This is one theory proposed by a NASA scientist, who, coincidentally, is also a big advocate of gaseous hydrogen economy.
What you fail to mention is that he also comes up with a bunch of conspiracy theories to explain away the independent German and American investigations that both concluded a hydrogen fire.
Not really. All they have to do is dress it up as your SUV-driving capitlaist pig is poisoning the planet. That will get people to burn down buildings, put spikes in trees to try and kill loggers and put bombs in envelopes and mail them to industrialists.
All you need is a cause and an enemy to that cause to hate.
Relativity permits v>c without a problem at all. It's v=c that's undefined. If we could somehow get to v>c without ever being at v=c, we could do superluminary travel and never break a single aspect of relativity.
Maybe quantum theory holds the key. Quantum mechanics allows a particle to "jump" from a to be without being anywhere in between. Can it be used to jump from velocity a to velocity b without being anywhere in between?
Stating that video transformation is not a common desktop activity just shows you as a non-mac user. Good grief. iMovie and iDVD are a couple of the best reasons to buy a Mac. For many Mac users, video transformation is a very common desktop activity.
Exactly. Aluminum burns once you get it heated sufficiently hot (ask the crew of the British carriers hit by Exocet missiles during the Faulkands war). Below combustion temperature, it's a very stable compound. Hydrogen, on the other hand, only needs a spark, and it's off and running. And, it burns hot enough to set just about everything else even remotely flammable on fire.
The Hindenberg was simply the worst of several hydrogen dirigible fires, including a particularly nasty one from a Goodyear dirigible in 1919. Most were started by sparks of static electricity. That points to a Hydrogen reaction. A spark of static electricity isn't goint to turn an aluminum oxide coated canvas into a burning fireball.
It's interesting to note that the burning skin theory is a recent one presented by NASA scientists promoting the widescale use of hydrogen. You've obviously read his theory, since you quote him in your "dipped in rocket fuel" remark. He also cleverly invents a bunch of conspiracy and coverups to plug the holes in his theory.
Sorry to dissapoint, but the fact is, the Hindenburg crashed and burned because of a hydrogren fire.
No, it's an example of how the government screws up just about everything they touch, including traffic congestion. You said it yourself. The entire HOV lane concept REQUIRES that most people don't use it, yet the goal is to get as many people as possible to use it.
Not only that, but cars pollute the most when accelerating, and the second-most when idling. A thousand cars moving smoothly at 65 or even 35 MPH emit far less pollution than a hundred cars stopping and starting every few feet.
No, it's designed to be a feel-good, do nothing solution to get the EPA off your back.
The whole premise of an HOV lane is that most people WON'T use it. You'd get better traffic flow if you just let the HOV lane be an additional lane to allow more volume to move through the road.
There are much, much more effective ways to reduce traffic congestion. You can isolate and eliminate choke points, pace on-ramp merging with stoplights, dynamically time your surface road stoplights, use reversible lanes and build more roads.
Ahh. It's good to have an enemy to hate, isn't it? We can't send blacks to the back of the bus anymore, but we sure can burn SUV owners at the stake. Life is good.
It's even easier than that. Simply have a restricted area in the library with unfiltered computers. You need a restricted access card to get to it.
This is no different than the restricted book section of many libraries where you need a special card to access the books.
This is not rocket science. The real issue here is that some pervert who wants to check out bambiandfriends.com can't sneak around to do it in a library anymore and he doesn't like it. So he whips up a Larry Flint defense and protrays himself as some sort of advocate of free expression and guilts everyone into thinking they're burning books because they won't let him cruise for his Korean hotties on a public terminal.
Running the vehicle from a fuel cell will make the tree huggers happy...
Which just goes to show these folks are more anti-corporate than environmentalist.
Water Vapor, the main exhaust of fuel cells is the most serious greenhouse gas there is. Environmentalists state (when they admit that H2O is a greenhouse gas at all), that CO2 emissions amplify the greenhouse effect of H2O by warming the Earth and causing more H2O to be released, which warms the planet even more. Etc.
So, according to these people, adopting the hydrogen economy will simply accelerate this process by bypassing the intermediate CO2 step and pumping H2O directly into the atmosphere. According to this Study, the levels of H2O in the atmosphere are already getting uncomfortably high.
Therefore, to save the environment from global warming, we must abandon this reckless pursuit of the Hydrogren economy!
Um, the Hindenburg disaster was caused by the fact that Hydrogen and Oxygen undergo an extremely hot chemical reaction when combined in the presence of either a spark, or a nifty catalyst like Platinum.
Gasoline is non-flammable in its liquid state. It's the vapor that burn. You can thrust a lit match into a pool of gasoline and it will go out, providing you can get it through the vapor layer quickly enough. (Note: This is a STUPID teenager trick. I survived. You may not.)
SOME military vehicles use diesel. Others use gasoline. Still others use Kerosene.
So, the plan is to create a single GM food plant that will replace all food plants in the world? So that GM wheat will wipe out all oats and barley, and rye and tomatoes and peas and cucumbers and every other domesticated and cultivated plant in the world, and then succumb to a devastating disease that will cause mass starvation.
Duck when the black helicopters fly overhead.
Study your history and find out WHY the Irish had become so dependent on a single crop for food and why they were farming in conditions that supported the growth and spread of the disease. Hint: It wasn't because of evil corporations.
I don't have to make a 100% prediction. You folks maintain the ecosystem's been around for billions of years, survived ice ages, asteroid impacts, billions of mutations, mass extinctions, explosions of new species without ever collapsing. To be terrified that simply doing to plants what evolution has been doing in the wild for the past 3 billion years is going to cause it all to come crashing down around us is simply non-rational.
Watch the film again. Pay particular attention to the parts where Gimli repeatedly tells Gandalf they need to go to Moria where his cousin Balin is king. Watch the scene as they just enter the mine, and Gimli goes on and on about the great hospitality they're going to get from the dwarves.
Now, completely turn off your intelligence as to why such a hospitable people lock the gates to their city with a riddle not even a wizard can solve and put a horrible, killing monster in front of it and how Gandalf failed to let Gimli in on the grim secret, but left him to discover it to his horror as he walks in the front gate. Nice work, that, Gandalf.
Man, the creationists must be right to hear you all tell us that our biosphere is so fragile that one major mutation within a species introduced into a population will bring the whole thing crashing down around us.
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Seller and privacy being uttered in the same sentence has to be one of the finest examples of oxymoronic speech I have ever seen, even on slashdot.
This is one theory proposed by a NASA scientist, who, coincidentally, is also a big advocate of gaseous hydrogen economy.
What you fail to mention is that he also comes up with a bunch of conspiracy theories to explain away the independent German and American investigations that both concluded a hydrogen fire.
Not really. All they have to do is dress it up as your SUV-driving capitlaist pig is poisoning the planet. That will get people to burn down buildings, put spikes in trees to try and kill loggers and put bombs in envelopes and mail them to industrialists.
All you need is a cause and an enemy to that cause to hate.
Relativity permits v>c without a problem at all. It's v=c that's undefined. If we could somehow get to v>c without ever being at v=c, we could do superluminary travel and never break a single aspect of relativity.
Maybe quantum theory holds the key. Quantum mechanics allows a particle to "jump" from a to be without being anywhere in between. Can it be used to jump from velocity a to velocity b without being anywhere in between?
Interesting.
Stating that video transformation is not a common desktop activity just shows you as a non-mac user. Good grief. iMovie and iDVD are a couple of the best reasons to buy a Mac. For many Mac users, video transformation is a very common desktop activity.
Yeah, Apple is misleading their customers so much that all this guy had to do was read Apple's own press materials.
Jobs needs to FIRE his head of Conspiracies and Coverups immediately!
The hypertransport consortium consisted of several companies, including Apple.
Sheesh, and I thought Mac zealots were bad
Apple is actually pretty big in biotech, where the stuff is all FP-intensive. 64-bit with 8GB of RAM for only $8000 is going to make them drool.
I guess all those switch ads were just surrealist art, then.
Exactly. Aluminum burns once you get it heated sufficiently hot (ask the crew of the British carriers hit by Exocet missiles during the Faulkands war). Below combustion temperature, it's a very stable compound. Hydrogen, on the other hand, only needs a spark, and it's off and running. And, it burns hot enough to set just about everything else even remotely flammable on fire.
The Hindenberg was simply the worst of several hydrogen dirigible fires, including a particularly nasty one from a Goodyear dirigible in 1919. Most were started by sparks of static electricity. That points to a Hydrogen reaction. A spark of static electricity isn't goint to turn an aluminum oxide coated canvas into a burning fireball.
It's interesting to note that the burning skin theory is a recent one presented by NASA scientists promoting the widescale use of hydrogen. You've obviously read his theory, since you quote him in your "dipped in rocket fuel" remark. He also cleverly invents a bunch of conspiracy and coverups to plug the holes in his theory.
Sorry to dissapoint, but the fact is, the Hindenburg crashed and burned because of a hydrogren fire.
No, it's an example of how the government screws up just about everything they touch, including traffic congestion. You said it yourself. The entire HOV lane concept REQUIRES that most people don't use it, yet the goal is to get as many people as possible to use it.
Not only that, but cars pollute the most when accelerating, and the second-most when idling. A thousand cars moving smoothly at 65 or even 35 MPH emit far less pollution than a hundred cars stopping and starting every few feet.
No, it's designed to be a feel-good, do nothing solution to get the EPA off your back.
The whole premise of an HOV lane is that most people WON'T use it. You'd get better traffic flow if you just let the HOV lane be an additional lane to allow more volume to move through the road.
There are much, much more effective ways to reduce traffic congestion. You can isolate and eliminate choke points, pace on-ramp merging with stoplights, dynamically time your surface road stoplights, use reversible lanes and build more roads.
Ahh. It's good to have an enemy to hate, isn't it? We can't send blacks to the back of the bus anymore, but we sure can burn SUV owners at the stake. Life is good.
It's even easier than that. Simply have a restricted area in the library with unfiltered computers. You need a restricted access card to get to it.
This is no different than the restricted book section of many libraries where you need a special card to access the books.
This is not rocket science. The real issue here is that some pervert who wants to check out bambiandfriends.com can't sneak around to do it in a library anymore and he doesn't like it. So he whips up a Larry Flint defense and protrays himself as some sort of advocate of free expression and guilts everyone into thinking they're burning books because they won't let him cruise for his Korean hotties on a public terminal.
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Mod me down, losing Karma is, well, Karmic.
Running the vehicle from a fuel cell will make the tree huggers happy...
Which just goes to show these folks are more anti-corporate than environmentalist.
Water Vapor, the main exhaust of fuel cells is the most serious greenhouse gas there is. Environmentalists state (when they admit that H2O is a greenhouse gas at all), that CO2 emissions amplify the greenhouse effect of H2O by warming the Earth and causing more H2O to be released, which warms the planet even more. Etc.
So, according to these people, adopting the hydrogen economy will simply accelerate this process by bypassing the intermediate CO2 step and pumping H2O directly into the atmosphere. According to this Study, the levels of H2O in the atmosphere are already getting uncomfortably high.
Therefore, to save the environment from global warming, we must abandon this reckless pursuit of the Hydrogren economy!
Wow, Diesel isn't flammable at all?
Um, the Hindenburg disaster was caused by the fact that Hydrogen and Oxygen undergo an extremely hot chemical reaction when combined in the presence of either a spark, or a nifty catalyst like Platinum.
Gasoline is non-flammable in its liquid state. It's the vapor that burn. You can thrust a lit match into a pool of gasoline and it will go out, providing you can get it through the vapor layer quickly enough. (Note: This is a STUPID teenager trick. I survived. You may not.)
SOME military vehicles use diesel. Others use gasoline. Still others use Kerosene.
So, the plan is to create a single GM food plant that will replace all food plants in the world? So that GM wheat will wipe out all oats and barley, and rye and tomatoes and peas and cucumbers and every other domesticated and cultivated plant in the world, and then succumb to a devastating disease that will cause mass starvation.
Duck when the black helicopters fly overhead.
Study your history and find out WHY the Irish had become so dependent on a single crop for food and why they were farming in conditions that supported the growth and spread of the disease. Hint: It wasn't because of evil corporations.
That would be a neat trick: Destroy a food supply by providing the food supply.
Yeah. Everyone knows you can get a Sony Vaio or IBM Thinkpad for $500. What are those idiots at Apple thinking?
I don't have to make a 100% prediction. You folks maintain the ecosystem's been around for billions of years, survived ice ages, asteroid impacts, billions of mutations, mass extinctions, explosions of new species without ever collapsing. To be terrified that simply doing to plants what evolution has been doing in the wild for the past 3 billion years is going to cause it all to come crashing down around us is simply non-rational.
Watch the film again. Pay particular attention to the parts where Gimli repeatedly tells Gandalf they need to go to Moria where his cousin Balin is king. Watch the scene as they just enter the mine, and Gimli goes on and on about the great hospitality they're going to get from the dwarves.
Now, completely turn off your intelligence as to why such a hospitable people lock the gates to their city with a riddle not even a wizard can solve and put a horrible, killing monster in front of it and how Gandalf failed to let Gimli in on the grim secret, but left him to discover it to his horror as he walks in the front gate. Nice work, that, Gandalf.
Man, the creationists must be right to hear you all tell us that our biosphere is so fragile that one major mutation within a species introduced into a population will bring the whole thing crashing down around us.
Or alternatively, the glowing light may confuse and throw off predators.
That's the wonderful thing about just-so stories. You can make up any kind you want to support your position.
You mean the blondes who act dumb because they think it will catch the man they want species? Or the dumb blonde male stereotype species?
It's been my experience that what a person writes is a lot more indicative of intelligence than their hair color.