dharak1

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Now that I think about it aircraft carriers are amazingly effective at what they do. If the only thing able to take one down during a war was a nuke it would be a total disaster to basically tell the public you have to nuke the ocean near their homes. Think about it, during the meltdown at Fukushima people were going crazy about the radiation and that was on the other side of the planet. If there was an aircraft carrier attacking the wast coast a few hundred Km out and the US dropped a nuke on it it would be a PR disaster. "United States poisons worlds oceans" even if the fallout was no immediate threat it would be impossible to tell people otherwise just like Fukushima.

It's a shame that the landing wasn't an hour or two later, my science teacher would probably let us watch it on the projector while we were working.

Good separation, loving the little celebration they had.

Something I would like would be a Pacific Rim Kinect game with something like the Rift implemented and that hand tracking thing. It would be pretty cool.

AW is actually pretty good. I still like BO2 better though still though. In my list it would be Titanfall, BO2, Altitude, KSP.

One thing I want to mention, Spoilers ahead. On the ice planet where they get Mann shouldn't his life support have failed? Even if he actually reused the power source from his robot thing shouldn't he have died? Earlier in the movie they say that the pods the original 12 were sent out with had slightly more than 10 years of life support. If we assume that the new crew arrives at the water planet just 5 years after all the Lazarus missions landed and they spent 23 years there according to the guy just outside of this crazy time dilation zone. That means 23 extra years have passed on Mann's planet too. 23+5=28. With pods designed for a bit more than 10 years it's crazy it lasted that long, of course he reused the source from his robot and CASE also had to last 23 years but the power source of CASE and the other robot are probably the same and I doubt CASE could power a whole pod for living in.

While on the topic of speed what is the orbital speed of the probe? What kind of orbit is it even in? How many Km above the surface is it?

Ah, I always get them mixed up. Isn't the difference about outgassing and the periapsis and apoapsis or something like that? Or how comets have tails?

Put this in the wrong Interstellar thread accidentally: This movie was filmed in Southern Alberta? That's interesting. Saw it last night and it got a little strange towards the end. I have to say the ammonia atmosphere planet event happening was a bit predictable and I didn't appreciate the orbital jump scare and loud noise. Over all, it was a pretty good movie just a bit long.

This is the first landing on a comet? Didn't Japan land a probe a while ago called Hyabusa or something recently and they were putting names on the second one? Or was that just and orbiter?

This movie was filmed in Southern Alberta? That's interesting. Saw it last night and it got a little strange towards the end. I have to say the ammonia atmosphere planet event happening was a bit predictable and I didn't appreciate the orbital jump scare and loud noise. Over all, it was a pretty good movie just a bit long.

Rocheworld from the book of the same name is pretty cool. Hard to explain so I would read the Wikipedia page if you want to know more but the basic idea is a double planet where the planets are very close and share an atmosphere and water from one occasionally gets to the other. Edit: Ninja'd

Do you mean 5cm? Because 5mm is insanely small.

In reality you can fuel a rocket with anything. You can throw human waste out of a spacecraft to propel it. And correct me if I'm wrong but if you had an extremely dense element it could be extremely efficient per volume unit even just by throwing it out of the back of a rocket. By extremely dense I mean something with a density like 400 tons per cubic meter.

Pretty addictive. Just played it for a while. I can see it as a good time waster.

K^2 you're better than this, he's just a troll that'll get cleared out by a mod in a while. Don't let him get you caught up in this.

Looks like they need a poster like the one for the Saturn V that tells you what end points up

Wouldn't things like tablets be extremely useful in space due to their reduced weight? From what I've seen of the laptops on the ISS they aren't the lightest machines in the world and I know they're rad hard and that's why they're so far behind but do you really need that much protection in just LEO. You could easily save 3 lbs on weight by using tablets and maybe more. In regards to screen resolution I can tell the difference as well. The change from a ~340 PPI display to a ~540 PPI display is amazing. I can see what you mean about how no one knows what to do with the extra power. I have 16 Gb of ram in my desktop and I used to use more than 8 Gb regularly but now I rarely use more than 6. There are rumors floating around that HTC's next tablet will have 5 Gb of ram but I find it hard to believe.

But what do the internals look like? If it only has a battery 2.74 times the amp hours at the same density shouldn't it only be 2.74 times the size? My phones battery is about an inch and a half by 2 inches and maybe a quarter inch thick. If you multiply that by 3 that means a battery 6 inches long by 1.5 inches by a quarter inch. Much smaller than the the total volume of the tablet. what else is inside of it? Is it a bunch of empty PCB with a few chips? Is component density on tablets that much lower than phones?

The oppo N3 claims to have some kind of special cooling device. Probably just marketing BS though. One thing I want to know is why phablets don't overtake regular smartphones specs-wise. Or even tablets. My phone, the Oppo Find 7 has 3 Gb of RAM and a quad core 2500 MHz processor. A larger phone with something like a 6 inch screen could pack more parts in, so why don't they? My tablet, a Samsung Tab Pro 10.1 only has 2 Gb of RAM and 2 sets of 4 cores at 1.9 GHz and 1.3 GHz. Why cant a tablet be built to be even twice the power of a phone a third of the size? Is it because they have larger batteries or something? I wouldn't even mind if they made it 2mm thicker to match up with many phablets.

Camacha is right. Isn't that another thing special about mammals is that males are larger? Of course if Kerbals are based off of humans then that may be the case but it would also imply they are mammals.

Oh man they can definitely do a manned mission. Get someone curled up in that bugger with some doritos, mountain dew and a PS Vita and I would do it if I got to go around the moon and see it even out of that tiny circle. Seems like a nice cozy way to spend a few weeks.

I've been looking for a phone with more than 3Gb of ram recently or even something with a screen better than 2k (1440p). Recently phones that are as good as desktops just about a decade ago. Phones like the Galaxy Note 4, LG G3, Meizu MX4 Pro, HTC one M8 Max, Xperia Z3, and the Oppo Find 7. All of these phones have 3Gb of ram a 2k screen and around a 2.5GHz processor. I've been looking for a while and I can't find any phones with better specs than these. I mean there's bound to be one out there. Is there any technology on the horizon that could be used to boost phone specs or any phones themselves coming out with specs greater than those listed?

This is the kind of thought we need. Especially for us. If we have a custom frame we wont need the test material to fit in a proper "stack" or anything for that matter. It lets us build around our camera if it's too long also.