Actually that's a rather recent development. I remember all the fanfare when they installed the system and thinking to myself, "Wait.. that's NEW?" That's what I got for assuming NASA has PHB teambuilding exercise ropes course technology.
Good points all, but not quite correct. Orbital mechanics is screwy. If you push off forwards, you go higher, but you actually have less angular velocity in the higher orbit, so the thing you pushed off from will pass you. If you push off backwards, the opposite happens. Pushing up or down also doesn't do what you'd expect.
I choose 'B' since i'd rather not spend my dying minute developing a painful case of the bends. And B is the same as C anyway. Since, as greater minds tham myself have said, "where there's life, there's hope."
Unless cracking the seal provides just enough thrust for self rescue... then it's a tough call.
Actually, it's both "ape faith" and "human faith." All the axioms are like that. They're the fundamental "first principles" from which everything else is derived. We believe they are the basic laws of the universe, but of course we don't discount the possibility that further research will reveal what we think are the first principles are actually consequences of other more basic laws.
That someone is the USGS and therefore is ostensibly already paid for. Of course, a lot of the USGS data IS available for free (but you're on your own to obtain a program to display the data.)
Yes, it's true that there are TWO sins here: one is the government for requiring many services (who should pay for 911 for instance..) rather than purchasing them like normal entities. The other is the phone company for not folding costs of doing business into their advertised price.
If you expand the pool of potential CEOs, you have increased the supply. The number of companies that need CEOs is small compared to the number of business school graduates, so the price will fall to market clearing levels. The thing that maintains CEO salaries at their current level is the apparantly popular meme of the 'corporate savior' which effectively reduces the labor pool.
Compare to another market, say.. Diamond trade. diamonds aren't even really all that valuable. They are a middling semi-precious stone. Look at the market for non-gem cut natural or industrial diamonds or the secondary market for diamonds. The perception that a NEW, gem-cut natural diamonds are somehow better keeps the price up by encouraging demand for a specific, limited-supply commodity.
The analogy is particulaly apt, since artificial diamonds can be made even purer than their "more valuable" natural counterparts. The value a result of a clever advertising campaign.
Though to be fair, one of the goals of any advertising campagn is to increase the percieved value of your product so as to command a higher price. It is up to the consumer to see through the hype and recognize the real value of the product they're buying. Caveat emptor.
That's all well and good, but some of us don't care about bluetooth, would rather not even have a screen, don't care about battery life as long as it lasts more than a day with moderate usage, and don't want something that needs a holster or takes up too much space in the ol' pocket.
Fortunately, there isn't just ONE phone design, so we can all be happy.
Except me for a little while. When is my voice-controlled over-the-ear phone going to come out?
Call your phone company. Those charges aren't taxes. They are passing on the cost of mandated services as separate items in your bill instead of folding them into the price like normal businesses do with costs of doing business. It is unfortunate that ALL of the phone companies do this, so you're stuck. Seems there is a bit of a market failure going on here.
Incorrect. L1-3 work like that for in-plane perturbations, but nearly-stable orbits can be designed for them using minimal propellent. see SOHO for the textbook example. L4 and L5 are stable. The problem there is accumulation of dust. One wonders why the article said they'd be protected from insolation though, since L4,5 are 60 degrees ahead and behind the earth.
It's pretty clear from the article that the files were stored on the desktop, not "my documents." presumably for easier access. I'm pretty sure it takes a more than zero amount of tech knowledge to realize that you can put stuff there instead of the default location. I realize it's often the default location for downloaded files, but that wouldn't go in the writer's favor..
Clearly the techie thought he was doing the guy a favor by cleaning up his desktop. Heck, I do this for my friends and family when they ask me to fix their computers up. Of course, I just move stuff into a folder, since I don't know how valuable it really is to them, but I can see how a nitwit could delete things without realizing they're not garbage. Especially if the dimbulb in question was used to a network environment where the size of the user's desktop profile affects the login time.
OTOH, suppose the technician read the scripts and figgured that the favor he'd do the world by destroying them was well worth losing his job over...
I'm all for product placement. The've got to pay for the shows somehow. I've noticed that some shows seem to have shorter and more frequent commercial breaks. I think that's a good idea too. I'm certainly not going to sit through 5 minutes of commercials when my attention span dictates that after 1.5 minutes what i'm waiting for doesn't seem so intersting any more.
How is this a troll? It's a logical extension of evolutionary theory, and not only that, it's a far more palpable solution than the eugenics movement of the last century.
accleration gradient - you don't want very much of one or your balance will be all screwy. coriolis "force" - a result of the transformation to a rotating reference frame. You want to minimize this as well, for balance reasons.
Fortunately the solution to both is to increase R. Unfortunately, this limits where you can place your rotating habitat and increase the cost to power it.
So some practical numbers: (i'm not sure how to do the coriolis part, but the rest is pretty easy)
Suppose we took the land for the cancelled superconductiong supercollider in Texas. It had a radus of approximately 14 km. To get a net force of 2g, we need a rotational acceleration of 1.73g, since we already have gravity working for us. So you'd need to have a tangential velocity of 350 mph. The difference in acceleration between your head and your feet would be of the order 2e-5 g, so I don't think you'd notice much.
Perhaps if your habitat was a well-lubricated train you could do it. Certainly there have been very fast electric trains before, and over much longer distances than an 80 mile circuit. I would suggest a hanging monorail design so you could achieve multiple accelerations without having to completely redesign the bank angle every time.
Everyone thinks their second language is better than their first at some point in their studies. It's because of their less intuitive learning process: you learn more of the "whys" directly rather than through imitation and implication during your formative years.
But there really is no best language. Every one has advantages and disadvantages that are more or less important depending on the concept you're trying to express. In fact, there really is no single language that performs all of these tasks when you consider the largely orthogonal jargon used by the various professionals within a culture. Aerospace engineers and medical doctors for instance use separate enough language that they could almost be considered to be speaking entirely different languages.
So.. are you saying that you should not pay for art you enjoy?
BTW, the price of ad-supported TV isn't for you to buy something advertised. They only ask that you watch the commercials. It seems a reasonable trade to me and if it didn't, there's always the option of buying the series on DVD. Heck, FFW might even be ok depending on how the advertising campaign is designed, but even if it isn't, and he does, humans are flawed. We sin. Committing a sin, no matter how easy it is to do, doesn't make it any less sinful.
The welt is caused by an allergic reaction, which is a kind of immune response. So it's actually more correct to say you now have NO IMMUNITY WHATSOEVER to the anti-coagulent used by mosquitos. Whether this is good or bad I cannot say, but apparantly you have found a way to turn off your immune response to certain invaders.
not every lethal weapon needs to actually do anything at all to be effective. For instance, only two nuclear bombs have ever been dropped in anger. Since, thousands have been manufactured whose primary purpose is, in fact, not to be fired. Which bombs have had more effect on the world stage do you think, the ones that were dropped or the ones that weren't?
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Actually that's a rather recent development. I remember all the fanfare when they installed the system and thinking to myself, "Wait.. that's NEW?" That's what I got for assuming NASA has PHB teambuilding exercise ropes course technology.
Good points all, but not quite correct. Orbital mechanics is screwy. If you push off forwards, you go higher, but you actually have less angular velocity in the higher orbit, so the thing you pushed off from will pass you. If you push off backwards, the opposite happens. Pushing up or down also doesn't do what you'd expect.
I choose 'B' since i'd rather not spend my dying minute developing a painful case of the bends. And B is the same as C anyway. Since, as greater minds tham myself have said, "where there's life, there's hope."
Unless cracking the seal provides just enough thrust for self rescue... then it's a tough call.
That sounds pretty neat. Do you know of any howtos geared to relative novices?
Actually, it's both "ape faith" and "human faith." All the axioms are like that. They're the fundamental "first principles" from which everything else is derived. We believe they are the basic laws of the universe, but of course we don't discount the possibility that further research will reveal what we think are the first principles are actually consequences of other more basic laws.
All optics are diffractive. Are you sure you don't mean diffraction limited? which is actually quite different from the subject under discussion.
That someone is the USGS and therefore is ostensibly already paid for. Of course, a lot of the USGS data IS available for free (but you're on your own to obtain a program to display the data.)
Yes, it's true that there are TWO sins here: one is the government for requiring many services (who should pay for 911 for instance..) rather than purchasing them like normal entities. The other is the phone company for not folding costs of doing business into their advertised price.
Monopolies are able to avoid/control some market forces, but oil is not a monopoly commodity.
Someone failed econ.
If you expand the pool of potential CEOs, you have increased the supply. The number of companies that need CEOs is small compared to the number of business school graduates, so the price will fall to market clearing levels. The thing that maintains CEO salaries at their current level is the apparantly popular meme of the 'corporate savior' which effectively reduces the labor pool.
Compare to another market, say.. Diamond trade. diamonds aren't even really all that valuable. They are a middling semi-precious stone. Look at the market for non-gem cut natural or industrial diamonds or the secondary market for diamonds. The perception that a NEW, gem-cut natural diamonds are somehow better keeps the price up by encouraging demand for a specific, limited-supply commodity.
The analogy is particulaly apt, since artificial diamonds can be made even purer than their "more valuable" natural counterparts. The value a result of a clever advertising campaign.
Though to be fair, one of the goals of any advertising campagn is to increase the percieved value of your product so as to command a higher price. It is up to the consumer to see through the hype and recognize the real value of the product they're buying. Caveat emptor.
That's all well and good, but some of us don't care about bluetooth, would rather not even have a screen, don't care about battery life as long as it lasts more than a day with moderate usage, and don't want something that needs a holster or takes up too much space in the ol' pocket.
Fortunately, there isn't just ONE phone design, so we can all be happy.
Except me for a little while. When is my voice-controlled over-the-ear phone going to come out?
Call your phone company. Those charges aren't taxes. They are passing on the cost of mandated services as separate items in your bill instead of folding them into the price like normal businesses do with costs of doing business. It is unfortunate that ALL of the phone companies do this, so you're stuck. Seems there is a bit of a market failure going on here.
Incorrect. L1-3 work like that for in-plane perturbations, but nearly-stable orbits can be designed for them using minimal propellent. see SOHO for the textbook example. L4 and L5 are stable. The problem there is accumulation of dust. One wonders why the article said they'd be protected from insolation though, since L4,5 are 60 degrees ahead and behind the earth.
It's pretty clear from the article that the files were stored on the desktop, not "my documents." presumably for easier access. I'm pretty sure it takes a more than zero amount of tech knowledge to realize that you can put stuff there instead of the default location. I realize it's often the default location for downloaded files, but that wouldn't go in the writer's favor..
Clearly the techie thought he was doing the guy a favor by cleaning up his desktop. Heck, I do this for my friends and family when they ask me to fix their computers up. Of course, I just move stuff into a folder, since I don't know how valuable it really is to them, but I can see how a nitwit could delete things without realizing they're not garbage. Especially if the dimbulb in question was used to a network environment where the size of the user's desktop profile affects the login time.
OTOH, suppose the technician read the scripts and figgured that the favor he'd do the world by destroying them was well worth losing his job over...
So, BBC is like HBO, except you're forced to buy it?
I'm all for product placement. The've got to pay for the shows somehow. I've noticed that some shows seem to have shorter and more frequent commercial breaks. I think that's a good idea too. I'm certainly not going to sit through 5 minutes of commercials when my attention span dictates that after 1.5 minutes what i'm waiting for doesn't seem so intersting any more.
How is this a troll? It's a logical extension of evolutionary theory, and not only that, it's a far more palpable solution than the eugenics movement of the last century.
Wait.. are you suggesting we should live a more spartan lifestyle to stave off the HEAT DEATH of the universe?
The problems are,
accleration gradient - you don't want very much of one or your balance will be all screwy.
coriolis "force" - a result of the transformation to a rotating reference frame. You want to minimize this as well, for balance reasons.
Fortunately the solution to both is to increase R. Unfortunately, this limits where you can place your rotating habitat and increase the cost to power it.
So some practical numbers: (i'm not sure how to do the coriolis part, but the rest is pretty easy)
Suppose we took the land for the cancelled superconductiong supercollider in Texas. It had a radus of approximately 14 km. To get a net force of 2g, we need a rotational acceleration of 1.73g, since we already have gravity working for us. So you'd need to have a tangential velocity of 350 mph. The difference in acceleration between your head and your feet would be of the order 2e-5 g, so I don't think you'd notice much.
Perhaps if your habitat was a well-lubricated train you could do it. Certainly there have been very fast electric trains before, and over much longer distances than an 80 mile circuit. I would suggest a hanging monorail design so you could achieve multiple accelerations without having to completely redesign the bank angle every time.
Then he'd die along with the independant contractors on the at the time unfinished second Death Star.
Everyone thinks their second language is better than their first at some point in their studies. It's because of their less intuitive learning process: you learn more of the "whys" directly rather than through imitation and implication during your formative years.
But there really is no best language. Every one has advantages and disadvantages that are more or less important depending on the concept you're trying to express. In fact, there really is no single language that performs all of these tasks when you consider the largely orthogonal jargon used by the various professionals within a culture. Aerospace engineers and medical doctors for instance use separate enough language that they could almost be considered to be speaking entirely different languages.
You really cheapen the concept of civil disobedience if you start using it to obtain crappy music for free.
So.. are you saying that you should not pay for art you enjoy?
BTW, the price of ad-supported TV isn't for you to buy something advertised. They only ask that you watch the commercials. It seems a reasonable trade to me and if it didn't, there's always the option of buying the series on DVD. Heck, FFW might even be ok depending on how the advertising campaign is designed, but even if it isn't, and he does, humans are flawed. We sin. Committing a sin, no matter how easy it is to do, doesn't make it any less sinful.
The welt is caused by an allergic reaction, which is a kind of immune response. So it's actually more correct to say you now have NO IMMUNITY WHATSOEVER to the anti-coagulent used by mosquitos. Whether this is good or bad I cannot say, but apparantly you have found a way to turn off your immune response to certain invaders.
s/moral condemnation/lethal force/ig
reread.
not every lethal weapon needs to actually do anything at all to be effective. For instance, only two nuclear bombs have ever been dropped in anger. Since, thousands have been manufactured whose primary purpose is, in fact, not to be fired. Which bombs have had more effect on the world stage do you think, the ones that were dropped or the ones that weren't?