The original question is pretty silly given the heat capacity and current heat generation rate. The question about environmental impact of removing large amounts of wind energy are not nearly as silly. Assuming you ignore the birds and bats, just a back-of-the-envelope calculation of the energy contained in the atmosphere up to about 150 feet and the amount you might take out of it suggests you can't just dismiss the issue entirely. Depending on the density of the windmills it certainly seems possible to affect the weather locally.
Huh? I have been driving manual transmission cars in the USA for about 40 years and I have never once seen that "feature". In fact it appears that this would not even be legal, since you have to be able to turn on your headlights while parked.
And why do you need the emergency brake to start on a hill? Can't you coordinate your heel/toe and the clutch properly? I have driven quite successfully, many times, through one of the hilliest cities in the world - San Francisco - with absolutely no need for the emergency brake to hold me (and no, I didn't burn my clutch holding it that way). You heel/toe the brake and throttle, and the other foot on the clutch. Just takes coordination.
Oh, kindly fuck off. Most people grasp the concept of diesels just fine and most Americans know a hell of a lot more about cars than a bunch of Eurotrash morons.
We don't like diesels because they leave bad smells, the fuel goes bad in the tank, and that the fuel is expensive and hard to find. Drive across the country (note: this takes more than a few hours unlike European countries) and you have NO idea where to get reliable fuel and what you can get varies widely in quality. Yes, it will run on just about anything, but there goes your supposed advantages.
Moreover, the reason that diesels have such a bad rep among car guys is not because of the crap diesel Chevettes, etc. Its because of cars like diesel Rabbit and almost any 70-80's-90's Mercedes diesel. Where were those from, again? It's almost a cliche' to see a damn white or silver Mercedes with the entire rear end coated with black soot, and pouring more out the tail pipe.
So, to summarize, you know absolutely NOTHING about what are talking about, so STFU.
That's good advice. But if you start out with the idea that you want to get a very specialized job in a microscopic startup industry but don't want to travel more than a few hours from your location, the chances of success are negligible in any case.
That's part of it, but looking for life on Europa is a mission FAR beyond our current state of the art. It's not going to be on the surface, far too much radiation and no atmosphere. It's postulated to be in a postulated water ocean postulated to be buried under a tens or hundreds of miles thick ice sheet. We have no direct evidence that the ocean is there, we have no direct evidence of how thick the ice might be, and to some degree, what it's made of.
Even taking all the presuppositions as accurate, we have NO IDEA how to build something that will reliably bore through the ice, cruise around doing science experiments, and then somehow relaying the data back to Earth. Or to make a completely autonomous submarine (autonomous since there's almost certainly no way to control it live or via relay) that will take hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of atmospheres of pressure.
And of course all the presuppositions may well be wrong.
Hey, I want to see what's under the ice, too. But I work in this business, on state-of-the-art spacecraft, and I this is decades to hundreds of years beyond our capabilities.
They explore Mars because they know how to do that, it's much easier and doesn't stress the limits of known technology to an absurd degree.
Try and get away from wrist-rests; despite what you might think, having your wrists constantly sitting on those "ergonomic" wrist rests is actually terrible for your wrists and your typing technique.
I take back what I said about keyboard trays, the "wrist rests" are the absolute worst. It puts your wrist at a funny angle, and worse, it applies pressure and cuts off circulation to your skin. Its the same problems as overly-soft car seats, you butt goes numb after a while.
Oh, nonsense. They realize that repetitive stress injuries are one of the biggest costs to health care. My company tries to shove ergonomic stuff down our throats once a month or so.
Most of it makes my hand/arm/back hurt. I actually prefer the standard stuff and in particular, the Godammned "keyboard tray" that is not solid and moves around as you are trying to use it is a damn disaster.
How dare you or any modern man defend superstition, let alone Catholicism?.
Idunno. There's this whole "freedom of thought" and "tolerance" sort of thing going on, and it seems to have worked rather well for society over the past few centuries.
That's all well and good when you are believing the right things. But if you are believing the *wrong* things, well, we have to stamp it out, shout you down, or treat you like a moron! We can't have you going around having independent opinions, now, can we? You have to be tolerant *in exactly the way we want you to be*.
And since you are on the topic, check out who and which party gets the most contributions from Wall Street Fat cats. I bet you don't have the guts to post the results.
I understand they are frustrated, but they are so completely unfocused, or focused like laser on expanding the same problems that created this situation in the first place, that you can't define it.
But the one common theme is that they want to take money away from people who have a lot of it. And not pay their student loans.
I am frustrated, too - that a bunch of people are trashing things my tax dollars pay for.
I would like a plain old monitor with e-ink, that I could hook up to my computer like any other. I am aware of the limitations but it would be great for certain applications.
Hey, you don't get on the front page of slashdot without lots of bias. This crowd leans right/libertarian so you need to pander to them to keep the ads flowing.
Dear God Almighty, that's either the funniest line EVER, or you spend a lot of time being confused when your viewpoint can't explain what is happening in the real world.
Slashdot is about as reflexively leftist as could be imagined. I would say "mindlessly" but that would be redundant..
And none of this "well, it all depends on your perspective" crap. Not when it's this far off on the edge.
And as long as Obama supporters continue to mount absolutely absurd ad hominem attacks on conservatives, they will be even more motivated to come out and vote him out.
We have mainstream media attacking Herman Cain as a racist or "race traitor", whatever the hell that means. Not only is that foolish, it's fodder for existing conservatives and highly offensive to a good fraction of existing African-American Democratic voters.
Obama and Co. may (but probably aren't, I'm not going to even bother skewering the original puffpeice FA) good data miners, they are very severely tone-deaf, and their ever-more-desperate supporters are his worst enemy.
God Damn plagarism... I ripped off that Simpson's quote LAST WEEK! I mean, it's getting to the point you can't even get credit for remembering and randomly regurgitating lines from TV shows any more.
Safety means safety for the life of the satellite, i.e. you give up on the mission and try to keep the satellite alive until someone can diagnose and fix the original problem.
If you lose attitude control (or lose track of your orientation) you need to orient the spacecraft to get power with no a priori knowledge of your orientation. At Geosyncrhonous altitude, the Earth is only 18.75 degrees wide, and it is surprisingly difficult to find by searching, and while you are searching, you likely have no power from the solar array - and are thus running down the batteries. Because the Sun is absurdly easy to find, it's fast to find it, and once you find the Sun, you can have power and thermal control. Then, you can have someone figure out what caused the original problem and fix it, and restore service.
Congratulations! You win the prize for "Most Facile Analysis of the Day!. Check in on Friday to see if you also win "Most Facile Analysis of the Week!".
The GP is exactly DEAD ON. You spend decades training people that competition is bad and there should be no winners or losers, and then complain that no one seems to be competitive anymore and we have no ability to win. That's dead on point.
I think that is absolutely ridiculous. Patents, patent trolls, and legal wars over patents were common throughout the 20th century. It's hardly a new phenomenon, as obsessed as people here are about it. There were huge lengthy and costly patent wars over the airplane (The Wrights VS Curtiss, wing warping VS aileron) and radio (RCA VS everybody else, trying to protect first the superheterodyne patent and then the FM patents) and those were two of the biggest boom industries (aviation and electronics) in the last 100 years. It didn't keep men off the moon.
It's the adoption of effete, gutless "risk VS reward" , "please, won't someone think of the children" type over-analysis and over-regulation that is stifling innovation, pretty much as TFA suggests. That all started in the 60's and 70s and the idiot hippies and touchy-feely types that advocated it are firmly in control of society now. We are now *proud* of cowards and quislings, and firmly disapprove of anyone who takes risks.
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Ooh, look's like I am gonna get done for heresy, no more cult meetings for me!
Most people call it "global redistribution scam", but potato, potahto.
The original question is pretty silly given the heat capacity and current heat generation rate. The question about environmental impact of removing large amounts of wind energy are not nearly as silly. Assuming you ignore the birds and bats, just a back-of-the-envelope calculation of the energy contained in the atmosphere up to about 150 feet and the amount you might take out of it suggests you can't just dismiss the issue entirely. Depending on the density of the windmills it certainly seems possible to affect the weather locally.
Huh? I have been driving manual transmission cars in the USA for about 40 years and I have never once seen that "feature". In fact it appears that this would not even be legal, since you have to be able to turn on your headlights while parked.
And why do you need the emergency brake to start on a hill? Can't you coordinate your heel/toe and the clutch properly? I have driven quite successfully, many times, through one of the hilliest cities in the world - San Francisco - with absolutely no need for the emergency brake to hold me (and no, I didn't burn my clutch holding it that way). You heel/toe the brake and throttle, and the other foot on the clutch. Just takes coordination.
Brett
Oh, kindly fuck off. Most people grasp the concept of diesels just fine and most Americans know a hell of a lot more about cars than a bunch of Eurotrash morons.
We don't like diesels because they leave bad smells, the fuel goes bad in the tank, and that the fuel is expensive and hard to find. Drive across the country (note: this takes more than a few hours unlike European countries) and you have NO idea where to get reliable fuel and what you can get varies widely in quality. Yes, it will run on just about anything, but there goes your supposed advantages.
Moreover, the reason that diesels have such a bad rep among car guys is not because of the crap diesel Chevettes, etc. Its because of cars like diesel Rabbit and almost any 70-80's-90's Mercedes diesel. Where were those from, again? It's almost a cliche' to see a damn white or silver Mercedes with the entire rear end coated with black soot, and pouring more out the tail pipe.
So, to summarize, you know absolutely NOTHING about what are talking about, so STFU.
That's good advice. But if you start out with the idea that you want to get a very specialized job in a microscopic startup industry but don't want to travel more than a few hours from your location, the chances of success are negligible in any case.
Hate to contradict you since you are generally right on the beam, but *smallpox* is not coming back.
Oh, people are completely free to express themselves. As long as they express the right things.
Age is a matter of public record, a birthdate is recorded on a birth certificate. So she doesn't have a leg to stand on there.
That IMDBPro revealed it could easily be a breach of contract, but I doubt that will go anywhere.
Please stop assuming that everyone is European, football = SOCCER in this case, as opposed to real football.
That's part of it, but looking for life on Europa is a mission FAR beyond our current state of the art. It's not going to be on the surface, far too much radiation and no atmosphere. It's postulated to be in a postulated water ocean postulated to be buried under a tens or hundreds of miles thick ice sheet. We have no direct evidence that the ocean is there, we have no direct evidence of how thick the ice might be, and to some degree, what it's made of.
Even taking all the presuppositions as accurate, we have NO IDEA how to build something that will reliably bore through the ice, cruise around doing science experiments, and then somehow relaying the data back to Earth. Or to make a completely autonomous submarine (autonomous since there's almost certainly no way to control it live or via relay) that will take hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of atmospheres of pressure.
And of course all the presuppositions may well be wrong.
Hey, I want to see what's under the ice, too. But I work in this business, on state-of-the-art spacecraft, and I this is decades to hundreds of years beyond our capabilities.
They explore Mars because they know how to do that, it's much easier and doesn't stress the limits of known technology to an absurd degree.
Brett
I take back what I said about keyboard trays, the "wrist rests" are the absolute worst. It puts your wrist at a funny angle, and worse, it applies pressure and cuts off circulation to your skin. Its the same problems as overly-soft car seats, you butt goes numb after a while.
Brett
Oh, nonsense. They realize that repetitive stress injuries are one of the biggest costs to health care. My company tries to shove ergonomic stuff down our throats once a month or so.
Most of it makes my hand/arm/back hurt. I actually prefer the standard stuff and in particular, the Godammned "keyboard tray" that is not solid and moves around as you are trying to use it is a damn disaster.
That's all well and good when you are believing the right things. But if you are believing the *wrong* things, well, we have to stamp it out, shout you down, or treat you like a moron! We can't have you going around having independent opinions, now, can we? You have to be tolerant *in exactly the way we want you to be*.
Brett
And since you are on the topic, check out who and which party gets the most contributions from Wall Street Fat cats. I bet you don't have the guts to post the results.
I understand they are frustrated, but they are so completely unfocused, or focused like laser on expanding the same problems that created this situation in the first place, that you can't define it.
But the one common theme is that they want to take money away from people who have a lot of it. And not pay their student loans.
I am frustrated, too - that a bunch of people are trashing things my tax dollars pay for.
It's driving force is a desire for equality, where equality means that you get free money from the government.
I would like a plain old monitor with e-ink, that I could hook up to my computer like any other. I am aware of the limitations but it would be great for certain applications.
Brett
Dear God Almighty, that's either the funniest line EVER, or you spend a lot of time being confused when your viewpoint can't explain what is happening in the real world.
Slashdot is about as reflexively leftist as could be imagined. I would say "mindlessly" but that would be redundant..
And none of this "well, it all depends on your perspective" crap. Not when it's this far off on the edge.
And as long as Obama supporters continue to mount absolutely absurd ad hominem attacks on conservatives, they will be even more motivated to come out and vote him out.
We have mainstream media attacking Herman Cain as a racist or "race traitor", whatever the hell that means. Not only is that foolish, it's fodder for existing conservatives and highly offensive to a good fraction of existing African-American Democratic voters.
Obama and Co. may (but probably aren't, I'm not going to even bother skewering the original puffpeice FA) good data miners, they are very severely tone-deaf, and their ever-more-desperate supporters are his worst enemy.
But by all means, carry on....
Brett
God Damn plagarism... I ripped off that Simpson's quote LAST WEEK! I mean, it's getting to the point you can't even get credit for remembering and randomly regurgitating lines from TV shows any more.
I would expect, however, that steel wall studs could create either reduced signal strength, or severe multipath issues. Magnetized or not.
Safety means safety for the life of the satellite, i.e. you give up on the mission and try to keep the satellite alive until someone can diagnose and fix the original problem.
If you lose attitude control (or lose track of your orientation) you need to orient the spacecraft to get power with no a priori knowledge of your orientation. At Geosyncrhonous altitude, the Earth is only 18.75 degrees wide, and it is surprisingly difficult to find by searching, and while you are searching, you likely have no power from the solar array - and are thus running down the batteries. Because the Sun is absurdly easy to find, it's fast to find it, and once you find the Sun, you can have power and thermal control. Then, you can have someone figure out what caused the original problem and fix it, and restore service.
Congratulations! You win the prize for "Most Facile Analysis of the Day!. Check in on Friday to see if you also win "Most Facile Analysis of the Week!".
The GP is exactly DEAD ON. You spend decades training people that competition is bad and there should be no winners or losers, and then complain that no one seems to be competitive anymore and we have no ability to win. That's dead on point.
I think that is absolutely ridiculous. Patents, patent trolls, and legal wars over patents were common throughout the 20th century. It's hardly a new phenomenon, as obsessed as people here are about it. There were huge lengthy and costly patent wars over the airplane (The Wrights VS Curtiss, wing warping VS aileron) and radio (RCA VS everybody else, trying to protect first the superheterodyne patent and then the FM patents) and those were two of the biggest boom industries (aviation and electronics) in the last 100 years. It didn't keep men off the moon.
It's the adoption of effete, gutless "risk VS reward" , "please, won't someone think of the children" type over-analysis and over-regulation that is stifling innovation, pretty much as TFA suggests. That all started in the 60's and 70s and the idiot hippies and touchy-feely types that advocated it are firmly in control of society now. We are now *proud* of cowards and quislings, and firmly disapprove of anyone who takes risks.