Their camera works from the near ultraviolet to the near infrared. One reason for using the ultraviolet is that at some point Planetary Resources is going to want to take spectra of sunlight that reflects off an asteroid in order to get detailed information about the composition of the asteroid. Having access to the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum will be a big help for this. I am impressed with what I have seen of the ARKYD telescopes. Assuming that the specs on their Web site are correct (and why wouldn't they be?) Planetary Resources is building instruments that will be quite capable of doing remote prospecting, and of doing some decent astrophysical observations as well.
All we need to do is wait a while and we will experience this first hand. The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are moving towards each other and will collide in about four billion years. Stake out your spot on the roof now because it is going to be quite a show.
The other reason that the BC Liberal (nee Social Credit) Party won is that the NDP ran an incompetent campaign. The NDP assumed that the election was going to be a coronation and did not do enough to get out their voters, or to convince British Columbians that they really did have a better plan for the future of the province. Add to that the BC NDP's history of betraying their supporters (such as during the Vancouver bus strike, and their various environmental flip-flops over the years) and they went down in flames.
To make things worse, the Liberal Party was decimated (more like nonagintaeted) in the most recent election, and then went on to pick a playboy (who is the son of one of Canada's most polarizing Prime Ministers) as their new leader. They do not have a hope of winning the next election. At present the only significant opposition party is the New Democratic Party, but their charismatic leader died right after the last election, and their new leader, while competent, is rather boring and hardly the sort of person who is going to inspire Canadians to elect their first ever federal NDP government. Since there is currently no strong opposition party, and it may take several years for the Liberals to rebuild, it is quite possible that the Conservatives will be in power until sometime in the 2020s.
They claim that they are going to launch a soft-landing pre-supply mission to Mars in January 2016. That is about two-and-a-half years from now. That must be when they are planning to take the money and run.
Almost all of the applications that I have looked at seem to be from people with no useful skills (at least not ones that will be useful on Mars), little interest in going to Mars beyond stock statements like "it would be awesome" or "I want to be an astronaut", and very little skill in promoting themselves. The number of spelling errors in applicants from people in English-speaking countries is astounding. The quality of many of the videos is dismal. If these people really want to survive on Mars they need to demonstrate a lot more attention to detail than they did on their public applications.
I suspect that most of the people who are applying are planning to take advantage of being on a reality tv show. Everything but the last round is going to happen on Earth, so the vast majority of the applicants know that they will never make it to Mars and simply want to take advantage of whatever fame and fortune come with being on the Mars One tv show over the next few years, which could be considerable.
I agree. Driving can be fun, and I pointed out a nice highway to drive on. However, most people do not enjoy their morning commutes, or darting around from shop to shop, or sitting still in bumper to bumper traffic with three miles to go until the next exit. These are common driving conditions for most people. If the only driving that I ever did was in a BMW 3 Coupe on a lightly used road in the Rockies I would be very happy, but in the real world driving is not quite that much fun.
I have lived in Indiana, and driven through the midwest several times. My experience has been that the roads are mostly flat and boring, and that the drivers are suicidal. For example, the Indiana habit of deliberately turning on you high beams when you see an oncoming car.
Some people enjoy driving, but many do not, particularly the miserable drives that many people have to endure to get to and from work, or to move around in badly designed cities. Driving can be a lot of fun, particularly if you do most of your driving in areas that do not have a lot of traffic. Most of the time, though, driving is just something that you tolerate because you need to go somewhere.
Very true. When I drive to work I usually arrive highly stressed. When I take the train I usually arrive relaxed and productive. It takes longer, but it is a far nicer trip.
Some humans want control of their car, but many would rather do other things. The idea of automobiles being an extension of the driver did not really develop until car companies started advertising vehicles that way in the 1950s. Before that automobiles tended to be seen as either luxury items or utility vehicles.
No. The point of a car is to get you from one place to another. Driving is one of the most boring tasks imaginable, except on a few roads like BC's Sea to Sky Highway when the traffic is light. The vast majority of driving situations are tedious.
The Earth-Sun L2 point is out of reach with the old Space Shuttle, but the original point is a good one. It is too bad that we do not have the capability to repair and restock the consumables on spacecraft in the inner Solar System. It has been nearly 45 years since we first went to the Moon. We should be able to move around in our band of the Solar System by now.
That phrase is not a hint. It is a fairly standard Islamic exaltation. It is somewhat similar to the start of the Nicene Creed or the Apostle's Creed. What is really pathetic is reading statements about how this person came to America to kill people. He came to America when he was nine years old. I doubt that he was planning a killing spree at that age.
As of right now, no, there is not. The only hint that there may be an Islamic connection is that one of the suspects apparently described himself as a Muslim on a Web site. However, until we know what the motive was we will not know if religion was a factor or not. Perhaps they were celebrating Kim Il-sung's 101'st birthday (Apr 15). Whatever the motive turns out to be these two were not very smart. Robbing a 7/11 while there is a nationally-publicized nation-wide manhunt on for you is not a clever thing to do.
The two Russian aeroplanes that were blown up in flight in 2004 were blown up by female suicide bombers. It was also fairly common in the Middle East to use women as suicide bombers, particularly women whose husbands had been killed by whomever that group was upset with.
The article that you linked to proved the point. Dreamworks found that teleconferencing was so bad that they had to design their own system in order to get something that actually worked for them. My experience with teleconferencing have been that it is a nice idea, but it does not work very well in the real world.
If this were correct then we would see these sorts of symptoms in nations where windmills are in much more common use than they are in the US. But we do not.
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Their camera works from the near ultraviolet to the near infrared. One reason for using the ultraviolet is that at some point Planetary Resources is going to want to take spectra of sunlight that reflects off an asteroid in order to get detailed information about the composition of the asteroid. Having access to the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum will be a big help for this. I am impressed with what I have seen of the ARKYD telescopes. Assuming that the specs on their Web site are correct (and why wouldn't they be?) Planetary Resources is building instruments that will be quite capable of doing remote prospecting, and of doing some decent astrophysical observations as well.
All we need to do is wait a while and we will experience this first hand. The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are moving towards each other and will collide in about four billion years. Stake out your spot on the roof now because it is going to be quite a show.
The other reason that the BC Liberal (nee Social Credit) Party won is that the NDP ran an incompetent campaign. The NDP assumed that the election was going to be a coronation and did not do enough to get out their voters, or to convince British Columbians that they really did have a better plan for the future of the province. Add to that the BC NDP's history of betraying their supporters (such as during the Vancouver bus strike, and their various environmental flip-flops over the years) and they went down in flames.
To make things worse, the Liberal Party was decimated (more like nonagintaeted) in the most recent election, and then went on to pick a playboy (who is the son of one of Canada's most polarizing Prime Ministers) as their new leader. They do not have a hope of winning the next election. At present the only significant opposition party is the New Democratic Party, but their charismatic leader died right after the last election, and their new leader, while competent, is rather boring and hardly the sort of person who is going to inspire Canadians to elect their first ever federal NDP government. Since there is currently no strong opposition party, and it may take several years for the Liberals to rebuild, it is quite possible that the Conservatives will be in power until sometime in the 2020s.
They claim that they are going to launch a soft-landing pre-supply mission to Mars in January 2016. That is about two-and-a-half years from now. That must be when they are planning to take the money and run.
Yes it did, and these people ended up being the only survivors of their civilization.
Almost all of the applications that I have looked at seem to be from people with no useful skills (at least not ones that will be useful on Mars), little interest in going to Mars beyond stock statements like "it would be awesome" or "I want to be an astronaut", and very little skill in promoting themselves. The number of spelling errors in applicants from people in English-speaking countries is astounding. The quality of many of the videos is dismal. If these people really want to survive on Mars they need to demonstrate a lot more attention to detail than they did on their public applications.
I suspect that most of the people who are applying are planning to take advantage of being on a reality tv show. Everything but the last round is going to happen on Earth, so the vast majority of the applicants know that they will never make it to Mars and simply want to take advantage of whatever fame and fortune come with being on the Mars One tv show over the next few years, which could be considerable.
I agree. Driving can be fun, and I pointed out a nice highway to drive on. However, most people do not enjoy their morning commutes, or darting around from shop to shop, or sitting still in bumper to bumper traffic with three miles to go until the next exit. These are common driving conditions for most people. If the only driving that I ever did was in a BMW 3 Coupe on a lightly used road in the Rockies I would be very happy, but in the real world driving is not quite that much fun.
Ah yes. Driving conversations online almost always turn into insult contests
I have lived in Indiana, and driven through the midwest several times. My experience has been that the roads are mostly flat and boring, and that the drivers are suicidal. For example, the Indiana habit of deliberately turning on you high beams when you see an oncoming car.
Some people enjoy driving, but many do not, particularly the miserable drives that many people have to endure to get to and from work, or to move around in badly designed cities. Driving can be a lot of fun, particularly if you do most of your driving in areas that do not have a lot of traffic. Most of the time, though, driving is just something that you tolerate because you need to go somewhere.
Very true. When I drive to work I usually arrive highly stressed. When I take the train I usually arrive relaxed and productive. It takes longer, but it is a far nicer trip.
Some humans want control of their car, but many would rather do other things. The idea of automobiles being an extension of the driver did not really develop until car companies started advertising vehicles that way in the 1950s. Before that automobiles tended to be seen as either luxury items or utility vehicles.
No. The point of a car is to get you from one place to another. Driving is one of the most boring tasks imaginable, except on a few roads like BC's Sea to Sky Highway when the traffic is light. The vast majority of driving situations are tedious.
This was not flamebait. That actually is what vinglefitte means in Norwegian (more or less).
The Earth-Sun L2 point is out of reach with the old Space Shuttle, but the original point is a good one. It is too bad that we do not have the capability to repair and restock the consumables on spacecraft in the inner Solar System. It has been nearly 45 years since we first went to the Moon. We should be able to move around in our band of the Solar System by now.
That phrase is not a hint. It is a fairly standard Islamic exaltation. It is somewhat similar to the start of the Nicene Creed or the Apostle's Creed. What is really pathetic is reading statements about how this person came to America to kill people. He came to America when he was nine years old. I doubt that he was planning a killing spree at that age.
As of right now, no, there is not. The only hint that there may be an Islamic connection is that one of the suspects apparently described himself as a Muslim on a Web site. However, until we know what the motive was we will not know if religion was a factor or not. Perhaps they were celebrating Kim Il-sung's 101'st birthday (Apr 15). Whatever the motive turns out to be these two were not very smart. Robbing a 7/11 while there is a nationally-publicized nation-wide manhunt on for you is not a clever thing to do.
The two Russian aeroplanes that were blown up in flight in 2004 were blown up by female suicide bombers. It was also fairly common in the Middle East to use women as suicide bombers, particularly women whose husbands had been killed by whomever that group was upset with.
Bacon in Canada is the same as bacon in the US. Perhaps you are thinking of back bacon, which Americans sometimes (erroneously) call Canadian bacon.
The article that you linked to proved the point. Dreamworks found that teleconferencing was so bad that they had to design their own system in order to get something that actually worked for them. My experience with teleconferencing have been that it is a nice idea, but it does not work very well in the real world.
If this were correct then we would see these sorts of symptoms in nations where windmills are in much more common use than they are in the US. But we do not.
It is very simple. This person read a nasty, anonymous comment about himself, and was annoyed that there was no way of getting back at that person.