This is what I suspect will eventually happen over the next few thousand years. There will be three kinds of "areas" on Earth: City/Urban (populated areas where people live), Farmland (where the food is grown) and managed parks.
The key word there was "managed." Hopefully we won't have to go to such extremes, as you've suggested; but, I suspect active management will be required worldwide.
You've been watching way too much Stargate Atlantis.
There's no such thing as a ZPM. Zero point energy doesn't exist. It violates laws of physics. I'm not going to mod you down; just so others may laugh at you...
Sure, Linux and BSD run on PPC, Sparc, x86 & AMD64 hardware. Some companies don't want to run Linux; they'd rather run a fully supported & certified, scaleable Unix. If Sun can get Solaris to run on all of these platforms (including Power4 & Power5), then they'll be the only Unix vendor in this position.
There have been PDP and VAX emulation boards available for some time. I believe some of the other big iron is also emulated already. This isn't something new, just new to/.
To die from a lack of available donor hearts; or, risk some minor vascular damage due to constant blood flow... Hmmm.... I'll have to think about it for a while.
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It's actually sad that they're teaching this. It's not reliable in all cases. I suspect they've fallen back on this method because too many people either panic in a real emergency, or just can't seem to be bothered to learn to do it right.
Dude, I have fired people like this. And, in one instance where I thought they really might go postal, I had armed security waiting outside, just in case.
from Red/Green/Blue Mars. Not sure if it was described in Green Mars or Blue Mars... Power and light came from solar collectors in orbit , overhead. Read them too.
The Mars rover heater is a faulty switch, causing the heater to be always on. It's so damn cold on Mars you need heaters on all the joints to keep the lubrication from freezing solid. passive thermal management wouldn't work because it assumes you've got a heat source to draw from. The most passive approach you could apply to the Mars rover would be (would have been) to use radio-thermal heaters at each of the joints.
Wouldn't work well on Venus either. You need a sink into which to pump the heat. Given the 800F surface temperature, you'd have to do an awful lot of work to pump to an acceptable temperature in the electronics bays. I'm not saying it's impossible, just hard.
the Mercury mission will work because they're putting a big insulative blanket between the electronics and the sun, to provide shade; and, they're pumping the heat from the electronics bays to the cold side (facing away from the Sun) of the craft where it's -200F
I know you're being funny; but, it's actually a rather elegant solution, when you can't afford to carry enough fuel to use a rocket motor burn, to reduce your velocity.
Comment 2: Actually, you can colonize Mercury. It wouldn't be easy... but it is conceivable (in a twisted sort of way) to put a colony on the dark side. Oh, btw, the colony would have to move opposite the planets rotation to stay there or else risk extreme sunburn...
The problem isn't so much "How do we build this thing so it'll last 10,000 years?" it's also "How do we label this so They'll know not to dig here 10,000 years from now?"
If we hadn't found the Rosetta stone, we still might not be able to read the Egyptian hieroglyphs. What if the markings on the stone wall said "Don't dig here, Danger, Radiation Hazard" but you couldn't read it correctly? An archeologist (5,000 years from now) might go digging (out of curiosity) to see if he could find something to help him understand the text, no?
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Not quite. They're not only giving it a structure to adhear to, they're forcing calcium to deposit on the structure.
The key word there was "managed." Hopefully we won't have to go to such extremes, as you've suggested; but, I suspect active management will be required worldwide.
How can you get mod points for government policy? I could really use a few right now.
There's no such thing as a ZPM. Zero point energy doesn't exist. It violates laws of physics. I'm not going to mod you down; just so others may laugh at you...
Sure, Linux and BSD run on PPC, Sparc, x86 & AMD64 hardware. Some companies don't want to run Linux; they'd rather run a fully supported & certified, scaleable Unix. If Sun can get Solaris to run on all of these platforms (including Power4 & Power5), then they'll be the only Unix vendor in this position.
That's 'cause you need more neon and a few more fans.
Probably an automated phone poll. So, the answer is yes.
Pay no attention to the little man behind the curtain.
There have been PDP and VAX emulation boards available for some time. I believe some of the other big iron is also emulated already. This isn't something new, just new to /.
Flood his connection.
call me if you need me. Or better yet, don't call me.
To die from a lack of available donor hearts; or, risk some minor vascular damage due to constant blood flow... Hmmm.... I'll have to think about it for a while.
It's actually sad that they're teaching this. It's not reliable in all cases. I suspect they've fallen back on this method because too many people either panic in a real emergency, or just can't seem to be bothered to learn to do it right.
my cell phone to do one thing, and I expect it to do it well: be a telephone.
who makes big raid arrays, except maybe Apple, HP, IBM, Sun, and all the usuall server and storage folks.
*smiles sarcastically*
Dude, I have fired people like this. And, in one instance where I thought they really might go postal, I had armed security waiting outside, just in case.
someone please mod this up... Man, now I gotta go clean the coffee outa my keyboard.
from Red/Green/Blue Mars. Not sure if it was described in Green Mars or Blue Mars... Power and light came from solar collectors in orbit , overhead. Read them too.
Wouldn't work well on Venus either. You need a sink into which to pump the heat. Given the 800F surface temperature, you'd have to do an awful lot of work to pump to an acceptable temperature in the electronics bays. I'm not saying it's impossible, just hard.
the Mercury mission will work because they're putting a big insulative blanket between the electronics and the sun, to provide shade; and, they're pumping the heat from the electronics bays to the cold side (facing away from the Sun) of the craft where it's -200F
I know you're being funny; but, it's actually a rather elegant solution, when you can't afford to carry enough fuel to use a rocket motor burn, to reduce your velocity.
Comment 2: Actually, you can colonize Mercury. It wouldn't be easy... but it is conceivable (in a twisted sort of way) to put a colony on the dark side. Oh, btw, the colony would have to move opposite the planets rotation to stay there or else risk extreme sunburn...
No.
If we hadn't found the Rosetta stone, we still might not be able to read the Egyptian hieroglyphs. What if the markings on the stone wall said "Don't dig here, Danger, Radiation Hazard" but you couldn't read it correctly? An archeologist (5,000 years from now) might go digging (out of curiosity) to see if he could find something to help him understand the text, no?