CA also = California AC also = Alternating Current GM also = Genetically Modified IP = Internet Protocol, Intellectual Property, and hell, around here, even Indecent Proposal
I agree with the parent. It is incumbent on the "editors" to instill some order; the term "editor" entails more than simply accepting or rejecting stories.
The IE "advanced options" is, to the average use, cryptic in the extreme. A simpler Options interface such as found in Opera and Firefox--though still beyond many users--is a huge step in the right direction. Options should address the lowest common denominator: "Do you want to allow the Internet to download software onto your computer without permission?" And like that.
Note the word "Internet" rather than "websites." Like I said: lowest common denominator.
Concensus so far points to keeping things visible and audible. To that end, I recommend a large, open-frame relay (12vdc). With it you can demonstrate electromagnetics, switching principles, and closed loop sensor systems (e.g. burglar alarm).
You caan use the relay switching to energize lights/LEDs, bells/buzzers/sirens, etc.
Get ahold of an old speaker you can dissect to show how the same electromagnetic properties of the relay reproduce sound by connecting the free-floating coil to a diaphragm.
The oscilloscope is a great idea--highly visible and an added "science fiction" quality kids can connect with.
The neat thing about all of this is that all is visible and easily understood.
Everyday citizens comprised militias. They were not "armies," but ordinary people who could be called up wen needed. They supplied their own weapons. Hence the phrase "the right of the people." To say the second amendment does not apply to individuals is to say likewise of the first and fourth, which contain the same language--"right of the people."
My PR Firefox version Firefox/0.9.3 has always had the annoying problem of causing the entire system to "lock up" if left running overnight. (Win XP SP2.)
Are we so naive as to believe this has not been submitted to computer simulation? For cripes sake! Of course it has (or at the very least will be), but you do not take on a project of the dimensions of an earth-based elevator without some kind of real-world modeling/testing. The moon option provides that, while creating a useful application to boot.
The comments on this topic make it clear few, if any, RTFA. 90 percent of the comments should be modded "Redundant" since the article answers the very questions posed.
"Earth is where all the people and materials are. Building a space elevator on the moon would be like building a superfreeway from one point on antarctica to another point on antarctica: pointless as there's noone around to use it, nor anything to transport over it."
"Iinsightful" my elbow. Doesn't anybody RTFA anymore?
FTFA: So, what would you do with a space elevator connected to the Moon? "Plenty," says Pearson, "there are all kinds of resources on the Moon which would be much easier to gather there and bring into orbit rather than launching them from the Earth. Lunar regolith (moon dirt) could be used as shielding for space stations; metals and other minerals could be mined from the surface and used for construction in space; and if ice is discovered at the Moon's south pole, you could supply water, oxygen and even fuel to spacecraft."
If water ice does turn up at the Moon's south pole, you could run a second cable there, and then connect it at the end to the first cable. This would allow a southern Moon base to deliver material into high-Earth orbit without having to travel along the ground to the base of the first elevator.
I did the same thing on the inside of the pantry door frame. The Christmas lights are bright enough to allow the wife to distinguish canned beans from peas and beets from asparagus, yet the installation was simple (staples over the wire, pre-wired in-line switch) and the operation inexpensive. Best of all, it got the wife off my back without dovoting half a Saturday to running wires and installing fixtures.
One of these, days, I will add the improvement of an automatic door-activated switch a-la refrigerator.
" I'm predicting the next story: U.S. Military Impressed With Success of the Highway System, Researching Versions For Own Use."
No, no, no. The next story (or thread) will be: Rain Predicted,/.ers blame Bush/Diebold
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"If you want to learn about anything, and you're smart enough to comprehend things without having them spoonfed, you're better off seeing what kind of books rank highest on that topic on amazon, and buying them."
That's the best advice I have seen in this thread. I have worked in robotics (low-level), R&D, manufacturing engineering, and test engineering (20 years of the latter as a consultant) on the strength of an 8th grade education and all the books I could read. Not that I am "so smart," but to illustrate the poster's point that all school teaches you is *how to learn.* After that, you are on your own, and better off for it.
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materiel or matériel: The equipment, apparatus, and supplies of a military force or other organization.
material: The substance or substances out of which a thing is or can be made.
Amazing what you can do if you research before you post.
Actually, I was sorta hoping they would, and then tag the money line with "send up all zig!" That's bound to be a unit of currency somewhere.
CA also = California
AC also = Alternating Current
GM also = Genetically Modified
IP = Internet Protocol, Intellectual Property, and hell, around here, even Indecent Proposal
I agree with the parent. It is incumbent on the "editors" to instill some order; the term "editor" entails more than simply accepting or rejecting stories.
..."no /. anymore"
The IE "advanced options" is, to the average use, cryptic in the extreme. A simpler Options interface such as found in Opera and Firefox--though still beyond many users--is a huge step in the right direction. Options should address the lowest common denominator: "Do you want to allow the Internet to download software onto your computer without permission?" And like that.
Note the word "Internet" rather than "websites." Like I said: lowest common denominator.
The only thing that comes to mind is any site served by the adverising outfit, doubleclick.net.
Concensus so far points to keeping things visible and audible. To that end, I recommend a large, open-frame relay (12vdc). With it you can demonstrate electromagnetics, switching principles, and closed loop sensor systems (e.g. burglar alarm). You caan use the relay switching to energize lights/LEDs, bells/buzzers/sirens, etc. Get ahold of an old speaker you can dissect to show how the same electromagnetic properties of the relay reproduce sound by connecting the free-floating coil to a diaphragm. The oscilloscope is a great idea--highly visible and an added "science fiction" quality kids can connect with. The neat thing about all of this is that all is visible and easily understood.
Everyday citizens comprised militias. They were not "armies," but ordinary people who could be called up wen needed. They supplied their own weapons. Hence the phrase "the right of the people." To say the second amendment does not apply to individuals is to say likewise of the first and fourth, which contain the same language--"right of the people."
Interesting. By stating a simple, on-topic opinion, the poster got modded down as "flamebait" et al. Yes, most interesting.
My PR Firefox version Firefox/0.9.3 has always had the annoying problem of causing the entire system to "lock up" if left running overnight. (Win XP SP2.)
Are we so naive as to believe this has not been submitted to computer simulation? For cripes sake! Of course it has (or at the very least will be), but you do not take on a project of the dimensions of an earth-based elevator without some kind of real-world modeling/testing. The moon option provides that, while creating a useful application to boot.
The comments on this topic make it clear few, if any, RTFA. 90 percent of the comments should be modded "Redundant" since the article answers the very questions posed.
Geekdom sure ain't what it used to be.
"Earth is where all the people and materials are. Building a space elevator on the moon would be like building a superfreeway from one point on antarctica to another point on antarctica: pointless as there's noone around to use it, nor anything to transport over it."
"Iinsightful" my elbow. Doesn't anybody RTFA anymore?
FTFA: So, what would you do with a space elevator connected to the Moon? "Plenty," says Pearson, "there are all kinds of resources on the Moon which would be much easier to gather there and bring into orbit rather than launching them from the Earth. Lunar regolith (moon dirt) could be used as shielding for space stations; metals and other minerals could be mined from the surface and used for construction in space; and if ice is discovered at the Moon's south pole, you could supply water, oxygen and even fuel to spacecraft."
If water ice does turn up at the Moon's south pole, you could run a second cable there, and then connect it at the end to the first cable. This would allow a southern Moon base to deliver material into high-Earth orbit without having to travel along the ground to the base of the first elevator.
True, but in my experience, a vodka-alcohol fog is more of a funk than a cloud. But a Oudmeister brandy fog--now THAT'S a cloud!
It is a cloud only if you consider fog a really low cloud.
"It sounds like Verizon wants to get this test site up ASAP by focusing a lot of money and contractors on this one county."
Florida = Spam Capitol of the U.S. if not the world
Fiber = Uber bandwidth
You think?
I did the same thing on the inside of the pantry door frame. The Christmas lights are bright enough to allow the wife to distinguish canned beans from peas and beets from asparagus, yet the installation was simple (staples over the wire, pre-wired in-line switch) and the operation inexpensive. Best of all, it got the wife off my back without dovoting half a Saturday to running wires and installing fixtures.
One of these, days, I will add the improvement of an automatic door-activated switch a-la refrigerator.
You're both wrong. It is "reading, 'riting, and 'rithmatic." Sheesh! Illiterate clods!
" I'm predicting the next story: U.S. Military Impressed With Success of the Highway System, Researching Versions For Own Use." No, no, no. The next story (or thread) will be: Rain Predicted, /.ers blame Bush/Diebold
Mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut.
And your point is...?
"If you want to learn about anything, and you're smart enough to comprehend things without having them spoonfed, you're better off seeing what kind of books rank highest on that topic on amazon, and buying them."
That's the best advice I have seen in this thread. I have worked in robotics (low-level), R&D, manufacturing engineering, and test engineering (20 years of the latter as a consultant) on the strength of an 8th grade education and all the books I could read. Not that I am "so smart," but to illustrate the poster's point that all school teaches you is *how to learn.* After that, you are on your own, and better off for it.
I did a MS search on my name, then on on Google. MS returned 1,845 hits, Google 919. What is your Google/MS hit number?
"Who do i believe? Please, god help me, who do i believe?" [edited from all-caps to thwart "lameness filter"]
Anybody but the media--and I AM the media.
"Say, John, you ever catch that person(s) who were mailing ANTHRAX all over the country? You know, ANTHRAX, that EXCEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS disease? "
So, tell us, oh Insightful One, how you would go about accomplishing this?
Armchair quarterbacks--or Attorneys General--have plenty plans, but few or no tactics. Prove this wrong. Supply effective tactics.