There are already (I'm in the UK) laws against driving without due care and attention.
If it was as simple as that you would only need that one law. In practice the task of interpreting behaviour can't be left entirely to the police and the courts, so laws have to be specific.
Phones are more dangerous because people want to touch them all the time. In practice, people just buy and forget their GPS. Cycle commuting in Melbourne I have seen many people (car drivers and bicycle riders. Motorbike riders seem to have more sense) driving their vehicle with a phone stuck to their ear.
What we need to do is find a way to book people for this kind of dangerous behaviour. Its easy with alcohol because the stuff lingers in your system. Get caught at a booze bus and you are booked. The phone network could be used to flag drivers who talk while driving. The law would have to be pretty aggressive and creative though.
A similar law is on the way in Victoria, Australia. I believe the reasoning is that they want to totally ban people hand operating phones while driving. Using the phone as a GPS gives drivers a way around the law. The Government is trying to close this loophole.
Uh, no. The presence of significant water and oxygen on Europa is not wild speculation. May have been when Clarke wrote 2001, but subsequent observations have confirmed their presence.
I think Clarke was more right than wrong about Titan as well.
I the web version uses a database then your locking should work the same way. If it uses flat files or something you can create lock files along with the data. But IMHO lock files are a PITA.I suppose its locks which are a pain....
Years ago I left Adelaide on a domestic flight with a laptop loaded with mandrake in my luggage. The departure was delayed 30 minutes on an excuse (said they needed to change a wheel, but I could see the plane and that didn't happen). So I got to Melbourne, unpacked the laptop and the battery was dead flat. It must have been started after I packed it, and not stopped properly.
If you need to get off mars then water (H+O) on the surface is in exactly the right place. Obviously the ability to make fuel outside the gravity well would be handy as well.
They could reject that by looking for correlation with the position of the sun in the sky relative to the Earth and moon, ie, are we looking at night or day side?
...and ultraviolet light from the sun which breaks the water molecule down into oxygen and hydrogen. Water is unstable on the surface where it gets exposed to light but it should be stable in shadow on the surface and under ground. The problem is that almost no places on the surface have remained shadowed for hundreds of millions of years (except possibly the polar craters) and shallow subsurface still get rotated to the surface by meteor impacts, while deep places are... deep and hard to reach.
The water these missions have found is present in very small quantities. Extracting it would require a lot of energy. The hope with polar water is that there might be masses of the stuff in some craters so that you could at least get a kilo of water from 20 or so kilos of regolith. Water in those quantities would be of use to humans. But we haven't seen it yet.
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I guess you can't just use that one ring for everything.
There are already (I'm in the UK) laws against driving without due care and attention.
If it was as simple as that you would only need that one law. In practice the task of interpreting behaviour can't be left entirely to the police and the courts, so laws have to be specific.
Phones are more dangerous because people want to touch them all the time. In practice, people just buy and forget their GPS. Cycle commuting in Melbourne I have seen many people (car drivers and bicycle riders. Motorbike riders seem to have more sense) driving their vehicle with a phone stuck to their ear.
What we need to do is find a way to book people for this kind of dangerous behaviour. Its easy with alcohol because the stuff lingers in your system. Get caught at a booze bus and you are booked. The phone network could be used to flag drivers who talk while driving. The law would have to be pretty aggressive and creative though.
As you should do it in all cases hire a Mexican to enter the destination while driving.
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Thats going to be expensive in NZ. How about somebody from Norfolk Island?
There is a small correlation between handling a phone correctly, and continuing to be a parent,
A similar law is on the way in Victoria, Australia. I believe the reasoning is that they want to totally ban people hand operating phones while driving. Using the phone as a GPS gives drivers a way around the law. The Government is trying to close this loophole.
Yes. Why? They just got confused and couldn't shut it down.
Uh, no. The presence of significant water and oxygen on Europa is not wild speculation. May have been when Clarke wrote 2001, but subsequent observations have confirmed their presence.
I think Clarke was more right than wrong about Titan as well.
I the web version uses a database then your locking should work the same way. If it uses flat files or something you can create lock files along with the data. But IMHO lock files are a PITA.I suppose its locks which are a pain....
Years ago I left Adelaide on a domestic flight with a laptop loaded with mandrake in my luggage. The departure was delayed 30 minutes on an excuse (said they needed to change a wheel, but I could see the plane and that didn't happen). So I got to Melbourne, unpacked the laptop and the battery was dead flat. It must have been started after I packed it, and not stopped properly.
If you need to get off mars then water (H+O) on the surface is in exactly the right place. Obviously the ability to make fuel outside the gravity well would be handy as well.
Use the water as an energy source how? Heat difference between something heated by the sun and the ice? I'm not sure I follow.
If your rocket burns oxygen and hydrogen you could fly it to Mars, then use solar energy to turn water into hydrogen+oxygen, and fly home.
You mean flash? My son plays flash games on Linux all the time.
They could reject that by looking for correlation with the position of the sun in the sky relative to the Earth and moon, ie, are we looking at night or day side?
Maybe we should accept that the moon is not like the Earth and get on with a manned mission to an asteroid.
The water these missions have found is present in very small quantities. Extracting it would require a lot of energy.
Unlimited energy is available on the moon.
If your time is unlimited, yes. In practice there will be an economic trade off between mining water and importing it from asteroids.
There would be concentrated areas
But we don't know. Experience on Earth, where water accumulates, doesn't apply.
...and ultraviolet light from the sun which breaks the water molecule down into oxygen and hydrogen. Water is unstable on the surface where it gets exposed to light but it should be stable in shadow on the surface and under ground. The problem is that almost no places on the surface have remained shadowed for hundreds of millions of years (except possibly the polar craters) and shallow subsurface still get rotated to the surface by meteor impacts, while deep places are... deep and hard to reach.
Be quiet or I'l send Buzz around.
And here I was looking forward to eating a nice curry on the moon. I had the wrong Indians all along.
I was there too. I don't recall the rain that time but I know that rain is always dirty because of the dust it contains.
The water these missions have found is present in very small quantities. Extracting it would require a lot of energy. The hope with polar water is that there might be masses of the stuff in some craters so that you could at least get a kilo of water from 20 or so kilos of regolith. Water in those quantities would be of use to humans. But we haven't seen it yet.
So we should pump dust into the atmosphere over the west coast of .au and hope it nucleates precipitation before leaving the country?
Just like, nobody cares about you, AC.
Better clean your driveline. That stuff is abrasive.