Now that there is evidence of a large object outside the elliptic I'm sure someone will try to calculate the period and approximate location of it.
If you follow Brown or Batygin's twitter feeds, you'll find that they've just had a substantial chunk of observing time on one of the big Hawaiian light buckets doing exactly what you suggest. Hint : time on telescopes like this requires a very well-formulated proposal. It's valuable time. And when the fog rolls in... it's dead time.
It'd be only marginally more difficult to build interplanetary space habitats inside asteroids (for radiation shielding) and forego the energetic costs of entering and leaving the gravity well.
After all, with the length (time) of the Hohmann transfer orbit between the Earth and mars, we have no option but to develop techniques for living significant periods of time in freefall. So just bite the bullet, and learn to live in freefall, or learn to make significant-g habitats in freefall.
Why?
And how would I know (unless I allowed their preferences to show, instead of my own preferences)?
It's almost as if people didn't use Braille displays any more.
If I go to work, I'm required to turn the phone off while in transit, and there's no point in turning it back on until I'm back within an area of phone coverage (e.g., within 100km of dry land). It's not as if there are mobile phone towers, or unsecured wifi which you can connect to without a correctly-programmed smart card for the corporate network.
While this may be an annoyance to the public it seems like a reasonable countermeasure to potential terrorist threats.
Not being able to find the Kremlin would require navigation of a truly mind-bogglingly low standard. I've walked around the thing (having several hours to kill in Moscow, between flying in to one of the internal airports and out of one of the external airports) and it took a solid 3 hours. Detouring, it must be said, to find a toilet and to buy a matrioshka which said rude things about Clinton and Lewinsky. And "odin piva, perzhalsta."
the compressed gas is perfectly safe -- and can only be released "by trying to cut through it with an angle grinder."
My first thought was "bottle jack". Which is, apparently, the tool of choice amongst the bike-thieving fraternity, being almost silent, pocketable, and highly effective.
Personally, I take the "this bike isn't worth 100 â-$-£-yen" approach. Or I don't leave my bike. Which since I use my good bike to travel on, isn't a problem. And for going somewhere to do something (out of sight of the bike), I use the $£â100 bike. My bike lock is worth about 5â$£.
s/London/UK/
It's not just a London problem. Revolting shithole of a city that it is.
most embassy's are designed as faraday cages
Buildings designed, in many cases, decades before Faraday's birth? I think not. "Retro-fitted", maybe. But even that is quite likely to run seriously foul of listed buildings laws and planning consent regulations. This is a minefield. Here is your pogo-stick. I have a telescope and will enjoy watching your progress through the minefield.
More like engineers are move devoted to their technology than to whomever happens to employ them at any given time.
Hmmmm. So I need an effective enforcement ossifer? Simon, fancy a career change? Super-charged cattle-prod and residence in a country of convenient legislation tempting?
Homosexual necrophiliac rape, if I recall correctly.
Moeliker, C.W., 2001 - The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard
Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae) - DEINSEA 8: 243-247 [ISSN 0932-9308]. Published 9 November 2001
Yes, I do remember correctly, and it was indeed a Mallard doing the deed (and being done-unto, too).
Almost unremarkable that it was a Dutch report, and was considered so remarkable that it took 6 years from event to publication.
I'd not actually read TFP on this - though I knew of it. For future reference, the journal is "DEINSEA- ANNUAL OF THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, ROTTERDAM P.O. Box 23452, NL-3001 KL, Rotterdam, The Netherlands" and they keep the paper here.
Agree that Venus is planetologically weird on several counts, but one point...
Earth won't look like Venus unless our crust melts as well.
Not just the crust of Venus, but also the upper mantle (if that distinction is significant on Venus, a very open question) melts, AND the melt efficiently degasses into the atmosphere. Which is not easy. With a surface PP(CO2) approaching 90 bar, significant amounts of carbonate minerals are potentially sufficiently stable that it is just weird, again.
I'm astonished that the discussion has gone on so long without the original paper in Wiley's "Chemistry Select being linked to. Even more astonishing (or depressing, if you like to think of Slashdotters averaging one or two more braincells than the average) is that no-one has commented on the fact that the paper is available without having to go through Wiley's paywall.
The hot air balloon that is Brexit has been heavily inflated, but has not made an inch of progress in measures that matter - legislation, principally. There has been ink spilled by the bucket load, probably only outweighed by the fuming sulphuric acid (a.k.a. vitriol) , but that's always a distraction from inaction.
If Netfilx won't deliver to your location, your only alternative is bittorrent.
your "only" alternative ???
I don't think that word means what you think it means. Surely you have the alternatives of (1) not watching that TV programme, movie, or whatever it is that NetFlix deliver (cream cakes? I'm not even sure if they exist in, on, or near this continent); or (2) getting the content burned onto DVD and posted to you by a friend (whether a genuine friend, or one of the paid varieties) ; or (3) wait until it comes to some other content provider that does cover your area. I mean, you may not like these alternatives, but they do exist.
Which dictionary do you use for your definition of "only"? I'd like to know, so I can avoid using it.
As such, it can simply stay stuck at a local minima if there is no selection pressure.
More to the point in this case, they can get stuck in a local maximum which is not a global (or even regional) maximum, with no path of continually improving results that will lead away from the local maximum. At which point, natural selection won't be able to drive the system away from the non-optimal solution.
A system might be able to evolve away from such a situation, but it probably relies on "lucky leaps" of evolution, such as gene duplications.
Natural selection is undoubtedly powerful, but is not a panacea.
This 1/3 increase would approximately cover the increase in human population since the early 1990s. As I recall, starvation was not exactly unknown in the 1980s.
Unfortunately laws allow wait staff to be underpaid significantly due to the US's tipping culture.
Which part of the OP's
Here in the UK
wasn't clear?
Service staff in the UK do not get much in the way of tips, and never have done. They get their wages. It's only the exceptionally good service that attracts a tip at all. I can't remember the last time I added a tip to a restaurant bill, or any other part of the "service economy. But I do routinely remove added or suggested gratuities on the bill.
Same with ratings systems on various sales sites. I someone wants to get more than a mid-range rating, then they are going to have to be exceptionally good. Being competent or workaday will only attract a 50% rating, if I bother with the rating system at all.
If you work somewhere where parking is *that* bad, then you're why public transportation is a thing.
Ummm, you do remember that public transport long pre-dates private transport in almost all of the world other than rural America? No, you probably don't, being an AC.
Horse-drawn omnibuses were common on the streets of most cities by the 1850s and 1860s when they started to receive competition in some areas from suburban and/ or subterranean railway lines. Around 1880-1890, appreciable numbers of people started having bicycles. Motor vehicles were a vanishing rarity everywhere until after World War 1.
Public transportation is a thing because most people can't and couldn't afford mechanised personal transport, and even fewer could afford personal organic transport. Meanwhile both factories and central business districts needed more people than could be housed within an hour's walk of those facilities. Even with high-density urban (or even "slum") housing.
How is it that no one beat me to this post here on slashdot?
I'd like to say that it's because all Slashdot users (yourself apart) know that one waits in the stage wings to hear your CUE to come on stage (as the director would have said a couple of seconds before the "I wish to make a complaint" hit the film/ tape in 1969, "and CUE Cleese..."), while you form an orderly QUEUE of one person behind the other to use the street-corner suicide booths in Futurama.
Unfortunately we both know that's not true. Slashdot seems to be the home of homophone confusion.
When I interviewed for TomTom they told me a phone was not really a competitor for car navigation because car sensors are so much more accurate. Just saying...
That could only be the case if in-car GPS systems include WAAS, and were being operated in the USA. This being Slashdot, everyone is going to assume the latter is true, but it's certainly not always true. Otherwise, you're going to get the resolution of the GPS system, and that's it. Quality of the sensors in this respect is binary - if it works, it works and if it doesn't, it doesn't.
It's exactly the same argument as was run up a week or two ago about "Smart TVs". You don't buy a "Smart TV", you buy a dumb display to which you connect a disposable smart device of some sort. Likewise, you don't buy a "smart" car, you buy a box of bolts that moves from point A to point B, and put whatever disposable "Smart" technology you want into it.
If this doesn't gel with your dealer's profit margins, get a better dealer.
This is someone dealing with grief, you autistic shitlord.
No, this is about three levels separated from someone who is "dealing with grief" in a way which many would find very peculiar, and which challenges the meaning of "dealing with" - it's more like "trying to hide from".
The levels of separation are (i) the original article in the Verge (I assume it was not written by te grief-dealer ; the story isn't interesting enough to be worth following) ; (ii) the unnamed person who submitted it to/. ; and (iii) "msmash", the/. editor who decided to put the submission on the front page.
It's very unlikely that the original person who is "dealing with grief" is even aware that the case has been mentioned on/.
(There are several other names mentioned in TFS, which me indicates at least one further layer of reporting beyond the "Verge" article. That doesn't surprise me, as that site raises a "useless clickbait re-posting site" flag in my mind, which is why I really doubt that it's worth clicking on, even if the subject were interesting.)
For about 8 months in 2009-10 I had a mid-90s Renault ( a Megane, I think. I didn't know or care then and certainly don't know or care now). Reasonably comfortable, got from point A to point B. When I returned to the vehicle after it had been standing cold for a month (while I was working abroad, and the wife was still learning to drive), it started on the second crank over. Never put a drop of oil into it after my initial "just brought a second-hand car" check-over and top up of everything.
Your German friend may have had a Renault with a fucked engine, but that doesn't mean that Renault can't produce good engines, just that your friend doesn't know how to recognise engine damage, or didn't care to for this machine. Neither of which are Renault's problem.
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If you follow Brown or Batygin's twitter feeds, you'll find that they've just had a substantial chunk of observing time on one of the big Hawaiian light buckets doing exactly what you suggest. Hint : time on telescopes like this requires a very well-formulated proposal. It's valuable time. And when the fog rolls in ... it's dead time.
It'd be only marginally more difficult to build interplanetary space habitats inside asteroids (for radiation shielding) and forego the energetic costs of entering and leaving the gravity well. After all, with the length (time) of the Hohmann transfer orbit between the Earth and mars, we have no option but to develop techniques for living significant periods of time in freefall. So just bite the bullet, and learn to live in freefall, or learn to make significant-g habitats in freefall.
Why?
And how would I know (unless I allowed their preferences to show, instead of my own preferences)?
It's almost as if people didn't use Braille displays any more.
If I go to work, I'm required to turn the phone off while in transit, and there's no point in turning it back on until I'm back within an area of phone coverage (e.g., within 100km of dry land). It's not as if there are mobile phone towers, or unsecured wifi which you can connect to without a correctly-programmed smart card for the corporate network.
Not being able to find the Kremlin would require navigation of a truly mind-bogglingly low standard. I've walked around the thing (having several hours to kill in Moscow, between flying in to one of the internal airports and out of one of the external airports) and it took a solid 3 hours. Detouring, it must be said, to find a toilet and to buy a matrioshka which said rude things about Clinton and Lewinsky. And "odin piva, perzhalsta."
My first thought was "bottle jack". Which is, apparently, the tool of choice amongst the bike-thieving fraternity, being almost silent, pocketable, and highly effective.
Personally, I take the "this bike isn't worth 100 â-$-£-yen" approach. Or I don't leave my bike. Which since I use my good bike to travel on, isn't a problem. And for going somewhere to do something (out of sight of the bike), I use the $£â100 bike. My bike lock is worth about 5â$£.
... unless you're a police patrol officer.
s/London/UK/ It's not just a London problem. Revolting shithole of a city that it is.
Buildings designed, in many cases, decades before Faraday's birth? I think not. "Retro-fitted", maybe. But even that is quite likely to run seriously foul of listed buildings laws and planning consent regulations. This is a minefield. Here is your pogo-stick. I have a telescope and will enjoy watching your progress through the minefield.
That's the message I get from this. Which message is exactly in line with Apple's previously demonstrated opinion of it's customers.
Hmmmm. So I need an effective enforcement ossifer? Simon, fancy a career change? Super-charged cattle-prod and residence in a country of convenient legislation tempting?
Homosexual necrophiliac rape, if I recall correctly.
Yes, I do remember correctly, and it was indeed a Mallard doing the deed (and being done-unto, too).
Almost unremarkable that it was a Dutch report, and was considered so remarkable that it took 6 years from event to publication.
I'd not actually read TFP on this - though I knew of it. For future reference, the journal is "DEINSEA- ANNUAL OF THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, ROTTERDAM P.O. Box 23452, NL-3001 KL, Rotterdam, The Netherlands" and they keep the paper here.
Not just the crust of Venus, but also the upper mantle (if that distinction is significant on Venus, a very open question) melts, AND the melt efficiently degasses into the atmosphere. Which is not easy. With a surface PP(CO2) approaching 90 bar, significant amounts of carbonate minerals are potentially sufficiently stable that it is just weird, again.
So, early-AD Chinese technology (paper) has better connectivity than 2010s Microsoft.
I am really going to have to consider a Huawei phone when my Samsung dies.
I'm astonished that the discussion has gone on so long without the original paper in Wiley's "Chemistry Select being linked to. Even more astonishing (or depressing, if you like to think of Slashdotters averaging one or two more braincells than the average) is that no-one has commented on the fact that the paper is available without having to go through Wiley's paywall.
The hot air balloon that is Brexit has been heavily inflated, but has not made an inch of progress in measures that matter - legislation, principally. There has been ink spilled by the bucket load, probably only outweighed by the fuming sulphuric acid (a.k.a. vitriol) , but that's always a distraction from inaction.
your "only" alternative ???
I don't think that word means what you think it means. Surely you have the alternatives of (1) not watching that TV programme, movie, or whatever it is that NetFlix deliver (cream cakes? I'm not even sure if they exist in, on, or near this continent); or (2) getting the content burned onto DVD and posted to you by a friend (whether a genuine friend, or one of the paid varieties) ; or (3) wait until it comes to some other content provider that does cover your area. I mean, you may not like these alternatives, but they do exist.
Which dictionary do you use for your definition of "only"? I'd like to know, so I can avoid using it.
More to the point in this case, they can get stuck in a local maximum which is not a global (or even regional) maximum, with no path of continually improving results that will lead away from the local maximum. At which point, natural selection won't be able to drive the system away from the non-optimal solution.
A system might be able to evolve away from such a situation, but it probably relies on "lucky leaps" of evolution, such as gene duplications.
Natural selection is undoubtedly powerful, but is not a panacea.
This 1/3 increase would approximately cover the increase in human population since the early 1990s. As I recall, starvation was not exactly unknown in the 1980s.
This is correct.
Which part of the OP's
wasn't clear? Service staff in the UK do not get much in the way of tips, and never have done. They get their wages. It's only the exceptionally good service that attracts a tip at all. I can't remember the last time I added a tip to a restaurant bill, or any other part of the "service economy. But I do routinely remove added or suggested gratuities on the bill.
Same with ratings systems on various sales sites. I someone wants to get more than a mid-range rating, then they are going to have to be exceptionally good. Being competent or workaday will only attract a 50% rating, if I bother with the rating system at all.
Ummm, you do remember that public transport long pre-dates private transport in almost all of the world other than rural America? No, you probably don't, being an AC. Horse-drawn omnibuses were common on the streets of most cities by the 1850s and 1860s when they started to receive competition in some areas from suburban and/ or subterranean railway lines. Around 1880-1890, appreciable numbers of people started having bicycles. Motor vehicles were a vanishing rarity everywhere until after World War 1.
Public transportation is a thing because most people can't and couldn't afford mechanised personal transport, and even fewer could afford personal organic transport. Meanwhile both factories and central business districts needed more people than could be housed within an hour's walk of those facilities. Even with high-density urban (or even "slum") housing.
I'd like to say that it's because all Slashdot users (yourself apart) know that one waits in the stage wings to hear your CUE to come on stage (as the director would have said a couple of seconds before the "I wish to make a complaint" hit the film/ tape in 1969, "and CUE Cleese..."), while you form an orderly QUEUE of one person behind the other to use the street-corner suicide booths in Futurama.
Unfortunately we both know that's not true. Slashdot seems to be the home of homophone confusion.
That could only be the case if in-car GPS systems include WAAS, and were being operated in the USA. This being Slashdot, everyone is going to assume the latter is true, but it's certainly not always true. Otherwise, you're going to get the resolution of the GPS system, and that's it. Quality of the sensors in this respect is binary - if it works, it works and if it doesn't, it doesn't.
It's exactly the same argument as was run up a week or two ago about "Smart TVs". You don't buy a "Smart TV", you buy a dumb display to which you connect a disposable smart device of some sort. Likewise, you don't buy a "smart" car, you buy a box of bolts that moves from point A to point B, and put whatever disposable "Smart" technology you want into it.
If this doesn't gel with your dealer's profit margins, get a better dealer.
No, this is about three levels separated from someone who is "dealing with grief" in a way which many would find very peculiar, and which challenges the meaning of "dealing with" - it's more like "trying to hide from".
The levels of separation are (i) the original article in the Verge (I assume it was not written by te grief-dealer ; the story isn't interesting enough to be worth following) ; (ii) the unnamed person who submitted it to /. ; and (iii) "msmash", the /. editor who decided to put the submission on the front page.
It's very unlikely that the original person who is "dealing with grief" is even aware that the case has been mentioned on /.
(There are several other names mentioned in TFS, which me indicates at least one further layer of reporting beyond the "Verge" article. That doesn't surprise me, as that site raises a "useless clickbait re-posting site" flag in my mind, which is why I really doubt that it's worth clicking on, even if the subject were interesting.)
For about 8 months in 2009-10 I had a mid-90s Renault ( a Megane, I think. I didn't know or care then and certainly don't know or care now). Reasonably comfortable, got from point A to point B. When I returned to the vehicle after it had been standing cold for a month (while I was working abroad, and the wife was still learning to drive), it started on the second crank over. Never put a drop of oil into it after my initial "just brought a second-hand car" check-over and top up of everything.
Your German friend may have had a Renault with a fucked engine, but that doesn't mean that Renault can't produce good engines, just that your friend doesn't know how to recognise engine damage, or didn't care to for this machine. Neither of which are Renault's problem.