You don't have to go to space for microgravity. Drop towers is one way to test it. I believe you can get a few seconds in a drop tower, which should be more than enough to test this
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A New Ice Age?
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Although I agree with you that we don't know if global warming is suppose to happen right now anyway, the rate of change is what's alarming the scientists. Records going back hundreds of years give us a pretty good image of the weather pattern we're suppose to receive. The amount of extreme weather occurances and unprecedented warming of land inside the arctic circle is why scientists are concerned. The rate of change is simply beyond anything nature alone could do.
So yes I do agree with you that globam warming and ice ages are normal. Maybe we're suppose to have global warming anyway. But the rate that this is happening is alarming. And it leaves us little time to prepare ourselves to find ways to adapt to the new climate.
Centrifugal "force" is not the counter-force to centripetal force, and indeed, can exist even in the absence of centripetal force.
It can't "exist" because it's not a real force. Centrifugal is an apprent or imaginary force. It's easy to explain why we feel we're being pushed away from the centre of the arc with Centrifugal force, but that's not what really happens. Centripetal force is the force that's causing the object to constantly accelerate towards the centre. Since our body has an inertia, its tendency is to go in a straight line. However, the accleration of the car pushes our body towards the centre. Therefore, we feel a force pushing us to the car. However, to say that there's a force actually pushing us would be false. This is grade 12 physics. It saddens me to hear professional engineers using the word centrifugal.
- Linux's core market is servers.
- Microsoft trys to muscle in on that market, so Linux says "OK, buddy" and attacks Microsofts core market, the desktop.
- Now, Microsoft must split resources to defend thier core market as well as advance on the new one
- If Microsoft pushes to hard on the server front, they could lose thier huge dominance of the desktop market. Very bad for them.
- if they defend the desktop market too strenuously, they won't make the headway they want on the server market. Still bad for them, as thier share price is predicated on huge growth.
No offence, but are we talking about the same Microsoft? You know, the one that has BILLIONS of dollars in cash reserve? The one that's entering into about every IT sector there is?
If I have to pick one company that can focus on many areas at once, I would pick Microsoft. They definitely have the resources. Just take a look at Xbox. They're losing hundreds of dollars on each unit, yet, they can continue this practice for years to come.
When you have as much money as Microsoft, that's not much that you CAN'T do. Not trying to be a fanboy here, but you can't ignore the facts.
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You don't have to go to space for microgravity. Drop towers is one way to test it. I believe you can get a few seconds in a drop tower, which should be more than enough to test this
They probably have a whole stash of ASCII porn
Although I agree with you that we don't know if global warming is suppose to happen right now anyway, the rate of change is what's alarming the scientists. Records going back hundreds of years give us a pretty good image of the weather pattern we're suppose to receive. The amount of extreme weather occurances and unprecedented warming of land inside the arctic circle is why scientists are concerned. The rate of change is simply beyond anything nature alone could do.
So yes I do agree with you that globam warming and ice ages are normal. Maybe we're suppose to have global warming anyway. But the rate that this is happening is alarming. And it leaves us little time to prepare ourselves to find ways to adapt to the new climate.
Are you still talking about uniform circular motion? I always thought a centripetal force must exist in uniforum circular motion.
It can't "exist" because it's not a real force. Centrifugal is an apprent or imaginary force. It's easy to explain why we feel we're being pushed away from the centre of the arc with Centrifugal force, but that's not what really happens. Centripetal force is the force that's causing the object to constantly accelerate towards the centre. Since our body has an inertia, its tendency is to go in a straight line. However, the accleration of the car pushes our body towards the centre. Therefore, we feel a force pushing us to the car. However, to say that there's a force actually pushing us would be false. This is grade 12 physics. It saddens me to hear professional engineers using the word centrifugal.
- Microsoft trys to muscle in on that market, so Linux says "OK, buddy" and attacks Microsofts core market, the desktop.
- Now, Microsoft must split resources to defend thier core market as well as advance on the new one
- If Microsoft pushes to hard on the server front, they could lose thier huge dominance of the desktop market. Very bad for them.
- if they defend the desktop market too strenuously, they won't make the headway they want on the server market. Still bad for them, as thier share price is predicated on huge growth.
No offence, but are we talking about the same Microsoft? You know, the one that has BILLIONS of dollars in cash reserve? The one that's entering into about every IT sector there is?
If I have to pick one company that can focus on many areas at once, I would pick Microsoft. They definitely have the resources. Just take a look at Xbox. They're losing hundreds of dollars on each unit, yet, they can continue this practice for years to come.
When you have as much money as Microsoft, that's not much that you CAN'T do. Not trying to be a fanboy here, but you can't ignore the facts.