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First High-Res Color Photos from Mars
mzs writes "The first color thumbnail from Spirit was available yesterday from a larger image. Today some full-size color images are available. If you are in the USA you may be interested in catching the NOVA program on your local PBS station tonight." Acrobatman notes the existence of a nifty utility:"Mars24, a Mac OS X and Java application and applet which displays a Mars 'sunclock', a graphical representation of Mars. This free utility shows the current sun- and nightsides of Mars, along with a numerical readout of the time in 24-hour format and landmarks such as the landing positions of the rovers."
From out of this world!
I wonder if all the colors will show on my monitor which displays a lot of green text.
They're so biiiiig, and red!
(sorry, first thing that came to mind.)
On a slightly more serious note, I'm looking forward to sunset pics, and perhaps ones from a Martian duststorm, in addition to pics of the crash(?) site of Beagle2.
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
If ever there was an opportunity for a submitter to include a goatse link in an article, this is it!
Careful what you click on!
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I have been trying my luck with posting to slashdot and trying to make interesting coversation in the forums. At times I am have been very successful and other times I have been not as much. My question is this: I first submitted this story within 2 minutes of when this story was first announced through the JPL new conference at 11am CST. I included background on the story and links that showed the JPL website and also the new conference video stream. How can I better formulate my posts so that they will get posted? My story was rejected within 15 minutes of submission. This is not a complaint this is feedback on how to improve myself and possibly others with the same concern.
There is or can be built a machine that can simulate any physical object. -Church-Turing principle
Java may not be the most efficient language out there, but it does run on almost any platform.
Today some full-size color images are available.
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Available, that is, until
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You are forgetting the French Navy is crap, the only reason they have their (poorly functioning) boats is because of a government scandal in the 80s. And they don't use them, they go on strike instead.
Do NOT click - redirects to goatse.cx
Looks like some tweaking to Slashcode is in order to filter this crap out.
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand". -Milton F.
Predictions for 2004
1) Both the citizenry and the government of the United States of America will continue to enjoy being arrogant and scared at the same time. More and more restrictive undemocratic laws will be passed in the US and more and more border restrictions will be put in place. Checkpoints will be setup in most major US cities, US citizens will need to carry identification at all times. A major terrorist attack will occur in the US and will kill many more than died on 9/11 the world does not sympathize with the US as they did the first time around. The US engages in an all out war of conquest in the middle east.
2) Americans continue to use Canada as their number one scapegoat and Canada continues to laugh at the stupidity of their arguments. Canada under the leadership of Paul Martin grows balls and enters into negotiations with the EU in an effort to move away from the US sphere of influence. Canadians are split on this move but slowly come to realise that it's the best course of action.
3) The Canadian economy continues to grow at a faster rate than the US and trade between Canada and the EU increases. Better relations are established between Canada and China.
4) The Arab/Israeli conflict explodes into civil war and the Palestinians gain ground. The US ceases it's support for Israel and it looks as though Israel will once again be destroyed. Jewish people around the world whine and protest but no one cares.
5) North Korea successfully deploys nuclear weapons and George Bush continues to provoke them. The world secretly hopes North Korea will just go ahead and nuke Washington but Kim loves US tv too much.
6) France continues to enjoy a high standard of living and continues to be the butt of many jokes. The french don't care.
7) Britain finally decides to join the EU and will phase out the pound in 2006. British troops pull out of Iraq and Tony Blair is thrown out of office.
8) Mad cow disease hits hard in the US and as usual Canada is blamed. Oddly enough no more cases of mad cow disease appear in Canada and Canadians continue to enjoy beef.
9) People continue to die in Africa and no one does much about it.
10) Australia decides to become a republic and elects Jeb Bush, George Bush's brother as their first dictator er I mean president.
1st known failed CIA coup in South America : http://www.chavezthefilm.com/index_ex.htm
France are considering retiring this carrier (already!) and going with the replacement Britian is using for its carriers (these are conventionally powered, at 50,000 tons displacement they are not as big as a NITITZ (90,000 tons) but bigger than the Charles De Gaul (40,000 tons displacement) and considerably faster). The nuclear reactor installation in the Charles De Gaul was done poorly, exposing the engine crew to five times the allowable annual dose of radiation. This ship took 11 years to build but is in constant need of repair and refit. The French are leaders in naval and nuclear technology, but include the military and it all goes to pieces. But even their previous (Clemencau) carriers were British in origin. Europe need 4 substantial aircraft carriers, 2 from Britain, 1 France, 2 Germany, able to provide global standby capacity as well as 1 ship redundancy. But the days of the cold war are over, wars cannot be fought from carriers, excellent communication with ground is necessary, as well as an experienced (land based) airforce. At least both Britain and France didn't go with that dog of a plane the F-18, never has a plane been so bad at multi-role as this. Britain has wisely decided to use the F-22 for its new carriers, France pressed to adapt the Eurofighter (an acceptable aircraft, but designed in the cold war for air-2-air, not suitable for modern uses).
karma karma karma karma karma chameleon, you come and go, you come and go.
France are considering retiring this carrier (already!) and going with the replacement Britian is using for its carriers (these are conventionally powered, at 50,000 tons displacement they are not as big as a NIMITZ (90,000 tons) but bigger than the Charles De Gaul (40,000 tons displacement) and considerably faster).
The nuclear reactor installation in the Charles De Gaul was done poorly, exposing the engine crew to five times the allowable annual dose of radiation.
This ship took 11 years to build but is in constant need of repair and refit. The French are leaders in naval and nuclear technology, but include the military and it all goes to pieces. But even their previous (Clemencau) carriers were British in origin.
urope need 4 substantial aircraft carriers, 2 from Britain, 1 France, 2 Germany, able to provide global standby capacity as well as 1 ship redundancy. But the days of the cold war are over, wars cannot be fought from carriers, excellent communication with ground is necessary, as well as an experienced (land based) airforce. At least both Britain and France didn't go with that dog of a plane the F-18, never has a plane been so bad at multi-role as this. Britain has wisely decided to use the F-22 for its new carriers, France pressed to adapt the Eurofighter (an acceptable aircraft, but designed in the cold war for air-2-air, not suitable for modern uses).
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karma karma karma karma karma chameleon, you come and go, you come and go.
Your little *BSD box running Open Sores Apache break? FIX IT YOU SHITFUCK!