(Just wait until after November and then listen to W. complain.)
Fingers crossed!
Is it different for people who remain in India?
I don't know; my experience is much like you, in that I'm nothing but impressed with the Indian students (and Pakistani, and Bangladeshi) which I see passing through -- in my case, studying Physics and Astronomy.
That would be (i): I'm whining about the attacks made on the capabilities/intellect of Indians by/. posters, apparently disgruntled that their jobs have been outsourced. These attacks rather forget that the Indian textile industry was destroyed in the 18th/19th centuries by forcible outsourcing to Europe and the USA.
he dumbfucks whose ways to kill saved your ass in WWII, if memory serves correct.
A few years late, IIRC. Britain entered the war from the start, because they had promised to help protect Poland. The USA only entered the war because Pearl Harbour forced them to; until then, they couldn't care less that the Nazis were taking over the world.
Oh, and if any country could claim credit for winning WWII, it would have to be the Soviet Union.
War is inevitable as long as one person does not like what another posesses, believes, articulates, or appears.
No it isn't. War is only inevitable so long as long as twats like you continue to run around with your small-penis complexes, dragging the rest of us into conflicts that we would rather solve via other means.
I don't like the fact that retards like you posess internet access; but I'm not going to declare war on you, I'm just going to continue to impugn your manhood, you fucking freemartin.
What the heck is Focus fusion? Aha, it's a crazy astronomer and his computer-scientist friend.
Indeed. Despitethe vacuous blurb on the Fusion Focus people page, Eric Lerner appears to be rather a failure as an astronomer. Looking at his list of refereed journals on ADS, it seems he has only a single paper in a front-runner astrophysics journal (The Astrophysical Journal). The remaining publications are in journals like Astrophysics & Space Science -- often referred to as the 'Sargasso Journal', since it's where old papers go to die.
I'm not impressed in the slightest, and see nothing which might persuade me to consider Eric Lerner -- or the AC who referenced him -- as anything more than another free-energy loon. And his perm is fucking criminal.
That's a good point. Still, you have to admit the original comparison of the octupus and squid still fits better for either kind of jet than a rocket;-)
Indeed:). But just to throw a spanner in our nomenclature party: I recall one of Dick Feynmann's books mentioning a patent for a nuclear powered submarine. In this submarine, water is taken in at the front, turned into superheated steam using the nuclear reactor as the power source, and then blasted out the back as the propulsion system. Is this a jet or a rocket?
Rocket propulsion acts on the principle of conservation of momentum, aka action-reaction; water jets push against the water (by squeezing some internal muscle, I believe), just as manmade jets push against the air.
I agree to a certain extent, but tend to view the difference between rockets and jets in a different light: a rocket carries its reaction mass, a jet picks it up along the way (as does a Bussard ramjet). Drawing a distinction between pressure and action/reaction propulsion is rather artificial; essentially, a pressure gradient is exactly the same as a flux of momentum.
...before they complete the Abu Ghraib mod? Surely, it will be the killer app for improving the DoD's interrogation techniques without the wetware consumables budget going through the roof!
It's the equivalent of using Rockets underwater verses using fins.
Bad analogy; squid, octopus and cuttlefish have no problem whatsoever utilizing a propulsion system that acts on the same principles as a rocket.
Regarding the main thrust of your post, please could you outline the salient points of the conspiracy which currently stands in the way of the cheap, eco-friendly, limitless power which you describe? Extra points if you use the phrase 'zero-point energy'!
Do to your inability to discern the difference between a question and an argument I will have to modify the above statement and replace science geek with idiot.
Well, now we're equal. I had you posted as an idiot right from the start.
So the Coriolis force can have an effect on very small objects just a few inches in diameter - enough to power a clock by stealing energy from the earth's rotation.
I'd never heard of this -- sounds interesting! But my original remarks were made in reference to disturbances of a fluid in a rotating system, such as water draining from a bathtub on the Earth's surface. A flywheel is a totally different kettle of fish.
WHAT MAKES THE WATER ROTATE WHEN IT GOES DOWN THE DRAIN?
Conservation of angular momentum. As the distance between a given fluid element and the drain gets smaller, the angular velocity of the element must increase, to ensure that angular momentum is conserved.
The one we're talking about, smartass. Water going down drains.
My response was an honest question; I wasn't sure whether you were talking about rotational effects in large bodies of fluid (such as weather systems); or rotational effects in draining bathtubs, which don't exist. Water going down drains in different directions is a fallacy, for which there is no observational evidence that requires explanation.
The one we're talking about, smartass. Water going down drains.
There is no rotational effect. Water does not go down the drain in opposite directions in the North and South hemispheres. I thought I made that clear in my first post, when I labelled this 'rotation effect' notion a fallacy.
Magnetism has nothing to do with the direction in which water flows in a drain. That would be the rotation of the planet.
And for all reasonable-sized drains (such as the ones you have at the bottom of your bathtub), the Earth's rotation has a completely-negligible effect on the outflow. The notion that the Coriolis force causes water to drain in opposite directions, in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, is a fallacy.
To see why this is so, consider the so-called Rossby radius of deformation , defined as the ratio between wave speed and rotation frequency. This quantity is the length scale at which the Coriolis force begins to have an appreciable effect on disturbances in a fluid in a rotating system. Plugging in the appropriate values for water waves in a bathtub on the rotating Earth, you find a Rossby radius of around 20km. This is four orders of magnitude larger than the scale of the bathtub, indicating that the influence of the Coriolis force on draining water will be almost non-existant.
...the 56 people poll was actually bullshit, they took the two figures 23 and 56 from somewhere else - the National Geographic world wide poll that tested people from all around the world with 56 questions and americans got 23 right on average (56% couldnt find india but most could find the pacific)
Despite the daily bombardment of news from the Middle East, Central Asia, and other world trouble spots, roughly 85 percent of young Americans could not find Afghanistan, Iraq, or Israel on a map, according to a new study.
Americans ages 18 to 24 came in next to last among nine countries in the National Geographic-Roper 2002 Global Geographic Literacy Survey, which quizzed more than 3,000 young adults in Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, and the United States. Top scorers were young adults in Sweden, Germany, and Italy.
Out of 56 questions that were asked across all countries surveyed, on average young Americans answered 23 questions correctly. Others outside the U.S., most notably young adults in Mexico, also struggled with basic geography facts. Young people in Canada and Great Britain fared almost as poorly as those in the U.S.
Among young Americans' startling knowledge gaps, the study found that
nearly 30 percent of those surveyed could not find the Pacific Ocean, the world's largest body of water;
more than half--56 percent--were unable to locate India, home to 17 percent of people on Earth; and
only 19 percent could name four countries that officially acknowledge having nuclear weapons.
Several perhaps interrelated factors affected performance--educational experience (including taking a geography course), international travel and language skills, a varied diet of news sources, and Internet use. Americans who reported that they accessed the Internet within the last 30 days scored 65 percent higher than those who did not.
First, the article's author should not mention illiteracy considering his numerous mistakes and abhorrent engrish.
I suggest you remove the plank from your own eye, before you criticize the mote in theirs. Your post is riddled with grammatical errors, and -- compared to the writing level in the article -- can only be characterized as 'baby English'. You moron.
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Silly me. I thought it was the [athelets] that made the Olympics happen.
No, the atheletes are only there to draw in a large crowd of consumers on behalf of the advertisers.
(Just wait until after November and then listen to W. complain.)
Fingers crossed!
Is it different for people who remain in India?
I don't know; my experience is much like you, in that I'm nothing but impressed with the Indian students (and Pakistani, and Bangladeshi) which I see passing through -- in my case, studying Physics and Astronomy.
So the educated come to visit us and use language that most of us wouldn't use in a public forum?
On the one hand, we have his use of 'dumbfuck'. And on the other, we have your email moniker 'sexwithanimals'. Hoist on your own petard, my friend!
That would be (i): I'm whining about the attacks made on the capabilities/intellect of Indians by /. posters, apparently disgruntled that their jobs have been outsourced. These attacks rather forget that the Indian textile industry was destroyed in the 18th/19th centuries by forcible outsourcing to Europe and the USA.
he dumbfucks whose ways to kill saved your ass in WWII, if memory serves correct.
A few years late, IIRC. Britain entered the war from the start, because they had promised to help protect Poland. The USA only entered the war because Pearl Harbour forced them to; until then, they couldn't care less that the Nazis were taking over the world.
Oh, and if any country could claim credit for winning WWII, it would have to be the Soviet Union.
War is inevitable as long as one person does not like what another posesses, believes, articulates, or appears.
No it isn't. War is only inevitable so long as long as twats like you continue to run around with your small-penis complexes, dragging the rest of us into conflicts that we would rather solve via other means.
I don't like the fact that retards like you posess internet access; but I'm not going to declare war on you, I'm just going to continue to impugn your manhood, you fucking freemartin.
I am a different AC dipshit.
Careful, your Id is out, and it isn't pretty!
What the heck is Focus fusion? Aha, it's a crazy astronomer and his computer-scientist friend.
Indeed. Despitethe vacuous blurb on the Fusion Focus people page, Eric Lerner appears to be rather a failure as an astronomer. Looking at his list of refereed journals on ADS, it seems he has only a single paper in a front-runner astrophysics journal (The Astrophysical Journal). The remaining publications are in journals like Astrophysics & Space Science -- often referred to as the 'Sargasso Journal', since it's where old papers go to die.
I'm not impressed in the slightest, and see nothing which might persuade me to consider Eric Lerner -- or the AC who referenced him -- as anything more than another free-energy loon. And his perm is fucking criminal.
That's a good point. Still, you have to admit the original comparison of the octupus and squid still fits better for either kind of jet than a rocket ;-)
Indeed :). But just to throw a spanner in our nomenclature party: I recall one of Dick Feynmann's books mentioning a patent for a nuclear powered submarine. In this submarine, water is taken in at the front, turned into superheated steam using the nuclear reactor as the power source, and then blasted out the back as the propulsion system. Is this a jet or a rocket?
Rocket propulsion acts on the principle of conservation of momentum, aka action-reaction; water jets push against the water (by squeezing some internal muscle, I believe), just as manmade jets push against the air.
I agree to a certain extent, but tend to view the difference between rockets and jets in a different light: a rocket carries its reaction mass, a jet picks it up along the way (as does a Bussard ramjet). Drawing a distinction between pressure and action/reaction propulsion is rather artificial; essentially, a pressure gradient is exactly the same as a flux of momentum.
...before they complete the Abu Ghraib mod? Surely, it will be the killer app for improving the DoD's interrogation techniques without the wetware consumables budget going through the roof!
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Oh yeah.... Go USA...
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It's the equivalent of using Rockets underwater verses using fins.
Bad analogy; squid, octopus and cuttlefish have no problem whatsoever utilizing a propulsion system that acts on the same principles as a rocket.
Regarding the main thrust of your post, please could you outline the salient points of the conspiracy which currently stands in the way of the cheap, eco-friendly, limitless power which you describe? Extra points if you use the phrase 'zero-point energy'!
Do to your inability to discern the difference between a question and an argument I will have to modify the above statement and replace science geek with idiot.
Well, now we're equal. I had you posted as an idiot right from the start.
Well, I'm off to filling my tub and experimenting for myself, thanks.
The best possible attitude toward science -- "show me!". Have fun in your tub!
So the Coriolis force can have an effect on very small objects just a few inches in diameter - enough to power a clock by stealing energy from the earth's rotation.
I'd never heard of this -- sounds interesting! But my original remarks were made in reference to disturbances of a fluid in a rotating system, such as water draining from a bathtub on the Earth's surface. A flywheel is a totally different kettle of fish.
Obnoxious, dismissive, arrogant and a science geek -- how do you stay single?
Ah, an ad hominem! The sure sign of an argument just lost...
WHAT MAKES THE WATER ROTATE WHEN IT GOES DOWN THE DRAIN?
Conservation of angular momentum. As the distance between a given fluid element and the drain gets smaller, the angular velocity of the element must increase, to ensure that angular momentum is conserved.
Is this simple enough for you now?
The one we're talking about, smartass. Water going down drains.
My response was an honest question; I wasn't sure whether you were talking about rotational effects in large bodies of fluid (such as weather systems); or rotational effects in draining bathtubs, which don't exist. Water going down drains in different directions is a fallacy, for which there is no observational evidence that requires explanation.
The one we're talking about, smartass. Water going down drains.
There is no rotational effect. Water does not go down the drain in opposite directions in the North and South hemispheres. I thought I made that clear in my first post, when I labelled this 'rotation effect' notion a fallacy.
Can you then explain what actually causes the rotational effect then?
Which rotational effect in particular?
Magnetism has nothing to do with the direction in which water flows in a drain. That would be the rotation of the planet.
And for all reasonable-sized drains (such as the ones you have at the bottom of your bathtub), the Earth's rotation has a completely-negligible effect on the outflow. The notion that the Coriolis force causes water to drain in opposite directions, in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, is a fallacy.
To see why this is so, consider the so-called Rossby radius of deformation , defined as the ratio between wave speed and rotation frequency. This quantity is the length scale at which the Coriolis force begins to have an appreciable effect on disturbances in a fluid in a rotating system. Plugging in the appropriate values for water waves in a bathtub on the rotating Earth, you find a Rossby radius of around 20km. This is four orders of magnitude larger than the scale of the bathtub, indicating that the influence of the Coriolis force on draining water will be almost non-existant.
Indeed. The text of the survey highlights is as follows:
Survey Results: U.S. Young Adults Are Lagging
Despite the daily bombardment of news from the Middle East, Central Asia, and other world trouble spots, roughly 85 percent of young Americans could not find Afghanistan, Iraq, or Israel on a map, according to a new study.
Americans ages 18 to 24 came in next to last among nine countries in the National Geographic-Roper 2002 Global Geographic Literacy Survey, which quizzed more than 3,000 young adults in Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, and the United States. Top scorers were young adults in Sweden, Germany, and Italy.
Out of 56 questions that were asked across all countries surveyed, on average young Americans answered 23 questions correctly. Others outside the U.S., most notably young adults in Mexico, also struggled with basic geography facts. Young people in Canada and Great Britain fared almost as poorly as those in the U.S.
Among young Americans' startling knowledge gaps, the study found that
Several perhaps interrelated factors affected performance--educational experience (including taking a geography course), international travel and language skills, a varied diet of news sources, and Internet use. Americans who reported that they accessed the Internet within the last 30 days scored 65 percent higher than those who did not.
First, the article's author should not mention illiteracy considering his numerous mistakes and abhorrent engrish.
I suggest you remove the plank from your own eye, before you criticize the mote in theirs. Your post is riddled with grammatical errors, and -- compared to the writing level in the article -- can only be characterized as 'baby English'. You moron.
Reminds me of the USA Today headline a couple of months ago: Occupation of Iraq to End. Troops will Remain Indefinitely .
Besides, socialism is not nessecarily the same as communism.
Yes, indeed.
Then again I could just be missing your sarcasm.
Bingo!