Posts by tony2heads 1344 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Apr 2010
Software systems that will change the markets they run in should get a feedback analysis; they should be looked at like some sort of servo system which can oscillate or (with positive feedback) wildy run away.
Position (price), Rate and Acceleration analysis should check for possible problems.
I think the sail would work better if it used the solar wind (at least in the inner solar system) but you would probably need to keep it charged. Since the bulk momentum from the solar wind will be from +ve charge protons you could keep the sail positively charged by electrically attaching it to an beta particle emitting radioisotope; perhaps Nickel-63.
Anyone want to set up a crowd funding for that idea?
Evidence is that, long long ago the young galaxies were wild places with loads galaxy merging, lots of star formation, with massive young stars running through their lives really quickly and exploding; a bit like the teenage years of the universe
Now star formation has really quietened down, galaxy mergers are rare; a bit like middle age. A few galaxies (like Messier 82) still have rapid star formation, but they are going through a mid-life crisis; in that case probably started by that nearby attractive spiral of Messier 81.
....part of an astrophysics for hipsters course
Nope its my test data file for my random number generator;
Just waiting to try all the tests of randomness & needed plod to arrive for the Gorilla test
the box I an using now is running Linux, but was bought with Win7 on it as the OEM only had that.
Also the geeks tend to run a lot of Linux, as we have a few dozen servers and loads of (single board) hardware controllers running it, so it was simpler to unify the OS across platforms.
For many web-based applications the OS makes no difference at all, just don't use IE for them
Radio astronomers (Larry Rudnick, Shea Brown and Liliya Williams) saw this in a lower number of radio sources there back in 2007. It is just that now the infrared astronomers have confirmed the void.
Life becomes more like 'The Prisoner' every day
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