No need for a disposable satellite if you want to do IR astronomy. It flies in the tropopause above the atmospheric water vapor so the sky is transparent. There's no need to worry about running out of cryogen. Just keep enough for the mission on the plane, and refill with each landing.
1. Get a piece of copper wire about 7.5" long 2. solder the ends together and form the wire in the shape of the loop 3. put wire loop in microwave 4. microwave on high as long as desired
According to the CIA World Factbook, Afghanistan's top three exports are opium, fruits and nuts, and handwoven carpets. They produce absolutely no oil. Natural gas production is 30 million m^3 per year and is all used domestically. None of the gas is exported. Furthermore, it's not like they're sitting on a natural gas gold mine. Known reserves place them at number 65 in the world.
With the trace amounts of all the disposed medicines in our water supply, how sure can we be that the water that we're using to dilute the homeopathic remedies is entirely free of medicines? After all, just one molecule out of ~10^21 is all it takes to completely screw up the remedy.
Just as people currently endeavor to recreate the manufacturing methods for medieval stained glass or the great pyramids, the people of the future will be awestruck at the ability of 20th and 21st people to make such smooth walls out of the mysterious and amazing material known as drywall.
The real problem is that the US patent system is anti-capitalist. It's way too easy to get a bullshit patent where there's clearly prior art or the so-called innovation is entirely trivial. This allows any fool who can afford a patent layer to amass a portfolio of bullshit patents. Once the patents have been issued, they're valid US patents, and the owner of the patents can use them to get an injunction to block competition. In order to get the patent overturned, the competitor will need to go to court and spend millions in legal fees and endure a long, slow trial process that will take at least a year (Blackboard won the initial suit back in February of 2008). To make matters worse, the competitor is blocked from the market until the trial process is over. As a result, the patent system actually stifles innovation. This is especially true in markets involving emerging technology where most patent examiners have no clue as to what's actually a novel idea, and the nascent market is too small to justify the legal fees to overturn the patent.
Do you want to know why the OMG Ponies campaign ultimately failed? It didn't change our fundamental attitudes. Everybody knows that the PC term for 'chicks' is 'babes.'
Eamon was framework for a text-based adventure game on the Apple II long before the New York Times was writing articles about open source software (and getting the definition wrong.)
...what if the constitution was formed when people thought radio was a novelty and they included "the federal government should not regulate radio". You and I might not agree with everything about the FCC, but you have to admit that it would be a mess if every state had it's one mini-FCC regulating our radio spectrum. And if the language in the constitution was as strong and strictly worded as "no radio", you'd need to re-amend the constitution to overturn such a ill-thought piece of legislation.
That sounds exactly like California's constitution!
People have been talking about manufacturing in orbit for decades. Instead, manufacturing moved to China. The motivation for the move to East Asia mirrors the reason why space manufacturing remains just talk. If you consider the overhead and transportation costs of manufacturing in orbit, it makes unionized factories in the US and Europe look dirt cheap.
It all depends on what your application is. You can store energy in a magnet with virtually no loss, and you can probably make an oscillator where charge bounces around between gates for a very long time. However, if you want to switch transistors on demand, it's going to be hard to manage things without sending that charge to a lower potential. Feynman analyzed the thermodynamics of computation, and it does require a finite amount of energy.
Anyhow, it's not like anybody is actually going to use these transistors for computation anytime soon. If they're used at all, it will be for front-end amplifiers for cryogenic detectors.
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No need for a disposable satellite if you want to do IR astronomy. It flies in the tropopause above the atmospheric water vapor so the sky is transparent. There's no need to worry about running out of cryogen. Just keep enough for the mission on the plane, and refill with each landing.
The author pays the publisher.
Wait a minute! That's how it works in academia.
Invertebrate rights now! Just say no to escargot!
1. Get a piece of copper wire about 7.5" long
2. solder the ends together and form the wire in the shape of the loop
3. put wire loop in microwave
4. microwave on high as long as desired
It was Fiorina at the time.
According to the CIA World Factbook, Afghanistan's top three exports are opium, fruits and nuts, and handwoven carpets. They produce absolutely no oil. Natural gas production is 30 million m^3 per year and is all used domestically. None of the gas is exported. Furthermore, it's not like they're sitting on a natural gas gold mine. Known reserves place them at number 65 in the world.
If the LHC generates an Earth-eating black hole, will it be published here?
be square dancing?
With the trace amounts of all the disposed medicines in our water supply, how sure can we be that the water that we're using to dilute the homeopathic remedies is entirely free of medicines? After all, just one molecule out of ~10^21 is all it takes to completely screw up the remedy.
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Just as people currently endeavor to recreate the manufacturing methods for medieval stained glass or the great pyramids, the people of the future will be awestruck at the ability of 20th and 21st people to make such smooth walls out of the mysterious and amazing material known as drywall.
The real problem is that the US patent system is anti-capitalist. It's way too easy to get a bullshit patent where there's clearly prior art or the so-called innovation is entirely trivial. This allows any fool who can afford a patent layer to amass a portfolio of bullshit patents. Once the patents have been issued, they're valid US patents, and the owner of the patents can use them to get an injunction to block competition. In order to get the patent overturned, the competitor will need to go to court and spend millions in legal fees and endure a long, slow trial process that will take at least a year (Blackboard won the initial suit back in February of 2008). To make matters worse, the competitor is blocked from the market until the trial process is over. As a result, the patent system actually stifles innovation. This is especially true in markets involving emerging technology where most patent examiners have no clue as to what's actually a novel idea, and the nascent market is too small to justify the legal fees to overturn the patent.
My inflatable date will just love it.
When Gazprom decides that it's time to monopolize the Russian software market, we'll see what happens.
Do you want to know why the OMG Ponies campaign ultimately failed? It didn't change our fundamental attitudes. Everybody knows that the PC term for 'chicks' is 'babes.'
You fail to realize that if the government were to do the work of the military, that would be communism.
At least they knew better then to search around Uranus.
Did you pay a commission for that lyric?
Besides, pinstripes are sooo dated. Think orange jumpsuit, baby!
Isn't this supposed to be a punishment?
Eamon was framework for a text-based adventure game on the Apple II long before the New York Times was writing articles about open source software (and getting the definition wrong.)
...what if the constitution was formed when people thought radio was a novelty and they included "the federal government should not regulate radio". You and I might not agree with everything about the FCC, but you have to admit that it would be a mess if every state had it's one mini-FCC regulating our radio spectrum. And if the language in the constitution was as strong and strictly worded as "no radio", you'd need to re-amend the constitution to overturn such a ill-thought piece of legislation.
That sounds exactly like California's constitution!
People have been talking about manufacturing in orbit for decades. Instead, manufacturing moved to China. The motivation for the move to East Asia mirrors the reason why space manufacturing remains just talk. If you consider the overhead and transportation costs of manufacturing in orbit, it makes unionized factories in the US and Europe look dirt cheap.
It all depends on what your application is. You can store energy in a magnet with virtually no loss, and you can probably make an oscillator where charge bounces around between gates for a very long time. However, if you want to switch transistors on demand, it's going to be hard to manage things without sending that charge to a lower potential. Feynman analyzed the thermodynamics of computation, and it does require a finite amount of energy.
Anyhow, it's not like anybody is actually going to use these transistors for computation anytime soon. If they're used at all, it will be for front-end amplifiers for cryogenic detectors.
So my stock fan won't quite cut it this time?
No problem. Just get one of these at your neighborhood Fry's. Vacuum pumps and hardware are not included.