[QUOTE=bravehat;22368145]Was in the first paragraph and its a fleeting mention but still it's there. I'll try to find some for you.[/QUOTE]
I don't think there is anything about the Asimov Arrays, except the basic fact that it would be a long strip of solar panels around the Moon's equator, covering hundreds of square kilometers of area and producing enough energy for both Earth and the antimatter factories.
I think I might email Charles Pellegrino and ask him for details.
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[QUOTE=billeh!;22367372]Antimatter might seem like a viable source of energy because of a process called 'annihilation', in which 100% of the energy stored in mass is released (fusion comes in at 0.1% or something), but there are many obstacles standing in the way of harnessing antimatter.
Manufacturing and using antimatter is a bit more complicated than it might seem. For one, antimatter is exceptionally hard to manufacture. Antimatter is only being used in particle colliders at present time (protons being smashed into antiprotons). Why? CERN (the European Organization of Nuclear Research), the world's leading antiparticle producer, can only produce 10000000 antiprotons per second when all of its facilities are activated. To put that in perspective, 1 gram of antiprotons would take 2 billion years to manufacture.
In addition, controlling something as powerful as annihilation will take years of research.
tl;dr - hold your horses[/QUOTE]
1 - During mat/amat annihilation, only 50% is usable, the remaining 50% is lost as impossible to recover neutrinos.
2 - All amat (With a few exceptions) must be artifically manufactured, so you never get more energy than what you enter. Not a good energy source.
3 - CERN and Fermilab don't produce much because:
.Lack of energy input (That's why the Asimov Array would have to be VERY LARGE, so large only nanorobots could build it. Amazingly, the tech for that is not that far off)
.Techniques are not refined
I hope theres life :)
We already know theres life out there, but we hafto see it :/
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;22365895]Here is an actual photograph of the surface:
[IMG]http://www.weirdwarp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Actual-image-of-Titans-surface.jpg[/IMG]
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Wouldn't it be awesome to be here for a few minutes?
it's weird, ever since playing mass effect whenever i hear about things like these i can't stop thinking about the game.
Eudoxia will invent the next WMD
[QUOTE=Soul-Chicken;22379405]Eudoxia will invent the next WMD[/QUOTE]
And nuke North Korea.
Nuke is so WW2
Exactly.
Oh yeah guys did you hear about Life on Titan?
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;22379518]And nuke North Korea.[/QUOTE]
Clean nuke ;)
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TO be on topic, how the heck did they take the picture of the surface? I didn't know stuff have managed to land on Titan.
Didn't Asimov theorize this back in the 1950s/1960s?
[QUOTE=Swebonny;22379837]
TO be on topic, how the heck did they take the picture of the surface?.[/QUOTE]
They put a camera up to a Big telescope.
Some part of me really hope that we'll meet an intelligent extra-terrestrial lifeform at some point.
But I would be incredibly creeped out if there was an alien walking next to me.
Not worth it.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;22379837]TO be on topic, how the heck did they take the picture of the surface? I didn't know stuff have managed to land on Titan.[/QUOTE]
the Cassini probe contained a lander called Huygens, it landed on titan and took those pics from the surface, beamed the images to cassini which beamed them back to earth for our use!
[QUOTE=altthe6th;22366286]They should stop calling micro organisms life. Life is... having a life, doing shit, I do not think of bacteria when I say life, I think of intelligent beings with society.[/QUOTE]
by that logic, nothing is life
you are essentially a colony of billions and billions of micro organisms
have fun with that
what i think altthe6th is trying to say is that anything can be alive but only humans and animals can have a life. but hes still an idiot.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;22378628]I don't think there is anything about the Asimov Arrays, except the basic fact that it would be a long strip of solar panels around the Moon's equator, covering hundreds of square kilometers of area and producing enough energy for both Earth and the antimatter factories.
I think I might email Charles Pellegrino and ask him for details.
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1 - During mat/amat annihilation, only 50% is usable, the remaining 50% is lost as impossible to recover neutrinos.
2 - All amat (With a few exceptions) must be artifically manufactured, so you never get more energy than what you enter. Not a good energy source.
3 - CERN and Fermilab don't produce much because:
.Lack of energy input (That's why the Asimov Array would have to be VERY LARGE, so large only nanorobots could build it. Amazingly, the tech for that is not that far off)
.Techniques are not refined[/QUOTE]
great scott
thanks
[QUOTE=altthe6th;22366286]They should stop calling micro organisms life. Life is... having a life, doing shit, I do not think of bacteria when I say life, I think of intelligent beings with society.[/QUOTE]
They should stop letting 10 year olds register on the forums. Ten year olds are... Annoying little shits, I do not think of people when I say ten year olds, I think of retarded mistakes of society.
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