I was never told anything about "sugar rushes" but on odd occasions with particular food i get them. Followed by a crash about 20-40min later. The worst was maple syrup on a maple butter dessert in Canada. To claim that sugar consumption doesn't affect blood sugar levels is disingenuous at best. Ask a diabetic what they get when they are low/high.
True, but even "valid" breaks need memory on the order of a little less than 2^128 and dito for crypto operations and often plain text/cipher text size.
There is a world of difference between practical breaks and theoretical ones. OF course there have been plenty of practical breaks as well. But at this point, this has not lead to one, and not really sure if it would lead to better breaks.
So when the insurance company can cancel their cover over a technicality... and you have cancer. What provider do you switch to? Yea, free market at work, you showed that insurance company who's boss. Your talking your illness elsewhere.
In Europe we get service too. I have never waited more than 30 mins to see a doctor. And my appendices were taken out within 3 hours of diagnosis. My friends son has cancer and is offered the best treatments you can get in the world for it. Unfortunately even a bone marrow transplant wasn't enough. They are not bankrupt over the whole thing, and so will still be able to look after the other 2 children.
The heat thing is a disadvantage. Getting rid of heat will be a real problem. Vacuum is a disadvantage as well. The pressure difference in Antarctica is zero. You also left out higher levels of radiation, no air outside if you need it...
Where did the mass to create the station and its current atmosphere come from? Then it can be replenished from the same source. There is more than enough asteroids or even just the earths own atmosphere to keep such a thing going for a very very long time. Also at this scale leaks would only matter over time scales of decades to centuries. Even longer for bigger stations.
If its big enough you can contain an atmosphere that way. The "orbitals" from the culture series uses this idea. But you don't need to be that big to make it work. In fact the math is fairly simple, as in its only a bit "thicker" that the same atmosphere on earth. Hence a side wall of 100km assuming that is small relative to the radius would be enough to keep most of it. So say a 500km radius station could be in this ball park. This requires a surface velocity of 2200m/s. Kind of at the limits of all modern materials. They going to need some carbon nanotubes to build that thing. And of course there is still losses. They go down exponentially with wall height, but would tend to not be all that low with a 100km wall.
They will also be likely to give up their lives for the cause.
This is not quite true. They will give up what they feel they don't have in the first place. In other words when the feel like they have nothing to lose.
Its a sad fact that will be forever ignored by space buffs. Its easier to build a "space station" just about anywhere on earth than in space. Giant floating dome city? Easier. Giant snow city at the south pole. Easier. About the only place that would be harder is the bottom of the ocean. But why would you want to live 3km below the surface, and the light?
Thing about movies, and most stories in general. Is they have really big plot holes. Sometimes I can't ignore them and i find is a stupid story or movie. Other times i can ignore them. But one thing is universal. They all have the holes. Sci fi and fantasy more than most.
Yes. Clearly. But that doesn't really stop it being interesting. The whole "news that matters" thing is always overblown. If it really mattered, and i mean *really*, you wouldn't be getting it from a aggregation site.
High speed track is quite expensive to make and maintain. Friction for high speed trains is mostly aerodynamic, and often about 1/2 of that is the wheel bogies.
Perhaps the crime statistics are skewed because of unfair treatment. All those white people with joints in their pockets are never searched in the first place for example.
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I was never told anything about "sugar rushes" but on odd occasions with particular food i get them. Followed by a crash about 20-40min later. The worst was maple syrup on a maple butter dessert in Canada. To claim that sugar consumption doesn't affect blood sugar levels is disingenuous at best. Ask a diabetic what they get when they are low/high.
There is a reason that government does want you to use encryption.... And not because it gives you a false sense of security
True, but even "valid" breaks need memory on the order of a little less than 2^128 and dito for crypto operations and often plain text/cipher text size.
There is a world of difference between practical breaks and theoretical ones. OF course there have been plenty of practical breaks as well. But at this point, this has not lead to one, and not really sure if it would lead to better breaks.
My eyes are closed when i dream. Yet I see the dream.
For 6 grand and a year or so of jumps, you can be well on the way to that first base jump with a wing suit.
Sick people don't make health insurance companies money. Healthy people do.
So when the insurance company can cancel their cover over a technicality... and you have cancer. What provider do you switch to? Yea, free market at work, you showed that insurance company who's boss. Your talking your illness elsewhere.
In Europe we get service too. I have never waited more than 30 mins to see a doctor. And my appendices were taken out within 3 hours of diagnosis. My friends son has cancer and is offered the best treatments you can get in the world for it. Unfortunately even a bone marrow transplant wasn't enough. They are not bankrupt over the whole thing, and so will still be able to look after the other 2 children.
In fact they are not all that keen on white foreigners either. Despite the fact we make up a large portion of the work force.
It is not a solved problem. Generating truly random numbers is hard. Even with hardware, which should be part of every cpu, its not that easy either.
Cryptographic randomness is not easy. Its not easy in hardware either and the hardware still doesn't support a random generator.
Yes. Just look how much better this world is to live in for everyone from a 150 years ago.
The heat thing is a disadvantage. Getting rid of heat will be a real problem. Vacuum is a disadvantage as well. The pressure difference in Antarctica is zero. You also left out higher levels of radiation, no air outside if you need it...
Even after such a nuclear event. Earth will still be the most habitable place for light years. By a massive margin.
Where did the mass to create the station and its current atmosphere come from? Then it can be replenished from the same source. There is more than enough asteroids or even just the earths own atmosphere to keep such a thing going for a very very long time. Also at this scale leaks would only matter over time scales of decades to centuries. Even longer for bigger stations.
If its big enough you can contain an atmosphere that way. The "orbitals" from the culture series uses this idea. But you don't need to be that big to make it work. In fact the math is fairly simple, as in its only a bit "thicker" that the same atmosphere on earth. Hence a side wall of 100km assuming that is small relative to the radius would be enough to keep most of it. So say a 500km radius station could be in this ball park. This requires a surface velocity of 2200m/s. Kind of at the limits of all modern materials. They going to need some carbon nanotubes to build that thing. And of course there is still losses. They go down exponentially with wall height, but would tend to not be all that low with a 100km wall.
They will also be likely to give up their lives for the cause.
This is not quite true. They will give up what they feel they don't have in the first place. In other words when the feel like they have nothing to lose.
Its a sad fact that will be forever ignored by space buffs. Its easier to build a "space station" just about anywhere on earth than in space. Giant floating dome city? Easier. Giant snow city at the south pole. Easier. About the only place that would be harder is the bottom of the ocean. But why would you want to live 3km below the surface, and the light?
Thing about movies, and most stories in general. Is they have really big plot holes. Sometimes I can't ignore them and i find is a stupid story or movie. Other times i can ignore them. But one thing is universal. They all have the holes. Sci fi and fantasy more than most.
Don't be daft. A few poor people get to live as the rich and give the finger to all the other poor bastards on the surface.
Yes. Clearly. But that doesn't really stop it being interesting. The whole "news that matters" thing is always overblown. If it really mattered, and i mean *really*, you wouldn't be getting it from a aggregation site.
Really bad car accidents?
I think most of it is that we like sex. A lot. Oh and its easier and cheaper to live than ever before, so we have a lot more time for... sex.
High speed track is quite expensive to make and maintain. Friction for high speed trains is mostly aerodynamic, and often about 1/2 of that is the wheel bogies.
Perhaps the crime statistics are skewed because of unfair treatment. All those white people with joints in their pockets are never searched in the first place for example.