lajoswinkler

"Shoot it into the Sun"? You should know better, being on KSP forums and all. You don't shoot stuff into the Sun. You cancel its orbital speed around the Sun, so it falls down onto it. That would be insanely expensive for the masses involved, and very risky. Too risky to be justified. It's a pipedream for ignorant people.

Yes, they're nothing new. And we can't build them. They're impossible even with the soon to come cutting edge technology. Too bad, they'd be very cool.

There's an app at Google Play with several "Gravity" games (multiplayer, too) from Warner Bros. It's cool.

If you put the portal on a corresponding depth of Earth's sea, and that's roughly 920 metres, pressures would be roughly the same. 3 km under the ice, that would be a much greater pressure than on Venus, so there'd be a flow towards Venus.

Are they having some problems? They're arguing and it looks as if something is tangled. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html#.U6ME6PmSwcZ

Exhaust velocity is not very important because it's miniscule compared to the speeds of the molecules in the exhaust. They behave like ideal gas, and they disperse in every direction. The distribution of speeds for molecules follow Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, meaning there are a lot of very fast molecules at exhaust temperatures. What happens to them? They go everywhere, like little cannon balls, each on its orbit. A lot of them have enough speed to escape Earth's SOI, even Sun's.

Yeah, I felt a bit bad until I saw how Cameroon behaved. Hitting people and being douchebags... Awful. We obliberated them, and made a national record on World Cup. There's fireworks close to my place at this very moment.

As far as I know, they weren't all like that. Special broadcast of automated speech was possibly only in USA (I don't know about USSR). The rest had informative pamphlets and sirens. There certainly was something in the past. The Moog music and animation are creepy as hell. I don't know if there were special automated messages like in USA, though. If there is EAS like this, the parallel system must exist as a backup.

Croatia is playing in less than one hour with Cameroon.

I'd like to see evidence for the 50,000 dead liquidators, first. The one who claims something first needs to present his evidence. Few thousand deaths are a statistical calculation on the total longterm effects from the contamination. It will be impossible to know who exactly died because of Chernobyl, but it is possible to estimate the number of deaths, which falls down exponentially each year, approaching zero, asimptotically. So, before I get evidence about the fabricated lie, I will not back up. I have World Health Organization numbers behind me. Using the deaths and injuries of brave men to spit on something one doesn't understand... that's appaling. (Most) plastic was made from oil. Why not burn it instead of oil? That way we keep the oil for our petrochemical industry, and we get rid of plastics. There are incinerator systems today which don't let the nasty stuff out. It's not like some guy is shoveling crushed computers on a bonfire beneath a water tank. E-waste can be recycled, and it's actually done. Precious metals are inside. The rest should go into inferno.

Go with the history of computing. Abacus, ENIAC, you know the drill.

My reaction was appropriate for the level of ignorance encountered, and I seriously don't understand why is everyone so uptight about it. Here we are, being trolled like mad by people who have zero knowledge of physics and energy distribution basics, and someone makes a facepalm after careful writing, and gets an infraction and people get all mad at him. Honestly, what a circus. But ok, I'll let it go. Yes, the concept works, but in order to make serious power, you need a huge structure, best somewhere in the torrid zone. It should be a large stack of at least 1 km in height. I wasn't born in 21st century and I was alive and sane while various looney projects began emerging online before the era of Youtube. These same discussions were held even back then. What happened with solar tower idea? Nothing. The costs of such thing are enormous, much, much, much greater than building a fission power plant of the same capacity. Some people here need a serious reality check and basic education in natural sciences. It's not a sin to point that out. But thank you for the first sentence, I appreciate that. And that's a big, fat lie.

There are nice binoculars for that price.

Whenever I encounter people who are all solar-hyped, they really have no idea about energy efficiency, costs, engineering, etc.

Every country used to have those. Countries involved into Cold War had special systems. Even the NAM countries had it.

You had it for nuclear war. I doubt it doesn't exist in some form.

Power used to make methane out of CO2 and water? Huge energy losses. DC more efficient on long distances? Dude, where did you learn physics? Ever heard of current wars? Gosh...

And how are you going to deliver all that energy into the urban areas in the tempered zone without total dissipation over the distance? Just don't say high temperature superconductors. Just because there's energy doesn't mean it's viable to use. These things are difficult. You can't solve them like in Sim City.

Probably, although your helmet would be sandblasted.

I think every country has it, but it doesn't have to look like the typical EAS in USA, with that screen on TV. There are sirens, and if something awful happens, people would get notified. Efficiently? LOL, not.

The energy of those winds is very low simply because there isn't enough actual matter being thrown around. The problem is with dust particles. They can, and will erode a lot of stuff.

It's not an ocean. It's a layer of OH ion bearing mineral (source of water) and there's plenty of it. It's nothing new, actually. The hypothesis is very old, and the evidence is not new. It's just that we finally have some better evidence today. This should be a common thing among all terrestrial planets. Space is loaded with water bearing substances. But yeah, the media likes to lie and stir some crap. I guess it's because of that Noah movie.

You just have to love media disinformation...

What if I use one hand almost exclusively, and the other one if the primary one is doing something more important, like holding a blowtorch or not letting my body fall on the floor?

Do you want me to name all the crap politicians made up? I'm sure it's a lot longer list. If you want to blindly follow someone, it's statistically better to listen to scientists instead of politicians, but of course, skepticism and rational thought are always the best. Of course it's possible. What's not possible is to switch to it completely and keep the current lifestyle, and I don't mean the luxury, but the basic modern lifestyle where you can function as an unit of society in which your optimal needs are satisfied.