In precision no. We can do that right now. But its not that cheap yet. Perhaps this is cheaper. However for most inherited disease there is no identifiable mutations. So this is still only a niche detection tool for typically quite rare diseases.
Much much easier. In fact artificial lighting with green houses is probably all you need. For the most part the atmosphere will be quite breathable. I think people have some idea that these things melt the entire surface of the planet or something. That hasn't happened since the late heavy bombardment.
When did i say that? As someone else has pointed out, we can survive a ELE far better on earth and will survive as a species than in space right now. Anything that could wipe us out now hasn't happened since the late heavy bombardment period. ie 4 Billion years ago. Anything that big is easy to see from a long way away.
And what is with everyone treating random events as something that happens with a schedule?
NASA putting a small handful of people on the moon for no other reason than nationalism will get you space colonies no faster than throwing people off cliffs will get you flight.
Actually no it doesn't. It about the same scale, with forces in the more sane regions. A slingatron has high speeds but *also* high forces pushing into the track. On top of that the * entire* track needs to be rotated.
Current tech really leads to mass drivers as the most "realistic" non rocket option.
Every ELE we have had so far is quite survivable as far as the species go with current technology. We would need something bigger that has hit the earth in the last 4 Billion years to wipe us out. Dito with technology. Even the ELE ones are not running to a schedule, there is no "over due" to random events.
Lets assume orbital velocity is enough and there are no loses to the atmosphere. So we need about 7500m/s. Now we can see what acceleration we need for a track "several ks long". a=v*v/(2s) =14062m/s^2. Or 1433 g's. Best not to be a fragile meat bag. Lets assume we can make a 20km track. Well that is 10x longer so we get one tenth the acceleration. Or only 140g's. 200km seems a better 14g's. Of course this 14 g's last for 53 secs. One hell of a ride.
Real numbers would be much worse. For a muzzle V of 10km/s they are 77% worse.
The slingshot is in fact a far less realistic approach, we could build a mag train with these specs if we were so inclined to sink the billions it would cost to do so. But the slingshot has very large forces between the "track" and the projectile while still requiring a massive track that all moves!
Personally if we are going to dream then a launch loop is my preferred "rockets suck" alternative.
By the way Rockets don't suck. They do what they do well. Far better than anything else at this point. There is no reason they have to be as expensive as they currently are.
It has been suggested that this problem can be solved with asynchronous logic. An example of different signalling with very short switch times is with Rapid single flux quantum (RSFQ) logic.
You are mostly wrong on your list. It can be fixed and can be reliable and quite frankly is reliable (tokenizing will not make it unreliable, why would it?). Thing is that it would cost a lot to change many of the older legacy systems and there is a lot of older aircraft that don't use the newer systems.
This does not spoof the military encrypted GPS band that airline GPS receivers use. Pilots seem to like flying into the ground more than machines. Current aircraft, mechanical or computational failure still results in a crashed aircraft. Pilots cannot break the laws of physics.
I don't use windows or OSX. Yet word people expect me to learn word/install windows word to help them all the time. They complain about converting it to a pdf *every* *freaking* *time*.
How many kids do you let play on your lawn? Did you walk through snow to get to school in the good ol' days in bare feet? You know i have read a few older PhDs and papers and things... they don't look better.. if fact they look like typed POS. Figures were even worse.
My main beef with using word is everyone thinks they are a typesetter and do a crap job at it. Even when using templates people still mess with margins and fonts and everything they know nothing about.
That is not how you are suppose to use latex as a document writer person. You are suppose to write content only. It does formatting etc. You write chapters, figure captions and paragraphs etc. You *don't* set fonts, adjust margins or other things you probably don't have any idea on why the typesetting industry does things the way it does. And if you do it that way, many non latex people can and for me at least do edit the documents. The only one so far that won't will do pdf annotations.
Now as someone who has written a style for a publisher i can tell you that once you go beyond a style/format that someone has written for you. Its nothing like using the steering rack by hand. Its like you need to machine your own steering rack in a stack based language and mix it with broken glass, then use that with your bare hands! Oh and no vacuum assist either. And i am sure its snowing and your in bare feet or something.
I use latex a lot because its far faster than using crap WYSIWYMG (M-> Mite). I am sick of reading reports with no margins and well over 200 characters per line from my students. Horrible font choices, ugly figure placement, and sloppy notation because MS doesn't support math well enough. Its hard to read. As one of the latex guides say, a document is meant to be read. Not framed on a wall to look nice. But damit latex even makes C and its build chain look modern. We need something better, but i can't find it. And no i don't want a WYSFUCKOFF editor. I want to write content that is then formatted in a professional way. I am not a typesetting and I don't want to learn to be one.
And damit how the frack can't MS have decent math formula. They can copy the typesetting rules right out of latex quite legally. Why must my eyes bleed every time i have to read a dam MS math manuscript.
Also another point is that latex and version control does a poor job of track changes compared to MS word. Since version control is line based... no word based.
You know why i don't use lisp... Because almost no one learns it, and my code needs to be accessible and multi platform. That means i can really only choose between java,C and C++. I am keeping an eye on Julia... But everyone runs away from lisp because they don't like brackets. I remind them that C syntax just uses different types of brackets and extra syntax (semi colons etc). But still a lot of brackets...and syntax and stuff.
This is an issue with any long term nuclear plan. If we do nuclear, which i doubt we will, we must have a plan for this and stop pretending its not an issue.
In their defense, you have to do this to validate fuel elements. It takes more than a decade and costs huge $$. Its one of the advantages of Liquid fuel designs and homogeneous reactors in general.
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Guano is a long long way from limitless. We (NZ) mined 100s of thousands of years worth in a few decades.
Don't throw away shit. Its got what plants crave.
In precision no. We can do that right now. But its not that cheap yet. Perhaps this is cheaper. However for most inherited disease there is no identifiable mutations. So this is still only a niche detection tool for typically quite rare diseases.
Much much easier. In fact artificial lighting with green houses is probably all you need. For the most part the atmosphere will be quite breathable. I think people have some idea that these things melt the entire surface of the planet or something. That hasn't happened since the late heavy bombardment.
When did i say that? As someone else has pointed out, we can survive a ELE far better on earth and will survive as a species than in space right now. Anything that could wipe us out now hasn't happened since the late heavy bombardment period. ie 4 Billion years ago. Anything that big is easy to see from a long way away.
And what is with everyone treating random events as something that happens with a schedule?
Transhumans will happen faster than that.
NASA putting a small handful of people on the moon for no other reason than nationalism will get you space colonies no faster than throwing people off cliffs will get you flight.
Actually no it doesn't. It about the same scale, with forces in the more sane regions. A slingatron has high speeds but *also* high forces pushing into the track. On top of that the * entire* track needs to be rotated.
Current tech really leads to mass drivers as the most "realistic" non rocket option.
Every ELE we have had so far is quite survivable as far as the species go with current technology. We would need something bigger that has hit the earth in the last 4 Billion years to wipe us out. Dito with technology. Even the ELE ones are not running to a schedule, there is no "over due" to random events.
Space nutters... Man they are nuts.
So you think we are going to make no progress whatsoever for millions of years? There is an idiot in the room. But its not who you think it is.
Lets assume orbital velocity is enough and there are no loses to the atmosphere. So we need about 7500m/s. Now we can see what acceleration we need for a track "several ks long". a=v*v/(2s) =14062m/s^2. Or 1433 g's. Best not to be a fragile meat bag. Lets assume we can make a 20km track. Well that is 10x longer so we get one tenth the acceleration. Or only 140g's. 200km seems a better 14g's. Of course this 14 g's last for 53 secs. One hell of a ride.
Real numbers would be much worse. For a muzzle V of 10km/s they are 77% worse.
The slingshot is in fact a far less realistic approach, we could build a mag train with these specs if we were so inclined to sink the billions it would cost to do so. But the slingshot has very large forces between the "track" and the projectile while still requiring a massive track that all moves!
Personally if we are going to dream then a launch loop is my preferred "rockets suck" alternative.
By the way Rockets don't suck. They do what they do well. Far better than anything else at this point. There is no reason they have to be as expensive as they currently are.
Guess how long you will need to wait for a ELE? With high probability something on the order of millions of years! At least.
Further to that point a few astronauts won't do anything to improve our survivability with a ELE.
Is it patented? And as someone who is working in the field. Most diseases, even inherited ones, are not due to single mutations...
It has been suggested that this problem can be solved with asynchronous logic. An example of different signalling with very short switch times is with Rapid single flux quantum (RSFQ) logic.
You are mostly wrong on your list. It can be fixed and can be reliable and quite frankly is reliable (tokenizing will not make it unreliable, why would it?). Thing is that it would cost a lot to change many of the older legacy systems and there is a lot of older aircraft that don't use the newer systems.
This does not spoof the military encrypted GPS band that airline GPS receivers use. Pilots seem to like flying into the ground more than machines. Current aircraft, mechanical or computational failure still results in a crashed aircraft. Pilots cannot break the laws of physics.
I don't use windows or OSX. Yet word people expect me to learn word/install windows word to help them all the time. They complain about converting it to a pdf *every* *freaking* *time*.
How many kids do you let play on your lawn? Did you walk through snow to get to school in the good ol' days in bare feet? You know i have read a few older PhDs and papers and things... they don't look better.. if fact they look like typed POS. Figures were even worse.
My main beef with using word is everyone thinks they are a typesetter and do a crap job at it. Even when using templates people still mess with margins and fonts and everything they know nothing about.
Oh and math formula that makes my eyes bleed.
Oh and the ui is insane.
Oh and i don't use windows or OSX.
That is not how you are suppose to use latex as a document writer person. You are suppose to write content only. It does formatting etc. You write chapters, figure captions and paragraphs etc. You *don't* set fonts, adjust margins or other things you probably don't have any idea on why the typesetting industry does things the way it does. And if you do it that way, many non latex people can and for me at least do edit the documents. The only one so far that won't will do pdf annotations.
Now as someone who has written a style for a publisher i can tell you that once you go beyond a style/format that someone has written for you. Its nothing like using the steering rack by hand. Its like you need to machine your own steering rack in a stack based language and mix it with broken glass, then use that with your bare hands! Oh and no vacuum assist either. And i am sure its snowing and your in bare feet or something.
I use latex a lot because its far faster than using crap WYSIWYMG (M-> Mite). I am sick of reading reports with no margins and well over 200 characters per line from my students. Horrible font choices, ugly figure placement, and sloppy notation because MS doesn't support math well enough. Its hard to read. As one of the latex guides say, a document is meant to be read. Not framed on a wall to look nice. But damit latex even makes C and its build chain look modern. We need something better, but i can't find it. And no i don't want a WYSFUCKOFF editor. I want to write content that is then formatted in a professional way. I am not a typesetting and I don't want to learn to be one.
And damit how the frack can't MS have decent math formula. They can copy the typesetting rules right out of latex quite legally. Why must my eyes bleed every time i have to read a dam MS math manuscript.
Also another point is that latex and version control does a poor job of track changes compared to MS word. Since version control is line based... no word based.
Memory mapped files work in java. And they are pretty fast too. The OS does the caching for you and will do a better job than you anyway.
You know why i don't use lisp... Because almost no one learns it, and my code needs to be accessible and multi platform. That means i can really only choose between java,C and C++. I am keeping an eye on Julia... But everyone runs away from lisp because they don't like brackets. I remind them that C syntax just uses different types of brackets and extra syntax (semi colons etc). But still a lot of brackets...and syntax and stuff.
This is an issue with any long term nuclear plan. If we do nuclear, which i doubt we will, we must have a plan for this and stop pretending its not an issue.
In their defense, you have to do this to validate fuel elements. It takes more than a decade and costs huge $$. Its one of the advantages of Liquid fuel designs and homogeneous reactors in general.
Traveling wave designs are about 65 years old too..... They should work as well as any other and have some very good points.