Sending people offworld to relieve population growth will never work*. The maximum volume of space that you can cover in a particular span of time is a sphere with a radius of ct (where c=speed of light, and t is time). The volume of the sphere varies as the time cubed. However, population growth is exponential over time. Exponential growth always exceeds geometric growth at some point.
... it's tradition like the ST Enterprise whoosh sound as it travels superluminal speeds.
That's different. Variations in the warp field induce currents in the audio circuitry of the camera - producing the "sound". Everybody knows sound itself doesn't travel in a vacuum. You're hearing a side effect, like phantom pain in an amputated limb.
Definitely one of those "never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence" situations.
Editor see car, cars make noise, thus, editor add car noise. No conspiracy necessary.
I would hope that an editor for a NEWS SERVICE would have more sense than that. Altering levels, filtering noises, tweaking, balancing yes, but going to a library of sound effects and overlaying foreign audio and sound effects? I would hope they would only do that under orders from above.
The editors who put in car-related audio on all manner of film media are morons, plain and simple.
I mean, these are the same guys that pipe in 'tires screeching on pavement' sounds every time the Duke boys take off, even when they're on gravel or dirt.
Frankly, I'd be far more surprised if they didn't add a bunch of fake engine noises.
I can see that for fiction shows, but 60 Minutes is a documentary. I would hope that an agency of that calibre (a) wouldn't add sound effects to video and (b) wouldn't hire morons.
SpaceX is not too far from manned launches. Of course, if NASA had gone ahead with Orion and Jupiter-Direct, the US would have manned space flight capabilities by now.
I don't understand rear view cameras... well not the cameras, but the placement of the display screen. When you are backing up, you are supposed to be looking out of the rear window. That would place the dash-mounted display "behind" you. Can you get rear-view cameras where the display is aft of the driver's seat and facing forward so that you can see it when you are backing up?
Instead of generating a 1G equivalent force, generate 1/6, or 1/4.
On a trip to Mars you could start at 1G and gradually reduce the spin until you reach 0.38G (Mars surface gravity). On the way back you increase the spin gradually until you reach 1G again. Over the 8 month trip, this would be imperceptible. Astronauts would be acclimated to the gravity of the destination planet by the time they got there.
Perhaps those who cannot tell the difference between "fair" and "fare", and use the proper one in the right context, should not be the first to demean others.
Exactly. For example, the MPAA and the RIAA are all about fare use.
It would be nice to see if such laws of volume displacement could be understood by this country's fast food connoisseurs.
Of course it is. Why else do you think that they fill your beverage container nearly to the brim with ice before dispensing already chilled soda pop into it?
What's good for paying customers is also good for you. If you are running a host OS on a single box, and you need to expand, then you will need to get another box with the same hardware so you can load the same host OS onto it. On the other hand, if you are virtuallizing your own host OS, then you can throw disparate hardware at the problem
If it was me, my plan for the future would be to never again buy equipment that requires a closed source operating system to run, or even never buy equipment that requires a computer, stick with analog or mechanical devices.
Why bother with mechanical devices when there are draft animals and ethnic slave labour available?
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Sending people offworld to relieve population growth will never work*. The maximum volume of space that you can cover in a particular span of time is a sphere with a radius of ct (where c=speed of light, and t is time). The volume of the sphere varies as the time cubed. However, population growth is exponential over time. Exponential growth always exceeds geometric growth at some point.
Unless you're shipping off one entire gender.
... just synthesize the DNA strand and splice it into the appropriate chromosome.
Are we anywhere near that kind of technology yet?
... it's tradition like the ST Enterprise whoosh sound as it travels superluminal speeds.
That's different. Variations in the warp field induce currents in the audio circuitry of the camera - producing the "sound". Everybody knows sound itself doesn't travel in a vacuum. You're hearing a side effect, like phantom pain in an amputated limb.
This.
Definitely one of those "never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence" situations.
Editor see car, cars make noise, thus, editor add car noise. No conspiracy necessary.
I would hope that an editor for a NEWS SERVICE would have more sense than that. Altering levels, filtering noises, tweaking, balancing yes, but going to a library of sound effects and overlaying foreign audio and sound effects? I would hope they would only do that under orders from above.
The editors who put in car-related audio on all manner of film media are morons, plain and simple.
I mean, these are the same guys that pipe in 'tires screeching on pavement' sounds every time the Duke boys take off, even when they're on gravel or dirt.
Frankly, I'd be far more surprised if they didn't add a bunch of fake engine noises.
I can see that for fiction shows, but 60 Minutes is a documentary. I would hope that an agency of that calibre (a) wouldn't add sound effects to video and (b) wouldn't hire morons.
SpaceX is not too far from manned launches. Of course, if NASA had gone ahead with Orion and Jupiter-Direct, the US would have manned space flight capabilities by now.
Whoosh!
yes, never hit appliances, violence is bad :p
So how do you loosen the electrons when they get jammed?
If you really want to improve fuel economy, drive a motorcycle.
No thanks! I'd rather be inside a heavy steel roll cage than be a roll cage for some heavy steel.
You know you don't have to be a retard?
But you do have to understand hyperbole.
Let's say a dead person costs $6 million.
Maybe it's population explosion, but humans seem to be getting cheaper. Back in the 1970s, $6million only got you two legs, an arm and an eye.
I don't understand rear view cameras... well not the cameras, but the placement of the display screen. When you are backing up, you are supposed to be looking out of the rear window. That would place the dash-mounted display "behind" you. Can you get rear-view cameras where the display is aft of the driver's seat and facing forward so that you can see it when you are backing up?
Or, by killing the human spirit and drive to explore, you could save on the whole kit and kaboodle.
... building it so that it can withstand the 1G of pulling force across the spokes that will have to exist is the hard part.
Sadly, we have no experience building structures that put loads on cables.
Instead of generating a 1G equivalent force, generate 1/6, or 1/4.
On a trip to Mars you could start at 1G and gradually reduce the spin until you reach 0.38G (Mars surface gravity). On the way back you increase the spin gradually until you reach 1G again. Over the 8 month trip, this would be imperceptible. Astronauts would be acclimated to the gravity of the destination planet by the time they got there.
My favourite was "structural integrity failure" which basically means "it's broken"
How... how many of them?
There are four lights...
... and four darks, and if you count black and white, that makes ten.
Can you think of a way to transport a soul that's not 'magic'? :)
Sure. Planes, trains, and automobiles. Anything that doesn't involve destroying the body in which the soul is housed.
... having never seen a whole episode of Star Trek...
The words come through, but I have no idea what they could possibly mean.
Perhaps those who cannot tell the difference between "fair" and "fare", and use the proper one in the right context, should not be the first to demean others.
Exactly. For example, the MPAA and the RIAA are all about fare use.
It would be nice to see if such laws of volume displacement could be understood by this country's fast food connoisseurs.
Of course it is. Why else do you think that they fill your beverage container nearly to the brim with ice before dispensing already chilled soda pop into it?
What's good for paying customers is also good for you. If you are running a host OS on a single box, and you need to expand, then you will need to get another box with the same hardware so you can load the same host OS onto it. On the other hand, if you are virtuallizing your own host OS, then you can throw disparate hardware at the problem
How in the hell is this allowed to persist?
Complacency of the citizenry, plain and simple.
Voyager isn't flying.
If it was me, my plan for the future would be to never again buy equipment that requires a closed source operating system to run, or even never buy equipment that requires a computer, stick with analog or mechanical devices.
Why bother with mechanical devices when there are draft animals and ethnic slave labour available?