you've been duped. Every Tuesday and Thursday, the Federal Reserve has been pumping tens of billions of dollars into the economy through it's open market operations (POMO). and the markets mysteriously go higher as Primary Dealers use the cash to buoy markets (and your fake GDP)
makes no sense to me. you can buy a hell of a mountain of books or DVD in a third world country for $100. pirated? unauthorized copy? no one gives a shit over there. I speak from experience.
there is only one way of making the stuff in our matter-dominated universe, energetic collisions. the yield rate is very very low. So we can either do the collisions ourselves (CERN can make 1 gram of antimatter in about 2 billion years), or scoop up natural sources (such as val allen belts) which also are very very sparse. Neither way would get us the HUNDREDS of TONS needed for space travel, just a wee fraction of a gram for years of effort.
The type of black hole that emits a huge amount of radiation also has the same production issues as antimatter.
So fusion is more likely, and we might get up to 6% of C with that. at least that's not hopeless, getting to nearby stars in decades isn't such a bad deal.
even if we went to a wealth-less society, "high cost" in this context means antimatter is extremely rare in this universe and very unlikely to form from energetic collisions. The surface of earth couldn't contain enough particle accelerators to make a meaningful amount of antimatter for star travel. For that matter, black holes above subatomic size but small enough to emit massive amounts of energy, also potentially useful for star travel, have the same issue of "cost".
yup, and since getting progressive bifocals two weeks ago I've needed my monitor lower. At work that means my monitor is now upside down, with the base hooked over the top of the tower. Multimedia performance suffers for the online training I'm required to do from time to time (not a big deal).
If anyone's curious, the command to invert a gdm login screen in Ubuntu is to change the line before "exit 0" in/etc/gdm/Init/default to
using vi and make/compiler or interpreter in a few shell windows works pretty well whether vertical resolution is 800 or 1280 pixels. hadn't really noticed any productivity problems.
as to the rest of you turd-swilling tea-baggers who develop bloated buggy UI in your code-wizards, I think society is better off with your productivity crippled.
your shielding problem has already been solved, couple centimeters of titanium for up to 0.3C, tens of feet of water for up to 0.8C. As to engine, fusion bombs exist. project orion type craft would use fusion bombs and an ablative shield. the physics are quite straight-forward, and by launching from space rather than ground the radiation fallout would be non-issue.
considering the trillions of dollars wasted in recent years on our fake wars, bailouts, monetary system pumping, imagine what could have been done.
a fusion starship might approach 0.3 % of the speed of light, taking decades to go to the near stars. That would be taking 100x the mass of the cargo as deuterium or boron fuel.
see my other post on why antimatter won't be used for starship fuel, just too damn expensive and energy intensive to make.
I used to work at a place that made antimatter (Fermilab, and it was anti-hydrogen ions to be precise). the creation of antimatter is incredibly energy intensive and inefficient- to produce one gram would cost $100 quadrillion. The idea of making ten thousand metric tons or so of the stuff is ludicrous. we might make antimatter bombs someday, but not starship engines.
sorry, our best model of electromagnetism (and the weak force), quantum electroweak theory, has problems. That little business of "renormalization", that's a huge brushing-under-the-rug.
So an honest physicist will tell you we don't understand electromagnetism. He has an ignorance too.
I maintain Arch for a few of my company's clients, great server OS; I've never tried it as desktop.
the software I use doesn't age in the LTS timeframe, databases and languages are what I'm into besides the usual desktop browser, email, photo editing. I also run several OS under vwmare, and changing kernel versions is a big bother for that.
hah, you're a kid...DOOM was introduced in early 90s. Your cable pinouts were probably good on PC RS232C-only. The cable of which I speak was mid 80s thing.
I was playing Adventure with friends ported to a certain national laboratory's CDC Cyber cluster 15 years before your LAN parties.
now get your trike out of my tulip garden, you little punk!
yes it will, but you better have packed in a time capsule
1. a copy of windows with hyperterminal, or unixy OS with cu or tip 2. your magic HP null modem cable that works on all routers, switches and system management boards,
we LTS users don't want to be ripping and replacing OS every six months. takes a long time to get everything tweaked just right and so we don't care about RC releases and we don't care about six month releases and we don't care about 10.10
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I can one-up you, 01/23/4567 is way cooler and less than half the wait away. neener, neener. pthbbbbbbxxxxx!!!!!!
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you've been duped. Every Tuesday and Thursday, the Federal Reserve has been pumping tens of billions of dollars into the economy through it's open market operations (POMO). and the markets mysteriously go higher as Primary Dealers use the cash to buoy markets (and your fake GDP)
analyzed in many financial blogs
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10838483/1/fed-pomo-stock-market-pump-daves-daily.html?puc=businessinsider&cm_ven=businessinsider
in early November there is buzz of QE2, the second Quantitative Easing, by which we propel ourselves into Zimbabwe-realm economics
makes no sense to me. you can buy a hell of a mountain of books or DVD in a third world country for $100. pirated? unauthorized copy? no one gives a shit over there. I speak from experience.
and that hot air is heated by radioisotopes?
3. sell on eBay
1. steal women's panties, also use for #3. horny underwear gnomery
there is only one way of making the stuff in our matter-dominated universe, energetic collisions. the yield rate is very very low. So we can either do the collisions ourselves (CERN can make 1 gram of antimatter in about 2 billion years), or scoop up natural sources (such as val allen belts) which also are very very sparse. Neither way would get us the HUNDREDS of TONS needed for space travel, just a wee fraction of a gram for years of effort.
The type of black hole that emits a huge amount of radiation also has the same production issues as antimatter.
So fusion is more likely, and we might get up to 6% of C with that. at least that's not hopeless, getting to nearby stars in decades isn't such a bad deal.
even if we went to a wealth-less society, "high cost" in this context means antimatter is extremely rare in this universe and very unlikely to form from energetic collisions. The surface of earth couldn't contain enough particle accelerators to make a meaningful amount of antimatter for star travel. For that matter, black holes above subatomic size but small enough to emit massive amounts of energy, also potentially useful for star travel, have the same issue of "cost".
yup, and since getting progressive bifocals two weeks ago I've needed my monitor lower. At work that means my monitor is now upside down, with the base hooked over the top of the tower. Multimedia performance suffers for the online training I'm required to do from time to time (not a big deal).
If anyone's curious, the command to invert a gdm login screen in Ubuntu is to change the line before "exit 0" in /etc/gdm/Init/default to
"xrandr -o inverted".
using vi and make/compiler or interpreter in a few shell windows works pretty well whether vertical resolution is 800 or 1280 pixels. hadn't really noticed any productivity problems.
as to the rest of you turd-swilling tea-baggers who develop bloated buggy UI in your code-wizards, I think society is better off with your productivity crippled.
you'll be delighted to know that the impacted human will not have drowning as their cause of death
your shielding problem has already been solved, couple centimeters of titanium for up to 0.3C, tens of feet of water for up to 0.8C. As to engine, fusion bombs exist. project orion type craft would use fusion bombs and an ablative shield. the physics are quite straight-forward, and by launching from space rather than ground the radiation fallout would be non-issue.
considering the trillions of dollars wasted in recent years on our fake wars, bailouts, monetary system pumping, imagine what could have been done.
can't envision what you are describing, please explain a simple operation (adding one and one) with your string tension machine?
p'shaw! SCO will sell you a Open Babbageware license for a mere $699.
what's the problem? generational starship taking a few hundred years to get somewhere isn't beyond the realm of engineering.
a fusion starship might approach 0.3 % of the speed of light, taking decades to go to the near stars. That would be taking 100x the mass of the cargo as deuterium or boron fuel.
see my other post on why antimatter won't be used for starship fuel, just too damn expensive and energy intensive to make.
I used to work at a place that made antimatter (Fermilab, and it was anti-hydrogen ions to be precise). the creation of antimatter is incredibly energy intensive and inefficient- to produce one gram would cost $100 quadrillion. The idea of making ten thousand metric tons or so of the stuff is ludicrous. we might make antimatter bombs someday, but not starship engines.
100 miles in 24 hours can be done, there are marathons in europe for it
you mean ankle-biters, male jewelry and four-eyes?
sorry, our best model of electromagnetism (and the weak force), quantum electroweak theory, has problems. That little business of "renormalization", that's a huge brushing-under-the-rug.
So an honest physicist will tell you we don't understand electromagnetism. He has an ignorance too.
I maintain Arch for a few of my company's clients, great server OS; I've never tried it as desktop.
the software I use doesn't age in the LTS timeframe, databases and languages are what I'm into besides the usual desktop browser, email, photo editing. I also run several OS under vwmare, and changing kernel versions is a big bother for that.
hah, you're a kid...DOOM was introduced in early 90s. Your cable pinouts were probably good on PC RS232C-only. The cable of which I speak was mid 80s thing.
I was playing Adventure with friends ported to a certain national laboratory's CDC Cyber cluster 15 years before your LAN parties.
now get your trike out of my tulip garden, you little punk!
yes it will, but you better have packed in a time capsule
1. a copy of windows with hyperterminal, or unixy OS with cu or tip
2. your magic HP null modem cable that works on all routers, switches and system management boards,
or you're going to be fucked
all Ubuntu users might be doing that when the funding for Ubuntu runs out.
we LTS users don't want to be ripping and replacing OS every six months. takes a long time to get everything tweaked just right and so we don't care about RC releases and we don't care about six month releases and we don't care about 10.10