Didn't I hear a lot of talk about high-altitude super-endurance gliders that could go up hundreds of thousands of feet in the air for months at a time, that could act as a communications hub like a satellite, but much easier to launch and maintain?
I'm pretty sure I saw a PBS special about this sort of plane, it was an ultralight plane that used solar panels all along its one very large wing to power its propellers. It was unmanned, of course.
*groans*
I simply couldn't ignore this.
'High' refers to altitude in this instance.
You are misusing the term. Airships are 'x' units *tall*, not *high*, when you speak about the size of the object.
'Mile high' airships is a perfectly valid term.
Darwin operates perfectly online!
Now all we need is to set up the digital version of the Darwin Awards.
Now, granted, idiot users aren't permanently removed from the gene pools, but if they ram enough computers into the dirt, they'll be dirt-poor and thus unsuitable as mates, hence they won't reproduce.
Right?
Wouldn't it be easier to just fund more research into making current diamond-producing processes better at forming larger pieces of diamond which could be used to make plate glass or such?
I mean, geez, carbon dioxide a solid at room temperature...
Um... Most young teens probably don't, but I'm fairly sure that 16 year olds and on will start being quite exposed to credit cards thanks to all the damn junk mail that credit companies send. I got mine pretty young.
This sounds SO MUCH like the Otherland series by Tad Williams, where basically it's a cyberspace Virtual Reality multiverse of games and worlds.
Could be interesting if it ever comes off the ground.
Well, the Dodo was well suited for its environment BEFORE humans came into it.
That said, before someone throws up "Well, chickens aren't perfect either, so there!". Dodos were tasty for humans at that time (the islands they lived on were on shipping routes) and sailors would collect huge piles of eggs to eat on their voyages. See what they did? Absolutely no care for long-term survival - the sailors ate BOTH the birds AND the eggs, in massive numbers. No population's going to survive that.
I postulate that if chickens were in the same situation as the Dodo, they'd just have gone extinct as well. There just aren't any wild variants of chickens, are there? Humans have hunted and domesticated chickens for so long, the wild variants have gone extinct, and only the domesticated ones exist.
You do not need "more" when "better is already being used. Also, drop the "even".
"The better to catch the worm!"
This educational segment was funded by the SSBGS (Scientists Supporting Better Grammar on Slashdot). There's only $1 in the fund... but at $0.02 for each initative, that's a whopping fifty initatives for each dollar donated! Clearly a worthy cause.
You know... I was thinking... what about sound cancelling technology (wave-opposition or something) placed out past the target to tamp down the effects of open-ocean testing?
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Didn't I hear a lot of talk about high-altitude super-endurance gliders that could go up hundreds of thousands of feet in the air for months at a time, that could act as a communications hub like a satellite, but much easier to launch and maintain? I'm pretty sure I saw a PBS special about this sort of plane, it was an ultralight plane that used solar panels all along its one very large wing to power its propellers. It was unmanned, of course.
*groans* I simply couldn't ignore this. 'High' refers to altitude in this instance. You are misusing the term. Airships are 'x' units *tall*, not *high*, when you speak about the size of the object. 'Mile high' airships is a perfectly valid term.
Darwin operates perfectly online! Now all we need is to set up the digital version of the Darwin Awards. Now, granted, idiot users aren't permanently removed from the gene pools, but if they ram enough computers into the dirt, they'll be dirt-poor and thus unsuitable as mates, hence they won't reproduce. Right?
So you're saying that Uwe Boll's movies would actually earn a profit now?
Wouldn't it be easier to just fund more research into making current diamond-producing processes better at forming larger pieces of diamond which could be used to make plate glass or such? I mean, geez, carbon dioxide a solid at room temperature...
Um... Most young teens probably don't, but I'm fairly sure that 16 year olds and on will start being quite exposed to credit cards thanks to all the damn junk mail that credit companies send. I got mine pretty young.
This sounds SO MUCH like the Otherland series by Tad Williams, where basically it's a cyberspace Virtual Reality multiverse of games and worlds. Could be interesting if it ever comes off the ground.
Well, the Dodo was well suited for its environment BEFORE humans came into it. That said, before someone throws up "Well, chickens aren't perfect either, so there!". Dodos were tasty for humans at that time (the islands they lived on were on shipping routes) and sailors would collect huge piles of eggs to eat on their voyages. See what they did? Absolutely no care for long-term survival - the sailors ate BOTH the birds AND the eggs, in massive numbers. No population's going to survive that. I postulate that if chickens were in the same situation as the Dodo, they'd just have gone extinct as well. There just aren't any wild variants of chickens, are there? Humans have hunted and domesticated chickens for so long, the wild variants have gone extinct, and only the domesticated ones exist.
You do not need "more" when "better is already being used. Also, drop the "even". "The better to catch the worm!" This educational segment was funded by the SSBGS (Scientists Supporting Better Grammar on Slashdot). There's only $1 in the fund... but at $0.02 for each initative, that's a whopping fifty initatives for each dollar donated! Clearly a worthy cause.
You know... I was thinking... what about sound cancelling technology (wave-opposition or something) placed out past the target to tamp down the effects of open-ocean testing?