Hrrrm, I seem to have replied to the post below by mistake....anyway mirrors won't work. No mirror is perfect so a tiny fraction of the energy of the laser ablates away a portion of the mirror. That creats a cloud of plasma that adsorbs more Laser energy which makes the problem worse until the mirror fails and the target is exposed.
Doesn't work. No mirror is perfect so a tiny fraction of the energy of the laser ablates away a portion of the mirror. That creats a cloud of plasma that adsorbs more Laser energy which makes the problem worse until the mirror fails and the target is exposed.
Again, as I understand the science, not entierly true.
Notable, as you call them, weather events would happen regardless of Global Climate change. What climate change does is make them more likely to occur. So while you can't blame any individual event on climate change you can pin an increased over all frequency of such events on it.
Actually, as far as I understand the science, what happened the last few days in the US is entierly expected as a consequence of Global Warming. YOu don't just get warmer weather, you get more extreme weather as the extra energy in the system pushes things further from it's balance point.
Global Warming is a misnomer as its far too simple and encourages thinking along the lines of 'its cold here so Global Warming can't possibly be happening'. Global Climate Change is a better term.
As far as I can recall the 1 series Opteron cannot be made to function as a dual processor chip, nor can the 2 series be made to operate as a 4 series.
I can't quite remember all the gory technical details but it has to do with the number and type of Hypertransport links each core has. the 1xx series cores simply don't have enough HT links to function in a dual setup.
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Hrrrm, I seem to have replied to the post below by mistake....anyway mirrors won't work. No mirror is perfect so a tiny fraction of the energy of the laser ablates away a portion of the mirror. That creats a cloud of plasma that adsorbs more Laser energy which makes the problem worse until the mirror fails and the target is exposed.
Doesn't work. No mirror is perfect so a tiny fraction of the energy of the laser ablates away a portion of the mirror. That creats a cloud of plasma that adsorbs more Laser energy which makes the problem worse until the mirror fails and the target is exposed.
Again, as I understand the science, not entierly true. Notable, as you call them, weather events would happen regardless of Global Climate change. What climate change does is make them more likely to occur. So while you can't blame any individual event on climate change you can pin an increased over all frequency of such events on it.
Of course that is just my understanding. If anyone can explain it better I'd be interested to hear.
Actually, as far as I understand the science, what happened the last few days in the US is entierly expected as a consequence of Global Warming. YOu don't just get warmer weather, you get more extreme weather as the extra energy in the system pushes things further from it's balance point. Global Warming is a misnomer as its far too simple and encourages thinking along the lines of 'its cold here so Global Warming can't possibly be happening'. Global Climate Change is a better term.
As far as I can recall the 1 series Opteron cannot be made to function as a dual processor chip, nor can the 2 series be made to operate as a 4 series.
I can't quite remember all the gory technical details but it has to do with the number and type of Hypertransport links each core has. the 1xx series cores simply don't have enough HT links to function in a dual setup.