avoiding carbs is basically the same thing as starving. carbohydrates should be your main source of energy - fat and protein don't work anywhere near as well (hence the atkins diet being so bad).
Did you mean avoid high-sugar foods? You might have something there. Eat complex carbs, not sugars. Eat cereal for breakfast, for example - the carbs will slowly break down giving you energy throughout the day, rather than a quick burst of energy that leaves you feeling worse once it wears off.
If you really need a quick burst, eat something sugary (dextrose sweets are designed for just such a time) and some more complex (a sandwich, for example) at the same time (well... one after the other is fine... they might not mix well). That way once the sugars wears off the carbs will kick in.
Major flaw in your stats there... it's a loss of 0.5% of the downloads done ILLEGALLY, not legally. You need the daily download of illegal music, not itunes downloads. Then you multiply that by the cost per track on itunes. I think you'll get a much bigger number (I don't know the figures but i expect more music is dled illegally than is dled off itunes).
I think they probably noticed, yes. Most plans for solar powered moon bases do feature very large batteries. Some have nuclear power plants too to help out during the night.
Firefox 1.0 is based on Mozilla 1.7 - compare like versions or you get meaningless results. Gecko 1.8 is much faster than Gecko 1.7. If you compare Mozilla 1.8 with a current Firefox nightly, it is (probably) faster. (I haven't actually tested it, but FF nightlies are noticably faster than FF1.0)
You want to know how to make the joints of your pistons work better, why not look at the joints of a horses leg? They're doing the same job, there's not reason why they can't do it in a similar way.
You need to be more open minded about where you find your solutions... many major and useful scientific discoveries have come from things you'd think were completely unrelated...
"Its like saying to learn more about a racecar we need to not study racecars, but horses instead."
What makes you think people don't study horses when designing racecars? It's quite common to look at biology when trying to come up with inovative technology - you often can't beat nature's solution to a problem when you have the same problem. Hence people using natural fibres for clothes - in a lot of cases they work better than anything we can make.
"Also, we are nowhere near having the ability to setup a base on Titan, and there is no point now to do so."
How hard do you think it is? Given enough funding we could have a base on Titan in less than 10 years, easily...
"It is a waste of money, that money could have been spent on further studying of the Earth, if that was the real purpose of the probe."
Plenty of money is being spent on studying Earth. We learn much more spending the money on studying Titan than we ever would spending it on studying Earth.
Anyway - all this aside. What's so bad about learning for learning's sake?
"What a specious argument. Why would we think that a MOON that revolves around a planet is anything like what Earth ever was like."
Because the atmosphere appears to be very similar, that's why... what does where it is have to do with it? We're not studying it's orbit... we can do that from here.
Why can't we study the Earth and Titan? People are drilling ice cores and things all the time to find out more about Earth's past from Earth - why not help them out with information from somewhere else?
You want to find out more about how some fossilised person lived you don't just study them - you study living people too. This is no different - you get all the information you can from whereever you can get it.
It's the best place in the outer solar system to colonise - the atmosphere protects it from any radiation, it has pressure which makes building a colony easier - we just have to worry about the temperature, not the pressure... etc.
We want to find out about Titan mainly because it's like we think Earth was. We understand more about how Titan is now, we understand more about how Earth was eons ago, we understand more about Earth now.
Also, it's a good spot for colonising the outer solar system. Yes, we don't plan to do that any time soon, but eventually we will, and the information will be very useful then.
In a closed system yes - the ISS is not a closed system. When the astronauts eat, the temperature of the station does not permanently increase. The excess temperature is radiated away - so the energy of the station decreases, so it's mass decreased.
It decreases by the mass of the photons being radiated - and don't say photons are massless, they aren't any such thing. They have a rest mass of 0 - they still have mass. (E=hf=mc^2 so the mass of a photon, m=hf/c^2 where h is plank's constant, f is the frequency and c is the speed of light... if i can manipulate formulae in my head, at least)
Wrong. The energy from food is made by breaking chemical bonds - those bonds have potential energy in them. That energy has a mass equal to the energy divided by the speed of light squared - that's very small, but it certainly isn't 0.
In a nuclear reaction you have exactly the same thing, but with bonds between nucleons breaking instead - it's just the strong force rather than the EM force. The energy priciples are the same.
Sounds like a great idea, but how do you know if someone is closer? Regular email servers don't move around - so they know where all the other servers are. That's not the same with people...
Nothing's impossible, but yes, accoring to current theory, our sun will not go supernova. A nearby supernova would do a lot of damage regardless of where in the solarsystem we put ourselves, or our DNA.
A supernova is kind of unlikely, but the sun going red giant would be enough to destroy stations at 1AU. Of course, we have about 5 billion years before that, but why leave everything till the last minute?
I don't think a simulator is needed. It's simple newtonian mechanics. Lots of it, but each bit is fairly simple. Also, if the mass of the counterweight is big enough relative to the mass of a cargo, won't the problem be too small to worry about?
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No, it doesn't. I avoided replying to that point because it baffles me too... I guess that's just the way the numbers work... odd.
Any fusion and it stops being a brown dwarf, by definition.
avoiding carbs is basically the same thing as starving. carbohydrates should be your main source of energy - fat and protein don't work anywhere near as well (hence the atkins diet being so bad).
Did you mean avoid high-sugar foods? You might have something there. Eat complex carbs, not sugars. Eat cereal for breakfast, for example - the carbs will slowly break down giving you energy throughout the day, rather than a quick burst of energy that leaves you feeling worse once it wears off.
If you really need a quick burst, eat something sugary (dextrose sweets are designed for just such a time) and some more complex (a sandwich, for example) at the same time (well... one after the other is fine... they might not mix well). That way once the sugars wears off the carbs will kick in.
Major flaw in your stats there... it's a loss of 0.5% of the downloads done ILLEGALLY, not legally. You need the daily download of illegal music, not itunes downloads. Then you multiply that by the cost per track on itunes. I think you'll get a much bigger number (I don't know the figures but i expect more music is dled illegally than is dled off itunes).
I think they probably noticed, yes. Most plans for solar powered moon bases do feature very large batteries. Some have nuclear power plants too to help out during the night.
"Several"... not "seven"... close, but no cigar.
Firefox 1.0 is based on Mozilla 1.7 - compare like versions or you get meaningless results. Gecko 1.8 is much faster than Gecko 1.7. If you compare Mozilla 1.8 with a current Firefox nightly, it is (probably) faster. (I haven't actually tested it, but FF nightlies are noticably faster than FF1.0)
You want to know how to make the joints of your pistons work better, why not look at the joints of a horses leg? They're doing the same job, there's not reason why they can't do it in a similar way.
You need to be more open minded about where you find your solutions... many major and useful scientific discoveries have come from things you'd think were completely unrelated...
No... the Earth (probably) had an atmosphere made of mainly nitrogen and some methane, and very little if any oxygen.
"Its like saying to learn more about a racecar we need to not study racecars, but horses instead."
What makes you think people don't study horses when designing racecars? It's quite common to look at biology when trying to come up with inovative technology - you often can't beat nature's solution to a problem when you have the same problem. Hence people using natural fibres for clothes - in a lot of cases they work better than anything we can make.
"Also, we are nowhere near having the ability to setup a base on Titan, and there is no point now to do so."
How hard do you think it is? Given enough funding we could have a base on Titan in less than 10 years, easily...
"It is a waste of money, that money could have been spent on further studying of the Earth, if that was the real purpose of the probe."
Plenty of money is being spent on studying Earth. We learn much more spending the money on studying Titan than we ever would spending it on studying Earth.
Anyway - all this aside. What's so bad about learning for learning's sake?
"What a specious argument. Why would we think that a MOON that revolves around a planet is anything like what Earth ever was like."
Because the atmosphere appears to be very similar, that's why... what does where it is have to do with it? We're not studying it's orbit... we can do that from here.
Why can't we study the Earth and Titan? People are drilling ice cores and things all the time to find out more about Earth's past from Earth - why not help them out with information from somewhere else?
You want to find out more about how some fossilised person lived you don't just study them - you study living people too. This is no different - you get all the information you can from whereever you can get it.
It's the best place in the outer solar system to colonise - the atmosphere protects it from any radiation, it has pressure which makes building a colony easier - we just have to worry about the temperature, not the pressure... etc.
We want to find out about Titan mainly because it's like we think Earth was. We understand more about how Titan is now, we understand more about how Earth was eons ago, we understand more about Earth now. Also, it's a good spot for colonising the outer solar system. Yes, we don't plan to do that any time soon, but eventually we will, and the information will be very useful then.
So you name the numbers from 20 to 29 with something ending in "teen" do you?
Yes, something leaves - radiation. I know people around here don't RTFA but at least RTF thread...
How can the ISS be in thermal equilibrium both before and after the heat increases due to the astronauts eating?
In a closed system yes - the ISS is not a closed system. When the astronauts eat, the temperature of the station does not permanently increase. The excess temperature is radiated away - so the energy of the station decreases, so it's mass decreased. It decreases by the mass of the photons being radiated - and don't say photons are massless, they aren't any such thing. They have a rest mass of 0 - they still have mass. (E=hf=mc^2 so the mass of a photon, m=hf/c^2 where h is plank's constant, f is the frequency and c is the speed of light... if i can manipulate formulae in my head, at least)
Wrong. The energy from food is made by breaking chemical bonds - those bonds have potential energy in them. That energy has a mass equal to the energy divided by the speed of light squared - that's very small, but it certainly isn't 0. In a nuclear reaction you have exactly the same thing, but with bonds between nucleons breaking instead - it's just the strong force rather than the EM force. The energy priciples are the same.
Thanks.
Sounds like a great idea, but how do you know if someone is closer? Regular email servers don't move around - so they know where all the other servers are. That's not the same with people...
Don't walkie-talkies have a set band they can operate in, which is designated for that use? And I think you do need a license to operate a CB radio.
Isn't the theory a star moving past our solar system, rather than anything going through it?
Nothing's impossible, but yes, accoring to current theory, our sun will not go supernova. A nearby supernova would do a lot of damage regardless of where in the solarsystem we put ourselves, or our DNA.
A supernova is kind of unlikely, but the sun going red giant would be enough to destroy stations at 1AU. Of course, we have about 5 billion years before that, but why leave everything till the last minute?
I don't think a simulator is needed. It's simple newtonian mechanics. Lots of it, but each bit is fairly simple. Also, if the mass of the counterweight is big enough relative to the mass of a cargo, won't the problem be too small to worry about?
You are going to feel so stupid if someone goes and does it... unlikely, I admit, but it would be funny.