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[MattBaker]

What the hell are you doing while working? You should use the PC to work, not connect your hands with its power supply...

 

[Urwumpe]

What the hell are you doing while working? You should use the PC to work, not connect your hands with its power supply...

Listening to stuff that the incapable call pagan metal, while bobbing my foot to the beat of the music. And my foot is in a shoe with rubber sole. On a carpet.

This in turn results in a rapid sine like change in the sole area in contact with the carpet.

 

[MattBaker]

And I'm not even allowed to listen to Beethoven or Grieg at work...

 

[n122vu]

I wath told I could lithen to the radio at a reathonable volume between nine and eleven...

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

DST? Wuazzzthat? (Be) Damned (my) Sleeping Time? wned:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2013/03/07/lets-not-spring-forward/

(apparently Hong Kong has abolished DST since 1980 - and given that our daylight times don't shift by a lot between summer and winter.....)

 

[Urwumpe]

And I'm not even allowed to listen to Beethoven or Grieg at work...

Understandable. This is much more heavy. :lol:

I use headphones at work... if all would listen to their music loud, we would go crazy. The room next to me has one dubstep listener, a EBM fan and a trance DJ inside. Imagine the blood on the wall, should anybody break the fragile peace.

 

[Pipcard]

Space elevators: some people say that they will reduce the cost of putting payloads into space, but they don't take into account the cost of constructing the elevator itself. (if there was a material that was strong, light, and flexible enough to make a thick cable tens of thousands of kilometers long)

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Space elevators: some people say that they will reduce the cost of putting payloads into space, but they don't take into account the cost of constructing the elevator itself. (if there was a material that was strong, light, and flexible enough to make a thick cable tens of thousands of kilometers long)

But the fees for using the elevator should repay the construction costs quite quickly anyways. I think the space elevator is considered to be the best way to launch to space, its just finding that elusive material to make it with.

 

[Urwumpe]

But the fees for using the elevator should repay the construction costs quite quickly anyways. I think the space elevator is considered to be the best way to launch to space, its just finding that elusive material to make it with.

There are also operational problems since you pose a massive threat for low flying satellites and are threatened by low-flying space debris.

 

[MattBaker]

(if there was a material that was strong, light, and flexible enough to make a thick cable tens of thousands of kilometers long)

Basically you take your pencil, cut it very thin and have [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene"]graphene[/ame].:shifty:

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

There are also operational problems since you pose a massive threat for low flying satellites and are threatened by low-flying space debris.

Quite true, although I would think that having orbital access as cheap as the elevator is supposed to be would make cleaning up Earth orbit feasible with small unmanned drones giving satellites a deorbit nudge.

The biggest space elevator problems to me would be:
-What is it made out of
-How do we actually deploy it (ground up, GEO down?)
-What can we use for a counterweight

I'll have to do some more research into the subject, I recall having an interesting PDF on the subject somewhere.

 

[Urwumpe]

Quite true, although I would think that having orbital access as cheap as the elevator is supposed to be would make cleaning up Earth orbit feasible with small unmanned drones giving satellites a deorbit nudge.

Only a small part of the Space Debris is satellites, most is lots of small other stuff. Even paint flakes can ruin your elevator, when it hits the cable at 12 km/s

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Only a small part of the Space Debris is satellites, most is lots of small other stuff. Even paint flakes can ruin your elevator, when it hits the cable at 12 km/s

Yes, but how catastrophic would that actually be? I can imagine a construction crew struggling to keep a first strand intact, but the thicker the cable gets, the less of an issue debris impacts should become.

If only we could find some way to shield it... what if the elevator had a sort of "Cosmic Cowcatcher" built alongside it?

Construction issues aside, do you think the space elevator is worth building? I dont expect to see it soon, but Im young & I can imagine one going up when Im in my 70s or 80s.

 

[Scav]

So my son had his birthday yesterday, and we've discovered a few things with his basic chemistry set he got:

1. A citric acid / baking powder reaction taking place in a water suspension will provide endless hours of entertainment, as long as the supplies hold up.

2. Perhaps the most important part: Zinc sulfide apparently will adhere to cross-linked polyacrylamide. Add the necessary color tablets, and naturally we now have a cadre of light green crystals that will grow in the dark.

What a family I've got.

P.S. I've got a visual puzzle for you all. Anyone with a networking background should be able to solve it (that's the only clue I'm giving!).

 

[Urwumpe]

Yes, but how catastrophic would that actually be? I can imagine a construction crew struggling to keep a first strand intact, but the thicker the cable gets, the less of an issue debris impacts should become.

If only we could find some way to shield it... what if the elevator had a sort of "Cosmic Cowcatcher" built alongside it?

Construction issues aside, do you think the space elevator is worth building? I dont expect to see it soon, but Im young & I can imagine one going up when Im in my 70s or 80s.

The main problem would be the constant erosion by the many small and different dust particles - . Atomic oxygen in the exosphere will corrode it. Next the cable would also age in some regions faster because of radiation.

 

[MattBaker]

Something with redox reactions/galvanic cells/electrolysis is all I could think of.
My problem is a not-working knowledge of your coin compositions...

 

[Spacethingy]

And, yes, I was actually suprised. :facepalm:

 

[Scav]

Something with redox reactions/galvanic cells/electrolysis is all I could think of.
My problem is a not-working knowledge of your coin compositions...

The coin on the left is a gaming token one finds at an arcade.

 

[Urwumpe]

The coin on the left is a gaming token one finds at an arcade.

TOKEN!

Damn, that was the word that I was missing... Sounds better than "play money copper ring".... :lol::lol:

 

[MattBaker]

Now I'm confused, I thought it had something to do with chemistry:idk: