"not to have to turn to a private utility or a public utility, but to supply my own energy, and live according to what I can generate using solar, wind, micro-hydro, and anything else that comes to mind."
Thus totally losing the benefits of any economies of scale...
Instead of your authoritarian social engineering project to have the Central Committee of Commissars (no doubt with you and your ilk on the committee) artificially control the price of fuels, in order to control everyone who doesn't agree with you, couldn't we let the prices go up naturally as the resource becomes scarce, at which point people will naturally make the choice to seek other lower cost sources of energy? I prefer using the law of supply and demand rather than an artificial edict from a baby bolshevik.
From our reference frame, it'll never get
to a surface & impact, so it's essentially undefined.
Now, the terminal velocity as it hit the event horizon could be easily calculated...if you know the radius of the event horizon, and the mass of the black hole, it's not really any different than the integration for any massive object, black hole or otherwise.
There is a terminal velocity for for the moon, or any airless body - the integral of its gravitational force, applied to an object starting at infinity, and being accelerated all the way to the surface, is not infinite.
For the moon, it works out to 2.37 km/sec.
Don't they teach you youngsters any physics these days?
My pal Burk, when confronted with the very same problem, simply did not sign the form, tucked it back into the enormous pile of junk he had to fill out when starting at this company, and just didn't mention it. They apparently didn't check to see if he had, because they never said anything about it. If a problem ever came up, he figured he'd ask them to produce the agreement, and point out that he he had never signed. It's a shame it never came up - I really wanted to see what would happen...
This reminds me of a pal's worst tech mistake.
Dr. Bob was the best programmer I ever worked with. One day I saw him open a letter he'd received, crumple up the page and start cursing a blue streak. When I asked him what was wrong he told me about the time he'd had his first programming job at a major university, writing and maintaining an application to record & track information on a very large medical research experiment. Thousands of subjects in the experiment were to be tracked for many years by this software. He said he wrote a really cool app, in PL/1 (it was along time ago), and everything was going good. Unfortunately, one day, he wrote an update program for it, and due to carelessness with the name variables, he inadvertently replaced the name of every person in the database with that of the first person...who was David Alexander. Even more unfortunate...the backups were no good...they didn't fire him, but he felt so bad about it, he quit in disgrace.
For decades after, his friends, whenever they wanted to razz him about it, would send him mail, addressed from "David Alaexander", and he'd reliably fly into a rage. The letter I'd seen him just get was one of those.
Looks like you've been successful - it wasn't in 3D, and Molly Ringwald wasn't in it.
(yer thinking of Spacehunter - Adventures in the Forbidden Zone).
Yer correction was mostly right, except that it was Marty Balin, lead singer for the Jefferson Airplane, who the Angels punched out, not Jack Casady, bass player (quite possibly the finest bass player on the planet).
For you young people who didn't take Latin in grade school, let me translate that last line for you. It means, if you're sick, Gloria comes by on Monday.
Glad to help.
You left out part of the cookie riddle - it's 4 things, and 4 choices. The things - an alpha source, a beta source, a gamma source, and a neutron emitter. The 4 choices - throw away, hold at arms length, put in pocket, and eat.
You want to throw away the neutron source, because it can activate nearby material and cause even more radiation. You hold the beta soruce at arms length, since several inches of air will stop them. The apha source goes in the pocket, where the pocket's cloth will stop it, and you eat the gamma source, since it's long range and won't hurt you much more inside than outside.
BTW, sufficiently energetic gamma rays cause lots of damage by pair production - creating antiparticle/particle pairs out of energy, that then smash into things, annihilate themselves, etc.
Gez, you youngsters! The first Intel processor chip of any note was the 8008! There was an active hobby community built around it, before the 8080 came out. Scelbi Computer Consulting
sold systems & software, as well as many others.
The DEC developers, especially the RSX family, had a puckish sense of humor and included all sorts of easter eggs in their products.
Error codes were numeric, and had symbols of the form IE.XXX, where XXX was supposed to be as mnemonic as possible.
Error number 69 was for "no network path"...the symbol got assigned "IE.NFW"...for
"No FXXXXing Way"...
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"not to have to turn to a private utility or a public utility, but to supply my own energy, and live according to what I can generate using solar, wind, micro-hydro, and anything else that comes to mind." Thus totally losing the benefits of any economies of scale...
Instead of your authoritarian social engineering project to have the Central Committee of Commissars (no doubt with you and your ilk on the committee) artificially control the price of fuels, in order to control everyone who doesn't agree with you, couldn't we let the prices go up naturally as the resource becomes scarce, at which point people will naturally make the choice to seek other lower cost sources of energy? I prefer using the law of supply and demand rather than an artificial edict from a baby bolshevik.
Old video engineers' joke... NTSC = Never Twice the Same Color PAL = Perfect At Last Anyone remember the acronym basis for SECAM?
One of them has to die.
From our reference frame, it'll never get to a surface & impact, so it's essentially undefined. Now, the terminal velocity as it hit the event horizon could be easily calculated...if you know the radius of the event horizon, and the mass of the black hole, it's not really any different than the integration for any massive object, black hole or otherwise.
There is a terminal velocity for for the moon, or any airless body - the integral of its gravitational force, applied to an object starting at infinity, and being accelerated all the way to the surface, is not infinite. For the moon, it works out to 2.37 km/sec. Don't they teach you youngsters any physics these days?
Clearly he meant milleniumses, precious...
...and it's the first ever Last Post! I Rule!
http://www.chez.com/lesovnis/htm/marsveg01.htm
My pal Burk, when confronted with the very same problem, simply did not sign the form, tucked it back into the enormous pile of junk he had to fill out when starting at this company, and just didn't mention it. They apparently didn't check to see if he had, because they never said anything about it. If a problem ever came up, he figured he'd ask them to produce the agreement, and point out that he he had never signed. It's a shame it never came up - I really wanted to see what would happen...
Bolo Mk, I, "Horrendous".
This reminds me of a pal's worst tech mistake. Dr. Bob was the best programmer I ever worked with. One day I saw him open a letter he'd received, crumple up the page and start cursing a blue streak. When I asked him what was wrong he told me about the time he'd had his first programming job at a major university, writing and maintaining an application to record & track information on a very large medical research experiment. Thousands of subjects in the experiment were to be tracked for many years by this software. He said he wrote a really cool app, in PL/1 (it was along time ago), and everything was going good. Unfortunately, one day, he wrote an update program for it, and due to carelessness with the name variables, he inadvertently replaced the name of every person in the database with that of the first person...who was David Alexander. Even more unfortunate...the backups were no good...they didn't fire him, but he felt so bad about it, he quit in disgrace. For decades after, his friends, whenever they wanted to razz him about it, would send him mail, addressed from "David Alaexander", and he'd reliably fly into a rage. The letter I'd seen him just get was one of those.
My worst tech related mistake was going into computing, instead of going to med school.
Are you quoting from "The Sound of Darkness"?
Claiming to have sex in the back seat of a '68 Camaro makes me doubt you've ever seen one, much less own one...
Looks like you've been successful - it wasn't in 3D, and Molly Ringwald wasn't in it. (yer thinking of Spacehunter - Adventures in the Forbidden Zone).
They should cast the Doctor as a woman, and get Cathy Rogers to play the part.
Intersting you would say that, in light of your sig, since this list includes Ron Paul, the only Libertarian in Congress
Yer correction was mostly right, except that it was Marty Balin, lead singer for the Jefferson Airplane, who the Angels punched out, not Jack Casady, bass player (quite possibly the finest bass player on the planet).
For you young people who didn't take Latin in grade school, let me translate that last line for you. It means, if you're sick, Gloria comes by on Monday. Glad to help.
You left out part of the cookie riddle - it's 4 things, and 4 choices. The things - an alpha source, a beta source, a gamma source, and a neutron emitter. The 4 choices - throw away, hold at arms length, put in pocket, and eat. You want to throw away the neutron source, because it can activate nearby material and cause even more radiation. You hold the beta soruce at arms length, since several inches of air will stop them. The apha source goes in the pocket, where the pocket's cloth will stop it, and you eat the gamma source, since it's long range and won't hurt you much more inside than outside. BTW, sufficiently energetic gamma rays cause lots of damage by pair production - creating antiparticle/particle pairs out of energy, that then smash into things, annihilate themselves, etc.
Gez, you youngsters! The first Intel processor chip of any note was the 8008! There was an active hobby community built around it, before the 8080 came out. Scelbi Computer Consulting sold systems & software, as well as many others.
The DEC developers, especially the RSX family, had a puckish sense of humor and included all sorts of easter eggs in their products. Error codes were numeric, and had symbols of the form IE.XXX, where XXX was supposed to be as mnemonic as possible. Error number 69 was for "no network path"...the symbol got assigned "IE.NFW"...for "No FXXXXing Way"...