Just like an F1 engine isn't ideal for a pick-up truck, nor a motorcycle engine for a semi, rotary engines have more of a specific use. Small engine size and low stresses due to a "deferred" type of reciprocation made it a good Le Mans car engine, but then they banned it; gotta love that spirit of innovation.
Also, if you could knock a couple grand off the price of a hybrid as well as increase fuel efficiency, it might hit that point where people feel the price is justified enough for the payback.
And it has the potential to reduce costs of a hybrid, too. No sense putting two complex (number-of-parts wise) engines into one car unless you want to charge double the price.
It seems to me that you didn't know the definition of Faith. It only needs one definition of Faith to fit the context in order for the word to be used. Just because the word is so tied in with religion you get into a big huff, and must put down religion in your post. Let the masses have their opium.
So basically science versus religion is basically proven result after proven result versus blind faith in the face of ambiguity? I can agree with that.
Throughout most of my university experience, reading and memorizing was less important than reading and understanding. The neat thing about physical science is that for the most part if you can understand it, then you don't need to memorize at all; it all just makes sense in how it's laid out. Math is the same. I could see problems with biology, but I never exposed myself to any of that hooey.
And on a side note, the underlying methodology/approach in quantum mechanics makes sense, but the consequences are what is strange.
If a fusion device could be built without an atomic trigger, then they would be getting extensive use as we speak. Hell, our energy problems would likely be solved, too, since or normal method of doing fusion is "compress the hell out of it and make it super hot," which is essentially the role (directly and indirectly) of the atomic bomb trigger in those devices.
As it's already been said many times in these comments, building an atomic bomb is the easy part; getting usable fissile material is always the problem, so you don't have to worry about some truck driver making a nuclear device.
I almost got caught by this comment, too. At first, I thought it said 'billionth of a second," but Mirix says it's a "billionth of a millisecond," which it is.. 10^(-3)/10^9 = 10^(-12). Also, one can assume that the ellipsis after "micro" includes the missing metric prefixes
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Just like an F1 engine isn't ideal for a pick-up truck, nor a motorcycle engine for a semi, rotary engines have more of a specific use. Small engine size and low stresses due to a "deferred" type of reciprocation made it a good Le Mans car engine, but then they banned it; gotta love that spirit of innovation.
Hook yourself up to the hive mind
Also, if you could knock a couple grand off the price of a hybrid as well as increase fuel efficiency, it might hit that point where people feel the price is justified enough for the payback.
And it has the potential to reduce costs of a hybrid, too. No sense putting two complex (number-of-parts wise) engines into one car unless you want to charge double the price.
I like this dot, dash, slash separation you speak of
ISO-8601 changed my life
Think about it this way, when someone says "what time is it?" You don't reply: "oh it's 12 seconds, 30 minutes, and 11 hours," so wtf is dd-mm-yyyy?
stupid.
Also: ISO-8601. You get YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS and HH is 24-hour time. Use it; I did and it changed my life-perspective. Squash that ambiguity!
It seems to me that you didn't know the definition of Faith. It only needs one definition of Faith to fit the context in order for the word to be used. Just because the word is so tied in with religion you get into a big huff, and must put down religion in your post. Let the masses have their opium.
But TFA talks about religion at length.
So basically science versus religion is basically proven result after proven result versus blind faith in the face of ambiguity? I can agree with that.
Throughout most of my university experience, reading and memorizing was less important than reading and understanding. The neat thing about physical science is that for the most part if you can understand it, then you don't need to memorize at all; it all just makes sense in how it's laid out. Math is the same. I could see problems with biology, but I never exposed myself to any of that hooey.
And on a side note, the underlying methodology/approach in quantum mechanics makes sense, but the consequences are what is strange.
Sounds like tetris attack, which is a great game.
I wish more people understood this rather than "MOAR MEGGAPIXALS MEENS MOAR BETTAR"
More megapixels means more noise if you don't increase the size of the detector.
The hardest part about building an A-bomb is not the design, but the acquisition of weapons-grade VO5
Wasn't it radium?
The difficulty in making an atomic bomb is always the first step: inventing the universe.
Saw an outer limits once where they had perfected cold fusion, and used it to make bombs.
Yeah, but the truck driver hasn't yet made a book on how to build a fast breeder reactor :P
If a fusion device could be built without an atomic trigger, then they would be getting extensive use as we speak. Hell, our energy problems would likely be solved, too, since or normal method of doing fusion is "compress the hell out of it and make it super hot," which is essentially the role (directly and indirectly) of the atomic bomb trigger in those devices.
As it's already been said many times in these comments, building an atomic bomb is the easy part; getting usable fissile material is always the problem, so you don't have to worry about some truck driver making a nuclear device.
Using your same argument, by 2050 someone may have figured out how to cheaply produce a gasoline substitute using natural (renewable) sources.
Anonymous Cowards are meat shields.
P.S. here is your combat armour and flares.
Good point. If you had the materials/controls to make such a structure, I'm sure a whole bunch of other "cheap to orbit" ideas also become possible.
I almost got caught by this comment, too. At first, I thought it said 'billionth of a second," but Mirix says it's a "billionth of a millisecond," which it is.. 10^(-3)/10^9 = 10^(-12). Also, one can assume that the ellipsis after "micro" includes the missing metric prefixes
64 gigaradians, I guess
What I do with the other hand I leave as an exercise for the reader's imagination.
Drink the Kool-aid?