I don't care who's captining the ship I want to re-route power from main engineering so fire a stream of einstinean particle from the buzzard collectors, or remodulate the ships power to be 180 deg out of phase (aka, sour the milk).
So this might be over simplifying things but I see two possibilities
1) Our decendants are atleast as advanced as us, so they should be able to detect radation, so no biggie 2) We are back in the stone age, someone(s) finds the waste site and is somehow exposed to the radioactive waste and die, the site is cursed and people stay away till they discover what radiation is.
you can get pretty far up using a hydrogen balloon (170,000ft/51Km) so that's a huge start, then you just need to use a rocket to get the remaining 130,000ft to LEO.
As a previous poster said earlier proving it's up there is going to be the hard part.
Small car=less crumple zone=faster acceleration=more stress on the occupant. A heavier car will de-accelerate less and so reduce the g force on the driver, try rolling a 1lb ball into a 2lb ball and see which one goes backwards.
Can't we all just get along.... also snippy correction is disrespectful to those of us who have legitimate problems with not being able to see misspellings/bad grammer... also this is just a message board, chillax. Now let us have no more on the matter.
What if you sandwiched 1000's of thin sheets of ceramic super conductor with something flexy and conductive (like steel/copper) then you would greatly increase it's flexibility and strength.
I would be more than happy to eat a GM banana, sure hippies might complain but they can just switch to eating flavored turnip like people in the UK did during the war.
Is it me or do the solar panels on the Phoenix lander look remarkable like the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_CorporationUmbrella Corporation logo? What with the reputation of Mars (Ghosts of Mars, The Red Planet, Doom, that one outer limits, etc) I'm not too sure I like a resident evil probe up there....
I think the main drive according to the article is the 802.11x frequencies tend to be de-regulated and free to use, cell networks have ongoing fees to use that portion of the spectrum. Also wireless routers have very low power requirements and can be run via hippy fuel (aka solar) instead of some poor bugger having to run the mother of all extension cords up a mountain.
Well technically, if you powered the bike with compressed air to push a piston in the engin then you would here a bike like noise if you sat on it as the vibrations would travel though your body.
The only problem with any engine that needs a propellant (Spaceballs or Xenon) is that it will run out eventually a Laser will run as long as it has power (along time if you use solar or say nuclear decay).
XKCD has an interesting way to get more out of a laser
given the odds of impact and the level of devastation such an event would cause I think it might be worth while starting work on a project that could deflect said meteor. The good news is it doesn't have to be ready for another 10-15 years so we have time to (hopefuly) get it right and develop a Plan B. Is anything being done (serious work?) or are our best minds working on viagra 2.0?
I had some fun with the chain maile shirt I was working on, I had the shirt in my back pack and supprise supprise the TSA guys ask to look. There was quite a bit of confusion as apparently the TSA monkey did not know what chain maile was, fortunately his supervisor did but I still had to explain that I am unlikely to try to take over the plane with it... come on, what am I going to do grab a spork and demand they fly this plain to the middle ages? was fun though.
By your logic I'd have to respect every religion on Earth as if it were my own, but that is impossible. Should my girl friend wear a Burka just in case she offeneds someone? How can I stone to death an unruly child when the Dali-llama(or was it Buddha?) requires me to respect all living beings?
If I see someone priniting an image of (or worse still naming a teddy bear) Mohammad should I Jihad them in to next week, or turn the other cheek or try to convert them to catholicism?
As an atheist I am offended by this Muslim group deciding what I can an can see baised on a set of beliefs and ideals that are not my own, I demand that they stop bothering wikipedia it shows a total lack of respect and understand to athiests.
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I don't care who's captining the ship I want to re-route power from main engineering so fire a stream of einstinean particle from the buzzard collectors, or remodulate the ships power to be 180 deg out of phase (aka, sour the milk).
so if we chrome plate the space shuttles heat shield tiles this whole LASER system is thwarted.
Also it clearly needs to be mounted on the moon, we can call it project Death Star.
One difference is we are not installing a food V-Chip in your mouth that will close your through up if you try to eat junk food.
I'm so excited I... wait a minute, damn it! These aren't the driods we're looking for.
That really grinds my gears.
So this might be over simplifying things but I see two possibilities
1) Our decendants are atleast as advanced as us, so they should be able to detect radation, so no biggie
2) We are back in the stone age, someone(s) finds the waste site and is somehow exposed to the radioactive waste and die, the site is cursed and people stay away till they discover what radiation is.
now if the lander can just uncover some gin and tonic and we are in business!
you can get pretty far up using a hydrogen balloon (170,000ft/51Km) so that's a huge start, then you just need to use a rocket to get the remaining 130,000ft to LEO.
As a previous poster said earlier proving it's up there is going to be the hard part.
Well this nicely ties in with the Lighter vehicles improve fuel effeciency story yesterday, fabric is much lighter than metal.
It looks expensive (BMW.. never) but it does make me think that a colored plastic might be an option for body work on cars for the regular man.
Small car=less crumple zone=faster acceleration=more stress on the occupant. A heavier car will de-accelerate less and so reduce the g force on the driver, try rolling a 1lb ball into a 2lb ball and see which one goes backwards.
Can't we all just get along.... also snippy correction is disrespectful to those of us who have legitimate problems with not being able to see misspellings/bad grammer... also this is just a message board, chillax. Now let us have no more on the matter.
What if you sandwiched 1000's of thin sheets of ceramic super conductor with something flexy and conductive (like steel/copper) then you would greatly increase it's flexibility and strength.
I would be more than happy to eat a GM banana, sure hippies might complain but they can just switch to eating flavored turnip like people in the UK did during the war.
Is it me or do the solar panels on the Phoenix lander look remarkable like the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_CorporationUmbrella Corporation logo? What with the reputation of Mars (Ghosts of Mars, The Red Planet, Doom, that one outer limits, etc) I'm not too sure I like a resident evil probe up there....
I think the main drive according to the article is the 802.11x frequencies tend to be de-regulated and free to use, cell networks have ongoing fees to use that portion of the spectrum. Also wireless routers have very low power requirements and can be run via hippy fuel (aka solar) instead of some poor bugger having to run the mother of all extension cords up a mountain.
I wont get out of bed for less than $20,000 so the $17,000 fits in nicely.
Well technically, if you powered the bike with compressed air to push a piston in the engin then you would here a bike like noise if you sat on it as the vibrations would travel though your body.
The only problem with any engine that needs a propellant (Spaceballs or Xenon) is that it will run out eventually a Laser will run as long as it has power (along time if you use solar or say nuclear decay).
XKCD has an interesting way to get more out of a laser
given the odds of impact and the level of devastation such an event would cause I think it might be worth while starting work on a project that could deflect said meteor. The good news is it doesn't have to be ready for another 10-15 years so we have time to (hopefuly) get it right and develop a Plan B. Is anything being done (serious work?) or are our best minds working on viagra 2.0?
but... but... the Government would not lie to us. (is there away to be mod'ed as misguided)?
I'd be impressed if it could walk from the Top of Maple Street to the Lake in Burlington, VT in winter.
I don't use a PC to make websites, I use the butterflies
I had some fun with the chain maile shirt I was working on, I had the shirt in my back pack and supprise supprise the TSA guys ask to look. There was quite a bit of confusion as apparently the TSA monkey did not know what chain maile was, fortunately his supervisor did but I still had to explain that I am unlikely to try to take over the plane with it... come on, what am I going to do grab a spork and demand they fly this plain to the middle ages? was fun though.
By your logic I'd have to respect every religion on Earth as if it were my own, but that is impossible.
Should my girl friend wear a Burka just in case she offeneds someone? How can I stone to death an unruly child when the Dali-llama(or was it Buddha?) requires me to respect all living beings? If I see someone priniting an image of (or worse still naming a teddy bear) Mohammad should I Jihad them in to next week, or turn the other cheek or try to convert them to catholicism?
As an atheist I am offended by this Muslim group deciding what I can an can see baised on a set of beliefs and ideals that are not my own, I demand that they stop bothering wikipedia it shows a total lack of respect and understand to athiests.
I wonder how much power it takes/CO2 is produced to keep the Li-ion batteries warm for the 20+ hours a day when you are not driving it?