Well, having spent decades avoiding doing revision work prior to exams by helping classmates with their revision... I've been putting that into practice without ever knowing that it was a technique that Feynman espoused.
It tells me that the Israelis had some other route into US secret areas and weren't concerned about losing the loophole they were looking for in Kaspersky. So they could harm the country most of their immigrants (around 1 in 8 of the population) come from while helping the country that most of their arms come from (if you believe both sides' propaganda). I bet that decision had to go up to quite senior levels.
This range of very active volcanoes have been discovered.
Your Washington Post article doesn't include a map of where these volcanoes are. Since I did RTFA on that, and submitted it to slashdot (someone beat me the front page), I have seen the maps of those volcano locations (follow the link in my previous posting). They are specifically compared in both length of province and width of province with the East African Rift volcanic province (Fig 1 of linked-to OpenAccess PDF).
Perhaps no one put the 2 together?
Perhaps, if you'd read the article (the link has been available for a couple of months), you'd know why there is no 2 to put together. Oh, you'd need the location of the Wedell Sea Polynya? Follow the link I posted up-thread.
Or maybe steam from one that is about to erupt could be sending heat beneath the ice pack. One Island on Antarctica's shores has a Caldera supervolano similar to Yellowstone that produces hot springs for warm bathing by humans. Even if there is no eruption some steam and hot water ahead of one can give off an incredible amount of heat under an already stressed ice pack.
Not impossible, but not actually relevant. See the article and map I cited a few moments ago. As an alternative, you might have tried drawing a seabed profile across the area and identifying the undersea topography for yourself (I use GeoMapApp for that, but I'm very open to better tools.)
One is the result of electrical currents around 4000km down in the Earth's lithosphere, and the other due to water currents in the top kilometre of the hydrosphere.
Yes, a magnetic pole flip is probably due - today plus-or-minus a hundred thousand years.
Magnetostratigraphy (studying the sequences of magnetic reversals in history) is a standard industrial technique, often associated with techniques of palynology and micro- and nanno- palaeontology for correlation of time slices. (NB : I know that nannopalaeontologists don't follow normal spelling conventions in their field's name. As far as I can tell, it's a shibboleth.)
It's probably something we'll see more of, but how much of that is due to there being more shipping (fishing boats in particular) and satellite coverage that can report on them isn't so clear.
This polynya was (re-)discovered by a passive sea-properties float surfacing in the gap and managing to upload it's data load to a satellite. Those floats (and the communications satellites) didn't exist in the 1970s when this polynya was previously reported.
You're confusing sea ice (floating on the sea surface, formed by cooling to the air and freezing oof seawater onto the bottom of the ice sheet) and glacier ice (formed by snowfall in the mountains, compressing under it's own weight and moving downhill.) The physics of the two are the same, but because of the different formation processes and locations, the implications are different.
You're forgetting the presence of around 35ppt of dissolved salts in the water - principally sodium chloride. The freezing point of seawater is around 2degC BELOW zero.
we would learn that the water is slightly above the freezing point.
The freezing point of seawater is around minus2degC (not sure what that is in the US measure - there are conversion programs somewhere if you want to make a conversion to that system).
This is a recurrent feature of the Antarctic sea ice. It's tied to undersea features that well explain it's existence and location.
Polynyas are regions of open water that occur in the Arctic and Southern Oceans where youâ(TM)d expect to see ice, typically around coastlines that experience fierce wintertime winds. The Weddell polynya is unusual in that it occurs far offshore, in a shallow water region known as the Maud Rise. It was first spotted in the winter of 1974, when a hole roughly the size of Oregon emerged in the Antarctic sea ice in the dead of winter. The polynia cropped up again for the next two winters, before going dormant for decadesâ"although low sea ice concentrations persisted in the region.
Like all polynyas, it has considerable effects on both air temperatures and sea water temperatures in its area and wherever the cooled sea water goes to.
EVEN if the initial bowshots of a nascent super-volcano.,.Antartica is a bloody long way from anything civilized.
Being a long way from anything doesn't mean a jot in terms of a supervolcano. Homo sapiens has not seen a supervolcano eruption since Toba around 70 kyr ago (and that is arguable - was it a supervolcano, or just a large regular volcano). As a geologist, I'd struggle to come up with a meaningful dividing line between a regular eruption and a supervolcano - if indeed there is one. I've scuba-dived in the Santorini caldera for example, and it's not significantly diffeent to other calderas I've walked around in and examined rocks in.
Regular volcanic eruptions have effects felt around the world. The Pinatubo eruption of 1991 led to cooling around the world of about 0.5degC - and incidentally produced the darkest lunar eclipse I've ever seen in 1992. The Tambora eruption of 1815 similarly had global effects - famine in Europe and the newly-formed United States, wars and rebellions, generally bad shit. All over the world.
The bandying around of superlative-laden terms such as "Plinian / Ultra-Plinian", "Super-colossal", "Mega-colossal" in descriptions of volcanic eruptions tells me that people just keep on finding bigger ones, and don't think about future terminology when they try to describe the new thing they're studying. We don't seem to have found the largest possible eruptions, just the largest measured so far.
Slashdot is infested with Russian sock-puppets, idiots, and traitors.
What about the people who read Slashdot and who are patriots - but Russian citizens?
If your'e walking the streets of America you might have fair grounds to think that the next person you meet is likely to be an American. When you're walking the streets of the internet, you've no grounds for continuing with such a belief.
Fair answer. And most likely you are better read than most, unless we include social media. Then I'm afraid...:-)
You're comparing social media writing (including Slashdot posting) with a coherent story with a beginning, middle, end and plot? Either you read some massively different social media to me (including Slashdot), or Gibson is an incredibly bad writer.
(I'll admit to having never knowingly read a word of Gibson's work - despite being an avid SF reader through 70s, 80s and 90s.)
The other half (not the subject of this story) is simply known as "the observable universe".
Errr, no. The "observable universe" is a concept that has nothing the least to do with the nature of matter in the universe. The universe could consist entirely of pentaquarks, squarks, boring baryon matter, or nothing but photons and the meaning of the "observable universe" would change not one, jot, iota or plugged nickel.
The "observable universe" it that region of the universe from which light could have got to your location, had it started travelling in the right direction at the start of the universe. Since forces happen by particles which travel at light speed or less, the observable universe is that portion of the universe which could possibly have affected your location. There is a corollary to this - locations at opposite directions in the observable universe as seen from your location cannot have interacted with each other in the lifetime of the universe to this date. Which is what makes the uniformity of the CMB and distribution of both matter and unobserved gravitating material ("dark matter", whatever that is) at such large separations so interesting, and is the main motivator of the "inflation" models of the early history of the universe.
So, no headphone jack. but people only use headphones out of consideration for other people - otherwise they shout down their phone for the other end to shout louder, or crank up the volume to drown out the screeching din of the 7 other people in the room listening to their "music" over the air. Is there any credible use-case for in-ear loudspeakers at all?
Nobel didn't say, revealing only that he made his choices "after mature deliberation."
There you are. He chose to not-say, for his own reasons. Unless someone uncovers a previously misplaced codicil to his will, or invents a time machine so he can be snatched from his death bed and tortured to get an answer (which may or may not be true), we don't know and will never know.
In the time-machine-torture scenario, it is entirely possible that by the time of snatching, he'd forgotten, so will just make something up to stop the pain. Like that DPRK nuke in a storage unit in New York.
There are a lot of really good titles available that you simply can't stream. One great example that is relevant right now is Blade Runner. If you don't own it and you want to see the original version before going to the theatre to see the new one, you can't stream it on Netflix
What a damned good reason for not wasting effort on "streaming", in any way, shape or form.
One of these days (weeks, months), I may get a landline with "unlimited" downloads. But at the moment, I rarely touch the edges of my 20GB/mo.
Google isn't the problem ; 4chan isn't ; you, and your stupid reliance on one source of news are the problem. How did Herod put it (in the words provided by Robert Graves) to the to-be-Emperor Claudius? "Trust no one my friend ; not your closest friend ; not your family, not your lover ; not me. Trust no one."
Herod, of course, was a ridiculous optimist with a rose-tinted view of people.
The real problem here is using prisons as a source of profit, one part of which is the excessive cost of making phone calls. Lower the costs and much of the problem will go away,
The experiment has been done. It doesn't work. Large numbers of phones will be smuggled in to prisons to allow the continued running of "criminal enterprises" from inside the prison. This was a problem long before there were such things as mobile phones - suborned guards would smuggle letters and notes into and out of prisons between people inside and their businesses outside.
That makes a lot of people uncomfortable about using Opera's products.
It makes a lot of people more confident about using Opera's product.
Opera Software was acquired by some Chinese partnership, last I'd heard.
No NSA backdoors. I hope. I'll just make sure to use Firefox for my planning to overthrow the Chinese state and Opera for planing to overthrow the USA by campaigning for Trump2020.
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Well, having spent decades avoiding doing revision work prior to exams by helping classmates with their revision ... I've been putting that into practice without ever knowing that it was a technique that Feynman espoused.
It tells me that the Israelis had some other route into US secret areas and weren't concerned about losing the loophole they were looking for in Kaspersky. So they could harm the country most of their immigrants (around 1 in 8 of the population) come from while helping the country that most of their arms come from (if you believe both sides' propaganda). I bet that decision had to go up to quite senior levels.
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Your Washington Post article doesn't include a map of where these volcanoes are. Since I did RTFA on that, and submitted it to slashdot (someone beat me the front page), I have seen the maps of those volcano locations (follow the link in my previous posting). They are specifically compared in both length of province and width of province with the East African Rift volcanic province (Fig 1 of linked-to OpenAccess PDF).
Perhaps, if you'd read the article (the link has been available for a couple of months), you'd know why there is no 2 to put together. Oh, you'd need the location of the Wedell Sea Polynya? Follow the link I posted up-thread.
Not impossible, but not actually relevant. See the article and map I cited a few moments ago. As an alternative, you might have tried drawing a seabed profile across the area and identifying the undersea topography for yourself (I use GeoMapApp for that, but I'm very open to better tools.)
That says more about you than it does about JoeAverageSlashdot.
Yes, a magnetic pole flip is probably due - today plus-or-minus a hundred thousand years.
Magnetostratigraphy (studying the sequences of magnetic reversals in history) is a standard industrial technique, often associated with techniques of palynology and micro- and nanno- palaeontology for correlation of time slices. (NB : I know that nannopalaeontologists don't follow normal spelling conventions in their field's name. As far as I can tell, it's a shibboleth.)
This polynya was (re-)discovered by a passive sea-properties float surfacing in the gap and managing to upload it's data load to a satellite. Those floats (and the communications satellites) didn't exist in the 1970s when this polynya was previously reported.
You're confusing sea ice (floating on the sea surface, formed by cooling to the air and freezing oof seawater onto the bottom of the ice sheet) and glacier ice (formed by snowfall in the mountains, compressing under it's own weight and moving downhill.) The physics of the two are the same, but because of the different formation processes and locations, the implications are different.
You're forgetting the presence of around 35ppt of dissolved salts in the water - principally sodium chloride. The freezing point of seawater is around 2degC BELOW zero.
The freezing point of seawater is around minus2degC (not sure what that is in the US measure - there are conversion programs somewhere if you want to make a conversion to that system).
... which, utterly astonishingly, is exactly how this polynya was discovered. "SOCCOM float surfaces inside rare Antarctic sea ice opening"
This is a recurrent feature of the Antarctic sea ice. It's tied to undersea features that well explain it's existence and location.
Like all polynyas, it has considerable effects on both air temperatures and sea water temperatures in its area and wherever the cooled sea water goes to.
Being a long way from anything doesn't mean a jot in terms of a supervolcano. Homo sapiens has not seen a supervolcano eruption since Toba around 70 kyr ago (and that is arguable - was it a supervolcano, or just a large regular volcano). As a geologist, I'd struggle to come up with a meaningful dividing line between a regular eruption and a supervolcano - if indeed there is one. I've scuba-dived in the Santorini caldera for example, and it's not significantly diffeent to other calderas I've walked around in and examined rocks in.
Regular volcanic eruptions have effects felt around the world. The Pinatubo eruption of 1991 led to cooling around the world of about 0.5degC - and incidentally produced the darkest lunar eclipse I've ever seen in 1992. The Tambora eruption of 1815 similarly had global effects - famine in Europe and the newly-formed United States, wars and rebellions, generally bad shit. All over the world.
The bandying around of superlative-laden terms such as "Plinian / Ultra-Plinian", "Super-colossal", "Mega-colossal" in descriptions of volcanic eruptions tells me that people just keep on finding bigger ones, and don't think about future terminology when they try to describe the new thing they're studying. We don't seem to have found the largest possible eruptions, just the largest measured so far.
What about the people who read Slashdot and who are patriots - but Russian citizens?
If your'e walking the streets of America you might have fair grounds to think that the next person you meet is likely to be an American. When you're walking the streets of the internet, you've no grounds for continuing with such a belief.
Memo to self : must read Ulysses. The Joyce imitation, I've already read Homer.
Sounds like it should be a compulsory read in America too - before it's banned and becomes an un-book.
You're comparing social media writing (including Slashdot posting) with a coherent story with a beginning, middle, end and plot? Either you read some massively different social media to me (including Slashdot), or Gibson is an incredibly bad writer.
(I'll admit to having never knowingly read a word of Gibson's work - despite being an avid SF reader through 70s, 80s and 90s.)
Nits are the eggs of hair lice, not the lice themselves.
Errr, no. The "observable universe" is a concept that has nothing the least to do with the nature of matter in the universe. The universe could consist entirely of pentaquarks, squarks, boring baryon matter, or nothing but photons and the meaning of the "observable universe" would change not one, jot, iota or plugged nickel.
The "observable universe" it that region of the universe from which light could have got to your location, had it started travelling in the right direction at the start of the universe. Since forces happen by particles which travel at light speed or less, the observable universe is that portion of the universe which could possibly have affected your location. There is a corollary to this - locations at opposite directions in the observable universe as seen from your location cannot have interacted with each other in the lifetime of the universe to this date. Which is what makes the uniformity of the CMB and distribution of both matter and unobserved gravitating material ("dark matter", whatever that is) at such large separations so interesting, and is the main motivator of the "inflation" models of the early history of the universe.
Do you want to have a fuck with "jcr", or you want to smoke the come after the fuck? Won't it make your papers wet and sticky and hard to light?
So, no headphone jack. but people only use headphones out of consideration for other people - otherwise they shout down their phone for the other end to shout louder, or crank up the volume to drown out the screeching din of the 7 other people in the room listening to their "music" over the air. Is there any credible use-case for in-ear loudspeakers at all?
There you are. He chose to not-say, for his own reasons. Unless someone uncovers a previously misplaced codicil to his will, or invents a time machine so he can be snatched from his death bed and tortured to get an answer (which may or may not be true), we don't know and will never know.
In the time-machine-torture scenario, it is entirely possible that by the time of snatching, he'd forgotten, so will just make something up to stop the pain. Like that DPRK nuke in a storage unit in New York.
Sympathy not oozing.
What a damned good reason for not wasting effort on "streaming", in any way, shape or form. One of these days (weeks, months), I may get a landline with "unlimited" downloads. But at the moment, I rarely touch the edges of my 20GB/mo.
Google isn't the problem ; 4chan isn't ; you, and your stupid reliance on one source of news are the problem. How did Herod put it (in the words provided by Robert Graves) to the to-be-Emperor Claudius? "Trust no one my friend ; not your closest friend ; not your family, not your lover ; not me. Trust no one."
Herod, of course, was a ridiculous optimist with a rose-tinted view of people.
The experiment has been done. It doesn't work. Large numbers of phones will be smuggled in to prisons to allow the continued running of "criminal enterprises" from inside the prison. This was a problem long before there were such things as mobile phones - suborned guards would smuggle letters and notes into and out of prisons between people inside and their businesses outside.
It makes a lot of people more confident about using Opera's product.
No NSA backdoors. I hope. I'll just make sure to use Firefox for my planning to overthrow the Chinese state and Opera for planing to overthrow the USA by campaigning for Trump2020.