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Mars Express 3D Image Released
zoney_ie writes "As reported in BBC News Online, ESA (European Space Agency) have released an image of the surface of Mars, captured in 3D and full colour. Europe's Mars Express orbiter has been taking pictures of the Martian surface at down to 10m resolution. The mission will result in Mars being more carefully mapped than Earth has been to date! Full size image available on ESA's Mars Express Website."
It still paints a pretty ugly picture since the Italian was at the helm with the Boat and Squadron commander.
maybe they will find my new mini ipod!
And I had fun with his social security number already!
I, for one, welcome our new Martian overlords.
In Soviet Russia, the image captures you.
Gentlemen, I come to you with a pressing issue which I'm certain many of us have had to come to grips with before: the care, feeding, and discipline of one's negroes. I have encountered the following problems with disquieting frequency of late and would entreat your earnest replies.
1) My negroes have been running away. I always catch them (negroes not being particularly bright), but it is quite a nuisance to hunt them down. Mayhaps I should cut off their feet or tie them with leg-irons?
2) My negroes have been raping the white women. Anytime one comes within reach of their rapacious and beast-like clutches, a fair white woman is invariably raped by one of my negroes. I realize that as they possess an animal instinct that is undeveloped for higher reasoning and morality, this may be an unavoidable disadvantage to owning negroes, but perhaps there is a solution? Salt-peter in their diet, or cutting off the penis (and only reserving a few select male negroes for breeding stock)?
You forgot we also bombed the Fench embassey by "accident" as well.
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish.
Both Jesus and Allah want you to wipe your ass, please (and would it hurt to shower?).
"Picture taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter on 14 January 2004 under the responsibility of the Principal Investigator Prof. Gerhard Neukum." Obviously, hes there 'just in case'.....
"No war for oil" was one of the more common slogans of the anti-war movement in the months before the Bush administration launched its war on Iraq on March 20, 2003. Oil is a many-faceted thing, however, and one aspect of it - the oil pricing policy of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) - has not had much exposure to the light of public discussion, though it can be found in the interstices of cyberspace, if one looks hard enough.
Military dominance is not enough to establish imperialist control and economic dominance. A monetary and financial system that goes with military control is necessary for that. In fact, the degree and geographic extent of the acceptance of the money of an imperialist state are a good indication of how far its writ extends. Not too many people outside the Soviet Union particularly wanted to hold rubles, so the economic power of the Soviet Union was weak even over Eastern Europe, which it controlled militarily and politically. That was one of the central differences between the Soviet Union and the United States at the end of World War II.
Despite all appearances, and despite the overwhelming military might of the United States, the position of the U.S. dollar in the world is precarious. Trying to preserve the monetary basis of unchallenged U.S. imperialism may have been one of the central reasons for the United States to want to conquer Iraq and to dominate its oilfields. To understand the basis for that statement, a brief history of the evolution post-World War II monetary order is essential.
In 1945, all major powers, victors and vanquished alike, except the United States, were in various states of destruction and debt. They were exhausted by war and in need of external assistance to rebuild. Britain and France were also under pressure from independence movements in the colonies. Only the United States came out of the war richer and stronger. It possessed a monopoly of nuclear weapons. It was the world's largest creditor and had half the world's economic output. It exported both oil and capital. It had three-quarters of all the central bank gold in the world.
Looking to the post-war world, the major capitalist powers among the Allies agreed, during a 1944 conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to a U.S. plan to make the U.S. dollar the anchor of the world's post-war monetary system. The basis of this plan was that U.S. dollars would be, literally, as good as gold. The United States promised to exchange them at a fixed rate of $35 per ounce of gold. The promise was based on a large store of gold at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and the immense financial strength of the United States. In return, the United States got the right to print the global reserve money. The world was willing to hold dollars because they represented gold at a constant price and because they were issued by the world's wealthiest and most powerful country.
As Western Europe rose from the ashes of war, with U.S. capital and a copious supply of nearly free Middle Eastern oil (relative to final price) in the two decades after 1945, the currencies of European countries regained local stability. At about the same time, in 1964, the U.S. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution that led to a large-scale war in Vietnam. President Johnson's "guns and butter" policy during that war set off serious global inflation - because inflation in the U.S. currency also created inflation in global prices. This undermined confidence in the dollar and Europeans began to turn in their dollars for gold at faster rates.
It soon became unsustainable. Between 1971 and early 1973 President Nixon completely de-linked the dollar from gold, abandoning the promise of convertibility made in 1944, and inaugurating the present era of floating currency exchange rates. Then came the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war, the Arab oil embargo, and the steep rise in oil prices. This coupled energy insecurities to financial ones.
Despite its de-linking from gold, the dollar continued to reign a
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Oooh look, somebody likes me. Editor at work? I wonder what this post will come out as?
perhaps his penchant for crapinto$h is to blame.
No. That would be the europeans.
hi, me an Brazil (LOLOL!11) =)!!
anways, i hear about "asshat"... we do not hav such a clothing in my countrye! what is it? were do i buy it???
i also here "CmdrTaco" a lot about "asshat"... is he expert?
Forget exploring Mars. Let's spend more time covering Michael Jackson. In other news, the European picture looks like a TV commercial. Is there any way to get the original image without the 3D doctoring and the airbrushing?