"To those who point to the few sitcoms that have no laugh track, I've noticed that the music tends to "react" in the right moments and I'm not convinced that's an improvement."
I don't remember listening to music in Modern Family, apart from the title sequence and whatever music might come up as part of the story. There might be some at the very end of each episode, but the voice over usually gives some insightful family advice then.
I don't understand the concept of first pass. Do they really mean "first pass ever" which I suppose would also mean humanity will never ever interact with this comet ever?
[emphasis mine]
Why? (Assuming humanity lives in harmony on Earth for another few million years)
It's non-periodic (the 'C' in C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)) comet, so as far as we know, it will be the first and only pass through the inner Solar System.
What you're referring to is interferometry. I came across a news in the last few months that someone somewhere making suggestions along similar lines.
As has already been said, space-based observation is comparatively costlier both to build (and send it up) and difficult to maintain or upgrade compared to ground-based installations.
Astronomy isn't exactly about pretty pictures, you know! But even then, you can make pretty pictures out of data from other bands of the EM spectrum, like the AC mentioned earlier.
That observation never quite sat with me though. It works for an ant - incapable of reason, but swap out the situation for a PERSON sitting on another circular surface (like, say, a planet), and we have figured out quite readily that our surface is unending but finite - it's obvious - go in another direction and you end up circling back.
The analogy has nothing to do with the intelligence of the creatures. I agree that ants on a balloon are no different than humans on Earth, so the appropriate analogy will involve imaginary two-dimensional creatures on the two-dimensional surface of the balloon (similar to three-dimensional humans roaming about in a universe with three spatial dimensions). You should consider the surface as it is and not as being embedded in a higher-dimension space, i.e. you should neither consider the volume occupied by the balloon nor the space surrounding it.
I did not have problems with accessing Wikipedia, ever. However, the suggestions feature in the search box for Wikipedia as well as Google stopped working ever since 0.2.2 (for me, anyway). 0.9.0 has not rectified this situation.
I can't speak for people from a hypothetical universe and about what their naming conventions would be, but I can tell you that, given the known laws, the "anti-matter" universe would behave in exactly the same way as ours does.
[sarcasm]I'm sure the exemplars of righteousness that are most (Indian) politicians will put that "HUGE" sum of $270m to good use to improve the lives of impoverished.[/sarcasm]
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No need for a flag, it's already the Red Planet.
"To those who point to the few sitcoms that have no laugh track, I've noticed that the music tends to "react" in the right moments and I'm not convinced that's an improvement." I don't remember listening to music in Modern Family, apart from the title sequence and whatever music might come up as part of the story. There might be some at the very end of each episode, but the voice over usually gives some insightful family advice then.
I don't understand the concept of first pass. Do they really mean "first pass ever" which I suppose would also mean humanity will never ever interact with this comet ever?
[emphasis mine] Why? (Assuming humanity lives in harmony on Earth for another few million years) It's non-periodic (the 'C' in C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)) comet, so as far as we know, it will be the first and only pass through the inner Solar System.
Not long before Google or Facebook buys them.
Reader was fairly well known and used, despite their claims it had dwindling number of users.
His name is not Steven Hawkings.
I'm a bit late in replying to it, but has anyone banshee yet? http://banshee.fm/about/
How could this be the largest telescope given that the 40m E-ELT was approved last year?
Okay, what I meant was: what has a single quasar got to do with all this? It was not an appropriate image to use in this context.
Come on, UCLan? Really, a quasar is 4 Gly long?
Not that it necessarily validates the finding, but this paper has appeared in a peer-reviewed journal published by the Geological Society of America.
What you're referring to is interferometry. I came across a news in the last few months that someone somewhere making suggestions along similar lines. As has already been said, space-based observation is comparatively costlier both to build (and send it up) and difficult to maintain or upgrade compared to ground-based installations.
22/7 is misleading, in that people often think it's an exact value.
Who says Pi or 22/7 don't have an exact values? 22/7 is mileading because it's a rational number while Pi is not.
Astronomy isn't exactly about pretty pictures, you know! But even then, you can make pretty pictures out of data from other bands of the EM spectrum, like the AC mentioned earlier.
Finally! I can now fiddle with Python at work. No, wait, it doesn't run on IE6, does it?
I wasn't aware that it was O.K. for US companies to be involved in bribery locally.
The analogy has nothing to do with the intelligence of the creatures. I agree that ants on a balloon are no different than humans on Earth, so the appropriate analogy will involve imaginary two-dimensional creatures on the two-dimensional surface of the balloon (similar to three-dimensional humans roaming about in a universe with three spatial dimensions). You should consider the surface as it is and not as being embedded in a higher-dimension space, i.e. you should neither consider the volume occupied by the balloon nor the space surrounding it.
3 out of 7: http://www.isro.org/launchvehicles/gslv/gslv.aspx
I did not have problems with accessing Wikipedia, ever. However, the suggestions feature in the search box for Wikipedia as well as Google stopped working ever since 0.2.2 (for me, anyway). 0.9.0 has not rectified this situation.
I appreciate your input.
I can't speak for people from a hypothetical universe and about what their naming conventions would be, but I can tell you that, given the known laws, the "anti-matter" universe would behave in exactly the same way as ours does.
I, for one, welcome our new little, neutral overlord.
The PUEL version. It has support for USB out of the box.
[sarcasm]I'm sure the exemplars of righteousness that are most (Indian) politicians will put that "HUGE" sum of $270m to good use to improve the lives of impoverished.[/sarcasm]
The Flash* file is removed as soon as you (I, in any case) close the tab/window containing the video.