They had put their columnists behind a paywall a few years back. They manage to close don pirate sites pretty son after they appeared. There werent really many work-arounds then.
Special relativity doesnt require calculus. It is most algebraic geometry. It could be taught in a high school physics course.
The core equation in general relativity is a tensor. Its beautiful, but difficult to extract solutions. People are finding new quirks in its solutions every decade.
A few atto-curies of radiation from Japan, literally counting atoms, have been detection by sophisticated fallout detection sensors in the US. People worry about this, while the radiation from phones touching their bodies is millions of times more intense, but also a pretty small number.
One was the movie Mission To Mars. Another was a scifi TV series about a decade ago produced by Majel Roddenberry I think was called Earth Final Conflict. User had pen-like devices they could pull out a computer screen.
The solar super-storm, like the one 1859, should make life interesting. Imagine being unable to use your cell phone or internet for week - and you have the Japan situation.
Sometimes the tectonic plates buckle and carry upper mantle rocks up a dozen miles onto land. This is call obduction.
In other places high pressure gasses from the upper mantle shoot rocks to the surfaces. These areas are called kimberlites and are sources of diamonds.
Actual mantle drilling will confirm these rocks. But it hasnt been the highest priority in earth science due to these above-mentioned occurrences.
Taiwan manufactured some crucial part of DRAM then. So when factories closed for four months after a large 1998 quake, DRAM prices actually increased the following two years.
From a commercial sponsor. They said because I was in the "1000 click per month" group. I have to decide by Sunday. I hope I wont get inudated by extra ads then. the Times is already pretty obnoxious with an average of three video ads per page.
At 50 cents per day, the subscription price was higher than I wanted, but not onerous. Its 1/4 the print price. I was going to procrastinate signing up hoping for some discount.
They did a good job job walling off their columnists when that was a for-pay section a few back. You can request google to kep the reference, but not the full cache. A few pirate sites copied the NYT columns verbatim. But the NY was pretty effective in closing them down quickly.
The last great quake M8+ in the S.F. area was in 1906. Great quakes happen about every 150 years and we are 105 years past the last one. The last great great on the southern San Andreas was in 1857. Great quakes happen there about every 160 years and we are 153 years past the last one. The last great quake occured on Cascadia in 1700. Great quakes happen there about every 600 years and we are 310 years past the last one.
Average recurrence is not clockwork. Great quakes repat in in as little as 1/3 the average period or as long as 3x the average period.
It was based on a germ of truth: Mars was to be the closest to earth and brightest in a century a couple of Augusts ago. But by the time it got garbled in the New Age Media, some people expected Mars to be bigger than the Moon and a sign of the apocalypse. And for some reason this idea gets revived every August now.
Japan's population is almost one quarter over 65 and most of them live on their own or with family (not institutions).
A story in todays NY Times said the elderly have been most likely to have been stranded in their homes
where there is no power or heat and running out of food. They either cant drive or get to stations before the gas ran out.
People who are marginally self-sufficient in ordinary times can suffer in extra-ordinary times like these.
It was an 'adult" film requiring more attention than your average high school boy has. It turned out to be 2010 2nd largest grossing film and got some respectable film awards. I didnt particularly like it. but shows you can make an adult scfi film.
China was going to put "home-grown" CPUs in their PCs. They could never catch up to Intel's efficiencies, especially when their home-grown CPUs were identical photocopies of Intel's chip designs.
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Both their first bomb tests fizzled with yields about a tenth of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. They had been designed to be Hiroshima-size.
So claiming to be able to make a bomb and actually getting them work properly are two different things.
NASA got its money's worth for a change
They had put their columnists behind a paywall a few years back. They manage to close don pirate sites pretty son after they appeared. There werent really many work-arounds then.
Special relativity doesnt require calculus. It is most algebraic geometry. It could be taught in a high school physics course.
The core equation in general relativity is a tensor. Its beautiful, but difficult to extract solutions. People are finding new quirks in its solutions every decade.
Anywhere you can carry a pen, you could carry a computer. Also the screen would be larger than a watch-size or cell-size when expanded.
A few atto-curies of radiation from Japan, literally counting atoms, have been detection by sophisticated fallout detection sensors in the US. People worry about this, while the radiation from phones touching their bodies is millions of times more intense, but also a pretty small number.
Definately by 2050. No fear or regrets.
One was the movie Mission To Mars. Another was a scifi TV series about a decade ago produced by Majel Roddenberry I think was called Earth Final Conflict. User had pen-like devices they could pull out a computer screen.
Or "before TV"?
Or "before radio"?
The solar super-storm, like the one 1859, should make life interesting. Imagine being unable to use your cell phone or internet for week - and you have the Japan situation.
There plenty of help now at the beginning. But when the word loses attention in a while, the cash slows down.
Sometimes the tectonic plates buckle and carry upper mantle rocks up a dozen miles onto land. This is call obduction.
In other places high pressure gasses from the upper mantle shoot rocks to the surfaces. These areas are called kimberlites and are sources of diamonds.
Actual mantle drilling will confirm these rocks. But it hasnt been the highest priority in earth science due to these above-mentioned occurrences.
Transporting to disposal site could be dangerous. Say there is a 1:300 shipwreck possibility. Is that worth it?
Steve is receiving sporadic medical treatments and may not be in the best shape for interrogation.
Taiwan manufactured some crucial part of DRAM then. So when factories closed for four months after a large 1998 quake, DRAM prices actually increased the following two years.
> The current pricing is insane because your cost is less if you have them send you hundreds of pounds of paper ...
Out in the hinterlands of the Rockies its up to $78 a month for the newsstand edition, or 5x the online price. Ouch!
From a commercial sponsor. They said because I was in the "1000 click per month" group. I have to decide by Sunday. I hope I wont get inudated by extra ads then. the Times is already pretty obnoxious with an average of three video ads per page.
At 50 cents per day, the subscription price was higher than I wanted, but not onerous. Its 1/4 the print price. I was going to procrastinate signing up hoping for some discount.
They did a good job job walling off their columnists when that was a for-pay section a few back. You can request google to kep the reference, but not the full cache. A few pirate sites copied the NYT columns verbatim. But the NY was pretty effective in closing them down quickly.
That is a medium size quake. those happen every 5-10 years.
The last great quake M8+ in the S.F. area was in 1906. Great quakes happen about every 150 years and we are 105 years past the last one. The last great great on the southern San Andreas was in 1857. Great quakes happen there about every 160 years and we are 153 years past the last one. The last great quake occured on Cascadia in 1700. Great quakes happen there about every 600 years and we are 310 years past the last one.
Average recurrence is not clockwork. Great quakes repat in in as little as 1/3 the average period or as long as 3x the average period.
It was based on a germ of truth: Mars was to be the closest to earth and brightest in a century a couple of Augusts ago. But by the time it got garbled in the New Age Media, some people expected Mars to be bigger than the Moon and a sign of the apocalypse. And for some reason this idea gets revived every August now.
Japan's population is almost one quarter over 65 and most of them live on their own or with family (not institutions). A story in todays NY Times said the elderly have been most likely to have been stranded in their homes where there is no power or heat and running out of food. They either cant drive or get to stations before the gas ran out.
People who are marginally self-sufficient in ordinary times can suffer in extra-ordinary times like these.
It was an 'adult" film requiring more attention than your average high school boy has. It turned out to be 2010 2nd largest grossing film and got some respectable film awards. I didnt particularly like it. but shows you can make an adult scfi film.
They learned tricks of capitalism US airlines.
China was going to put "home-grown" CPUs in their PCs. They could never catch up to Intel's efficiencies, especially when their home-grown CPUs were identical photocopies of Intel's chip designs.