At least they get exposure, though. A random dude from Ghana getting that kind of reaction from such a big audience for something so unique and out there? That's always cool.
Except America's Got Talent had a guy audition this year whose variety act was taking fireworks to his junk. Not cool.
Depends on your act. There are Big name magicians who advise against going on America's got talent, simply because they've seen first-hand what the people who edit the show do to your act, and on top of that, the magic you're performing for an audience like that isn't going to translate as well to TV, nor TV translate to the audience - in Essence, you just make yourself look like a bad magician, and that sort of exposure is counter-productive.
Across all the countries with a Got talent series, the pattern continues - if you're not a musical act, your chances are pretty goddamn slim.
That really annoys me. It totally defeats the purpose of the show. I followed AGT pretty closely this year, and all I was saying the whole season was "I wish they would just ban musical acts from the show and make them go on American Idol or something instead."
That really annoys me. It totally defeats the purpose of the show. I followed AGT pretty closely this year, and all I was saying the whole season was "I wish they would just ban musical acts from the show and make them go on American Idol or something instead."
There's a simple reason for it - Musical acts and dance acts are more easily variable post-show(Ie, New songs, or new dances to new songs that have come out since the show), and far easier to market and make cash out of post show.
EDIT: What interests me is that there are roughly a hundred stars within 20 light years of earth and if these planets are indeed common then we will find several more in short order. Could we send a solar sail powered probe to one of those planets and expect it to return within say 200 years? Should we try?
For those who are inclined Lordkat just released a ebook on how to win games for free you can download it here. This book is done about winning at retro games from someone who does videos on how to beat retro games, so it is interesting to say the least.
EDIT: What interests me is that there are roughly a hundred stars within 20 light years of earth and if these planets are indeed common then we will find several more in short order. Could we send a solar sail powered probe to one of those planets and expect it to return within say 200 years? Should we try?
What interests me is that there are roughly a hundred stars within 20 light years of earth and if these planets are indeed common then we will find several more in short order. Could we send a solar sail powered probe to one of those planets and expect it to return within say 200 years? Should we try?
I hate you.
I just lost an hour of my day doing back of a napkin calculations just to see what sort of accelerations you'd need to make it there on that time table, how much you can take, how much water do x numbers of humans needs for the trip, how much food, average yield for crops for so much surface area, fudging numbers for losses in the system, half way through I thought graphing some of this stuff would make it easier to visualize rather than the huge numbers I was getting ...
What interests me is that there are roughly a hundred stars within 20 light years of earth and if these planets are indeed common then we will find several more in short order. Could we send a solar sail powered probe to one of those planets and expect it to return within say 200 years? Should we try?
I hate you.
I just lost an hour of my day doing back of a napkin calculations just to see what sort of accelerations you'd need to make it there on that time table, how much you can take, how much water do x numbers of humans needs for the trip, how much food, average yield for crops for so much surface area, fudging numbers for losses in the system, half way through I thought graphing some of this stuff would make it easier to visualize rather than the huge numbers I was getting ...
/sigh
Hmm, I think the best plan would be an autonomous probe. build in a great honkin' transmitter and just send some pics and data back. This also removes the need for deceleration. As far as I can remember, ion propulsion systems should be able to get to quite high speeds, or maybe this would be a good test for project Orion.
Well just as some back of the envelope calculations* shows that to make 20ly in 200 years from rest v to rest v(you would need to decelerate to pull into orbit or slow down enough to take a good pic), you'd need .01902m/s^2 of acceleration to make the dead line, max velocity will be c/5 (slightly over).
This is constant acceleration and a quick look at wikipedia shows most ion thrusters last about 20,000-30,000hours, so I'm not sure how good that would work. You can't avoid going relativistic velocities, your average velocity has to be c/10 to make the time table. And passing by a planet at c/10 would make taking pictures and other sensory equipment entertaining. You should be able to compensate for the Doppler Effect but it still means you won't have a ton of time to actually take pictures or any other measurements.
How much energy you need to bring with you and other such things depends on the start mass of the vehicle (including the fuel you bring along with you, as Rym & Scott pointed out in their recent podcast).
* I can, and probably am, be wrong. Its been years since I've been in college for this stuff and I've been working as a programmer for all these years since, crazy where life takes you.
That's pretty. Doesn't look that good though TBH. El Shaddai looks like a better game in the same style (though of course, that'll be a full price disc release, not a XBLA game)
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Goon Trailer. I'm late to the party on this one, but I just watched that and Blur is damn impressive, as always.
EDIT: for those too lazy to read: it's the first ever discovery of an M-class planet outside the solar system, and "only" 20 light years away.
EDIT: What interests me is that there are roughly a hundred stars within 20 light years of earth and if these planets are indeed common then we will find several more in short order. Could we send a solar sail powered probe to one of those planets and expect it to return within say 200 years? Should we try?
I just lost an hour of my day doing back of a napkin calculations just to see what sort of accelerations you'd need to make it there on that time table, how much you can take, how much water do x numbers of humans needs for the trip, how much food, average yield for crops for so much surface area, fudging numbers for losses in the system, half way through I thought graphing some of this stuff would make it easier to visualize rather than the huge numbers I was getting ...
/sigh
This is constant acceleration and a quick look at wikipedia shows most ion thrusters last about 20,000-30,000hours, so I'm not sure how good that would work. You can't avoid going relativistic velocities, your average velocity has to be c/10 to make the time table. And passing by a planet at c/10 would make taking pictures and other sensory equipment entertaining. You should be able to compensate for the Doppler Effect but it still means you won't have a ton of time to actually take pictures or any other measurements.
How much energy you need to bring with you and other such things depends on the start mass of the vehicle (including the fuel you bring along with you, as Rym & Scott pointed out in their recent podcast).
* I can, and probably am, be wrong. Its been years since I've been in college for this stuff and I've been working as a programmer for all these years since, crazy where life takes you.
guy: pants are so uncomfortable to sit in
me: LOL WHUT?
are they tight or something?
guy: if I sit up straight they crush my balls
me: hahahaha