That's a typo. The moon is an excellent source of Helium-3, which when reacted with Hydrogen-1 provides much cleaner, and more importantly, lower activation energy fusion than H3-H2 or H2-H2 fusion. He3 is on the moon is great quantity because the surface of the moon soaks up all the particles in the solar wind, which includes a good bit of He3.
That's not the case. Are you an engineer? NASA has plenty of money to do what they do. The problem is they spend it all maintaining the pork barrel for their contractors.
Having too much money means you design systems that depend on having too much money. That means you get systems with exotic materials that no one understands, that are difficult to maintenance, and cost too much to launch. The Russian Soyuz launches for 10 million. The shuttle is 50 times more expensive. Given, for some increased payload capacity, but not that much payload capacity.
NASA (or someone else, since they're so broken..perhaps the private sector) needs to be told to design a new space vehicle on a Russian-sized budget, instead of a NASA one. I guarantee they'll come up with the functionality we need, at the price we want, and because it had to be designed on that budget it'll be simpler and more reliable.
This was the central theme in the training of Ender in Ender's Game. Numerous times he was in mortal danger, and adults could have helped him, but they let him fend for himself so that when there really wasn't anyone to help him, he wouldn't be expecting it. Seems to me Harry Potter:Ender::Voldemort:Wooly Ants makes sense.
This doesn't even seem to me to necessitate a test in court of the GPL. Unauthorized redistribution is a violation of copyright, regardless of the license (if any). If you want to force them to open their whole application's source, then I suppose it could be interpreted that way. Any lawyer worth his salt would probably go after the much more clear cut copyright infringement case, along with all the damages implied therein.
IUPAC decides the names, regardless of who discovers it, althought they have some input. The last time a whole batch of heavy elements were named it was a mix of countries represented.
In a way, it might be better for the development of character amongst the young people of the country if they had more things on which they had to take a stand of principle, even if it's unconstitutional. I always just never said the pledge, or sang the anthem.
Of course, the CEO of first company you listed, ImClone systems, was just arrested and charged with insider trading for notifying his friends (including Martha Stuart) and family that the company's cancer drug wasn't going to be approved prior to the information becoming public, enabling them to sell off the still-valuable stock.
Neal Stephenson addressed this in The Diamond Age, actually. The main character, Nell, is conceived when her mother's 'freedom machine' wears out. Supposedly it's a nanobot one of which sits at the outlet of each fallopian tube and gobbles up any eggs that happen to come out. Very affordable, in fact, since Tequila, her mother, is quite poor.
Only a small fraction of the Uranium ore is elemental Uranium. And only.2% of that is the isotope U-235, which is weapons grade. And you need equipment that costs big money to do the U-235/U-238 separation, and deal with extremely deadly crap like Uranium hexafluoride.
210GHz is the unity gain bandwidth of that transistor. That means that when switching at 210GHz, it only puts out as much as you put in (in layman's terms). In terms of chip production, that means you can only have a fanout of one. Therefore, it's impossible to construct basic circuit elements at that speed. Once you throw in a requirement for a fanout of say, 10, you've thrown 10 gate capacitances in parallel with that transistor, which is going to knock its bandwidth down quite a bit. To what, I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was by at least an order of magnitude.
1) Let's see..Snow Crash was published in 1992, and Al Gore was inaugurated VP in 1993..oh, I see. Whatever. The Internet started in the 70s. Even within the context of the book, the Metaverse was just a very successful protocol that sat on top of the existing Internet (which was primarily through Rife's fiber network), like AIM, or IRC.
2) There were several motorcycles in the physical world in the book, most notably Raven's motorcycle with fusion bomb sidecar, and Hiro's brand new Yamaha with smart wheels that he drove up to Oregon on, and which later caught Snow Crash and died when he arrived in the port city in Oregon before boarding the Kowloon. In the Metaverse, while Hiro was logged in from the raft, there most certainly was a supersonic motorcycle race between Hiro and Raven. Because of the speeds involved, the first person to hit a metaverse monorail support (and hence come safely to an instant stop) essentially lost the race: Raven would deliver his deadly payload unhindered, or Hiro would stop him easily by arriving first and alerting everyone.
5) Snow Crash was a meme that manifested itself by causing the affected to speak in tongues and exist in a lower state of consciousness, and so be open to whatever programming Rife wanted. The delivery vectors were a computer virus, a drug, religious sacrament, and blood.
Not to nitpick (well, actually, yes, to nitpick), but the Nam-shub of Enki was the cure for Snow Crash, as it was a 'me' that had originally caused the differentiation of language amongst humans. Snow Crash reverted people to their ancient state, in which they were in a lower state of consciousness and communicated using 'intrinsic' human language. Enki created the Nam-shub to allow humanity to grow.
The judiciary doesn't enforce laws, the executive branch (police, corrections, etc.) does. Legislators make laws. Well, the Judiciary tries to make/alter laws all the time anyway. I've yet to hear of a judge locking a defendant in his/her chambers until the defendant had served his sentence.
The limit on a Cat 5 run is around 100 meters. A mile is 16 times that. Also, Cat 5 is meant for indoor use. You need to count the appropriate outdoor conduit in that cost, as well, which in many cases may be several times the cost of the cable itself (just like how it costs hundreds of times more to dig up the ground than the fiber to put in the hole does..which is why we have so much dark fiber. As long as they've got it dug up, they put in as much as they can afford).
What you're proposing is an interferometer. Radio telescopes like the Very Large Array are interferometers as well. You are correct that interferometers increase resolution to the resolution of a large telescope of the same baseline (but with the light/radio gathering power of the actual diameter of telescopes used, of course). In order to make an interferometer work, you have to combine the signals completely in phase (to within 1/10 wavelength, as a general rule). So if you were doing work in the 20cm band, your cable lengths from each antenna would need to be the same to within 2cm. Optionally, signals from radio telescopes can be recorded (such as those on opposite sides of the globe, for really long baseline), and lined up later, on computers. This only works because we have data acquisition systems that can work at MHz and GHz frequencies. Optical frequencies are more like 10^15 Hz. In order to do optical interferometry, you have to combine the light paths to within a tenth wavelength (40-50nm, or several hundred atoms). This interferometry can only be done in real time, with hard optics. At least until we get attohertz electronics and data acquisition working.
The space interferometry mission will put an interferometer in space in the next 10 years or so, but its baseline is only 30 feet or so. Still very cool.
Actually, since stars are nearly ideal black body radiators (with the exception of some absorption lines), they have a peak frequency at which they emit radiation. For stars like the sun, this is in the ultraviolet region. It never gets as high as X-rays or gamma rays; not even in small amounts. It takes much hotter gas to emit X-rays (the sun is around 6000 K, I believe X-rays start showing up around 30000 K or 60000 K). The sun does emit radiation throughout the spectrum below its peak wavelength, but as the frequency approaches zero so does the energy emitted -- so you would see a fair amount of infrared, but very little ULF radio.
Well, you can't calculate what side of the Earth an object is going to hit if it's going to happen in the 2030s, since objects that small can have their orbits continually perturbed by other objects. But even if you could, an asteroid 10 miles in diameter would destroy all very nearly all life on the surface of the planet, regardless of which continent it struck.
Garmin used to (make still) make a GPS with a fishfinder on it, with the various data integrated into one display, and exportable to computer. A few years ago, a student at the lab where I work mapped a portion of Lake Travis here in Austin, TX, for use by the projects doing sonar research out there. I'd tell you what model it was, but the lake is a 45 minute drive away. It's still on the boat in question, and still works, though.
No one uses photo plates anymore in professional astronomy -- certainly not at the mammoth, highly computerized telescopes where images like this are taken (Gemini, VLT, Keck, etc.). Charge coupled devices (CCDs) like those used in modern video cameras, digital cameras, web cams, etc. are what's used. Usually they're supercooled so as to mitigate emission in the IR region by the detector itself. They're also many times larger (several thousand pixels on a side) and consequently can cost up to $100k a unit. Of course, telescope time at one of these places costs a few ten thousands an hour.
Check out the IARC competition website. There are teams' webpages linked from there, too. My school (UT Austin) is planning its first ever entry for the 2002 competition.
The task this year is to fly 3 kilometers along 4 waypoints, identify a building and an open entrance on the building, deploy a subvehicle (not necessary, but practically necessary) through the entrance, and have the subvehicle return reconaissance to the judges 3km away.
Many people opt to use R/C helicopters and modify them (we are using an XCell.60 Gas Graphite by Miniature Aircraft USA).
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That's a typo. The moon is an excellent source of Helium-3, which when reacted with Hydrogen-1 provides much cleaner, and more importantly, lower activation energy fusion than H3-H2 or H2-H2 fusion.
He3 is on the moon is great quantity because the surface of the moon soaks up all the particles in the solar wind, which includes a good bit of He3.
That's 'B-212', with a 'B' for Bell Helicopter.
That's not the case. Are you an engineer? NASA has plenty of money to do what they do. The problem is they spend it all maintaining the pork barrel for their contractors.
Having too much money means you design systems that depend on having too much money. That means you get systems with exotic materials that no one understands, that are difficult to maintenance, and cost too much to launch. The Russian Soyuz launches for 10 million. The shuttle is 50 times more expensive. Given, for some increased payload capacity, but not that much payload capacity.
NASA (or someone else, since they're so broken..perhaps the private sector) needs to be told to design a new space vehicle on a Russian-sized budget, instead of a NASA one. I guarantee they'll come up with the functionality we need, at the price we want, and because it had to be designed on that budget it'll be simpler and more reliable.
And in another 6 months..Quicksilver.
This was the central theme in the training of Ender in Ender's Game. Numerous times he was in mortal danger, and adults could have helped him, but they let him fend for himself so that when there really wasn't anyone to help him, he wouldn't be expecting it. Seems to me Harry Potter:Ender::Voldemort:Wooly Ants makes sense.
This doesn't even seem to me to necessitate a test in court of the GPL. Unauthorized redistribution is a violation of copyright, regardless of the license (if any). If you want to force them to open their whole application's source, then I suppose it could be interpreted that way. Any lawyer worth his salt would probably go after the much more clear cut copyright infringement case, along with all the damages implied therein.
IUPAC decides the names, regardless of who discovers it, althought they have some input. The last time a whole batch of heavy elements were named it was a mix of countries represented.
In a way, it might be better for the development of character amongst the young people of the country if they had more things on which they had to take a stand of principle, even if it's unconstitutional. I always just never said the pledge, or sang the anthem.
Of course, the CEO of first company you listed, ImClone systems, was just arrested and charged with insider trading for notifying his friends (including Martha Stuart) and family that the company's cancer drug wasn't going to be approved prior to the information becoming public, enabling them to sell off the still-valuable stock.
Neal Stephenson addressed this in The Diamond Age, actually. The main character, Nell, is conceived when her mother's 'freedom machine' wears out. Supposedly it's a nanobot one of which sits at the outlet of each fallopian tube and gobbles up any eggs that happen to come out. Very affordable, in fact, since Tequila, her mother, is quite poor.
Only a small fraction of the Uranium ore is elemental Uranium. And only .2% of that is the isotope U-235, which is weapons grade. And you need equipment that costs big money to do the U-235/U-238 separation, and deal with extremely deadly crap like Uranium hexafluoride.
210GHz is the unity gain bandwidth of that transistor. That means that when switching at 210GHz, it only puts out as much as you put in (in layman's terms). In terms of chip production, that means you can only have a fanout of one. Therefore, it's impossible to construct basic circuit elements at that speed. Once you throw in a requirement for a fanout of say, 10, you've thrown 10 gate capacitances in parallel with that transistor, which is going to knock its bandwidth down quite a bit. To what, I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was by at least an order of magnitude.
You forgot one: You know what they say..
1mHz = .001 Hz
1MHz = 1e6 Hz
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1) Let's see..Snow Crash was published in 1992, and Al Gore was inaugurated VP in 1993..oh, I see. Whatever. The Internet started in the 70s. Even within the context of the book, the Metaverse was just a very successful protocol that sat on top of the existing Internet (which was primarily through Rife's fiber network), like AIM, or IRC.
2) There were several motorcycles in the physical world in the book, most notably Raven's motorcycle with fusion bomb sidecar, and Hiro's brand new Yamaha with smart wheels that he drove up to Oregon on, and which later caught Snow Crash and died when he arrived in the port city in Oregon before boarding the Kowloon. In the Metaverse, while Hiro was logged in from the raft, there most certainly was a supersonic motorcycle race between Hiro and Raven. Because of the speeds involved, the first person to hit a metaverse monorail support (and hence come safely to an instant stop) essentially lost the race: Raven would deliver his deadly payload unhindered, or Hiro would stop him easily by arriving first and alerting everyone.
5) Snow Crash was a meme that manifested itself by causing the affected to speak in tongues and exist in a lower state of consciousness, and so be open to whatever programming Rife wanted. The delivery vectors were a computer virus, a drug, religious sacrament, and blood.
Do *you* remember Snow Crash?
Not to nitpick (well, actually, yes, to nitpick), but the Nam-shub of Enki was the cure for Snow Crash, as it was a 'me' that had originally caused the differentiation of language amongst humans. Snow Crash reverted people to their ancient state, in which they were in a lower state of consciousness and communicated using 'intrinsic' human language. Enki created the Nam-shub to allow humanity to grow.
The judiciary doesn't enforce laws, the executive branch (police, corrections, etc.) does. Legislators make laws. Well, the Judiciary tries to make/alter laws all the time anyway. I've yet to hear of a judge locking a defendant in his/her chambers until the defendant had served his sentence.
The limit on a Cat 5 run is around 100 meters. A mile is 16 times that. Also, Cat 5 is meant for indoor use. You need to count the appropriate outdoor conduit in that cost, as well, which in many cases may be several times the cost of the cable itself (just like how it costs hundreds of times more to dig up the ground than the fiber to put in the hole does..which is why we have so much dark fiber. As long as they've got it dug up, they put in as much as they can afford).
What you're proposing is an interferometer. Radio telescopes like the Very Large Array are interferometers as well. You are correct that interferometers increase resolution to the resolution of a large telescope of the same baseline (but with the light/radio gathering power of the actual diameter of telescopes used, of course).
In order to make an interferometer work, you have to combine the signals completely in phase (to within 1/10 wavelength, as a general rule). So if you were doing work in the 20cm band, your cable lengths from each antenna would need to be the same to within 2cm. Optionally, signals from radio telescopes can be recorded (such as those on opposite sides of the globe, for really long baseline), and lined up later, on computers. This only works because we have data acquisition systems that can work at MHz and GHz frequencies. Optical frequencies are more like 10^15 Hz.
In order to do optical interferometry, you have to combine the light paths to within a tenth wavelength (40-50nm, or several hundred atoms). This interferometry can only be done in real time, with hard optics. At least until we get attohertz electronics and data acquisition working.
The space interferometry mission will put an interferometer in space in the next 10 years or so, but its baseline is only 30 feet or so. Still very cool.
Actually, since stars are nearly ideal black body radiators (with the exception of some absorption lines), they have a peak frequency at which they emit radiation. For stars like the sun, this is in the ultraviolet region. It never gets as high as X-rays or gamma rays; not even in small amounts. It takes much hotter gas to emit X-rays (the sun is around 6000 K, I believe X-rays start showing up around 30000 K or 60000 K).
The sun does emit radiation throughout the spectrum below its peak wavelength, but as the frequency approaches zero so does the energy emitted -- so you would see a fair amount of infrared, but very little ULF radio.
Well, you can't calculate what side of the Earth an object is going to hit if it's going to happen in the 2030s, since objects that small can have their orbits continually perturbed by other objects.
But even if you could, an asteroid 10 miles in diameter would destroy all very nearly all life on the surface of the planet, regardless of which continent it struck.
Garmin used to (make still) make a GPS with a fishfinder on it, with the various data integrated into one display, and exportable to computer. A few years ago, a student at the lab where I work mapped a portion of Lake Travis here in Austin, TX, for use by the projects doing sonar research out there. I'd tell you what model it was, but the lake is a 45 minute drive away. It's still on the boat in question, and still works, though.
No one uses photo plates anymore in professional astronomy -- certainly not at the mammoth, highly computerized telescopes where images like this are taken (Gemini, VLT, Keck, etc.). Charge coupled devices (CCDs) like those used in modern video cameras, digital cameras, web cams, etc. are what's used. Usually they're supercooled so as to mitigate emission in the IR region by the detector itself. They're also many times larger (several thousand pixels on a side) and consequently can cost up to $100k a unit. Of course, telescope time at one of these places costs a few ten thousands an hour.
Check out the IARC competition website. There are teams' webpages linked from there, too. My school (UT Austin) is planning its first ever entry for the 2002 competition. .60 Gas Graphite by Miniature Aircraft USA).
The task this year is to fly 3 kilometers along 4 waypoints, identify a building and an open entrance on the building, deploy a subvehicle (not necessary, but practically necessary) through the entrance, and have the subvehicle return reconaissance to the judges 3km away.
Many people opt to use R/C helicopters and modify them (we are using an XCell