I'm daydreaming ...
and imagining they did the same for the Apollo craft ...
Imagine building your own Saturn-V, plus command, service, and lunar modules.
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The Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, has remained an architectural mystery.
To who ? Obviously the thickies that read tabloid journalists haven't got the smarts to work out how buildings work. But people who have take the time and effort to improve their understanding by "learning" (some folk may need to look that one up in a dictionary) don't use words like "mystery".
How was it built?
it was built by cutting blocks of stone, and placing them in position. Yes it is hard work (which probably accounts for some lack of understanding by modern standards). But entirely possible. As we can see BECAUSE IT'S THERE.
Why are its dimensions so perfect?
Why are any buildings dimensions "so" perfect ? Because they were built to a plan using the (ridiculously simple) tools to maintain angles and lines.
Don't get me wrong. The Pyramids are a fucking classy piece of work. An amazing legacy. And doubtless a lot of techniques and knowledge that were extant at the time of building have been lost. But "mystery" ? We can even have a stab at what they were used for. Sodding big mausoleums. We can also have an educated guess that they build a pyramid because - clever as they were - they couldn't build a hemisphere which would have represented the night sky they did worship.
Here's an interesting clip ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5pZ7uR6v8c hopefully takes some of the "woo" out of the discussion. Which is not to say "wow" - as it is amazing.
1) Trip big companys (ideally one with a pretty shit reputation to start with) data breach alert system.
2) Wait for said big company to self-report, and hit the headlines
3a) Flood the interwebs with your carefully crafted phishing emails that look like they are the sort of thing said big company would send out.
and/or
3b) Also hit the phones for some old school phishing.
4) clean up.
Notice how no data was lost - or needed - in the making of this scam.
MrsJP has always been able to tell if there's a storm coming. far more accurately than the forecasts (which are right about 1 in 3 times).
Now, she has MS, so her central nervous system is fucked. I've always wondered if that's made it sensitive (or more sensitive, which is an interesting line of research) to electrical disturbances.
Sometimes I wonder why people - especially scientists - seem surprised by findings like this. Life on earth has been around the best part of 4 billion years. It would be incredible if it hadn't found ways to work out what was going on in the environment. Whether electrically, chemically, magnetically, or indeed by radioactivity. Plus harnessing any useful outcomes of quantum effects. As I believe photosynthesis is supposed to work.
I notice other posters have commented on dowsing. Whilst I have no time for woo, I sometimes despair at the counter-productive and dangerously religious anti-woo cabal that tries to restrict scientific enquiry by dismissing things a priori as woo. They're just as bad as creationists.
(for those whose history is up to scratch).
I guess the holy grail here, is to be able to charge twice or three times for the same electricity. A bunch of cryptominers strategically placed below a town means you can charge twice ... maybe making the town a tourist destination means you get to charge thrice ???????
Then WTF are they doing on GitHub ?
We are talking a ****ing WINDOWS EXECUTABLE FGS !!!!!! The worst kind.
Penguinaistas are probably more comfortable with MD5 checking - and more likely to do it.
But your average Windows user really will just click and run.
Bluntly, I'm not impressed that Microsoft - of all companies - has created a situation where people think it's OK to just run any old .EXE file they found on GitHub. Because that's what it is. No one can be trusted on the internet. Microsoft doubly so.
pretty much. The advice about being prepared to lose what you put in certainly applies.
I'm more interested in the potential of crowdfunding to deliver a political "put your money where your mouth is" message, independently of the big political parties. After all it's now possible to deliver £100,000 - that £1 from 100,000 people on things like expensive legal actions. Cheaper than joining a political party and then having to swallow ideology you don't agree with.
but I do. Indeed, I'm not quite as fanatical about quack medicine as some, since it can actually produce an effect for a fraction of the price of real medicine.
If a homoeopathist came clean and said "look, it's just water, but it seems to be able to create a verifiable improvement in some patients,so lets go with it," I'd have total respect for them.
It's the camp-followers of woo and "memory of water" and that hogwash that grind my gears.
I am guaranteeing that Apple and Google will be wetting their collective knickers at this news (if indeed they haven't bunged a few quid into the research to start with).
Not a massive power source. But as a few commentards have noted, it could be used to power up a capacitor to act as a reserve/impulse battery ?
Of course, for the tinfoil hatters, for the 5-Eyes there is now the tantalising possibility of a lifetime tracking device in your mobe.
I love nuclear power. I really do. Especially as it scares people who can't be bothered to learn teh physics of it.
Ealing Broadway (well, just round the corner, near Haven Green) - "Importers". A real coffee/tea shop (pissed all over Whittards). They used to roast the beans in the window. A copper drum over a heater. The smell was divine. Add that to freshly baked bread (possibly with a hint of oregano) ......
Last weekend, MrsJP and I decided to pop to a local shopping centre for a coffee. That's all.
As we left, MrsJP said "Is it worth popping into Poundland ?" (for an item we couldn't find last time we looked in a city centre one).
However I had already perused their website and learned that they no longer sell it.
So being able to check range, stock and availability means dwindling footfall will dwindle further. And from my POV, quite a few stores are already running on empty ... relying on footfall to survive.
er... in other news today , nearly all of UK industry has asked the government to stop pissing around with "max fac" as it's clearly a non-started and try and do some *real* work.
https://www.eef.org.uk/about-eef/media-news-and-insights/media-releases/2018/may/industry-calls-for-max-fac-option-to-be-dropped
(With the caveat that I am not a quantum expert, and am not asserting anything, merely reporting what I've heard elsewhere)
The most intriguing explanation for how a rig like this might work was a suggestion that the energy (microwaves ?) being pumped into the cavity is somehow very minutely distorting spacetime enough that the centre of gravity of the rig shifts relative to the rest of the universe. This shift between the centre of gravity and centre of mass might just be enough to create the appearance of thrust.
If claims were being made that the EmDrive was producing thrust with no energy being expended, I would happily side with folks that dismiss it out of hand. But that's not what's happening here - energy is going into the system.
I have to admit to being a little annoyed at the opprobrium this appears to attract - especially as even detractors are forced to admit that there is a possibility that it's our "current understanding" which is wrong - or certainly "incomplete".
The one thing we do know, is energy and mass are equivalent. The one thing we don't know is the full implications of that. In fact we haven't even touched the surface.