For 24 months, GOCE will collect three-dimensional gravity data all over the globe. The raw data will be processed on the ground to produce the most accurate map of the Earth's gravitational field to date and to refine the geoid: the actual reference shape of our planet. Precise knowledge of the geoid, which can be considered as the surface of an ideal global ocean at rest, will play a very important role in further study of our planet and, with any luck, by detecting subtle changes in gravitational potential, it will be able to provide mankind with its first indirect measurement of your girlfriend's mass.
I thought it was because as they reach our level of civilisation, they built giant particle accelerators for research and turned their planets into black holes.
I think it would be hilarious if an alien civilization flew into our solar system only to find a black hole -- complete with moon -- orbiting the sun between Venus and Mars! No doubt they'll know exactly what happened...
COme tOmoRRow AnD sORt thiS HeLL HOle Out. thAT iS NoT dEaD wHiCh caN eternal LIE. aND wiTH sTraNge AeOnS eveN deATh maY die. Ph'nGlUi mGLw'nafH CtHUlhU R'LYeh wGAH'NAgl fhTAgN.
but only obvious if you manage to find all 10 comments. When I did the Google search, I didn't see comments 8, 9, or 10. I had to combine my results with numbers 3-10 listed in the first post to actually get the entire list. Did anybody else notice this? Can wiki comments be removed or bumped out of the search?
Anyway, for completeness:
"1 - This article looks good to me."
"2 - Tape this article to the door of your office!"
"3 - Will more information about this be available later?"
"4 - Self vs. others is always a major philosophical question."
"5 - Destruct and destroy is not the best of attitudes, my friends."
"6 - In any case, this list looks very useful."
"7 - Five more entries could be added to that list."
"8 - Seconds or thirds or even more helpings could add a lot of calories."
"9 - Good entry. Very fine."
"10 - Luck has nothing to do with these issues."
The mission will focus on Jupiter's structure and evolution, and not on Europa or the other icy moons that may hide oceans under their surfaces - a disappointment if you ask me.
... especially since we could be using those icy moons as giant particle detectors (PDF) for neutrinos and other cosmic rays.
It's a God awful small affair
But it's needed to breathe the air
The scientists all wanted to go
But the big wigs kept yelling "No!"
And while the journey did last a year
The cosmic rays could be quite severe
And while the trip was a sadd'ning bore
Going to Mars is no easy chore
Spaaaaaaace men
Fighting in their rocket
Oh man!
Look at those Martians go
It's the freakiest show
Is there life on Maaaaaaaaaaaaaars?
1: In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Universe.
2: And the Universe was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the vacuum.
3: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4: And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the energy.
5: And God called the light Radiation, and the energy he called Matter.
6: And God said, Let there be galaxies in the midst of the vacuum, and let it divide the vacuum from the vacuum.
7: And God made the galaxies, and divided the vacuum which was within the galaxies from the vacuum which was between the galaxies: and it was so.
If dereverberation is a word, wouldn't the longest left-handed word be dereverberated (14 letters)? Even if you don't count past-tense, it's still 13 letters....
I like how the spider on THC did better than the one on caffeine.
Let's see which spider does a better job at grepping through a thousand logfiles at 10 in the morning! If it's still the one on THC, I've got a big lifestyle change ahead of me...
If we discover a large meteor heading straight towards Earth, we might only have a few months to get a rocket up and detonate the target off its course. All other missions pale in comparison to one that could save humanity. I don't think we should focus on particular missions within our solar system, so much as the ability to launch a successful ground-to-asteroid mission within weeks, if need be...
In case nobody's mentioned it yet, you should take a look at The Geometry of Physics by Theodore Frankel. The goal of the book is to provide a "working knowledge" of exterior differential forms, differential geometry, algebraic topology, Lie groups, vector bundles, etc. The applications include thermodynamics, electromagnetism (in curved space, of course), soap films, Kirchhoff's laws, relativity, Tensors, Dirac spinors, gauge fields, winding numbers, etc.
For example, the chapter on the Dirac equation starts with SO(3) and SU(2) groups, Clifford algebras, and the Dirac operator, then moves on to spinors, bundles, and eventually the Dirac operator in curved space-time.
The book is fun to read, and places emphasis on geometric intuition before developing more abstract notions of differential geometry. Very intuitive and insightful, full of figures and cartoons, yet also sticks to the "theorem-proof" format found in standard mathematics textbooks.
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"Plankalkul is dead." - Nietzsche
Hmmmm... good question. I could launch into a wordy, detailed answer here, but it would inevitably end with me insulting your girlfriend once again.
For 24 months, GOCE will collect three-dimensional gravity data all over the globe. The raw data will be processed on the ground to produce the most accurate map of the Earth's gravitational field to date and to refine the geoid: the actual reference shape of our planet. Precise knowledge of the geoid, which can be considered as the surface of an ideal global ocean at rest, will play a very important role in further study of our planet and, with any luck, by detecting subtle changes in gravitational potential, it will be able to provide mankind with its first indirect measurement of your girlfriend's mass.
I thought it was because as they reach our level of civilisation, they built giant particle accelerators for research and turned their planets into black holes.
I think it would be hilarious if an alien civilization flew into our solar system only to find a black hole -- complete with moon -- orbiting the sun between Venus and Mars! No doubt they'll know exactly what happened...
COme tOmoRRow AnD sORt thiS HeLL HOle Out. thAT iS NoT dEaD wHiCh caN eternal LIE. aND wiTH sTraNge AeOnS eveN deATh maY die. Ph'nGlUi mGLw'nafH CtHUlhU R'LYeh wGAH'NAgl fhTAgN.
ps - bring CHiPs
At least we can count on the UN sending that asteroid a strongly-worded letter!
you ever go crawling around ancient Chinese shaman's tombs....... on weed?
I would buy the exact same smartphone model at Best Browse, then return it the next day with the other phone given to me by the researchers.
Free phone... and some other sap gets monitored!
but only obvious if you manage to find all 10 comments. When I did the Google search, I didn't see comments 8, 9, or 10. I had to combine my results with numbers 3-10 listed in the first post to actually get the entire list. Did anybody else notice this? Can wiki comments be removed or bumped out of the search?
Anyway, for completeness:
"1 - This article looks good to me."
"2 - Tape this article to the door of your office!"
"3 - Will more information about this be available later?"
"4 - Self vs. others is always a major philosophical question."
"5 - Destruct and destroy is not the best of attitudes, my friends."
"6 - In any case, this list looks very useful."
"7 - Five more entries could be added to that list."
"8 - Seconds or thirds or even more helpings could add a lot of calories."
"9 - Good entry. Very fine."
"10 - Luck has nothing to do with these issues."
hahaha, you should work for Hollywood!
Somebody get me Pauly Shore on the phone!
Once it learns how to speak, it can tell us what it was like to live back then!
The mission will focus on Jupiter's structure and evolution, and not on Europa or the other icy moons that may hide oceans under their surfaces - a disappointment if you ask me.
... especially since we could be using those icy moons as giant particle detectors (PDF) for neutrinos and other cosmic rays.
Facebook should collect the money then cut a check to each and every one of its users that are actually subjected to the spam.
Right?
It's a God awful small affair
But it's needed to breathe the air
The scientists all wanted to go
But the big wigs kept yelling "No!"
And while the journey did last a year
The cosmic rays could be quite severe
And while the trip was a sadd'ning bore
Going to Mars is no easy chore
Spaaaaaaace men
Fighting in their rocket
Oh man!
Look at those Martians go
It's the freakiest show
Is there life on Maaaaaaaaaaaaaars?
1: In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Universe.
2: And the Universe was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the vacuum.
3: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4: And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the energy.
5: And God called the light Radiation, and the energy he called Matter.
6: And God said, Let there be galaxies in the midst of the vacuum, and let it divide the vacuum from the vacuum.
7: And God made the galaxies, and divided the vacuum which was within the galaxies from the vacuum which was between the galaxies: and it was so.
If dereverberation is a word, wouldn't the longest left-handed word be dereverberated (14 letters)? Even if you don't count past-tense, it's still 13 letters....
I like how the spider on THC did better than the one on caffeine.
Let's see which spider does a better job at grepping through a thousand logfiles at 10 in the morning! If it's still the one on THC, I've got a big lifestyle change ahead of me...
If we discover a large meteor heading straight towards Earth, we might only have a few months to get a rocket up and detonate the target off its course. All other missions pale in comparison to one that could save humanity. I don't think we should focus on particular missions within our solar system, so much as the ability to launch a successful ground-to-asteroid mission within weeks, if need be...
I agree, this is very exciting news in terms of internet devel- *error: connection dropped*
In case nobody's mentioned it yet, you should take a look at The Geometry of Physics by Theodore Frankel. The goal of the book is to provide a "working knowledge" of exterior differential forms, differential geometry, algebraic topology, Lie groups, vector bundles, etc. The applications include thermodynamics, electromagnetism (in curved space, of course), soap films, Kirchhoff's laws, relativity, Tensors, Dirac spinors, gauge fields, winding numbers, etc.
For example, the chapter on the Dirac equation starts with SO(3) and SU(2) groups, Clifford algebras, and the Dirac operator, then moves on to spinors, bundles, and eventually the Dirac operator in curved space-time.
The book is fun to read, and places emphasis on geometric intuition before developing more abstract notions of differential geometry. Very intuitive and insightful, full of figures and cartoons, yet also sticks to the "theorem-proof" format found in standard mathematics textbooks.