you have to change the U-238 slugs every few days, or it gets over-irradiated.
Makes me wonder how many corners they cut to get this thing to work. I feel sorry for the people directly involved, even though they are probably better off than the normal N Korean man in the street.
I hope nobody had to go down the hole to play the Major TJ Kong role and (so to speak) ride it in.
America is about 80% Christian, 1% Jewish, 10% other. The religious conflict in the country is mostly about anti-Islam and anti-Judaism -- both groups are in a severe minority, and Muslims are in a power-minority, and you _don't_ see people commiting arson and murder out of religious hate.
Religious hate between different parts of Christianity is common in the USA. Arson and murder does happen. Think about the bombing of abortion clinics. Most of us think our countries are unique in some way. we are more alike than we think.
Just as long as the superconductors you use on your condensors are not vulnerable to a puppeteer plague.
I would have to check to be sure but I don't recall the puppeteers being responsible for the fall of the cities. Wasn't it an unspecified ramscoop freighter which was assumed to have brought the infection from an old colony world?
Duck bay looks like a good place to try because of what looks like a little break (or slip?) in the scarp just below (in the picture) the location of the rover. I haven't seen any estimates yet of the slope in that part of the crater, nor of the type of material which will be found there.
I am sure there will be a lot of analysis done before they try. Lets hope it goes well. I wouldn't like to see Opportunity turn over while descending on a too steep slope.
methane could potentially have been produced by living organisms
Given that we know the rate of destruction of Methane on Mars we also know the rate of production, which should make it possible to estimate the mass of Methane producing bacteria, assuming that is the source.
Arthur C Clarke wrote a great short story (I think it was his first) called Travel By Wire. His teleportation system parallels the development of TV and at one point he discusses the effect of interference in the communication channel sometimes they came out the other end looking like nothing on Earth and very little on Venus or Mars.
It ends with the inventor of the teleport jumping into a rocket to cross the atlantic, declaring that there was no way you would get him to actually use the thing.
Slashdotters in Norway should call NextGenTel and ask if they give equal bandwidth to all hosts on the Internet. If they say no, say no thanks, wait an hour, and call again with the same question.
Then repeat until you believe the message has been delivered. Bad luck if this crowd are a (near) monopoly.
with a company Like LIPA I am actually glad that the wii is going for lower power consumption.
I'm not from long island (not even in the same hemisphere) so I can only assume that LIPA is Long island power authority or something similar. If a game console is going to make a hit on your power bill then you really do have problems there on Long Island:)
Viruses that convert RNA to DNA show that the messaging isn't one-way and that DNA can be reprogrammed on the fly
Do you mean to say that viruses could be introduced into an organism to change DNA? If so would it be possible for there to be something like inheritance where genetic characteristics propogate directly between organisms rather than through reproduction?
I want to run my own server, I don't feel like paying an increasing monthly fee to just build the world I would like to share with my friends, considering how many "islands" there are, quite a few people are keen to have their own place appart. But if I would like to build something massive, like an insane bookstore that would cost a fortune.
I have had similar thoughts myself. It should be possible to get it working as a peer to peer system and it occurs to me that the network topology would be similar in some ways to bittorrent. If you have open protocols you could ensure interoperability however there would be no guarantee about the behavior of an open source client. Centralised systems (WoW, etc) have DRM in some form to ensure that the players play by the rules.
I remember reading about a conference on communication with ET's where one person prepared a message, not encrypted, but just expressed in a strange way; which is what would would expect from ET's. The message was circulated to all attendees and none of them could extract the meaning, though there was a lot of slapping of foreheads, etc, when the answer was revealed.
So yes, even for people who know they will have to decode an unknown message, it can be hard to meaning with no starting point.
Still ahve to go through the FBI warning, then the MPAA psuedo warning.
I don't like the fact that you can't click past the copyright warnings but I think it is much worse that the same feature is used to force you to watch the studio splash.
As I pointed out in the Victoria Crater story, there are places a solar-powered rover can't really explore effectively
On the other hand an RTG powered rover would be really heavy, for about the same amount of power you would get from solar cells (assuming illumination is available). Getting into Victoria may be a case of sliding down those sandy slopes into the crater with no possible chance of getting out. A much heavier rover may well get bogged on the way down and either get stuck or turn over.
You'll know that space travel has really come of age when the boarding line contains twenty backpack wearing Aussies on walkabout.
A lot of the cost of business class travel between Australia and Europe is the accomodation cost of the full day you spend in transit. If you could cram 20 business class travelers into a semiballistic vehicle you could get perhaps half a million dollars of revenue for a half hour trip. Passengers save time and you get more work out of your capital, assuming that your turn around time is short enough.
The downside is that the energy cost of a semiballistic lob from Australia to Europe is almost as much as the cost of getting to orbit, so you almost have to build a space shuttle to get the idea to work.
Its a shame that SS[12] won't scale to this application as well.
acknowledges China has the ability to blind U.S. satellites, thanks to a powerful ground-based laser capable of firing a beam of light at an optical reconnaissance satellite to keep it from taking pictures as it passes overhead.
So its a bit like saturating a camera with light so it can't take good pictures, but once it moves on it should be OK.
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Makes me wonder how many corners they cut to get this thing to work. I feel sorry for the people directly involved, even though they are probably better off than the normal N Korean man in the street.
I hope nobody had to go down the hole to play the Major TJ Kong role and (so to speak) ride it in.
Religious hate between different parts of Christianity is common in the USA. Arson and murder does happen. Think about the bombing of abortion clinics. Most of us think our countries are unique in some way. we are more alike than we think.
You guys should take a look at preferential voting. It works a charm over here in .au
I would have to check to be sure but I don't recall the puppeteers being responsible for the fall of the cities. Wasn't it an unspecified ramscoop freighter which was assumed to have brought the infection from an old colony world?
Duck bay looks like a good place to try because of what looks like a little break (or slip?) in the scarp just below (in the picture) the location of the rover. I haven't seen any estimates yet of the slope in that part of the crater, nor of the type of material which will be found there.
I am sure there will be a lot of analysis done before they try. Lets hope it goes well. I wouldn't like to see Opportunity turn over while descending on a too steep slope.
Of course the real business with a volcano happens under ground and we don't know much about this part of either volcano.
Given that we know the rate of destruction of Methane on Mars we also know the rate of production, which should make it possible to estimate the mass of Methane producing bacteria, assuming that is the source.
The term can be applied to anything which decays with time, though radioactive decay would probably give the most attractive decay curve.
I never perceive going to sleep. How could I perceive my own death?
Our minds are such leaky things, always forgetting to do this and that. We are so discontinous that a little bit more won't be noticed.
Arthur C Clarke wrote a great short story (I think it was his first) called Travel By Wire. His teleportation system parallels the development of TV and at one point he discusses the effect of interference in the communication channel sometimes they came out the other end looking like nothing on Earth and very little on Venus or Mars.
It ends with the inventor of the teleport jumping into a rocket to cross the atlantic, declaring that there was no way you would get him to actually use the thing.
Slashdotters in Norway should call NextGenTel and ask if they give equal bandwidth to all hosts on the Internet. If they say no, say no thanks, wait an hour, and call again with the same question.
Then repeat until you believe the message has been delivered. Bad luck if this crowd are a (near) monopoly.
I'm not from long island (not even in the same hemisphere) so I can only assume that LIPA is Long island power authority or something similar. If a game console is going to make a hit on your power bill then you really do have problems there on Long Island :)
Do you mean to say that viruses could be introduced into an organism to change DNA? If so would it be possible for there to be something like inheritance where genetic characteristics propogate directly between organisms rather than through reproduction?
I have had similar thoughts myself. It should be possible to get it working as a peer to peer system and it occurs to me that the network topology would be similar in some ways to bittorrent. If you have open protocols you could ensure interoperability however there would be no guarantee about the behavior of an open source client. Centralised systems (WoW, etc) have DRM in some form to ensure that the players play by the rules.
I am sure that could happen now.
Ah here it is.
I remember reading about a conference on communication with ET's where one person prepared a message, not encrypted, but just expressed in a strange way; which is what would would expect from ET's. The message was circulated to all attendees and none of them could extract the meaning, though there was a lot of slapping of foreheads, etc, when the answer was revealed.
So yes, even for people who know they will have to decode an unknown message, it can be hard to meaning with no starting point.
Since the target is only 45 light years away surely that should be intragalactic.
I want to know if they will give him frequent flyer points for the Virgin Galactic flight.
Calculated vertically, of course.
I don't like the fact that you can't click past the copyright warnings but I think it is much worse that the same feature is used to force you to watch the studio splash.
How about Russia?
On the other hand an RTG powered rover would be really heavy, for about the same amount of power you would get from solar cells (assuming illumination is available). Getting into Victoria may be a case of sliding down those sandy slopes into the crater with no possible chance of getting out. A much heavier rover may well get bogged on the way down and either get stuck or turn over.
On sandy surfaces it pays to be light.
A lot of the cost of business class travel between Australia and Europe is the accomodation cost of the full day you spend in transit. If you could cram 20 business class travelers into a semiballistic vehicle you could get perhaps half a million dollars of revenue for a half hour trip. Passengers save time and you get more work out of your capital, assuming that your turn around time is short enough.
The downside is that the energy cost of a semiballistic lob from Australia to Europe is almost as much as the cost of getting to orbit, so you almost have to build a space shuttle to get the idea to work.
Its a shame that SS[12] won't scale to this application as well.
From TFA:
So its a bit like saturating a camera with light so it can't take good pictures, but once it moves on it should be OK.
What about the "maniacs who blew up bandsmen by remote control"? What should I think about Christians?