Endy0816

Your memory hasn't let you down: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomen_atmospheric_engine#Successor @OP: If you want to look up about the Carnot Cycle, that might shine more light on the subject.

I didn't start college until I was about 26 myself and it went fine. I can definitely second what Acme is saying about it being easier to focus on your studies. Many of the specialties will also have their own training schools. The study skills and credits you pick up can also help. I believe one of the officer programs allow you to attend college first. That may also be of interest. If you haven't taken the test already, I do recommend using an ASVAB prep book beforehand. Easy route to increased choices.

Converting the water into steam is what is driving the turbine's rotation. To put it another way you would have at least a 100% loss without it. More accurately what you need is cold water entering the cycle, not necessarily a Condenser. Reason why we do use a Condenser is because water from nature has all kinds of contaminants, which would cause buildup on the piping and damage to the turbine.

Sounds like cells mislocated in the womb. In that case it wouldn't be inheritable. I wouldn't worry about it in either case though. Diversity is a good thing for a species. Your particular genotype might have been less fit at one point, but our species has advanced since then in terms of knowledge, technology and values.

Book looks like it would be decent. You might also find project kits to be of interest. Little Bits and Arduino come to mind though there are a number of different types out there. Mental Note: Take less time to type...

Boggles the mind to imagine everything we could do with different XNA's.

Wouldn't need it on Venus. Pressure is comparable to Earth's at greater heights. Winds could also be utilized to traverse almost the entire planet(at a reasonable height).

Your brain can determine your perception of time, though not time's actual progression. edit: cross-posted with SwansonT :}

Jury was based on the county. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/29/29189.html

there's already an Instructable out for the cross saber So far it looks good. Keeping my fingers crossed.

You could use a hydraulic ram instead and lift water partially up that way(still with zero electricity cost). Mostly I think your desires are too ambitious for what a water wheel can reasonably be expected to manage. If you still wish to proceed, this may help: http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/ah810e/AH810E05.htm Very complete reference on the subject of water lifting devices past and present(with handy numbers and rough efficiency ranges). May give a better sense of the relatively low heights most types were concerned with. Only the Persian Wheel is really practical in this scenario and would still require a source of power.

Well, the physical aspects science clearly has the potential to do something about. Death, sickness, pain, etc. I do suspect some level of unsatisfactoriness would yet remain. Interesting food for thought at any rate. I'll take a look at Nagarjuna, but as for him being ignored; Science is premised upon nonacceptance until something is proven true. Put another way it doesn't matter that nobody can disprove that an invisible, intangible truck passes by my house each night. What matters is that I cannot prove my claim.

It's like this: ____You(4D)___ | | You1-You2-You3 You have to think of it as 3D slices being connected across time resulting in the 4D object. It has slices at all those different points, it doesn't need to duplicate or move. Really best advice I can give is to look at shapes in different numbers of dimensions. ie. Square(2d) -> Cube(3d) -> Tesseract(4d)

Can't say I'm familiar with this particular philosopher, but his work does at least sound interesting. Broadly I view science and philosophy to be intermingled. Anyone know Zeno, Aristotle, Pythagoras? Jumping to closer to modern, Ernst Mach? Now some are just building castles in the air or offering complete bunkum for one form of gain or another. That is not so useful. Aside: I view the elimination of causes of suffering as valid, but reject the notion that suffering is eternal or absolute in this world. Mostly founded upon the world not being all that bleak overall and advancing scientific knowledge towards eliminating the causes of unavoidable suffering.

Redshift. If you go by your own requirement of observation then expansion is the logical conclusion based on this light.

If deadly force was authorized and justified then one should have a clear conscience about having employed it. Save your sympathy for the living, perhaps regret the circumstances but not the act itself. Within reason you will have acted to the best of your knowledge in the fashion your society at some macro level desires. Honestly, it probably was an unwise statement, but maybe we need an honest expression of feelings instead of the balm of political correctness we've been using. We've made a great deal of social progress, but we still have these negative undercurrents. Honestly I'd like the DA's to grow a pair and stop allowing these reverse show trials to occur. Be frank with people about the situation and let it move on to civil proceedings. Let that be justice and maybe people won't feel that vigilante justice is the answer.

On the similar sakia, but may help with the numbers: http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNAAM711.pdf Still in use today. http://www.apachecorp.com/News/Articles/View_Article.aspx?Article.ItemID=2122 Everything suggests they are less efficient, but can make up for it in terms of maintenance costs depending on how rural the situation is.

Does this score appear on your transcript?

Same thing occurred after the Rodney King riots. :/ At least these weren't as bad, only good thing you can say about it though in light of the potential long term consequences. Ideally we see some form of political change, though barriers might prevent this. Honestly, I would be fresh out of sympathy after almost being indicted for murder. Considering everything altogether he would probably be facing the same troubles either way. We've already got people being arrested for plotting to kill the prosecutor and police chief.

The light or whole superclusters aren't actually being moved though. The distance alone is all that is increasing. I've yet to find a really good analogy to use for this. You can imagine adding a meter, 10 meters, 100 meters, and then a kilometer between you and something you are looking at, that is probably the simplest thought experiment. Still not accurate for actual expansion but gives a sense of things anyways.

The light itself is impacted by the expansion. Basically the distance the light has to travel increases, while its own speed remains constant. You can think of it as a treadmill. If you move forward at 5m/s but are moved backwards at 4 m/s you are going to only advance at 1m/s.

It sounds like the 'tesseract room' is supposed to explain how the speed of light limit is bypassed. Might be easier understood as Cooper's mind interpreting a temporal wormhole, or at least the options that even a small one would allow. In the normal fashion once you are past the event horizon

yeah, I think organ printing will be the best way to go long term. Other options carry assorted risks and ethical issues which could be eliminated via organ printing.

We could definitely use it in the case of colonization or if a significant portion of the world's population were wiped out. More or less artificial hermaphrodite behavior would be incredibly efficient at creating a population surge. We need to at least have the capability, though we certainly shouldn't go crazy utilizing it during more normal times. Even if the more practical problems were fixed, you could still end up with a dangerously homogenous population.

http://www.energystoragenews.com/Energy%20Storage%20in%20Elevated%20Weights.htm ^Gives a good overview and an analysis of some of the associated costs you would encounter. I'd also heard of another group looking at doing the same with a train engine. Interesting concepts at any rate.