Everyone has seen the video where the suspension bridge is ripped apart by wind- his idea was to use the same thing to generate power. So will the power output be measured in bridges per minute? Nope, Libraries of Congress per furlong. Sorry, wrong again: Libraries of Congress square furlongs per square hour (using 'Library of Congress' in its form as a mass unit - E = kmv^2).
As for having the right tension for the wind speed, I wonder whether attaching a wind speed meter would do the job, or more mechanical approach. The mechanical approach I am thinking of would be to have the 'string' weighted and then tension adjusted according to a propellor lifting the weight - its a bit sketchy at the momemnt, so I haven't decided the exact setup.
Wouldn't you want more tension for higher wind speeds? It seems that what you are suggesting would work the other way around.
I think the best way would be to have a paddle that faces into the wind and is attached to the tensioning of the belt (possibly some gearing needed here to get the appropriate level of tightening) - when the wind blows the paddle move back and pulls the belt righter!
I decided to avoid travel to the US in 2002-2003 when Gulf War II was being mooted - on the basis that our (Australian) Government and that of the US was pushing the point of boycotting terrorist nations (or those that sponsor terrorism) - I have live somewhere, so I can't boycott Australia.
I met a number of Americans at conferences shortly after making that decision (all lovely people - many giving invitations to stay if ever in the US which is why the issue came up). About half thought I was crazy, but the other half completely understood (interestingly the latter half were mainly recent immigrants to the US and primarily from countries like the former USSR and China).
I don't know about you, but I'd rather be a deported political activist (the majority of Australian transportees were Irish republicans and people displaced by the potato blight famine) than a religious freak anyday.
I can only understand flatness of space vs curvature of space when I think about how gravity is the bending of space/time and I think of a flat surface representing space and the dip in the area where mass is.
Yup, that's essentially it. And when they say space is flat they are disregarding the anisotropies and only talking about the universe on average (or at least what they can see of it).
Flatness/curvedness refers to whether parallel lines meet and by extension what sum of angles there are in a polygon:
In a flat space (or plane as an example of a 2D space) angles in a triangle sum to 180 degree, always. Parallel lines never meet. This is a falt desk in 2D.
In positively curved space (or plane) internal angles of a triangle sum to >= 180 degrees (sum approaches 180 as size of triangle side lengths approach 0). Parallel lines cross twice. This is the surface of a globe.
In negatively curved space (or plane) internal angles of a triangle sum to <= 180 degrees (again sum approaches 180 as size approaches 0). Parallel lines diverge. This is a saddle.
It's easy to see the way this are if you think of the space as a 2D object since the curvature requires (to visualise) an extra dimension, but the principles are the same in higher dimensionalities
In case you haven't noticed, the terrorists are generally from those fucked up third world countries, and they attack the modern world because of jealousy and ignorance.
They tend to be from fucked up countries because people from those countries are angry at cunts like you fucking with them - for example Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama/Colombia, Grenada, Vietnam, Korea...
Who the hell would want to attack Cuba? There's nothing left to attack!
Because all you Spetic Tanks fucked their economy via a completely unnecessary blockade for the last few decade
They are quite flat and can sort of be used like a fire blanket to smother the fire.
The other thing that should be made clear to non-Australians out there is that the branches that are readily available are all full of highly flamable eucalyptus oil. Personally I'd rather not beat a fire with an oily rag.
I remember reading somewhere that while in Newtonian physics the three body problem was insoluble, under general relativity the two body problem was insoluble - so the parent may be right. The last past of the passage was that under quantmn mechanics, the one body problem is insoluble. Which is rather nice.
Sure, but the point is something which is at least a couple of years old and is not actually novel anyway, but happens to be in a meeting report in Nature and so journalist in the SF Times just happens to see (I don't have a great deal of respect for Science reporters - being a scientist) c.f. a 3 day old story not seen by a journalist (I've not actually seen it reported anywhere), which is both news generally w.r.t. people and more specifically of interest (I would have thought) to the hacker community considering the amount of bioinformatic analysis that has gone into the paper.
Anyway have a look at it. Like I said I'm not bitching (honest), just a little disappointed at the quality of editorial input here (I don't think I am alone).
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Being a US Citizen?
or `grep -v "" /dev/null'
Maybe not third world, but certainly third world-like.
Gee, someone has a carrot stuck up their arse.
Wouldn't you want more tension for higher wind speeds? It seems that what you are suggesting would work the other way around.
I think the best way would be to have a paddle that faces into the wind and is attached to the tensioning of the belt (possibly some gearing needed here to get the appropriate level of tightening) - when the wind blows the paddle move back and pulls the belt righter!
Yup, on a really still day.
I decided to avoid travel to the US in 2002-2003 when Gulf War II was being mooted - on the basis that our (Australian) Government and that of the US was pushing the point of boycotting terrorist nations (or those that sponsor terrorism) - I have live somewhere, so I can't boycott Australia.
I met a number of Americans at conferences shortly after making that decision (all lovely people - many giving invitations to stay if ever in the US which is why the issue came up). About half thought I was crazy, but the other half completely understood (interestingly the latter half were mainly recent immigrants to the US and primarily from countries like the former USSR and China).
Not a troll - just my expreiences.
Did anyone else think this was a perfect summary of TFA?
I have already produced a truly marvelous implementation of this proposition which this text box is too narrow to contain.
they call you Russian.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather be a deported political activist (the majority of Australian transportees were Irish republicans and people displaced by the potato blight famine) than a religious freak anyday.
Nukes should be able to help with at least one of these.
Welcome to Gentoo DNAx!
god@adam ~ $ su - root
Password:
adam ~ # emerge flying invisible glowinthedark
Calculating dependencies |
I think you should be using the evolve wrapper script for this functionality.
So is Bourbon spelt with an 'e' or without?
I can only understand flatness of space vs curvature of space when I think about how gravity is the bending of space/time and I think of a flat surface representing space and the dip in the area where mass is.
Yup, that's essentially it. And when they say space is flat they are disregarding the anisotropies and only talking about the universe on average (or at least what they can see of it).
Flatness/curvedness refers to whether parallel lines meet and by extension what sum of angles there are in a polygon:
In a flat space (or plane as an example of a 2D space) angles in a triangle sum to 180 degree, always. Parallel lines never meet. This is a falt desk in 2D.
In positively curved space (or plane) internal angles of a triangle sum to >= 180 degrees (sum approaches 180 as size of triangle side lengths approach 0). Parallel lines cross twice. This is the surface of a globe.
In negatively curved space (or plane) internal angles of a triangle sum to <= 180 degrees (again sum approaches 180 as size approaches 0). Parallel lines diverge. This is a saddle.
It's easy to see the way this are if you think of the space as a 2D object since the curvature requires (to visualise) an extra dimension, but the principles are the same in higher dimensionalities
In case you haven't noticed, the terrorists are generally from those fucked up third world countries, and they attack the modern world because of jealousy and ignorance.
They tend to be from fucked up countries because people from those countries are angry at cunts like you fucking with them - for example Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama/Colombia, Grenada, Vietnam, Korea...
Who the hell would want to attack Cuba? There's nothing left to attack!
Because all you Spetic Tanks fucked their economy via a completely unnecessary blockade for the last few decade
Giant ants. And one thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. Deep space Homer.
Maybe MS weren't prepared to agree to the EULA?
Jobs as President is a stupid idea. WTF is the parent offtopic?
Wozniak might be a good idea, but I guess form over substance is the American Way.
They are quite flat and can sort of be used like a fire blanket to smother the fire.
The other thing that should be made clear to non-Australians out there is that the branches that are readily available are all full of highly flamable eucalyptus oil. Personally I'd rather not beat a fire with an oily rag.
I remember reading somewhere that while in Newtonian physics the three body problem was insoluble, under general relativity the two body problem was insoluble - so the parent may be right. The last past of the passage was that under quantmn mechanics, the one body problem is insoluble. Which is rather nice.
Sure, but the point is something which is at least a couple of years old and is not actually novel anyway, but happens to be in a meeting report in Nature and so journalist in the SF Times just happens to see (I don't have a great deal of respect for Science reporters - being a scientist) c.f. a 3 day old story not seen by a journalist (I've not actually seen it reported anywhere), which is both news generally w.r.t. people and more specifically of interest (I would have thought) to the hacker community considering the amount of bioinformatic analysis that has gone into the paper.
Anyway have a look at it. Like I said I'm not bitching (honest), just a little disappointed at the quality of editorial input here (I don't think I am alone).