A recent analog I have seen is publishers making the first book in a series quite cheap. Bantam printed the first book of George RR Martins "A Song of Ice and Fire" series with a large $4 price stamped on the cover. At about half the regular price of a paperback, I would think that could encourage new readership as well.
Beef has been cloned for years now. Not the Dolly the sheep adult cell variety, but cloning nonetheless. Reasearchers at Texas A&M were dividing blastocyst from a particularly favoravble mating and then artificially inseminating the resulting embryos in order to increase the breeding stock of a prefered line.
I was a student under the lead engineer and patent holder of the original TransHab module. Dr. Scnieder now works for Bigelow. I've read so many "pop" like a balloon comments over the years, they drive me crazy. This system is MORE robust than an aluminum module.
If the current system works like the original transhab sheild, I can tell you exactly how it works. There are alternating layers of a super-high strength fiber fabric, simmilar to kevlar but much harder. Its a ceramic based fiber IIRC. These are alternated with several inches of foam. The idea is when a peice of debris is inbound, it hits the fiber and fractures into smaller peices. Then, while traveling through the foam, the pieces spread out so when they hit the next layer of tough fabric they are spread out and each fragment is once again split. In this way each layer breaks the debris object into smaller peices and absorbs impact energy. The transhab had, I beleive 6 layers of this tough fabricseperated by 6 layers of foam, for a total thickness around 18". The beuty is the foam can be vacuum baged and stored in a very small space for launch. They acheived far superior performance to the aluminum cans that are currently up there.
Well the deal is that we have not had to engage in such widespread urban conflict before. Realizing we need more armored Humvees makes sense now, but then hindsight is 20/20.
Funny, I "gave up" on Scienctific American about 10 years ago when they started dumbing down to look like another Popular Science. Did they ever turn that around?
Don't worry, no oil company is going to let some sissy electric car kick it outta business! Yeah, just like they hushed up that car that runs on water, man!
This is how some of the first torpedoes worked. Another early engergy storage device was to use the ships steam pressure lines to spin up a flywheel. Hydrogen peroxide was also used i think. By WWII, all our torpedoes were battery powered, I think.
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A recent analog I have seen is publishers making the first book in a series quite cheap. Bantam printed the first book of George RR Martins "A Song of Ice and Fire" series with a large $4 price stamped on the cover. At about half the regular price of a paperback, I would think that could encourage new readership as well.
Beef has been cloned for years now. Not the Dolly the sheep adult cell variety, but cloning nonetheless. Reasearchers at Texas A&M were dividing blastocyst from a particularly favoravble mating and then artificially inseminating the resulting embryos in order to increase the breeding stock of a prefered line.
I was a student under the lead engineer and patent holder of the original TransHab module. Dr. Scnieder now works for Bigelow. I've read so many "pop" like a balloon comments over the years, they drive me crazy. This system is MORE robust than an aluminum module. If the current system works like the original transhab sheild, I can tell you exactly how it works. There are alternating layers of a super-high strength fiber fabric, simmilar to kevlar but much harder. Its a ceramic based fiber IIRC. These are alternated with several inches of foam. The idea is when a peice of debris is inbound, it hits the fiber and fractures into smaller peices. Then, while traveling through the foam, the pieces spread out so when they hit the next layer of tough fabric they are spread out and each fragment is once again split. In this way each layer breaks the debris object into smaller peices and absorbs impact energy. The transhab had, I beleive 6 layers of this tough fabricseperated by 6 layers of foam, for a total thickness around 18". The beuty is the foam can be vacuum baged and stored in a very small space for launch. They acheived far superior performance to the aluminum cans that are currently up there.
Developing countries? Heck I'll take at $20 phone here in the good ol' US of A!
And no one questions that we need them now. Thank you for prooving my point.
Well the deal is that we have not had to engage in such widespread urban conflict before. Realizing we need more armored Humvees makes sense now, but then hindsight is 20/20.
Funny, I "gave up" on Scienctific American about 10 years ago when they started dumbing down to look like another Popular Science. Did they ever turn that around?
Don't worry, no oil company is going to let some sissy electric car kick it outta business! Yeah, just like they hushed up that car that runs on water, man!
Even more imoportantly, how does one decide on the best "central location" for an around the world flight!
This is how some of the first torpedoes worked. Another early engergy storage device was to use the ships steam pressure lines to spin up a flywheel. Hydrogen peroxide was also used i think. By WWII, all our torpedoes were battery powered, I think.