The battery runs on radation. If it would require tossing it probably doesn't have any more energy to give. Meaning it doesn't have any more radation (or, at worst, a fraction of what it had before).
This is different from a nuclear power station that makes energy of the actual splitting of an atom, and then has to discard anything that is not the atom that it is designed to split. This is not the same as making energy off of the radation it's fuel (and the broken down remains of its fuel) gives off.
I believe you are only liable for patent infringement if you sell / distribute your replica. This is why Eli Whitney never made any money off of the cottin gin. It was so simple everyone went home and built their own, and there was notihing Eli could do about it. If they sold their home-made cottin gins or helped ohers with the process of making their own in some way, they may have been liable.
There are other reasons why I totally agree with this plan
Venus provides positive pressure and a positive heat source to work with. The pressure outside and the temperature outside is _greater_ than our standard for living. We know more about dealing with increased pressure (deep-sea research, scuba) environments than reduced pressure ones. We also know how to cool hot temperatures to cool ones with the Carnot cycle. Venus contains complex chemicalls naturally that would be profitable to industry. Best example is sulfuric acid, the #1 most produced industrial chemical in the world. It is generally too complex to be found in significant amounts on the surface of other worlds.
I also believe it may be easy to set up a power station by taking advanage of the high temperatures of the planet to produce energy somehow, but I'm still formulating how to do this.
I figured that the brazillian cropduster was a piston-powered plane (prop). Most airplanes in use in the US are turbine/jet. I think a jet/turbine would be more sensitive to using alcohol because it's thrust would be affected by less gases being produced at ignition.
C2H5OH + 3 O2 -> 2 CO2 + 3 H2O (5 produced + heat)
C15H32 + 23 O2->15 CO2 + 16 H2O (31 prod + heat)
Even if we take the net molar difference between reactants and products (assuming fuel is not gaseous), alcohol's 2 moles of gas produced is still outweighed by kerosene's 8. The heat produced by the alcohol reaction would have to be much hotter (I don't think this is true) or we'd have to pump in much more fuel/second to achieve the same results. This correlates to 4x fuel consumption for alcohol engines. This may not matter as much to a local flight (cropdusting, joyriding, etc.), but many long trip commuter planes may find fuel load a hinderance (and thus you'd have more layovers, etc.)
Feel free to shoot holes in this arguement if you see them...this is off the top of my head...
--i use EtOH because it's the largest biologically produced alcohol I could think of
--I figured on complete combustion in a jet because of the much more massive amounts of air flowing through than in a typical piston engine
--I know kerosene isn't exactly a 15 carbon hydrocarbon, it was a guesstimate.
Body makes left-handed enantiomers (sp?). right handed enantiomers tend to be the side effects and bad stuff since it is difficult/impossible to separate them out.
I think they make columns to separate out pharmaceutical enantiomers at:
Space, while being close to a vacuum is not a perfect vacuum. There are about 5 molecules per cubic meter, or something similar, and many seem to be simple molecules like methane or hydrogen.
Technically, if you are going fast enough these should form a pressure wave just like in atmosphere. The difference is you have to be going MUCH faster (perhaps relativistic speeds, you can probably calculate it) to acheive the same pressure.
the other difference is that jet engines use the oxygen in the air for combustion. There isn't oxygen in space and far as I have read. However of the molecules free-floating in space, Hydrogen seems to be abundant. If the aforementioned speed is obtainable via some other means, could it be possible to carry oxygen for the purpose of running the chemical combustion of the engine, or would the energy necessary to maintain the speed be more than the engine can put out?
As with everything, patchwork systems don't seem to ever run as well as the origional. You can go out and buy a beat-up 73 station wagon and restore it, but when you are done can you ever honestly say you fixed _everything_ broken on it and _every_ system has been restored to factory-fresh capasity?
Gravity is an effect of mass, but a lack of gravity does _not_ equal a lack of mass. It equals a lack of downward force. Therefore, as long as the spinning disk was tethered to something, he wouldn't have found anything even if he had decreased gravity.
Perhaps, but this info may lead to something else...
The cable modem must do more than simply bridge coax to ethernet to respond to SNMP, etc. And the fact that it has a MAC address implies that the coax signal is converted to ethernet somewhere between the cable modem's controlling software and the ISP (i.e. well before it reaches the ethernet port on the backside of the modem that heads to your PC).
Would it be possible to find the 8 wires in the PCB in the modem that carry the converted ethernet signal before it hits the modem firmware?
Wal Mart's can be hard to find in cities, so many people may not know what a godsend they are to rural america. WalMart stores are typically located on cheap land--which is mostly rural America and out suburbs of the some large towns they can be found in. It's very similar to how Southwest on flies into and out of cities/airports with cheap airport fees and terminal space.
And I encourage you to look at WalMart's prices and compare with others. They _are_ pretty damn low. Even in the small rural towns where Wal Mart has already put small mom & pop stores out of business and cornered the market. This is about the only downside of WalMart's--the little guys can't compete with them.
They provide many items which may not be sold in the immediate area also (shopping selection in rural America tends to be very limited). They have a good distrobution system where the ship the things that aren't selling real well in one location to another where they are during the night via truck. For instance, during the Missouri floods they would bring in sand, shovles, flashlights from other stores and ship things like riding lawnmowers and plastic play pools out.
This sounds more like a hit piece against corporations/Fortune 10 than truth. The article is seething with angst and loathing from the denotations of the adjecives and adverbs used.
Also remember, Sams is also connected to the Waltons and contributes heftily to the profits also. Anyone who has bought one bag of chicken wings for $10 to feed themselves for a month knows the joy of Sams:)
Well, the rate of absorbtion of heat will be proportional to the surface area of the nanotub exposed to light. The rate of conductive heat transfer will be proportional to the surface area of the tube in contact with whatever medium it is transferring the heat to. Since the total surface area you have to work with is constant, you should be able to adjust what percent is exposed to light vs remaining percent exposed to transfer medium in order to get maximum heat throughput (but not so high as to melt the tube)
If the nanotubes are capable of picking up that much heat from a flash, it would seem they have a good possibility at being used in a high yield solar furnace or other light to heat exchange material. Just include the medium on to which the heat should be transferred in the system and it shouldn't explode/break down/fold...just create and pass along heat.
It would also be environmentally friendly...mostly carbon
Actually, there are large amounts of heavy metals in some asteroids. this is why asteroid mining is discussed so much in "making space profitable" discussions.
Granted it would *not* be pure... if it was it would have to have been refined, implying external, generic forces
We can't even directly see other planets outside the solar system. The ability to see if there is crud floating around the planet which is approximately the size of a bolt would lead us to believe that we could probably see macroscopic man-made items on the surface first (similar to the Great Wall of China) before this stuff could be deteced (unless it cast some unique form of energy we could detect at very great distences. Most metals do not do this).
Also, as the previous poster pointed out, you have to distinguish between generic and natural debris
I'm more concerned with just being able to sleep at night. I used to be able to say i'm not in the mood, but Viagra kill that one. The only one left was i'm too tired...
Guess that one's gone too...
Bad "human logic" loop in the Cisco adapter docs
on
VoIP for the Masses!
·
· Score: 4, Informative
In Cisco's document: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/ vo ice/ata/ata186/ata186ug/186ugch3.htm
Unplugging the device while the function button is flashing could permanantly damage the device
If the device is configured to find a DHCP server when there isn't one, the function putton will blink forever
I can see my mom with an endlessly blinking IP phone guarding it with a bat in case any tries to unplug it...
tgssh works well on the Kyocera. Unfortunately, the default POP mail and www browser (both Eudora apps) only support SSL if you have the newer version of the firmware / default applications. The old versions have the options coded in, but if you select them it'll just tell you to upgrade and unselect them again.
They don't (or at least didn't in late 90's) even give you the option to use your SSN as the drivers License. When I went to get a new SS card (the old one had been through the wash too many times) the SS dude showed me something interesting.
In the small print on a SS card information (I don't think it's on the actual card, but the paper you have to tear the card out of), it states that it is unlawful to use your federal SSN for other means of identification or labeling (or something to that effect). Texas took that as meaning "Don't use this for state ID", thus the rules above...
Is that 20 ft including your height or 20 ft as of your feet? That's a 25% difference... and if the mention a 20ft wall they're implying as of your feet...
Remember:
If you are jumping over a wall, you probably can't see what's on the other side. It could be ground, it could be another 10 ft to the bottom of the empty swimming pool...
You have a suit strapped to you, limiting your movement, or free at your joints allowing you to sprain them
You have a suit straped to you, increasing your momentum that must be stopped when you hit ground.
As someone who has fallen from about 15 feet repeatedly (pole valut), I can tell you it DOES hurt if you land in something other than grass, sand, or polyurthane foam, even if you hit on your feet. Nothing major usually, but it's possible. And your talking aother 5 to 10 (see first question) feet up.
I guess the scheduling desk orders transport based on the system whomever is managing the lines uses to keep trace of the transport (and to NERC tag it, whatever). Unfortunately, I haven't had much exposure to the transport desks. The most exposure I have had is watching a physicals trader and a basis trader go at it because the basis was making the physical deal (which was apperantly a good deal) go in the red.
I learned a few new words that day, and how to use them to describe another persons shortcomings...:)
Slashdot Mirror
The battery runs on radation. If it would require tossing it probably doesn't have any more energy to give. Meaning it doesn't have any more radation (or, at worst, a fraction of what it had before).
This is different from a nuclear power station that makes energy of the actual splitting of an atom, and then has to discard anything that is not the atom that it is designed to split. This is not the same as making energy off of the radation it's fuel (and the broken down remains of its fuel) gives off.
I believe you are only liable for patent infringement if you sell / distribute your replica. This is why Eli Whitney never made any money off of the cottin gin. It was so simple everyone went home and built their own, and there was notihing Eli could do about it. If they sold their home-made cottin gins or helped ohers with the process of making their own in some way, they may have been liable.
IANAPL..
There are other reasons why I totally agree with this plan
Venus provides positive pressure and a positive heat source to work with. The pressure outside and the temperature outside is _greater_ than our standard for living. We know more about dealing with increased pressure (deep-sea research, scuba) environments than reduced pressure ones. We also know how to cool hot temperatures to cool ones with the Carnot cycle. Venus contains complex chemicalls naturally that would be profitable to industry. Best example is sulfuric acid, the #1 most produced industrial chemical in the world. It is generally too complex to be found in significant amounts on the surface of other worlds.
I also believe it may be easy to set up a power station by taking advanage of the high temperatures of the planet to produce energy somehow, but I'm still formulating how to do this.
I figured that the brazillian cropduster was a piston-powered plane (prop). Most airplanes in use in the US are turbine/jet. I think a jet/turbine would be more sensitive to using alcohol because it's thrust would be affected by less gases being produced at ignition.
C2H5OH + 3 O2 -> 2 CO2 + 3 H2O (5 produced + heat)
C15H32 + 23 O2->15 CO2 + 16 H2O (31 prod + heat)
Even if we take the net molar difference between reactants and products (assuming fuel is not gaseous), alcohol's 2 moles of gas produced is still outweighed by kerosene's 8. The heat produced by the alcohol reaction would have to be much hotter (I don't think this is true) or we'd have to pump in much more fuel/second to achieve the same results. This correlates to 4x fuel consumption for alcohol engines. This may not matter as much to a local flight (cropdusting, joyriding, etc.), but many long trip commuter planes may find fuel load a hinderance (and thus you'd have more layovers, etc.)
Feel free to shoot holes in this arguement if you see them...this is off the top of my head...
--i use EtOH because it's the largest biologically produced alcohol I could think of
--I figured on complete combustion in a jet because of the much more massive amounts of air flowing through than in a typical piston engine
--I know kerosene isn't exactly a 15 carbon hydrocarbon, it was a guesstimate.
i didn't see Splenda so...
Body makes left-handed enantiomers (sp?). right handed enantiomers tend to be the side effects and bad stuff since it is difficult/impossible to separate them out.
I think they make columns to separate out pharmaceutical enantiomers at:
http://www.astecusa.com
Space, while being close to a vacuum is not a perfect vacuum. There are about 5 molecules per cubic meter, or something similar, and many seem to be simple molecules like methane or hydrogen.
Technically, if you are going fast enough these should form a pressure wave just like in atmosphere. The difference is you have to be going MUCH faster (perhaps relativistic speeds, you can probably calculate it) to acheive the same pressure.
the other difference is that jet engines use the oxygen in the air for combustion. There isn't oxygen in space and far as I have read. However of the molecules free-floating in space, Hydrogen seems to be abundant. If the aforementioned speed is obtainable via some other means, could it be possible to carry oxygen for the purpose of running the chemical combustion of the engine, or would the energy necessary to maintain the speed be more than the engine can put out?
As with everything, patchwork systems don't seem to ever run as well as the origional. You can go out and buy a beat-up 73 station wagon and restore it, but when you are done can you ever honestly say you fixed _everything_ broken on it and _every_ system has been restored to factory-fresh capasity?
Gravity is an effect of mass, but a lack of gravity does _not_ equal a lack of mass. It equals a lack of downward force. Therefore, as long as the spinning disk was tethered to something, he wouldn't have found anything even if he had decreased gravity.
I believe there are 1394->SCSI adapters that are available for Macs. It was brought about for iMac buyers who were migrating up from older systems.
Granted, you won't have good performance, but they'll work... and with similar fail-safe (since firewire/1394 is hot pluggable, etc.)
Perhaps, but this info may lead to something else...
The cable modem must do more than simply bridge coax to ethernet to respond to SNMP, etc. And the fact that it has a MAC address implies that the coax signal is converted to ethernet somewhere between the cable modem's controlling software and the ISP (i.e. well before it reaches the ethernet port on the backside of the modem that heads to your PC).
Would it be possible to find the 8 wires in the PCB in the modem that carry the converted ethernet signal before it hits the modem firmware?
Wal Mart's can be hard to find in cities, so many people may not know what a godsend they are to rural america. WalMart stores are typically located on cheap land--which is mostly rural America and out suburbs of the some large towns they can be found in. It's very similar to how Southwest on flies into and out of cities/airports with cheap airport fees and terminal space.
:)
And I encourage you to look at WalMart's prices and compare with others. They _are_ pretty damn low. Even in the small rural towns where Wal Mart has already put small mom & pop stores out of business and cornered the market. This is about the only downside of WalMart's--the little guys can't compete with them.
They provide many items which may not be sold in the immediate area also (shopping selection in rural America tends to be very limited). They have a good distrobution system where the ship the things that aren't selling real well in one location to another where they are during the night via truck. For instance, during the Missouri floods they would bring in sand, shovles, flashlights from other stores and ship things like riding lawnmowers and plastic play pools out.
This sounds more like a hit piece against corporations/Fortune 10 than truth. The article is seething with angst and loathing from the denotations of the adjecives and adverbs used.
Also remember, Sams is also connected to the Waltons and contributes heftily to the profits also. Anyone who has bought one bag of chicken wings for $10 to feed themselves for a month knows the joy of Sams
As a texan, I feel the need to speak...
Possible Ohio Licence plate themes:
Land of Burning Rivers (Chiahoga River)
Ohio--It's One Big Theme Park
Ohio--Highest automobile per lake content of any state
Well, the rate of absorbtion of heat will be proportional to the surface area of the nanotub exposed to light. The rate of conductive heat transfer will be proportional to the surface area of the tube in contact with whatever medium it is transferring the heat to. Since the total surface area you have to work with is constant, you should be able to adjust what percent is exposed to light vs remaining percent exposed to transfer medium in order to get maximum heat throughput (but not so high as to melt the tube)
I think...
If the nanotubes are capable of picking up that much heat from a flash, it would seem they have a good possibility at being used in a high yield solar furnace or other light to heat exchange material. Just include the medium on to which the heat should be transferred in the system and it shouldn't explode/break down/fold...just create and pass along heat.
It would also be environmentally friendly...mostly carbon
Actually, there are large amounts of heavy metals in some asteroids. this is why asteroid mining is discussed so much in "making space profitable" discussions.
Granted it would *not* be pure... if it was it would have to have been refined, implying external, generic forces
We can't even directly see other planets outside the solar system. The ability to see if there is crud floating around the planet which is approximately the size of a bolt would lead us to believe that we could probably see macroscopic man-made items on the surface first (similar to the Great Wall of China) before this stuff could be deteced (unless it cast some unique form of energy we could detect at very great distences. Most metals do not do this).
Also, as the previous poster pointed out, you have to distinguish between generic and natural debris
I'm more concerned with just being able to sleep at night. I used to be able to say i'm not in the mood, but Viagra kill that one. The only one left was i'm too tired...
Guess that one's gone too...
In Cisco's document:
/ vo ice/ata/ata186/ata186ug/186ugch3.htm
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product
Unplugging the device while the function button is flashing could permanantly damage the device
If the device is configured to find a DHCP server when there isn't one, the function putton will blink forever
I can see my mom with an endlessly blinking IP phone guarding it with a bat in case any tries to unplug it...
Well, according to the article, you get to pick the area code for your new phone number. I'm guessing the is regardless of where you actually live.
So if you live in San Fransisco and you mostly tak to people in New Jersey, pick a New Jersey area code.
Saaaaaay, maybe if I can pick an area code in rural Montana somewhere I won't get as many local telemarketers calling...
tgssh works well on the Kyocera. Unfortunately, the default POP mail and www browser (both Eudora apps) only support SSL if you have the newer version of the firmware / default applications. The old versions have the options coded in, but if you select them it'll just tell you to upgrade and unselect them again.
They don't (or at least didn't in late 90's) even give you the option to use your SSN as the drivers License. When I went to get a new SS card (the old one had been through the wash too many times) the SS dude showed me something interesting.
In the small print on a SS card information (I don't think it's on the actual card, but the paper you have to tear the card out of), it states that it is unlawful to use your federal SSN for other means of identification or labeling (or something to that effect). Texas took that as meaning "Don't use this for state ID", thus the rules above...
just my $0.02
Is that 20 ft including your height or 20 ft as of your feet? That's a 25% difference... and if the mention a 20ft wall they're implying as of your feet...
Remember:
If you are jumping over a wall, you probably can't see what's on the other side. It could be ground, it could be another 10 ft to the bottom of the empty swimming pool...
You have a suit strapped to you, limiting your movement, or free at your joints allowing you to sprain them
You have a suit straped to you, increasing your momentum that must be stopped when you hit ground.
As someone who has fallen from about 15 feet repeatedly (pole valut), I can tell you it DOES hurt if you land in something other than grass, sand, or polyurthane foam, even if you hit on your feet. Nothing major usually, but it's possible. And your talking aother 5 to 10 (see first question) feet up.
Yeah, I had anoter variation of this happening which was kinda freaky. The Microsoft tech article really made it clear for me.
Now, whenever my computer inserts REDRUM in various places, I just laugh at it and tell it to stop playing around.
So is it also wholly unjust to check *every* passenger who gets on an airplane?
(my answer would be yes)
I guess the scheduling desk orders transport based on the system whomever is managing the lines uses to keep trace of the transport (and to NERC tag it, whatever). Unfortunately, I haven't had much exposure to the transport desks. The most exposure I have had is watching a physicals trader and a basis trader go at it because the basis was making the physical deal (which was apperantly a good deal) go in the red.
:)
I learned a few new words that day, and how to use them to describe another persons shortcomings...