Personal Area Network used a pager sized device to store "business-card" type data, which was transmitted from one PAN user to another PAN user via the physical handshake of their owners.
Obviously the US Patent Office needs to get off its collective ass and read Slashdot.
With the skin effect, a suit of armor (however light) would keep that charge off the body.
As for the wind moving the gas plasma into some sort of blue-on-blue bug zapper nightmare - I think we're talking channels of plasma so thin and tenuous that they don't exist much longer than the charge. Scale your time and you'll see what I mean.
This totally reaks of the auto industry. I was even told by a [credible shut my mouth source] that a company will go after you even if they don't have a case, just to see if you will settle.
kulakovich
Re:Oil Cartels, just like diamonds. A Horror Story
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Supply and demand doesn't work if supply totally fails. To wit, we can not run out. They are just strangling us because a. They can. and b. They like it.
kulakovich
Oil Cartels, just like diamonds. A Horror Story.
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1. Oil comes from hydrocarbons.
2. Hydrocarbons come from space.
3. Ergo, we will never run out of oil, and the value of oil is artificial like the diamond.
kulakovich
Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Use twice as much shampoo. Double company profit.
...Enterprise has a chance in Hell now that pretty much all Sci Fi is dead-ending in the next 365.
Personally, I do think that Andromeda has a great chance of being picked up, and agree with earlier remarks on writing quality. Without changing the thread, Enterprise has had a turnaround in the past season with the Xindi plot, and if they would simply steal more from Horatio Hornblower instead of Days of Our Lives, they'd have a great chance at staying power.
Let's face it, I doubt SciFi can afford them both!
kulakovich
ps - If there is a SciFi hole in the line-up, we'd better bolt the door. Spelling will be there in no time!
1. Scientifically, the Moon as a stepping stone was figurative, not literal. We go to the moon a few times to test the Crew Exploration Vehicle/What Not, to work out the bugs and train astronauts. Then that same rig goes to Mars on the back of Prometheus. The notion of going to the Moon and then launching to Mars with the Moon as a waystation is somewhat implausable, perhaps dumb, imho.
2. We should return to the Moon, and put an outpost there. It will be very, very important in Cold War II.
Russians, having had more budgetry constraints that the Americans, always had to do things more efficiently than the Americans. And, believe it or not, they have a better safety record.
I hate to be brisk, but this is incorrect - over 100 people died at Tyratam in October of 1960 because they did not offload the fuel from a launch vehicle before making repairs. The explosion and fire were horrible. Everything in a football-field radius was incinerated instantaneously. Very, very sad.
CSM-107, Columbia/Eagle (CSM+LM), went to the moon with a fueled weight of 63,493 pounds - and that was on a Saturn V whose first stage had 6 times the output of the Saturn I.
You are correct. In actuality, Bush told them to correct the 4B$ cost overrun, which NASA did by cutting the original Hab design, the Crew return vehicle and I believe something to do with a station-keeping propulsion module.
So it could even be said that NASA cut the Hab module.
However, we also need to be wary of people asking NASA to do things and not putting up the funding - I am sure we are all painfully aware that Bush's 1B$ increase to the NASA budget won't buy a pack of peanuts on the next moon flight.
Point taken. Especially on the velocity of the leak. Cloud was a lose term at best. However if during operations a high volume/low pressure leak were to develop, manipulation of the leaky item could lead to a lot of fuel dissipating around and/or sticking to surfaces around the station. However temporary (and I was thinking in terms of days, which was wrong, obviously) there is a hazard. Similar to the worries that cropped up after Challenger around deploying a fueled satellite from a shuttle.
My understanding is that currently there is a minor debris field forming in the ISS vicinity/wake. Wouldn't like to add solid fuel particulate, etc. to it. Not to mention whoever just brought up peroxides.
Thats a good point - alternately, we could rely on ion engines and not have to worry about as much oxidizer or fuel. Of course, then there is Prometheus...
1) Once the U.S. congress cut the funding for the habitaion module, the ISS officially became an orbiting pork barrel. It takes 2.5 people to maintain the station, and with 3 aboard that's.5 peopple for science. The hab module would have accomodated 7 scientists.
2) On fuel-in-space and There is no such thing as volatile fuel in an atmosphere-less environment.
Let's keep looking at this: Volatility doesn't mean simply explosive, and it is true that fuel requires an oxidizer in space, however, here are some problems:
a) Fuel is "sticky". Not sticky like glue, but when it comes into contact with things in microgravity, it stays there.
b) Fuel is caustic and corrosive. There are so many things that we do not want fuel sticking to, such as gaskets, joints of mechanisms, windows, experiments, instruments, and space suits because
c) Much of the fuel for satellites and such are not simply liquid oxigen and nitrogen, but stuff like Hydrazine, which has too many immediate dangers to list. In short, a small amount coming in through an air lock after an EVA could asphyxiate everyone on the station, be ignited by static, etc.
d) In case all that wasn't enough - just how can we approach the ISS if there is a cloud of fuel around it*? We can't fire any thrusters (with their own oxidizers) into a cloud like that.
Ok I'll zip it now.
kulakovich
* Yes, I know, there is already a cloud of bits and pieces and ice and etc. But that is nothing compared to a fuel leak.
I just went through all this myself, with a survey as of eight weeks ago, and I can say that the satellite providers ran on a monthly average $15 cheaper than any comperable package cable could put together.
After having each of the Sat providers for over a year at previous apartments I can say that we lost signal perhaps three, maybe four times in as many years, each during thunderstorms. If it is of any help, I am in the NE U.S.
Most importantly!! - NASAtv is free on C-band. I just put up a 7.5 foot dish in my yard for that exact purpose, to watch the Mars expeditions. And it is analog, uncompressed, and gorgeous!
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Personal Area Network used a pager sized device to store "business-card" type data, which was transmitted from one PAN user to another PAN user via the physical handshake of their owners.
Obviously the US Patent Office needs to get off its collective ass and read Slashdot.
kulakovich
With the skin effect, a suit of armor (however light) would keep that charge off the body.
As for the wind moving the gas plasma into some sort of blue-on-blue bug zapper nightmare - I think we're talking channels of plasma so thin and tenuous that they don't exist much longer than the charge. Scale your time and you'll see what I mean.
kulakovich
Potato canon technology is now within reach of the US armed forces.
You want fries with THAT! and THAT! and THAT!
kulakovich
This totally reaks of the auto industry. I was even told by a [credible shut my mouth source] that a company will go after you even if they don't have a case, just to see if you will settle.
kulakovich
Supply and demand doesn't work if supply totally fails. To wit, we can not run out. They are just strangling us because a. They can. and b. They like it.
kulakovich
1. Oil comes from hydrocarbons.
2. Hydrocarbons come from space.
3. Ergo, we will never run out of oil, and the value of oil is artificial like the diamond.
kulakovich
Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Use twice as much shampoo. Double company profit.
That tremor
kulakovich
Think about an ion engine that is shedding WIMPs at nigh-luminal speeds.
kulakovich
If we start by limiting distribution of the relevent technologies to only me, then I will take care of it.
Promise!
kulakovich
...Enterprise has a chance in Hell now that pretty much all Sci Fi is dead-ending in the next 365.
Personally, I do think that Andromeda has a great chance of being picked up, and agree with earlier remarks on writing quality. Without changing the thread, Enterprise has had a turnaround in the past season with the Xindi plot, and if they would simply steal more from Horatio Hornblower instead of Days of Our Lives, they'd have a great chance at staying power.
Let's face it, I doubt SciFi can afford them both!
kulakovich
ps - If there is a SciFi hole in the line-up, we'd better bolt the door. Spelling will be there in no time!
The official name for Sapphire is actually Ice-9.
We are hereby screwed.
No doubt this will lead to another movie deal for Vonnegut.
kulakovich
1. Scientifically, the Moon as a stepping stone was figurative, not literal. We go to the moon a few times to test the Crew Exploration Vehicle/What Not, to work out the bugs and train astronauts. Then that same rig goes to Mars on the back of Prometheus. The notion of going to the Moon and then launching to Mars with the Moon as a waystation is somewhat implausable, perhaps dumb, imho.
2. We should return to the Moon, and put an outpost there. It will be very, very important in Cold War II.
kulakovich
The moon has an atmosphere, about 1 foot thick, on the sunny side.
kulakovich
no, really.
"a hacker-resistant clock"
Like that water-resistant watch I used to have.
It wasn't water-proof
kulakovich
Now it's fish with limbs.
Next they'll keep changing the channel and mucking with the volume.
kulakovich
Your numbers are all over the place, friend.
also, there were more dead at Leninsk than total Shuttle missions - I have heard as many as 160. Please see previous posting or Google
kulakovich
Russians, having had more budgetry constraints that the Americans, always had to do things more efficiently than the Americans. And, believe it or not, they have a better safety record.
I hate to be brisk, but this is incorrect - over 100 people died at Tyratam in October of 1960 because they did not offload the fuel from a launch vehicle before making repairs. The explosion and fire were horrible. Everything in a football-field radius was incinerated instantaneously. Very, very sad.
kulakovich
uhm. I think you forgot to carry the 1.
CSM-107, Columbia/Eagle (CSM+LM), went to the moon with a fueled weight of 63,493 pounds - and that was on a Saturn V whose first stage had 6 times the output of the Saturn I.
kulakovich
They showed movies on the bus to New York - was I unknowingly ON the iPod Killer?
Larger, more expensive, and totally having nothing to do with being an iPod. Microsoft corners the market on Microsoft once again.
kulakovich
"Robotcop III can walk, dance"
You are correct. In actuality, Bush told them to correct the 4B$ cost overrun, which NASA did by cutting the original Hab design, the Crew return vehicle and I believe something to do with a station-keeping propulsion module.
So it could even be said that NASA cut the Hab module.
However, we also need to be wary of people asking NASA to do things and not putting up the funding - I am sure we are all painfully aware that Bush's 1B$ increase to the NASA budget won't buy a pack of peanuts on the next moon flight.
kulakovich
Point taken. Especially on the velocity of the leak. Cloud was a lose term at best. However if during operations a high volume/low pressure leak were to develop, manipulation of the leaky item could lead to a lot of fuel dissipating around and/or sticking to surfaces around the station. However temporary (and I was thinking in terms of days, which was wrong, obviously) there is a hazard. Similar to the worries that cropped up after Challenger around deploying a fueled satellite from a shuttle.
My understanding is that currently there is a minor debris field forming in the ISS vicinity/wake. Wouldn't like to add solid fuel particulate, etc. to it. Not to mention whoever just brought up peroxides.
kulakovich
Thats a good point - alternately, we could rely on ion engines and not have to worry about as much oxidizer or fuel. Of course, then there is Prometheus...
kulakovich
1) Once the U.S. congress cut the funding for the habitaion module, the ISS officially became an orbiting pork barrel. It takes 2.5 people to maintain the station, and with 3 aboard that's .5 peopple for science. The hab module would have accomodated 7 scientists.
2) On fuel-in-space and There is no such thing as volatile fuel in an atmosphere-less environment.
Let's keep looking at this: Volatility doesn't mean simply explosive, and it is true that fuel requires an oxidizer in space, however, here are some problems:
a) Fuel is "sticky". Not sticky like glue, but when it comes into contact with things in microgravity, it stays there.
b) Fuel is caustic and corrosive. There are so many things that we do not want fuel sticking to, such as gaskets, joints of mechanisms, windows, experiments, instruments, and space suits because
c) Much of the fuel for satellites and such are not simply liquid oxigen and nitrogen, but stuff like Hydrazine, which has too many immediate dangers to list. In short, a small amount coming in through an air lock after an EVA could asphyxiate everyone on the station, be ignited by static, etc.
d) In case all that wasn't enough - just how can we approach the ISS if there is a cloud of fuel around it*? We can't fire any thrusters (with their own oxidizers) into a cloud like that.
Ok I'll zip it now.
kulakovich
* Yes, I know, there is already a cloud of bits and pieces and ice and etc. But that is nothing compared to a fuel leak.
I just went through all this myself, with a survey as of eight weeks ago, and I can say that the satellite providers ran on a monthly average $15 cheaper than any comperable package cable could put together.
After having each of the Sat providers for over a year at previous apartments I can say that we lost signal perhaps three, maybe four times in as many years, each during thunderstorms. If it is of any help, I am in the NE U.S.
Most importantly!! - NASAtv is free on C-band. I just put up a 7.5 foot dish in my yard for that exact purpose, to watch the Mars expeditions. And it is analog, uncompressed, and gorgeous!
Kulakovich