there are plenty of applications that must use the common config & libraries & program file of other applications, can't have separate copies or versions to have a useful coherent system.
many packages use the programs, configs, libraries of other packages, to say nothing of application frameworks spread across multiple packages (like say openvas client, server, manager, libraries) to address cases where a server might have some local and some remote parts, or all be on one machine. this idea would make a mess of things
I see Tom Murphy continues to write nonsense. He'd be amazed to learn that in two years a pregnant woman would not be as big as a house.
over the next 500 years, we'll doubtless be gathering resources and manufacturing off the earth. Couple that with the fact that the human population will peak in 60 years and then decline, and we see Murphy is arm waving about a non-existent limit on human endeavors.
To say nothing of technological singularities like bioengineering, we could well be growing what we need rather than smelting/refining ores. At that time I'd agree we'd need a minute percentage of present energy.
that would depend on what you want to do and what you value in a server or desktop or laptop distribution.
Just for an example, let's take one thing that is BAD about my favorite server distro, OpenBSD. The filesystem is very slow and inflexible compared to ZFS on FreeBSD, no advanced storage operations like clone, grow or snapshot
laser sintered parts have been around for decades. but there are cheaper ways to get the same result that you can *legally* do at home.
As for plastic parts, plenty of ways to make plastic parts, you can machine them out of solid material, or make molds.....not seeing what the big deal is. nothing new added at all.
who needs a flying trike when you can have a flying 18 wheeler that has far higher fuel efficiency per pound of passenger and/or cargo than that wimpy trike
the chinese in 13th century used fire lances of bamboo and wood tubes as early firearms (flamethrowing with no projectile), and sometimes put small fragments of various things (a kind of shotgun/flamethrower). but they soon went to metal barrels.
the pressures in a projectile throwing firearm are immense, even the tiny "pocket pistol" calibers like 25 ACP and such have couple tens of thousands of PSI of pressure or more. it's a job for steel, pure and simple
no, that is due to the jet of hot gas at the extremely high pressure. it can part flesh or ram fragments of skull into head. stories of wadding and cardboard push into body are merely those of debris left by the gas jet.
the modern replacements to be used in black powder weapons also contain black powder and are corrosive and caustic too. Pyrodex for example has black powder plus graphite and some other interesting things; it is less sensitive and safe than black powder but still dangerous and having many the bad characteristics. you still have to wash your gun afterwards (yes, hot soapy near-boiling water).
the atmosphere will never have such concentration, we're talking of less than a half of one part per thousand. not even the level of soda pop belching to tickle the nose.
besides what the other poster said about internal ballistics, someone with the low density of either material you mention would not penetrate. there is a reason bullets are made of dense material such as lead, bronze or steel
indeed normal self defense rounds producing 30,000 c.u.p. (copper unit of pressure, roughly can say psi). even "weak" rounds like 25 ACP and 32 ACP go 12,000 (early old ones) to 25,000 (modern) and up. I have a very hard time seeing how this thing wouldn't fail.
that little business of required tensile strength on the order of the binding force of atomic nucleons seems pesky, besides needing to convert many masses of 20 jupiters to energy to spin it up (or harnessing the total output of the sun for centuries)
some people who call themselves "nerds" also dress up like freaks and go to conventions. they probably think google glasses look cool. don't lump us in with those whackjobs.
"possibilities of water wars, refugees, failing economies, destruction of the food chain, droughts and general destabilization of the planet"
well aren't you the drama queen. we've had all those things for thousands of years, except for 'destabilitization' which has gone on for millions of years.
the water had fission products added to it to make it poisonous, what exactly is being added to the CO2 to make it poisonous? nothing, it's a necessary nutrient for what we eat.
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silly prude, a nucleus doesn't have get married to get pregnant.
there are plenty of applications that must use the common config & libraries & program file of other applications, can't have separate copies or versions to have a useful coherent system.
many packages use the programs, configs, libraries of other packages, to say nothing of application frameworks spread across multiple packages (like say openvas client, server, manager, libraries) to address cases where a server might have some local and some remote parts, or all be on one machine. this idea would make a mess of things
the salts, or people's faces?
I see Tom Murphy continues to write nonsense. He'd be amazed to learn that in two years a pregnant woman would not be as big as a house.
over the next 500 years, we'll doubtless be gathering resources and manufacturing off the earth. Couple that with the fact that the human population will peak in 60 years and then decline, and we see Murphy is arm waving about a non-existent limit on human endeavors.
To say nothing of technological singularities like bioengineering, we could well be growing what we need rather than smelting/refining ores. At that time I'd agree we'd need a minute percentage of present energy.
But for now, I reject any limit on energy use.
that would depend on what you want to do and what you value in a server or desktop or laptop distribution.
Just for an example, let's take one thing that is BAD about my favorite server distro, OpenBSD. The filesystem is very slow and inflexible compared to ZFS on FreeBSD, no advanced storage operations like clone, grow or snapshot
I really only wanted to share the coolness that a 747-400 has 18 tires like a semi truck
the north pole's ice cover disappears every year, so for those people the ice age comes and goes with the school year.
laser sintered parts have been around for decades. but there are cheaper ways to get the same result that you can *legally* do at home.
As for plastic parts, plenty of ways to make plastic parts, you can machine them out of solid material, or make molds.....not seeing what the big deal is. nothing new added at all.
who needs a flying trike when you can have a flying 18 wheeler that has far higher fuel efficiency per pound of passenger and/or cargo than that wimpy trike
http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/747family/pf/pf_facts.page
heh, you're not too far off one model of antimatter as normal matter going backward in time as Feymann described in late 40s
the chinese in 13th century used fire lances of bamboo and wood tubes as early firearms (flamethrowing with no projectile), and sometimes put small fragments of various things (a kind of shotgun/flamethrower). but they soon went to metal barrels.
the pressures in a projectile throwing firearm are immense, even the tiny "pocket pistol" calibers like 25 ACP and such have couple tens of thousands of PSI of pressure or more. it's a job for steel, pure and simple
no, that is due to the jet of hot gas at the extremely high pressure. it can part flesh or ram fragments of skull into head. stories of wadding and cardboard push into body are merely those of debris left by the gas jet.
eh, you can't use modern smokeless in a black powder weapon. the replacements for black powder contain black powder plus other ingredients.
the modern replacements to be used in black powder weapons also contain black powder and are corrosive and caustic too. Pyrodex for example has black powder plus graphite and some other interesting things; it is less sensitive and safe than black powder but still dangerous and having many the bad characteristics. you still have to wash your gun afterwards (yes, hot soapy near-boiling water).
the atmosphere will never have such concentration, we're talking of less than a half of one part per thousand. not even the level of soda pop belching to tickle the nose.
besides what the other poster said about internal ballistics, someone with the low density of either material you mention would not penetrate. there is a reason bullets are made of dense material such as lead, bronze or steel
indeed normal self defense rounds producing 30,000 c.u.p. (copper unit of pressure, roughly can say psi). even "weak" rounds like 25 ACP and 32 ACP go 12,000 (early old ones) to 25,000 (modern) and up. I have a very hard time seeing how this thing wouldn't fail.
those all have been the consequences of mere weather too at various times, besides climate warming and cooling which has always been ongoing.
that little business of required tensile strength on the order of the binding force of atomic nucleons seems pesky, besides needing to convert many masses of 20 jupiters to energy to spin it up (or harnessing the total output of the sun for centuries)
but he is dead to us.
the editing of this site went to hell long before he left, too.
I do get recorded all day at work. then on the public transit for an hour commute. maybe I should powder my face in the morning?
actually, the real request is to read the excellent documentation (compared to say GNU/Linux) first before asking questions in forums.
some people who call themselves "nerds" also dress up like freaks and go to conventions. they probably think google glasses look cool. don't lump us in with those whackjobs.
"possibilities of water wars, refugees, failing economies, destruction of the food chain, droughts and general destabilization of the planet"
well aren't you the drama queen. we've had all those things for thousands of years, except for 'destabilitization' which has gone on for millions of years.
the water had fission products added to it to make it poisonous, what exactly is being added to the CO2 to make it poisonous? nothing, it's a necessary nutrient for what we eat.