I guess that if you would want the tether to become straight again, you would need to press the STOP button. The thing is, some elevators seem to miss that button for whatever reason.
You only have to work against gravitational potential. The tether/earth provides the lateral kinetic energy.
Any cargo climbing to the upper floor would need to gain a proper orbital velocity. It might get it from the ground or from the upper floor or from its own engine. It means that you would need to provide some fraction of the lateral kinetic energy by accelerating laterally either the cargo or the upper floor.
The Moon causes tidal forces. These forces cause massive movement of ocean water. The movement in turn changes kinetic energy into thermal energy, effectively taking energy out of the Earth-Moon system.
As within a system of two orbiting bodies the sum of kinetic and potential energy decreases with the distance between these bodies, the Moon recedes.
Look at this in another way: there is some planet with different objects placed on its surface, and these are well--isolated from each other. It would not be surprising, that each of these objects has a different temperature, would it? Because of e.g. its colour or its radiation surface.
Now, let one of these objects be the air, and the other be some well--isolated, well--radiating building.
Would not it be cool to put a thermodynamic engine in that building, in order to produce energy by reversing the greenhouse effect?
When ducks suddenly emerge from a pond covered with duck-weed, I have twice seen these little plants adhering to their backs; and it has happened to me, in removing a little duck-weed from one aquarium to another, that I have unintentionally stocked the one with fresh-water shells from the other. But another agency is perhaps more effectual: I suspended the feet of a duck in an aquarium, where many ova of fresh-water shells were hatching; and I found that numbers of the extremely minute and just-hatched shells crawled on the feet, and clung to them so firmly that when taken out of the water they could not be jarred off, though at a somewhat more advanced age they would voluntarily drop off. These just-hatched molluscs, though aquatic in their nature, survived on the duck's feet, in damp air, from twelve to twenty hours; and in this length of time a duck or heron might fly at least six or seven hundred miles, and if blown across the sea to an oceanic island, or to any other distant point, would be sure to alight on a pool or rivulet.
It is art, no prediction. It is obvious from the first glance. And the article confirms it:
If you're tempted to assume that the image was actually a serious depiction of what a future wrist computer might look like-well, no. Inside the magazine, which only had a brief editiorial about future computers, the editors pointed out that it wasn't a coincidence that it happened to be the April issue of Byte.
Is the shape of these dots representing merely the telescope's own artifacts? Will we be able to see clouds/continents of the largest exoplanets, if Phil Plait's prediction, that seeing Earth--sized planets is only a few years away, turns out to be true?
Why not a ballon, of the size of a giant hat, make of a tinfoil? If would need to be tilted somewhat, and turn itself towards the sun -- easy in the case of a ballon. Would not it be much cheaper? Of course, tinfoil does not have the directionality of a glass mirror, but make the hat big enough and it would not be a problem, and even be a feature -- the more ambient light would not decrease the iris size so much, and thus a human would perceive the lighted area as even more bright.
In particular, is there some known planetary system, where the rule is expressed using low integers, like 4 + 3 * 2^m in the case of Solar System, and not just by any exponential fit?
I wonder, if the inner planets of some other systems follow that hypothesis as closely as in the case of the Solar System. Is there any data already about that?
They say, that their chocolate is going to be good even if it does not melt, as opposed to a "normal chocolate". As chocolate in general does not melt easily on very cold days and thus has taste problems, then perhaps their chocolate will actually taste better in the winter.
Pehaps they'll miss the unnatural yellow tint CFLs give, to save on the inefficient red phospor (some of the CFLs with the best light are B on the efficiency scale, because they contain balanced amounts of yellow and red).
More seriously, traditional bulbs give off warmth, which some people understandably like, especially in colder climates. And modern halogens are C on the efficiency scale, not bad given their sun--like light. The trick is to use a special glass cover that returns some of the infra--red band back to the tungsten.
Have you ever did any involved mathematical analysis of detecting a slowly drifting 50Hz signal in a background stronger by hundreds of dB? I did not. This is why I would not say "all noise". I just do not know that. Do you?
Do you think that searching for various traits of a planet, for which no known explanation exists, becomes useless just because there is no life on the planet?
gigawatts of radio waves put into space: check
at a wavelength interesting to astronomers: check
low--frequency modulation, common phase: check (think Fourier analysis over months of data to filter out unmodulated light of a nearby star)
characteristic spectral fingerprint of artificial light: check
not limited to a civilisation's "radio window": check
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Yes, you are right, the elevator would swing at most.
I guess that if you would want the tether to become straight again, you would need to press the STOP button. The thing is, some elevators seem to miss that button for whatever reason.
You only have to work against gravitational potential. The tether/earth provides the lateral kinetic energy.
Any cargo climbing to the upper floor would need to gain a proper orbital velocity. It might get it from the ground or from the upper floor or from its own engine. It means that you would need to provide some fraction of the lateral kinetic energy by accelerating laterally either the cargo or the upper floor.
The Moon causes tidal forces. These forces cause massive movement of ocean water. The movement in turn changes kinetic energy into thermal energy, effectively taking energy out of the Earth-Moon system. As within a system of two orbiting bodies the sum of kinetic and potential energy decreases with the distance between these bodies, the Moon recedes.
Look at this in another way: there is some planet with different objects placed on its surface, and these are well--isolated from each other. It would not be surprising, that each of these objects has a different temperature, would it? Because of e.g. its colour or its radiation surface. Now, let one of these objects be the air, and the other be some well--isolated, well--radiating building. Would not it be cool to put a thermodynamic engine in that building, in order to produce energy by reversing the greenhouse effect?
When ducks suddenly emerge from a pond covered with duck-weed, I have twice seen these little plants adhering to their backs; and it has happened to me, in removing a little duck-weed from one aquarium to another, that I have unintentionally stocked the one with fresh-water shells from the other. But another agency is perhaps more effectual: I suspended the feet of a duck in an aquarium, where many ova of fresh-water shells were hatching; and I found that numbers of the extremely minute and just-hatched shells crawled on the feet, and clung to them so firmly that when taken out of the water they could not be jarred off, though at a somewhat more advanced age they would voluntarily drop off. These just-hatched molluscs, though aquatic in their nature, survived on the duck's feet, in damp air, from twelve to twenty hours; and in this length of time a duck or heron might fly at least six or seven hundred miles, and if blown across the sea to an oceanic island, or to any other distant point, would be sure to alight on a pool or rivulet.
Sounds likely, if birds are their warm-blooded descendants.
Did you consider upgrade?
If you're tempted to assume that the image was actually a serious depiction of what a future wrist computer might look like-well, no. Inside the magazine, which only had a brief editiorial about future computers, the editors pointed out that it wasn't a coincidence that it happened to be the April issue of Byte.
Is the shape of these dots representing merely the telescope's own artifacts? Will we be able to see clouds/continents of the largest exoplanets, if Phil Plait's prediction, that seeing Earth--sized planets is only a few years away, turns out to be true?
It had to be "the shape of a hat" -- i. e. with a flat mirroring surface on the bottom side, and with a gas container on the top side.
moving around
e.g. with a special, light harness, tied to three distant points on the surface.
a) to stabilize such a design in the air and
I guess that simply moving around/rotating around the vertical axis might be quite enough.
b) what happens if the wind goes
Fun! It would be mostly for fun anyway.
Why not a ballon, of the size of a giant hat, make of a tinfoil? If would need to be tilted somewhat, and turn itself towards the sun -- easy in the case of a ballon. Would not it be much cheaper? Of course, tinfoil does not have the directionality of a glass mirror, but make the hat big enough and it would not be a problem, and even be a feature -- the more ambient light would not decrease the iris size so much, and thus a human would perceive the lighted area as even more bright.
http://www.universetoday.com/30538/was-mars-magnetic-field-blasted-away/
What is the protection at 180E60S, if compared to Earth?
In particular, is there some known planetary system, where the rule is expressed using low integers, like 4 + 3 * 2^m in the case of Solar System, and not just by any exponential fit?
I wonder, if the inner planets of some other systems follow that hypothesis as closely as in the case of the Solar System. Is there any data already about that?
They say, that their chocolate is going to be good even if it does not melt, as opposed to a "normal chocolate". As chocolate in general does not melt easily on very cold days and thus has taste problems, then perhaps their chocolate will actually taste better in the winter.
...is when I try to eat a frozen chocolate on a winter day. It tastes like goo. Can it be, because it does not melt?
Pehaps they'll miss the unnatural yellow tint CFLs give, to save on the inefficient red phospor (some of the CFLs with the best light are B on the efficiency scale, because they contain balanced amounts of yellow and red).
More seriously, traditional bulbs give off warmth, which some people understandably like, especially in colder climates. And modern halogens are C on the efficiency scale, not bad given their sun--like light. The trick is to use a special glass cover that returns some of the infra--red band back to the tungsten.
Have you ever did any involved mathematical analysis of detecting a slowly drifting 50Hz signal in a background stronger by hundreds of dB? I did not. This is why I would not say "all noise". I just do not know that. Do you?
Do you think that searching for various traits of a planet, for which no known explanation exists, becomes useless just because there is no life on the planet?
gigawatts of radio waves put into space: check
at a wavelength interesting to astronomers: check
low--frequency modulation, common phase: check (think Fourier analysis over months of data to filter out unmodulated light of a nearby star)
characteristic spectral fingerprint of artificial light: check
not limited to a civilisation's "radio window": check
A trip to L2 is said to take longer but be cheaper per kg than that to L1... http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1808/1