I was discussing this with my physics lecturer about a year ago. As some solar sail's are supposedly 100% reflective so they dont heat up. Which made me ask about how can any useful work being obtained if no heat is exchanged (a heat engine seeing that virtually everying is one that moves).
Anyway yes the frequency does change after the satellite gets push along slightly the reflected photon will have a slightly longer wavelength and therefore energy transfer.
Even with a 1 in 50 chance of dieing, i would still do it. And so would a lot of people in this world.
If people are willing to risk their lives, and know the risks, let them. I'm not saying, make a unsafe vehicle as no-one would fly in that. But so long as its pretty good people should use it.
I mean we are still pioneering manned space flight, and there has been plenty of other dangerous endaveours that have gone wrong. (Captain Scott in the antartic to name just one) everything on the pioneering edge will have an underlying risk to it. Why not take it?
Concorde had the safest flight record of any commericial plane. The more ironic thing is that concorde crashed because a piece fell of a different plane, and the debris was lieing on the runway, punctured the tire which ripped into the underside of the wing causing a massive fuel leak which got ignited by the engines and therefore crashed and blew up.
Remember more people die per year on Britains roads alone than the total number of air crashes per year. It is by far the safest method of travel.
Cost. I mean the 1st design of the ISS cost $9 billion and that was the budget to build the thing as well. And the designed was floored, wasn't 0G enough, produced too much micro-gravity. The whole thing was scrapped.
So more money and the international community was dragged in. New design drawn up.
The problem with the ISS now is that all the inputting countries know its not really worth it ($$$ wise), but no country wants to be the party pooper.
If anyone has been reading New Scientist recently Synopsisthere was a 4 page article on moon dust and moon base building. The dust can be melted into a glass silicate quite readily, for making roads and landing pads. Low effiency solar panels can be produced by rovers (wasnt that on/. a while back not sure Article). Moon dust is also an irratant, eye and skin wise, also more needs to be known about long term exposure to moon dust. So much finer and sharper than anything dust on earth.
I have to say, I know of no-one here in the U.K that would even think of studying in the UK as an alternative to a U.K university, and my College has a very high rate of Entrance to Cambridge and Oxford so its not that they are dumb.
Also your immigration has tightened up so much that acts as a deterant as well.
All we go to do is prove that the Mysterons are actually on Mars and they will wage war with almost industructable men. Bush will bite the bait.:P
I mean Iraq had WMD so why cant Mars have Mysterons? Build a base on the moon, send a war fleet. Marines in space suits. And Captain Scarlet leading the way!
a lot of my friends work for Jagex (under customer service, gm'ing and so on), was talking to them about Runescape, they get something like a 80k-100k of accounts created a day.
They have 3.5million accounts that have logged in within the last 2 weeks and 370k subscribers.
The 2nd (Hero of the Federation)yuck, straight to DVD and then straight to the discount bin. I was waiting so long for a cool sequel and get that lump of shit.
Now I know it was a long time ago, but they aint dumb. As soon as repeating weapons became mainstream here, pitched battles like in Phantom menace and to some extent Clone Wars. Strategies where changed as it was just suicidal. I know the Gungans were behind shields, but the driods just marched through in formations.
Also in Revenge of the Sith, firing a broadside in space? What was the deal with that?
To me they're always seemed a great lack of missiles in space combat. Saying that if it was truely realistic it would probably have everything cloaked, with the occasional explosion as something was detected and nuked. Should be called Cloaked Wars. As everything now is moving towards stealth and slealth detection.
Also back in Phantom menace, the Droids were controlled by the Ships in space. hmmmm Latency. Be like my trying to play Natural Selection in Austalia (i live in the U.K). It just didnt seem right to have Driods that wernt automated in they're own right.
and all the staff had a surpise birthday party for the bi-centinary birthday.
Although the surpise was too much for dear old atomic, and his ticker stopped ticking. He was rushed to hospital where he had a pacemaker installed. He has lost several hours which officials have decided to relocate him to a warmer climate on a different timezone to make up for the difference.
The operation and pacemaker will not shorten the expected lifespan of atomic.
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The I games by Multiplay in the U.K which are 1000 man lans have a no file policy
They have a system that cans for network shares and locks the connection out of the network until it is disabled. If that share had any copyrighted material they might throw you out.
Saying that, just hand round CD's and DVD's. Or even USB2 HDD's. Theres way round it, inless they have a guard on every row.
There were plans for a large rocket with the V2 as the second stage, it would of been the worlds 1st ICBM as it could hit cities on the Eastern Seaboard of the USA.
Also they had plans for a supersonic delta wing bomber that could do a 1 way suicide mission to the Eastern Seaboard again.
The only uranium mines they had were in Czechoslovachia which they lost due to the Soviets pushing them back.
The thing is, and it has been partly mentioned before, its not the designing of a nuke thats complicated, infact its a rather trivial affair. The thing that stops every man and his dog from producing them is you need the power and resources of a state to refine the pitterful amounts of enriched uranium from the ore. And germany would of been in no state to do it, that and we kept sabotage and bombing any plants to do with it.
Man stuff like this is really getting on my nerves.
Its a bit like oh Humans are destroying the Enviroment. Yes and how are we going that, we are merely changing it, burning fossil fuels which we're laid down millions of years ago. That carbon came from somewhere (the atmosphere) and we're putting it back there. The only way we can destroy the enviroment is if we destroy the entire earth, and luckily we cant.
I was taught in biology the main limiting factor from plant growth was CO2 levels. Back in yé day with yé dinsaurs. C02 levels were 5 times what they are now which allowed much greater plant growth which allowed big dinosaurs. In the late Jurassic antartica was a rainforrest which froze over during winter. There are fast oil and coal deposits down there, but luckily there is that international agreement to stop mining and drilling. (wonder how long that will last, 30 years max?). So with climate change things change. Parts of nothern russia and canada will warm up and become more hospitable. I also read some of africa becomes wetter. But india and china dry out. Things change, populations will shift.
Yes humans are changing the world, it will be no better or worse as there is no net loss of anything apart from the ocassional thing we blast into space. Things are only better or worse if you narrow your specifications, but as the planet as a whole its only change. But we are fools to change it to something that isnt hospitable for us.
1st Guy: "You know that game, umm Red something, where you like are in an alternate realility a bit like the cold war with the soviets vs the allied."
2nd Guy: "Oh, Red Alert?"
1st Guy: "Yeah thats the one, about time we made a sequel for that. Oh and while your at it, make a new Tiberian Sun and Sim City 5. Oh don't forget we need it done in 6 months, so crack out those whips we got off ebay, 10,000 lines of code a day or a lash for every 100 lines short."
IBM will be building server machines with Cell processors in them, infact IBM is starting production of the Cell very soon, from what I remember.
The cell has a theoretical speed of 2.18 Teraflops (32bit floating point numbers) IIRC
Now its hard to find theoretical data on G5 and Intel processors as you get spammed out with super computer based on G5 breaks certain record. But they are not rated up to that speed, still in the gigaflops.
The main limiting factor for modern PC's is I/O bottlenecks causing fast amounts of wasted clock-cycles. The bigger cache helps but the PS3 with its 25.6Gb/sec memory bandwidth won't have this problem as much. Only graphics cards have this kinda bandwidth in a modern PC. So bang for buck the Xbox360 and PS3 will beat any PC you can reasonable buy.
Oh and not forgetting that the GFX card is on something like a 76.8Gb/sec I/O Bus off the CPU, or something stupidly fast. With custom shader pipelines which could always be coded to do something more number crunching.
Remember the PS3 isnt built on legacy hardware like a MAC or a x86 to make it backwards compatable, its built for raw speed. Infact arnt modern x86 processors emulating x86 through hardware's JIT's or is that just a rumour I heard.
No its not a Supercomputer, but its a pretty hefty peace of hardware, but you will never see any datacentre using them as servers as there would be no official support for them. Anyway this is just my opinion.
And then a tiny flec of paint punches throught he plastic biome the whole thing deflates, pushes the station out of orbit, and some crappy Starbase 2009! Tv Series starts.
Hmm relaxing by gardening plants, I can see where this is going, surely the astronauts are high enough?
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Well the mirrors arn't accelerating away from each other.
I was discussing this with my physics lecturer about a year ago. As some solar sail's are supposedly 100% reflective so they dont heat up. Which made me ask about how can any useful work being obtained if no heat is exchanged (a heat engine seeing that virtually everying is one that moves).
Anyway yes the frequency does change after the satellite gets push along slightly the reflected photon will have a slightly longer wavelength and therefore energy transfer.
Even with a 1 in 50 chance of dieing, i would still do it. And so would a lot of people in this world.
If people are willing to risk their lives, and know the risks, let them. I'm not saying, make a unsafe vehicle as no-one would fly in that. But so long as its pretty good people should use it.
I mean we are still pioneering manned space flight, and there has been plenty of other dangerous endaveours that have gone wrong. (Captain Scott in the antartic to name just one) everything on the pioneering edge will have an underlying risk to it. Why not take it?
Concorde had the safest flight record of any commericial plane. The more ironic thing is that concorde crashed because a piece fell of a different plane, and the debris was lieing on the runway, punctured the tire which ripped into the underside of the wing causing a massive fuel leak which got ignited by the engines and therefore crashed and blew up.
Remember more people die per year on Britains roads alone than the total number of air crashes per year. It is by far the safest method of travel.
Cost. I mean the 1st design of the ISS cost $9 billion and that was the budget to build the thing as well. And the designed was floored, wasn't 0G enough, produced too much micro-gravity. The whole thing was scrapped.
/. a while back not sure Article). Moon dust is also an irratant, eye and skin wise, also more needs to be known about long term exposure to moon dust. So much finer and sharper than anything dust on earth.
So more money and the international community was dragged in. New design drawn up.
The problem with the ISS now is that all the inputting countries know its not really worth it ($$$ wise), but no country wants to be the party pooper.
If anyone has been reading New Scientist recently Synopsisthere was a 4 page article on moon dust and moon base building. The dust can be melted into a glass silicate quite readily, for making roads and landing pads. Low effiency solar panels can be produced by rovers (wasnt that on
I have to say, I know of no-one here in the U.K that would even think of studying in the UK as an alternative to a U.K university, and my College has a very high rate of Entrance to Cambridge and Oxford so its not that they are dumb.
Also your immigration has tightened up so much that acts as a deterant as well.
All we go to do is prove that the Mysterons are actually on Mars and they will wage war with almost industructable men. Bush will bite the bait. :P
I mean Iraq had WMD so why cant Mars have Mysterons? Build a base on the moon, send a war fleet. Marines in space suits. And Captain Scarlet leading the way!
Smeagle -- Always after his precious Jewellary.
yes but unlike skynet. Googles mantra is "Do no Evil"
Microsoft Poker on Windows 3.1. Just make a huge bet and all the computers Fold :P
1. Let openents Place you their bets.
2. Place a stupidly huge bet.
3. They fold.
4. Profit!
a lot of my friends work for Jagex (under customer service, gm'ing and so on), was talking to them about Runescape, they get something like a 80k-100k of accounts created a day.
They have 3.5million accounts that have logged in within the last 2 weeks and 370k subscribers.
I love starship troopers 1.
The 2nd (Hero of the Federation)yuck, straight to DVD and then straight to the discount bin. I was waiting so long for a cool sequel and get that lump of shit.
Off topic I know, but I needed to get it out.
Pitched Battles, medieval style.
Now I know it was a long time ago, but they aint dumb. As soon as repeating weapons became mainstream here, pitched battles like in Phantom menace and to some extent Clone Wars. Strategies where changed as it was just suicidal. I know the Gungans were behind shields, but the driods just marched through in formations.
Also in Revenge of the Sith, firing a broadside in space? What was the deal with that?
To me they're always seemed a great lack of missiles in space combat. Saying that if it was truely realistic it would probably have everything cloaked, with the occasional explosion as something was detected and nuked. Should be called Cloaked Wars. As everything now is moving towards stealth and slealth detection.
Also back in Phantom menace, the Droids were controlled by the Ships in space. hmmmm Latency. Be like my trying to play Natural Selection in Austalia (i live in the U.K). It just didnt seem right to have Driods that wernt automated in they're own right.
and all the staff had a surpise birthday party for the bi-centinary birthday.
Although the surpise was too much for dear old atomic, and his ticker stopped ticking. He was rushed to hospital where he had a pacemaker installed. He has lost several hours which officials have decided to relocate him to a warmer climate on a different timezone to make up for the difference.
The operation and pacemaker will not shorten the expected lifespan of atomic.
with the magical power of bubblegum!
The I games by Multiplay in the U.K which are 1000 man lans have a no file policy
They have a system that cans for network shares and locks the connection out of the network until it is disabled. If that share had any copyrighted material they might throw you out.
Saying that, just hand round CD's and DVD's. Or even USB2 HDD's. Theres way round it, inless they have a guard on every row.
There were plans for a large rocket with the V2 as the second stage, it would of been the worlds 1st ICBM as it could hit cities on the Eastern Seaboard of the USA.
Also they had plans for a supersonic delta wing bomber that could do a 1 way suicide mission to the Eastern Seaboard again.
The only uranium mines they had were in Czechoslovachia which they lost due to the Soviets pushing them back.
The thing is, and it has been partly mentioned before, its not the designing of a nuke thats complicated, infact its a rather trivial affair. The thing that stops every man and his dog from producing them is you need the power and resources of a state to refine the pitterful amounts of enriched uranium from the ore. And germany would of been in no state to do it, that and we kept sabotage and bombing any plants to do with it.
Man stuff like this is really getting on my nerves.
Its a bit like oh Humans are destroying the Enviroment. Yes and how are we going that, we are merely changing it, burning fossil fuels which we're laid down millions of years ago. That carbon came from somewhere (the atmosphere) and we're putting it back there. The only way we can destroy the enviroment is if we destroy the entire earth, and luckily we cant.
I was taught in biology the main limiting factor from plant growth was CO2 levels. Back in yé day with yé dinsaurs. C02 levels were 5 times what they are now which allowed much greater plant growth which allowed big dinosaurs. In the late Jurassic antartica was a rainforrest which froze over during winter. There are fast oil and coal deposits down there, but luckily there is that international agreement to stop mining and drilling. (wonder how long that will last, 30 years max?). So with climate change things change. Parts of nothern russia and canada will warm up and become more hospitable. I also read some of africa becomes wetter. But india and china dry out. Things change, populations will shift.
Yes humans are changing the world, it will be no better or worse as there is no net loss of anything apart from the ocassional thing we blast into space. Things are only better or worse if you narrow your specifications, but as the planet as a whole its only change. But we are fools to change it to something that isnt hospitable for us.
As far as I know about the PS3 the PS2 and PS1 function is dealth by seperate hardware to the PS3.
So that is the only legacy hardware there.
Thanks for cleaning the x86 methods for me.
1st Guy: "You know that game, umm Red something, where you like are in an alternate realility a bit like the cold war with the soviets vs the allied."
2nd Guy: "Oh, Red Alert?"
1st Guy: "Yeah thats the one, about time we made a sequel for that. Oh and while your at it, make a new Tiberian Sun and Sim City 5. Oh don't forget we need it done in 6 months, so crack out those whips we got off ebay, 10,000 lines of code a day or a lash for every 100 lines short."
IBM will be building server machines with Cell processors in them, infact IBM is starting production of the Cell very soon, from what I remember.
The cell has a theoretical speed of 2.18 Teraflops (32bit floating point numbers) IIRC
Now its hard to find theoretical data on G5 and Intel processors as you get spammed out with super computer based on G5 breaks certain record. But they are not rated up to that speed, still in the gigaflops.
The main limiting factor for modern PC's is I/O bottlenecks causing fast amounts of wasted clock-cycles. The bigger cache helps but the PS3 with its 25.6Gb/sec memory bandwidth won't have this problem as much. Only graphics cards have this kinda bandwidth in a modern PC. So bang for buck the Xbox360 and PS3 will beat any PC you can reasonable buy.
Oh and not forgetting that the GFX card is on something like a 76.8Gb/sec I/O Bus off the CPU, or something stupidly fast. With custom shader pipelines which could always be coded to do something more number crunching.
Remember the PS3 isnt built on legacy hardware like a MAC or a x86 to make it backwards compatable, its built for raw speed. Infact arnt modern x86 processors emulating x86 through hardware's JIT's or is that just a rumour I heard.
No its not a Supercomputer, but its a pretty hefty peace of hardware, but you will never see any datacentre using them as servers as there would be no official support for them. Anyway this is just my opinion.
Was I the only one that thought winnie the pooh when i read Inside the Honey pot.
I better go back to my corner.
And then a tiny flec of paint punches throught he plastic biome the whole thing deflates, pushes the station out of orbit, and some crappy Starbase 2009! Tv Series starts.
Hmm relaxing by gardening plants, I can see where this is going, surely the astronauts are high enough?
Also CTRL+Num goes to that tab.