The BigSoccer Science Thread volume 2

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by DoctorD, May 7, 2012.

  1. Bootsy Collins

    Bootsy Collins Player of the Year

    Oct 18, 2004
    Capitol Hill
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    DC United
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    United States
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  2. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
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    DC United
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    Vanuatu
    "Properly derive this function or back to the hot box for you!"
     
  3. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    They even tried to vaccinate him.
     
  4. Dyvel

    Dyvel Member+

    Jul 24, 1999
    The dog end of a day gone by
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    Leeds United AFC
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  5. Sport Billy

    Sport Billy Moderator
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    May 25, 2006
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  6. fatbastard

    fatbastard Member+

    Aug 1, 2003
    Lincoln (ish), Va
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    DC United
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    Well, us also being able to see it was :)

    The sheer amount of data involved/processed is mind-boggling
     
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  7. Sport Billy

    Sport Billy Moderator
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    May 25, 2006
    The sheer distance is mind-boggling. Each light year is roughly 6 Trillion miles. this thing is 55 million x 6 trillion miles away. If I did my math right, that is 330 quintillion miles away and we took a picture of it.:eek:
     
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  8. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    It's amazing what you can do with a Brownie! :coffee:

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  9. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    Lucy, splain this to the orange leader of the space force.
    Engage.
     
  10. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    I'd love to see this work. No more sitting on top of a huge bomb to break free from earth. image.jpg
    The world’s largest airplane — a Stratolaunch behemoth with two fuselages and six Boeing 747 engines — made its first test flight on Saturday in California.

    The mega jet carried out its maiden voyage over the Mojave desert.

    https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/worlds-largest-plane-makes-first-test-flight/
     
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  11. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    If they have a pilot at the controls in both of the fuselages I sincerely hope they are in sync! :oops:
     
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  12. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
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    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    This is an interesting development if they can get it to work properly...

     
  13. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    Yeah....I thing they should do all the testing in England before they unleash it upon the Colonies. You guys are over populated anyways. :whistling:

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  14. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
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    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    More good news...

    The joys of springs: how Kenya could steam beyond fossil fuel
    Engineers are tapping the Rift Valley’s subterranean energy to power an expanding economy


    A faint smell of sulphur, a shrill hiss of gas and a Rift Valley panorama punctuated by 30 pillars of steam mark the frontline of renewable energy growth in Kenya.

    This is the boundary between Hell’s Gate national park and the geothermal plants that are increasingly powering one of east Africa’s fastest-growing economies.

    Giraffes wander close to the giant pipes that snake across the landscape, a reminder this is also a border between an old model of development reliant on foreign safaris and a new drive to leapfrog the fossil-fuel phase of growth.

    In recent years, Kenya has been a frontrunner in expanding access to electricity. Since 2010, the proportion of the 44 million population with power has reportedly surged from one in five to three in five. This is largely thanks largely to steam from the subterranean depths.

    ...

    After a slow start, Kenya has embraced this technology with gusto.

    Engineers boast that the recently expanded Olkaria IV plant, on the edge of the national park, is now the biggest single-site geothermal facility in the world, with a capacity of 280 megawatts. Kenya is already the ninth biggest geothermal-producing nation in the world and will rise further when the new 165 MW Olkaria V facility opens in July.


    I particularly like the line about them 'leapfrogging the fossil-fuel phase of growth'. :)
     
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  15. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Just watched this about tesla's existing autopilot...



    I hope the new one works better than that because that looks well dodgy atm. I'm also not sure how it's going to cope with roundabouts because they're almost an art-form.



    To be fair, that's not so much advanced driving as crap road design.
     
  16. Bootsy Collins

    Bootsy Collins Player of the Year

    Oct 18, 2004
    Capitol Hill
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    DC United
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    United States
    If autonomous driving systems can't handle roundabouts (or rotaries, in the NE US, or traffic circles, in most of the rest of the US) correctly, they'll still fit right in over here, since most Americans can't handle them correctly either.
     
  17. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
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    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    The thing about the tesla was it looked like didn't seem to think it was allowed to use it's brakes so just steamed towards hazards and THEN slammed them on at the last minute.

    I'm guessing that's where the neural network part comes in because, like anybody, (or any 'thing' in this case), they/it needs to be taught how to 'read' the road. Otherwise it just keeps blithely ploughing ahead despite it being obvious to a human observer that it will need to slow down soon.
     
  18. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    This doesn't seem like any human species I ever observed.
     
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  19. Bootsy Collins

    Bootsy Collins Player of the Year

    Oct 18, 2004
    Capitol Hill
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If handling of circles is an oversight of the Tesla folks, it's not surprising to me, since as I understand it all their work is being done in the western US. They're pretty uncommon out there. Hell, except for the Boston area and (to a lesser extent) DC, they're pretty uncommon everywhere in the U.S. Most people suck at them here because of how very rarely they're confronted with them.
     
  20. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
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    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    If so, where do they put their Wendy's? :p
     
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  21. stanger

    stanger BigSoccer Supporter

    Nov 29, 2008
    Columbus
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    Columbus Crew
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    United States
    They are actually becoming quite popular in central Ohio and Indiana.

    And if people can't understand how to read road signs they need to have their license suspended.
     
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  22. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    :D

    Well, maybe... my old man was a driving instructor so I'm a bit picky about this stuff. Reading the road, balance, braking, positioning and what you might call the 'art' of driving is something I grew up on.

    Just watching another one, though and this was more troubling..



    "We weren't able to use autopilot there because the red light changed and it didn't notice it"

    Hmmm... yeah, that IS a bit troubling.

    ATM it seems fine as long as it's driving along an almost straight road with no other cars, pedestrians, bends, junctions or other 'difficulties'.

    The main problem is it seems to want to go to fast a lot of the time. It seems to have hazard 'blindness' as it's called so it only recognises a hazard when it's about to crash into something, not as the situation develops in front of it.
     
  23. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    It's only as good as the humans who have created it. It's like the AI that turned racist.
     
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  24. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    Shouldn't this part of your post be in the Brexit thread? :whistling:
     
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  25. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    We could always adopt Japan's solution! :thumbsup:

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