TW. The sail emits carbon monoxide to get its speed boost.
Begging to differ, but the first test coating, when microwaved inside our atmosphere, emitted CO. A carbon coating in space would not. And those who read to the end know that they are investigating other coatings.
Was Firefly the one that started off with a wild-west planet and the heroes flying their spaceship over a locomotive train, extracting buddies from danger? That turned me right off and I never watched again.
They are talking about "Fast" TCP, which AFAIK just consists of a better routing algorithm and using multiple TCP streams at once.
No, FAST has nothing to do with routing or multiple streams.
(Users of FAST may also be users of multiple streams for data transfer, as in GridFTP.)
FAST (follow the link in the parent) is one of many approaches to improving the throughput of a stream by changing the algorithms and timing for packet transmission.
When CERN comes online in about 5 years, it's expected to churn out petabytes of data. Yeah. I meant that. Petabytes, as in 1024 terabytes. Fermilab is already turning out terabytes but it will be surpassed greatly by CERN.
Fermilab has already turned out a small number of petabytes (2 and a bit). CERN is expected to produce on the order of 10 pB/y.
If Kerry didn't want the president to go to war, then he shouldn't have voted to give the president unilateral power to make war.
That's nonsense. If you want the president to resolve an international problem without war, should you send him to do it with, or without a credible threat of force in his hands?
Back when I used to stay up too late (and watch too much TV), I saw Jay Leno ask a bunch of random people questions from the US Citizenship test. Nothing but stammers and absurd answers. Then he asked new citizens. World of difference.
Maybe you should take off the Klingon makeup and read the post again F I R E F L Y....one of the most innnovative sci-fi series in a while.
Was that the show where the pilot involved a space ship flying over an old west train robbery? That lost me from the audience and I never heard anything that made me regret turning away.
Yeah^2, but with all that high-quality audio circtuitry, isn't it time they turned it into a cell phone as well?
And then once it's a phone, it has to be a camera.
And play games.
'Smith is looking to store positrons in a quasi-stable form called positronium. A positronium "atom" (as physicists dub it) consists of an electron and antielectron, orbiting each other. Normally these two particles would quickly collide and self-annihilate within a fraction of a second -- but by manipulating electrical and magnetic fields in their vicinity, Smith hopes to make positronium atoms last much longer.'
Insanity. If the power fails, it all goes up. Now if you can generate the positronium just before launch of a warhead, that may be just what you want.
On the upside (from the safety point of view), 'Although the worldwide production capacity has been growing at a nearly geometric rate since the discovery of the antiproton in 1955, the current output rate of 1 to 10 nanograms (ng) per year is minuscule compared to that of other exotic materials.' [http://www.engr.psu.edu/antimatter/Papers/NASA_an ti.pdf] goes on to cite a current 'energy cost of $62.5 trillion per gram (g) of antiprotons.'
Supposing the usual 2-party congress, what would be the most realistically achievable yet significant accomplishment a Green president could hope to make in the first hundred days... or the first year?
No-one yet has been able to create this enzyme synthetically, which means that these critters have to be harvested for their blood (around $15000 per vial).
MENSA's cut-off is about the top 2 percentile. In a country of say 250 million, there would be 5 million eligible. Honestly, I don't think it is that big a deal.
In a sense you are right - the vast majority of those who attempt the entrance test do pass it, and a lot of the people you know may already have qualifying scores on some other test. However, since only a small fraction of the eligible population joins any "Hi-IQ" group, the groups more exclusive than Mensa tend to be awfully small. If you're joining just to say you qualified, pick any. If you want to actually meet some reasonable people (yes, and a few amusing twits too), check out your local Mensa chapter. http://us.mensa.org/local_groups/find_region.php
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So does coherent radiation, bunky. Diffraction and/or Heisenberg, take your pick of explanations.
Begging to differ, but the first test coating, when microwaved inside our atmosphere, emitted CO. A carbon coating in space would not. And those who read to the end know that they are investigating other coatings.
Apple is shipping GEMSOS now?!?
I just want my old Digicomp II again.
"Ice cream, Mandrake. Children's ice cream!"
Was Firefly the one that started off with a wild-west planet and the heroes flying their spaceship over a locomotive train, extracting buddies from danger? That turned me right off and I never watched again.
No, FAST has nothing to do with routing or multiple streams.
(Users of FAST may also be users of multiple streams for data transfer, as in GridFTP.)
FAST (follow the link in the parent) is one of many approaches to improving the throughput of a stream by changing the algorithms and timing for packet transmission.
Fermilab has already turned out a small number of petabytes (2 and a bit). CERN is expected to produce on the order of 10 pB/y.
Yeah, tried that once myself. Caught it in Preview.
Hint, hint.
Easier to make? I don't know.
Easier to test I'll grant you.
That's nonsense. If you want the president to resolve an international problem without war, should you send him to do it with, or without a credible threat of force in his hands?
Back when I used to stay up too late (and watch too much TV), I saw Jay Leno ask a bunch of random people questions from the US Citizenship test. Nothing but stammers and absurd answers. Then he asked new citizens. World of difference.
You wonder???
Shame on you for not finding out months ago and fighting tooth and nail.
Yeah^2, but with all that high-quality audio circtuitry, isn't it time they turned it into a cell phone as well? And then once it's a phone, it has to be a camera. And play games.
A perq long, and more casually, established at UC Berkeley.
Insanity. If the power fails, it all goes up. Now if you can generate the positronium just before launch of a warhead, that may be just what you want.
On the upside (from the safety point of view), 'Although the worldwide production capacity has been growing at a nearly geometric rate since the discovery of the antiproton in 1955, the current output rate of 1 to 10 nanograms (ng) per year is minuscule compared to that of other exotic materials.' [http://www.engr.psu.edu/antimatter/Papers/NASA_an ti.pdf] goes on to cite a current 'energy cost of $62.5 trillion per gram (g) of antiprotons.'
Supposing the usual 2-party congress, what would be the most realistically achievable yet significant accomplishment a Green president could hope to make in the first hundred days ... or the first year?
Jeeves. Feh. I've tried it four or five times over a couple of years and never gotten anything useful.
For "vial of blood" read "quart of enzyme."
More info is at http://www.ocean.udel.edu/horseshoecrab/Research/l al.html
In a sense you are right - the vast majority of those who attempt the entrance test do pass it, and a lot of the people you know may already have qualifying scores on some other test. However, since only a small fraction of the eligible population joins any "Hi-IQ" group, the groups more exclusive than Mensa tend to be awfully small. If you're joining just to say you qualified, pick any. If you want to actually meet some reasonable people (yes, and a few amusing twits too), check out your local Mensa chapter. http://us.mensa.org/local_groups/find_region.php
The radiation is from the Uranium in the bomb casing. See the very good explanation already posted by Phanatic1a at http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=122409&cid=102 93251
Full screen my asset! It's 640x272. A bit small on my 1440x900 laptop screen ...
Besides, according to my sources, this bomb lacked the fissionable trigger. It may still make a moderate conventional boom if disturbed.