Solaris (book more than movies) is IMHO just about the only popular SF that's pointed out plainly that aliens are likely to be truly alien. Most of the book is about how a vast amount of work in a century since contact did little other than reflect the views the researchers had before they even came in contact with the alien/s. Even with godlike powers the alien/s couldn't get a message through from the other direction either. Greg Egan had another approach where a chain of cloned and increasingly altered intelligences could form a bridge to communicate with aliens.
Electric everything only matters when the electricity doesn't come from coal.
Or if you want to breath anywhere near a large number of vehicles and there isn't much airflow. That's why California was pushing for the things in the first place FFS. That's why even China is taking them seriously. That's also why an electic SUV is low on anybodies list. They are heavy things and the pollution impact is spread out unless idiots are using them as shopping trolleys in congested cities.
Getting our power from coal vs. getting our power from gasoline, isn't an improvement.
Since the losses in the delivery chain have reduced it actually is an energy improvement over many gasoline/petrol engines even if not a challenge to diesel yet. In terms of pollution reduction it is a massive improvement due to it being relatively trivial to do at large scales instead of being a heavy thing to carry around at small mobile scales - plus the pollution tends to happen at the top of a stack way out in the countryside instead of stuck under a temperature inversion layer in a city for weeks.
I was using chiwriter back in the day. The current MS Word still can't touch it for even simple math in a text. IMHO MS Word is a piss poor attempt at desktop publishing that merely drags the vast time expenditure of desktop publishing into an area where a simple word processor does a better job.
Personally I'd love a bluetooth eink thing - slow refresh or not. Tablets with LCD screens suck for battery life and readability. There must be some sort of hack other than VNC between bluetooth keyboards, bluetooth equipped phones (with wifi) and wifi eink tablets that can get text onto the things. Either that or a serial to bluetooth device on something where the information is available on how to write to the screen.
Actually I meant a fully electric mining truck on a cable like a giant dodgem car or tram. Things at that scale will have batteries eventually for underground work. Some time after that, maybe a long time, people will start looking at an electic SUV. Expect electric offroad bikes to become common enough to be mainstream in racing before that happens.
I assume that no words or names in his fantasy world have any accents or any characters not in the basic ASCII set
That sounds ideal and there should be more of it unless it's being written for a different language. It's a very lazy and annoying plot device if everything in an imaginary foreign setting is tranlated into English apart from a few exceptions, repeated frequently, just to show us that the place is different.
You are looking for something in a niche that hasn't been filled yet. Scale up to something that carries 400 tons and you'll find an electric truck that is economic to run:)
Those numbers are going to vary all over the place since not all coal is equal let alone boilers, generators plus whatever is in the transmission chain. Even time of day could give you a percent or more of change (warm aluminium or copper transmission wire increases in resistance with temperature - over 100km or more the losses add up). Thus it's only worth it in terms of ballpark numbers, and even then you could be connected to cheap hydro. Then it's only a fair comparison if you add in the entire gasoline supply chain and you'd be amazed how much waste is in that too. For example, Nigeria gets nearly all of it's electricty from burning the gas from oil wells that was just flared off until recently. Since that is also an energy supply chain with a lot of variables nobody bothers to seriously compare the crude oil to fuel and coal to electric vehicle energy chains in the sort of detail you are asking for. It would just be messing around inside the error bars.
We have reached a point that we are pushing the limits of the elements themselves
Not even close.
if you bank on technological breakthrough
Unless it's one that's already happened in a lab but of course needs work to develop scaled up designs, process lines etc before ending up as a consumer item.
While hydrogen has a very high energy content by weight, it's tough to get much weight in a compact space
Freeze it and when you need energy warm the thing up with 192 lasers. Admittedly you'll need something that looks exactly like where the "warp core" stuff was filmed in the most recent Trek movie.
Very stupid rent seeking idea - especially when it involves all those little things in dusty corners relied upon to "just work" and whatever cold spares are around in case they break. It's equivalent to demanding that people replace thirty year old transistor radios in their kitchens and workshops.
why? do you REALLY think that the world' 'greatest' spy agency would be so sloppy
They were sloppy enough for Snowden to do what he did. They were sloppy enough to trust outside contractors with a vast amount of information. I don't see how they could be the 'greatest' spy agency in Virginia let alone the world. The look like a bunch of horse judges playing at being toy soldiers from how they've handled the leak.
Yet another thing when it's an Indonesian cigarette company being spied on for commercial reasons. Burning through the goodwill of allies just to help out a campaign donor with some trade secrets picked up by spies is IMHO a ridiculous abuse of power.
It was in squash racquets and top end consumer bikes twenty years ago. The highly protected US car industry is just slow to catch up with the mainstream.
Didn't you notice incidents such as overt poisioning of oppenents happening in Ukrane politics? It's hard to pick the "good guys" when things have got that medieval.
As you are well aware the models are being adapted over time with reference to observed results so I'm sick of people regurgitating such stupid anti-intellectual political propaganda again.
we are unable to do a real experiment and follow the scientific method on this one
Are you going to tell astronomers that they are not real scientists either for your next trick or are you going to accept that we are not going to fall for your restricted personal definition that there is no science other than chemistry or similar bullshit? It may work on the kiddies but it's a gross insult to the intelligence of the readers here.
If you can't put in time when an employer wants work done there's no point advertising as if you can. Your first commitment should be to getting that piece of paper that will get you past HR and into a job you want, so other things should be flexible. Volunteer work that you can drop without warning when pressed for time is a better way to go instead of facing a work deadline and exams at the same time. Another option is vacation work of any kind or limited part time work during a semester where your employer will not force extra hours at inconvenient times. Combining full time work and full time study is the story behind many failures at both.
Considering that my messages here have been nothing other than a complaint about you opening with an insulting lie what do you expect? Why should everyone else meekly take your venom?
Then is you want anything other than contempt act as if you do instead of juvenile "science is a religion" attack words and the new bullshit you've added in the above post.
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Solaris (book more than movies) is IMHO just about the only popular SF that's pointed out plainly that aliens are likely to be truly alien. Most of the book is about how a vast amount of work in a century since contact did little other than reflect the views the researchers had before they even came in contact with the alien/s. Even with godlike powers the alien/s couldn't get a message through from the other direction either.
Greg Egan had another approach where a chain of cloned and increasingly altered intelligences could form a bridge to communicate with aliens.
Yes, but on the other hand it's hard to have a major airport without a big pipe to a nearby oil refinery.
Or if you want to breath anywhere near a large number of vehicles and there isn't much airflow.
That's why California was pushing for the things in the first place FFS. That's why even China is taking them seriously. That's also why an electic SUV is low on anybodies list. They are heavy things and the pollution impact is spread out unless idiots are using them as shopping trolleys in congested cities.
Since the losses in the delivery chain have reduced it actually is an energy improvement over many gasoline/petrol engines even if not a challenge to diesel yet. In terms of pollution reduction it is a massive improvement due to it being relatively trivial to do at large scales instead of being a heavy thing to carry around at small mobile scales - plus the pollution tends to happen at the top of a stack way out in the countryside instead of stuck under a temperature inversion layer in a city for weeks.
I was using chiwriter back in the day. The current MS Word still can't touch it for even simple math in a text.
IMHO MS Word is a piss poor attempt at desktop publishing that merely drags the vast time expenditure of desktop publishing into an area where a simple word processor does a better job.
Personally I'd love a bluetooth eink thing - slow refresh or not. Tablets with LCD screens suck for battery life and readability.
There must be some sort of hack other than VNC between bluetooth keyboards, bluetooth equipped phones (with wifi) and wifi eink tablets that can get text onto the things. Either that or a serial to bluetooth device on something where the information is available on how to write to the screen.
Actually I meant a fully electric mining truck on a cable like a giant dodgem car or tram. Things at that scale will have batteries eventually for underground work. Some time after that, maybe a long time, people will start looking at an electic SUV. Expect electric offroad bikes to become common enough to be mainstream in racing before that happens.
I doubt it's hard to export Wordstar files to a more recent format.
Are you sure that isn't the Perl regex to export Wordstar files into the compressed xml format used by MS Word?
That sounds ideal and there should be more of it unless it's being written for a different language. It's a very lazy and annoying plot device if everything in an imaginary foreign setting is tranlated into English apart from a few exceptions, repeated frequently, just to show us that the place is different.
You are looking for something in a niche that hasn't been filled yet. Scale up to something that carries 400 tons and you'll find an electric truck that is economic to run :)
Those numbers are going to vary all over the place since not all coal is equal let alone boilers, generators plus whatever is in the transmission chain. Even time of day could give you a percent or more of change (warm aluminium or copper transmission wire increases in resistance with temperature - over 100km or more the losses add up). Thus it's only worth it in terms of ballpark numbers, and even then you could be connected to cheap hydro. Then it's only a fair comparison if you add in the entire gasoline supply chain and you'd be amazed how much waste is in that too. For example, Nigeria gets nearly all of it's electricty from burning the gas from oil wells that was just flared off until recently. Since that is also an energy supply chain with a lot of variables nobody bothers to seriously compare the crude oil to fuel and coal to electric vehicle energy chains in the sort of detail you are asking for. It would just be messing around inside the error bars.
Only on a test bed running at ideal speed so it's not worth complaining about the ballpark figures of others.
Some people get lithium and rare earths mixed up.
Not even close.
Unless it's one that's already happened in a lab but of course needs work to develop scaled up designs, process lines etc before ending up as a consumer item.
Freeze it and when you need energy warm the thing up with 192 lasers. Admittedly you'll need something that looks exactly like where the "warp core" stuff was filmed in the most recent Trek movie.
Eggsactly.
Very stupid rent seeking idea - especially when it involves all those little things in dusty corners relied upon to "just work" and whatever cold spares are around in case they break.
It's equivalent to demanding that people replace thirty year old transistor radios in their kitchens and workshops.
They were sloppy enough for Snowden to do what he did. They were sloppy enough to trust outside contractors with a vast amount of information. I don't see how they could be the 'greatest' spy agency in Virginia let alone the world. The look like a bunch of horse judges playing at being toy soldiers from how they've handled the leak.
Yet another thing when it's an Indonesian cigarette company being spied on for commercial reasons. Burning through the goodwill of allies just to help out a campaign donor with some trade secrets picked up by spies is IMHO a ridiculous abuse of power.
It was in squash racquets and top end consumer bikes twenty years ago. The highly protected US car industry is just slow to catch up with the mainstream.
Didn't you notice incidents such as overt poisioning of oppenents happening in Ukrane politics? It's hard to pick the "good guys" when things have got that medieval.
Are you going to tell astronomers that they are not real scientists either for your next trick or are you going to accept that we are not going to fall for your restricted personal definition that there is no science other than chemistry or similar bullshit? It may work on the kiddies but it's a gross insult to the intelligence of the readers here.
If you can't put in time when an employer wants work done there's no point advertising as if you can. Your first commitment should be to getting that piece of paper that will get you past HR and into a job you want, so other things should be flexible. Volunteer work that you can drop without warning when pressed for time is a better way to go instead of facing a work deadline and exams at the same time. Another option is vacation work of any kind or limited part time work during a semester where your employer will not force extra hours at inconvenient times. Combining full time work and full time study is the story behind many failures at both.
Considering that my messages here have been nothing other than a complaint about you opening with an insulting lie what do you expect? Why should everyone else meekly take your venom?
Then is you want anything other than contempt act as if you do instead of juvenile "science is a religion" attack words and the new bullshit you've added in the above post.