Since velocity=(radius)(angular speed) then there has to be a tangential acceleration as the elevator starts going up.
Obviously tension on the cable can be used if you do not go up too fast or send up too much mass at one time.
Of course the talk as always about using this to go up, but would it be possible to use this as a really big sling shot to launch space craft around the solar system.
If/when we get to the point where we can build cars atom by atom, I think stringing together a few carbon and hydrogen atoms from renewable resources will not be much of a problem.
I was trying to think in everyday terms why quantum entanglement seems so strange and came up with this. I am not sure if this is accurate so correct me if I am wrong.
It would be like I had two coins that I could flip. Two classical coins could come up as both heads, both tails or one head and the other tails.
Normal statistical behavior.
An entangled version of these coins when I flipped them would always come up either both heads or both tails for example. (It could also always be if one is heads, the other must be tails as well)
If this happened with classical coins we would say that something about the coins or environment was rigged. This is what Einstein thought.
However with quantum entangled coins this would be perfectly acceptable behavior.
That might be one way to do it. A few ways I had thought of were to wrap a big kevlar patch around the hull where the breach is and pump the water out.
Another would be to fill the breached section with expanding foam to displace the water. It would be a mess to clean up, but you could save your ship.
As we progress forward we will be working with ever larger amounts of energy. We either learn how to harness this energy productively and move on or we burn ourselves to crisp, get out of the way and let some other species evolve to try.
Ok, suppose it is true and suppose god or other super being as described in various religious texts pops out of no where and says I am god. You will worship me and tell me how great I am for all eternity. Said super being even slays a few nonbelievers just prove a point.
Who is really going to take this being seriously. The being described in the KJ Bible is an authoritarian, insecure, megalomaniac. Sure there will be a great number of people who would blindly follow, but I think the vast majority would be in open revolt. We do not take this crap from ordinary mortals and I do not think us ordinary mortals would take it from alleged super beings.
It just don't add up.
I think we will have a ways to go before the any grey goo manages to endanger the green goo that already infests the planet.
Actually the scenario that seems more theatening than grey goo is a grey fog. We already do a pretty good job of producing that already. Imagine if something airborne were released that could replicate and either obscure the sun or create a greenhouse problem.
The governments case should have been, what is a guy that is unable to get laid doing making clones of himself that will probably be just as unable to get laid as himself.
I read an article about this yesterday and wanted to test it against some apps where I work, but could not find the download for it on the Microsoft website.
Do you have to have an MSDN subscription to get it.
Seems rather rather screwy that if I want to make sure my app works with Microsofts OS I pay to them an extra $500 for the privilege.
Maybe this is the new money making model. Profits are down this quarter, lets go break some code and charge them for how to fix it.
Tried that one once
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I remember when I was in the Air Force working as a radar technician I decided to try this with one ball inside an air traffic control tower late at night. There was a spiral stair case going up about 30 or 40 feet. I thought it would be interesting to drop it and see how far up it would bounce up. I was very much surprised when the ball hit the concrete and took off in a direction different from vertical and richocheted all over the place and made more of a racket hitting those metal stairs than I thought possible. Fortunately the noise drew no ones attention and I did not get into trouble for it.
Just remember, no matter how elegant the theory or fascinating this series is, it is just a theory. A big leap of faith. For it to be worth anything, there must be an experimentally verifiable result.
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How is coriolis force going to be handled.
Since velocity=(radius)(angular speed) then there has to be a tangential acceleration as the elevator starts going up.
Obviously tension on the cable can be used if you do not go up too fast or send up too much mass at one time.
Of course the talk as always about using this to go up, but would it be possible to use this as a really big sling shot to launch space craft around the solar system.
If/when we get to the point where we can build cars atom by atom, I think stringing together a few carbon and hydrogen atoms from renewable resources will not be much of a problem.
I was trying to think in everyday terms why quantum entanglement seems so strange and came up with this. I am not sure if this is accurate so correct me if I am wrong.
It would be like I had two coins that I could flip. Two classical coins could come up as both heads, both tails or one head and the other tails. Normal statistical behavior.
An entangled version of these coins when I flipped them would always come up either both heads or both tails for example. (It could also always be if one is heads, the other must be tails as well)
If this happened with classical coins we would say that something about the coins or environment was rigged. This is what Einstein thought.
However with quantum entangled coins this would be perfectly acceptable behavior.
That might be one way to do it. A few ways I had thought of were to wrap a big kevlar patch around the hull where the breach is and pump the water out. Another would be to fill the breached section with expanding foam to displace the water. It would be a mess to clean up, but you could save your ship.
Since your so close to Mars, do you mind taking a pick and bringing back a few samples.
Beo woof woof woof of those.
As we progress forward we will be working with ever larger amounts of energy. We either learn how to harness this energy productively and move on or we burn ourselves to crisp, get out of the way and let some other species evolve to try.
I can guess which side of the religious debate read this post first!
Ok, suppose it is true and suppose god or other super being as described in various religious texts pops out of no where and says I am god. You will worship me and tell me how great I am for all eternity. Said super being even slays a few nonbelievers just prove a point. Who is really going to take this being seriously. The being described in the KJ Bible is an authoritarian, insecure, megalomaniac. Sure there will be a great number of people who would blindly follow, but I think the vast majority would be in open revolt. We do not take this crap from ordinary mortals and I do not think us ordinary mortals would take it from alleged super beings. It just don't add up.
I think we will have a ways to go before the any grey goo manages to endanger the green goo that already infests the planet. Actually the scenario that seems more theatening than grey goo is a grey fog. We already do a pretty good job of producing that already. Imagine if something airborne were released that could replicate and either obscure the sun or create a greenhouse problem.
When these become more commonly used, I could see falconry making a big comeback in the miltary.
The governments case should have been, what is a guy that is unable to get laid doing making clones of himself that will probably be just as unable to get laid as himself.
LA Law 2030
I read an article about this yesterday and wanted to test it against some apps where I work, but could not find the download for it on the Microsoft website. Do you have to have an MSDN subscription to get it. Seems rather rather screwy that if I want to make sure my app works with Microsofts OS I pay to them an extra $500 for the privilege. Maybe this is the new money making model. Profits are down this quarter, lets go break some code and charge them for how to fix it.
I am just not sure if there are trying to get in or get out.
EJECT!! EJECT!! EJECT!!
I remember when I was in the Air Force working as a radar technician I decided to try this with one ball inside an air traffic control tower late at night. There was a spiral stair case going up about 30 or 40 feet. I thought it would be interesting to drop it and see how far up it would bounce up.
I was very much surprised when the ball hit the concrete and took off in a direction different from vertical and richocheted all over the place and made more of a racket hitting those metal stairs than I thought possible.
Fortunately the noise drew no ones attention and I did not get into trouble for it.
Google's best asset is the trust that people have in them to return useful unbiased results.
The moment that trust is lost, another search engine will gladly step forward to fill the void.
It would be a sad day indeed to see Google fall to Microsoft or other greedy commercial interests, but it would not be the end of the world.
Just remember, no matter how elegant the theory or fascinating this series is, it is just a theory. A big leap of faith. For it to be worth anything, there must be an experimentally verifiable result.
Personally, I hope we are getting close.
Daneel Olivaw from Issac Asmiovs Caves of Steel and in other Asimov books as well.
1. Zip up my home directory on my linux box which has all my settings in rc files. 2. Upload to a server 3. Download to a second linux box 4. Extract settings to my home directory on second linux box.