insane_alien

you know the article is a fake right? i just noticed like 20 seconds after i posted.

it doesn't need iron. wood will get the job done. johnF; yeah, i know, which is why you use lots of wood. not some little pieces either.

drill a hole half way into the tree, pack with black powder, ignite. its my kind of discrete.

yeah, because people 3000 years ago totally hated us.

well, the pivot point doesn't need to be anything fancy, it could be a rock, bit of wood, whatever. as long as its high enough. and you can have multiple pivot points, one for each lever. and you can have as many levers as you can cram in. its not infeasable.

they don't have to lift it. they only have to lever up on side by a few centimeters/inches. its not as if they're just using their fingers. look up levers and why wheel barrows allow you to lift heavy objects.

you want to send something to the moon? well, thats a tad more complicated. how much orbital mechanics do you know? and you do know that there hasn't even been an amateur rocket that made it into orbit don't you? amateur being anyone not working for an organization with lots of dosh.

30 feet(10 meters) wouldn't be a complicated lift. just need lots of wood, manpower and patience. first thing you do is use lots of people to lever up one side of the stone, place a wooden block under it, jack up the otherside and do the same, probably hammer a few in the middle, repeat until its at the desired height and slide it off onto the stone supports.

you do know that there is a reason why the space agencies use massive rockets don't you? your best bet would be a sounding rocket as those can be smaller but its still going to cost you around $200k to get something powerful enough.

electro gravitics? oh come on. that bits crap. the lifters however do actually work. they make ions in the air and accelerate them downwards to the bar at the bottom. on the way they bump into non ionized molecules and force them down. because of momentum conservation this forces the lifter up. they do not work in a vacuum.

between the cheeks of course. ' so johnson, where did you get this report?' 'oh i just pulled it out of my @55' but seriously, if you run anything computation intensive, say a CFD sim, you are far better off with a DT as they tend to have more power. My DT can fire through one in 1 hour when my laptop running the same one will take about 4. although, most of the time i run them on the uni's cluster and it takes about 15 minutes.

ah yeah. i forgot about where the parts for chernobyls reactors 5 and 6 went.

a 120kW what the hell are your power bills like?

I though ENIAC was dismantled. or is it a russian equivalent? i know you have 'contacts' over there.

it was on the case in the new superman film. i expect it was just a rndom name

YT, thats just because your 'Desktop' is a babbage difference engine and weighs a few tonnes

although it doesn't actually contain krypton so it can't be called kryptonite.

well, what have you done so far? which bits of the working are you stuck at? we'll only help you along, not give you the answers

well, if you need raw processing power at a reasonable price with room for expandability a desktop is a much better choice than a laptop. gaming is another reason, you try finding a laptop under a £2000 that can run halflife at decent settings. i've got a desktop that i made for under £800 that can do it. Laptops are for when you're on the move, nothing more.

1/10th realtime? wow. thats pretty good. unless its pinky's neocortex then it would be bad.

nothing wrong with simple experiments. the most famous experiments in history have been simple ones. for example, galileo dropping two balls from the tower of pisa, archimede's bath, even the michelson-morely interfereometer was simple. its what you do with the results that matters.

http://www.stuffed.co.nz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=373&Itemid=29 according to the UN, i'm not the same race as my parents. and here was me thinking the race was an hereditary property of humans with all sorts of biological ties. also, calling someone a n00b is racist. <edit> just realised its fake. move along. nothing to see here.

that makes sense. i was just wondering if anybody had actually bothered to measure it

anyone know what the heat of fusion for lava is anyway?

could this replace the concrete shoes popular among enemies of the mafia?