So then you have to get something up to orbital speed to catch up to it. Since you only have to get something up to orbital speed in order to have it reach orbit, you're not going to be saving a lot.
Then, after a week of atmospheric drag, it falls to the ground. At geosynchronous orbit, the cable is not moving relative to the earth. The lower the center of mass, the faster it will move relative to the surface, increasing the amount of drag.
Well, I don't find that Word or OpenOffice is as easy to use or as reliable as software should be in this day and age. But I can't run Word on Linux or download it for free, so I'll stick with OpenOffice and live with the consequences.
It has a lot less than it started with. Now most of it is in the caps, or frost, with a little bit in the very thin atmosphere. There is evidence of running water having existed in the past. If it was all still there, you'd expect to see frozen lakes and rivers. You'd also have to explain why it didn't all sublimate into that thin atmosphere, making it much thicker.
Mars has lost most of its atmosphere. Mars also seems to have lost most of its water. Mars seems to have had free-running water in the past, with a thicker atmosphere. The thick atmosphere is gone. Most of the water seems to be either frost, or polar icecap.
It is suspected that Mars' atmosphere was kept in equilibrium due to volcanic activity. Once the volcanoes stopped (slowed enough that we don't detect any activity), they couldn't counter the losses anymore. Remember, a lower gravity means that an equivalent amount of atmosphere extends further out into space, due to the pressure. At the fringes, the effects of gravity are significantly lower, and so Mars had a harder job of keeping its atmosphere in the first place. Water vapour gets broken into oxygen and hydrogen, with the hydrogen flying into space and the oxygen reacting with the iron in the soil.
his product will likely make the technology more accessible to the masses and might hopefully show that hydrogen is a more attractive fuel than petroleum-based fuels.
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Hydrogen is not a replacement fuel. The best you can do with it is store some of the energy you used to extract it. You still need some source of energy to produce the hydrogen in the first place, and currently it's likely that source is fossil fuels.
It also sounds like it takes godawful amounts of power to generate enough hydrogen to produce a useful flame. Better to use that directly to heat your house, light your house, charge your electric car, etc..
Actually, the lack of journalling drove me from FreeBSD a few months ago. My "mail server" runs on an old box I got out of the garage, so I'm not really interested in spending money on a UPS. The power went out, and when it came back on the boot loader couldn't find the kernel. Fairly easy to fix, but I remember thinking that this wouldn't have happened with ext3.
Unfortunately, I find the performance to be quite a bit slower with Linux now. I realize that a different choice of distro might have helped, but I really would prefer FreeBSD, if they had journalling.
It's even worse than that for Telus. Telus is a regional monopoly and public carrier that is regulated by a fairly activist body - the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission. The CRTC is likely to take this pretty seriously if a complaint is made, and has the power to enforce any decision they make.
You make being a theory sound like it's some unexamined hypothesis that some idiot came up with off the top of his head.
The way it works in the scientific world is that a theory is a hypothesis that repeated examination shows to be the best available explanation.
Gravity is just a theory. I'm confident enough in it and its predictions that I will not be jumping off a tall building anytime soon. I would welcome anyone who says "just a theory" to give that a whirl.
Skin colour used to have an advantage, when everyone lived in their respective regions and walked around half naked. The further you got from the equator, the less UV protection you need. The closer you get to the equator, the more UV protection you need. Unfortunately, melanin blocks the light needed for vitamin D production. But if you live near the equator, you're getting plenty of direct sunshine anyway. If you live far from the equator, you need to let in as much sunlight as possible since most of your skin is going to be covered with furs.
Now it doesn't matter because we have sunblock and vitamin supplements. The effects of those, and clothing, will far outweigh any genetic advantage to skin colour.
Naturally, weather is going to happen. That means high winds, wind shears, tornados, hurricanes, hail, lightning, and of coarse flying debris what with all the wind.
Well, that really depends on where you live. Where I live, there have been 2 confirmed tornados within 100 miles twice in the last 30 years. Every once in a blue moon the tail end of a hurricane makes it here and blows down a few old trees and produces some hail. Snow and ice are greater worries, but the dark, slick panels would help keep snow and ice from building up.
Even if you get a lot of this, solar cells can be modular. If one breaks, replace it. If they all break, you probably have significant repairs you're making to the building anyway.
But it's already gone on longer than China wants. Last year, the Chinese central bank announced they would no longer be buying dollars for their holdings. They were pressured to make one more buy in order to help finance the deficit.
Remember, they could also be buying Euros. Also, holding T-bills is no benefit. It's better to buy goods with that money. Money is of no use if you're not going to use it.
I thought the first trailer was awful. This one isn't so hot, but it's better. After seeing the first trailer, I was worried they had ruined everything. How bad can a trailer be when someone who loves the series is considering not going to see the movie?
I think it can manage it. With less competition, it's likely to stay in theaters longer than it might have otherwise, allowing word-of-mouth to build.
Even if it falls short, DVD sales will definitely make it worthwhile. Also, the sets are built and the cast is signed, so the sequels are less of a gamble.
Probably more like inmates aren't counted in the total available workforce. But don't other countries do this as well? I mean, inmates can't really be unemployed either; if they'd count then children should be counted as well, also being people unable to participate in the employment market...
But no other western industrialized country incarcerates nearly as large a percentage of its population as the us. I know that between the difference in incarceration rates and the way the numbers are tabulated, most of the difference between US and Canadian unemployment rates disappear, whereas Canadian rates are generally 2% - 3% higher.
But the other poster is perfectly suited to a job where they might need a VB app written/updated/fixed every once in awhile, but have him doing something else 90% of the time.
We covered this in a class on Human Resource economics. This happens a lot with technology degrees (engineering was the example). Reading newsgroups and listening to those who had been in the industry for decades, they talked about the bust in the early '90s, which was preceded by the bust in the '80s, and the tough times in the early '70s. CS is still a good career choice, though. Name me one field where you can work without the risk of a downturn and layoffs. I'm in CS because I enjoy it.
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So then you have to get something up to orbital speed to catch up to it. Since you only have to get something up to orbital speed in order to have it reach orbit, you're not going to be saving a lot.
Then, after a week of atmospheric drag, it falls to the ground. At geosynchronous orbit, the cable is not moving relative to the earth. The lower the center of mass, the faster it will move relative to the surface, increasing the amount of drag.
The one obvious hero they missed out of this bunch of 'winners' is ... Dazzler.
Roller skates, disco and laser beams. How could it miss?
I would pay $100 for a ticket to a Reid Flemming movie, and I would see it over and over again. Except they'd screw it up.
Well, I don't find that Word or OpenOffice is as easy to use or as reliable as software should be in this day and age. But I can't run Word on Linux or download it for free, so I'll stick with OpenOffice and live with the consequences.
Not everybody. I like it with just a little milk. I probably drink a pint of milk a month that way.
No, just coffee. Having a coffee-flavoured milkshake thingie isn't the same.
He's doing them in Canada, too.
It has a lot less than it started with. Now most of it is in the caps, or frost, with a little bit in the very thin atmosphere. There is evidence of running water having existed in the past. If it was all still there, you'd expect to see frozen lakes and rivers. You'd also have to explain why it didn't all sublimate into that thin atmosphere, making it much thicker.
Mars has lost most of its atmosphere. Mars also seems to have lost most of its water. Mars seems to have had free-running water in the past, with a thicker atmosphere. The thick atmosphere is gone. Most of the water seems to be either frost, or polar icecap.
It is suspected that Mars' atmosphere was kept in equilibrium due to volcanic activity. Once the volcanoes stopped (slowed enough that we don't detect any activity), they couldn't counter the losses anymore. Remember, a lower gravity means that an equivalent amount of atmosphere extends further out into space, due to the pressure. At the fringes, the effects of gravity are significantly lower, and so Mars had a harder job of keeping its atmosphere in the first place. Water vapour gets broken into oxygen and hydrogen, with the hydrogen flying into space and the oxygen reacting with the iron in the soil.
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Hydrogen is not a replacement fuel. The best you can do with it is store some of the energy you used to extract it. You still need some source of energy to produce the hydrogen in the first place, and currently it's likely that source is fossil fuels.
It also sounds like it takes godawful amounts of power to generate enough hydrogen to produce a useful flame. Better to use that directly to heat your house, light your house, charge your electric car, etc..
Actually, the lack of journalling drove me from FreeBSD a few months ago. My "mail server" runs on an old box I got out of the garage, so I'm not really interested in spending money on a UPS. The power went out, and when it came back on the boot loader couldn't find the kernel. Fairly easy to fix, but I remember thinking that this wouldn't have happened with ext3.
Unfortunately, I find the performance to be quite a bit slower with Linux now. I realize that a different choice of distro might have helped, but I really would prefer FreeBSD, if they had journalling.
It's even worse than that for Telus. Telus is a regional monopoly and public carrier that is regulated by a fairly activist body - the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission. The CRTC is likely to take this pretty seriously if a complaint is made, and has the power to enforce any decision they make.
You make being a theory sound like it's some unexamined hypothesis that some idiot came up with off the top of his head.
The way it works in the scientific world is that a theory is a hypothesis that repeated examination shows to be the best available explanation.
Gravity is just a theory. I'm confident enough in it and its predictions that I will not be jumping off a tall building anytime soon. I would welcome anyone who says "just a theory" to give that a whirl.
Skin colour used to have an advantage, when everyone lived in their respective regions and walked around half naked. The further you got from the equator, the less UV protection you need. The closer you get to the equator, the more UV protection you need. Unfortunately, melanin blocks the light needed for vitamin D production. But if you live near the equator, you're getting plenty of direct sunshine anyway. If you live far from the equator, you need to let in as much sunlight as possible since most of your skin is going to be covered with furs.
Now it doesn't matter because we have sunblock and vitamin supplements. The effects of those, and clothing, will far outweigh any genetic advantage to skin colour.
Except in winter, when it's 24/7 dark. A lot of plants don't handle several months of darkness and die.
Well, that really depends on where you live. Where I live, there have been 2 confirmed tornados within 100 miles twice in the last 30 years. Every once in a blue moon the tail end of a hurricane makes it here and blows down a few old trees and produces some hail. Snow and ice are greater worries, but the dark, slick panels would help keep snow and ice from building up.
Even if you get a lot of this, solar cells can be modular. If one breaks, replace it. If they all break, you probably have significant repairs you're making to the building anyway.
But it's already gone on longer than China wants. Last year, the Chinese central bank announced they would no longer be buying dollars for their holdings. They were pressured to make one more buy in order to help finance the deficit.
Remember, they could also be buying Euros. Also, holding T-bills is no benefit. It's better to buy goods with that money. Money is of no use if you're not going to use it.
Manhole is such a funny word:
Hey! Don't fall into that gaping manhole!
He managed to pack 15 workers into that manhole!
Everybody stand in line for your turn in the manhole.
He managed to get a ladder wedged into his manhole.
I thought the first trailer was awful. This one isn't so hot, but it's better. After seeing the first trailer, I was worried they had ruined everything. How bad can a trailer be when someone who loves the series is considering not going to see the movie?
I think it can manage it. With less competition, it's likely to stay in theaters longer than it might have otherwise, allowing word-of-mouth to build.
Even if it falls short, DVD sales will definitely make it worthwhile. Also, the sets are built and the cast is signed, so the sequels are less of a gamble.
Worked perfectly for me on Linux. Fedora Core 4 with or without Firefox 1.04 using the mplayer 1.0pre7-4.0.0.
But no other western industrialized country incarcerates nearly as large a percentage of its population as the us. I know that between the difference in incarceration rates and the way the numbers are tabulated, most of the difference between US and Canadian unemployment rates disappear, whereas Canadian rates are generally 2% - 3% higher.
If you're wondering why you should choose engineering over an MBA, the answer is "you shouldn't."
But the other poster is perfectly suited to a job where they might need a VB app written/updated/fixed every once in awhile, but have him doing something else 90% of the time.
We covered this in a class on Human Resource economics. This happens a lot with technology degrees (engineering was the example). Reading newsgroups and listening to those who had been in the industry for decades, they talked about the bust in the early '90s, which was preceded by the bust in the '80s, and the tough times in the early '70s. CS is still a good career choice, though. Name me one field where you can work without the risk of a downturn and layoffs. I'm in CS because I enjoy it.