According to the fine NASA press release, they want to see 3 transit events so more like 3 years for a planet in the habitable zone around a Sun like star.
When galaxies collided it can trigger a huge amount of star formation due to the gas clouds colliding. Many of these stars are blue super giants that put out large amounts of radiation as well as having a tendency to supernova. This may raise the galactic radiation levels high enough to make most of the galaxy uninhabitable. Also the odds of close passes by stars increases therefore increasing the odds of habitable planets orbits getting perturbed. This would be most pronounced in the main part of the galaxy and inhabitable planets on the outskirts would be less likely to be affected.
P.S. BC (Canada) healthcare blows. 5 months to get malignant melanomas removed. Screw you Ontario, with your 1 week wait times
Hey, be happy. The rich people have got a nice new highway to the skiing and one hell of a party once they get there. Since they are rich we get to pay the bills so of course there is no money for health care. Billion for security, 1/2 a billion for limos and such and so on. There even showing unprecedented generosity in letting ordinary people buy 30% of the tickets. Gutting our health care to pay for it is a privilege, same with paying HST and tolls on every road that doesn't go somewhere useful like the ski hill.
I was taught in school that a republic is simply the opposite of a monarchy. Republics have presidents or some such and monarchies have kings or some such. Some republics are also democratic representative republics and some monarchies are also democratic representative monarchies. There seems to be a dialect problem where Americans have forked the language and have different meanings for some words.
I'm pretty sure it is the same in Canada. Even treaties aren't in effect until Parliament passes a law implementing the treaty. Same with something like the Berne Convention, it is a guideline for how Parliament should implement the law.
That is only true for districts that have close races. For those districts where the outcome is obvious voting 3rd party can be a good move and at least is no more a waste then voting for the losing party.
I think the tar and feathering of loyalists was more terrorism. Seemed to put quite a damper on that portion of the people who disagreed with the revolt. Be interesting to know what percent of the population was pro-revolt.
Murder, assault and theft have always been considered crimes, even with no legislation common law made these crimes as they clearly hurt others. The drug laws meanwhile are political, pushed to control minorities, protect industries and give a bunch of government people more work.
Actually it was a steel jacketed bullet, which the neutron stars magnetic field slowed down and gravity caused a big impact igniting the thin hydrogen atmosphere.
Right now the only way known to move the Earth would involve repeated close flybys with an asteroid which would by its nature be very slow. Something that would need to be started soon in a geological sense. I don't think tides would be too much of a problem if Mars was orbiting at maybe 3 times the distance of the Moon or whatever distance would be roughly equal gravitationally to the Moon. Of course we would probably have to move the Moon as well to make the orbital mechanics simpler depending on how far the Moon has moved away from the Earth due to tidal friction. Article on moving the Earth, http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/earth_move_010207.html Also this is interesting, http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/death_of_earth_000224.html
Another option is moving the Earth. Seems I've read that moving it close to the orbit of Mars will buy us a few billion more years. For a bonus we could put Mars into orbit around the Earth.
I think you misunderstand what a mass extinction event is and how often they happen. The last mass-extinction event is considered to be the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event which saw the dinosaurs die off. Estimates are 75% of species extinct. Considered to be caused by an asteroid. The mass extinctions that are considered to be caused by volcanism all involve massive eruptions, of the type where Yellowstone would be buried. eg eruptions that cover up to 1,500,000 square kilometres and anywhere from 2km to 12km thick. We're talking continent forming eruptions that are easily visible from space like those blue patches on the Moon (Venus has even bigger). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_events and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_basalt
Perhaps I exaggerate but still 21% + all the spending that is not listed is still a lot for a country with no hostile nations on its borders. Especially 21% of perhaps the largest economy in the world. So the second gulf war was a reaction to the first one where Saddam asked the American ambassador for permission to invade Kuwait as Kuwait was stealing Iraqi oil. All these deaths could of been prevented by just telling Saddam no.
Nowadays who are you protecting us from? Here we're lucky enough to be surrounded on ocean on 3 sides with a country that has invaded a couple of times to the south. While after WWII America was one of the few countries to come out of the war intact, most of what you did after the war was in your interests. Keep former enemies from rearming and stop the communist dictatorships from expanding.
You're right. If someone is trying to be a good capitalist by seeing a market and meeting it then they deserve to go to jail There are still a lot of people in jail indirectly due to the drug laws. They may not be outstanding citizens but I'm sure you would of found similar in the gulags, lots of black marketers who the government didn't like.
While THC can be habit forming like most things it is not addictive. It is also used by people to enhance their senses, it does not always kill pain, at that it can intensify it. Same with the sleep thing, it really depends on the individual unlike true narcotics which always kill pain and make you at least drowsy. It is not so much as falsifying reports though all you have to do is watch any of the American anti-drug propaganda to see bullshit. It is about all the anti-marijuana studies being published in none-peer-reviewed publications whereas the studies published in peer reviewed articles are nowhere as negative. Its late so i"m not going to chase down proof.
Actually I've spent most of my life within a couple of miles of the United States of America and have been exposed to its culture quite a bit. That is why I know that too many Americans are like you. America existed quite well as an anarchy for thousands of years and it is only lately that it seem to be descending in totalitarian dictatorship.
Pressed submit accidentally instead of continue editing. The IP law thing, especially ACTA is all rumours as no one will talk about it officially. I agree that some IP laws are needed, they really seem to be going overboard and it was the Americans who invented the DMCA. While the charges of selling seeds was legitimate it is only very selectively enforced and after this went down someone else was busted for it and got a month. Just a shame there was no precedence before Marc's trial. The money laundering charges are totally bogus, he paid his taxes and doesn't even own anything offshore.
I consider laws that needed a new word invented (marijuana so people did not think of hemp) to protect industry, give a certain class of government workers a job and to keep other nationalities in their place to be unjust. Especially when the laws are passed in a shady way, eg no notice given for debate. In the case of illegalizing hemp the AMA were quite pissed off with not being able to argue the benefits of hemp medicinally. Not to mention all the propaganda about marijuana that was pushed on the public. I really don't see how you can call that rights taken away by the majority agreeing. Besides the idea of rights is that a majority shouldn't be able to take them away so easily. That is why we have Bills of Rights, sometimes under other names.
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But for speed, compatibility and support for useful add-ons (e.g. Flashblock), there's really no better choice than Mozilla Org's browser.
Try Seamonkey, faster, just as compatible and supports most of the same add-ons
And also have the army on their side.
According to the fine NASA press release, they want to see 3 transit events so more like 3 years for a planet in the habitable zone around a Sun like star.
When galaxies collided it can trigger a huge amount of star formation due to the gas clouds colliding. Many of these stars are blue super giants that put out large amounts of radiation as well as having a tendency to supernova.
This may raise the galactic radiation levels high enough to make most of the galaxy uninhabitable.
Also the odds of close passes by stars increases therefore increasing the odds of habitable planets orbits getting perturbed.
This would be most pronounced in the main part of the galaxy and inhabitable planets on the outskirts would be less likely to be affected.
So you think only people who live in town with a cell signal should be allowed to view the content they've bought?
P.S. BC (Canada) healthcare blows. 5 months to get malignant melanomas removed. Screw you Ontario, with your 1 week wait times
Hey, be happy. The rich people have got a nice new highway to the skiing and one hell of a party once they get there. Since they are rich we get to pay the bills so of course there is no money for health care. Billion for security, 1/2 a billion for limos and such and so on. There even showing unprecedented generosity in letting ordinary people buy 30% of the tickets.
Gutting our health care to pay for it is a privilege, same with paying HST and tolls on every road that doesn't go somewhere useful like the ski hill.
I was taught in school that a republic is simply the opposite of a monarchy. Republics have presidents or some such and monarchies have kings or some such.
Some republics are also democratic representative republics and some monarchies are also democratic representative monarchies.
There seems to be a dialect problem where Americans have forked the language and have different meanings for some words.
I'm pretty sure it is the same in Canada. Even treaties aren't in effect until Parliament passes a law implementing the treaty. Same with something like the Berne Convention, it is a guideline for how Parliament should implement the law.
I wonder how many times venom, especially venom delivered by fang, has evolved?
That is only true for districts that have close races.
For those districts where the outcome is obvious voting 3rd party can be a good move and at least is no more a waste then voting for the losing party.
A good example is the Authorized King James Bible. Still in copyright in the United Kingdom. Free to use pretty well every where else. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorized_King_James_Version#Copyright_status
I think the tar and feathering of loyalists was more terrorism. Seemed to put quite a damper on that portion of the people who disagreed with the revolt.
Be interesting to know what percent of the population was pro-revolt.
Murder, assault and theft have always been considered crimes, even with no legislation common law made these crimes as they clearly hurt others.
The drug laws meanwhile are political, pushed to control minorities, protect industries and give a bunch of government people more work.
Actually it was a steel jacketed bullet, which the neutron stars magnetic field slowed down and gravity caused a big impact igniting the thin hydrogen atmosphere.
Right now the only way known to move the Earth would involve repeated close flybys with an asteroid which would by its nature be very slow. Something that would need to be started soon in a geological sense.
I don't think tides would be too much of a problem if Mars was orbiting at maybe 3 times the distance of the Moon or whatever distance would be roughly equal gravitationally to the Moon.
Of course we would probably have to move the Moon as well to make the orbital mechanics simpler depending on how far the Moon has moved away from the Earth due to tidal friction.
Article on moving the Earth, http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/earth_move_010207.html
Also this is interesting, http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/death_of_earth_000224.html
Another option is moving the Earth. Seems I've read that moving it close to the orbit of Mars will buy us a few billion more years.
For a bonus we could put Mars into orbit around the Earth.
I think you misunderstand what a mass extinction event is and how often they happen.
The last mass-extinction event is considered to be the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event which saw the dinosaurs die off. Estimates are 75% of species extinct. Considered to be caused by an asteroid.
The mass extinctions that are considered to be caused by volcanism all involve massive eruptions, of the type where Yellowstone would be buried. eg eruptions that cover up to 1,500,000 square kilometres and anywhere from 2km to 12km thick. We're talking continent forming eruptions that are easily visible from space like those blue patches on the Moon (Venus has even bigger).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_events and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_basalt
Perhaps I exaggerate but still 21% + all the spending that is not listed is still a lot for a country with no hostile nations on its borders. Especially 21% of perhaps the largest economy in the world.
So the second gulf war was a reaction to the first one where Saddam asked the American ambassador for permission to invade Kuwait as Kuwait was stealing Iraqi oil.
All these deaths could of been prevented by just telling Saddam no.
Most of the world agrees that the invasion of Afghanistan was needed. Still if you want to take the high moral ground then you have to be careful to have the high morals.
Personally I'm inclined to agree with the need for the war.
At that my country has (proportionately) put more soldiers into the field then the States. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force#Coalition_casualties_in_Afghanistan currently 2830 vs 24,900 for America. Also according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_casualties_in_Afghanistan we've had 132 fatalities vs 848 American fatalities.
Nowadays who are you protecting us from? Here we're lucky enough to be surrounded on ocean on 3 sides with a country that has invaded a couple of times to the south.
While after WWII America was one of the few countries to come out of the war intact, most of what you did after the war was in your interests. Keep former enemies from rearming and stop the communist dictatorships from expanding.
You're right. If someone is trying to be a good capitalist by seeing a market and meeting it then they deserve to go to jail
There are still a lot of people in jail indirectly due to the drug laws. They may not be outstanding citizens but I'm sure you would of found similar in the gulags, lots of black marketers who the government didn't like.
You're right, that should of been inhumane jails.
While THC can be habit forming like most things it is not addictive.
It is also used by people to enhance their senses, it does not always kill pain, at that it can intensify it. Same with the sleep thing, it really depends on the individual unlike true narcotics which always kill pain and make you at least drowsy.
It is not so much as falsifying reports though all you have to do is watch any of the American anti-drug propaganda to see bullshit.
It is about all the anti-marijuana studies being published in none-peer-reviewed publications whereas the studies published in peer reviewed articles are nowhere as negative.
Its late so i"m not going to chase down proof.
Actually I've spent most of my life within a couple of miles of the United States of America and have been exposed to its culture quite a bit.
That is why I know that too many Americans are like you.
America existed quite well as an anarchy for thousands of years and it is only lately that it seem to be descending in totalitarian dictatorship.
Pressed submit accidentally instead of continue editing.
The IP law thing, especially ACTA is all rumours as no one will talk about it officially.
I agree that some IP laws are needed, they really seem to be going overboard and it was the Americans who invented the DMCA.
While the charges of selling seeds was legitimate it is only very selectively enforced and after this went down someone else was busted for it and got a month. Just a shame there was no precedence before Marc's trial.
The money laundering charges are totally bogus, he paid his taxes and doesn't even own anything offshore.
I consider laws that needed a new word invented (marijuana so people did not think of hemp) to protect industry, give a certain class of government workers a job and to keep other nationalities in their place to be unjust.
Especially when the laws are passed in a shady way, eg no notice given for debate. In the case of illegalizing hemp the AMA were quite pissed off with not being able to argue the benefits of hemp medicinally.
Not to mention all the propaganda about marijuana that was pushed on the public. I really don't see how you can call that rights taken away by the majority agreeing. Besides the idea of rights is that a majority shouldn't be able to take them away so easily. That is why we have Bills of Rights, sometimes under other names.