Re: May??
Microgravitation related illness.
Ah, unless you are talking about in transit (and we have had folks in microgravitation for quite long time periods) then the last time I looked mars had a perfectly reasonable gravitation field.
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In our early development (late 80's) we had an unintentional tester - one Higgins. He could and did break anything. So somewhat cruelly and arbitrarilly we made our standard unit of testing the 'Higgins' So if could use it for 10 hours without breaking it, it had passed to a standard of 10 Higgins.
care to specify which treaties the AUKUS is in breach of? There are no nuclear weapons on the subs; the reactors are nukes but:
* They are sealed for the lifetime of the vessels
* They are similar to 'peaceful' nuclear power stations
* They cannot be made into explosive devices
* According to the UN China exported about 540$Billion of nuclear technology including reactors in 2021, this too would have broken you alleged treaty violations.
* There is no proliferation
* Get a life. Or at least one with some facts in it.
And when I worked for a certain logistics support firm in the late 90's they were still passing round a script to make things easier; which granted top level rights to whoever ran it in SQL server. There was also no security either physical nor IT on the cheque printer and the only concern they seemed to have was whether or not I could legally write an API which would require only 1 licence to access the DB, rather than one per user.
They were actually very good at repeating the practices of the 1950's in logistic support, very good at bringing their accountancy into the 1970's, superb at loosing their copy of the contract which stated that whether the access was through an interface or direct they still required a licence per user, immensely concerned at saving a few tens of hundreds of pounds by taking acts that could well have been described as fraud (I did say I dealt with their management, not their accountants) and couldn't give a shit that I could create a firm, add it to their billing list and pull shed loads of money out, removing the sums from their reported in payments and from their out payments, so that the books still ballanced and it would take me about four hours plus the fifteen seconds it required me to get to the cheque printer, to which I had access as I was supposed to be responsible for physical issues there too.
Oh, and just before someone says that it would have shown in the outgoings, that was done through the same server account too. So if you did a paper reconcilliation you would find it matched the SQL server, it would have only been if you did a line by line check you might have found the "missing links".
And they were trying to save a few hundred (<5K) pounds a year.
Do rocks etc not presently on earth run that much faster tnan geolocated ones? Perhaps we should be equiping our future, astro, taiko, cosmo, naughts with shotguns and external speakers pre-programmed to shout (in whatever passes for the luminiferous ether) "PULL!", as well. No icon as neither Einstein nor Michaelson Morley.
Mind you, in very high G wells one could well imagine a scenario where locally they moved like fuck whilst still dawdling to the long way away located external observer.
You have to remain sufficiently behind the vehicle in front to stop safely. As a frequent motorway user I can assure everyone that this is followed religiously*
*Def: religiously; not seen as terribly important since the glorious revolution but makes bods feel self justified so long as it doesn't have to change their behaviour
In the very early days,phones were like a brick (you may find some of them visible in the walls of your house) and were more annoying since the users frequently used them to indicate "I've got a mobile phone". This was before apple iphones or generic phones and were severely irritating to those of us at the Trent Bridge test match.
I have to admit I did not do this, but some chappie in front of me, after a few minutes requesting silence, grabbed the phone and threw it onto the outfield.
'T rude bugger who was distressing all of us went off to find a local bobby. I can't remember who was fielding but the phone disappeared, but what I can remember very clearly was the young, highly competant copper coming into the stand and asking, loud and clearly, when the over was over, "did anyone see a man throwing something onto the field of play?" As the west indian supporters were in the adjacent stand, with whom we were exchanging our beers and their uncommon smoking substances we could reply "NO", quite honestly, we were too high and pissed and to busy laughing to notice the alledged perp.
"T' copper, walked off with a big grin on his face, explaining without evidence he could do fuck all.
Great 22 year old. And I know cos I bought him a beer in the Trent Bridge Tavern a bit later.
I had one today - trying to help me with my 'slow' internet. For some reason communications broke down. I'll use asterisks to prevent shy embarassed criminals from being upset
HIM: Is there any particular time when your internet is slow?
ME: Well yes actually.
HIM:When
ME: When I'm trying to upload pictures of me shagging your mother up the *rse.
ME: Strange she really reminds me of you.
HIM: What?
ME: Yes, she even looks like a c*nt. Piss off criminal.
No, this is absolute barrel scraping:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/29/eu_commission_vaccine_contract_redaction_fail/
And my comment on it at the time was:
"Re: Clearly states the first batch is manufactured in EU, not UK
Section 5.4 specifically states that it only applies to section 5.4. Thus it cannot be applied to any other part of section 5 including section 5.1 which requires "best endeavours" to manufacture the vaccine in the EU. Thus UK production can not be included in section 5.1. The blatant claim by Ursula that this only applied during the development of the vaccine and not during it's production is a good example of a usually honest politician doing what so many politicians do best - lying (IMHO)."
Why bother? China has many plateaux higher than that. And if we are already getting for free 4* the energy density at the equator why not just put the solar plant on the ground there, rather than in space? Lots of advantages and huge areas of equatorial surface available, much of it comes with free easily available cooling water, albeit a bit salty. No need for expensive pesky rockets at all.
One of the biggest issues will be seeing and identifying the target. Spotting a drone, even with the annoying whine at ranges in excess of a couple of hundred meters on a noisy battlefield will be problematical. A narrow beam would prevent shotgun like firing whilst possibly reducing power consumption, but make the probability of causing effective interference significantly lower. And what if it is your drone, doing a good thing?
GPS spoofing is doable but much more difficult from below (think shielded antennae) and would presumably significantly increase the cost. Jamming would be a lot cheaper, but we still come back to the cost of stopping versus the cost of the target equation.
Finally I wouldn't like to have a bloody great emr noise emitter on a battlefield. Home on jam may be feasible for suicide drones, or just a few rounds of 122 / 152mm HE.
Well I've jumped out of a fucking plane with two parachutes,
And neither worked as well as I could have wanted.
The first didn't tell me I was in a shitty place until the wind blew me across the combine harvester storage area [No, I am serious] and the second couldn't get me out of the mess when I found the first wasn't working. Still here with some small bits of titanium generously donated by the taxpayer via the NHS, and I have now a life (not so very long left) concern about however many parachutes you can have, if they
* Come too far down the decision tree
* Don't understand the interdependanilty risks
* Don't take the external environment [just where are those fucking combine harvester storeyards]
* Don't understand the risks [So what is so bad about being 30 feet above a group of parked harvesters when you are dropping at 15 - 30 feet per second (big fat bugger on a T10)]
* And finally for me, but there are lots more: Not all risks are combine harvesters, the NHS can't fix everything.
Human life can't last forever because it (the universe) existed priorly without human life. Assuming an inifinite life for the universe then human life's finite duration is effectively zero compared to an infinity. Thus we never existed anyway. So much for the strong anthropic principle.
No - it may be valuable in the future. What has the sun done to upset you? Fire it in small quantities in cometary like orbits - something like spinlaunch would be ideal for this - encase the hot stuff in a suitable material and keep that wheel spinning.
50 launchers whanging out 10 launches each of 50kg high level waste per day could get rid of it into cometary like orbits in about 25 years (250,000 tonnes of high level waste around). That's not long, it just becomes an engineering problem.
Surely the best way is to ensure e2ee and then, as the service provider create a second layer of encryption over that. Thus my e2ee service will nor know your keys but will ensure that the transport layer data is securely overencrypted.
So when HMG or similar or quasi-legal entities request access we can deliver that on proof of warrant. This will protect against casual hackers whilst ensuring that your already encrypted messages are secure against attack <g>.
Thus we can protect against non authorised interception whilst leaving your safety in your own hands...
And for a small extra fee we can produce significantly different large prime numbers preventing against near prime number identification.
How could this be an issue?
Well there are a couple of things to consider here:
To paraphrase Douglas Adams - "Mostly Harmless"
So if you keep flagging up flags (I see what I did there) you will eventually get labelled as not a problem. We are seeing this in the UK now - with shed loads of targets we now find MI5 having to use arbitrary rules as to which ones to whack off (sorry, meant follow).
In the mid eighties I was a member of Compuserve MilForum and often spoke on the phone to American and other colleagues about all sorts of things including I know nor whatever. An aquaintance of mine asked if that were deliberate. I sort of stated I didn't realise that it mattered, to which his reply was something along the lines of "well no one listens to you any more".
Of course I didn't understand that and carried on with my normal life.
But this story sort of indicates the issues of using AI driven interpretations of reality. Yes Facebook (sory, bollixia) can keep track of data - and can make serious estimations of you and your intents. If you don't put y9ur stuff up they can do the same. But the key issue to me is ownership, (and spoofing just for fun.). They can have as many predictive systems as they like, you can have as many games as you like. When they come up with:
"You should join this group"
"Biil Blogs has changed his gender by self descrption and now wishes to be known as MaryFuckwit" you as the recimpient have multiple choices
You can ignore it, which may leae to even more enticing reasons to be a target
You can respond with a meaningful response (not reccomended)
Or you can respond with arbitrary statements designed to make the AI lifes untennable. And I think I need to think about it again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96rC4X_KWl4