I'm actually confused, I thought from reading around on slashdot that Japanese phones were 10+ years ahead of American ones? How did we catch up so quickly? Who invented the Time Machine?
Yes, but if we assume the radiation distribution from the nuke is similar to that from the Sun, it will follow an inverse square law which implies that the nuke will have to be detonated very close to the vehicle.
Two other things stand in the way, all radiation will have to be absorbed as either black body radiation or braking radiation. Black body radiation can be mitigated by obviously not painting the ship black, which unfortunately causes all sorts of other problems. Braking radiation on the other hand would mostly be solved by having a layer of water between the outer and inner hulls of the ship. This would typically be required anyways in order to lessen the effects of solar radiation and cosmic rays on the inhabitants of the ship... That or they could use lead, but that wouldn't make sense considering the mass.
Of course, if the water would be enough to handle the braking radiation from a close range nuclear bomb is another matter. Highly polished silver has an emissivity of only.02, but 2% of a nuclear bombs radiation might still cook the crew inside alive... Maybe with some advances in material science.
I think one of the biggest problems is that any ship in space with considerable power is going to need to dissipate a lot of heat.
In space, the only way to really dissipate heat is via black body radiation which implies giant heat sinks positioned visibly around the ship. These black body radiators also have the unfortunate capability of absorbing large amounts of radiation, which means a nuke detonated close to these systems would easily overheat them and cause them to fail due to radiation.
Of course, there is also the situation where a ship in space can use the heat generated by it's power systems to energize projectiles for weapons or for propulsion.
Vaporized? What would happen to those balls of mass? They would be turned into a plasma most likely and you end up with a situation where you have extremely hot goblets of plasma flying in every direction.
Mass effect worked flawlessly for me on multiple computers of varying specs (No ATI cards though) From a bottom end, to a mid range to a ultra high end computer.
The technology doesn't appear out of a vacuum, it comes from decades of research and development. That R&D won't happen unless we put money into it now.
Right, let's just sit on our asses and wait for that Technological leap to appear out of nowhere so we can utilize the infinite resources in space. I mean that is how technology progresses right? Just sit on ones ass, somewhere someone will come up with the right idea.
Your analogy fails because the ACPI bug doesn't cause the entire system to become unstable and unusable... Unlike your killer pastry.
It would be more analogous to driving around in a BMW that works perfectly, except for an air vent in the rear passenger side of the vehicle which seems to get no air flow.
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Nope.
Yes they do, any netbook with an Nvidia ION such as the HP Mini 311 will have HDMI output and will happily play 1080p video without stuttering.
I didn't do what you think I just did.
Sorry, but that Time Machine only goes backwards in "time."
They're both junk anyways.
I'm actually confused, I thought from reading around on slashdot that Japanese phones were 10+ years ahead of American ones? How did we catch up so quickly? Who invented the Time Machine?
No, the problem with the virtual boy was an insanely low refresh rate.
Look at the Nvidia 3D vision setup for what a modern system should be like.
5cm would be thin for a capital ship in space IMO. As wide as a pack of cigarettes(5.5cm)
Yes, but if we assume the radiation distribution from the nuke is similar to that from the Sun, it will follow an inverse square law which implies that the nuke will have to be detonated very close to the vehicle.
Two other things stand in the way, all radiation will have to be absorbed as either black body radiation or braking radiation. Black body radiation can be mitigated by obviously not painting the ship black, which unfortunately causes all sorts of other problems. Braking radiation on the other hand would mostly be solved by having a layer of water between the outer and inner hulls of the ship. This would typically be required anyways in order to lessen the effects of solar radiation and cosmic rays on the inhabitants of the ship... That or they could use lead, but that wouldn't make sense considering the mass.
Of course, if the water would be enough to handle the braking radiation from a close range nuclear bomb is another matter. Highly polished silver has an emissivity of only .02, but 2% of a nuclear bombs radiation might still cook the crew inside alive... Maybe with some advances in material science.
I think one of the biggest problems is that any ship in space with considerable power is going to need to dissipate a lot of heat.
In space, the only way to really dissipate heat is via black body radiation which implies giant heat sinks positioned visibly around the ship. These black body radiators also have the unfortunate capability of absorbing large amounts of radiation, which means a nuke detonated close to these systems would easily overheat them and cause them to fail due to radiation.
Of course, there is also the situation where a ship in space can use the heat generated by it's power systems to energize projectiles for weapons or for propulsion.
Vaporized? What would happen to those balls of mass? They would be turned into a plasma most likely and you end up with a situation where you have extremely hot goblets of plasma flying in every direction.
Conservation of Mass and Energy, it works.
I meant than, not them, obviously.
How could that possibly be when it works perfectly fine for everyone else?
That's like a person allergic to peanuts blaming the nut manufacturer rather them himself for getting sick when he has some peanuts.
Mass effect worked flawlessly for me on multiple computers of varying specs (No ATI cards though) From a bottom end, to a mid range to a ultra high end computer.
It's something with your setup, not the game.
Facebook is the government database the government never had but wishes they did.
Because it's there? Because there are enough resources in space to allow all of humanity to live in riches?
You still didn't answer his question, how much money has Elon spent getting SpaceX up and running? His own money and the money from DOD Contracts?
The technology doesn't appear out of a vacuum, it comes from decades of research and development. That R&D won't happen unless we put money into it now.
What does the British public have to do with NASA?
And who in hell is Alan Partridge?
It's not an assumption, it's the nature of the beast.
But the ultimate goal is to send humans into space not robots.
Right, let's just sit on our asses and wait for that Technological leap to appear out of nowhere so we can utilize the infinite resources in space. I mean that is how technology progresses right? Just sit on ones ass, somewhere someone will come up with the right idea.
Of course, I'm sure you've been on many decade long aerospace engineering projects to know how it should work.
1-2 per week? I tend to get 15 a week at minimum...
I always wondered how often others got mod points.
Your analogy fails because the ACPI bug doesn't cause the entire system to become unstable and unusable... Unlike your killer pastry.
It would be more analogous to driving around in a BMW that works perfectly, except for an air vent in the rear passenger side of the vehicle which seems to get no air flow.