Size of the tank absolutely determines time underwater. I think you're confusing tank size with no-decompression limit, which is the function of depth, breathing mix, and time that determines when you're no longer safe to go to the surface. Recreational diving mandates that you stay within the no-decompression limits. This way, if you do something stupid, as many rec divers do, you can surface immediately and still be OK, at least according to the gas-loading models. Contrast this with decompression ("technical") diving, where you accumulate enough nitrogen in your body that if you surfaced you'd have a substantial risk of decompression sickness (DCS). To get around this, you can mix in more oxygen, so as to limit your nitrogen uptake, but a higher partial pressure of oxygen means more risk of central nervous system toxicity (see below)
Having this device wouldn't prevent you from doing decompression diving. In fact, depending on how much pure O2 it could generate pre unit time, this may be a natural addition to a rebreather system, like the one you mentioned. (Navy SEALs use ones by Draeger, but there are much more user-friendly ones available from Halcyon, among others...)
What exactly is the problem with the device providing O2 at ambient pressure? The reason SCUBA tanks are at 3000PSI is to store more air, not because we go diving in 6000' of water. The reason you have a regulator is exactly as you said: to modulate the pressure down to ambient levels. If the device produced air at ambient levels (and without a pressure tank, it pretty much has to), there wouldn't even be a need for a regulator, except for your bailout bottle in the event something didn't work.
And be careful: Oxygen toxicity happens with alarming frequency at 1.6 atmospheres of pressure, or 15' of water. Breathe pure O2 at 32' and you're in for a ride on the seizure train. Nitrogen narcosis ("rapture of the deep") occurs between 90 and 150', typically, but it affects everyone differently.
I'd highly recommend to the interested reader the NAUI Advanced and Master-level dive courses, in addition to recreational nitrox.
I hope you were kidding. Have you ever seen what cluster munitions do to infantry? Hint: "pink mist". China wants to get into a trans-Pacific war? OK, so you were going to get those 400M troops over here HOW again? By sea? Against Nimitz battlegroups, Seawolf subs, B-52s loaded down with Tomahawk TASMs, Harpoons, and any number of other antiship toys? Come over by air? Mmm, you let me know how old MiGs do againt F-22 Raptors. Don't forget to put some aerial refueling tankers in the sky: they blow up nicely, too. Gimme a break. Crapton of people != effectiveness. Hell, I'd be impressed if they could even MOBILIZE 100M people, much less get them out of their borders expeditiously.
So to continue the fantasyland scenario, the missiles get swatted down by Phalynx systems in the offshore battlegroups. If China were unlucky, one would go off, and they'd have started a nuclear war. Gee, I sure hope the remaining 95% of the ships don't carry nuclear munitions: oh wait, they do! I guess we can kiss the military infrastructure goodbye. Maybe if we're really nice they'll leave the Forbidden Palace standing.
Chinese Ambassador: "I, for one, welcome our new US-backed Taiwanese overlords!"
Yes, the US can't enforce peace in Iraq. But have no doubt that the US could level the country in about 48 hours, not even using nukes. There's a reason asymmetric warfare is the new threat: toe-to-toe just doesn't work.
I'll leave it to the peanut gallery to decide upon whose soil a hacking attempt takes place. It's definitely ambiguous, to put it nicely.
As for the Ukranian guy, it sucks, but them's the breaks of international travel. If you wander into a country with extradition laws that can screw you over, you stand to get screwed over. That's not to say I like it, just how it is.
It seems like extradition laws themselves aren't the problem, just the flagrant misapplication of their intent. (Skylarov, much?)
US law only applies to USians. If you were a US citizen in the UK, sure, you could get into trouble.
Extradition doesn't mean you enforce foreign law on your citizens, it means you agree to repatriate foreign countries' citizens if they're wanted by the courts.
My BMW R1150RT gets 40-45 commuting in the DC area, and up to 51 on trips. When you consider the fact that I save 1 1/2 hours a DAY commuting with it, it pays for itself in sanity dividends. (The first-5-payments-free thing helped too)
Some other excellent commuter bikes are Honda VFR (Interceptors) and the Suzuki V-Strom.
Don't be lulled into a feeling that they can't build things better in Japan.... imagine Honda v Harley Davidson in a race.
People make mistakes, robots do not. I'll take a nice shiny new 2003 Honda ST1300 and pocket the $7000 difference between that and a hog. And if the bikes are like the cars, I'll call you in 400,000 miles to see how the Harley is doing.
Seriously, though, Harleys are really reliable. In fact, over 90% of Harleys ever built are still on the road today! Yup. The other 10% made it home.
How are Harleys like hound dogs? Both like to ride in the back of pickup trucks.
I have a hard time taking HD bikes seriously. A guy on a brand new bike comes roaring up the HOV lane about 70, sees me on a 1993 Gold Wing (which set me back a whopping $3000), and tries to pass me. I'm in overdrive, and he can't pass me even redlining his engine. Why should I pay $15,000 or more for an inferior American product? I don't buy the cars, and I'm sure as hell not buying a Harley.
So its better for me to pump 1000W through a apartment-wide heater in the other room to heat my room than to use about 350W to produce the same effect and a bonus 8.8 Mkeys/s?
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"I am the pusher robot", indeed!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym
He's a no-talent assclown!
>> My next car will be either a BMW or Jaguar Sports/Station Wagon/Estate car...
Jaguar? Weren't you just ripping on Ford?
X-type = Contour
S-Type = Lincoln LS
Manpower != investment
Rename your DNA to $sys$sequence.dna
"Press fire.... to begin." Classic.
I always thought Tunnels of Doom was pretty advanced, given the hardware...
OB MD bashing: What did you expect from the People's Republic of Maryland?
Size of the tank absolutely determines time underwater. I think you're confusing tank size with no-decompression limit, which is the function of depth, breathing mix, and time that determines when you're no longer safe to go to the surface. Recreational diving mandates that you stay within the no-decompression limits. This way, if you do something stupid, as many rec divers do, you can surface immediately and still be OK, at least according to the gas-loading models. Contrast this with decompression ("technical") diving, where you accumulate enough nitrogen in your body that if you surfaced you'd have a substantial risk of decompression sickness (DCS). To get around this, you can mix in more oxygen, so as to limit your nitrogen uptake, but a higher partial pressure of oxygen means more risk of central nervous system toxicity (see below)
Having this device wouldn't prevent you from doing decompression diving. In fact, depending on how much pure O2 it could generate pre unit time, this may be a natural addition to a rebreather system, like the one you mentioned. (Navy SEALs use ones by Draeger, but there are much more user-friendly ones available from Halcyon, among others...)
What exactly is the problem with the device providing O2 at ambient pressure? The reason SCUBA tanks are at 3000PSI is to store more air, not because we go diving in 6000' of water. The reason you have a regulator is exactly as you said: to modulate the pressure down to ambient levels. If the device produced air at ambient levels (and without a pressure tank, it pretty much has to), there wouldn't even be a need for a regulator, except for your bailout bottle in the event something didn't work.
And be careful: Oxygen toxicity happens with alarming frequency at 1.6 atmospheres of pressure, or 15' of water. Breathe pure O2 at 32' and you're in for a ride on the seizure train. Nitrogen narcosis ("rapture of the deep") occurs between 90 and 150', typically, but it affects everyone differently.
I'd highly recommend to the interested reader the NAUI Advanced and Master-level dive courses, in addition to recreational nitrox.
I hope you were kidding. Have you ever seen what cluster munitions do to infantry? Hint: "pink mist". China wants to get into a trans-Pacific war? OK, so you were going to get those 400M troops over here HOW again? By sea? Against Nimitz battlegroups, Seawolf subs, B-52s loaded down with Tomahawk TASMs, Harpoons, and any number of other antiship toys? Come over by air? Mmm, you let me know how old MiGs do againt F-22 Raptors. Don't forget to put some aerial refueling tankers in the sky: they blow up nicely, too. Gimme a break. Crapton of people != effectiveness. Hell, I'd be impressed if they could even MOBILIZE 100M people, much less get them out of their borders expeditiously.
So to continue the fantasyland scenario, the missiles get swatted down by Phalynx systems in the offshore battlegroups. If China were unlucky, one would go off, and they'd have started a nuclear war. Gee, I sure hope the remaining 95% of the ships don't carry nuclear munitions: oh wait, they do! I guess we can kiss the military infrastructure goodbye. Maybe if we're really nice they'll leave the Forbidden Palace standing.
Chinese Ambassador: "I, for one, welcome our new US-backed Taiwanese overlords!"
Yes, the US can't enforce peace in Iraq. But have no doubt that the US could level the country in about 48 hours, not even using nukes. There's a reason asymmetric warfare is the new threat: toe-to-toe just doesn't work.
Again, if you were mocking the OP, I apologise.
TFA says 400 microwatts/cm^3, not 400mW...
I'll leave it to the peanut gallery to decide upon whose soil a hacking attempt takes place. It's definitely ambiguous, to put it nicely.
As for the Ukranian guy, it sucks, but them's the breaks of international travel. If you wander into a country with extradition laws that can screw you over, you stand to get screwed over. That's not to say I like it, just how it is.
It seems like extradition laws themselves aren't the problem, just the flagrant misapplication of their intent. (Skylarov, much?)
I wish I had mod points to give you. But zet are only for DIPLOMATS WITH ZE HIGH SECURITY CLEARANCES!
US law only applies to USians. If you were a US citizen in the UK, sure, you could get into trouble.
Extradition doesn't mean you enforce foreign law on your citizens, it means you agree to repatriate foreign countries' citizens if they're wanted by the courts.
My BMW R1150RT gets 40-45 commuting in the DC area, and up to 51 on trips. When you consider the fact that I save 1 1/2 hours a DAY commuting with it, it pays for itself in sanity dividends. (The first-5-payments-free thing helped too)
Some other excellent commuter bikes are Honda VFR (Interceptors) and the Suzuki V-Strom.
Step 1: Buy Canadian
Step 2: Sell American
Step 3: NOOP
Step 4: PROFIT!!!
American cars do have turn signals: they're optimally yellow, but its allowable to modulate the (red) tail light.
Ever notice how the governors are set to the maximum speed rating of the stock tires?
2002 TL : 132 mph
2002 TL-S: 155 mph
Its just so nobody can claim the car was "dangerous" at that speed. After all, your tires were good for it...
I've never seen a car for which programmatic SpeedMax TireSpeed, but that's not to say they don't exist...
"Wow, my Corolla just trashed a WRX..."
Don't be lulled into a feeling that they can't build things better in Japan.... imagine Honda v Harley Davidson in a race.
People make mistakes, robots do not. I'll take a nice shiny new 2003 Honda ST1300 and pocket the $7000 difference between that and a hog. And if the bikes are like the cars, I'll call you in 400,000 miles to see how the Harley is doing.
Seriously, though, Harleys are really reliable. In fact, over 90% of Harleys ever built are still on the road today! Yup. The other 10% made it home.
How are Harleys like hound dogs? Both like to ride in the back of pickup trucks.
I have a hard time taking HD bikes seriously. A guy on a brand new bike comes roaring up the HOV lane about 70, sees me on a 1993 Gold Wing (which set me back a whopping $3000), and tries to pass me. I'm in overdrive, and he can't pass me even redlining his engine. Why should I pay $15,000 or more for an inferior American product? I don't buy the cars, and I'm sure as hell not buying a Harley.
So its better for me to pump 1000W through a apartment-wide heater in the other room to heat my room than to use about 350W to produce the same effect and a bonus 8.8 Mkeys/s?
Granted I've got a dual 1.2GHz Athlon, but the video is a GeForce 1 DDR. Dungeon Siege runs fine. There's no video bottleneck that I've seen so far.
Now we get to see if the ABM hit-to-kill system is working...
Nope. Move the A-pawn on the first move, and it can only move one rank next move.