You mean if somebody posts a rapidshare link to 100 gigs of porn on 4chan you assume that the images are being distributed against their license? How do you know? Did you check?
I think the humans who live on this planet (excluding those on the ISS) should come up with a plan for the management of the Earth. The plan should consider factors such as population, energy supply, management of reusable resources, and so on.
But I don't for a minute believe such a plan will work. We got where we are by being bastards and we will die that way too. I am too much of a Heinlein fan to think otherwise.
Sorry I should have been more specific. I was looking at Figure 06 which shows temperature increasing at roughly 0.02 degrees C per centimetre of depth. Another 40 degrees gets you to 300 Kelvin at ~20 metres depth. But the moon is pretty much gardened to that depth in the sense that meteors dig craters that deep and turn the surface over. So if there was water at 20 metres at one time it is unlikely to be there now, except at the poles which are very cold.
I assure you there is nothing pure about our genes. In fact we are arguably the worlds experts at assimilation. The city of Bendigo in Victoria used to be a third Chinese. It still is but you won't see many Chinese faces there.
I could be wrong, but usually the speed tests are done in both directions with the end speed being the average of the two values. This prevents people from taking advantage of things such as wind and/or angle to the sun.
Check out the temperature at 2 metres depth. I reckon your temperate zone is close enough to the surface that the regolith at that depth will be as dry as it is at the surface (except in cold polar craters).
Conclusion: other than at the pole the moon may be too hot and dry for life as we know it.
GSM requires zero infrastructure. No digging of trenches or stringing of cables. When I worked on traffic systems we used photovoltaic power and cellular communications anywhere we might have had to trench more than 100 metres or so. Now the wireless solutions are still cheaper and labour is increasingly expensive. Ten metres of trenching would probably justify using wireless.
Our hard wired leased lines were changed such that we located our severs in the same exchange areas as the signals. We had twenty of the things. We 3G you could use a single data centre for a single country and cut down on infrastructure further.
The cost of GSM data isn't very high when all you're sending is "help I'm not working correctly". Since the link serves no other purpose, four bytes should be enough to send a basic diagnostic code.
The system I worked on also transmitted data about traffic density and the timing of the signal controller. Each controller negotiates with adjacent intersections to agree on timing so that delays at red lights are minimised. Also traffic engineers can log in to tune the system. Traffic volume data is also transmitted through the link. In that system we used 300 baud modems on hard wired land lines. The system polled so maybe every two seconds you would see 64 bytes going in each direction. Thats about four megabytes per day. Not much for a 3G link these days but it is possible the South Africans are integrating speed and red light cameras with the same system. That will obviously push the data requirements up.
the moon is in orbit around the sun and the moon at the same time.
What's that, the semiautolunacentric model?
Consider Janus and Epimetheus. Do they orbit each other, or do they orbit Saturn? Both statements are true. This is also the case for the Moon and the Earth. Its really a difference of degree.
I suppose its part of the picture. I read somewhere that the core is offset towards the Earth by about 1 km. The moon does wobble slightly. Telescopes on Earth can see about 60% of the lunar surface by observing at the right times. The sun will be continually pulling at the moon to point towards it.
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You mean if somebody posts a rapidshare link to 100 gigs of porn on 4chan you assume that the images are being distributed against their license? How do you know? Did you check?
Its the only way to go, man.
Kurt Vonnegut would agree.
They may not matter now but given how the rest of the world is waking up I would wager that eventually some change regarding this must come.
Nope, the US doesn't care and never will. They could collapse entirely and never lose an gram of nationalism.
It started to go downhill drastically because Murdoch bought it.
Because
I don't think the shortening of "application store" to "app store" will be able to withstand the attack of genericity.
Perhaps App Store is actually short for Apple Store.
Very true. Australia is a first world country with good warning systems etc. so you would expect death tolls to be lower than in developing nations.
Our big advantage is that most children learn to swim. These people followed locals into the water, assuming it would be safe for them. Not so.
I think the humans who live on this planet (excluding those on the ISS) should come up with a plan for the management of the Earth. The plan should consider factors such as population, energy supply, management of reusable resources, and so on.
But I don't for a minute believe such a plan will work. We got where we are by being bastards and we will die that way too. I am too much of a Heinlein fan to think otherwise.
Sorry I should have been more specific. I was looking at Figure 06 which shows temperature increasing at roughly 0.02 degrees C per centimetre of depth. Another 40 degrees gets you to 300 Kelvin at ~20 metres depth. But the moon is pretty much gardened to that depth in the sense that meteors dig craters that deep and turn the surface over. So if there was water at 20 metres at one time it is unlikely to be there now, except at the poles which are very cold.
I assure you there is nothing pure about our genes. In fact we are arguably the worlds experts at assimilation. The city of Bendigo in Victoria used to be a third Chinese. It still is but you won't see many Chinese faces there.
I am not about to claim that Lotus Notes can read mail.
Take a look at PV cell efficiency 1990 to 2010. Gains are being made but they are not spectacular. I don't think the best cells are appropriate for mounting on a vehicle.
And if you want to compare electric vs ICE vehicles battery technology is the issue.
With Android I like the fact that I can install desktop widgets which run all the time. With iOS it looks like I have to run applications on demand.
I could be wrong, but usually the speed tests are done in both directions with the end speed being the average of the two values. This prevents people from taking advantage of things such as wind and/or angle to the sun.
Yes that is standard practice.
People still use word perfect?!? :)
Its been around for so long it can now read mail and function as a mobile phone OS.
Maybe most of the cells are pointing into the sun. The panel can't be flat without losing energy collection efficiency.
which everyone who visits here assures me is so much brighter than their part of the world.
Thanks to ozone depletion we get more energy out of the sun.
Seriously its the dry air. It absorbs less solar radiation so more hits the ground.
The article do not mention that car is only allowed to run by direct solar power.
They say:
We smashed the Guinness World Record for fastest Solar-Powered vehicle by over 10 kmh.
It doesn't say Battery powered or Petrol powered.
I think the issue is more the power/drag ratio of the photovoltaic cells.
Check out the temperature at 2 metres depth. I reckon your temperate zone is close enough to the surface that the regolith at that depth will be as dry as it is at the surface (except in cold polar craters).
Conclusion: other than at the pole the moon may be too hot and dry for life as we know it.
GSM requires zero infrastructure. No digging of trenches or stringing of cables. When I worked on traffic systems we used photovoltaic power and cellular communications anywhere we might have had to trench more than 100 metres or so. Now the wireless solutions are still cheaper and labour is increasingly expensive. Ten metres of trenching would probably justify using wireless.
Our hard wired leased lines were changed such that we located our severs in the same exchange areas as the signals. We had twenty of the things. We 3G you could use a single data centre for a single country and cut down on infrastructure further.
The cost of GSM data isn't very high when all you're sending is "help I'm not working correctly". Since the link serves no other purpose, four bytes should be enough to send a basic diagnostic code.
The system I worked on also transmitted data about traffic density and the timing of the signal controller. Each controller negotiates with adjacent intersections to agree on timing so that delays at red lights are minimised. Also traffic engineers can log in to tune the system. Traffic volume data is also transmitted through the link. In that system we used 300 baud modems on hard wired land lines. The system polled so maybe every two seconds you would see 64 bytes going in each direction. Thats about four megabytes per day. Not much for a 3G link these days but it is possible the South Africans are integrating speed and red light cameras with the same system. That will obviously push the data requirements up.
What's that, the semiautolunacentric model?
Consider Janus and Epimetheus. Do they orbit each other, or do they orbit Saturn? Both statements are true. This is also the case for the Moon and the Earth. Its really a difference of degree.
I suppose its part of the picture. I read somewhere that the core is offset towards the Earth by about 1 km. The moon does wobble slightly. Telescopes on Earth can see about 60% of the lunar surface by observing at the right times. The sun will be continually pulling at the moon to point towards it.