What about the contraction of angular distance around the axis of the direction of motion? As you approach the speed of light, shouldn't the field of view contract so significantly that as you're moving forwards, it appears you're moving backwards?

I didn't see that effect in the video, or did I miss it?

(eg, as you move forward at the speed of light, objects at 90 degrees to your direction will appear to be at 45 degrees to your direction )

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Next up, Kim Dotcoms create the New Zealand based MEGAparty, waiting for the day that people vote him Prime Minister of New Zealand - with his election platform based on Free MEGAbroadband for all, for FREE!

But it's ten-times better for those who register their vote for him with the MEGApartyManager...

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I didn't say it was a bad thing - but it's a stretch to imagine that this technology would be used regularly in situations that weren't life threatening.

Especially when you consider that for other applications, much cheaper technology would suffice.

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Why should the US trust US-designed equipment?. It's all manufactured in China anyway.

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Haptically Enhanced Advanced Virtual Environment Network

H.E.A.V.E.N.

Nice to see some of this technology starting to progress.

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No, it's Japanese Nuclear Worker Jobs at risk in places like Fukushima...

Not really a bad thing at all eh?

Uh, no, under TCP in most implementations I've seen, you'd ack '4 until you received '5, then you'd ack '10. In a perfect world, this would mean only 11 packets were transmitted, unless the sender chose to re-send 6 to 10.

Spending some time with a packet sniffer on different networks can be illuminating :)

Because not every implementation of TCP works the same, that makes for an effective tool to exploit vulnerabilities also in some cases, where the packets as subsequently sent contain different data from the original - as some IDSs don't cope well with understanding which packet to keep.

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No, a better idea would be to still have them, except when you click on the link, it takes you to a page where it asks for your credit card details before taking you to the link, and identifies the person responsible for the law.

*that* would be poetic...

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Actually, a militarily functional rifle would need to be in the 12kW range with a total capacity of at least 36 kW-seconds.

That equates roughly to the performance level of a modern M4.

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Yes. Because the more ways we have to kill each other, the less we are likely to use them...

I want to see a grand challenge to develop Plasma Rifles... And not the "Halo" kind, but a follow-on from the early development projects of the 1990's.

Uh, no, that's the "50 years from now" future...

Or perhaps the "200 years from now" future.

So yes, I have to agree with this. Not much will change. To see where change doesn't occur, look back over the past two centuries to see what hasn't happened as predicted and you can get a feel for future developments that people just aren't going to accept, as well as how entropy affects things.

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I take it then you've never heard of compressed-air power storage?

Same principle as with dams, except very large air tanks are used. Scroll compressors and turbines make it possible the most efficient way of storing excess power as well, and the system is near-zero maintenance, unlike batteries. Demand response is also good and the most useful thing about this system is that it scales down to tiny installations - to the point that it could be used to save power from solar during the day for overnight use.

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Those who give up essential liberty, to purchase a temporary increase in bandwidth, deserve neither liberty nor internet access...

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If you created a fiber loop around a drum, using 50 km of fiber and this technology, you would be able to use it as ultra-high-speed storage

It would store 20.8 Gbytes of information with read-write speeds of 1 Pbit per second, and a random access r/w time of 166 microseconds max.

Not bad eh? But unlikely to come in 2.5" format I suspect.

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