Ok, I admit I don't know a lot about this subject, but if they are seeing this far into the "past", they have to be looking in one direction right? I assume that the Big Bang started at one point. So therefore, there must be one spot in the sky that they are looking at, and thus the "spot" that the universe came into existence.
Is this spot in the sky widely known? Where is it? And assuming the explosion would be spherical, would we ever be able to see galaxies that shot off in the other directions?
Its funny that this came up. I just attended mandatory export compliance training the other day.
It would make sense that the commerce dept would be the ones calling the shots on this. There are (from what i understand) two areas of export regulations ITARS and EAR.
There are three departments that manage permissions for exports:
State Department (ITARS): weapons, etc
Commerce Department (EAR) : commercial/military
Treasury Department : (forgot what they cover)
Here is a link to EAR if youre curious:
http://www.gpo.gov/bis/ear/ear_data.html
Couldn't they wait until right before the release to leak this? This will surely get the release delayed, or be replaced with a watered down version. dammit.
(who knows how long it will take an alien virus/bacteria to show symptoms)
I would imagine if there were any virus or bacteria on mars, they would not know what to do with us. If they are alive, they have adapted to live off what is in their environment. A giant meat sack is not going to provided their preferred diet.
How? How exactly would you, as a middle-school kid, have been scarred if your parents had occasionally made sweet loooove on the dinner table after dessert?
I would never have been able to eat at that table again. Nor ever been able to leave the shower. "Unclean!"
I am sick of this crap. This is not natural gas or water or electricity.
Data bits are not physical products that need to be produced.
If there is a problem with some customers being cut off due to someone else's 20 Xmen Origin torrents, i can understand; but just to throttle it to create a stream of revenue pisses me off.
Those routers will handle 10GB the same as it will 20GB.
Bull. I live in a large city. About two years ago there was a massive storm that took out power for large parts of the city for over a week. In addition, it happened to be the hottest days of the year.
Traffice lights were down, stores were closed,...and still we survived. No crime waves or panick. People sat outside their houses, complained about the power and the heat. I managed to find a store with power a few miles away and got ice.
You need to give people more credit and stop getting your ideas from Hollywood.
These women face an almost institutionalized form of sexual harassment.
What are you talking about? The women I served with were treated as fairly as the men. You obviously were never in the military; but choose to bash it on old stereotypes.
This has not dimensioned the enrollment...
Dimensioned? Do you mean like adding units of measure? Meters, feet, cubic tons?
I love the top/bottom split. I think its easier to keep track of your screen versus the side-by-side split screen. Usually you have some sky on the lower screen that adds a contrast that makes it easier to keep the seperation.
And, having a standard def tv (still), having it split top/bottom, gives me a widescreen feel.
Just to make some corrections to this comment and others: (i work in the aviation safety industry)
Stalls are not caused just by a slow speed. A stall occurrs when the angle of attack of the wing exceeds a certain limit. (angle of the wing to oncoming air) Stalls are easily recoverable provided you have some altitude. All that aircraft(cessna's, gulfstreams, Dash8's, c130's, c17's, etc) I have flown have "stick shakers", which "shakes" when you are approaching stall.
Aircraft will allow you to exceed safe speeds (auto-pilot will not). You will get audible/visual warnings. There are maximums for gear down, flaps down, and general excesive speed.
The FAA did a study on cell phone use and avionics. (dont have a link) They concluded that they do not interfere, but keep the policy in place (better safe than sorry).
Aircraft navigation uses mostly VHF, no where near 2.4Ghz. Almost all ILS, VOR, NDB, and other navaids run in the 100 - 140khz range. For a device to interfere it would have to operate on the frequency THAT THE PILOT HAS THE NAV RADIOS TUNED TOO.
Unfortunately the A320's, B787, and C17 use "fly by wire". If there was some way to intefere with that, I do not know.
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Ok, I admit I don't know a lot about this subject, but if they are seeing this far into the "past", they have to be looking in one direction right? I assume that the Big Bang started at one point. So therefore, there must be one spot in the sky that they are looking at, and thus the "spot" that the universe came into existence.
Is this spot in the sky widely known? Where is it? And assuming the explosion would be spherical, would we ever be able to see galaxies that shot off in the other directions?
Actually 8.7 times as lame.
A lot of people are bashing this. I think its kind of neat. I will "play" for a while.
Its funny that this came up. I just attended mandatory export compliance training the other day.
It would make sense that the commerce dept would be the ones calling the shots on this. There are (from what i understand) two areas of export regulations ITARS and EAR.
There are three departments that manage permissions for exports:
State Department (ITARS): weapons, etc
Commerce Department (EAR) : commercial/military
Treasury Department : (forgot what they cover)
Here is a link to EAR if youre curious: http://www.gpo.gov/bis/ear/ear_data.html
Couldn't they wait until right before the release to leak this? This will surely get the release delayed, or be replaced with a watered down version. dammit.
I thought the CIA wasn't allowed to do domestic intelligence?
Why? Sure, i can cook pizza in my toaster but that doesnt make it a good idea.
(who knows how long it will take an alien virus/bacteria to show symptoms)
I would imagine if there were any virus or bacteria on mars, they would not know what to do with us. If they are alive, they have adapted to live off what is in their environment. A giant meat sack is not going to provided their preferred diet.
My daughter "selected a sewing class because she is interested in fashion design, but the school selected a basic piano class"
What kind of high school is THIS? We were lucky to have basic computer classes when i was in high school. Sewing and piano? Spoiled bastards.
How? How exactly would you, as a middle-school kid, have been scarred if your parents had occasionally made sweet loooove on the dinner table after dessert?
I would never have been able to eat at that table again. Nor ever been able to leave the shower. "Unclean!"
Thats not entirely true. You can actually condition yourself to feel tired when you drink coffee.
If you drink a cup of coffee everytime before you go to sleep, over time, drinking a cup of coffee can make you tired. Classical Conditioning.
I am sick of this crap. This is not natural gas or water or electricity. Data bits are not physical products that need to be produced.
If there is a problem with some customers being cut off due to someone else's 20 Xmen Origin torrents, i can understand; but just to throttle it to create a stream of revenue pisses me off.
Those routers will handle 10GB the same as it will 20GB.
Ok, how bout a review? Surely someone here has watched it.
Bull. I live in a large city. About two years ago there was a massive storm that took out power for large parts of the city for over a week. In addition, it happened to be the hottest days of the year.
Traffice lights were down, stores were closed,...and still we survived. No crime waves or panick. People sat outside their houses, complained about the power and the heat. I managed to find a store with power a few miles away and got ice.
You need to give people more credit and stop getting your ideas from Hollywood.
These women face an almost institutionalized form of sexual harassment.
What are you talking about? The women I served with were treated as fairly as the men. You obviously were never in the military; but choose to bash it on old stereotypes.
This has not dimensioned the enrollment...
Dimensioned? Do you mean like adding units of measure? Meters, feet, cubic tons?
I love the top/bottom split. I think its easier to keep track of your screen versus the side-by-side split screen. Usually you have some sky on the lower screen that adds a contrast that makes it easier to keep the seperation. And, having a standard def tv (still), having it split top/bottom, gives me a widescreen feel.
Just to make some corrections to this comment and others: (i work in the aviation safety industry)
Stalls are not caused just by a slow speed. A stall occurrs when the angle of attack of the wing exceeds a certain limit. (angle of the wing to oncoming air) Stalls are easily recoverable provided you have some altitude. All that aircraft(cessna's, gulfstreams, Dash8's, c130's, c17's, etc) I have flown have "stick shakers", which "shakes" when you are approaching stall.
Aircraft will allow you to exceed safe speeds (auto-pilot will not). You will get audible/visual warnings. There are maximums for gear down, flaps down, and general excesive speed.
The FAA did a study on cell phone use and avionics. (dont have a link) They concluded that they do not interfere, but keep the policy in place (better safe than sorry).
Aircraft navigation uses mostly VHF, no where near 2.4Ghz. Almost all ILS, VOR, NDB, and other navaids run in the 100 - 140khz range. For a device to interfere it would have to operate on the frequency THAT THE PILOT HAS THE NAV RADIOS TUNED TOO.
Unfortunately the A320's, B787, and C17 use "fly by wire". If there was some way to intefere with that, I do not know.