But why do they perform such an irrelevant experiment and then claim that it is "space relevant"? (Knowing full well how the media are going to interpret it). Oh wait, I guess I just answered my own question.
Would it be so hard to subject the rats to a longer duration, lower intensity dose that actually resembles the conditions on a space mission? Oooh, but then they might find less spectacular results and wouldn't get any media attention... I guess I just answered my own question again.
Next up: headline in all major newspapers, scientists prove that cell phones may make your head explode. Critic on Slashdot says they just subjected a mouse to a short energy burst equivalent to a trillion cell phones and therefore the explosion was to be expected and does not say anything about the safety of cell phones. Pedant responds that this was clearly stated in the original report by the scientists and therefore the critics have no right to point it out.
And then some wonder why people have such a negative opinion on media conglomerates. Refusing legal access based on where you happen to be and then suing "pirates" if they get around the restrictions, way to go to create a nice brand image.
If the model S is "ageing", it's ageing remarkably well. Fastest accelerating production car at this moment, highest electric range, most advanced automation, looks that still turn heads, and constantly updated.
A Model S you buy today is nothing like one you would have bought 5 years... correction... 4 years ago. Ageing?
Then why does the download page have "Noto Naskh Arabic", "Noto Sans Armenian", "Noto Sans Avestan", "Noto Sans Balinese" and about a hundred or so more?
I went to the download page hoping to be able to download just one font, or maybe a few for serif, sans, monospaced. But no, a gazillion different fonts. I thought we were past this with Unicode.
Well, many of them are offering expensive low range EV's, and are planning cars to "rival" Tesla many years from now.
That's using the novel definition of "rival" meaning "in 4 years from now we'll deliver a car that's almost as fast and has almost as much range as today's Teslas... oh, wait, I mean last month's Teslas, damn..."
Tesla offers the use of all of its patents for free. (...) It's mostly a PR move.
And protection against being attacked by others' patents.
The patents are only offered free to those who use them "in good faith". Sue Tesla, and you'll end up paying for each and every Tesla patent you're using. Brilliant move by Musk.
You mean the MD DC-X which never went above 10300 ft? Not exactly space...
And why would it not be cost-effective? Sure, you lose some capacity because you have to take extra fuel to bring the booster back (and you have to use more fuel to send that fuel up), but if you just make the rocket big enough, it won't double the price. If you can reuse the booster once, it's paid for itself. And certainly if it's a booster the size of the proposed BFR. You don't just want to throw that away.
I do love its feature set: - Play games - check - Play music - check - Social media - check - Take pictures - check - Make phone calls - check - Built-in flashlight - check - Start camp fires - check
But why did they program it to shut off on impact? Who cares if it might be damaged and short-circuited by the impact, it's end of life anyway, might as well see if if some parts of it survive the impact and send back something useful. No, they intentionally programmed it to go into "safe mode" and basically shut off at the moment of impact. A "clean end" to the mission, they called it. I think they should have gone for some "dirty" pictures instead. Better than nothing, and what does the probe have to lose? It may have bounced around for hours with all its sensors shut off while it was still perfectly capable of sending back more data.
Yeah, it used to be that simple in the good ol' days.
These new washers are probably running Linux, and while they've managed to scrape together all the necessary drivers and libraries and make the whole thing compile without errors, they haven't figured out how to configure them to react to that condition without breaking other functions.
(Oh, please tell me I'm just being cynical and this is not what actually happened...)
But apparently the security questions and answers were stored in plain text. That's like locking your front door with a triple lock, a fingerprint reader and iron bars but then leaving the ground floor window wide open with a neon sign "enter here" pointing to it. And then claiming that you take security seriously. And when someone enters, you don't tell anyone for two years because you're afraid your parents will find out.
I "know someone who" wanted to rent a 5 year old movie on iTunes not long ago. He was ready to pay for it. The rights holders, however, had decided that this particular movie was only to be made available for purchase, not rental. More than twice the price of a rental. So guess what he did...
Other example, same guy, rented a movie on iTunes then decided he liked it so much he wanted to purchase it. Do you think they would let him convert the rental into a purchase? Nope, full price on top of rental. So guess what he did...
Bad service turns potential customers into pirates. In both examples above the rights holders missed out on the money someone was willing to spend because they were simply too greedy. It's easy to blame the pirates, though.
Thank you very much for providing an article that proves my point. Too bad you apparently didn't read it yourself, or you would have realised you were wrong and I was right all along.
From that very website: "The distortion of water and earth that we call "tidal bulges" is the result of deformation of earth and water materials at different places on earth in response to the combined gravitational effects of moon and sun. It is not simply the size of the force of attraction of these bodies at a certain point on earth that determines this. It is the variation of force over the volumes of materials (water and earth) of which the earth is composed."
You know, that variation that you claimed was completely insignificant and could never be strong enough to cause tides? Yes, that very variation turns out to be the cause of the tides after all, just like I wrote it was.
The article goes into more detail than I did: it turns out these differential gravitational forces don't just mean more gravity one one side and less on the other, but also have sideways components due to the change in the direction of gravity. At the poles the resulting force is even towards the surface of the earth. That's something I didn't even know, I would have thought those would be insignificant.
Anyway, the part about "A closer look at centrifugal forces" goes on to debunk your very theory about tides being caused by centrifugal forces.
"So the bottom line is that centrifugal forces on the earth due to the presence of the moon are not tide-raising forces at all. They cannot be invoked as an "explanation" for any tide, on either side of the earth or anywhere else."
Seriously, do me a favor and read the article. All of it. I couldn't explain it better than it does.
Where did you even get this theory? Did somebody explain it to you like that? Did you get it from a book or a website or something? Or did you come up with it yourself? I'm just curious, because it really is completely wrong.
I'm going to stop arguing now. It's not worth my time.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure, the booster can be reused a thousand times, so they should have no problem sending up lots of little magnets.
But why do they perform such an irrelevant experiment and then claim that it is "space relevant"? (Knowing full well how the media are going to interpret it). Oh wait, I guess I just answered my own question.
Would it be so hard to subject the rats to a longer duration, lower intensity dose that actually resembles the conditions on a space mission? Oooh, but then they might find less spectacular results and wouldn't get any media attention... I guess I just answered my own question again.
Next up: headline in all major newspapers, scientists prove that cell phones may make your head explode. Critic on Slashdot says they just subjected a mouse to a short energy burst equivalent to a trillion cell phones and therefore the explosion was to be expected and does not say anything about the safety of cell phones. Pedant responds that this was clearly stated in the original report by the scientists and therefore the critics have no right to point it out.
Would certainly make a great reality show...
Yep, same in Belgium.
And then some wonder why people have such a negative opinion on media conglomerates. Refusing legal access based on where you happen to be and then suing "pirates" if they get around the restrictions, way to go to create a nice brand image.
He was talking about this South Park episode
Really? Which current production car (which you can actually buy new today) accelerates faster than the Model S P100D?
If the model S is "ageing", it's ageing remarkably well. Fastest accelerating production car at this moment, highest electric range, most advanced automation, looks that still turn heads, and constantly updated.
A Model S you buy today is nothing like one you would have bought 5 years... correction... 4 years ago. Ageing?
Then why does the download page have "Noto Naskh Arabic", "Noto Sans Armenian", "Noto Sans Avestan", "Noto Sans Balinese" and about a hundred or so more?
I went to the download page hoping to be able to download just one font, or maybe a few for serif, sans, monospaced. But no, a gazillion different fonts. I thought we were past this with Unicode.
Well, many of them are offering expensive low range EV's, and are planning cars to "rival" Tesla many years from now.
That's using the novel definition of "rival" meaning "in 4 years from now we'll deliver a car that's almost as fast and has almost as much range as today's Teslas... oh, wait, I mean last month's Teslas, damn..."
And where are their battery factories?
Tesla offers the use of all of its patents for free. (...) It's mostly a PR move.
And protection against being attacked by others' patents.
The patents are only offered free to those who use them "in good faith". Sue Tesla, and you'll end up paying for each and every Tesla patent you're using. Brilliant move by Musk.
You mean the MD DC-X which never went above 10300 ft? Not exactly space...
And why would it not be cost-effective? Sure, you lose some capacity because you have to take extra fuel to bring the booster back (and you have to use more fuel to send that fuel up), but if you just make the rocket big enough, it won't double the price. If you can reuse the booster once, it's paid for itself. And certainly if it's a booster the size of the proposed BFR. You don't just want to throw that away.
Blue Origin reached space multiple times. What they didn't reach yet is an orbital trajectory for their payload
which is the hard part.
I do love its feature set:
- Play games - check
- Play music - check
- Social media - check
- Take pictures - check
- Make phone calls - check
- Built-in flashlight - check
- Start camp fires - check
Is there anything it can't do?
They do burn twice as long, though.
I wish I had taken a photo
with something other than my Galaxy Note 7...
But why did they program it to shut off on impact? Who cares if it might be damaged and short-circuited by the impact, it's end of life anyway, might as well see if if some parts of it survive the impact and send back something useful. No, they intentionally programmed it to go into "safe mode" and basically shut off at the moment of impact. A "clean end" to the mission, they called it. I think they should have gone for some "dirty" pictures instead. Better than nothing, and what does the probe have to lose? It may have bounced around for hours with all its sensors shut off while it was still perfectly capable of sending back more data.
I wonder what it thinks about this Rosetta image:
Yeah, it used to be that simple in the good ol' days.
These new washers are probably running Linux, and while they've managed to scrape together all the necessary drivers and libraries and make the whole thing compile without errors, they haven't figured out how to configure them to react to that condition without breaking other functions.
(Oh, please tell me I'm just being cynical and this is not what actually happened...)
Even smarter would be simply hiring him. Find and fix iOS flaws and find Galaxy flaws.
But apparently the security questions and answers were stored in plain text. That's like locking your front door with a triple lock, a fingerprint reader and iron bars but then leaving the ground floor window wide open with a neon sign "enter here" pointing to it. And then claiming that you take security seriously. And when someone enters, you don't tell anyone for two years because you're afraid your parents will find out.
at least a child's level of competence
You are assuming a lot here. This is an internet company.
I "know someone who" wanted to rent a 5 year old movie on iTunes not long ago. He was ready to pay for it. The rights holders, however, had decided that this particular movie was only to be made available for purchase, not rental. More than twice the price of a rental. So guess what he did...
Other example, same guy, rented a movie on iTunes then decided he liked it so much he wanted to purchase it. Do you think they would let him convert the rental into a purchase? Nope, full price on top of rental. So guess what he did...
Bad service turns potential customers into pirates. In both examples above the rights holders missed out on the money someone was willing to spend because they were simply too greedy. It's easy to blame the pirates, though.
So that's why Tesla and Solarcity stocks are down today!
Thank you very much for providing an article that proves my point. Too bad you apparently didn't read it yourself, or you would have realised you were wrong and I was right all along.
From that very website:
"The distortion of water and earth that we call "tidal bulges" is the result of deformation of earth and water materials at different places on earth in response to the combined gravitational effects of moon and sun. It is not simply the size of the force of attraction of these bodies at a certain point on earth that determines this. It is the variation of force over the volumes of materials (water and earth) of which the earth is composed."
You know, that variation that you claimed was completely insignificant and could never be strong enough to cause tides? Yes, that very variation turns out to be the cause of the tides after all, just like I wrote it was.
The article goes into more detail than I did: it turns out these differential gravitational forces don't just mean more gravity one one side and less on the other, but also have sideways components due to the change in the direction of gravity. At the poles the resulting force is even towards the surface of the earth. That's something I didn't even know, I would have thought those would be insignificant.
Anyway, the part about "A closer look at centrifugal forces" goes on to debunk your very theory about tides being caused by centrifugal forces.
"So the bottom line is that centrifugal forces on the earth due to the presence of the moon are not tide-raising forces at all. They cannot be invoked as an "explanation" for any tide, on either side of the earth or anywhere else."
Seriously, do me a favor and read the article. All of it. I couldn't explain it better than it does.
Where did you even get this theory? Did somebody explain it to you like that? Did you get it from a book or a website or something? Or did you come up with it yourself? I'm just curious, because it really is completely wrong.
I'm going to stop arguing now. It's not worth my time.