I apologize for the poor formatting - it always escapes my mind that/. doesn't automagically break for you, but you need to use the br tag, and of course I'm too smart for the preview button.:)
However, what needs to happen first, is for us to our technology to the point where we have a high-yield, low-failure rate method of producing carbon nanotubes. It's not there yet, and I don't think it will be here for a number of years.
This is not to say that there aren't good minds working on it, because there are - the University of Utah, where I study, has a team of some of the best physicists and engineers devoted to the study and fabrication of carbon nanostructures.
Also there is the consideration of money. Research projects can be expensive, especially for something as groundbreaking as efficient fabrication of carbon nanotubes. It is entirely plausible that the money being funneled to carbon nanostructure research projects adds up to as much, if not more, than NASA is spending on conventional spaceflight.
All this said, I think he's closer to right than wrong - space elevators would be a *massively* better way to get stuff out of the gravity well than throwing like ten metric arseloads of rocket fuel at the problem.
Sluggy Freelance used to be hilarious (the time machine strips especially) but it seems to have gone downhill as of late... All the Oasis stuff doesn't seem to be quite as funny as good ol' fashioned Bun Bun running around and railing on everyone...:)
of the guy who invented the toaster that connects to the Internet, downloads the weather information for your zipcode, and burns a corresponding graphic onto your toast. Like, if it's going to be sunny, it'll burn a cheery little sun in your toast. It even burns the high and low temperature on. Cool, huh!:)
I wanna see how they do the Ents. Or if they just wuss out and leave them. Which they really can't, because they were instrumental in the destruction of Saruman's tower.
That brings up a gripe. Why, why, why, did they leave Tom Bombadil and the barrow-wights out of the first movie? Ooh, that made me mad.
a miniature black hole (a naked singularity for the physicists out there)... an asteroid would do even more damage. Not only would trees and stuff be levelled, a large cloud of dust would go up, obscuring the sun for a while, maybe even days. Asteroids go really freaking fast, and when they hit the ground, they basically vaporize. And vaporize anything they hit.
During the big one, by the fireplace...yeah, that one... When Anakin says his famous (very stupid) line "If you're suffering as much as I am, tell me...", someone in the theatre (all right, I admit, it was me) shouted, "We are! Cut the scene!"
Lucas, in my opinion, kept it short and sweet. He got in everything that really needed to be got in. And, besides, I don't think that Yoda was in any way undignified. If you ask me, Dooku was the undignified one... he was doing his absolute best to keep up with a very old...umm... whatever Yoda is. Honestly.:)
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I apologize for the poor formatting - it always escapes my mind that /. doesn't automagically break for you, but you need to use the br tag, and of course I'm too smart for the preview button. :)
However, what needs to happen first, is for us to our technology to the point where we have a high-yield, low-failure rate method of producing carbon nanotubes. It's not there yet, and I don't think it will be here for a number of years. This is not to say that there aren't good minds working on it, because there are - the University of Utah, where I study, has a team of some of the best physicists and engineers devoted to the study and fabrication of carbon nanostructures. Also there is the consideration of money. Research projects can be expensive, especially for something as groundbreaking as efficient fabrication of carbon nanotubes. It is entirely plausible that the money being funneled to carbon nanostructure research projects adds up to as much, if not more, than NASA is spending on conventional spaceflight. All this said, I think he's closer to right than wrong - space elevators would be a *massively* better way to get stuff out of the gravity well than throwing like ten metric arseloads of rocket fuel at the problem.
At this point I would like to mention that the University of Utah is awesome. *quickly shovels any mention of Flieschmann and/or Pons under the rug* ;)
And this is any different than Hollywood how?
Good thing they picked sucky bands to copy-protect. :)
oh, forget it.
This is almost too good... could someone have hacked in to their network and deliberately taken it down?
Poor Einstein, I thought. :)
Just so you know. :P
There never was one... It got noised around a bit, but it never actually happened.
Sluggy Freelance used to be hilarious (the time machine strips especially) but it seems to have gone downhill as of late... All the Oasis stuff doesn't seem to be quite as funny as good ol' fashioned Bun Bun running around and railing on everyone... :)
of the guy who invented the toaster that connects to the Internet, downloads the weather information for your zipcode, and burns a corresponding graphic onto your toast. Like, if it's going to be sunny, it'll burn a cheery little sun in your toast. It even burns the high and low temperature on. Cool, huh! :)
ha. Good idea. I usually use 99999 myself. :)
are incompatible...
Dude, you're going to hell!
That was the major major thing that needed to be set up. Anyway.
I wanna see how they do the Ents. Or if they just wuss out and leave them. Which they really can't, because they were instrumental in the destruction of Saruman's tower.
That brings up a gripe. Why, why, why, did they leave Tom Bombadil and the barrow-wights out of the first movie? Ooh, that made me mad.
Excellent match.
*Most* vectors do slingshot around the earth. Including this one, it seems.
Nono, the black hole entered the earth on the other side of Tunguska, and then erupted out in Tunguska.
I would think that if it produced a fireball, it would burn up completely, instead of re-escaping. I suppose it would depend on how large it was.
a miniature black hole (a naked singularity for the physicists out there)... an asteroid would do even more damage. Not only would trees and stuff be levelled, a large cloud of dust would go up, obscuring the sun for a while, maybe even days. Asteroids go really freaking fast, and when they hit the ground, they basically vaporize. And vaporize anything they hit.
*check*
During the big one, by the fireplace...yeah, that one... When Anakin says his famous (very stupid) line "If you're suffering as much as I am, tell me...", someone in the theatre (all right, I admit, it was me) shouted, "We are! Cut the scene!"
Moral: ANAKIN CAN'T ACT!!
Not to mention your fender. And the rest of your car.
Lucas, in my opinion, kept it short and sweet. He got in everything that really needed to be got in. And, besides, I don't think that Yoda was in any way undignified. If you ask me, Dooku was the undignified one... he was doing his absolute best to keep up with a very old...umm... whatever Yoda is. Honestly. :)