I enjoyed watching it for a while, until an episode where the characters tried to describe some physics and meteorology... as a meteorologist myself, I could not believe the Jr. High physics and weather information could be so wrong... I know it's cliche to say this, but at that point it went past my disbelief suspension threshold. Now, eeehhh, it's not at well liked as it once was.
exactly. Intel is far from the evil empire that many folks think. It's not fair to put them in the same boat as Microsoft. They make good products, but folks seem to care more about "supporting the little guy" - no matter who it is or how big that little guy is compared to #1.
The green tint does not mean hail. The green tint is a result of differential scattering by water, both liquid and vapor, and the low sun angle in the western sky. The shorter wavelengths are scattered by the atmosphere, leaving the longer (red) wavelengths to travel through a huge column of water (a thunderstorm), which with its peak scattering, results in a green hue to observers on the east side of the storm, as it approaches. Green sky INDIRECTLY means hail, only because the amount of water in a thunderstorm that turns green is sufficient to usually form large hail.
when atoms cease to vibrate and radiate no heat whatsoever
This is somewhat incorrect. According to the kinetic theory of gases, and more specifically the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics, absolute zero is the temperature at which the mass of atoms go to zero. From E_k = (1/2)mv^2, and with kinetic theory of gases stating that motion is random (in fact it must be in order to have our everyday ideal gases treated as such), then v can not equal zero, so m must. Really this is just how we choose to look at absolute zero from our warmer world, things begin to change at that low temperature.
Pretty soon remote sounding via NOAA weather satellites will replace radiosondes. Helium is not a renuable resource, and the instrument packages sent up with the balloons are expensive, so NOAA is leaning towards phasing out balloons. 10 years from now the twice-daily weather balloon will be dead.
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CO2 isn't a pollutant. Look it up. CO2 does not have any chemical reaction with anything else in the atmosphere. More CO2 actually promotes forest growth. Educate yourself.
Site Specific (NOT US composite) radar reflectivities for all NWS NEXRAD stations the past 5 years.
I need loops from Tucson (EMZ) for 1999... cant find em.
--- If you don't like reality, watch the news instead.
First of all, this issue has nothing to do with the angle of the moon. Yes, it is larger towards the horizon because of scattering of light through our atmosphere, but that is not what we mean. We mean to say that it will be 14% larger at any point in the sky if compared to itself during apogee at that same location.
Sorry pal, I am an avid sky watcher and a meteorologist in training, and I look up now, it looks like a normal friggin moon (besides the 22 degree halo, which is a local effect caused by high atmosphere ice crystals).
The local newsreaders are talking about how bright it is... they never look at a full moon anyways, theyll see one in 4 weeks that it the same brightness and then maybe realize that tonights is nothing special.
Yes, it will be brighter, but only 7% brighter than when the moon is FARTHEST AWAY! Which we hardly ever see anyway. Thus it will actuallu appear about 3-4% brighter. You think you could tell the difference?
Also it is noted that it will appear 14% "bigger", but they dont tell you bigger than what. It appear to have a suraface area 14% larger than if it were at the FARTHEST POINT AWAY from the earth. Still, this means an actually "growth" of maybe 7-8%
Doing the math in my head an thinking its correct, this translates to AT MOST a 5% increase in the width of the moon. Again, do you think you could tell?
It's like that psychology test where the subjects say that thier lemonade is "twice as sweet" only after 16x the amount of sweetener is added. Simply put, we wont be able to tell.
Scientific American ran this as its cover story in its October 1999 issue. You guys should have picked it up from there, they write better stories than CNN.
Well, I highly value my intelligence, and knowing that I am relatively smart gives me statisfaction and enjoyment. I am not a programmer or a CS major (mine is meteorology), but I love burying myself in books. Am I boring? Yeah, maybe... in a way. But do I enjoy myself and have fun? Definitely.
Going to my classes and knowing the material gives me satisfaction. Alot of my counterparts here at UArizona havent done 10 minutes of homework or reading since school began. Thier time is spent out partying and socializing, because thats what they enjoy most. They dont learn a damn thing at school, except who is easy to get in bed, and where the cheapest Hamms is sold (BiMart, sometimes AMPM).
Some of my satisfaction comes from thier not-knowing the material in class. They are morons but they bring it on themselves. They'll be pumping my gas in 10 years, and while I respect them as human beings, I will not respect them as gas attendants, because they caused thier own situation.
So yeah, go out and party, have fun and socialize, but don't think that doing your work is boring or unproductive. The satisfaction of knowing just how intelligent we each are is the reason we hide in our books right?
See with me, I cant even unlock her door in the first place. Ever since someone tried to jimmy the door open using a screwdriver, the key will not fit the lock. I get to open _my_ door first and sit down inside and lean way over to unlock hers while shes standing in the rain... maybe thats why I'm not good at 2nd dates, cause I dont have any.
It's really funny having to explain it to them. They have a look like "What? You won't go spend $150 to replace that lock for ME?"
And I'm like "Uhhh... no, think I'd rather find a woman who doesn't care about broken car locks."
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I enjoyed watching it for a while, until an episode where the characters tried to describe some physics and meteorology... as a meteorologist myself, I could not believe the Jr. High physics and weather information could be so wrong... I know it's cliche to say this, but at that point it went past my disbelief suspension threshold. Now, eeehhh, it's not at well liked as it once was.
exactly. Intel is far from the evil empire that many folks think. It's not fair to put them in the same boat as Microsoft. They make good products, but folks seem to care more about "supporting the little guy" - no matter who it is or how big that little guy is compared to #1.
The green tint does not mean hail. The green tint is a result of differential scattering by water, both liquid and vapor, and the low sun angle in the western sky. The shorter wavelengths are scattered by the atmosphere, leaving the longer (red) wavelengths to travel through a huge column of water (a thunderstorm), which with its peak scattering, results in a green hue to observers on the east side of the storm, as it approaches. Green sky INDIRECTLY means hail, only because the amount of water in a thunderstorm that turns green is sufficient to usually form large hail.
when atoms cease to vibrate and radiate no heat whatsoever
This is somewhat incorrect. According to the kinetic theory of gases, and more specifically the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics, absolute zero is the temperature at which the mass of atoms go to zero. From E_k = (1/2)mv^2, and with kinetic theory of gases stating that motion is random (in fact it must be in order to have our everyday ideal gases treated as such), then v can not equal zero, so m must. Really this is just how we choose to look at absolute zero from our warmer world, things begin to change at that low temperature.
Oh how dare you spoil the movie awads that I would never watch anyways...
Jesus... 4 years of college and I can't spell renewable.
Pretty soon remote sounding via NOAA weather satellites will replace radiosondes. Helium is not a renuable resource, and the instrument packages sent up with the balloons are expensive, so NOAA is leaning towards phasing out balloons. 10 years from now the twice-daily weather balloon will be dead.
CO2 isn't a pollutant. Look it up. CO2 does not have any chemical reaction with anything else in the atmosphere. More CO2 actually promotes forest growth. Educate yourself.
Site Specific (NOT US composite) radar reflectivities for all NWS NEXRAD stations the past 5 years. I need loops from Tucson (EMZ) for 1999... cant find em. --- If you don't like reality, watch the news instead.
I've never heard of the "Red Had" distro!
/. but they rejected it. Why?!?!?
BRW: Check out http://linuxdocumentary.uoregon.edu for interviews with all the top Linux guys, even Rob Malda.
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First of all, this issue has nothing to do with the angle of the moon. Yes, it is larger towards the horizon because of scattering of light through our atmosphere, but that is not what we mean. We mean to say that it will be 14% larger at any point in the sky if compared to itself during apogee at that same location.
Sorry pal, I am an avid sky watcher and a meteorologist in training, and I look up now, it looks like a normal friggin moon (besides the 22 degree halo, which is a local effect caused by high atmosphere ice crystals).
The local newsreaders are talking about how bright it is... they never look at a full moon anyways, theyll see one in 4 weeks that it the same brightness and then maybe realize that tonights is nothing special.
Yes, it will be brighter, but only 7% brighter than when the moon is FARTHEST AWAY! Which we hardly ever see anyway. Thus it will actuallu appear about 3-4% brighter. You think you could tell the difference?
Also it is noted that it will appear 14% "bigger", but they dont tell you bigger than what. It appear to have a suraface area 14% larger than if it were at the FARTHEST POINT AWAY from the earth. Still, this means an actually "growth" of maybe 7-8%
Doing the math in my head an thinking its correct, this translates to AT MOST a 5% increase in the width of the moon. Again, do you think you could tell?
It's like that psychology test where the subjects say that thier lemonade is "twice as sweet" only after 16x the amount of sweetener is added. Simply put, we wont be able to tell.
Scientific American ran this as its cover story in its October 1999 issue. You guys should have picked it up from there, they write better stories than CNN.
Well, I highly value my intelligence, and knowing that I am relatively smart gives me statisfaction and enjoyment. I am not a programmer or a CS major (mine is meteorology), but I love burying myself in books. Am I boring? Yeah, maybe... in a way. But do I enjoy myself and have fun? Definitely.
Going to my classes and knowing the material gives me satisfaction. Alot of my counterparts here at UArizona havent done 10 minutes of homework or reading since school began. Thier time is spent out partying and socializing, because thats what they enjoy most. They dont learn a damn thing at school, except who is easy to get in bed, and where the cheapest Hamms is sold (BiMart, sometimes AMPM).
Some of my satisfaction comes from thier not-knowing the material in class. They are morons but they bring it on themselves. They'll be pumping my gas in 10 years, and while I respect them as human beings, I will not respect them as gas attendants, because they caused thier own situation.
So yeah, go out and party, have fun and socialize, but don't think that doing your work is boring or unproductive. The satisfaction of knowing just how intelligent we each are is the reason we hide in our books right?
Acrodizer
See with me, I cant even unlock her door in the first place. Ever since someone tried to jimmy the door open using a screwdriver, the key will not fit the lock. I get to open _my_ door first and sit down inside and lean way over to unlock hers while shes standing in the rain... maybe thats why I'm not good at 2nd dates, cause I dont have any.
It's really funny having to explain it to them. They have a look like "What? You won't go spend $150 to replace that lock for ME?"
And I'm like "Uhhh... no, think I'd rather find a woman who doesn't care about broken car locks."
Acrodizer