NASA with the the Italian Space Program tried long (up to 5 km) space tethers several times. Either cable fries and breaks from huge electrostatic charge breakup or the satellite fries. Anyone whose flown a kite with a metal wire knows the problem is even worse in the atmosphere.
Either you are a Stanford and Yale and have a hundred thousand applications swamping the admissions committee. Ot if you are less selective you may not want reject that many candidates at all.
Residential college education is about 24/7 being with people as smart or smarter than you are. You can pick up a lot from online courseware and textbooks, but its not quite the same stimulus and personal networking. Then too, I dont know if its worth $200K for such an education. This is a "list price" because I only paid 1/2 of my MIT degree costs and Stanford paid me for grad school.
The technology was originally developed for the post office where envelopes flash by cameras traveling many miles and hour. Some of the same engineering companies sell both systems.
I have visions of "Google-Stars" orbiting the earth, modelled after the Star Wars Death Stars. These will agther and beam the sum of Earth's knowledge. Plus they will be pollution-free running on abundant solar power above the clouds. Google will have their own private space fleet to service these. Google already leases NASA-Ames to run their private jets, and Sergey will be an experienced Cosmonaut in two years.
Back in the 1990s when Cray computer was still a real computer company, I had one of the wierdest job interviews. The HR person gave a psychology test. You can guess how that turned out since I have a touch of Aspergers like many nerds. At least I got a scenic visit to the twin cities (old HQ) out of it.
The earth was warm enough during the Carboniferous that there were no ice caps or glaciers. Tropical forest grew like mad close to the polar regions. Atmospheric CO2 could have been a half-percent, or a mganitude higher than now.
C-14 dating is decent to 10,000 years and approximate to 50,000 years with special equipment. This essentially covers modern humanity hostory. The C-13 method in the article mentioned hundred million years.
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So far they are just testing proton beam luminosity. Doomsday is in six weeks.
59th Anniversary of the founding of The Peoples Republic of China Oct 1, 1949. (If weather holds and no saftey glitches.) Originally they were considering tying this into the Olympics, but decided to spread 2008 events out.
Some of the "junk DNA" is transcribed into non-protein-coding RNA. RNA does its business, then decays in minutes. New technologies are discover its new roles.
Paying $10K-$15K above the equivalent Echo (same Toyota body type) makes no economic sense unless you are some rich yuppie or celebrity making a fashion statement. You never recoup that in gasoline savings. There are plenty of better priced hybrid models around which arent selling too well.
I just saw The Measure of a Man episode on the Star Trek Labor Day marathon. Data has a speed of 60 Teraflops and 100 petabytes of storage. That used to seem large in the late 1980s. (Episode were Data goes on trial whether he is a machine or sentient.)
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Both candidates say they are going to slash budget. When NASA's is cut, they'll dump their older projects.
NASA with the the Italian Space Program tried long (up to 5 km) space tethers several times. Either cable fries and breaks from huge electrostatic charge breakup or the satellite fries. Anyone whose flown a kite with a metal wire knows the problem is even worse in the atmosphere.
Either you are a Stanford and Yale and have a hundred thousand applications swamping the admissions committee. Ot if you are less selective you may not want reject that many candidates at all.
Some are up to 32GB now.
I wish them luck
Very strong parental expectations.
Residential college education is about 24/7 being with people as smart or smarter than you are. You can pick up a lot from online courseware and textbooks, but its not quite the same stimulus and personal networking. Then too, I dont know if its worth $200K for such an education. This is a "list price" because I only paid 1/2 of my MIT degree costs and Stanford paid me for grad school.
The technology was originally developed for the post office where envelopes flash by cameras traveling many miles and hour. Some of the same engineering companies sell both systems.
Implies far more intelligence than is actually going. Perhaps marketing hype.
When the scientists run of things to over-hype? Build up expectation too much, then let the public, and they'll become bored.
I have visions of "Google-Stars" orbiting the earth, modelled after the Star Wars Death Stars. These will agther and beam the sum of Earth's knowledge. Plus they will be pollution-free running on abundant solar power above the clouds. Google will have their own private space fleet to service these. Google already leases NASA-Ames to run their private jets, and Sergey will be an experienced Cosmonaut in two years.
Back in the 1990s when Cray computer was still a real computer company, I had one of the wierdest job interviews. The HR person gave a psychology test. You can guess how that turned out since I have a touch of Aspergers like many nerds. At least I got a scenic visit to the twin cities (old HQ) out of it.
The earth was warm enough during the Carboniferous that there were no ice caps or glaciers. Tropical forest grew like mad close to the polar regions. Atmospheric CO2 could have been a half-percent, or a mganitude higher than now.
You'd need a great battery technology to survive a two week night. Split hydrogen for fuel cells?
C-14 dating is decent to 10,000 years and approximate to 50,000 years with special equipment. This essentially covers modern humanity hostory. The C-13 method in the article mentioned hundred million years.
So far they are just testing proton beam luminosity. Doomsday is in six weeks.
Its a total mystery how slashdot editors choose favorites.
You'd probably go through similar set of hurdles to insure the thing. Who would insure an unknown design with unknown QC of manufacture?
59th Anniversary of the founding of The Peoples Republic of China Oct 1, 1949. (If weather holds and no saftey glitches.) Originally they were considering tying this into the Olympics, but decided to spread 2008 events out.
Some of the "junk DNA" is transcribed into non-protein-coding RNA. RNA does its business, then decays in minutes. New technologies are discover its new roles.
The bigger they get, the more arrogant they get.
Paying $10K-$15K above the equivalent Echo (same Toyota body type) makes no economic sense unless you are some rich yuppie or celebrity making a fashion statement. You never recoup that in gasoline savings. There are plenty of better priced hybrid models around which arent selling too well.
Older model during back-to-school sales. Standard everything, but small.
Timing is off.
I just saw The Measure of a Man episode on the Star Trek Labor Day marathon. Data has a speed of 60 Teraflops and 100 petabytes of storage. That used to seem large in the late 1980s. (Episode were Data goes on trial whether he is a machine or sentient.)