My uncle who is a well-known hunter in New Zealand thinks that animals have a sense like that. He told me that he would often have animals that were lined up in his gunscope suddenly glance towards him and bolt away. He claims that since he started thinking "Bless you" when he squeezes the trigger, that the animals are much less flighty.
I think you mean Opportunity, the twin of the Spirit rover that stopped working a while back. They were solar-powered versus the nuclear-powered Curiosity.
If you think that's bad, did you hear about the guy who injected cocaine into his urethra? It had the intended effect initially, but it ended with him losing both his legs, nearly all his fingers, and his member falling off!
When the deadly earthquake of February 22 2011 happened in Christchurch, New Zealand, Christchurch Public Hospital lost power immediately. The hospital's 6 emergency diesel generators duly started a few seconds later, only for some to keep failing in the hours afterward because of sludge in the fuel tanks stirred up by after-shocks clogging the fuel filters.
We did programming for our 7th Form Applied Maths class at the Christchurch Polytech. It was across the road from my school and we used two PDP 11 computers running RT-11. We learnt to program numerical methods using BASIC. The computers were prone to overheating and "crashing" in summer, so I had to "bootstrap" them a few times using their front panel switches and some instructions taped above them. I spent many hours using them on my private projects, oblivious to the fact that the school was being charged for my usage, I was the the top user in my class that year, costing them $200, oops!
One reason the space shuttle was so expensive was because of its size, a requirement from the US Air Force to have a huge cargo bay. What we need to reduce shuttle cost is something like a "baby shuttle" that only carries crew and a little cargo. It should be based on the "lifting bodies" that were being researched before Apollo diverted attention to the Moon, and to be made of modern materials like carbon-fiber - maybe something like Dream Chaser? http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/09/the-long-complicated-voyage-of-the-dream-chaser-may-yet-end-in-space/
Reminds me of a book I read at school many years ago. In "Uncle and the Treacle Trouble" (1967), a children's book by J. P. Martin, the main character (an elephant named "Uncle") discovers the true meaning of a cryptic sign which reads "Treac Levat"; the characters soon discover that it relates to a vast hidden treacle vat.
I remember reading years ago about Matt Blaze, a security researcher at AT&T Labs-Research who discovered how to create a master key from a key and a lock which is opened by it. His method was a trade secret used by many locksmiths, which pissed them off when he publicised it.
I discovered this "feature" a few years ago when I bought a computer with an integrated sound card. It was quite noticeable, but I found that by turning up the master volume and turning down the volume knob on the speakers it ceased to be a problem.
I have a cousin in Italy who says that he has eaten cat once, only he said it tasted like rabbit. It's said that people living in the mountains of northern Italy resorted to eating cats during wartime famines and some still have a taste for it. There's even an Italian saying that has a line that translates as "people from Vicenza eat cats". In any case, it's not a good idea to eat something that's so high up the food-chain.
I did a double take when I first saw his name on a BBC news story about this. Back in the late 1980's when I was finishing my computer science degree at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, he was my lecturer in a couple of philosophy logic courses. Back then he was not a professor, and he had a beard. Here are some websites that have information about him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Copelandhttp://www.saps.canterbury.ac.nz/phil/people/copeland.shtml
When I went to my local computer shop to buy a replacement RS232 cable for my external modem, the shop attendant thought that I must have had a very old computer. Now, I know that the modem itself is about 10 years old, but the computer has just turned 4, and it is not possible for me to use an internal software modem when I dual-boot into my Knoppix system. What made me laugh though, was when a few months ago I went and bought a 19-inch Sharp Aquos HD TV with LED backlighting. What did it have among its plethora of ports, but an RS232 port for controlling it from a computer!
When I went to my local computer shop to buy a replacement RS232 cable for my external modem, the shop attendant thought that I must have had a very old computer. Now, I know that the modem itself is about 10 years old, but the computer has just turned 4, and it is not possible for me to use an internal software modem when I dual-boot into my Knoppix system. What made me laugh though, was when a few months ago I went and bought a 19-inch Sharp Aquos HD TV with LED backlighting. What did it have among its plethora of ports, but an RS232 port for controlling it from a computer!
There was a spate of "space balls" discovered near the town of Ashburton in New Zealand in the early 1970's. A government report concluded the balls were part of the Russian rocket Kosmos 482 which failed when launching a Venus probe. The balls, which had Russian markings, were used to pressurise fuel tanks or as stabilisation jets, the report stated. A local farmer has one of the balls in his lounge, and there are also some on display at the Ashburton Aviation Museum.
www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/the-kiwi-x-files/4542804/Government-report-on-space-balls-released
www.newzealand.com/int/article/for-high-flyers-and-aviation-fans
My HP-41C dates to early 1982 and still works though I (very) rarely use it. Just checked it now, looks like I might have to replace the batteries after 7 years! In the early days of the space shuttle some HP-41C calculators were used as backups to the main space shuttle computers for things such as calculating the Center of Gravity http://hpinspace.wordpress.com/category/hp-41/
I work in a library. About 10 years ago one of my co-workers was approached by a customer who complained about our religious book area being "unfair" because there were lots of books about Jesus/God but not many about Satan. In reply, she suggested that to even things out that he should consider writing "The Complete works of Satan". This seemed to quieten him down and get him thinking. That's the only encounter with a Satanist that I know of, probably he was just a bit unbalanced. I have also heard that a lot of Satanists are children of extreme fundamentalists who have rebelled against their religion and have gone to the opposite extreme.
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My uncle who is a well-known hunter in New Zealand thinks that animals have a sense like that. He told me that he would often have animals that were lined up in his gunscope suddenly glance towards him and bolt away. He claims that since he started thinking "Bless you" when he squeezes the trigger, that the animals are much less flighty.
I think a good way of describing it is "Teaching our students Non-Science" ;-)
I think you mean Opportunity, the twin of the Spirit rover that stopped working a while back. They were solar-powered versus the nuclear-powered Curiosity.
If he had encountered an alien, he would have said his name backwards, "Gnorts, Mr Alien!"
If you think that's bad, did you hear about the guy who injected cocaine into his urethra? It had the intended effect initially, but it ended with him losing both his legs, nearly all his fingers, and his member falling off!
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1993-04.html
http://www.cocaine.org/health/dangers.html
"Put three grains of sand in a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars" - Sir James Jeans
This site gives a good introduction to our place in space http://www.jeffstanger.net/Astronomy/introtoastro.htm
When the deadly earthquake of February 22 2011 happened in Christchurch, New Zealand, Christchurch Public Hospital lost power immediately. The hospital's 6 emergency diesel generators duly started a few seconds later, only for some to keep failing in the hours afterward because of sludge in the fuel tanks stirred up by after-shocks clogging the fuel filters.
We did programming for our 7th Form Applied Maths class at the Christchurch Polytech. It was across the road from my school and we used two PDP 11 computers running RT-11. We learnt to program numerical methods using BASIC. The computers were prone to overheating and "crashing" in summer, so I had to "bootstrap" them a few times using their front panel switches and some instructions taped above them. I spent many hours using them on my private projects, oblivious to the fact that the school was being charged for my usage, I was the the top user in my class that year, costing them $200, oops!
One reason the space shuttle was so expensive was because of its size, a requirement from the US Air Force to have a huge cargo bay. What we need to reduce shuttle cost is something like a "baby shuttle" that only carries crew and a little cargo. It should be based on the "lifting bodies" that were being researched before Apollo diverted attention to the Moon, and to be made of modern materials like carbon-fiber - maybe something like Dream Chaser?
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/09/the-long-complicated-voyage-of-the-dream-chaser-may-yet-end-in-space/
Yes, New Zealand does have riots, though big ones are very rare, two famous ones both happened in Queen Street, Auckland.
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/queen-street-riots-1984
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/queen-st-riot-auckland
Reminds me of a book I read at school many years ago. In "Uncle and the Treacle Trouble" (1967), a children's book by J. P. Martin, the main character (an elephant named "Uncle") discovers the true meaning of a cryptic sign which reads "Treac Levat"; the characters soon discover that it relates to a vast hidden treacle vat.
I remember reading years ago about Matt Blaze, a security researcher at AT&T Labs-Research who discovered how to create a master key from a key and a lock which is opened by it. His method was a trade secret used by many locksmiths, which pissed them off when he publicised it.
http://it.slashdot.org/story/03/01/23/0359230/att-identifies-widespread-security-hole---in-locks
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/business/many-locks-all-too-easy-to-get-past.html
I discovered this "feature" a few years ago when I bought a computer with an integrated sound card. It was quite noticeable, but I found that by turning up the master volume and turning down the volume knob on the speakers it ceased to be a problem.
I have a cousin in Italy who says that he has eaten cat once, only he said it tasted like rabbit. It's said that people living in the mountains of northern Italy resorted to eating cats during wartime famines and some still have a taste for it. There's even an Italian saying that has a line that translates as "people from Vicenza eat cats". In any case, it's not a good idea to eat something that's so high up the food-chain.
I did a double take when I first saw his name on a BBC news story about this. Back in the late 1980's when I was finishing my computer science degree at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, he was my lecturer in a couple of philosophy logic courses. Back then he was not a professor, and he had a beard. Here are some websites that have information about him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Copeland http://www.saps.canterbury.ac.nz/phil/people/copeland.shtml
When I went to my local computer shop to buy a replacement RS232 cable for my external modem, the shop attendant thought that I must have had a very old computer. Now, I know that the modem itself is about 10 years old, but the computer has just turned 4, and it is not possible for me to use an internal software modem when I dual-boot into my Knoppix system. What made me laugh though, was when a few months ago I went and bought a 19-inch Sharp Aquos HD TV with LED backlighting. What did it have among its plethora of ports, but an RS232 port for controlling it from a computer!
When I went to my local computer shop to buy a replacement RS232 cable for my external modem, the shop attendant thought that I must have had a very old computer. Now, I know that the modem itself is about 10 years old, but the computer has just turned 4, and it is not possible for me to use an internal software modem when I dual-boot into my Knoppix system. What made me laugh though, was when a few months ago I went and bought a 19-inch Sharp Aquos HD TV with LED backlighting. What did it have among its plethora of ports, but an RS232 port for controlling it from a computer!
Maybe it's to test internet access, don't you know that The Internet is Made of Cats http://www.rathergood.com/cats
The Iraq government spent 85 million dollars buying electronic bomb detector wands which are basically a dowsing rod with some useless un-powered electronics in it, yet the government swears by it! http://gizmodo.com/5455692/ade+651-magic-wand-bomb-detector-is-a-fraud-probably-killed-hundreds http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html?_r=2
There was a spate of "space balls" discovered near the town of Ashburton in New Zealand in the early 1970's. A government report concluded the balls were part of the Russian rocket Kosmos 482 which failed when launching a Venus probe. The balls, which had Russian markings, were used to pressurise fuel tanks or as stabilisation jets, the report stated. A local farmer has one of the balls in his lounge, and there are also some on display at the Ashburton Aviation Museum. www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/the-kiwi-x-files/4542804/Government-report-on-space-balls-released www.newzealand.com/int/article/for-high-flyers-and-aviation-fans
It was probably the JSTARS or Joint STARS surveillance planes that you read about. They use Synthetic Aperture radar to observe terrain and record the screen views which they can replay to backtrack an event. http://www.379aew.afcent.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123130660 http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htecm/articles/20060326.aspx
Is that you Mike Jittlov? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLhLn9hVkE
So, does this mean that 2095 will be the Year of Linux when Linux 95 is released?
My HP-41C dates to early 1982 and still works though I (very) rarely use it. Just checked it now, looks like I might have to replace the batteries after 7 years! In the early days of the space shuttle some HP-41C calculators were used as backups to the main space shuttle computers for things such as calculating the Center of Gravity http://hpinspace.wordpress.com/category/hp-41/
I work in a library. About 10 years ago one of my co-workers was approached by a customer who complained about our religious book area being "unfair" because there were lots of books about Jesus/God but not many about Satan. In reply, she suggested that to even things out that he should consider writing "The Complete works of Satan". This seemed to quieten him down and get him thinking. That's the only encounter with a Satanist that I know of, probably he was just a bit unbalanced. I have also heard that a lot of Satanists are children of extreme fundamentalists who have rebelled against their religion and have gone to the opposite extreme.