conventional telecom unless we setup telecommunications WiFi ballons .
www.21stcenturyairships.com
Someone has to pay for them
high enough to avoid all wind .
Ex-MislTech
Muffy ....Buffy ....
...
...
Oh, what is Paris wearing , we can't get the routers to route
or the servers to serve with the latest Avante Garde' !!!!!
Yeah right, and plumbers and electricians are Johnny GQ too .
Mechanical Engineers working with metal cutting lathes look pristine too .
If fashion is the yardstick you measure your IT infrastructure by, then
I'd say your fate is predetermined .
Some good geek types dress well, but to most, appearances are just a charade .
Social camouflage
Based on appearances the days Einstein looked dishelved they would have relegated
him to the loser bracket as well . Sam Walton was not a snappy dresser, and he made Wal-mart .
The list goes on
Ex-MislTech
No, I honestly saw a special on PBS where they went to a market and one
of the things for sale were some large form of insect .
I know it sounds far fetched, but some ppl have it VERY bad outside the US .
30,000+ ppl die per day from staravation .
http://www.starvation.net/
So when faced with dying, or eating a bug, the bug is food .
A lot of food aid is held by governments and not distributed for whatever reason .
Somalia was a VERY good example of this .
Sad, but true .
Ex-MislTech
Interferon works on a few things, not all things .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferon
The unmentioned aspect of this:
1) War is usually between 2 or more countries .
2) At this time the countries supporting Osama are somewhat anonymous .
3) War "by the rules" with a enemy that beheads unarmed women for PR is not goin to work .
4) Freedom of Speech in its purest form has NEVER existed, period, and it NEVER will .
5) The human capacity for hate FAR exceeds the capacity for compassion and caring .
6) Humans are destructive by nature .
7) Humans are hard wired for power, control, domination, and greed .
8) No government run by humans has been free of corruption or hypocrisy .
9) Elitism seeks to subjugate the masses to sustain their plutocracy .
10)The worst is yet to come .
There are always exceptions to the rules, but you will find all of what I have said
above if you look at the past .
Tibet, Switzerland and a few other peaceful nations are the RARE exception in the past .
Until humans chose to face their inner demons and seek a solution for all mankind together,
we will be doomed to repeat history as we have not learned from it .
Hate holds too great a sway .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Perhaps the Sudan as well, the UN could do a bit better there .
...Rwanda...Indonesia...'Ad naseum'...
Or Somalia for another
I am for pulling all of our troops out of all countries around the world .
South Korea, Bosnia, Germany, Liberia.....Ad naseum....
And the US as the largest giver of foreign aid needs to stop as well too .
About a decade of that, and we can see how ppl feel about it .
Ex-MislTech
It is not vaporware, they are making progress, and they are
picking up sponsors and interested parties .
Apple obviously saw the potential, but their motives were quetioned
so they got put on the back burner .
I think as to open source, they are referring to when ever it is possible .
Hardware by and large is not, as of yet .
As to MIT designing their own, you could say the same for a free *nix
kernel, but that didn't happen either did it ????
As long as they show progress, and the # of "sincerely" dedicated
ppl/countries/organizations continue to rise it is possible for them
to succeed .
Bigger projects have had smaller beginnings, aka Linux & GNU .
Laptops used to be inordinately expensive, but are now under $400 for
a 1 ghz refurb per www.pricewatch.com .
A lower end model with a 500 - 800 mhz cpu should be doable for a fair
bit less, and with it being built smaller than a regular full size
laptop it will have lower material costs .
Right now the majority of the world cannot afford a computer, if they
could they could receive the knowledge of all books in the public domain
translated to their language .
It has the power to change the world drastically in less than 20 years .
I just hope they build them to last, and it is a sustainable idea .
Ex-MislTech
It sounds like marketing MBA hype-speak .
What they need is a team of top flight CCIE's that also have
the high end network design cert, AND a SONET/ATM telecom team
of experts .
Between the Telco ppl and the network ppl, as they often do not master
both sides of the fence, they should be able to sort it out .
A real time world wide traffic analysis tool would really help
too , so bottlenecks could be flagged , and then those corps
that are too cheap to upgrade them can be helped by the other
corps effected by said bottleneck .
Ex-MislTech
OMGZ
Diet and excercise, there, mean "near starvation" and "work all day in the fields".
Yeah, you got a DAMN good point there .
They serve and sell insects in a lot of asian countries because they simply
do not have enough food to go around .
I think some modern science and mass distributed knowledge to the rural poor
of most of the world might help their situation .
Aka the proverb, Give a man a fish he eats for a day, teach a man to fish he eats for life .
Ex-MislTech
Take your inclintion a GIANT step forward .
In 1918 we did not have international airline travel .
We did not have large scale private aircraft ownership .
We did not have large scale charter flights .
Take these 3 and a few unforseen paradigms of the more modern world,
and what you have mentioned and you have a recipe for much more than
a few million dead .
a mortaity rate of 50% dropping to 5% is a tad hopeful I am thinking too .
As soon as I hear human-to-human hits in some third world nation I will be leaving the
city I live in immediately for a VERY rural unpopulated area for a extended vacation .
Ex-MislTech
In the research concerning the plague, they found that ppl with 2 markers were totally
immune to the plague, and ppl with a single marker CCR5 delta 32 could get sick and then recover .
They also could die .
It would tend to explain why some ppl are now living with AIDs for over 10 years .
Ex-MislTech
Well as they say it takes one to know one .
You sir are a ass, but this is prolly just a Troll fishing expedition .
You cannot really expect the poor to own old beat up crap cars , work
for minimum wage and keep them pristine .
If you do expect this anyway move to france you socialist weasal .
Ex-MislTech
3G stand for 3rd generation of GSM
GSM is a telephony protocol subset of SS7 which is the old system for
control the PSTN , public switched telephone network .
They have to make the new tech work to an extent with the old .
Interoperability and all .
Ex-MislTech
Ppl have said it before to some extent NASA is a jobs program .
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Why build shuttles unless u have somewhere to go .
Why build space station unless u have a way to get there .
Some good science has come out of the space station, but some of it could have
been done on the ground .
What was not done on the ground might have been done with robotic control
instruments from earth after just the experiment was delivered via remote control .
I think we stand more to gain from a robotic return to the moon and possibly
mining Helium-3 for the "working" helium-3 reactor in wisconsin .
Helium-3 with a billion dollar a ton return cost would equal oil at $7 a barrel .
http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/neep602/LEC27/IMAGES/fig
Just getting us out of the middle east would be damn nice too .
Not to mention the zero pollution aspect
It could be dropped back to earth much like the apollo capsules after a rail mass driver
tosses it off the moon's surface much like NASA planned in the past already .
Sending a rover to mars is hard, sending a robot to the moon should be a bit easier,
and a LOT cheaper than sending a human .
Humans require h2o+o2+food and don't have the best tolerance for radiation .
cryogenics for a robot is an off switch
It is just not as glorious and all that macho BS .
If we can get a underground chamber dug on the moon and then use solar electricity over time to
extract material from lunar soil to process and make oxygen, it could be stored in the cave
til we are ready for ppl to arrive .
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1
Still alot of issues to work out, but it is cheaper, and nobody dies .
Build a moon base underground, protected from radiation, build ur spaceships and space stations
up there and it is easier to launch from the much weaker lunar gravity, 1.6 vs. 9.8, roughly 600% less .
Here are the lab locations of prominent scientists that have put alot of time and money
into what they think can fix the world's energy needs .
http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/neep602/LEC27/IMAGES/fig
Ex-MislTech
FUD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fud
http://www.21stcenturyairships.com/AirshipFAQ
You can also land them via remote control, and fix anything that goes wrong with a
one man crew in a farmer's field if u wanted to .
NASA's altitude record for a ballon stands at 171,000 ft I believe .
In the Stratosphere there is no wind, so the balloon being blown around is not an issue .
Ex-MislTech