Posts by bernmeister 151 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Aug 2014
The question of what is the effect of extra weight is easily calculated. I used Google AI to do the calculation. The results are surprising and tie up with the statistics.
How much energy is transferred to a 100kg mass when struck by a 2000kg mass traveling at 30km/h? The amount of energy transferred to the 100 kg mass, assuming a perfectly elastic collision, is approximately 12,598 J (Joules).
How much energy is transferred to a 100kg mass when struck by a 1000kg mass traveling at 30km/h?Assuming the 100kg mass is initially at rest and the collision is perfectly elastic, approximately 11478.42 J (or 11.5 kJ) of energy is transferred to the 100kg mass.
Even being by a ten ton truck is only a bit worse. The energy transferred to the 100kg mass is approximately 13615.22 J.
An elastic collision is one in which the objects after impact become stuck together and move with a common velocity. Thats a bad pedestrian crash. In all three cases the collision is probably fatal. Crumple zones help reduce the damage.
My apologies for using Google AI for every calculation.
I needed to replace a driving licence online. The multiple "prove your ID" loops were endless. I contacted GOV.UK One describing the problem and was told there was insufficient information held to confirm my ID. I have held many UK passports. Five in row. I have current bank accounts dating back decades but the explanation was that the ID verification was done by a third party who did not have enough data. I was eventually given a link to the old DVLA online lycence form, that worked OK. I have a very bad feeling about these new online services.
This digital ID is linked with GOV.UK One Login. Have a go at setting up your ID and using it on a GOV.UK site. I needed to replace a driving licence online. The multiple "prove your ID" loops were endless. I contacted GOV.UK describing the problem and was told there was insufficient information held to confirm my ID. I have held many UK passports. Five in row. Had bank accounts dating back decades but the explanation was that the ID verification was done by a third party who did not have enough data. I was eventually given a link to the old DVLA online lycence form,
Attacks on the NHS, car manufacturers, supermarkets, brewers etc suggest that these attacks are becomong more focused. What next? Critical government systems, defence systems all are vulnerable. I have this dream of a hack that deposits millions into the bank accounts of every person in the world. Wont happen, hackers are not that nice.
Your right there. Apparently sterilzed sealed comtainers full of sterilized nutrients can be left for a very long time without showing any signs of life. Nicolas Appert's and Louis Pasteur foumd this out a long time ago. If the planet Earth was completly sterilized it would stay like until seeded by life from outside.
The same for many other things, sometimes the time scales are even shorter. Li-ion battery performance increases are a good example. The optimism of some researchers seems to be boundless. I cant even spell "optimism" without using a spell checker.
The randomness you are describing is impressive but is well known. In order to publish, novel ways of doing things need to be found. People will carry on inventing new ways of generating random numbers. I was going to say forever or until the cows come home but could not find a suitable epithet.
They are going to recruit the wrong people. I did a GCHQ recruitment interveiw and the test revolved around scheduling a bus timetable. My ability to code and decode had no impact. I went all the way to Cheltenham and back paid by the government and felt that I was not the one that lost out.
My thoughts as well. But these days the fad is that everything has to be done with software. No doubt the VHF receiver is based on SDR and the only traditional part of it is the final audio to the pilots ears. Am I being cynical? Perhaps others have more precise build information.
Dielectric cooling in its simplest form is just dumping all your heat producing electronics in a bath of dielectric fluid and circulating the boiled off vapour through a heat exchanger and returning it to the system.Thats where the simple bit stops. Amazingly many electronic components remain undamaged when immersed in hot dielectric fluid and function well. Its usually obvious what wont survive but you get the odd surprise. Modifying stuff to remove fans and heatsink paste is obvious but every now and then a component will crop up with a non-compatible encapsulation. Mainly capacitors. Helium filled sealed hard drives are OK but older types are a no go.
There is little new here. Previous studies have come up with similar ideas. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JE005222. However, being subject to near vacuum for billions of years Martian Ferrihydrite (If any really exists on Mars),willl contain much less H2O than terrestrial Ferrihydrite.
Two times I have come across cases where people have got locked out with no access to a key due to not knowing bit locker was enabled and not being prepared with any recovery options.One user got locked out when he plugged in a USB memory stick. My advice was before you make any changes to your system check for bit locker and switch it off if present. Bit locker still makes me feel nervous. I hate it.
CO2 is not the point. Its global warming that is the issue." If everyone achieved true "net zero" CO2 emissions, the world would not immediately cool down, but it would eventually stabilize at the current temperature and prevent further warming, as long as net-zero is maintained; however, it would take a very long time for the planet to significantly cool due to the long lifespan of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, meaning past emissions would still impact the climate for centuries to come." Google AI. Its too little too late guys. But dont give up. keep the band playing,rearrange the deck chairs and assure everybody that all is well.
I have not checked out the points covered but I question the value of Ssx. The theoretical max speed of any object (including sheep) in a vacuum is close to the speed of light. Whether a sheep can muster the amount of energy needed to reach even 3.9537712e-10 Ssx is open to doubt.
I suspect that small niche websites wont be affected by this. I run a small website dedicated to the modification of old radios. I have only received one comment and three views over the past few years. Its a free site and I dont look at it myself very often. I put it together as an experiment. The comment was "you dont seem to be very active".
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