My experience is decades old, so I may be wrong, but... Tantalum electrolytics are used where temperatures are too high for aluminum electrolytics, and where relatively high capacitance and relatively low ESR are needed in a small package. High reliability is also a feature, once (explosive) infant mortality is accounted for.
What happens when, for instance, tantalum from the Congo is banned or subject to forced negative publicity? It's sold to Russia or any of a host of other middlemen, who then sell it to US companies, purified by plausible deniability. Clothes and money aren't the only things that can be laundered.
Are you an idiot or a troll? Understanding that it takes a lot of energy to move a mass from the surface of the Earth to a few tens of thousands of miles higher does not require an understanding of the mechanism of gravity, but that energy requirement is what "gravity well" refers to.
What do you consider "natural materials"? If you're limiting them to dirt, water, rocks, and plant material it's pretty difficult to get a good design, particularly since the plant material can't be used because it burns up. Still, as long as "dirt" isn't just sand, then water and dirt can be used to make brick, adobe, and with high enough temperatures free-form ceramics. They ought to be able to make a decent stove, complete with venting, with those materials, and the cost is labor and fuel to heat mud into bricks/adobe/ceramics. Heck, adobe is sun-dried.
Spalling is going to be a problem, and such a stove would probably need frequent repair.
The stylish artist's conception in TFA looks like a waste of money.
A good design means all the carbon ends up as CO2 and all the hydrogen as H20. Poor design means carbon monoxide and poisonous compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur, and whatever else is in the fuel. Alas, without venting, the nasty stuff in the fuel still stays in the house, but since the design is more efficient less fuel is required.
As a side note, the Amish reject insurance on that same "not yoke oneself under the non-believers" standpoint. Social Security, allegedly being insurance, is something they thereby reject. On that same principle, to the best of their ability they try to separate themselves from government at its various levels.
You want them to do boring, tedious work. Hmmm. What could you do to make people want to do boring tedious work? I know, pay them!
1. Announce a course in window manager design.
2. Collect tuition.
3. Give your students the current source code for icewm.
4. Tell them their assignment is to make icewm compatible with modern Linux.
5. Profit!
Eventually, the decision makers ignoring NSA requests would be jailed and their successors presented with the same threats. As the government becomes more corrupt, even the kangaroo courts will be bypassed, with the refusers jailed or murdered in dark of night without "benefit" of trial. We're not far from that.
The idea that the citizens and government of the US are subject to the Magna Carta, a British document, is prima facie preposterous. Please provide a reason why it applies, or a citation.
Assange can't be charged with treason in the USA, because he is not an American citizen.
That's a non sequitur. The Constitutional definition of treason says nothing about citizenship. For an act to be treason, it must be committed by someone subject to US law: either a citizen or someone in an area where US law applies (such as states, territories, territorial waters, naval vessels, embassies. Military bases?).
Tonsils are part of the immune system. The function of the appendix is unknown, but informed speculation includes immune system and an obsolescent part of the digestive system once effective in high-foliage diets.
Voyager 2 is not headed toward any particular star, although in roughly 40,000 years it should pass 1.7 light-years (9.7 trillion miles) from the star Ross 248. And if left alone for 296,000 years, Voyager 2 should pass by the star Sirius at a distance of 1.32 parsecs (4.3 ly, 25 trillion miles). Voyager 2 is expected to keep transmitting weak radio messages until at least 2025, over 48 years after it was launched. (wikipedia)
So, assuming it isn't deflected by something we're currently unfamiliar with, the star with a well-known name that it'll get relatively close to is Sirius, the Dog Star.
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My experience is decades old, so I may be wrong, but ... Tantalum electrolytics are used where temperatures are too high for aluminum electrolytics, and where relatively high capacitance and relatively low ESR are needed in a small package. High reliability is also a feature, once (explosive) infant mortality is accounted for.
What happens when, for instance, tantalum from the Congo is banned or subject to forced negative publicity? It's sold to Russia or any of a host of other middlemen, who then sell it to US companies, purified by plausible deniability. Clothes and money aren't the only things that can be laundered.
Minerals are fungible. If you want to risk your life to defeat slavers, have at it. Don't involve me, and get out of my face.
Are you an idiot or a troll? Understanding that it takes a lot of energy to move a mass from the surface of the Earth to a few tens of thousands of miles higher does not require an understanding of the mechanism of gravity, but that energy requirement is what "gravity well" refers to.
Pu-238 has a half-life of 87 years; I'm guessing they use enough that the reaction speeds up a bit, otherwise Voyager wouldn't be running out so soon.
Pu-241 has a half-life of 14 years; if the fission is energetic enough, would it be suitable for shorter missions?
Pu-240 has a half-life of 6500 years; this would seem to be suitable for long missions but would require 75 times as much fuel (?)
The British, being very proper, have only civil plutonium. In the US, we use rude plutonium; civil plutonium won't fit in our reactors.
I just did it in Firefox 24.0.
A process known as fission.
Also fission.
Say what?
Whoosh!
What do you consider "natural materials"? If you're limiting them to dirt, water, rocks, and plant material it's pretty difficult to get a good design, particularly since the plant material can't be used because it burns up. Still, as long as "dirt" isn't just sand, then water and dirt can be used to make brick, adobe, and with high enough temperatures free-form ceramics. They ought to be able to make a decent stove, complete with venting, with those materials, and the cost is labor and fuel to heat mud into bricks/adobe/ceramics. Heck, adobe is sun-dried.
Spalling is going to be a problem, and such a stove would probably need frequent repair.
The stylish artist's conception in TFA looks like a waste of money.
A good design means all the carbon ends up as CO2 and all the hydrogen as H20. Poor design means carbon monoxide and poisonous compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur, and whatever else is in the fuel. Alas, without venting, the nasty stuff in the fuel still stays in the house, but since the design is more efficient less fuel is required.
Cars with TVs were available in 1986. With some effort, a VCR could have been added.
Marriage is, among other things, symbolic. It means a great deal to many people, and denigrating it is shallow.
Prude atmosphere of the early 60s? The early 60s was the start of "fuck anything that moves", as contraceptive pills became widely available.
As a side note, the Amish reject insurance on that same "not yoke oneself under the non-believers" standpoint. Social Security, allegedly being insurance, is something they thereby reject. On that same principle, to the best of their ability they try to separate themselves from government at its various levels.
Sorry, your rephrasing still leaves the sentence ambiguous. It's possible they're banning "Technology Made ... From Their Home".
"Toronto Family Won't Use Post-1986 Technology." Shorter, and includes technology restrictions while driving, not just at home.
1. Announce a course in window manager design.
2. Collect tuition.
3. Give your students the current source code for icewm.
4. Tell them their assignment is to make icewm compatible with modern Linux.
5. Profit!
Emotive thinking is an oxymoron.
Eventually, the decision makers ignoring NSA requests would be jailed and their successors presented with the same threats. As the government becomes more corrupt, even the kangaroo courts will be bypassed, with the refusers jailed or murdered in dark of night without "benefit" of trial. We're not far from that.
The idea that the citizens and government of the US are subject to the Magna Carta, a British document, is prima facie preposterous. Please provide a reason why it applies, or a citation.
They're a threat to ANY society. There are an abuse in and of themselves.
That's a non sequitur. The Constitutional definition of treason says nothing about citizenship. For an act to be treason, it must be committed by someone subject to US law: either a citizen or someone in an area where US law applies (such as states, territories, territorial waters, naval vessels, embassies. Military bases?).
Tonsils are part of the immune system. The function of the appendix is unknown, but informed speculation includes immune system and an obsolescent part of the digestive system once effective in high-foliage diets.
Arrgh. That's not a very accurate estimate. Sirius is only 2.6 parsecs distant. Sorry.
Voyager 2 is not headed toward any particular star, although in roughly 40,000 years it should pass 1.7 light-years (9.7 trillion miles) from the star Ross 248. And if left alone for 296,000 years, Voyager 2 should pass by the star Sirius at a distance of 1.32 parsecs (4.3 ly, 25 trillion miles). Voyager 2 is expected to keep transmitting weak radio messages until at least 2025, over 48 years after it was launched. (wikipedia)
So, assuming it isn't deflected by something we're currently unfamiliar with, the star with a well-known name that it'll get relatively close to is Sirius, the Dog Star.