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CraigJ
On The Verge since Nov 01, 2011
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Recommended MadMen's comment in In controversial vote, American Medical Association declares obesity 'a disease'
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True to a point, but even eating complete crap, calories in – calories out = net weight gain (loss). The laws of thermodynamics do not lie.
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Recommended JimmyBanks's comment in In controversial vote, American Medical Association declares obesity 'a disease'
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Recommended jmanes's comment in In controversial vote, American Medical Association declares obesity 'a disease'
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Recommended sc0rch3d's comment in In controversial vote, American Medical Association declares obesity 'a disease'
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Recommended Matous Vales's comment in The Large Hadron Collider in pictures: using big technology to investigate tiny things
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Recommended e_jey's comment in The Large Hadron Collider in pictures: using big technology to investigate tiny things
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Mater needs to be killed.
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Yeah, I don’t speak Russian. I don’t even like vodka…
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Recommended RTFM's comment in Elon Musk to demonstrate Tesla battery swapping tech on June 20th
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Recommended cletuslol's comment in Elon Musk to demonstrate Tesla battery swapping tech on June 20th
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The problem with an elevatore on the moon is that there is no geo-sync (lunar-sync?) orbit. Then once you have the cargo at the top of the elevator you’re still in lunar orbit and need to boost out of lunar orbit to get to Earth.
The very things that would make an elevator work (other than the geo-sync issue) such as no atmosphere and light gravity would make a linear accelerator work well. Plus you could generate electricity on the moon’s surface to power it. Although a lunar elevator would be good for docking shuttles, etc.
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The point with the ice is that you pack it in, then when you heat the asteroid the ice becomes water, then steam and forces the bubble to expand, then afterwards becomes your water supply.
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Recommended Sir_Brizz's comment in President Obama defends NSA program in 'Charlie Rose' interview
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“Lifted” is my favorite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY1_HrhwaXU
There is som lame sound added to this version…
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I don’t think Brave was bad at all. Just different than I was expecting.
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Google says it is, and Google cannot be wrong.
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That’s not how it works.
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RUNNER!
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The velocity to get from the moon to earth on a free-return is about 2,800 meters per second. Seems to be that a linear accelerator could do a fairly cheap job of sending cargo containers to earth, and hypothetically it could be powered by a solar plant built on some of the peaks that receive constant sunlight.
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Depends. You could, hypothetically speaking, hollow it out, spin it, and terraform the interior. All it takes is energy. Lots and lots of energy. The physics is very straight forward. The engineering is advanced but not overly so.
One scenario that I like, mostly because it’s fairly low tech, is you use “shaped charge” nuclear bombs to spin it. Drill a big hole down the long axis, and fill the hole with ice and seal the hole. Then you would make huge mirrors out of silvered balloons and use raw, focused sunlight to heat the asteroid to a molten state, the asteroid becomes more spherical from the rotation water becomes steam and expands, now you have a body with simulated gravity and water inside it. You also get the added benefit of radiation shielding by living inside a huge nickel iron rock. Add airlocks and air.
Fantasy, I know. But fun to consider.
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Recommended Modred189's comment in Edward Snowden says 'the truth is coming,' but when will we see the rest of his evidence?
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Recommended Modred189's comment in Edward Snowden says 'the truth is coming,' but when will we see the rest of his evidence?
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Recommended simbadogg's comment in Edward Snowden says 'the truth is coming,' but when will we see the rest of his evidence?
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Recommended azulum's comment in MacBook Air review (13-inch, 2013)
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Not much, no.
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Fair enough. I trust the federal government about as much as I trust Citibank and Exxon…
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Plastic computers suck. So glad I didn’t buy one and waited for the 2008 aluminum one. The unibody ones do seem to have very good resell for laptops…
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So, wait. How does your lack of surprise over a highly hypothetical situation actually illustrate “how far government has sunk”? I think there is at least one significant logical fallacies in there somewhere…
