These birds (gierzwaluw in Dutch; I don't know the English name but it's a kind of swallow) sleep every night, but they fly almost for a year each year. They only land to lay eggs and raise their young. They feed and even mate in the air. I've been told that in the evening they fly to extreme heights and then sleep for a few minutes, falling down. They wake up before there is even a remote chance they will hit the ground, and fly up again.
It seems Mr. Miller doesn't like the Google Phone much. He should have notified Google of the bug and give them time to fix it before going public (as Google states in TFA).
How amny ridiculous genes do we have already? And now the couch potato gene. It's just dumbing down results of research too much so the public can understand it. Please stop this nonsense.
I'm so glad to live in Europe. The utterly retarded US mobile phone market never ceases to amaze me. But, since I don't know anything about programming, let me ask a stupid question: can you in principle port Android to any modern phone out there, or are there hardware requirements?
I hope MS never gets hold of this cool technology invented by Apple. Imagine, if they had they could have just skipped the whole OOXML - ISO shit and made OOXML a standard in the near future. It then would suddenly be a standard without us even knowing it! Or something...
That first link is indeed a bit dodgy, but if you look a bit around you find more articles on the web with references in them that show older sightings than from the 19th century.
Sorry as long as there aren't good and verified explanations for all the UFO sightings out there we can't rule out the existence of alien craft visiting our planet. Having said that, the chances of aliens visiting us is really very small. The first reported UFO sightings are mucholder than 1897, BTW.
The distinction between life and non-life is quite big, so the last step in the development of life must be big and spontaneously. Someone further in the thread made the very valid point that it could be that we don't see new life because it gets almost directly swallowed up by passing bacteria or other lifeforms. But in environments that are hostile to other lifeforms, which we have quite a few of, the new life can easily get the upper hand.
I was thinking about this subject the other day, and I thought: life must have spontaneously appeared out of structures that were self-assembling and contained RNA or DNA and proteins. Why doesn't this spontaneously appearing of life happen continuously all around us, or at least in suitable places on Earth? And is the fact that this doesn't happen continuously, despite the fact that we seem to have many suitable places on this planet, a strong indicator that life as we know it may not have started on this planet but was indeed brought here on meteors or other heavenly bodies?
I wish my phone worked like yours. What phone do you have? I have a Nokia E65. I have never been able to read a pdf file on it. I also can't download a new Adobe reader from the Nokia website. It just isn't there, which leads me to believe the reader I have is not meant for my phone.
I didn't ask for a videoplayer, although it is sometimes nice to be able to make a short video with you rphone. I would like a working PDF reader though. Foxit is a good option; I hadn't thought of that. I'll keep an eye on them. Thanks.
I have Real on my Nokia, to play movies with. It works. I also have Adobe Acrobat to read PDFs on my phone. I never got that to work. Both programs came with the phone.
Hehe, that reminds me of that program I saw on National Geographic recently about people who collected electric eels for a scientific study. Those guys did a lot of jumping and shouting: AAAAH! OOOH!! You can't switch those eels off fortunately; if you could it would not have been so much fun to watch those guys.
We always got worms by sticking a rake or a shovel in the ground and shaking it. Even seagulls know the trick: they trample the ground with their feet. The worms are alarmed by the moving ground, thinking a mole is coming. They go to the surface and are grabbed.
Thanks for all the replies guys. I think I will ask our local astronomy club, but also do more research of my own. Projecting the sun on a piece of paper and trying to photograph that seems like a safe way to start.
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These birds (gierzwaluw in Dutch; I don't know the English name but it's a kind of swallow) sleep every night, but they fly almost for a year each year. They only land to lay eggs and raise their young. They feed and even mate in the air. I've been told that in the evening they fly to extreme heights and then sleep for a few minutes, falling down. They wake up before there is even a remote chance they will hit the ground, and fly up again.
It seems Mr. Miller doesn't like the Google Phone much. He should have notified Google of the bug and give them time to fix it before going public (as Google states in TFA).
How amny ridiculous genes do we have already? And now the couch potato gene. It's just dumbing down results of research too much so the public can understand it. Please stop this nonsense.
You can program the whole thing in LabView easily.
I take it you mean kilometres per kilowatt hour.
I never found out what the other things were.
I'm so glad to live in Europe. The utterly retarded US mobile phone market never ceases to amaze me. But, since I don't know anything about programming, let me ask a stupid question: can you in principle port Android to any modern phone out there, or are there hardware requirements?
Exactly my thoughts. It's a useless waste of bits! Horrible. ;)
I hope MS never gets hold of this cool technology invented by Apple. Imagine, if they had they could have just skipped the whole OOXML - ISO shit and made OOXML a standard in the near future. It then would suddenly be a standard without us even knowing it! Or something...
Whom did you tech Office 2007?
Who is tagging every post on /. as story and why? I know this is off-topic but I'm so curious. Oh and by the way, this is how to find life on Mars.
That first link is indeed a bit dodgy, but if you look a bit around you find more articles on the web with references in them that show older sightings than from the 19th century.
Sorry as long as there aren't good and verified explanations for all the UFO sightings out there we can't rule out the existence of alien craft visiting our planet. Having said that, the chances of aliens visiting us is really very small. The first reported UFO sightings are much older than 1897, BTW.
I read TFA, but I think they released the Beta version of the article. More and more interesting info here.
The distinction between life and non-life is quite big, so the last step in the development of life must be big and spontaneously. Someone further in the thread made the very valid point that it could be that we don't see new life because it gets almost directly swallowed up by passing bacteria or other lifeforms. But in environments that are hostile to other lifeforms, which we have quite a few of, the new life can easily get the upper hand.
I was thinking about this subject the other day, and I thought: life must have spontaneously appeared out of structures that were self-assembling and contained RNA or DNA and proteins. Why doesn't this spontaneously appearing of life happen continuously all around us, or at least in suitable places on Earth? And is the fact that this doesn't happen continuously, despite the fact that we seem to have many suitable places on this planet, a strong indicator that life as we know it may not have started on this planet but was indeed brought here on meteors or other heavenly bodies?
I wish my phone worked like yours. What phone do you have? I have a Nokia E65. I have never been able to read a pdf file on it. I also can't download a new Adobe reader from the Nokia website. It just isn't there, which leads me to believe the reader I have is not meant for my phone.
I didn't ask for a videoplayer, although it is sometimes nice to be able to make a short video with you rphone. I would like a working PDF reader though. Foxit is a good option; I hadn't thought of that. I'll keep an eye on them. Thanks.
I have Real on my Nokia, to play movies with. It works. I also have Adobe Acrobat to read PDFs on my phone. I never got that to work. Both programs came with the phone.
Hehe, that reminds me of that program I saw on National Geographic recently about people who collected electric eels for a scientific study. Those guys did a lot of jumping and shouting: AAAAH! OOOH!! You can't switch those eels off fortunately; if you could it would not have been so much fun to watch those guys.
We always got worms by sticking a rake or a shovel in the ground and shaking it. Even seagulls know the trick: they trample the ground with their feet. The worms are alarmed by the moving ground, thinking a mole is coming. They go to the surface and are grabbed.
I have a coworker who threatened someone with that. He hates his screen being touched by greasy-fingered men.
I would just slap their fingers.
I already knew there are no sunspots. I just hope that by the time I have a good filter there will be some sunspots again.
Thanks for all the replies guys. I think I will ask our local astronomy club, but also do more research of my own. Projecting the sun on a piece of paper and trying to photograph that seems like a safe way to start.