As much as I admire these folks, it's gonna be a network with limited throughput but potentially high resiliency except where it interfaces with the rest of the 'net. I've done many tens-of-kilometer shots, many home-brewed networks, using things like DD-WRT, Open-WRT, Tomato, etc., and it's great fun but it's something that requires regular heavy lifting, maintenance, investment, and quickly one realizes just how hard it is to not only keep running but to expand and grow. Go for it!
Volcanoes (http://www.livescience.com/40451-volcanic-co2-levels-are-staggering.html) Termite mounds generating methane gas (http://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/31/us/termite-gas-exceeds-smokestack-pollution.html) Penguins pooping on the Antarctica ice sheets (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090603-penguin-poop-video-ap.html) Evil climate heaters at the Trilateral Commission (http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2007/280307globalistslove.htm) Tarps used by the UN that absorb sunlight too well (http://www.wired.com/2016/01/tarpaulin/) Meteorites and asteroids polluting the atmosphere (http://www.ehso.com/climatechange/climatechangecauses-meteorites.php) Ancient Romans (http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/350051/The-Romans-were-producing-greenhouse-gases-report-slams-UN-climate-change-claims) People against increased food supplies (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/record-co2-coincides-record-breaking-crop-yields-greening-globe) Aliens who are causing the sun to heat up (http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=454) (except for the aliens part)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Palo Verde NGS, about 50 miles west of here, produces power at an amortized cost way lower than a coal or gas plant. Only thing that beats it is hydro, and we only have so much of that around here...
Manageable technology, plentiful fuel, no emissions, main challenge is coolant water, but even that can be accommodated.
May influence insurers to create "no alcohol" policies and use 3rd party data from your spending profiles to estimate compliance.
Pay cash or bitcoin for that next pint...
I was a happy iPhone4s owner, and the time to do a simple contact lookup went from a second or two to 30 seconds or more. Many other features became flaky. The service "News" would regularly crash upon opening and would require a few restarts to behave. Trying to see that someone had called or worse yet to listen to the message would take a minute or more. It sucked badly. Fortunately for Apple, I bought a brand new 6s on Christmas and all those problems went away... Strange?
As the previous commenter notes, Pu-238 is not fissile.
Pu-238 is a great thermal heating material. A gram of Pu-238 generates about 500 mW of heat through radioactive decay and initial release of alpha particles (plain old helium nuclei). Helium nuclei are large and heavy, and are stopped by even a sheet of paper. The decay chain for Pu-238 is mostly a number of alpha particle releases and a slow and gradual walk toward Pb (lead).
In metallic or solid ceramic form, Pu-238 is safe to handle. You could arguably carry around a chunk of it, but the thermal heat generated is significant and you might get burned. Machining it is straightforward, the dust needs to be controlled.
Gene Roddenberry had publicly marketed Star Trek (TOS) as a Western in outer space—a so-called "Wagon Train to the Stars." (from the "roddenberry.com" website). The original Star Wars also reflected a throughback to the 1930's through 1950's styles for serialized westerns, science fiction, etc., with the aforementioned "cheesy" scene transitions, the fairly simple characters, the obvious good vs bad. Star Wars is still as much fun to watch now as it was then.
I run a number of ADS-B receivers and feed the data into FlightAware. I have seen a number of a/c locally that are in very wrong positions (well over the 70 km mentioned in TFA) and suddenly jump into the "right" positions. Sounds like interface problems.
The ADS-B system is fairly simple, and as long as the right lat-lon string is inputted, it should transmit the right position. Maybe it's a "units" issue similar to the "units" issue that caused the Mars spacecrafts more than a decade ago to make an unexpected and unfortunate (very) hard landing...
Slashdot Mirror
Whenever did ethics get in the way of doing stuff, mad-scientist style?
It seems reasonable to assume that those with money and goals have been able to proceed down paths that are ethically and lawfully beyond the pale.
Hand tools.
Heh heh.
As much as I admire these folks, it's gonna be a network with limited throughput but potentially high resiliency except where it interfaces with the rest of the 'net. I've done many tens-of-kilometer shots, many home-brewed networks, using things like DD-WRT, Open-WRT, Tomato, etc., and it's great fun but it's something that requires regular heavy lifting, maintenance, investment, and quickly one realizes just how hard it is to not only keep running but to expand and grow. Go for it!
New unit of measurement.
Source please for your claim?
See Edmunds here.
http://www.edmunds.com/car-buy...
Maybe you're overpaying...
Volcanoes (http://www.livescience.com/40451-volcanic-co2-levels-are-staggering.html)
Termite mounds generating methane gas (http://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/31/us/termite-gas-exceeds-smokestack-pollution.html)
Penguins pooping on the Antarctica ice sheets (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090603-penguin-poop-video-ap.html)
Evil climate heaters at the Trilateral Commission (http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2007/280307globalistslove.htm)
Tarps used by the UN that absorb sunlight too well (http://www.wired.com/2016/01/tarpaulin/)
Meteorites and asteroids polluting the atmosphere (http://www.ehso.com/climatechange/climatechangecauses-meteorites.php)
Ancient Romans (http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/350051/The-Romans-were-producing-greenhouse-gases-report-slams-UN-climate-change-claims)
People against increased food supplies (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/record-co2-coincides-record-breaking-crop-yields-greening-globe)
Aliens who are causing the sun to heat up (http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=454) (except for the aliens part)
I tell you, it's just not our fault...
this is likely true as the number 1 is not a prime number. https://primes.utm.edu/notes/f...
Is that no one knows whether you were successful or not...
Must be a slow news day...
http://grammarist.com/eggcorns...
Who are these people and why are they on my lawn?
automatic bump-up on the threat score list. Maybe ACs aren't so lame after all?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Palo Verde NGS, about 50 miles west of here, produces power at an amortized cost way lower than a coal or gas plant. Only thing that beats it is hydro, and we only have so much of that around here... Manageable technology, plentiful fuel, no emissions, main challenge is coolant water, but even that can be accommodated.
who's != whose
dying of stupidity by alcohol... But I think that's maybe Darwinism...
May influence insurers to create "no alcohol" policies and use 3rd party data from your spending profiles to estimate compliance. Pay cash or bitcoin for that next pint...
Should not be accepted by the editors, due to Forbes' ad-blocker policy.
I was a happy iPhone4s owner, and the time to do a simple contact lookup went from a second or two to 30 seconds or more. Many other features became flaky. The service "News" would regularly crash upon opening and would require a few restarts to behave. Trying to see that someone had called or worse yet to listen to the message would take a minute or more. It sucked badly. Fortunately for Apple, I bought a brand new 6s on Christmas and all those problems went away... Strange?
Clippy sez "Hey there, that is a 50' cliff you're backing over, and due to your signal strength, I won't be able to upload this great selfie in time"
Uranus
As the previous commenter notes, Pu-238 is not fissile.
Pu-238 is a great thermal heating material. A gram of Pu-238 generates about 500 mW of heat through radioactive decay and initial release of alpha particles (plain old helium nuclei). Helium nuclei are large and heavy, and are stopped by even a sheet of paper. The decay chain for Pu-238 is mostly a number of alpha particle releases and a slow and gradual walk toward Pb (lead).
In metallic or solid ceramic form, Pu-238 is safe to handle. You could arguably carry around a chunk of it, but the thermal heat generated is significant and you might get burned. Machining it is straightforward, the dust needs to be controlled.
Don't bogart the balloon, dude!
And the black things got bigger - them's the voids and they's bad
Gene Roddenberry had publicly marketed Star Trek (TOS) as a Western in outer space—a so-called "Wagon Train to the Stars." (from the "roddenberry.com" website).
The original Star Wars also reflected a throughback to the 1930's through 1950's styles for serialized westerns, science fiction, etc., with the aforementioned "cheesy" scene transitions, the fairly simple characters, the obvious good vs bad.
Star Wars is still as much fun to watch now as it was then.
I run a number of ADS-B receivers and feed the data into FlightAware. I have seen a number of a/c locally that are in very wrong positions (well over the 70 km mentioned in TFA) and suddenly jump into the "right" positions. Sounds like interface problems.
The ADS-B system is fairly simple, and as long as the right lat-lon string is inputted, it should transmit the right position. Maybe it's a "units" issue similar to the "units" issue that caused the Mars spacecrafts more than a decade ago to make an unexpected and unfortunate (very) hard landing...