cuboidGoat
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Comment · 8 years ago
And when you are up there, you will want to stay up if you can, as each dip into the well costs you a ton of money.
Comment · 8 years ago
I'd love to see that result, purely for the hilarity of watching the people I share a house with, who voted for Brexit, explode at the idea of the UK government not policing an external border.
The only reason they voted for Brexit was because they think it means they can get rid of all the migrants, they tell me this quite regularly.
One of them moved here from Bahrain, though apparently this means their family were ex-pats, not migrants. The other is from a long line of Christian overseas missionaries.
If they thought for a second that Brexit would mean leaving the border with Northern Ireland wide open, they would be screaming blue murder.
Comment · 8 years ago
like Republic of Ireland joining the United Kingdom.
Or Arthur rising and reinstating Camelot in England's hour of need.
Or Nessie being discovered, then rampaging south to destroy London in a Gozilla inspired attack, wiping out the entirety of the Square Mile.
Or the entire human population suddenly realising that the borders were only in their heads all along and finally living together in peace and harmony.
Comment · 8 years ago
>a good and not entirely unpopular solution
Where and for whom?
Comment · 8 years ago
Depends on how the field moves relative to the iron. If it expands then contracts, which seems highly likely, the overall effect on magnetizing the iron could be surprisingly low, as far as I am aware. Though I could be wrong on this.
edit - ahh, reading through you mean during the experiment, rather than it being left magnetized afterward.
During the test it should focus field lines within it. The overall strength of the field will remain the same, but field lines will be concentrated on the cage, meaning it does not propagate as far.
Though there should be people on here that will be able to explain this better than I can. And correct me if I am talking rubbish. I am solidly an amateur on this, and there are definitely some professionals floating about.
Comment · 8 years ago
Vice really needs to hire some proofreaders.
Comment · 8 years ago
The magnetic field will tend to concentrate in the iron, meaning it shouldn't propagate as far.
Same as using Mu metal for magnetic shielding - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu-metal
Comment · 8 years ago
The USA has high punishments for murder but less then 50% of murder investigations are solved.
Germany has much lower punishments for murder, but around 90% of murder investigations are solved.
Which of these do you think is the greater deterrence?
Comment · 8 years ago
Hey, numbers and letters are hard. FCC, FAA, 100 reports per month, 100 complaints per day. Same thing, surely. Besides drones are bad, so exaggerating and misrepresenting is morally justified, as it will save the lives of billions that would otherwise have died from the flying evil.
Comment · 8 years ago
>The growing possibility of midairs with drones is more significant than bird strikes
That seems amazingly unlikely.
Comment · 8 years ago
>“Each month, the FAA receives more than 100 reports of drone sightings by pilots, citizens, and law enforcement,”
Drones interfering with manned aircraft or emergency services is already illegal.
And these things are transmitting radio in both directions, putting money into tracking and prosecuting people interfering with flights is completely achievable, without any change in law.
I suspect that this is more about protecting the interests of the commercial businesses by introducing licensing as a barrier to entry.
>The bill is supported by the Commercial Drone Alliance, a Washington-based advocacy group representing Alphabet’s Wing as well as other drone businesses.
Comment · 8 years ago
I love the concept behind the chameleon pasted with money.
Though I do feel a bit sorry for the chameleon. It probably wasn't too impressed.
Comment · 8 years ago
I think there will be two things. One is economics, fetching asteroids could be very big business, and the other is political, space will be viewed as freedom of a sort, given the kind of restrictions that may be in place on Earth by then, with the climate transforming alongside having a lot more people than we do today, even if growth slows down, which is far from certain. We could easily be in the age of what Bruce Sterling refers to as the Khaki Greens, aka, militarised enforcement of ecological protection.
Comment · 8 years ago
>That clearly didn't work in that case, did it?
If you don't think that they were actually putting forward a tale to be believed in the first place, but were signalling that they don't have to bother, then it just doesn't even apply.
>Neither is a logical argument, both are abductive heuristics
Occam's razor is a logical position to take in an absence of further information, although sometimes wrong, especially in biology. Hanlon setting up malice and stupidity as an exclusive or gate, is not. Nor was it ever meant to be taken as such.
>Which is why nobody is willing to bet on making such stupid and dangerous mistakes on purpose as exposing your agents, exposing your leader's lies and making your country suffer retribution for assassination on foreign soil. And for what? To laugh the whole world in the face? That's insane.
Putin has been exposing his own lies for years on TV, usually with a smile. This is the guy who goes on his third ever scuba dive on the news and brings back museum quality amphorae. Lying barefacedly, with the audience knowing it is all lies, is a large part of his public persona. It is meant to both be funny and set an example that he doesn't need to bother with little things such as truth.
>The PM put on a diving suit and dived deep into the Taman Bay where, to everyone’s utter surprise, he managed to find two ancient amphorae dating back to the 6th century AD.
>Putin also told journalists that the Taman dive was his third-ever attempt at scuba diving.
Comment · 8 years ago
It is economic to move massive stuff about in open space, which is what you need for an economy to attract people. The gravity well is a huge cost. You can make a profit by sending down the gravity well but going back up tends to be a huge expense.