The idea of the increasing annual fee to maintain copyrights goes like this: For the first year of copyright protection, the cost is $1. For each subsequent year, the cost doubles: year 2 is $2, year 3 is $4, year 4 is $8, and so on. Year 11 would be $1024. Year 21 would be $1,048,576. By year 31, it would cost over a billion dollars to maintain a copyright. Disney's only advantage is that it has deep pockets. So if the copyright maintenance fee doubled every year, they could keep the copyrights going for a couple of years more than the average Joe. On the flip side, they also have scazillions of copyrights to maintain.
most of the net worth of the ultra rich is in stocks, bonds and lots of other paper they would have to sell for cash money. but there is almost not enough cash money to pay for all of their "net worth"
You're thinking like a poor person. The rich persons would be buying the companies that would be involved in making and maintaining the space palace.
So... the decay rates of materials are constant? The kilo of radium always emits at a rate of 37 trillion decay events per second? What about density? Will it still emit at 37 trillion as a sheet of radium foil, and as a solid ball? Maybe it will. Maybe it won't. I don't know. Is temperature a factor? Does hot radium decay faster than cold radium?
Three Mile Island and Chernobyl were events. They spanned a period of time. Was the 481 thousand trillion Bq you have listed an instantaneous rate, or is it the total number of decay events divided by the total number of seconds of the catastrophe? Or was it perhaps an increase or decrease?
It seems to me that the number of decay events is more important than the frequency of those events. If the 40 trillion Bq radiation only lasted for a trillionth of a second, that's 40 decay events.
Wrong measurement. Becquerels are a rate: decay events per second. Saying Chernobyl was 5.2 million trillion Bq is like saying that the noise at a Van Halen concert was upwards of 440 Hz.
One becquerel is defined as the decay of one atom of a radioisotope per second. So it's a rate. 40 trillion becquerel would be 40 trillion (4*10^13) tritium atoms decaying per second. Tritiated water (T2O) has a molar mass of 22.0315 grams per mole. A mole is 6.022*10^23 molecules. So 6.022*10^23 molecules of T2O has a mass of 22.0315 grams, therefore 40 trillion molecules has a mass of (4*10^13)*22.0315/(6.022*10^23) or 1.46*10^-9 grams. Assuming a density of 1 gram/ml and 1/20th of a ml per drop, we're talking super-heavy water gushing out of this leak at the incredible rate of just under a drop per year.
Of course you're all criminals. The patent law states that using a patented device without permission violates the patent. Do you have any letters or certificates, or any legal document giving you permission to use any, even one, of the hundreds or thousands of patended devices you own?
Ill be ok with spending tons of money on space when our sick are taken care of instead of left dying for lack of coverage.
Ill be ok with spending tons of money when the elderly are taken care of properly , same with our war veterans we abandoned.
Ill be ok with it then.. really.. till then it's just shaming us all.
Stop spending trillions on "defense" and you can take care of the sick and elderly, educate the young, feed the hungry, pave the roads and repair the bridges., and still have enough left over to explore space.
The Great Lakes region is one of the most benign regions on the planet. Volcanic/Tectonic activity is practically non-existent. Weather extremes are rare. I'd say its one of the best places to put nuclear power plants.
In about six months, you'll be getting up at 5am to feed them.
In about six months I'd be letting them outside and shutting the door. Or if I had actually gotten attached to the beasts, I'd be looking for a robo-feeder.
A: The modern usage isn't a misuse. It is an alternative definition, in much the same way that a gay hacker can either be a lumberjack with homosexual tendencies, or a person happily breaking through computer security.
B: You were the one that used the phrase "begs the question" (granted, in response to the ancestral poster who used it).
C: I deliberately anthropomorphized "the question" to avoid this whole "begging the question" tempest in a teapot, though my attempt obviously failed.
D: The question is still "who is the puppeteer?"
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The idea of the increasing annual fee to maintain copyrights goes like this: For the first year of copyright protection, the cost is $1. For each subsequent year, the cost doubles: year 2 is $2, year 3 is $4, year 4 is $8, and so on. Year 11 would be $1024. Year 21 would be $1,048,576. By year 31, it would cost over a billion dollars to maintain a copyright. Disney's only advantage is that it has deep pockets. So if the copyright maintenance fee doubled every year, they could keep the copyrights going for a couple of years more than the average Joe. On the flip side, they also have scazillions of copyrights to maintain.
Musk wants to live on Mars, not on some po-dunk orbiting space fortress.
most of this capital is not real money
most of the net worth of the ultra rich is in stocks, bonds and lots of other paper they would have to sell for cash money. but there is almost not enough cash money to pay for all of their "net worth"
You're thinking like a poor person. The rich persons would be buying the companies that would be involved in making and maintaining the space palace.
Quite a lot of our techniques for refining metals require vast quantities of water and oxygen, and gravity.
The parents of abducted children already know their kid is abducted. There's no point in alerting them.
So... the decay rates of materials are constant? The kilo of radium always emits at a rate of 37 trillion decay events per second? What about density? Will it still emit at 37 trillion as a sheet of radium foil, and as a solid ball? Maybe it will. Maybe it won't. I don't know. Is temperature a factor? Does hot radium decay faster than cold radium?
Three Mile Island and Chernobyl were events. They spanned a period of time. Was the 481 thousand trillion Bq you have listed an instantaneous rate, or is it the total number of decay events divided by the total number of seconds of the catastrophe? Or was it perhaps an increase or decrease?
It seems to me that the number of decay events is more important than the frequency of those events. If the 40 trillion Bq radiation only lasted for a trillionth of a second, that's 40 decay events.
So... they're telling us in advance that this may be a dupe?
Sorry, I meant the Yucca Mountain Range.
Wrong measurement. Becquerels are a rate: decay events per second. Saying Chernobyl was 5.2 million trillion Bq is like saying that the noise at a Van Halen concert was upwards of 440 Hz.
But we have figured out what to do with it. Bury it in Yucatan. However, once again, government and society have gotten in the way.
But how do you measure seconds?
(And to follow up that: how do you measure distance?)
I click to the stopwatch function on my Timex and press start.
One becquerel is defined as the decay of one atom of a radioisotope per second. So it's a rate. 40 trillion becquerel would be 40 trillion (4*10^13) tritium atoms decaying per second. Tritiated water (T2O) has a molar mass of 22.0315 grams per mole. A mole is 6.022*10^23 molecules. So 6.022*10^23 molecules of T2O has a mass of 22.0315 grams, therefore 40 trillion molecules has a mass of (4*10^13)*22.0315/(6.022*10^23) or 1.46*10^-9 grams. Assuming a density of 1 gram/ml and 1/20th of a ml per drop, we're talking super-heavy water gushing out of this leak at the incredible rate of just under a drop per year.
Of course you're all criminals. The patent law states that using a patented device without permission violates the patent. Do you have any letters or certificates, or any legal document giving you permission to use any, even one, of the hundreds or thousands of patended devices you own?
Ill be ok with spending tons of money on space when our sick are taken care of instead of left dying for lack of coverage. Ill be ok with spending tons of money when the elderly are taken care of properly , same with our war veterans we abandoned. Ill be ok with it then .. really .. till then it's just shaming us all .
Stop spending trillions on "defense" and you can take care of the sick and elderly, educate the young, feed the hungry, pave the roads and repair the bridges., and still have enough left over to explore space.
Let's not forget aircraft carriers, which have heavily armed aircraft landing right atop the reactors.
The Great Lakes region is one of the most benign regions on the planet. Volcanic/Tectonic activity is practically non-existent. Weather extremes are rare. I'd say its one of the best places to put nuclear power plants.
would be rather pointless in a push arrangement lawnmower though, unless you like running like the proverbial wind.
... or you had 16 foot mowing blades
The 8088PC could address one megabyte. It's just that 384K of that was ROM, leaving a max of 640K for RAM.
Battery life? My eight cores run off of atomic power and masses of water flowing through the Niagra power facility.
Ok, cool, so camping helps circadian rhythms and the human health and all. What about teamkilling?
Probably not a good idea. The powers that be tend to frown on campsites full of corpses.
Your sleep in headache may very well be related to mild dehydration. You'd probably do better if you drank a tad more before going to sleep.
...or drank a tad less.
In about six months, you'll be getting up at 5am to feed them.
In about six months I'd be letting them outside and shutting the door. Or if I had actually gotten attached to the beasts, I'd be looking for a robo-feeder.
Well, yes... for certain values of "exactly".
Google is simply the public face of the NSA. It's a data gathering front company.
A: The modern usage isn't a misuse. It is an alternative definition, in much the same way that a gay hacker can either be a lumberjack with homosexual tendencies, or a person happily breaking through computer security.
B: You were the one that used the phrase "begs the question" (granted, in response to the ancestral poster who used it).
C: I deliberately anthropomorphized "the question" to avoid this whole "begging the question" tempest in a teapot, though my attempt obviously failed.
D: The question is still "who is the puppeteer?"