Hmm,
I just don't understand this relatively stuff. So if the universe is 3500 billion light year across (14 billion * 250 times larger) and it is 14 billion years old it expanded at 125 time the speed of light (on the average).
Sigh.
Depends on your industry, but often, tensile strength per unit area. In the us that would be thousands of pounds pulling apart a chunk of steel of one square inch cross section. This is kind of important in the wire rope and chain industries, on the other hand piston makers or knife makers might have an alternative opinion. Anyway tensile KPSI values 20 and under is junk tier like Walmart China products, 50 is the good stuff, and over 200 is strange Swedish alloys made by gnomes in a secretive process that costs about as much per pound as sterling silver and only.mil can afford it.
For marketing / PR purposes, yes it means nothing. Just like calling machined parts "billet" means absolutely nothing. A billet used to be a slight step up from an ingot that you'd smoosh in a forge press before machining. Now all it means is its overpriced and probably shiny.
And for the really exotic stuff try plain old piano wire at ~360 ksi tensile strength. (I think this is the bar, if their glass has better than 360 ksi tensile strength I would think it fair to call it stronger than steel.)
All metals rust. Iron rust just has that distinctive red/orange colour.
Or are you being pedantic, and just going by the most common usage of the term "rust"? If so, I guess it would be more correct to say that "all metals corrode/oxidize", but the result is the same.
"All metals rust." Really what about gold? (Checked your heat of formations recently?)
Having worked for the federal government, it sounds like managers are just trying to outsource the risk of IT failure, so it will not be their fault if something goes wrong (along with getting brownie points for having their "cloud" initiative adopted, thus maybe a fat paying job in private industry.) After all who gets noticed for just making the same old (constantly changing) systems work.
Sorry for sounding cynical, but the how the system works.
Well if governments can pass legislation to make us safe, then unless it violates some other law (constitution) they should do it. And while they are at it pass a law to make cars all safe, the air safe, children safe, and all the other stuff safe. I don't think it is so easy and business has an obligation to protect themselves. When you take a research network and later try to legislate rules into to it you are missing the boat. (I am getting tired of "someone" saying congress can fix "it" with a law, take some responsibility. Even if you are BP, a power company, a consumer, a person driving a car, a parent, an airline passenger, a record company, etc.)
Sigh
Well almost done. Not that it is likely to leak, but BP has not finished the task of Plugging and Abandoning per Dept of Interior rules yet. Yes there is cement in the drill casing and has passed a pressure test, but the US government has these little rules that you have to finish before walking away from a well. Since there seems to be proven reserves I expect BP will be back later to drill a new well and produce oil. I guess they have to pay for the cleanup somehow!
We (the US) shared most of our nuclear bomb secrets from WWII with the Canadians. It was part of an agreement we had (have?) with them. (They are our best buddies, who do you think is our biggest source of oil!) I suspect they could whip up a bomb in a year or less if they wanted.
BOPs never fail? If you check the research they fail about 1/2 the time when needing to shear the drill pipe to seal. This all happened because BP's man (or men) on the rig were asleep at the switch during a critical period in the process.
End result they'll pay and we pay (less tax revenue from BP, higher price for gas, and more oil fouling the Gulf of Mexico.)
Dang them.
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Hmm, I just don't understand this relatively stuff. So if the universe is 3500 billion light year across (14 billion * 250 times larger) and it is 14 billion years old it expanded at 125 time the speed of light (on the average). Sigh.
What does stronger than steel actually mean?
Depends on your industry, but often, tensile strength per unit area. In the us that would be thousands of pounds pulling apart a chunk of steel of one square inch cross section. This is kind of important in the wire rope and chain industries, on the other hand piston makers or knife makers might have an alternative opinion. Anyway tensile KPSI values 20 and under is junk tier like Walmart China products, 50 is the good stuff, and over 200 is strange Swedish alloys made by gnomes in a secretive process that costs about as much per pound as sterling silver and only .mil can afford it.
For marketing / PR purposes, yes it means nothing. Just like calling machined parts "billet" means absolutely nothing. A billet used to be a slight step up from an ingot that you'd smoosh in a forge press before machining. Now all it means is its overpriced and probably shiny.
And for the really exotic stuff try plain old piano wire at ~360 ksi tensile strength. (I think this is the bar, if their glass has better than 360 ksi tensile strength I would think it fair to call it stronger than steel.)
All metals rust. Iron rust just has that distinctive red/orange colour.
Or are you being pedantic, and just going by the most common usage of the term "rust"? If so, I guess it would be more correct to say that "all metals corrode/oxidize", but the result is the same.
"All metals rust." Really what about gold? (Checked your heat of formations recently?)
Having worked for the federal government, it sounds like managers are just trying to outsource the risk of IT failure, so it will not be their fault if something goes wrong (along with getting brownie points for having their "cloud" initiative adopted, thus maybe a fat paying job in private industry.) After all who gets noticed for just making the same old (constantly changing) systems work. Sorry for sounding cynical, but the how the system works.
Well if governments can pass legislation to make us safe, then unless it violates some other law (constitution) they should do it. And while they are at it pass a law to make cars all safe, the air safe, children safe, and all the other stuff safe. I don't think it is so easy and business has an obligation to protect themselves. When you take a research network and later try to legislate rules into to it you are missing the boat. (I am getting tired of "someone" saying congress can fix "it" with a law, take some responsibility. Even if you are BP, a power company, a consumer, a person driving a car, a parent, an airline passenger, a record company, etc.) Sigh
******. that's what i see.
hey, that's my password!!!
Well almost done. Not that it is likely to leak, but BP has not finished the task of Plugging and Abandoning per Dept of Interior rules yet. Yes there is cement in the drill casing and has passed a pressure test, but the US government has these little rules that you have to finish before walking away from a well. Since there seems to be proven reserves I expect BP will be back later to drill a new well and produce oil. I guess they have to pay for the cleanup somehow!
We (the US) shared most of our nuclear bomb secrets from WWII with the Canadians. It was part of an agreement we had (have?) with them. (They are our best buddies, who do you think is our biggest source of oil!) I suspect they could whip up a bomb in a year or less if they wanted.
Well, double for the military info. The bad guys would never figure out what we meant.
So, is junk DNA just someones way of preserving a long forgotten game..
BOPs never fail? If you check the research they fail about 1/2 the time when needing to shear the drill pipe to seal. This all happened because BP's man (or men) on the rig were asleep at the switch during a critical period in the process. End result they'll pay and we pay (less tax revenue from BP, higher price for gas, and more oil fouling the Gulf of Mexico.) Dang them.