Our sun and solar system is a second generation system, made from the rubble of a previous star that went nova billions of years ago.
Our sun and solar system is a third generation system. The Sun is a class I star, which was made from the elements created in nuclear reactions in Class II stars, which were made from nuclear reactions in Class III stars. Class III stars were the first stars, they started off as nothing but hydrogen and it is from them that we get the first higher-number atoms.
Either you know way too much about flatus, or, well, basically, YOU KNOW WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT FLATUS. I was about to ask what you do for a living, but if what I did led me to understand flatus as you understand it, I would be browsing/. all day too.
We've only explored one planet seriously, and looked at a tiny bit of a moon with extreme temperature variation. Almost everywhere we look on the planet - water, air, surface, crevices in rocks - we find lots of living things and the remains of even more. We find things like thiobacter concretivorans chewing up nuclear reactors. We find complex features that arise through different biological routes - image forming eyes evolve separately at least twice. We find a variety of body plans. We find two different data storage systems, DNA and RNA. The evidence so far is that life appears all over the place and can inhabit moderately sever environments so long as it has a source of energy, an electrolyte, and some stuff around the place suitable for building molecules based on carbon backbones.
Putting aside some books written by people who thought the Earth was flat, the evidence to date is that where life is possible, there you find it. If you even half accept Popper's falsificationism, it is up to the people who believe that life doesn't appear wherever it is possible to prove that there is no life on Mars. People who believe that life on Mars is probable are actually just accepting that the cumulative evidence of experience is likely to be correct.
Considering how complex life is, your assessment that it appears everywhere that it could possibly inhabit sounds like a religious argument to me. A rather convincing one, at that.
and 2) the lock maker, because they sold you something they claimed to be secure and which would protect your stuff from thieves, but which really wasn't, and they knew about it.
Does Microsoft claim that Windows is secure? I've never heard that claim. In fct, the closest that I've ever seen to such a claim is in the XP installation process where it proclaims that XP is "the most secure Windows ever" which it was at the time. But "most secure" is a relative term, and does not imply that the "most secure Windows ever" is secure by the standards set by other OSes, notably the various *nixes.
Guilty by association. I mentioned it on purpose: Sony is tainting the brand name and those _affiliated_ with them will suffer just like us consumers do.
You need temporal resolution on the order of one second or less in addition to spatial resolution for most brain imaging. Standard MRI scans essentially scan frequency space of the specimen, which takes some time. The article doesn't say what time resolution their new technique has.
Temporal resolution of even one femoparc is more than enough for casual imaging, even of receptotarsers. Given a perfectly still specimen (held in place, or even dead!) surwidth can be kept to a minimum which leads to amazing detail, far more than that possible with conventional electoclarosis or similar methods. The only problem is the cost, from what I understand.
Let me commend you before you get modded troll. Sony is the dickwad of the industry. I love their hardware (earphones in particular, and standalone music systems) but never again will I buy anything from Sony with any type of electronic communications interface. Not even their digital cameras, nor Sony-Ericson telephones.
Agreed 100%. I am not Muslim, but I find the Creation as told in the Old Testament and the Big Bang Theory to be in (almost) total agreement. Here is Asimov's take on how it happened: http://www.sumware.com/creation.html
Google uses some simple arrangements of primary colors, and, amazingly enough, so do some other companies, even some other tech companies. But they don't even look particularly similar (especially the Windows one).
Not to you, slashdotter, who sees these logos all the time. To the casually stroller-by, who sees tech logos once per fortnight, they will easily be confused. What is red, green, and blue and deals with computers? If today it is AVG / Google / MS and tomorrow it is something else then there _will_ be confusion and brand dilution.
Wake me when they have NoScript, AdBlock+/ElementHiderHelper, Repagination, ChickenFoot, FoxyProxy, RefControl, etc...
Oh, how I love repagenation! But bumping the version number up won't work in Firefox 3.1 like it does in Firefox 3.0, and the developer has been politely ignoring my emails for about six months now. I am really torn between Fx 3.1 and 3.0+repagenation.
To answer "And I care why?" - Well because all of us consumers of electronic devices are partially responsible for the suffering of these people. Because this computer you are sitting at right now may very well end up in a village in China where it will poison people.
Wait until the Ubuntu zealot crowd gets wind of this... "Use Ubuntu, save an old computer and you are SAVING THE CHILDREN!!!"
So far as I understand, Jupiter can put it all in orbit at once. However, I do agree that learning to do in-orbit construction is important, which is one of the reasons that I support the ISS. As for a manned Mars mission, I have not heard of any plans detailed to the point of describing launch characteristics, but your assessment of the need to assemble in orbit sounds reasonable.
AFAIK, the reason the Ares V is isn't going to be man-rated (which BTW doesn't mean that it's less reliable, but they decided not to go through the testing) is because they intend to use the Ares I for launching the crew.
Actually, the reason that they are using the Ares I to launch the crew is because the Ares V cannot be man-rated due to safety concerns. There is some scale (I forget what is is called) that is used to rate manned-worthyness. A score of 1000 is necessary to be man rated. Jupiter looks to score between 1100 and 1200. Ares V will score below 900, not acceptable for manned flight. The Area I will also be between 950 and 1000, which is technically below the limit but deemed 'acceptable'.
Just for comparison, the SST system scores below 500 on the scale, but the scale was devised _after_ the start of the SST program. I do not know what Soyuz scores.
Actually, the Jupiter plan uses two rockets as well. The difference is that in Jupiter its two of the same rockets, making design and construction work more efficient. Instead of having everything but the Orion/CM vehicle on board the Ares V, you launch only the Earth departure stage on one rocket, and launch the entire CM/SM/LM setup on the second.
No, no, no, you are missing the point of "two rockets". I am talking about _two_physical_rockets_ launching in order for Ares to launch a moon mission. The Ares I cannot launch a moon-faring craft. The Ares V cannot launch humans. So to send humans to the moon, _both_ an Ares I *and* an Ares V need to be launched, and dock in space on the way to the moon.
In contrast, Jupiter can launch a moon-faring craft with humans.
Yeah but the fact that Gaza's population is 1/3 what it used to be, 50% of the population living as refugees outside. Their borders are blocked and they arent allowed water or supplies from the outside, oh and they have no electricity cause their powerplants got bombed. Oh and that israel is running an 80:1 kill ratio. Oh and that what is now Israel used to be Gaza. Oh and that Israel has expanded every decade since its inception. Oh and the IDF have been accused of as many war crimes as hamas by international commisions they also have more weapons. Oh and that Israel ignores UN pleads to ceasefire. Oh and they wont sign the geneva convention. I can keep going if you'd like.....
The ninjas got me when I tried editing the Neptune article a few months ago. I was changing the sentence "Neptune was the first planet found by mathematical prediction rather than regular observation" to "Neptune was the only planet found by mathematical prediction rather than regular observation". Three different editors reverted me in the space of ten minutes. Here, I've tried again just now, let's see how fast it gets reverted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune
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I just wanted to be sure that you don't work for these guys:
http://fartipedia.com/learn/fartsniffers/
Our sun and solar system is a second generation system, made from the rubble of a previous star that went nova billions of years ago.
Our sun and solar system is a third generation system. The Sun is a class I star, which was made from the elements created in nuclear reactions in Class II stars, which were made from nuclear reactions in Class III stars. Class III stars were the first stars, they started off as nothing but hydrogen and it is from them that we get the first higher-number atoms.
Either you know way too much about flatus, or, well, basically, YOU KNOW WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT FLATUS. I was about to ask what you do for a living, but if what I did led me to understand flatus as you understand it, I would be browsing /. all day too.
We've only explored one planet seriously, and looked at a tiny bit of a moon with extreme temperature variation. Almost everywhere we look on the planet - water, air, surface, crevices in rocks - we find lots of living things and the remains of even more. We find things like thiobacter concretivorans chewing up nuclear reactors. We find complex features that arise through different biological routes - image forming eyes evolve separately at least twice. We find a variety of body plans. We find two different data storage systems, DNA and RNA. The evidence so far is that life appears all over the place and can inhabit moderately sever environments so long as it has a source of energy, an electrolyte, and some stuff around the place suitable for building molecules based on carbon backbones.
Putting aside some books written by people who thought the Earth was flat, the evidence to date is that where life is possible, there you find it. If you even half accept Popper's falsificationism, it is up to the people who believe that life doesn't appear wherever it is possible to prove that there is no life on Mars. People who believe that life on Mars is probable are actually just accepting that the cumulative evidence of experience is likely to be correct.
Considering how complex life is, your assessment that it appears everywhere that it could possibly inhabit sounds like a religious argument to me. A rather convincing one, at that.
Agree, that's known to be perfectly cromulent.
Only in cases where the phytoloid has been embiggened. At least _somebody_ got it!
Damn, someone needs to make some computer tech saves hot blond chicks porn. This would totally work.
Sign, rule #34:
http://www.google.com/search?q=nerd%20porn
and 2) the lock maker, because they sold you something they claimed to be secure and which would protect your stuff from thieves, but which really wasn't, and they knew about it.
Does Microsoft claim that Windows is secure? I've never heard that claim. In fct, the closest that I've ever seen to such a claim is in the XP installation process where it proclaims that XP is "the most secure Windows ever" which it was at the time. But "most secure" is a relative term, and does not imply that the "most secure Windows ever" is secure by the standards set by other OSes, notably the various *nixes.
Guilty by association. I mentioned it on purpose: Sony is tainting the brand name and those _affiliated_ with them will suffer just like us consumers do.
step 9: resurrect self
I don't have a DOM, you insensitive clod!
You need temporal resolution on the order of one second or less in addition to spatial resolution for most brain imaging. Standard MRI scans essentially scan frequency space of the specimen, which takes some time. The article doesn't say what time resolution their new technique has.
Temporal resolution of even one femoparc is more than enough for casual imaging, even of receptotarsers. Given a perfectly still specimen (held in place, or even dead!) surwidth can be kept to a minimum which leads to amazing detail, far more than that possible with conventional electoclarosis or similar methods. The only problem is the cost, from what I understand.
Let me commend you before you get modded troll. Sony is the dickwad of the industry. I love their hardware (earphones in particular, and standalone music systems) but never again will I buy anything from Sony with any type of electronic communications interface. Not even their digital cameras, nor Sony-Ericson telephones.
Agreed 100%. I am not Muslim, but I find the Creation as told in the Old Testament and the Big Bang Theory to be in (almost) total agreement. Here is Asimov's take on how it happened:
http://www.sumware.com/creation.html
looks like someone tossed 4 colors on a square LOL
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and im getting annoyed at:
snip idiot a/c
Then go away LOL
News for NERDS. Yes, we (the nerds) care about such things. Pedantic is our middle name.
Google uses some simple arrangements of primary colors, and, amazingly enough, so do some other companies, even some other tech companies. But they don't even look particularly similar (especially the Windows one).
Not to you, slashdotter, who sees these logos all the time. To the casually stroller-by, who sees tech logos once per fortnight, they will easily be confused. What is red, green, and blue and deals with computers? If today it is AVG / Google / MS and tomorrow it is something else then there _will_ be confusion and brand dilution.
...because lynx does not support favicons, you insensitive clod!
Wake me when they have NoScript, AdBlock+/ElementHiderHelper, Repagination, ChickenFoot, FoxyProxy, RefControl, etc...
Oh, how I love repagenation! But bumping the version number up won't work in Firefox 3.1 like it does in Firefox 3.0, and the developer has been politely ignoring my emails for about six months now. I am really torn between Fx 3.1 and 3.0+repagenation.
YAMISH
To answer "And I care why?" - Well because all of us consumers of electronic devices are partially responsible for the suffering of these people. Because this computer you are sitting at right now may very well end up in a village in China where it will poison people.
Wait until the Ubuntu zealot crowd gets wind of this... "Use Ubuntu, save an old computer and you are SAVING THE CHILDREN!!!"
(posted from Kubuntu 8.04)
So far as I understand, Jupiter can put it all in orbit at once. However, I do agree that learning to do in-orbit construction is important, which is one of the reasons that I support the ISS. As for a manned Mars mission, I have not heard of any plans detailed to the point of describing launch characteristics, but your assessment of the need to assemble in orbit sounds reasonable.
AFAIK, the reason the Ares V is isn't going to be man-rated (which BTW doesn't mean that it's less reliable, but they decided not to go through the testing) is because they intend to use the Ares I for launching the crew.
Actually, the reason that they are using the Ares I to launch the crew is because the Ares V cannot be man-rated due to safety concerns. There is some scale (I forget what is is called) that is used to rate manned-worthyness. A score of 1000 is necessary to be man rated. Jupiter looks to score between 1100 and 1200. Ares V will score below 900, not acceptable for manned flight. The Area I will also be between 950 and 1000, which is technically below the limit but deemed 'acceptable'.
Just for comparison, the SST system scores below 500 on the scale, but the scale was devised _after_ the start of the SST program. I do not know what Soyuz scores.
That's a lot of refugees that that started out as 80,000 people in 1947. Tell me, how many other ethnic groups are still refugees after 60 years?
Actually, the Jupiter plan uses two rockets as well. The difference is that in Jupiter its two of the same rockets, making design and construction work more efficient. Instead of having everything but the Orion/CM vehicle on board the Ares V, you launch only the Earth departure stage on one rocket, and launch the entire CM/SM/LM setup on the second.
No, no, no, you are missing the point of "two rockets". I am talking about _two_physical_rockets_ launching in order for Ares to launch a moon mission. The Ares I cannot launch a moon-faring craft. The Ares V cannot launch humans. So to send humans to the moon, _both_ an Ares I *and* an Ares V need to be launched, and dock in space on the way to the moon.
In contrast, Jupiter can launch a moon-faring craft with humans.
Yeah but the fact that Gaza's population is 1/3 what it used to be, 50% of the population living as refugees outside. Their borders are blocked and they arent allowed water or supplies from the outside, oh and they have no electricity cause their powerplants got bombed. Oh and that israel is running an 80:1 kill ratio. Oh and that what is now Israel used to be Gaza. Oh and that Israel has expanded every decade since its inception. Oh and the IDF have been accused of as many war crimes as hamas by international commisions they also have more weapons. Oh and that Israel ignores UN pleads to ceasefire. Oh and they wont sign the geneva convention. I can keep going if you'd like.....
Gaza's population used to be 4.5 million? When?
The ninjas got me when I tried editing the Neptune article a few months ago. I was changing the sentence "Neptune was the first planet found by mathematical prediction rather than regular observation" to "Neptune was the only planet found by mathematical prediction rather than regular observation". Three different editors reverted me in the space of ten minutes. Here, I've tried again just now, let's see how fast it gets reverted:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune