One of the military connections to the US space program was the development of huge missiles. A missile that can launch a payload to go to the moon can also be used as an ICBM.
There were earlier reports from the middle of the week that China was planning to eventually go to the moon. Later Reports showed that this was not correct, at least not yet.
They just want to get their feet wet, for now.
New Scientist has a good story on this. And there is this page with links on the chinese space program from U.S. Embassy Beijing Environment, Science and Technology Section.
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (B5LR) is a spin-off of Babylon 5 , and will initially be a 90-minute telemovie called "To Live and Die in Starlight". It airs on the US SCI FI Channel in January 2002.
So never fear, people addicted to intelligent Science fiction have something new on the horizon.
The hope is that this will go on to become a series
As far as Andromenda, this sounds like Paramount is trying to do what TNN wanted to do with the Bab5 sequel, turn it into a Science fiction version cross mix of WWF and Baywatch.
If it was that easy, why doesn't someone try to write stuff like that? Or don't they know that that it is easier to write stuff that sucks vs stuff that is good?
10k wide, 90,000 km/hour kinetic energy = 1/2 * m * v^2,br>
mass (kg), velocity(m/s), energy(joules)
Asteroid Otawara is 5.5 k across and has an estimated mass of.2*10^15 kg
1/2 * 200,000,000,000,000 * (90,000 * 3600)^2 =10,497,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules
This is the equivalent of 166,628,571,428,571,000 Hiroshima bombs. Thats a big mess:(
hmmmmm, I think there may be a mis calculation
According to the Impact Calculator, based on your initial parameters.
Projectile = Iron Asteroid
Diameter = 10.0 kilometer(s)
Velocity = 25.0 km/s
Target = Earth
Yeilds these results:
Energy Released = 305 million MT (MegaTons of TNT) (The Dinosaur Killer: 100 million MT)
QUAKE!! Magnitude 11.3 (largest recorded Earthquake: 9.5)
Crater Diameter: 209.0 km
Crater Depth: 1.5 km
A collision this large occurs roughly once every 240 million years.
Ohh! Look at all the dust in Earth's atmosphere! It's going to block the sunlight and make it very very cold there for many years. There will be another wave of mass extinctions. You humans will not survive.
Or did the mice rebuild it?
Basically, more or less, yes. Considering that the Impact was 65,000,000 years ago. Plus, evolution is faster when you have a clean slate to play with.
To be fair, there is this article about a scientist that thinks mass extinctions are a myth. ( I am skeptical of this.
And not that a ten mile wide asteroid would make a mess, but that an asteroid needed to wipe out and actually destroy the earth would likely be much much large, maybe 1,000 miles across or more.
10 miles across is like a bug on the windshield. Note that humans are living on the outside of the windshield.
So it sounds like you get to have fun researching impact craters on google, etc.
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"However. If I write software, with my time, and my effort, then nobody is going to tell ME under what terms I may let someone else use it. Period.". --- Agreed. I view freedom = power. Not freedom vs power.
Unfortunately, there is the question of what happens when your work finally gets into the hands of someone else. This gets into things like "Artists' rights" where an artist has some rights protect their works even when sold to another (protecting things like statues, etc)
I can remember in a retail store from a long time ago a little old lady who was addicted to Wolfenstein. She loved it, and apparently was quite good at it.
This would be at least one of several classic scenes for a movie someday. The grandma teaching kids how to play doom. or is the local champion, or something. classic
You are both right, in that I had forgotten about the hitchhiker episode, and had forgotten about billgates as the III - but I remembered both when you mentioned them.
Sad to say, I can't take credit for unconscious brilliance. Of course, that hasn't stopped people before.
Actually, it could be Bill the III, v 2.0 (the clone) - but I digress. Odds are half decent that somebody will want to clone Gates, regardless of the consequences.
After all, as time goes on, the people who know where the bodies are buried will start to disappear. And what will be left will be the Microsoft Press version of The History of the Open Source Movement By Bill Gates II (the grandson or something), without a single mention of Linus.
or maybe it will just be the MS History of the World
sometimes, everything was fine back during the dotbomb domain name speculation period. Now everyone is offering discounts on what is basically a commodity, while at the same time cutting back on costs.
You can end up at a place that used to be okay, and now has gone down the tubes.
I wonder what happens if one of these places goes under?
Yeah, I want all that stuff, too, but I think the tradeoff is that we have to wear silver jumpsuits all the time.
Actually, I wouldn't mind programmable jumpsuits with a wireless interface, so that they could be programmed to whatever color scheme and configuration that made sense to me. Of course, in my case, setting the damn thing to transparency mode would get me landed in jail for terrorizing the public.
;-)
The wireless interface offers other interesting hacking possibilities.
Remember the old movies, etc that said how the world would be in 2001?
I want my flying cars, jet packs, all those neat toys.
But I can do with the 1950s predictions of what year 2001 fashions would be like. and I certainly wouldn't want to do space navigation by slide rule and "dead reckoning"
The only way O could see it really working would be for the oil rich countries like the Saudies investing with an Arabic Only Internet - completely separate, designed to their specs. This allows them to have only a few easily controlled gateways where everything can be filtered or shut off.
This also allows them to force content providers who want access to the arabic world to police the content.
The only reason this is even vaguely possible is because of the Saudie tendency to solve problems by throwing lots of money at them. Long distance phone calls to europe for dialup access get to be a pain.
But I do think they are fighting a loosing battle.
tech support geeks? do you mean "fellow tech support colleagues" or "fellow geeks". I thought that "tech support" and "geek" were incompatible words...
Yes, it's a joke...
It is certainly less contradictory than saying Sales Geeks. Who are Notorious for such get togethers.
The current ratings have Manos in the large block tied for second... but it has almost 3000 votes - 10 times more than the "winner," and over three times more votes than any of its peers.
I/ve always wondered about a proper voting method that would take into account the volume of a response, but which would not be subject to ballot stuffing.
And let's face it, there are a number of small time flicks out there that would not make the big time for obvious reasons. The one that made the the worst movie of all time was a batwoman movie.
Isn't hard-to-disrupt communication the reason that DARPA got involved in this "Internet" business anyhow?
But somehow that all went to hell when it got commercialized. How many people here remember the splash made by that first infamous piece of broadcast spam from that lawyer in Arizona?(or was it California?) Or the September that never ended with the advent of Internet access via AOL.
As soon as all these commercial interests got into it, wham. And this is the information superhighway invented by algore. The bloody mess of spam and commercial jerks. Not Darpa
The real problem is that spammers actually make money off of spamming us.
Actually we need a way to make money of the spammers. If there is a legal system to make money off spammmers, they will go away.
Solutions I've advocated in the past included spamm licenses, complete with cute orange ear tags for the spammer, and a culling program. This may even make a good kids games; "Spam Hunter! Can YOU catch the spammer?"
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Plus the fact that every ex-box you buy stabs MS for a 100 bucks if you only use MAME on it, using it to play only games that do not support MS.
I am sure there are other levels as well, depending on you sense of humor.
There have been rumors that the print edition may be returning, based on passing comments by certain coumnists in their web journals. But nothing tangible yet
If I had a car that could use the Onstar system, I would deliberately tell them that I would not want spam, or else to cancel the account before I drove the car through the show room window
Actually, it would make a wonderful scene for a subplot in a movie. Yes I can see it - someone wins a year in a house from the future - the Microsoft house that wakes you up everytime you get spam. And the final escape to the car where it decides to use the "follow you everywhere" feature for email and messages. complete with the tech support who insist that this is a feature and all the rest.
Someone should be able to hone some sort of open source movie script to fine effect.
Slashdot Mirror
he should at least link to them, but it looks like he didn't webify them
China may be interested in things like this.
They just want to get their feet wet, for now.
New Scientist has a good story on this. And there is this page with links on the chinese space program from U.S. Embassy Beijing Environment, Science and Technology Section.
Good Interview here
The hope is that this will go on to become a series
As far as Andromenda, this sounds like Paramount is trying to do what TNN wanted to do with the Bab5 sequel, turn it into a Science fiction version cross mix of WWF and Baywatch.
If it was that easy, why doesn't someone try to write stuff like that? Or don't they know that that it is easier to write stuff that sucks vs stuff that is good?
kinetic energy = 1/2 * m * v^2
Asteroid Otawara is 5.5 k across and has an estimated mass of
1/2 * 200,000,000,000,000 * (90,000 * 3600)^2 =10,497,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules This is the equivalent of 166,628,571,428,571,000 Hiroshima bombs. Thats a big mess
hmmmmm, I think there may be a mis calculation
According to the Impact Calculator, based on your initial parameters.
Projectile = Iron Asteroid
Diameter = 10.0 kilometer(s)
Velocity = 25.0 km/s
Target = Earth
Yeilds these results:
Energy Released = 305 million MT (MegaTons of TNT)
(The Dinosaur Killer: 100 million MT)
QUAKE!! Magnitude 11.3 (largest recorded Earthquake: 9.5)
Crater Diameter: 209.0 km
Crater Depth: 1.5 km
A collision this large occurs roughly once every 240 million years.
[insert picture of Marivin the Martian here]
http://janus.astro.umd.edu/gifdir/marvin.jpg
Ohh! Look at all the dust in Earth's atmosphere! It's going to block the sunlight and make it very very cold there for many years. There will be another wave of mass extinctions. You humans will not survive.
This actually was a big thing a few years ago. Thus you have goodies like the Sky and Telescope Impact Hazards website, along with this nifty cosmic impact calulator.
To be fair, there is this article about a scientist that thinks mass extinctions are a myth. ( I am skeptical of this.
And not that a ten mile wide asteroid would make a mess, but that an asteroid needed to wipe out and actually destroy the earth would likely be much much large, maybe 1,000 miles across or more.
10 miles across is like a bug on the windshield. Note that humans are living on the outside of the windshield.
So it sounds like you get to have fun researching impact craters on google, etc.
Unfortunately, there is the question of what happens when your work finally gets into the hands of someone else. This gets into things like "Artists' rights" where an artist has some rights protect their works even when sold to another (protecting things like statues, etc)
Google gives the translated title as "Net barrier for Fritzchen stupid", with somehow somes it up nicely
This would be at least one of several classic scenes for a movie someday. The grandma teaching kids how to play doom. or is the local champion, or something. classic
Sad to say, I can't take credit for unconscious brilliance. Of course, that hasn't stopped people before.
Actually, it could be Bill the III, v 2.0 (the clone) - but I digress. Odds are half decent that somebody will want to clone Gates, regardless of the consequences.
Does anyone have a idea on how much data Seti at home has processed? This would certainly be useful as a yard stick of sorts.
After all, as time goes on, the people who know where the bodies are buried will start to disappear. And what will be left will be the Microsoft Press version of The History of the Open Source Movement By Bill Gates II (the grandson or something), without a single mention of Linus.
or maybe it will just be the MS History of the World
You can end up at a place that used to be okay, and now has gone down the tubes.
I wonder what happens if one of these places goes under?
Actually, I wouldn't mind programmable jumpsuits with a wireless interface, so that they could be programmed to whatever color scheme and configuration that made sense to me. Of course, in my case, setting the damn thing to transparency mode would get me landed in jail for terrorizing the public.
The wireless interface offers other interesting hacking possibilities.
I want my flying cars, jet packs, all those neat toys.
But I can do with the 1950s predictions of what year 2001 fashions would be like. and I certainly wouldn't want to do space navigation by slide rule and "dead reckoning"
This also allows them to force content providers who want access to the arabic world to police the content.
The only reason this is even vaguely possible is because of the Saudie tendency to solve problems by throwing lots of money at them. Long distance phone calls to europe for dialup access get to be a pain.
But I do think they are fighting a loosing battle.
It is certainly less contradictory than saying Sales Geeks. Who are Notorious for such get togethers.
I/ve always wondered about a proper voting method that would take into account the volume of a response, but which would not be subject to ballot stuffing.
And let's face it, there are a number of small time flicks out there that would not make the big time for obvious reasons. The one that made the the worst movie of all time was a batwoman movie.
But somehow that all went to hell when it got commercialized. How many people here remember the splash made by that first infamous piece of broadcast spam from that lawyer in Arizona?(or was it California?) Or the September that never ended with the advent of Internet access via AOL.
As soon as all these commercial interests got into it, wham. And this is the information superhighway invented by algore. The bloody mess of spam and commercial jerks. Not Darpa
Actually we need a way to make money of the spammers. If there is a legal system to make money off spammmers, they will go away.
Solutions I've advocated in the past included spamm licenses, complete with cute orange ear tags for the spammer, and a culling program. This may even make a good kids games; "Spam Hunter! Can YOU catch the spammer?"
I am sure there are other levels as well, depending on you sense of humor.
There have been rumors that the print edition may be returning, based on passing comments by certain coumnists in their web journals. But nothing tangible yet
Actually, it would make a wonderful scene for a subplot in a movie. Yes I can see it - someone wins a year in a house from the future - the Microsoft house that wakes you up everytime you get spam. And the final escape to the car where it decides to use the "follow you everywhere" feature for email and messages. complete with the tech support who insist that this is a feature and all the rest.
Someone should be able to hone some sort of open source movie script to fine effect.
Well, that opens the door to places like the guerilla news network, where they are expert at that sort of thing.
but otherwise, no impact whatsoever.
[smile]
I wonder if the Sept 11 events have thrown some people off so much that they no longer see magic where they would have seen it before.