It has nothing to do with an open flame. It is a race condition between the fuel reaching combustion temperatures before the cigarette has been cooled to below same. Assuming you can evacuate ALL vapor such that the liquid fuel is permitted to cool the lit cigarette below combustion temperatures before itself reaching combustion temperatures sure. But from a practical standpoint that's impossible.
IANAV but like everyone else on/. I sometimes indulge in armchair quarterbacking... The simple answer is that Japanese science and engineering--which is incomparable on the subjects of seismology and volcanology--isn't up to the task. Japanese scientists suspect that there are at least two magma chambers. A deeper one at around 20km and a shallower one around 8 or 9km. They're still talking about suspicions of what the magma system looks like. Even if you could overcome the engineering hurdles of drilling a hole into the magma system that doesn't seal itself back up right away or worse be faced with the opposite problem and piercing the system would cause it to pop like a balloon you still need to know where to drill. That answer is probably not magma chamber(s) itself anyway.
I suspect because even their science isn't that good and there's concern about mistakes given that tiny little population center called Tokyo less than 80 miles away.
The trouble isn't so much the roads but rather the cars. My Infiniti couldn't care less if it's traveling at 55 of 105. It's built for high-speed handling and has only been in service for a few months. It has a properly functioning suspension and brakes, tires in good condition with plenty of tread, etc.. Most late model vehicles in good repair probably wouldn't have an issue on a highway designed for 85MPH either though obstacle avoidance and sudden braking could still prove a problem. However, the same cannot be said of far too many other cars on the road. Beat up piles of crap with bald tires, broken suspensions, held together with little more than duct tape and bailing wire are still common, especially in economically depressed areas. Many understand the limitations of their vehicles and drive accordingly, but plenty of others don't. But even for those that drive to the limits of their vehicles they are still a hazard because everyone else is traveling so much faster than they are. Any time lane changes and/or braking are involved the potential for problems increases.
Personally I'd love it if highway speed limits were raised. That is, so long as poorly skilled and over the age of 70 or other impaired drivers as well as anything other than late model vehicles in good repair were banned from said highways and necessary enforcement was in place to ensure this. Unfortunately I'm more likely to see grandma either traveling 50MPH on an 85MPH highway in her massive Caddi or worse 85MPH in her massive Caddi, the guy in his ancient, beat up station wagon, with no brakes and bald tires pushing his car for all its worth and everyone else around him praying it doesn't disintegrate in front of them. Mean while the girl with the cell phone glued to her ear didn't notice the car in the lane she's now sailing into.
Or at least have the experience even if only to fail miserably at it. There's no faster remedy to delusions of the "A" for effort, "you did your best, that's what counts" crowd than to have your compiler parade your incompetence across your screen. No better wake up to the dreamers of realities that do not exist than application crashes and catastrophic data loss.
I cannot say what is motivating this patent however just because you apply for a patent doesn't mean you intent to implement it. This should be obvious from all the trolls out there. If someone desires to prevent an "evil" invention from being unleashed on the world having a patent on it would be a means of preventing others from doing so.
Dreaming up and patenting evil inventions to prevent others from creating them may well have saved us from a good number of woes we are now dealing with such as DRM, robo-callers, etc..
We've had finger/palm/retinal scanners for a while now. I haven't heard of any rash of theft. That said what's to stop someone from taking your photo and holding it up to the device?
More accurate...? "Far more common that older people are oversized, in a house that they have lived in for years, they are set in their ways and do not want to move"
This may be true, however, many of these moon rocks were originally given to people/governments. If said people wish to transfer ownership, for compensation or otherwise why should NASA entitled the right to confiscate them?
It was my understanding that the missing "a" was not Neil's goof but a hiccup in the transmission going back to earth. Now of course if you were trying to fake such a thing adding random dropouts and static would make it seem more believable...
I could see studs being a problem for astronauts accidentally drifting into them and tearing their suits.
What I think might be a more interesting fastener for attaching components (such as solar panels) up in space would be a plug type device (think boat plug) with a toggle that can be opened and closed to fasten and unfasten. A more sophisticated version might have a "fingers" that extend into a ringed groove found within the socket. As the toggle is closed the fingers pull the plug tightly into the socket. When the toggle is opened the tension between the fingers and the groove is released and the fingers pull out of the groove allowing the plug to be removed.
This is a classic case of someone with a very modest education--but knows some Latin buzz phrases--trying to reach beyond their resources in an attempt to position themselves as superior.
I think either you read different books than I, or you're focused on the politics not the technology proper. The notion of dispensing with physical peripherals for mental visualization and control, wetware augmentation, the "stack" as a means of enabling conscience (or self) to be communicated from body to body even over interstellar distances are all very intriguing prospects.
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Agreed. Bought it back in 1994 still my go to calculator today.
It has nothing to do with an open flame. It is a race condition between the fuel reaching combustion temperatures before the cigarette has been cooled to below same. Assuming you can evacuate ALL vapor such that the liquid fuel is permitted to cool the lit cigarette below combustion temperatures before itself reaching combustion temperatures sure. But from a practical standpoint that's impossible.
IANAV but like everyone else on /. I sometimes indulge in armchair quarterbacking... The simple answer is that Japanese science and engineering--which is incomparable on the subjects of seismology and volcanology--isn't up to the task. Japanese scientists suspect that there are at least two magma chambers. A deeper one at around 20km and a shallower one around 8 or 9km. They're still talking about suspicions of what the magma system looks like. Even if you could overcome the engineering hurdles of drilling a hole into the magma system that doesn't seal itself back up right away or worse be faced with the opposite problem and piercing the system would cause it to pop like a balloon you still need to know where to drill. That answer is probably not magma chamber(s) itself anyway.
A bent over nail used to hang things, original cloth.
I suspect because even their science isn't that good and there's concern about mistakes given that tiny little population center called Tokyo less than 80 miles away.
The trouble isn't so much the roads but rather the cars. My Infiniti couldn't care less if it's traveling at 55 of 105. It's built for high-speed handling and has only been in service for a few months. It has a properly functioning suspension and brakes, tires in good condition with plenty of tread, etc.. Most late model vehicles in good repair probably wouldn't have an issue on a highway designed for 85MPH either though obstacle avoidance and sudden braking could still prove a problem. However, the same cannot be said of far too many other cars on the road. Beat up piles of crap with bald tires, broken suspensions, held together with little more than duct tape and bailing wire are still common, especially in economically depressed areas. Many understand the limitations of their vehicles and drive accordingly, but plenty of others don't. But even for those that drive to the limits of their vehicles they are still a hazard because everyone else is traveling so much faster than they are. Any time lane changes and/or braking are involved the potential for problems increases.
Personally I'd love it if highway speed limits were raised. That is, so long as poorly skilled and over the age of 70 or other impaired drivers as well as anything other than late model vehicles in good repair were banned from said highways and necessary enforcement was in place to ensure this. Unfortunately I'm more likely to see grandma either traveling 50MPH on an 85MPH highway in her massive Caddi or worse 85MPH in her massive Caddi, the guy in his ancient, beat up station wagon, with no brakes and bald tires pushing his car for all its worth and everyone else around him praying it doesn't disintegrate in front of them. Mean while the girl with the cell phone glued to her ear didn't notice the car in the lane she's now sailing into.
Or at least have the experience even if only to fail miserably at it. There's no faster remedy to delusions of the "A" for effort, "you did your best, that's what counts" crowd than to have your compiler parade your incompetence across your screen. No better wake up to the dreamers of realities that do not exist than application crashes and catastrophic data loss.
You're being too kind. Any engineer responsible for such an architecture would be placed on my first to layoff list.
I cannot say what is motivating this patent however just because you apply for a patent doesn't mean you intent to implement it. This should be obvious from all the trolls out there. If someone desires to prevent an "evil" invention from being unleashed on the world having a patent on it would be a means of preventing others from doing so.
Dreaming up and patenting evil inventions to prevent others from creating them may well have saved us from a good number of woes we are now dealing with such as DRM, robo-callers, etc..
Maybe Bruce Willis will sue. Bastards are probably trying to claim those asteroid fragments are non-transferable as well.
That's actually far more clever than I would have expected from such an industry.
We've had finger/palm/retinal scanners for a while now. I haven't heard of any rash of theft. That said what's to stop someone from taking your photo and holding it up to the device?
Uhm. The S III is an "Android" (Google's OS) phone
More accurate...? "Far more common that older people are oversized, in a house that they have lived in for years, they are set in their ways and do not want to move"
Exactly! I'm sick of old people "falling" just so they can milk some extra attention from their children and grand kids.
"So suck it." ...?
The same way we're granted the right to eat liver with fava beans and a nice chianti.
This may be true, however, many of these moon rocks were originally given to people/governments. If said people wish to transfer ownership, for compensation or otherwise why should NASA entitled the right to confiscate them?
It was my understanding that the missing "a" was not Neil's goof but a hiccup in the transmission going back to earth. Now of course if you were trying to fake such a thing adding random dropouts and static would make it seem more believable...
I could see studs being a problem for astronauts accidentally drifting into them and tearing their suits.
What I think might be a more interesting fastener for attaching components (such as solar panels) up in space would be a plug type device (think boat plug) with a toggle that can be opened and closed to fasten and unfasten. A more sophisticated version might have a "fingers" that extend into a ringed groove found within the socket. As the toggle is closed the fingers pull the plug tightly into the socket. When the toggle is opened the tension between the fingers and the groove is released and the fingers pull out of the groove allowing the plug to be removed.
This is a classic case of someone with a very modest education--but knows some Latin buzz phrases--trying to reach beyond their resources in an attempt to position themselves as superior.
Tell that to the people who think "the Cloud" is affected by weather.
I think either you read different books than I, or you're focused on the politics not the technology proper. The notion of dispensing with physical peripherals for mental visualization and control, wetware augmentation, the "stack" as a means of enabling conscience (or self) to be communicated from body to body even over interstellar distances are all very intriguing prospects.
My first thought was Peter Hamilton's "Commonwealth Saga", or Richard Morgan's "Takeshi Kovacs" series. My second thought was "hurry the hell up".
You know, I've really got to wonder what your arguments might have been back in 1492...