I'm not sure but I think once I have the pre-boot authentication in place, I can install a different OS. And if I'm wrong, the only thing they might learn (with a lot of effort, recovering scraps of data total overwrite failed to remove, as per The Article), what OS I use. No 3rd party software, no registry and the likes. The end. I can encrypt the system volume the first thing after I'm able to run a first program on the system. All the other software, all modifications to the registry and so on, will run on the encrypted disk.
Main cause was the rampant corruption in the Tunisian government. It's like: "Another cause for the hospital blowing up has been attributed to the inability of the hospital management from being able to use open fire within range of the fumes from the enormous fuel, ammo, weapons and explosives storage in the hospital basement." No, it's not whoever stored the fuel, ammo and explosives that is at fault, it's the person who lit a match too close to a barrel, and the security guy who didn't stop them from reaching the hospital basement.
You're vastly underestimating proportions of mass of a spaceship (and an asteroid) to a thrust obtainable by available engines. It will take a century to get anywhere within our solar system, which kinda misses the point (especially that you'd have to go quite a bit to find suitable asteroids). It would be essentially impossible to go anywhere outside the solar system, simply due to the "rocket equation" - amount of fuel needed to gain n-th cosmic speed (earth gravity escape speed, enter sun's orbit, escape sun's orbit...) would by far exceed the mass of the asteroid. The ship HAS to be relatively light if it's to get anywhere near Proxima Centauri... and if it's to reach Mars, it would be taking a sea liner cruise from Denver to Chicago.
People climbing into and out of the "living area" to the "0g area" will change the angular momentum, and as result, gravity for everyone inside. But not by very much.
No. The problem is current ships can't be adequately shielded because the weight of a shield the size of the crew area would be thousands tons, and prevent the ship from flying. But reduce the shielded area to contain a box of vials, and the shield weight becomes perfectly manageable.
Yes. That's why I said "simulation of gravity". Far from perfect but completely sufficient.
"Diagonal fall" (and all the variations of the pseudo-gravity) may be a bit annoying but not a serious problem, along with all other gravity variations (you might feel light-headed with 0.95g on your head level and 1g at your feet level). I expect motion sickness to pass within days or weeks of training. The organism gets accustomed to such motion quite fast. Freefall causes motion sickness vastly more intense.
A ladder attached to a "spoke" of the wheel?
Once the human is standing, local gravity + friction suffice to keep them standing, and before that, the drag won't be nearly strong enough to prevent just holding to a radial beam.
Considering how often it needs to turn, that's not really a serious issue. The stored energy isn't all that enormous (flywheel energy density is quite moderate).
That's not a showstopper, just a minor issue.
[citation needed], current in vitro fertilization is a common practice for infertile couples, fertilized egg cells can be stored for indefinitely long time, and TFA speaks about killing egg cells in the embryo during second half of pregnancy, nothing about attachment.
There's a much safer and better shielded place for gametes during travel: a small LN2 tub surrounded by 10cm of lead. It's not like we can't fertilize people using frozen gametes. And it's not like they can't land and build a solid, well-shielded base on a remote planet before starting bearing babies.
Goddamnit, why do you people keep dragging the old carcass that has been buried long ago?
The same lesson once again:
Every deep-space ship in any self-respecting sci-fi movie seems to have a rotating part. Not because it looks cool. But because centripetal force is a very accurate and perfectly sufficient for all practical purposes simulation of earth gravity. 50m radius from axis of rotation, 2.25s per rotation, and you have a neat 1g. And due to 1st Newton's Law and no air friction, it needs only to be started once and requires no power to keep turning.
Now go and bury that stinky thing where it belongs.
There's still one simple option: frozen embryos. They could be sent along with the crew, but due to small space required for storage, and minimal requirements, they could be shielded way better than the crew, who requires a lot of room. Infertility doesn't mean inability to give birth to a child.
The crew gets to a remote planet, builds a good shelter, women get the embryos (may be just perfectly well their own children, just conceived before start) and give birth to a new generation, preparing for another launch and another "leap".
This still limits the range of a single "leap" - between launch and landing - but removes the limitation of "human lifespan distance from Earth".
Depends what it was concerning. Same problem as running fsck from a corrupted filesystem: you have no warranty fsck itself is not corrupted and won't corrupt the filesystem further.
Actually, they are owed gratitude and what little courtesy demands. You have no contractual obligation to reward them, but in all fairness, if they discovered an error you didn't know about, where you didn't expect it, they deserve some kind of gratitude.
The essence of confession is not "stating your sins", it's all about regretting them deeply and truthfully.
How can you say you truly regret a sin if you can't recall it without help of an app?
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Pointing it at an object causes people to stop paying attention to that object! Oh, the potential!
thanks for update.
8 gigs currently; 16 if you have lots of money to waste.
I'm not sure but I think once I have the pre-boot authentication in place, I can install a different OS. And if I'm wrong, the only thing they might learn (with a lot of effort, recovering scraps of data total overwrite failed to remove, as per The Article), what OS I use. No 3rd party software, no registry and the likes. The end. I can encrypt the system volume the first thing after I'm able to run a first program on the system. All the other software, all modifications to the registry and so on, will run on the encrypted disk.
They can do the same thing if the data is not there. They -still- won't get the data just the same.
encrypt the data before writing. at no point in its existence will it appear anything but white noise to unauthorized parties.
Main cause was the rampant corruption in the Tunisian government. It's like: "Another cause for the hospital blowing up has been attributed to the inability of the hospital management from being able to use open fire within range of the fumes from the enormous fuel, ammo, weapons and explosives storage in the hospital basement." No, it's not whoever stored the fuel, ammo and explosives that is at fault, it's the person who lit a match too close to a barrel, and the security guy who didn't stop them from reaching the hospital basement.
electric wheelchair tip-over protection?
You're vastly underestimating proportions of mass of a spaceship (and an asteroid) to a thrust obtainable by available engines. It will take a century to get anywhere within our solar system, which kinda misses the point (especially that you'd have to go quite a bit to find suitable asteroids). It would be essentially impossible to go anywhere outside the solar system, simply due to the "rocket equation" - amount of fuel needed to gain n-th cosmic speed (earth gravity escape speed, enter sun's orbit, escape sun's orbit...) would by far exceed the mass of the asteroid. The ship HAS to be relatively light if it's to get anywhere near Proxima Centauri... and if it's to reach Mars, it would be taking a sea liner cruise from Denver to Chicago.
Maybe I forgot to specify: "1st law for circular motion".
People climbing into and out of the "living area" to the "0g area" will change the angular momentum, and as result, gravity for everyone inside. But not by very much.
No. The problem is current ships can't be adequately shielded because the weight of a shield the size of the crew area would be thousands tons, and prevent the ship from flying. But reduce the shielded area to contain a box of vials, and the shield weight becomes perfectly manageable.
But if the engine malfunctions, who will fix it then?
Yes. That's why I said "simulation of gravity". Far from perfect but completely sufficient. "Diagonal fall" (and all the variations of the pseudo-gravity) may be a bit annoying but not a serious problem, along with all other gravity variations (you might feel light-headed with 0.95g on your head level and 1g at your feet level). I expect motion sickness to pass within days or weeks of training. The organism gets accustomed to such motion quite fast. Freefall causes motion sickness vastly more intense.
A ladder attached to a "spoke" of the wheel? Once the human is standing, local gravity + friction suffice to keep them standing, and before that, the drag won't be nearly strong enough to prevent just holding to a radial beam.
Considering how often it needs to turn, that's not really a serious issue. The stored energy isn't all that enormous (flywheel energy density is quite moderate). That's not a showstopper, just a minor issue.
[citation needed], current in vitro fertilization is a common practice for infertile couples, fertilized egg cells can be stored for indefinitely long time, and TFA speaks about killing egg cells in the embryo during second half of pregnancy, nothing about attachment.
There's a much safer and better shielded place for gametes during travel: a small LN2 tub surrounded by 10cm of lead. It's not like we can't fertilize people using frozen gametes. And it's not like they can't land and build a solid, well-shielded base on a remote planet before starting bearing babies.
Goddamnit, why do you people keep dragging the old carcass that has been buried long ago? The same lesson once again: Every deep-space ship in any self-respecting sci-fi movie seems to have a rotating part. Not because it looks cool. But because centripetal force is a very accurate and perfectly sufficient for all practical purposes simulation of earth gravity. 50m radius from axis of rotation, 2.25s per rotation, and you have a neat 1g. And due to 1st Newton's Law and no air friction, it needs only to be started once and requires no power to keep turning. Now go and bury that stinky thing where it belongs.
There's still one simple option: frozen embryos. They could be sent along with the crew, but due to small space required for storage, and minimal requirements, they could be shielded way better than the crew, who requires a lot of room. Infertility doesn't mean inability to give birth to a child. The crew gets to a remote planet, builds a good shelter, women get the embryos (may be just perfectly well their own children, just conceived before start) and give birth to a new generation, preparing for another launch and another "leap". This still limits the range of a single "leap" - between launch and landing - but removes the limitation of "human lifespan distance from Earth".
Depends what it was concerning. Same problem as running fsck from a corrupted filesystem: you have no warranty fsck itself is not corrupted and won't corrupt the filesystem further.
Actually, they are owed gratitude and what little courtesy demands. You have no contractual obligation to reward them, but in all fairness, if they discovered an error you didn't know about, where you didn't expect it, they deserve some kind of gratitude.
Yes, but it will be very -unstable. Like, it won't even start booting.
The essence of confession is not "stating your sins", it's all about regretting them deeply and truthfully. How can you say you truly regret a sin if you can't recall it without help of an app?
I don't know... all the furniture I use seems to be breatharian. Somehow I never thought I ever need to power up my table.