Shouldn't we have the same odds looking the other way? for all we know, we can be looking at an alien civilization that's looking at us right now. The problem is the planet renders to a single pixel. Good luck SETI. We CAN be looking at an alien civilization which is looking at us right now, but we see it as it was a long time ago, as many years ago as it took for light from that star to reach us, which is probably before that civilization existed. They'll see the Sun as it was the same number of years ago.
FTFA:
"You know that there should have been seams in that image, and I just did not look for them carefully at the time," Lakdawalla [the blogger who discovered the alteration] told me today.
She said the Chinese must have blended together the seams between the strips - misplacing the crater. The picture may be pretty, but it's pretty much useless as a scientific product, Lakdawalla said.
The -single- most important thing in deciding what kids will know is what the parents know. I love to learn. If I don't know how to do something, I can learn how and then I'm a better person for having increased my knowledge.
If I need to learn something my parents don't know, great! I'll learn how to do it.
It's not just the knowledge, but also the -passion- for knowledge, and the idea that knowing something is actually worthwhile. Exactly! If kids have a thirst for knowledge, what the parents don't know has little bearing on what they know.
OK which is it: "Astronaut Hooks Up Harmony" or "Astronauts Hook Up Harmony"? It can't be both. That's correct. However, TFA says (in both the article and the address) "Astronauts Hooks", so I guess it's both.
[...]for my bad Spanish[...] Try emulating with your mouth and tongue the sounds--vowel lengths, etc.--that native speakers of Spanish use and you are likely to improve! Copy the way the native speakers talk...
I've had speakers of other languages (specifically, German and Spanish) tell me that my pronunciation is very good. I use a completely different mouth shape and tongue position for German than for Spanish. I can speak better German with my mouth open wide (for correct enunciation) and my tongue "back" (so that I can correctly pronounce the "r" sound in my throat). Spanish is much easier to pronounce more correctly with my lips forward and a little pursed (largely because it allows me to more accurately trill the "r" sound in the front of my mouth).
If God is the creator of all things in the universe, He's not going to say that his days are the same length as the days of this little planet, Earth. His days are obviously much longer, and, consequentially, the earth developed for a LONG time before it was ready to be inhabited by humans.
Someone in China decided the Wiimote look would distinguish it from the other LCD crap. TFA says that it's "Produced by a company called ToyQuest in Los Angeles", which still doesn't invalidate your sentence...
Does that make me a bad person? Of course not. The human mind is naturally (to some extent) and culturally trained to find such juxtaposition (the side-by-side placement of both interpretations of that thought) humorous.
"[...]humour frequently contains an unexpected, often sudden, shift in perspective." --(Humor on Wikipedia)
Additionally, the pun in the common comical usage of "Uranus" is evident, making it a lot of us English-speakers laugh, regardless of the level of our respect for Mr. George Takei.
Because Star Trek is a nerdy subject. That's why it's appropriately categorized as "news for nerds." It matters to nerds because it is a nerdy subject. If nerdy subjects did not matter to nerds they either wouldn't be nerdy subjects or the "nerds" wouldn't be nerds.
[Of course, not all nerds are interested in Star Trek. However, since a large portion of nerds are interested in Star Trek and it is, therefore, a nerdy subject, it remains "Stuff That Matters"--even if it doesn't charge your phaser.]
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Great post! Please, mod parent up!
I'm not biased. I merely agree completely with the parent poster!
1. Parker Brothers' electronic game MERLIN (looked like a telephone handset, kinda) was great.
2. UNO card game.
3. Atari 2600 with "01 Combat" cartridge, Video Olympics (played with paddle controllers), Asteroids, PAC-MAN, etc.
Those are the earliest ones...
There's a difference between real-time trees and real trees.
We focus more of our resources on that source and learn as much as we can about it.
She said the Chinese must have blended together the seams between the strips - misplacing the crater. The picture may be pretty, but it's pretty much useless as a scientific product, Lakdawalla said.
If I need to learn something my parents don't know, great! I'll learn how to do it.
It's not just the knowledge, but also the -passion- for knowledge, and the idea that knowing something is actually worthwhile. Exactly! If kids have a thirst for knowledge, what the parents don't know has little bearing on what they know.
"Astronaut Hooks Up Harmony" or "Astronauts Hook Up Harmony"?
It can't be both. That's correct. However, TFA says (in both the article and the address) "Astronauts Hooks", so I guess it's both.
I've had speakers of other languages (specifically, German and Spanish) tell me that my pronunciation is very good. I use a completely different mouth shape and tongue position for German than for Spanish. I can speak better German with my mouth open wide (for correct enunciation) and my tongue "back" (so that I can correctly pronounce the "r" sound in my throat). Spanish is much easier to pronounce more correctly with my lips forward and a little pursed (largely because it allows me to more accurately trill the "r" sound in the front of my mouth).
If God is the creator of all things in the universe, He's not going to say that his days are the same length as the days of this little planet, Earth. His days are obviously much longer, and, consequentially, the earth developed for a LONG time before it was ready to be inhabited by humans.
Any organization that wants to prevent hanging chads...
Ads straddling the videos? Just what I needed... even more stimulation for my brain. How long will it be before the ads are videos themselves?
"[...]humour frequently contains an unexpected, often sudden, shift in perspective." --(Humor on Wikipedia)
Additionally, the pun in the common comical usage of "Uranus" is evident, making it a lot of us English-speakers laugh, regardless of the level of our respect for Mr. George Takei.
Because Star Trek is a nerdy subject. That's why it's appropriately categorized as "news for nerds." It matters to nerds because it is a nerdy subject. If nerdy subjects did not matter to nerds they either wouldn't be nerdy subjects or the "nerds" wouldn't be nerds.
[Of course, not all nerds are interested in Star Trek. However, since a large portion of nerds are interested in Star Trek and it is, therefore, a nerdy subject, it remains "Stuff That Matters"--even if it doesn't charge your phaser.]
I was, of course, referring to personal computers and computers capable of being replaced. :-)
Since when has a laptop (or computer of any type) *needed* 30 years of power?
300 baud, pulse-dial-only...
:-)
I felt privileged because it was direct-connect instead of having cups for a handset to be placed in.
psst... you forgot the .cx...
re: girlfriend/makeup issue: Most Slashdotters don't need to worry about that anyway.