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2013-May-13, 03:00 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Solar, wind and other energy sources in Science and Technology

Similar subsidies make every other energy supply you can name more affordable. That's an engineering issue which can be solved (and according to...

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2013-May-12, 09:31 PM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Solar, wind and other energy sources in Science and Technology

Would you prefer if I had said "stupid"? GM had a hybrid variant of its EV-1 that outperforms the Prius, but decided it was "too complex" to bother...

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2013-May-09, 03:54 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Early tech development in Science and Technology

In Connections 3, James Burke talks about an American in England who'd discovered radio years before either Tesla or Marconi, but couldn't convince...

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2013-May-09, 03:51 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Cool but unused technology. in Science and Technology

I don't remember the mileage figures for either car, so I don't know. I do know that the horsepower ratings between the two engines wasn't terribly...

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2013-May-09, 03:36 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Asteroid mining: an economic means to our future. in Space Exploration

Yet, Diamandis is talking about flooding the market with PGMs to cause the price to crash, making up the massive startup costs in volume. In order...

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2013-May-07, 03:35 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Solar, wind and other energy sources in Science and Technology

Its more an issue of the technologies adopted, than a failure of any one system. Concentrated solar thermal is more efficient than solar cells...

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2013-May-06, 10:19 PM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Mongrels the BBC 'adult' Puppets showing in US on Hula in Small Media at Large

Well, if enough folks on Hulu watch it, there's a chance that it could be restarted. Hulu basically paid for the most recent season of Misfits from...

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2013-May-06, 02:49 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Cool but unused technology. in Science and Technology

It depends upon a number of factors, some of which aren't visible in that video (in real crash tests, they've got cameras mounted inside the cars as...

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2013-May-06, 01:05 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Mongrels the BBC 'adult' Puppets showing in US on Hula in Small Media at Large

And I've managed to burn through all 17 episodes on Hulu. Don't suppose there's going to be any more, do you? I rather liked it.

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2013-May-06, 12:48 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Cool but unused technology. in Science and Technology

Video of a 2009 Chevy Malibu in a head on collision with a '59 Bel Air. Not quite a fair comparison since there's no seat belts in the Bel Air. I'd...

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2013-May-05, 09:47 PM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Solar, wind and other energy sources in Science and Technology

That has more to do with the fact that we tend not to give up on using old sources of energy, even after new sources are discovered, than it does...

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2013-May-04, 09:36 PM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Asteroid mining: an economic means to our future. in Space Exploration

Unless its almost completely pure PGM, it still doesn't change much. Very true, and what I think will ultimately be the selling point. ...

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2013-May-04, 05:43 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Asteroid mining: an economic means to our future. in Space Exploration

I was aware of the second issue (which is really the big problem with titanium), Diamandis does not seem to. He talked about doing the same kind of...

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2013-May-04, 05:35 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Windows 8 a flop in Off-Topic Babbling

Not necessarily, though having the option isn't a bad idea at all. Its actually quite handy to be a machinist. I've learned a great deal about...

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2013-May-04, 03:47 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Early tech development in Science and Technology

Dunlop invented the first practical pneumatic tire in 1887. Not sure when solid rubber tires were invented. I would imagine that those would date...

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2013-May-04, 03:31 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Cool but unused technology. in Science and Technology

There was a similar device used in the late '40s and beyond in the auto industry that is simpler in design and just as accurate in measuring an...

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2013-May-03, 10:49 PM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Solar, wind and other energy sources in Science and Technology

Doesn't even need to be "perfected" to be useful. Even if you discount the story of Archimedes, solar furnaces can get hot enough to melt steel. ...

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2013-May-03, 10:44 PM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Early tech development in Science and Technology

I did, 16 posts before yours. :p

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2013-May-03, 04:55 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Windows 8 a flop in Off-Topic Babbling

Where did I say that any of this was caused by the OS? I was providing examples of situations where not being able to access the web caused problems...

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2013-May-03, 03:21 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Mongrels the BBC 'adult' Puppets showing in US on Hula in Small Media at Large

Reminds me a bit of Peter Jackson's "Meet the Feebles."

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2013-May-03, 03:11 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Asteroid mining: an economic means to our future. in Space Exploration

Uh, no. If you listen to the interview, you'll see that Diamandis is specifically saying that by dumping a large amount of titanium on the market,...

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2013-May-03, 12:55 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Asteroid mining: an economic means to our future. in Space Exploration

The most recent episode of Star Talk with Neil deGrass-Tyson has an interview with Peter Diamandis. Its an interesting interview. Diamandis is...

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2013-May-03, 12:36 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Early tech development in Science and Technology

Not to cast aspersions at the Mythbusters folks, because they really do good stuff, but I've noticed a few times when they didn't fully tackle a...

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2013-May-03, 12:14 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Windows 8 a flop in Off-Topic Babbling

Mary Jo Folely and Paul Thurott have mentioned it in passing, on Windows Weekly. It was some time in the past 6 months, but I'm not going to go...

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2013-May-02, 11:29 PM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Cool but unused technology. in Science and Technology

Supposedly, in the 1950s, someone at Lucas Electrics came up with the idea of distributorless ignitions (common on cars today), but management...

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2013-May-02, 04:34 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Cool but unused technology. in Science and Technology

New ideas are often rejected because people don't recognize a good idea when they see it. Jobs and Wozniak were laughed out of HP because no one...

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2013-May-02, 03:46 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Windows 8 a flop in Off-Topic Babbling

Yes, well, I don't agree with him, either. There's a definite use for tablets. What I'd like to see are phones which could be docked with tablets...

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2013-May-02, 03:35 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Early tech development in Science and Technology

Intentional or not, if you read the article, it appears that they recognized the medicinal properties enough to give it to sick people. It...

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2013-May-02, 02:27 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Early tech development in Science and Technology

Antibiotics were first used some 2,000 years ago in Africa.Given the problems we're having with drug resistant bacteria, I'd say that its a good...

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2013-May-01, 03:29 AM

Tuckerfan replied to a thread Windows 8 a flop in Off-Topic Babbling

You know, I wish Ford had tried saying that after the Pinto was introduced, "Exploding gas tanks are the wave of the future, people! Adapt or go...

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