Let me know how that job thing works out for you when you graduate...
Troll all you want, but I'm sure it will be fine, considering geology encompasses a wide range of disciplines from seismology, and hazards analysis to hydrology (which is absolutely booming right now), in addition to countless other fields.
Considering that there are something like 10 times as many job opportunities available to college graduates in geology as there are in biology, I'm not too worried.
My recommendation would be to go to school. If it's not to your liking after a semester or two - drop out. It's much better to say that you've tried at something than to never have even attempted.
I completely agree. At the very least, enroll in a community college. It's a cheap and fairly easy way to get the basic general education requirements out of your way. You'll have to take them no matter what university you go to. It's pretty nice to pay something like $15 a unit at a C.C. (which adds up to $180 a semester or so) compared to knocking off the same GE classes at a 4 year institution for $1,000/$5,000/$10,000 a semester or more. Interestingly enough, some of the best professors I've ever had in my academic career were at my community college.
It also gives you a chance to take some electives and extra classes to see what you might be interested in. After working a database administration job to pay my way through C.C., I realized that Computer Science (which is what I intended to major all along before going to college), just wasn't for me. After taking some interesting classes on a whim (that a cute girl I knew was taking... oh yes, pathetic!), I ended up loving geology. I eventually changed that to my major and by the time I transferred to a four year institution, I was ready to start the coursework, having completed all the GE stuff at my C.C.
Regarding traveling, I think you should wait to do it. You do a lot of growing up in college (well... most people do anyway), and I think the extra maturatiy and knowledge of the world you gain will make any chance to travel and explore the world much more enjoyable. I'm planning on tooling around New Zealand next year for some field work and then perhaps explore parts of South America next year after I graduate.
Mentally and emotionally, I don't think that I would have been able to try anything like that right out of high school.
Shouldn't you say, "IF a laptop is stolen..."? What business are you in that laptops go missing willy-nilly! I should think that before one installs scripts to say where the laptop went I might invest in some padlocks on the office building;)
You can do that (and I do), but the last time I checked google only allowed up to 10 keywords. You've used up 5 before you've even put in any that actually relate to the thing you're searching for. Depending on the nature of your search, it can be frustrating trading off "positive" search terms and "negative" ones.
Congratulations to Fosset and the folks at Scaled Composites!. I'll bet he's had enough flying for awhile and he's probably wanting to take a shower and freshen up some right away.
I dunno, based on how much time this guy spends trying to go aroundtheworld in vessels with small volumes, I'd be willing to wager that he doesn't enjoy showers.;)
Says who? I don't believe you. This country is more heavily forested now than it has been in the past hundred years. Abandoned agricultural land is returning to forest everywhere.
Err what? Did you read the article you cited? It specifically says this is being seen in the forests of New England and suggests there is a difference between how lumber is harvested on the east coast and west coast. This isn't happening "everywhere."
The country might be more forested now in the sense that there are more trees in the forest than there have ever been, due to the Forest Service's policy of suppressing any and all fires, rather than letting them burn.
But in terms of square miles of forested land? I highly doubt it. San Francisco, the Marin Headlands and even parts of northern California by Eureka were heavy old growth forests a hundred years ago.
Look at the Marin Headlands now for example. You'll find trees few and far between in certain spots. I'm sure you see this in quite a few places across the country, especially in the West. Since more logging occurs in the west, I'm assuming that ultimately cancels out reclaimed forest that grows in the East?
The potential cost of a manned mission to Mars, using off the shelf technology and launching today: $20 billion dollars.
Which means you can send 48 rovers similiar to Spirit and Opportunity to Mars, with the same payload.
The "rovers being able to stay longer" is a somewhat unqualified statement at the moment. Sure, they have each lasted a year on the surface. It's up in the air whether they will both last another year or not however.
Humans would be forced to stay on the surface of Mars for roughly 2 (Earth) years, until conditions to launch are optimal again.
Regardless, it is technically "cheaper" to send Rovers, but a human on the ground can do so much more.
(Then again, I might be saying this coming from a geology background. I want to be on the ground, physically looking at the rock, breaking it apart in my lab, creating thin sections and examining the mineral content. Right now, all we can do with the rovers is look at pictures and analyze spectrographs... and dig a few inches into the ground. Please, what is beneath all that sound? What is the bedrock composed of. Etc...).
Anyway, for those who haven't read it, I highly recommend Dr. Zubrin's book, The Case For Mars
"I still liked HL2, but Far Cry is a much better value"
I wonder if you'll be saying that two years down the road, when there are 2 or 3 must-play mods for HL2.
He probably will. There may be the same type of "must-play" mods on Far Cry by then too. Far Cry's engine is pretty good and has some cool features for modding. The SDK has already been released as well.
Both games have the potential to produce some awesome mods.
That said... if you are buying HL2 strictly for mods, then you should have waited "two years down the road." Then you could pick it up for $20 and still get the mods for free. An excellent value.
That said, in my opinion, Far Cry was fun and an awesome environment as well. The game was quite long (though I admit, I thought those piece of shit Trigen monster things ruined the game experience. I mean the hit detection system with them basically involves a bubble with a huge radius around them. If they jump near you, you're dead. Horrible!).
Half Life 2 is kind of short (and the air boat got a bit repetitive, as did the moving coffin thing towards the end). However, HL2 has very pretty graphics.
Anyway, after having the experience of playing both of them, if I had to start over and choose only one of them to spend money on today... I think I'd choose Far Cry.
Yeah, I was hoping Air Buccaneers would win (they received third place). Definitely a fun mod when lots of people are playing. A kind of unique concept as well.
Tim Cahill discusses this in his short book Lost in My Own Backyard : A Walk in Yellowstone National Park (which is a great book, BTW). The Yellowstone caldera is believed to be 30+ miles wide. It has exploded several times, and in more recent times has been erupting about once every 600K years. The fact that the last explosion was 640K years ago can lead to some sobering thoughts.
Some claim that the next eruption is overdue, a fact that the USGS disputes.
And it's disputed for good reason. This "Yellowstone eruption happens every 600Ka" nonsense is based on only THREE major eruptions. The first of which occurred 2.1Ma ago, the second that occurred 1.3Ma and the one that occurred 640Ka ago.
Break down the time: Longest interval is 800Ka between eruptions. Shortest is 660 Ka.
That gives us an average of 730Ka.
It's been ~640Ka since the last eruption. If another eruption happens, it's highly unlikely that it will happen in our lifetimes.
Basically, the eruption may happen tomorrow, or it may happen 160,000 years from now. That's a pretty wide range to consider.
Well considering this is the military... they already have their own tribunals set up. If convicted, lock them up at "Gitmo" forever and no one will be the wiser.;)
Then you get what you deserve, I'd say. Somehow I greatly doubt that Tillamock Cheese and North Plains Lettuce purchased in Beaverton at the farmer's market are contaminated.
That's a pretty insensitive and ignorant comment. You might be surprised to learn how prevalent perchlorate contamination is in the United States. Drinking and irrigation water for up to 20 million Americans in 14 different states are contaminated with it. But then again, I guess those 20 million people get what they deserve? And yes, even our lettuce is affected.
Anyway, regardless of whether you were trolling or not, some information for other people who might be interested. Southern California has a rather large problem with perchlorate contamination in our water supplies. This wasn't discovered until around 1997 when the EPA and local water municipalities decided to start testing for it. They were quite surprised as to the extent of this "plume".
Evidentially, contractors and other workers were dumping all their rocket fuel right into the ground. Granted, they were probably unaware of the possible consequences at the time. Anyway, a number of these plumes have been found around former military bases in Southern California (Norton, March, George). In particular, the plume located around Norton/San Bernardino is a huge problem and cleaning it up is astronomically expensive
Would driving with your highbeams on classify as Reckless Disregard for Human Life? What you if you blinded a bus driver carrying a load of passengers?
There's a few differences here. If someone forgets to turn their high beams off, you as a driver can still shield your eyes and prepare for it somehow. Or even look away. Those white lines on the road to the right of your car? You use those to help you see where the edge of the road is when conditions make it hard to see. Look towards that until the car passes, you'll be fine.
A pilot who is landing a plane that is suddenly flashed with a laser can't really look away. The laser has already hit his eye. And it's quite possible that it could have caused permanent damage to his vision, which can significantly increase the chances of an accident, as well.
Whether it causes an accident or not, your high beams aren't going to cause someone to have permanent eye damage.
While this reply is off-topic in regards to the story, I feel there is some stuff that should corrected.
The recurrence interval for large scale eruptions at Yellowstone ranges from 600Ka to 800Ka. That's a 200,000 year range. The last major eruption was ~640Ka ago.
That means it might erupt tomorrow, or it might erupt 120,000 years from now. Chances are, we won't be alive to see it when it finally happens.
It's also entirely possible that it might not have a major eruption ever again. The 600-800Ka recurrence intervals are based on only three large eruption events that have occured in the past 2 million years.
Currently, seismicity in the region is at relatively low background levels and there really isn't anything to worry about. We see the same sort of situation at Long Valley Caldera as well.
Regarding the grandparent's theory of how to use geothermal power: I have to say that I disagree with it. Just because there is magma down there doesn't mean it will be economically feasible to drill through the rock that the plant will sit on.
As the parent poster states, there are also possible drawbacks and consequences as well. It has been proven that earthquakes in The Geysers region of California (northwest of San Francisco) are caused by the injection of water into the ground. Whether this could lead to some bigger event in certain areas, we don't know.
You can easily see passenger aircraft all the way up to 30,000 feet or however high they fly.
While it isn't likely a hand held laser can actually track an airplane, it probably isn't that hard to randomly "hit" a plane that is coming in for landing.
Since the plane would be a ways out and at a relatively low angle due to its approach, any sort of light could be projected into the cockpit fairly unobstructed. I'm sure by just waving your laser back and forth in the general vicinity of the aircraft, it is possible to get lucky and actually briefly project the laser into the cockpit.
The article seems to imply that because of Craigslist's free nature, that the papers are losing money and can't compete with Craigslist persay. However, that isn't entirely correct.
I used to work at Trader Joe's in SOMA (SF) and had the fortune of having a Craigslist employee come through my line (he was wearing a CL shirt, which I inquired about). We got to the topic of Craigslist and its plethora of free boards/posting for all sorts of items. I asked how much bandwidth they were using (something like 20 MB per second at the time) and how they got their revenue since there weren't any advertisements on the site. The solution: They charge companies to post employment listings... and evidentially only for the San Francisco section of Craigslist. All the other cities sections were still completely free. (At least this was the case at the time I talked to this employee)
So while the newspapers are claiming they are losing that money to Craigslist (which is true), it's more of a fact that these companies are simply switching to a service that they feel produces better results, not neccesarily the fact that Craigslist is a (mostly) free service for them.
(Of course, it also helps that you can search job postings by location, money, job types, and other criteria... which isn't all that easy in a hard copy newspaper. It's simply a better medium)
(Offtopic - I've also had someone from Yahoo come through my line, who was also wearing a company shirt. After talking for a bit, she asked if I used Yahoo at all. I told her I used Google. She didn't say another word to me while she was in the store!)
So how exactly did we go from a 1 in 37 chance to a 1 in 56000 chance in a few hours? My guess is that slashdot submitters was posting meaningless statistics and editors were letting them through in order to sensationalize the issue.
Too bad you'd be guessing wrong. NASA's information page on 2004 MN4 has been continuously updated throughout the weekend. Just a few hours ago, based on certain observations, it was concluded that the probability was 1/37. After further calculations and observations, the trajectory of the asteroid was plotted with enough confidence to warrant a reevaluation of the impact probabilities. Hence, we now see a 1/56,000 chance. It's all right there on NASA's page. Nothing sensationalistic about it.
How'd we get arrive at those probabilities within a matter of hours? Read the article summary. It does a good job of explaining it.
Steve Squyres, the Mars rovers principal investigator, said the rovers' designers deemed the additional weight of adding wipers or blowers to the solar panels was not worthwhile. Instead they increased the size of the panels to maximize the power input.
Steve Squyres, the Mars rovers principal investigator, said the rovers' designers deemed the additional weight of adding wipers or blowers to the solar panels was not worthwhile. Instead they increased the size of the panels to maximize the power input.
Slashdot Mirror
sounds like its gonna cost sony about as much as I throw out the car window as i pass by hookers
$90.7 million dollars???
Pardon me, but do you mind if I pretend to be a hooker while you drive by?
Let me know how that job thing works out for you when you graduate...
Troll all you want, but I'm sure it will be fine, considering geology encompasses a wide range of disciplines from seismology, and hazards analysis to hydrology (which is absolutely booming right now), in addition to countless other fields.
Considering that there are something like 10 times as many job opportunities available to college graduates in geology as there are in biology, I'm not too worried.
My recommendation would be to go to school. If it's not to your liking after a semester or two - drop out. It's much better to say that you've tried at something than to never have even attempted.
I completely agree. At the very least, enroll in a community college. It's a cheap and fairly easy way to get the basic general education requirements out of your way. You'll have to take them no matter what university you go to. It's pretty nice to pay something like $15 a unit at a C.C. (which adds up to $180 a semester or so) compared to knocking off the same GE classes at a 4 year institution for $1,000/$5,000/$10,000 a semester or more. Interestingly enough, some of the best professors I've ever had in my academic career were at my community college.
It also gives you a chance to take some electives and extra classes to see what you might be interested in. After working a database administration job to pay my way through C.C., I realized that Computer Science (which is what I intended to major all along before going to college), just wasn't for me. After taking some interesting classes on a whim (that a cute girl I knew was taking... oh yes, pathetic!), I ended up loving geology. I eventually changed that to my major and by the time I transferred to a four year institution, I was ready to start the coursework, having completed all the GE stuff at my C.C.
Regarding traveling, I think you should wait to do it. You do a lot of growing up in college (well... most people do anyway), and I think the extra maturatiy and knowledge of the world you gain will make any chance to travel and explore the world much more enjoyable. I'm planning on tooling around New Zealand next year for some field work and then perhaps explore parts of South America next year after I graduate.
Mentally and emotionally, I don't think that I would have been able to try anything like that right out of high school.
Shouldn't you say, "IF a laptop is stolen..."? What business are you in that laptops go missing willy-nilly! I should think that before one installs scripts to say where the laptop went I might invest in some padlocks on the office building ;)
;)
He probably works at Los Alamos National Laboratories. Or the Navy.
You can do that (and I do), but the last time I checked google only allowed up to 10 keywords. You've used up 5 before you've even put in any that actually relate to the thing you're searching for. Depending on the nature of your search, it can be frustrating trading off "positive" search terms and "negative" ones.
Google recently raised their query limit to 32 words.
Does anyone know what happened to Blake Ross? It seems like since he started going to Stanford, his involvement in Firefox went down drastically.
(School generally does this...) However, he was definitely a great/gifted developer.
Congratulations to Fosset and the folks at Scaled Composites!. I'll bet he's had enough flying for awhile and he's probably wanting to take a shower and freshen up some right away.
;)
I dunno, based on how much time this guy spends trying to go around the world in vessels with small volumes, I'd be willing to wager that he doesn't enjoy showers.
Says who? I don't believe you. This country is more heavily forested now than it has been in the past hundred years. Abandoned agricultural land is returning to forest everywhere.
Err what? Did you read the article you cited? It specifically says this is being seen in the forests of New England and suggests there is a difference between how lumber is harvested on the east coast and west coast. This isn't happening "everywhere."
The country might be more forested now in the sense that there are more trees in the forest than there have ever been, due to the Forest Service's policy of suppressing any and all fires, rather than letting them burn.
But in terms of square miles of forested land? I highly doubt it. San Francisco, the Marin Headlands and even parts of northern California by Eureka were heavy old growth forests a hundred years ago.
Look at the Marin Headlands now for example. You'll find trees few and far between in certain spots. I'm sure you see this in quite a few places across the country, especially in the West. Since more logging occurs in the west, I'm assuming that ultimately cancels out reclaimed forest that grows in the East?
But you could send several thousand rovers for the cost of sending one human, and the rovers can stay longer.
The combined cost of Spirit and Opportunity was $820 million dollars.
The potential cost of a manned mission to Mars, using off the shelf technology and launching today: $20 billion dollars.
Which means you can send 48 rovers similiar to Spirit and Opportunity to Mars, with the same payload.
The "rovers being able to stay longer" is a somewhat unqualified statement at the moment. Sure, they have each lasted a year on the surface. It's up in the air whether they will both last another year or not however.
Humans would be forced to stay on the surface of Mars for roughly 2 (Earth) years, until conditions to launch are optimal again.
Regardless, it is technically "cheaper" to send Rovers, but a human on the ground can do so much more.
(Then again, I might be saying this coming from a geology background. I want to be on the ground, physically looking at the rock, breaking it apart in my lab, creating thin sections and examining the mineral content. Right now, all we can do with the rovers is look at pictures and analyze spectrographs... and dig a few inches into the ground. Please, what is beneath all that sound? What is the bedrock composed of. Etc...).
Anyway, for those who haven't read it, I highly recommend Dr. Zubrin's book, The Case For Mars
"I still liked HL2, but Far Cry is a much better value"
I wonder if you'll be saying that two years down the road, when there are 2 or 3 must-play mods for HL2.
He probably will. There may be the same type of "must-play" mods on Far Cry by then too. Far Cry's engine is pretty good and has some cool features for modding. The SDK has already been released as well.
Both games have the potential to produce some awesome mods.
That said... if you are buying HL2 strictly for mods, then you should have waited "two years down the road." Then you could pick it up for $20 and still get the mods for free. An excellent value.
That said, in my opinion, Far Cry was fun and an awesome environment as well. The game was quite long (though I admit, I thought those piece of shit Trigen monster things ruined the game experience. I mean the hit detection system with them basically involves a bubble with a huge radius around them. If they jump near you, you're dead. Horrible!).
Half Life 2 is kind of short (and the air boat got a bit repetitive, as did the moving coffin thing towards the end). However, HL2 has very pretty graphics.
Anyway, after having the experience of playing both of them, if I had to start over and choose only one of them to spend money on today... I think I'd choose Far Cry.
Yeah, I was hoping Air Buccaneers would win (they received third place). Definitely a fun mod when lots of people are playing. A kind of unique concept as well.
Tim Cahill discusses this in his short book Lost in My Own Backyard : A Walk in Yellowstone National Park (which is a great book, BTW). The Yellowstone caldera is believed to be 30+ miles wide. It has exploded several times, and in more recent times has been erupting about once every 600K years. The fact that the last explosion was 640K years ago can lead to some sobering thoughts.
Some claim that the next eruption is overdue, a fact that the USGS disputes.
And it's disputed for good reason. This "Yellowstone eruption happens every 600Ka" nonsense is based on only THREE major eruptions. The first of which occurred 2.1Ma ago, the second that occurred 1.3Ma and the one that occurred 640Ka ago.
Break down the time:
Longest interval is 800Ka between eruptions.
Shortest is 660 Ka.
That gives us an average of 730Ka.
It's been ~640Ka since the last eruption. If another eruption happens, it's highly unlikely that it will happen in our lifetimes.
Basically, the eruption may happen tomorrow, or it may happen 160,000 years from now. That's a pretty wide range to consider.
Well considering this is the military... they already have their own tribunals set up. If convicted, lock them up at "Gitmo" forever and no one will be the wiser. ;)
Then you get what you deserve, I'd say. Somehow I greatly doubt that Tillamock Cheese and North Plains Lettuce purchased in Beaverton at the farmer's market are contaminated.
That's a pretty insensitive and ignorant comment. You might be surprised to learn how prevalent perchlorate contamination is in the United States. Drinking and irrigation water for up to 20 million Americans in 14 different states are contaminated with it. But then again, I guess those 20 million people get what they deserve? And yes, even our lettuce is affected.
Anyway, regardless of whether you were trolling or not, some information for other people who might be interested. Southern California has a rather large problem with perchlorate contamination in our water supplies. This wasn't discovered until around 1997 when the EPA and local water municipalities decided to start testing for it. They were quite surprised as to the extent of this "plume".
Evidentially, contractors and other workers were dumping all their rocket fuel right into the ground. Granted, they were probably unaware of the possible consequences at the time. Anyway, a number of these plumes have been found around former military bases in Southern California (Norton, March, George). In particular, the plume located around Norton/San Bernardino is a huge problem and cleaning it up is astronomically expensive
Other links:
A Perchlorate Primer
Map of contaminated sites in the United States
Study says low amounts of Perchlorate pose NO risk (LA Times - Registration Required. This article was written yesterday. Interesting contrast to this Slashdot article)
Lockheed Martin commissions study. Volunteers take perchlorate pills
Would driving with your highbeams on classify as Reckless Disregard for Human Life? What you if you blinded a bus driver carrying a load of passengers?
There's a few differences here. If someone forgets to turn their high beams off, you as a driver can still shield your eyes and prepare for it somehow. Or even look away. Those white lines on the road to the right of your car? You use those to help you see where the edge of the road is when conditions make it hard to see. Look towards that until the car passes, you'll be fine.
A pilot who is landing a plane that is suddenly flashed with a laser can't really look away. The laser has already hit his eye. And it's quite possible that it could have caused permanent damage to his vision, which can significantly increase the chances of an accident, as well.
Whether it causes an accident or not, your high beams aren't going to cause someone to have permanent eye damage.
While this reply is off-topic in regards to the story, I feel there is some stuff that should corrected.
The recurrence interval for large scale eruptions at Yellowstone ranges from 600Ka to 800Ka. That's a 200,000 year range. The last major eruption was ~640Ka ago.
That means it might erupt tomorrow, or it might erupt 120,000 years from now. Chances are, we won't be alive to see it when it finally happens.
It's also entirely possible that it might not have a major eruption ever again. The 600-800Ka recurrence intervals are based on only three large eruption events that have occured in the past 2 million years.
Currently, seismicity in the region is at relatively low background levels and there really isn't anything to worry about. We see the same sort of situation at Long Valley Caldera as well.
Regarding the grandparent's theory of how to use geothermal power: I have to say that I disagree with it. Just because there is magma down there doesn't mean it will be economically feasible to drill through the rock that the plant will sit on.
As the parent poster states, there are also possible drawbacks and consequences as well. It has been proven that earthquakes in The Geysers region of California (northwest of San Francisco) are caused by the injection of water into the ground. Whether this could lead to some bigger event in certain areas, we don't know.
You can barely see a plane at 8500 feet!
Err?
You can easily see passenger aircraft all the way up to 30,000 feet or however high they fly.
While it isn't likely a hand held laser can actually track an airplane, it probably isn't that hard to randomly "hit" a plane that is coming in for landing.
Since the plane would be a ways out and at a relatively low angle due to its approach, any sort of light could be projected into the cockpit fairly unobstructed. I'm sure by just waving your laser back and forth in the general vicinity of the aircraft, it is possible to get lucky and actually briefly project the laser into the cockpit.
The article seems to imply that because of Craigslist's free nature, that the papers are losing money and can't compete with Craigslist persay. However, that isn't entirely correct.
I used to work at Trader Joe's in SOMA (SF) and had the fortune of having a Craigslist employee come through my line (he was wearing a CL shirt, which I inquired about). We got to the topic of Craigslist and its plethora of free boards/posting for all sorts of items. I asked how much bandwidth they were using (something like 20 MB per second at the time) and how they got their revenue since there weren't any advertisements on the site. The solution: They charge companies to post employment listings... and evidentially only for the San Francisco section of Craigslist. All the other cities sections were still completely free. (At least this was the case at the time I talked to this employee)
So while the newspapers are claiming they are losing that money to Craigslist (which is true), it's more of a fact that these companies are simply switching to a service that they feel produces better results, not neccesarily the fact that Craigslist is a (mostly) free service for them.
(Of course, it also helps that you can search job postings by location, money, job types, and other criteria... which isn't all that easy in a hard copy newspaper. It's simply a better medium)
(Offtopic - I've also had someone from Yahoo come through my line, who was also wearing a company shirt. After talking for a bit, she asked if I used Yahoo at all. I told her I used Google. She didn't say another word to me while she was in the store!)
So how exactly did we go from a 1 in 37 chance to a 1 in 56000 chance in a few hours? My guess is that slashdot submitters was posting meaningless statistics and editors were letting them through in order to sensationalize the issue.
Too bad you'd be guessing wrong. NASA's information page on 2004 MN4 has been continuously updated throughout the weekend. Just a few hours ago, based on certain observations, it was concluded that the probability was 1/37. After further calculations and observations, the trajectory of the asteroid was plotted with enough confidence to warrant a reevaluation of the impact probabilities. Hence, we now see a 1/56,000 chance. It's all right there on NASA's page. Nothing sensationalistic about it.
How'd we get arrive at those probabilities within a matter of hours? Read the article summary. It does a good job of explaining it.
That seems wrong... an 8.0 is equivalent to ~1,000 Megatons of TNT. Reference
This energy released by this quake was ~30,000 Megatons!
Hmm, I fubar'd my link. Anyway, my post SHOULD have said:
Or maybe not:
Steve Squyres, the Mars rovers principal investigator, said the rovers' designers deemed the additional weight of adding wipers or blowers to the solar panels was not worthwhile. Instead they increased the size of the panels to maximize the power input.
Or maybe not:
Steve Squyres, the Mars rovers principal investigator, said the rovers' designers deemed the additional weight of adding wipers or blowers to the solar panels was not worthwhile. Instead they increased the size of the panels to maximize the power input.
By "wee bit", you mean stronger by about 300% right? ;)
All this could be muted if a cell tower was actually placed on the plane, but i dont know how concievable that is at the moment...
;)
Well in California, we have this popular movement to blend in all cell phone towers, so they look somewhat "natural".
So my question is, if they put fake trees on the ground, what will they do in the air?
Fake wings perhaps?
Yup!
One of the most famously studied offset stream channels in the world is on the San Andreas: Wallace Creek.