After reading the article and the supermilage webpage I was unable to find any statement of thier intention to help the automobile industry. Its a competition dude, it doesnt have to have any relevance to the vehicles that Joe Average drives to work in.
You want to improve fuel efficiency in a four door car? Fit it with a much smaller motor, cam it to have a narrower power band and make sure you always drive in that power band. Give it a teardrop shape. Remove external mirrors, and place covers over the wheel wells. Fit narrow, low rolling resistance tyres. Cut down on internal features like a stereo, carpet, and unnescesary niceties. In the end you have a car that is great on fuel that about 10 people will buy. People are quite happy to sacrifice fuel economy for the features that they have become acustomed to.
My partner actually began her university education in electrical engineering, and it took her 6 months to change to mathematics. She claims that one of biggest factors in that decision was the lack of women in her courses. Being in a lecture hall where women represented say 10 out of the 300 people meant that the women were under constant pressure from horny undergrads, and unfortunately situations like this can contribute to gender gaps having a certain momentum.
It is strange though, I have always thought that if I was in a room with 290 horny undergrad chicks that could only be a good thing. Giggidy Giggidy!
I propose a subtle change to your experiment:
1) Take one human.
2) Place human in oxygen free environment.
3) Wait 10 minutes, and measure rate of carbon dioxide production.
(... 4) Profit?...)
The OP seemed to be suggesting that merely having plants would solve the problem. Plants generating oxygen and humans in turn generating carbon dioxide is all well and good, but you cant avoid the fact that neither gas just happens to be lying about the place on the moon. To start this nice ecosystem some quantity of either gas must either be transported there or produced there.
Where are you getting the carbon dioxide from for the plants? If you are going to be setting up an eco-system there then you are going to have to get oxygen or carbon dioxide from somewhere.
This baffles me, just whose side are the environmentalists on again? It doesn't matter that there is no gaurantee. The likelyhood of it being a comercially viable energy source is very high.
The problem with the title of 'environmentalist' is that a whole bunch of different groups like to apply it to themselves so that the feel warm and fuzzy when they tuck themselves in at night. I hate to throw arround stereotypes, but I am guessing that the groups that made these comments own a lot of beads and hemp clothing.
OK, thats a lie, I do like throwing arround stereotypes
Why mention intelligent design? Simple. To provide the numb masses with something that will spark thier interest for a second or two and provide some good publicity for your school/institution/whatever. Send out a press release full of shop talk and there will be howling wolves and tumbleweed, but send out a press release that links your research to some hot topic, no matter how weakly, and you will catch the odd fish.
It could be to do with the fact that if one christian wants to denounce a christian whackjob they get the airtime to do it, if a muslim wants to denounce a muslim whackjob then your local station covers a school science fair. The media we receive is skewed towards ratings, and people love getting thier panties up tight about muslims.
The olympics are judging competitors on thier sporting abilities, not thier business ethics. If Dale has broken some law then fair enough, chase him down with lawyers. Disqualifying him from the olympics would be on par with banning anyone who fails a doping test from running thier own business - they are completely unrelated.
Among those who said they would not like to be scientists, reasons included: "Because you would constantly be depressed and tired and not have time for family", and "because they all wear big glasses and white coats and I am female".
You know, I am just fine with anyone who gives responses like this choosing another career.
My partner works at a government department where they no longer have the APS5 pay range, everyone goes from APS4 straight to APS6 to try to encourage people to stay. Two of my good friends work for a particular company that outsources to the government (think "massive Customs IT problems" and you have the company) and they are begging and crying for staff. This article screams of a slow news day.
Just because you have user accounts cancelled and the like it doesnt mean that the company you work for is being hateful or unprofessional in any way, they are just protecting thier interests. In fact, it is probably a good thing even for you that you have access revoked where you could cause damage - how many times does someone tender a resignation and when something goes wrong 3 days before they leave it is automatically thier fault. It seems like in this guys case the employer has actually been quite nice to them, even if it seems a little abrupt.
I wouldnt worry too much about her, she seems to be doing all the smart things. For a start she has been taking photographic evidence. Secondly, when faced with a legal threat that is bigger than her, she goes to the media. Once she starts tugging on some heart strings, which seems to be happening very effectively, she will be fighting off laywers offering to take the case pro bono with a broom stick (or maybe a boom stick).
Space weapons can also be shot down from the ground relatively easily.
I worked for a short period of time for a company that does satelite laser ranging and debris tracking. Thier station was burnt down in bushfires a couple of years ago, and it took them one year to rebuild to the point where they were hitting satelites again and had the timing systems working so that they knew thier position within 30cm. That was building not one telescope and laser, but two telescopes and two lasers.
Now a future plan was to build a new site with a laser powerful enough and telescopes with focussing systems good enough that they could hit a piece of debris, cause ablation and knock it out of orbit, the plan being that people dont have to move thier satelites, rather you knock the debris out of orbit and it burns up in re-entry. If a small company can do this, you can bet your ass that once one country puts weapons in space every country possible will be building ground based weapons to shoot them down if they have to.
The first thought that springs to mind (a little disturbingly) is the military benefit. A weapon that subdues the opponent would surely be of great utility to any army. It would certainly put a new edge on political persuasion if one could quietly modify a political leaders emotions. And if that doesnt work, using it to make a few world leaders dance and jump could be worth a giggle.
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A USB powered blow job hey?
There are a few F1 teams out there that might disagree with your super light = flimsy.
After reading the article and the supermilage webpage I was unable to find any statement of thier intention to help the automobile industry. Its a competition dude, it doesnt have to have any relevance to the vehicles that Joe Average drives to work in.
You want to improve fuel efficiency in a four door car? Fit it with a much smaller motor, cam it to have a narrower power band and make sure you always drive in that power band. Give it a teardrop shape. Remove external mirrors, and place covers over the wheel wells. Fit narrow, low rolling resistance tyres. Cut down on internal features like a stereo, carpet, and unnescesary niceties. In the end you have a car that is great on fuel that about 10 people will buy. People are quite happy to sacrifice fuel economy for the features that they have become acustomed to.
My partner actually began her university education in electrical engineering, and it took her 6 months to change to mathematics. She claims that one of biggest factors in that decision was the lack of women in her courses. Being in a lecture hall where women represented say 10 out of the 300 people meant that the women were under constant pressure from horny undergrads, and unfortunately situations like this can contribute to gender gaps having a certain momentum.
It is strange though, I have always thought that if I was in a room with 290 horny undergrad chicks that could only be a good thing. Giggidy Giggidy!
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My grandmother once told me that "the good old days werent really that good, just old".
I am pretty sure that a politician has something to do with this. That is the only way you can explain all the spin.
I propose a subtle change to your experiment: ...)
1) Take one human.
2) Place human in oxygen free environment.
3) Wait 10 minutes, and measure rate of carbon dioxide production.
(... 4) Profit?
The OP seemed to be suggesting that merely having plants would solve the problem. Plants generating oxygen and humans in turn generating carbon dioxide is all well and good, but you cant avoid the fact that neither gas just happens to be lying about the place on the moon. To start this nice ecosystem some quantity of either gas must either be transported there or produced there.
Where are you getting the carbon dioxide from for the plants? If you are going to be setting up an eco-system there then you are going to have to get oxygen or carbon dioxide from somewhere.
The problem with the title of 'environmentalist' is that a whole bunch of different groups like to apply it to themselves so that the feel warm and fuzzy when they tuck themselves in at night. I hate to throw arround stereotypes, but I am guessing that the groups that made these comments own a lot of beads and hemp clothing.
OK, thats a lie, I do like throwing arround stereotypes
Because it is the correct number.
Thats a great idea, but I think the 25mpg figure is too low. Lets make it 42.
Well, I dont know about you, but I for one welcome our new biotech aware overlords.
Why mention intelligent design? Simple. To provide the numb masses with something that will spark thier interest for a second or two and provide some good publicity for your school/institution/whatever. Send out a press release full of shop talk and there will be howling wolves and tumbleweed, but send out a press release that links your research to some hot topic, no matter how weakly, and you will catch the odd fish.
It could be to do with the fact that if one christian wants to denounce a christian whackjob they get the airtime to do it, if a muslim wants to denounce a muslim whackjob then your local station covers a school science fair. The media we receive is skewed towards ratings, and people love getting thier panties up tight about muslims.
The olympics are judging competitors on thier sporting abilities, not thier business ethics. If Dale has broken some law then fair enough, chase him down with lawyers. Disqualifying him from the olympics would be on par with banning anyone who fails a doping test from running thier own business - they are completely unrelated.
You know, I am just fine with anyone who gives responses like this choosing another career.
My partner works at a government department where they no longer have the APS5 pay range, everyone goes from APS4 straight to APS6 to try to encourage people to stay. Two of my good friends work for a particular company that outsources to the government (think "massive Customs IT problems" and you have the company) and they are begging and crying for staff. This article screams of a slow news day.
Just because you have user accounts cancelled and the like it doesnt mean that the company you work for is being hateful or unprofessional in any way, they are just protecting thier interests. In fact, it is probably a good thing even for you that you have access revoked where you could cause damage - how many times does someone tender a resignation and when something goes wrong 3 days before they leave it is automatically thier fault. It seems like in this guys case the employer has actually been quite nice to them, even if it seems a little abrupt.
I wouldnt worry too much about her, she seems to be doing all the smart things. For a start she has been taking photographic evidence. Secondly, when faced with a legal threat that is bigger than her, she goes to the media. Once she starts tugging on some heart strings, which seems to be happening very effectively, she will be fighting off laywers offering to take the case pro bono with a broom stick (or maybe a boom stick).
I think it is important to note that this was a class project, I doubt the students saw guitar playing as an area that desperately needed automating.
Space weapons can also be shot down from the ground relatively easily. I worked for a short period of time for a company that does satelite laser ranging and debris tracking. Thier station was burnt down in bushfires a couple of years ago, and it took them one year to rebuild to the point where they were hitting satelites again and had the timing systems working so that they knew thier position within 30cm. That was building not one telescope and laser, but two telescopes and two lasers. Now a future plan was to build a new site with a laser powerful enough and telescopes with focussing systems good enough that they could hit a piece of debris, cause ablation and knock it out of orbit, the plan being that people dont have to move thier satelites, rather you knock the debris out of orbit and it burns up in re-entry. If a small company can do this, you can bet your ass that once one country puts weapons in space every country possible will be building ground based weapons to shoot them down if they have to.
The first thought that springs to mind (a little disturbingly) is the military benefit. A weapon that subdues the opponent would surely be of great utility to any army. It would certainly put a new edge on political persuasion if one could quietly modify a political leaders emotions. And if that doesnt work, using it to make a few world leaders dance and jump could be worth a giggle.