Ultra low temperature silicon rubber springs to mind.
Could have bonded a couple of millimetres thickness onto each alloy wheel. It seems the wheels only break when they have no cushioning underneath them, then the point loads on the tread are too high.
Oh well, I guess they'll know for next time
Still unsure as to why they didn't go with polyurethane or hard plastic wheels or similar. Probably about the same weight as the alloy ones, much less susceptible to fatigue.
Might be hard to find something that's good for those temperatures, but surely not that hard. Or were they expecting more sandy areas?
It is entirely plausible that speed limit is 70, speedometer reads 70, car is actually going 72, and radar reads 73.
It's my understanding that speedometers are not allowed to under report your speed.
The manufacturing tolerances are such that the speed can show you going faster than you are, but never slower.
OTOH I'm not sure how you can reasonably legislate pics taken from drones. Do you now define a private location to include the airspace above it? But what if I am in public airspace, yet high enough to see over a wall?
Instead of playing with theoretical situations, it's easier to focus on the basic tenets of the law:
If you can see it from a "normal" location, it's not an invasion of privacy.
If you use a R/C to look over a fence, it's like using a ladder to look over the fence.
It's not a viewpoint the average person has, therefore you're invading their privacy.
TFA talks about how they propose to "reasonably legislate"
I'd encourage you to read it.
Fusion power is roughly 20 years away from being viable...and has been for the last 40 years LOL.
Longer than that. Fusion power has been hyped since the 1950s. From the article:
Nuclear fusion could come into play as soon as 2050
Heard that one before.
Fusion power has some real problems. After half a century of trying, nobody has a long-running sustained fusion reactor, even an experimental one. The whole "inertial fusion" thing turned out to be a cover for bomb research. There's a lot of skepticism about whether ITER will do anything useful. It's not clear that a fusion reactor will be cost-effective even with a near-zero fuel cost. (Fission reactors already have that problem.) It's really frustrating.
Fusion reactors are a pain to engineer. They have a big vacuum chamber with high-energy particles reacting inside, and huge cryogenic magnets outside. This is far more complicated than a fission reactor, and is why the cost of ITER keeps going up.
Let's talk about a couple of the memes:
You forgot one: I definitely would NOT hit it. Just look at those sharp knees. She is way below my standar|
Fark doesn't spare anyone. Even its own privileged white males.
You just proved my point in its entirety. You think one is wrong and the other isn't. Others believe both are wrong. You even use the same language as homophobes. They think that homosexuality is not normal, healthy or acceptable.
You can't compare pedophilia and homosexuality because ONE OF THEM INVOLVES MINORS WHO ARE UNABLE TO LEGALLY CONSENT.
Sure, the age of consent is arbitrary and varies from state to state, but that's the fundamental difference.
And I don't see the slippery slope argument that leads from consenting adults to children to animals.
It's just not there.
Gays are human, too, thus they can be just as intolerant as any other human.
"Tolerate my intolerance" is a failed argument when it comes to civil rights.
The sorts of people who buy (and know how to install) SSDs and GPUs tend to be the sorts of people who can differentiate the two.
Thus proving you really need your calculus to do compsci.
There is no "FarmBot". There is only a Kickstarter project to start a wiki to create a social network for talking about farming-related subjects, parhaps including talking about a FarmBot.
...I always drove about 5 MPH faster than the prevailing traffic speed.
Does this include the systematic error of all speedometers that show a few % more than the actual speed?
It's totally subjective, but it felt a lot safer to be determining my own path through traffic than merely fitting into the herd.
Erm, sorry, my bad. You know everything, O wise master. *baaa*
I would still like to see a fully automated farm, that requires no labor except robot maintenance. Robots to till the soil, plant the sides, harvest the crops, process them, load them on to automated trucks and ship them off to market. That would be amazing. I think a stable society in the future is going to depend on "free" food. There simply is not enough work for everyone to do, so we have massive unemployment and underemployment. We're eventually going to have to let go of the idea that you have to have a job in order to have food and shelter, but people are so scared of "socialism." "It's not fair that some people sit around and eat for free but somebody else is working in the fields!" But if you can show that food can be produced with zero human labor...wow. That's a game changer.
We have a equal opportunity Calculus class -- it's fully integrated.
