Don't forget the porn mags on the top self, and the collection of little hand-written cards on the back of the door offering "French, Greek and English Tuition - local male and female tutors, 07123456789"
In at least one shop I know, if you ring that number, a mobile rings upstairs.
Round up all of the marketing people fucking up the internet, kill them quite publicly,
Oh definitely no. Not death. Death is far too good for them. Serious, unrelenting, untreatable pain combined with utter social humiliation. For starters. While the psychopaths get to work on the long-term punishments.
How can these imbeciles NOT know that this looks like a classic phishing site.
Try this scenario for size : the people who put this site together have never seen a phishing site. After all, having been using the web since about 1995, I've never seen a phishing site. Why would I?
No, I studied the archaeology. If I've got that, why would I get a TV to watch crap documentaries written to sell advertising time in a hyper-religious country?
Which is why colour estimation is easier to do than spectroscopy, though it provides less information. So your observing log looks like:
(previous observations)
Found something serendipitously in target field that's not in DSS/ 2MASS/ SIMBAD - looks like it may be an asteroid. 10 shots for positional measurement - first 3 in full bandwidth, 3 with B filter, 3 with V filter, check shot. Use exposure-doubling protocol if filtered views below detection limit.
(continue planned observing run)
[Next night] Continue programme as per booked telescope time. Insert sequence of shots to refine positional data, or longer shots to improve SNR. Or if PI/ observatory manager thinks it's worthwhile, more time (from T.O.O. time budget?) for spectroscopy. Return to scheduled observations.
I'm not an astronomer, but writing optimised work instructions is routine. You plan for these things, so that your technicians have a procedure for acquiring data while they're punting the question of deviating from the schedule upstairs (to you). When you're running machines with a crew of 200 and costing around $100,000/ hour you don't get to sit in the control seat again if you don't have efficient use of expensive time.
They don't get rid of excess heat, they are a sign of it moving rapidly (by triggering convection currents of a high latent heat of evaporation vapour) form sea surface to upper atmosphere, from where it can radiate into space.
Grasshopper also forgets that both SO2 and CO2 are pretty soluble in water, which further reduces the vapour pressure. Where the optimal solution lays, I don't know, but it's a reasonably simple task of chemical engineering.
What I'd like to know is where they're going to get the 5 billion tonnes per year of sulphate (about 1.6 billion tonnes of sulphur ; add oxygen to your desired oxidation state). Current annual production of sulphuric acid acid is about 250million tonnes/ year, so that industry needs to be stepped up by a factor of around 20. Also, mining of sulphur/ sulphate minerals by around 20-fold.
OK, call me an idiot of a geologist, but I do wonder where the materials are going to come from. The billions of tonnes of materials. 30-odd million tonnes/ day - or using up most of the curent annual production in a couple of weeks.
Better yet, launch thin aluminum disks into space and put them in equatorial orbits.
L1, not equatorial orbit. Requires less station-keeping action and therefore longer lifetime. Also, fewer other satellites competing for orbital parameter real estate.
Almost certainly - because anything else would require either milling minerals (gypsum, anhydrite ; all other sulphate minerals are minor in terms of tonnage) to nano particles and then hoping they'll stay up).
Global production of sulphuric acid is around 250 million tonnes per year at the moment, so they're incidentally invoking an increase of about 21 times over current production. I wonder where they're going to get the sulphur from.
If we raise the standard of living in the Third World countries, the population bomb will defuse.
To be replaced by a resources bomb, as those billions of people with increased living standards desire stuff, made with either plants (grown somewhere) or dug out of the ground (which begs the question of where they're going to get 250 billion tonnes of sulphates).
NB - even having 100% recycling won't deal with the fact that billions of tonnes of additional stuff will be needed.
Besides who on earth wants printed copies of proceedings today?
On those occasions that I choose to travel to the capital to attend a conference of my professional society, out of my own funds, I actually appreciate their format of having abstracts of presented papers printed up single-sided and bound, so I've got somewhere to make notes against relevant content. Several years later, when it comes to interviewing for work on the subjects discussed at the conference, having a copy of the proceedings tucked under your arm when you go into the interview is a very good way of saying "yes, I've done my homework on your project". That's worth a lot.
And when you get sent a trainee to work on the site, your annotated copy of the proceedings is a useful resource for them too. They have to hit the ground running too, and for them it's often the first time they've been thrown out of the plane with a parachute and it's assembly guide.
The pyramids weren't built with cheap labour. The labour was paid the going rate in beer and bread and mostly worked on the Pyramid while their farm lands were flooded by the "Inundation" of the Nile.
f this is actually true (I've never independently verified this), Jesus would be appalled at Christianity today since they've ditched most of the Jewish laws.
I was under the impression that the disease of Christianity was invented by someone called Paul some decades after the alleged death of the alleged Jesus, to try to rationalise his psychotic imaginations. And he was very explicit that for someone following his version of mumbo-jumbo, it did not matter if they followed some of the laws of Judaism.
Of course, he didn't address the really important question of whether you should rub woad into your belly button clockwise, or be impaled on a stake as a lesson to your heathen widdershins-rubbing friends.
...that Christianity is a relatively new religion in the Middle East, and that Judaism predates it by almost a millennium? How can that be?
...that Christianity^H^H^H^H^H^H Judaism is a relatively new religion in the Middle East, and that Judaism^H^H^H^H^H^H the Sumerian pantheon predates it by almost two millennia? How can that be?
...that Judaism^H^H^H^H^H^H the Sumerian pantheon is a relatively new religion in the Middle East, and that the Sumerian pantheon^H^H^H^H^H^H the GÃbekli Tepe religion predates it by almost seven millennia? How can that be?
Lather, rinse, repeat. Pass another turtle, this one is buried under turtles.
We're cowboys over here and like to ride into fire without plan and without consideration for just how much shit can go wrong. It's a behavior that needs to change.
Yes, I've seen the pained look on the faces of American staff when their sincere proclamation that "we intend to run this operation in your country to American standards and not lower them" gets the rejoinder from the government representative that "this operation will be supervised and managed to our standards and not lowered to American standards".
People trying to fly planes for 40 hours straight (or bent, as you describe) is insane. The sort of thing that you'd expect from the idiots who join the military. No wonder they are fenced off into their own little playgrounds of airspace if they're willing to do thinks like that, as well as flying with firearms built into their planes.
I thought at first - surely there were a lot more than 3121 asteroids identified by 1981, but on checking, it's MPC number (essentially the sequence number of orbits reported to the Minor Planets Centre) is 21995, so by 1981 almost 22 thousand asteroids (etc) had been identified. Which sounds much more like I thought.
For comparison, the current figures from the MPC are
Minor Planets Discovered
THIS MONTH: 21
THIS YEAR: 19154
ALL TIME: 734274
So, on a monthly basis, we're acquiring data at a rate comparable to the several hundred years of astronomy before 1981.
So, Earth's atmosphere doesn't slow asteroids down
Not significantly. (Please note the word "significantly" in the phrase "not significantly".) The atmosphere is about 10km thick for the bottom half of it (by weight), which is traversed by an impactor in 0.9 seconds or less (see dispute surrounding ; rgbatduke is right). Even for something as small as a bullet, 0.9 seconds of atmospheric drag isn't sufficient to make them safe.
For something like the Chixulub impactor (the so-called "dinosaur killer" ; see my signature), by the time that the whole impactor was in that bottom half of the atmosphere, the leading edge was starting the touchdown process. It was already plasma, but starting the touchdown.
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Don't forget the porn mags on the top self, and the collection of little hand-written cards on the back of the door offering "French, Greek and English Tuition - local male and female tutors, 07123456789" In at least one shop I know, if you ring that number, a mobile rings upstairs.
Pharmaceutical companies are allowed to advertise to the general public? What fucked-up system do you live under?
Oh definitely no. Not death. Death is far too good for them. Serious, unrelenting, untreatable pain combined with utter social humiliation. For starters. While the psychopaths get to work on the long-term punishments.
Here's a non-limit for you : I want to build something weighing 3*10^27kg in Earth orbit. I also want a superconductor that operates at 2000K.
Try this scenario for size : the people who put this site together have never seen a phishing site. After all, having been using the web since about 1995, I've never seen a phishing site. Why would I?
No, I studied the archaeology. If I've got that, why would I get a TV to watch crap documentaries written to sell advertising time in a hyper-religious country?
That'd be the youngsters. Shouldn't there be a joke about getting off my cricket pitch here?
(previous observations)
Found something serendipitously in target field that's not in DSS/ 2MASS/ SIMBAD - looks like it may be an asteroid. 10 shots for positional measurement - first 3 in full bandwidth, 3 with B filter, 3 with V filter, check shot. Use exposure-doubling protocol if filtered views below detection limit.
(continue planned observing run)
[Next night] Continue programme as per booked telescope time.
Insert sequence of shots to refine positional data, or longer shots to improve SNR. Or if PI/ observatory manager thinks it's worthwhile, more time (from T.O.O. time budget?) for spectroscopy.
Return to scheduled observations.
I'm not an astronomer, but writing optimised work instructions is routine. You plan for these things, so that your technicians have a procedure for acquiring data while they're punting the question of deviating from the schedule upstairs (to you). When you're running machines with a crew of 200 and costing around $100,000/ hour you don't get to sit in the control seat again if you don't have efficient use of expensive time.
They don't get rid of excess heat, they are a sign of it moving rapidly (by triggering convection currents of a high latent heat of evaporation vapour) form sea surface to upper atmosphere, from where it can radiate into space.
Grasshopper also forgets that both SO2 and CO2 are pretty soluble in water, which further reduces the vapour pressure. Where the optimal solution lays, I don't know, but it's a reasonably simple task of chemical engineering.
OK, call me an idiot of a geologist, but I do wonder where the materials are going to come from. The billions of tonnes of materials. 30-odd million tonnes/ day - or using up most of the curent annual production in a couple of weeks.
Didn't you read the article?
You're wrong by a factor of a thousand.
L1, not equatorial orbit. Requires less station-keeping action and therefore longer lifetime. Also, fewer other satellites competing for orbital parameter real estate.
Global production of sulphuric acid is around 250 million tonnes per year at the moment, so they're incidentally invoking an increase of about 21 times over current production. I wonder where they're going to get the sulphur from.
To be replaced by a resources bomb, as those billions of people with increased living standards desire stuff, made with either plants (grown somewhere) or dug out of the ground (which begs the question of where they're going to get 250 billion tonnes of sulphates).
NB - even having 100% recycling won't deal with the fact that billions of tonnes of additional stuff will be needed.
On those occasions that I choose to travel to the capital to attend a conference of my professional society, out of my own funds, I actually appreciate their format of having abstracts of presented papers printed up single-sided and bound, so I've got somewhere to make notes against relevant content. Several years later, when it comes to interviewing for work on the subjects discussed at the conference, having a copy of the proceedings tucked under your arm when you go into the interview is a very good way of saying "yes, I've done my homework on your project". That's worth a lot.
And when you get sent a trainee to work on the site, your annotated copy of the proceedings is a useful resource for them too. They have to hit the ground running too, and for them it's often the first time they've been thrown out of the plane with a parachute and it's assembly guide.
The pyramids weren't built with cheap labour. The labour was paid the going rate in beer and bread and mostly worked on the Pyramid while their farm lands were flooded by the "Inundation" of the Nile.
I was under the impression that the disease of Christianity was invented by someone called Paul some decades after the alleged death of the alleged Jesus, to try to rationalise his psychotic imaginations. And he was very explicit that for someone following his version of mumbo-jumbo, it did not matter if they followed some of the laws of Judaism.
Of course, he didn't address the really important question of whether you should rub woad into your belly button clockwise, or be impaled on a stake as a lesson to your heathen widdershins-rubbing friends.
...that Judaism^H^H^H^H^H^H the Sumerian pantheon is a relatively new religion in the Middle East, and that the Sumerian pantheon^H^H^H^H^H^H the GÃbekli Tepe religion predates it by almost seven millennia? How can that be?
Lather, rinse, repeat. Pass another turtle, this one is buried under turtles.
Yes, I've seen the pained look on the faces of American staff when their sincere proclamation that "we intend to run this operation in your country to American standards and not lower them" gets the rejoinder from the government representative that "this operation will be supervised and managed to our standards and not lowered to American standards".
People trying to fly planes for 40 hours straight (or bent, as you describe) is insane. The sort of thing that you'd expect from the idiots who join the military. No wonder they are fenced off into their own little playgrounds of airspace if they're willing to do thinks like that, as well as flying with firearms built into their planes.
I refer the honourable gentleman to my comment three messages upthread.
Arrgh, bugger!. "on a yearly basis".
For comparison, the current figures from the MPC are
So, on a monthly basis, we're acquiring data at a rate comparable to the several hundred years of astronomy before 1981.
Read rgbatduke's comments. He's right.
Not significantly. (Please note the word "significantly" in the phrase "not significantly".) The atmosphere is about 10km thick for the bottom half of it (by weight), which is traversed by an impactor in 0.9 seconds or less (see dispute surrounding ; rgbatduke is right). Even for something as small as a bullet, 0.9 seconds of atmospheric drag isn't sufficient to make them safe.
For something like the Chixulub impactor (the so-called "dinosaur killer" ; see my signature), by the time that the whole impactor was in that bottom half of the atmosphere, the leading edge was starting the touchdown process. It was already plasma, but starting the touchdown.