Recent content by Vanadium 50

Well, lets take magnetic fields. It is probably not substantially better to have continuous measurement than, say, weekly. But it's not like turning it on and off weekly is not going to increase the lifetime (probably the reverse) and an RTG is not a battery: if you don't use the power now, you...

My solution: the two of them should play duets.

How could they, realistically? Lots of forces on a bridge. Lots of kinetic energy in a ship. A bunch of hooring and hollering by politicians and talking heads won't change that.

I don't understand what you wrote - if you are using an auto-translator, you might want to try a different one. If your loop is changing the value of a variable, reading the contents of that variable outside the loop is undefined. If the loop is not changing the value of the variable, it...

If we were designing a probe of the ISM, it wouldn't look like the Pioneers/Voyagers. But these were planetary probes that, in some cases, managed to reach the ISM without going belly-up. At the risk of sounding Rumsfeldian, you go to deep space with the instrument you have, not the instrument...

Some would call this a "con". In some ways, it was more like a union than a struct. As such, when things went wrong, they went spectacularly wrong. Like many features in many languages, common blocks got a bad rep from overuse and people coding before thinking. "Hey, let's just put everything...

So you want a variable that is local to a loop accessible outside the loop (and indeed outside the process)? Why do you need one that is simultaneously local and not-local?

Semper ubi sub ubi! OK, OP, so you're not enrolled. I see three options: Transfer high schools. This may not be possible, and it will surely come with its own disadvantages, like a long bus ride to and from it. "Dual enroll" in a community college class over the summer that will cover this...

Are you proposing that we fly the spacecraft back to earth, remove the instrument and send it out again? :smile:

From a mechanical point of view, that's correct. However, for high vacuum, you have a restricted choice of materials. You could use, e.g. plastic for a rought vacuum chamber, but not for a good vacuum because it outgasses like crazy. Mechanically, 15 psi is not hard to do. But as the vacuum...

Stephane Mallarmé said "To suggest is to create. To define is to kill." Why do you need the details to tell your story? Besides, the "giant flood" has been done before. Over 4000 years before.

It measures magnetic field, and properties of the incoming radiation. Everything else is switched off.

Modern journalism - never let facts get ih the way of a good story. I'm serious. I don't think anyone thought it was important to get the numbers right. At the risk of discussing content, the four-year contract for the NBA's #1 draft choice is approximately the same as the total annual WNBA...

This is making my head spin. Oops...again, wrong Regan.

If it's more important to sound like a drama queen or Bam-Bam Flintstone Rubble, so be it. If he wants to convince the adults to see things his way, I think he should try a different path.