So mammoths tasted better or reproduced slower than for example elephants? Bears taste good but don't seem to have been generally hunted into extinction even where humans appeared suddently.
But yes, mammoths may have been easier to hunt than elephants as they hadn't time to adapt to better and better human hunters.
If you didn't find it in 5 minutes, then your method for looking/putting away is failing. There should be a process, etc. etc.
They had a process on Skylab. In the storage compartment there were 2000 lockers, on the ground there was a team of six working in shifts with a pair of redundant computers keeping track of what was put in which locker. Didn't work either. And since (almost) everything was supposed to be secured inside something, it couldn't be found just by walking around and looking for it.
It's a demonstrator and can only transmit on one each of its three frequencies at the same time.
Its lifetime is only two years, and the first four satellites in the constellation will be launched in 2008.
Will be followed by a second demonstrator, partly in order to keep the allocated frequencies in use. (Stop using them for two years and you lose the rights to them.)
It started on June 21:st from northern Baltic, will stop only at Cape Town after leaving Sweden. Getting to the Antarctic will take about one month.
This is sort of a backup if nothing else works, so they might turn back. (They charge 25 thousand Euro per day + fuel which will be about half a million.)
Oden (handles more than the 1.9 m ice mentioned here, but more slowly as I recall), recently back from an expedition to the Arctic (text in Swedish, but a PDF file showing the course) is the most powerful non-nuclear ice breaker there is.
But wasn't published yet. Problem is, the journal of course want to be first, so now it's not a given it will be published, which is not a good thing for the scientist.
It was rather the "National Food Administration" who wanted to go public early. (And they really seems to have funding problems.)
In this case one also has to keep in mind that acrylamide has killed a number of livestock, rendered wells unusable and harmed workers during a tunnel construction in Sweden, so anything about it is automatically bigger news in Sweden.
In Sweden authors also get a tiny amount of money every time someone checks out their books in a library.
At least the amount looks tiny, at (I think) around 0.3-0.5% (fixed, not a percentage) of what a new book costs. But then again, how much of the sales price of a book goes to the author? (I don't know, but 5-10% seems reasonable.)
Now to why it's good for authors that there's a market for second hand books: In practice what happens is that two or more people share the cost of a book which none of them would likely have purchased otherwise.
It's about a 96000 km, fixed at the bottom end, with a counterweight at the far end.
It's 50 mm wide and with a cross section of 2 mm^2 (which makes it good for lifting 20 tons, payload 12, every 97 hours). But upgradeable, of course. Cable mass 572 tons, counterweight 621.
Many parts of the building are pretty well thought out, like first sending down a thin cable and build the rest by having climbers adding more, and then using the used climbers as the counterweight. (Also, the climbers increase in mass as the cable grows stronger, from a total of 619 kg to 20 tons. Beam powered from the ground.)
The initial cable would mass 19.8 tons, with fuel the deployer would mass 190 tons, but that's still a reasonable number of Shuttle missions.
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Face it, the majority of the passengers will hurl. Just as with cruise ships, there'll be lots of "patches" behind the ears...
But space sickness isn't the same as ordinary motion sickness, so if it had been this easy, the Japanese journalist would certainly have done something else during his week.
I'd also like to comment that the article seems pretty hazy on the economical side of this, so I wouldn't take the ticket price seriously.
Anyhow, the prize there is "only" a suborbital flight (around 90 minutes), a week at the ISS sounds like a better deal...
Well, if you're one of the 30% or so who get space sick (and you can't know in advance), one week at the ISS isn't a good deal at all, since you'll spend most of it feeling very bad.
Happened to a Japanese journalist and the newspaper hardly got its money's worth.
It seemed like there would not be a huge demand for.museum or.aero.
Well, in those cases it's the organisations which will be allowed in them who want them. Either because they think it'll be some sort of "quality stamp", or perhaps that they want a registrar who is part of their community, instead of someone who's only in it for the money and thus has an interest in registring as many domains as possible and doesn't care about who gets which domain.
These aren't bacteria-powered, but use ATP, also note that as opposed to the "nano subs", these ones aren't just simulated, but actually built, although with a low success ratio and it will take "years" to make them work inside living cells.
I mean, with.aero, wont most.aero sites be named after big airline companies?
Actually, I think most will be for small companies.
I can think of two reasons for it:
Someone perceives a need to be certain sites belong to someone in the industry (both for customers and business to business (think filtering)) and perhaps the companies in the industry it will be easier to deal with a friendly registrar (friendlier because it's actually part of the industry and the same rule applies to all instead of different national rules).
.pro. Uh, pro what? Can I just declare myself a.pro?
Now that is a really interesting question! For some categories in some nations there really are processes whereby you can become a certificated professional. Those cases are easy (provided the registrar can get a contact in each nation for each category). But what about the others? Simply don't let anyone register in them (not good for the cash flow) or let almost anyone register (not good for the perceived quality of being in the TLD)?
any ideas why the world's morality filter delimmas weren't solved with a simple suffix?
How could it?
It's hardly in the interest of anyone who runs a TLD to
a) Just allow certain kinds of entities to register and get less income
b) Check the content of sites, thereby
c) Sort of becoming responsible for said content.
This applies both to those who run the.com domain as well as all the national ones.
Compare it to the proposals which were accepted (two weren't accompanied by the $50 000 required and those who proposed the.nyc
didn't agree with ICANN about what should be confidential or not).
Compared to some,.health seems quite reasonable indeed. One can understand what it's for by its name and one can guess who's in it and why. I can't say that for more than half of those still under consideration.
Perhaps other races at the time did not have the technology to survive crossing vast distances of ocean. People have always been curious, haven't they?
Of course you need technology and experience to find an island in middle of the ocean, but you don't need much just set out to see what's over the horizon and come back.
We're curious, yes; But perhaps those humans (or perhaps pre-humans) who didn't explore the whole world weren't, and maybe that's the crucial difference.
The article guesses that language might have been something which changed around then.
There's another thing which makes us very different from all our predecessors: They apparently never travelled over water unless they could see land.
Another point in the article I'd like to comment is the part about the earliest populations remaining in Basque and Scandinavia. Well, Scandinavia was ice covered until a few thousand years ago, so if you're seeing more signs of immigrants from 45 000 years ago there than in other parts compared to those who arrived 10 000 years ago I wonder if you're not just seeing a random effect, since for practical purposes there wasn't any population there 10 000 years ago.
With the.xxx domain, and voluntary compliance, filters need only remove that info.
Are you sure?
There are lots of national TLDs, aren't there, and why would those who run them have any interest whatsoever in not allowing certain kinds of businesses to register domains with them?
You seperate out 5MB worth of bits, leaving one set in a virtual box on Earth, and the other set on your ship (obviously beyond our sota, but theoretically possible - I think it was Cern that has gotten one particle to be in two locations several inches apart). Each bit exists either/both on Earth and on the ship.
I'm with you so far.
- until you observe one, and (I'm mangling the physics term here, but it's something like) the wave of probability collapses, and it only exists where you "observed" it. (Observe does not have the same definion here as it does on the street).
So far, I'm still with you.
Every (l) seconds, you check the next bit. If it is not set (i.e., it has been already expressed as set on the other end), then you know you have a message, and start reading the stream until you hit a "end of message" marker, and then you resume periodic checking.
And exactly how did you think you'd be able to see if the bits are "set" or not? It doesn't matter what anyone does on Earth, or if they do it before or after you do something, you'll always see just a random sequence of bits. (And you'll know what the people back home would see if they checked, but so what?)
The myth that FTL travel will somehow magically cause you to go back in time is held by many otherwise intelligent people. I have no idea why.
Because it's easy to show that would be one of the possible consequences, if relativity is valid -- and it sure seems to be.
You can choose either two of:
FTL
Relativity
Casuality
Quantum communication does not allow instant transmission of information.
Yes, you'll know what's revealed at some other place, but can't send information that way anymore than you can send information by stuffing a yellow paper in one envelope and a blue paper in another (the "entanglement"), then without knowing which is which give one to someone else and tell them to open it tomorrow at noon.
As soon as you open the one you kept (also at noon tomorrow), you instantly know what colour the other one is. But
what good does it do you as a means of transmitting information?
Also, "speed of light squared" is total nonsense, so I wouldn't trust the source you got that from.
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So mammoths tasted better or reproduced slower than for example elephants? Bears taste good but don't seem to have been generally hunted into extinction even where humans appeared suddently.
But yes, mammoths may have been easier to hunt than elephants as they hadn't time to adapt to better and better human hunters.
They had a process on Skylab. In the storage compartment there were 2000 lockers, on the ground there was a team of six working in shifts with a pair of redundant computers keeping track of what was put in which locker.
Didn't work either. And since (almost) everything was supposed to be secured inside something, it couldn't be found just by walking around and looking for it.
It's a demonstrator and can only transmit on one each of its three frequencies at the same time.
Its lifetime is only two years, and the first four satellites in the constellation will be launched in 2008.
Will be followed by a second demonstrator, partly in order to keep the allocated frequencies in use. (Stop using them for two years and you lose the rights to them.)
Well, for one, the aircraft can't if it's heavier.
But all 7.5 or 9G-limited fighters I know of do have overrides with the hard limit being much higher.
Interesting article about automatic terrain aviodance in fighters: F-16 GCAS.
The one we were discussing last year was designed for one 20 ton car (12 ton payload) every 97 hours.
It started on June 21:st from northern Baltic, will stop only at Cape Town after leaving Sweden. Getting to the Antarctic will take about one month.
This is sort of a backup if nothing else works, so they might turn back. (They charge 25 thousand Euro per day + fuel which will be about half a million.)
Oden (handles more than the 1.9 m ice mentioned here, but more slowly as I recall), recently back from an expedition to the Arctic (text in Swedish, but a PDF file showing the course) is the most powerful non-nuclear ice breaker there is.
Not much in English though, but here is the web page with a little in English.
The transmitters on the other two seals have broken, but you can see the old tracks for them.
But wasn't published yet. Problem is, the journal of course want to be first, so now it's not a given it will be published, which is not a good thing for the scientist.
It was rather the "National Food Administration" who wanted to go public early. (And they really seems to have funding problems.)
In this case one also has to keep in mind that acrylamide has killed a number of livestock, rendered wells unusable and harmed workers during a tunnel construction in Sweden, so anything about it is automatically bigger news in Sweden.
In Sweden authors also get a tiny amount of money every time someone checks out their books in a library.
At least the amount looks tiny, at (I think) around 0.3-0.5% (fixed, not a percentage) of what a new book costs. But then again, how much of the sales price of a book goes to the author? (I don't know, but 5-10% seems reasonable.)
Now to why it's good for authors that there's a market for second hand books: In practice what happens is that two or more people share the cost of a book which none of them would likely have purchased otherwise.
It's about a 96000 km, fixed at the bottom end, with a counterweight at the far end.
It's 50 mm wide and with a cross section of 2 mm^2 (which makes it good for lifting 20 tons, payload 12, every 97 hours). But upgradeable, of course. Cable mass 572 tons, counterweight 621.
Many parts of the building are pretty well thought out, like first sending down a thin cable and build the rest by having climbers adding more, and then using the used climbers as the counterweight. (Also, the climbers increase in mass as the cable grows stronger, from a total of 619 kg to 20 tons. Beam powered from the ground.)
The initial cable would mass 19.8 tons, with fuel the deployer would mass 190 tons, but that's still a reasonable number of Shuttle missions.
But space sickness isn't the same as ordinary motion sickness, so if it had been this easy, the Japanese journalist would certainly have done something else during his week.
I'd also like to comment that the article seems pretty hazy on the economical side of this, so I wouldn't take the ticket price seriously.
Well, if you're one of the 30% or so who get space sick (and you can't know in advance), one week at the ISS isn't a good deal at all, since you'll spend most of it feeling very bad.
Happened to a Japanese journalist and the newspaper hardly got its money's worth.
BBC also reports on Nanocopter s leave the drawing board.
These aren't bacteria-powered, but use ATP, also note that as opposed to the "nano subs", these ones aren't just simulated, but actually built, although with a low success ratio and it will take "years" to make them work inside living cells.
When you register trademarks, you do so in one or more categories (there are lots of them), all of which would have to be represented by a subdomain.
Actually, I think most will be for small companies.
I can think of two reasons for it:
Someone perceives a need to be certain sites belong to someone in the industry (both for customers and business to business (think filtering)) and perhaps the companies in the industry it will be easier to deal with a friendly registrar (friendlier because it's actually part of the industry and the same rule applies to all instead of different national rules).
Now that is a really interesting question! For some categories in some nations there really are processes whereby you can become a certificated professional. Those cases are easy (provided the registrar can get a contact in each nation for each category). But what about the others? Simply don't let anyone register in them (not good for the cash flow) or let almost anyone register (not good for the perceived quality of being in the TLD)?
How could it?
It's hardly in the interest of anyone who runs a TLD to
a) Just allow certain kinds of entities to register and get less income
b) Check the content of sites, thereby
c) Sort of becoming responsible for said content.
This applies both to those who run the .com domain as well as all the national ones.
This is a list of those still in the running.
Compare it to the proposals which were accepted (two weren't accompanied by the $50 000 required and those who proposed the .nyc
didn't agree with ICANN about what should be confidential or not).
Compared to some, .health seems quite reasonable indeed. One can understand what it's for by its name and one can guess who's in it and why. I can't say that for more than half of those still under consideration.
Of course you need technology and experience to find an island in middle of the ocean, but you don't need much just set out to see what's over the horizon and come back.
We're curious, yes; But perhaps those humans (or perhaps pre-humans) who didn't explore the whole world weren't, and maybe that's the crucial difference.
The Vikings weren't our predecessors in a biological sense. I mean those at 50 000+ years ago.
The article guesses that language might have been something which changed around then.
There's another thing which makes us very different from all our predecessors: They apparently never travelled over water unless they could see land.
Another point in the article I'd like to comment is the part about the earliest populations remaining in Basque and Scandinavia. Well, Scandinavia was ice covered until a few thousand years ago, so if you're seeing more signs of immigrants from 45 000 years ago there than in other parts compared to those who arrived 10 000 years ago I wonder if you're not just seeing a random effect, since for practical purposes there wasn't any population there 10 000 years ago.
Are you sure?
There are lots of national TLDs, aren't there, and why would those who run them have any interest whatsoever in not allowing certain kinds of businesses to register domains with them?
I think ICANN's view makes sense.
How few are "a few"?
I thought more whales were caught by Americans every year than by Japanese. (Perhaps not as many tons, though?)
I'm with you so far.
So far, I'm still with you.
And exactly how did you think you'd be able to see if the bits are "set" or not? It doesn't matter what anyone does on Earth, or if they do it before or after you do something, you'll always see just a random sequence of bits. (And you'll know what the people back home would see if they checked, but so what?)
Because it's easy to show that would be one of the possible consequences, if relativity is valid -- and it sure seems to be.
You can choose either two of:
Quantum communication does not allow instant transmission of information.
Yes, you'll know what's revealed at some other place, but can't send information that way anymore than you can send information by stuffing a yellow paper in one envelope and a blue paper in another (the "entanglement"), then without knowing which is which give one to someone else and tell them to open it tomorrow at noon.
As soon as you open the one you kept (also at noon tomorrow), you instantly know what colour the other one is. But what good does it do you as a means of transmitting information?
Also, "speed of light squared" is total nonsense, so I wouldn't trust the source you got that from.