Comment Re:Does this law protect puppies? (Score 5, Funny) 1168
How many Eddie Murphy movies should the owner be forced by law to screen?
Torture is also illegal
How many Eddie Murphy movies should the owner be forced by law to screen?
Torture is also illegal
IMHO the Hobby Lobby comes down to
Workers have to submit to the religious beliefs of the company's owners
And that was a decision by the Supreme Court.
Given that I am not a rocket scientist I just realized that I made an assumption about satellites in geosync orbits - that I don't know if the inclination of the earth is such that a satellite in a geosync orbit is always in sunlight.
This stupid idea gets floated every few years. It doesn't work, even in theory. Do the math yourself.
https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/the-maury-equation-redux/
I just took a look at that site, and while in general I agree with his conclusions, I am perplexed by some of the math that he uses.
For example I do not see why Tg is different for ground based versus space based systems, and why it so not eliminated as per the E term (and why is Tg higher for a space based system?). And the links he supplied for the lifetime of space based cells are frankly puzzling to me as I cannot see anything in them that backs up his assertions (which is different from saying his assertions are false).
In addition while a space based system has issues with transmission and degradation, he leaves out the fact that a space based PV system operates 24/7 with continuous output compared to an earth based system that has to deal with the vagaries of weather and that pesky thing called "night". Thus an Earth based PV system will always have to have additional non-PV infrastructure in order to deliver comparable energy delivery. So that will also change the overall economics.
The WH has plenty of very secure infrastructure but you can't see it because it is underground.
And all the stuff rumored to be on the roof as well.
Nobody would be working on methane-fueled rocket engines if they didn't have a long-term goal of colonizing Mars.
Or they might have invested heavily in cattle ranches a la Thunderdome in order to leverage a source of Methane that is currently going to waste.
Don't forget the multi-megawatt radiators needed to provide a cold sink for those reactors. Chemical rocket engines dump heat into the exhaust gases but in a vacuum radiators have to be huge and heavy to get rid of significant amounts of heat from something like a nuclear reactor. They also have to be shaded from sunlight to stop them absorbing heat...
There is always Nuclear Thermal Rockets which pour the reactors heat into the propellant.
They're getting cracked because they're not paying attention to their security.
But start-ups are all about the most buzz you can generate in the shortest time. You need to get that product out the door ASAP because your competitors aren't going to wait for you to build your secure system first. After all, you're not in the business of security, you're in the business of connecting up the most people and building your community.
*Added because even I thought I was starting to sound like a lean-startup advocate
If a two-person rule is put into place, also put into place two switches further apart than arm's reach that have to be pressed in-sync or in very close succession.
So the pilot and co-pilot are in the cockpit and the door is locked. Then one of them has a heart attack and is incapacitated. Now no-one can get into the cockpit.
Like TFS says we don't have enough info
As that's going to stop people bringing on the torches, pitchforks and pop-corn. This is FB we are talking about after all.
I know it is a long shot. But couldn't he have fainted and fallen - changing many button positions - including this.
The chances of that are about the same as those people who committed suicide by shooting themselves in the head - twice.
So you are saying: 28 year olds were perfectly fit to pursue risky adventures. Am I missing something from your argument?
Have you ever looked at the average age of air force fighter pilots? People in their mid-twenties get to fly planes packed full of munitions that can ruin your day.
Regardless, was 16 schoolkids (amongst others) on that flight. You wanna hari kari? Go ahead, but keep it on your own dime.
Invoking "Think of the children" is just as bad here as anywhere else. None of the people on that plane deserved what happened to them*
* with perhaps the exception of the co-pilot
Could someone fill me in on the economics of nuclear power generation? I'd like to know what the usual payback period for a plant is, and how much it costs to operate a plant over that period.
Well in terms of foreign aid and keeping a positive political presence in the area, the payback for Russia is priceless.
For a moment I thought that Larry was back in a new "Dream chaser" game.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
