30,000 feet is about as high as Everest. People have walked up Everest and survived......in fact I'm not sure I believe their conclusions. You'd be down to almost 'normal' conditions in about a minute.
People have survived half an hour at altitudes higher than that, eg. Ewa Wisnierska.
What have we had since then? Not even an updated video...? How come the existing video doesn't even show something spinning? All I see is a guy with a piece of metal in his hand making extraordinary claims and no evidence whatsoever.
It doesn't really have to. They're engineers... I imagine they measured things like peak G forces, min/max displacement of car relative to ground over time, stuff like that.
Yep, 18 year-olds generally haven't got a clue about anything much so they don't see the bad side of smoking.
Conversely, very few people start smoking in their mid-20s (or later). Smoking seems to me like a good place for the law to protect people from their own stupidity/ignorance.
Yep, the BMI curve only fits people in the middle of the height range - if you're tall it'll say you're obese and if you're short it won't. It's been 150-odd years now so you'd think doctors would have figured this out, but.... noooo.
Here's a whole bunch of random people's BMIs plotted on a chart. If you squint your eyes you can clearly see the dots form a curve, not a straight line.
Clue: Humans are three dimensional, the power term in the equation should therefore be a 3, not a 2.
(...and that would only fix the 'height' problem, it still wouldn't take into account the muscularity of a person)./rant
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These days the point of DRM seems to be more to stop video game rentals and prevent you selling the game second hand rather than stopping piracy.
I think there's an awful lot of assuming going on. Real people have survived worse than that.
30,000 feet is about as high as Everest. People have walked up Everest and survived... ...in fact I'm not sure I believe their conclusions. You'd be down to almost 'normal' conditions in about a minute.
People have survived half an hour at altitudes higher than that, eg. Ewa Wisnierska.
No, the ARPA grant was awarded in 2009.
What have we had since then? Not even an updated video...? How come the existing video doesn't even show something spinning? All I see is a guy with a piece of metal in his hand making extraordinary claims and no evidence whatsoever.
Nah, it obviously doesn't work. This story has been doing the rounds since 1999, always promising a working engine "by year's end".
Nah, it obviously doesn't work. This story has been doing the rounds since at least 1999, always promising a working engine "by year's end".
You can still want wood even if you don't want kids.
...at which point they'll pass a law making it a crime.
I'd say "scientist" is "someone who follows the scientific method" but that's just me.
You forgot the obligatory xkcd
The article provides zero information about that.
It doesn't really have to. They're engineers ... I imagine they measured things like peak G forces, min/max displacement of car relative to ground over time, stuff like that.
It's called "math".
It's a new low for Slashdot when even the submitter hasn't read the article (if he'd read it he'd know how they measured the "60%")
Hint: It's in the paragraph that starts with: "The 60 percent ride improvement figure was obtained when...."
No pimps to beat them up and steal it....
What did he manage to watch in those three days? Reruns of Baywatch and Little House on The Prairie...?
They just have a different risk/reward preference to you, and shouldn't be punished for making their own choices.
Why is it a 'punishment' to be steered away from harmful things which are addictive and very difficult to stop doing when they've matured a bit more?
Especially when those things are completely non-productive (and expensive...)
...and how does 20 iPads fill up a suitcase?
Yep, 18 year-olds generally haven't got a clue about anything much so they don't see the bad side of smoking.
Conversely, very few people start smoking in their mid-20s (or later). Smoking seems to me like a good place for the law to protect people from their own stupidity/ignorance.
Yep, the BMI curve only fits people in the middle of the height range - if you're tall it'll say you're obese and if you're short it won't. It's been 150-odd years now so you'd think doctors would have figured this out, but .... noooo.
Here's a whole bunch of random people's BMIs plotted on a chart. If you squint your eyes you can clearly see the dots form a curve, not a straight line.
Clue: Humans are three dimensional, the power term in the equation should therefore be a 3, not a 2.
(...and that would only fix the 'height' problem, it still wouldn't take into account the muscularity of a person). /rant
Junk food is the cart, not the horse.
Pity you didn't put actually your name on it so we can add you to the Slashdot annals of greatness.
Mayo? Ick.
A better analogy would be "...goes together like food and mayo".
737s which keep on developing unexpected sunroofs?
It's one of my favorite dishes! Try it some time...
Damn those Pesky Facts!
How do you destroy radiation?
Mix it with red dye, paint some plastic toys with it and ship them to America...?