Comment Re:Maybe won't make any difference (Score 2) 142
Solution:
Build the ship out of uranium.
As you approach c, it becomes more mass. Feed that mass into a nuclear reactor to drive the propulsion. Ship becomes less massive. Science, bitches.
Solution:
Build the ship out of uranium.
As you approach c, it becomes more mass. Feed that mass into a nuclear reactor to drive the propulsion. Ship becomes less massive. Science, bitches.
Based on what we *know* right now, our best-bet is to build a series of self-sustainable "generation ships"; (very-large spacecraft, capable of sustaining human life over the course of several generations, including the necessary ecosystems to support such life.)
Such technology is at least theoretically do-able, from a technical standpoint.
From an ECONOMIC standpoint, of course, it is as impossible as faster-than-light travel. To expend the money required for such an enterprise, to send-off one or more such "generation ships", with no possible ROI within the lifetime (or thousands of lifetimes) of the investor, is not something that can be done with a civilization that does not even want to invest the money to educate their own children.
And this would only happen if we knew, for certain, that the destination worlds were inhabitable. (and not yet inhabited). And even if they were, we would have to wait thousands of years for the colony to develop to the point of economic viability so that they could even send a response.
I think it's transmitted by LSD. My computer stopped doing that kind of stuff as soon as I stopped taking it.
Maybe one of the editors is trying to get an FP.
Where, exactly, were these "packets" flowing when the networking cards were removed?
Are they UDP or TCP?
How long does it take you to download a movie over your speaker?
Google is "troubled" but I doubt they will raise a much bigger fuss than that. Why? Because they are competing for government contracts against Microsoft and other vendors for Cloud services etc. So while this deeply undermines the company, they probably won't get too loud about it until it starts to wreck their reputation too severely.
The solution is pretty simple (re: "kicking companies' asses") . . . a Corporate Charter is a legal instrument GRANTED BY GOVERNMENT, to a corporation. It's in the common interest for corporate charters to exist, in most cases. But when that ceases to be - then the government should be much more eager to just revoke the charter. (In modern law, this is actually very difficult; akin to depriving people of property.
Another is vaccination, where I have a very clear interest in everyone else getting vaccinated - to increase the level of herd immunity, so that diseases have fewer viable hosts, reducing my chance of becoming infected. Damn viruses are commies.
Yes - this kind of procurement scam used to be illegal.
Before Bush's wars.
(yes, I do fault Obama for taking advantage of it, instead of fixing it, like he promised. But congress under Bush pretty much unanimously legalized this no-bid contract procedure - with nary a whimper of opposition).
Werner Von Braun is dead.
And his dream was to conquer space. Not health insurance.
So the flying spaghetti monster could, one day, be for real...
It was created when a walking lasagne monster got too close to a black hole.
this is rediculous
I thought you said it was radiation.
If someone falls into a black hole, is their soul stuck there for the 62 zillion years it takes the black hole to evaporate?
If you pushed someone into a black hole, could you beat the murder rap by pointing out that he still hadn't finished falling in, from the jury's reference frame?
If you modified Shrõdinger's experiment so that the decay of an atom dropped the cat into a black hole rather than gassing it, then put a cat in the box to create a superposition of "the cat is in the black hole" and "the cat is not in the black hole", is it possible for the superposition to collapse to "the cat is not in the black hole"?
I don't think we can see anything at all, at present, other than their gravitational effect. For example, the mass of something at the center of our galaxy can be determined by the orbits of some stars zipping around it, and the size of those orbits put an upper bound on that something's diameter.
If we were nearer we should be able to see something similar to black body radiation, assuming we weren't blinded by the material swarming around it and falling in.
Interestingly, some physicists think that we might be able to "see" inside a black hole by detecting gravitons / gravity waves.
Wow. It's pretty pathetic when the only 'good' thing you have to say about something is that it's not quite as bad as something else.
Unfortunately, that's the way of it when the topic is major US political parties.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
