Every action has an equal and opposite reaction...
With that in mind, I'm not sure it's a good idea to be "firing" things from your space suit. Depending on the force, some dangerous things might happen.
Full disclosure: I don't really know anything about working in space - my comment might actually be really stupid and invalid (hence, I posted as ac...)
No, you are right. Unless you fired it directly from your center of gravity, the most likely result is that you'd end up spinning around. If it was a grappling cable (seeing as we don't have magnetic tractor beams yet) you'd get wrapped up in it. Not fun.
Well now that the tools are lost, I'm curious to know - will they burn-up in the atmosphere? Maybe someone's house will get hit by a ball of molten steel a few months from now.
Eventually they'll deorbit and burn up, but probably not for a while. The tools were in a stable orbit when they were dropped and they weren't thrown very hard (just enough so they were out of reach by the time it was noticed). It takes quite a bit more delta-v than that to deorbit.
I believe it simply shifts any reasonbly contiguous mass of particles into subspace (that's why it takes your body and your shoes, but leaves the floor behind), where they can explode if they wish and no one will notice.
But this is also why people get stuck in transporters or in warp state whenever there is a subspace explostion -- all that incoming foreign matter screws stuff up.
I always thought that was how they worked. I'd never even heard of nadions. It's a "phaser" instead of a laser because it bends space. The beam causes things to twist out of "phase" with regular space. A small amount of phase shearing causes pain and neurological disruption (stunning), more shearing can cause heating (they cut metal and heat rocks with them) and still more can cause something to just disintegrate into subspace.
It's not that hard to imagine if you can warp space to create artificial gravity and to fling starships to many times the speed of light that you could also bend space as a weapon.
The tough thing for high schoolers trying to choose a college, major, FUTURE, etc. is that they usually have no *clue* what they'd like to do in the real world, because they haven't had much contact with it.
I majored in "electives" for two years at a low-cost community college. Dropped out, and worked for a while. Only then did I find what I wanted to do. My high school guidance counselor was convinced that I needed to be an engineer because I was good at math and science (although not 800 on the SAT good). I didn't care that I was good at it, it didn't inspire me.
Now I design human-computer interfaces for assistive devices for people with disabilities. I didn't even realize that job existed in high school; it was strangely missing from those career-matching tests that my guidance counselor loved so much. The math and science skills have been highly useful, even in a very human-centered/social-science field. (And I've got a degree in something that there are more academic positions than there are PhDs to fill them.)
My advise to every new grad is explore and do what you like.
Or the "Bottom Drawer Effect" i.e. We never know how much valuable data is sitting in the bottom drawer of file cabinets unpublished because it returned a negative or no result?
Sorry, that's the name for an overused analogy. This isn't 1930 and we aren't in Italy or Germany, nor are we discussing a far-left sociopolitical system of government control of private industry. You'll have to come up with your own terms.
Its the gamers who want something to buy beyond Zelda or Mario.
meh, there's lots to play out there. Radiant Dawn, Mercury Meltdown, Zack&Wiki, Metroid3, Godfather,...
I dunno, there are easily 20+ games that are more than difficult enough to be a 'gamers' game. And there are several 'casual' titles that are worthy of play too, and then there's plenty to to be had on the Virtual Console/WiiWare. I just can't be that sympathetic; there is plenty of value there.
And honestly, if you are consuming titles at such a high a rate that the Wii library is 'woefully inadequate', you've already got at least 1 of the other consoles in addition to the Wii, and possibly a DS or PSP to boot.
If that is you, and you are still complaining about the lack of titles... then your expectations are out of whack, or you are skipping tons of good quality games... probably both.
Yes. Between the Wii and DS, my list of games I want to play is long enough that the WiiHD will come out and I won't have gotten to them all (just as finishing Metroid 2 is still on my list of things to do). There was a 9-month backlog of games while I was struggling to get the console in the first place. I know there are gamers out there who (aren't working on their comps and dissertation) burn through new games in a couple of weeks. But I, and most of the other Wii owners, don't. Before I get to any of the single-player games on my list, I need to play through Guitar Hero in multiplayer since my wife just got a second GH controller.
The gamers in the "game-a-week" market will always have to play multiple platforms no matter how good any one of them happens to be.
Occasionally that happens. More often they taunt, wedgie and swirlie the genius into accepting mediocrity. Thus killing the genius without killing the person before anyone gets a chance to ever benefit from it.
I really enjoyed the graphical version of Zork. It was a big shift after playing all of the text adventures, but a fun experience. I can't swear that it would play on a modern OS (I think I was playing it on Win 95), but it can be acquired for a handful of copper plated zinc.
Want some rye? Course ya do!
I know I needed some rye after finally getting that fish in my ear in HHGTTG. Then there's the exit DOWN that isn't in the description of the room. That's a puzzle that wouldn't work in a graphical version... and good riddance.
So my counterargument to you is why do (seem to) assume that those with learning challenges will end up bagging groceries?
I think that sentence needed more separation between the Down Syndrome part and my brother, who, in contrast to the expectations of his early teachers, has a bachelor's degree and is a scientist. I was actually thinking of a couple of specific individuals from a research project here at Penn State about employment and people with severe disabilities (dyslexia is NOT a severe disability, and yet in the days of tracking it often left kids taking the short bus to the school for "special" kids). The bagger with Down Syndrome seemed like an person that a lot of people around the country have encountered themselves.
With the right techniques, the individualized levels of instruction that you (and I, for that matter) favor can happen in a single classroom rather than shipping certain kids off to a separate school. Calling that "socialist" just rubbed me the wrong way. I think we both agree that NCLB made the situation worse for both kids who find school difficult and gifted kids.
I agree with notquitecajun, but not with you. "Lower track" students in the old days weren't learning better; they weren't being taught for shit. You claim to want to eliminate socialism, but you also like the idea of keeping people unemployably ignorant and thus more likely to be a drain on society. Next time you see a guy with Down Syndrome bagging your groceries, or even someone like my brother who is gainfully employed but confesses "I have dyslexia" think about how much better off you are that they need less welfare.
It's impossible to differentiate all those who have low academic achievement because of low inherent capacity from those who have low achievement due to some other factor (e.g. parents didn't read to him and therefore started off with lower literacy skills in kindergarten, or has cerebral palsy and needs extra adaptations to show off what she can do). I'm totally in favor of giving everyone the same opportunity to learn and basically throwing all the same knowledge at the wall and seeing what sticks.
What I'm opposed to is the insistence that everyone get the same outcome from education (i.e. NCLB). If one student learns more than another, so be it. It's the standards that cause gifted kids to be shafted by inclusion since it creates an artificial ceiling for learning. (Plus all the other factors that make schools suck).
Of course now, with patents, "Hello world" could have been patented when it was first written.
A method operating on a digital computer for greeting the planet Earth, or alternatively the metaphysical universe, through text parameters sent to the computer's standard output.
Then, of course, a separate application for the above "on the Internet."
I have one from Citizen's Bank and I've used it at Sheetz and Petco. So far I haven't heard about anyone defeating one out in the wild and stealing money, but the first time I hear of such a story, that card is taking a ride in the microwave.
I got my wife a Canadian diamond because I didn't want to get a conflict diamond.
I didn't even think to ask where the metal in the rings came from. Meteorite wouldn't have worked as my wife is allergic to nickel and gold, but some of the suggestions here might have worked.
Even that's not an indicator of anything. My hair started turing gray when I was 17 (about the time I was learning to use a BBS). I wasn't even capable of growing a beard. Once I did, not surprisingly, it came in flecked with gray.
Beats the hell out of going bald, which I don't seem to be prone to.
This is exactly why the ACLU gets so much hate: they have to go to bat for civil liberties to try to prevent bad precedent, even though public opinion on the case is more like "Due process? Just lynch them!"
That this happens so often leads me to believe that a number of prosecutors pick these opportunities specifically to force judges to choose between civil liberties and looking like they support the Prime Evils.
This is exactly why I don't believe in electing judges in popular elections. In states that I've lived in that have elected judges these sorts of things happen more often than in states where judges don't have to think about PR.
I would pay good money for a brass working replica of this. Astrolabes, orreries, and other old computing devices are quite beautiful and I'm collecting these and nautical navigation tools to decorate a den.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction...
With that in mind, I'm not sure it's a good idea to be "firing" things from your space suit. Depending on the force, some dangerous things might happen.
Full disclosure: I don't really know anything about working in space - my comment might actually be really stupid and invalid (hence, I posted as ac...)
No, you are right. Unless you fired it directly from your center of gravity, the most likely result is that you'd end up spinning around. If it was a grappling cable (seeing as we don't have magnetic tractor beams yet) you'd get wrapped up in it. Not fun.
Well now that the tools are lost, I'm curious to know - will they burn-up in the atmosphere? Maybe someone's house will get hit by a ball of molten steel a few months from now.
Eventually they'll deorbit and burn up, but probably not for a while. The tools were in a stable orbit when they were dropped and they weren't thrown very hard (just enough so they were out of reach by the time it was noticed). It takes quite a bit more delta-v than that to deorbit.
On Bones there would also be a hologram of all of that.
I believe it simply shifts any reasonbly contiguous mass of particles into subspace (that's why it takes your body and your shoes, but leaves the floor behind), where they can explode if they wish and no one will notice.
But this is also why people get stuck in transporters or in warp state whenever there is a subspace explostion -- all that incoming foreign matter screws stuff up.
I always thought that was how they worked. I'd never even heard of nadions.
It's a "phaser" instead of a laser because it bends space. The beam causes things to twist out of "phase" with regular space. A small amount of phase shearing causes pain and neurological disruption (stunning), more shearing can cause heating (they cut metal and heat rocks with them) and still more can cause something to just disintegrate into subspace.
It's not that hard to imagine if you can warp space to create artificial gravity and to fling starships to many times the speed of light that you could also bend space as a weapon.
The tough thing for high schoolers trying to choose a college, major, FUTURE, etc. is that they usually have no *clue* what they'd like to do in the real world, because they haven't had much contact with it.
I majored in "electives" for two years at a low-cost community college. Dropped out, and worked for a while. Only then did I find what I wanted to do.
My high school guidance counselor was convinced that I needed to be an engineer because I was good at math and science (although not 800 on the SAT good). I didn't care that I was good at it, it didn't inspire me.
Now I design human-computer interfaces for assistive devices for people with disabilities. I didn't even realize that job existed in high school; it was strangely missing from those career-matching tests that my guidance counselor loved so much. The math and science skills have been highly useful, even in a very human-centered/social-science field. (And I've got a degree in something that there are more academic positions than there are PhDs to fill them.)
My advise to every new grad is explore and do what you like.
I think it levels out to an asymptote eventually. But what do I know? I'm just a lowly social scientist and all of my findings are bullshit.
Single malt scotch proven to be very effective in eliminating depression.
I now open the research to peer review of long-term efficacy studies.
Starting the grant application right now!
I'll be recruiting participants as soon as it passes IRB. Any takers?
Or the "Bottom Drawer Effect"
i.e. We never know how much valuable data is sitting in the bottom drawer of file cabinets unpublished because it returned a negative or no result?
There's a name for this ideology: fascism.
Sorry, that's the name for an overused analogy. This isn't 1930 and we aren't in Italy or Germany, nor are we discussing a far-left sociopolitical system of government control of private industry. You'll have to come up with your own terms.
Unitary Executive -ism?
Its the gamers who want something to buy beyond Zelda or Mario.
meh, there's lots to play out there. Radiant Dawn, Mercury Meltdown, Zack&Wiki, Metroid3, Godfather, ...
I dunno, there are easily 20+ games that are more than difficult enough to be a 'gamers' game. And there are several 'casual' titles that are worthy of play too, and then there's plenty to to be had on the Virtual Console/WiiWare. I just can't be that sympathetic; there is plenty of value there.
And honestly, if you are consuming titles at such a high a rate that the Wii library is 'woefully inadequate', you've already got at least 1 of the other consoles in addition to the Wii, and possibly a DS or PSP to boot.
If that is you, and you are still complaining about the lack of titles... then your expectations are out of whack, or you are skipping tons of good quality games... probably both.
Yes. Between the Wii and DS, my list of games I want to play is long enough that the WiiHD will come out and I won't have gotten to them all (just as finishing Metroid 2 is still on my list of things to do). There was a 9-month backlog of games while I was struggling to get the console in the first place. I know there are gamers out there who (aren't working on their comps and dissertation) burn through new games in a couple of weeks. But I, and most of the other Wii owners, don't.
Before I get to any of the single-player games on my list, I need to play through Guitar Hero in multiplayer since my wife just got a second GH controller.
The gamers in the "game-a-week" market will always have to play multiple platforms no matter how good any one of them happens to be.
So my question is: Sen. McCain, why'd you put that turtle on that post?
Are you trying to determine if he's a replicant?
If you want to talk about experience, keep in mind Obama's total lack of executive experience.
...or future Cabinet member Carly Fiorina's stellar executive experience.
CA=California. Quebec and Florida use some aspects of Civil law too, from what I remember. No major surprises really.
Louisiana uses Napoleonic Code. More so than any other state.
Ever seen Streetcar Named Desire?
Occasionally that happens. More often they taunt, wedgie and swirlie the genius into accepting mediocrity. Thus killing the genius without killing the person before anyone gets a chance to ever benefit from it.
I really enjoyed the graphical version of Zork. It was a big shift after playing all of the text adventures, but a fun experience. I can't swear that it would play on a modern OS (I think I was playing it on Win 95), but it can be acquired for a handful of copper plated zinc.
Want some rye? Course ya do!
I know I needed some rye after finally getting that fish in my ear in HHGTTG. Then there's the exit DOWN that isn't in the description of the room. That's a puzzle that wouldn't work in a graphical version... and good riddance.
So my counterargument to you is why do (seem to) assume that those with learning challenges will end up bagging groceries?
I think that sentence needed more separation between the Down Syndrome part and my brother, who, in contrast to the expectations of his early teachers, has a bachelor's degree and is a scientist.
I was actually thinking of a couple of specific individuals from a research project here at Penn State about employment and people with severe disabilities (dyslexia is NOT a severe disability, and yet in the days of tracking it often left kids taking the short bus to the school for "special" kids). The bagger with Down Syndrome seemed like an person that a lot of people around the country have encountered themselves.
With the right techniques, the individualized levels of instruction that you (and I, for that matter) favor can happen in a single classroom rather than shipping certain kids off to a separate school. Calling that "socialist" just rubbed me the wrong way. I think we both agree that NCLB made the situation worse for both kids who find school difficult and gifted kids.
Fish are friends, not food.
I agree with notquitecajun, but not with you. "Lower track" students in the old days weren't learning better; they weren't being taught for shit. You claim to want to eliminate socialism, but you also like the idea of keeping people unemployably ignorant and thus more likely to be a drain on society. Next time you see a guy with Down Syndrome bagging your groceries, or even someone like my brother who is gainfully employed but confesses "I have dyslexia" think about how much better off you are that they need less welfare.
It's impossible to differentiate all those who have low academic achievement because of low inherent capacity from those who have low achievement due to some other factor (e.g. parents didn't read to him and therefore started off with lower literacy skills in kindergarten, or has cerebral palsy and needs extra adaptations to show off what she can do). I'm totally in favor of giving everyone the same opportunity to learn and basically throwing all the same knowledge at the wall and seeing what sticks.
What I'm opposed to is the insistence that everyone get the same outcome from education (i.e. NCLB). If one student learns more than another, so be it. It's the standards that cause gifted kids to be shafted by inclusion since it creates an artificial ceiling for learning. (Plus all the other factors that make schools suck).
Of course now, with patents, "Hello world" could have been patented when it was first written.
A method operating on a digital computer for greeting the planet Earth, or alternatively the metaphysical universe, through text parameters sent to the computer's standard output.
Then, of course, a separate application for the above "on the Internet."
I have one from Citizen's Bank and I've used it at Sheetz and Petco.
So far I haven't heard about anyone defeating one out in the wild and stealing money, but the first time I hear of such a story, that card is taking a ride in the microwave.
I got my wife a Canadian diamond because I didn't want to get a conflict diamond.
I didn't even think to ask where the metal in the rings came from. Meteorite wouldn't have worked as my wife is allergic to nickel and gold, but some of the suggestions here might have worked.
This is what I was going to suggest. I got our bands out of a fairly typical material (platinum), but my geeky wife and I got Mobius strip rings.
Even that's not an indicator of anything. My hair started turing gray when I was 17 (about the time I was learning to use a BBS). I wasn't even capable of growing a beard. Once I did, not surprisingly, it came in flecked with gray.
Beats the hell out of going bald, which I don't seem to be prone to.
This is exactly why the ACLU gets so much hate: they have to go to bat for civil liberties to try to prevent bad precedent, even though public opinion on the case is more like "Due process? Just lynch them!"
That this happens so often leads me to believe that a number of prosecutors pick these opportunities specifically to force judges to choose between civil liberties and looking like they support the Prime Evils.
This is exactly why I don't believe in electing judges in popular elections. In states that I've lived in that have elected judges these sorts of things happen more often than in states where judges don't have to think about PR.
I would pay good money for a brass working replica of this.
Astrolabes, orreries, and other old computing devices are quite beautiful and I'm collecting these and nautical navigation tools to decorate a den.