but represents a point in space instead of on a two-dimensional screen.)Group a million or so voxels together
Watching the video it reminded me of the old Test Driving video game on the PC a long time ago. lol---In space no one can hear a tree fall in the forest.
and take the parking space. After all you can't be rude to a machine can you?
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which our planet can replenish and have produced more waste than can be reabsorbed according to the Global Footprint Network a think tank based in the U s. Switzerland and Belgium.
Clearly we are not consuming the entire output of the planet-we are consuming previous output that has been stored (in the form of fossil fuels.
and increasing the output of the planet (in the same way that taking money from the bank
what we do to this planet when reach such large numbers. We deforest for everything from toilet paper to wood for infrastructure and
Maybe they guide a meteor into a major population without anyone knowing? Not a planet killer mind you maybe just a few small ones that are big enough to take a few billion.
I hate to think in these extremes but why must inflate our population to such a large number?
I do think a large majority of the 8. 3 Billion on this planet are in that category.
and their needs and not giving a shit about this planet. What wake up call will need we?@
and scrolls through sonar images produced by the Remus. Grainy and reddish the sonar images look like transmissions from Mars. Some show deep scours;
Originally painted blue with a white star -and-bar symbol the aircraft has been scoured to bare aluminum.
It's like worrying that we might be hit by an asteroid. While there's certainly a complex story to be told on the subject of GMOS Elle seems to have passed right by it into conspiracy theory territory.
This technology might be okay for a Mars colony or a deep space voyage. Let's see:
the Roman Colosseum and aqueducts the Great Walls of China which I have on good account can be seen from space (one of a few really) Stonehenge the Hagia Sophia Petra Taj Mahal the Panama canal Machu Picchu
The Great wall of china cannot be seen from space (confirmed by astronauts orbiting the earth at just 217 miles up)
if we desire a healthy planet. As a retired Department of Environmental Quality Employee and an owner of timber land this is a stupid article on environmentalism gone crazy in past history.
Perhaps we can as I said save what's left of the natural earth by exploiting space for resources maybe build colonies on the moon
and mars but all that isn't going to happen for quite some time. So either we use
(which is actually physically impossible) the Earth would stay warm at least compared with the space surrounding it for a few million years.
Millions of years after that our planet would reach a stable âÂ#Â00°the temperature at which the heat radiating from the planet's core would equal the heat that the Earth radiates into space explains David Stevenson a professor of planetary science at the California Institute of technology.
it also keeps the planet in orbit. If its mass suddenly disappeared (this is equally impossible by the way) the planet would fly off like a ball swung on a string
and suddenly let go. This article originally appeared in the November 2008 issue of Popular Science magazine.
Hopefully we'll rocket past the moon rather than into it. GPS would immediately stop working
In fact every space satellite in our new trajectory would immediately come crashing down to Earth the satellites on the far side of earth would be left behind trailing in Earth's gravity.
because the oceans tides are managed no longer by the gravitational pull of the Moon. There will also likely be massive tsunami's as a result of the earthquakes.
By the way the sun has a hot riotous atmosphere called the corona that reaches from the sun's surface past Earth all the way to Pluto and beyond.
I don't see why our moon or satellites would suddenly stop being caught in our gravity well...
or change much just our trajectory through space. Immediate death is not in the sun's future
since it is a star. Currently scientists have deduced that our sun is 4. 5 billion years old
Like all stars as the hydrogen fuel in the core is used up the outer parts of the Sun will begin to expand.
and the Sun will be at the center of a planetary nebula. The odds of humans creating a black hole On earth is more likely than the sun suddenly poof is off.
Do not fear the sun but fear humanity as our future killer. DCRANE:..as not even the effects of gravity move faster than light.
'when objects orbit each other be they planets stars or galaxies. Let's not forget how pretty it would be to see all the gasses in the atmosphere freeze
I don't see why our moon or satellites would suddenly stop being caught in our gravity well.
This includes the moon. Dcrane: Your wrong. If the sun went poof the gravity goes poof
Putting a light travel delay (technically called retardation) into newtonian gravity would make orbits unstable leading to predictions that clearly contradict Solar system observations.
This might seem to contradict the Solar system observations described above but remember that general relativity is conceptually very different from newtonian gravity so a direct comparison is not so simple.
'but let's consider that'poof'=the sun flies away from the solar system at some absurd speed close to the speed of light) the sun's velocity is not constant anymore so you cannot continue to use the'basically instantaneous'argument.
it would be 8 minutes before the Earth shot off into space but during that 8 minutes it would be orbiting as normal in that it wouldn't'lag'behind the sun.*Another way of looking at your discrepancy is to remind you all that relativity does away with an ABSOLUTE frame of reference.
what's simultaneous somewhere in the universe will not be simultaneous elsewhere in the universe no matter how much you try to argue against that fact with Newtonian i e. everyday logic.
It would indeed take 8 minutes for the Earth to leave its orbit and fly away into space.
the moon will still boringly rule our tides (he was lost not see before. We will only loose the difference between regular tide and spring tide
but is distorted space time. 2-The Moon would continue rotating around Earth with little change. Both the Earth and Moon are on free fall around the sun so the sun doesnã¢Â#Â#t affect much of the internal working of the system.
Actually the Moon moves a little faster and a little slower around earth orbit depending on his distance to sun
but the effect is small. The Moon would not stop orbiting Earth and Earth would not crash on the Moon
because any change over sunã¢Â#Â#s gravitatory field would have similar effects on both bodies.
Both the Moon and satellites would change his trajectory nearly exactly the same as Earth.
For that reason most satellites would not change his orbit near Earth except the ones linked to Earth-Sun lagrange points.
or pass another planet in solar system big enough could pull us into orbit. We will also hit the rubble/stone etc belt at the edge of solar system-that aswell will fly off into every direction. lifestream brings up some interesting points.
It's pretty unlikely that earth would hit any other planets directly. Perhaps eventually if we were close enough we would spiral towards each other.
More likely though we would simply alter course significantly depending on how close we get. Just think of how many earths could fit in-between the surface of the earth and the moon alone.
As far as colliding with objects in the kuiper belt we might only hit a few to none.
These objects will for the most part fly off into a trajectory tangential to their current orbit away from the center of the solar system.
It would be interesting to see would happen to Jupiter. Being the largest body in the neighborhood it could potentially after untold millennia gather enough mass to form fusion reactions.
The planet would scratch there heads for about 10 seconds wondering why the hell didn't this happen sooner?
However relativity is far a more accurate model of how objects in our universe behave.
Lifestream goes on to say that the real issue is the path our planet takes.
Consider the notion of an alien race which seeks to take over an inhabited planet. One tactic that could be employed would be a modular form of a Dyson sphere
From the perspective of the aliens doing it they are now capturing close to 100%of the radiant energy of an entire star and that's likely a really huge asset for them for a variety of reasons.
a rougue molecular cloud wandering into the Solar system. If it's a smallish one-maybe just a few times bigger than the heliosphere-we might not even see it coming until it was almost here.
After the earth floats through space for a few million years maybe it could be captured by another solar system...
and become its moon. then an emerging ET civilization who is just starting to explore Space could find it
Things don't travel between solar systems not even comets or asteroids all of which originate within our own solar system.
You do not find this even in science fiction. The âÂ#Âoeneedã¢Â# for us to explore space is a distinctly human anomaly possibly even a maladaptation and not somehow inevitable in alien intelligence even in itã¢Â#Â#s highest forms.
The movies of course suggest otherwise but thatã¢Â#Â#s just another human hang-up that alien intelligence must be like us and just another version of anthropomorphism.
despite no radiation from the Sun reaching the planet ever again. Tough but doable. The caveats in that previous paragraph are the much larger obstacles to overcome in my opinion.
what he says will be the most favorable energy source on the planet by his estimates generating as much as 3000 times the electricity generated worldwide today.
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We have tuned a finely infrastructure that we've created to support the billions we have on this planet
and are willing to espouse the climatologist models without even looking at the data Is the planet warming?
but actually varies across our planet and is averaged. Wind drag can be measured but will also fluctuate based on air density at different altitudes climates and across a distance.
The larger picture will show you that our planet continue to change it's climate with or without our help.
or control but we are the only species on this planet that can do something to save our planet as it is now.
Shouldn't we keep a safe and healthy Planet as a HUGE and IMPORTANT goal?
We have to be arrogant to think we could affect our big ol'planet. You can see the pollution can't you?
-On a separate note the common misconception that volcanos don't have the capacity to kill all life on this planet just from one eruption of CO2 is silly.
and its lead author Pushker A. Kharecha of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Seems like a market for all the space pioneers.@@Listenup The amount of ignorance and misinformation in your comment blows my mind.
but whatever it was it apparently went undetected by the 350 million people living on our planet at the time:
A nearby supernova would have sent gamma rays flying in all directions. Those rays would have created high-energy particles in our atmosphere
But in order to send out enough gamma rays to do the trick the supernova would have had to be bigger and brighter than other historical bright spots that were documented in fact.
Yet again no record of a 775 supernova exists. And even if people had missed somehow an exploding star that star's remnants would still be out there today giving out a faint glow that could be picked up by telescopes.
Scientists have identified already 11 such remnants in our Galactic neighborhood but none are the right age to have caused the 775 spike.
a short-duration gamma ray burst produced by the collision of two nearby neutron stars. Though immensely powerful (we're talking two 10-mile wide boulders each with the mass of our sun) the collision would only have been visible from Earth for about a day
The scientists have identified five neutron stars that could have caused the massive burst and their step is to take a detailed look at those candidates.
Demographers predict that the planet s urban citizenry will double in 36 years increasing the demand for ever-taller structures in ever-denser cities.
Our industry leads all others in terms of its impact on the planet and human health Waugh says.
The boards are cut to custom specification incorporating spaces for windows and utilities using 3-D files sent by the architects
Fifteen years ago the flies looked like little fuzzy UFOS he says. Now the biologists use cameras that can run at 7500 frames per second significantly higher than what was once available to researchers and that work in infrared light.
Or the researchers speculate a science fiction idea of a space elevator that could connect an orbiting satellite to Earth by a long cord that might consist of sheets of CVD graphene
Through beautiful images of strikingly symmetric stars and triangles hundreds of microns across they have uncovered key insights into the optical and electronic properties of this new material
People Prosperity and Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability. One of the Johns Hopkins student projects focuses on growing large masses of algae to address three sustainability issues:
when you see this raging fire where exactly is all this energy being released in space?
) In a computer model we are using very small volumes of space on the order of one cubic millimeter on one end to a cubic meter on the other end he says.
We model these on a grid as a region of space. Fire is a process in
One of the biggest moves in agriculture Vierstra says is to be able to grow plants at higher density allowing producers to plant more crops in a given area thus saving space and other resources.
Photoconversion between the active and inactive states of phytochromes is arguably the most important twitch on this planet as it tells plants to become photosynthetic
and can pack far more information into less space. For example manufacturers have announced plans for RRAM prototype chips that will be capable of storing about one terabyte of data on a device the size of a postage stamp--more than 50 times the data density of current flash memory technology.
Researchers are continuing that tradition by designing robots to work in a deep-space habitat tending gardens and growing food for astronaut explorers.
and use it in future space missions said Tracy Gill NASA's technology strategy manager at the Kennedy space center in Florida.
Plants Growing in Free Habitat Spaces. Instead of an area set aside just for vegetation the approach calls for plants to be distributed in any available space in a deep-space habitat.
The X-Hab challenge is a university-level project designed to engage and retain students in science technology engineering and math or STEM.
and manufacture of functional prototype subsystems that could be used in extraterrestrial habitats and during deep-space exploration missions.
It is a concept for producing edible plants during long-term missions to destinations such as Mars. Heather Hava who is working on a doctorate in aerospace engineering sciences explains that the goal is to have robots do much of the monotonous tasks saving time
and takes advantage of unutilized space in the habitat. In their new system a Remotely Operated Gardening Rover or ROGR travels around the habitat tending to a fleet of Smartpots or SPOTS
which would be distributed throughout the deep-space habitat's living space. The SPOTS facilitate plants growing in a small custom-designed hydroponic growth chamber with computerized systems to monitor the vegetation's progress.
We envision dozens of SPOTS on a space habitat said Dane Larsen who is working on a master's degree on computer science.
While living in a space habitat is basically residing in a mechanized environment Hava says humans by their makeup still need to be around nature.
Now I have an opportunity to bridge Earth farming systems to space. Hava noted that the team has benefited from support from former NASA astronaut Joe Tanner who now is a senior instructor of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado and Nikolaus Correll assistant professor of computer science at the university.
NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation selected seven projects from six universities for the 2013-2014 X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge.
and concepts that could be used in future deep-space habitats. In doing so they worked in close cooperation with members of the NASA Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) Program's Deep-space Habitat Project team.
The challenge encourages multidisciplinary approaches outreach efforts and partnerships with experts and industry. Participants are required to explore NASA's work on development of deep-space habitats
and help the agency gather new ideas to complement its current research and development. The University of Colorado Boulder also is among five universities selected by NASA for the 2015 X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge.
The team's project will focus on designing a Deployable Greenhouse for Food Production for deep-space missions.
Hava says she would like to have an opportunity to apply her research on a deep-space mission.
While the research is said exciting she I would love to go to Mars and explore. I see myself as potentially being the first Mars space gardener.
Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by NASA. The original article was written by By Bob Granath NASA's Kennedy space center Florida.
study findsforget about positioning giant mirrors in space to reduce the amount of sunlight being trapped in Earth's atmosphere
or putting reflectors in outer space ranked as the study's second least viable approach. While cloud seeding is cheap
#Cool climate, clean planet: Research suggests cooling action will clean airever-rising greenhouse gas emissions
If we take action to cool the planet we can also expect the added benefit of cleaner air particularly in China says Professor Edgar Hertwich from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
And as an industrial ecologist like Hertwich will tell you price is everything in determining the kinds of choices we will make to either protect the planet's climate
so save the planet. A menu for actionin its own words the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change.
The world's scientists have calculated a carbon budget for the planet which tells us how much CO2 we can put into the atmosphere before we reach concentrations above which we will unacceptably warm the planet.
A single model was morphed to represent species within the entire space in order to calculate the engineering performance of different skull shapes.
and to help the planet. Smart buildings can help people translate the mass amounts of data that our buildings generate,
Part of it is less space, reducing our usage of natural resources and now having the ability utilize technology that effectively reuses resources like water instead of letting it go to waste by flushing it down a storm drain.
The plant will provide landowners with economic incentive to keep open spaces open. Â Without this particular solution for our challenge
That arguably may put us in the lead in the space. Smartplanet: And the hurdles? How will you meet your goals?
To be successful in this space, there's no on-the-job learning. You can't afford to make one mistake.
I've been in the space my whole career, about 25 years. I was first a chemical engineer for Nalco Chemical.
There's a lot of interesting work going on right now in the ag space--part of it is the shift to low-flow
If technological innovation brought humans to a population of 7 billion can it also make the future planet livable?
and might as well get good at it. â Â Ultimately our planet will survive no matter
Today 50%of everyone on the planet are made of synthetic nitrogen. Nitrogen is the most important element in most of the proteins that make up our bodies.
Roughly half the people on the planet would not be around if Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch hadn invented a chemical way of ripping inert nitrogen from the atmosphere
It did cool the planet for a while. The problem is that the instant those particles go away you get a redoubled warming
Ocean plankton are one of the biggest CO2 sucks on the planet, and if you fertilize them there might be more blooms.
Because the planet will be fine. No matter what we do, even if we burn all the fossil fuels, the planet as a rock will survive
and so will a lot of the life on the planet, like the microbes. What won survive are many of the animals we care about,
and our civilization. And that is what we are talking about when we talk about climate change.
We are not saving the planet, we are saving ourselves. SP: What about the government agency Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E?
we would like to bring a lot of our fellow travelers on the planet along with us. It would be sad
unless they work for the planet. SP: Otherwise we might have to live in vats. DB:
Or on Mars. There are a lot of folks who view private space flight as an escape plan for humanity,
but we can set something up on Mars. â Â I don think that is a good Plan B. I think we should get this planet healthy, happy and whole
Strawberry pickers beware, the robots are comingon a windy morning in California's Salinas Valley,
"If you can put a man on the moon, "Sandoval said, "you can figure out how to pick fruit with a machine
It is a long way from teleporting a few individual atoms to sending people from the Enterprise to a planet surface.
They would be robotic in that they would be programmed to carry out complex and specific functions in three-dimensional space.
And young corporate stars seeking to cash in for billions by selling shares to the public are consumer services the online game company Zynga last week,
At the Nest offices in Palo alto, Calif.,there is a lot of talk of helping the planet, as well as the thrill of creating cool technology.
Smarter Planet was the label the company tacked on to the initiative, and industry analysts wondered
and met space utilization trends of the future. The winners were: Hickok Cole Architects; Gensler;
Gensler connects the dots between increased worker mobility, weak demand for backfilling vacant space and a surplus of obsolete buildings.
Large-scale hacks can create spaces beyond standard amenities like cafes and fitness centers to oeattractors-or unique building amenities-like fabrication labs,
if their lease agreements give them the freedom to transform their spaces in ways that better meet their needs.
and institutions encourage employees to supplement their office space with work locations not paid for by the company-home offices, neighborhood coffee shops and communal spaces, such as parks and museums in the public domain of the city.
First, it offers flexible open space that is fast and inexpensive to build, to accommodate either individual co-workers
and higher lease rates by oecurating the office space to ensure the right creative mix of users.
These spaces could be rented to office tenants as well as to community groups on weekends. Rounding out the (b) HIVE concept is the retail/third space
on the ground floor, with a diverse mix of uses such as restaurants, studios, galleries, gyms, theatres, supermarkets, places of worship, medical facilities and community spaces,
as well as innovative combinations of living and working spaces. To maximize its oecarrying capacity, Miller Hull office building of the future will be:¢
¢Located on an underutilized site on the edge of the downtown core;¢¢Accessible by foot, bicycle or mass transit;¢
and¢A nexus for the neighborhood with activated retail and green space. Pickard Chilton The office building of the future envisioned by Pickard Chilton will embody three distinct principles centered around human qualities, business objectives and sustainability.
First, the workplace will be healthful and conducive to the productivity and well-being of employees, with elements such as abundant natural light, access to fresh air, customizable work areas and greater collaborative spaces.
Innovative design and construction, efficient floorplates and multipurpose spaces will support the owner business objectives.
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