I thank God that MacGyver was produced when it was because, even though they left out key parts of all the dangerous stuff, there is no way they would have let that show even touch the air today.
If this planet has 2.25 earth's gravity, then maybe we can adapt ourselves to it by traveling there in a ship with a centrifuge, and slowly increasing the speed of the centrifuge. By the time we get there (which with current technology, will take a lot longer than 20 years) we'd have adapted to handle the increased gravity. And as an added bonus, if we ever came back to earth, we'd be able to jump a lot higher.
It isn't even April fools yet! I think I'm going to be sick.
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"A "launch platform" was developed along with a spring-like space tee that would hold a golf ball in weightlessness yet release it when struck, Hearn said."
Am I the only one that thinks they are over-designing this? Is there any reason why they can't velcro the ball to the side of the station? I highly doubt velcro would cause a problem for anyone in this case.
I was a student aide in the computer lab last year, and managed to get administrative plrivelages for pretty much everything in the school. The district IT department, itself, is a bunch of incompetant controll-freaks.
Schools certainly have interesting issues. The first is blocking all the naughty websites. To do this, they have the entire district (several miles wide) wired up to a single high-speed connection. Inbetween us and the web is a proxy server running their firewall. The firewall, though, can be bypassed by any motivated 15 year old, and judging by the fact that they havn't blocked Google Video yet, they probably don't care.
Theres also the issue of managing the software on all the computers (eMacs). They all come imaged with an older version of OS 10, some remote desktop software (I had a lot of fun with that), a grading program that the teachers seem to complain about, MS office 2000, and (of all things) Dreamweaver and Flash MX. In order to install 3rd party software, drivers, etc. you need to file a request to the help-desk. If they aprove it (wich can take about 3 months) they e-mail you a password. Thus, we could not hook up our shiny new laser printers to our shiny new computers.
Finally, When the district decided to get us these fancy 'smart board' things, no one had any clue what they did, much less how to use them, so they all sat in a corner the whole year. You'd think they might want to teach the teachers a thing or 2 on the technology, but no.
My middle school cut MySpace a while back, after people started posting offensive stuff and some in-class pictures. The official anouncement gave students 24 hours to close their accounts, or face police action.
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I thank God that MacGyver was produced when it was because, even though they left out key parts of all the dangerous stuff, there is no way they would have let that show even touch the air today.
If this planet has 2.25 earth's gravity, then maybe we can adapt ourselves to it by traveling there in a ship with a centrifuge, and slowly increasing the speed of the centrifuge. By the time we get there (which with current technology, will take a lot longer than 20 years) we'd have adapted to handle the increased gravity. And as an added bonus, if we ever came back to earth, we'd be able to jump a lot higher.
Target iPhone and fire!
My RSS reader thinks the title is "Borland Announces the Return of the Turbo Prod." Since when are they in the cattle herding business?
It isn't even April fools yet! I think I'm going to be sick.
"A "launch platform" was developed along with a spring-like space tee that would hold a golf ball in weightlessness yet release it when struck, Hearn said." Am I the only one that thinks they are over-designing this? Is there any reason why they can't velcro the ball to the side of the station? I highly doubt velcro would cause a problem for anyone in this case.
I was a student aide in the computer lab last year, and managed to get administrative plrivelages for pretty much everything in the school. The district IT department, itself, is a bunch of incompetant controll-freaks. Schools certainly have interesting issues. The first is blocking all the naughty websites. To do this, they have the entire district (several miles wide) wired up to a single high-speed connection. Inbetween us and the web is a proxy server running their firewall. The firewall, though, can be bypassed by any motivated 15 year old, and judging by the fact that they havn't blocked Google Video yet, they probably don't care. Theres also the issue of managing the software on all the computers (eMacs). They all come imaged with an older version of OS 10, some remote desktop software (I had a lot of fun with that), a grading program that the teachers seem to complain about, MS office 2000, and (of all things) Dreamweaver and Flash MX. In order to install 3rd party software, drivers, etc. you need to file a request to the help-desk. If they aprove it (wich can take about 3 months) they e-mail you a password. Thus, we could not hook up our shiny new laser printers to our shiny new computers. Finally, When the district decided to get us these fancy 'smart board' things, no one had any clue what they did, much less how to use them, so they all sat in a corner the whole year. You'd think they might want to teach the teachers a thing or 2 on the technology, but no.
I'm gonna remember to atatch an extra high-voltage circuit to the hull, just in case. ;)
My middle school cut MySpace a while back, after people started posting offensive stuff and some in-class pictures. The official anouncement gave students 24 hours to close their accounts, or face police action.