"They should make a big Saturn V style launcher with cheap ass solids strapped around the bottom for the initial heavy lift, like the Soyuz, then a cheap ass liquid booster module. Then a cargo can, and on top, the orbital and re-entry vehicle."
That actually sounds very much like ESA'sHermes design.
Although that project was sadly enough cancelled, there's something new scheduled:
1) Perhaps the USA, Russia, the European Union and other possibly interested countries (Canada, Japan, etc) should just cooperate on designing a reusable launching system/platform. Combined these parties have massive amounts of (overlapping) experience!
2) Once designed, each participant in this deal could then use and launch their own craft when and wherever they deem suitable without being too dependent on other parties once again.
I'd like to suggest more comfortable, reclining chairs at locations like Universities for example:).. and would this be why we always see the traditional image of someone visiting a psychologist... lying down on the couch?
You probably won't be able to receive it... the signal is a billion times weaker than that of a watch.. and you need to align your telescope to 1/1000th of a degree.
If I could receive it, I'd already have a radio telescope in my backyard;)
Hmm.. perhaps if we connect many small backyard telescopes over the internet;)
That's certainly true re. the speed.
But if one has a handful of observation buoys, I figure they should be able to detect something and signal it via sattelite at the speed of light.
Tsunamis are notoriously difficult to detect, as they remain underwater until approaching the shore; also, the wavelength is in the order of kilometers, so it's very hard to track.
First of all I'm certainly not an expert in this area, hence the following question:
If such a wave, despite the fact that the wavelength is in the order of kilometers, is traveling at such a high speed: wouldn't it be possible to detect some kind of Doppler-effect for a particular region of the ocean?!?
(using SONAR-like/related technologies)
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I really wonder if, besides the water/flooding problem, there's another problem:
:O
.. so I'm just thinking out loud.
poisonous/contaminated deposits of mud which will have found it's way into every corner of every building by now.
If that is the case, you'll have to remove -assuming the correct approach- the top layer of soil after the city is dry.
perhaps that mud could be stored securely and contained in an island just before the coast though..
but ultimately, I'm not an engineer
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That actually sounds very much like ESA's Hermes design.
Although that project was sadly enough cancelled, there's something new scheduled:
EADS Phoenix
Come to think about it:
1) Perhaps the USA, Russia, the European Union and other possibly interested countries (Canada, Japan, etc) should just cooperate on designing a reusable launching system/platform. Combined these parties have massive amounts of (overlapping) experience!
2) Once designed, each participant in this deal could then use and launch their own craft when and wherever they deem suitable without being too dependent on other parties once again.
3) ???
4) Profit!
4) Lose very small things..
5) ???
6) Start company developing small things that find small things
7) Profit again!
Almost sounds like a complete business plan
I believe you're missing two points in your list of steps:
:D
"????"
and
"Profit!"
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Sleep for power? Sounds like work to me :P
I'd like to suggest more comfortable, reclining chairs at locations like Universities for example
I'd just recommend thinking about an answer when you're in the shower
and I don't really care what it's called... as long as it repairs itself after being fried, I'm happy! ^_^
Who's with me? ;)
You probably won't be able to receive it... the signal is a billion times weaker than that of a watch.. and you need to align your telescope to 1/1000th of a degree.
;)
;)
If I could receive it, I'd already have a radio telescope in my backyard
Hmm.. perhaps if we connect many small backyard telescopes over the internet
I'm certainly willing to throw in some money every year to help keep them running until they run out of power..
Who's with me?
I think one would need to warp space-time for that.. and I don't think that's a wise thing to do anywhere near the Earth ;)
:-/
This is next to the fact that it requires an enormous mass or _insane_ amounts of energy to do..
How much?
You need about 10 billion times all the energy in the entire Universe to warp a section of space-time that is much smaller than an atom.
Not something you can do with/in a car I fear..
"No Star Left Behind?"
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Thanks @parent for bringing back some memories
Oops. forgot an important one
;)
5. Decide to buy a laptop in the tax-free shop after touching down again.
4. Use Bluetooth Keyboard + Mouse and continue typing code while sitting in your airplane seat w/ the Mac Mini in the cargo bay* 8-)
:-D
* this requires either a good memory or a hacking the inflight-movie to display your code.
You might also want to check out the following (Distributed Computing) project:
ClimatePrediction.net
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what is dslr? :S
The phonetic spelling can be found on Dictioary.com .
Luckily, also being Dutch myself, I have no trouble at all pronouncing this word.. but I do like that supermodel thought! ;)
First: 40km/h is not reachable for most people.
Second: no-one can maintain that maximum effort for over 500-600 meters..
It would be totally anaerobic if it's done at maximum effort, which might last 10 to maybe 15 seconds.
Good luck trying to outrun such a wave ::yikes::
That's certainly true re. the speed. But if one has a handful of observation buoys, I figure they should be able to detect something and signal it via sattelite at the speed of light.
First of all I'm certainly not an expert in this area, hence the following question:
If such a wave, despite the fact that the wavelength is in the order of kilometers, is traveling at such a high speed: wouldn't it be possible to detect some kind of Doppler-effect for a particular region of the ocean?!? (using SONAR-like/related technologies)