In an almost off-topic manner, the molecule talked about here, opiorphin, is unknown by Google and Yahoo!, and MSN finds 5 results for it, 2 of them being relevant articles in english.
From adding more inertia to the station (a double edged sword) to resist orbital drag
Useless, since it would work against you when you would thrust in order to compensate atmospheric drag (not orbital drag).
as protection from orbital debris and radiation
Try protecting yourself from debris that go so fast that they do 10 times the damage you'd do with a bullet shot from a.357 Magnum with compressed packages of energy cereal bars and human crap, or whatever they mean by trash. Same with radiation, it would be about as helpful as unrolling rolls of toilet paper around the Space Shuttle to protect it better during atmospheric re-entry.
By the way, were you really being serious, I mean, do you realize how ridiculous it all sounded?
I am just sitting here at work, minding my own business when all of the sudden Iced Egg-Nog Latte reaches escape velocity from my nose!
Reminds me of an episode of CSI:Manhattan I saw recently. In it, a construction worker gets killed by catching a frozen mix of human crap and chemical products that leaked from the toilets of an airplane on the top of his head. They commented that it had happened about 24 times (or so) in 25 years, iirc. Wouldn't happen with astronaut crap because it would get burnt upon atmosphere entry.
They should attach an extensible trash module to the ISS
Like they're gonna spend money to launch trash containers.
ISS trash isn't actually trash --- it's extremely valuable material (and mass) that has been boosted into LEO at very high cost.
Every ounce you launch into orbit has a cost, and the extremely valuable materials you're talking about are not valuable anymore once they're considered trash and dumped in space. It's not because you put millions into something that it will always be worth millions, it's not by spending thousands of dollars on sending energy cereal bars to space that the resulting litter is worth anything.
Ejecting rubbish in the direction of earth wouldn't help though
Well it would make your orbit more excentric (or less, in particular cases), but if you do the same thing backwards, and if you can throw your litter fast enough and that you have enough of it, you could use that to avoid having to have to use any boosting in order to compensate atmospheric drag, in other words, you could do with a litter catapult what you do with the ISS's thrust.
By doing this you reduce the orbital velocity of the object relative to your spacecraft thereby guaranteeing that the object will enter a lower orbit from which it is guaranteed not to climb.
Well, if we make abstraction of atmospheric drag (so we're talking about the short term, the first few orbits), it will come back right where you threw it, no matter in what direction you throw it, unless you threw it fast enough backwards (or even downwards, but I think it'd take a greater speed, not sure) so that it entered atmosphere and burnt the first time.
Anyways what I'm saying is that it won't really "enter a lower orbit from which it will not climb back", it will only, provided that we consider we're on a non-excentric orbit, lower the perigee, while the apogee will remain the same, in other words, the altitude of the ISS. I think however (but am not sure) that if you did that the litter would perform its revolutions around earth quicker than you and that thus you would avoid hitting it, as you might hit it if you throw downwards as it should have the same revolution period as you, not sure, one would have to check.
But like I said, if you don't throw it very fast, you might as well not throw it at all and just wait for atmospheric drag to do its job while you (in the ISS) would regularly thrust yourself in order to compensate the drag.
So, they made the software so it does not kill anyone.
Oh come on, you won't prevent yourself from fixing huge 30 year old bugs for the sake that it hasn't killed anyone.
Instead of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" it sounds like you meant "If it doesn't kill anyone, don't fix it". They fix hundreds of much minor bugs in the ISS all the time, a chance they don't apply that philosophy to the ISS.
1. You can (or at least could at one point) rearrange the search results by dragging them up and down - Future application on influencing the ranking on sites.
Or how to democratize Google-bombing by not having to set up a webpage to do that anymore, just make sure George Bush's official page is on top of your results when googling for 'miserable failure'.
Face it, "text-speak" is lazy no matter what medium you're using.
No, just no, because if you get over 160 chars fot a text message you pay twice as much. Actually back when I was like 16 and that I had a social life, I used to spend time after typing text messages to edit them in order to make them fit in 160 chars or less while maintaining their understandability, and actually most of my time spent composing the message consisted in editing it.
I think there are still quite a few major problems with shortening the duration of a console generation. Xboxes are sold at loss, Microsoft makes money off the games they sell. Shortening the console generation means less games created and sold for the Xbox 360, that means tremendously less profit for Microsoft.
Not only that, but you would have much fewer games in the final Xbox 360 collection which would fully use the power of the console, as it's well known that games make the best out of each console only during the very last years of the console's life.
Then you have to consider the time it takes to develop a commerical game, about 2 years in average, and also the (lack of) technological advances you would have during a shorter period, you would really end up with a half next-gen. That's one reason why you can't launch your next-gen console much longer before the concurrents, because by the time they put out their console, yours is already obsolete (or nearly).
And from the gamer point of vue, you don't want to see a Xbox 720 coming out just 3 years after you put you money in a 360. For all the reasons I think that they should all keep up with the about 5 year a generation pace, then it's up to them whether they want to put their console out one year before or after their concurrent's.
now the government will be able to spy on you in your native language
I can imagine your typical terrorist conversation translated using this system:
-After this the friends when it jumps the operation? -Not white I go seeing -Into the correspondence, and to know, you have? -I am caused -And on the other hand are their blond as? -It goes, or -Or he has -The God is large! -The God is large!
Am on moon, and I would like to know the procedure in getting back to Earth. I have been landed rocketship, how can i do. Please somebody can help me with my condition?
I don't trust any temperature data for dates prior to 1593.
What about temperatures calculated using ice cores? The process is not obvious enough for you to deem the results reliable?
2) Isn't global warming better than another ice age?
Isn't getting kicked in the balls better than getting your genitals chopped off?
Did Al Gore show winter 1980 vs. summer 2005?
I hope you're not somehow daring suggesting that glaciers do not actually retreat and that Al Gore brought that up just to prove his point? Haven't seen the movie anyways, but don't need to. There
I don't mean to sound insulting, but I find it funny that you wouldn't have brought up those "points" if you weren't as ignorant as you are on that topic.
Because it's very easy to get your hands on low-grade nuclear material, wrap it around a conventional explosive, and create a "dirty bomb" that will throw a bunch of nuclear crap around and render the neighborhood effectively uninhabitable until it can be cleaned up.
If it's that easy, it really makes me wonder why terr'ists haven't used that before. That have used anything, from cars full of explosives to bombs with nails in it to neurotoxic gases, and never anything nuclear. I wonder why..
Excuse the obvious trolling, but this is not Digg, this is not news, we've known that for eons, and polluting celestial bodies with such microbes is not a new concern.
And I obviously didn't read the article. If I had, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have made this comment because I would have seen how it's news. But I'm not new here anymore.
Dude, do you even know what you're talking about? Failing at the Turing Test means that a human during a 30-minute chat with you (simulataneously with a "robot") could tell you're a robot/computer program and not a human (and think the robot sounds more human than you). As retarded as you can be, you would still pass the test. Actually, you wouldn't need 30-minutes to pass this test, one line such as the one you just typed would be enough for anyone to know that Artificial Stupidity is centuries away from being able to generate such a thing;-)
For a man's man, Kim sure feels the need to censor himself quite a ####### lot.
Haha, yeah I noticed that too while reading him. He's a real man according to republican standards, he can hunt but not use curse words, I guess we can say he's not being pussified by women but by his religion. On that side he's his God's bitch. I think he's got points anyways.
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It has a sophisticated pattern recognition which can detect the difference between humans and trees
In other news, North Korea unveiled today their new camouflage suit that would allow troops to be mistaken by anyone for genuine trees.
In an almost off-topic manner, the molecule talked about here, opiorphin, is unknown by Google and Yahoo!, and MSN finds 5 results for it, 2 of them being relevant articles in english.
From adding more inertia to the station (a double edged sword) to resist orbital drag
Useless, since it would work against you when you would thrust in order to compensate atmospheric drag (not orbital drag).
as protection from orbital debris and radiation
Try protecting yourself from debris that go so fast that they do 10 times the damage you'd do with a bullet shot from a .357 Magnum with compressed packages of energy cereal bars and human crap, or whatever they mean by trash. Same with radiation, it would be about as helpful as unrolling rolls of toilet paper around the Space Shuttle to protect it better during atmospheric re-entry.
By the way, were you really being serious, I mean, do you realize how ridiculous it all sounded?
I am just sitting here at work, minding my own business when all of the sudden Iced Egg-Nog Latte reaches escape velocity from my nose!
Reminds me of an episode of CSI:Manhattan I saw recently. In it, a construction worker gets killed by catching a frozen mix of human crap and chemical products that leaked from the toilets of an airplane on the top of his head. They commented that it had happened about 24 times (or so) in 25 years, iirc. Wouldn't happen with astronaut crap because it would get burnt upon atmosphere entry.
They should attach an extensible trash module to the ISS
Like they're gonna spend money to launch trash containers.
ISS trash isn't actually trash --- it's extremely valuable material (and mass) that has been boosted into LEO at very high cost.
Every ounce you launch into orbit has a cost, and the extremely valuable materials you're talking about are not valuable anymore once they're considered trash and dumped in space. It's not because you put millions into something that it will always be worth millions, it's not by spending thousands of dollars on sending energy cereal bars to space that the resulting litter is worth anything.
Ejecting rubbish in the direction of earth wouldn't help though
Well it would make your orbit more excentric (or less, in particular cases), but if you do the same thing backwards, and if you can throw your litter fast enough and that you have enough of it, you could use that to avoid having to have to use any boosting in order to compensate atmospheric drag, in other words, you could do with a litter catapult what you do with the ISS's thrust.
By doing this you reduce the orbital velocity of the object relative to your spacecraft thereby guaranteeing that the object will enter a lower orbit from which it is guaranteed not to climb.
Well, if we make abstraction of atmospheric drag (so we're talking about the short term, the first few orbits), it will come back right where you threw it, no matter in what direction you throw it, unless you threw it fast enough backwards (or even downwards, but I think it'd take a greater speed, not sure) so that it entered atmosphere and burnt the first time.
Anyways what I'm saying is that it won't really "enter a lower orbit from which it will not climb back", it will only, provided that we consider we're on a non-excentric orbit, lower the perigee, while the apogee will remain the same, in other words, the altitude of the ISS. I think however (but am not sure) that if you did that the litter would perform its revolutions around earth quicker than you and that thus you would avoid hitting it, as you might hit it if you throw downwards as it should have the same revolution period as you, not sure, one would have to check.
But like I said, if you don't throw it very fast, you might as well not throw it at all and just wait for atmospheric drag to do its job while you (in the ISS) would regularly thrust yourself in order to compensate the drag.
What the hell is this world coming to? Professional gaming?
lol, professional = making a living out of an activity, no matter whether the activity is engineering, proxenetism or playing Pac Mac.
How many people do you know who have an operating system named after them?
Do distros (Knoppix) count?
So, they made the software so it does not kill anyone.
Oh come on, you won't prevent yourself from fixing huge 30 year old bugs for the sake that it hasn't killed anyone.
Instead of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" it sounds like you meant "If it doesn't kill anyone, don't fix it". They fix hundreds of much minor bugs in the ISS all the time, a chance they don't apply that philosophy to the ISS.
1. You can (or at least could at one point) rearrange the search results by dragging them up and down - Future application on influencing the ranking on sites.
Or how to democratize Google-bombing by not having to set up a webpage to do that anymore, just make sure George Bush's official page is on top of your results when googling for 'miserable failure'.
Face it, "text-speak" is lazy no matter what medium you're using.
No, just no, because if you get over 160 chars fot a text message you pay twice as much. Actually back when I was like 16 and that I had a social life, I used to spend time after typing text messages to edit them in order to make them fit in 160 chars or less while maintaining their understandability, and actually most of my time spent composing the message consisted in editing it.
I think there are still quite a few major problems with shortening the duration of a console generation. Xboxes are sold at loss, Microsoft makes money off the games they sell. Shortening the console generation means less games created and sold for the Xbox 360, that means tremendously less profit for Microsoft.
Not only that, but you would have much fewer games in the final Xbox 360 collection which would fully use the power of the console, as it's well known that games make the best out of each console only during the very last years of the console's life.
Then you have to consider the time it takes to develop a commerical game, about 2 years in average, and also the (lack of) technological advances you would have during a shorter period, you would really end up with a half next-gen. That's one reason why you can't launch your next-gen console much longer before the concurrents, because by the time they put out their console, yours is already obsolete (or nearly).
And from the gamer point of vue, you don't want to see a Xbox 720 coming out just 3 years after you put you money in a 360. For all the reasons I think that they should all keep up with the about 5 year a generation pace, then it's up to them whether they want to put their console out one year before or after their concurrent's.
now the government will be able to spy on you in your native language
I can imagine your typical terrorist conversation translated using this system :
-After this the friends when it jumps the operation?
-Not white I go seeing
-Into the correspondence, and to know, you have?
-I am caused
-And on the other hand are their blond as?
-It goes, or
-Or he has
-The God is large!
-The God is large!
both of them extreme right wing by international metrics.
Please someone mod this -1, Shameless Troll
the US is the last country that should have an opinion on government spending policy.
It's not a country who spoke up, it was a person. Persons have the right to have opinions, they don't need to earn/deserve that right.
Hi Friends,
Request some urgent help with this matter.
Am on moon, and I would like to know the procedure in getting back to Earth. I have been landed rocketship, how can i do. Please somebody can help me with my condition?
Please kindly advice.
Rashpal
No, but you can consider that an uninformed answer.
I don't trust any temperature data for dates prior to 1593.
What about temperatures calculated using ice cores? The process is not obvious enough for you to deem the results reliable?
2) Isn't global warming better than another ice age?
Isn't getting kicked in the balls better than getting your genitals chopped off?
Did Al Gore show winter 1980 vs. summer 2005?
I hope you're not somehow daring suggesting that glaciers do not actually retreat and that Al Gore brought that up just to prove his point? Haven't seen the movie anyways, but don't need to. There
I don't mean to sound insulting, but I find it funny that you wouldn't have brought up those "points" if you weren't as ignorant as you are on that topic.
Because it's very easy to get your hands on low-grade nuclear material, wrap it around a conventional explosive, and create a "dirty bomb" that will throw a bunch of nuclear crap around and render the neighborhood effectively uninhabitable until it can be cleaned up.
If it's that easy, it really makes me wonder why terr'ists haven't used that before. That have used anything, from cars full of explosives to bombs with nails in it to neurotoxic gases, and never anything nuclear. I wonder why..
Nobody should need more than 640 kilo windows
a sharkwire window
What for? Just wondering, BTW it's Wireshark.
Excuse the obvious trolling, but this is not Digg, this is not news, we've known that for eons, and polluting celestial bodies with such microbes is not a new concern.
And I obviously didn't read the article. If I had, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have made this comment because I would have seen how it's news. But I'm not new here anymore.
IHNPTTT (I Have Not Passed The Turing Test)
Dude, do you even know what you're talking about? Failing at the Turing Test means that a human during a 30-minute chat with you (simulataneously with a "robot") could tell you're a robot/computer program and not a human (and think the robot sounds more human than you). As retarded as you can be, you would still pass the test. Actually, you wouldn't need 30-minutes to pass this test, one line such as the one you just typed would be enough for anyone to know that Artificial Stupidity is centuries away from being able to generate such a thing ;-)
He's an athiest. Surprise!
Ha! Indeed! :-) he's still republican tho?
For a man's man, Kim sure feels the need to censor himself quite a ####### lot.
Haha, yeah I noticed that too while reading him. He's a real man according to republican standards, he can hunt but not use curse words, I guess we can say he's not being pussified by women but by his religion. On that side he's his God's bitch. I think he's got points anyways.