Comment Re:J. Paul Getty Maxim (Score 1) 181
"All things come to those who wait"
Yes, but we want asteroids, not meteorites. Or worse, an impactor that doesn't just break up and lie there.
"All things come to those who wait"
Yes, but we want asteroids, not meteorites. Or worse, an impactor that doesn't just break up and lie there.
The results, surprisingly, are mixed
Why is that surprising?
Uh, I don't see a lot of halfies in your link. A front engine block may be preventing an outright split, while in a Tesla the "engines" are more distributed. Whether this means gas cars are "safer" or not in practice is another matter.
Maybe the distributed nature of Tesla's engines means that side impacts are safer at the expense of front impacts.
Two half-people dying equals one whole person dying.
except on Tuesday during Fizbin games.
Elon Musk can no longer say that no one's ever died in a Tesla automobile crash [because a thief died stealing one].
Don't underestimate the adaptability of a good marketer:
"No owner has ever died in a Tesla crash"
I'll believe that when I see a process for refining the raw materials in orbit and producing something usable out of them. As is, asteroid mining endeavors are nothing short of magical thinking.
So nothing is real or possible before you see it? Why not kill yourself now, then? After all, tomorrow may never come.
People smarter than you (or I) believe that mining asteroids is not only possible but even feasibly. That doesn't mean that it is, of course. It only means that I have no reason to give a shit what you think about asteroid mining.
That sounds more like Microsoft Windows
It's a cartel. Put together to ensure the companies in that cartel are safe from patents from one another, while they will continue to use them against companies not in their cartel.
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If this isn't illegal, it bloody well should be.
OK. Tell that to MPEG-LA. By your definition it's a cartel plus extortion. Have fun with that.
Asteroid mining is the only way we're going to build large structures in space anytime "soon". There's plenty of asteroids, this issue can be revisited later.
"Chantal Abergel and Jean-Michel Claverie were used to finding strange viruses..."
Is this the modern version of, "It was a dark and stormy night..." ?
He is from Taiwan, not China.
You sure about that? Maybe he lied on that also. Hell, maybe he's not even Asian, or a "he".
No, Microsoft's MIDI renderer is complete shit. Or did you mean on Linux? True, one can install replacements.
The sample being 30,000 years old doesn't seem significant because it's quite recent relative to the history of life, and even primates. The same kind of virus or a close relative is probably still around and the sample age probably has nothing to do with its size, but rather a happenstance of observation in that we tend to study old things harder than we do current things, and thus notice more.
God likes 'em big
So either he has VERY special unique requirements that he hasn't clearly communicated,
Why is low power consumption a special, unique requirement? All of my computer equipment was chosen and/or assembled with low consumption in mind. My Desktop's TDP is under 350W and I can play games at 1920x1200, albeit not with everything turned on any more. I have a small fleet of netbooks for performing long-running tasks or for traveling, I sold an HP EliteBook and bought three of them. I even took an EEE 701 4GB running Jolicloud on a six-week vacation to Panama. My most power-hungry portable has two cores and the CPU has a TDP of 13W, and I'm undervolting.
Much of the goal was to be able to run on solar for long periods, which I do occasionally. Not so much lately, unfortunately, but I've mostly rebuilt my mobile solar rig. That reminds me, I should order some aluminum piano hinge.
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor... is to discourage... from expecting too much from mathematics. -- N. Wiener
