If the weapon emitted a burst of gravitons, then that could induce vibrations in the overserver's spacecraft's hull, producing sound. But in the movie, there was a 2 or 3 second propogation delay between the detonation and the noise, suggesting something more like sonic speed than light speeds. In the same vein, if the spaceships use gravitonic drives, then maybe they would make a zoom when they go by.
Nobody since Kubric has had the cojones to do it right. Those big purple depth-chargey things in the planetary ring that blew everyones ear drums out? Would have sounded like a funeral home at midnight. Pet peeve; does it show?
Article 1The Lockheed-Martin Atlas V uses Russian engines (RD-180) certified by the US though the Boeing Delta IV uses American designed Rocketdyne RS-68's. Just an FYI.
Article 2 calls for 3 EELV's for FY 2001 for 288 million (about 95 million each). It doesnt break them out as Deltas or Titans or which model. These are medium to heavy lift vehicles not in the PSLV class. Atlas V can put up to 19,100 lbs into GTO. If that truly does cost less that 100 mil, it compares not too badly with 15 million for 1050 kg to GTO for the PSLV.
Click. "Abdul's machine shop. How may I help you?" "Hey Abby how's it going? Hey listen, remember that big-ass boring tool I bought from you? Um, it wasn't the longest one you have, right?"
OK forget Moby Dick. Lets say I read Cujo, then I painted a picture based on that experience, thats not a derivative work because the mapping of the letters to the painting is not quantifiable and therefore can't be decoded. But the letter shift is a derivative because it's reversible. Even though, lets say, I presented the shifted text as a work of (lame) art.
So if the criteria for copyright violation is that something I produce can lead someone else to be able to reproduce the original without paying a royalty, then if I go on record as advising some audience to borrow their friend's copy of Cujo, the words I use to say that are a copyright violation because they lead, through a process, to the original text.
If I took the novel Moby Dick and shifted every letter one to the right, could I publish that? Probably. But if the technology existed to conveniently shift them all back so someone could easily extract the original, then what? Does the copyright holder own the actual pattern of words, plus any method that exists or that could ever exist to produce that pattern?
By the same token, do music copyright holders have the copyright to any technique that could produce air vibrations similar to the air vibrations that happened when the artist performed the song? And another thing, do they actually own the original vibrations, by which I mean, I'm not allowed to measure those vibrations and report to anyone else the results of my measurements, even if I make the measurements from a distance? They actually own the rights to what the air is doing?
What if I had a method to describe the complete pattern space of waveforms that the original music was not? That is, I have some sort of mathematical description of every possible wave form except the original music, I can't tell anyone what that is either, I suppose because that would allow you to derive the original. Even though I'm explicitly and rigourously not giving you the original.
Once I was sitting around at a meeting when this guy spied my iron ring. He launches into this speech about how all engineers are egomaniacal incompetent overrated boobs. I guess he could tell that without even saying hi to me. Haha jokes on him I got an F in egomaniacal incompetent booberism 301.
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If the weapon emitted a burst of gravitons, then that could induce vibrations in the overserver's spacecraft's hull, producing sound. But in the movie, there was a 2 or 3 second propogation delay between the detonation and the noise, suggesting something more like sonic speed than light speeds. In the same vein, if the spaceships use gravitonic drives, then maybe they would make a zoom when they go by.
Nobody since Kubric has had the cojones to do it right. Those big purple depth-chargey things in the planetary ring that blew everyones ear drums out? Would have sounded like a funeral home at midnight. Pet peeve; does it show?
Article 2 calls for 3 EELV's for FY 2001 for 288 million (about 95 million each). It doesnt break them out as Deltas or Titans or which model. These are medium to heavy lift vehicles not in the PSLV class. Atlas V can put up to 19,100 lbs into GTO. If that truly does cost less that 100 mil, it compares not too badly with 15 million for 1050 kg to GTO for the PSLV.
Click. "Abdul's machine shop. How may I help you?" "Hey Abby how's it going? Hey listen, remember that big-ass boring tool I bought from you? Um, it wasn't the longest one you have, right?"
So if the criteria for copyright violation is that something I produce can lead someone else to be able to reproduce the original without paying a royalty, then if I go on record as advising some audience to borrow their friend's copy of Cujo, the words I use to say that are a copyright violation because they lead, through a process, to the original text.
By the same token, do music copyright holders have the copyright to any technique that could produce air vibrations similar to the air vibrations that happened when the artist performed the song? And another thing, do they actually own the original vibrations, by which I mean, I'm not allowed to measure those vibrations and report to anyone else the results of my measurements, even if I make the measurements from a distance? They actually own the rights to what the air is doing?
What if I had a method to describe the complete pattern space of waveforms that the original music was not? That is, I have some sort of mathematical description of every possible wave form except the original music, I can't tell anyone what that is either, I suppose because that would allow you to derive the original. Even though I'm explicitly and rigourously not giving you the original.
Once I was sitting around at a meeting when this guy spied my iron ring. He launches into this speech about how all engineers are egomaniacal incompetent overrated boobs. I guess he could tell that without even saying hi to me. Haha jokes on him I got an F in egomaniacal incompetent booberism 301.