My involvement in ham radio is the occasional QSO or contest (Field Day, SS), using so called "boatanchors", or vacuum tube equipment I have restored or built from scratch. The only solid state rig I own is my 2 meter HT.
While there is plenty of fun to be had playing around with digital modes and microwaves (and I played a lot with packet in the early 90s), I spend my whole workweek dealing with modern electronics and digital doodads, and I find great enjoyment in working with the technologies of the past. The warm glow of a chassis full of tubes has a "soul" that boards full of silicon never did and never will.
So I'm hardly on the "cutting edge" of the hobby, but I still enjoy it nonetheless.
Palladium preloaded with hydrogen would make a GREAT hydrogenation catalyst for use in illicit drug labs. Meth, MDMA, or any of the more exotic phenethylamines could be easily produced using this stuff. Currently, powerful reducing agents (LiAlH4, etc.) are pretty closely watched by the DEA, but if this stuff is going to be as close as your local gas station, expect a upturn in illegal drug production!
A younger friend told me of a similar monkeywrenching episode at his HS. When word got out that the drug dogs were coming through, a few of the more politically aware stoners got together and sprayed the hallways, lockers, and other areas with dirty bongwater. Special attention was paid to the teacher's lounge and the administrative offices.:)
When the dogs came through, they went absolutely apeshit and had to be removed, with no actual drugs being found.:)
Because the high-THC plants would be fertilized by all the pollen released by the hemp plants they were surrounded by.
The resulting plants would be seedy and have vastly reduced potency. In order to produce good marijuana, you want unfertilized female plants, to channel all the energy that would normally go into seed production into resin production.
While a sphere would be the most efficient form for a critical mass, it isn't a necessity for a gun-type weapon.
AFAIK, the assembly dropped on Hiroshima consisted of a simple tapered cylindrical slug that was fired into a ring-shaped target. Well within the capabilities of any industrial machine shop.
[quote]In sci-fi, there are ideas like hermetically sealing teeth. I really think dentistry should be working much harder towards things like that.[/quote]
What? And kill off all the profitable fillings, root canals, and all the rest?
Nice idea, but the 2 biggest polluters are power generation and terrestrial transportation. Kinda hard to move either of those to the moon, no?
Don't worry, LockMart, Boeing, and the rest will
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get their flace at the trough, just like they always have.
NASA hardly does anything "in house", certainly not spacecraft construction. As much as the "free market" droids like to scream about how NASA needs to be privatized, the majority of their budget just gets handed over to private industry via procurement contracts as it is.
Maybe what is needed is for NASA to get people ON STAFF to handle some of the work that is now being farmed out?
The brand is now owned by Osram. LOTS of old US consumer electronics brands are back on the market, under new ownership. Saw a "Curtis-Mathes" set in a newspaper ad the other day...
Philips probably acquired any remaining patents on the halolight technology when THEY bought Sylvania back in the late 70s or early 80s, and folded it into "NAPCEC", or North American Philips Consumer Electronics Corp.
Not the first time at all. Sylvania had a similar idea back in the B/W era.
Beginning in 1952, some of their high-end sets incorporated a feature called "HaloLight", which was an illuminated bezel surrounding the CRT, designed to reduce eyestrain when watching the set in a dark room.
Although it was Sylvania, not Zenith, that pioneered this idea. And a few years prior to 1957, too...
Beginning in 1952, some of their high-end sets incorporated a feature called "HaloLight", which was an illuminated bezel surrounding the CRT, designed to reduce eyestrain when watching the set in a dark room.
Everything old is new again....
Here's a list of some who DON'T...
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Essentially the same machine as the ZX-81, but it came as a kit. Unlike "building" a PC nowadays, you actually needed to solder all the parts onto an empty PC board. This was the first machine I actually OWNED.
The first machines I did any work on were Commodore PETs and Trash-80s in Junior HS.
as well, presumably due to competition by PayPal. Too bad, as it was a good way to accept international eBay auction payments without PayPal fees or having to go to a Western Union outlet to collect the money...
The lightning-induced problems on Apollo 12 were isolated to the CSM, not the booster. In fact, the booster's guidance system is all that got the crew into orbit, because the CSM guidance system crashed along with most of the electrical system after the second lightning strike.
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My involvement in ham radio is the occasional QSO or contest (Field Day, SS), using so called "boatanchors", or vacuum tube equipment I have restored or built from scratch. The only solid state rig I own is my 2 meter HT.
While there is plenty of fun to be had playing around with digital modes and microwaves (and I played a lot with packet in the early 90s), I spend my whole workweek dealing with modern electronics and digital doodads, and I find great enjoyment in working with the technologies of the past. The warm glow of a chassis full of tubes has a "soul" that boards full of silicon never did and never will.
So I'm hardly on the "cutting edge" of the hobby, but I still enjoy it nonetheless.
Palladium preloaded with hydrogen would make a GREAT hydrogenation catalyst for use in illicit drug labs. Meth, MDMA, or any of the more exotic phenethylamines could be easily produced using this stuff. Currently, powerful reducing agents (LiAlH4, etc.) are pretty closely watched by the DEA, but if this stuff is going to be as close as your local gas station, expect a upturn in illegal drug production!
A younger friend told me of a similar monkeywrenching episode at his HS. When word got out that the drug dogs were coming through, a few of the more politically aware stoners got together and sprayed the hallways, lockers, and other areas with dirty bongwater. Special attention was paid to the teacher's lounge and the administrative offices. :)
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When the dogs came through, they went absolutely apeshit and had to be removed, with no actual drugs being found.
Because the high-THC plants would be fertilized by all the pollen released by the hemp plants they were surrounded by.
The resulting plants would be seedy and have vastly reduced potency. In order to produce good marijuana, you want unfertilized female plants, to channel all the energy that would normally go into seed production into resin production.
The slashdot editors screwed up the name when pulling that quote from the article, not me.
(After one of the jocks yells "What you lookin' at, nerd?")
Thought I was looking at my mother's old douchebag, but that's back in Ohio....
While a sphere would be the most efficient form for a critical mass, it isn't a necessity for a gun-type weapon.
AFAIK, the assembly dropped on Hiroshima consisted of a simple tapered cylindrical slug that was fired into a ring-shaped target. Well within the capabilities of any industrial machine shop.
[quote]In sci-fi, there are ideas like hermetically sealing teeth. I really think dentistry should be working much harder towards things like that.[/quote]
What? And kill off all the profitable fillings, root canals, and all the rest?
Nice idea, but the 2 biggest polluters are power generation and terrestrial transportation. Kinda hard to move either of those to the moon, no?
get their flace at the trough, just like they always have.
NASA hardly does anything "in house", certainly not spacecraft construction. As much as the "free market" droids like to scream about how NASA needs to be privatized, the majority of their budget just gets handed over to private industry via procurement contracts as it is.
Maybe what is needed is for NASA to get people ON STAFF to handle some of the work that is now being farmed out?
Sylvania TVs are still being made:
http://www.sylvania.com/
The brand is now owned by Osram. LOTS of old US consumer electronics brands are back on the market, under new ownership. Saw a "Curtis-Mathes" set in a newspaper ad the other day...
Philips probably acquired any remaining patents on the halolight technology when THEY bought Sylvania back in the late 70s or early 80s, and folded it into "NAPCEC", or North American Philips Consumer Electronics Corp.
produce a propaganda videogame to indoctrinate impressionable kids with jingoistic bullshit, right?
http://www.americasarmy.com/
Not the first time at all. Sylvania had a similar idea back in the B/W era.
Beginning in 1952, some of their high-end sets incorporated a feature called "HaloLight", which was an illuminated bezel surrounding the CRT, designed to reduce eyestrain when watching the set in a dark room.
Everything old is new again....
Although it was Sylvania, not Zenith, that pioneered this idea. And a few years prior to 1957, too...
Beginning in 1952, some of their high-end sets incorporated a feature called "HaloLight", which was an illuminated bezel surrounding the CRT, designed to reduce eyestrain when watching the set in a dark room.
Everything old is new again....
http://www.nontesterslist.com/
:)
The only urine sample an employer would ever get out of me would be for a taste test!
At least the store near me. Just like Home Despot, they have a sign stating their drug testing policy right on the entrance door....
Currently at the NASM annex out near Dulles airport.
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It never flew in space, but was used for various atmospheric stability/landing tests.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/imagedetail.cfm?imageID=38
so the standard "police scanner" can't pick it up.
the local donut shop! Wouldn't want to miss out on that "vital police activity", right?
Live streaming of in-car audio and all police radio transmissions could be next.
Essentially the same machine as the ZX-81, but it came as a kit. Unlike "building" a PC nowadays, you actually needed to solder all the parts onto an empty PC board. This was the first machine I actually OWNED.
The first machines I did any work on were Commodore PETs and Trash-80s in Junior HS.
There isn't any air to do any "blowing".....
I think the OP meant "Military-Industrial Complex"....
as well, presumably due to competition by PayPal. Too bad, as it was a good way to accept international eBay auction payments without PayPal fees or having to go to a Western Union outlet to collect the money...
The lightning-induced problems on Apollo 12 were isolated to the CSM, not the booster. In fact, the booster's guidance system is all that got the crew into orbit, because the CSM guidance system crashed along with most of the electrical system after the second lightning strike.
So you have a 4GB HDD that "FDISK's" itself if you power the machine down overnight?