Depending on how far "the next stellar system" is from start, and your acceleration, of course.
For 1G and 5 years, you'll go about 11 light years.
Beyond that distance, you'll add extra distance very quickly - 22 light years will take you 6.2 years. 100 light years will take 9 years.
And you can manage 11+ BILLION or so light years in only 45 years.
While this does theoretically allow traveel interstellar distances within a lifetime, for practical purposes (we don't really want to burn a significant fraction of a lifetime travelling - it would be nice to arrive young enough to enjoy the sights, at least), we're talking 10-50 lightyears as the upper limit we'll be travelling that way.
Of course, if we're actually really serious about becoming an interstellar species, we'll do most of the work at small fractions of c. 10% will be enough to get to nearby systems within a couple generations, allowing large colony ships to go there to settle. And further trips will start from those colony worlds to more distant places. Which should be sufficient to colonize the entire Milky Way within a couple million years....
Is the impact of this really limited to Russia? LiveJournal is now based there and, while I'm sure it is used much less today than ten years ago, it must still host a large number of accounts belonging to bloggers in the US and elsewhere.
No, it's not. My wife has been using LiveJournal for a dozen years. She's started moving all the content off there and onto an American hosting service.
Your physics seems to be assuming that relative velocity of the two vehicles crashing together is irrelevant.
Hint: relative velocity is a primary factor in determining energy transfer in a collision. A head-on collision will transfer far more energy than a side-swipe by two cars moving at right angles to each other.
Why wouldn't I make the same decision to act now so that my elderly years are less impacted by climate change?
Well, unless you're two or three years old, it's unlikely you're actually going to be affected all that much by AGW. The effects this side of 2100 may be noticable if you pay attention, but for the most part, if it wasn't in the news, you'd never really know what was AGW and what was this year's unusual weather....
That would be the case if population and size of patrol areas wasn't increasing. Almost all cities are growing, increased population, increased density and increased size. Inflation only counts on increases in costs, not growth.
What, you think that increased population doesn't produce increased sales tax revenue all by itself?
You may be unaware, but you can get heat from this big ball in the sky (we like to call it 'the Sun"). A few parabolic trough mirrors can concentrate it nicely for things like heating lots of water....
Dinosaurs weren't wiped out by man, but it sure would be nice to be able to definitively answering some questions about them by actually making a living specimen out of their DNA.
Two things:
1) Unless you have 100% of their DNA, you won't get any good answers by making a living specimen. And we don't have complete DNA for any dinosaur except...
2) it must be remembered that dinosaurs were not wiped out. I'm looking at a pair of them at my bird feeder right now (red headed woodpeckers, in this particular case, but there were some rose-breasted grosbeaks passing through earlier in the week).
"I also hope that you won't let the world forget the places where those who hold their government to standards go to jail rather than win prizes"
So, Snowden isn't due for jail-time if he were to return to the USA, Mr. Kerry?
And why has the Obama administration brought charges against more whistleblowers than all other administrations combined? (Six by Obama, three by all previous administrations combined)
Where I live, Sheriff is also the tax collector. As well as the head of the largest sheriff's department in the USA (since the Parish is completely urban, but mostly unincorporated, there is no police department - sheriff does that job too).
Police are not paid from Federal taxes. State and local taxes pay for the police.
Back in the 50's to 70's, the middle class, at least, tended to pay MORE in federal taxes than now. And the wealthy had more than enough tax loopholes so that they tended to pay LESS than they do now.
Piggybacking is not a particularly novel concept if you have a camera and an equatorial mount. It's about as novel as resting your rifle (or iPhone) on a still surface when you shoot a deer 200 yards away (or take a picture at night). The development of each of those other items was groundbreaking and required actual insight and effort.
It's always been facinating to me how many things were obvious AFTER they'd been done for the first time.
Note however, that Obama raised more money than Romney. Romney spent pretty much everything he raised (992M out of 992.5M), while Obama spent 985M out of 1072M raised.
The 2nd amendment qualifies that right with words about a "well regulated militia". Not everyone agrees that individuals have the right to bear arms when they are not acting as participants in a state sanctioned militia.
Read the Militia Act sometime. Yes, it's still in force. Yes, we're all members of the militia. Assuming we're Americans, male, and adult, of course.
Note that "state sanctioned militia" is NOT mentioned in the Second Amendment....
Instead of polluting the environment with stuff that has a half-life measured in thousands of years, keep reprocessing it, and burn the stuff down into something that could be used in next-gen reactors and keep going until you've extracted as much energy from it as possible and the remaining waste has a half-life measured in decades or a few short centuries.
Hmm, you seem to be unaware that the stuff with a half life "measured in decades or a few short centuries" is quite useful still - the short half-life means there's a lot of energy being released, which can be converted into something useful.
The long half-life stuff is what you want to leave behind. Like U-238, which has a half-life in the billions of years range.
In short, making nuclear waste "not radioactive" is a matter of getting rid of the SHORT half-life stuff. The longer the half-life, the less radioactive something is.
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Nope. But that's MY decision.
The case we're discussing (your car "intervening in an accident") is more like me pushing YOU onto a grenade....
1) This bill basically changes nothing - they can do whatever they want by declaring an "emergency", and there is no effective oversight.
2) "Reining in", NOT "reigning in". The expression refers to slowing horses down, not kings at home.
Well, yes and no.
Depending on how far "the next stellar system" is from start, and your acceleration, of course.
For 1G and 5 years, you'll go about 11 light years.
Beyond that distance, you'll add extra distance very quickly - 22 light years will take you 6.2 years. 100 light years will take 9 years.
And you can manage 11+ BILLION or so light years in only 45 years.
While this does theoretically allow traveel interstellar distances within a lifetime, for practical purposes (we don't really want to burn a significant fraction of a lifetime travelling - it would be nice to arrive young enough to enjoy the sights, at least), we're talking 10-50 lightyears as the upper limit we'll be travelling that way.
Of course, if we're actually really serious about becoming an interstellar species, we'll do most of the work at small fractions of c. 10% will be enough to get to nearby systems within a couple generations, allowing large colony ships to go there to settle. And further trips will start from those colony worlds to more distant places. Which should be sufficient to colonize the entire Milky Way within a couple million years....
No, it's not. My wife has been using LiveJournal for a dozen years. She's started moving all the content off there and onto an American hosting service.
Your physics seems to be assuming that relative velocity of the two vehicles crashing together is irrelevant.
Hint: relative velocity is a primary factor in determining energy transfer in a collision. A head-on collision will transfer far more energy than a side-swipe by two cars moving at right angles to each other.
No. Just, no.
If your car "intervenes in an accident", then you car is programmed to cause an accident under certain conditions. Just no.
Maim.
Illiteracy doesn't actually make your argument stronger, it just makes it unlikely to be read past the point where you appear to be illiterate.
Well, unless you're two or three years old, it's unlikely you're actually going to be affected all that much by AGW. The effects this side of 2100 may be noticable if you pay attention, but for the most part, if it wasn't in the news, you'd never really know what was AGW and what was this year's unusual weather....
What, you think that increased population doesn't produce increased sales tax revenue all by itself?
You may be unaware, but you can get heat from this big ball in the sky (we like to call it 'the Sun"). A few parabolic trough mirrors can concentrate it nicely for things like heating lots of water....
Two things:
1) Unless you have 100% of their DNA, you won't get any good answers by making a living specimen. And we don't have complete DNA for any dinosaur except...
2) it must be remembered that dinosaurs were not wiped out. I'm looking at a pair of them at my bird feeder right now (red headed woodpeckers, in this particular case, but there were some rose-breasted grosbeaks passing through earlier in the week).
Do remember, birds are dinosaurs....
Then we get on our knees and pray - we don't get fooled again.
*pause*
Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss!
Oddly enough, I was listening to that song as I got to your post...
From TFS:
So, Snowden isn't due for jail-time if he were to return to the USA, Mr. Kerry?
And why has the Obama administration brought charges against more whistleblowers than all other administrations combined? (Six by Obama, three by all previous administrations combined)
Fewer children, since people won't be in such a hurry to have them before it's too late.
Which means population decline along with an aging population.
Where I live, Sheriff is also the tax collector. As well as the head of the largest sheriff's department in the USA (since the Parish is completely urban, but mostly unincorporated, there is no police department - sheriff does that job too).
Two things:
Police are not paid from Federal taxes. State and local taxes pay for the police.
Back in the 50's to 70's, the middle class, at least, tended to pay MORE in federal taxes than now. And the wealthy had more than enough tax loopholes so that they tended to pay LESS than they do now.
I take it by "real Americans" you mean those guys who came over from Asia before the Vikings came over from Europe?
Why should I care about Google spying on me? If they don't get the info direct, they can get it from the NSA, after all.
Or GCHQ, I suppose....
Which I solved by creating a new gmail account on the phone, and never using it.
Note that if you should ever feel the urge to email to plokjuy.gmail (I think that's how I spelled the account name), you won't get a response. Ever.
It's always been facinating to me how many things were obvious AFTER they'd been done for the first time.
Note however, that Obama raised more money than Romney. Romney spent pretty much everything he raised (992M out of 992.5M), while Obama spent 985M out of 1072M raised.
They're also a hot button issue used by extreme left wing groups to rile up their base....
Fact is, guns don't do a fraction of the harm of automobiles. Yet we don't see the left calling for banning autos....
Citation?
I'd heard that 36% of gun-control advocates are secretly fascists, myself. But anyone can make up statistics....
Read the Militia Act sometime. Yes, it's still in force. Yes, we're all members of the militia. Assuming we're Americans, male, and adult, of course.
Note that "state sanctioned militia" is NOT mentioned in the Second Amendment....
Hmm, you seem to be unaware that the stuff with a half life "measured in decades or a few short centuries" is quite useful still - the short half-life means there's a lot of energy being released, which can be converted into something useful.
The long half-life stuff is what you want to leave behind. Like U-238, which has a half-life in the billions of years range.
In short, making nuclear waste "not radioactive" is a matter of getting rid of the SHORT half-life stuff. The longer the half-life, the less radioactive something is.