I've got a couple of cardboard boxes in my garage that are over 50 years old, and they're still storing things just fine.
However, if I threw one under some mulch in the back yard, it would probably biodegrade within a few months.
As for using boron and expecting nuclear things to happen, there is something similar that is already a thing. It's called boron-neutron capture therapy. It involves a chemotherapy medication that is not yet active. It incorporates boron in its structure, but is not actually active until the boron captures a neutron and transmutes into carbon. The idea is to inject the medication then aim a neutron beam at the tumor. The substance is transmuted at the beam and becomes active - but only there.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
So transmuting boron really is a thing. Whether it captures a proton as easily as it captures a neutron is another question.
The article didn't seem to have much more info than TFS so I'm guessing here, but in general, you may not need to generate net power for fusion to be useful for rocket thrust.
There's plenty of solar power available in space (at least near the inner planets), and as the Farnsworth fusor showed decades ago, it's not hard to generate fusion reactions if you don't expect positive energy output. For some space missions, propellant mass is very important, and getting the highest velocity exhaust is the goal. Using solar energy to induce fusion reactions could be one way to do this. Of course, like most ion drives, this would be very low thrust over long time spans.
How long before they add AI-generated tooltips to Notepad that show sponsored links to products and services related to what you typed?
Looks like Brandon is now a coding expert, eh?
He might be, since in this case his advice is perfectly valid.
"But Derp! Derp! I can write perfect C++!!!!"
Just shut up.
Stroustrup pointed out strengths of C++, which was designed in 1979
More accurately, the predecessor to C++ was designed in 1979. The full timeline:
1979 Development on C with Classes begun
1982 Development on C++ begun
1985 C++ released
1986 Zortech C++ for DOS released
1992 Microsoft C/C++ 7.0 released
#define PI 3.2
This gives a new meaning to Found On Road Dead.
To be fair, it's been hard for them to keep up with the constant churn of the "move fast and break things" COBOL culture.
Integer out of range
OK, I give up. Which integer is out of range?
Why not send this to see if it helps:
100 FOR X=0 to 65535
200 POKE X, INT(RND(1) * 256)
300 NEXT X
So let me get this straight. You're a Republican, and you're NOT voting for trump in November?
With your profanity-laced language and your low IQ statements, you certainly seem like you will.
For the number of articles I have read about how "self-driving cars are never going to happen," including such details as their total inability to make an unprotected left turn, Google seem to be opening a lot of (presumably functional) services.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/10...
https://www.lifewire.com/why-s...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/0...
What gives? Feels like some people desperately want them not to happen...
Should they be then talking about "endocrine-disrupting additives such as plasticizers" instead?
I don't know. Maybe they should, if you're unable to comprehend the problem otherwise.
Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.
