You could power the toy version with lighter fluid. Some kind of chip would control the thrust vectoring, and some tiny microturbine would act as the turbopump for the rocket motor.
Hey, why not? It would be cooler than these R/C micro-helicopters
A really cool design would allow you to just plug in an ordinary Bic lighter into it as a ready-made fuel tank.
A fancy version could even have a small camera onboard, and maybe send a video feed back to your laptop via bluetooth. There are R/C helicopters that have tiny cameras on them. You could control and steer the thing from your laptop too.
I bet it could be done - and I bet plenty of people would buy it, too.
Maybe they need to find a way to turn something like into a commercializable product, to reap more rewards from their fine work.
I wonder if there's some kind of dual-use alternative market for something like this? How about making a small miniaturized version that could be marketed as a toy for adult geeks? (aka "overgrown kids")
Cmon - wouldn't you like to have your own miniature thrust-vectored hovering lander thingie floating around your office?
Carmack's geek credentials are solid enough to be a brand. He could make his own toy company to market toy versions of any cool space tech he develops.
Would there be some way to tap the energy from these fluctuations? Instead of solar power arrays in space, could we just have giant blimps floating in the upper atmosphere with large coils in their superstructure to take advantage of magnetic fluctuations? They could then beam that energy down as microwaves to a receiving station.
Rocket supporters say that it's better to clear the atmosphere asap, and accelerate cleanly in a frictionless environment. Scramjet supporters say it's better to accelerate inside the atmosphere as much as possible to exploit its available oxygen, rather than carrying it as extra weight.
Which costs more energy - carrying the extra O2, or overcoming the friction from having to accelerate in an atmosphere? Which imposes more design compromises?
Which would be more economical in the long run? Bear in mind that there are 2 kinds of people that need to achieve very high velocities -- astronauts trying to make orbit and intercontinental travelers trying to get to the other side of the world.
Rather than make the astronauts do all the sacrificing, why not have the mission personnel working here on Earth volunteer to work at much below market wage? Doing that would radically cut the cost of the mission, and you might not even have to make it a one-way trip.
Oh, will there be howls and squeals of displeasure? Well, if some people aren't willing to give up a little pay while enjoying our earthly surroundings, then it sounds pretty selfish to want somebody else to sacrifice their entire life marooned on another planet, millions of miles away.
Job flight didn't start under Bush either - a lot of it happened under Clinton. The point isn't under whose watch this happened to start, as job flight is itself a lagging indicator. The fact is that the pursuit of certain policies - or even the lack of pursuit of certain policies - has made the USA uncompetitive. The USA could have a lot more engineers available in its domestic workforce, thus driving down the cost of such skills, if its education system wasn't infested by numerous interest groups all intent on protecting themselves while ignoring the interests of students themselves. These interest groups are mainly left-wing, of course. Just look at how many teachers' unions supported Obama over Bush, and it's pretty obvious. The US public education system is garbage, and it's producing generations of uncompetitive morons. Conservative values promote competition and meritocracy, while Left-wing "liberal" values promote a basketcase mentality.
The fact is that Obama is a redistributionist who claims that jobs are owed and not earned. Sorry, but that kind of attitude is what's driving employers away from the USA. You wish you had a girlfriend/boyfriend? Then make yourself appealing, so that someone will want to hook up with you. Don't go talking about how having a significant other is your inalienable right, somehow owed to you by society or other unspecified parties. You wish you had a job? Then make yourself appealing and more competent, so that someone will want to hire you. Don't go talking about how somebody else is "stealing" "your" job, as if a job is somehow owed to you, regardless of how incompetent you are.
Obama is consistently talking about "American jobs" as if the jobs are rightfully American. His political stance is well known to be re-distributionist. Start earning, and stop whining for a handout.
Ever seen that Superman comicbook issue where he changes back and forth between Superman and Clark Kent so fast that he appears as 2 people in front of the media, and fools them into thinking that Clark and Superman are 2 different guys?
Well, at the tiny smallscale - aka, the quantum level - small particles are being buffeted between different states so quickly, that to us it can look like they're in 2 states at once (like being in 2 different places at the same time - like that Superman comic)
If you're Superman able to use his superspeed to fool people into thinking you're in 2 places at the same time, then you could lead 2 different lives, or even have a conversation with yourself on camera.
If you're a qubit able to be in 2 different states at once, then you could be used to perform twice as many state operations as a regular bit. And if there are 2 qubits, then they can do 4 times as many operations, 3 qubits can do 8 times as many, etc, etc.
Sure we can be young again. Where there's a will, there's a way. The market for being young again is too big for it not to happen. The human body is simply made of molecules, and molecules can be manipulated. It's only a matter of time before we figure out how. Your statement that we can only be young once is like Bill Gates' statement that the world will never need more than 16K of RAM. I think it was former Intel CEO Andy Grove who made a speech complaining about how medical science thinks in much more limited ways than the rest of science and engineering do. Just remember med-boys -- the very biological systems you claim to know so much about ultimately owe their underpinnings to the more fundamental sciences like physics. So stop trying to dictate to the rest of us what can and cannot be done, when you guys are so loathe to even quote physics or any fundamental barrier laws. If there's no fundamental physical law opposing it, then you've no right (or credibility) in saying that it's impossible. Your field of study (medicine) is much inferior to other fields of study that are much more intimately based on interplay of logic and observation (engineering, physics), and much more steeped in weird traditions from bygone eras. It's like comparing auto mechanics to electrical engineers. I'm tired of hearing doctors who are so full of themselves pontificating pseudo-scientifically about how we can't do this or that. If you want to assert a limitation, then quote a barrier law -- or shut up!
In India, people who earn $5000/yr are not ghetto, they're lower-income lower middle class. They're not on welfare (there is no welfare), they're employed.
Tata is NOT saving costs by compromising on materials. So how are they saving costs? They're going in for cheaper land that's farther out from the city, and they're paying below market price for it, because they're offering the landholders an amortized profit-sharing across many years. They're then organizing a large number of builders to create entire communities from scratch, including hospitals, schools, marketplaces, and a variety of amenities where there were none before. They're building entire townships, and not just some homes.
This is obviously a very capital-intensive approach. Call it the Las Vegas strategy: buying land in the middle of nowhere at low cost, and then building an entire self-supporting community there.
Well, I rather like the Wii's motion control system, myself. That's the innovation that's most captivated me. I also like Lightgun games a lot. When the Time Crisis games and Ghost Squad came out, they had me addicted. The latest Lightgun innovation is an arcade game called "2Spicy" which allows branch-path movement. To me, that's pretty cool. If someone could make a massively muliplayer military game based on this idea, that would be my idea of awesome.
Graphene is a much studied material these days, and it too consists of a thin film/sheet, whose carbon atoms are localized in a lattice, while its electrons appear to travel masslessly and non-geodesically. Graphene exhibits this behavior across a wide temperature range, even though it is not a superconductor. I'm wondering why graphene couldn't be used to similarly investigate the nature of gravity waves, or to create mirrors and other elements of gravity optics.
That's a fiction that's been repeated endlessly, like an urban myth. There are indeed managers from Western countries who live and work in India. Look at IBM, Cisco, Accenture -- they have plenty of Western managers there onsite in India. I had a friend at IBM whose division was being downsized, and IBM offered him a chance to resettle in India. He didn't take it, but obviously you can indeed work there, if you choose.
Phew, I thought I was going to find an article telling me that evildoers are grabbing bits of people's DNA from hair, skin flakes, etc, and growing clones out of them.
I read somewhere recently about a plastic surgeon using human fat to power his car.
Besides, the zionist pigs have been doing it for millenia using the blood of newborn goyim.;P
No, no, that's Stereophotoclitorometry
as opposed to Stereophotoclitorectomy, which is what Somali immigrant doctors are marketing for next-generation teenage girls
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but the rest of the principles and operation would still be the same
Hey, why not? It would be cooler than these R/C micro-helicopters
A really cool design would allow you to just plug in an ordinary Bic lighter into it as a ready-made fuel tank.
A fancy version could even have a small camera onboard, and maybe send a video feed back to your laptop via bluetooth. There are R/C helicopters that have tiny cameras on them. You could control and steer the thing from your laptop too.
I bet it could be done - and I bet plenty of people would buy it, too.
Maybe they need to find a way to turn something like into a commercializable product, to reap more rewards from their fine work.
I wonder if there's some kind of dual-use alternative market for something like this? How about making a small miniaturized version that could be marketed as a toy for adult geeks? (aka "overgrown kids")
Cmon - wouldn't you like to have your own miniature thrust-vectored hovering lander thingie floating around your office?
Carmack's geek credentials are solid enough to be a brand. He could make his own toy company to market toy versions of any cool space tech he develops.
Would there be some way to tap the energy from these fluctuations? Instead of solar power arrays in space, could we just have giant blimps floating in the upper atmosphere with large coils in their superstructure to take advantage of magnetic fluctuations? They could then beam that energy down as microwaves to a receiving station.
Which costs more energy - carrying the extra O2, or overcoming the friction from having to accelerate in an atmosphere? Which imposes more design compromises?
Which would be more economical in the long run? Bear in mind that there are 2 kinds of people that need to achieve very high velocities -- astronauts trying to make orbit and intercontinental travelers trying to get to the other side of the world.
Oh, will there be howls and squeals of displeasure? Well, if some people aren't willing to give up a little pay while enjoying our earthly surroundings, then it sounds pretty selfish to want somebody else to sacrifice their entire life marooned on another planet, millions of miles away.
Let's have a little burden-sharing, please.
They did, well after they had offloaded their stakes.
Job flight didn't start under Bush either - a lot of it happened under Clinton. The point isn't under whose watch this happened to start, as job flight is itself a lagging indicator. The fact is that the pursuit of certain policies - or even the lack of pursuit of certain policies - has made the USA uncompetitive. The USA could have a lot more engineers available in its domestic workforce, thus driving down the cost of such skills, if its education system wasn't infested by numerous interest groups all intent on protecting themselves while ignoring the interests of students themselves. These interest groups are mainly left-wing, of course. Just look at how many teachers' unions supported Obama over Bush, and it's pretty obvious. The US public education system is garbage, and it's producing generations of uncompetitive morons. Conservative values promote competition and meritocracy, while Left-wing "liberal" values promote a basketcase mentality.
The fact is that Obama is a redistributionist who claims that jobs are owed and not earned. Sorry, but that kind of attitude is what's driving employers away from the USA. You wish you had a girlfriend/boyfriend? Then make yourself appealing, so that someone will want to hook up with you. Don't go talking about how having a significant other is your inalienable right, somehow owed to you by society or other unspecified parties. You wish you had a job? Then make yourself appealing and more competent, so that someone will want to hire you. Don't go talking about how somebody else is "stealing" "your" job, as if a job is somehow owed to you, regardless of how incompetent you are.
Obama is consistently talking about "American jobs" as if the jobs are rightfully American. His political stance is well known to be re-distributionist. Start earning, and stop whining for a handout.
Well, at the tiny smallscale - aka, the quantum level - small particles are being buffeted between different states so quickly, that to us it can look like they're in 2 states at once (like being in 2 different places at the same time - like that Superman comic)
If you're Superman able to use his superspeed to fool people into thinking you're in 2 places at the same time, then you could lead 2 different lives, or even have a conversation with yourself on camera.
If you're a qubit able to be in 2 different states at once, then you could be used to perform twice as many state operations as a regular bit. And if there are 2 qubits, then they can do 4 times as many operations, 3 qubits can do 8 times as many, etc, etc.
So the advantages pile up rather quickly.
So we'll have lots of lean, taut people in the world, but they'll all have bad breath
This could be for middle-aged men suffering mid-life crises, to fulfill themselves by going out into space - on large inflatable dildo
Sure we can be young again. Where there's a will, there's a way. The market for being young again is too big for it not to happen. The human body is simply made of molecules, and molecules can be manipulated. It's only a matter of time before we figure out how. Your statement that we can only be young once is like Bill Gates' statement that the world will never need more than 16K of RAM. I think it was former Intel CEO Andy Grove who made a speech complaining about how medical science thinks in much more limited ways than the rest of science and engineering do. Just remember med-boys -- the very biological systems you claim to know so much about ultimately owe their underpinnings to the more fundamental sciences like physics. So stop trying to dictate to the rest of us what can and cannot be done, when you guys are so loathe to even quote physics or any fundamental barrier laws. If there's no fundamental physical law opposing it, then you've no right (or credibility) in saying that it's impossible. Your field of study (medicine) is much inferior to other fields of study that are much more intimately based on interplay of logic and observation (engineering, physics), and much more steeped in weird traditions from bygone eras. It's like comparing auto mechanics to electrical engineers. I'm tired of hearing doctors who are so full of themselves pontificating pseudo-scientifically about how we can't do this or that. If you want to assert a limitation, then quote a barrier law -- or shut up!
In India, people who earn $5000/yr are not ghetto, they're lower-income lower middle class. They're not on welfare (there is no welfare), they're employed.
Tata is NOT saving costs by compromising on materials. So how are they saving costs? They're going in for cheaper land that's farther out from the city, and they're paying below market price for it, because they're offering the landholders an amortized profit-sharing across many years. They're then organizing a large number of builders to create entire communities from scratch, including hospitals, schools, marketplaces, and a variety of amenities where there were none before. They're building entire townships, and not just some homes. This is obviously a very capital-intensive approach. Call it the Las Vegas strategy: buying land in the middle of nowhere at low cost, and then building an entire self-supporting community there.
Don't these things have any natural enemies?
What eats them?
Eagles? Hawks? Tasmanian Devils?
I'm surprised they never thought to harness the prodigious amounts of HOT AIR they produce, to harvest energy from.
Well, I rather like the Wii's motion control system, myself. That's the innovation that's most captivated me. I also like Lightgun games a lot. When the Time Crisis games and Ghost Squad came out, they had me addicted. The latest Lightgun innovation is an arcade game called "2Spicy" which allows branch-path movement. To me, that's pretty cool. If someone could make a massively muliplayer military game based on this idea, that would be my idea of awesome.
Graphene is a much studied material these days, and it too consists of a thin film/sheet, whose carbon atoms are localized in a lattice, while its electrons appear to travel masslessly and non-geodesically. Graphene exhibits this behavior across a wide temperature range, even though it is not a superconductor. I'm wondering why graphene couldn't be used to similarly investigate the nature of gravity waves, or to create mirrors and other elements of gravity optics.
But I thought the only thing that could put out that many watts so quickly, is a lightning bolt!
Wait'll the Libyans hear about this!
That's a fiction that's been repeated endlessly, like an urban myth. There are indeed managers from Western countries who live and work in India. Look at IBM, Cisco, Accenture -- they have plenty of Western managers there onsite in India. I had a friend at IBM whose division was being downsized, and IBM offered him a chance to resettle in India. He didn't take it, but obviously you can indeed work there, if you choose.
only if they have cool mechanical voices
Phew, I thought I was going to find an article telling me that evildoers are grabbing bits of people's DNA from hair, skin flakes, etc, and growing clones out of them.
I read somewhere recently about a plastic surgeon using human fat to power his car. Besides, the zionist pigs have been doing it for millenia using the blood of newborn goyim. ;P
No, no, that's Stereophotoclitorometry as opposed to Stereophotoclitorectomy, which is what Somali immigrant doctors are marketing for next-generation teenage girls