I saw that video, too! It's called, The Day After Tomorrow.
If you give equal weight to actual scientific research as you do to some dumbass video, then you really shouldn't be posting on SlashDot.
There is an article over at New Scientist where they power devices with a hardware-modified router that delivers an extra 20 Watts on an unused channel. They claim to get around the FCC's 1 Watt limit by transmitting only a carrier wave.
Is that really how the regulation works? If I don't put any information in the signal, I can use all of the power that I want?
According to the article referred to by this Slash Dot story, the received power is on the order of microwatts, while the camera requires milliwatts. Because of this, you need to wait many minutes between camera frames.
I think that if we are going to broadcast noise for the purpose of powering gadgets, we should dedicate some unused spectrum for this and not interfere with existing signals.
On another subject, I used to live within sight of a 50,000 Watt AM radio station. The signal used to get into the band's amplifiers. I bet that you could power a lot of gadgets from that monster.
They aren't even weapons at this point. (You know, the "W" in "WMD")
They are toxic waste.
Saddam had ammo dumps everywhere. Saddam wasn't a big fan of maintenance and upkeep, so you are going to find a lot of old, dangerous junk in these places.
The NY Times article suggests that the Pentagon did not crow about these finds precisely because they were pre-1991 junk and not the WMDs that we were promised. The press would have laughed at them. As to keeping the number of injured servicemen secret, that is the default behavior of the Pentagon going back to Agent Orange in Viet Nam. I have heard rumors that the Pentagon is keeping the number of servicemen injured by depleted uranium secret, also.
I believe that the Pentagon actually thought that Saddam had an active chemical weapons program going on when we invaded Iraq. A modern army such as the U.S. army has little to fear from chemical weapons. What they didn't know was that Saddam had given up making chemical munitions when Clinton bombed all the chemical plants.
AC above is totally wrong. Saddam was cooperating fully with the inspectors when we attacked him. He was begging us to inspect whatever we wanted. There were UN inspectors on the ground when George W. Bush told them to get out because he wanted to start bombing.
You don't have to find a nest. Build a house for something common to your area such as house wrens.
That way, you can put the camera right outside, near the computer in waterproof housing.
Thanks for the info! Have you noticed how the news media will not say the word? Am I the only one that thinks 2,000 Megawatts sounds embarrassingly stupid?
They seem to be talking about alpha decay though. I am not sure how much energy that releases. They want to induce alpha decay by using a laser. It can't be done, but why should the laws of physics prevent someone from investing in this company?
That is not the only error in the article. They also cannot seem to convert English tons to Metric tonnes with a constant multiplier. The "heat surges" that the design depends on seem to be an imaginary phenomena. I don't where the 250 Megawatt figure came from.
The orally lethal dose in humans of pure ethylene glycol is approximately 1.4 mL/kg.
"Higher" alcohol usually means that it has more carbon atoms --- 4 in this case vs. 2 for ethanol.
I would say that isobutanol is a "better" alcohol for fueling cars than ethanol because it has a higher energy density, doesn't evaporate as much and doesn't suck water out of the air.
It's clearly Bigfoot or Sasquatch or whatever Great Hairy One that your culture accepts unto its beliefs.
And I have no knowledge of the Pak and their worlds made of rings.
with global warming spawned fires and floods and tropical diseases, I will sleep peacefully at night with the knowledge that hillbillies have electricity.
I'm glad that Bill is going to look for Earth-crossing asteroids. Maybe he could also spend a little research money towards developing a flu vaccine in days rather than months?
Why should we expect our politicians to fund these projects when half of them don't even believe in evolution or greenhouse gasses?
I spent several hours trying to transmit my returns to the Intuit servers. At first, I would try every half hour because I thought that the server was down and would be back up soon. Then, I went to the Intuit forums. (There's some teed-off people there!) It turns out that the servers were running, just not very well. So I got a glass of wine and made a game out of hitting the transmit button over and over again until it worked. This process is slower than it should be because there is a bug in the program that makes you save your return every time. (thus erasing the time stamp of when you actually finished your return)
Most of the time, the transmission failed instantly with the dialog box asking you to try again after 4 am. However, sometimes it would completely upload my returns, pause and then fail with some truly bizarre error text. Out of the more than a hundred attempts, this occured maybe five times. The error text was different every time. In these cases I was actually putting a load on their servers. Multiply this across the whole country and you can see how this bug greatly multiplied the load on their servers.
So, although the company is trying to blame the taxpayers for their problem by filing late, I think that Intuit's software is actually to blame for the increased load.
On another subject, why do we have to pay to upload our tax returns? If it saves the IRS money, shouldn't they pay us? Why can't we just use the software and upload directly to the IRS? If the IRS claims that they can't handle the traffic, don't they get the traffic anyway? Your $16.95 per return just pays Intuit to hold on to it for a few milliseconds before retransmitting it to the IRS.
I agree with most of what you said, except that I think that impeachment is likely. Maybe not for Gonzalez-gate, but easily for something not investigated yet. Remember that the current bruhaha is over things that the Bush adninistration did after the 2006 election. Imagine all the law breaking that they must have done while there was no congressional oversight!
If I was calling the shots, I would impeach Gonzalez first; Then Cheney; Then Bush. You could impeach Cheney over the illegal order that he gave on 9/11 to shoot down airliners. Then they both lied about it and said Bush gave the order. (It's only legal if the president does it) So the likely outcome is some Republican senator as president, ala Gerald Ford.
The timing of the impeachment is up to the Republicans. It will happen when they can no longer defend Bush's actions and start worrying about their own re-elections
I agree that Gonzalez will resign before he is impeached. In fact, I don't understand why he is still around. All they are doing is making things worse for themselves. Tuesday's hearing is going to be must-watch TV.
I don't know how effective those Iranian missiles are. Swarming with small boats (the way that they captured the British) could be very effective. The lack of a proper destroyer screen makes our carriers more vulnerable to any form of attack, though.
Iran stopping the flow of oil would be bad enough. It could throw us into a recession. Or they could attack Barain and take out Haliburton. The damage to Cheney's retirement fund would probably give him a coronary.
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I saw that video, too! It's called, The Day After Tomorrow. If you give equal weight to actual scientific research as you do to some dumbass video, then you really shouldn't be posting on SlashDot.
What wonderful news!
The geysers could spit them out and they would fall back to the surface. We need an orbiter to fly through those plumes and measure what is in them.
There is an article over at New Scientist where they power devices with a hardware-modified router that delivers an extra 20 Watts on an unused channel. They claim to get around the FCC's 1 Watt limit by transmitting only a carrier wave.
Is that really how the regulation works? If I don't put any information in the signal, I can use all of the power that I want?
http://www.newscientist.com/ar...
According to the article referred to by this Slash Dot story, the received power is on the order of microwatts, while the camera requires milliwatts. Because of this, you need to wait many minutes between camera frames.
I think that if we are going to broadcast noise for the purpose of powering gadgets, we should dedicate some unused spectrum for this and not interfere with existing signals.
On another subject, I used to live within sight of a 50,000 Watt AM radio station. The signal used to get into the band's amplifiers. I bet that you could power a lot of gadgets from that monster.
They aren't even weapons at this point. (You know, the "W" in "WMD")
They are toxic waste.
Saddam had ammo dumps everywhere. Saddam wasn't a big fan of maintenance and upkeep, so you are going to find a lot of old, dangerous junk in these places.
The NY Times article suggests that the Pentagon did not crow about these finds precisely because they were pre-1991 junk and not the WMDs that we were promised. The press would have laughed at them. As to keeping the number of injured servicemen secret, that is the default behavior of the Pentagon going back to Agent Orange in Viet Nam. I have heard rumors that the Pentagon is keeping the number of servicemen injured by depleted uranium secret, also.
I believe that the Pentagon actually thought that Saddam had an active chemical weapons program going on when we invaded Iraq. A modern army such as the U.S. army has little to fear from chemical weapons. What they didn't know was that Saddam had given up making chemical munitions when Clinton bombed all the chemical plants.
AC above is totally wrong. Saddam was cooperating fully with the inspectors when we attacked him. He was begging us to inspect whatever we wanted. There were UN inspectors on the ground when George W. Bush told them to get out because he wanted to start bombing.
You don't have to find a nest. Build a house for something common to your area such as house wrens. That way, you can put the camera right outside, near the computer in waterproof housing.
Thanks for the info! Have you noticed how the news media will not say the word? Am I the only one that thinks 2,000 Megawatts sounds embarrassingly stupid?
Since laser inducement of thorium decay has never been before to even a single atom.
But it does mean that they mispronounced it.
They seem to be talking about alpha decay though. I am not sure how much energy that releases. They want to induce alpha decay by using a laser. It can't be done, but why should the laws of physics prevent someone from investing in this company?
That is not the only error in the article. They also cannot seem to convert English tons to Metric tonnes with a constant multiplier. The "heat surges" that the design depends on seem to be an imaginary phenomena. I don't where the 250 Megawatt figure came from.
Engineering Corynebacterium glutamicum for isobutanol production
or pdf download:
doi:10.1007/s00253-010-2522-6
LD50 for isobutanol is 2460 mg/kg.
The orally lethal dose in humans of pure ethylene glycol is approximately 1.4 mL/kg.
"Higher" alcohol usually means that it has more carbon atoms --- 4 in this case vs. 2 for ethanol.
I would say that isobutanol is a "better" alcohol for fueling cars than ethanol because it has a higher energy density, doesn't evaporate as much and doesn't suck water out of the air.
No matter how bad for you radiation might be, living around humans is worse.
Tipped me off that something was amiss.
It's clearly Bigfoot or Sasquatch or whatever Great Hairy One that your culture accepts unto its beliefs. And I have no knowledge of the Pak and their worlds made of rings.
Unless you use a Stargate. Then all planets look like a forest outside of Vancouver.
Yes, a sense of humor is a terrible thing to have.
with global warming spawned fires and floods and tropical diseases, I will sleep peacefully at night with the knowledge that hillbillies have electricity.
I don't mind the sand storms so much, but I hate it when a sand worm swallows my car. And don't get me started about the fremen.
No. The exit polls did not agree with the vote count:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/usa/2008/01/exit_polls_obama_and_mccain_ah.html
Later, the exit poll is changed to agree with the vote count:
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/11/the_difference_.html
I, for one, welcome our new telescopic overlords.
I'm glad that Bill is going to look for Earth-crossing asteroids. Maybe he could also spend a little research money towards developing a flu vaccine in days rather than months?
Why should we expect our politicians to fund these projects when half of them don't even believe in evolution or greenhouse gasses?
Most of the time, the transmission failed instantly with the dialog box asking you to try again after 4 am. However, sometimes it would completely upload my returns, pause and then fail with some truly bizarre error text. Out of the more than a hundred attempts, this occured maybe five times. The error text was different every time. In these cases I was actually putting a load on their servers. Multiply this across the whole country and you can see how this bug greatly multiplied the load on their servers.
So, although the company is trying to blame the taxpayers for their problem by filing late, I think that Intuit's software is actually to blame for the increased load.
On another subject, why do we have to pay to upload our tax returns? If it saves the IRS money, shouldn't they pay us? Why can't we just use the software and upload directly to the IRS? If the IRS claims that they can't handle the traffic, don't they get the traffic anyway? Your $16.95 per return just pays Intuit to hold on to it for a few milliseconds before retransmitting it to the IRS.
If I was calling the shots, I would impeach Gonzalez first; Then Cheney; Then Bush. You could impeach Cheney over the illegal order that he gave on 9/11 to shoot down airliners. Then they both lied about it and said Bush gave the order. (It's only legal if the president does it) So the likely outcome is some Republican senator as president, ala Gerald Ford.
The timing of the impeachment is up to the Republicans. It will happen when they can no longer defend Bush's actions and start worrying about their own re-elections
I agree that Gonzalez will resign before he is impeached. In fact, I don't understand why he is still around. All they are doing is making things worse for themselves. Tuesday's hearing is going to be must-watch TV.
I don't know how effective those Iranian missiles are. Swarming with small boats (the way that they captured the British) could be very effective. The lack of a proper destroyer screen makes our carriers more vulnerable to any form of attack, though.
Iran stopping the flow of oil would be bad enough. It could throw us into a recession. Or they could attack Barain and take out Haliburton. The damage to Cheney's retirement fund would probably give him a coronary.