Mostly pattern. We used to maintain notebooks with the winning routes.
Same with most of the original old-school games. However, later versions of most games were more random than their originals.
Maybe we can get them to toss our spent fuel into an unused building at Chernobyl.
You would think so.
From TFA: " In all, Bollaert faces 31 felony counts of conspiracy, identity theft and extortion"
Well, at least a few of us are wondering how much fanfare there would be if they discovered a record high.
Disclaimer: This is not the deep south. But with double-digits below zero F every night for the past week, some global warming would be kind of nice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJUFTm6cJXM
Regarding self-discharge:
Li-Ion has a self-discharge rate of about 1% per month. A Tesla S has an 85kwh battery pack. So, 85 *
Regarding the energy used by door locks and clocks:
An average car battery is about 40 amp-hours @ about 13v. (about 0.5 kwh total capacity) Yet, you can leave a car sitting for a couple months and it still has enough energy to start the car. But the Tesla would completely drain the same battery in a half-day.
So, for a car sitting in the garage doing nothing, 1.1 kwh/day wasted energy is much better than 4.5. But it is still embarrassing for a car that claims to be green.
Bad feeling? Wait until we find out that they use Apple maps for navigation.
The real problem here is the utter insufficiency in determining when a person is really alive or dead.
^ This is the heart of the issue. Same with other dilemmas. Said differently, when does this thing become a human, and when does it cease to be a human?
I recall reading a sci-fi book back in the 70's, about a guy who was in a vegetative state. He was being kept alive on a machine, and unable to communicate. But his mind was still good enough that he could think logically. So, much of the story was about his thought process; whether or not he wished he were dead, and how this compares to a person who has good physical health but no mind. Sorry that I could not find it via Google. But it was an interesting read that got you thinking.
If a machine is faking a heart beat on an lump of rotting meat, then by all means pull the plug. But if there is still a functioning brain that lost connectivity with the body, then the decision becomes more difficult. In my case, if I'm capable of reasoning, then I'd just as well spend the rest of my life daydreaming while keeping a distant hope that I could someday be connected up to some sensors and actuators. But I can understand how many people would prefer that someone pulls the plug.
Either way, a living will would help a lot, and save the prospective plug-puller a lot of anguish.
Yes, good ol' Libertarian "The government shouldn't violate my right to violate others rights!"
I assume you made that up to sound clever.
From the very first part of their faq: http://www.lp.org/faq "Essentially, we believe all Americans should be free to live their lives and pursue their interests as they see fit as long as they do no harm to another." I'm pretty sure that the "do no harm to another" phrase applies here.
This is mission control. I said to ask MARVIN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Martian -- not MAVEN.
Here's the US ground station map. http://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/control/ Nothing in Russia.
Can't the Russians just put theirs in Cuba?
Think they considered hanging a camera on each of those balloons? Nah. Who would want that?
A Ford F-150 truck with Ecoboost weighs 4,935 pounds. A Tesla S weighs 4,647. Right about the same weight.
The F-150 is a full-size truck with a heavy chassis, and a 11,300 pound towing capacity. A Tesla S is a little sedan. By the time the Tesla S is beefed up to truck capability, it is going to weigh a lot more than the Tesla sedan, and also a lot more than the F-150.
The F-150 pays fuel taxes which are used for road maintenance. The much heavier Tesla will pay zero. Plus, the F-150 owner will help pay for the Tesla's rebate.
See above comments. FTFA: "to commercialize the unproven technology of floating offshore wind power" Keyword: floating.
Don't blame your reading skills on Fox.
Exactly. With a straight face, they cite statistics comparing a new $100,000 Tesla with an old beater that is held together with duct tape and probably worth a few hundred bucks.
It's not exponential. Energy required per unit distance is roughly proportional to the square of speed.
So, if AC's Vette gets 26 MPG at 66 mph, then it would work out to roughly 6.5 MPG at 132 mph.
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