Wow, you might have just found a big problem with this idea. The telescope requires two space craft that have to be place very precisely. Light slowly pushes the spacecraft out of place, which means they have to burn fuel to get back in position, which makes things more expensive.
So basically they're building A HUGE FRAKKIN' PINHOLE CAMERA.
Frankly I find it strange that they would build a telescope that only collects 10% of the light, as this might present problems for planet finding.
Not to mention that huge sheets of foil tend to crinkle and are susceptible to micro-meteoroids. But, if they could make it cheap enough, they could launch a bunch of them and do "brute force astronomy."
Excellent, they released them just in time, that Expelled movie comes out tomorrow. Hopefully someone can convince Ben Stein that evolution isn't lightning striking a mud puddle.
There is a simple solution to this problem, don't use software to do the randomizing. A D20 and a book of rules are fairly resistant to hackers.
In others words, if you roll a 4 or a 5 search person otherwise don't.
Although you might develop some 1337 Markov Chain skills at liberal arts colleges, given the amount of papers you have to write. In fact, I used Mark V. Shaney to write my English papers for me in highschool. They never caught on that my papers were algorithmically generated, and I received A's on all of them.
Cool! So we could shape it into an anvil and go out in style, like all the cool civilizations do. Sure, we'll all die, but it will be a funny and cartoonish death.
Well, it just so happens that there are 27,000 nuclear weapons in the world. That's a lot more than 26,000 Hiroshimas, especially considering that nuclear weapons are a whole lot more efficient now.
So if worst comes to worst, every country on Earth could aim every nuclear weapon on Earth at Apophis and still be able to repel it, even if it hits the atmosphere and starts falling.
Of course detonating 27,000 nuclear weapons does not come without consequences...
OH-NOES! Kurzweil predicted that sometime in the 2030s computers will be able to match human brains. Combined with this recent news, this means we have to worry about killer robot overlords AND killer asteroids ending the world! OH-NOES!
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Wow, you might have just found a big problem with this idea. The telescope requires two space craft that have to be place very precisely. Light slowly pushes the spacecraft out of place, which means they have to burn fuel to get back in position, which makes things more expensive.
Perhaps people are redeeming their mod-points for money.
So basically they're building A HUGE FRAKKIN' PINHOLE CAMERA. Frankly I find it strange that they would build a telescope that only collects 10% of the light, as this might present problems for planet finding. Not to mention that huge sheets of foil tend to crinkle and are susceptible to micro-meteoroids. But, if they could make it cheap enough, they could launch a bunch of them and do "brute force astronomy."
Linux? The real question is can it run Crysis on high?
Don't forget to set up a black jack table for a card-counters vs. casino game.
Hey, what's that thing again that rhymes with name or same, and if you think about, you lose? I can't seem to remember it right now.
what the heck is this, and why is it on slashdot?
Hey these people should be called meteorologists, as they are studying a "storm."
Excellent, they released them just in time, that Expelled movie comes out tomorrow. Hopefully someone can convince Ben Stein that evolution isn't lightning striking a mud puddle.
So, how long before I can plug a jack into head and control a giant mecha?
There is a simple solution to this problem, don't use software to do the randomizing. A D20 and a book of rules are fairly resistant to hackers. In others words, if you roll a 4 or a 5 search person otherwise don't.
Finally!
You might need to know some quantum physics if your gonna program 20yrs from now: http://arxivblog.com/?p=354
Funny and true, very true.
Although you might develop some 1337 Markov Chain skills at liberal arts colleges, given the amount of papers you have to write. In fact, I used Mark V. Shaney to write my English papers for me in highschool. They never caught on that my papers were algorithmically generated, and I received A's on all of them.
Never ever go to a liberal arts college, they make you write PAPERS about POEMS some DEAD GUY wrote.
An asteroid can't create a ball of iron and iridium, can it?
C'mon the matrix won't be that bad. It'll probably be just as fun and addicting as World of Warcraft.
Definitely not peer reviewed.
Cool! So we could shape it into an anvil and go out in style, like all the cool civilizations do. Sure, we'll all die, but it will be a funny and cartoonish death.
Well, it just so happens that there are 27,000 nuclear weapons in the world. That's a lot more than 26,000 Hiroshimas, especially considering that nuclear weapons are a whole lot more efficient now. So if worst comes to worst, every country on Earth could aim every nuclear weapon on Earth at Apophis and still be able to repel it, even if it hits the atmosphere and starts falling. Of course detonating 27,000 nuclear weapons does not come without consequences...
Wait a minute, how will an asteroid create create a ball of iron and iridium 320 metres (1049 feet) wide and weighing 200 billion tonnes?
GTFO!
OH-NOES! Kurzweil predicted that sometime in the 2030s computers will be able to match human brains. Combined with this recent news, this means we have to worry about killer robot overlords AND killer asteroids ending the world! OH-NOES!