I've often wondered how difficult it would be to build something like this that is solar powered (stays on the surface), has small simple engines, GPS and a satellite radio to call home every day or so. It would be slow but if nothing breaks it could in theory cross huge distances.
Would make a great competition! £20k for the first to cross the Atlantic from Newfoundland to Ireland!
Perhaps there is very little lifting power in the wind, and all that air is simply spinning around. That way it wouldn't pickup that much dust from the ground and could have pushed away the dust on Spirits panels rather than sucking it up.
Pathfinder had something I liked to call the wind chimes. They didn't move about much, I'm guessing because that lander was so close to the ground and the landscape was quite rocky.
The link talks about Opportunity's power boost, but a few days ago Spirit also had the same thing happen to it.
Quite amazing stuff, if this keeps up the rovers should last a very long time!
For all the effort it would take them! All that have to do is release some documents. Even if they charged a small and fair fee to cover the costs of someone finding it and giving it a quick review before releasing it.
In short, if done correctly it would cost them nothing and give them a bit more credibility.
Northern Ireland also have there own notes, and it used to be almost impossible to use them in the rest of the UK where people would think it was Punts - the currency the Republic of Ireland used before switching to the Euro. Before travelling you'd have to try your best to get all 'Bank of England' notes.
I was at the Linux Expo in London last year and I noticed things have improved a lot. Only once did anyone ask about it and they accepted after having a closer look.
Your are guilty of temporal violation. Please remain where you are! Time police are making there way to you now. Don't try sneaking back to your own time either... we where already be.. there... ummm...
Duke3D was open sourced some time ago. So a dedicated group of people could probably do that. Maybe they already have, I've not looked lately. I was happy enough to get a native Linux version.
There is an interesting image of this mountain range here. It seems to suggest that the range extends beyond the dark material, tho that area is hidden in shadow. What's interesting here is that the peeks remain clean well into the 'dark zone'. So possibly whatever formed the mountain range happened before the dark material was deposited.
I've noticed in a lot of the images, there appears to be a ring of mountains around most of Iapetus's equator: Here, here and here.
I'm no scientest, but is it possible that this moon once had a ring system like Saturn itself? Over time the ring particles fell out of orbit and formed the mountains along the equator.
It can also create signals! This is a really nifty device! Except for one thing, it's only avaliable as a USB device! I'd have thought that PCI would be a bit more sensible for something this data hungry?
how long do you figure before there's the first Farscape reference in an episode?
In the episode that introduces Vala (Claudia Black's character), her entrance is very similar to her entrance in the Farscape pilot episode. I'm sure it was intentional.
Not a verbal reference, but definitly a nod to Farscape.
The journey time with nuclear propulsion is said to be 20 years, but yes I forgot about the actual build time. I just re-read the article , they hope to launch in 2016. So it'll be 30+ years I have to wait!
Triton, the one near Neptune, is a very strange object. One of the coldest places in the solar system yet it manages to have geological activity and even a thin atmosphere with clouds. It's also possible that the entire atmosphere collapses into a frost covering the half of the moon that's in winter at the time. Not to mention the moon orbits Neptune backwards, suggesting that it's a captured object from the Kuiper Belt. If true this means it's the largest such object, not Pluto. There are missions being planned to orbit Neptune and send landers to Triton. Should be good!
Seriously though, how is a toy gun a horrible thing?
Seeing kids play with toy guns is something I find wrong. I personally wouldn't make a law on the matter, I think it should be up to the parent. The UK is becoming a right granny state at the moment and the last thing we need are more nanny laws.
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I've often wondered how difficult it would be to build something like this that is solar powered (stays on the surface), has small simple engines, GPS and a satellite radio to call home every day or so. It would be slow but if nothing breaks it could in theory cross huge distances.
Would make a great competition! £20k for the first to cross the Atlantic from Newfoundland to Ireland!
Perhaps there is very little lifting power in the wind, and all that air is simply spinning around. That way it wouldn't pickup that much dust from the ground and could have pushed away the dust on Spirits panels rather than sucking it up.
Pathfinder had something I liked to call the wind chimes. They didn't move about much, I'm guessing because that lander was so close to the ground and the landscape was quite rocky.
Here's an animation here and some info.
The link talks about Opportunity's power boost, but a few days ago Spirit also had the same thing happen to it.
Quite amazing stuff, if this keeps up the rovers should last a very long time!
Don't worry, the second time this story is posted you'll have figured it out.
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Ah the RAD disk, I'd forgot about that. Now there's a feature the PC could really use!
There are hardware solutions but those are pricy, and bound to the IDE channel which isn't as fast as direct RAM.
Wasn't it amazing what you could do on a system with 2Mb of RAM!
For all the effort it would take them! All that have to do is release some documents. Even if they charged a small and fair fee to cover the costs of someone finding it and giving it a quick review before releasing it.
In short, if done correctly it would cost them nothing and give them a bit more credibility.
As a recent former High School student
Bill's got a point!
They made one exception to look at the moon once, but I believe they had to do some tricky things to manage that.
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I didn't know about the Hubble Moon pictures, nice one! Found them here: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive
Wouldn't it be impossible to track this kind of thing? I'd say this 38.4% is just an estimate.
And calling it Piracy is just plain silly.
That crater isn't believed to have been caused by Beagle 2. It's to large.
Here is the official site for details about that image: http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2004/08/31/
No worries, NASA says, just a once-in-a-millennium sky show.
Sure, that's how all these things start. But then later there is running and screaming!
Northern Ireland also have there own notes, and it used to be almost impossible to use them in the rest of the UK where people would think it was Punts - the currency the Republic of Ireland used before switching to the Euro. Before travelling you'd have to try your best to get all 'Bank of England' notes.
I was at the Linux Expo in London last year and I noticed things have improved a lot. Only once did anyone ask about it and they accepted after having a closer look.
How totally exciting, to be here in the future :-)
... we where already be.. there... ummm...
Your are guilty of temporal violation. Please remain where you are! Time police are making there way to you now. Don't try sneaking back to your own time either
Duke3D was open sourced some time ago. So a dedicated group of people could probably do that. Maybe they already have, I've not looked lately. I was happy enough to get a native Linux version.
There is an interesting image of this mountain range here. It seems to suggest that the range extends beyond the dark material, tho that area is hidden in shadow. What's interesting here is that the peeks remain clean well into the 'dark zone'. So possibly whatever formed the mountain range happened before the dark material was deposited.
I'm glad someone else noticed this!
I've noticed in a lot of the images, there appears to be a ring of mountains around most of Iapetus's equator: Here, here and here.
I'm no scientest, but is it possible that this moon once had a ring system like Saturn itself? Over time the ring particles fell out of orbit and formed the mountains along the equator.
Wait, nevermind. Just re-read the text. Possible PCI or PCI-X version later (for higher bus bandwidth)
It can also create signals! This is a really nifty device! Except for one thing, it's only avaliable as a USB device! I'd have thought that PCI would be a bit more sensible for something this data hungry?
I just hope he's well equiped for when Mars is colonised :)
He's been doing a lot of voices for cartoons as well. Maybe he's going to die off or something?
Nah, half the Trek actors did voices for cartoons at the same time as Trek. Gargoyles in particular, for some bizarre reason.
Now if only Claudia Christian would make a guest appearance...
how long do you figure before there's the first Farscape reference in an episode?
In the episode that introduces Vala (Claudia Black's character), her entrance is very similar to her entrance in the Farscape pilot episode. I'm sure it was intentional.
Not a verbal reference, but definitly a nod to Farscape.
The journey time with nuclear propulsion is said to be 20 years, but yes I forgot about the actual build time. I just re-read the article , they hope to launch in 2016. So it'll be 30+ years I have to wait!
And that's only if NASA select the mission.
Triton, the one near Neptune, is a very strange object. One of the coldest places in the solar system yet it manages to have geological activity and even a thin atmosphere with clouds. It's also possible that the entire atmosphere collapses into a frost covering the half of the moon that's in winter at the time. Not to mention the moon orbits Neptune backwards, suggesting that it's a captured object from the Kuiper Belt. If true this means it's the largest such object, not Pluto. There are missions being planned to orbit Neptune and send landers to Triton. Should be good!
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Only 20+ years to go
Seriously though, how is a toy gun a horrible thing?
Seeing kids play with toy guns is something I find wrong. I personally wouldn't make a law on the matter, I think it should be up to the parent. The UK is becoming a right granny state at the moment and the last thing we need are more nanny laws.