Once the page has loaded, go to the top right frame titled "Map Layers" and scroll down to the "People" section. Try selecting the "Nighttime Lights" option and then click the "Redraw" button over on the left underneath the main map. It gives a good rendition of where the greatest sources of light are.
Perhaps a better way of estimating possible light polution is to instead select "Population per square mile - 1995" in the "Map Layers" frame, and then redrawing the map.
It's too bad they don't have population density information for Canada at that site.
It sounds like you've got a really interesting project going!
If the info you're aware of about similar projects is a bit dated... any chance you're putting together a website covering your efforts? It'd be great to hear your whole story about how you started this, pictures of what you've bought, and a summary of the final result. Just a thought.:-)
I wasn't suggesting trying a mine-clearing operation using sound in immediately hostile territory. There are plenty of countries where security is not a major concern, but where mines are. Humanitarian organizations such as InterSOS would benefit from technology that makes the normally painstaking process of demining easier. They are older links, but there is still some information about humanitarian demining projects here.
I've occasionally wondered why someone hasn't tried clearing minefields using some tacky Rockford Phosgate subwoofers mounted on a nice big tank.
If the late-night losers around here can shake my apartment building as they drive by with their oh-so-cool car audio systems, surely a military organization could crank things up to the point that any mine within a mile radius would detonate.
Besides, you could keep the locals entertained (at a distance) with some cool tunes.
I believe it was CNN that had an article about the "Mars Face" last year that included several new pictures of the feature. The story said that the Mars Global Surveyor was intentionally nudged out of its flight path just so that it could take pictures of the "face" and put an end to some of the speculation about it. That said, I can't find the article (I think CNN must kill some of its online articles - this isn't the first time I haven't been able to find one in their archives). You're right though - the "face" proved to be a trick of the light (and perhaps the relatively low resolution of the original image, or the image processing used on it). The various new images taken by the Global Surveyor were taken at different times of the Mars day, at different angles, and with a much higher resolution camera than the old original image. In some of the shots you could sort of see why the landform feature might have turned out looking like a face before. But none of the new images showed a face-like feature at all really.
You might have some luck with this article though. It allows you to look at some of the newer Global Surveyor images of the Cydonia region (where the so-called Face is).
After seeing a cow-skin PC, then a rusty one, and now one built out of luggage, how about a poll for other interesting hacker PC boxes? Top five containers to put a PC into:
1) Microwave 2) Dishwasher 3) Coffin (upright, serving as a rack system) 4) 8 gallon Shop-vac (how many round cases with wheels - and a drain - do you see these days?) 5) Tuba (really good RF shielding potential)
After the transplant, dual-functionality of the microwave and dishwasher would be point of debate, of course. As for the shop-vac, if you're like me, your computer's cooling fans wind up doing way more cleaning in your apartment than you do anyway, so dust buildup isn't really an issue there.
I think you're right, but only initially. People would start building the lots onto roofs because that'd be the easy thing to do.
That takes up a lot of space though - it's not very space efficient. Eventually I think you'd see people developing "parking towers" with clover-shaped levels (for 4 landing pads) around their outsides every ~15 feet. Stick an elevator in the center of the tower so that people can get down once they land and you'd be set.
Remember, once you can fly, you're not limited to the terrible 2-D waste of space we see in our world today. Think 3-D!
Looking for the DOS version? Head to the OAK Software Repository, and check out their "PC/Blue Disk Library" at: http://oak.oakland.edu/pub/pc-blue/pcblue/ It's volume 271 that contains both the CGA and Hercules Graphics Card versions of Spacewar. I just tried the CGA version on my PII-400... ummm... I think I'm going to have to drag out that old 486SX-25...
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Perhaps this would do the trick? It even comes with a Li-Ion battery.
Someone else posted this link within the past week on Slashdot:
http://nationalatlas.gov/natlas/natlasstart.asp
Once the page has loaded, go to the top right frame titled "Map Layers" and scroll down to the "People" section. Try selecting the "Nighttime Lights" option and then click the "Redraw" button over on the left underneath the main map. It gives a good rendition of where the greatest sources of light are.
Perhaps a better way of estimating possible light polution is to instead select "Population per square mile - 1995" in the "Map Layers" frame, and then redrawing the map.
It's too bad they don't have population density information for Canada at that site.
It sounds like you've got a really interesting project going!
... any chance you're putting together a website covering your efforts? It'd be great to hear your whole story about how you started this, pictures of what you've bought, and a summary of the final result. Just a thought. :-)
If the info you're aware of about similar projects is a bit dated
"Highway to Uranus"?
;-)
Forgive me
Don't forget the mimes!
If you start diverting the path the used grease currently takes, you could wind up with a whole lot of unhappy mimes!
What a tragedy that would be!
I wasn't suggesting trying a mine-clearing operation using sound in immediately hostile territory. There are plenty of countries where security is not a major concern, but where mines are. Humanitarian organizations such as InterSOS would benefit from technology that makes the normally painstaking process of demining easier. They are older links, but there is still some information about humanitarian demining projects here.
I've occasionally wondered why someone hasn't tried clearing minefields using some tacky Rockford Phosgate subwoofers mounted on a nice big tank.
If the late-night losers around here can shake my apartment building as they drive by with their oh-so-cool car audio systems, surely a military organization could crank things up to the point that any mine within a mile radius would detonate.
Besides, you could keep the locals entertained (at a distance) with some cool tunes.
I believe it was CNN that had an article about the "Mars Face" last year that included several new pictures of the feature. The story said that the Mars Global Surveyor was intentionally nudged out of its flight path just so that it could take pictures of the "face" and put an end to some of the speculation about it. That said, I can't find the article (I think CNN must kill some of its online articles - this isn't the first time I haven't been able to find one in their archives). You're right though - the "face" proved to be a trick of the light (and perhaps the relatively low resolution of the original image, or the image processing used on it). The various new images taken by the Global Surveyor were taken at different times of the Mars day, at different angles, and with a much higher resolution camera than the old original image. In some of the shots you could sort of see why the landform feature might have turned out looking like a face before. But none of the new images showed a face-like feature at all really.
You might have some luck with this article though. It allows you to look at some of the newer Global Surveyor images of the Cydonia region (where the so-called Face is).
After seeing a cow-skin PC, then a rusty one, and now one built out of luggage, how about a poll for other interesting hacker PC boxes? Top five containers to put a PC into:
1) Microwave
2) Dishwasher
3) Coffin (upright, serving as a rack system)
4) 8 gallon Shop-vac (how many round cases with wheels - and a drain - do you see these days?)
5) Tuba (really good RF shielding potential)
After the transplant, dual-functionality of the microwave and dishwasher would be point of debate, of course. As for the shop-vac, if you're like me, your computer's cooling fans wind up doing way more cleaning in your apartment than you do anyway, so dust buildup isn't really an issue there.
I think you're right, but only initially. People would start building the lots onto roofs because that'd be the easy thing to do.
That takes up a lot of space though - it's not very space efficient. Eventually I think you'd see people developing "parking towers" with clover-shaped levels (for 4 landing pads) around their outsides every ~15 feet. Stick an elevator in the center of the tower so that people can get down once they land and you'd be set.
Remember, once you can fly, you're not limited to the terrible 2-D waste of space we see in our world today. Think 3-D!
Looking for the DOS version? Head to the OAK Software Repository, and check out their "PC/Blue Disk Library" at: http://oak.oakland.edu/pub/pc-blue/pcblue/ It's volume 271 that contains both the CGA and Hercules Graphics Card versions of Spacewar. I just tried the CGA version on my PII-400 ... ummm ... I think I'm going to have to drag out that old 486SX-25...