Kinda strange, I check/. maybe only slightly less during the weekend as during the week, but somehow I completely missed the original post so I liked the dupe here.
Double edged sword. It can take decades of time and millions upon millions to spit out one thing useful. Patents give return on investment.
I'd love research done for research's sake too, but pragmatism has this nasty habit of beating the snot out of idealism.
However... Besides, if you didn't invent it, screw off. Damn right. StemCells needs to be staplegunned to the wall for this crap...as well as the Patent Office being held liable too, since someone didn't do their prior art research.
why not build it by 2020 (allowing for a generous 10 year design, testing and roll-out?)
The 787 was announced in 2003 and still hasn't done a maiden passenger flight and they're just using different materials; the MIT designs upend the classic tube+wing design on top of that.
What's that supposed to mean? That I must be offended? You bet I am...
You decided to take part in this conversation. If the topic offends you, perhaps you should have left rather than express your outrage at being offended in a discussion that you obviously don't want to take part in.
It's like choosing to walk into a rave club and then start expressing outrage at the loud music and bright flashing lights. The people already there enjoy the atmosphere and you do not have a right to ruin their time; instead it is up to you to leave the situation you find offensive.
The irony of this post is that ideally, you shouldn't read it since, if you were a reasonable person, you'd be ignoring this thread and posts from it.
As of today, it is indeed illegal to use obscene language in PA, if there is INTENT to cause public... alarm.
While the citizen was praised for helping alert everyone to the disaster, his cries of "Get the fuck out of here, it's going to blow!" caused him to be cited under Section 5503.
True but would that have worked when turning the valve didn't?
And there's an answer we'll never know for certain. Even if it did fail, at least you can point to international standards and show compliancy. When other countries require them and you don't...it's a little suspicious.
I don't know the details to how those valves work and I don't really know why the robot couldn't shut the manual valve either, (was it stuck, could it not get a good enough grip, was the internal mechanism busted, did the operator forget righty-tighty lefty-loosey), but it just seems a very small additional cost relatively speaking: 350 million dollar rig, what's another mil or five for an acoustic shutoff?
A few news outlets have picked up on the fact that the US doesn't require acoustic shutoffs, like Norway and Brazil, which would've been an additional layer likely before trying to send a robot down there to turn off a valve.
Course, when you have one backup plan, you should consider and impliment backup failure.
It's like power. 1. Grid. Well, the grid's not guarenteed, so you should probably have 2. Backup UPS devices in place. But those aren't designed to last more than a few minutes in general...more for brownouts and brief blackouts so you need to consider 3. your own generator.
In this case, I think BP could afford generator level backups.
Pity the US doesn't require acoustic shutoffs like Norway and Brazil...
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Kinda strange, I check /. maybe only slightly less during the weekend as during the week, but somehow I completely missed the original post so I liked the dupe here.
They're measuring motion in a fluid.
Gas is a fluid like liquid (or plasma for that matter).
Double edged sword. It can take decades of time and millions upon millions to spit out one thing useful. Patents give return on investment.
I'd love research done for research's sake too, but pragmatism has this nasty habit of beating the snot out of idealism.
However...
Besides, if you didn't invent it, screw off.
Damn right. StemCells needs to be staplegunned to the wall for this crap...as well as the Patent Office being held liable too, since someone didn't do their prior art research.
And, pray tell, what proven method is there of stopping an oil leak a mile underwater?
Maybe the government should step in and put and end to this situation themselves.
How?
I don't consider that a counter-example. I can't understand anything about that.
All that and no "Try SCE to aux"?
why not build it by 2020 (allowing for a generous 10 year design, testing and roll-out?)
The 787 was announced in 2003 and still hasn't done a maiden passenger flight and they're just using different materials; the MIT designs upend the classic tube+wing design on top of that.
I've always been able to sort by price when looking for flights. *shrug*
What's that supposed to mean? That I must be offended? You bet I am...
You decided to take part in this conversation. If the topic offends you, perhaps you should have left rather than express your outrage at being offended in a discussion that you obviously don't want to take part in.
It's like choosing to walk into a rave club and then start expressing outrage at the loud music and bright flashing lights. The people already there enjoy the atmosphere and you do not have a right to ruin their time; instead it is up to you to leave the situation you find offensive.
The irony of this post is that ideally, you shouldn't read it since, if you were a reasonable person, you'd be ignoring this thread and posts from it.
I forsee nothing but success for this algorithm.
Aww, Belgium man, Belgium!
As of today, it is indeed illegal to use obscene language in PA, if there is INTENT to cause public ... alarm.
While the citizen was praised for helping alert everyone to the disaster, his cries of "Get the fuck out of here, it's going to blow!" caused him to be cited under Section 5503.
His trial is scheduled for Thursday.
I see your Boondock Saints and raise you an In Bruges:
Geeze, he swears a lot, doesn't he?
Best. English teacher. Ever.
One right you do NOT have is to not be offended.
So fuck off.
Yeah, curse old technology. Why haven't we moved on from this 'wheel' shape, by the way? Surely, new = better...
Ahh yes, Spirit, the rover now stuck thanks to a half-inch of dust...
For those who are unaware, the Constitution gives very limited and specific rights to Congress.
Yes, Article 1, Section 8.
Of course, it also spells out very limited and specific things Congress can NOT do in Article 1, Section 9.
Plus there's that troublesome general welfare clause.
Course, I'm guessing you're a strict constitutionalist, so you would not be opposed to, say, abolishing the FDA?
There has yet to be a rover created that can dupliate what a person can do.
You either get a lot of kit stuck onto an immovable lander or a little kit jimmyrigged into a tiny rover (that's barely mobile to begin with).
Admittedly there's not much of a library to get for it. Once you go through the 1st party titles there's what...?
On the plus side, I don't really have the time to go through a game a week. I'm *still* plodding through New SMB.
And yet it's the best selling console of this generation. Fancy that...
True but would that have worked when turning the valve didn't?
And there's an answer we'll never know for certain. Even if it did fail, at least you can point to international standards and show compliancy. When other countries require them and you don't...it's a little suspicious.
I don't know the details to how those valves work and I don't really know why the robot couldn't shut the manual valve either, (was it stuck, could it not get a good enough grip, was the internal mechanism busted, did the operator forget righty-tighty lefty-loosey), but it just seems a very small additional cost relatively speaking: 350 million dollar rig, what's another mil or five for an acoustic shutoff?
A few news outlets have picked up on the fact that the US doesn't require acoustic shutoffs, like Norway and Brazil, which would've been an additional layer likely before trying to send a robot down there to turn off a valve.
Course, when you have one backup plan, you should consider and impliment backup failure.
It's like power. 1. Grid. Well, the grid's not guarenteed, so you should probably have 2. Backup UPS devices in place. But those aren't designed to last more than a few minutes in general...more for brownouts and brief blackouts so you need to consider 3. your own generator.
In this case, I think BP could afford generator level backups.
Pity the US doesn't require acoustic shutoffs like Norway and Brazil...