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WCDT: 2161-2165 (9-13 April 2012) QC: Back To Earth
pwhodges:
Fascination to watch how it had changed each time they orbited over it, or near enough to see.
LTK:
Station thought it was interesting and moved himself into geosynchronous orbit, duh.
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: LTK on 10 Apr 2012, 12:33 ---Station thought it was interesting and moved himself into geosynchronous orbit, duh.
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uh…
Holy shit no. Never mind the energy costs; have you any idea what sort of a cluster-fuck that would kick off at NORAD? Not to mention the Chinese and their anti-sat missiles or the need to pass a habitable volume full of squishy meatlings through the VABs whilst keeping the windows open.
LTK:
I have no idea what you're talking about, which probably indicates that I have no idea what I'm talking about either.
Near Lurker:
--- Quote from: HiFranc on 10 Apr 2012, 11:56 ---Basic theory:
Normal computer trying to find a solution to a complex problem has to try solution version 1 and record result, try solution version 2, record result, check if result is better than version 1, etc.
A quantum computer can compute all solutions of stated problem simultaneously and work out which is the best solution.
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...not really... well... sort of. What you're describing sounds more like a nondeterministic computer than a quantum computer, and there are places they overlap (factorization being the big one), but there are things each can do that the other can't. The problem is that while the quantum computer does consider them all at once, it "works out" the solution in a very clumsy way. There's some speedup in pathfinding, but it's really not that great - in other problems it does better.
And "plants use the basic principles of quantum computing" is a soundbite. They do so in about the same way an LED uses the basic principles of the computer in front of you.
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