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Rich Grise

Jan 1, 1970
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Don't you mean "Millionths of a dollar."?


I've made actual money by having better ideas than the other guy - I
just haven't reached the million-dollar mark yet. :)

Cheers!
Rich
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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Late at night, by candle light, John Larkin


This has nothing at all to do with truth, design or ideas. It's pure
pointless speculation going nowhere in a hurry. This far you've made a
great effort of avoiding coming with anything tangible. So has most
everyone else, so that's OK.

I really hope you don't think of your designs as you think of the
origins of life, the universe and beer.

I do find thinking of random assembly of organic molecules far more
reasonable than some kind of supernatural intervention.

If it exists, it's natural. And your opinion of reasonable is not
going to retroactively change the history of the universe. Most
historically "reasonable" science has been dumped.
You seem to start out by reasoning about some entity made of something
simpler coming with the superior DNA based organisms.

I didn't invent that concept. It's called "evolution." But the
previous entity may have been *more* complex, not less. There's
evolutionary precedent for that, too.
Are your designs more evolved you?

What?

I'm in the business of inventing things. You don't invent things by
clinging to orthodoxy and approaching every new idea as a target for
destruction.

Ever brainstorm? It's a team sport, as complex and as hard to learn as
soccer or baseball. Part of its process is wandering through the nooks
and crannies of the M-dimensional solution space, exploring
uncritically, playing with outlandish ideas. And that goofy path often
leads back to something concrete, brilliant, and profitable.

The evolution thing isn't all that importent to me. The interesting
thing is how many "electronics designers" struggle so hard to avoid
speculation, as if ideas threaten them, as if their life consists of
plucking up handbook schematics and reference designs and tweaking
them a little.

No speculation is pointless is it has the potential to get you
unstuck.

It shocks me how few people here are unwilling to riff on ideas. No
wonder I make so much money.

John
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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Yeah, sure. I know how you can demonstrate this: put a bunch of springs
and gears and stuff in a box, and shake it, and tell us how long it takes
to assemble itself into a watch.

The watch part is easy. The real question is how long it takes to
accidentally assemble a watch factory.

John
 
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Rich Grise

Jan 1, 1970
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It shocks me how few people here are unwilling to riff on ideas. No
wonder I make so much money.

That's odd. That very same thing seems to have had the exact opposite
effect in my case. )-;

Thanks,
Rich
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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That's odd. That very same thing seems to have had the exact opposite
effect in my case. )-;


Well, I did get my double negatives tangled, so I'm even more confused
about what the opposite of *that* may be.


John
 
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Rich Grise

Jan 1, 1970
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Well, I did get my double negatives tangled, so I'm even more confused
about what the opposite of *that* may be.

When I come in and in five minutes improve their product by 1000%, they
suddenly don't need my services any more - I think it's because I
embarrass the high-buck programmers that had just spent two years on
the product and still haven't got it right.

Thanks,
Rich
 
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Terry Given

Jan 1, 1970
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jasen said:
yeah, you only need to get it out of the gravity well 40300 km/h and
accelerate it a further 107000 km/h to cancel orbital velocity.


Bye.
Jasen

unless your power plant is sitting at a lagrange point.

Cheers
Terry
 
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joseph2k

Jan 1, 1970
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Terry said:
unless your power plant is sitting at a lagrange point.

Cheers
Terry

All the lagrange points have approximately the same orbital velocity about
the sun. Same delta v required.
 
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Terry Given

Jan 1, 1970
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joseph2k said:
Terry Given wrote:




All the lagrange points have approximately the same orbital velocity about
the sun. Same delta v required.

Oops my bad. I'll be less specific: there exist many possible orbits
which can simplify the job of waste disposal - either throwing it at
something, or just "away". Hell, the waste gives off heat? use that heat
to power a tiny engine, and take a long time. or fit some form of
disposable rocket. Or use an electromagnetic launcher - that kinda fits
with a power plant, and the projectile mass can be minimised. Or store
the waste until the effective end-of-life of the power plant itself,
then hook it all together and fly the whole thing into the sun, etc.

Cheers
Terry
 
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Rich Grise

Jan 1, 1970
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Oops my bad. I'll be less specific: there exist many possible orbits
which can simplify the job of waste disposal - either throwing it at
something, or just "away". Hell, the waste gives off heat? use that heat
to power a tiny engine, and take a long time. or fit some form of
disposable rocket. Or use an electromagnetic launcher - that kinda fits
with a power plant, and the projectile mass can be minimised. Or store
the waste until the effective end-of-life of the power plant itself,
then hook it all together and fly the whole thing into the sun, etc.

Or just drop it down the Mariana Trench, and let the magma recycle it. :)

Cheers!
Rich
 

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