Yeh, that sucked. Now all the beans are genetically engineered to be Roundup resistant. We also raised pigs. Cutting the tails off baby pigs with wire cutters, I could handle. Cutting the tips off their incisors, that sucked. Of course, you only had to castrate half of them.
Guess that may have something to do with getting an engineering degree:)
Which might make some sort of sense if the mayor had to pay the cost, but the taxpayers are the ones that pay. The mayor fought the request even though his lawyers told him he wouldn't win. Why not, it's not like he was spending his own money.
The judge should have made him pay out of his own pocket.
I think he's referring to the incident a few months ago where the president of Harvard came within a gnat's ass of having to resign because of stating in a public forum that there *may* be functional differences in human brains between the genders.
Evidently some women in the audience couldn't take it and had to run out of the room in tears. Incidentally, kind of proving his point, but try pointing that out to them.:)
You're assuming a cable that's tapered the same going down and up from geosych. Given that Earth's gravity is quartered for every 4000 miles you go up, it's quite a bit more complicated. I remember finding the original Russian paper on space elevators in the early 80's (Clarke's "Fountains Of Paradise" referenced it); it had the integral that described the shape of the thing. It's ugly.
It's not going to spiral. There'll be enough upward tension on the cable to keep it straight. You don't need to keep the center of mass *at* geosynch; you want to keep it sufficiently *above* it (having the top at 62,000 miles isn't required; you just need a big enough mass above geosynch).
Seriously, think about what you're saying. if it "wraps around the world a couple of times" by the time it gets up to 62,000 miles, it's gone from being a 62,000 mile cable to being a 200,000 mile cable. And since the top is still going to have to go around the world every 24 hours, you're still going to have the same tension, just spread out over a much longer cable.
No. Water level goes *up*. When the cinderblock is in the boat, it is displacing water equal to its mass. When it's in the lake, it's displacing water equal to its volume.
The lowest level of security clearance pretty much requires you show them a certified copy of your birth certificate. Real security clearances, with background checks, cost money, and tend to be given to the people who actually need them.
If you think the US is selling the Pakistanis, or the Saudis, or *anybody* F-16s with the same avionics, etc. that the US has in their own planes, you are seriously mistaken.
They might be on an equal footing with the Texas Air Guard, however.
Anyone born in the USA and who is over 35 can be President. However, you have to win the presidential election. Anyone can edit Wikipedia. You just have to follow their policy.
With the Fair Tax they pay 30% sales tax instead of 15% or 20% capital gain tax. You say this fixes the problem. Except you're assuming they sell equities to buy new stuff. Only a small fraction of what they sell will go to buy new stuff; most will go to reinvest in other equities, all while paying *no* taxes (although, in the spirit of Fair Tax, maybe stock in an IPO would be "new" and taxable, otherwise it's "used"). Fair Tax means that, for the wealthy, the equity markets will be almost as liquid as cash. The super rich will *love* Fair Tax.
If you grab hold of 220 VAC, it isn't the voltage that's the problem. It's your heart trying to beat at 60 Hz that's the problem. It's not really designed for that.
Seeing it was the launch with the "first teacher in space" (Christina McAuliffe), who was going to do live classroom instruction in orbit, I'd be surprised as hell if there *wasn't* an American grade schooler that didn't watch it. Unless they were in a shack in Mississippi without electricity or running water.
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Yeh, that sucked. Now all the beans are genetically engineered to be Roundup resistant. We also raised pigs. Cutting the tails off baby pigs with wire cutters, I could handle. Cutting the tips off their incisors, that sucked. Of course, you only had to castrate half of them.
:)
Guess that may have something to do with getting an engineering degree
Which might make some sort of sense if the mayor had to pay the cost, but the taxpayers are the ones that pay. The mayor fought the request even though his lawyers told him he wouldn't win. Why not, it's not like he was spending his own money.
The judge should have made him pay out of his own pocket.
You mean like Bhopal, India?
I think he's referring to the incident a few months ago where the president of Harvard came within a gnat's ass of having to resign because of stating in a public forum that there *may* be functional differences in human brains between the genders.
:)
Evidently some women in the audience couldn't take it and had to run out of the room in tears. Incidentally, kind of proving his point, but try pointing that out to them.
They're not afraid of intelligent people. They're afraid of people capable of critical thought. There is a difference.
I'm trying to imagine what my sex life would have been like if I'd insisted on dutch treat on every date . . .
Yeah, I'd be a 43 year old virgin.
Well, in tag teams he can heal and respawn his partner.
You're assuming a cable that's tapered the same going down and up from geosych. Given that Earth's gravity is quartered for every 4000 miles you go up, it's quite a bit more complicated. I remember finding the original Russian paper on space elevators in the early 80's (Clarke's "Fountains Of Paradise" referenced it); it had the integral that described the shape of the thing. It's ugly.
Especially since it'd pretty much use up all of the Earth's crust for construction material :)
It's not going to spiral. There'll be enough upward tension on the cable to keep it straight. You don't need to keep the center of mass *at* geosynch; you want to keep it sufficiently *above* it (having the top at 62,000 miles isn't required; you just need a big enough mass above geosynch).
Seriously, think about what you're saying. if it "wraps around the world a couple of times" by the time it gets up to 62,000 miles, it's gone from being a 62,000 mile cable to being a 200,000 mile cable. And since the top is still going to have to go around the world every 24 hours, you're still going to have the same tension, just spread out over a much longer cable.
It'll never happen, but it would be cool to see "Inferno" as a movie :)
They could make some good Man-Kzin War movies. Most of them were written by people other than Niven.
No. Water level goes *up*. When the cinderblock is in the boat, it is displacing water equal to its mass. When it's in the lake, it's displacing water equal to its volume.
Um, I think you mean "douche".
It's a scent that arouses the homeless. Smells like Ripple.
The lowest level of security clearance pretty much requires you show them a certified copy of your birth certificate. Real security clearances, with background checks, cost money, and tend to be given to the people who actually need them.
If you think the US is selling the Pakistanis, or the Saudis, or *anybody* F-16s with the same avionics, etc. that the US has in their own planes, you are seriously mistaken.
They might be on an equal footing with the Texas Air Guard, however.
It's the amount that China won't have to spend to get the technology.
Maybe he though Greg Bear's "Blood Music" was non-fiction. . .
Anyone born in the USA and who is over 35 can be President. However, you have to win the presidential election. Anyone can edit Wikipedia. You just have to follow their policy.
Sounds like an outstanding way to create a bunch of ex-US citizens that don't pay *any* tax to the US government.
Well, I can see how absolutely *nobody* would be interested in what the IRS uses to trigger audits. . .
With the Fair Tax they pay 30% sales tax instead of 15% or 20% capital gain tax. You say this fixes the problem. Except you're assuming they sell equities to buy new stuff. Only a small fraction of what they sell will go to buy new stuff; most will go to reinvest in other equities, all while paying *no* taxes (although, in the spirit of Fair Tax, maybe stock in an IPO would be "new" and taxable, otherwise it's "used"). Fair Tax means that, for the wealthy, the equity markets will be almost as liquid as cash. The super rich will *love* Fair Tax.
If you grab hold of 220 VAC, it isn't the voltage that's the problem. It's your heart trying to beat at 60 Hz that's the problem. It's not really designed for that.
Seeing it was the launch with the "first teacher in space" (Christina McAuliffe), who was going to do live classroom instruction in orbit, I'd be surprised as hell if there *wasn't* an American grade schooler that didn't watch it. Unless they were in a shack in Mississippi without electricity or running water.