But not geostationary (unless the mountain were at the equator) so while you might not fall down, you'd be in a bit of an awkward orbit yourself, relative to that mountain. Quick, someone try it in Kerbal Space Program!

One of the problems with building a space elevator on Mars is that it would be higher then the (innermost) moon, which would come say "Hi!" every few hours, moving quite fast.

No different than an iceberg: when you stand on an iceberg your height above the seawater is much higher than the visible height of the iceberg above the sea.

You must be new here. Here on /. we say "you insensitive clod". We do have our traditions you know.

You need the backing of your party to do the fake-filibuster thing. Obviously, most senators in both parties love the NSA, the Patriot act, the who deal, and wouldn't support him. So a real filibuster was his only option. At least he's doing what he can - good for him!

Last year I was looking into getting either a Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone Black. BBB had a newer ARM rev for the CPU, so it can run more kinds of OS. But the RPi has the removable flash as its drive, so you can easily load whatever OS image you want, change OSs by switching flash chips, and if you hose it too badly you can take it out and reload, without worrying about whether you've bricked the board. Also, the specs at the time said the RPi had a better GPU, and could do 1080p at 60 Hz vs. only 30Hz for BBB, which means I can plug it into TVs and monitors without as much flicker. I chose the RPi.

BBB nominally costs a bit more, but by the time you buy cases and power supplies and flash and such, it pretty much balances out.

Nice to see somebody getting it right.

Actual north since that is the one we use to define the lines of longitude and latitude which determine north, east, south and west and besides the north pole of the Earth's magnetic field is actually near the south pole which is why the north poles of magnets point north.

Agreed. A better, and more recent one, which you might nat have seen would be this one.

Actually the answer is the north pole and a circles of lat 1 + 1 / (2*pi*n) north of the south pole where n=1,2,3,4... etc. plus there is a slight correction because the surface of the earth is not entirely flat and so the circumference of a line of latitude is actually less than 2*pi*s where s is the arc length from the line to the south pole for the distances involved it would probably be negligible compared to surface defects.

It's not about "do you have this specific must-have thing I'm looking for"; it's about "lets swap all the all the movies each of us has ever ripped/torrented, so now both our collections are larger".

The only stuff I watch on my TV are the few titles Netflix has for streaming, or anything from my hard drive. I still have hundreds of DVDs in boxes, but I never watch them directly -- the UI is too annoying. Anything "must watch", I'll buy the DVD, rip it, and watch it immediately, but that's only a few titles a year. When I'm bored, I'll look through my movie directory and see if anything looks interesting enough to watch.

Really? So you clearly have never built anything (especially in the US where you use all those fractions of an inch). I'd also watch our for those government tax collectors if you did not use any maths to fill in your tax return....and that's before we even mention finances with interest rates etc.

I strongly suspect that you use maths a whole lot more than you realize...unless you really are a genuine troll and live in a cave.

Ah but using a pen teaches them not to make mistakes!

Yes but the strength of materials is usually measured by elastic modulus which has the same dimensions as pressure. Hence, although a bike will elastically deform a small area of the surface with the pressure it applies, it will deform it more than a car with lower pressure tyres. However I doubt this is where the damage comes from but rather from the motion of the vehicle. The dynamic load of a car travelling at speed will be many, many times greater than a cyclist who is less massive and slower moving. Similarly for lorry it will be many times larger still than a car. We would need an engineer to confirm but I expect that this is where the damage comes from since the dynamic load can be many times larger than the static one.

In addition it will be interesting to hear how they plan to tax non-residents, including those of us from Canada. The nice thing with taxing petrol is that you are likely to fill up somewhere in Oregon if you are driving through. There is no extra delay and most people passing through will end up paying no matter where they live. With a mileage tax system are they going to stop you at the border and take a reading and a second when you leave? If not then suddenly non-residents will be paying nothing unfairly increasing the burden on those who live there.