So, how do you get from your home (office, today's worksite, pub, whatever) to the car hire company to hire today's car? Or the weekend's car, if you work weekdays only.
Why would people play audio in a room instead of in their headphones, ear pieces or whatever? (No, I'm not an audiophile. Some months I listen to music if I've nothing interesting to do like having a shit.)
if recovered from the desert (this is the Middle East)
Most of the "Middle East" isn't desert now, and wasn't during the "Bronze Age". Just to confuse your mistaken perceptions, the area that you're probably considering "Middle East" is also closely coincident with what the historians and archaeologists consider as the "Fertile Crescent".
But not all meteorites are iron - some are actually rocky.
90 to 95% of meteorites are "stony", not "iron". However, without fairly sophisticated petrology (art/ science of describing rocks) such as cutting thin- or polished- sections of the specimen, identification of "weird stone sample WS1234" as a meteorite was a lot harder than identifying an iron-nickel meteorite as a particular class of "weird".
to this day (well, about 2000), it has been routine for geology exams to include a "stony" meteorite in the list of things to be identified. It is there to separate the 85% score people (2:1 degree) from the 95%+ people (1st-class). Average petrologists will just miss the slient details in the 15 minutes they dare to assign to the specimen.
Before the development of petrology, iron meteorites were easy to classify as "weird class Fe", if not so easy to interpret. Of the first two meteorites examined in detail with a good provenance as a "stone from the sky" (Elbogen and Ensisheim, one is an iron (easily recognised as "weird"), and the other a "stony" meteorite of class LL6 ordinary chondrite.
If the school has a rule against distracting or dangerous devices (e.g. tablets, still/or video cameras, electric shock devices), then that's fine ; apply it to all devices in that class, not to particular brands (e.g. both Uncle Joe's Cattle Prods and Tazer Inc. Kil-o-Zap are banned).
If the school requires homework to be submitted by email from a school account only accessible by a Kandle whose MAC is recognised and allowed onto the school's network, then that's fine, and the school supplies the device, software, and backup services.
But arbitrarily banning one brand of a wide class of devices - nope there is something rotten there.
People who can afford a rental car will use it in preference to a bus,
No. They'll use the bus to get from home to the rental station (or the car's delivery driver will use the bus to get back to the office, and her (minimum wage?) pay for that time will go onto the rental charge. And the same after drop off of the rental vehicle. So each car rental will generate two bus trips on average. Slight lowering for people or rent-drivers who car pool.
Now in places that have good public transit, you'll find you can rent cars on a per-hour basis. Companies like Care2Go and others offer fleets of cars to rent.
The monthly cost is around $150 or so (cheaper than most insurance plus maintenance fees) and the per-hour rate is fairly low, like $5 or so. Gas is included - if you need to top off the tank, there is a gas card in the car.
The UK has several different such services. I'm signed up with a not-for-profit one, and have been for about 5 years now. Monthly fee is £5 (USD 10? 7? ask an American? ; 1 litre of beer in International Monetary Units) ; per hour about £5 with a £5/per rental fee (so, 4 hour hire is £25) Mixture of electric vehicles, petrol ones and diesel trucks ; more in larger towns.
Very much more convenient than owning your own car, for those uncommon occasions when you need a car.
This will make owning your own vehicle an unnecessary luxury or pain in the @$$ depending on how you want to look at it.
It was far beyond that point when I got my driving license in 1989. It still is. Which is why I've owned a car for barely half the years that I've had a driving license. Bus, bike and train are much easier.
Actually, I don't carry my phone with me everywhere. And when I do carry it, it is almost always in the inside pocket of my jacket where it's access to the outside world is severely hampered by several pocket's it's protective casing, and whatever documents, books, keys and slimy snot-rag I've shoved into the same pocket.
I guess I really should test how good that sound pickup is. But it's certainly facing an uphill struggle.
So you (1) disable the GPS in software, then (2) keep the phone mostly in your coat pocket, which is adequate to block GPS signals. After all, all that a GPS signal gives you is your location, and you know that already. (Or at least, I do. But then, I've done enough map-making to be more confident of my navigation than 90%+ of people.)
Oh, you also get time from a GPS. Big fucking deal.
See Pixel 2 phones that are able to constantly monitor and recognise songs to an on-device hash list.
Surely they do that by reading the ID4 or MP3 or something records of metadata in the file being played. Never had a need to use such tags myself, but I remember being prompted for them when trying to make MP3 audio files. Nothing to do with reading the audio data, unless it happens to reside in the same sector of the hard drive as the Artist/ Album/ Track name of the sound file.
Because a strong minority doesn't want to face the fact that we need to manage our population.
Actually, the problem normally is that they don't want to face the fact that they need to control their population. They're perfectly happy with the idea of someone else controlling that someone else's population, but suddenly become more resistant when the same idea is applied back to themselves.
I had my vasectomy almost a decade before I met my wife, and I've never fathered a child TTBOMK. I don't have a dog in this fight.
Yes. You aren't supposed to be running a WiFi hotspot on board an aircraft (at least not in US airspace) at all, according to federal law.
Do you have a statute, chapter and verse (or however the Americans phrase it) for that law?
Actually, I've more than a few times taken my domestic access point on board a plane forgetting that it's in the rucksac. It's not as if it needs to be plugged into the wall for more than about 30% of the time, is it?
we have been discussing for decades if Pluto is one at all!
The debate over Pluto(-Charon)'s "planeticity" lasted from the discovery of Eris on Jan 05 2005, through it's publication on Aug 30 that year. The debate ended with the adoption of Resolution 5A of the IAU's 26th General Assembly on 24 August 2006.
If you want to re-start the debate, become an astronomer, attend the IAU's next General Assembly, and persuade people. Which is exactly what Alan Stern tried last year. He failed ; you'll have to get some serious astronomical chops to have a chance of succeeding where he failed.
DNA consists of commonly available ingredients, can guide its own self-assembly, is stable, and nucleotides form abiotically. No other known material has all of these characteristics.
Odd, I thought that RNA has precisely that list of characteristics, PLUS it also has self-catalytic ability AND the ability to catalyse other biochemical reactions, which DNA doesn't have.
Quick check - what is the utterly vital (to DNA replication) enzyme called the ribosome composed of, in large part? Oh, it's mostly RNA. And the enzyme made largely of DNA which is essential for RNA replication is... not known to science at this time.
There are a lot of very good reasons that many OOL (Origin Of Life) researchers consider a pre-DNA "RNA World" to be a real possibility. But I know of none that consider DNA to have been a material that pre-dates RNA. (There are also people who consider a hypothetical PNA world [Peptide-backboned Nucleic Acid] as a real possibility. And other who think mineral surface symmetry breaking to have provided information storage before the squishy stuff started to get complex enough to get involved. Cutting edge stuff.)
I agree that the coding wouldn't necessarily be triplets, but for our selection of amino acids, doublet codons would be too few, while triplet codons gives approximately 100% redundancy, and quadruplet codons would give around 400% redundancy, which seems somewhat excessive.
There have been suggestions, backed up by genetic arguments too long for this margin [Fermat, 1637], that the first genetic code on Earth was actually a doublet code limited to 15 amino acids (and STOP), which was then extended to a triplet code allowing for a greater variety of amino acids and redundancy in the code to increase resilience against point errors, framing errors etc. I'm not fully convinced by the arguments, and the evidence has probalby been eaten, but it's certainly a coherent argument.
Aha!
I found the comment in the ORIGINAL article, which makes the story much more restrained (as I'd expect from an astronaut).
the cosmonauts took samples with cotton swabs from the stationâ(TM)s external surface. In particular, they took probes from places where the accumulation of fuel wastes were discharged during the enginesâ(TM) operation
Though it is a hard ask for a bacterium to survive through a rocket flame, there are minor unburned discharges of fuel fluids at start and end of burn which could deliver unincinerated material from Earth to the vicinity of rocket motors. It's still a hard ask for the bacteria to survive and remain viable, but it's one fewer hard ask.
really no reason to expect it to be using DNA or RNA at all, unless panspermia is correct and it has common ancestry with us
There are a significant number of variants in the bucket of hypotheses that has "Panspermia" written on the side, where the transmission of information between stellar systems is at the level of "left handed amino acids are more commonly used than right-handed ones" or "this and thus sugars make better molecular backbones for information transmission then that and the other sugars". That would qualify as "Panspermia" but not dictate that descendent star systems use the same information transmission chemistry as their antecedent.
None of which makes Panspermia any more credible, or useful, as an hypothesis.
Just for you, there is probably a page on fapstronauts on oglaf.com (probably in the 8 pages following link. Hint : when it says "not safe for work", it really means "fucking dangerous for work".
until we get every idiot who operates a radio in the world saying "10-4" for "yes" as if there was some problem with the clarity of "yes" when said on the radio vs. "four".
Like an idiot (*) of a crane operator of my recent acquaintance who insisted on "10-4"-ing everything despite his deck foreman being Irish (don't use "10-codes") and his deck crew being Filipino (Taglong-speaking with secondary English) and everyone on that channel of the VHF asking him to stick to standard English. Or even standard American.
(*) OK, "idiot" is a bit harsh. Nice guy. First job outside the USA - expected things to be just like the swamps of Louis-isissippi-sas or where ever he was from.
Why do Facebook expect that I'd have a photo of myself on the device that I'm using at this particular moment? I think it's three or four devices since I had a Facebook application installed on a device that had a camera in it. And as for when I last had a photo taken of myself... Years ago?
Children, children. Write your programme onto the coding forms. give them to the tutor, who will drop them into the coding office at the college when he drives past it this evening, and several days later collect the tapes. Paper tapes, not magnetic. Then during the next evening class in Computing Science (well, it's not a subject that's funded for general schools, so you can't do it during normal hours) we can wheel the teletype down to the Head Master's office, set up the acoustic coupler and dial into the college's computer centre, run the tapes onto the mainframe and print the error messages to the teletype. Hang up the phone call. Wheel the teletype back to the Maths Department. Start edit cycle.
Without funding, we had to keep the phone bill as small as possible otherwise the Education Department bureaucrats would notice the telephone charges, investigate, and probably shut the course down.
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So, how do you get from your home (office, today's worksite, pub, whatever) to the car hire company to hire today's car? Or the weekend's car, if you work weekdays only.
Which is why people keep the "location" and "wifi" capabilities of their phones turned off unless they actually have a need for them.
Why would people play audio in a room instead of in their headphones, ear pieces or whatever? (No, I'm not an audiophile. Some months I listen to music if I've nothing interesting to do like having a shit.)
Most of the "Middle East" isn't desert now, and wasn't during the "Bronze Age". Just to confuse your mistaken perceptions, the area that you're probably considering "Middle East" is also closely coincident with what the historians and archaeologists consider as the "Fertile Crescent".
90 to 95% of meteorites are "stony", not "iron". However, without fairly sophisticated petrology (art/ science of describing rocks) such as cutting thin- or polished- sections of the specimen, identification of "weird stone sample WS1234" as a meteorite was a lot harder than identifying an iron-nickel meteorite as a particular class of "weird".
to this day (well, about 2000), it has been routine for geology exams to include a "stony" meteorite in the list of things to be identified. It is there to separate the 85% score people (2:1 degree) from the 95%+ people (1st-class). Average petrologists will just miss the slient details in the 15 minutes they dare to assign to the specimen.
Before the development of petrology, iron meteorites were easy to classify as "weird class Fe", if not so easy to interpret. Of the first two meteorites examined in detail with a good provenance as a "stone from the sky" (Elbogen and Ensisheim, one is an iron (easily recognised as "weird"), and the other a "stony" meteorite of class LL6 ordinary chondrite.
If the school has a rule against distracting or dangerous devices (e.g. tablets, still /or video cameras, electric shock devices), then that's fine ; apply it to all devices in that class, not to particular brands (e.g. both Uncle Joe's Cattle Prods and Tazer Inc. Kil-o-Zap are banned).
If the school requires homework to be submitted by email from a school account only accessible by a Kandle whose MAC is recognised and allowed onto the school's network, then that's fine, and the school supplies the device, software, and backup services.
But arbitrarily banning one brand of a wide class of devices - nope there is something rotten there.
No. They'll use the bus to get from home to the rental station (or the car's delivery driver will use the bus to get back to the office, and her (minimum wage?) pay for that time will go onto the rental charge. And the same after drop off of the rental vehicle. So each car rental will generate two bus trips on average. Slight lowering for people or rent-drivers who car pool.
The UK has several different such services. I'm signed up with a not-for-profit one, and have been for about 5 years now. Monthly fee is £5 (USD 10? 7? ask an American? ; 1 litre of beer in International Monetary Units) ; per hour about £5 with a £5/per rental fee (so, 4 hour hire is £25) Mixture of electric vehicles, petrol ones and diesel trucks ; more in larger towns.
Very much more convenient than owning your own car, for those uncommon occasions when you need a car.
It was far beyond that point when I got my driving license in 1989. It still is. Which is why I've owned a car for barely half the years that I've had a driving license. Bus, bike and train are much easier.
Well, that is still on the table as a possibility. As long as the speed difference is less than about 1 part in 10^18.
This.
Sorry.
And I should be.
I guess I really should test how good that sound pickup is. But it's certainly facing an uphill struggle.
Oh, you also get time from a GPS. Big fucking deal.
Surely they do that by reading the ID4 or MP3 or something records of metadata in the file being played. Never had a need to use such tags myself, but I remember being prompted for them when trying to make MP3 audio files. Nothing to do with reading the audio data, unless it happens to reside in the same sector of the hard drive as the Artist/ Album/ Track name of the sound file.
Actually, the problem normally is that they don't want to face the fact that they need to control their population. They're perfectly happy with the idea of someone else controlling that someone else's population, but suddenly become more resistant when the same idea is applied back to themselves.
I had my vasectomy almost a decade before I met my wife, and I've never fathered a child TTBOMK. I don't have a dog in this fight.
Try unplugging your speakers? Stops annoying sounds from any site I've tried it on.
Do you have a statute, chapter and verse (or however the Americans phrase it) for that law?
Actually, I've more than a few times taken my domestic access point on board a plane forgetting that it's in the rucksac. It's not as if it needs to be plugged into the wall for more than about 30% of the time, is it?
The debate over Pluto(-Charon)'s "planeticity" lasted from the discovery of Eris on Jan 05 2005, through it's publication on Aug 30 that year. The debate ended with the adoption of Resolution 5A of the IAU's 26th General Assembly on 24 August 2006.
If you want to re-start the debate, become an astronomer, attend the IAU's next General Assembly, and persuade people. Which is exactly what Alan Stern tried last year. He failed ; you'll have to get some serious astronomical chops to have a chance of succeeding where he failed.
Odd, I thought that RNA has precisely that list of characteristics, PLUS it also has self-catalytic ability AND the ability to catalyse other biochemical reactions, which DNA doesn't have.
Quick check - what is the utterly vital (to DNA replication) enzyme called the ribosome composed of, in large part? Oh, it's mostly RNA. And the enzyme made largely of DNA which is essential for RNA replication is ... not known to science at this time.
There are a lot of very good reasons that many OOL (Origin Of Life) researchers consider a pre-DNA "RNA World" to be a real possibility. But I know of none that consider DNA to have been a material that pre-dates RNA. (There are also people who consider a hypothetical PNA world [Peptide-backboned Nucleic Acid] as a real possibility. And other who think mineral surface symmetry breaking to have provided information storage before the squishy stuff started to get complex enough to get involved. Cutting edge stuff.)
There have been suggestions, backed up by genetic arguments too long for this margin [Fermat, 1637], that the first genetic code on Earth was actually a doublet code limited to 15 amino acids (and STOP), which was then extended to a triplet code allowing for a greater variety of amino acids and redundancy in the code to increase resilience against point errors, framing errors etc. I'm not fully convinced by the arguments, and the evidence has probalby been eaten, but it's certainly a coherent argument.
Aha!
I found the comment in the ORIGINAL article, which makes the story much more restrained (as I'd expect from an astronaut).
Though it is a hard ask for a bacterium to survive through a rocket flame, there are minor unburned discharges of fuel fluids at start and end of burn which could deliver unincinerated material from Earth to the vicinity of rocket motors. It's still a hard ask for the bacteria to survive and remain viable, but it's one fewer hard ask.
There are a significant number of variants in the bucket of hypotheses that has "Panspermia" written on the side, where the transmission of information between stellar systems is at the level of "left handed amino acids are more commonly used than right-handed ones" or "this and thus sugars make better molecular backbones for information transmission then that and the other sugars". That would qualify as "Panspermia" but not dictate that descendent star systems use the same information transmission chemistry as their antecedent.
None of which makes Panspermia any more credible, or useful, as an hypothesis.
Just for you, there is probably a page on fapstronauts on oglaf.com (probably in the 8 pages following link. Hint : when it says "not safe for work", it really means "fucking dangerous for work".
Like an idiot (*) of a crane operator of my recent acquaintance who insisted on "10-4"-ing everything despite his deck foreman being Irish (don't use "10-codes") and his deck crew being Filipino (Taglong-speaking with secondary English) and everyone on that channel of the VHF asking him to stick to standard English. Or even standard American.
(*) OK, "idiot" is a bit harsh. Nice guy. First job outside the USA - expected things to be just like the swamps of Louis-isissippi-sas or where ever he was from.
Why do Facebook expect that I'd have a photo of myself on the device that I'm using at this particular moment? I think it's three or four devices since I had a Facebook application installed on a device that had a camera in it. And as for when I last had a photo taken of myself ... Years ago?
Children, children. Write your programme onto the coding forms. give them to the tutor, who will drop them into the coding office at the college when he drives past it this evening, and several days later collect the tapes. Paper tapes, not magnetic. Then during the next evening class in Computing Science (well, it's not a subject that's funded for general schools, so you can't do it during normal hours) we can wheel the teletype down to the Head Master's office, set up the acoustic coupler and dial into the college's computer centre, run the tapes onto the mainframe and print the error messages to the teletype. Hang up the phone call. Wheel the teletype back to the Maths Department. Start edit cycle.
Without funding, we had to keep the phone bill as small as possible otherwise the Education Department bureaucrats would notice the telephone charges, investigate, and probably shut the course down.