By that logic we'll never colonize space until we get some brutal, global tyrant who's run out of places to stash political prisoners.... or bury the bodies.
Yes, but facing something as totally alien as another sentient species just might give humanity the kick in the collective head it needs to start THINKING instead of just reacting.
I mean.... faced with something so radically different as a completely non-terrestrial form of life, racial differences between humans start to look pretty pissant, don't they?
All well and good, if you assume that thermal equilibrium has anything to do with it.
It can still absorb energy, just not heat energy. But heat isn't what's driving it, (despite Gold's claim.) Photons, while massless, do have momentum. This is the energy that's transferred, and is expressed as kinetic force. (Forward thrust.) Gold is assuming that a solar sail is a heat engine.... heat is more or less irrelevant. It's not a closed system, (hence, thermodynamics doesn't apply.)
Looks proprietary as hell to me. I've never heard of a 'rabbit processor' and it doesn't look like the OS it runs is anything standard.... no embedded linux?
If I remember right, (it's been a while....) Frodo actually goes flying back several feet. There's where your energy goes. Jackson screwed it up by having Frodo pinned against a wall.
amazing trivia: both of falwell's parents were atheists.
Backlash. Madeline O'Hair's son is a raging fundamentalist preacher. Real hellfire and brimstone stuff. It's teenage angst that carried over into adulthood.
(Fundamentalists use vague statements like this all the time about atheists.... just returning the favor.;))
I think he's talking about putting down a deposit on the dewar itself, and it's probably a decent sized one.
Just take in a thermos bottle that you own and it's probably a lot less.... but a deposit on a dewar that you're basically renting would be quite a bit more.
Clearly you should spin it a little better than that sentence, but if a company looks at you and thinks "hm, when we want him to bend over and take it, he's not going to" and the doesn't give you a job... did you want to work for them?
Ideally, no. Practically speaking, I'm fond of the little luxuries in life.... like... dinner.
When the software industry stops enforcing policies that render them effectively immune to basic economic laws, (IE software can't be returned if defective, there's no legal liability for damage or defective products, using IP law to corner a monopoly then using that monopoly to establish prices the market would never support in a 'free market,' etc.) then maybe they'll have a right to bitch about people violating property laws.
Wait, has anyone seen the new Ipods? They're LESS than an inch thick, and can store up to 30 GB on them! What's the big hurrah about these things??
The big hurrah is that they're less than a quarter the size, (the overall SIZE is 1.5".... not the thickness) and are less than a c-note each... and Samsung is putting one in a video camera.
Now I guess Apple users will have yet another device to denigrate because it does video and the iPaq doesn't....:)
I'm familiar with the book, although that's one of Heinlein's I haven't gotten around to reading. This isn't exactly a new idea.
50, 100 even 200 kilos. Hell let's go whole hog and make it five metric tons.
Exactly how the HELL do you plan to stop it? It's a very simple question. Regardless of size, how do you plan to stop it? You've got (now we're up to) five metric tons of rock accelerating toward you at several hundred kilometers not per hour, (which wouldn't actually be all that fast, relatively speaking,) but per SECOND. (Not tough to accelerate away from the moon's gravity.) Exactly what do you plan to do to stop it? I have a mental image of you sitting there and pulling out a Wile E. Coyote umbrella in one hand and a sign saying 'Mommy' in the other.
They also aren't accelerating as fast to begin with, nor do they get the full amount of distance. (To impact with an asteroid we basically either have to collide with it, or come close enough that gravity can overcome its inertia, which is moving in a different direction. This generally doesn't happen at the height of a lunar orbit, which explains why such impacts are fortunately rare.
You seem to get your firearms knowledge (or rather, the lack thereof) from watching movies. No army now, or has ever, trained soldiers to "fire from the hip", nor would a pistol grip make such firing easier (if anything, it would become nearly impossible with a pistol grip).
Are you stoned, stupid, or just not paying attention?
It ALLOWS you to fire from the hip, which in some cases is an advantage. (Such as trying to make people keep their heads down, or firing into a mob.) Strawmen are easy to knock down, but they don't prove your point.
The other posters are right; you are an idiot. The lock time of semi-autos today are no better than guns more than 100 years old.
When it's intentionally limited, yes. Not all are.
Figures. You're just a damned communitarian who thinks the only time people should be allowed to exercise their rights is when they serve the state. Your kind killed more people last century than the rest of all other tyrants in history.
And you pulled this out of where?
Let me rephrase for those who have trouble hearing through the chip on their shoulders. If you want to play with military weapons, go join the military. The rest of us don't want to deal with the consequences of your incompetence.
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By that logic we'll never colonize space until we get some brutal, global tyrant who's run out of places to stash political prisoners.... or bury the bodies.
I mean.... faced with something so radically different as a completely non-terrestrial form of life, racial differences between humans start to look pretty pissant, don't they?
It can still absorb energy, just not heat energy. But heat isn't what's driving it, (despite Gold's claim.) Photons, while massless, do have momentum. This is the energy that's transferred, and is expressed as kinetic force. (Forward thrust.) Gold is assuming that a solar sail is a heat engine.... heat is more or less irrelevant. It's not a closed system, (hence, thermodynamics doesn't apply.)
Looks proprietary as hell to me. I've never heard of a 'rabbit processor' and it doesn't look like the OS it runs is anything standard.... no embedded linux?
*still chuckling*
If I remember right, (it's been a while....) Frodo actually goes flying back several feet. There's where your energy goes. Jackson screwed it up by having Frodo pinned against a wall.
The best (and arguably only) defense against offensive nanotech, is defensive nanotech.
Fortunately, reasearchers realize this.... and the 'good guys' have been thinking about this for quite a bit longer than the 'bad guys' have.
Don't forget the huge spoiler and body kit for your case. Oh and big stickers all along the sides.... we all know that makes it faster. :)
Backlash. Madeline O'Hair's son is a raging fundamentalist preacher. Real hellfire and brimstone stuff. It's teenage angst that carried over into adulthood.
(Fundamentalists use vague statements like this all the time about atheists.... just returning the favor. ;))
True.... I mean someone please show me how something that pisses off Jerry Falwell is a BAD thing? ;)
If you're looking for the full effect.... you forgot 'homo/bisexual.'
I mean the three you have will piss off enough of the right people... but you won't get all of them unless you add in the fourth. ;)
Standard disclaimer IANAL.
Just take in a thermos bottle that you own and it's probably a lot less.... but a deposit on a dewar that you're basically renting would be quite a bit more.
I dunno.... at first glance yes, it seems to apply. But the level of sheer chutzpah....
I understand the position of 'Information Minister, State of Iraq' is open....
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. - Lazarus Long and various other characters created by Robert Heinlein.
Ideally, no. Practically speaking, I'm fond of the little luxuries in life.... like... dinner.
Until then.... them's the breaks, as it is said.
The big hurrah is that they're less than a quarter the size, (the overall SIZE is 1.5".... not the thickness) and are less than a c-note each... and Samsung is putting one in a video camera.
Now I guess Apple users will have yet another device to denigrate because it does video and the iPaq doesn't.... :)
50, 100 even 200 kilos. Hell let's go whole hog and make it five metric tons.
Exactly how the HELL do you plan to stop it? It's a very simple question. Regardless of size, how do you plan to stop it? You've got (now we're up to) five metric tons of rock accelerating toward you at several hundred kilometers not per hour, (which wouldn't actually be all that fast, relatively speaking,) but per SECOND. (Not tough to accelerate away from the moon's gravity.) Exactly what do you plan to do to stop it? I have a mental image of you sitting there and pulling out a Wile E. Coyote umbrella in one hand and a sign saying 'Mommy' in the other.
They also aren't accelerating as fast to begin with, nor do they get the full amount of distance. (To impact with an asteroid we basically either have to collide with it, or come close enough that gravity can overcome its inertia, which is moving in a different direction. This generally doesn't happen at the height of a lunar orbit, which explains why such impacts are fortunately rare.
You'll need a hell of a lot more mass for these rocks to do any damage.
Possibly YOU'D like to have one drop on you?
You seem to get your firearms knowledge (or rather, the lack thereof) from watching movies. No army now, or has ever, trained soldiers to "fire from the hip", nor would a pistol grip make such firing easier (if anything, it would become nearly impossible with a pistol grip).
Are you stoned, stupid, or just not paying attention?
It ALLOWS you to fire from the hip, which in some cases is an advantage. (Such as trying to make people keep their heads down, or firing into a mob.) Strawmen are easy to knock down, but they don't prove your point.
The other posters are right; you are an idiot. The lock time of semi-autos today are no better than guns more than 100 years old.
When it's intentionally limited, yes. Not all are.
Figures. You're just a damned communitarian who thinks the only time people should be allowed to exercise their rights is when they serve the state. Your kind killed more people last century than the rest of all other tyrants in history.
And you pulled this out of where?
Let me rephrase for those who have trouble hearing through the chip on their shoulders. If you want to play with military weapons, go join the military. The rest of us don't want to deal with the consequences of your incompetence.
F=MA. Exactly which part of this are you unclear on?