But I'd imagine its much worse before the g's come back and it's all just floating, suspended in the air you suddenly would rather not have to breathe.
Probably there will be somewhere around 9-11 billion in 35 years. But really I was trying to be somewhat tongue in cheek while also pointing out technologies that open up once negative effects of their use are irrelevant: if everyone on the surface will die in 35 years ± a few months, then who cares about greenhouse gasses or even carcinogenic pollution.
With fission rockets using today's technology, I'm going to talk out me arse and say we could probably send tens of millions to a few hundred millions of people depending on just how much machinery has to be shipped up there to make the thing self-sufficient. Maybe a few hundred million to a billion in the right places could survive hermetically sealed habitats a la biosphere..(assuming we can make self-contained habitats on the moon, they should be much easire to build on the earth.)
Whomever is not killed by the radiation, carcinogens, or other pollutants would be killed by the meteor, so it's a moot point. Saving a few hundred millions of people vs. saving none.
the moon base would still be a good idea since there's no way of telling how the sealed planetside environments will fare through the impact and after and the impact would ravage the atmosphere anyway
I don't use either of those. I used to use both, but I quit using winzip around the time windows integrated zip "compressed folders" into explorer (I mean, you had to PAY for winzip or put up with the splash screen designed to make you feel guilty for using it beyond the trial period. Also, the gui had a "shareware" feel to it*). I stopped using winamp around the time of winamp-radio i believe, Media player was relatively unbloated at the time and was able to bridge the gap until iTMS came along. Winamp too has had a "shareware" feel to it with it's "ragin', kickin' or {whatever}in'" skins and whatnot. At that point it had really stopped kicking the proverbial llama's arse. (and why a llama would need a pack animal is a mystery to me.)
Surely my experience is not atypical.
*Not that there aren't other much more expensive programs with sharewarish designs. I used to play with a FEM suite that I believe was over $5k per license that had awful graphic buttons and modal dialogs with dozens of input boxes... (also it mysteriously killed itself almost as often as shareware would)
Not necessarily for a deflection project, but a massive earthmoving project might be doable in 35 years. Further, knowing the dead-date of 35 years, There would be no reason to put artificial limits on materials used for space travel. i.e. freon based foam or more usefully, nuclear rockets. How much of the population could you transplant to..say the moon if you had 35 years of heavy-lifting NERVA or better rockets to work with? IIRC, NERVA lunar systems would only need roughly 50% fuel mass, putting them closer to the order of airliners in terms of haulage and safety.
(the new world was populated by people travelling on similarly cramped conditions for months at a time:
Mayflower: 180-ton, 90 - 110 feet in length and about 25 feet in width. Roughly 130 passengers and crew. Boeing 737: 174,200 lb 129.5 ft length, ~13' width roughly 100 passengers.
so imagine an airliner twice the width of a 737 and twice the weight and it would be just about in spec with the Mayflower. Imagine staying that beast for 2 months.
A link. To one of the many flying cars we won't have. (thing's been "four years from production" for something like forty years now) http://www.moller.com/
Perhaps your problem is promotion.. For instance, You could've put a more obvious shameless plug at the bottom of your post. Instead all you've done is put your site in the homepage element of your profile.
These worms are usually pretty small, must they all have been created by people? What are the odds of a worm "created" by random copying errors? Are we talking, "bigger than a universe of universes" or "likely every day given the world's data transfer rate"
Until recently (1998 i believe) private space launches were illegal. Of course, you could send your private communications satellite after sufficient testing and regulatory rigamarole, but it would be on NASA candle.
Not to mention useless in areas with long stretches of straight road. People seem to gloss over the fact that the electric part is really more of a performance assist than anything else. (I once heard the Prius described as a "4-cylinder car with 6-cylinder performance") The advantage of hybrids is twofold: regenerative braking and more efficient use of engine time - it can run at high RPM even at low speed because the KE isn't wasted it's stored in the battery.
i.e. hybrids are ideal in crowded areas with curvy roads - like Europe - and less useful in sparsly populated areas with straight high-speed roads like much of the US.
with one BIG caveat:
We live in an energy driven economy. More than anything else, the cost of fuel is factored into the cost of everything else. It is therefore not unreasonable to use price as a proxy for 'energy used in the production of.' It is useful to look at the amortized cost of the vehicles compared to similar performing non-hybrid vehicles. The more expensive one either took more fuel to make or uses more fuel to operate, but over the useful lifetime the more expensive one is also more "polluting." Right now, in the US, the hybrids are more expensive. The gap is closing as manufacturing improves, but it's not quite "there" yet.
I'd think I'd want my bar windows to break themselves. Preferebly seconds before I get thrown through'em. Where I live people apparantly don't like to see the sun or something, the bars' windows are small, tinted, and usually obscured in some way so you can't really see in all that well.
When metric system users start using the metric system.
Why would you talk about kilogram-force or "it weighs 4 kilogrms" when you've got a perfectly serviceable unit for force already in that system.
I thought half the point of SI was to disambiguate such things. The US standard system has two units for mass and one for force, but magically everyone uses them correctly. (ok well the magic is that one of the units for force is the same as the unit for mass, but surely that comes from the days when people didn't know there was a difference between weight and mass)
I never got "video poker" or blackjack or whatever. If i want to play one of those games, I want the tactile feel of the cards in my hand, the weight of the chips, the funny looking people next to me. I want to watch the dealer..um..take the cards out of the magic sort machine..and flip them to their intended targets. If i'm going to spend money on casino entertainment, I don't want it to feel like i'm playing on yahoo games.
I stopped watching after the first ten minutes of episode 4. The previous 3 episodes had all ended with the characters in extreme peril. 2,3,4 all began with the characters safely back at home or home base. They either ignored the previous cliffhangers or made comments to the extent of, "Boy I'm sure glad I got of that okay"
And that's when I realized: It was a spy show about a woman, for women. Or at least, for people who don't care about the details of the action packed fight, rather the intricate maneuverings of the skilled combatants leading up to the big event... But you should be able to intercept any bits being actively read out with complicated enough signal processing...
Ok I see your point, Mine was that it is a tradeoff between line-of-sight and bandwidth. The same solution that works for Aspen, CO is not appropriate for downtown Manhattan
Implicit was my assumption that any system capable of servicing a profitable number of users at a data rate comparable to existing landline systems will require a carrier frequency that is line of sight anyway but that there are some benefits to that tradeoff that aren't readily apparant. One is antenna size, especially for directional antennas.
I would care more about that if the summaries had better links in general. Half the time I don't know which inline-highlighted-word is the story and which is the background.
Hint to future article submitters: use at least one, and preferably more, of the words in the title as links in the summary to the article. If you don't have any that conveniently do that, consider changing the submission title to something more appropriate. If your summary skills are good, chances are there is at least one sentence fragment that describes the main article.
Hint 2 to future submitters: do not link the article more than once, and do not link the background information in such a way as to give equal weight to more than one link as to the possibility of each actually being the article rather than extra info.
You are clearly undertasked. You could also be using that time to eat and shave. the cell phone doesn't need any hands, the blackberry shouldn't need more than one, that leaves you with two perfectly good knees for the wheel and a free hand and face.
A rule of thumb: carrier frequency should be an order of magnitude larger than the bandwidth. If your data rate is 9600 bps, you could get away with using high-frequency radio waves that do the "curve over the horizon" thing very well. Broadband it isn't. If your data rate is closer to 1 mega-bit per second, you're talking 10 mhz carier and you're going to piss off a lot of necessary services. (would still make it over the horizon) But you'd only have one subscriber per footprint at a data rate exceeded by most cable services by factors of 2 or 3.
Ok so for a small town under a single footprint (say 1000 customers ) with cable-comparable access, minimum carrier frequency is 3*10^(3+6)~ 3 ghz. (and remember that the sidebands are going to interfere with quite a few services.)
Big footprints aren't good for wireless. small "cells" are the best option, using the wireless link for the *last* mile allows say.. mobile phones.. to be useful and also plentiful.
Frequencies that are only effective "line-of-sight" are very useful for avoiding interfering with other services. In addition wavelengths are very short so footprint shaping via directional antennas becomes an option. An array of directional cells on a single tower has more capacity for instance than a single omnidirectional cell tower.
How many componants are you cramming in there that the case isn't the vast majority of the weight? even the transformers in most (inexpensive) power supplies aren't going to weigh in enough to be THAT heavy.
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But I'd imagine its much worse before the g's come back and it's all just floating, suspended in the air you suddenly would rather not have to breathe.
remember to turn them off first. You wouldn't want to do a rendition of the classic board game from the Ren and Stimpy show.
Probably there will be somewhere around 9-11 billion in 35 years. But really I was trying to be somewhat tongue in cheek while also pointing out technologies that open up once negative effects of their use are irrelevant: if everyone on the surface will die in 35 years ± a few months, then who cares about greenhouse gasses or even carcinogenic pollution.
With fission rockets using today's technology, I'm going to talk out me arse and say we could probably send tens of millions to a few hundred millions of people depending on just how much machinery has to be shipped up there to make the thing self-sufficient. Maybe a few hundred million to a billion in the right places could survive hermetically sealed habitats a la biosphere..(assuming we can make self-contained habitats on the moon, they should be much easire to build on the earth.)
Whomever is not killed by the radiation, carcinogens, or other pollutants would be killed by the meteor, so it's a moot point. Saving a few hundred millions of people vs. saving none.
the moon base would still be a good idea since there's no way of telling how the sealed planetside environments will fare through the impact and after and the impact would ravage the atmosphere anyway
I don't use either of those. I used to use both, but I quit using winzip around the time windows integrated zip "compressed folders" into explorer (I mean, you had to PAY for winzip or put up with the splash screen designed to make you feel guilty for using it beyond the trial period. Also, the gui had a "shareware" feel to it*). I stopped using winamp around the time of winamp-radio i believe, Media player was relatively unbloated at the time and was able to bridge the gap until iTMS came along. Winamp too has had a "shareware" feel to it with it's "ragin', kickin' or {whatever}in'" skins and whatnot. At that point it had really stopped kicking the proverbial llama's arse. (and why a llama would need a pack animal is a mystery to me.)
Surely my experience is not atypical.
*Not that there aren't other much more expensive programs with sharewarish designs. I used to play with a FEM suite that I believe was over $5k per license that had awful graphic buttons and modal dialogs with dozens of input boxes... (also it mysteriously killed itself almost as often as shareware would)
Not necessarily for a deflection project, but a massive earthmoving project might be doable in 35 years. Further, knowing the dead-date of 35 years, There would be no reason to put artificial limits on materials used for space travel. i.e. freon based foam or more usefully, nuclear rockets. How much of the population could you transplant to..say the moon if you had 35 years of heavy-lifting NERVA or better rockets to work with? IIRC, NERVA lunar systems would only need roughly 50% fuel mass, putting them closer to the order of airliners in terms of haulage and safety.
(the new world was populated by people travelling on similarly cramped conditions for months at a time:
Mayflower: 180-ton, 90 - 110 feet in length and about 25 feet in width. Roughly 130 passengers and crew.
Boeing 737: 174,200 lb 129.5 ft length, ~13' width roughly 100 passengers.
so imagine an airliner twice the width of a 737 and twice the weight and it would be just about in spec with the Mayflower. Imagine staying that beast for 2 months.
A link. To one of the many flying cars we won't have. (thing's been "four years from production" for something like forty years now) http://www.moller.com/
Perhaps your problem is promotion.. For instance, You could've put a more obvious shameless plug at the bottom of your post. Instead all you've done is put your site in the homepage element of your profile.
These worms are usually pretty small, must they all have been created by people? What are the odds of a worm "created" by random copying errors? Are we talking, "bigger than a universe of universes" or "likely every day given the world's data transfer rate"
Until recently (1998 i believe) private space launches were illegal. Of course, you could send your private communications satellite after sufficient testing and regulatory rigamarole, but it would be on NASA candle.
Not to mention useless in areas with long stretches of straight road. People seem to gloss over the fact that the electric part is really more of a performance assist than anything else. (I once heard the Prius described as a "4-cylinder car with 6-cylinder performance") The advantage of hybrids is twofold: regenerative braking and more efficient use of engine time - it can run at high RPM even at low speed because the KE isn't wasted it's stored in the battery.
i.e. hybrids are ideal in crowded areas with curvy roads - like Europe - and less useful in sparsly populated areas with straight high-speed roads like much of the US.
with one BIG caveat:
We live in an energy driven economy. More than anything else, the cost of fuel is factored into the cost of everything else. It is therefore not unreasonable to use price as a proxy for 'energy used in the production of.' It is useful to look at the amortized cost of the vehicles compared to similar performing non-hybrid vehicles. The more expensive one either took more fuel to make or uses more fuel to operate, but over the useful lifetime the more expensive one is also more "polluting." Right now, in the US, the hybrids are more expensive. The gap is closing as manufacturing improves, but it's not quite "there" yet.
peak or off-peak?
I'd think I'd want my bar windows to break themselves. Preferebly seconds before I get thrown through'em. Where I live people apparantly don't like to see the sun or something, the bars' windows are small, tinted, and usually obscured in some way so you can't really see in all that well.
When metric system users start using the metric system.
Why would you talk about kilogram-force or "it weighs 4 kilogrms" when you've got a perfectly serviceable unit for force already in that system.
I thought half the point of SI was to disambiguate such things. The US standard system has two units for mass and one for force, but magically everyone uses them correctly. (ok well the magic is that one of the units for force is the same as the unit for mass, but surely that comes from the days when people didn't know there was a difference between weight and mass)
I never got "video poker" or blackjack or whatever. If i want to play one of those games, I want the tactile feel of the cards in my hand, the weight of the chips, the funny looking people next to me. I want to watch the dealer..um..take the cards out of the magic sort machine..and flip them to their intended targets. If i'm going to spend money on casino entertainment, I don't want it to feel like i'm playing on yahoo games.
You see people at the bar getting beers at 7am. So you are in a bar at 7am.
Has anyone ever actually won keno?
I stopped watching after the first ten minutes of episode 4. The previous 3 episodes had all ended with the characters in extreme peril. 2,3,4 all began with the characters safely back at home or home base. They either ignored the previous cliffhangers or made comments to the extent of, "Boy I'm sure glad I got of that okay"
.. But you should be able to intercept any bits being actively read out with complicated enough signal processing...
And that's when I realized: It was a spy show about a woman, for women. Or at least, for people who don't care about the details of the action packed fight, rather the intricate maneuverings of the skilled combatants leading up to the big event.
If the machines are insecure, it hurts the casinos because of tampering. If you're not committing the tampering, you will lose your money either way.
Ok I see your point, Mine was that it is a tradeoff between line-of-sight and bandwidth. The same solution that works for Aspen, CO is not appropriate for downtown Manhattan
Implicit was my assumption that any system capable of servicing a profitable number of users at a data rate comparable to existing landline systems will require a carrier frequency that is line of sight anyway but that there are some benefits to that tradeoff that aren't readily apparant. One is antenna size, especially for directional antennas.
I would care more about that if the summaries had better links in general. Half the time I don't know which inline-highlighted-word is the story and which is the background.
Hint to future article submitters: use at least one, and preferably more, of the words in the title as links in the summary to the article. If you don't have any that conveniently do that, consider changing the submission title to something more appropriate. If your summary skills are good, chances are there is at least one sentence fragment that describes the main article.
Hint 2 to future submitters: do not link the article more than once, and do not link the background information in such a way as to give equal weight to more than one link as to the possibility of each actually being the article rather than extra info.
Oh and after that, what Space Cowboy said.
You are clearly undertasked. You could also be using that time to eat and shave. the cell phone doesn't need any hands, the blackberry shouldn't need more than one, that leaves you with two perfectly good knees for the wheel and a free hand and face.
- Very fast robot to put a sign in front of your face whenever they want.
- Control where you're looking and happen to put advertising there.
The entire goal of most advertising seems to be (2: convince you to look at something), with the exception of spam, popups and amway.A rule of thumb: carrier frequency should be an order of magnitude larger than the bandwidth. If your data rate is 9600 bps, you could get away with using high-frequency radio waves that do the "curve over the horizon" thing very well. Broadband it isn't. If your data rate is closer to 1 mega-bit per second, you're talking 10 mhz carier and you're going to piss off a lot of necessary services. (would still make it over the horizon) But you'd only have one subscriber per footprint at a data rate exceeded by most cable services by factors of 2 or 3.
Ok so for a small town under a single footprint (say 1000 customers ) with cable-comparable access, minimum carrier frequency is 3*10^(3+6)~ 3 ghz. (and remember that the sidebands are going to interfere with quite a few services.)
Big footprints aren't good for wireless. small "cells" are the best option, using the wireless link for the *last* mile allows say.. mobile phones.. to be useful and also plentiful.
Frequencies that are only effective "line-of-sight" are very useful for avoiding interfering with other services. In addition wavelengths are very short so footprint shaping via directional antennas becomes an option. An array of directional cells on a single tower has more capacity for instance than a single omnidirectional cell tower.
How many componants are you cramming in there that the case isn't the vast majority of the weight? even the transformers in most (inexpensive) power supplies aren't going to weigh in enough to be THAT heavy.
Try "overclocking" the hard disk.