If it's a wrongful dismissal, then it's better to lawyer up before you start talking about it in public forums. There's a protocol to follow. Might even get crowdfunding from other Gors.
It looks to me like somebody outed this guy, and then he got fired. It didn't sound like he was bringing it to work with him. I wouldn't consider it a frivolous lawsuit.
.. will overwhelm the power output of a single truck-mounted laser, even under ideal conditions.
For example, a 300 gram tungsten projectile will require a full second at 58 KW to be melted, assuming no reflection. An alumina projectile of 42 grams will require the same full second at that power.
If you read the article, figure S7 of the supplementary material graphs a linear relationship between the velocity of the droplets and the induced voltage, so there is definitely a mechanical component to the power generation.
Not much energy, on inspection: the math is about high-school physics level, so here goes:
For one square meter of square module, inclined at your latitude angle L, at 2.54 cm of precipitation per hour, the power from the water sliding across the module is good for about
cos L * 1 sin L * 1 * 25400 / 2 * 0.000098 watts.
For 45 degrees latitude, that's about.622 watts, at 100% efficiency (which it is not). That's the sweet spot.
That's about 1/350 the energy available falling on a 22% efficient module on June 21 in the northern hemisphere at that latitude.
(that's for a square meter of square module, whose effective area for rain capture is proportional to the cosine of its inclination; with the average potential energy of a parcel of water on the module equal to the average of the highest elevation of the parcel and the lowest elevation on the parcel, and whose elevation is proportional to the sine of its inclination, in Earth's gravity).
A 45 ACP round in a Colt 45 Automatic pistol is 600 foot-lbs, or 450 joules, and it'll do more to steel-backed plywood than just dent it.
No way the projectile is ending up with 1800 joules in kinetic energy. Perhaps that is what the capacitor bank starts with, but that's not what the projectile ends up with.
Try to be charitable about the 3 million joule thing. I work on a NASA campus that has a regular old utility transformer outside labelled 23,000 Kilovolts (and it's not).
Error is much more likely than malice, even if the computer is infected.
In a place where the infrastructure is as wide-open and completely unprotected as it is in the US, there are much better targets that require much less investment of effort and expertise.
Check http://www.projectgutpile.org/ for links to lead free bullets and fishing weights. There is legislation in the works for lead free bullets in California.
All the boys worked on mathematics based tasks, and all the girls were working on physical sciences, or at least more applied problems.
Well, there's that one well rounded kid that applied mathematics to the triangulation of geosynchronous satellites, but the other guys were heavy math geeks.
Because private parts is pornography, which is worse than terrorism. People must not be subjected to accidental pornography rays generated by terrorhurtz waves.
Pornography rays have been effectively combatted in the USA. John Ashcroft used drapes to keep the TV cameras from projecting the porn rays emitted by the naked statues in Washington DC, and we all know what happened to the TV network that allowed the porn rays to escape from Janet's nipple. Howard Stern has been banished from the Earth entirely, and now must bombard the earth from space with his cosmic pornography rays.
Terrorism will destroy us from without, but pornography rays will destroy us from within.
Troubling indeed. In 2003 the GAO found that their oversight of contractors was lacking. The NNSA got a panel together to review the issues mentioned by the GAO, and after a couple of years came up with the Mies report. Here's an overview of that. Chapter 5, "Cyber System Security" mentions a lack of secure voice and data networks.
If you want to talk about security problems, this is the worst possible situation. NNSA is responsible for security operations of contractors at nuclear facilities, and has itself been breached.
It would be ironic if Dr. Rice's "mushroom cloud" smoking gun turned out to be from nuclear material MADE PROUDLY IN THE USA.
NASA managers decided on Thursday to skip a launch pad test of the shuttle
Discovery's redesigned fuel tank because of the risk the test itself could
damage the tank. The test would have entailed filling the shuttle's fuel
tank with cryogenic propellants and testing its systems. The fuel tank has
been the focus of NASA's shuttle safety upgrades since the 2003 Columbia
accident. [Source: Irene Klotz, NASA to skip shuttle tank test ahead of
July launch Reuters, 5 May 2006; PGN-ed]
Actually, there are nonsocialist "environmental" instruments Land Trusts, where people pool their money together to buy land to keep it out of development. Environmentalists bring suit, like downstream of a clearcut that is polluting their drinking water. Environmentalists sometimes buy up cattle grazing leases to prevent damage to public lands by overgrazing.
I have evidence that partially hardened pine resin, compressed and packed with nearby teeth, could provide a durable (but probably not permanent) filling for the hole.
As a child, my brother had to have a piece of this resin removed by a dentist, after our feeble caveman attempts to remove it failed. We had been trying something our grandmother had told us, that you could create a stiff chewing gum out of a lump of hardenened pinyon resin plucked from the tree. You can!
It turns out that some technique is involved, and my brother failed that test, and had an impacted chunk of compressed resin stuck in his teeth.
I am your counterexample. I own a DSLR, to complement my two 35 mm analog SLR camera bodies and their small herd of lenses, and I love and frequently carry my digital camera with integrated zoom lens.
And there is a significant delay between shutter button press and exposure on SLRs. The camera has to flip the mirror up so that the film plane can be exposed. That the "flap, snick, flap" is the sound of delay. If you want a camera with zero delay, you need an TLR or a rangefinder, not an SLR. The shutter goes "ping".
"Point and shoot" is not the same thing as a small, lightweight camera with a variable focal length lens and autofocus functions. You can't beat them for price performance or weight performance. This Kodak camera looks good.
UNM is University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, with about 30,000 students. New Mexico Tech (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), also known as the New Mexico School of Mines, is a land grant mining school about 75 miles south of UNM, where truly crunchy geology and geophysics things happen.
Dr. Boston was in a documentary on PBS, (Nova, October 2002). She seems to be riding a crest of research that is shaking up the science of cave formation, postulating that caves are created as a consequence of primarily biological activity, rather than primarily chemical activity.
I have to come down on side of the "over the top" and "immature" commenters. I attended a short lecture by RMS at HP Laboratories on the GNU Project, sometime in the eighties.
All visitors had to wear badges. Just silly sticky badges, with some letterhead and your name on them. RMS stuck his on his ass, and made sure that he performed at least one slow pirouette in front of his audience so that everyone attending could see what he thought of his having to wear a badge.
Sure, he might be a genius or a visionary, but I was disappointed at the pointless display of rudeness.
Slashdot Mirror
If it's a wrongful dismissal, then it's better to lawyer up before you start talking about it in public forums. There's a protocol to follow. Might even get crowdfunding from other Gors.
It looks to me like somebody outed this guy, and then he got fired. It didn't sound like he was bringing it to work with him. I wouldn't consider it a frivolous lawsuit.
Student saw an in-band indication that the detector was in a non-radiation reporting state, and asked NASA about it.
NASA says, huh, that's weird. It's not supposed to happen that often. Hey kid, wanna do us a solid (in more ways than one)?
Hell yes, says kid.
BBC, realizing that story is too complicated, bowdlerizes title to get people to read it.
Slashdot talks about something else entirely.
.. will overwhelm the power output of a single truck-mounted laser, even under ideal conditions.
For example, a 300 gram tungsten projectile will require a full second at 58 KW to be melted, assuming no reflection. An alumina projectile of 42 grams will require the same full second at that power.
Fezzik: Why do you wear a mask? Were you burned by acid or something?
The Man in Black: Oh no. It's just they're terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future.
Subpoena Alexa/Amazon as a witness, then.
She might need an interpreter.
No, not more space junk.
The experiment was deployed on a capsule full of sewage and trash, and is going to be incinerated on re-entry.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you read the article, figure S7 of the supplementary material graphs a linear relationship between the velocity of the droplets and the induced voltage, so there is definitely a mechanical component to the power generation.
Not much energy, on inspection:
the math is about high-school physics level, so here goes:
For one square meter of square module, inclined at your latitude angle L, at 2.54 cm of precipitation per hour, the power from the water sliding across the module is good for about
cos L * 1 sin L * 1 * 25400 / 2 * 0.000098 watts.
For 45 degrees latitude, that's about .622 watts, at 100% efficiency (which it is not). That's the sweet spot.
That's about 1/350 the energy available falling on a 22% efficient module on June 21 in the northern hemisphere at that latitude.
(that's for a square meter of square module, whose effective area for rain capture is proportional to the cosine of its inclination; with the average potential energy of a parcel of water on the module equal to the average of the highest elevation of the parcel and the lowest elevation on the parcel, and whose elevation is proportional to the sine of its inclination, in Earth's gravity).
I'm here to say the same thing.
A 45 ACP round in a Colt 45 Automatic pistol is 600 foot-lbs, or 450 joules, and it'll do more to steel-backed plywood than just dent it.
No way the projectile is ending up with 1800 joules in kinetic energy. Perhaps that is what the capacitor bank starts with, but that's not what the projectile ends up with.
Try to be charitable about the 3 million joule thing. I work on a NASA campus that has a regular old utility transformer outside labelled 23,000 Kilovolts (and it's not).
Mistakes are made :-)
There are no pumping stations between Hetch Hetchy and the SF Bay Area.
The system operates by gravity alone.
Error is much more likely than malice, even if the computer is infected.
In a place where the infrastructure is as wide-open and completely unprotected as it is in the US, there are much better targets that require much less investment of effort and expertise.
.. to interfere with a CopBot,
or to tamper with a CopBot,
or to kill a CopBot?
Check http://www.projectgutpile.org/ for links to lead free
bullets and fishing weights. There is legislation in the works
for lead free bullets in California.
All the boys worked on mathematics based tasks, and
all the girls were working on physical sciences, or
at least more applied problems.
Well, there's that one well rounded kid that applied
mathematics to the triangulation of geosynchronous
satellites, but the other guys were heavy math geeks.
Don't Date Robots!
.. at 1:30 into the NPR clip.
Because private parts is pornography, which is worse
than terrorism. People must not be subjected to accidental
pornography rays generated by terrorhurtz waves.
Pornography rays have been effectively combatted in the
USA. John Ashcroft used drapes to keep the TV cameras from
projecting the porn rays emitted by the naked statues
in Washington DC, and we all know what happened to the
TV network that allowed the porn rays to escape from Janet's
nipple. Howard Stern has been banished from the Earth
entirely, and now must bombard the earth from space with
his cosmic pornography rays.
Terrorism will destroy us from without, but pornography rays will
destroy us from within.
Troubling indeed. In 2003 the GAO found that their oversight of
contractors was lacking. The NNSA got a panel together to review the issues mentioned by the GAO, and after a couple of years came up with the Mies report. Here's an overview of that. Chapter 5, "Cyber System Security" mentions a lack of secure voice and data networks.
If you want to talk about security problems, this is the worst possible
situation. NNSA is responsible for security operations of contractors at
nuclear facilities, and has itself been breached.
It would be ironic if Dr. Rice's "mushroom cloud" smoking gun turned out
to be from nuclear material MADE PROUDLY IN THE USA.
From comp.risks:
NASA managers decided on Thursday to skip a launch pad test of the shuttle
Discovery's redesigned fuel tank because of the risk the test itself could
damage the tank. The test would have entailed filling the shuttle's fuel
tank with cryogenic propellants and testing its systems. The fuel tank has
been the focus of NASA's shuttle safety upgrades since the 2003 Columbia
accident. [Source: Irene Klotz, NASA to skip shuttle tank test ahead of
July launch Reuters, 5 May 2006; PGN-ed]
Actually, there are nonsocialist "environmental" instruments
Land Trusts, where people pool their money together to buy
land to keep it out of development. Environmentalists bring
suit, like downstream of a clearcut that is polluting their
drinking water. Environmentalists sometimes buy up cattle
grazing leases to prevent damage to public lands by overgrazing.
I have evidence that partially hardened pine resin,
compressed and packed with nearby teeth, could provide a
durable (but probably not permanent) filling for the hole.
As a child, my brother had to have a piece of this resin
removed by a dentist, after our feeble caveman attempts
to remove it failed. We had been trying something our
grandmother had told us, that you could create a stiff
chewing gum out of a lump of hardenened pinyon resin
plucked from the tree. You can!
It turns out that some technique is involved, and my
brother failed that test, and had an impacted chunk of
compressed resin stuck in his teeth.
The commenter to which I replied said "no delay". 50 or 60
:-)
milliseconds of mirror slap is "significantly" more than
"no delay".
I opine that 5 milliseconds is "not significant"
for most photographers. That would be the machine that
goes "ping"
I am your counterexample. I own a DSLR, to complement my two
35 mm analog SLR camera bodies and their small herd of lenses,
and I love and frequently carry my digital camera with integrated
zoom lens.
And there is a significant delay between shutter button press
and exposure on SLRs. The camera has to flip the mirror up so
that the film plane can be exposed. That the "flap, snick, flap"
is the sound of delay. If you want a camera with zero delay, you need
an TLR or a rangefinder, not an SLR. The shutter goes "ping".
"Point and shoot" is not the same thing as
a small, lightweight camera with a variable focal length lens
and autofocus functions. You can't beat them for price performance
or weight performance. This Kodak camera looks good.
UNM is University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, with about
30,000 students. New Mexico Tech (New Mexico Institute of
Mining and Technology), also known as the New Mexico School of
Mines, is a land grant mining school about 75 miles south of
UNM, where truly crunchy geology and geophysics things happen.
Dr. Boston was in a documentary on PBS, (Nova, October 2002).
She seems to be riding a crest of research that is shaking up
the science of cave formation, postulating that caves are
created as a consequence of primarily biological activity,
rather than primarily chemical activity.
I have to come down on side of the "over the top" and "immature" commenters.
I attended a short lecture by RMS at HP Laboratories on the GNU Project,
sometime in the eighties.
All visitors had to wear badges. Just silly sticky badges, with some
letterhead and your name on them. RMS stuck his on his ass, and made sure
that he performed at least one slow pirouette in front of his audience
so that everyone attending could see what he thought of his having to wear
a badge.
Sure, he might be a genius or a visionary, but I was disappointed at the
pointless display of rudeness.