Correct me if I'm wrong as I'm not a high energy particle physicist, a particle's energy/mass would only exists at it's maximum along it's axis of velocity, m = mrest/ sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) and v is varied by the cosine of the angle of approach or the radial velocity therefore it is likely that a relativistic particle could have some collisions that would satisfied the conditions for a black-hole and some that did not simultaneously. We generally view a blackhole event horizon as a psychologically comfortable sphere, yet a relativistic blackholes event horizon would be shaped like an hour-glass.
You don't need to be a high energy particle physicist to see that you are wrong; basic physics knowledge suffices. First, the energy doesn't depend on the direction; it is a scalar under spatial rotations (it's not a Lorentz scalar, though, because it depends on the velocity; but only on the absolute value, not the direction). Second, the black hole properties depend only on its energy in its rest system (except that a moving black hole should get Lorentz-contracted like everything else, but that would make it an ellipsoid, not an hour-glass).
Having said that, the exactly spherical horizon is only true for black holes without angular momentum; black holes with angular momentum are deformed. I'm not sure if it's an ellipsoid (and I'm too lazy to look it up), but it's definitely something looking similar to one.
Looking at Wikipedia, the speed of sound at that height should be about 300 m/s. According to the NASA calculator (combined with Google to get from/to SI units), in 120.000 ft height the terminal speed is much larger than that (I inserted Baumgartner's weight (73kg = 161 lbs) and 120000 ft (which the calculator changed to 100000 for reasons unknown to me), but didn't change the other parameters; according to the NASA calculator, the terminal velocity at that height is 1700 ft/s, which is 518 m/s, and therefore much larger than 300 m/s.
But "dummy died when sky-diving at supersonic speed" is a worse headline than "human died when sky-diving at supersonic speed"... Won't anyone think of the newspapers?
Meh, it's a question of technicalities. Gravity is the force that will cause him to break the sound barrier (and perhaps the thin air - lack of resistance). A machine will not be used to accelerate him. It will give him tremendous potential energy, however. Anybody want to calculate that?
About 26 megajoule. (If you want to check the calculation: His weight is 73 kg)
I think it would make more sense to make the non-active windows darker. Especially given that the active window doesn't need to be the one on top. And even if you have the active window always on top (a setting I couldn't stand, but some people apparently like it that way), the distinction between a bright and a dark window is much larger than the distinction between a window with and without shadow.
Of course the windows shouldn't be darkened too much, so you have no problems e.g. to read from one window while typing in another.
Don't forget to first check the details of the computer design you build. Oh, and the description of the working of a transistor you got from your books could be manipulated, so you better verify it for yourself. With a self-built measurement apparatus, of course.
You know, Google tends to hide a lot about its business details. Therefore it only published part of its motto. The full motto is: Do no evil unless you profit from it.
Well, probably he has so many cables that he doesn't notice them individually any more, just as you normally don't notice the individual grains of sand or the water molecules (when you have fewer grains, you have less sand, when you have fewer molecules, you have less water). If it's just a big cable mess to him, "less cables" makes sense.
Have both conscription and identity cards. Also, while most Germans speak English as a second language, I guess the OP meant a country where the native language is English.
In fact, claiming that the commercially most successfull software company got there through stupidity rather than malice sounds extremely implausible to me.
So if certain Microsoft products are or were insecure and/or unstable, it wasn't incompetence, but malice? You think Microsoft was happy every time a user got the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death?
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Correct me if I'm wrong as I'm not a high energy particle physicist, a particle's energy/mass would only exists at it's maximum along it's axis of velocity, m = mrest/ sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) and v is varied by the cosine of the angle of approach or the radial velocity therefore it is likely that a relativistic particle could have some collisions that would satisfied the conditions for a black-hole and some that did not simultaneously. We generally view a blackhole event horizon as a psychologically comfortable sphere, yet a relativistic blackholes event horizon would be shaped like an hour-glass.
You don't need to be a high energy particle physicist to see that you are wrong; basic physics knowledge suffices.
First, the energy doesn't depend on the direction; it is a scalar under spatial rotations (it's not a Lorentz scalar, though, because it depends on the velocity; but only on the absolute value, not the direction). Second, the black hole properties depend only on its energy in its rest system (except that a moving black hole should get Lorentz-contracted like everything else, but that would make it an ellipsoid, not an hour-glass).
Having said that, the exactly spherical horizon is only true for black holes without angular momentum; black holes with angular momentum are deformed. I'm not sure if it's an ellipsoid (and I'm too lazy to look it up), but it's definitely something looking similar to one.
If the LHC would create an earth-eating black hole, that certainly would not be nothing in the planetary scheme of things.
Are you aware that the particles in the LHC are moving at ~= the speed of light?
They do a regex match on the speed of light?
Assuming the short scale, a quintillion is 10^18.
A teleporter would be a machine, too. :-)
A staircase wouldn't be a machine, though.
You must be new here. Everyone knows there are only four!
I counted five.
Looking at Wikipedia, the speed of sound at that height should be about 300 m/s.
According to the NASA calculator (combined with Google to get from/to SI units), in 120.000 ft height the terminal speed is much larger than that (I inserted Baumgartner's weight (73kg = 161 lbs) and 120000 ft (which the calculator changed to 100000 for reasons unknown to me), but didn't change the other parameters; according to the NASA calculator, the terminal velocity at that height is 1700 ft/s, which is 518 m/s, and therefore much larger than 300 m/s.
But "dummy died when sky-diving at supersonic speed" is a worse headline than "human died when sky-diving at supersonic speed" ...
Won't anyone think of the newspapers?
Meh, it's a question of technicalities. Gravity is the force that will cause him to break the sound barrier (and perhaps the thin air - lack of resistance). A machine will not be used to accelerate him. It will give him tremendous potential energy, however. Anybody want to calculate that?
About 26 megajoule.
(If you want to check the calculation: His weight is 73 kg)
I actually thought of the end of Dark Star.
You can fail to get the balloon to 102,800 ft.
I think it would make more sense to make the non-active windows darker. Especially given that the active window doesn't need to be the one on top. And even if you have the active window always on top (a setting I couldn't stand, but some people apparently like it that way), the distinction between a bright and a dark window is much larger than the distinction between a window with and without shadow.
Of course the windows shouldn't be darkened too much, so you have no problems e.g. to read from one window while typing in another.
What about a performance comparison with original FreeBSD?
Don't forget to first check the details of the computer design you build. Oh, and the description of the working of a transistor you got from your books could be manipulated, so you better verify it for yourself. With a self-built measurement apparatus, of course.
Score: -1 (completely missed the point)
You know, Google tends to hide a lot about its business details. Therefore it only published part of its motto.
The full motto is: Do no evil unless you profit from it.
One movie to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.
One could make a combination of both, say 50 years after publication, or 100 years after creation, whichever happens first.
Then just ask them why there's no King Arthur porn sold on Wal Mart. Because the original King Arthur story definitely is out of copyright now.
So it's only illegal if it's made of metal?
Well, probably he has so many cables that he doesn't notice them individually any more, just as you normally don't notice the individual grains of sand or the water molecules (when you have fewer grains, you have less sand, when you have fewer molecules, you have less water). If it's just a big cable mess to him, "less cables" makes sense.
RewriteOS
From the article:
"The GPU will also be execute C++ code."
They integrate a C++ interpreter (or JIT compiler) into their graphics chip?
Deutschland?
Have both conscription and identity cards.
Also, while most Germans speak English as a second language, I guess the OP meant a country where the native language is English.
In fact, claiming that the commercially most successfull software company got there through stupidity rather than malice sounds extremely implausible to me.
So if certain Microsoft products are or were insecure and/or unstable, it wasn't incompetence, but malice? You think Microsoft was happy every time a user got the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death?