Don't go throught the regular contractors because they want billions of dollars.
Contract small companies that are willing to build one for peanuts.
Find some other material other than glass to construct it from to save on weight. Maybe a thin ceramic that can be slightly bent with heat or electricity.
some facts:
# How big is it? This mirror measures 2.5 meters (98 inches) across and weighs 748 kilograms (1,650 pounds). The useable surface of the mirror in the Hubble was slightly smaller-about 2.4 meters (94 inches)-because the mirror mounting covered the outer edge. # Why doesn't it look like a mirror? This mirror was never used, so it never received a reflective coating. The mirror in the Hubble was coated with a thin layer of aluminum and also overcoated with magnesium fluoride, so it could better reflect ultraviolet light. # What is it made of? The mirror is made of Corning ultra-low expansion glass. The front and back surfaces are fused to a lattice core and to the inner and outer bands, creating a sturdy but lightweight structure.
People sharing files is just like people copying a movie or tv show for a friend. Lets also remember that an MP3 is NOT an exact copy. So for the record producers to say that is stealing is wrong.
Lets also look at new censorship rules being pushed by politicians in the US.
The internet is hated by TV, Music and film companies.
How long will it be before we have boxes installed on all computers checking for anything that might be copyrighted or anything that is deemed 'indecent'.
We might be seeing it already. The war has begun.
Astroturfing and Special Interest attacks on Slash
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There are many telecom/cable people that are either being schooled to attack municipal FTTH/WiFI or have their own greedy interests at heart.
I posted this topic of Muni REAL BROADBAND(100meg/sec) on a messageboard and you couldn't believe the HATE by 'Republicans',Cable Co. installers, and the uninformed. They actually were saying that the 'Government' is bad for the internet . LOL.
Don't also forget the shareholders of these companies who HATE whats good for the public as in affordable SUPER-HIGHSPEED 100 megabit FTTH or WiFi.
We in the U.S.A. need to organize fight the ANTI-Muni crowd !!!!!!!!!!!!
Warning to all on Slashdot. Astroturfing rampant
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On this topic.
There are many telecom/cable people that are either being schooled to attack municipal FTTH/WiFI or have their own greedy interests at heart.
Don't also forget the shareholders of these companies who HATE whats good for the public as in affordable SUPER-HIGHSPEED 100 megabit FTTH or WiFi.
We in the U.S.A. need to organize fight the ANTI-Muni crowd !!!!!!!!!!!!
These companies are looking for the 'sweet spot'. They are looking to milk out as much as they can so they could care less about the amount of downloads . You can compare this to other products like 'BROADBAND'. They really don't want the broad public(low + middle income) to get broadband because that would mean the price would have to be real low. They just want the top tier of buyers with the most bucks.
Anyways aren't the music companies under some government supervision since they were caught monopolizing prices ?
I think it would be cool if someone could put a cheap one in space from off the shelf telescope parts . Don't you think these prices for these orbitting telescopes are a bit farfetched ?
Instead of spark plugs and cylinders, environmentally friendly fuel cell engines may be under the hoods of the cars of the future. But first, scientists must find a practical and economical way to supply the hydrogen gas needed to power them. Chemical engineers at Argonne have developed and patented a compact fuel processor that "reforms" ordinary gasoline into a hydrogen-rich gas to power fuel cells. The technology was recently named one of the top 100 inventions of the year by R&D magazine.
Fuel cells convert hydrogen gas into electricity and water. Compared to internal combustion engines, the energy conversion is clean and efficient. "You can think of fuel cells as batteries that are continuously charged by supplying fuel," said Jim Miller, manager of Argonne's Electrochemical Technology Program.
A team of scientists in the Chemical Technology Division, led by Mike Krumpelt and Shabbir Ahmed, have synthesized new types of catalysts to form hydrogen by reacting gasoline with oxygen. Catalysts are materials that speed chemical reactions by cutting the energy required to start the reaction. While catalysts help some chemical bonds form and others break, catalysts remain unchanged. Using the Argonne catalyst, Ahmed designed and built an inexpensive, easy-to-manufacture fuel-reforming reactor.
Don't burn it, reform it
Fuel cell engines are clean. They efficiently convert hydrogen and oxygen into electric power with water and heat as the only by-products. The fuel cell is expected to be 60 percent efficient -- twice as efficient as today's internal combustion engines. And fuel cells should cut carbon dioxide output to half that of a combustion engine.
Using hydrogen directly to power fuel cell engines would be environmentally ideal, but it is not practical today. Hydrogen-storage devices are heavy and bulky, and no retailing infrastructure exists for supplying hydrogen to consumers. These challenges prompted scientists to investigate compact processors that could produce hydrogen from conventional fuels to power the fuel cell onboard the vehicle.
Researchers originally developed methanol reformers but switched to gasoline because its production, distribution and retailing infrastructure is established. Fuel-cell car owners would use the pumps at the gas station to refuel just as they do now, but they would only need half as much gas.
History
The first fuel cells were built in 1839, but their role as a practical power generator did not emerge until the 1960s when the U.S. space program developed fuel cells to power the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft.
The space program continues to use fuel cells -- they produce electricity and water for space shuttle astronauts -- while fuel cell research has expanded into stationary and vehicle power generation. Argonne scientists have been involved with fuel cell research for nearly three decades.
Reformer design
In designing the fuel reformer, Ahmed used a simple, inexpensive plan similar to catalytic converters in today's cars. Catalytic converters pass the car's exhaust over a catalyst that converts carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide to eliminate the poisonous gas.
In Ahmed's gasoline reformer, vaporized gasoline is mixed with steam and air and then sent through a catalyst-packed cylinder. The result is a mixture of gases with a high hydrogen concentration, which is fed to the fuel cell. Some carbon monoxide is also present in the gas mixture. Before it goes to the fuel cell, it passes through a secondary processor, which reacts water vapor and the carbon monoxide to form carbon dioxide and additional hydrogen.
Wanted: A few good catalysts
In addition to the reformer design, researchers needed new catalysts to spur the gasoline-to-hydrogen-gas chemical reaction. Hydrogen gas consists of twin hydrogen atoms bound tog
Hybrid optical-electronic chips are ussed mainly in highspeed net hardware. $$$ is the reason you haven't seen them in your desktop. I am fascinated by it more than quantum because it seems far off.
f enough sci-fi fans thought it was good enough then it would get ratings.
An idea to spice up the show would be new uniforms . Have ALL the women including the hot vulcan in tight miniskirts just like in the original series. Remember the Vulcan in the StarTrek movie ? Hell make them even smaller skirts. Why not add some eroticism instead of staying stale and puritan.
If enough sci-fi fans thought it was good enough then it would get ratings.
An idea to spice up the show would be new uniforms . Have ALL the women including the hot vulcan in tight miniskirts just like in the original series. Remember the Vulcan in the StarTrek movie ? Hell make them even smaller skirts. Why not add some eroticism instead of staying stale and puritan.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't go throught the regular contractors because they want billions of dollars.
Contract small companies that are willing to build one for peanuts.
Find some other material other than glass to construct it from to save on weight. Maybe a thin ceramic that can be slightly bent with heat or electricity.
some facts:
# How big is it? This mirror measures 2.5 meters (98 inches) across and weighs 748 kilograms (1,650 pounds). The useable surface of the mirror in the Hubble was slightly smaller-about 2.4 meters (94 inches)-because the mirror mounting covered the outer edge.
# Why doesn't it look like a mirror? This mirror was never used, so it never received a reflective coating. The mirror in the Hubble was coated with a thin layer of aluminum and also overcoated with magnesium fluoride, so it could better reflect ultraviolet light.
# What is it made of? The mirror is made of Corning ultra-low expansion glass. The front and back surfaces are fused to a lattice core and to the inner and outer bands, creating a sturdy but lightweight structure.
People sharing files is just like people copying a movie or tv show for a friend. Lets also remember that an MP3 is NOT an exact copy. So for the record producers to say that is stealing is wrong.
Lets also look at new censorship rules being pushed by politicians in the US.
The internet is hated by TV, Music and film companies.
How long will it be before we have boxes installed on all computers checking for anything that might be copyrighted or anything that is deemed 'indecent'.
We might be seeing it already. The war has begun.
There are many telecom/cable people that are either being schooled to attack municipal FTTH/WiFI or have their own greedy interests at heart.
I posted this topic of Muni REAL BROADBAND(100meg/sec) on a messageboard and you couldn't believe the HATE by 'Republicans'
Don't also forget the shareholders of these companies who HATE whats good for the public as in affordable SUPER-HIGHSPEED 100 megabit FTTH or WiFi.
We in the U.S.A. need to organize fight the ANTI-Muni crowd !!!!!!!!!!!!
On this topic.
There are many telecom/cable people that are either being schooled to attack municipal FTTH/WiFI or have their own greedy interests at heart.
Don't also forget the shareholders of these companies who HATE whats good for the public as in affordable SUPER-HIGHSPEED 100 megabit FTTH or WiFi.
We in the U.S.A. need to organize fight the ANTI-Muni crowd !!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been going back to yahoo and trying some others.
A millionaire with all the time on his hands.
This reminds me of Richard Bransons attempts to get media attention by crossing the atlantic in his high speed yacht to break some old records.
Flying around the world without refueling is not a big accomplishment in my opinion.
This was just for publicity for another rich guy.
These companies are looking for the 'sweet spot'. They are looking to milk out as much as they can so they could care less about the amount of downloads . You can compare this to other products like 'BROADBAND'. They really don't want the broad public(low + middle income) to get broadband because that would mean the price would have to be real low. They just want the top tier of buyers with the most bucks.
Anyways aren't the music companies under some government supervision since they were caught monopolizing prices ?
35mm digital pixel equivalent
Flat panel SED
Photos of SED
How hard is it to build a spy/telescope satellite ?
I found this site about building a miniature
Miniature Space satellite
A canadian cheapy.
Canadian Satellite
I think it would be cool if someone could put a cheap one in space from off the shelf telescope parts . Don't you think these prices for these orbitting telescopes are a bit farfetched ?
What a novel way of killing any competition.
I am guessing the owner of this company works for the cable companies.
Gamma Rays from storms
Refoming gasoline using catalytic converters.
Text to the article.
Instead of spark plugs and cylinders, environmentally friendly fuel cell engines may be under the hoods of the cars of the future. But first, scientists must find a practical and economical way to supply the hydrogen gas needed to power them. Chemical engineers at Argonne have developed and patented a compact fuel processor that "reforms" ordinary gasoline into a hydrogen-rich gas to power fuel cells. The technology was recently named one of the top 100 inventions of the year by R&D magazine.
Fuel cells convert hydrogen gas into electricity and water. Compared to internal combustion engines, the energy conversion is clean and efficient. "You can think of fuel cells as batteries that are continuously charged by supplying fuel," said Jim Miller, manager of Argonne's Electrochemical Technology Program.
A team of scientists in the Chemical Technology Division, led by Mike Krumpelt and Shabbir Ahmed, have synthesized new types of catalysts to form hydrogen by reacting gasoline with oxygen. Catalysts are materials that speed chemical reactions by cutting the energy required to start the reaction. While catalysts help some chemical bonds form and others break, catalysts remain unchanged. Using the Argonne catalyst, Ahmed designed and built an inexpensive, easy-to-manufacture fuel-reforming reactor.
Don't burn it, reform it
Fuel cell engines are clean. They efficiently convert hydrogen and oxygen into electric power with water and heat as the only by-products. The fuel cell is expected to be 60 percent efficient -- twice as efficient as today's internal combustion engines. And fuel cells should cut carbon dioxide output to half that of a combustion engine.
Using hydrogen directly to power fuel cell engines would be environmentally ideal, but it is not practical today. Hydrogen-storage devices are heavy and bulky, and no retailing infrastructure exists for supplying hydrogen to consumers. These challenges prompted scientists to investigate compact processors that could produce hydrogen from conventional fuels to power the fuel cell onboard the vehicle.
Researchers originally developed methanol reformers but switched to gasoline because its production, distribution and retailing infrastructure is established. Fuel-cell car owners would use the pumps at the gas station to refuel just as they do now, but they would only need half as much gas.
History
The first fuel cells were built in 1839, but their role as a practical power generator did not emerge until the 1960s when the U.S. space program developed fuel cells to power the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft.
The space program continues to use fuel cells -- they produce electricity and water for space shuttle astronauts -- while fuel cell research has expanded into stationary and vehicle power generation. Argonne scientists have been involved with fuel cell research for nearly three decades.
Reformer design
In designing the fuel reformer, Ahmed used a simple, inexpensive plan similar to catalytic converters in today's cars. Catalytic converters pass the car's exhaust over a catalyst that converts carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide to eliminate the poisonous gas.
In Ahmed's gasoline reformer, vaporized gasoline is mixed with steam and air and then sent through a catalyst-packed cylinder. The result is a mixture of gases with a high hydrogen concentration, which is fed to the fuel cell. Some carbon monoxide is also present in the gas mixture. Before it goes to the fuel cell, it passes through a secondary processor, which reacts water vapor and the carbon monoxide to form carbon dioxide and additional hydrogen.
Wanted: A few good catalysts
In addition to the reformer design, researchers needed new catalysts to spur the gasoline-to-hydrogen-gas chemical reaction. Hydrogen gas consists of twin hydrogen atoms bound tog
You need to calm down.
Politics is making you nuts.
Don't trust any file on kazaa or other p2p. Use a good antivirus that scans files when you download.
Many files are infected.
This is another problem with p2p. There is no way to communicate to people that the software is corrupted.
Catch22.
Can someone please answer me here. I know Ibm wants there hardware to be compatible with linux but why not with the servers that use BSD also ?
,especially openbsd ?
Isn't BSD more secure
Why choose just one os ?
Support all popular open source operating systems.
Remember after 9/11 and some nuclear plant had some rods missing. It was another accounting error i think. Never heard much more about it.
Hybrid optical-electronic chips are ussed mainly in highspeed net hardware. $$$ is the reason you haven't seen them in your desktop. I am fascinated by it more than quantum because it seems far off.
optoelectronics defined by Intel article.
More info. Just google Optoelectronics.
Phone and Cable companies are now the new Luddites(google it).
They are obstructionists of new technology.
They don't want anyone messing around in their guaranteed profits.
Cable broadband = 200-300k sec downloads ? LOL . What theft ! Broadband should only be mentioned with fiber to the home. FTTH(google)
If everyone switched to electric/hybrid then your not going to get the revenue.
.
Seems logical to me that they charge more for people that use more
Buy a bicycle.
http://www.fsmlabs.com/m /
s te ms/Realtime/Linux/
http://www.lynuxworks.co
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Sy
Try a Matrix analogy.
We need a private army , a private water works, private roads and highways, private parks, privatitze medical research, privatize space research.
Everything will be great. We know how much private companies want to jump into areas business where they are not guaranteed big profits.
Mega-dittos !
f enough sci-fi fans thought it was good enough then it would get ratings.
An idea to spice up the show would be new uniforms . Have ALL the women including the hot vulcan in tight miniskirts just like in the original series. Remember the Vulcan in the StarTrek movie ? Hell make them even smaller skirts. Why not add some eroticism instead of staying stale and puritan.
I WOULD DEFINITELY WATCH THEN.
If enough sci-fi fans thought it was good enough then it would get ratings.
An idea to spice up the show would be new uniforms . Have ALL the women including the hot vulcan in tight miniskirts just like in the original series. Remember the Vulcan in the StarTrek movie ? Hell make them even smaller skirts. Why not add some eroticism instead of staying stale and puritan.
I WOULD DEFINITELY WATCH THEN.