Rasori

10-30 minutes? That explains why my sister knew the answers whenever a teacher called on her...

Now, this is another one of my crazy schemes, but I figured I have to ask. I saw a show not too long ago on how we plan to colonize Mars. They said that we'd have to thicken and heat the atmosphere. One of the main plans for how was to extract carbon from the soil and release it into the atmosphere, then, once it warmed enough, begin the process of bringing plants. If this carbon plan is true, then can't we make it twice as fast? I was searching before and I came across this site. It says: So, why can't we put machines on Mars that heat up the CO2 enough to seperate the carbon from the oxygen, and do two things at once? Not only do we heat the atmosphere, but we make it more hospitable! I don't know, I'm probably just crazy (don't feel bad telling me that I am), but it seems like the easiest and quickest solution. What say you?

Great, my other computer's ethernet card finally works, then I find this out. I can't update it to XP cause it's ancient and only has 64mb of RAM. Now what?

Oh, so living in a below room temperature household can extend your life? Well, that means I'll live average (low room temp, but I eat a lot )

Woo-hoo! Those landings look like an exact representation of what would happen if I was the pilot! Oh, and, "Doh, Bart!" (And more importantly, "MmmmMM... Forbidden Donut!")

What if you were to try to access the files through DOS? My first inclination is to say no because you still have to find the name of the file and everything, but there's a LOT of stuff you can do in DOS if you know how...

Now, how exactly could investigators access these files that don't have inodes?

So if you keep your hardrive full you have nothing to worry about? Except a damn slow computer, of course...

Cold fusion, of course

Hmm... But then, if all deletion does is destroy the inode, how does a memory wipe get you back all your original space (the impossible-to-get-to files would still take up their space, no?)

We have cars that run on cow manure I think... But that could be considered a non-fossilized fossil fuel if you think about it.

What if you were to completely erase the contents in the file and save it blank, then delete the corresponding inode. Wouldn't the file then just show up blank?

Thirded too

I was just in an argument over this. Maybe I don't know as much about computers as I thought I did, but I was told that a memory or hard drive wipe doesn't do anything if there was something you wanted to hide. I'm sure there was some exaggeration, but the other person said that every keystroke, even mistakes, are saved in the computer and can't be deleted via memory wipe, and no matter how many times you try to delete a file it still exists in a restricted part of your computer. I don't think it's true, I mean it doesn't fit from a business point of view (if you can fit that much info in something so small you can't find it when looking for it, why not make normal storage with this technology?) or from a personal point of view (if this information is saved, how can the memory wipe give you back the original space on the hard drive?). Then, of course, there's also the fact that if the FBI or someone can get into this info, an average person can if they try and then delete it themselves. So who's right? Does a memory wipe only hide the obvious stuff (their opinion) or does it wipe it all (my opinion)?

Hey, think you can teach us an atomic bomb next?

I don't know how this got from wherever it was to here, but my posts seem to lead to insanity quickly...

Hmm... I suppose I never asked this straight out, so here goes- 65,000 pounds of thrust is being provided in this case, so: 1. How many liters per second are being moved with this amount of thrust? 2. (Tell me if I didn't realize this was already answered) How can I calculate the approximate acceleration of a vehicle in space assuming enough volume could be created for 65,000 pounds of thrust?

Well people say if you can do that live long and prosper thing with your hand then you're an alien, but my sister's the only one who can so I think it's the other way around...

Ooh, now that's fast paced there. 0.1 m/s. But the equation itself is useful. And I didn't take the silence as not being willing to help (I know you people too well already ) but since I'd bumped the thread once I was a little worried. Besides, I needed something to do to pass the time during Study Hall!

Still nothing? Just tell me if you don't know so I can search for it elsewhere. Just thought this was easier, getting just the information I need.

YAY!

To tell you the truth, atinymonkey, I couldn't just make out a circle of henges and other various arranged stones that was aligned with the sun to make a damn good calendar. Maybe a sundial in the right place (like, right at the equator) but not a complete calendar. As for your claim for henges and everything before Stonehenge, I didn't say it was impossible, just NEARLY. Who knows, I probably trust TV too much, but I saw on the discovery channel an attempt to try to duplicate their work on just one of the upright stones. It took us days with our modern thinking (although they were limited in technologies) to get it upright. And after that they had no clue how the stones at the top, going across, were raised. This is after we know the principles of leverage and all those nifty things we take for granted, which back then wasn't a defined principal. Sure, it was known that ramps could reduce effort to raise something to a certain height, but the reasoning wasn't known. It was just something taken for granted.

How is movement a characteristic of life? If I remember correctly, it has to have all of the seven properties to be considered life by our standards, but trees, for example, don't move, yet they are considered living.

(I'm supposed to shut up!) But by putting our primes doesn't mean that they are the same to them, so they may just think that we came up with random lines and scribbles and said 'this is a prime!' because to them, our 3 could be like %^#$!. Although, the fact that we have a probe sent out there SHOULD tell them that we know something.

They need to control their population. Anyway, in my opinion, life begins with the first unaided breath (as in, not through the umbilical cord).