Congratulations Miners! Glad to hear you found something productive to do in Rolla.:) (Note to everyone else: this is my dad's alma mater...It's a great engineering school, but there's not much to do in Rolla, MO...I've heard the, er, stories.)
Couple of weeks ago, one of the engineers where I work brought one of these into a staff meeting just after I had finished a (damn good, IMHO) presentation. Started everyone drooling. Looked nice, (even turned out the lights to see the copper wire glowing at the joints) but it's all show.
"(It has) no moving parts, no onboard power supply..." That's the key. This thing isn't wireless, and the power supply this guy used was huge. Now how useful would a car be without an onboard power supply?
This report set off my BS meter when I heard it on the way to work this morning. Where I work we regularly handle large amounts of liquid and gaseous hydrogen. I told some of my fellow engineers about it and they burst out laughing, especially when I got to the 20% leakage part. Apparently, our GH2 system does leak slightly, but never above 1%, which would set off safety alarms.
I think CalTech's first assumption in this study was that the infrastructure would be handled by brain-dead monkeys. Government (ie NASA) and other entities have been safely handling hydrogen for decades. I'll stop ranting now..
From what I've been able to glean from startrek.com, they're 24th-century Borg that managed to survive the Enterprise-E destroying the Borg sphere that the Queen took back to 2063. That's why they look the same.
To build on previous posters, it is widely believed that the crew cabin was one of the last parts of the shuttle to breach, which means they were protected from much of the fiery descent. Even then the locker they were in probably absorbed the brunt of any remaining heat, so I wouldn't start equating these lucky worms with a half rate movie on SciFi channel just yet.
Also, don't forget about the intact mission patch that they found in the debris field a couple days after the accident. Personally, I'm more surprised that that made it down in one piece.
Anyone else notice that Halliburton (formerly helmed by Dick Cheney) got a nice contract to put out the oil wells that have been set on fire? Another coincidence?
My dad ran a laser printer cartridge recharge/refurbish business for a while several years ago. IIRC, a lot of printer manufacturers would also collect these old cartridges to do the same and resell them as used. What's preventing Dell/Lexmark/whoever from doing something like this? There's obviously a market for it, they'd save on manufacturing costs and empty cartridges would stay out of the landfills for a while.
It happens. I've only used it once or twice in 21 years. However, I used to kid an old boss of mine that he was addicted to it. He'd basically be too busy to write down numbers he frequently called (or to look up ones he had written down) so he'd have 411 look em up for him. We were usually in the field (county highway engineering dept.) so definitely no Internet access. Fortunately the county paid the bill on the cell phone.
IIRC, government-held info that's supposed to be purged from someone's record has a nasty tendency to stick around (whether by accident or by design). I wonder how hard the TSA and the DHS will make it to submit a FOIA request to verify that this information *is* being purged after each flight.
According to the lawsuit, hardly any of those laid off by Sun were people of Indian descent. Instead, the company created a performance evaluation program that required managers to classify a certain percentage of workers as underperformers, the suit alleges. At the same time, workers who had been at the company for a short time were exempted from this evaluation program, ensuring that few H-1B visa holders would be subject to it. As a result, most of those found to be underperfomers were older, American-born workers.
The fact is, in any society you have to play by the rules. We decided 40-odd years ago that discrimination of any sort is illegal. The suit is alleging that Sun broke the law by instituting a biased evaluation program, essentially creating "affirmative action" for employees of Indian descent, which is wrong. I'm not saying Sun shouldn't hire Indians over Americans; they should hire the best qualified person for the job, period.
Without digging out my thermo book (so I could be wrong), I'd say that methanol had the most ideal heat removal properties for this application. Also, this scheme uses wicks smaller than the diameter of human hair. The volume is very very small so the amount of methanol (should it leak, and I guarantee you it's a sealed system.) that could affect you is microscopic. Also, my girlfriend (who's a chemist) tells me that the physiological effects you describe require large quantities of methanol and/or repeated exposure. So, long story short, no worries!
Same deal in high school. I remember getting to college and getting caught flatfooted in several of my subjects because the books (and some of the teachers) didn't do their jobs of teaching concepts well enough. I caught up rather quickly, but only after fighting off the repeated urge to call up my high school and scream obscenities at them.
Both yours and her's approach to learning I agree with as the best way for children to learn. Unfortunately the pressure cooker our schools are under to make kids pass high stakes assessment tests (the LEAP here in Louisiana, the CSAP in Colorado, etc. etc.) pretty much requires that teachers stuff as many facts, however disjointed, into kids heads so that they can regurgitate them come test day. Until this nonsense changes, I fear she'll have trouble getting her approach off the ground. I wish her luck though!
If we all do this, this would cause the collapse of the small claims court system as we know it. Someone would notice, if only the millions who watch Judge Judy!
I was watching ABC at about 1 central time today when Peter Jennings read an EBAY auction post already hawking debris. I hope they find the scum and toss them in jail for a long, long time.
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Congratulations Miners! Glad to hear you found something productive to do in Rolla. :) (Note to everyone else: this is my dad's alma mater...It's a great engineering school, but there's not much to do in Rolla, MO...I've heard the, er, stories.)
"(It has) no moving parts, no onboard power supply..." That's the key. This thing isn't wireless, and the power supply this guy used was huge. Now how useful would a car be without an onboard power supply?
I think CalTech's first assumption in this study was that the infrastructure would be handled by brain-dead monkeys. Government (ie NASA) and other entities have been safely handling hydrogen for decades. I'll stop ranting now..
From what I've been able to glean from startrek.com, they're 24th-century Borg that managed to survive the Enterprise-E destroying the Borg sphere that the Queen took back to 2063. That's why they look the same.
Also, don't forget about the intact mission patch that they found in the debris field a couple days after the accident. Personally, I'm more surprised that that made it down in one piece.
Anyone else notice that Halliburton (formerly helmed by Dick Cheney) got a nice contract to put out the oil wells that have been set on fire? Another coincidence?
My dad ran a laser printer cartridge recharge/refurbish business for a while several years ago. IIRC, a lot of printer manufacturers would also collect these old cartridges to do the same and resell them as used. What's preventing Dell/Lexmark/whoever from doing something like this? There's obviously a market for it, they'd save on manufacturing costs and empty cartridges would stay out of the landfills for a while.
It happens. I've only used it once or twice in 21 years. However, I used to kid an old boss of mine that he was addicted to it. He'd basically be too busy to write down numbers he frequently called (or to look up ones he had written down) so he'd have 411 look em up for him. We were usually in the field (county highway engineering dept.) so definitely no Internet access. Fortunately the county paid the bill on the cell phone.
IIRC, government-held info that's supposed to be purged from someone's record has a nasty tendency to stick around (whether by accident or by design). I wonder how hard the TSA and the DHS will make it to submit a FOIA request to verify that this information *is* being purged after each flight.
He IS from Texas. Don't give him any ideas!
From the article (emphasis mine):
According to the lawsuit, hardly any of those laid off by Sun were people of Indian descent. Instead, the company created a performance evaluation program that required managers to classify a certain percentage of workers as underperformers, the suit alleges. At the same time, workers who had been at the company for a short time were exempted from this evaluation program, ensuring that few H-1B visa holders would be subject to it. As a result, most of those found to be underperfomers were older, American-born workers.
The fact is, in any society you have to play by the rules. We decided 40-odd years ago that discrimination of any sort is illegal. The suit is alleging that Sun broke the law by instituting a biased evaluation program, essentially creating "affirmative action" for employees of Indian descent, which is wrong. I'm not saying Sun shouldn't hire Indians over Americans; they should hire the best qualified person for the job, period.
Without digging out my thermo book (so I could be wrong), I'd say that methanol had the most ideal heat removal properties for this application. Also, this scheme uses wicks smaller than the diameter of human hair. The volume is very very small so the amount of methanol (should it leak, and I guarantee you it's a sealed system.) that could affect you is microscopic. Also, my girlfriend (who's a chemist) tells me that the physiological effects you describe require large quantities of methanol and/or repeated exposure. So, long story short, no worries!
Same deal in high school. I remember getting to college and getting caught flatfooted in several of my subjects because the books (and some of the teachers) didn't do their jobs of teaching concepts well enough. I caught up rather quickly, but only after fighting off the repeated urge to call up my high school and scream obscenities at them.
Both yours and her's approach to learning I agree with as the best way for children to learn. Unfortunately the pressure cooker our schools are under to make kids pass high stakes assessment tests (the LEAP here in Louisiana, the CSAP in Colorado, etc. etc.) pretty much requires that teachers stuff as many facts, however disjointed, into kids heads so that they can regurgitate them come test day. Until this nonsense changes, I fear she'll have trouble getting her approach off the ground. I wish her luck though!
If we all do this, this would cause the collapse of the small claims court system as we know it. Someone would notice, if only the millions who watch Judge Judy!
I was watching ABC at about 1 central time today when Peter Jennings read an EBAY auction post already hawking debris. I hope they find the scum and toss them in jail for a long, long time.