/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3425273
Wikipedia has lied to me. if that IS the case I guess it's more plausible, but the amount of power required to repel that amount of light would be significant.

>>3425267
Did the movie say mirrors?

>>3425261
There are no ways of reflecting enough energy with mirrors.

>>3425250
but there's so much cool stuff you could go with and they chose the sun going out? What about NEOs, or Gamma bursts, or expansion?
>>3425254
HEY.
Hey.
We gave you lasers and railguns. Science is awesome.

>>3425208
this

Toner fluid is ferromagnetic, if weaker than the high quality ferrofluid like pictured.

>>3425238
what kind of green energy company can afford decent lobbyists?

>In 2057, the failure of the Earth's Sun threatens life on the planet, compelling humanity to send a spacecraft that carries a stellar bomb payload intended to re-ignite it. The first spacecraft with the payload, the Icarus I, was lost seven years previously for reasons unknown, having failed in its mission. A second spacecraft with a new payload, the Icarus II, is sent to the Sun in a final attempt, as the Earth has been exhausted of the materials necessary to make the payload.
IT HURTS SO BAD

>>3425213
They're on contract, so they have a budget, and they're making a rocket a month, not a rocket a year. I *think* supply would exceed demand when the project is in operation

>>3425179
eh, I don't know. The SpaceX rockets seem to be a lot more cost effective. COTS is budgeted at under two billion, IIRC

American space endeavour is frequently behind schedule and over budget, the ISS was supposed to have been de-orbited by now, for example, and the JWST is (was) 300% over budget.

>>3424658
of course. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/150-QUALITY-ZIPLOCK-SEAL-PLASTIC-BAGS-7-x4-7-17X12CM-/230648954933?pt=UK_W
SJL_Wholesale_GL&hash=item35b3bfc035
these could make excellent helmets, I think.

>>3424642
http://cgi.ebay.com/Baby-Kids-Monkey-Goldbug-safety-harness-strap-bag-/260820724609?pt=AU_Travel&amp
;hash=item3cba206b81
Should be possible to integrate the tail with the air tube. Not sure how this will affect cost, though.

>>3424396
Yes. The valve on the helmet would close if the pressure in the line is reduced, as it would be if it were severed.

>>3424357
it's going to have a valve, that was mentioned earlier, Surely you haven't been arguing this helmet is unsafe without understanding the safety features of the helmet?

Perhaps a reasonable compromise could be reached where users would sign waivers stating they were responsible for their personal safety and that injury not caused by defect was their fault?

>>3424343
Declare high altitude hamster CEO
Assemble submersible board of directors
???
PROFIT

>>3424327
Retards have the same rights to kill themselves as we do. As said 3 times before, MS has a reasonable obligation to educate the buyer on safe operation, which he will do. If people fuck it up after all of that, then I don't know how you could possibly blame him.

>>3424299
bonus points if you can get them to say "you're my favourite deputy" but not often enough for anyone to believe those who claim it happens
>>3424296
It's marketed to responsible adults. He's marketing to a group of people who should be capable of reading instructions. The people who don't read instructions are idiots, the chances of anyone being injured even if they surface too fast are low anyway. The point of the helmet is that it makes diving easy- which it does. It's nigh on impossible to mess up
Are you radically opposed to gun ownership?

>>3424281
>you can't know something you haven't been told therefore you're claiming to know things you don't
wat
there's no basis for any of the claims re: legality, and there's no possible course of action one could take re: natural selection.

>>3424268
The internets don't, and I know of a few places you can buy scuba tanks without showing ID. If the seller wants to cover themselves with demands for a license, that's fine, but it's by no means required
>>3424272
might be worth looking online for the chips in bulk rather than buying cards.

>>3424260
There's absolutely no base for your claims. This is a brilliant idea, and postponing it for some imaginary difficulty idiotic
>>3424266
who's who?

>>3424236
Do you? you seem to be arguing that you can ignore clear warnings and disregard instructions and then sue because the product didn't behave as the instructions said it would

>>3424214
http://www.plasticbrickautomaton.com/
>>3424229
er, nope. You don't actually need a license for any other kind of dive, AFAIK

>>3424202
see
>>3424193
>>3424200
If you let your kid dive without teaching him how diving is dangerous, you're a terrible parent. I don't see how MS could possibly be held responsible if the instructions clearly state minors should be supervised and that it's dangerous? America legally sells rifles to 16 year olds, remember.

>>3424189
Smokers, gun owners, drinkers, and house cleaners (?) are responsible for messing up, and also responsible for letting people who don't have sufficient experience with those items get hold of them. Like I said before, there's a certain point at which it's no longer possible to pre-empt stupid decisions by the consumer, at which you write your terms and conditions and find a big yellow sticker.