Obviously you watch Fox News and/or listen to Limbaugh for your ideas.
For audio and video records some of the more outrageous lies they've told, try http://mediamatters.org/
I once ran a game of GURPS wherein a friend had created a thief type character. With his last point, he chose to take a single minor (very minor) spell in the hopes of pursuing that path more readily later on. He had the spell "create air". It could create one hex of air which would dissipate outward in a gentle breeze. Or make bubbles if cast in water. Not the most useful spell.
At one point he needed to sneak through a typical Lord of the Rings style workroom in an underground lair full of people casting weapons and a huge smelting furnace with people shoveling coal and ore in. He needed a distraction to sneak by and chose to cast create air on the furnace.
Ok, I said, impressed. The furnace roared and flared briefly. Some flames even flicked out the vents and seared the hand of one of the coal shovelers who dropped his shovel with a clang. Every head turned to look. Clever, I thought.
Very informative post, but I think I have one nit to pick. The Uranium gun-type bomb should be quite a bit more robust than implosion types. If two "barely sub-critical pieces of Uranium" are used, it doesn't take much to go supercritical. The goal in a bomb becomes, to paraphrase you, getting as much fuel as possible to burn before the fuel blows itself apart and becomes sub-critical. A really hard impact does certainly aid in that.
What I find intriguing is a component called the initiator. This seems to be one of the more secret components of nuclear bombs. I know squat about initiators other than they supply neutrons to accelerate the burn rate in an explosive reaction. I don't know if they are electrical, chemical, or other in nature and I have no interest in piercing that particular secret. I think they are one of the key secret ingredients in making a nuke and I just find that interesting.
You don't have to RTFA, just the caption under the top photo.
The graphic shows the 2 foot-diameter flyers at L1. They are transparent, but blur out transmitted light into a donut, as shown for the background stars. The transmitted sunlight is also spread out, so it misses the Earth. This way of removing the light avoids radiation pressure, which would otherwise degrade the L1 orbit.
Wow. That whole quartz, halogen, corroding tungsten reapplied thing is clever as all hell. Whoever figured that out impresses me more than electrolysizing titanium oxide.
M3 includes the money held in foreign banks. This may be being discontinued due to Iran opening a Euro based oil exchange. Currently, the only two oil exchanges are the NYMEX and the British IPX (American owned), bot do business in USD. Countries must keep reserves of dollars in order to trade oil. If PetroEuros catch on, many countries may flush their USD reserves for Euros. After all, the Euro seems stronger at the moment. Such a flush would give a big hit to the worth of the dollar. Perhaps that is why the Fed will cease publishing the M3.
From your link - "the issues raised by AFOLs concerning the change"
He referred to AFOL members as AFOLs. Is that like referring to Lego Blocks as Legos?
Did they ever come up with a replacement for the old Elektron oxygen generators? I mean something as good or better than those old Soviet relics, not just burning oxygen candles for air?
I heard the only guy who could properly tune the Elektrons died with his tricks. Hence, the need for new tech.
Am I right in thinking that this contest doesn't actually take place on the moon? For a quarter million devalued American pesos they want an autonomous earthmover, right? The sort of thing that might be good for sending to the moon on a much larger budget.
I have a cat named Gizmo that has brought in mice, gophers, and even a little garter snake, but her preferred prey is birds. She will climb a tree and take one newborn each evening from a nest to eat. I saw her once snatch a low swooping sparrow from the air while she was crouched in the weeds. The ball-on-a-string game is no fun for her because I cannot whip the string fast enough for her to ever miss it. My other cat is quite normal in his abilities, but Gizmo trips me out.
Consider this as a cat walk simulation. You let them out for thier kind of walk on their own. No interaction, you just get to see from your cat's eyes how well it's stalking and bird hunting skills are, what neighbor cats it smells and hunts down, and maybe where it goes to poop. Then it comes back inside.
You are onto something with covering the gulf. We need a giant pool cover to keep the water cool in the summertime.
And maybe we could chlorinate it so it's not so icky to swim in.
The thing the adminsitration should be asking is how the password was leaked.
Someone administrator probably had it on a sticky note stuck to their monitor when some kid got sent to the office and saw it. If so, the administrator should surely be charged with "Cyber Espionage" or some other felonious nonsense.
I guess that goes to show who's been following their commandments. I was surprised at the number 304,805 characters. Do Christians or Muslims know how many words are in their books? If the Bible had not been altered so often, perhaps there would be fewer sects of Christianity.
On the other hand if the court adopts a hands off stance toward personal, non-commercial copyright infringement, the relentless advances of technology could make the production of digital entertainment significantly less profitable.
Less net profit, perhaps. Fortunately, advances in technology have the potential to make the production of digital entertainment signifigantly less expensive as well.
Why couldn't a one sentence definition of "termination shock" be included in the summary? Would it make the story seem boring, or was this a planned attempt to slashdot wiki?
Did anyone not have to look it up?
On another note, what the heck is the speed of sound in solar wind?
This bot clearly has a custom library of phrases. Tuned for the average/. story. I wonder if these are much harder to recognize when they are in their element.
Props to the writer. Now stop spamming.
Haha! I see the submission page is already updated to fix you.
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Obviously you watch Fox News and/or listen to Limbaugh for your ideas. For audio and video records some of the more outrageous lies they've told, try http://mediamatters.org/
It doesn't even have to be Ivy League. There are 150 Bush appointees from Pat Robertson's Regent University.
I once ran a game of GURPS wherein a friend had created a thief type character. With his last point, he chose to take a single minor (very minor) spell in the hopes of pursuing that path more readily later on. He had the spell "create air". It could create one hex of air which would dissipate outward in a gentle breeze. Or make bubbles if cast in water. Not the most useful spell.
At one point he needed to sneak through a typical Lord of the Rings style workroom in an underground lair full of people casting weapons and a huge smelting furnace with people shoveling coal and ore in. He needed a distraction to sneak by and chose to cast create air on the furnace.
Ok, I said, impressed. The furnace roared and flared briefly. Some flames even flicked out the vents and seared the hand of one of the coal shovelers who dropped his shovel with a clang. Every head turned to look. Clever, I thought.
Very informative post, but I think I have one nit to pick. The Uranium gun-type bomb should be quite a bit more robust than implosion types. If two "barely sub-critical pieces of Uranium" are used, it doesn't take much to go supercritical. The goal in a bomb becomes, to paraphrase you, getting as much fuel as possible to burn before the fuel blows itself apart and becomes sub-critical. A really hard impact does certainly aid in that. What I find intriguing is a component called the initiator. This seems to be one of the more secret components of nuclear bombs. I know squat about initiators other than they supply neutrons to accelerate the burn rate in an explosive reaction. I don't know if they are electrical, chemical, or other in nature and I have no interest in piercing that particular secret. I think they are one of the key secret ingredients in making a nuke and I just find that interesting.
Wow. That whole quartz, halogen, corroding tungsten reapplied thing is clever as all hell. Whoever figured that out impresses me more than electrolysizing titanium oxide.
M3 includes the money held in foreign banks. This may be being discontinued due to Iran opening a Euro based oil exchange. Currently, the only two oil exchanges are the NYMEX and the British IPX (American owned), bot do business in USD. Countries must keep reserves of dollars in order to trade oil. If PetroEuros catch on, many countries may flush their USD reserves for Euros. After all, the Euro seems stronger at the moment. Such a flush would give a big hit to the worth of the dollar. Perhaps that is why the Fed will cease publishing the M3.
From your link - "the issues raised by AFOLs concerning the change" He referred to AFOL members as AFOLs. Is that like referring to Lego Blocks as Legos?
Did they ever come up with a replacement for the old Elektron oxygen generators? I mean something as good or better than those old Soviet relics, not just burning oxygen candles for air? I heard the only guy who could properly tune the Elektrons died with his tricks. Hence, the need for new tech.
I still love to watch the Saturn V launch vids. I think these were the greatest achievments ever from the hands of mankind.
Apollo 17
Apollo 15
Nearly as tall as three space shuttles stacked end-to-end.
Am I right in thinking that this contest doesn't actually take place on the moon? For a quarter million devalued American pesos they want an autonomous earthmover, right? The sort of thing that might be good for sending to the moon on a much larger budget.
I have a cat named Gizmo that has brought in mice, gophers, and even a little garter snake, but her preferred prey is birds. She will climb a tree and take one newborn each evening from a nest to eat. I saw her once snatch a low swooping sparrow from the air while she was crouched in the weeds. The ball-on-a-string game is no fun for her because I cannot whip the string fast enough for her to ever miss it. My other cat is quite normal in his abilities, but Gizmo trips me out.
Consider this as a cat walk simulation. You let them out for thier kind of walk on their own. No interaction, you just get to see from your cat's eyes how well it's stalking and bird hunting skills are, what neighbor cats it smells and hunts down, and maybe where it goes to poop. Then it comes back inside.
You are onto something with covering the gulf. We need a giant pool cover to keep the water cool in the summertime. And maybe we could chlorinate it so it's not so icky to swim in.
Computers attack hackers.
Well, the alphas are the scientists, betas are admnistrators, etc...
9x = 8.99999...
So, umm, no.
I guess that goes to show who's been following their commandments. I was surprised at the number 304,805 characters. Do Christians or Muslims know how many words are in their books? If the Bible had not been altered so often, perhaps there would be fewer sects of Christianity.
An AI that reacted like a human brain in a Half-Life game would wet it's pants. You want an AI that will panic under fire?
Are they referring to speed of sound at sea level? That seems arbitrary and very slow in space speeds for not being zero.
Why couldn't a one sentence definition of "termination shock" be included in the summary? Would it make the story seem boring, or was this a planned attempt to slashdot wiki? Did anyone not have to look it up? On another note, what the heck is the speed of sound in solar wind?
This article says there is a video! bbc article Someone find that video, oh please!
This bot clearly has a custom library of phrases. Tuned for the average /. story. I wonder if these are much harder to recognize when they are in their element.
Props to the writer. Now stop spamming.
Haha! I see the submission page is already updated to fix you.