Kim Stanley Robinson used this in one of the Mars books. He had a base on a railway. It used thermal expansion and contraction of the tracks to keep the base in the night side.
What permanently dark side of the planet? Contrary to beliefs in the '60s, Mercury is not tidelocked. It's rotational period is 59 days, making three complete rotations in two orbits.
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Considering that Cisco IOS is somewhere in version 12, this would be a rather *bad* "upgrade".
You had days????
He's an inertial nav test guy, I'm a former avionics developer.
We both agreed that we can understand the financial incentives to remove inertial nav from planes, but that it's misguided.
You *NEED* a backup in case GPS fails (and dead reckoning has a good chance of leaving you just that -- dead).
The Nobels in the sciences (as opposed to Econ/Lit/Peace) tend to not be corrupt.
" Exciting satellite missions".
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
John F. Kennedy:
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
America today:
We choose not to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Because they are not easy, they are hard.
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Don't you know? Myrhvold has patents on every recipe there, and plans to sue anyone who uses them without a license.
Ask, and ye shall receive.
Kim Stanley Robinson used this in one of the Mars books. He had a base on a railway. It used thermal expansion and contraction of the tracks to keep the base in the night side.
What permanently dark side of the planet? Contrary to beliefs in the '60s, Mercury is not tidelocked. It's rotational period is 59 days, making three complete rotations in two orbits.
I guess that is a rather modest proposal....
Can someone put it in NASCAR or F1 terms? That way we'll have a car analogy, and everyone will be happy (except for the Indy car guys).
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
1. Evil twin. Been done. (OK, by someone else, not the person being "twinned").
Did nobody else think of the "Evil Robot Us-es"?
Petoria has prior art.
But what about any major dude?
For humans, Soyuz. Hopefully eventually Dragon.
For cargo, Progress, ATV, and whatever the JAXA craft is called.
Then we can lay the ground work for a Real DNA id.
Oh crap. My DNA is synthetic!
That confused me.
So is the theory wrong, is the article wrong (yes, I did RTFA), or did they find some clever workaround?
Also, at 50nm, would quantum effects be noticeable? That is, uncertainty?
So I can still put hotels on both Boardwalk and Park Place?
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Have they confirmed that all that FLOSS was properly licensed? Do they have the receipts as well as the COA's?
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"We are the cyborgs"???????
"We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."
No, but they altered the deal. Pray they don't alter it any further.
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Ha, ha!
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