Lett's hope that at the end, Riker says;
Damn, that holodeck story creator should learn how to write
To which Troy says: Yes, and take a history class or two. Because this is as far off, as I ever saw.
Yes, I am a trekkie, but enterprise? Not all trek is good trek.
Best episode? The one where captain Sisko makes his log entry and ends up deleting it. The moral ambiguity is lovely.
preparing for culture shock (both my mild case and my wife's possibly severe one).
I wouldn't be so sure about who will experience the biggest shock. When you go somewhere new, you are mentally preparing yourself for this shock, but potentially the biggest shock of all comes when you go back.
At least in my case that was a big eye-opener.
Anecdotal, I know, but it wasn't something I expected.
And since you have been gone for 6 years, many things will have changed. Since change is slow and always present, it only becomes clear after watching something with a long time in between snapshots.
I realize that indeed you can run, but can't hide. But is seems rather stupid to just stay near the coast as a sitting duck.
Well, I am considering Canada, Sweden and New Zealand. I always wanted to move somewhere else, but taking 'safety' into account New Zealand does seems to be the best option.
Been already to Sweden, New Zealand is my next vacation I guess. Rather stupid too, to move somewhere without knowing it firsthand. Carl Sagan seemed to agree with you. He planned to move there, afraid of nuclear war. But decided to stay and protest it instead. I am afraid, with climate shifts, it's a bit more complicated than just organizing protests on the streets.
With al the pollution, floods, drought, storms, global warming, global ice-age, asteroid impacts, spiders,... what is the safest place on earth to live?
No serious, I live somewhere in western europe near the cost. But since I am only in my early 20's, I can still move somewhere else. So where would you move to, or how high above or below sea level would you move?
All these fear mongering stories are nice and scary, but damit, provide them with a map with the affected areas.
How is this thing supposed to work?
If I read the text, I get the impression that is by means of sound wave. This reminds me of cold fusion, which seems impossible as far as I know. If however, I read the caption under the photo, I get the impression that it uses lasers, as in inertial confinement fusion. I can't imagine a table top version of something like that. Pictures or schematics I saw from something like that suggested a huge (size-wise) setup for lasers or condensor banks.
So what is it?
Damn
I knew it was a joke, I found it funny.
Guess my joke was not funny.
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You are an american, aren't you?
Destroying an entire building filled with a few hundred people in it, while actually you only want to take out one guy.
Ah crap.
I should have realised I was talking to tight a turn. (I hope that's a correct english expression.)
It might make a nice programming exercise for my astrophysics class next term.
I have to much theoretical knowledge and far to little practical.
Thanks for the correction.
How can they brink it back?
The sail catches the particles emitted by the sun, and is driven forward by them.
Inside the solar system, the direction of these particles is outward. Their speed/impuls is larger than that of extra solar system particles coming in.
Anyway, the net effect is a wind blowing out of the solar system. No way to bring it back in the same way it got there.
Can anyone tell me what's up with/. these days? I have been gone for 3 months, and now it's damn slow and infested with 503's.
Hello,
I am a physics student. Astronomy is a hobby, and fusion is something I want to make a living in for at least a few years.
The last few weeks/months however it has occurred to me that most people tend to focus on how to get into space. While most deep waters are uncharted(?) or at least unexplored.
Most likely I am just plain ignorant about the oceans and a lot is know.
Perhaps you can point to me to some interesting sites/books/papers or the like. I am more interested in the physics than the engineering though.
I am not sure where I want to go with this post. Then again two years ago I hardly knew about the existence of a tokamak. So I guess it's just a quest for some info for a quick look around in the field. I am curious.
Well, I am european, not French though. So thanks for helping out in WWII.
I don't think however that such gratitude should mean going along with whatever you - as in USA - do.
Nothing against US. Much against it's policy, I am afraid.
Merci pour votre response.
Can someone explain why americans love bashing France, in a manner of history.
I thought the french helped the americans with their struggle against the UK for independence.
Yeah, I received your message.
Either you learn how to spell, or you stop claiming you can encrypt on the fly.
You must show the true Guru's the respect they deserve, you infidel.
In a way, I think holding on to every minute detail of someone's life devalues the things of importance they left behind. Do you think they really want to be remembered by their tax returns? Would they have wanted their grandchildren to inherit their file of meeting notes? If someone wants to leave important digital information to posterity, they should put that intent in their will, and (*gasp*) maybe even make a hard copy of it.
Perhaps your family won't be interested, but historians might. Tax forms can learn a lot about society, I would think.
Dude, when in Belgium the bomb squads goes out, it's al over the news. Hey, it's a small country.
And every time, I saw them drive a little car to the pakket and shoot it to pieces.
And yes, I have the exact same question:
WTF?
Do you know a research group that is working on this part of the problem? Is there some tokamak that extracts the energy, using this or another method? I don't think it will be in iter.
If you want funding, you are more likely to get it from the politicians if you say it will be here before the next election rather then claiming it will be here before they die.
So, yes some claims from the past have been far to unrealistic. They wanted the funding and it is hurting us now.
Each fusion reactor lasts about a generation of researchers. Say 25 years.
The next reactor - Iter - is to prove more energy can be extracted then must be put in. time: 30 years. you still need to build the thing and get approval for it.
After this comes DEMO. This one is planned to generate electricity. Another 30 years.
I feel confident in saying 50 to 60 years. I just hope the politicians don't keep stalling. Where to build ITER should have been decided a year ago, if not sooner.
The energy used to boil the water comes from neutrons.
Alpha particles - helium core - and neutrons are created in a fusion reaction. The alpha particles carry about 20% of the energy, the neutrons about 80%.
After the alpha particles give of their energy to the surrounding plasma, the have to be removed in order to keep the fusion reactions going.
So left are the neutrons. These are neutral particles. So forget about something like an ion-separator (sorry, don't know the correct english term. same principle as an ion-engine. Using lorentz force: f= qE + qvxB).
So you use the energy of the neutrons to boil water.
In about 50 years.
Iter - latin for "road" - is the next stage, but not the final.
It will produce more energy than put in, will will not create electricity as such.
"Creating" electricity, as a normal powerplant does, will be the next stage. As in DEMO.
So another year before knowing where to build iter, it should have been decided long ago. A few years to build it. 20 to 30 years of research. A few years op political maneuvering for deciding demo, building and doing research for another generation.
So 50 or 60 years before we have an electricity producing fusion plant.
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Lett's hope that at the end, Riker says; Damn, that holodeck story creator should learn how to write
To which Troy says:
Yes, and take a history class or two. Because this is as far off, as I ever saw.
Yes, I am a trekkie, but enterprise? Not all trek is good trek.
Best episode? The one where captain Sisko makes his log entry and ends up deleting it. The moral ambiguity is lovely.
preparing for culture shock (both my mild case and my wife's possibly severe one).
I wouldn't be so sure about who will experience the biggest shock. When you go somewhere new, you are mentally preparing yourself for this shock, but potentially the biggest shock of all comes when you go back.
At least in my case that was a big eye-opener.
Anecdotal, I know, but it wasn't something I expected.
And since you have been gone for 6 years, many things will have changed. Since change is slow and always present, it only becomes clear after watching something with a long time in between snapshots.
0.1 - 0.5 - 1.0 - 1.1.1
Why aren't just the dates (and perhaps even hours) when the software was build, used as version name?
http://europa.eu.int/constitution/futurum/constit
I found this line "HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS" in a word document through google
I rather go for the version hosted by EU, instead of one found at Kent University.
I realize that indeed you can run, but can't hide. But is seems rather stupid to just stay near the coast as a sitting duck.
Well, I am considering Canada, Sweden and New Zealand. I always wanted to move somewhere else, but taking 'safety' into account New Zealand does seems to be the best option.
Been already to Sweden, New Zealand is my next vacation I guess. Rather stupid too, to move somewhere without knowing it firsthand.
Carl Sagan seemed to agree with you. He planned to move there, afraid of nuclear war. But decided to stay and protest it instead. I am afraid, with climate shifts, it's a bit more complicated than just organizing protests on the streets.
With al the pollution, floods, drought, storms, global warming, global ice-age, asteroid impacts, spiders,... what is the safest place on earth to live?
No serious, I live somewhere in western europe near the cost. But since I am only in my early 20's, I can still move somewhere else.
So where would you move to, or how high above or below sea level would you move?
All these fear mongering stories are nice and scary, but damit, provide them with a map with the affected areas.
How is this thing supposed to work?
If I read the text, I get the impression that is by means of sound wave. This reminds me of cold fusion, which seems impossible as far as I know.
If however, I read the caption under the photo, I get the impression that it uses lasers, as in inertial confinement fusion. I can't imagine a table top version of something like that. Pictures or schematics I saw from something like that suggested a huge (size-wise) setup for lasers or condensor banks.
So what is it?
Damn
I knew it was a joke, I found it funny.
Guess my joke was not funny.
Destroying an entire building filled with a few hundred people in it, while actually you only want to take out one guy.
Oh, and stop asking us to do your dirty work.
Don't know how fast it would be.
But I say, sell your PC-equipment and buy a powerbook with virtual pc.
Ah crap.
I should have realised I was talking to tight a turn. (I hope that's a correct english expression.)
It might make a nice programming exercise for my astrophysics class next term.
I have to much theoretical knowledge and far to little practical.
Thanks for the correction.
The sail catches the particles emitted by the sun, and is driven forward by them.
Inside the solar system, the direction of these particles is outward. Their speed/impuls is larger than that of extra solar system particles coming in.
Anyway, the net effect is a wind blowing out of the solar system.
No way to bring it back in the same way it got there.
Can anyone tell me what's up with /. these days? I have been gone for 3 months, and now it's damn slow and infested with 503's.
Oh, please.
Why won't you learn English?
*cough* thank you, Google *cough*
Hello, I am a physics student. Astronomy is a hobby, and fusion is something I want to make a living in for at least a few years.
The last few weeks/months however it has occurred to me that most people tend to focus on how to get into space. While most deep waters are uncharted(?) or at least unexplored.
Most likely I am just plain ignorant about the oceans and a lot is know.
Perhaps you can point to me to some interesting sites/books/papers or the like. I am more interested in the physics than the engineering though.
I am not sure where I want to go with this post. Then again two years ago I hardly knew about the existence of a tokamak. So I guess it's just a quest for some info for a quick look around in the field.
I am curious.
Well, I am european, not French though. So thanks for helping out in WWII.
I don't think however that such gratitude should mean going along with whatever you - as in USA - do.
Nothing against US. Much against it's policy, I am afraid.
Merci pour votre response.
Can someone explain why americans love bashing France, in a manner of history.
I thought the french helped the americans with their struggle against the UK for independence.
So you work at a nuclear power plant, don't you?
Yeah, I received your message.
Either you learn how to spell, or you stop claiming you can encrypt on the fly.
You must show the true Guru's the respect they deserve, you infidel.
In a way, I think holding on to every minute detail of someone's life devalues the things of importance they left behind. Do you think they really want to be remembered by their tax returns? Would they have wanted their grandchildren to inherit their file of meeting notes? If someone wants to leave important digital information to posterity, they should put that intent in their will, and (*gasp*) maybe even make a hard copy of it.
Perhaps your family won't be interested, but historians might.
Tax forms can learn a lot about society, I would think.
Dude, when in Belgium the bomb squads goes out, it's al over the news. Hey, it's a small country.
And every time, I saw them drive a little car to the pakket and shoot it to pieces.
And yes, I have the exact same question:
WTF?
Do you know a research group that is working on this part of the problem?
Is there some tokamak that extracts the energy, using this or another method?
I don't think it will be in iter.
So, yes some claims from the past have been far to unrealistic. They wanted the funding and it is hurting us now.
Each fusion reactor lasts about a generation of researchers. Say 25 years.
The next reactor - Iter - is to prove more energy can be extracted then must be put in. time: 30 years. you still need to build the thing and get approval for it.
After this comes DEMO. This one is planned to generate electricity. Another 30 years.
I feel confident in saying 50 to 60 years. I just hope the politicians don't keep stalling.
Where to build ITER should have been decided a year ago, if not sooner.
Yeah, well, you know how these names come into being.
Pick something that sounds good.
Find a word for every letter in it.
Alpha particles - helium core - and neutrons are created in a fusion reaction. The alpha particles carry about 20% of the energy, the neutrons about 80%.
After the alpha particles give of their energy to the surrounding plasma, the have to be removed in order to keep the fusion reactions going.
So left are the neutrons. These are neutral particles. So forget about something like an ion-separator (sorry, don't know the correct english term. same principle as an ion-engine. Using lorentz force: f= qE + qvxB).
So you use the energy of the neutrons to boil water.
Iter - latin for "road" - is the next stage, but not the final.
It will produce more energy than put in, will will not create electricity as such.
"Creating" electricity, as a normal powerplant does, will be the next stage. As in DEMO.
So another year before knowing where to build iter, it should have been decided long ago. A few years to build it. 20 to 30 years of research. A few years op political maneuvering for deciding demo, building and doing research for another generation.
So 50 or 60 years before we have an electricity producing fusion plant.