Basically, imagine that instead of a propeller, the car's wheels turned an internal flywheel. The wind pushes the car, and the car accelerates up to (very near to) the wind speed. No switch the internal load for the propeller, which adds an additional acceleration. The car is now moving above wind speed. The part that's hard to wrap your head around is that you need to be very careful about friction losses and efficiency of the drivetrain, and that the car needs to have the lowest cross section possible to reduce drag. While theoretically a physical car would eventually reach wind speed on an impossibly long straight road with an impossibly constant unidirectional wind, for the sake of practicality it needs to be brought up to wind speed by a regular car.
Pixels. Your regular e-ink reader is 800x600. This has a combined resolution of 1800x1440, more than 5 times larger. The ipad is a paltry 1024x768. You're lucky to get anything more than 1024x600 in a netbook.
You want to look at images, charts, or graphs? Current e-readers are simply crap at it. You have to zoom in at least 3x just to read some axis labels, maybe even further to see the error bars properly, and by that time you're only looking at a section of the graph, not the whole thing. Never mind if you want to read comics/manga/etc without having to zoom about the page in a ridiculous fashion (and losing two page spreads).
On commercial aircraft, yes. Light aircraft,however, especially older craft, are not shielded. Rather than test every aircraft with a battery of EM tests for every device imaginable, and then subclassify them by what devices you can use on what craft, it's a damn sight easier to go the 'Better Safe Than Sorry' approach and blanket-ban.
And more importantly, you can easily trick the body into releasing painkillers by making the brain think it's receiving/about to receive a painful stimulus. The chakra points (or chi/ki/whatever) nonsense may be total bunk, but the placebo effect here is measurable, and could potentially be exploited in actual medicine if it's effects can be reliable induced. A reduced requirement for painkillers could be of use in 3rd world countries where aid supplies may not always be available.
More accurately, it's a Blended Wing Body craft, and they've been around for quite a while. Boeing's own X-48concept has been around a few years, and is almost identical to the 'H-series' concept. I also recall an old passenger craft comncept very similar to the 'B-series' concept, except with an even wider, taller body, and with stubbier wings. Unfortunately, I can't remember what it was called.
Actually, cockroaches can get over some crazy obstacles with little to no change in gait, That big honking joint in the middle? With just that, they can clime obstacles as tall as they are. Yes, they can switch to a wave gait for really big stuff, but most of the time they simply move their muscles in exactly the same way, and rely on the dynamics of their leg joints to conform them to the surface passively. It's an extraordinarily elegant and efficient way of moving. There's a lot of work in the field of passive-dynamic robotics aimed at modelling this sort of movement, allowing robots to move using legs with far less energy than they do at the moment, by designing them so a lot of the work in moving the limbs is done massively.
Lookup some of Dr. Roger Quinn's work. I can't find the videos he showed at a recent lecture in the UK, but they demonstrated how the much-maligned Whegs are really a lot cleverer than they look.
I'm curious as to which 'Lagrange point' it's supposed to end up at, and how exactly it will get there without and additional energy input. Even the Earth-Moon L1 point is 10 times further out than GEO, and it's not even a stable point.
Is there, you know, a summary or something so I don't have to wade through that long fricking rant in order to actually learn anything interesting about the Ogg format?
Summary: The ogg container isn't that bad. Nobody actually uses it.
I think this is less 'hidden in a shipping container' and more 'mounted in a shipping container'. The Goalkeeper CIWS system, for example, has a containerised version. And I believe some of the variants of the ASTER SAM box launchers can be mounted as stacked containers. IT's a combination of ease of handling (if you;re weapons are in a standard shape and size, logistics is greatly simplified) and allowing for mounting on converted merchant marine ships. Remember the Atlantic Comnveyer? No defensive systems, so was sunk by a couple of Exocets.
It's even older than that. The SLAM was developed as part of Project Pluto in the 50s/60s. The nuclear ramjet was never developed further, but the terrain-tracking guidance system is still used in the Tomahawk cruise missile. Take the SLAM, give it a more conventional engine (and replace the shielding mass with more fuel), conventional munitions, and modern avionics, and you have this thing pretty much ready made.
Really? Here in the UK, online gambling is perfectly A-OK (we even have a national lottery, with justuner 1/3 of the proceeds going to charity). We have one 'mega casino', and everyone makes fun of it. The US has no legalised gambling. And a whole CITY dedicated to hundreds casinos that dwarf the UK's one 'mega' casino.
Seems to me that online gambling is the least of people's worries.
Think less the aliens from Independance Day (did they ever get a name?), and more the BETA or Mimics. If I wanted to farm resources from other solar systems, why go there myself when I could just send engineered organisms to do the work for me?
I wonder how common nIR graffiti is? It would be visible in 'night vision' CCTV cameras, and often to regular CCD and CMOS cameras with poor filters, but invisible to the naked eye.
In fact, it's incredibly easy to swap the nIR blocking filter in a cheap camera for an IR-pass/optically opaque filter. Leaving invisible notes for people could be pretty fun.
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1-watt blue, I mean. IR laser diodes are much, much cheaper.
Even buying the raw laser diode and making the driver (and heatsink) yourself, you'd be hard pressed to get 1-watt output for under $200.
thus everyone reading will click on the link
HAH! A common error!
Basically, imagine that instead of a propeller, the car's wheels turned an internal flywheel. The wind pushes the car, and the car accelerates up to (very near to) the wind speed. No switch the internal load for the propeller, which adds an additional acceleration. The car is now moving above wind speed.
The part that's hard to wrap your head around is that you need to be very careful about friction losses and efficiency of the drivetrain, and that the car needs to have the lowest cross section possible to reduce drag. While theoretically a physical car would eventually reach wind speed on an impossibly long straight road with an impossibly constant unidirectional wind, for the sake of practicality it needs to be brought up to wind speed by a regular car.
Pixels. Your regular e-ink reader is 800x600. This has a combined resolution of 1800x1440, more than 5 times larger. The ipad is a paltry 1024x768. You're lucky to get anything more than 1024x600 in a netbook.
You want to look at images, charts, or graphs? Current e-readers are simply crap at it. You have to zoom in at least 3x just to read some axis labels, maybe even further to see the error bars properly, and by that time you're only looking at a section of the graph, not the whole thing. Never mind if you want to read comics/manga/etc without having to zoom about the page in a ridiculous fashion (and losing two page spreads).
On commercial aircraft, yes. Light aircraft,however, especially older craft, are not shielded. Rather than test every aircraft with a battery of EM tests for every device imaginable, and then subclassify them by what devices you can use on what craft, it's a damn sight easier to go the 'Better Safe Than Sorry' approach and blanket-ban.
And more importantly, you can easily trick the body into releasing painkillers by making the brain think it's receiving/about to receive a painful stimulus. The chakra points (or chi/ki/whatever) nonsense may be total bunk, but the placebo effect here is measurable, and could potentially be exploited in actual medicine if it's effects can be reliable induced. A reduced requirement for painkillers could be of use in 3rd world countries where aid supplies may not always be available.
"Blow in the DTR!" "No, no! Jiggle the CCS!" "Did you try uninstalling the MGA?"
It's not impossible. I used to bullseye flow dynamic calculations on my Ti-15 back home, they're not much bigger than two OOM.
More accurately, it's a Blended Wing Body craft, and they've been around for quite a while. Boeing's own X-48concept has been around a few years, and is almost identical to the 'H-series' concept. I also recall an old passenger craft comncept very similar to the 'B-series' concept, except with an even wider, taller body, and with stubbier wings. Unfortunately, I can't remember what it was called.
2.35:1 is standard 'Scope ratio.
That was a great talk, thanks for the link.
All through the explanation I was thinking "He just put a motor on a diff? Why didn't I think of that!". But I didn't, and he did, so kudos to him.
Actually, cockroaches can get over some crazy obstacles with little to no change in gait, That big honking joint in the middle? With just that, they can clime obstacles as tall as they are. Yes, they can switch to a wave gait for really big stuff, but most of the time they simply move their muscles in exactly the same way, and rely on the dynamics of their leg joints to conform them to the surface passively. It's an extraordinarily elegant and efficient way of moving. There's a lot of work in the field of passive-dynamic robotics aimed at modelling this sort of movement, allowing robots to move using legs with far less energy than they do at the moment, by designing them so a lot of the work in moving the limbs is done massively.
Lookup some of Dr. Roger Quinn's work. I can't find the videos he showed at a recent lecture in the UK, but they demonstrated how the much-maligned Whegs are really a lot cleverer than they look.
For all of a few seconds, before the US-built Unit 04 inevitable explodes. Again
I'm curious as to which 'Lagrange point' it's supposed to end up at, and how exactly it will get there without and additional energy input. Even the Earth-Moon L1 point is 10 times further out than GEO, and it's not even a stable point.
It's like The Matrix but with old people.
Depending on your taste in animation, either the Solid State Society, or the Near-Death Star.
Is there, you know, a summary or something so I don't have to wade through that long fricking rant in order to actually learn anything interesting about the Ogg format?
Summary: The ogg container isn't that bad. Nobody actually uses it.
I think this is less 'hidden in a shipping container' and more 'mounted in a shipping container'. The Goalkeeper CIWS system, for example, has a containerised version. And I believe some of the variants of the ASTER SAM box launchers can be mounted as stacked containers. IT's a combination of ease of handling (if you;re weapons are in a standard shape and size, logistics is greatly simplified) and allowing for mounting on converted merchant marine ships. Remember the Atlantic Comnveyer? No defensive systems, so was sunk by a couple of Exocets.
Oh man, that's a typo and a half. I meant legalised ONLINE gambling. should have been obvious in context, but still, whoops.
It's even older than that. The SLAM was developed as part of Project Pluto in the 50s/60s. The nuclear ramjet was never developed further, but the terrain-tracking guidance system is still used in the Tomahawk cruise missile. Take the SLAM, give it a more conventional engine (and replace the shielding mass with more fuel), conventional munitions, and modern avionics, and you have this thing pretty much ready made.
Really? Here in the UK, online gambling is perfectly A-OK (we even have a national lottery, with justuner 1/3 of the proceeds going to charity). We have one 'mega casino', and everyone makes fun of it. The US has no legalised gambling. And a whole CITY dedicated to hundreds casinos that dwarf the UK's one 'mega' casino.
Seems to me that online gambling is the least of people's worries.
Think less the aliens from Independance Day (did they ever get a name?), and more the BETA or Mimics. If I wanted to farm resources from other solar systems, why go there myself when I could just send engineered organisms to do the work for me?
"The end of Floppy Disks" has occurred every year for the past decade or so.
I wonder how common nIR graffiti is? It would be visible in 'night vision' CCTV cameras, and often to regular CCD and CMOS cameras with poor filters, but invisible to the naked eye.
In fact, it's incredibly easy to swap the nIR blocking filter in a cheap camera for an IR-pass/optically opaque filter. Leaving invisible notes for people could be pretty fun.