The amount of debris generated would further 'pollute' the orbit around earth....
You are entirely correct, as others have stated. There is already too much debris in orbit as it is. I once read a terrific SF story where the guy became insanely rich developing a huge ship to collect debris in orbit. Some of the famous stuff he auctioned for even MORE money (the story mentioned Sputnik, but it probably has fallen to earth by now).
I saw on the Science Channel show "Brink" about experimental LASER communication for close-range ship or sub-to-sub communications or sub to aircraft communications. Here is a link to the people trying to perfect it: http://www.janes.com/extracts/extract/jav/jav_0184.html. It seems to hold some promise.
I agree with this poster 100%. I personally must have logged 100's of hours back in the 1990's. I totally SUCKED at minesweeper, and played it about 4 times.
I also observed many dozens of fellow workers wasting their company time on solitaire, but never minesweeper.
{BTW... love your sig. Very inventive}
OK, my bad. Didn't read it closely enough.
You are correct that it would be difficult for these poor North Koreans. Even in rough neighborhoods like Afghanistan, there always has been the tribal govt to run things if the govt is weak (mostly the case). Not so for NK.
Be interested to hear any ideas you may have.
I DO know many South Koreans have relatives in the North and would want to mingle and meddle, so to speak.
I was stationed in South Korea for 18 months in the US Army. I knew Korean fluently, so I know a little about it.
If NK was "liberated" as you say, South Korea would fill the governmental void in a nanosecond, no less than West Germany did for East Germany in the 1990's.
Yes, it was expensive, difficult and protracted, but worth it in the end.
I feel VERY sorry for the poor North Koreans. It is like they were forced to freeze progress at 1952. Bummer!
I know from personal experience that some corporate intranets are still using IE6. I also know from personal experience that there are a lot of developing nations still using Win9X and IE6.
I use FF3 for my daily browser. But I downloaded IE8 because, as a developer, I will need to make my pages work in IE8, as MSFT still has a > 60% share of the market.
I applaud their move to more standards compliance, but think FF3, Chrome & Safari are going to continue to kick their ass.
Actually I now do. This from Google Answers :
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/208733.html
Q: What I'm curious about tonight is what percentage of an average person's body weight is
accounted for by bacteria?
A. It appears that the average human bacterial load is approximately 2 to
9 pounds, depending upon which reference source is consulted. Below
you'll find a variety of sources from which to choose.
"Within every human being is a flourishing, living colony of
approximately four pounds of bacteria. Most of these bacteria reside
in the human digestive tract although some are found elsewhere (i.e.
the oral cavity, throat, etc.)"
I am all for conservation. It is an essential cog in the "energy independence" goal. But perhaps companies can put all those unused clock cycles to profitable use.
I know organizations and universities have huge distributed computing programs set up, using many computers to work on one problem. I log onto the Galaxy Zoo 2 now and then and help ID galaxies.
But a smart entrepreneur could figure out a way to make MONEY using those computers.
Participating companies would get their cut, usable for anything, including paying the power bill. Comments?
Very funny post, mrops.
But as a Terminator fan, the date is actually far past. From the "Skynet" article in Wikipedia: "Within milliseconds, Skynet responded by firing nuclear missiles at Russia, initiating a nuclear war on August 29, 1997 (known as Judgment Day)."
I agree completely. I almost exclusively use Yahoo! search for several reasons, the most petty being clicked links open in a new tab/window (depending on browser settings).
I ended up on as a Yahooligan after escaping AO-Hell and being bored to death at MSN. Yahoo! had and has a lot of interesting things, and the best Email on the planet.
Sea water is pretty cheap. I guess the idea is the ice makes the debris heavier, thus changing the orbit of the object, hopefully into a decaying orbit.
"NSA did have serious problems, the most serious being irrelevancy. NSA was set up to deal with the USSR, a large, slow-moving opponent. NSA's expertise classically was in radio interception and cryptanalysis, with the main target being the USSR's military and intelligence operations. After the USSR went down, the NSA downsized. Running a vast effort to obtain basic information about what the Soviet Union was doing was no longer necessary. You could go to Murmansk and look at the nuclear submarines. "
I was in the Army branch of the NSA (The Army Security Agency) as an analyst for high-level enemy communications from North Korea in the mid-1970's. The tools we had then were the top of the line for the time; truly amazing. And the agency was very much focusing on SigInt - mainly because it was waaaaay easier to do, cheaper, and you could do it from far away. All the better to spy on the USSR (nearly impossible to get human being intelligence - despite all the great movies showing that).
But after the fall of the USSR, the NSA truly lost its way. For the war on terror, the agency needed HUMINT, and it was even MORE difficult to get folks into the Middle East.
The agencies problems when I was in it and NOW are the same - they are drowning in data and need more of the people like me then (trained in the language and able to sort the wheat from the chaff).
"Data-mining" apps can do some amazing thing, but in the end, human eyeballs and brains decide what is important, and what it means.
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The amount of debris generated would further 'pollute' the orbit around earth....
You are entirely correct, as others have stated. There is already too much debris in orbit as it is. I once read a terrific SF story where the guy became insanely rich developing a huge ship to collect debris in orbit. Some of the famous stuff he auctioned for even MORE money (the story mentioned Sputnik, but it probably has fallen to earth by now).
I saw on the Science Channel show "Brink" about experimental LASER communication for close-range ship or sub-to-sub communications or sub to aircraft communications. Here is a link to the people trying to perfect it: http://www.janes.com/extracts/extract/jav/jav_0184.html. It seems to hold some promise.
I agree with this poster 100%. I personally must have logged 100's of hours back in the 1990's. I totally SUCKED at minesweeper, and played it about 4 times. I also observed many dozens of fellow workers wasting their company time on solitaire, but never minesweeper. {BTW ... love your sig. Very inventive}
OK, my bad. Didn't read it closely enough. You are correct that it would be difficult for these poor North Koreans. Even in rough neighborhoods like Afghanistan, there always has been the tribal govt to run things if the govt is weak (mostly the case). Not so for NK. Be interested to hear any ideas you may have. I DO know many South Koreans have relatives in the North and would want to mingle and meddle, so to speak.
Doesn't this remind you of "7 Minute Abs" from "Something About Mary"?
I was stationed in South Korea for 18 months in the US Army. I knew Korean fluently, so I know a little about it. If NK was "liberated" as you say, South Korea would fill the governmental void in a nanosecond, no less than West Germany did for East Germany in the 1990's. Yes, it was expensive, difficult and protracted, but worth it in the end. I feel VERY sorry for the poor North Koreans. It is like they were forced to freeze progress at 1952. Bummer!
Where are the mod points when I need 'em? Very witty post!
42, right?
Where are the mod-up points when you need them. Nice post - succinctly put.
I know from personal experience that some corporate intranets are still using IE6. I also know from personal experience that there are a lot of developing nations still using Win9X and IE6. I use FF3 for my daily browser. But I downloaded IE8 because, as a developer, I will need to make my pages work in IE8, as MSFT still has a > 60% share of the market. I applaud their move to more standards compliance, but think FF3, Chrome & Safari are going to continue to kick their ass.
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I have had some kind of computer since 1988. The results so far: Power supply - 3 Motherboard fried - 2 Hard drive failed - 1
Here is a link to the physics of what you are asking. Short answer = some effect to local environments. Here is the link: http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/wp-content/uploads/Roy.shtml
Actually I now do. This from Google Answers : http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/208733.html Q: What I'm curious about tonight is what percentage of an average person's body weight is accounted for by bacteria? A. It appears that the average human bacterial load is approximately 2 to 9 pounds, depending upon which reference source is consulted. Below you'll find a variety of sources from which to choose. "Within every human being is a flourishing, living colony of approximately four pounds of bacteria. Most of these bacteria reside in the human digestive tract although some are found elsewhere (i.e. the oral cavity, throat, etc.)"
I am all for conservation. It is an essential cog in the "energy independence" goal. But perhaps companies can put all those unused clock cycles to profitable use. I know organizations and universities have huge distributed computing programs set up, using many computers to work on one problem. I log onto the Galaxy Zoo 2 now and then and help ID galaxies. But a smart entrepreneur could figure out a way to make MONEY using those computers. Participating companies would get their cut, usable for anything, including paying the power bill. Comments?
Very funny post, mrops. But as a Terminator fan, the date is actually far past. From the "Skynet" article in Wikipedia: "Within milliseconds, Skynet responded by firing nuclear missiles at Russia, initiating a nuclear war on August 29, 1997 (known as Judgment Day)."
The game has been redone and is even MORE fun, if possible. Here is a link to the file (gorilla230.zip): http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.winsite.com/winxp/games/%5Bpage=7%5D, Enjoy!
I agree completely. I almost exclusively use Yahoo! search for several reasons, the most petty being clicked links open in a new tab/window (depending on browser settings). I ended up on as a Yahooligan after escaping AO-Hell and being bored to death at MSN. Yahoo! had and has a lot of interesting things, and the best Email on the planet.
Sea water is pretty cheap. I guess the idea is the ice makes the debris heavier, thus changing the orbit of the object, hopefully into a decaying orbit.
"NSA did have serious problems, the most serious being irrelevancy. NSA was set up to deal with the USSR, a large, slow-moving opponent. NSA's expertise classically was in radio interception and cryptanalysis, with the main target being the USSR's military and intelligence operations. After the USSR went down, the NSA downsized. Running a vast effort to obtain basic information about what the Soviet Union was doing was no longer necessary. You could go to Murmansk and look at the nuclear submarines. " I was in the Army branch of the NSA (The Army Security Agency) as an analyst for high-level enemy communications from North Korea in the mid-1970's. The tools we had then were the top of the line for the time; truly amazing. And the agency was very much focusing on SigInt - mainly because it was waaaaay easier to do, cheaper, and you could do it from far away. All the better to spy on the USSR (nearly impossible to get human being intelligence - despite all the great movies showing that). But after the fall of the USSR, the NSA truly lost its way. For the war on terror, the agency needed HUMINT, and it was even MORE difficult to get folks into the Middle East. The agencies problems when I was in it and NOW are the same - they are drowning in data and need more of the people like me then (trained in the language and able to sort the wheat from the chaff). "Data-mining" apps can do some amazing thing, but in the end, human eyeballs and brains decide what is important, and what it means.