At the Long Beach AAS meeting this year a group successfully teased an atmospheric spectrum from a "reverse transit", that is when the planet goes BEHIND the star. This method assumes most of the time you observe the planets and stars combined spectrum, except during reverse transit.
Early results indicate at least a third of solar systems with stable stars (over billion years) possess planets. And on average there seem to be as many attached planets as stars in our galaxy. Keplers method can only see somewhere between a half percent to one percent of possible solar systems. And only planets with orbits less than five years. But they are observing a huge number of stars.
Plus NASA is on the verge of approving a "super Kepler" for the 2020s that can observe several percent of the sky instead of the quarter percent Kepler looks at now.
At the beginning of the television age a half century ago Ray Bradbury predict the media's perverse relationship with realtime crime as a side-plot in his novel Fahrenheit 451. In the book there are even "fake crimes" or incorrect victims just to keep the excitement up. The OJ Bronco chase 20 years ago was a milestone in this genre. I personally remain skeptical about early so-called facts in a crime scene. Incorrect data gets passed around by rumor easily.
I wonder how the newest media, social media, fits into this picture. Its faster, and "bottom up" compared to TV's "top down". But I dont think it is any more or less accurate than conventional broadcast media. I dont know if ray any insights in social media in the final years of his life.
They were probably getting low on cash and also getting used to using violence to accomplish their needs.
MIT is a relatively open campus with many places to hide out. The younger brother probably knew his way around having attended school in Cambridge.
The USA is down to one newsweekly- Time. Newsweek, US News Look Life are all gone in print. Their online versions are a joke.
There is one business weekly- BusinessWeek. Others have cut their publishing in half- Forbes, Fortune, etc.
Science/Tech is still doign nicely. i like Scientific American and Wired. Most academic journal have retreated behind online paywalls. So I dont read as many of those.
Previous attempts to increase reaction surface area have included alternatining disks, folded sheets, porous poweders, nanotubes... But the tiny networked cubes shown in the diagram looks like it could be a winner.
Quite a nerdfest. Makes the geeky science kids feel good. There is hope for US home-grown STEM. If you read the current congression immigration debate you'd think we have but given up in theis area.
Robert Hazen's lab should many metabolic reactions that require emzymes (catalysts) at surface conditions dont need such at high pressures and temperatures. Life-like stuff could have began at the seafloor first, then migrated to to surface niches as protein emzymes evolved.
NASA internal shuttle replacement has slipped from 2014 to 2018 already. If I was a betting man, I'd double the time again.
There are three private developed bids out. Only Dragon has launched. Even they wont get human certification until the late part of this decade at the earliest. Especially after the snafu in the last launch. NASA wants all LEO manned private if they can find somebody.
International undergrad students tend to pay themselves. Grad students, especially in tech, tend to have grad school grants. Until recently they expected to go home first before reapplying for jobs. Or hope to find an employer that would pay the $30K or so for bypass paperwork. But recently a small number of visas are for immediate graduates. Tech companies want any such limit removed.
From the Tom Friedman book of that name. You are competing with the entire world's English speakers and internet users. Even if it costs them $5 a day to live versus $50 for you.
You must have not contracted then. The rate depends on how long the contract is. Benefits and extra tax cost about 35% extra. So if you have a long period of continuous contract, you charge closer to that mark up. If short periods, say like a day, then you mark up much more to account for down time.
Many readers are attracted to science fiction literature by their attempts to answer the Big Questions like "why are we here?", 'what is out there?", "where are we going?". Especially in the novels written in the decades after WWII. On the other hand many movies are obsessed with action- spaceships, superpower fights and so on. They dont really exercise our brains. Some go even as far to suggest that philosophical science fiction is essentially unfilmable, especially if you want to make a profit. How can you put more provocative ideas into scifi movies and shows?
Due to the tidal grdient across your length. A large BH would have a midel tidal gradient. I dont know the size, but I think its over a trillion solar masses.
PhD '101' should cover graduate school requirements, thesis writing, teaching, and academic job hunting. When I got mine it was more of an apprentice system: imitate those a year or two ahead of you. Now there are some books and youTubes on the topic.
Students considering grad school should take this seminar.
Academia has no conventional retirement age like industry. A 1994 court case established this. Like NASA global warming gadfly Hansen who just retired at age 72 to pursue projects too political inside NASA. Many responsible professors give up their chairs to infuse new blood in my experience. And they retain token positions.
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At the Long Beach AAS meeting this year a group successfully teased an atmospheric spectrum from a "reverse transit", that is when the planet goes BEHIND the star. This method assumes most of the time you observe the planets and stars combined spectrum, except during reverse transit.
The problem is that NASA can only fund a small handful each decade. And this before proposed federal austerity programs which would cut much more.
Early results indicate at least a third of solar systems with stable stars (over billion years) possess planets. And on average there seem to be as many attached planets as stars in our galaxy. Keplers method can only see somewhere between a half percent to one percent of possible solar systems. And only planets with orbits less than five years. But they are observing a huge number of stars.
Plus NASA is on the verge of approving a "super Kepler" for the 2020s that can observe several percent of the sky instead of the quarter percent Kepler looks at now.
At the beginning of the television age a half century ago Ray Bradbury predict the media's perverse relationship with realtime crime as a side-plot in his novel Fahrenheit 451. In the book there are even "fake crimes" or incorrect victims just to keep the excitement up. The OJ Bronco chase 20 years ago was a milestone in this genre. I personally remain skeptical about early so-called facts in a crime scene. Incorrect data gets passed around by rumor easily.
I wonder how the newest media, social media, fits into this picture. Its faster, and "bottom up" compared to TV's "top down". But I dont think it is any more or less accurate than conventional broadcast media. I dont know if ray any insights in social media in the final years of his life.
They were probably getting low on cash and also getting used to using violence to accomplish their needs.
MIT is a relatively open campus with many places to hide out. The younger brother probably knew his way around having attended school in Cambridge.
The USA is down to one newsweekly- Time. Newsweek, US News Look Life are all gone in print. Their online versions are a joke.
There is one business weekly- BusinessWeek. Others have cut their publishing in half- Forbes, Fortune, etc.
Science/Tech is still doign nicely. i like Scientific American and Wired. Most academic journal have retreated behind online paywalls. So I dont read as many of those.
Previous attempts to increase reaction surface area have included alternatining disks, folded sheets, porous poweders, nanotubes ... But the tiny networked cubes shown in the diagram looks like it could be a winner.
And this guy proved it. Real existence would be unbearable.
Quite a nerdfest. Makes the geeky science kids feel good. There is hope for US home-grown STEM. If you read the current congression immigration debate you'd think we have but given up in theis area.
'Select the conclusion first, then choose the experiement and data". We see this a lot on both sides of the global warming debate.
half of these sites were not around 10 years ago and all of them 20 years ago
Teacher salary, desk, administration. I think the national average is $7K per pupil per year (times four years).
Robert Hazen's lab should many metabolic reactions that require emzymes (catalysts) at surface conditions dont need such at high pressures and temperatures. Life-like stuff could have began at the seafloor first, then migrated to to surface niches as protein emzymes evolved.
NASA internal shuttle replacement has slipped from 2014 to 2018 already. If I was a betting man, I'd double the time again.
There are three private developed bids out. Only Dragon has launched. Even they wont get human certification until the late part of this decade at the earliest. Especially after the snafu in the last launch. NASA wants all LEO manned private if they can find somebody.
At least one manned launch a year for next four years. One more to their current space station. Then a new, larger three part space station.
Hey, its one more launch a year than the Americans who will have no more this decade.
Perhpas the Russians are competing with the Chinese now. I think they are more concerned about the possible lost of Baikanor.
I used a few
International undergrad students tend to pay themselves. Grad students, especially in tech, tend to have grad school grants. Until recently they expected to go home first before reapplying for jobs. Or hope to find an employer that would pay the $30K or so for bypass paperwork. But recently a small number of visas are for immediate graduates. Tech companies want any such limit removed.
I'd be an ignorant, prejudiced fool.
From the Tom Friedman book of that name. You are competing with the entire world's English speakers and internet users. Even if it costs them $5 a day to live versus $50 for you.
You must have not contracted then. The rate depends on how long the contract is. Benefits and extra tax cost about 35% extra. So if you have a long period of continuous contract, you charge closer to that mark up. If short periods, say like a day, then you mark up much more to account for down time.
Many readers are attracted to science fiction literature by their attempts to answer the Big Questions like "why are we here?", 'what is out there?", "where are we going?". Especially in the novels written in the decades after WWII. On the other hand many movies are obsessed with action- spaceships, superpower fights and so on. They dont really exercise our brains. Some go even as far to suggest that philosophical science fiction is essentially unfilmable, especially if you want to make a profit. How can you put more provocative ideas into scifi movies and shows?
Due to the tidal grdient across your length. A large BH would have a midel tidal gradient. I dont know the size, but I think its over a trillion solar masses.
grivitational lensing planet detection
PhD '101' should cover graduate school requirements, thesis writing, teaching, and academic job hunting. When I got mine it was more of an apprentice system: imitate those a year or two ahead of you. Now there are some books and youTubes on the topic.
Students considering grad school should take this seminar.
Academia has no conventional retirement age like industry. A 1994 court case established this. Like NASA global warming gadfly Hansen who just retired at age 72 to pursue projects too political inside NASA. Many responsible professors give up their chairs to infuse new blood in my experience. And they retain token positions.