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I assumed you posted understanding the context of the discussion, rather than just naysaying what I said. I apologize for overestimating your effort at due diligence.
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It depends on the system in question. Does a pendulum swing through 360 degrees to complete a cycle? No. Does a piston? No. Nobody claimed otherwise. But if you are using angular frequency, that’s what the measure is defined to be.
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Then don’t object/respond to what I’m posting, because I’m not. To make a current loop, if it’s going to be 1.5 million km from the planet.
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Trump predicts imminent arrest, calls for protests - Sound familiar?
swansont replied to StringJunky's topic in Politics
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The context was a magnetic field on Mars. Moontanman’s linked paper that initiated this tangent (and that nobody else apparently read) was “How to create an artificial magnetosphere for Mars” 1.5 million km away. That would mean a superconducting wire loop more than 9 km in circumference
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thoughts on spam attacks like today's
swansont replied to TheVat's topic in Suggestions, Comments and Support
DDOS is how I described it to other mods, but we need an admin to make changes -
Trump predicts imminent arrest, calls for protests - Sound familiar?
swansont replied to StringJunky's topic in Politics
What I read was that basing fraudulent documents on other fraudulent documents makes it a felony. But IANAL. And the payments were not disclosed, making it an election law violation. Cohen was convicted of federal campaign law violations, so I don’t think that latter part is in question edit: "intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof." is the felony. The further crime presumably being election law violation The main difference being one was not reported and the other one was, but not properly described. So not really analogous, IMO I think the broader category is fixing it with lawyers, because you can bully people with lawsuits and pay to delay lawsuits brought against you. That would include NDAs. Works well with civil law. But, as Chris Hayes pointed out yesterday, this is criminal law, and the rules and tactics are different -
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which gets it to 30 C. Did you read the part about how Spitzer was placed in an orbit far from earth, owing to the heat load it would have from being nearby? That’s how they got the low temperature, which would not be the case for this magnetic field generator. You don’t have much area that faces only deep space, which is how they got the small sensor to be cool
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Physics is the study of the behavior (interactions and motion) of matter (fermions) and bosons.
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swansont replied to Photon Guy's topic in Suggestions, Comments and Support
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You invite other problems, since the orbital speeds will not be the same. Plus you need a bigger mirror, and there will be diffraction - light will get around the mirror.
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Some of the energy. But the mirrors will heat up, and radiate into the shaded are.
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Depends on how it’s generated. Permanent magnets don’t but e.g. a current loop continuously does; there is dissipation - in that case resistive losses, or in maintaining the low temperatures of a superconductor. There are also radiative losses. Even permanent magnets would require energy to assemble a configuration and to maintain the physical structure. Sunlight, however, is warm. Out at Mars, the solar levels are almost 600W/m^2
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Trump predicts imminent arrest, calls for protests - Sound familiar?
swansont replied to StringJunky's topic in Politics
There can be state election law violation, and federal. The state prosecution might help the federal, and some facts are already out there from the Cohen conviction. There’s no legal question that some of the crimes were committed. -
How much power would be required for a planetary-size field?
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But the scale in still quite small. 10m or so for the craft. 24 tons (3 tons each x8) for that size is a lot.
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4/3, not 3/4. I’m not sure the point of these calculations. The volume V in the equation is identified as the volume of the superconductor, i.e. the niobium layer, which is only 1 mm thick. It will have a volume of 3.14 m^3 But we can’t be sure the algorithm has given a formula that is correct for this situation.
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What part of cause the ammunition not too (sic) fire is confusing people? Nobody said anything about mercury fulminate on the piano hammer.
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They’re trying to impede the ignition, not cause it. A sound wave can extinguish a flame by depriving it of oxygen, but for a material with its own oxidant this won’t do anything. How does making something not explode qualify as a danger?