Please note that Horar (the submitter) is the one who effectivly let freedb.org die. By refusing to become involved in the infighting of others who caused it's demise.
He worked with them for two years but didn't release any useful code. How dare he contribute years of unpaid work and not release code that you deem useful.
Now he is activly promoting his own project freedb2.org,.. He is promoting it because he believes it is better, there is nothing wrong with that.
..promising to release the source but it is still not available. Some of his code is already available and the rest he is working on. I personally know Horar to be a firm beliver in OSS but he needs some time to organise and document the code. Have a little patience.
I wonder why he should care about the data not being public domain, if his software is to be supposed GPL licensed? Unless well... think for your self.
I can't belive he just got more advertising on slashdot.
Near light speed travel is a prett cool achievement, but it's completeley useless, here's why:
We can't go faster than light (the speed of light is the maximum speed of "things in the universe" light just happens to travel that fast, simply because it can't go any faster). But even at light speed th closest galaxies are still years away, so we really can't 'go anywhere'
Traveling at an appreciable fraction of c would NOT be useless. It could open up the solar system and beyond to us in ways we have barely imagined.
Even at short range this is still probablamatic. A ship can't accelerate to the speed of light too quickly otherwise all of its passengers (and equipment that's not bolted down) will crash into the rear bulkhead (because of your momentum, you won't accelerate as fast as the ship. Even if you're strapped in, accelerating too fast will cause MAJOR dammage to your internal organs.). You'd have to spend several hours accellerating, and then decellerating, so a trip to mars would still take a long time.
Do you realise how contradictory you are? A trip to mars that involved several hours accellerating, several minutes in transit and then several hours decellerating would be amazingly fast!
Right now you are experiencing 1g. If you accellerated through space in a straight line at 1g for 2 minutes you would be travelling over 1km per second (iirc). Do not under estimate long duration accelleration!
An advancement of the magnitude claimed in the article would be useful for virtually ANY space travel. Next time do your research.
SETI work units are simply not big enough to contain such advanced machine learning code. Then consider the fact that any malicious code will be up against signal to noise limits and you have very little data to play with.
your analogy is flawed.
if you were sent back in time 2000 years you wouldnt fare better at breaching the huge wall than anyone else. naturally you are limited to 0005 AD tech just as aliens would be limited by the data formatting SETI imposes on data today. This limits the aliens to using the types of exploits in use today, which are nothing special.
According to evolution theory, its the production of and survival of the offspring that is important. Once a person is beyond or incapable of bearing children, evolutionary they are dead.
Not true. A non-reproductive individual that increases the percentage of related individuals reproducing/surviving has an effect on the gene pool despite lack or ceasation of reproductive abilities.
No, such blackholes are frequently formed by high energy particles interacting with the atmosphere. if there was a remote chance they could grow big enough to swallow the planet then we wouldnt be having this discussion
Perhaps you should visit an animal shelter.
I have visited a few animal shelters and each time the majority of the dogs are not pure breed.
My family owns/owned several pure breed dogs purchased from professional breeders. The breeders made it clear that if we nolonger wanted the dogs they would happily take them back.
Direct your hate at irresponsible owners and petshops that sell sexed animals as gifts.
If the goal is a sustained presence on mars then multiple tips WILL be required.
So instead of launching many costly shielded ships, build 1 nicely shielded 'ferry' ship that transports people between earth and mars.
The bulk of supplies dont need to be shielded as much as humans, so they can be sent on unshielded and unmaned ships programmed to land near the manned base.
IIRC Robert Zubrin proposes this approach in Case for Mars, an interesting read.
The current round of X-prize entrants wont be sending anyone into orbit for a while. Just a little over 100km up then down again.
However, one could argue that hollywood superstars wouldnt know the difference, as long as the 'special effects' were good enough;)
The ISS is in a low earth orbit and is protected by earths magnetic field. A space station orbiting mars might need considerably more shielding from solar radiation because has very little magnetic shielding. It would probably be more efficient to put your efforts into a self sufficient mars (sub?)/surface station than to have a backup orbital outpost.
Something most people arnt aware of, is that breast implants need to be replaced. They are prone to bursting and leaking when they get old.
So I would much rather increse my existing tissue than get an implant which will need to be replaced several times in my lifetime. but it looks like this technique also promotes cancer. eeek
Although it is possible to contaminate mars, I strongly doubt that contamination would make it impossible to study any possible fossilised life or even current life.
We have found evidence of life on earth from billions of years ago despite our planet being 'contaminated'.
If life still clings to existance on mars, it will certainly be superbly adapted to it's little niche.
I say we study and sequence the DNA/RNA/? of any life we find there, then proceed to terraform the planet.
Mars had it's chance, it's our turn now.
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Please note that Horar (the submitter) is the one who effectivly let freedb.org die.
..promising to release the source but it is still not available.
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By refusing to become involved in the infighting of others who caused it's demise.
He worked with them for two years but didn't release any useful code.
How dare he contribute years of unpaid work and not release code that you deem useful.
Now he is activly promoting his own project freedb2.org,..
He is promoting it because he believes it is better, there is nothing wrong with that.
Some of his code is already available and the rest he is working on. I personally know Horar to be a firm beliver in OSS but he needs some time to organise and document the code. Have a little patience.
I wonder why he should care about the data not being public domain, if his software is to be supposed GPL licensed? Unless well... think for your self.
I can't belive he just got more advertising on slashdot.
Horar is a nice guy. As well as running a small business and hosting freedb2 for your convenience he builds robots and helps out other robotics geeks like myself. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v414/beccasfoto
yes, i like bold
Near light speed travel is a prett cool achievement, but it's completeley useless, here's why:
We can't go faster than light (the speed of light is the maximum speed of "things in the universe" light just happens to travel that fast, simply because it can't go any faster). But even at light speed th closest galaxies are still years away, so we really can't 'go anywhere'
Traveling at an appreciable fraction of c would NOT be useless. It could open up the solar system and beyond to us in ways we have barely imagined.
Even at short range this is still probablamatic. A ship can't accelerate to the speed of light too quickly otherwise all of its passengers (and equipment that's not bolted down) will crash into the rear bulkhead (because of your momentum, you won't accelerate as fast as the ship. Even if you're strapped in, accelerating too fast will cause MAJOR dammage to your internal organs.). You'd have to spend several hours accellerating, and then decellerating, so a trip to mars would still take a long time.
Do you realise how contradictory you are? A trip to mars that involved several hours accellerating, several minutes in transit and then several hours decellerating would be amazingly fast!
Right now you are experiencing 1g. If you accellerated through space in a straight line at 1g for 2 minutes you would be travelling over 1km per second (iirc). Do not under estimate long duration accelleration!
An advancement of the magnitude claimed in the article would be useful for virtually ANY space travel. Next time do your research.
The Sun IS the center of gravity in the solar system. The Sun orbits the center of our galaxy. Your assumption is faulty.
Without learning how to read, or operate the machine the machine is useless.
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Take a look at this. Your assumption is wrong, children are smarter than you think.
http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/Hole-in-the-
The limits to digital compression are well understood. So your either a troll or serverely lacking in knowledge.
But they know ways to exploit our ancient tech that we may not imagine, nor possibly even could imagine.
Your forgetting the fact they have no actual knowledge of our ever changing current tech.
It just isnt going to happen.
SETI work units are simply not big enough to contain such advanced machine learning code. Then consider the fact that any malicious code will be up against signal to noise limits and you have very little data to play with.
your analogy is flawed.
if you were sent back in time 2000 years you wouldnt fare better at breaching the huge wall than anyone else. naturally you are limited to 0005 AD tech just as aliens would be limited by the data formatting SETI imposes on data today. This limits the aliens to using the types of exploits in use today, which are nothing special.
According to evolution theory, its the production of and survival of the offspring that is important. Once a person is beyond or incapable of bearing children, evolutionary they are dead.
Not true. A non-reproductive individual that increases the percentage of related individuals reproducing/surviving has an effect on the gene pool despite lack or ceasation of reproductive abilities.
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No, such blackholes are frequently formed by high energy particles interacting with the atmosphere.
if there was a remote chance they could grow big enough to swallow the planet then we wouldnt be having this discussion
How does this thing work?
Or is the secret so heavily guarded that only a select few actually know?
but who is going to fly it back?
the command centre on earth.
just because it transports humans doesn't mean it requires humans onboard to function
best solution IMO is to send robots to start terraforming and maybe build an elevator to earth.
So we should wait till the planet is terraformed before manned exploration? I would rather we didnt wait the multi-millenia your plan entails.
Perhaps you should visit an animal shelter.
I have visited a few animal shelters and each time the majority of the dogs are not pure breed.
My family owns/owned several pure breed dogs purchased from professional breeders. The breeders made it clear that if we nolonger wanted the dogs they would happily take them back.
Direct your hate at irresponsible owners and petshops that sell sexed animals as gifts.
If the goal is a sustained presence on mars then multiple tips WILL be required.
So instead of launching many costly shielded ships, build 1 nicely shielded 'ferry' ship that transports people between earth and mars.
The bulk of supplies dont need to be shielded as much as humans, so they can be sent on unshielded and unmaned ships programmed to land near the manned base.
IIRC Robert Zubrin proposes this approach in Case for Mars, an interesting read.
"Such a burst would strip the Earth of its protective ozone layer, allowing deadly ultraviolet radiation to pour down from the sun."
According to the article ultraviolet radiation is the main problem.
Regardless, i would rather be shielded on the other side of the planet if had a choice.
Every creature is between evolutionary states.
Evolution doesnt happen at a constant pace, but it is always happening.
The truely important part is cost, not the type of landing system.
The shuttle is far more expensive to operate than Russias system.
Let's see you land a shuttle on a field for that matter.
you sir, are a fool..
dont talk about thermodynamics until you actually have the slightest clue what it means.
hmmm, it didnt seem to find any results for "microsoft sucks", despite the fact www.microsoftsucks.com exists... how strange
The current round of X-prize entrants wont be sending anyone into orbit for a while. Just a little over 100km up then down again. ;)
However, one could argue that hollywood superstars wouldnt know the difference, as long as the 'special effects' were good enough
The ISS is in a low earth orbit and is protected by earths magnetic field. A space station orbiting mars might need considerably more shielding from solar radiation because has very little magnetic shielding. It would probably be more efficient to put your efforts into a self sufficient mars (sub?)/surface station than to have a backup orbital outpost.
More like batteries?
I think im using the wrong batteries then, mine dont have liquid metal coolant or rockets to eject themselves from my diskman.
Something most people arnt aware of, is that breast implants need to be replaced. They are prone to bursting and leaking when they get old.
So I would much rather increse my existing tissue than get an implant which will need to be replaced several times in my lifetime. but it looks like this technique also promotes cancer. eeek
Although it is possible to contaminate mars, I strongly doubt that contamination would make it impossible to study any possible fossilised life or even current life.
We have found evidence of life on earth from billions of years ago despite our planet being 'contaminated'.
If life still clings to existance on mars, it will certainly be superbly adapted to it's little niche.
I say we study and sequence the DNA/RNA/? of any life we find there, then proceed to terraform the planet.
Mars had it's chance, it's our turn now.