Of course, none of those statements are true as if the solar panels produce 700 watt-hours in a single (martian day) they average only around 57 watts over the course of the sunlight hours, with a peak of 114 watts, putting output above 100 watts for 5.47 (earth) hours. So you can run a 100 watt light bulb for only 5.47 hours.
Colonization is IMO one of the most underrated games of all time, and one of my favorites. Oh I wish I had a comp I could get it running on (If I could even find the CD anymore).
I'm whining about having had to use it. Specifically dealing with MPICH on a cluster, which I've been able to do easily with my slackware systems, and not so easily with the Mac systems. Further, Xgrid is a royal PITA.
"And so, I prove my point thusly: Have you ever tried to get your mother to use Linux? Now, slowly, easy-to-use distros are coming out, but even 5 years ago that just wasn't the case. There is a HARSH linux learning curve that's like a cliff compared to the gentle, rolling hills of Windows usage."
My friend's mother uses SLACKWARE. She called her ISP to fix her Gmail incidently as well.
a KDE environment is not hard to use. Its certainly not harder than windows. In fact, most people put in front of a KDE desktop will just think you have a weird theme.
Now, moving from being a Windows USER to a Linux ADMIN is hard for most people, because they don't know how to admin any system, much less admin a *nix system. But moving from being a Windows USER to a Linux USER is a piece of cake.
What was said was irrelevant. Patents are matter of public record. I can point out errors and idiocies in them all I want, and the filers have no recourse against me. As long as what I'm pointing out is true.
You're misunderstanding how this works. If there is a 'graviton' it does not have to be generated inside the event horizon to be generated by the blackhole. Hawking radiation does not occur in an empty vacuum without the black hole, it needs the blackhole to be generated, but it is still generated outside the black hole.
Someone else mentioned gauss's theorem. As a mathematical formalism this works, but its not really a useful physical explanation.
Further, in 4 dimensional general relativity (i'm distinguishing from kaluza-klein and string theories) gravity is not a force in the traditional sense. Its a warping of space-time. An object that is 'falling' in 3 dimensions, is really just moving unaltered on its path through space time, along a geodesic (analogous to a straight line). Gravity is the bending of space, not the moving of objects. While this says nothing about a mechanism for the bending of space, there is also no need for a 'graviton' at all, much less for one to pass through the event horizon.
All good scientists know when to say 'I don't know' and know that there is nothing wrong with that. Its usually the science news media that doesn't understand this, in my experience at least.
I am a physicist.
Two points:
Information cannot come out of a black hole. This is why hawking radiation is high entropy. Information is lost. A chair falls in. Hawking radiation comes out, much higher entropy which is a loss of information.
Nothing can pass outwards through the event horizon. Well, nothing with positive mass, positive energy, velocities less than or equal to the speed of light, essentially, nothing that is currently recognized as real. Pink unicorns...maybe...
Hawking radiation does not pass outwards through the event horizon. It is a quantum mechanical process that occurs outside the event horizon, and involves anti-particles falling into the blackhole.
Gravity does not have a well understood mechanism. My field is stellar astrophysics, not string theory or fundamental physics, so i don't know the current cutting edge in those fields well. However, in practice, we understand very closely how gravity acts on objects, we can very precisely predict its effects. We don't really know much about the mechanism. There's a lot of theorizing in some circles, but with no experimental data to verify any of it, its not really meaningful.
Not necessarily. Just as hawking radiation allows a black hole to radiate without anything passing outwards through the event horizon, there is no reason a graviton from the black hole has to pass outwards through the event horizon.
He couldn't have brought back spaghetti, only noodles. Tomatoes are native to the new world (and not the part the chinese would have seen if they did set foot there in 1424).
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Of course, none of those statements are true as if the solar panels produce 700 watt-hours in a single (martian day) they average only around 57 watts over the course of the sunlight hours, with a peak of 114 watts, putting output above 100 watts for 5.47 (earth) hours. So you can run a 100 watt light bulb for only 5.47 hours.
Actually, the opening line of Waiting for Godot is 'Nothing to be done'. An even worse opening for a story.
Is it broken yet?
Colonization is IMO one of the most underrated games of all time, and one of my favorites. Oh I wish I had a comp I could get it running on (If I could even find the CD anymore).
Wait, did you just say radio waves don't travel at the speed of light? Hmm, yes you did. FYI, radio waves are light.
I'm whining about having had to use it. Specifically dealing with MPICH on a cluster, which I've been able to do easily with my slackware systems, and not so easily with the Mac systems. Further, Xgrid is a royal PITA.
It hasn't performed well because it is not a very good UNIX system.
Why not just use .bash_profile files with alias cmdyoulike='cmdyouwant' ?
You know they don't understand it either. They barely understand english.
"And so, I prove my point thusly: Have you ever tried to get your mother to use Linux? Now, slowly, easy-to-use distros are coming out, but even 5 years ago that just wasn't the case. There is a HARSH linux learning curve that's like a cliff compared to the gentle, rolling hills of Windows usage."
My friend's mother uses SLACKWARE. She called her ISP to fix her Gmail incidently as well.
a KDE environment is not hard to use. Its certainly not harder than windows. In fact, most people put in front of a KDE desktop will just think you have a weird theme.
Now, moving from being a Windows USER to a Linux ADMIN is hard for most people, because they don't know how to admin any system, much less admin a *nix system. But moving from being a Windows USER to a Linux USER is a piece of cake.
But despite that you seem to hold some grudge against those of us smart enough to get past algebra.
White Supremacy Colonial Fascism..... I think you just invented a new form of oppression by combining 3 others. Nice.
What was said was irrelevant. Patents are matter of public record. I can point out errors and idiocies in them all I want, and the filers have no recourse against me. As long as what I'm pointing out is true.
You're misunderstanding how this works. If there is a 'graviton' it does not have to be generated inside the event horizon to be generated by the blackhole. Hawking radiation does not occur in an empty vacuum without the black hole, it needs the blackhole to be generated, but it is still generated outside the black hole. Someone else mentioned gauss's theorem. As a mathematical formalism this works, but its not really a useful physical explanation. Further, in 4 dimensional general relativity (i'm distinguishing from kaluza-klein and string theories) gravity is not a force in the traditional sense. Its a warping of space-time. An object that is 'falling' in 3 dimensions, is really just moving unaltered on its path through space time, along a geodesic (analogous to a straight line). Gravity is the bending of space, not the moving of objects. While this says nothing about a mechanism for the bending of space, there is also no need for a 'graviton' at all, much less for one to pass through the event horizon.
All good scientists know when to say 'I don't know' and know that there is nothing wrong with that. Its usually the science news media that doesn't understand this, in my experience at least.
Sorry about the lack of paragraphs, I need to remember to change the formatting on my posts to plain text, and not leave it as HTML.
I am a physicist. Two points: Information cannot come out of a black hole. This is why hawking radiation is high entropy. Information is lost. A chair falls in. Hawking radiation comes out, much higher entropy which is a loss of information. Nothing can pass outwards through the event horizon. Well, nothing with positive mass, positive energy, velocities less than or equal to the speed of light, essentially, nothing that is currently recognized as real. Pink unicorns...maybe... Hawking radiation does not pass outwards through the event horizon. It is a quantum mechanical process that occurs outside the event horizon, and involves anti-particles falling into the blackhole. Gravity does not have a well understood mechanism. My field is stellar astrophysics, not string theory or fundamental physics, so i don't know the current cutting edge in those fields well. However, in practice, we understand very closely how gravity acts on objects, we can very precisely predict its effects. We don't really know much about the mechanism. There's a lot of theorizing in some circles, but with no experimental data to verify any of it, its not really meaningful.
Not necessarily. Just as hawking radiation allows a black hole to radiate without anything passing outwards through the event horizon, there is no reason a graviton from the black hole has to pass outwards through the event horizon.
No, hawking radiation occurs outside of a black hole. it does not emerge from one.
Which means said bugs probably got counted once for every project using that code, even though it was one bug.
He couldn't have brought back spaghetti, only noodles. Tomatoes are native to the new world (and not the part the chinese would have seen if they did set foot there in 1424).
People like that should be put down. Preferably in a painful manner.
The French violated their treaty agreements.
Agreed, aside from the typo. And why was this modded down?
They obviously never read Heart of Darkness. Live to work. There isn't much else to do really.