This will not provide a sollution since we need too many cows to produce significant amounts of energy, therefore this will not be a sollution to an energy crisis. But this improoves a litlle the eficiency of the farming and the most important the methane does not escape into the athmosphere. Instead it is burned and CO2 is released. I know that CO2 is greenhouse efect gas but the methane increases MUCH more the geenhouse than C02. This one is good since improoves farming eficiency, gets rid of nasty cow manure smell in farming areas, it is environmental friendly reducing the greenhouse efect and generates electricity. So you better use it! Especialy in Holand when the smell is nasty!:)
If there is a ocean under the thick layer of ice (6-15km estimated), and if there is life, that life will probably exist only near thermal vents deep below and never find its way or at least never in detectable quantities. Here on Earth we do not know for sure if there is life in the Vostok lake.
Indeed the energy needs for such a mission are enormous (might I say astronomical). And there is a big chance that there might not be any ocean beneath the ice. Indeed the first reasonable step is an orbiter.
Indeed extremly low radio frequencies can go through water. It is used for commnicating messages to submerged submarines. But you need a lot of power to do so. One thing you do not have in excess on a an interplanetary probe.
We should look for life on Europa but I thing it is not the right moment. We lack technical capabilities for now. A probe looking for life on Europa should travel the distance between Earth and Jupiter, land on Europa, burn its way through a very thick layer of ice (maybe 10 - 20km, swim autonmously trough a dark ocean probing for life, find its way up to the surface and transmit data back to earth. I think this is out of our technicak capabilities for now. Maybe latter.
There are lots of aircraft pioneers forgoten. Have you guys ever heard about Traian Vuia or Henri Coanda?
If not:
http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/coanda.htm
http://www.cpcug.org/user/stefan/vuia.html
Beeing involved with TT&C I can tell you it is quite hard to loose a satellite once it is in position. Besides having a lot of redundancy and beeing fool proof in case something very wrong happends and he is about to crash into atmoshphere he will manouver itself out and place itself in a high orbit waiting slot. There is a funny storry about Telespazio Italia "loosing" a satellite. It was a scientific satelite. Periodicaly you had do do checks and orbit corections but when the checks were scheduled there was a technical problem and the guys that were supposed to fix it (the shift) were sleeping. As a consequence the satellite did get the telemetry controls at the right time and in 2 hours thought something verry wrong is happening and flew away in a safe position. It took them 4 months to get it back where it was supposed to be and shorten its life a lot doe to fuel consumtions. As for the software it was just about the time because 90% of the comercial and verry expensive software is full of crap.
I do not think that the electric discharge will have any influence on a high speed and huge temerature jet of molten copper. The only thing that might happend is that you'll get the the crew electrocuted besides been roasted.
I would not rather be concerned with privacy violations, since if the big brother is after you probably he will get what he wants, but with what can really happened if someone succedes a distributed denial of service and shuts down hundred of thousends of users deppending on emergency services. There was a few years ago a big roar regarding cisco equipments in Australia when they had a downtime and an emergency call could not pass through. Also as an integration engineer I happended to test some "carrier grade" VoIP equipment from a company I cannot mention which besides it was really crapy was also very sensitive to different DoS attacts and I managed to bring it down several time. Probably you are going to say that the firewalls in the network should prevent me for doing it. The answer is that they didn't even bother and it was due to go live in 3 days.
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This will not provide a sollution since we need too many cows to produce significant amounts of energy, therefore this will not be a sollution to an energy crisis. But this improoves a litlle the eficiency of the farming and the most important the methane does not escape into the athmosphere. Instead it is burned and CO2 is released. I know that CO2 is greenhouse efect gas but the methane increases MUCH more the geenhouse than C02. This one is good since improoves farming eficiency, gets rid of nasty cow manure smell in farming areas, it is environmental friendly reducing the greenhouse efect and generates electricity. So you better use it! Especialy in Holand when the smell is nasty! :)
If there is a ocean under the thick layer of ice (6-15km estimated), and if there is life, that life will probably exist only near thermal vents deep below and never find its way or at least never in detectable quantities. Here on Earth we do not know for sure if there is life in the Vostok lake.
Indeed the energy needs for such a mission are enormous (might I say astronomical). And there is a big chance that there might not be any ocean beneath the ice. Indeed the first reasonable step is an orbiter.
Indeed extremly low radio frequencies can go through water. It is used for commnicating messages to submerged submarines. But you need a lot of power to do so. One thing you do not have in excess on a an interplanetary probe.
Peace corps only uses US "recruits", therefore I cannot bring my contribution through peacecorps! I wonder why!!
We should look for life on Europa but I thing it is not the right moment. We lack technical capabilities for now. A probe looking for life on Europa should travel the distance between Earth and Jupiter, land on Europa, burn its way through a very thick layer of ice (maybe 10 - 20km, swim autonmously trough a dark ocean probing for life, find its way up to the surface and transmit data back to earth. I think this is out of our technicak capabilities for now. Maybe latter.
Allways did and allways will.
I will certainly not keep this thing in my lap.
Thinking that they managed to hijack 4 airplanes with cardbord cutters that POP might be very intimidating mate.
We could upload them the audigy drivers.
Nope. Just my sister's boyfriend comming to pick her up. :)
Then how do you explain the little green fellow waving from the window?
I think he invented the gas bulb for chemical experiments with gases, but I am not very sure.
Wasn't he a chemist? Anyway it is unfortunate that "advertising" has a lot to do with the acknoledgement of scientifical figures.
There are lots of aircraft pioneers forgoten. Have you guys ever heard about Traian Vuia or Henri Coanda? If not: http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/coanda.htm http://www.cpcug.org/user/stefan/vuia.html
Sodium is not a metal.
Beeing involved with TT&C I can tell you it is quite hard to loose a satellite once it is in position. Besides having a lot of redundancy and beeing fool proof in case something very wrong happends and he is about to crash into atmoshphere he will manouver itself out and place itself in a high orbit waiting slot. There is a funny storry about Telespazio Italia "loosing" a satellite. It was a scientific satelite. Periodicaly you had do do checks and orbit corections but when the checks were scheduled there was a technical problem and the guys that were supposed to fix it (the shift) were sleeping. As a consequence the satellite did get the telemetry controls at the right time and in 2 hours thought something verry wrong is happening and flew away in a safe position. It took them 4 months to get it back where it was supposed to be and shorten its life a lot doe to fuel consumtions. As for the software it was just about the time because 90% of the comercial and verry expensive software is full of crap.
I do not think that the electric discharge will have any influence on a high speed and huge temerature jet of molten copper. The only thing that might happend is that you'll get the the crew electrocuted besides been roasted.
I would not rather be concerned with privacy violations, since if the big brother is after you probably he will get what he wants, but with what can really happened if someone succedes a distributed denial of service and shuts down hundred of thousends of users deppending on emergency services. There was a few years ago a big roar regarding cisco equipments in Australia when they had a downtime and an emergency call could not pass through. Also as an integration engineer I happended to test some "carrier grade" VoIP equipment from a company I cannot mention which besides it was really crapy was also very sensitive to different DoS attacts and I managed to bring it down several time. Probably you are going to say that the firewalls in the network should prevent me for doing it. The answer is that they didn't even bother and it was due to go live in 3 days.
Oil is even better.