Comment Re:Not funny... (Score 1) 85
Well, if we'd be in - say - September, that article would clearly indicate slashdot has been severely hacked.
We can only hope!
Well, if we'd be in - say - September, that article would clearly indicate slashdot has been severely hacked.
We can only hope!
The "OMG Ponies!" day was the best, but I'm liking the posts so far and found this amusing.
Yes they are amusing, but that is not what April fools day is about. It is supposed to be about (in western parlance - I'm not sure about other cultures) things from fooling you into believing something that isn't so all the way to outright pie in the face (ponies)
What we have here is someone not quite getting what the day is meant to about and as a result most of us are cringing rather than laughing.
I agree
Blackjack and hookers!
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.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.