American television is no longer informative. The high-quality overseas news agencies and documentary shows you read online are, to me, domestic ones broadcast nightly.
I mean, I channel surfed into a first-rate Feynmann doc the other night at the height of prime-time.
Back when there were no card- or board-game nights ("free time" is a Victorian construct) people got a lot more done and there was less crime, too.
Some people "zone out" while watching TV. Some people actually pay attention. I typically watch movies and serial drama on mine, so it's not really an option.
Maybe this is the solution to the Fermi paradox, all the other aliens are hiding on their planets pissing themselves about imagined invaders too.
Of course to replicate the exact quantum states you have to overcome the uncertainty principle, which in Star Trek involved the Heisenberg Compensator. (Which is always being overlooked in favour of the inertial dampener by people compiling "most transparently token solution to a physics problem" lists.)
Palletised cargo is not the same thing as a big clip-on self-contained cargo module for an aircraft.
Maybe not every kind of creation is the creation of computer software? Maybe computers can be good for things other than computer-oriented tasks?
The first lego "kits" appeared in 1964; there was already a motorised Lego train set by 1968. While there was certainly a "dark age" of kits with specially-designed non-transferrable parts in the 2000s, I really don't think the construction-only "golden age" of Lego you're imagining actually existed.
If you need confirmation, observe that a lot of cargo is moved by plane already and none of it is moved by a system like the one they're describing, even though it'd be far simpler than doing it with passengers. If the engineering and economics don't work for dead weight, what hope do they have at working for people?
Speeds that are the product of an irrational number and the speed of light cannot be expressed as a fraction. Consider yourself out-pedanted.
560 pieces.
In fall 2011, I have designed a model of the ATLAS experiment made entirely of LEGO bricks.
It illustrates all details, from the muon and magnet system to the innermost pixel detector and will hopefully be a great eye-catcher for all generations. Here's some key features:
ATLAS LEGO model
about 9500 pieces
roughly 1:50 in scale
(close to scale with the LEGO man)
material cost of about 2000 Euros
(payed by the high energy physics group at the Niels Bohr Institute)
about 1 m x 0.5 m x 0.5 m in size
approximately 33 hours construction time
(spread out over several weekends and after hours)
around 48 hours to build the 3D model
(a one-timer though)
As a follow up to the 1:50 model, I also designed a smaller and cheaper miniature model in LEGO bricks.
Though it does not illustrate all details, the key features of ATLAS are visible. Here's some key features:
ATLAS LEGO mini
560 pieces
roughly 1:2000 in scale
material cost of about 75 Euros
about 22 cm x 11 cm x 11 cm in size
approximately 90 minutes construction time
around 7 hours to build the 3D model
(a one-timer though)
(You need to click "ATLAS model" in the second link)
There's already airport-like security for the Chunnel; if the "special" line's platform is isolated, it doesn't affect other trains or users of the station.
"I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." - Corporal Hicks, in "Aliens"
