The diameter of the earth is about 8,000 miles, so take the globe on your desk (you have one, right?) and imagine an object a little less than 3 diameters away...
Geek: I invented a program that downloads porn off the internet one million times faster. Marge: Does anyone need that much porno? Homer::drools: One million times...
Such a personal reentry vehicle has already been considered. In the 1960's General Electric drew up plans for just such a device, entitled MOOSE (Man Out of Space Easiest), which would have required an astronaut to slip inside a big, foam-filled plastic bag, float out of the spacecraft and fire thrusters attached to the bag to push it out of orbit.
Then, the astronaut would rely on a built-in heat shield to survive the fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere and wait for a parachute to automatically deploy for a safe landing.
You can check out this out-there but admittedly cool idea at Space.com. I'm still waiting for it to be used in a major motion picture...
This very question was answered in the interview linked at the end of the article.
What are the benefits of having an Earth-bound, optical telescope? Or rather, what can a larger optical telescope find better from Earth that we can't already find on other wavelengths and from other venues (i.e. The Hubble)?
If there are no advantages here, is it more cost-effective, or what?
Chris: What you should actually ask is what advantage does a space based telescope have over a ground based telescope? The only thing you gain from being in space for an optical telescope is better image quality due to lack of atmospheric turbulence. By for every other measure (maintenance, support, materials, etc.) being in space is much, much more expensive and limited. Which is why the Hubble and it's 2.4 meter primary cost a number of times more than the projected cost of of the 100 meter OWL. Recent advances in computer technology (adaptive and active optics) have greatly reduced the advantage that being in space provides at optical wavelengths. For some non-optical telescopes (x-ray, IR, gamma ray) there will always be an advantage to being in orbit.
When I saw the department thingy under the headline, I immediately thought "Flash file extension" and not "single white female." Is this as bad as I imagine it to be?
I recently graduated from the school district in San Diego, CA made infamous a few months ago when there were two school shootings (Santana and West Hills) within a very short timespan.
At the high school I attended, the string of inexplicable student behavior has been continued with half a dozen suicides or suicide attempts, some involving entire groups of friends.
My mother is in a position to be privy to this sort of information, and when she told me about the string of suicides at my old school, I was surprised as I hadn't heard anything about it. She told me that while she was in a position privy to such information, teen suicide was considered a provate issue -- and the press did not ever act on the information, out of respect for the families of the deceased.
Reading that this student was only 13, it makes me wonder why the press would run a story on his suicide, especially when I personally know of several such cases, none of which were ever mentioned in the press.
SSL certificates are all well and good, but what I think we really need are A/S/L certificates! That way that 16/F/LA can't turn out to be 54/M/next door...
Not to advertise but my site http://www.doomworld.com/ has lots of screenshots as well as a direct download of the ASF movie, zipped up. If you're finding all servers are full you might want to try over here.
Buzz warns him, "Homer, no!" But it's too late: Homer opens the bag
nonetheless. The chips float about the cabin, and Race rues, "They'll
clog the instruments!" Buzz is worried: "Careful! They're ruffled."
Homer has the solution, however; he unbuckles his seat belt, and
accompanied by "The Blue Danube Waltz", he floats about the cabin,
eating the chips. But his head drifts perilously close to the ant
colony.
Ant 1: Protect the queen!
Ant 2: Which one's the queen?
Ant 3: I'm the queen!
Ant 1: No you're not!
Homer: Nooo! [his head smashed the colony, and the ants float free]
Ant 1: Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!
Buzz: You fool! Now we may never know if ants can be trained to sort
tiny screws in space.
One of these days I am going to need to buy a PDA for the express purpose of playing Doom. Then my life will be complete! As you might imagine, I have a very sad life.
As the webmaster of Doomworld.com this stuff is supposed to interest me, but hearing all about the new id engine really doesn't mean much in my book. All of the id engines have kicked ass and I have complete faith that this one will as well. The game, however, is what I want to know about. Unfortunately they have made it clear that we're not going to be hearing much about the gameplay previous to release... argh!
I currently attend UCLA and I have absolutely no doubt that even if my university does ban Napster, it won't do anything more than put a minor dent in the amount of MP3 downloads by the students.
If we are denied Napster, we'll just turn to Scour Exchange, Freenet, Gnutella, oth.net, FTP site lists, or just good old file sharing. As it is, practically half the students already have a passworded MP3 directory on the network -- I bet most all the songs anyone at a college could want are available without even going out onto the Internet at large.
Metallica et al are hoping that if they ban Napster, the students will suddenly be unable to trade MP3s. They seem to be forgetting that when they target the nation's top universities, the people affected are those who are creative enough to simply find another way.
I'd like to know how exactly you got your hands on the Doom source in December 1993, considering that they didn't release it publicly until December 1998.
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The diameter of the earth is about 8,000 miles, so take the globe on your desk (you have one, right?) and imagine an object a little less than 3 diameters away...
"producing transparent solar panels."
"As an external glaze, PV-TV allows up to 10% visible light to be transmitted through the panel."
transparent Audio pronunciation of "transparent" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (trns-pârnt, -pr-)
adj.
1. Capable of transmitting light so that objects or images can be seen as if there were no intervening material. See Synonyms at clear.
If we're going to talk about overtly sexual Fear Effect 2 ads then you can't top this one.
Geek: I invented a program that downloads porn off the internet one million times faster. :drools: One million times...
Marge: Does anyone need that much porno?
Homer:
Hey, you, get out of my office!
Maybe I'll actualy enjoy receiving porno spam IMs.
Oh, baby.
Such a personal reentry vehicle has already been considered. In the 1960's General Electric drew up plans for just such a device, entitled MOOSE (Man Out of Space Easiest), which would have required an astronaut to slip inside a big, foam-filled plastic bag, float out of the spacecraft and fire thrusters attached to the bag to push it out of orbit.
Then, the astronaut would rely on a built-in heat shield to survive the fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere and wait for a parachute to automatically deploy for a safe landing.
You can check out this out-there but admittedly cool idea at Space.com. I'm still waiting for it to be used in a major motion picture...
...is it possible that this guy was just addicted to video games for a year and now is trying to rationalize it by writing an article about it?
What are the benefits of having an Earth-bound, optical telescope? Or rather, what can a larger optical telescope find better from Earth that we can't already find on other wavelengths and from other venues (i.e. The Hubble)?
If there are no advantages here, is it more cost-effective, or what?
Chris: What you should actually ask is what advantage does a space based telescope have over a ground based telescope? The only thing you gain from being in space for an optical telescope is better image quality due to lack of atmospheric turbulence. By for every other measure (maintenance, support, materials, etc.) being in space is much, much more expensive and limited. Which is why the Hubble and it's 2.4 meter primary cost a number of times more than the projected cost of of the 100 meter OWL. Recent advances in computer technology (adaptive and active optics) have greatly reduced the advantage that being in space provides at optical wavelengths. For some non-optical telescopes (x-ray, IR, gamma ray) there will always be an advantage to being in orbit.
...the editors are actively apologizing for their stories WHILE posting them.
When I saw the department thingy under the headline, I immediately thought "Flash file extension" and not "single white female." Is this as bad as I imagine it to be?
Although it's getting closer to 8 years now, don't forget the 5 Years of Doom retrospective I did back in late 1998...
I recently graduated from the school district in San Diego, CA made infamous a few months ago when there were two school shootings (Santana and West Hills) within a very short timespan.
At the high school I attended, the string of inexplicable student behavior has been continued with half a dozen suicides or suicide attempts, some involving entire groups of friends.
My mother is in a position to be privy to this sort of information, and when she told me about the string of suicides at my old school, I was surprised as I hadn't heard anything about it. She told me that while she was in a position privy to such information, teen suicide was considered a provate issue -- and the press did not ever act on the information, out of respect for the families of the deceased.
Reading that this student was only 13, it makes me wonder why the press would run a story on his suicide, especially when I personally know of several such cases, none of which were ever mentioned in the press.
Is it just me, or does the name "eComStation" sound like the mother of all conference-room upper-management decisions?
OK, I think we need to put a 'Com' in there somewhere, since dotcoms are big nowadays and everyone wants the internet. How does ComStation sound?
And we need to make it sound more hip and high-tech. How about eComStation?
I guess we should be lucky it's not "eComCyberStation2000i."
SSL certificates are all well and good, but what I think we really need are A/S/L certificates! That way that 16/F/LA can't turn out to be 54/M/next door...
Not to advertise but my site http://www.doomworld.com/ has lots of screenshots as well as a direct download of the ASF movie, zipped up. If you're finding all servers are full you might want to try over here.
Buzz warns him, "Homer, no!" But it's too late: Homer opens the bag
nonetheless. The chips float about the cabin, and Race rues, "They'll
clog the instruments!" Buzz is worried: "Careful! They're ruffled."
Homer has the solution, however; he unbuckles his seat belt, and
accompanied by "The Blue Danube Waltz", he floats about the cabin,
eating the chips. But his head drifts perilously close to the ant
colony.
Ant 1: Protect the queen!
Ant 2: Which one's the queen?
Ant 3: I'm the queen!
Ant 1: No you're not!
Homer: Nooo! [his head smashed the colony, and the ants float free]
Ant 1: Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!
Buzz: You fool! Now we may never know if ants can be trained to sort
tiny screws in space.
One of these days I am going to need to buy a PDA for the express purpose of playing Doom. Then my life will be complete! As you might imagine, I have a very sad life.
No, seriously... you could probably take over the world or something.
As the webmaster of Doomworld.com this stuff is supposed to interest me, but hearing all about the new id engine really doesn't mean much in my book. All of the id engines have kicked ass and I have complete faith that this one will as well. The game, however, is what I want to know about. Unfortunately they have made it clear that we're not going to be hearing much about the gameplay previous to release... argh!
If we are denied Napster, we'll just turn to Scour Exchange, Freenet, Gnutella, oth.net, FTP site lists, or just good old file sharing. As it is, practically half the students already have a passworded MP3 directory on the network -- I bet most all the songs anyone at a college could want are available without even going out onto the Internet at large.
Metallica et al are hoping that if they ban Napster, the students will suddenly be unable to trade MP3s. They seem to be forgetting that when they target the nation's top universities, the people affected are those who are creative enough to simply find another way.
I'd like to know how exactly you got your hands on the Doom source in December 1993, considering that they didn't release it publicly until December 1998.
Quite a quandary.