They could use a joule-thief or discharge flash tube style circuit to accumulate energy until there was enough power to run the transmitter for a quick burst.
Yes -- it would actually be an area precisely equivalent to a cross section of a long thin tube of gasoline stretched out to cover the distance your car goes on that amount of gas.
That's just a restatement of what I just said. Volume divided by distance(length) equals area. You could just as easily divide the volume of windshield washer fluid used by the distance travelled and get the cross section of the long thin tube of windshield washer fluid used on the trip.
My point is that unit analysis doesn't necessarily tell you anything useful, and in fact can hide usefulness. Mileage is a case in point. A square metre of gasoline is meaningless measurement, but 10 litres/km is meaningful. Ditto with BMI. Just because a unit analysis reduces it to a meaningless kilograms per square metre measurement, doesn't mean that it is a meaningless figure. Perhaps a length unit got cancelled out, and what we're really looking at is a density figure (mass per unit volume) in disguise.
I ate nothing for a 40 day period a while ago. I lost a lot of weight. When I started eating again, I put it right back on. Bottom line, if you want to permanently change your weight, you must permanently change what you eat. Of course, that fact doesn't sell diet books.
Um... No. The reason wheels didn't catch on evolutionary wise is that wheels don't work well in water. They also don't work well on the bulk of dry terrain either, but that's beside the point. The wheel/limb decision point was in life's deep past (or, life's past in the deep), probably back when life was first becoming multicellular. The flagellum (which is a wheel) was ditched in favour of waving fins. The fins, as the lungfish crawled through the tidal basins evolved into limbs.
That's not to say that creatures don't roll. Some curl up into balls and can roll downwind or downhill. Some can even push themselves along while curled up in a ball. None, however, use that as their main method of locomotion.
How about this: Over the ages, the far side has been pelted by meteors a lot more than the near side. This has sandblasted away the big craters and has served as a source of raw material for thickening the crust on that side.
How do you balance the right to own a gun against the requirement that the owner be trained in the use and safe handling of the gun (the well regulated militia part)?
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But despite it being quite perfectly capitalist, it's been well established that slavery is a bad idea.
It has? Are you talking about slavery in general, or just the American-style, race bigoted version?
They could use a joule-thief or discharge flash tube style circuit to accumulate energy until there was enough power to run the transmitter for a quick burst.
Yes -- it would actually be an area precisely equivalent to a cross section of a long thin tube of gasoline stretched out to cover the distance your car goes on that amount of gas.
That's just a restatement of what I just said. Volume divided by distance(length) equals area. You could just as easily divide the volume of windshield washer fluid used by the distance travelled and get the cross section of the long thin tube of windshield washer fluid used on the trip.
My point is that unit analysis doesn't necessarily tell you anything useful, and in fact can hide usefulness. Mileage is a case in point. A square metre of gasoline is meaningless measurement, but 10 litres/km is meaningful. Ditto with BMI. Just because a unit analysis reduces it to a meaningless kilograms per square metre measurement, doesn't mean that it is a meaningless figure. Perhaps a length unit got cancelled out, and what we're really looking at is a density figure (mass per unit volume) in disguise.
I ate nothing for a 40 day period a while ago. I lost a lot of weight. When I started eating again, I put it right back on. Bottom line, if you want to permanently change your weight, you must permanently change what you eat. Of course, that fact doesn't sell diet books.
But a little rudimentary unit analysis suggests that it's bullshit.
Unit analysis on miles per gallon works out to an area (inverse area, actually), but that doesn't mean its a bullshit figure.
Why not just emulate the drive as well?
It's a goose/gander precident thing. Now, when Disney puts its movies on a P2P site, they can no longer claim an Oops.
California has a problem with overcrowded prisons. Sweden has a problem with prisons being unoccupied.
I sense an opportunity for a good capitalist.
Yes. You need to import Swedish methods for dealing with crime.
Why would you care? Who's being hurt?
Who's being hurt if I call myself a doctor, or an engineer?
"Bother," said Pooh as he was read his Miranda Rights.
"It's a good thing these aren't giant light bulbs", said Mothra
Um... No. The reason wheels didn't catch on evolutionary wise is that wheels don't work well in water. They also don't work well on the bulk of dry terrain either, but that's beside the point. The wheel/limb decision point was in life's deep past (or, life's past in the deep), probably back when life was first becoming multicellular. The flagellum (which is a wheel) was ditched in favour of waving fins. The fins, as the lungfish crawled through the tidal basins evolved into limbs.
That's not to say that creatures don't roll. Some curl up into balls and can roll downwind or downhill. Some can even push themselves along while curled up in a ball. None, however, use that as their main method of locomotion.
Wheels can only overcome obstacles less than half their diameter high. Legs can overcome obstacles as high as almost their entire length.
How about this: Over the ages, the far side has been pelted by meteors a lot more than the near side. This has sandblasted away the big craters and has served as a source of raw material for thickening the crust on that side.
"We did not need to open it to know there was all kinds of dead cat in there". - Penny
And it is topologically equivalent to the hypothetical spherical cow.
No, it's not. . . /hint: nostrils
Yes, it's probably closer to a pretzel.
If you want leverage over a SciFi author, make sure you get the right one.
What the FUCK is going on with this country?
As much as we let them get away with.
... or quite a lot more.
Actually, If you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to say.
I thought a lot of google map "satellite" views were from aerial photography, not satellites.
Everything there seems to be there solely to ruin your day.
Sounds like an excellent place to put a penal colony.
Maybe in 50 years there will be a magazine named "Scientists", and your headline will make perfect sense.
Holy shit, 4100? Is that ALL the bitcoins!?!? XD
That's roughly 1.2 million dollars, my friend, at current exchange rates. And incidentally, there are aproximately 12 million bitcoins.
How do you balance the right to own a gun against the requirement that the owner be trained in the use and safe handling of the gun (the well regulated militia part)?
Warn you? They flat out promise that your words WILL BE used against you.