I'm not discounting your friends problem, it certainly is bad. Point is though, funny thing about the oil light: by the time it comes on, it is too late anyway. The oil light is triggered by a pressure sensor on an oil gallery on the engine block, which is fed directly by the oil pump. If that pressure switch is activated (by low pressure), then there is insufficient pressure being generated by the pump (usually due to failure or complete lack of oil supply). By the time a typical driver reacts to the oil light and stops the car, the engine has been running for some minutes, under load, with no oil pressure to the bearings. Since the crankshaft and camshaft bearings rely on oil pressure to float the shaft in the center of the bearing cavity... the bearings are usually damaged.
I thing there's a bit of misunderstanding here... Point of fact, it will take several years worth of data to identify a rocky planet in the habitable zone anyway. Why? Because your looking for a planet which you must identify as it makes several passes in front of it's star, a planet whose orbital period is going to be on the order of... a year. (depending on the star's output, of course). So, perhaps they're saying that the earliest they would be able to identify an Earth like planet would be 2011. Yes, I read the article but I think the author may have misunderstood. And let us not forget that this only affects some of the channels.
Radium dials. And the workers were referred to as Radium Girls. They often painted themselves with the radium paint for glow in the dark affects (lips, fingernails, etc.) That turned out to be a poor choice.
Newer ones use tritium gas in small phosphor lined glass capsules. The beta (electrons) emissions never get out of the glass. IF you managed to break the capsule, well tritium IS an isotope of hydrogen... It will float upward toward the ceiling, and would rapidly dissipate into the air in the room becoming too diffuse to be concerned about.
That land can be used simultaneously for other things, like a farm. OR, We could accomplish the same thing with one (fairly small by modern standards) nuclear power plant AND use much less land. Your choice. Either is fine by me.
deuterium is common in sea water. Tritium is somewhat active and has a half-life of 10 years, through beta decay. It's used, sealed in phosphor coated glass vials, for "self powered" illumination in watch dials, exit signs, gun sights, and so on.
It's only stealthy to someone who has not been paying attention and/or did not know that embedded processors outsell desktop and server processors by more than 10 to 1.
oops. There are at least 3 test flights before that... a pad abort test in early 2010 and two ascent abort tests using a special booster, one in late 2010 (transonic) and one in late 2011 (max-Q).
The upper stage was not a real upper stage. The capsule was a mass simulator. The first stage was only a 4-segment booster with a mass simulator filling in the location of the 5th segment. This flight was about aerodynamics, control authority and a test of the 1st stage recovery parachutes.
I agree with you; but, must point out that we get around 50% of our power from coal because we have so damn much of it. It's hard to convince managers and politicians to use something else when it's 2-3 times cheaper than any other option. Personally I'd be happy to see the U.S. using nuclear to the extent you are, with solar, wind, hydro filling in the balance, and gas for peaking / load balancing.
I seem to recall an electric conversion done about a decade ago did exactly this. The article said the car got a relatively short range (30-50 miles) but the owner planned to use it on long range trips by towing a small trailer with a gasoline powered generator. The generator was just big enough to run the car at cruise speed and slowly charge the battery.
Sure, it's possible the Syrians have US hardware. We sell to Country x. Country x ships to Country y. Country y sells to Syria. It happens. Sometimes, that works against the U.S. and its allies. Sometime... it works for the U.S. and its allies
All good points. I specifically look for the clients that have the 44 pin IDE connector and/or use a CF card; and, I avoid the DiskOnChip like the plague, so I wasn't aware that they were no longer supported in the linux kernel. There are right angle adapters for the 44pin connector that would make it possible to use a laptop drive without a cable; but, they're hard to find. The cost does make them very attractive (especially in lots of 5 or more).
grab a second hand thin-client from ebay then reflash it with a linux image and use it as a server. They're cheap. Typically they are fanless Via c7 or Geodes; so, they're low power. Do your research first, some use CF cards but others have flash on the circuit board, which makes reflashing them harder. I've found some of them actually have a 44pin ide header and use a CF card adapter; so, you can plug in a cheap laptop harddrive. In either case, most of the newer ones will have 4-6 usb ports.
Kepler is sensitive enough to detect Earth mass planets. Kepler has only begun collecting data this summer; so, it may be a year or three before any results are reported.
woodgrain... woodgrain and black plastic. or fake chrome, don't forget the fake chrome. Everything was woodgrain with black plastic or fake chrome trim.
If they're not Earth mass (+-50%), within habitable zone of the star(s) they're bound to, have a magnetic field and have a reasonable atmosphere, then they're not habitable. So far, we've found none that are Earth mass and within the habitable zone. We have no means (currently) of verifying the atmosphere of a planet in the habitable zone.
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I'm not discounting your friends problem, it certainly is bad. Point is though, funny thing about the oil light: by the time it comes on, it is too late anyway. The oil light is triggered by a pressure sensor on an oil gallery on the engine block, which is fed directly by the oil pump. If that pressure switch is activated (by low pressure), then there is insufficient pressure being generated by the pump (usually due to failure or complete lack of oil supply). By the time a typical driver reacts to the oil light and stops the car, the engine has been running for some minutes, under load, with no oil pressure to the bearings. Since the crankshaft and camshaft bearings rely on oil pressure to float the shaft in the center of the bearing cavity... the bearings are usually damaged.
Construction site. It didn't stay in the truck because we needed it to check instrumentation in the field.
Wait until the year 2400 and see for yourself. Pardon me while I make a note to myself reminding me to do this...
I thing there's a bit of misunderstanding here... Point of fact, it will take several years worth of data to identify a rocky planet in the habitable zone anyway. Why? Because your looking for a planet which you must identify as it makes several passes in front of it's star, a planet whose orbital period is going to be on the order of... a year. (depending on the star's output, of course). So, perhaps they're saying that the earliest they would be able to identify an Earth like planet would be 2011. Yes, I read the article but I think the author may have misunderstood. And let us not forget that this only affects some of the channels.
Radium dials. And the workers were referred to as Radium Girls. They often painted themselves with the radium paint for glow in the dark affects (lips, fingernails, etc.) That turned out to be a poor choice.
Newer ones use tritium gas in small phosphor lined glass capsules. The beta (electrons) emissions never get out of the glass. IF you managed to break the capsule, well tritium IS an isotope of hydrogen... It will float upward toward the ceiling, and would rapidly dissipate into the air in the room becoming too diffuse to be concerned about.
Also missing is the obligatory reference to Firefly and Serenity.
That land can be used simultaneously for other things, like a farm. OR, We could accomplish the same thing with one (fairly small by modern standards) nuclear power plant AND use much less land. Your choice. Either is fine by me.
deuterium is common in sea water. Tritium is somewhat active and has a half-life of 10 years, through beta decay. It's used, sealed in phosphor coated glass vials, for "self powered" illumination in watch dials, exit signs, gun sights, and so on.
It's only stealthy to someone who has not been paying attention and/or did not know that embedded processors outsell desktop and server processors by more than 10 to 1.
Read the Augustine Commission report. There's not enough money to do it any faster than they are.
oops. There are at least 3 test flights before that... a pad abort test in early 2010 and two ascent abort tests using a special booster, one in late 2010 (transonic) and one in late 2011 (max-Q).
according to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Constellation_missions the next mission is Ares 1-Y, in 2013, a full first stage, a real second stage, testing high altitude abort.
The upper stage was not a real upper stage. The capsule was a mass simulator. The first stage was only a 4-segment booster with a mass simulator filling in the location of the 5th segment. This flight was about aerodynamics, control authority and a test of the 1st stage recovery parachutes.
I agree with you; but, must point out that we get around 50% of our power from coal because we have so damn much of it. It's hard to convince managers and politicians to use something else when it's 2-3 times cheaper than any other option. Personally I'd be happy to see the U.S. using nuclear to the extent you are, with solar, wind, hydro filling in the balance, and gas for peaking / load balancing.
No, It's fair to say that a car that costs 3-4 times the average is a "specialty" car filling some niche.
I seem to recall an electric conversion done about a decade ago did exactly this. The article said the car got a relatively short range (30-50 miles) but the owner planned to use it on long range trips by towing a small trailer with a gasoline powered generator. The generator was just big enough to run the car at cruise speed and slowly charge the battery.
Microsoft will, and has, provided source code to governments when asked.
Sure, it's possible the Syrians have US hardware. We sell to Country x. Country x ships to Country y. Country y sells to Syria. It happens. Sometimes, that works against the U.S. and its allies. Sometime... it works for the U.S. and its allies
All good points. I specifically look for the clients that have the 44 pin IDE connector and/or use a CF card; and, I avoid the DiskOnChip like the plague, so I wasn't aware that they were no longer supported in the linux kernel. There are right angle adapters for the 44pin connector that would make it possible to use a laptop drive without a cable; but, they're hard to find. The cost does make them very attractive (especially in lots of 5 or more).
Exceptionally well done, hurt my eyes and gave me a headache, and reminded me why I started avoiding Geocities a long time ago.
grab a second hand thin-client from ebay then reflash it with a linux image and use it as a server. They're cheap. Typically they are fanless Via c7 or Geodes; so, they're low power. Do your research first, some use CF cards but others have flash on the circuit board, which makes reflashing them harder. I've found some of them actually have a 44pin ide header and use a CF card adapter; so, you can plug in a cheap laptop harddrive. In either case, most of the newer ones will have 4-6 usb ports.
They don't want their rockets to go *BOOM* any more than NASA does. Perhaps even less so, since they may be financially liable.
Kepler is sensitive enough to detect Earth mass planets. Kepler has only begun collecting data this summer; so, it may be a year or three before any results are reported.
woodgrain... woodgrain and black plastic. or fake chrome, don't forget the fake chrome. Everything was woodgrain with black plastic or fake chrome trim.
If they're not Earth mass (+-50%), within habitable zone of the star(s) they're bound to, have a magnetic field and have a reasonable atmosphere, then they're not habitable. So far, we've found none that are Earth mass and within the habitable zone. We have no means (currently) of verifying the atmosphere of a planet in the habitable zone.