... but as my grandfather used to say "there is no smoke without fire" and there is usually a fire burning behind a tin foil hat story.
Exactly, it is usually a conspiracy theory before it becomes a scandal, science fiction before becoming science fact, a crackpot before revolutionary thinker.
Yes, we all know the universal speed limit is ~187,000 mps, but that is moving through normal space. Objective time varies inversely with velocity, and at the speed of light drops to plank time, in essence stopping, or nearly so. At extremely large fractions of c, a journey of hundreds to thousands of light years would take days to weeks of local time, and you only need a form of inertial dampening to allow for high levels of acceleration. There are other means for acheiving velocities higher than c when viewed from an outside perspective, most methods involving travel in a "dimension" other than the 4 most commonly accepted ones, such as "hyperspace".
700K isn't really that warm for a jet engine (~425 C), what's impressive is that it had been running so cool - 400K is only ~25 degrees above boiling! It is impressive that the Belgians incorporate that kind of data into their radar systems, though.
They probably just kicked on the afterburner.
I'm pretty sure they were referring to velocity, not temperature, since it was in reference to the "illuminated target speed indicator" and 300Km/s over 10 seconds is over 3,000 g.
Yeah, even the Irish have toned that kind of thing way down. Maybe that's the problem, most any outside observer looking at the basis for the religions' beliefs can see they are all strikingly similar, with the exception that the others have left the violence behind as they grew up.
Why should it be any different? It is a proven business model that is very profitable. Not all expansions are going to appeal to all players, and development isn't free.
Because after the success of DX1 they thought they could make it better by moving it to a bigger development studio. They need to give the franchise back to Ion Storm here in Austin, and let them make the series what it was supposed to be.
Just require players to solve a captcha every hour or be disconnected, with another required on reconnect after failing. Give them 5 minutes to answer if they are in combat. Problem solved.
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This is required in the unlikely event that Steam is shut down without being able to provide the user with a stand-alone downloadable copy of the game, such as in the event that the servers are deemed evidence in a legal case and must be taken off-line without notice, or they lose their servers/connection for any other reason(natural disaster/fire/disgruntled employees/use you imagination). It only serves to protect from them lawsuits in the event something similar to what I described above happens. There is also the possibility that they lose the contract to provide games from a certin publisher, and then must remove them from the Steam server, in this case, it is unlikely the publisher would allow them to provide a downloadable, stand-alone version to customers, and again, this protects them from lawsuits due to events beyond their control.
Unfortunately, in a world where "The people's right to know" means we should broadcast our military strategies to the public at large over channels visible by the entire world before said strategies are put into use, the need for disinformation campaigns to protect our real strategies become more neccessary. This, of course, leads to more scandals because the government is forced to lie to its people in order to not give away valuable strategic information. This is also why the military has to buy those $12,000 hammers and $23,000 toilet seats.
This is probably in response to the Russian navy presence soon to be in the Caribbean. The White House probably thinks they can use the old (fictional) Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program to prevent any misses aimed at the white house from hitting.
And if you believe it is fiction then the disinformation campaign has done its job.
Did I miss our conquest of Europe or the Middle East? I thought we go in, blow up some bad guys, and then help the existing peoples rebuild. Expansionism requires some actual expansion of borders, and yes, we do have a number of US territories scattered about, on islands, that serve a strategic military purpose, but it's not like we have gone out and attempted to conquer the countries we have fought in. Hell, we haven't even attempted to take over Canada or Mexico, and you know those two would be as difficult to overthrow as it is to get cheap prescriptions from them.
Please enlighten me with examples of countries in which we have come as conquerors instead of liberators or protectors.
If the US was really an expansionist nation, we would be in control of a majority of Europe and key points of revenue in the Middle East and Africa, and would have probably bombed Russia back into the stone age for good measure. People joke about the "flying crowbars", but it's pretty hard to stop a lot of small, massive objects bombarding you from orbit...
The best way to build a space elevator would be to begin at GSO and build outwards from there, keeping equal mass towards and away from Earth. You can then maintain a stable CoG by having masses at the top and bottom of the elevator structure that can be added or removed as needed. Note that in this design, the elevator is NOT tethered to the ground and is in fact in orbit with a portion coming near the ground. Some form of thrust, likely ionized gas propulsion, would be needed at the top to counteract drag and other wind acting on the lower section of the elevator.
Actually, it did stop at your floor, in fact it stops at all floors at once, but your observation of the elevator caused you to be shunted into a parallell universe wherein the elevator had already arrived and left, thus causing you not to see it.
You seem to disregard the medical benifits of cannabis consuption, including, but not limited to, anti-nausea, appetite stimulation, pain relief, and my personal favorite, anti-depressant.
It blows my mind that people complain about something tagged as a complete waste of time and you should never go there being a complete waste of time but still going there...
And yet all the complainers still take the time to view Idle and comment on it... There is a warning that it is a complete waste of time and you should never go there...
Good luck, keep you head up, and try not to be overwhelmed by the options available to you. And remember, right-click is you friend, almost everything clickable has a context menu. EFT (EVE Fitting Tool) and EVEMon are two tools that will help you plan things out before spending any ISK on them.
It is not quite so vicious as others have stated, if you stay in empire space, but the real PvP occurs out in 0.0. To get the hang of the game, you can easily go it solo in empire space running missions for various factions, which can earn you a decent amount of ISK, as well as faction standings that give you discounts on manufacturing/research facilities, and loyalty points which can be spent in special faction stores to get faction specific and higher end items at a reduced monetary cost.
My first year was spent mostly running solo missions, building up standings, money, and skills, while extending diplomatic ties to various groups, and gaining insight from some friendly, and some unfriendly, veterans.
But like most things of value, you get out of it what you put in. If you only give it a couple of weeks where you spend most of your time complaining about how steep the learning curve is (which is one of the major reasons the average player age is over 20 years old, and not 12-13 like some others)you will not have an enjoyable experience, but if you approach the game with the preconception that there is great diversity in what you can do, and seek out those who can give you advice, you will likely find you enjoy the game, and possibly find yourself a group of like minded individuals to group up with. Many corps even have starting builds they reccomend to new players that want to begin in a particular role, and since you aren't locked into any particular class, you can expand into other areas as you learn and grow.
One thing I have heard from dissatisfied players is that they want to know how to "beat" the game, or get to the end game content like there is in other, hack and slash style, MMOs. There is no "end game" to EVE, as it is a dynamic virtual world, with shifting political landscapes, and new expansions adding features, skills, ships, and more on a fairly regular basis, and best of all, they have never charged for an expansion. You pay $20 for the client initially, and can download it from the site at any time, and the base clent download gets updated with the latest patches, so you don't have to spend hours downloading, installing, and then downloading years of patches. I would recommend you give the trial a go, and if you have a Steam account, you can get a 21 day trial. Just be sure to seek out those with more experience, try the recruitment channels, and expect to lose some ships. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, and you just might find yourself a new addiction.
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Exactly, it is usually a conspiracy theory before it becomes a scandal, science fiction before becoming science fact, a crackpot before revolutionary thinker.
The easiest way to work with soft and fragile materials like a pumpkin would be to deep-freeze it before carving.
Ah the good old days when Beanos wibbled and did "something"
Yes, we all know the universal speed limit is ~187,000 mps, but that is moving through normal space. Objective time varies inversely with velocity, and at the speed of light drops to plank time, in essence stopping, or nearly so. At extremely large fractions of c, a journey of hundreds to thousands of light years would take days to weeks of local time, and you only need a form of inertial dampening to allow for high levels of acceleration. There are other means for acheiving velocities higher than c when viewed from an outside perspective, most methods involving travel in a "dimension" other than the 4 most commonly accepted ones, such as "hyperspace".
It went from 400K to 700K in a matter of seconds.
700K isn't really that warm for a jet engine (~425 C), what's impressive is that it had been running so cool - 400K is only ~25 degrees above boiling! It is impressive that the Belgians incorporate that kind of data into their radar systems, though.
They probably just kicked on the afterburner.
I'm pretty sure they were referring to velocity, not temperature, since it was in reference to the "illuminated target speed indicator" and 300Km/s over 10 seconds is over 3,000 g.
Yeah, even the Irish have toned that kind of thing way down. Maybe that's the problem, most any outside observer looking at the basis for the religions' beliefs can see they are all strikingly similar, with the exception that the others have left the violence behind as they grew up.
Why should it be any different? It is a proven business model that is very profitable. Not all expansions are going to appeal to all players, and development isn't free.
This is a great example of hypocrisy, and an amusing one at that..
Because after the success of DX1 they thought they could make it better by moving it to a bigger development studio. They need to give the franchise back to Ion Storm here in Austin, and let them make the series what it was supposed to be.
Which would be the second quarter of next yer...
Just require players to solve a captcha every hour or be disconnected, with another required on reconnect after failing. Give them 5 minutes to answer if they are in combat. Problem solved.
2. In the case of a one-time purchase of a product license (e.g., purchase of a single game) from Valve, Valve may choose to terminate or cancel your Subscription in its entirety or may terminate or cancel only a portion of the Subscription (e.g., access to the software via Steam) and Valve may, but is not obligated to, provide access (for a limited period of time) to the download of a stand-alone version of the software and content associated with such one-time purchase.
This is required in the unlikely event that Steam is shut down without being able to provide the user with a stand-alone downloadable copy of the game, such as in the event that the servers are deemed evidence in a legal case and must be taken off-line without notice, or they lose their servers/connection for any other reason(natural disaster/fire/disgruntled employees/use you imagination). It only serves to protect from them lawsuits in the event something similar to what I described above happens. There is also the possibility that they lose the contract to provide games from a certin publisher, and then must remove them from the Steam server, in this case, it is unlikely the publisher would allow them to provide a downloadable, stand-alone version to customers, and again, this protects them from lawsuits due to events beyond their control.
Unfortunately, in a world where "The people's right to know" means we should broadcast our military strategies to the public at large over channels visible by the entire world before said strategies are put into use, the need for disinformation campaigns to protect our real strategies become more neccessary. This, of course, leads to more scandals because the government is forced to lie to its people in order to not give away valuable strategic information. This is also why the military has to buy those $12,000 hammers and $23,000 toilet seats.
This is probably in response to the Russian navy presence soon to be in the Caribbean. The White House probably thinks they can use the old (fictional) Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program to prevent any misses aimed at the white house from hitting.
And if you believe it is fiction then the disinformation campaign has done its job.
Did I miss our conquest of Europe or the Middle East? I thought we go in, blow up some bad guys, and then help the existing peoples rebuild. Expansionism requires some actual expansion of borders, and yes, we do have a number of US territories scattered about, on islands, that serve a strategic military purpose, but it's not like we have gone out and attempted to conquer the countries we have fought in. Hell, we haven't even attempted to take over Canada or Mexico, and you know those two would be as difficult to overthrow as it is to get cheap prescriptions from them. Please enlighten me with examples of countries in which we have come as conquerors instead of liberators or protectors. If the US was really an expansionist nation, we would be in control of a majority of Europe and key points of revenue in the Middle East and Africa, and would have probably bombed Russia back into the stone age for good measure. People joke about the "flying crowbars", but it's pretty hard to stop a lot of small, massive objects bombarding you from orbit...
The best way to build a space elevator would be to begin at GSO and build outwards from there, keeping equal mass towards and away from Earth. You can then maintain a stable CoG by having masses at the top and bottom of the elevator structure that can be added or removed as needed. Note that in this design, the elevator is NOT tethered to the ground and is in fact in orbit with a portion coming near the ground. Some form of thrust, likely ionized gas propulsion, would be needed at the top to counteract drag and other wind acting on the lower section of the elevator.
I AM working, and my job is in no danger of being outsourced, we do all our R&D here...
Actually, it did stop at your floor, in fact it stops at all floors at once, but your observation of the elevator caused you to be shunted into a parallell universe wherein the elevator had already arrived and left, thus causing you not to see it.
You seem to disregard the medical benifits of cannabis consuption, including, but not limited to, anti-nausea, appetite stimulation, pain relief, and my personal favorite, anti-depressant.
There was a much higher concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere, allowing for less efficient creatures to survive.
It blows my mind that people complain about something tagged as a complete waste of time and you should never go there being a complete waste of time but still going there...
Another example would be the "Brown Note" episode where they skipped the frequency range in which the human abdominal cavity resonates, 15-18Hz...
And yet all the complainers still take the time to view Idle and comment on it... There is a warning that it is a complete waste of time and you should never go there...
Good luck, keep you head up, and try not to be overwhelmed by the options available to you. And remember, right-click is you friend, almost everything clickable has a context menu. EFT (EVE Fitting Tool) and EVEMon are two tools that will help you plan things out before spending any ISK on them.
It is not quite so vicious as others have stated, if you stay in empire space, but the real PvP occurs out in 0.0. To get the hang of the game, you can easily go it solo in empire space running missions for various factions, which can earn you a decent amount of ISK, as well as faction standings that give you discounts on manufacturing/research facilities, and loyalty points which can be spent in special faction stores to get faction specific and higher end items at a reduced monetary cost. My first year was spent mostly running solo missions, building up standings, money, and skills, while extending diplomatic ties to various groups, and gaining insight from some friendly, and some unfriendly, veterans. But like most things of value, you get out of it what you put in. If you only give it a couple of weeks where you spend most of your time complaining about how steep the learning curve is (which is one of the major reasons the average player age is over 20 years old, and not 12-13 like some others)you will not have an enjoyable experience, but if you approach the game with the preconception that there is great diversity in what you can do, and seek out those who can give you advice, you will likely find you enjoy the game, and possibly find yourself a group of like minded individuals to group up with. Many corps even have starting builds they reccomend to new players that want to begin in a particular role, and since you aren't locked into any particular class, you can expand into other areas as you learn and grow. One thing I have heard from dissatisfied players is that they want to know how to "beat" the game, or get to the end game content like there is in other, hack and slash style, MMOs. There is no "end game" to EVE, as it is a dynamic virtual world, with shifting political landscapes, and new expansions adding features, skills, ships, and more on a fairly regular basis, and best of all, they have never charged for an expansion. You pay $20 for the client initially, and can download it from the site at any time, and the base clent download gets updated with the latest patches, so you don't have to spend hours downloading, installing, and then downloading years of patches. I would recommend you give the trial a go, and if you have a Steam account, you can get a 21 day trial. Just be sure to seek out those with more experience, try the recruitment channels, and expect to lose some ships. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, and you just might find yourself a new addiction.