I wonder, though... in those days, did they think that there was something special about the line through Paris as opposed to, say, a line through the Atlantic ocean? Or was mentioning Paris just a political gimme?
No they weren't. The definition of the meter was an international effort. With Spain, Great Britain, France and even the USA involved. The line which they measured needed to fullfill some requirements e.g. it needed two coasts two measure sealevel and some others. As it happens there is only one line that fullfills all requirements and that is the line through Paris. (especially with 1700s measurement accuracy)
Measurments where accurate to within 1.5 arcseconds.
I was thinking the same. It's a bit like naming your son Warlock or Judas. Possibly his parents were thinking of his adult sex life, like "Go force young beatiful girls and wreak Havoc".
Many of them can hear many times better than the rest of us
No they don't. No study I know of ever found that the blind hear better.
They just throw more processing power at hearing - and thus are able to interprete more of what they hear.
(if we could even keep from going insane that long out there)
I never understood that argument - as long as you are not alone, there should be no problem. Hell, there are a lot of people who choose this livestyle. Park Rangers, people on remote islands, Montana (OK, bad example;-). Why should this be any different when in space?
Tungsten could. It has a melting point of 3300C. On the other hand it is the heaviest stable(not radioactive) metal. Most probably not ideal for space usage, where every kg counts.
There is no german word for "luck" or "happy". They are combined in one word "glucklich".
This ist not really true. luck is "Glück" in German. And happy is 'Froh'. The ending '-lich' is for making the nouns to adjectivs/adverbs. They're just not used as in English. In some cases they're interchangable in others not.
Always remember - the IQ of a mob is the IQ of the most stupid member divided by the number of participants. Hence its only a matter of time until such a 'fun' event goes wrong.
Well, of course other people thought of that before - its quite an obvious idea. But the question is, if this specific baloon will be a step in that direction. It goes nearly twice as high as the proposed system you link to.
what payloads such a baloon can lift. Shouldn't it be possible to lift a rocket to that height and starting from there?
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Actually this isn't his inspiration - although he may have drawn from that one too. The real model was a kind of predatory shrimp. That shrimp catches jelly-fish empties out everthing it doesn't need and anchores itself in the remainder which it uses to hatch its eggs.
Actually you can, the BBC documentary "Blue Planet" has an episode about the deep sea. That squid isn't in that one, but there're loads of other creatures with bio-luminescence(sp?) shown.
Netflix came up with a genuinely new business model
No they didn't! The very same business modell is used by a German company - and that for at least as long as I can think (30 years) - only they don't do it with DVDs but Magazines. It's mostly doctors and other offices with waiting rooms which are customers, but the process is the same - if you don't return the old magazines you don't get any new. Its even more refined in that you can say you want only magazines that haven't been in circulation for say more then 3 month.
The XBox must have Audio in. Microsoft announced a DVD and Microphone package, with which you can do karaoke. That would be impossible if the XBox hadn't audio in.
No, it's not silly. Because live will be based on chemistry (and we couldn't detect anything else anyway) - and chemistry sets some rules. For example the speed of chemical reactions - below a certain temperature they're much too slow for anything interesting to happen. And above a certain temperature no big molecules can form. Thus we have a definite upper and lower temperature boundary. And not only that we know for example that big stars are much too short lived for live to form - and that stars with too high a temperature produce x-rays instead of visible light and and and...
Oh boy oh boy, are you americans prudish. Stuff like that (Penis Shape of boars, do woman have orgasms while dreaming) can be seen on German Television in the afternoon. I don't think you would manage to embarass any parent with such stuff, especially if its source is from a, more or less, educational website.
nobody can be that stupid. reading a board is one thing, basing your decesions on it another. Then again, there is this anecdote from Terry Pratchett. He met a Hollywood executive who wanted to make a movie out of his book "Mort" (that is about Death taking on an apprentice). Here's what happened in the word of Pratchett himself:
"A production company was put together and there was US and Scandinavian and European involvement, and I wrote a couple of script drafts which went down well and everything was looking fine and then the US people said "Hey, we've been doing market research in Power Cable, Nebraska, and other centres of culture, and the Death/skeleton bit doesn't work for us, it's a bit of a downer, we have a prarm with it, so lose the skeleton". The rest of the consortium said, did you read the script? The Americans said: sure, we LOVE it, it's GREAT, it's HIGH CONCEPT. Just lose the Death angle, guys.
Whereupon, I'm happy to say, they were told to keep on with the medication and come back in a hundred years."
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I wonder, though... in those days, did they think that there was something special about the line through Paris as opposed to, say, a line through the Atlantic ocean? Or was mentioning Paris just a political gimme?
No they weren't. The definition of the meter was an international effort. With Spain, Great Britain, France and even the USA involved.
The line which they measured needed to fullfill some requirements e.g. it needed two coasts two measure sealevel and some others.
As it happens there is only one line that fullfills all requirements and that is the line through Paris.
(especially with 1700s measurement accuracy)
Measurments where accurate to within 1.5 arcseconds.
There is a very interesting book about the subject if your interested:
The Measure of All Things : The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
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I always wanted to be able to tell people that I have friends at the Erotic Network.
Not that I can watch Telstar here in Germany, but hey, its the thought that counts.
It's a bit like naming your son Warlock or Judas.
Possibly his parents were thinking of his adult sex life, like "Go force young beatiful girls and wreak Havoc".
I think this is my worst post ever.
Then again, that may be a bit high a price to achieve sound location abilities.
No they don't. No study I know of ever found that the blind hear better.
They just throw more processing power at hearing - and thus are able to interprete more of what they hear.
I never understood that argument - as long as you are not alone, there should be no problem. ;-).
Hell, there are a lot of people who choose this livestyle.
Park Rangers, people on remote islands, Montana (OK, bad example
Why should this be any different when in space?
What metal could withstand 1,650 C?
Tungsten could. It has a melting point of 3300C.
On the other hand it is the heaviest stable(not radioactive) metal. Most probably not ideal for space usage, where every kg counts.
The episode is called "The Deep".
Most probably you can find this episode on Kazaa or EDonkey, too - though somewhat less legaly.
This ist not really true.
luck is "Glück" in German. And happy is 'Froh'. The ending '-lich' is for making the nouns to adjectivs/adverbs.
They're just not used as in English. In some cases they're interchangable in others not.
Always remember - the IQ of a mob is the IQ of the most stupid member divided by the number of participants.
Hence its only a matter of time until such a 'fun' event goes wrong.
Well, of course other people thought of that before - its quite an obvious idea.
But the question is, if this specific baloon will be a step in that direction.
It goes nearly twice as high as the proposed system you link to.
what payloads such a baloon can lift.
Shouldn't it be possible to lift a rocket to that height and starting from there?
Actually this isn't his inspiration - although he may have drawn from that one too.
The real model was a kind of predatory shrimp.
That shrimp catches jelly-fish empties out everthing it doesn't need and anchores itself in the remainder which it uses to hatch its eggs.
Actually you can, the BBC documentary "Blue Planet" has an episode about the deep sea.
That squid isn't in that one, but there're loads of other creatures with bio-luminescence(sp?) shown.
No they didn't! The very same business modell is used by a German company - and that for at least as long as I can think (30 years) - only they don't do it with DVDs but Magazines.
It's mostly doctors and other offices with waiting rooms which are customers, but the process is the same - if you don't return the old magazines you don't get any new.
Its even more refined in that you can say you want only magazines that haven't been in circulation for say more then 3 month.
The XBox must have Audio in.
Microsoft announced a DVD and Microphone package, with which you can do karaoke.
That would be impossible if the XBox hadn't audio in.
No, it's not silly.
Because live will be based on chemistry (and we couldn't detect anything else anyway) - and chemistry sets some rules.
For example the speed of chemical reactions - below a certain temperature they're much too slow for anything interesting to happen.
And above a certain temperature no big molecules can form.
Thus we have a definite upper and lower temperature boundary.
And not only that we know for example that big stars are much too short lived for live to form - and that stars with too high a temperature produce x-rays instead of visible light and and and...
The best I have read in a long time was: The SONG OF THE DODO: ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY IN AN AGE OF EXTINCTIONS
A book about Biogeography and Evolution.
Oh boy oh boy, are you americans prudish.
Stuff like that (Penis Shape of boars, do woman have orgasms while dreaming) can be seen on German Television in the afternoon.
I don't think you would manage to embarass any parent with such stuff, especially if its source is from a, more or less, educational website.
reading a board is one thing, basing your decesions on it another.
Then again, there is this anecdote from Terry Pratchett. He met a Hollywood executive who wanted to make a movie out of his book "Mort" (that is about Death taking on an apprentice). Here's what happened in the word of Pratchett himself:
"A production company was put together and there was US and Scandinavian and European involvement, and I wrote a couple of script drafts which went down well and everything was looking fine and then the US people said "Hey, we've been doing market research in Power Cable, Nebraska, and other centres of culture, and the Death/skeleton bit doesn't work for us, it's a bit of a downer, we have a prarm with it, so lose the skeleton". The rest of the consortium said, did you read the script? The Americans said: sure, we LOVE it, it's GREAT, it's HIGH CONCEPT. Just lose the Death angle, guys.
Whereupon, I'm happy to say, they were told to keep on with the medication and come back in a hundred years."
until I get a personality like the guy in Mona Lisa Overdrive, or at least the librarian from Snowcrash.
in the shops here in Germany. For 299 Euros in the MediaMarkt for example.
As was to be expected, most of you just mentioned hollywood films.
But there are very very good films from other countries too.
If you want to feel really good there is nothing better than a French movie e.g.
Amelie,
My mothers'castle
The fame of my father
(I don't know if the last two where ever released in the US)
And if you want to see something really disturbing, you can't beat Canadian film.
e.g.
Leolo
or
Jesus of Montreal.
If you ever have the chance watch Leolo...it is an experience you will likely never forget.
glowing Cyber-Balls might be easy, but where do you get the nano-tech sperm for the filling?