The fireballs are caused by objects hitting the atmosphere at high speed, mach 20 and upwards. Baumgartner will start from zero vertical velocity and hitting mach 1 is a challenge, the thermal effects are minimal compared to orbital velocities.
It detects radiation in the submillimetre wavelength, and it's 10m across. I've got a 0.1m hundred-nanometer setup (a basic Newtonian, small optical mirror).
Incorrect, you're letting intuition get in the way. Space is big. Really big. And even if you collapse our entire solar system into a black hole then it would still have exactly the same mass as it always did, so from a distance nothing changes much. Yeah, there's a black hole where there used to be a star and some assorted debris, but it just keeps on cruising through space like it always did.
The chances of it reaching enough other bits of matter to gain a million times its own mass aren't very good, and the event horizon of a solar mass black hole is only 6km across, if it even hit another solar system it would have to be a slow pass or direct hit on the star, anything else would just perturb a few orbits and pass straight through.
Black holes also evaporate with time (due to Hawking radiation), the smaller they are the faster they evaporate. Our solar mass black hole will be nothing but an expanding cloud of weak black body photons unless a very unlikely series of events occurs.
Of course, they could merge with a nearby supermassive if they get caught up in it (e.g. Sag A*), but at no point in that whole story is there an Intermediate Mass Black Hole, the question stands.
"Records" include ice cores, pollen samples, a lot of contemporary data going back a long way. I found the phrase ambiguous too, although not to the rage level of the OP.
I recently implemented a FB sign in for some sites - firstly, the amount of data FB will hand over is scary, secondly, ONE person has used it outside of testing, compared to a few hundred using the in-site alternative.
Doesn't mean you can't do it - you can get the whole internet, YouTube and all, over USB2, I did it for several years when we were short of ethernet ports on the house router and none of our desktops had wireless. No, it's not as quick, but it does just fine - never tried HD though.
Full screen splash adverts? If there's no "click to skip" then I close the window. I can't recall a single instance of wanting to read something so much that I would sit through an advert. I also keep a mental note of companies who use aggressive advertising and actively avoid them - for some reason most of them seem to be charities like Greenpeace and Amnesty, I've got some sympathy for their causes but their advertising has "increased brand awareness" in a very counter-productive way, I remember and avoid them.
I've never seen a WYSIWYG designed site that is as clean and maintainable as a hand coded site. Rather than "visually talented" I'd say "graphic designer who's decided to go into website design", for a basic site you may get something that looks pretty but what happens when you want to add a sidebar....oh...the flow is shot. Well if I tweak that bit...that works, but now the menu bar is out of place, so I'll tweak this...OK, now the header image is cropped...
For a simple personal site put together by somebody with no programming experience, by all means go with WYSIWYG, but for somebody who is experienced with creating something using a programmer's editor there's really no choice, raw code the whole way.
The reboot is closer to the original in that regard - the "first inter-racial kiss" between Kirk & Uhura was originally supposed to be the "first inter-species kiss" between Spock & Uhura, but Shatner managed to get it twisted round so he got the girl.
I tend to take the "If you've got nothing nice to say, say nothing" approach to this. I left a company because of intolerable working conditions and at the interview simply stated "There is nothing further I wish to discuss". Screw them, I tried to be constructive while I was working for them and was met with a brick wall at every turn. If they want my advice when I've resigned they can hire me as a consultant.
In contrast, the last job I left I really enjoyed, nice people, open atmosphere the whole way up to the MD, good company to work for. So there was plenty of chat when I left, I pointed out what I believed were the important issues the company should be concentrating on and am still in touch with a great many people there.
I don't have a Google+ account exactly because of this issue. I wasn't happy using my real name, and as I use a lot of Google's other services I deleted my G+ account to avoid impacting other services. So if I allow them to pull my G+ name, what happens?
Healthy free speech is rational arguments which contradict the established beliefs, policies etc. The inane rambling of a damaged mind is not a healthy thing, even if it is allowed.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favour of patents, they just need to be more tightly defined. If somebody actually copies my code I want to have some legal redress (although I'll admit you could use copyright laws instead). But I agree that the patenting of an eventual outcome of the code is ridiculous. If somebody wants to recreate my code from the ground up, or find a different (hell, maybe even better) way to reach the same result then good for them.
Depends on your definition of "criminally reckless" I suppose. There's a well worn meme of astronaut candidates asking if they'd be happy taking a Mars mission if there was a 50/50 chance of survival - the "correct" response is apparently "No, but if you can get it down to 90% chance of survival I'll go..."
My point is that there's no shortage of people willing to risk their lives to go into space, and even if there was a good chance of dying there's still plenty of people who would still strap themselves in. It's not the human lives that are the issue, it's the taxpayers money and, at the end of the day, the political careers that are at stake. How long would the European discovery and colonisation of America have taken if we required a 90% survival rate on sea voyages in the 1600s?
Bad things, agreed. That's why you'd need some sort of eject button to switch it to HD swap space before you pull it out. Not an insurmountable problem.
I got the impression that this is exactly what Notch is threatening to do to them - raise as much money as possible (and I have a feeling he could raise a fair bit, plus some sympathetic pro bono in exchange for some very good publicity), and then play them at their own game. Threatening one person with bankruptcy when that person has the talent and reputation to rebuild quickly and has the resources to do the same to you if he wins puts a slightly different slant on things, when your whole company is threatened by your "victim" it changes the balance somewhat.
The read/write process is the main problem - if you don't network your time capsule it'll last longer. Personally I'm a little skeptical on the 25 year claim, but in general the more you use flash memory the quicker it will fail.
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The fireballs are caused by objects hitting the atmosphere at high speed, mach 20 and upwards. Baumgartner will start from zero vertical velocity and hitting mach 1 is a challenge, the thermal effects are minimal compared to orbital velocities.
Kittinger's a consultant on the project.
You mean for the spectral analysis of plaid?
It detects radiation in the submillimetre wavelength, and it's 10m across. I've got a 0.1m hundred-nanometer setup (a basic Newtonian, small optical mirror).
Incorrect, you're letting intuition get in the way. Space is big. Really big. And even if you collapse our entire solar system into a black hole then it would still have exactly the same mass as it always did, so from a distance nothing changes much. Yeah, there's a black hole where there used to be a star and some assorted debris, but it just keeps on cruising through space like it always did.
The chances of it reaching enough other bits of matter to gain a million times its own mass aren't very good, and the event horizon of a solar mass black hole is only 6km across, if it even hit another solar system it would have to be a slow pass or direct hit on the star, anything else would just perturb a few orbits and pass straight through.
Black holes also evaporate with time (due to Hawking radiation), the smaller they are the faster they evaporate. Our solar mass black hole will be nothing but an expanding cloud of weak black body photons unless a very unlikely series of events occurs.
Of course, they could merge with a nearby supermassive if they get caught up in it (e.g. Sag A*), but at no point in that whole story is there an Intermediate Mass Black Hole, the question stands.
"Records" include ice cores, pollen samples, a lot of contemporary data going back a long way. I found the phrase ambiguous too, although not to the rage level of the OP.
"Tl:dr" means you forfeit any further discussion rights on this page. Get back to us once you've had the ten minutes effort it takes.
I recently implemented a FB sign in for some sites - firstly, the amount of data FB will hand over is scary, secondly, ONE person has used it outside of testing, compared to a few hundred using the in-site alternative.
Doesn't mean you can't do it - you can get the whole internet, YouTube and all, over USB2, I did it for several years when we were short of ethernet ports on the house router and none of our desktops had wireless. No, it's not as quick, but it does just fine - never tried HD though.
Full screen splash adverts? If there's no "click to skip" then I close the window. I can't recall a single instance of wanting to read something so much that I would sit through an advert. I also keep a mental note of companies who use aggressive advertising and actively avoid them - for some reason most of them seem to be charities like Greenpeace and Amnesty, I've got some sympathy for their causes but their advertising has "increased brand awareness" in a very counter-productive way, I remember and avoid them.
I've never seen a WYSIWYG designed site that is as clean and maintainable as a hand coded site. Rather than "visually talented" I'd say "graphic designer who's decided to go into website design", for a basic site you may get something that looks pretty but what happens when you want to add a sidebar....oh...the flow is shot. Well if I tweak that bit...that works, but now the menu bar is out of place, so I'll tweak this...OK, now the header image is cropped...
For a simple personal site put together by somebody with no programming experience, by all means go with WYSIWYG, but for somebody who is experienced with creating something using a programmer's editor there's really no choice, raw code the whole way.
The reboot is closer to the original in that regard - the "first inter-racial kiss" between Kirk & Uhura was originally supposed to be the "first inter-species kiss" between Spock & Uhura, but Shatner managed to get it twisted round so he got the girl.
I tend to take the "If you've got nothing nice to say, say nothing" approach to this. I left a company because of intolerable working conditions and at the interview simply stated "There is nothing further I wish to discuss". Screw them, I tried to be constructive while I was working for them and was met with a brick wall at every turn. If they want my advice when I've resigned they can hire me as a consultant.
In contrast, the last job I left I really enjoyed, nice people, open atmosphere the whole way up to the MD, good company to work for. So there was plenty of chat when I left, I pointed out what I believed were the important issues the company should be concentrating on and am still in touch with a great many people there.
Reap what you sow, in both directions.
I don't have a Google+ account exactly because of this issue. I wasn't happy using my real name, and as I use a lot of Google's other services I deleted my G+ account to avoid impacting other services. So if I allow them to pull my G+ name, what happens?
Healthy free speech is rational arguments which contradict the established beliefs, policies etc. The inane rambling of a damaged mind is not a healthy thing, even if it is allowed.
Good point, it would all come down to how easy it is to adapt the marker/killer code.
The problem there is that after a few rounds you're producing virii which are immune to the treatment, which rapidly becomes worthless.
Guarding power stations isn't an insane idea - Torness near Edinburgh was shut down because of a jellyfish swarm blocking the water intakes last year.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favour of patents, they just need to be more tightly defined. If somebody actually copies my code I want to have some legal redress (although I'll admit you could use copyright laws instead). But I agree that the patenting of an eventual outcome of the code is ridiculous. If somebody wants to recreate my code from the ground up, or find a different (hell, maybe even better) way to reach the same result then good for them.
And equal to Kittinger's balloon in the 1960! A mere 52 years ago!
Depends on your definition of "criminally reckless" I suppose. There's a well worn meme of astronaut candidates asking if they'd be happy taking a Mars mission if there was a 50/50 chance of survival - the "correct" response is apparently "No, but if you can get it down to 90% chance of survival I'll go..."
My point is that there's no shortage of people willing to risk their lives to go into space, and even if there was a good chance of dying there's still plenty of people who would still strap themselves in. It's not the human lives that are the issue, it's the taxpayers money and, at the end of the day, the political careers that are at stake. How long would the European discovery and colonisation of America have taken if we required a 90% survival rate on sea voyages in the 1600s?
Bad things, agreed. That's why you'd need some sort of eject button to switch it to HD swap space before you pull it out. Not an insurmountable problem.
(...or right in the UK etc) - yes, but I'm talking about an overall statistical effect, there's obviously a lot of variables involved.
I got the impression that this is exactly what Notch is threatening to do to them - raise as much money as possible (and I have a feeling he could raise a fair bit, plus some sympathetic pro bono in exchange for some very good publicity), and then play them at their own game. Threatening one person with bankruptcy when that person has the talent and reputation to rebuild quickly and has the resources to do the same to you if he wins puts a slightly different slant on things, when your whole company is threatened by your "victim" it changes the balance somewhat.
The read/write process is the main problem - if you don't network your time capsule it'll last longer. Personally I'm a little skeptical on the 25 year claim, but in general the more you use flash memory the quicker it will fail.