...most people won't be able to tell the difference between that and lamp cord without an oscilloscope. Actually, outside slashdot, most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference even with an oscilloscope. They'd just look at it and ask, "WTF is this thing and why is it in my living room?" Wrong! In this post-9/11 control-by-fear world, the average person would take one look at an oscilloscope and run away screaming that there is a BOMB in their HOUSE!
Has anyone actually been able to do this? Last I heard it was given up on because it was just too damn hard. That was a while ago.
US Navy whistles quietly in the corner.
You poor bastard. I supported a Retalix based system (Storepoint 4.0 and 5.0) for awhile. It was complete garbage.
Remotely supporting a relational database at every store back office is a nightmare. "Internal software consistency check failed. Cannot continue after bug check." It should have added "hope your backups are ok."
I think it'd be a good idea to package a cheap little microphone in those sensors so you could pick up on motion OR noise. So in the case of sitting nearly motionless at a computer typing, the sensor would pickup on the keyboard noise and assume there is still activity in the room.
I mean, most of the two states are farmland, very rich, flat farmland thanks to getting the majority of Canada's topsoil bulldozed onto it (thanks glaciers).
Strip mine that and watch the price of bread. Land doesn't have to necessarily look interesting to be valuable.
I had an ADAM! And other than playing Colecovision cartridges there wasn't much available. Short of transcribing game programs from BASIC magazine (no small feat for a 10 year old.)
If they were going c through aluminum transmission wires, they damn sure had better be pulled over. Violating the laws of physics is no laughing matter, son.
This also isn't the first time the Navy has shot down objects at 100+ miles with SM-3s, there have been multiple successful tests going back to 2005 or earlier, including one multiple engagement where one ship engaged two separate targets on separate trajectories.
There have been multiple tests of different ABM systems in the past few years. Hell, the government is even posting videos of the shots and the specifics of the tests on the internet. Not really a secret.
Oh, if there's a hit there will be an energetic collision for sure. Here's the thing though: conservation of momentum. An impact like that can't increase the orbit of any object in the collision. The satellite is already moving along at a pretty good clip (faster than the kill vehicle from the SM-3). When they impact, it's really the KV being in the way of the satellite, not the SM-3 screaming up at a gazillion miles an hour. Orbital mechanics don't work they way a layman would assume. You can't just push something "up" to increase it's orbit. Doesn't work that way. You have to increase orbital velocity, not the altitude. Since the collision can only reduce orbital velocity, both the apoapsis and periapsis will be reduced.
As others have pointed out in previous slashdot commentaries, there's even the risk that the explosion might send pieces of debris upwards in the atmosphere, and it may even reach an altitude that will not allow it to fall back down for a very long time
Do some basic research and don't believe everything you read on Slashdot. The missile they are firing (an SM-3) does not have an explosive warhead at all.
The key point here is there is a huge difference between "making it into space" and "making it into orbit". The difference is about 17,000 MPH of horizontal velocity. Getting "up" is the easy part. Getting fast enough to fall back to Earth and miss, that's the hard part.
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...most people won't be able to tell the difference between that and lamp cord without an oscilloscope. Actually, outside slashdot, most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference even with an oscilloscope. They'd just look at it and ask, "WTF is this thing and why is it in my living room?" Wrong! In this post-9/11 control-by-fear world, the average person would take one look at an oscilloscope and run away screaming that there is a BOMB in their HOUSE!The team profile on the Shell.com site itself is pretty damn lacking in details. It's a 3 wheeled vehicle in the "combustion" class.
http://www.shell.com/static/us-en/downloads/ecomarathon/2008/mater_dei_6th_gen_final.pdf
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Not really. But I wonder...
US Navy whistles quietly in the corner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter
You poor bastard. I supported a Retalix based system (Storepoint 4.0 and 5.0) for awhile. It was complete garbage.
Remotely supporting a relational database at every store back office is a nightmare. "Internal software consistency check failed. Cannot continue after bug check." It should have added "hope your backups are ok."
Yep, OPOS is a standard for connecting things like scanners, PIN pads and receipt printers, not the actual POS system itself.
Very true, and the plot and dialog were horrible.
I think it'd be a good idea to package a cheap little microphone in those sensors so you could pick up on motion OR noise. So in the case of sitting nearly motionless at a computer typing, the sensor would pickup on the keyboard noise and assume there is still activity in the room.
(1) the crappy value of the US dollar
I wish more people would understand that this is a MAJOR reason. Graph the price of crude to the Euro and it's damn near a flat line.
There's nothing in North or South Dakota of interest? Really? Nothing? At all?
I mean, most of the two states are farmland, very rich, flat farmland thanks to getting the majority of Canada's topsoil bulldozed onto it (thanks glaciers).
Strip mine that and watch the price of bread. Land doesn't have to necessarily look interesting to be valuable.
A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon it starts to add up.
Try introducing random bit changes into an executable. Let us know how it goes for ya.
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As told by Wellington Grey.
I had an ADAM! And other than playing Colecovision cartridges there wasn't much available. Short of transcribing game programs from BASIC magazine (no small feat for a 10 year old.)
Nope, flash powder is not Dynamite.
If they were going c through aluminum transmission wires, they damn sure had better be pulled over. Violating the laws of physics is no laughing matter, son.
The joke around the B-2s was that if you pulled the ejection handle you wouldn't eject, a voice would just tell you that you'd better try harder.
With a range of 10 meters this will not be a replacement for normal broadband.
And the F-117 was fully operational back in 1983.
This also isn't the first time the Navy has shot down objects at 100+ miles with SM-3s, there have been multiple successful tests going back to 2005 or earlier, including one multiple engagement where one ship engaged two separate targets on separate trajectories.
There have been multiple tests of different ABM systems in the past few years. Hell, the government is even posting videos of the shots and the specifics of the tests on the internet. Not really a secret.
Oh, if there's a hit there will be an energetic collision for sure. Here's the thing though: conservation of momentum. An impact like that can't increase the orbit of any object in the collision.
The satellite is already moving along at a pretty good clip (faster than the kill vehicle from the SM-3). When they impact, it's really the KV being in the way of the satellite, not the SM-3 screaming up at a gazillion miles an hour. Orbital mechanics don't work they way a layman would assume. You can't just push something "up" to increase it's orbit. Doesn't work that way. You have to increase orbital velocity, not the altitude. Since the collision can only reduce orbital velocity, both the apoapsis and periapsis will be reduced.
Do some basic research and don't believe everything you read on Slashdot. The missile they are firing (an SM-3) does not have an explosive warhead at all.
Let's see here. I see I'm going to have to use my AC translator.
Lick my balls, dickweed. WTF did I ever say anything to the contrary about the dangers of hydrazine? Retard.
Alrighty then, AC translator deactivated.
The key point here is there is a huge difference between "making it into space" and "making it into orbit". The difference is about 17,000 MPH of horizontal velocity. Getting "up" is the easy part. Getting fast enough to fall back to Earth and miss, that's the hard part.