Both the earth and the moon would be picking up mass in proportion to their mass and surface area at relatively calculatable rates. so there would be a long term shift earth over moon id say before accounting for the moon sweeping up a portion of such debris before they can hit the earth
While This is true its not entirely true since MS now ship XP with SP2 integrated by default on new CDs and Pre installs. So While yes there is a fair amount of "vunerable time" while getting the patches up to date. They HAVE made the Major modifications to the system (SP1 and now SP2) part of the "New" System installs in the same way a "new" version of whatever linux distro you use will have the latest Patches applied to its programs. Microsoft arent ingnoring this. They just cant do it as fast or as easily as Linux and BSD and other open oses can. the User base is to large and often not savy enough to deal with the process so it takes a great deal of effort to make the system "idiot proof" even if its not perfect.
Thanks for the good place to plant the joke by the way. Its true that shifing mass from the earth to the moon would shift the Baryocenter of the two bodies closer to the moon, but this also goes back the other way with anything leaving the moon making it lighter shifing the balance towards earths center. But its probably not an issue given the moon is getting about 1cm further away from the earth each year If i remeber the numbers correctly (someone able to back that up?) and it would probably counteract most mass shift between the earth and the moon. Ignoring the fact the mass shift would need to be HUGE before we noticed anyhting at all:) ( 10^7 Tons or more for noticable effects id say)
#1 it takes one spy with some kind of spy bomp, mabey even suicide bomb style thing in his nice fancy jacket:P, To dispoise of a Nuke on the ground. James Bond ( Moonraker be damned ) Is not going to be doing the same job undermining the enemies missiles if theyre defended by a few hundred miles of NO OXYGEN and high altitude with very noticeable problems even getting up there
#2 Its cheaper and more effective to drop a big fat high temperature resistant re entry device than a nuke is. one re entry proof 10 Kilo ceramic cone is going to cause one hell of a crater with no fall out.
As i very well know. The Saturn V is still one of the most powerful rockets ever built and there are for those of you with a keen eye 3 fully assembled Saturn V rockets in the USA, one outside (less than ideal for "reverse engineering") and 2 kept inside. While the plans and end product are available it would be possible to build one again. But the Problem is as Parent said the techniques are almost lost. The F1 engines are Monstrous. They are and for the foreseable future the record holders for the loudest engine ever built. Unmuffled (early testing) they were loud enough to damage concrete block houses used for instrumentation on the testing sites back when they tested smaller rockets, one was utterly reduced to rubble at a distance of a mile or so if i remember correctly (remember they test these things hundreds of miles from anyone in the desert in texas and new mexico so they wouldnt have had any complaints of those tests)
The skills involved in building the F1 are indeed lost and the best we can hope for is something derived from them. Von Braun in particular was a key member having ben practicaly the father of modern liquid cooled nozzles and heat expantion driven pumping for the fuels to drive the rocket and also having been personaly behind the work in almost all the US space launches up to Appolo. There was a LOT of techniques and personal knowledge lost regarding these ultimantly tempremental vehicles following the "routine" shuttle era.
Hopefuly now we might get some back.
Its similar to the stories in that tome we all know ( The Jargon File ). Stories such as the "More Magic" switch and the Massaged code that skiped accros the drum through the hardware design rather than executing an instruction to perform the movement like a regular program would have.
Ahh the days those were:)
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The CEV is both a step back and a step forward.
Its an idealogical step back from the shuttle. Becoming more of a "do all disposable" similar to the ever reliable Appolo hardware that was quickly adapted to 3 totaly different sets of missions with little effort. Leaving us without a "Jack of all trades" craft such as the space shuttle, able to do crew and cargo on the one vehicle and function as a remote scientific research platform yet very difficult to change or retrofit for a very different task.
It is a step forward in technology and that is something to be seen as a good thing. It will also bring space travel forward more to the point where vehicles similar to the space shuttle can be effectively used.
The CEV will put us back into interplanetary space and its a good way to do it. But it shouldnt be seen as a replacement for the shuttle. The CEV better fufills the role placed on appolo craft. Long trips, with little need for multi purpose cargo and equipment capability INSIDE the craft. Where as the space shuttle is very good at lifing payloads into orbit with a crew on hand to make sure things go smoothly. Something the CEV will not be as good at.
The CEV shouldnt be replcacing the shuttle To fast. But the CEV will begin to take away from the shuttles "ferry service" duties for the ISS (at least going up, cause hopefuly they keep some docked up there for emergencies like they SHOULD )
I wont say i know all the long list of glorious aircraft and spacecraft axed by paper pushers.
But the problem isnt that the boosers were in the orbiter. Thats actualy a choise of design based on the needs of the craft. The bosters do allow for the shuttles cheap disposable fuel tank to be used as opposed to a full rocket engine with Buran's main stage booster (a modified Energyra Heavy Lift Rocket)
The better way is to not used rockets for the incredibly wasteful purpose of getting a spacecraft to the altitude at which it becomes necessary to bring your own oxidizing agent. The space planes usualy solve this with multi stage engines ( turbo jets up to mach 3 then scram jets up to high altitude where they start pumping in the oxidizer and the scramjet becomes just like a rocket ) or 2 stage launchers, Such as the White Knight mothership for SpaceShip One that took out the X Prize recently:)
This is a very valid point. Companies dont want this kind of thing happening ever.
What would a company that produced a little peice of GPL code do if suddenly someone builds an illegal, child porn sharing program. Your company could wind up out of buisiness faster than Osbourne did.
Or worse yet. what if your companies custom GPLed tcp stack gets used in a malicious program / trojan / virus ? Its these kinds of issues that companies have to weigh in and consider very seriously before they start using the GPL. The spirit and "legal" meaning of the GPL and similar licences aside, Will it mean anything to the consumers that they didnt make it. That someone else used something that they made freely available will generaly place them in a position of blame in the "general public" view. Not everyone knows something bout Open Source. And we can thank the misinformation war around it for that.
The GPL is good. But before companies can start opening up, They have to feel safe about it. Theyre in it for the money after all and if it is even a possible threat to their continued revenue then its in their best interest not to do it.
We need to make the world more OSS freindly. And giving abusers of the ideals behind OSS as well as the OSS itself, the cold shoulder is a good way to start.
Firstly the reason spaceflight is dangerous is purely because we have no ability to gauge the dangers out there. Space (yes im aware that LEO is quite tame compared to say Lunar apogee during the new moon)is THE most hostile place for a human to go. zero gravity causes phsyiological stresses and potential damages from long term life under microgravity are very unclear despite decades of research. the removal of friction means that high speed debris are ALWAYS a risk, no matter where you are or what orbit, there is very strong chance your rocket will get hit with something, its an absolute certainty. The Shuttle is pounded by micrometeorites and other debri while in orbit. everything from pain flecks from saturn V's to frozen urine from appolo 13, along with the regular space dirt dust and tiny tiny chunks of rock.
I have always been interested in spacefligh and at one point considered Aeronautics to be my eventual feild of work. I do know what im talking about. IANAPRS (i Am not a PROFESSIONAL Rocket Scientist) So i wont claim i know Everything i should or need But im no average bystander with a casual interest in it.
The shuttle is Dying. Clear case point. IT WAS BUILT DEAD. The shuttle was a masterpeice of design and some of the inital work for it was pehonomenal. BUT as all publicly accountable institutions with large goverment funding in any country, they had to deal with political decisions that impacted on the end result of the Space Shuttle.
Personal I want to see the shuttle Fly Purely because its better than the alternative. No i dont mean the russian soyuz modules or even Buran (the soviet space shuttle, which is arguably better given it flew a full orbit test and reentry under auto pilot, Which are by themselves very excelent machines. Abeit more "ruggedized" than the NASA engineers would want. Soyuz is still derived from the Balistic Missile school of rocket science. And there is proof that in fact the Russians are better able to deal with an emergency than the US are presently. A soyuz can be "locked and loaded" ready on the launch pad to take off in 6 hours. This comes from the entire launch fabrication and facilities still being heavily derived from balistic missile technology, which was built to be used quite quickly in the event of a nuclear war.
The american space program tried to leave this behind to "look towards the future" Wernher Von Braun, the German behind the V2 rocket and a significant member of his staff surrendered to the US at the end of WW2 and were essentialy the brains behind the US space program and most of the Balistic missile technology developed leading up to it. He, before even the launch of the saturn V had begun to think about the desin of a "reusable" space vehicle. Taking off like a rocket landing like a plane.
All of this is looking towards the kind of mass market future for spaceflight most here would hope to see someday. But the risks remain great. and currently It appears that the US have taken a step back. Deciding to shift to disposable launches with single use crew modules. While safer due to the elimination of long term mechanical wear and tear it is still going to be throwing precious resources away every time. and adding to the amount of junk in space.
Where it should have gone and NEEDS to go is where some of the prototypes that have come from aerospace research reside and go. There is no reason besides lack of interest stoping us from building a Single Stage to Orbit Space Plane that could take off AND land like a plane at an airport. Dont cite technicalities. Theyre fudged by people that either havent looked at the full picture of available technology, or have a vested interest in not looking at it. Current Aerospace technology if rounded up and applied directly to the problem with the kind of $$$ the us goverment gave back when the Appolo program began or even with the amound of money put into the space shuttles development. Perhaps even with the meager budget given to the creation of the "new" Spacecraft for nasa, th
Well comon sence says yeah theres a few moments of Fe fusion before it all goes nova and then ontop of that another few moments of VERY heavy element fusion when the star colapses down under its own mass before the forces involved blow it to bits:)
Funnily enough there are a few other neat little things that happen with those kind of growths.
One of them is cancer. And we all know what happens when the cancer starts getting to big for the body to keep alive dont we.
I wont say anything personaly against the United states. But the evidence is there. The US burdens the world with there disporportionate econom. No other country can support ludicrous nationa debt purely through international investment.
People in the US bitch about the rest of the world not agreeing with them. Well Congratulations. THE WORLD DOES NOT LIKE BEING DRAGED KICKING AND SCREAMING ANYWHERE. be it into a war. into a economic recession. Or a new wave of draconian politics. And i for one dont like being draged forward into an age of FUCKING EXPENSIVE electronic must haves. Just cause you get them cheap and take them for granted doesnt mean that ANYONE ELSE FUCKING CARES. There are only 2 truly arrogant peoples, the americans and the french. And i have nothing against you as individuals. Its just as bloddy collective groups of people you do suck.
Oh damn im losing all my credibility from ranting;/
You cant change the system like that without those who opose such change (almost invariably) using the argument that this invalidates the present goverments decision to MAKE said change until an election has been Held under the method.
Theres twists and turns and little inch movements on such huge things as election proccess but you cant change the fundamental nature of it like that fast enounough it would help this mess... thats probably 4 terms worth of work... thats 16 years of concurrent AGREED to policy of voting improvement... and odds of that happening are very slim... very very slim.
(Keep in mind IANAA [i am not an american] so i dont know if theres some ability to table something of a refferenda/special election that can Force such a huge change through with overall public majority or not)
Nothing like Nuclear Fusion and High Speed Balistics coming from the same machine... FUN !
Anyone want to turn the peizo crystal from that last slashdot cold fusion story into a power source for a rail gun:)
I have the strangest ideas lol. But hey that does sound like a good idea... heats easy... adn that peizo crystal was pumping out a hellofa feild if it was creating fusion with in any way shape or form.
Yes thats correct. Fe represents the balance point in the order of things.
As a star dies (runs out of H) It begings fusing the He and then Lithium... and will as it gets older, fuse heavier and heavier elements. this is responsible for the swelling of the stars size. Its a 2 stage effect. The difference between the required energy for H fusion and that required for He fusion. Once the H is used up the star begins to colapse, upon reaching the required temp/pressure for He fusion it suddenlt expands out as a new supply of energy is found to counteract gravity. Its outer layers get less dense and expand. While the inner core contracts getting denser as it fuses heavier nuclei. A "middle-sized" star will stop this reaction at Carbon. as there isnt enough energy ftom gravity to compress past this from the stars mass. But with large stars whis continues right up to Fe (Iron-56) and this reaction absorbs energy. And the inside of the star suddenly stops working and the whole star, no longer supported by the output of energy from its core collapses in on itself and goes Supernova.
Then again. VMS (now OpenVMS)... something around before MS even made Windows 3.1... Has beem capable of performing live migrations of machine load accross a network to other members of a cluster for well... DECADES now:)
You want to shutdown Machine 1 out of a cluster of 5 for maintenance as you bring machine 3 back on line from maintenance... right then... bring machine 3 online and it starts up... inform the OS to shutdown machine 1 and the OS automaticaly migrates the proccess memory states and all data from each proccess to machine 3 via the network before shutting down.
(Ok this wasnt STANDARD level setup back then. but it was absolutely possbile to do if you were serious about uptime and reliability and had a cluster of 4 or more machines this was a very good system.)
Digressing a little from the point. But i felt it should be raised. At least to help highlight Parents point.
This is an improvement for directory services. Now theres at least one corporate grade open interface... there will be a defacto standard as apps for Fedora Directory will see other back ends adopt the standard in order to become compatible in a similar fashion to SQL as pointed out above.
There indeed are millions, billions, even Trillions and extillions (;) ) of dollars to be made up there . But there are significant problems
Not the least of which is the UN.
(dont get me wrong i like the UN )
The UN space and seafloor treaties. are while good in some ways both a major obstacle for any kind of commercial "exploitation" (to use the correct terminoligy) The sea treaties are all well and good. i dont want the seaflood being used as a comercial landfill at least while im alive. I like clean water:P
and IANAL but to me it seems that the ability to personaly proffit off a celestial body is quite limited under those treaties. Feel free to correct me cause ill be damn happy to find out.. this topic has always been a passion of mine:)
im a little miffed with the absence of anyone else... and the crud that keeps getting scraped up too. I even wrote a dandy post with witty title about it but i wasted my time asking slashdot what it thinks of itself with the possibility of negative views... my post was rejected in minutes.
NObody likes bad fedback... just look at ebay.
The gaming industry sure doesnt so they pack the gibbering fanatics in and then brainwash them in traditional marketing style and then release them back to the world to sprew forth their message of "BUY NOW!"
E3 is eyecandy... you should know it. theres nothing wrong with it.
as someone further up said. you want tech go to SIGGRAPH
Slashdot Mirror
Both the earth and the moon would be picking up mass in proportion to their mass and surface area at relatively calculatable rates. so there would be a long term shift earth over moon id say before accounting for the moon sweeping up a portion of such debris before they can hit the earth
While This is true its not entirely true since MS now ship XP with SP2 integrated by default on new CDs and Pre installs. So While yes there is a fair amount of "vunerable time" while getting the patches up to date. They HAVE made the Major modifications to the system (SP1 and now SP2) part of the "New" System installs in the same way a "new" version of whatever linux distro you use will have the latest Patches applied to its programs. Microsoft arent ingnoring this. They just cant do it as fast or as easily as Linux and BSD and other open oses can. the User base is to large and often not savy enough to deal with the process so it takes a great deal of effort to make the system "idiot proof" even if its not perfect.
Ahh it raises an interesting possiblility
:) ( 10^7 Tons or more for noticable effects id say)
In Soviet Russia Moon Lands On You!!!!
*chuckles*
Thanks for the good place to plant the joke by the way. Its true that shifing mass from the earth to the moon would shift the Baryocenter of the two bodies closer to the moon, but this also goes back the other way with anything leaving the moon making it lighter shifing the balance towards earths center. But its probably not an issue given the moon is getting about 1cm further away from the earth each year If i remeber the numbers correctly (someone able to back that up?) and it would probably counteract most mass shift between the earth and the moon. Ignoring the fact the mass shift would need to be HUGE before we noticed anyhting at all
#1 it takes one spy with some kind of spy bomp, mabey even suicide bomb style thing in his nice fancy jacket :P, To dispoise of a Nuke on the ground. James Bond ( Moonraker be damned ) Is not going to be doing the same job undermining the enemies missiles if theyre defended by a few hundred miles of NO OXYGEN and high altitude with very noticeable problems even getting up there
#2 Its cheaper and more effective to drop a big fat high temperature resistant re entry device than a nuke is. one re entry proof 10 Kilo ceramic cone is going to cause one hell of a crater with no fall out.
What were you saying about ICBMs?
As i very well know. The Saturn V is still one of the most powerful rockets ever built and there are for those of you with a keen eye 3 fully assembled Saturn V rockets in the USA, one outside (less than ideal for "reverse engineering") and 2 kept inside. While the plans and end product are available it would be possible to build one again. But the Problem is as Parent said the techniques are almost lost. The F1 engines are Monstrous. They are and for the foreseable future the record holders for the loudest engine ever built. Unmuffled (early testing) they were loud enough to damage concrete block houses used for instrumentation on the testing sites back when they tested smaller rockets, one was utterly reduced to rubble at a distance of a mile or so if i remember correctly (remember they test these things hundreds of miles from anyone in the desert in texas and new mexico so they wouldnt have had any complaints of those tests)
:)
The skills involved in building the F1 are indeed lost and the best we can hope for is something derived from them. Von Braun in particular was a key member having ben practicaly the father of modern liquid cooled nozzles and heat expantion driven pumping for the fuels to drive the rocket and also having been personaly behind the work in almost all the US space launches up to Appolo. There was a LOT of techniques and personal knowledge lost regarding these ultimantly tempremental vehicles following the "routine" shuttle era.
Hopefuly now we might get some back.
Its similar to the stories in that tome we all know ( The Jargon File ). Stories such as the "More Magic" switch and the Massaged code that skiped accros the drum through the hardware design rather than executing an instruction to perform the movement like a regular program would have.
Ahh the days those were
The CEV is both a step back and a step forward.
Its an idealogical step back from the shuttle. Becoming more of a "do all disposable" similar to the ever reliable Appolo hardware that was quickly adapted to 3 totaly different sets of missions with little effort. Leaving us without a "Jack of all trades" craft such as the space shuttle, able to do crew and cargo on the one vehicle and function as a remote scientific research platform yet very difficult to change or retrofit for a very different task.
It is a step forward in technology and that is something to be seen as a good thing. It will also bring space travel forward more to the point where vehicles similar to the space shuttle can be effectively used.
The CEV will put us back into interplanetary space and its a good way to do it. But it shouldnt be seen as a replacement for the shuttle. The CEV better fufills the role placed on appolo craft. Long trips, with little need for multi purpose cargo and equipment capability INSIDE the craft. Where as the space shuttle is very good at lifing payloads into orbit with a crew on hand to make sure things go smoothly. Something the CEV will not be as good at.
The CEV shouldnt be replcacing the shuttle To fast. But the CEV will begin to take away from the shuttles "ferry service" duties for the ISS (at least going up, cause hopefuly they keep some docked up there for emergencies like they SHOULD )
I wont say i know all the long list of glorious aircraft and spacecraft axed by paper pushers.
:)
But the problem isnt that the boosers were in the orbiter. Thats actualy a choise of design based on the needs of the craft. The bosters do allow for the shuttles cheap disposable fuel tank to be used as opposed to a full rocket engine with Buran's main stage booster (a modified Energyra Heavy Lift Rocket)
The better way is to not used rockets for the incredibly wasteful purpose of getting a spacecraft to the altitude at which it becomes necessary to bring your own oxidizing agent. The space planes usualy solve this with multi stage engines ( turbo jets up to mach 3 then scram jets up to high altitude where they start pumping in the oxidizer and the scramjet becomes just like a rocket ) or 2 stage launchers, Such as the White Knight mothership for SpaceShip One that took out the X Prize recently
This is a very valid point.
Companies dont want this kind of thing happening ever.
What would a company that produced a little peice of GPL code do if suddenly someone builds an illegal, child porn sharing program. Your company could wind up out of buisiness faster than Osbourne did.
Or worse yet. what if your companies custom GPLed tcp stack gets used in a malicious program / trojan / virus ? Its these kinds of issues that companies have to weigh in and consider very seriously before they start using the GPL. The spirit and "legal" meaning of the GPL and similar licences aside, Will it mean anything to the consumers that they didnt make it. That someone else used something that they made freely available will generaly place them in a position of blame in the "general public" view. Not everyone knows something bout Open Source. And we can thank the misinformation war around it for that.
The GPL is good. But before companies can start opening up, They have to feel safe about it. Theyre in it for the money after all and if it is even a possible threat to their continued revenue then its in their best interest not to do it.
We need to make the world more OSS freindly. And giving abusers of the ideals behind OSS as well as the OSS itself, the cold shoulder is a good way to start.
Firstly the reason spaceflight is dangerous is purely because we have no ability to gauge the dangers out there. Space (yes im aware that LEO is quite tame compared to say Lunar apogee during the new moon)is THE most hostile place for a human to go. zero gravity causes phsyiological stresses and potential damages from long term life under microgravity are very unclear despite decades of research. the removal of friction means that high speed debris are ALWAYS a risk, no matter where you are or what orbit, there is very strong chance your rocket will get hit with something, its an absolute certainty. The Shuttle is pounded by micrometeorites and other debri while in orbit. everything from pain flecks from saturn V's to frozen urine from appolo 13, along with the regular space dirt dust and tiny tiny chunks of rock.
I have always been interested in spacefligh and at one point considered Aeronautics to be my eventual feild of work. I do know what im talking about. IANAPRS (i Am not a PROFESSIONAL Rocket Scientist) So i wont claim i know Everything i should or need But im no average bystander with a casual interest in it.
The shuttle is Dying. Clear case point. IT WAS BUILT DEAD. The shuttle was a masterpeice of design and some of the inital work for it was pehonomenal. BUT as all publicly accountable institutions with large goverment funding in any country, they had to deal with political decisions that impacted on the end result of the Space Shuttle.
Personal I want to see the shuttle Fly Purely because its better than the alternative. No i dont mean the russian soyuz modules or even Buran (the soviet space shuttle, which is arguably better given it flew a full orbit test and reentry under auto pilot, Which are by themselves very excelent machines. Abeit more "ruggedized" than the NASA engineers would want. Soyuz is still derived from the Balistic Missile school of rocket science. And there is proof that in fact the Russians are better able to deal with an emergency than the US are presently. A soyuz can be "locked and loaded" ready on the launch pad to take off in 6 hours. This comes from the entire launch fabrication and facilities still being heavily derived from balistic missile technology, which was built to be used quite quickly in the event of a nuclear war.
The american space program tried to leave this behind to "look towards the future" Wernher Von Braun, the German behind the V2 rocket and a significant member of his staff surrendered to the US at the end of WW2 and were essentialy the brains behind the US space program and most of the Balistic missile technology developed leading up to it. He, before even the launch of the saturn V had begun to think about the desin of a "reusable" space vehicle. Taking off like a rocket landing like a plane.
All of this is looking towards the kind of mass market future for spaceflight most here would hope to see someday. But the risks remain great. and currently It appears that the US have taken a step back. Deciding to shift to disposable launches with single use crew modules. While safer due to the elimination of long term mechanical wear and tear it is still going to be throwing precious resources away every time. and adding to the amount of junk in space.
Where it should have gone and NEEDS to go is where some of the prototypes that have come from aerospace research reside and go. There is no reason besides lack of interest stoping us from building a Single Stage to Orbit Space Plane that could take off AND land like a plane at an airport. Dont cite technicalities. Theyre fudged by people that either havent looked at the full picture of available technology, or have a vested interest in not looking at it. Current Aerospace technology if rounded up and applied directly to the problem with the kind of $$$ the us goverment gave back when the Appolo program began or even with the amound of money put into the space shuttles development. Perhaps even with the meager budget given to the creation of the "new" Spacecraft for nasa, th
Ahh the wonders of the internet. [ im from australia :P ]
:P
Could have sworn you were an american lol please try and take that without being offended
Well comon sence says yeah theres a few moments of Fe fusion before it all goes nova and then ontop of that another few moments of VERY heavy element fusion when the star colapses down under its own mass before the forces involved blow it to bits :)
Ever heard of compound interest. Thats why.
;/
Funnily enough there are a few other neat little things that happen with those kind of growths.
One of them is cancer. And we all know what happens when the cancer starts getting to big for the body to keep alive dont we.
I wont say anything personaly against the United states. But the evidence is there. The US burdens the world with there disporportionate econom. No other country can support ludicrous nationa debt purely through international investment.
People in the US bitch about the rest of the world not agreeing with them. Well Congratulations. THE WORLD DOES NOT LIKE BEING DRAGED KICKING AND SCREAMING ANYWHERE. be it into a war. into a economic recession. Or a new wave of draconian politics. And i for one dont like being draged forward into an age of FUCKING EXPENSIVE electronic must haves. Just cause you get them cheap and take them for granted doesnt mean that ANYONE ELSE FUCKING CARES. There are only 2 truly arrogant peoples, the americans and the french. And i have nothing against you as individuals. Its just as bloddy collective groups of people you do suck.
Oh damn im losing all my credibility from ranting
such is life
Positivley brilliant idea. Shame it wouldnt work.
/special election that can Force such a huge change through with overall public majority or not)
You cant change the system like that without those who opose such change (almost invariably) using the argument that this invalidates the present goverments decision to MAKE said change until an election has been Held under the method.
Theres twists and turns and little inch movements on such huge things as election proccess but you cant change the fundamental nature of it like that fast enounough it would help this mess... thats probably 4 terms worth of work... thats 16 years of concurrent AGREED to policy of voting improvement... and odds of that happening are very slim... very very slim.
(Keep in mind IANAA [i am not an american] so i dont know if theres some ability to table something of a refferenda
Nothing like Nuclear Fusion and High Speed Balistics coming from the same machine ... FUN !
:)
... heats easy... adn that peizo crystal was pumping out a hellofa feild if it was creating fusion with in any way shape or form.
Anyone want to turn the peizo crystal from that last slashdot cold fusion story into a power source for a rail gun
I have the strangest ideas lol. But hey that does sound like a good idea
*runs of to scraw some stuff down on paper*
holy crap its a geek with a girl and he gets laid by her too!
:)
how can this be ???
oh wait.. the SN does explain a lot
Being without modpoints ill just reply.
Yes thats correct. Fe represents the balance point in the order of things.
As a star dies (runs out of H) It begings fusing the He and then Lithium... and will as it gets older, fuse heavier and heavier elements. this is responsible for the swelling of the stars size. Its a 2 stage effect. The difference between the required energy for H fusion and that required for He fusion. Once the H is used up the star begins to colapse, upon reaching the required temp/pressure for He fusion it suddenlt expands out as a new supply of energy is found to counteract gravity. Its outer layers get less dense and expand. While the inner core contracts getting denser as it fuses heavier nuclei. A "middle-sized" star will stop this reaction at Carbon. as there isnt enough energy ftom gravity to compress past this from the stars mass. But with large stars whis continues right up to Fe (Iron-56) and this reaction absorbs energy. And the inside of the star suddenly stops working and the whole star, no longer supported by the output of energy from its core collapses in on itself and goes Supernova.
Ahh Nuclear physics... such fun
Then again. VMS (now OpenVMS) ... something around before MS even made Windows 3.1 ... Has beem capable of performing live migrations of machine load accross a network to other members of a cluster for well... DECADES now :)
You want to shutdown Machine 1 out of a cluster of 5 for maintenance as you bring machine 3 back on line from maintenance... right then... bring machine 3 online and it starts up... inform the OS to shutdown machine 1 and the OS automaticaly migrates the proccess memory states and all data from each proccess to machine 3 via the network before shutting down.
(Ok this wasnt STANDARD level setup back then. but it was absolutely possbile to do if you were serious about uptime and reliability and had a cluster of 4 or more machines this was a very good system.)
Digressing a little from the point. But i felt it should be raised. At least to help highlight Parents point.
Certainly a very impressive little rack they have there.
Shame if ive got a petabyte id rather have my system running a real os
VMS forever!!!
Hows them uptime records going eh?
Dear god has apple /.ed /. ? :O :P
Correction to the above AC fool!
IBM has marketed power architecture based g5 derivative chips for the Nintendo revoloution and XBOX 360
and the Cell architecture co designed with Toshiba, to Sony for the PS3
This is an improvement for directory services. Now theres at least one corporate grade open interface... there will be a defacto standard as apps for Fedora Directory will see other back ends adopt the standard in order to become compatible in a similar fashion to SQL as pointed out above.
There indeed are millions, billions, even Trillions and extillions ( ;) ) of dollars to be made up there . But there are significant problems
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m l :)
.. this topic has always been a passion of mine :)
Not the least of which is the UN.
(dont get me wrong i like the UN )
The UN space and seafloor treaties. are while good in some ways both a major obstacle for any kind of commercial "exploitation" (to use the correct terminoligy) The sea treaties are all well and good. i dont want the seaflood being used as a comercial landfill at least while im alive. I like clean water
There is a lot of very shaky ground on this but there are full copies available here http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/SpaceLaw/treaties.ht
for anyone interested in the laws regarding space in general
and IANAL but to me it seems that the ability to personaly proffit off a celestial body is quite limited under those treaties. Feel free to correct me cause ill be damn happy to find out
I always thought asshat was better emoticoned by
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or ascii arted with
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argh my ascii art 5k1ll5 r dead at 3 am
(WTF is going on with the anti script stuff? )
im a little miffed with the absence of anyone else... and the crud that keeps getting scraped up too. I even wrote a dandy post with witty title about it but i wasted my time asking slashdot what it thinks of itself with the possibility of negative views ... my post was rejected in minutes.
NObody likes bad fedback... just look at ebay.
The gaming industry sure doesnt so they pack the gibbering fanatics in and then brainwash them in traditional marketing style and then release them back to the world to sprew forth their message of "BUY NOW!"
E3 is eyecandy... you should know it. theres nothing wrong with it.
as someone further up said. you want tech go to SIGGRAPH
IANAL (I Am Not An Lexicologist ) IIRC