This is one of the things that Regan's "Star Wars" projects started working on in the late 1980s... about damn time for the first prototypes to be shown.
then you've got a bunker ship that never needs to return to port...
If only you didn't have to power (feed) the people running it...
(Ex Navy Nuke here)
True enough, but isn't food a little more compact and easy to procure than jet fuel for carrier flight ops?
I was thinking more along the lines of the "fuel ship" staying on station in-theater, and swapping crew as needed, forgot about the food, but I suppose that would happen at the same time that people rotate back to shore.
The onboard nuke can cruise an aircraft carrier at 30+ knots. If this tech can fit inside a fuel bunker ship with a carrier nuke to power it, then you've got a bunker ship that never needs to return to port...
They raised the rent on my old-ass cable modem. First from $3/month to $7/month, and then this year to $8/month. This for something that has probably been depreciated for years. Can you imagine if you brought home your new car and a year into the lease they doubled the "rent"? What a fucking ballsy move.
They're thinking like landlords with an apartment building... and, someday, your modem will die and they'll have to give you another one - $40 out of their pocket, gotta bank up for the day that happens.
So, when you pull a vacuum, does it eventually fill up with helium that goes through the interstices in the metal from the ambient atmospheric mix of gasses?
... improved skim reading may come at the expense of in-depth reading.
TANSTAAFL
If you want to be a really good visual reader, make yourself deaf, not temporarily with earplugs - though that helps a little, permanently, so the auditory processing centers atrophy and make way for development of other systems.
I'm not saying it's a good trade overall, but it is one way to enable enhancement...
The media was playing up the "maybe somebody stole it" aspect from the very start.
If you've ever flown over ocean, out of sight of land, or on a polar crossing route, that feeling that you're really "out there," was true. It's a big world, after all.
Europe and Japan are now seeing decreasing population without massive scale plagues or slaughter.
Alas is it impossible to have all places on Earth to have a civilization level of that quality:-(
This is a relatively new phenomenon, and I disagree that it's impossible to cover the world with this level of education- perhaps distasteful in the short term.
What you left out about the spoils of war was that in addition to the post conquest population boom, there's also those wonderful plagues that get spread around, just look at what smallpox did for the population of North America (no clothing required, white skin vs red...)
If the civilized world would stop sending token charity to the third world, there would be quantifiably less misery (when misery is quantified as the product of population X how miserable they are...)
Let's be modern and use the orbit of Neptune as the solar system's diameter: 9,000,000,000 km, and put Alpha Centauri at 4x10^13 km, so, we're looking at a ratio of 4444:1. Diameter of a dime is 18mm, so the equivalent distance to Alpha Centauri would be about 80 meters.
Sounds like a way to log in to any console, anywhere, at any time... but, the physical presence thing is some measure of containment. At least one five year old can't take down every machine on the planet at once.
This smells more like a forgotten backdoor than an algorithmic flaw.... probably traceable in the commit log to the particular dev who put it in, and all the auditors who should have caught it, but didn't.
Overblown, use a dime to represent our solar system and the next one will be less than 100m away....
Seriously, we "could" attempt to launch starships now, they'd take longer to reach the next star system than homo-sapiens has been present on earth, but it's not impossible....
More likely, we "should" be spending more time and energy on advancing our spacefaring tech, and perhaps a little less on all this other stuff that we do.
What we really need is to bring a complete biosystem with us, enough species diversity to successfully colonize the planet with food producing plants that help maintain some semblence of stability in the O2 / CO2 levels and the temperature.
Or, we can just synthesize TV dinners from algae. Yum.
(Is it a problem if we need more people dedicated to taxes and other government forms than we have programmers, marketing people, or customer support staff?)
Unemployment hovers around 7-8% today, what would it be if taxes were so simple that they "did themselves" with 20 hours a YEAR of effort per business?
If the U.S. wants to become more competitive in the global economy, we might consider streamlining the tax code. Unfortunately, I think we're all more interested in pork projects for our local area than anything as lofty as global competitiveness.
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Radar can spot the incoming shell.
You can defend against it with a similar projectile fired to intercept (not easy, but would work if you got it right)
It won't be doing Mach 7 for long... friction and all...
It will get colder, in the low pressure wake. PV=nRT
It's like a meteorite... only in thicker air.
This is one of the things that Regan's "Star Wars" projects started working on in the late 1980s... about damn time for the first prototypes to be shown.
then you've got a bunker ship that never needs to return to port...
If only you didn't have to power (feed) the people running it...
(Ex Navy Nuke here)
True enough, but isn't food a little more compact and easy to procure than jet fuel for carrier flight ops?
I was thinking more along the lines of the "fuel ship" staying on station in-theater, and swapping crew as needed, forgot about the food, but I suppose that would happen at the same time that people rotate back to shore.
The onboard nuke can cruise an aircraft carrier at 30+ knots. If this tech can fit inside a fuel bunker ship with a carrier nuke to power it, then you've got a bunker ship that never needs to return to port...
They raised the rent on my old-ass cable modem. First from $3/month to $7/month, and then this year to $8/month. This for something that has probably been depreciated for years. Can you imagine if you brought home your new car and a year into the lease they doubled the "rent"? What a fucking ballsy move.
They're thinking like landlords with an apartment building... and, someday, your modem will die and they'll have to give you another one - $40 out of their pocket, gotta bank up for the day that happens.
Just think, last year's drives at 831 bits per square inch, that's only 29 bits per inch, squared... you can see those suckers with the naked eye.
So, when you pull a vacuum, does it eventually fill up with helium that goes through the interstices in the metal from the ambient atmospheric mix of gasses?
... improved skim reading may come at the expense of in-depth reading.
TANSTAAFL
If you want to be a really good visual reader, make yourself deaf, not temporarily with earplugs - though that helps a little, permanently, so the auditory processing centers atrophy and make way for development of other systems.
I'm not saying it's a good trade overall, but it is one way to enable enhancement...
Nothing has aggrandised my lexical ability as this humble feature.
But you still click "post" too soon... Would have preferred
Nothing has aggrandised my lexical ability as this humble feature has.
or, mayhaps:
Nothing has aggrandised my lexical ability as much as this humble feature.
You might argue preference of style, but life is too short to dwell on such trivia, isn't it?
Christianity: actively turning people against itself since the Inquisition.
The media was playing up the "maybe somebody stole it" aspect from the very start.
If you've ever flown over ocean, out of sight of land, or on a polar crossing route, that feeling that you're really "out there," was true. It's a big world, after all.
I'm thinking if those naval "training exercises" were billed as services, we'd be way past the $50M mark by now.
Europe and Japan are now seeing decreasing population without massive scale plagues or slaughter.
Alas is it impossible to have all places on Earth to have a civilization level of that quality :-(
This is a relatively new phenomenon, and I disagree that it's impossible to cover the world with this level of education- perhaps distasteful in the short term.
What you left out about the spoils of war was that in addition to the post conquest population boom, there's also those wonderful plagues that get spread around, just look at what smallpox did for the population of North America (no clothing required, white skin vs red...)
If the civilized world would stop sending token charity to the third world, there would be quantifiably less misery (when misery is quantified as the product of population X how miserable they are...)
Let's be modern and use the orbit of Neptune as the solar system's diameter: 9,000,000,000 km, and put Alpha Centauri at 4x10^13 km, so, we're looking at a ratio of 4444:1. Diameter of a dime is 18mm, so the equivalent distance to Alpha Centauri would be about 80 meters.
I think his quarter analogy was probably spot-on.
Makes me wonder if the kid is just an attention ploy the dad used...
Sounds like a way to log in to any console, anywhere, at any time... but, the physical presence thing is some measure of containment. At least one five year old can't take down every machine on the planet at once.
This smells more like a forgotten backdoor than an algorithmic flaw.... probably traceable in the commit log to the particular dev who put it in, and all the auditors who should have caught it, but didn't.
Just a day's hike, and you can't even broad-jump the solar system....
Look up "The Graduate" "Plastics" scene.
Now say: "Seeds, my boy, seeds."
Overblown, use a dime to represent our solar system and the next one will be less than 100m away....
Seriously, we "could" attempt to launch starships now, they'd take longer to reach the next star system than homo-sapiens has been present on earth, but it's not impossible....
More likely, we "should" be spending more time and energy on advancing our spacefaring tech, and perhaps a little less on all this other stuff that we do.
What we really need is to bring a complete biosystem with us, enough species diversity to successfully colonize the planet with food producing plants that help maintain some semblence of stability in the O2 / CO2 levels and the temperature.
Or, we can just synthesize TV dinners from algae. Yum.
Having too many people on earth has historically proven solutions.
Generally, you hand out sharp and pointy objects, two or more colors of clothing, and let nature take its course....
(Is it a problem if we need more people dedicated to taxes and other government forms than we have programmers, marketing people, or customer support staff?)
Unemployment hovers around 7-8% today, what would it be if taxes were so simple that they "did themselves" with 20 hours a YEAR of effort per business?
If the U.S. wants to become more competitive in the global economy, we might consider streamlining the tax code. Unfortunately, I think we're all more interested in pork projects for our local area than anything as lofty as global competitiveness.