ackydoodles

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by ackydoodles 12y ago
Thank-you for that. Reading now. So far it looks like good science.
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
Yes. I am astonished that you do not already know that. On 9-11, the combined maximal efforts of civilian and military aviation were unable to locate four airliners because their transponders were turned off. This occurred near the New York
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
The black boxes are fine. ACARS/ADS-B are usually helpful, just not in this case, so far as we know. There is already a perfectly capable technology in place: the 406 MHz ELT. If it turns out the the (probably two) ELTs did not transmi
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
The numbers only become science-fictiony large if you want to go fast. Why not go slowly? The only reason humanity is obsessed with speed is because of our short life spans, but that is a solvable problem. All we have to do is to eliminate
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
Complex dynamics 101: life is a complex dynamical system. If the math of chaos is wrong, the processes underlying life would not operate as they do. Life would not exist as we observe it. Also, your iPad would not work. As I said, QED. This
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
A ridiculous measure, because it depends upon the definition of "correct", which is an arbitrary reduction of continuous data to a single axis, and because the scoring is conducted by those who have a vested interest in the outcom
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
I'm sorry, what part of complex dynamics did you not understand? It doesn't matter how slowly things change. It doesn't matter how big the inputs are. Complex dynamics teaches us that scale does not matter; very small input
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
Your lovely neighbours cannot be correct except by chance; if there was any validity to their predictions, it would imply not just that they knew the future of the weather, but that the future of the weather was knowable, which it certainly
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
That is because the weather is a chaotic system. It is governed by the mathematics of complex dynamics. Predictions diminish in accuracy with increasing time because the number of inputs rapidly approaches infinity, and each one of them can
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
Many problems must be solved before they can exist. (1) Only suitable material for the cable is, at the moment, unobtanium. (2) Cable must be moved continuously to dodge debris and satellites whose orbits cross the equator (all of them exce
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
No.
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
This is what happens when police officers get confused about their job. Their job is to serve and protect, but sometimes they think their job is to pound down the nails.
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
This is idiotica: a ridiculous attempt at a tie-in between pseudoscience and a topical event. it is a waste of time and effort for the reader, the writer, and the researcher. Climate science is bullshit because it is not science; it is an o
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
The problem with your reasoning is that you neglect the fact, as do almost all humans in technological societies, that easily 90% of the energy we consume is wasted. You are not to blame; when you have no firsthand experience of a thing, it
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
I agree that we need to sound the alarm. December 2013, North Atlantic Ocean between Florida, Bermuda, and the Eastern Caribbean: nearly devoid of sea birds and fish; plastic garbage common. January 2014, Coastal Everglades of Florida: sile
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
If you want to build a functioning starship along the lines of Icarus by the year 2100, there is a lot of basic science that has to be done. It is very difficult to predict the course of basic science, because you don't know what you d
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
Most notional implementations of the Bussard Ramjet depend upon some sort of heretofore undiscovered force field rather than a physical structure to collect hydrogen, because size matters. Naturally, a very large force field ramjet will dep
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
From the FAQ: Q: Why did you choose fusion based propulsion for Project Icarus? A: Well, we thought about it and we realized that the only appropriate power source for an imaginary starship was a likewise imaginary one. And while there are
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by ackydoodles 13y ago
"Major Tracy Bunko — then posted at the Pentagon's Air Force press desk" Now who can we get to really blow some smoke on these classified projects? Well, there's Major Bunko, sir. They say he can really sling some major.