The Chinese have these kinds of robots deploying much larger installations. They also have drones that fly panels into mountainous areas for installation.
Not that I'm knocking it, it's good that they are copying good ideas. The cheaper solar gets the better, and for political reasons stuff like this has to be home grown.
Lebo Mâ(TM)s legal team recently signaled interest in exploring a structured settlement with the comedian.
I'll bet. His case has less than no chance in court.
Just wait until you see Steam Machine pricing.
Anyway, Sony can jog on. They raised prices in Europe when Trump brought tariffs in on Americans.
in his actual papers on relativity mass does not "create gravitation." Energy, momentum and some off-diagonal terms like stress and pressure gravitate. There is no mass term in the stress-energy tensor
There most certainly is. Density-- mass per unit volume-- is the (0,0) term of the stress-energy tensor.
If the launch fails at a point where it is say 50 miles up, and the reactor has been turned on prior to launch.
The conops says that the reactor doesn't get turned on until after it's successfully placed in a high orbit.
A good feature of nuclear reactors is that they aren't dangerously radioactive until after you turn them on.
There will be no manned Mars missions: radiation.
Not a showstopper, but definitely a problem that needs to be addressed.
It's not per se a deadly amount of radiation, but it does increase the astronaut's risk of cancer. A quick calculation once suggested that a trip to Mars and back would give you an increased risk of cancer roughly equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. Robert Zubrin once quipped that the answer is simple: pick astronauts who are smokers... and don't send any cigarettes with them.
The problem is that no one has any doable idea to stop it.
To the contrary, this has been analyzed a lot, and there are many ideas for how to stop it. With respect to the current topic, one idea is simply to use a more effective engine, and make the trip faster to shorter the exposure.
And this isn't the milk toast radiation we get around the Earth. This is the really nasty stuff from the rest of the Universe.
Really there are two types of radiation to worry about. One is solar protons (coronal mass ejections, or "CME"s), and the other is galactic cosmic rays ("GCR"s).
And if you are lucky, you won't run into a solar flare on the way.
That, at least, is a solvable problem. The protons from a solar flare can be seen in advance, and last only a day or so. You can make a small portion of the spacecraft a "storm shelter" with enough shielding to stop protons (light elements are best for stopping protons; water, for example, is a great dhielding material. GCRs are harder to stop). It would be too heavy to shield the entire ship, but the astronauts can stay in their shelter for a day or so. GCRs you simply have to live with. This risk is cumulative, so the solution is to go as fast as possible.
Aside from the pretty lights, it is really nasty radiation. Don't forget to protect your space craft's instruments, they are more delicate than even you.
Protecting electronics is something we already know how to deal with. We have robotic probes that have been operating for literally years in deep space, not to mention one probe that routinely dips into the ferocious radiation environment of Jupiter's radiation belts.
Noticed, that nowhere in the article did it mention the actual fusion creation
You got it. They ignited a plasma. They did not ignite a fusion reaction.
Igniting a plasma isn't hard. I do it every time I turn on a fluorescent light (but not a high temperature plasma).
It is a start, bravo for them. But it's only a single step on a very very long journey.
It depends on what you want.. If you want a non upgradable appliance that kinda just works as long as you do it the Apple way, they are fine.
The advantage of a PC is you can pick your components and upgrade them, but with the downside that you may have issues like the one I described.
Had one just this week. Of course we were zapping a Raspberry Pi with 8,000V.
That's the reason why Windows has more crashes. Very varied hardware. I had an issue where sometimes the machine would fail to come back from sleep or hibernation, which turned out to be because sometimes the PCIe link training either failed or came up with a different result for the GPU. Setting the BIOS to force it to PCIe 4 fixed it. Similarly a friend had random crashing which was fixed by running his RAM slightly below rated speed.
Some people just have crap hardware too. Weak power supplies, failing drives, inadequate cooling.
Macs only do better because Apple tightly controls the hardware. Prebuilt Windows machines are probably similarly reliable, at least from people like Lenovo and maybe Dell.
Here's a case of a very experienced journalist getting caught by including made-up quotes that had been hallucinated by the AI he'd used to summarize research information: https://www.theguardian.com/te...
Vandermeersch added: “It is particularly painful that I made precisely the mistake I have repeatedly warned colleagues about: these language models are so good that they produce irresistible quotes you are tempted to use as an author. Of course, I should have verified them. The necessary ‘human oversight’, which I consistently advocate, fell short.”
When even experienced journalists fail to find AI hallucinations, you really can't expect unpaid volunteers to do better.
I suppose to be fair the UK isn't so much better. The police can make these requests themselves. They have an oversight group, but they rubber stamp everything it seems. Hundreds of thousands of requests per year.
it means that arms can be regulated, but cannot be banned
Banning is a form of regulation. "v. to govern or direct according to rule"
Yes. To be precise, banning is a form of regulation which the amendment forbids. Regulation OTHER than banning is not forbidden.
Most Chinese phones use Android. Google could be huge there, but choose not to be.
They gave the Chinese government access to Chinese user's data years ago. They don't seem to have an issue with governments gaining warrantless access to their systems.
If you care about privacy, go Android. Google does require warrants, and doesn't operate in China due to the warrantless access requirement.
Slowly and surely the unix crept up on the Nintendo user ...
