I wonder how well this would work in zero G in a Vac?
I can see coating the surfaces of a spacecraft (thermal blankets, booms, dish, etc...) that are near the field of view of instruments sensitive to light (as many are). Glint poses a serious problem for many instruments and this could help mitigate the problem
Your of course correct. It's just sloppy-common-talk. It's taken me 6 years to remove the "word" irregardless from my vocabulary. I still hear it nearly every day (in one setting or another).
I really have no idea who muslix64 is but perhaps he/she are not in the US and could care less about the DMCA? The post did say "they" received the take down notice, not he/she.
I had honestly never looked up the actual definition of Atmosphere
Merriam-Webster states:
Main Entry: atmosphere
Pronunciation: 'at-m&-"sfir
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin atmosphaera, from Greek atmos vapor + Latin sphaera sphere
1 a : the gaseous envelope of a celestial body (as a planet)
b : the whole mass of air surrounding the earth
If you remove the (as a planet) thing, then sure enough the Sun does have an atmosphere, and by that definition so does the moon, Mercury, and every single asteriod and comment flying through the cosmos.
By that definition everything has an atmosphere.
Also by that definition does Hilary Duff have an atmosphere?
Your playing with semantics and you know it. Sure I've heard lots of people talk about the solar atmosphere, but it's just a loose term to lump together the various regions above the photosphere. It does not resemble a traditional atmosphere at all, unless there is a troposphere or a mesosphere or one of those other spheres down there?
And where exactly does the solar atmosphere end? The termination shock?
I've heard people talk about the atmosphere of Mercury and the Moon as well. Once again it is playing with semantics. Mercury has a surface bounded exosphere but to call it an atmosphere is just like saying the Sun has an atmosphere.
I guess we could redefine atmosphere as the region around anything flying through space and start talking about the GCR generate neutron albedo flying off the Hubble as its atmosphere.
Dude, if you want complexity then study psychiatry, now that's complex.
While the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator must be seriously complex (Looney tunes, 1952), its complexity does not make it any more intrinsically interesting than our periodic table. The error bars on these cross-sections!!!
Our moon does not have an atmosphere, neither does the Sun, nor the Stars. The Martian atmosphere has been essentially blown away. Are these objects less worthy or less interesting to study because they do not have/much-of an "atmosphere?". NASA would disagree and so do I.
atmosphere matters, more than anything else you can say about mercury
Titan certainly is more interesting to us than mercury
Perhaps it's more interesting to you
Messenger is well on its way to study Mercury.
BepiColombo will hopefully be launched in the not-so-distant future
It's clear that Mercury is indeed a very interesting place to go.
Now I don't dispute that Titan is a wicked/awesome place to go, just don't pick a fight where none exists.
There are a great many reasons why Mercury is a seriously cool object to study.
What are the composition, isotopic abundance, spatial distribution and temporal variability of the particles on Mercury's surface and its surface bounded exosphere?
Why the hell does it have a magnetic field? Seriously, this is one our solar systems significant mysteries. Does Mercury have an active core? Does Mercury Vent? (certainly other bodies do... e.g. Io, Trition, Enceladus, etc...)
There are a number of evolution scenarios that attempt to explain the unusual properties of Mercury (e.g. high density, large core, large Fe/Si ratio, etc...).
The bottom line of my comment is that Mercury is interesting, and a solid understanding of its evolution is essential to understanding the creation of our solar system.
it would provide 1000x as much gamma radiation on the Earth as a solar flare.
So what?
we have seen a number of large gamma ray bursts over the decades and they deliver 1000x what a large solar flare produces. Your point was?
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the children who constantly play their gameboy wherever they go...
These kids are not the target, if they are then the company should hire a new CEO.
My kid plays with these things all the time. He knows about vidio games and badly wants to play them but he is only 4 and just cant get it right. I dont doubt that in a year or two the hot wheels will be in the closet and the game boy will be the hot property.
I think hot wheels has a strong but limited and temporary audience, they should understand that and focus on it.
make sure that it becomes as intrusive as possible, make sure that at every turn every legitimate use of people's own products becomes difficult and when something like the Sony Rootkit happens (which it will, again and again...) then we seize on it and show the world that this makes the situation worse for everyone.
Interesting idea.
Take it up the ass as a method of showing that taking it up the ass is bad.
Every time I turn around someone is trying to launch balls into space. First we had those balls that were suppose to detect gravitational waves, now we have these balls that are suppose to rotate around each other. What's next, balls on the moon, mars, and beyond?
what it's for. If it's DVDs for the kids it goes in a folder. If it's essential backups they go in hard cases. If it's one of the zillions of other backups I make I simply title them, date them, and drop them right back on a spare spindle. They take up less space, they are as protected as any other method, and I know before hand that chances are I wont ever need to look at them again, but just in case, I've got them.
For the cost of what Canada spends on helicopters for the miitary, every single jobless person in the entire country could be supported
Canada must have one bitchin array of helicopters, but seriously,...What have you been smoking?
You are suggesting that Canada should redirect the entire military helicopter budget to support jobless people?
And what about the thousands of people that are now jobless because they use to make military helicopters? What about the now-jobless employees of the restaurants where those people eat? What about the now-jobless people that use to maintain their lawns while they are at work building the helicopters? What about the entire community of people (also now jobless) that use to support these people?
All your plan does is transfer a pot of cash from one group to another. It funds people to do some as-yet-unformulated productive thing for the community, and puts another entire community of currently productive people in their place (it is a zero-sum game).
By my calculations, we should have found a monolith 6 years ago.
But we did. Turns out that the MPAA has all IP rights to said monolith. It was confiscated and rumor has it, it's now being used as a coffee table at the MPAA-HQ.
As far as I know Helios 1 and 2 were the fastest space crafts ever made
I was going to call bull-shit until I checked.
We have heard so much lately about the New Horizons spacecraft and how that is the fastest spacecraft every built. Turns out both are correct.
The New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto was moving faster than any spacecraft as it left orbit. The Helios spacecraft were moving faster only during their closest approach to the Sun.
The iPod's sole purpose in life is to play music. So it plays music. Why should I need to know any more than that?
It's a dangerous path you tread.
I would imagine there are people who say My computers sole purpose is so I can surf the web and read email. Windows does that. Why should I need to know any more than that?
It's just not in the geek vocabulary to say why should I need to know any more than that
I have found that my experience at Wal-Mart depends on where the Wal-Mart is. I live on the East Coast (DC area) and I go to Wal-Mart no more than twice a year. Every time I do go to a Wal-Mart I am reminded why I don't go more often (crowded and cramped stores, dirty, unfriendly, and very long lines). It's frequent that there is a 15 minute wait at the checkout (and they only have 3 of the 15 checkouts staffed). Our local Costco is about the same wait (so I concur with your take there).
I recently went to a number of Wal-Mart stores out west and found a totally different situation. The stores were clean, all of the checkout stations were staffed, the staff was friendly, and people simply moved better.
It's not like I live in an area where there is no alternative. There is a Target about the same distance as the Wal-Mart and it's a completely different shopping experience. At the Target the store is clean, the checkout stations are staffed, the lines are shorter, and the prices are about the same.
I chalk it up to being nothing more or less then terrible management of Wal-Mart stores in my region.
A significant question is "can they get a fully effective dollop of bug juice the size of a quarter to hold up their cars?"
The beauty of this is they don't have to.
All they have to do is put enough of this stuff on the hat of a stereotypical construction workers helmet, then glue said helmet to a high-rise construction project and let him dangle his feet over the abyss.. wallah (SP?).. a better super glue.. ?.?.?. Profit.
Although there are numerous other practical problems as others have pointed out
If you want to talk about practical problems let's get the obvious out.
Where I work we build spacecraft. Could we build this spacecraft to the "required" specs? YES I have great 'faith' in myself, my colleagues, and our system. We have been very successful in building spacecraft over the years that do the job.
this one doesn't seem unsolvable.
Your right, it's not. Now let's talk about the cost, you know, the practical part of it. If I were the project manager of this system I would take a typical s/c cost and start adding zeros to the end of the cost (one if not two).
Tracking the source is easy. Tracking the target has been "Star Wars" from the beginning, right? The part that gets me is the relay. We would have to develop a gimbaled relay that responds in real time to both the target and the source. The velocity vector of both the source and the target would have to be tracked with enormous accuracy. I do not think this could be done with one spacecraft. We would need multiple spacecraft that could transmit tracking information in real time to adjust the pointing of the beam-relay. Nothing like this has ever been done before (to my knowledge). The costs to develop such a system would be enormous. I think it would be far cheaper to launch the source and remove the entire relay system (but I guess this thing is exactly what has been under study for all these years).
Honestly, if lasers from planes to spacecraft to target is our best defense option I would strongly support prayer as an alternative (it's much cheaper and equally effective)... and yes, I'm an atheist.
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I wonder how well this would work in zero G in a Vac?
I can see coating the surfaces of a spacecraft (thermal blankets, booms, dish, etc...) that are near the field of view of instruments sensitive to light (as many are). Glint poses a serious problem for many instruments and this could help mitigate the problem
I wonder how long it outgasses?
Your of course correct. It's just sloppy-common-talk. It's taken me 6 years to remove the "word" irregardless from my vocabulary. I still hear it nearly every day (in one setting or another).
I really have no idea who muslix64 is but perhaps he/she are not in the US and could care less about the DMCA? The post did say "they" received the take down notice, not he/she.
It's a series of tubes!
No, it's a series of 11 dimensional strings that are shaped like tubes!
As someone said about this topic "don't tell me about the consensus: science doesn't work by consensus. What's the truth?"
If you want "truth" go to the church of your choice. That is the only place you will find "truth".
A windows box without malware is like a cake without mustard
Dude. I've never tried mustard on cake... is it good?
I think you have an extra "out" there somewhere!
You know what. I'm going to take it all back.
I had honestly never looked up the actual definition of Atmosphere
Merriam-Webster states:
Main Entry: atmosphere
Pronunciation: 'at-m&-"sfir
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin atmosphaera, from Greek atmos vapor + Latin sphaera sphere
1 a : the gaseous envelope of a celestial body (as a planet)
b : the whole mass of air surrounding the earth
If you remove the (as a planet) thing, then sure enough the Sun does have an atmosphere, and by that definition so does the moon, Mercury, and every single asteriod and comment flying through the cosmos.
By that definition everything has an atmosphere.
Also by that definition does Hilary Duff have an atmosphere?
Your playing with semantics and you know it. Sure I've heard lots of people talk about the solar atmosphere, but it's just a loose term to lump together the various regions above the photosphere. It does not resemble a traditional atmosphere at all, unless there is a troposphere or a mesosphere or one of those other spheres down there?
And where exactly does the solar atmosphere end? The termination shock?
I've heard people talk about the atmosphere of Mercury and the Moon as well. Once again it is playing with semantics. Mercury has a surface bounded exosphere but to call it an atmosphere is just like saying the Sun has an atmosphere.
I guess we could redefine atmosphere as the region around anything flying through space and start talking about the GCR generate neutron albedo flying off the Hubble as its atmosphere.
simply because it is more complex
Dude, if you want complexity then study psychiatry, now that's complex.
While the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator must be seriously complex (Looney tunes, 1952), its complexity does not make it any more intrinsically interesting than our periodic table. The error bars on these cross-sections!!!
Our moon does not have an atmosphere, neither does the Sun, nor the Stars. The Martian atmosphere has been essentially blown away. Are these objects less worthy or less interesting to study because they do not have/much-of an "atmosphere?". NASA would disagree and so do I.
atmosphere matters, more than anything else you can say about mercury
I seriously hope your not a scientist.
Please...
Titan certainly is more interesting to us than mercury
Perhaps it's more interesting to you
Messenger is well on its way to study Mercury.
BepiColombo will hopefully be launched in the not-so-distant future
It's clear that Mercury is indeed a very interesting place to go.
Now I don't dispute that Titan is a wicked/awesome place to go, just don't pick a fight where none exists.
There are a great many reasons why Mercury is a seriously cool object to study.
What are the composition, isotopic abundance, spatial distribution and temporal variability of the particles on Mercury's surface and its surface bounded exosphere?
Why the hell does it have a magnetic field? Seriously, this is one our solar systems significant mysteries. Does Mercury have an active core? Does Mercury Vent? (certainly other bodies do... e.g. Io, Trition, Enceladus, etc...)
There are a number of evolution scenarios that attempt to explain the unusual properties of Mercury (e.g. high density, large core, large Fe/Si ratio, etc...).
The bottom line of my comment is that Mercury is interesting, and a solid understanding of its evolution is essential to understanding the creation of our solar system.
Not to rain on anybodies parade, but if that supernova sends a gamma ray burst in our direction. We can kiss our asses goodby....
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If we are all going to die then why did we invest in swift
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/main/inde
it would provide 1000x as much gamma radiation on the Earth as a solar flare.
So what?
we have seen a number of large gamma ray bursts over the decades and they deliver 1000x what a large solar flare produces. Your point was?
the children who constantly play their gameboy wherever they go...
These kids are not the target, if they are then the company should hire a new CEO.
My kid plays with these things all the time. He knows about vidio games and badly wants to play them but he is only 4 and just cant get it right. I dont doubt that in a year or two the hot wheels will be in the closet and the game boy will be the hot property.
I think hot wheels has a strong but limited and temporary audience, they should understand that and focus on it.
make sure that it becomes as intrusive as possible, make sure that at every turn every legitimate use of people's own products becomes difficult and when something like the Sony Rootkit happens (which it will, again and again...) then we seize on it and show the world that this makes the situation worse for everyone.
Interesting idea.
Take it up the ass as a method of showing that taking it up the ass is bad.
You first.
Every time I turn around someone is trying to launch balls into space. First we had those balls that were suppose to detect gravitational waves, now we have these balls that are suppose to rotate around each other. What's next, balls on the moon, mars, and beyond?
what it's for. If it's DVDs for the kids it goes in a folder. If it's essential backups they go in hard cases. If it's one of the zillions of other backups I make I simply title them, date them, and drop them right back on a spare spindle. They take up less space, they are as protected as any other method, and I know before hand that chances are I wont ever need to look at them again, but just in case, I've got them.
For the cost of what Canada spends on helicopters for the miitary, every single jobless person in the entire country could be supported
...What have you been smoking?
Canada must have one bitchin array of helicopters, but seriously,
You are suggesting that Canada should redirect the entire military helicopter budget to support jobless people?
And what about the thousands of people that are now jobless because they use to make military helicopters? What about the now-jobless employees of the restaurants where those people eat? What about the now-jobless people that use to maintain their lawns while they are at work building the helicopters? What about the entire community of people (also now jobless) that use to support these people?
All your plan does is transfer a pot of cash from one group to another. It funds people to do some as-yet-unformulated productive thing for the community, and puts another entire community of currently productive people in their place (it is a zero-sum game).
By my calculations, we should have found a monolith 6 years ago.
But we did. Turns out that the MPAA has all IP rights to said monolith. It was confiscated and rumor has it, it's now being used as a coffee table at the MPAA-HQ.
As far as I know Helios 1 and 2 were the fastest space crafts ever made
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I was going to call bull-shit until I checked.
We have heard so much lately about the New Horizons spacecraft and how that is the fastest spacecraft every built. Turns out both are correct.
The New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto was moving faster than any spacecraft as it left orbit. The Helios spacecraft were moving faster only during their closest approach to the Sun.
An interesting write-up can be found here
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/q
90% of the population.
Nice straw man!
/. mindThink.
I guess if you wanted to stretch the definition of straw man
What I did was quote the post (it was not a misrepresentation, it was a quote). Then I used an analogy to point out the fallacy of the statement.
If in your book that == straw man, then so be it.
Except that Windows is teh shit to just surf the web and read e-mail.
Of course it is, that was the whole entire point of that specific analogy.
It does not matter if the subject is an Apple or Microsoft product, to claim you should not know more about it just does not fit into the
The iPod's sole purpose in life is to play music. So it plays music. Why should I need to know any more than that?
It's a dangerous path you tread.
I would imagine there are people who say My computers sole purpose is so I can surf the web and read email. Windows does that. Why should I need to know any more than that?
It's just not in the geek vocabulary to say why should I need to know any more than that
I have found that my experience at Wal-Mart depends on where the Wal-Mart is. I live on the East Coast (DC area) and I go to Wal-Mart no more than twice a year. Every time I do go to a Wal-Mart I am reminded why I don't go more often (crowded and cramped stores, dirty, unfriendly, and very long lines). It's frequent that there is a 15 minute wait at the checkout (and they only have 3 of the 15 checkouts staffed). Our local Costco is about the same wait (so I concur with your take there).
I recently went to a number of Wal-Mart stores out west and found a totally different situation. The stores were clean, all of the checkout stations were staffed, the staff was friendly, and people simply moved better.
It's not like I live in an area where there is no alternative. There is a Target about the same distance as the Wal-Mart and it's a completely different shopping experience. At the Target the store is clean, the checkout stations are staffed, the lines are shorter, and the prices are about the same.
I chalk it up to being nothing more or less then terrible management of Wal-Mart stores in my region.
A significant question is "can they get a fully effective dollop of bug juice the size of a quarter to hold up their cars?"
The beauty of this is they don't have to.
All they have to do is put enough of this stuff on the hat of a stereotypical construction workers helmet, then glue said helmet to a high-rise construction project and let him dangle his feet over the abyss.. wallah (SP?).. a better super glue.. ?.?.?. Profit.
Although there are numerous other practical problems as others have pointed out
If you want to talk about practical problems let's get the obvious out.
Where I work we build spacecraft. Could we build this spacecraft to the "required" specs? YES I have great 'faith' in myself, my colleagues, and our system. We have been very successful in building spacecraft over the years that do the job.
this one doesn't seem unsolvable.
Your right, it's not. Now let's talk about the cost, you know, the practical part of it. If I were the project manager of this system I would take a typical s/c cost and start adding zeros to the end of the cost (one if not two).
Tracking the source is easy. Tracking the target has been "Star Wars" from the beginning, right? The part that gets me is the relay. We would have to develop a gimbaled relay that responds in real time to both the target and the source. The velocity vector of both the source and the target would have to be tracked with enormous accuracy. I do not think this could be done with one spacecraft. We would need multiple spacecraft that could transmit tracking information in real time to adjust the pointing of the beam-relay. Nothing like this has ever been done before (to my knowledge). The costs to develop such a system would be enormous. I think it would be far cheaper to launch the source and remove the entire relay system (but I guess this thing is exactly what has been under study for all these years).
Honestly, if lasers from planes to spacecraft to target is our best defense option I would strongly support prayer as an alternative (it's much cheaper and equally effective)... and yes, I'm an atheist.