>What you REALLY want to do is to have a tube of lasers (like six, but at least three) to track around the projectile as it flies. This will keep the air thinned out and have the effect you were looking for. If you're really enthused, you could pack the projectile's tail with carbon and ice and have another laser fire into it, thus creating thrust.
...if you diverted sufficient energy into this last part, you could reduce the acceleration - possibly down to the point where normal cargo and humans could ride it. Which would in turn reduce the atmospheric heating problem...
*I'm assuming they're using a nuclear reactor on site to generate the energy to fling this thing, btw*
>a high-power laser was used to heat a 'track' through the atmosphere (in that case, to fire a particle beam weapon down the track with less atmospheric attenuation ). Couldn't a similar idea significantly reduce the air resistance for this sort of a projectile?
Yes... but even at Mach 23, the track of the projectile is not a straight line. However, such a beam could ease transition for the first part of the trajectory.
If you want some fun, google Mischa Speigelmock and catch the returns - geesh! >Mischa Spiegelmock is a 19-year old boy in San Francisco, CA. is single. is tagged bbqs, dork, and frisbee. >Mischa Spiegelmock. Yo yo beezies this is m-spizzle straight outta... keep it real up being studious and shit at the university of muhfuh san francisco and... >Hi, my name is Mischa Spiegelmock. I'ma software engineer intern at LiveJournal. >Picture Gallery: The Great SF Pillow Fight. The Great San Francisco Pillow Fight of '06. By Mischa Spiegelmock. "My most difficult photo shoot yet"......and it goes on and on...
The major reason Segways haven't penetrated the mass market is their misuse.
They are personal transporters. The wheels and motors are just to move them from use point to use point.
All of the other components (cross-linked redundant computers, solid-state gyros, etc) are part of the transporter system. You can instantaneously *blip* from any Segway to any other Segway on the planet.
No proof it's permanent offline either. Could be we have much longer respawn time. Or that "afterlife" thing... might be available for a small price... your immortal soul!
I'm going to keep this short. I didn't call you a terrorist. I simply determined that you support violence (and illegal violence at that, by vigilantes) in the support of your cause.
Make of that what you may. I'm not a supporter of the Bush administration, BTW.
I am not prejudiced against animal rights protestors. Some have influenced society in a beneficial way. The honest, peaceful presentation of grievances is a bulwark of democracy. Their actions have influenced mine.
I try not to hate people. I try not to stereotype people. I do try to ask tough questions.
There was a paper published detailing how to enhance the smallpox virus by adding a cancer gene - it increased the projected mortality rate of the virus, and made the existing vaccine useless.
So, yeah. Doomsday is a relatively trivial exercise.
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>What you REALLY want to do is to have a tube of lasers (like six, but at least three) to track around the projectile as it flies. This will keep the air thinned out and have the effect you were looking for. If you're really enthused, you could pack the projectile's tail with carbon and ice and have another laser fire into it, thus creating thrust.
...if you diverted sufficient energy into this last part, you could reduce the acceleration - possibly down to the point where normal cargo and humans could ride it. Which would in turn reduce the atmospheric heating problem...
*I'm assuming they're using a nuclear reactor on site to generate the energy to fling this thing, btw*
>a high-power laser was used to heat a 'track' through the atmosphere (in that case, to fire a particle beam weapon down the track with less atmospheric attenuation ). Couldn't a similar idea significantly reduce the air resistance for this sort of a projectile?
Yes... but even at Mach 23, the track of the projectile is not a straight line.
However, such a beam could ease transition for the first part of the trajectory.
If you want some fun, google Mischa Speigelmock and catch the returns - geesh! ... keep it real up being studious and shit at the university of muhfuh san francisco and ... ... ...and it goes on and on...
>Mischa Spiegelmock is a 19-year old boy in San Francisco, CA. is single. is tagged bbqs, dork, and frisbee.
>Mischa Spiegelmock. Yo yo beezies this is m-spizzle straight outta
>Hi, my name is Mischa Spiegelmock. I'ma software engineer intern at LiveJournal.
>Picture Gallery: The Great SF Pillow Fight. The Great San Francisco Pillow Fight of '06. By Mischa Spiegelmock. "My most difficult photo shoot yet"
He's just a keed.
I say this oscillation should be called the "Quagmire Effect."
>In a world of hostile yogurt, the lactose-intolerant man is dead.
Fixed.
Enough obscure Steisand references...
Could Microsoft finally be edging towards a more open-to-the-customer development process?
I'll be interested to see if any suggested actions make it into a service pack.
Back in the day, if you could chat or email a Microsoft coder, they would respond to cogent suggestions...
Oh, it existed, all right.
It just qualifies as prior art.
See their patent application for more details.
The major reason Segways haven't penetrated the mass market is their misuse.
They are personal transporters. The wheels and motors are just to move them from use point to use point.
All of the other components (cross-linked redundant computers, solid-state gyros, etc) are part of the transporter system. You can instantaneously *blip* from any Segway to any other Segway on the planet.
Nobody ever reads ALL of the manual.
It's on page 42.
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The bullet point is actually the sig's only point. :)
Slowly the vise closes in on all P2P... yet filesharing grows year by year...
The media congloms win lots of battles while losing the war.
When the rivers no longer flow to the sea...
When are they going to utilize the brown note?
>...Death is not permanent online."
No proof it's permanent offline either. Could be we have much longer respawn time. Or that "afterlife" thing... might be available for a small price... your immortal soul!
Sigh.
I'm going to keep this short.
I didn't call you a terrorist.
I simply determined that you support violence (and illegal violence at that, by vigilantes) in the support of your cause.
Make of that what you may.
I'm not a supporter of the Bush administration, BTW.
I'll answer your question, and add to it.
I am not prejudiced against animal rights protestors. Some have influenced society in a beneficial way. The honest, peaceful presentation of grievances is a bulwark of democracy. Their actions have influenced mine.
I try not to hate people. I try not to stereotype people. I do try to ask tough questions.
You stood up and said you didn't support the violence.
I will listen to your cause if you espouse it. That's the difference.
>But I do understand why they commit violence in the same way I understand why the founding Fathers of America committed terrorist acts.
So you condone it.
That's a yes.
OK.
Do you support violence against humans to advance your cause?
Please answer yes or no.
So - flushed one out.
Do you support violence against humans to advance your cause?
Please answer yes or no.
I don't know exactly why, but whenever I hear about dark matter, I'm reminded of Zippy The Pinhead.
>It wasn't the holocaust that finally justified us going to war, it was the intercepted memo sent to Mexico offering them Texas...
Dude, that was World War One - google Zimmerman Telegram...
The genome for the smallpox virus has been decoded. You can now synthesize it.
There was a paper published detailing how to enhance the smallpox virus by adding a cancer gene - it increased the projected mortality rate of the virus, and made the existing vaccine useless.
So, yeah. Doomsday is a relatively trivial exercise.
Eat, drink. Be merry.