Truly excellent, but needs to be read with the next novel _The Children of God_ to really understand the first novel.
Deals with serious issues far more realistically than is usual.
How? I've got an IBM Thinkpad with 8 megs of RAM and 60 megs of HD. I'd love to have it running Linux. Sometimes the screen lights up;-)
Floppy drive, no CD-ROM. No ethernet.
So, best way to do this?
Because the populace has been trained to think (or emote?) as post-modernists, where everything is socially-constructed, or the will to power, and the modernist and pre-modernist belief in an objective reality and the right of Man to till the garden has been rejected.
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The slave traders were Arabs and central African tribes.
OTOH, conditions in the mines in SW Africa are abysmal, slave-like.
Or, whatif, as in the case of USN war ships, you are running on NT, and the software comes from a PLA front company, and not only are usernames and passwords forwarded to Peking, but so is any sensitive information on the system, and even control of the warship, say in the case of an invasion of never-under-the-control-much-less-the-property-of- the People's-Liberation-Army-terrorist-organization Taiwan?
Sounds like such spyware is totally incompatible with national security.
Very early diesel tractors used the same technique back in the steel-wheel days. I've seem them at antique engine shows. You put a cartridge on a special port on the engine, and then hit it with a hammer to start the tractor. Then you can go do your field work.
It would have allowed us to launch battleship-sized manned spacecraft to cruise the solar system in the 1960s. But MacNamara's leftists got the nuclear test ban through.:-(((
I wonder if today inertially confined fission of rail-gun fired bb-sized pellets of uranium might work even better, if only used in LOE and above?
The same problem that put a stop to the plan to use flywheels to make cars more efficient in stop-and-go traffic - above a given speed, any flywheel will destructively disintigrate.
The pdwe doesn't have that particular problem. Therefore it is a better bet to get a vehicle to high altitude at a good speed, and then on-board LOX can replace the atmospheric 02 as oxidizer and get you into LEO.
After that, though, you might want to use a naquada(TM) energy source for further travel (USAF is looking into quantum isomer batteries, often of halfnium, but other metals will also work, as a heat source for thermal jet propulsion - and as pinpoint gamma ray bombs). Energy yield has been said to be 50 kilos to the gram, and 50 terawatts to the cubic meter.
The same problem that put a stop to the plan to use flywheels to make cars more efficient in stop-and-go traffic - above a given speed, any flywheel will destructively disintigrate.
The pdwe doesn't have that particular problem. Therefore it is a better bet to get a vehicle to high altitude at a good speed, and then on-board LOX can replace the atmospheric 02 as oxidizer and get you into LEO.
After that, though, you might want to use a naquada(TM) energy source for further travel (USAF is looking into quantum isomer batteries, often of halfnium, but other metals will also work) and as pinpoint gamma ray bombs. Energy yeild has been said to be 50 kilos to the gram, and 50 terawatts to the cubic meter.
Probably mineable ore.
Most likely source of gold veins, for instance.
But, at that temperature, the protiens should curl up. How on earth can it live?
It shutdown Edwards AFB, could it have caused the power grid failure?
The worm affects Windows computer systems badly.
Granted it is only supposed to hit Microsoft this weekend, but if you were clever with a cyberwar attack, you'd then release another, nearly identical worm with the real target in it, after the first version had been analyzed and the decoy attack site publicised.
Slashdot Mirror
Already exists.
Why Y?
Unfortunately, in the current climate, striking back at spammers would be treated as terrorism by the geheim staat securitate polezei.
Police States now have marketing specialists. Wheee.
Read St. John's Apocalypse, chapter 13.
Truly excellent, but needs to be read with the next novel _The Children of God_ to really understand the first novel. Deals with serious issues far more realistically than is usual.
How? I've got an IBM Thinkpad with 8 megs of RAM and 60 megs of HD. I'd love to have it running Linux. Sometimes the screen lights up ;-)
Floppy drive, no CD-ROM. No ethernet.
So, best way to do this?
Because the populace has been trained to think (or emote?) as post-modernists, where everything is socially-constructed, or the will to power, and the modernist and pre-modernist belief in an objective reality and the right of Man to till the garden has been rejected.
The slave traders were Arabs and central African tribes. OTOH, conditions in the mines in SW Africa are abysmal, slave-like.
Or, whatif, as in the case of USN war ships, you are running on NT, and the software comes from a PLA front company, and not only are usernames and passwords forwarded to Peking, but so is any sensitive information on the system, and even control of the warship, say in the case of an invasion of never-under-the-control-much-less-the-property-of- the People's-Liberation-Army-terrorist-organization Taiwan?
Sounds like such spyware is totally incompatible with national security.
Very early diesel tractors used the same technique back in the steel-wheel days. I've seem them at antique engine shows. You put a cartridge on a special port on the engine, and then hit it with a hammer to start the tractor. Then you can go do your field work.
It would have allowed us to launch battleship-sized manned spacecraft to cruise the solar system in the 1960s. But MacNamara's leftists got the nuclear test ban through. :-(((
I wonder if today inertially confined fission of rail-gun fired bb-sized pellets of uranium might work even better, if only used in LOE and above?
The same problem that put a stop to the plan to use flywheels to make cars more efficient in stop-and-go traffic - above a given speed, any flywheel will destructively disintigrate.
The pdwe doesn't have that particular problem. Therefore it is a better bet to get a vehicle to high altitude at a good speed, and then on-board LOX can replace the atmospheric 02 as oxidizer and get you into LEO.
After that, though, you might want to use a naquada(TM) energy source for further travel (USAF is looking into quantum isomer batteries, often of halfnium, but other metals will also work, as a heat source for thermal jet propulsion - and as pinpoint gamma ray bombs). Energy yield has been said to be 50 kilos to the gram, and 50 terawatts to the cubic meter.
The same problem that put a stop to the plan to use flywheels to make cars more efficient in stop-and-go traffic - above a given speed, any flywheel will destructively disintigrate. The pdwe doesn't have that particular problem. Therefore it is a better bet to get a vehicle to high altitude at a good speed, and then on-board LOX can replace the atmospheric 02 as oxidizer and get you into LEO. After that, though, you might want to use a naquada(TM) energy source for further travel (USAF is looking into quantum isomer batteries, often of halfnium, but other metals will also work) and as pinpoint gamma ray bombs. Energy yeild has been said to be 50 kilos to the gram, and 50 terawatts to the cubic meter.
Probably mineable ore. Most likely source of gold veins, for instance. But, at that temperature, the protiens should curl up. How on earth can it live?
It shutdown Edwards AFB, could it have caused the power grid failure?
The worm affects Windows computer systems badly.
Granted it is only supposed to hit Microsoft this weekend, but if you were clever with a cyberwar attack, you'd then release another, nearly identical worm with the real target in it, after the first version had been analyzed and the decoy attack site publicised.
What do you think?