Posts by SavageMind

Silicon Valley VCs: We're gonna make California great again – on its own

Re: The nation of Texas

Texas power grid is independent, ERCOT Electric Reliability Council of Texas.While it can provide surplus and often does during the summer to the national power grid. It's not regulated by the US government like the rest of the nation.

Note to Captain Kirk: Warp speed will kill you

SavageMind

I disagree with your example. "Acceleration between 0 and 5 mph would kill you if it were sufficiently rapid. Don't take my word for it just drop a fine wine glass onto concrete from ~20 cm" You cite a example of deceleration to prove your point of acceleration. I think a more appropriate example would be. Throw a very full water balloon too quickly and it will exploded in your hand from the gravities created by inertia. However there as been some work done, I beleive in Russia creating a dampening field. So far it requires 16 Tesla's to generate the power to lift a single frog and some modifications to the frog. It's still progress though.

Bad example

I disagree with your example. "Acceleration between 0 and 5 mph would kill you if it were sufficiently rapid. Don't take my word for it just drop a fine wine glass onto concrete from ~20 cm" You cite a example of deceleration to prove your point of acceleration. I think a more appropriate example would be. Throw a very full water balloon too quickly and it will exploded in your hand from the gravities created by inertia. However there as been some work done, I beleive in Russia creating a dampening field. So far it requires 16 Tesla's to generate the power to lift a single frog and some modifications to the frog. It's still progress though.