Nuclear aircraft carrier. Can outrun storms (or almost anything else for that matter) Mobile city. Unlimited nuclear power which lasts for years. Water from self-contained distillation plants. Plenty of anti-zombie firepower. Only limitations are spare parts, fuel for aircraft and backup generators, and food.
The inline isn't that heavy. I've picked them up a couple of times -- literally picked up the block with my bare hands. sure, it's lighter than the aluminum blocks they're using now.
You seem to be stuck on the idea that a head-on is the most likely scenario. It's not. If you do end up in a direct head on collision, the inline 6 would have hit the transverse mounted 4 near it's strongest point, the "rear" mounting flange where the tranmission bolts to it.
A 2009 Malibu is just as likely to be on the road in 50 years as a 1959 Chevy is today. There aren't that many of them. Most of those that are out there (the '59) honestly don't have many original parts in them. Airbags are less troublesome than some other parts, like the plastic used in the intake. Of course it's a publicity stunt. They said so. Why are you compaining the cars are safer?
1. That simulates a more realistic crash with a worst case result -- full impact absorbed by driver side
2. The 6 doesn't weight more than the alternative, a v8
3. I have, unfortunately, been in a head on crash in a car with an inline 6. I can tell you that the 3 point mount fails -- the engine tears free of the frame.
The altimeter was a GPS device. The post-flight analysis showed that the camera's DC-DC converter was interfering with the GPS reciever; so, the signal was intermittent.
Would someone please enlighten me as to how this is better than a cluster of commodity servers? Or a cluster of workstation class machines? Or a cluster of commodity servers with a workstation class machine as the head node? I'm not seeing it; and, the SGI looks pricey.
I agree with you 100%. However it's possible to use this as a way to sequester the carbon by burying it. Having said that, since you're travelling around to spray this stuff with herbicide... You might as well save the resources that went into making the herbicide, gather the weed "crop", and try to extract some benefit out of it by using it as a fuel or fuel supplement. That way you might offset some of the energy expended going to the site(s) in the first place.
No, it's not. Nothing is. Such is life under the laws of physics. In fact I'd expect there to be considerable energy expended just in the gathering and processing of the biomatter. But, if you look at the the post to which I replied, there seemed to be an assumption that burning the grass released CO2 and this was somehow worse than burning fossil fuels. I see they've been modded to -1 now; so, you might not have seen that.
This is considered a invasive plant species, which needs to be controlled or eliminated. I was suggesting that instead of spraying herbicide on it, which has an energy cost in terms of raw materials, manufacturing and distribution, that you gather it and try to get some benefit out of the process by using it as fuel.
Don't waste energy turning it into ethanol. Just pelletize it and burn it in a power plant (perhaps as a supplement to an existing coal fired plant). Higher efficiency that way.
Aren't we supposed to all be about green energy these days? Pay someone to collect it. Shred and compress it into fuel pellets. Burn it to make heat or electricity.
Ok, Vista Cruiser. Rear seat stowed. Front passenger seat left in, just in case you see a hot woman hitch hiking (even though it's statistically unlikely). Rear tire occupies space in side compartment behind rear wheel well, on side opposite of fuel tank -- we'll leave that because Murphy is a bitch. If we left it out that would be the one time a truck dumps a box of nails in the highway right in front of us, with the hot woman standing by the road just over the horizon 5 miles ahead...
With the added 3" of height in the Vista cruiser, the below deck storage space, with the 2nd seat stowed, you have a rated 106 cu ft. of cargo space. Using 10.75"^2 x 3/4" and some careful stacking that's a conservative 2113 tapes per load. with the maximum 170MB per tape yields 350GB per load. For the 10^18 bytes, I calculate 2.857 Million loads per day.
Oh, and since the Vista Cruiser came with either a 330, 350, 400, 403, or 455 cu in. engine (depending on the year and option package), the best gas mileage you can hope for is about 18 mpg on the highway. You're gonna need to budget some gas money.
Which kind of station wagon? One the size of a Chevrolet Nomad or Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser or a small one like the Honda Fit? (If you know what 9 track tape is, then you know it's a relevant question.)
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I've been watching that since I was... Damn. I'm starting to get old...
So, we have a metal matrix, in an electrolyte solution. Can we use it as a battery?
Won't work if the patient is cold (hypothermic) or has lost a lot of blood; but, is still alive.
Nuclear aircraft carrier. Can outrun storms (or almost anything else for that matter) Mobile city. Unlimited nuclear power which lasts for years. Water from self-contained distillation plants. Plenty of anti-zombie firepower. Only limitations are spare parts, fuel for aircraft and backup generators, and food.
There coming. The LCROSS mission is a pre-cursor quick turn mission. The results will be used in the decision process for where to place the rovers.
The inline isn't that heavy. I've picked them up a couple of times -- literally picked up the block with my bare hands. sure, it's lighter than the aluminum blocks they're using now.
You seem to be stuck on the idea that a head-on is the most likely scenario. It's not. If you do end up in a direct head on collision, the inline 6 would have hit the transverse mounted 4 near it's strongest point, the "rear" mounting flange where the tranmission bolts to it.
A 2009 Malibu is just as likely to be on the road in 50 years as a 1959 Chevy is today. There aren't that many of them. Most of those that are out there (the '59) honestly don't have many original parts in them. Airbags are less troublesome than some other parts, like the plastic used in the intake.
Of course it's a publicity stunt. They said so. Why are you compaining the cars are safer?
1. That simulates a more realistic crash with a worst case result -- full impact absorbed by driver side
2. The 6 doesn't weight more than the alternative, a v8
3. I have, unfortunately, been in a head on crash in a car with an inline 6. I can tell you that the 3 point mount fails -- the engine tears free of the frame.
The altimeter was a GPS device. The post-flight analysis showed that the camera's DC-DC converter was interfering with the GPS reciever; so, the signal was intermittent.
Would someone please enlighten me as to how this is better than a cluster of commodity servers? Or a cluster of workstation class machines? Or a cluster of commodity servers with a workstation class machine as the head node? I'm not seeing it; and, the SGI looks pricey.
I agree with you 100%. However it's possible to use this as a way to sequester the carbon by burying it. Having said that, since you're travelling around to spray this stuff with herbicide... You might as well save the resources that went into making the herbicide, gather the weed "crop", and try to extract some benefit out of it by using it as a fuel or fuel supplement. That way you might offset some of the energy expended going to the site(s) in the first place.
No, it's not. Nothing is. Such is life under the laws of physics. In fact I'd expect there to be considerable energy expended just in the gathering and processing of the biomatter. But, if you look at the the post to which I replied, there seemed to be an assumption that burning the grass released CO2 and this was somehow worse than burning fossil fuels. I see they've been modded to -1 now; so, you might not have seen that.
This is considered a invasive plant species, which needs to be controlled or eliminated. I was suggesting that instead of spraying herbicide on it, which has an energy cost in terms of raw materials, manufacturing and distribution, that you gather it and try to get some benefit out of the process by using it as fuel.
Don't waste energy turning it into ethanol. Just pelletize it and burn it in a power plant (perhaps as a supplement to an existing coal fired plant). Higher efficiency that way.
You mean the CO2 that the grass pulled out of the atmosphere as it grew, in the first place?
Aren't we supposed to all be about green energy these days? Pay someone to collect it. Shred and compress it into fuel pellets. Burn it to make heat or electricity.
"ok, how do you plan on explaining how you suddenly got a billion dollars?"
Rich uncle in Nigeria.
I have code that can bring a Core 2 to it's knees.
OS X is a certified Unix platform. Why is it hard to believe it's capable of being used as a large enterprise OS.
Isn't this where the plot for about a dozen movies kicks in?
Ok, Vista Cruiser. Rear seat stowed. Front passenger seat left in, just in case you see a hot woman hitch hiking (even though it's statistically unlikely). Rear tire occupies space in side compartment behind rear wheel well, on side opposite of fuel tank -- we'll leave that because Murphy is a bitch. If we left it out that would be the one time a truck dumps a box of nails in the highway right in front of us, with the hot woman standing by the road just over the horizon 5 miles ahead...
With the added 3" of height in the Vista cruiser, the below deck storage space, with the 2nd seat stowed, you have a rated 106 cu ft. of cargo space. Using 10.75"^2 x 3/4" and some careful stacking that's a conservative 2113 tapes per load. with the maximum 170MB per tape yields 350GB per load. For the 10^18 bytes, I calculate 2.857 Million loads per day.
Oh, and since the Vista Cruiser came with either a 330, 350, 400, 403, or 455 cu in. engine (depending on the year and option package), the best gas mileage you can hope for is about 18 mpg on the highway. You're gonna need to budget some gas money.
define "full resolution"
Which kind of station wagon? One the size of a Chevrolet Nomad or Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser or a small one like the Honda Fit? (If you know what 9 track tape is, then you know it's a relevant question.)
Bob the squirrel saw his cousin Sammy go in there. He saw what happened to Sammy. Bob does not want to end up like Sammy.
As an added reminder, essence of Sammy remains in the trap. Sammy juice. Yuck.
losing two disks, one on each mirror.
Please hide under your desks. :\
Likely the desk has some measurable activity as well. And the floor under the desk.
it's also a good workstation OS. I know of places using it that way...