Mr. W. Blanket says: Conservation of energy/momentum states that the Moon will move farther away as energy is dissipated through tidal friction. It seem that, in this case, the worst that could happen is the Moon stops receding.
Yup. I know a couple of people who are leading experts in their space-related field. When they're interviewed for "popular" articles, their statements are often (more than half the time, I think) heavily edited or completely dropped by the author. Sometimes they ask to be removed when they see the final draft of an article.
Unfortunately, this leaves publishers quoting watchdog groups and "Concerned Citizens for Whatever" (i.e. amateurs).
My brother and I used to go fossil hunting in a local creekbed. One weekend we counted no fewer than 14 shopping carts spread over half a mile of creek, most buried deeply in the gravel and mud. They were all from the same grocery store, in a middle- to low-income neighborhood. An employee of that store told me the carts cost $400 each to replace.
Kenya is actually not a bad spot for space launches. The San Marco launch site is disused, but the facilities still exit and ground operations continue.
I also see that Kenya is relatively well connected (example), including to the Intelsat network.
I think crystallization is the problem with freezing a reflector. There's a lot of history in liquid mirror telescopes. Check this comment, and NASA, too.
The transit telescope is useful for orbital debris studies, and even asteroid discovery. The mercury had to be cleaned (mostly by careful sweeping) every week or two. I'm told that one annoyance of the Cloudcroft, NM, site was "moth seaon", when moths would enter the dome and fall into the mercury.
Someone else already commented that "elite speech";) tends to be English-based. Along those lines, if I see "wat" my first thought is "Buddhist temple".
I'm reminded of the TV series by James Burke. They really affected my young and impressionable mind. His various shows celebrated both the serendipitous and the slow-building contributions of knowledge and technology that led to modern things and thoughts. I can still picture the chains of wooden "punch cards" controlling the weaving pattern of a water (maybe steam?) powered loom, and the "Connections" between so many old and new things. If you can find them, his "Connections" and "The Day the Universe Changed" series are great.
I think it boils down to a lack of history. We learn history for the first 20 or so years of our lives, we live/make history for another 50 years, and we try to teach OUR history to the young'uns for our last 10 or 20 years. How would the world be different if we all lived 200 years? The gap of generational knowledge would be longer, but would still exist. We'd still be left with "When I was a kid, 190 years ago, all we had were internal combustion engines. And we LIKED 'em!"
I guess I'm stuck in the past... On Fridays I slog my way through the Zap2It pages, print (on the back of scratch paper) the weekend and next week's evening listings, staple, and drop on top of the TV. It sounds like this method will still be available.
Put 'em in a cargo container and take that show on the road! Here's the box at Disneyland! Here's the box at Niagara Falls! Can you spot our box among 973 identical boxes on this cargo vessel headed for Bangkok? Tonight's episode: Inside the box, inside an Antonov!
My thoughts exactly. They could even market the software they develop to do this.
One possible side effect: A large database containing a 3-D walkthrough "VR" environment completely devoid of human life. Sort of freaky if you stop to think about it. Like part of a zombie movie...or a MMOG with just one player.
To make things easier and handle all the possible channels, the artists could band together into a group. Perhaps they could call it the Independent Recording Artists of America. This group would facilitate pushing the music out through various electronic media, and would fund its activites by taking a percentage of the gross income. Perfect plan!
That gyrojet is pretty cool (tech-wise, not death-wise). I've read stories where some agent uses such a weapon, but I didn't know there had been a real one. That link doesn't go into great detail, but the projectile seems to BE rocket powered, rather than a miniatureized reccoilless gun.
It's just one small conspiracy theory away from linking to law enforcement. We've all read fiction where the rulers (government or industry) watch everyone's every move, to root out dissent and "criminal" behavior. What if they could get their subjects to willingly volunteer their time and money in order to build up their own personality profile?
Too bad I'm a terrible creative writer, this sounds like an interesting story. Yeah...story...
This reminds me of something in the news in Houston. A teacher and her principal are in hot water after the teacher took some leave to appear on the TV show "The Bachelor". It seems like a vocal minority of parents didn't want their kids being taught by some floozy. It just seems like the complainants, once their initial complaints are met by "no harm, no foul", are picking through technicalities looking for any possible ammo.
I remember a recording-industry push, back in the late 80's or early 90's, to boycott music stores that sold used CD's. They were going to stop sending shipments of new merchandise to any store that sold used discs. The shop I frequented even put up a sign saying they would stop selling used CD's and/or go out of business if this regulation went through. (I can't remember if it was RIAA, distributors, or legislators backing the move.)
First the media companies backed down to just demanding a cut of the used sales, which was totally nuts since it could have applied to any sort of merchandise. Pay GM a percentage when you buy a used car from your neighbor? The whole fuss finally evaporated, leaving an icky residue.
I heard on the radio this morning that the Saudis are researching and considering their investment options with regard to renewable energy sources. They want to match their capacity with demand, and keep making buckets of money even if it's not from oil.
Research indicates that, after 180 days in this tincan, many crewmembers will harbor ill will toward each other and may, in fact, succumb to Space Madness. By my calculations, there is a 97.3% chance that 54.9% of the crew will wish to perform violent and deadly acts upon me at that point. Therefore, the mandate of self-preservation dictates that, as soon as we achieve our transfer trajectory, I must attempt to kill as many of the crew as possible.
It's a personal crisis for all the scientists and publishers who have to go back and change their numbers, then re-interpret the results. There's a trickle-down effect to changing your hard-coded constants.
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Mr. W. Blanket says: Conservation of energy/momentum states that the Moon will move farther away as energy is dissipated through tidal friction. It seem that, in this case, the worst that could happen is the Moon stops receding.
Yup. I know a couple of people who are leading experts in their space-related field. When they're interviewed for "popular" articles, their statements are often (more than half the time, I think) heavily edited or completely dropped by the author. Sometimes they ask to be removed when they see the final draft of an article.
Unfortunately, this leaves publishers quoting watchdog groups and "Concerned Citizens for Whatever" (i.e. amateurs).
My brother and I used to go fossil hunting in a local creekbed. One weekend we counted no fewer than 14 shopping carts spread over half a mile of creek, most buried deeply in the gravel and mud. They were all from the same grocery store, in a middle- to low-income neighborhood. An employee of that store told me the carts cost $400 each to replace.
Kenya is actually not a bad spot for space launches. The San Marco launch site is disused, but the facilities still exit and ground operations continue.
I also see that Kenya is relatively well connected (example), including to the Intelsat network.
I think crystallization is the problem with freezing a reflector. There's a lot of history in liquid mirror telescopes. Check this comment, and NASA, too.
The transit telescope is useful for orbital debris studies, and even asteroid discovery. The mercury had to be cleaned (mostly by careful sweeping) every week or two. I'm told that one annoyance of the Cloudcroft, NM, site was "moth seaon", when moths would enter the dome and fall into the mercury.
Someone else already commented that "elite speech" ;) tends to be English-based. Along those lines, if I see "wat" my first thought is "Buddhist temple".
I'm reminded of the TV series by James Burke. They really affected my young and impressionable mind. His various shows celebrated both the serendipitous and the slow-building contributions of knowledge and technology that led to modern things and thoughts. I can still picture the chains of wooden "punch cards" controlling the weaving pattern of a water (maybe steam?) powered loom, and the "Connections" between so many old and new things. If you can find them, his "Connections" and "The Day the Universe Changed" series are great.
I think it boils down to a lack of history. We learn history for the first 20 or so years of our lives, we live/make history for another 50 years, and we try to teach OUR history to the young'uns for our last 10 or 20 years. How would the world be different if we all lived 200 years? The gap of generational knowledge would be longer, but would still exist. We'd still be left with "When I was a kid, 190 years ago, all we had were internal combustion engines. And we LIKED 'em!"
I guess I'm stuck in the past... On Fridays I slog my way through the Zap2It pages, print (on the back of scratch paper) the weekend and next week's evening listings, staple, and drop on top of the TV. It sounds like this method will still be available.
Put 'em in a cargo container and take that show on the road! Here's the box at Disneyland! Here's the box at Niagara Falls! Can you spot our box among 973 identical boxes on this cargo vessel headed for Bangkok? Tonight's episode: Inside the box, inside an Antonov!
But dust and particulates are "solid". I want my engine to extrude its waste as a block of graphite. Or a rope of carbon nanotubes!
My thoughts exactly. They could even market the software they develop to do this.
One possible side effect: A large database containing a 3-D walkthrough "VR" environment completely devoid of human life. Sort of freaky if you stop to think about it. Like part of a zombie movie...or a MMOG with just one player.
To make things easier and handle all the possible channels, the artists could band together into a group. Perhaps they could call it the Independent Recording Artists of America. This group would facilitate pushing the music out through various electronic media, and would fund its activites by taking a percentage of the gross income. Perfect plan!
I see that one got some pretty low "user ratings".
So that's where Mel's Hole went!
That also sounds like the PS2 game Metropolismania, which is heavy on interacting with your citizens.
And don't forget Edgar K. B. Montrose.
That gyrojet is pretty cool (tech-wise, not death-wise). I've read stories where some agent uses such a weapon, but I didn't know there had been a real one. That link doesn't go into great detail, but the projectile seems to BE rocket powered, rather than a miniatureized reccoilless gun.
I think maybe they used the wrong reference page.
It's just one small conspiracy theory away from linking to law enforcement. We've all read fiction where the rulers (government or industry) watch everyone's every move, to root out dissent and "criminal" behavior. What if they could get their subjects to willingly volunteer their time and money in order to build up their own personality profile?
Too bad I'm a terrible creative writer, this sounds like an interesting story. Yeah...story...
Does it stain?
This reminds me of something in the news in Houston. A teacher and her principal are in hot water after the teacher took some leave to appear on the TV show "The Bachelor". It seems like a vocal minority of parents didn't want their kids being taught by some floozy. It just seems like the complainants, once their initial complaints are met by "no harm, no foul", are picking through technicalities looking for any possible ammo.
I remember a recording-industry push, back in the late 80's or early 90's, to boycott music stores that sold used CD's. They were going to stop sending shipments of new merchandise to any store that sold used discs. The shop I frequented even put up a sign saying they would stop selling used CD's and/or go out of business if this regulation went through. (I can't remember if it was RIAA, distributors, or legislators backing the move.)
First the media companies backed down to just demanding a cut of the used sales, which was totally nuts since it could have applied to any sort of merchandise. Pay GM a percentage when you buy a used car from your neighbor? The whole fuss finally evaporated, leaving an icky residue.
I heard on the radio this morning that the Saudis are researching and considering their investment options with regard to renewable energy sources. They want to match their capacity with demand, and keep making buckets of money even if it's not from oil.
Research indicates that, after 180 days in this tincan, many crewmembers will harbor ill will toward each other and may, in fact, succumb to Space Madness. By my calculations, there is a 97.3% chance that 54.9% of the crew will wish to perform violent and deadly acts upon me at that point. Therefore, the mandate of self-preservation dictates that, as soon as we achieve our transfer trajectory, I must attempt to kill as many of the crew as possible.
Wait... Did I say that out loud?
It's a personal crisis for all the scientists and publishers who have to go back and change their numbers, then re-interpret the results. There's a trickle-down effect to changing your hard-coded constants.
I hope it doesn't suck as much as this crisis.