Well they way I see it, if dirt was to build up in front of these sliding rocks it would create far to much resistance and the wind (or whatever) would never be able to move them. More then likely when the rocks are sliding the are behaving like a boat traveling though water and the trail you see is the "wake". Well that's my take on it anyway.
well you're gonna need a velocity of at least 7800m/s (no atmosphere) and for the real world more like 10000m/s... now I refer you to the kinematic equation - Vf^2 = Vi^2 + 2*a*d.... with an a = 10m/s^2 that's a gun about 5000km long!
Plus that's not really a gun anymore now is it... the whole point of a gun is that it accelerates quickly, that and you'd get very hot from atmospheric friction, think shuttle re-entry.
Yet for acceleration insensitive cargo with a traditional style space gun it's not impossible.
Cool, thanks for the input, it really is kind of a neat story... one of my former professors who worked with him at the University of Toronto told me a bunch of stories about Prof. Bull and there are some interesting points regarding his death.
- Sometime before he was killed he had come home to find all of his things upside down... not trashed just moved, thought to be a messege of some sort.
- He was shot many times (12 I think) in the back outside of the door to his appartment in Brussels
- He always carries large sums of money and he was found with $20k (or something like that) on him at the time of his death... ergo, not a robbery.
Oh yeah and at the time he was developing ballistic missile re-entry shrouds for Sadaam (a US ally at the time) and in return Sadaam was providing funding and a site for his life long dream, a "Space Gun"
... our squishy bodies don't like thousands of g's... could work for cargo thought. As a side note, space guns have some really cool history associated with them, especially Professor Bull. He ended up being assasinated by the mossad for the work he was doing with Iraq, or so I heard.
... they just can't get any respect.
I love to bash MS as much as the next person, but come on, they deserve some props for this effort. Sure they didn't invent the technology but it sure does look like they have put some very nice polish to it.
It's so funny how MS gets bashed for doing exactly what Apple gets praised for, taking an existing technology and extending it.
Why does everyone assume that all of the documents will be stored on a google server? If this is a service that you pay for then perhaps google will give companies the option of hosting their own google apps server.
"unlike the U.S. takedown approach, the Canadian system is proving effective while protecting privacy and free speech. Downloaders take the hint, and alter their behavior before they receive a more serious letter in the mail."
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... was that americans payed any attention to what's happening in canada... man next thing you know canadians will be butting into american politics... oh wait a sec...
yeah I know what you mean... I realy wouldn't want to end up in a federal pound me in the ass penatentiary or anything.... however i hear for this sort of thing you usually only get thrown in a low security resort prison... and they have conjugal vists.......hmmmm
Not to be picky but I believe openKnoppix uses openMosix for clustering and this does not create a beowolf cluster, it simply shares the load of individual processes over the cluster..... A beowolf requires the programs be specifically programmed for spilting up the program into "cells" and sends those cells of "a" program across the cluster.... openMosix just sends various processes to other computers on the cluster to share the total load.......still really cool though.
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Well they way I see it, if dirt was to build up in front of these sliding rocks it would create far to much resistance and the wind (or whatever) would never be able to move them. More then likely when the rocks are sliding the are behaving like a boat traveling though water and the trail you see is the "wake". Well that's my take on it anyway.
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well you're gonna need a velocity of at least 7800m/s (no atmosphere) and for the real world more like 10000m/s ... now I refer you to the kinematic equation - Vf^2 = Vi^2 + 2*a*d .... with an a = 10m/s^2 that's a gun about 5000km long!
... the whole point of a gun is that it accelerates quickly, that and you'd get very hot from atmospheric friction, think shuttle re-entry.
Plus that's not really a gun anymore now is it
Yet for acceleration insensitive cargo with a traditional style space gun it's not impossible.
Cool, thanks for the input, it really is kind of a neat story ... one of my former professors who worked with him at the University of Toronto told me a bunch of stories about Prof. Bull and there are some interesting points regarding his death.
- Sometime before he was killed he had come home to find all of his things upside down ... not trashed just moved, thought to be a messege of some sort.
- He was shot many times (12 I think) in the back outside of the door to his appartment in Brussels
- He always carries large sums of money and he was found with $20k (or something like that) on him at the time of his death ... ergo, not a robbery.
Oh yeah and at the time he was developing ballistic missile re-entry shrouds for Sadaam (a US ally at the time) and in return Sadaam was providing funding and a site for his life long dream, a "Space Gun"
... our squishy bodies don't like thousands of g's ... could work for cargo thought. As a side note, space guns have some really cool history associated with them, especially Professor Bull. He ended up being assasinated by the mossad for the work he was doing with Iraq, or so I heard.
... they just can't get any respect. I love to bash MS as much as the next person, but come on, they deserve some props for this effort. Sure they didn't invent the technology but it sure does look like they have put some very nice polish to it. It's so funny how MS gets bashed for doing exactly what Apple gets praised for, taking an existing technology and extending it.
Why does everyone assume that all of the documents will be stored on a google server? If this is a service that you pay for then perhaps google will give companies the option of hosting their own google apps server.
"unlike the U.S. takedown approach, the Canadian system is proving effective while protecting privacy and free speech. Downloaders take the hint, and alter their behavior before they receive a more serious letter in the mail."
:)
RIAA: Don't download that
Us: Ok, sorry
Man up fellow Canadians
This article is a little late wouldn't you say, the shuttle launches this morning baring any further delays. Also I believe they are choosing to fly with the damaged fuel cell as it is not a threat to the safety of the crew.d ex.html
Good Update: http://www.spacetoday.net/Summary/3484
Countdown ticker: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/in
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Me: That doen't make sense.
Jabberwacky: You don't make any sense.
Me: Sorry.
Jabberwacky: It's ok, you are doing your best.
Me: No, I am sorry because now all your base are belong to us!
Jabberwacky: Don't be sorry about that, embrace it!
Me: Thank you, I WILL!!
Jabberwacky: Stop talking about it and do it.
I think that the chatterbot http://jabberwacky.com/ is much more convincing, it only uses stuff that people has said to it and parses past conversations to find the best response.
... was that americans payed any attention to what's happening in canada ... man next thing you know canadians will be butting into american politics ... oh wait a sec ...
yeah I know what you mean... I realy wouldn't want to end up in a federal pound me in the ass penatentiary or anything .... however i hear for this sort of thing you usually only get thrown in a low security resort prison... and they have conjugal vists.......hmmmm
Not to be picky but I believe openKnoppix uses openMosix for clustering and this does not create a beowolf cluster, it simply shares the load of individual processes over the cluster..... A beowolf requires the programs be specifically programmed for spilting up the program into "cells" and sends those cells of "a" program across the cluster.... openMosix just sends various processes to other computers on the cluster to share the total load.......still really cool though.