Mars cooled off sooner after formation than the Earth and probably became suitable for life tens of millions of years sooner.
Three dozen Martian meteorites have been found so far on the Earth. Probably thousands of more fell into the oceans or haven't been found yet. Drillholes in the earth find bacteria at least ten kilometers deep, so they can live in rocks long enough for an interplanetary journey. So its possible life arose first on Mars and then infected the Earth.
The first usable version of windows was 3.1 which shipped in 1993.
This was pretty much the MicroSoft story until the mid-1990s. You did not want to get versions 1X or 2X until the alpha-testers, i.e. the stupid customers, found the bugs. After the mid-1990s MicroSoft internal testing improved a lot.
In Asia, India, Japan (to a lesser degree),
many parts of eastern Europe its prestigeous
to be a scientist or engineer. Parents still
push their sons in that direction. The president
of China is an engineer, the new German leader has
a PhD in physics.
Whats percentage of these concept studies actually become vehicles and are launched? I'd guess it is a single-digit percentage. There are lots of nifty ideas out there compared to what NASA is able to implement.
I sometimes wonder how much of this is a drive by a medicine industry to seek out new diseases and develop cures for them. The United States certainly isnt immune from this tendency. Half of the commercials on news shows seem to be for "diseases" of little concern a decade or more ago.
The solution is not that complicated. For the convenience of quicker swipes, we'll have the counter-solutions of foil lines for are credit cards, licenses, passports, etc.
A few years back there was a controversial suggestion that Einsteins first wife- fellow student Mileva- had made substantial contributions to his papers. Some even said they saw her handwriting in the paper drafts.
Previously it took two button presses to get a print, because they reformatted the page for better printing. Now one click accomplishes this.
The nice thing is about web-shipped software is that the user did not have to re-download the improved maps.
I predict life will probably be found in all hospitable sites in the solar system, and it will all be more or less similar to Earth biochemistry. That is because meteorites bounce back and forth between the planets and moons all the time. About 30 Mars meteorites have been identified on earth so far. Considering how many get lost in the ocean and jungles, its likely that thousands have hit earth. And earth has probably, sent out many itself, though its larger gravitation means not as many as Mars.
Life has been found in nearly all deep drill holes in Earth, indicating that bateria can exist in rocks for million to hundreds of millions of year, more than long enough for a meteor to travel to another planet.
A second guess I making is that life may have originated on Mars first, because the surface of this smaller planet probably stablized quicker than Earth's. Then it infected Earth. Whether it lasted on Mars is unknown.
What made corporations powerful in the late 19th century is that had can hold the rights of "people" in the eyes of the law. Otherwise, individuals culd have bullied them around. I forget the name of this important Supreme Court decision. This is how the recent documentary "The Corporation" begins its history of the modern corporation.
Yes, there is a vivid enample of the skunk effect two weekends ago on Capital Mall in Washington D.C. Homeland Security sniffers (they are vague about the details) detected the disease bacteria called tularemia. Its not sure whether this was natural occuring soil bacteria kicked up by crowds during a large protest that weekend. Else it could have come in on some rural vistor's boots. In the worst scenario it could have intentionally planted by someone wanting to start an epidemic via a crowd.
I hear if you making learning semi-interactive, that really reinforces it yet. I've heard of some good language training DVDs coming on the market, but they're price (several hundred dollars a set). They stimulate the senese with images and voice, and encourage interactive exercises.
Much better than the dull language-lab tapes when I was in school.
This Nobel-winning research open up some people's minds that other chronic diseases might be due to infectious agents also. Some people have suggested that artery plaques and inflamation- the precursors of heart attacks and strokes- might be caused by germs such as a variant of the clymadia bacteria. Some people suspect a role in cancer too. Only a couple of cancers are known for sure such as Karposis and Hep-C liver cancer, but others are suspected. Considering that decades of low-level research havent firmly resolved the issue one way or the other, its still somewhatof an open question. Should the answer be "yes, some", then other kinds of phrophlactic treatments could be suggested.
The first part of the this year was pretty dismal with few
theatrical movies I wanted to see. Way too many sequels and
comic book movies aimed at 12-year olds. Finally there
are a few interesting movies coming out. I wonder if it is all positioning for Oscars. Hollywood must presume the Academy cant remember a movie more than a month after it is released, even though most of the Academy views them on complementary DVDs.
Most of the US control is "grandfathered" in due that US invented all of the basic hardware and middle-ware protocols that compromise the InterNet. The invention that made the net really take off was Berner-Lees standardization World Wide Web user interfaces- a Brit working in Switzerland.
The US governement, not industry, funded most of the Web's inventions, first through Defense Advanced Research, then National Science Foundation, and finally through Al Gore's Information Superhighway money. There were some contributions from industry like Xerox Parcs Ethernet. This InterNet technology was mostly a free and unrestricted gift to the rest of the world.
China is starting its manned space program from a clean slate. They plan a week long manned orbited on Oct 13, 2005 and manned moon landing by 2015. They dont have 20-year old legacy technology to slow them down.
On the other hand Russian never tried to drastically change its 40-year-old tried-and-true technology, and dont have the US problems.
Geeks are attractive when they have big wallet bulges.
Now that a few internet stocks have revived, especially the Google monster, geeks are in fashion again.
In Asia most smart guys are encouraged to be engineers.
In the US its considered geeky and low-paying.
The last two presidents of China were engineers.
Perhaps thats why their economy is growing at 9% and the US is
staying even with inflation.
Forbes just listed their richest 400 Americans(*), 95% of them billionaires.
Sergey Brin is in the top 20 with eleven billion, and is the youngest on the list.
They have a cartoon of baby carriage with the baby saying "Goo-Goo".
(* I believe there are some younger non-American billionaires such as the Onasis granddaughter.)
The batteries in the first iPod often died after less than month's use. Then it cost $189 to replace them by an Apple Dealer. Apple lost a class action suit on this one. Customers got a coupon for a future iPod.
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This idea was started over a decade ago by technologist Danny Hillis. Though they have a design and site, its been really slow getting off the ground.
Is NASA even in contention anymore? China will have done three, Russia eight, Rutan at least three in that same period of time.
Mars cooled off sooner after formation than the Earth and probably became suitable for life tens of millions of years sooner.
Three dozen Martian meteorites have been found so far on the Earth. Probably thousands of more fell into the oceans or haven't been found yet. Drillholes in the earth find bacteria at least ten kilometers deep, so they can live in rocks long enough for an interplanetary journey. So its possible life arose first on Mars and then infected the Earth.
The first usable version of windows was 3.1 which shipped in 1993.
This was pretty much the MicroSoft story until the mid-1990s. You did not want to get versions 1X or 2X until the alpha-testers, i.e. the stupid customers, found the bugs. After the mid-1990s MicroSoft internal testing improved a lot.
In Asia, India, Japan (to a lesser degree), many parts of eastern Europe its prestigeous to be a scientist or engineer. Parents still push their sons in that direction. The president of China is an engineer, the new German leader has a PhD in physics.
Whats percentage of these concept studies actually become vehicles and are launched? I'd guess it is a single-digit percentage. There are lots of nifty ideas out there compared to what NASA is able to implement.
I sometimes wonder how much of this is a drive by a medicine industry to seek out new diseases and develop cures for them. The United States certainly isnt immune from this tendency. Half of the commercials on news shows seem to be for "diseases" of little concern a decade or more ago.
The solution is not that complicated. For the convenience of quicker swipes, we'll have the counter-solutions of foil lines for are credit cards, licenses, passports, etc.
A few years back there was a controversial suggestion that Einsteins first wife- fellow student Mileva- had made substantial contributions to his papers. Some even said they saw her handwriting in the paper drafts.
Previously it took two button presses to get a print, because they reformatted the page for better printing. Now one click accomplishes this.
The nice thing is about web-shipped software is that the user did not have to re-download the improved maps.
I predict life will probably be found in all hospitable sites in the solar system, and it will all be more or less similar to Earth biochemistry. That is because meteorites bounce back and forth between the planets and moons all the time. About 30 Mars meteorites have been identified on earth so far. Considering how many get lost in the ocean and jungles, its likely that thousands have hit earth. And earth has probably, sent out many itself, though its larger gravitation means not as many as Mars.
Life has been found in nearly all deep drill holes in Earth, indicating that bateria can exist in rocks for million to hundreds of millions of year, more than long enough for a meteor to travel to another planet.
A second guess I making is that life may have originated on Mars first, because the surface of this smaller planet probably stablized quicker than Earth's. Then it infected Earth. Whether it lasted on Mars is unknown.
What made corporations powerful in the late 19th century is that had can hold the rights of "people" in the eyes of the law. Otherwise, individuals culd have bullied them around. I forget the name of this important Supreme Court decision. This is how the recent documentary "The Corporation" begins its history of the modern corporation.
Life is too short be chronically unhappy.
Life is too short to drift through it in a haze.
Yes, there is a vivid enample of the skunk effect two weekends ago on Capital Mall in Washington D.C. Homeland Security sniffers (they are vague about the details) detected the disease bacteria called tularemia. Its not sure whether this was natural occuring soil bacteria kicked up by crowds during a large protest that weekend. Else it could have come in on some rural vistor's boots. In the worst scenario it could have intentionally planted by someone wanting to start an epidemic via a crowd.
I hear if you making learning semi-interactive, that really reinforces it yet. I've heard of some good language training DVDs coming on the market, but they're price (several hundred dollars a set). They stimulate the senese with images and voice, and encourage interactive exercises. Much better than the dull language-lab tapes when I was in school.
This Nobel-winning research open up some people's minds that other chronic diseases might be due to infectious agents also. Some people have suggested that artery plaques and inflamation- the precursors of heart attacks and strokes- might be caused by germs such as a variant of the clymadia bacteria. Some people suspect a role in cancer too. Only a couple of cancers are known for sure such as Karposis and Hep-C liver cancer, but others are suspected. Considering that decades of low-level research havent firmly resolved the issue one way or the other, its still somewhatof an open question. Should the answer be "yes, some", then other kinds of phrophlactic treatments could be suggested.
The first part of the this year was pretty dismal with few theatrical movies I wanted to see. Way too many sequels and comic book movies aimed at 12-year olds. Finally there are a few interesting movies coming out. I wonder if it is all positioning for Oscars. Hollywood must presume the Academy cant remember a movie more than a month after it is released, even though most of the Academy views them on complementary DVDs.
Thats was the article says. My state does that for automobiles to keep people from going to different counties or states to pay less sales tax.
Most of the US control is "grandfathered" in due that US invented all of the basic hardware and middle-ware protocols that compromise the InterNet. The invention that made the net really take off was Berner-Lees standardization World Wide Web user interfaces- a Brit working in Switzerland.
The US governement, not industry, funded most of the Web's inventions, first through Defense Advanced Research, then National Science Foundation, and finally through Al Gore's Information Superhighway money. There were some contributions from industry like Xerox Parcs Ethernet. This InterNet technology was mostly a free and unrestricted gift to the rest of the world.
China is starting its manned space program from a clean slate. They plan a week long manned orbited on Oct 13, 2005 and manned moon landing by 2015. They dont have 20-year old legacy technology to slow them down.
On the other hand Russian never tried to drastically change its 40-year-old tried-and-true technology, and dont have the US problems.
Geeks are attractive when they have big wallet bulges. Now that a few internet stocks have revived, especially the Google monster, geeks are in fashion again.
In Asia most smart guys are encouraged to be engineers. In the US its considered geeky and low-paying. The last two presidents of China were engineers. Perhaps thats why their economy is growing at 9% and the US is staying even with inflation.
Forbes just listed their richest 400 Americans(*), 95% of them billionaires. Sergey Brin is in the top 20 with eleven billion, and is the youngest on the list. They have a cartoon of baby carriage with the baby saying "Goo-Goo".
(* I believe there are some younger non-American billionaires such as the Onasis granddaughter.)
The batteries in the first iPod often died after less than month's use. Then it cost $189 to replace them by an Apple Dealer. Apple lost a class action suit on this one. Customers got a coupon for a future iPod.
It was a watershed in both special effects at its time and in the exploration of deeper philosophical ideas.