Now to change the orbit 13 meters we have to remove 7.349x10^20 kg of material from the moon. That is 810,000,000,000,000,000 tons of material. If you were to unload 1000 tons a day it would still take 2,220,000,000,000 years to take that much.
So my original answer of no stands. We have nothing to worry about.
Actually, you forgot another thing: energy. If we use the moon's solar energy to power mass drivers to shoot material off the moon - in one direction (which involves having them ring the moon and fire in a sequence so they - say - shoot all material away from earth) - then the equation changes.
The action of removing the mass impacts the gravitational pull only slightly. The action of flinging that mass so as to push the moon towards (or away) from Earth would be a far far greater impact.
Not that it matters anyway, we're talking a long long long time before we would perceive such a shift, and we'll probably join the dinosaurs in mass global extinction when a rogue asteroid the size of Manhattan impacts the earth and shocks the climate with the fireball and resulting globe-encircling duststorm...
Having your favorite client over for dinner? Change all the pictures to suit his tastes. Having your mother-in-law over? Put something up to scare her away *JUST KIDDING*.
Having script kiddies hack your wireless network to display old Jetson's cartoons on your wall when your Flat Earth Society friends are meeting at your place: Priceless.
Japan is completely dependent on imported oil. Oil is presently peaking, and Japan is smart enough to see this (much as they saw they were deforesting their island too quickly several hundred years ago, and embarked on a process of radical reforestation and switching to coal - for more on this, see Jared Diamond's book "Collapse".)
It is calculated that there's about a million tons of Helium3 (He3) on the moon, and Japan would probably only need about 30 tons of it a year to power fusion reactors (The USA, consuming at its present insanely wasteful rate, would only need 45 tons per year) and that would give them electricity for the next several millennia.
So: set up robot bases on the moon that start melting the regolith for He3. Send it back to earth to the fusion reactors. Electricity right through the next ice age or two.
The thing is, commercial fusion energy production is always (since I was born in 1960 at least), twenty years in the future.
It was going to show up in the 1980s at the 1963 World's Fair (NYC).
It was going to show up in the 1990s at the 1967 World's Fair (Montreal).
It was going to show up in the 2000s at the 1986 World's Fair (Vancouver).
My guess is the next World's Fair will say it will be here in the 2020s.
Japanese robots on the moon, but no mention of the teenage girls that will pilot them.
Everyone knows that they will be mostly be piloted by teenage boys with anger management problems, with a few teenage girls - also with anger management problems.
Some of course, will be incredibly passive, to show our inner turmoil over the use of such robots and provide us with inner dialogue.
The question is - if you exist in the same timeline as yourself at a different age - wouldn't the cells in your body have been replaced atom by atom over time anyway?
So what if I exist here in Seattle and in China at the same time.
if you actually track the successful idea ratio, you'd see the advice in Forbes won't help you much - unless you inherited wealth - whereas Fortune will give you good ideas that actually work.
So I wouldn't worry about an anti-Linux article in Forbes - they're so far behind the curve that most real investors ignore them as fluff meisters, knowing they are totally clueless.
Expect to see an article in four years time on how Linux is the best thing since sliced croissants. They won't apologize for being wrong, they'll just pretend they supported it all along.
Sheesh! It's 2005 and there are still unpatched vulnerabilities. Damn hackers, they're always faster than us! (/sarcasm)
Heck, they just released a bug fix for an IE bug that was already fixed, put back in by mistake (since it was still in IE), and refixed in Firefox... today.
Wow, it's like watching paint dry.
Luckily for them hackers just go away on vacation in the intervening years between bug fixes... right?
makes me think of that scene in Starship Troopers where they talk about nuking bugs dead and then you see a film clip of kids stepping on cockroaches while their teacher laughs insanely... and just as effective...
You'd have to cut a whole lot for the courts to accept that, almost any mention of fair use in law mentions that it applies to partial reproductions. They're not very likely to accept your claim of fair use if you broadcast the entire work with some commentary added to call it "criticism".
Well, if the whole thing is deeply flawed, it's a lot like Mystery Science Theater 3000, in that you're criticizing the whole thing.
Kind of like a director's cut where he whines about having to cut the shoot by two days because there was too much rain.
But I could see doing that, even if you might not want to do it. As I said, I have friends who make entire TV shows mocking what passes for news nowadays, with fake "broadcasters" announcing each segment and laughable commentary that is thinly vieled sarcasm.
I also have the original paperwork for All Of The Above, so noone else can use that.
Yes, trademarks and patents and copyright extensions are getting extremely silly. Ben Franklin must be spinning in his grave at about 5000 rpm right now.
when I was in Kindergarten in Pennsylvania, I wrote a comic book called Numbers which was about computers and robots and space aliens.
So obviously, I have a stronger claim.
And since at least four kids paid me a quarter for the comic book each, I did it as a small business, and thus Apple will have to pay me... a MILLION DOLLARS!!!! ah hah ah hah hah!... um, look, it was in the 60s, that was a lot of money back then... I wonder how much that would be in modern US currency...
Or it could just be the dot com craze revisited
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Sharing your captured broadcast material over the internet, whether with friends or not, cannot be considered 'criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research' without drastic modification from the current method of how that material is shared.
Actually, it could be considered as any of these: if you rebroadcast it as a parody; if you repackaged a series of news items into a digest - which may or may not include editing for content or length; if you rebroadcast it as criticism, as some friends of mine do a Public Access TV show that criticizes the media spew from national news and uses the items as lead-in; if you did it thru UWTV to show people the use of the broadcast flag; if you did a study to find out the use of the broadcast flag; or any other number of things.
had lots of players in their play-by-mail turn-based games, some players would sell - for cash US dollars - tribe assets that they "harvested" for you.
In fact, in Tribes of Crane (TOC), maybe it was TOC II, a group of indie players formed the Celtani Federation and went up against people who used USD to max out their tribes and crush us.
I've made the trip to and from Japan twice and each time it was more than 11 hours of flight time. My last trip was 13 hours to get there and 11 to get back.
I personally wouldn't mind Tokyo-Vancouver-NYC flights or Tokyo-Seattle-NYC flights - since I frequently fly from Seattle to Paris or Seattle to Milan and used to fly from Vancouver to Auckland or Sydney.
The only problem is which airport will take this? If they put it in Boeing Field here in Seattle, where Southwest Airlines is moving (since SeaTac is too crowded), the sonic booms will be too much. Even SeaTac might be problematic, and the last commercial supersonic airflight ended at Boeing Field, so one can never tell.
3. If you're looking for gaming, you want a model with at least a 64M video card for Quartz Extreme 2d. The low end desktop that has that is the new eMac. The iBook and Mac mini have 32M Radeon 9200, and may or may not have a refresh before next June.
4. The first new models will be the Intel-based Mac mini and at least one Intel-based laptop. The current G5 models will be the last to be refreshed. So that means an Intel mini next June, followed by the laptops and maybe an Intel eMac by the end of the year.
All this is based only on what Apple has already announced and what's on their website.
So...
If you buy an eMac now, you'll get a QE2d-capable Powermac. It's unlikely it will be refreshed between now and 2H06, when they come out with an Intel version. It's unlikely you'll get a better low-end from Apple between now and next June unless they refresh the Mac mini, and holding off on a refresh of the mini actually makes less sense now... it was more likely before 6/6.
If you buy an iMac now, you'll get a G5, and it's unlikely you'll get a better model before 1Q07... and, again, the news on 6/6 makes an upcoming refresh on the iMac less likely.
Well, I was kind of looking at the Mac mini before, although I was also looking at the eMac too.
Noticed a story in the WSJ about how product sales were projected to drop dramatically (in today's print edition).
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Now to change the orbit 13 meters we have to remove 7.349x10^20 kg of material from the moon. That is 810,000,000,000,000,000 tons of material. If you were to unload 1000 tons a day it would still take 2,220,000,000,000 years to take that much.
...
So my original answer of no stands. We have nothing to worry about.
Actually, you forgot another thing: energy. If we use the moon's solar energy to power mass drivers to shoot material off the moon - in one direction (which involves having them ring the moon and fire in a sequence so they - say - shoot all material away from earth) - then the equation changes.
The action of removing the mass impacts the gravitational pull only slightly. The action of flinging that mass so as to push the moon towards (or away) from Earth would be a far far greater impact.
Not that it matters anyway, we're talking a long long long time before we would perceive such a shift, and we'll probably join the dinosaurs in mass global extinction when a rogue asteroid the size of Manhattan impacts the earth and shocks the climate with the fireball and resulting globe-encircling duststorm
Having your favorite client over for dinner? Change all the pictures to suit his tastes. Having your mother-in-law over? Put something up to scare her away *JUST KIDDING*.
Having script kiddies hack your wireless network to display old Jetson's cartoons on your wall when your Flat Earth Society friends are meeting at your place: Priceless.
and then calculate the energy usage and heat generation to serve them.
plus cooling costs/fans and wallmount undercarriage air/coolant ducting.
Hmmm.
Instead, you could just go out and buy a nice painting for what you'd pay for electricity for a month, and sell it for what you paid for it after use.
Or you could buy one of those floor-to-cieling projectors or floor-to-ceiling roll-up maps and mount the images on it - for a lot less.
A more interesting thing would be to live in a mall and get the same basic effect.
Japan is completely dependent on imported oil. Oil is presently peaking, and Japan is smart enough to see this (much as they saw they were deforesting their island too quickly several hundred years ago, and embarked on a process of radical reforestation and switching to coal - for more on this, see Jared Diamond's book "Collapse".)
It is calculated that there's about a million tons of Helium3 (He3) on the moon, and Japan would probably only need about 30 tons of it a year to power fusion reactors (The USA, consuming at its present insanely wasteful rate, would only need 45 tons per year) and that would give them electricity for the next several millennia.
So: set up robot bases on the moon that start melting the regolith for He3. Send it back to earth to the fusion reactors. Electricity right through the next ice age or two.
The thing is, commercial fusion energy production is always (since I was born in 1960 at least), twenty years in the future.
It was going to show up in the 1980s at the 1963 World's Fair (NYC).
It was going to show up in the 1990s at the 1967 World's Fair (Montreal).
It was going to show up in the 2000s at the 1986 World's Fair (Vancouver).
My guess is the next World's Fair will say it will be here in the 2020s.
Japanese robots on the moon, but no mention of the teenage girls that will pilot them.
Everyone knows that they will be mostly be piloted by teenage boys with anger management problems, with a few teenage girls - also with anger management problems.
Some of course, will be incredibly passive, to show our inner turmoil over the use of such robots and provide us with inner dialogue.
Kawaii overdose, anyone?
How do you know they're not me?
For all I know, it's totally possible.
But highly unlikely.
The question is - if you exist in the same timeline as yourself at a different age - wouldn't the cells in your body have been replaced atom by atom over time anyway?
So what if I exist here in Seattle and in China at the same time.
and since you record them from audio input, they defeat most silly copy-protection schemes as well.
if you actually track the successful idea ratio, you'd see the advice in Forbes won't help you much - unless you inherited wealth - whereas Fortune will give you good ideas that actually work.
So I wouldn't worry about an anti-Linux article in Forbes - they're so far behind the curve that most real investors ignore them as fluff meisters, knowing they are totally clueless.
Expect to see an article in four years time on how Linux is the best thing since sliced croissants. They won't apologize for being wrong, they'll just pretend they supported it all along.
Sheesh! It's 2005 and there are still unpatched vulnerabilities. Damn hackers, they're always faster than us! (/sarcasm)
... today.
... right?
Heck, they just released a bug fix for an IE bug that was already fixed, put back in by mistake (since it was still in IE), and refixed in Firefox
Wow, it's like watching paint dry.
Luckily for them hackers just go away on vacation in the intervening years between bug fixes
"That is a feature, not a bug"
... and just as effective ...
Help me, Obit Juan Denobi, you're my only hope!
makes me think of that scene in Starship Troopers where they talk about nuking bugs dead and then you see a film clip of kids stepping on cockroaches while their teacher laughs insanely
would be more appropriate than Blue Hat conference.
What were they thinking? "Oh, shit our OS isn't secure?"
More likely:
"How can we spin this from bad to good?"
You'd have to cut a whole lot for the courts to accept that, almost any mention of fair use in law mentions that it applies to partial reproductions. They're not very likely to accept your claim of fair use if you broadcast the entire work with some commentary added to call it "criticism".
Well, if the whole thing is deeply flawed, it's a lot like Mystery Science Theater 3000, in that you're criticizing the whole thing.
Kind of like a director's cut where he whines about having to cut the shoot by two days because there was too much rain.
But I could see doing that, even if you might not want to do it. As I said, I have friends who make entire TV shows mocking what passes for news nowadays, with fake "broadcasters" announcing each segment and laughable commentary that is thinly vieled sarcasm.
but my VoIP on my laptop didn't work and since it was a network problem ...
Um, hello?
Deuteronomy.
It's the NextStep to the iBible.
Do you think God should claim Prior Trademark and zap them with a plague or two for infringing on His market?
I also have the original paperwork for All Of The Above, so noone else can use that.
Yes, trademarks and patents and copyright extensions are getting extremely silly. Ben Franklin must be spinning in his grave at about 5000 rpm right now.
when I was in Kindergarten in Pennsylvania, I wrote a comic book called Numbers which was about computers and robots and space aliens.
... a MILLION DOLLARS!!!! ah hah ah hah hah! ... um, look, it was in the 60s, that was a lot of money back then ... I wonder how much that would be in modern US currency ...
So obviously, I have a stronger claim.
And since at least four kids paid me a quarter for the comic book each, I did it as a small business, and thus Apple will have to pay me
ever think that?
Sharing your captured broadcast material over the internet, whether with friends or not, cannot be considered 'criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research' without drastic modification from the current method of how that material is shared.
Actually, it could be considered as any of these: if you rebroadcast it as a parody; if you repackaged a series of news items into a digest - which may or may not include editing for content or length; if you rebroadcast it as criticism, as some friends of mine do a Public Access TV show that criticizes the media spew from national news and uses the items as lead-in; if you did it thru UWTV to show people the use of the broadcast flag; if you did a study to find out the use of the broadcast flag; or any other number of things.
And that's just the START of possible uses.
well, they are the primary source of viruses in emails, so it's logical that they'd be the primary source of spyware on BitTorrent ....
and stuff like this.
It's pretty much FUD to scare you away.
mind you, I'm typing this on a Dell keyboard while reading what I typed on a Dell monitor for my Dell Win XP machine ...
had lots of players in their play-by-mail turn-based games, some players would sell - for cash US dollars - tribe assets that they "harvested" for you.
In fact, in Tribes of Crane (TOC), maybe it was TOC II, a group of indie players formed the Celtani Federation and went up against people who used USD to max out their tribes and crush us.
I've made the trip to and from Japan twice and each time it was more than 11 hours of flight time. My last trip was 13 hours to get there and 11 to get back.
I personally wouldn't mind Tokyo-Vancouver-NYC flights or Tokyo-Seattle-NYC flights - since I frequently fly from Seattle to Paris or Seattle to Milan and used to fly from Vancouver to Auckland or Sydney.
The only problem is which airport will take this? If they put it in Boeing Field here in Seattle, where Southwest Airlines is moving (since SeaTac is too crowded), the sonic booms will be too much. Even SeaTac might be problematic, and the last commercial supersonic airflight ended at Boeing Field, so one can never tell.
3. If you're looking for gaming, you want a model with at least a 64M video card for Quartz Extreme 2d. The low end desktop that has that is the new eMac. The iBook and Mac mini have 32M Radeon 9200, and may or may not have a refresh before next June.
4. The first new models will be the Intel-based Mac mini and at least one Intel-based laptop. The current G5 models will be the last to be refreshed. So that means an Intel mini next June, followed by the laptops and maybe an Intel eMac by the end of the year.
All this is based only on what Apple has already announced and what's on their website.
So...
If you buy an eMac now, you'll get a QE2d-capable Powermac. It's unlikely it will be refreshed between now and 2H06, when they come out with an Intel version. It's unlikely you'll get a better low-end from Apple between now and next June unless they refresh the Mac mini, and holding off on a refresh of the mini actually makes less sense now... it was more likely before 6/6.
If you buy an iMac now, you'll get a G5, and it's unlikely you'll get a better model before 1Q07... and, again, the news on 6/6 makes an upcoming refresh on the iMac less likely.
Well, I was kind of looking at the Mac mini before, although I was also looking at the eMac too.
Noticed a story in the WSJ about how product sales were projected to drop dramatically (in today's print edition).