As a caver myself, we've been watching this with considerable concern from Europe, but I've not heard this claim before. WNS in Canada, yes, and slowly extending it's affected area to the SW ; yes those are both well reported. but I've not even heard of WNS in Mexico, let alone any further into Central America.
And yes, every caver I know who has been caving in America for about a decade has been strict over decontamination procedures. Or just didn't bring anything back other than photographs (not difficult ; there's very little novel equipment made in America these days.
I was working in Turkey two weeks ago, and expect to be back next week. while the hookers and bars of Istanbul accept the â, the country is not now and never has been part of the EU.
they have a shared agenda with militant islamists. As long as they hate each other, we may have a chance.
"They," the Xtian Fun-dies, have known for decades that they have fellow travellers in Islam. They have been swapping bullshit since at least 1996, to my personal knowledge. That was the first time that my Compuserve email address got spammed into oblivion by Arabic-language garbage after I showed that Harun Yaya (a pseudonymous Turkish Islamic creationist) had been copying everything including the spelling mistakes from rabid US Protestant Fun-die websites (which themselves were copies of older pamphlets, with the same misspellings).
If we rely on the hatred of one enemy of ours for another to keep both enemies down, thne we're fucked. We should attack directly.
It's not really lying if they believe it to be true.
and we have no problem about considering such people to be delusional - no less delusional than the man who leaps from the 40th floor flapping his arms vigorously.
Funny, how you, and many of your kind, never consider that you may be the ones burning in Hell.
Sithrak has a spit oiled for Creationists. But that doesn't make them special. Sithrak has a spit oiled for every one. And it's an irritating oil, not a soothing oil.
Obviously not all dinosaurs had feathers (for example, a large portion of them were aquatic, filling the same roles as modern whales),
This is an incorrect statement.
No dinosaurs were aquatic, to the best of my knowledge (I'm a geologist, so there's a fair chance that I'm better informed on this than the average Slashdotter. I don't think there are any full-time palaeontologists on the board.)
Plenty of dinosaurs lived in wet environments - the Spinosaurs, for example - but they still developed from eggs laid on dry land and had no adaptations requiring them to live in a permanently aquatic situation.
There were "reptiles" alive at the same time as the dinosaurs, which were fully aquatic. ichthyosaurs and mosasaurs would both fit your description. Neither of them were dinosaurs. Neither of them were much more closely related to the dinosaurs than you and I are.
("Reptile" is of course a polyphyletic group, not the descendants of a single species of organism which has no descendants which are not "reptiles".)
Some of my favourite sexually-transmitted bacteria are related to lizards. In fact, they all are. And probably the viruses too, though that may be harder to prove.
A dead giveaway that it's not a dinosaur is (among other things) its 5 digits. All dinosaurs had 3 digits.
This is an incorrect statement. Dinosaurs had one (Mononykus, kiwi), two (other reports of kiwi, Apteryx ; the character may be labile or reporting inconsistent. I don't have a kiwi skeleton in my cupboard) three (theropods, including birds, though not necessarily the same three digits in theropods and birds), four (stegosaur and ceratopsian hind feet), or five digits ceratopsian fore feet). There's no particular reason to have the same digit count on fore and rear limbs.
I am not aware of any six-digited dinosaurs, but if you were to show me one I wouldn't automatically assume it were a fake. (I'd look damned carefully though.)
... and it was treated with the contempt deserved by such conspiracies.
just weaken it enough to collapse under tension.
"Compression". Unless you're talking about the Alien Abduction variant of 911, which posits that the whole event was a lifting test and the towers are currently residing in an underground hanger in Area 51.
Did the 3d power or the custom display tech required for HTC/oculus exist in 2010-2012? I mean head mount displays with len's been around but I dont think any of them worked worth a crap.
Very often the adoption of a novel technology has more to do with the caprice of companies and organisations than the technical capabilities. I first used a touch-screen device in 1989 which was an add-on for standard 14in (S)VGA monitors priced at around $200. It interfaced with the computer through an RS-232 connection, so required no exotic hardware in the host PC. And the drivers were stable and mature, both for Windows and it's native Xenix/ Unix. Obviously no Linux drivers because this was while Linus was still potty-training. What killed it (because we all loved it) was that MS refused to put the drivers into the standard release of Windows 3 or 3.11 which were current at that time.
8-9 years later I was using a touch screen on my palm-top, a Psion 5, where it was also stable and reliable. Several years later, mobile phones with touch screens started to come out, and that is when they reached market awareness.
Someone will probably come back and tell us of a touch-screen Air-Traffic display that they used in 1970. Much earlier than that would be stretching credulity. A bit.
I'd anticipate significatnt sublimation and thawing on even the backside if the solar sail does not reflect _away_ from the object.
Since at least some comets that cross Earth orbit (and are therefore a threat) have had insignificantly altered orbits for several thousand years and dozens of perihelia, then the lower limit of sublimation you're going to need to consider is under 1% per apparition. Even with a solar sail blasting the backside with essentially another Sun, you're still down in the 2% per apparition or lower range. (I'd guess lower).
Comets on a sun-diving orbit are approximately half the threat of ones that don't sun-dive. The sun-divers don't get a second chance to hit the Earth.
But the idea provides far more available thrust and control than draping coverings directly on a tumbling asteroid or comet.
I agree on this point. But since the proposal is for a generic design to deal with any incoming impactor, be it comet, asteroid, or even generation ship, then a design that can handle any impactor without modification is needed. There won't be time to design a modification if it is actually needed.
that brain teaser has been around for what, eons now?
I literally (not figuratively) cannot remember when I first heard that one, but I was using it to get a friend's head around spherical geometry in the mid-1980s, so I knew it long before then.
I'd finger Eratosthenes as the guilty party. Or a close contemporary.
He was lying. [aside]You can tell when politicians do that by checking to see if their lips are moving.[/aside].
What a refreshingly open and honest political culture you have. Here, we can tell when our politicians are lying by their not being decomposing into putrid puddles of greasy bones. The only honest politician is a dead one. Dead and clearly decomposing.
"their diabetic horse's piss", please. Go the whole hog on the (entirely justified) insult.
(The version I'm thinking of is $BIG_MERKIN_BREWERY$ sends crate of it's best product to Czech brewery $BIG_CZ_BRAUERIE$. Some weeks later a reply is recieved at $BIG_MERKIN_BREWERY$, which is opened with excitement : "Dear Sirs. We regret to inform you that your horse has diabetes.")
From a country (most likely, this being Slashdot) where the reign of monarchs was overthrown by terrorists over two centuries ago, and where the national self-image is as a cowboy clutching the reins of his horse and riding off into the sunset... I find the inability to distinguish the two homophones particularly hilarious.
And it seems to rapidly be becoming a more common misspelling.
To be honest, I was thinking of a second laptop on a cart, with a bunch of cables hanging out of the back end of it. Possibly four laptops (TFS mentions VMs running XP so any brain-dead 32nd-hand laptop should have the necessary grunt) on a cart so you can do an entire island at a time.
- set out the cones to stop new cars arriving at the target island then hook up the cables as existing drivers finish and leave.
- set upgrade running on first system to be ready. When you're blocking on that pump, swap to starting the process on the next available pump ; lather, rinse, repeat until all 4 are running away.
- meanwhile, start moving the cones so the first machine to be finished will be the first available to the next customer, and you're ready to start isolating the first pump of the next 'island'
If you can spread things out evenly, then your maximum hanging around time has dropped to 7 and a half minutes, and if there is any significant amount of user input, your idle times are going to be shorter than that.
Though it is a networking problem, it's really an optimisation issue.
You can get a much, much larger effect by attaching a much larger, more easily manufactured and testable actual solar sail.
How are you going to do that attachment again? The attachment mechanisms for Philae worked spectacularly well given the amount of information that was available about the comet's surface structure ten years before contact. So we can realistically anticipate a similarly accurate degree of knowledge about the surface properties of the asteroid we need to manage in two years time.
Meanwhile I can import seismic data from the early 1970s into current software without any conversion -
Strange, but that is exactly what I am doing at the moment. Or at least, I was doing until a few moments ago, when the task finished. Hi ho! back to the grindstone!
Further to Itzly's reply, nor are there any volcanoes anywhere near the Larson B ice shelf. There are probably sub-glacial volcanoes in the hinterland of some of the more southerly ice fields and sheets of West Antarctica, but from the absence of ash bands in the surrounding ice cores, they're pretty marginal on the activity front.
Oh, BTW, we know from studies of Icelandic volcanoes that even quite minor sub-glacial eruptions tend to produce substantial amounts of ash because of the violent emission of steam from interactions between lava and ice.
Your hypothesis is superficially reasonable but is destroyed utterly by the facts of the situation.
but it can become profitable with some specific changes according to one analyst.
So, another attempt to get rich on music falls flat on it's face, burning it;s investors arses in the process. And why should anyone care? If we believe the bullshitters, the entire music industry needs to die so that people can pay musicians directly, instead of letting the money be stolen by the music industry.
Well, that'll be great. And if the music industry goes down the shitter and takes the musicians with it, who's going to care?
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And yes, every caver I know who has been caving in America for about a decade has been strict over decontamination procedures. Or just didn't bring anything back other than photographs (not difficult ; there's very little novel equipment made in America these days.
So, citation needed, please.
I was working in Turkey two weeks ago, and expect to be back next week. while the hookers and bars of Istanbul accept the â, the country is not now and never has been part of the EU.
"They," the Xtian Fun-dies, have known for decades that they have fellow travellers in Islam. They have been swapping bullshit since at least 1996, to my personal knowledge. That was the first time that my Compuserve email address got spammed into oblivion by Arabic-language garbage after I showed that Harun Yaya (a pseudonymous Turkish Islamic creationist) had been copying everything including the spelling mistakes from rabid US Protestant Fun-die websites (which themselves were copies of older pamphlets, with the same misspellings).
If we rely on the hatred of one enemy of ours for another to keep both enemies down, thne we're fucked. We should attack directly.
and we have no problem about considering such people to be delusional - no less delusional than the man who leaps from the 40th floor flapping his arms vigorously.
This is exactly why we frequently refer to them (to their faces on those rare occasions that they dare to see daylight) as "Liars for Jesus."
The epithet is intended to remind them of the mortal peril into which their actions put their souls. As if they had one. Which they don't.
You need to talk to the poster "devent", above.
You need to talk to the poster "devent", below.
Sithrak has a spit oiled for Creationists. But that doesn't make them special. Sithrak has a spit oiled for every one. And it's an irritating oil, not a soothing oil.
This is an incorrect statement.
No dinosaurs were aquatic, to the best of my knowledge (I'm a geologist, so there's a fair chance that I'm better informed on this than the average Slashdotter. I don't think there are any full-time palaeontologists on the board.)
Plenty of dinosaurs lived in wet environments - the Spinosaurs, for example - but they still developed from eggs laid on dry land and had no adaptations requiring them to live in a permanently aquatic situation.
There were "reptiles" alive at the same time as the dinosaurs, which were fully aquatic. ichthyosaurs and mosasaurs would both fit your description. Neither of them were dinosaurs. Neither of them were much more closely related to the dinosaurs than you and I are.
("Reptile" is of course a polyphyletic group, not the descendants of a single species of organism which has no descendants which are not "reptiles".)
Some of my favourite sexually-transmitted bacteria are related to lizards. In fact, they all are. And probably the viruses too, though that may be harder to prove.
This is an incorrect statement. Dinosaurs had one (Mononykus, kiwi), two (other reports of kiwi, Apteryx ; the character may be labile or reporting inconsistent. I don't have a kiwi skeleton in my cupboard) three (theropods, including birds, though not necessarily the same three digits in theropods and birds), four (stegosaur and ceratopsian hind feet), or five digits ceratopsian fore feet). There's no particular reason to have the same digit count on fore and rear limbs.
I am not aware of any six-digited dinosaurs, but if you were to show me one I wouldn't automatically assume it were a fake. (I'd look damned carefully though.)
... and it was treated with the contempt deserved by such conspiracies.
"Compression". Unless you're talking about the Alien Abduction variant of 911, which posits that the whole event was a lifting test and the towers are currently residing in an underground hanger in Area 51.
Very often the adoption of a novel technology has more to do with the caprice of companies and organisations than the technical capabilities. I first used a touch-screen device in 1989 which was an add-on for standard 14in (S)VGA monitors priced at around $200. It interfaced with the computer through an RS-232 connection, so required no exotic hardware in the host PC. And the drivers were stable and mature, both for Windows and it's native Xenix/ Unix. Obviously no Linux drivers because this was while Linus was still potty-training. What killed it (because we all loved it) was that MS refused to put the drivers into the standard release of Windows 3 or 3.11 which were current at that time.
8-9 years later I was using a touch screen on my palm-top, a Psion 5, where it was also stable and reliable. Several years later, mobile phones with touch screens started to come out, and that is when they reached market awareness.
Someone will probably come back and tell us of a touch-screen Air-Traffic display that they used in 1970. Much earlier than that would be stretching credulity. A bit.
The work dates from M. Bouguer (he of the eponymous Anomaly) and the geodetic expedition to the Andes in about 1730).
It's from Medium.com ; not worth further consideration.
Since at least some comets that cross Earth orbit (and are therefore a threat) have had insignificantly altered orbits for several thousand years and dozens of perihelia, then the lower limit of sublimation you're going to need to consider is under 1% per apparition. Even with a solar sail blasting the backside with essentially another Sun, you're still down in the 2% per apparition or lower range. (I'd guess lower). Comets on a sun-diving orbit are approximately half the threat of ones that don't sun-dive. The sun-divers don't get a second chance to hit the Earth.
I agree on this point. But since the proposal is for a generic design to deal with any incoming impactor, be it comet, asteroid, or even generation ship, then a design that can handle any impactor without modification is needed. There won't be time to design a modification if it is actually needed.
I literally (not figuratively) cannot remember when I first heard that one, but I was using it to get a friend's head around spherical geometry in the mid-1980s, so I knew it long before then.
I'd finger Eratosthenes as the guilty party. Or a close contemporary.
What a refreshingly open and honest political culture you have. Here, we can tell when our politicians are lying by their not being decomposing into putrid puddles of greasy bones. The only honest politician is a dead one. Dead and clearly decomposing.
"their diabetic horse's piss", please. Go the whole hog on the (entirely justified) insult.
(The version I'm thinking of is $BIG_MERKIN_BREWERY$ sends crate of it's best product to Czech brewery $BIG_CZ_BRAUERIE$. Some weeks later a reply is recieved at $BIG_MERKIN_BREWERY$, which is opened with excitement : "Dear Sirs. We regret to inform you that your horse has diabetes.")
Severely. And some of us are fighting back to move the tax burden back to the profligates where it should fall.
From a country (most likely, this being Slashdot) where the reign of monarchs was overthrown by terrorists over two centuries ago, and where the national self-image is as a cowboy clutching the reins of his horse and riding off into the sunset ... I find the inability to distinguish the two homophones particularly hilarious.
And it seems to rapidly be becoming a more common misspelling.
- set out the cones to stop new cars arriving at the target island then hook up the cables as existing drivers finish and leave.
- set upgrade running on first system to be ready. When you're blocking on that pump, swap to starting the process on the next available pump ; lather, rinse, repeat until all 4 are running away.
- meanwhile, start moving the cones so the first machine to be finished will be the first available to the next customer, and you're ready to start isolating the first pump of the next 'island'
If you can spread things out evenly, then your maximum hanging around time has dropped to 7 and a half minutes, and if there is any significant amount of user input, your idle times are going to be shorter than that.
Though it is a networking problem, it's really an optimisation issue.
How are you going to do that attachment again? The attachment mechanisms for Philae worked spectacularly well given the amount of information that was available about the comet's surface structure ten years before contact. So we can realistically anticipate a similarly accurate degree of knowledge about the surface properties of the asteroid we need to manage in two years time.
Next suggestion?
Strange, but that is exactly what I am doing at the moment. Or at least, I was doing until a few moments ago, when the task finished. Hi ho! back to the grindstone!
Oh, BTW, we know from studies of Icelandic volcanoes that even quite minor sub-glacial eruptions tend to produce substantial amounts of ash because of the violent emission of steam from interactions between lava and ice.
Your hypothesis is superficially reasonable but is destroyed utterly by the facts of the situation.
So, another attempt to get rich on music falls flat on it's face, burning it;s investors arses in the process. And why should anyone care? If we believe the bullshitters, the entire music industry needs to die so that people can pay musicians directly, instead of letting the money be stolen by the music industry.
Well, that'll be great. And if the music industry goes down the shitter and takes the musicians with it, who's going to care?