Older folks (you know, a large part of electorate) are traditionaly sceptical of new fangled toys; don't search for your deamons in what is simply categring to preexisting sentiments of many voters.
And out of all of them - at the least the Symbian is ready!;>
(seriously, it was built from the beginning on the idea of running binaries/etc. directly from "storage" - though it didn't work out quite that way, mostly because mobile flash can't really be fast)
An interesting workaround of the claims that it failed - now at least it's both alive and dead until we look. And how knows what that constant peeking might turn out in the long run...
People visit all kinds of, let us say, "filthy" places. And yet, bacterial floras inside our bodies (remember, at least an order of magnitude more cells than the number of "human" ones) are relatively stable & predictable across the population.
That's the same thing, adaptation. Heck, new nasty & dangerous bacteria we're dealing with now haven't come from some extreme environments - they're the ones we're quite intimate with, as a species. But just some strain put, on one hand, under very temporary bottleneck (meant to kill almost all of them / survivors pass the trait on) and on the other - given wonderful environment to thrive, thanks to us constantly wiping out its competition in some local environments.
How "badass" are terran bacteria on Mars and in deep space? How "badass" are you in the Antarctic or in the middle of Sahara? (naked / without life support) That's the types of "badass" we're talking about here.
Hm, I'd say that's best delegated to subtitles anyway (assuming they are the same as the dubbing...much more "efficient" via original audio + subtitles way, and as a bonus one doesn't have to experience said dubbing;) )
Electricity generation doesn't have to be on a large scale (per generator) after all. The smaller lake , Nyos, is quite remote & with not many people nearby; what some small installation could provide should be plenty. Lake Kivu is big; with a need, really, for many "pumps."
With a self-sustaining fountain of 50+ meters at a small Nyos siphon, the flow should be powerful enough.
They very well could, as far as I'm concerned. When you think about it, that old myth is quite close to what this probe will do. And what might very well destroy it... (thought it seems it's meant to survive many close approaches)
Indeed, ideas & concepts are not physical; and their mere formulation doesn't mean creation.
Generally - "not physical / not touchable"...the last resort, last escape for some; to wash out the concept out of most of the meaning it had. Because quite likely also your deity, just as well as most of them, supposedly was at some point very much approachable. Don't believe me? Read a decently full cut of your mythology for once.
At least it has an almost, sort of, kind of revival in the form of Ikaruga...
Saturn had a few nice ones. Panzer Dragon Saga comes immediately to mind. Good thing "Nights into Dreams..." seems to be brought back;)
But generally - how many ignored gems on fully succesfull systems were there? Or just games that were noticed but it could be only by limited audiences... (Snatcher or Policenauts, for example)
PS. BTW, anybody can pinpoint one indy 2D platformer for Dreamcast, in notably violet palette, and with sort of a witch as the main character? (IIRC...)
Remember how extremely precise the tracking would have to be & without introducing structural instability to, preferably, very lightweight mirror - which on top of that is the biggest solar sail present, by far (so with a massive need to stationkeep / combat momentum, depending on the variant). Small dish under immense energy flux onto its fairly imperfect (remember, certainly space weathered) surface.
As for prolonging times of some solar powerplant (if there was any time left for that) - a semi-orbit around L1 would be in the general directon of the Sun anyway. Better & cheaper to add dozens of additional solar plants to the network on the ground.
We need to see problems to solve, for our dreams to come true.
Usually we do have to limit ourself when it comes to sizes / numbers though; and solutions compete with each other to the death. When times will come that we won't have to...well, that means ability to deal with debris in via more "active" measures anyway, for example.
Generally, I suspect that either a) tracking would be too slow to target appreciable number of targets, or b) (when modulating reflectivity / "wide area" focused) the effect would be miniscule compared with what the Sun already provides (especially considering L1 / geometry of such mirror)
The latter is a dealbraker here - nvm that in LEO aerodynamic drag would dominate on the sail - in MEO the Sun itself will work very well untill the satellite would be brough down to where the drag takes over. Yes, some rudimentary level of control (*) is needed to keep the sail pointed appropriately, but large mirror needs that too. (*)spin synchronized with the orbital period would be enough; or not even synchronised, just spinning in the "good" way with a a bit "shell-like" sail, similarly to how rotating asteroids take/give away momentum via the combined effect of radiation & spin.
(building & pointing mirrors on the surface of the Earth works well, too; in fact, this is how solar powerplants using water/steam as their working agent function)
And you know, I can fly in my dreams, sometimes; but I do consider practical implications before trying it after awaking;) (well, ok, on Titan it would be doable; but even if I could get there, cold temperatures and the air with, essentially, Zyklon B still would make me seriously consider if it's really a good idea...)
This could realistically point at a very small number of targets in a given amount of time, for quite little average effect above what the Sun can already give...
You'd mostly get a cloud of ionised particles interfering with / destroying satellites. And since when America cares about affordability of silly pursuits?
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Older folks (you know, a large part of electorate) are traditionaly sceptical of new fangled toys; don't search for your deamons in what is simply categring to preexisting sentiments of many voters.
Nvm splitting; I'd be happy, for starters, with them not trying to bundle / download every other of their free, high profile, multiplatform apps.
Oh, looking for a boy? (bad luck, try elsewhere) That's why so concerned about "bad germs"? Don't be so shy, no need for AC :>
Something about carboard boxes and stimulation of social development just doesn't sound right... ;)
At least it's not paper bags, I guess.
I shudder at the thought of how the style of their code looks like... ;)
And out of all of them - at the least the Symbian is ready! ;>
(seriously, it was built from the beginning on the idea of running binaries/etc. directly from "storage" - though it didn't work out quite that way, mostly because mobile flash can't really be fast)
How much the concept itself leads, perhaps, to such state of affairs / ridiculous lenghts?
I'm sure it's quite possible to dismiss every "right thing" out there...
An interesting workaround of the claims that it failed - now at least it's both alive and dead until we look. And how knows what that constant peeking might turn out in the long run...
Polars bears should absolutely love Japan...
Still, they certainly weren't very active / wouldn't be very useful in whatever mode of operation allowed them to just survive.
People visit all kinds of, let us say, "filthy" places. And yet, bacterial floras inside our bodies (remember, at least an order of magnitude more cells than the number of "human" ones) are relatively stable & predictable across the population.
That's the same thing, adaptation. Heck, new nasty & dangerous bacteria we're dealing with now haven't come from some extreme environments - they're the ones we're quite intimate with, as a species. But just some strain put, on one hand, under very temporary bottleneck (meant to kill almost all of them / survivors pass the trait on) and on the other - given wonderful environment to thrive, thanks to us constantly wiping out its competition in some local environments.
How "badass" are terran bacteria on Mars and in deep space? How "badass" are you in the Antarctic or in the middle of Sahara? (naked / without life support) That's the types of "badass" we're talking about here.
Hm, I'd say that's best delegated to subtitles anyway (assuming they are the same as the dubbing...much more "efficient" via original audio + subtitles way, and as a bonus one doesn't have to experience said dubbing ;) )
Electricity generation doesn't have to be on a large scale (per generator) after all. The smaller lake , Nyos, is quite remote & with not many people nearby; what some small installation could provide should be plenty. Lake Kivu is big; with a need, really, for many "pumps."
With a self-sustaining fountain of 50+ meters at a small Nyos siphon, the flow should be powerful enough.
They very well could, as far as I'm concerned. When you think about it, that old myth is quite close to what this probe will do. And what might very well destroy it... (thought it seems it's meant to survive many close approaches)
Indeed, ideas & concepts are not physical; and their mere formulation doesn't mean creation.
Generally - "not physical / not touchable"...the last resort, last escape for some; to wash out the concept out of most of the meaning it had. Because quite likely also your deity, just as well as most of them, supposedly was at some point very much approachable. Don't believe me? Read a decently full cut of your mythology for once.
Or something "lower" among many popular microcontroller families. AVR is quite pleasant, for example.
At least it has an almost, sort of, kind of revival in the form of Ikaruga...
Saturn had a few nice ones. Panzer Dragon Saga comes immediately to mind. Good thing "Nights into Dreams..." seems to be brought back ;)
But generally - how many ignored gems on fully succesfull systems were there? Or just games that were noticed but it could be only by limited audiences... (Snatcher or Policenauts, for example)
PS. BTW, anybody can pinpoint one indy 2D platformer for Dreamcast, in notably violet palette, and with sort of a witch as the main character? (IIRC...)
Remember how extremely precise the tracking would have to be & without introducing structural instability to, preferably, very lightweight mirror - which on top of that is the biggest solar sail present, by far (so with a massive need to stationkeep / combat momentum, depending on the variant). Small dish under immense energy flux onto its fairly imperfect (remember, certainly space weathered) surface.
As for prolonging times of some solar powerplant (if there was any time left for that) - a semi-orbit around L1 would be in the general directon of the Sun anyway. Better & cheaper to add dozens of additional solar plants to the network on the ground.
We need to see problems to solve, for our dreams to come true.
Usually we do have to limit ourself when it comes to sizes / numbers though; and solutions compete with each other to the death. When times will come that we won't have to...well, that means ability to deal with debris in via more "active" measures anyway, for example.
Generally, I suspect that either a) tracking would be too slow to target appreciable number of targets, or b) (when modulating reflectivity / "wide area" focused) the effect would be miniscule compared with what the Sun already provides (especially considering L1 / geometry of such mirror)
The latter is a dealbraker here - nvm that in LEO aerodynamic drag would dominate on the sail - in MEO the Sun itself will work very well untill the satellite would be brough down to where the drag takes over. Yes, some rudimentary level of control (*) is needed to keep the sail pointed appropriately, but large mirror needs that too.
(*)spin synchronized with the orbital period would be enough; or not even synchronised, just spinning in the "good" way with a a bit "shell-like" sail, similarly to how rotating asteroids take/give away momentum via the combined effect of radiation & spin.
(building & pointing mirrors on the surface of the Earth works well, too; in fact, this is how solar powerplants using water/steam as their working agent function)
And you know, I can fly in my dreams, sometimes; but I do consider practical implications before trying it after awaking ;) (well, ok, on Titan it would be doable; but even if I could get there, cold temperatures and the air with, essentially, Zyklon B still would make me seriously consider if it's really a good idea...)
This could realistically point at a very small number of targets in a given amount of time, for quite little average effect above what the Sun can already give...
That's what you get from reading TFA...
You'd mostly get a cloud of ionised particles interfering with / destroying satellites. And since when America cares about affordability of silly pursuits?
Size - yeah, that's the idea. But it's mostly a size of thin sheet, not such a problem when hit. Mass - only slightly.
Drastically increasing drag-to-mass ratio.