Friday, June 27, 2008
Attachment
Your hearts are the most important parts of your body and it maintains all the functions of the other oarts of your body, messing with your heart emotionally ist somthing people should do. I guess what im trying to say is that what ever we do that has to do with enmotions and feelings we should do it with care hearts and emotions should not be messed with.
More reasons why women shouldnt serve in the military
Also women aren’t as strong as men, generally speaking it is true. But there are many of individual exceptions moreover its a fairly recent thing that girls joined sports teams. The next point that is about to be brought up is in a way irrelevant but still it should be brought up, women take too long to pee, this is almost impossibly silly. But, although there are devices now that let women go when they are in action it is not affordable by the military.
Should women serve int he military ?
Applications of gravity
Even the twin paradox setup is practically not possible because nothing could move as fast as the speed of light although the sound barrier has been broken the speed require for the twin paradox setup is by far faster than the speed of sound at least 3 quarter that of the speed of light. Not all of the applications are theoretical the application of the equations derived from the gravitational field is one of them they have been used to solve so many problems involving gravitational fields. In the preparation of astronauts for space travel gravity is well used because the forces of gravity vary depending on the planet and for a person to perform or work in those conditions they have to be trained and taken through certain preparatory training exercises.
As the weakest of all the fundamental forces but yet the most important and most applied gravity and its applications have helped us to understand our universe and our immediate environment more and without the knowledge of it many inventions today would not be possible.
Application of gravity: training astronauts in space
Training astronauts for missions in spaceBefore a person is sent into space he has to go through a series of training exercises that will make them find out if the person is fit enough to withstand the conditions of travelling to space. It is also used in preparing the person for some of the conditions in space. For example if a person were to be preparing for a trip to mercury or Venus they would need to undergo a series of training exercises that would help prepare them for the conditions there.Here on earth the surface gravity is 1.00 mean while in mercury it is 0.375 so if a person were to go to mercury there would be a considerable difference in the gravitational pull so in order to be ready or get used to the conditions in mercury the person would have to go through some preparatory exercises.
Gravitational Slingshot
Gravitational sling shot
The gravitational slingshot is when an object such as a space ship, a rocket, an asteroid or even a comet changes its speed and trajectory because of the gravitational pull of a planet. If an object passes near a planet, it will change direction but because of its initial velocity it will not pull into a planetary orbit. Instead the object will take small fraction of the orbital energy of the planet as it travels past. The planet will lose some amount of energy but it impossible to see sometimes because of the planets large mass. Many spacecrafts use the effect of the gravitational slingshot to increase their speed but the thing is that to do this the spacecraft must be flying close to the planet and it must be travelling in the opposite direction as the planets orbit around the sun. Even some space probes sometimes use the gravitational slingshot to propel them to high velocities. For example, Voyager 2(a space probe launched in 1981) had a close flyby of Saturn on the 27th of August in1981, which helped in slinging it toward its flyby of Uranus on the 30th of January in 1986.
Since gravity is a conservative force, it may seem strange that an object can achieve a net gain in speed due to a close encounter with a large gravitating mass. We might imagine that the speed it gains while approaching the planet would be lost when receding from the planet. However, this is not the case, as we can see from simple consideration of the kinetic energy and momentum, which shows how a planet can transfer kinetic energy to the spacecraft.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Application oc AI to Ship identification
The navy has a project that they are working on that has to do with the correct identification of ships from images. The accurate identification of ships in real time can be a very difficult thing. A prototype has been made that using AI technology helps the human interpret (make sense of, or give a meaning to) images of ships. The system has been tested on more than 100 images of 10 similar classes of ships, and it got the correct identification 84 percent of the time. Getting the correct identification of the ships can be a really difficult task. The aim is to identify the ships within a few minutes of detection. To any normal person, identification of ships seems really easy but there are thousands of classes of ships used by the Navy, so it makes it very hard for a human to identify them. The images are hard to read because of many reasons such as weather, turbulence, lightning interference, and viewing angle. All these things joined with the fact that there thousands of classes of ships that sail the sea, makes it hard for humans to make accurate decisions so we can understand why there is a need for us to this system.