First off, you forgot about AIR RESISTANCE!!!
Secondly, 20:1 ratios are ridiculous. Especially, if it has to withstand... AIR RESISTANCE!
Thirdly, that also only applies to free fall objects. You neglected... GRAVITY! Consider the Saturn V which burned a lot of propellant before it even moved against gravity...
You haven't convinced me. Tell me a 20g payload that is worth the effort of making you look like you are developing a WMD delivery system, or a SAM.
And who is to say that this 20g can't be scaled up to haul 20KG or 200KG. Then, things get dicey.
I apologize for this paranoid mindset. I HATE to see rocket science subjugated to politics (as if it never happened before). I really do. But maybe 7.407284965 years under "the current administration" is long enough to get the feeling that if you TRY to do this, you will raise ALL KINDS of attention from a lot of 3-letter organizations.
Is this some prototype for a global diamond delivery system? Serious, apprise me of the value of putting less than an ounce of something into orbit. And it's the "orbit" part that's tricky. A sufficiently large model rocket can do Alan Shepard-esque sub orbital flight. But to then pop it into orbit with a "circularizing burn" is tricky... on a budget.
I'm trying to not be a troll here, but this prize is designed to develop a $2K ICBM for very tiny payloads. If you put VX gas into something that might survive reentry, you'd have the plot for an Austin Powers movie. I'd call it "MoonShagger: It's a gas gas gas."
That way, the server dude who is wrangling my server issue CAN HEAR ME when he calls me, elbow deep in whirring fans, spinning disks and humming thingees. Even if he listens, gives me a BRB, puts me on hold and dives into the machines.
Throw a bunch of chemicals together that starts a new, self-replicating chemical. One that could in a billion years, create a one-celled thing with complex subsytems, including energy conversion, and that can make more of itself.
And if the experiment succeeds, then in a billion years, this new life-form, based on carbon nanotubes, xerox toner and ground up AOL CD's will ask "Were we created or did we evolve?"
Evolution is a no-brainer, even for those of faith. But tell me how the whole DNA system devised itself, and THEN I will be impressed.
No you don't. Thanks for clearing that up for me. Umm, yeah, I do. I live in a rural area (not by choice, details not your business), and the jobs are in a University town. Gas is cheaper than the added housing cost for living closer. My town has 1500 in the winter, 11,000 vacationers in the summer. What "public transport" will cover that area?
I'm tired of this "I need to drive the kids to school" mentality. He rides his bicycle or the bus. however, we DO occasionally GO SOMEWHERE together. In fact, we car pool. He got a job 50 meters from my office. And he gets to pay $5 a trip, which is only 1/3 of actual. Welcome to the REAL world, son.
my point is really this... SOMEONE MAKE AN ALL-WEATHER MOTORCYCLE! Where motorcycle = "stripped of safety gear and legislation that increases weight and cost!!!" I got 55MPG when I did my 92 mile commute, but also got soaked at 5:30 in "the Mixing Bowl on I-696" as a Michigan popcorn storm rolled thru. With one income, 3 kids, two on the car insurance, and fuel, I can't afford to save money with a Hybrid, or a $20K SMART car. I have a $1K motorcycle and 46MPG... and rain gear.
it WAS 92. I changed jobs, but not by choice. now I'm a mere 45 miles. That's a breeze.
Family is why I live that far. Ex-wife lives there. Kids want to go to school there. I have 50/50 with them, so I must live in the district. Area is economically and housing depressed, but 45 miles from a MAJOR university, from which I hope to retire in 20 years. Savvy?
Also, the cost of fuel over that distance is MINISCULE compared to the increase in housing costs. Thus, the "I am forced to commute"
Thanks for trying... I realize that we all have choices, but some of them suck more than others. Gas price sucks, but is better than living without my kids.
I also don't have access to a shower, once I get to work.
Oh, I know... I can drain the sweat into a container, and user the salt with copper and aluminum to make a battery. Then it would be a hybrid. Won't produce much electricity, but enough to charge my Blackberry so I can text while I pedal.
Life forces me to commute. period. Gas > $4.00. Too bad. I drive a 25MPG car because I have a few kids, one of which is 6', and 20 stone. I can't have a SMART car. I drive too far for an electric. I can't afford a Hybrid (see number of kids) What i NEED is an additional vehicle. A commuter only vehicle.
One that I only drive to and from work, maybe grab a 12-pak of Diet Dr Pepper®
One that has ONE seat, maybe 2 in tandem for carpooling, thus a narrower front for lower drag coefficient, maybe a tripod
One that gets a55-load MPG, on regular gas
One that is enclosed against rain, maybe even snow.
save weight by removing the automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes, Bose Stereo, the GPS, the air bags, spare tire. Make the tank small enough to weigh little and still get me through the work week without refilling
Actually, remove ALL safety features except the brakes and the brake lights! Save weight. no OnStar, no Lojack, no side curtains.
Cut us some slack on emissions. Yes, commuters are the bulk of the problem, but not if we are burning half of the fuel that we would have been.
it has to be CHEAP! Like $2000. Cheap to insure. Cheap to replace panels if we bump each other. Easy to park.
if you want to get REALLY froggy, give us tax breaks, or our own LANE on the freeway. Watch people buy em like hotcakes.
Ok, so I just described a 1982 Suzuki, full face helmet and a rain suit, except for the 3-wheel stance.
My point is really this. We need a small, commuter-only vehicle, unfettered from the legal burdens that add weight and reduce gas mileage. And yet still capable of highway speed and 200 mile range. Take an F1 car, make it 3-wheeled with a Jet cockpit. End of problem. It's not rocket science...
A co-worker who was a programmer on a CAD app, a mathematician and didn't know how to use MSPAINT, let alone PShop once said:
"User Interface is EVERYTHING!
I read the list, and my eyes glazed over. I run PShop, Parallels, MSOffice, InDesign, RDC to my server. I thought I worked this poor 24" iMac to death. But I don't even know what 99% of those bugs are. Never been near them.
What I have seen more of is "Identity Crisis" as I run Parallels, Spaces and RDC. Keyboard shortcuts that do one thing in one environment, do something else in another. Try running IE in Parallels and press F11 to go full-screen. Exposé takes over and ZOOP! Everything heads to the margins. Or do a Ctrl-Left Arrow on a text field in a browser and ZOOP! Spaces takes you to Frame #4.
These aren't bugs, just conflicts. Good problem to have.
Let's take 19 years of ingrained, if not intuitive human to document interface... and change EVERYTHING!
I used PageMaker in Version 1.0 on Run-Time Windows. I adapted to additions and some minor rethinking of menus. N/P. I knew every keyboard shortcut (that I needed) and made the claim "I may not be good, but i'm FAST!"
We who would write sci-fi books need a database that they could plug in their prospective synopsis, and have the database spit out books of similar synopsis.
I now have an IT job that I love. I love the people, I love what we do. I hope to retire in 21 years from here having not had ONE DAY like another. I am blessed. And a rarity. ***But I didn't always ***
What did your father/mother do for a living? What did your grandfather do for a living? My grandfather worked in a Bakelite factory and died at age 37.
When my career took a dump (again) in the Internet Bubble burst, it contributed to my gaining an ex-wife.
Everybody has doldrums, but unless you are mowing lawns, the grass isn't always greener. There may not BE any. Count your blessings.
I would suggest that you work on the reason to come to work is the PEOPLE you work with. In their eyes, YOU ARE LUCKY!!! You only have to deal with computers. If they can't lighten up your life, then you should lighten up theirs. Otherwise, take up lawnmowing. You can make a living just mowing the foreclosures of the people in the other industries.~
Same thing... You take a look at what the customer has, what they want. What boundaries to honor, which to ignore. Follow their special (at whim) rules, like "We want this site to have only two colors. white and #4A7D96" or "we want the mower tracks to only go NW to SE". Pull the cord, start working, Halfway through, they say, "Sorry, we decided NE to SW" and leave it 1" long (already having cut it to 3/4" most of the way) Do what you can to finish it. Come back in 2 weeks, repeat.
If you don't like the people whose IT you are providing, get into lawnmowing. Maybe Stacy's Mom will hire you. After all...
This raises an interesting physics question (thus, not offtopic, per se)
Where does the telekinetic force vector emanate from? I would presume that an attraction on an object would act on its center of mass, but where is the center of attraction? Is it center of mass? A spot in the brain? Or some specific antenna of psychic energy. If that's the case, the remote wouldn't hit him in the 'head', per se.
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First off, you forgot about AIR RESISTANCE!!!
Secondly, 20:1 ratios are ridiculous. Especially, if it has to withstand... AIR RESISTANCE!
Thirdly, that also only applies to free fall objects. You neglected... GRAVITY! Consider the Saturn V which burned a lot of propellant before it even moved against gravity...
In a better world... True that!
But most things that involve BOTH propellant and the word "Cool" violate the National Association of Rocketry Safety Code. Let alone the Patriot Act!
You haven't convinced me. Tell me a 20g payload that is worth the effort of making you look like you are developing a WMD delivery system, or a SAM.
And who is to say that this 20g can't be scaled up to haul 20KG or 200KG. Then, things get dicey.
I apologize for this paranoid mindset. I HATE to see rocket science subjugated to politics (as if it never happened before). I really do. But maybe 7.407284965 years under "the current administration" is long enough to get the feeling that if you TRY to do this, you will raise ALL KINDS of attention from a lot of 3-letter organizations.
WHY!?
Is this some prototype for a global diamond delivery system? Serious, apprise me of the value of putting less than an ounce of something into orbit. And it's the "orbit" part that's tricky. A sufficiently large model rocket can do Alan Shepard-esque sub orbital flight. But to then pop it into orbit with a "circularizing burn" is tricky... on a budget.
I'm trying to not be a troll here, but this prize is designed to develop a $2K ICBM for very tiny payloads. If you put VX gas into something that might survive reentry, you'd have the plot for an Austin Powers movie. I'd call it "MoonShagger: It's a gas gas gas."
Sound proof booth!
That way, the server dude who is wrangling my server issue CAN HEAR ME when he calls me, elbow deep in whirring fans, spinning disks and humming thingees. Even if he listens, gives me a BRB, puts me on hold and dives into the machines.
Or if not feasible, maybe the server dudes could wear priestly robes made of this stuff
Will the 6G iPhone XI reach them? And in Extreme HD!?
Throw a bunch of chemicals together that starts a new, self-replicating chemical. One that could in a billion years, create a one-celled thing with complex subsytems, including energy conversion, and that can make more of itself.
And if the experiment succeeds, then in a billion years, this new life-form, based on carbon nanotubes, xerox toner and ground up AOL CD's will ask "Were we created or did we evolve?"
Evolution is a no-brainer, even for those of faith. But tell me how the whole DNA system devised itself, and THEN I will be impressed.
I'm tired of this "I need to drive the kids to school" mentality. He rides his bicycle or the bus. however, we DO occasionally GO SOMEWHERE together. In fact, we car pool. He got a job 50 meters from my office. And he gets to pay $5 a trip, which is only 1/3 of actual. Welcome to the REAL world, son.
my point is really this... SOMEONE MAKE AN ALL-WEATHER MOTORCYCLE! Where motorcycle = "stripped of safety gear and legislation that increases weight and cost!!!" I got 55MPG when I did my 92 mile commute, but also got soaked at 5:30 in "the Mixing Bowl on I-696" as a Michigan popcorn storm rolled thru. With one income, 3 kids, two on the car insurance, and fuel, I can't afford to save money with a Hybrid, or a $20K SMART car. I have a $1K motorcycle and 46MPG... and rain gear.
it WAS 92. I changed jobs, but not by choice. now I'm a mere 45 miles. That's a breeze.
Family is why I live that far. Ex-wife lives there. Kids want to go to school there. I have 50/50 with them, so I must live in the district. Area is economically and housing depressed, but 45 miles from a MAJOR university, from which I hope to retire in 20 years. Savvy?
Also, the cost of fuel over that distance is MINISCULE compared to the increase in housing costs. Thus, the "I am forced to commute"
Thanks for trying... I realize that we all have choices, but some of them suck more than others. Gas price sucks, but is better than living without my kids.
Too far, and I used to commute 92 miles ONE WAY.
I also don't have access to a shower, once I get to work.
Oh, I know... I can drain the sweat into a container, and user the salt with copper and aluminum to make a battery. Then it would be a hybrid. Won't produce much electricity, but enough to charge my Blackberry so I can text while I pedal.
Why does it have two seats in front? What drag coefficient would it have if they made it 66.6% narrower in front!?
- One that I only drive to and from work, maybe grab a 12-pak of Diet Dr Pepper®
- One that has ONE seat, maybe 2 in tandem for carpooling, thus a narrower front for lower drag coefficient, maybe a tripod
- One that gets a55-load MPG, on regular gas
- One that is enclosed against rain, maybe even snow.
- save weight by removing the automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes, Bose Stereo, the GPS, the air bags, spare tire. Make the tank small enough to weigh little and still get me through the work week without refilling
- Actually, remove ALL safety features except the brakes and the brake lights! Save weight. no OnStar, no Lojack, no side curtains.
- Cut us some slack on emissions. Yes, commuters are the bulk of the problem, but not if we are burning half of the fuel that we would have been.
- it has to be CHEAP! Like $2000. Cheap to insure. Cheap to replace panels if we bump each other. Easy to park.
- if you want to get REALLY froggy, give us tax breaks, or our own LANE on the freeway. Watch people buy em like hotcakes.
Ok, so I just described a 1982 Suzuki, full face helmet and a rain suit, except for the 3-wheel stance.My point is really this. We need a small, commuter-only vehicle, unfettered from the legal burdens that add weight and reduce gas mileage. And yet still capable of highway speed and 200 mile range. Take an F1 car, make it 3-wheeled with a Jet cockpit. End of problem. It's not rocket science...
Wrapping candy bars, USB drives and CD's to make them UTTERLY un-openable.
"I served with Leopard: I knew Leopard; Leopard was a friend of mine. That's Snow Leopard."
I read the list, and my eyes glazed over. I run PShop, Parallels, MSOffice, InDesign, RDC to my server. I thought I worked this poor 24" iMac to death. But I don't even know what 99% of those bugs are. Never been near them.
What I have seen more of is "Identity Crisis" as I run Parallels, Spaces and RDC. Keyboard shortcuts that do one thing in one environment, do something else in another. Try running IE in Parallels and press F11 to go full-screen. Exposé takes over and ZOOP! Everything heads to the margins. Or do a Ctrl-Left Arrow on a text field in a browser and ZOOP! Spaces takes you to Frame #4.
These aren't bugs, just conflicts. Good problem to have.
"You are receiving HTML which speaks unfavorably about me. Cancel or Allow?
Let's take 19 years of ingrained, if not intuitive human to document interface... and change EVERYTHING!
I used PageMaker in Version 1.0 on Run-Time Windows. I adapted to additions and some minor rethinking of menus. N/P. I knew every keyboard shortcut (that I needed) and made the claim "I may not be good, but i'm FAST!"
Exit Pagemaker, Enter InDesign. End of Story.
I would say it's:
...and God saw that IT was good.
LET THERE = LIGHT
Early manuscripts translated the assignment operator to the word "be". I think the declaration for void earth() was in #include <god.h>
---
yotta yotta yotta...
We who would write sci-fi books need a database that they could plug in their prospective synopsis, and have the database spit out books of similar synopsis.
And then we could make it a parlor game!
I now have an IT job that I love. I love the people, I love what we do. I hope to retire in 21 years from here having not had ONE DAY like another. I am blessed. And a rarity. ***But I didn't always ***
What did your father/mother do for a living? What did your grandfather do for a living? My grandfather worked in a Bakelite factory and died at age 37.
When my career took a dump (again) in the Internet Bubble burst, it contributed to my gaining an ex-wife.
Everybody has doldrums, but unless you are mowing lawns, the grass isn't always greener. There may not BE any. Count your blessings.
I would suggest that you work on the reason to come to work is the PEOPLE you work with. In their eyes, YOU ARE LUCKY!!! You only have to deal with computers. If they can't lighten up your life, then you should lighten up theirs. Otherwise, take up lawnmowing. You can make a living just mowing the foreclosures of the people in the other industries.~
Same thing... You take a look at what the customer has, what they want. What boundaries to honor, which to ignore. Follow their special (at whim) rules, like "We want this site to have only two colors. white and #4A7D96" or "we want the mower tracks to only go NW to SE". Pull the cord, start working, Halfway through, they say, "Sorry, we decided NE to SW" and leave it 1" long (already having cut it to 3/4" most of the way) Do what you can to finish it. Come back in 2 weeks, repeat.
If you don't like the people whose IT you are providing, get into lawnmowing. Maybe Stacy's Mom will hire you. After all...
Stacy's Mom has got IT going on...
This raises an interesting physics question (thus, not offtopic, per se)
Where does the telekinetic force vector emanate from? I would presume that an attraction on an object would act on its center of mass, but where is the center of attraction? Is it center of mass? A spot in the brain? Or some specific antenna of psychic energy. If that's the case, the remote wouldn't hit him in the 'head', per se.
One of these days, a guy will be looking at the TV remote on the coffee table and try to pull it to him with his mind... AND IT WILL WORK!