Sure, TPM was lame when compared to the original Star Wars trilogy, but it was never meant to please the audience of the original films. Its primary target was the little kids... progeny of the original audience. Agreed, Lucas could have achieved this with a film of the caliber of the originals, but I suspect that at that point he didn't really care to go to the effort.
available data indicate the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036
Notice how this is well beyond the next election cycle. That way, when it turns out the odds are really 1:1, the current Incumbents can't be held accountable.
Wonderful. My last job, we had all of our servers down the hall in a air conditioned server room. We administered them remotely... until we had to go down the hall to hit the reset button, or turn the machine on because someone had mistakenly shut it down instead of rebooting. Admittedly, we were a development environment where we did a lot of re-installs and re-imaging of machines, but if your machine is 50 miles (or 5000 miles) away, performing hands-on work just won't be practical, and sometime, someone is going to need to do it.
The question is not whether Ares can be salvages. Instead, we should as should it be salvaged. Like its predecessor, the Space Shuttle, it is entirely too political in origin, promising to be all things to all people, and instead doing a half-assed job of doing much of anything beside making some congressman's constituents happy.
Funding for libraries is usually tight. If fewer people are using the library, it will become even tighter. I can foresee a day in the not too distant future when many libraries (especially in smaller towns and cities) can't complete in light of the availability of books from sources like Google Books.
everyone wants power. Everyone. Every individual, every corporation... everyone.
True. This includes the Government. Maybe especially the Government, as evidenced by their recent takeovers of huge chunks of the banking industry and auto industry, and their current forays into the energy industry and health care.
It is good at load distribution not in actual strength.
More precisely, concrete is good in compression, but poor in tension. That's why you fill it with steel bars if it has to take any bending forces that would put part of it in tension.
I read the heading of this Article and that was my immediate thought too. I started needing progressive lenses in the last few years, and I find when driving that looking at the street through the bottom of the lenses, or the instrument panel through the top makes it impossible to focus. Fortunately, the optometrist realized that I don't drive with my head upside down when he made my glasses.
There is only one real difference between public and private management of the economy: The government is, at least mildly,ACCOUNTABLE.
Uhhh... are you living in the same country as the rest of us? Corporate executives are accountable... to their respective boards of directors and/or stockholders. If they do things to far out of line, they can certainly expect to loose their jobs. You don't generally see companies spending double their income year after year, as a certain Government who shall remain nameless has been doing for the last year or so.
CH-47D (Chinook) will lift 14 tons. Right on the edge, but doable, at least if you design the components around that limit. And that helicopter is based on a 1960's design!
Unfortunately, may of the biggest windmill farms will probably be going up in tornado alley... that belt of states from Texas and points north. Not too many navigable rivers out in those parts.
Yes, some of the equipment can make its way up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers quite a distance, but most of it will still be hundreds of miles from its final destination once the water gets too shallow to be navigable.
You could be referring to the Hindenburg, which had a skin made of flammable materials with a gas bag full of hydrogen. Generally, there is no reason that a blimp couldn't be made to work, but it would probably have to be purpose designed.
But then, if your moving 150 windmill assemblies, this becomes a minor issue.
Fine. You own a patent on the test to detect this disease. If you won't let it be used, YOU must cure everyone who has the disease. Otherwise, we're going to bring a class action suit....
My mistake... I looked at the picture more closely, and now see what I thought was a parking garage is actually the shake table.
Yes, only 6 floors, and as I recall from my days as an engineer (and in the Seismic class), although the roof load is calculated in the design, it IS NOT a separate floor.
You can see it in the change of a single gene in the human males. One male has the dominant jock gene, whereas the other does not, allowing the recessive geek gene to dictate behavior.
The question of whether these two populations are on the road to speciation comes down to sex. When two populations stop exchanging genes-that is, stop mating with each other-then they can be considered distinct species. We wanted to see if these two types of humans were heading in that direction.
It would be all but impossible to try to catalog every occasion on which an jocks mated with a geeks. So we used another test. We made human form androids in both Jock and Geek models. We used the models to invade mating territories in each population. As expected, when jocks were presented with the jock android, they attacked. But when jocks encountered the geek androids, they were much less likely to go on the offensive. The same scenario held for the geeks.
That males from the two populations no longer view the other as a reproductive threat is a good indication that not much mating is taking place between the two groups. Their evolutionary paths are diverging - all because of a change in testosterone and diminished brain capacity.
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Didn't the Mayan culture practice open heart surgery on their sacrifi^H^H^H^H^H^Hubjects while they were still conscious?
They pay my wage... if they are willing to buy four company shirts of my choice... sure I'd wear them.
Sure, TPM was lame when compared to the original Star Wars trilogy, but it was never meant to please the audience of the original films. Its primary target was the little kids... progeny of the original audience. Agreed, Lucas could have achieved this with a film of the caliber of the originals, but I suspect that at that point he didn't really care to go to the effort.
I've known this for years. From playing D&D, I know that there are two stats for Intelligence and Wisdom for a reason. They aren't the same thing.
'nough said.
available data indicate the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036
Notice how this is well beyond the next election cycle. That way, when it turns out the odds are really 1:1, the current Incumbents can't be held accountable.
But does this apply to persons only? I hope we'd finally get to know the truth about McDonalds hamburgers. Or can we count them as persons?
Well, maybe they were at one time...
Or at least like it used to look about 5 years ago. We've since managed to get her to start cleaning up after herself.
Wonderful. My last job, we had all of our servers down the hall in a air conditioned server room. We administered them remotely... until we had to go down the hall to hit the reset button, or turn the machine on because someone had mistakenly shut it down instead of rebooting. Admittedly, we were a development environment where we did a lot of re-installs and re-imaging of machines, but if your machine is 50 miles (or 5000 miles) away, performing hands-on work just won't be practical, and sometime, someone is going to need to do it.
The question is not whether Ares can be salvages. Instead, we should as should it be salvaged. Like its predecessor, the Space Shuttle, it is entirely too political in origin, promising to be all things to all people, and instead doing a half-assed job of doing much of anything beside making some congressman's constituents happy.
Yes, but....
Funding for libraries is usually tight. If fewer people are using the library, it will become even tighter. I can foresee a day in the not too distant future when many libraries (especially in smaller towns and cities) can't complete in light of the availability of books from sources like Google Books.
everyone wants power. Everyone. Every individual, every corporation... everyone.
True. This includes the Government. Maybe especially the Government, as evidenced by their recent takeovers of huge chunks of the banking industry and auto industry, and their current forays into the energy industry and health care.
If this is the way that things work in the Government, maybe we should all try it on our 1040's next April.
It is good at load distribution not in actual strength.
More precisely, concrete is good in compression, but poor in tension. That's why you fill it with steel bars if it has to take any bending forces that would put part of it in tension.
The #3(( with plugging in... I want to be able to get by with a visit to the nearest trash can.
I read the heading of this Article and that was my immediate thought too. I started needing progressive lenses in the last few years, and I find when driving that looking at the street through the bottom of the lenses, or the instrument panel through the top makes it impossible to focus. Fortunately, the optometrist realized that I don't drive with my head upside down when he made my glasses.
There is only one real difference between public and private management of the economy: The government is, at least mildly,ACCOUNTABLE.
Uhhh... are you living in the same country as the rest of us? Corporate executives are accountable... to their respective boards of directors and/or stockholders. If they do things to far out of line, they can certainly expect to loose their jobs. You don't generally see companies spending double their income year after year, as a certain Government who shall remain nameless has been doing for the last year or so.
Do you mean "attendees'"?
CH-47D (Chinook) will lift 14 tons. Right on the edge, but doable, at least if you design the components around that limit. And that helicopter is based on a 1960's design!
Unfortunately, may of the biggest windmill farms will probably be going up in tornado alley... that belt of states from Texas and points north. Not too many navigable rivers out in those parts.
Yes, some of the equipment can make its way up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers quite a distance, but most of it will still be hundreds of miles from its final destination once the water gets too shallow to be navigable.
You could be referring to the Hindenburg, which had a skin made of flammable materials with a gas bag full of hydrogen. Generally, there is no reason that a blimp couldn't be made to work, but it would probably have to be purpose designed.
But then, if your moving 150 windmill assemblies, this becomes a minor issue.
Fine. You own a patent on the test to detect this disease. If you won't let it be used, YOU must cure everyone who has the disease. Otherwise, we're going to bring a class action suit....
My mistake... I looked at the picture more closely, and now see what I thought was a parking garage is actually the shake table.
Yes, only 6 floors, and as I recall from my days as an engineer (and in the Seismic class), although the roof load is calculated in the design, it IS NOT a separate floor.
The first floor is open... a parking garage? Still counts, structurally.
You can see it in the change of a single gene in the human males. One male has the dominant jock gene, whereas the other does not, allowing the recessive geek gene to dictate behavior.
The question of whether these two populations are on the road to speciation comes down to sex. When two populations stop exchanging genes-that is, stop mating with each other-then they can be considered distinct species. We wanted to see if these two types of humans were heading in that direction.
It would be all but impossible to try to catalog every occasion on which an jocks mated with a geeks. So we used another test. We made human form androids in both Jock and Geek models. We used the models to invade mating territories in each population. As expected, when jocks were presented with the jock android, they attacked. But when jocks encountered the geek androids, they were much less likely to go on the offensive. The same scenario held for the geeks.
That males from the two populations no longer view the other as a reproductive threat is a good indication that not much mating is taking place between the two groups. Their evolutionary paths are diverging - all because of a change in testosterone and diminished brain capacity.