I am an ex-athlete, and go to the gym regularly to try and keep from "going to fat". I have ALWAYS been over the BMI limit, even when I could run for miles without rest. The BMI is a crock of shit, and I can't believe it is even still in use. It is like starting fires with flint. At least use a match.
Artificial gravity would be provided by the 1G of constant thrust. The "back" of the ship would be "down". When it came time to decelerate, the ship could be turned using attitude thrusters, and the engines used as retro rockets. You would need to move everything from the floor to the ceiling, but during the turn thre would be almost zero G anyhow, and one could plan for this ahead of time when building the ship - mirror the floor/ceiling layout.
So were ours: http://www.mechaps.com/
Lego works great as a quick and cheap way to prototype something - particularly if you are trying to get some concept across. If you can physically build it out of little shaped bits of plastic, it is alot easier to understand it being built out of something else.
Aerogel is actually not that useful for very much. It is an excellent thermal insulator, but is very fragile and prone to becoming powder if exposed to repeaded shock.
*examines his small aerogel sample*
Most of it is powder now, in fact - the worst kind, powdered silica.
Ok, from the sound of it, this is how this works:
The players each have a 128 bit code
The discs have several sets of code, one for each set of players, plus extras for expansion and replacement, presumably.
Hacker gets a key from his player and puts it in a DCSS program.
Controllers of disc printing (entertainment firms) have that code pulled from the discs. This creates the situation of all discs after that point not being playable in that set of players, and not decodable by that particular iteration of decoder.
So this raises the issue of what users of that player do? Will there be a special kind of warrenty for this? Because if they will not replace my player when someone hacks it's 128 bit code, I am sticking with DVD and will pirate whatever I can't get from that format.
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I am an ex-athlete, and go to the gym regularly to try and keep from "going to fat". I have ALWAYS been over the BMI limit, even when I could run for miles without rest. The BMI is a crock of shit, and I can't believe it is even still in use. It is like starting fires with flint. At least use a match.
Artificial gravity would be provided by the 1G of constant thrust. The "back" of the ship would be "down". When it came time to decelerate, the ship could be turned using attitude thrusters, and the engines used as retro rockets. You would need to move everything from the floor to the ceiling, but during the turn thre would be almost zero G anyhow, and one could plan for this ahead of time when building the ship - mirror the floor/ceiling layout.
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So were ours: http://www.mechaps.com/ Lego works great as a quick and cheap way to prototype something - particularly if you are trying to get some concept across. If you can physically build it out of little shaped bits of plastic, it is alot easier to understand it being built out of something else.
Aerogel is actually not that useful for very much. It is an excellent thermal insulator, but is very fragile and prone to becoming powder if exposed to repeaded shock. *examines his small aerogel sample* Most of it is powder now, in fact - the worst kind, powdered silica.
Excellent. I have to wonder how many people got that reference.
Ok, from the sound of it, this is how this works: The players each have a 128 bit code The discs have several sets of code, one for each set of players, plus extras for expansion and replacement, presumably. Hacker gets a key from his player and puts it in a DCSS program. Controllers of disc printing (entertainment firms) have that code pulled from the discs. This creates the situation of all discs after that point not being playable in that set of players, and not decodable by that particular iteration of decoder. So this raises the issue of what users of that player do? Will there be a special kind of warrenty for this? Because if they will not replace my player when someone hacks it's 128 bit code, I am sticking with DVD and will pirate whatever I can't get from that format.