Re: Too valuable?
Less than 200kg has been got from the moon!
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Mirrors are easy to produce in gravity - just spin the molten glass and you have a parabola! Also with lower moon gravity you dont have to use as much support to keep it 'in spec', You could probably build a 100m mirror on the moon and defend if from all comers until sunset!
On earth PV peaks quite noriceably around noon when the sun passes through the least amount of breathable pollution. On the moon for 1/2 the time you can get max power from your PV - from sun up to sundown. No weather problems either. So I reckon you'd get 10 times the return you get on earth,.
Not to be sneezed at.
Well not while wearing a helmet.
I dont think it will go the same way - RU fans seem to be quite conservative and powerfully vociferous. If the stats are of no interest they will be kicked off the screen fairy pronto. Its no-where near as boring as either US or UK football and watching at home or in the pub its only during stretchering off or offscreen activity that commentators are audible,
used AI to show that the mass extinction at the end of the Devonian was no such thing - it took 50 Million years! I wonder if closer examination of the data for 2.229 billion years ago may need to be looked at in similar detail. While I would not be surprised with short term (~decade) temperature rises due to the asteroid strike I'm not convinced it was sufficient to melt through the miles of ice to reduce the planets albedo enough to end the snowball earth on its own.
Otherwise brilliant work - its shit like this with big bangs and catastrophes that gets kids interested in hard science!
I've got a keyboard/mouse/3m extension lead and sockets on a piece of hardboard with a slot at the back a 22" monitor fits and pulls out to velcro down on the hardboard and it makes a really useful portable that everyone laughs at for a few minutes. I've got a Pi4 on it but I dare say others devices would work.
Could do with some custom leads to make it a bit less Davros but I like it.
So I pay tax which I hope would go to the NHS and someone else gives their charitable status Opera society a donation and some of my tax goes to subsidise their visit to the same opera and you think that is not immoral?
if Oracle win the court case to get to stop others playing with the Java API then, within a year I would expect j2c to grow by a couple of orders of magnitude and open source Java development to be reserved to Oracle PDQ.
I've played with it on a couple of old Java projects and been surprised with the results - though I have to admit that could be because I know a reasonable amount of what's going on in both languages.
Where I worked we had a Vax/VMS and the early word processing had a big dictionary to do 'spell checking' or some fangled thing. A program called crunge appeared which took a document and replaced random words with words that were somehow similar. A crunged document often made more sense than the original (we were mad boffins at the forefront of our fields and often didnt understand our own work). Better still a crunged document could be sent in 'by accident' to reveal bosses who had even less of a clue than normal. Once you've found out someone doesnt read your reports you are effectively untouchable!
It is possible to extend JavaScript to include strong typing.
JavaScript suffers from where it is in the eco-system and any language that is easy to use in the browser will suffer the same problems. I've seen lots of people writing why strong typing should not be added to JavaScript but none that really stand up to the problems not having it causes in the wild.
I flew in one over the Southern Alps in NZ. Absolutely bloody spectacular and equally terrifying. We dropped down into the head of a fiord and I could see no-where to land so I assumed we were having a mechanical failure despite everything sounding OK. Eventually we homed in on a pile of rocks about a foot wider than the skids. I was almost as relieved as I was when I discovered I was too heavy for the tandem parachute jump I'd booked in for, Nothing worse than an active imagination and a knowledge of Newton's Laws and looking down from great heights.
I have noticed several times that things were missing from the ERP that you would expect to be there and yet even after mentioning the oversight that no-one ever did anything about it. I came to the conclusion this was for slush funds and chose not to investigate further in case I found out I'd been paid from it.
A boss of mine did that but only got away with £300k or so. I think he got caught because he wanted someone to stop him as he kept mentioning the shell company over drinks in ways that never seemed to make any sense. Well enough less sense than could be expected of a Friday afternoon to make a few of us go ''WTF' in our heads so when we heard about said company after he was busted to mention it to each other. Never did find out how he got busted though. Would love to know.
Until very recently the only reception we could get for mobiles here was a 10 sq ft area outside (its always raining) a barn 50 yds from the house.Found this out when lightning took out the landline and internet and my dad got very ill. I didnt find the spot - some spotty 15yr old guest did!
Always reminded me of the joke about the woman complaining she could see her neighbour naked and when asked by the police had to climb on the wardrobe.
I had a boss who complained he could never get me on my phone at weekends. I pointed out that I wasn't being paid for being on call and even if I was the fact he insisted Friday afternoons were serious drinking sessions - he once threatened to fire me if I didnt come down the pub where he was calling from NOW - it would have been a bit pointless.