The wheel was available all along, problem was that ROADS had to be made first. In Africa, where I come from, there was no wheel before the arrival of Europeans but they did make sleds from a "Y" branch of a tree, and hauled by cattle. A wheel needs a flat surface to roll along on, without roads they are useless.
It seems that you don't know your bible. Could you please inform us as to where it says that the Earth is 5'000 years old?
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I notice in the covering link for this topic there's an explanation of the naming process for the different versions of Ubuntu, but no explanation for the word 'ubuntu' itself. Ubuntu is an isiZulu and isiXhosa word of some complexity. It has lately been used for charitable, helpfulness, sharing, etc. It is actually more than that. It basically means: I am a man (Bantu) of people. What I do effects all humanity, therefor if I do good humanity will do good. If I help, humanity will help me. We must live for each other. We must draw together. Which is Mark Shuttleworth's vision for your desktop, working to unite other systems. Mark is a South African. Oh, almost forgot, happy birthday Ubuntu!
Hats of to the Commitee for deciding to grant Ralph Steinman the prize. The rule obviously exists to promote, award and acknowledge NEW research and all his research was 'up to date'. Literally. See: http://life.time.mk/read/bb9f5c9af7/abd2c5124a/index.html
Hats of to the Commitee for deciding to grant Ralph Steinman the prize. The rule obviously exists to promote, award and acknowledge NEW research and all his research was 'up to date'. Literally. See: http://life.time.mk/read/bb9f5c9af7/abd2c5124a/index.html
I'm from Southern Africa (Swaziland) and this is something we've always wondered about. Why do people from this part of the world struggle to apply simple logic to a situation? Now that this has come out, it's logical!
Kickstarter should boldly state that it only supports US citizens---although it receives donations from around the world. This would save a lot of us spending our time, effort and hope...only do be told we are illegible.
I live in South Africa and work on maintaining Litho printing machines that are manufactured from all over the world, including Didde Glasers from the US. They are a nightmare. Literally. (What is 1 and 7/32 of an inch plus 1 and 5/7 of an inch?).
Once we replaced an O-ring on the hydraulic pump system and had to use the metric equivalent which was,1 mm (millimetre) smaller in circumference than the US produced one (6 weeks delivery time, 2,000 times more expensive). It ran OK for 3 minutes and then blew.
A day later I watched the Challenger take-off on TV with the first woman on board (my wife insisted - she's a woman!) and we saw THE greatest tragedy in the Space Programme ever!
It was due to the EXACT same reason, a metric O-ring in an Imperial channel.
I'm still a bit angry about that.
The transformers 'handle less than 12KW'?
Glad I live in South Africa, our domestic sub-stations handle MEGA Watts! HeeeHaa.....no more 'Darkest Africa!'
I like the idea. Heaven is: a Saturday afternoon, lying on the couch watching the game on TV with a beer in the one hand, a cigar in the mouth, and a fishing pole out the window.
Even if a tsunami hit, if the ocean is deep enough, it will simply pass harmlessly under me without my knowing it!
Nurture not only makes a queen out of the common female lava (that would have become a female worker) but also the drones that are MALE.
So, as suggested, the DNA of a female worker and the DNA of a queen may be the same but royal jelly 'triggers' the DNA to make a bigger queen; then what about making the drone? The DNA of a female, be it worker or queen, can't possibly be the same as a male, the drone, can it?
Seeing that the supply/load is INDUCTIVE, look at the plate being the PRIMARY COIL of a transformer, you only need to supply a SECONDARY COIL. Play with some transformers and a voltmeter. You may find you can charge your phone without having some fancy jack-plug for it's transformer, or maybe you can charge the ipod whilst listening AND cooking at the same time!
You put the wing upside-down. The stronger the wind, the more it hugs earth. We have the roof of a grand-stand for a baseball stadium here in Cape Town where it's designed like an upsidw-down wing for high winds.
Brown and gray? After 36 million years you can still see the color? Quick, analize the pigment for house-paint. "You won't have to repaint for MILLIONS of years!!"
Woa, woa, woa...where do you get your prices? I LIVE 20 miles from the university. We are on a level here that you would not understand, so I won't try. We are wanting to SAVE LIVES . GEDDIT? Mainly rural South African lives. Mainly black South African lives. If you want to read about costs goto http://www.scidev.net/en/news/nano-tea-bag-purifies-water.html. We are talking CENTS. So please talk SENSE. Yeesh....money, money, money. The South African tax payer is footing the bill OK??
Look at old photographs in the 1800's. How long did people carry pocket-watches on chains before some-one thought--'why not wear the watch on your wrist?' Same with mobiles and I/O devices. It HAS to come. 'Do you remember Dick Tracy, do you remember Shane ?'
I like the 'change in processs' expression and would like to expand this (and allow for the GF paradox)by stating that time travel is ONLY possible if the machine is built FIRST. So it would be impossible to travel back further than that, or forward in time to beyond now, but within the time of the existence of the machine, it would be possible to go forward or back. Like paging through a book.
This is HIGHLY CONCENTRATED BRINE. It's 'normal' state is a SOLID. Therefore it can absorb much higher temperatures and can be pumped into well insulated silo-type storage during the day BUT if a fault happens with the pumps etc. the brine will solidify, then how would you reheat this to such a high tempreture to liquify it again? Also, this is not 'to make electricity at night', it is soley for STORAGE, as one would store electricity in a battery for later use.
I live in Cape Town where last night's game between Spain and Paraguay has convinced me that Seb Blatter and Fifa are reluctant to use video replays to play the game WITHIN THE RULES because they will lose the control necessary to influence the outcome. If Fifa controlled the markets, NO forecast would work, now, at least financial institutions have trends and hearsay to work with, not referees!
You get the diodes to sort out which terminal is the pos/neg THEN rectify with a fet arrangement and/or low current powered 'high' current switching(enough to power device )transistors, bridging out the diodes and feeding the correct polarity to the device. It's simple.
Ravens communicate. They can even mimic humans. No-one is saying that they are close to, or compare with, human intelligence, but AS FAR AS BIRDS ARE they're incredible. They can even fashion tools, something not even monkeys do (chimps are apes NOT monkeys). Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmLVP0HvDg
Cephalopods aren't further removed from humans than ravens! Cephalopods are mammals, birds evolved from reptiles, there feathers are developed scales.Also their 'intelligence' is overrated and it seem their large brains are for communication, a dolphin is too stupid to leap over fishing net buoys which seals do with ease.
The vuvuzela idea (culture?) developed through two routes. In the Cape (South) the fishermen would hawk their fish in the suburbs on carts. They'd blow through a dried piece of kelp, like one would a bugle, and housewives would send their children to buy the 'fish of the day'',mostly snoek. So the monotone is well known from childhood.Now in the North, the Africans had a 'crier' who brought news, opened ceremonies, etc. There they use a Kudu horn, a long, spiral antelope horn also blown like a bugle (as the Pacific Island conch- shell) So it came naturally to use a similar instrument to 'voice' support for a sports team. The question is though, if it's a bugle, why can't they play a tune?
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The wheel was available all along, problem was that ROADS had to be made first. In Africa, where I come from, there was no wheel before the arrival of Europeans but they did make sleds from a "Y" branch of a tree, and hauled by cattle. A wheel needs a flat surface to roll along on, without roads they are useless.
It seems that you don't know your bible. Could you please inform us as to where it says that the Earth is 5'000 years old?
I notice in the covering link for this topic there's an explanation of the naming process for the different versions of Ubuntu, but no explanation for the word 'ubuntu' itself. Ubuntu is an isiZulu and isiXhosa word of some complexity. It has lately been used for charitable, helpfulness, sharing, etc. It is actually more than that. It basically means: I am a man (Bantu) of people. What I do effects all humanity, therefor if I do good humanity will do good. If I help, humanity will help me. We must live for each other. We must draw together. Which is Mark Shuttleworth's vision for your desktop, working to unite other systems. Mark is a South African. Oh, almost forgot, happy birthday Ubuntu!
Hats of to the Commitee for deciding to grant Ralph Steinman the prize. The rule obviously exists to promote, award and acknowledge NEW research and all his research was 'up to date'. Literally. See: http://life.time.mk/read/bb9f5c9af7/abd2c5124a/index.html
Hats of to the Commitee for deciding to grant Ralph Steinman the prize. The rule obviously exists to promote, award and acknowledge NEW research and all his research was 'up to date'. Literally. See: http://life.time.mk/read/bb9f5c9af7/abd2c5124a/index.html
I'm from Southern Africa (Swaziland) and this is something we've always wondered about. Why do people from this part of the world struggle to apply simple logic to a situation? Now that this has come out, it's logical!
Kickstarter should boldly state that it only supports US citizens---although it receives donations from around the world. This would save a lot of us spending our time, effort and hope...only do be told we are illegible.
I live in South Africa and work on maintaining Litho printing machines that are manufactured from all over the world, including Didde Glasers from the US. They are a nightmare. Literally. (What is 1 and 7/32 of an inch plus 1 and 5/7 of an inch?). Once we replaced an O-ring on the hydraulic pump system and had to use the metric equivalent which was ,1 mm (millimetre) smaller in circumference than the US produced one (6 weeks delivery time, 2,000 times more expensive). It ran OK for 3 minutes and then blew.
A day later I watched the Challenger take-off on TV with the first woman on board (my wife insisted - she's a woman!) and we saw THE greatest tragedy in the Space Programme ever!
It was due to the EXACT same reason, a metric O-ring in an Imperial channel.
I'm still a bit angry about that.
Ha! Knew it! Global warming is not the reason for the rise in the sea-level, but I couldn't work out what that reason really was....'till now!!!!!!
The transformers 'handle less than 12KW'? Glad I live in South Africa, our domestic sub-stations handle MEGA Watts! HeeeHaa.....no more 'Darkest Africa!'
I like the idea. Heaven is: a Saturday afternoon, lying on the couch watching the game on TV with a beer in the one hand, a cigar in the mouth, and a fishing pole out the window. Even if a tsunami hit, if the ocean is deep enough, it will simply pass harmlessly under me without my knowing it!
Nurture not only makes a queen out of the common female lava (that would have become a female worker) but also the drones that are MALE. So, as suggested, the DNA of a female worker and the DNA of a queen may be the same but royal jelly 'triggers' the DNA to make a bigger queen; then what about making the drone? The DNA of a female, be it worker or queen, can't possibly be the same as a male, the drone, can it?
Seeing that the supply/load is INDUCTIVE, look at the plate being the PRIMARY COIL of a transformer, you only need to supply a SECONDARY COIL. Play with some transformers and a voltmeter. You may find you can charge your phone without having some fancy jack-plug for it's transformer, or maybe you can charge the ipod whilst listening AND cooking at the same time!
You put the wing upside-down. The stronger the wind, the more it hugs earth. We have the roof of a grand-stand for a baseball stadium here in Cape Town where it's designed like an upsidw-down wing for high winds.
Brown and gray? After 36 million years you can still see the color? Quick, analize the pigment for house-paint. "You won't have to repaint for MILLIONS of years!!"
Woa, woa, woa...where do you get your prices? I LIVE 20 miles from the university. We are on a level here that you would not understand, so I won't try. We are wanting to SAVE LIVES . GEDDIT? Mainly rural South African lives. Mainly black South African lives. If you want to read about costs goto http://www.scidev.net/en/news/nano-tea-bag-purifies-water.html. We are talking CENTS. So please talk SENSE. Yeesh....money, money, money. The South African tax payer is footing the bill OK??
Look at old photographs in the 1800's. How long did people carry pocket-watches on chains before some-one thought--'why not wear the watch on your wrist?' Same with mobiles and I/O devices. It HAS to come. 'Do you remember Dick Tracy, do you remember Shane ?'
I like the 'change in processs' expression and would like to expand this (and allow for the GF paradox)by stating that time travel is ONLY possible if the machine is built FIRST. So it would be impossible to travel back further than that, or forward in time to beyond now, but within the time of the existence of the machine, it would be possible to go forward or back. Like paging through a book.
This is HIGHLY CONCENTRATED BRINE. It's 'normal' state is a SOLID. Therefore it can absorb much higher temperatures and can be pumped into well insulated silo-type storage during the day BUT if a fault happens with the pumps etc. the brine will solidify, then how would you reheat this to such a high tempreture to liquify it again? Also, this is not 'to make electricity at night', it is soley for STORAGE, as one would store electricity in a battery for later use.
I live in Cape Town where last night's game between Spain and Paraguay has convinced me that Seb Blatter and Fifa are reluctant to use video replays to play the game WITHIN THE RULES because they will lose the control necessary to influence the outcome. If Fifa controlled the markets, NO forecast would work, now, at least financial institutions have trends and hearsay to work with, not referees!
You get the diodes to sort out which terminal is the pos/neg THEN rectify with a fet arrangement and/or low current powered 'high' current switching(enough to power device )transistors, bridging out the diodes and feeding the correct polarity to the device. It's simple.
Ravens communicate. They can even mimic humans. No-one is saying that they are close to, or compare with, human intelligence, but AS FAR AS BIRDS ARE they're incredible. They can even fashion tools, something not even monkeys do (chimps are apes NOT monkeys). Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmLVP0HvDg
Cephalopods aren't further removed from humans than ravens! Cephalopods are mammals, birds evolved from reptiles, there feathers are developed scales.Also their 'intelligence' is overrated and it seem their large brains are for communication, a dolphin is too stupid to leap over fishing net buoys which seals do with ease.
The vuvuzela idea (culture?) developed through two routes. In the Cape (South) the fishermen would hawk their fish in the suburbs on carts. They'd blow through a dried piece of kelp, like one would a bugle, and housewives would send their children to buy the 'fish of the day'',mostly snoek. So the monotone is well known from childhood.Now in the North, the Africans had a 'crier' who brought news, opened ceremonies, etc. There they use a Kudu horn, a long, spiral antelope horn also blown like a bugle (as the Pacific Island conch- shell) So it came naturally to use a similar instrument to 'voice' support for a sports team. The question is though, if it's a bugle, why can't they play a tune?
Yea, isn't that called The Chicken Run?