Microsoft smells Musk, splashes on 'Mune' space program Microsoft has filed a preliminary trademark application for “Mune,” spearheading an Amazon and SpaceX-like private space program. The trademark is described as: “Liquid propellant-fired projectile technology for orbital location of modular data distribution components. Trademark applications are much less detailed than patent …
I wonder..?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mune:_Guardian_of_the_Moon
"Meanwhile, Leeyoon (SatNad?) takes Mune's place in the temple of the Moon, but he can't control the temple. Under his watch, the Moon wanes and crumbles into dust..."
Is this a dream, or reality?
The first day of April is always such a fun day. :)
Temperature is the average energy per degree of freedom (number of particles multiplied by the number of ways they can move). In a complete vacuum, there are zero particles, and the sum of their energy is zero. Ask your C compiler, and it will tell you 0./0. is not a number.
In real life, space is not a complete vacuum. Depending on where you are, the few particles could have a large or small energy. If you had a really good thermometer, and plenty of time for it to reach equilibrium with its surroundings it could read anything from 2.7 to several million Kelvin depending on where in space you put it.
Phrases like 'Icy cold of spaaaace' have been winding me up for years, and today I snapped because I had hoped for better science from The Register even in a really cool first of April article.
AC how would you freeze?
To cool down you need something to cool into and as this is mostly a vaccuum you would perhaps be cold if you were out of the sunlight but you wouldn't be able to radiate heat as there's no molecules to radiate into, or onto.
You are more than likely to be in a cold spot but unable to dump heat which is a strange position to be in. You have more chance to hear Sounds In Space than to be able to cool down a data centre.
Temperature is the average energy per degree of freedom (number of particles multiplied by the number of ways they can move). In a complete vacuum, there are zero particles, and the sum of their energy is zero. Ask your C compiler, and it will tell you 0./0. is not a number.
Photons are particles too... The icy cold of spaaaaace has lots of them, their energy averages out to about 2.7 Kelvin.
If you made a box full of space, to exclude photons from the universe, then the box will be in equilibrium with the surrounding space- it will also radiate photons between its walls with an average energy of about 2.7 kelvin.
roaming charges when all those Windows machines in space want to 'phone home' with all that lovey data on what the users are doing.
Then there are all those lovely adverts for exotic holiday destinations going in the other direction
'Fly with MS to Titan. Lovely views of the next planet."
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...hey, as long as you're ok with the giga-millisecond latency, the pre-acoustic-modem data rate and the Arecibo-sized dish in your back yard, go right ahead...
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