Project Orion is a risky in practice, no one is going to build a craft like that with a hold containing thousands of nukes and where a misfire in the wrong time or place of any of those thousands means death for all crew. Fission fragment propulsion reactors can do the exact same job more safely, though of course if such a thing ever made reality it will be loaded with patented and proprietary tech and materials requiring the resources of many multi-billion dollar corporations to make. We're going to the stars, if we go at all, on intellectual property laws and with mega-corporate interests, get over it.
there is no apollo era tech that will get you to another star. Any starship need to use whatever is the latest and best at time of building beginning the journey, anything else would cripple the mission.
For example, fabbing own rad resistant computer chips that have the computational capability for dealing with interstellar navigation and propulsion at a significant fraction (say 5% or more) of lightspeed, that's a multi-billion dollar corporations playing field,
The propulsion will need to be novel, the best we could do at present would be something like a fission fragment engine (basically reactor spewing bits of its fuel). Something like that when invented will be chock full of patented things. Ditto any working fusion reactor which we of course don't have, full of patented things.
So will the life support systems (which don't exist yet), nothing in 1960s will be up to the task.
That's to say nothing of the materials used, which also probably will be patented
I'm having a very hard time seeing how a spacecraft could NOT contain an immense amount of patented tech. I don't think it's possible to make a patent-free spacecraft.
Any craft that can reach a star system 39 light years away in a reasonable amount of time is also a fearsome weapon.
you could say the same of most of the comforts of life including the internet and personal computers and smart phones...just conveniences we don't need in the absolute sense.
economy is made of many such things. since I'm old I know most of what we have isn't "necessary". I spent more than half my life without cell phone, electronic ignition and fuel injection, microwave oven, etc.......but man am I glad for such things and if you want to take them from me I'll fight you 8D
yes, google allowed you to have a list of up to 500 domains that would not appear in search results, called Manage Blocked Sites", discontinued in early 2013
the black market companies and bootleggers would be so happy. Instead of 15% share in Australia they'd have 100% market share. I can't believe the ignorant twats here saying taxation and bans are effective way to control people's behavior
too bad the twats at google stopped their search results site blacklisting feature. any good search engine should have that feature, everyone should demand it
I use LIbreOffice at home (and have to use MS Office at work) BUT LibreOffice is in no way, shape or form a drop-in replacement as it has a different feature set and can't present MS documents without distortion.
The ribbon panders to semi-literate morons and is a hinderance to those with fully functioning cerebrum.
eh? DB2 with purescale can kick Oracle's ass for speed and also price. And you can do rolling upgrades across a cluster. And with oracle the oracle thugs come by and make you pay for each place in a virtual environment oracle *might* run, not just where it does run. Oracle? just say no
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Project Orion is a risky in practice, no one is going to build a craft like that with a hold containing thousands of nukes and where a misfire in the wrong time or place of any of those thousands means death for all crew. Fission fragment propulsion reactors can do the exact same job more safely, though of course if such a thing ever made reality it will be loaded with patented and proprietary tech and materials requiring the resources of many multi-billion dollar corporations to make. We're going to the stars, if we go at all, on intellectual property laws and with mega-corporate interests, get over it.
there is no apollo era tech that will get you to another star. Any starship need to use whatever is the latest and best at time of building beginning the journey, anything else would cripple the mission.
For example, fabbing own rad resistant computer chips that have the computational capability for dealing with interstellar navigation and propulsion at a significant fraction (say 5% or more) of lightspeed, that's a multi-billion dollar corporations playing field,
The propulsion will need to be novel, the best we could do at present would be something like a fission fragment engine (basically reactor spewing bits of its fuel). Something like that when invented will be chock full of patented things. Ditto any working fusion reactor which we of course don't have, full of patented things.
So will the life support systems (which don't exist yet), nothing in 1960s will be up to the task.
That's to say nothing of the materials used, which also probably will be patented
I'm having a very hard time seeing how a spacecraft could NOT contain an immense amount of patented tech. I don't think it's possible to make a patent-free spacecraft.
Any craft that can reach a star system 39 light years away in a reasonable amount of time is also a fearsome weapon.
could we please not have slashdot articles that are merely ads for crap products?
I don't think China's economy can afford to lose the U.S. market just yet. Give them another decade or two
you could say the same of most of the comforts of life including the internet and personal computers and smart phones...just conveniences we don't need in the absolute sense.
economy is made of many such things. since I'm old I know most of what we have isn't "necessary". I spent more than half my life without cell phone, electronic ignition and fuel injection, microwave oven, etc.......but man am I glad for such things and if you want to take them from me I'll fight you 8D
The article is about a first world entity giving handouts to some 3rd world town which proves exactly nothing.
You mean like nuclear and building huge coal power plants for their foreign manufacturing. Yes, they're doing that.
There is nothing shallow about understanding the relative magnitude of numbers.
Oh, and half my family is Chinese but they left that shithole for better places including the USA. Best thing that ever happened they'll tell you.
nope it's legit. really good systems can even uncrop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
China produces a quarter of the world's carbon pollution. their solar use doesn't really matter yet.
but this is "short term effect" nor on "local scale" and believed to be significant enough to affect climate in a major way.
yes, google allowed you to have a list of up to 500 domains that would not appear in search results, called Manage Blocked Sites", discontinued in early 2013
QED Climate modeling has been and is a waste of money
the black market companies and bootleggers would be so happy. Instead of 15% share in Australia they'd have 100% market share. I can't believe the ignorant twats here saying taxation and bans are effective way to control people's behavior
too bad the twats at google stopped their search results site blacklisting feature. any good search engine should have that feature, everyone should demand it
that's not the Microsoft definition of "distortion". MS Office presents documents The Microsoft Way(tm). All else is distortion.
please tell me what percent of my U.S. federal taxes create a higher standard of living, I'm curious. I'm also thinking you are an idealist and naive
it didn't move, silly, it made the border mad by breaking a deal
guess again: http://www.news.com.au/finance...
you people that try to control others with taxes are hilarious. also wrong.
this creates a lucrative black market.
this has been proven time and again.
you don't know how your world works
I use LIbreOffice at home (and have to use MS Office at work) BUT LibreOffice is in no way, shape or form a drop-in replacement as it has a different feature set and can't present MS documents without distortion.
The ribbon panders to semi-literate morons and is a hinderance to those with fully functioning cerebrum.
I'm only reminded of slang from my grandparents' day:
Meadow Muffin: n slang for piece of manure left by grazing animal.
Yes, I agree
eh? DB2 with purescale can kick Oracle's ass for speed and also price. And you can do rolling upgrades across a cluster. And with oracle the oracle thugs come by and make you pay for each place in a virtual environment oracle *might* run, not just where it does run. Oracle? just say no