UFO creator Gerry Anderson died last December, in the comments for the story about it here a lot of people pointed out that the show actually was quite expensive for its time. Appearances to the contrary.;) Actually, if you think about it, all those ultra-exotic costumes and sets couldn't have been dirt cheap to fashion. It's not like TOS where the crew just happens to conveniently land on a planet where the natives are all decked out in Nazi garb from the studio's wardrobes. Many are more impressed by UFO's very detailed models and squib explosions than the cheesy CG that you see so often today, too.
Archaeologists found a sophisticatedrainwatercollection and storage system on the island of Crete while working on the reconstruction of the Palace of Knossos (1700 B.C.). However, with the development of building construction based on new materials such as lime and burnt clay bricks, new construction techniques like arches and domes developed. The ancient Romans became masters inrainwaterharvesting and the construction ofreservoirs. It was this new technique of building closed cisterns, and at the same time the urbanization within the Roman Empire around the Mediterranean, which resulted in the development of arainwatercatchment culture at all those places where water resources were limited. This is why oldrainwatercisterns are to be found on the islands of Capri and Malta and at places of historical interest in Spain and Turkey, in the Lebanon and on the island of Sicily.
Plenty of research is being conducted on modern approaches to rainwater harvesting. In the developed world these often come into conflict with environmental regulations regarding water quality, and in general there's a surfeit of water from other sources that is ran through central filtration facilities so no great press is on to tap rainwater as a major source. It's something popular with people who are interested in green tech and the like.
Because of the difficulty in turning pages, for books anyway. Past a certain rate of speed you need to keep your arms on something for stability, or I do anyway. Certainly helps you to concentrate on what you're reading. Now, to hold books open there's things like the Book Magic Clip that slides into place holding the pages open. I've made my own versions of these in the past out of the musical wire they sell in hobby shops; instead of how the Book Magic slides down from the top, my version holds books open from the sides. The wire passes around the back of the book and two arms bend around to hold the book on the front. I tried drawing you an example in ASCII art but the 'junk' characters filter shut me down.:/ It's not complicated at all though. Jeweler's pliers helps to bend the wire. You have to make a variety of sizes for different books. It's quite easy to make these though.
I should also mention that the Nordictrac has a very convenient angled surface on its control panel, perfect for putting the keyboard on; but this is also where the fan is located so no gentle breezes. Of course you can always just have a floor fan for the same purpose.
My big problem with working out is how stultifyingly dull it is. I bought a used Nordictrac treadmill on CL a few months ago - only ca. $200. 15 minutes at 8 degree incline and 4.0 mph will leave you in a bit of a sweat but not much more. I try and do those on a regular basis throughout a day off or evening. You only need a few minutes to towel off. I've a monitor for a desktop PC set on a stand in front and bought an extra numeric keypad with a space bar key on its lower left corner - with this I can hold onto the handlebars and tap it my thumb to scroll down a page while reading. Num1 is keyed to a macro for Page up; 2 is next track on my media player, 3 is scroll down one line. Works for me.
For Chrome I use News Factory. Clicking on the bookmark bar icon gives you a headline and snippet of TFS, and a bigger snippet of TFS on mouseover. Works, I haven't visited the/. front page in months. Those new articles will pile up fast, though, so it's best for choice sites you're keeping tabs on.
"Since Neanderthals evolved at higher latitudes, more of the Neanderthal brain would have been dedicated to vision and body control, leaving less brain to deal with other functions like social networking"
This has me picturing a group of Neanderthals sitting around sending Tweets. #urkclubmastodon
Not quite. This is the first offshore demonstration of extraction, but it's been carried out successfully onshore before. Methane Hydrates and the Future of Natural Gas - MIT Energy.
To date, these permafrost-associated deposits are the only places where production of gas from verifiable dissociation of gas hydrates has ever been documented. Short-term (i.e., several days) production tests were carried out at the Mallik well in the Mackenzie Delta area of Canada in 2002 and 2007 (Dallimore and Collett, 2005; Hancock et al., 2005; Takahisa, 2005; Kurihara et al., 2008) and at the Mt. Elbert (Milne Point) site on the Alaskan North Slope in 2008 (e.g., Hunter et al., 2011).
Offshore extraction of NG from hydrates for Japan will be a tough pill to swallow for people whose country was recently trashed by tsunamis, as hydrates are associated with prehistoric massive seabed slumping. Read more here: DOE Meeting Summary: Catastrophic Methane Hydrate Release
Wow. Now those are some intriguing notions, and I'd subscribe to his newsletter in a heartbeat. Is the DC comics bad guy pseudonym his way of saying, yes, I have gone completely off the deep end, so what?
So is Cardiff University just a diploma mill with an all-hack staff, or are they a credible uni that happens to tolerate eccentrics like Wickramashinge?
Wow, I post a comment and two hours later it's become the subject of a front page story. Seems a bit like something out of one of DA's books. Or one of PDK's, take your pick.
In high school the essay Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain made a big impression on me; embalming was described as really creepy and artificial, which I suppose it is in any instance, but do they really need to circulate three to six gallons of dyed and perfumed solution of formaldehyde, glycerin, borax, phenol, alcohol and water through the stiff? It was much like when I found out that "milk" on the breakfast cereal on TV was actually glue. We're being scammed! Sort of.
Dumping all that junk into the ground doesn't seem very good for the environment, either - I imagine in the years since (late 60s) the essay was published a bit of attention has been paid to making embalming a bit less toxic - or was that not an issue in the first place? At any rate, cremation for me, thank you - although after losing both parents I've found out that isn't cheap, either.
Related to this, before time zones estimating what the time in another city was very hit-and-miss. Different municipalities simply set clocks according to the sun's position in the sky, resulting in utter chaos for railroads.
As railways and telecommunications improved, however, timekeeping became more baffling. Each railroad would use its own standard time, usually based on the local time of its headquarters, and their schedules were published in accord with their own time. Some railroad junctions even had a separate clock for each railroad. The main station in Pittsburgh, for example, kept six different clocks. In 1883, there were twenty-seven different local times in Illinois alone. Railroad users were inconvenienced and confused by the lack of uniformity. The difficulty came to an end in 1883 when U.S. and Canadian railroads adopted four standardized time zones which replaced the multiplicity of local times.
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UFO creator Gerry Anderson died last December, in the comments for the story about it here a lot of people pointed out that the show actually was quite expensive for its time. Appearances to the contrary. ;) Actually, if you think about it, all those ultra-exotic costumes and sets couldn't have been dirt cheap to fashion. It's not like TOS where the crew just happens to conveniently land on a planet where the natives are all decked out in Nazi garb from the studio's wardrobes. Many are more impressed by UFO's very detailed models and squib explosions than the cheesy CG that you see so often today, too.
Don't forget you need a base for the Interceptors and Moon Mobiles.
Homer (the one not from Greece).
Thank you for clarifying that. Wasn't sure at first.
Someone mod parent Woo-Hoo!
i don't think its feasible collecting rain water straight from the sky though
Sure it is, people have been doing it for millenia: Brief Outline of the History of Rainwater Catchment Technologies
Plenty of research is being conducted on modern approaches to rainwater harvesting. In the developed world these often come into conflict with environmental regulations regarding water quality, and in general there's a surfeit of water from other sources that is ran through central filtration facilities so no great press is on to tap rainwater as a major source. It's something popular with people who are interested in green tech and the like.
Because of the difficulty in turning pages, for books anyway. Past a certain rate of speed you need to keep your arms on something for stability, or I do anyway. Certainly helps you to concentrate on what you're reading. Now, to hold books open there's things like the Book Magic Clip that slides into place holding the pages open. I've made my own versions of these in the past out of the musical wire they sell in hobby shops; instead of how the Book Magic slides down from the top, my version holds books open from the sides. The wire passes around the back of the book and two arms bend around to hold the book on the front. I tried drawing you an example in ASCII art but the 'junk' characters filter shut me down. :/ It's not complicated at all though. Jeweler's pliers helps to bend the wire. You have to make a variety of sizes for different books. It's quite easy to make these though.
I should also mention that the Nordictrac has a very convenient angled surface on its control panel, perfect for putting the keyboard on; but this is also where the fan is located so no gentle breezes. Of course you can always just have a floor fan for the same purpose.
My big problem with working out is how stultifyingly dull it is. I bought a used Nordictrac treadmill on CL a few months ago - only ca. $200. 15 minutes at 8 degree incline and 4.0 mph will leave you in a bit of a sweat but not much more. I try and do those on a regular basis throughout a day off or evening. You only need a few minutes to towel off. I've a monitor for a desktop PC set on a stand in front and bought an extra numeric keypad with a space bar key on its lower left corner - with this I can hold onto the handlebars and tap it my thumb to scroll down a page while reading. Num1 is keyed to a macro for Page up; 2 is next track on my media player, 3 is scroll down one line. Works for me.
Wait until GoogleDouble+Good comes out. You'll unhate it! BTW hand me that spanner.
For Chrome I use News Factory. Clicking on the bookmark bar icon gives you a headline and snippet of TFS, and a bigger snippet of TFS on mouseover. Works, I haven't visited the /. front page in months. Those new articles will pile up fast, though, so it's best for choice sites you're keeping tabs on.
This has me picturing a group of Neanderthals sitting around sending Tweets. #urkclubmastodon
I should clarify that you were perhaps specifying that this is the first successful offshore test of hydrate extraction.
Not quite. This is the first offshore demonstration of extraction, but it's been carried out successfully onshore before.
Methane Hydrates and the Future of Natural Gas - MIT Energy.
To date, these permafrost-associated deposits are the only places
where production of gas from verifiable dissociation of gas hydrates has ever been documented.
Short-term (i.e., several days) production tests were carried out at the Mallik well in the
Mackenzie Delta area of Canada in 2002 and 2007 (Dallimore and Collett, 2005; Hancock et al.,
2005; Takahisa, 2005; Kurihara et al., 2008) and at the Mt. Elbert (Milne Point) site on the
Alaskan North Slope in 2008 (e.g., Hunter et al., 2011).
Offshore extraction of NG from hydrates for Japan will be a tough pill to swallow for people whose country was recently trashed by tsunamis, as hydrates are associated with prehistoric massive seabed slumping. Read more here: DOE Meeting Summary: Catastrophic Methane Hydrate Release
Wow. Now those are some intriguing notions, and I'd subscribe to his newsletter in a heartbeat. Is the DC comics bad guy pseudonym his way of saying, yes, I have gone completely off the deep end, so what?
So is Cardiff University just a diploma mill with an all-hack staff, or are they a credible uni that happens to tolerate eccentrics like Wickramashinge?
Wow, I post a comment and two hours later it's become the subject of a front page story. Seems a bit like something out of one of DA's books. Or one of PDK's, take your pick.
Happy birthday, Douglas Adams, and RIP.
Rebel soldiers are flashing tit in Seattle bars? Oh for that Google Glass.
I wonder if the auteur is familiar with the work of Bill Rebane.
Today Now! Interviews The 5-Year-Old Screenwriter Of Fast Five - YouTube
In high school the essay Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain made a big impression on me; embalming was described as really creepy and artificial, which I suppose it is in any instance, but do they really need to circulate three to six gallons of dyed and perfumed solution of formaldehyde, glycerin, borax, phenol, alcohol and water through the stiff? It was much like when I found out that "milk" on the breakfast cereal on TV was actually glue. We're being scammed! Sort of.
Dumping all that junk into the ground doesn't seem very good for the environment, either - I imagine in the years since (late 60s) the essay was published a bit of attention has been paid to making embalming a bit less toxic - or was that not an issue in the first place? At any rate, cremation for me, thank you - although after losing both parents I've found out that isn't cheap, either.
Does it have to be one or the other?
Just add glow sticks and you're there. Back in 2001 the snopesters didn't find any evidence that the quote is bona fide, though.
Related to this, before time zones estimating what the time in another city was very hit-and-miss. Different municipalities simply set clocks according to the sun's position in the sky, resulting in utter chaos for railroads.
As railways and telecommunications improved, however, timekeeping became more baffling. Each railroad would use its own standard time, usually based on the local time of its headquarters, and their schedules were published in accord with their own time. Some railroad junctions even had a separate clock for each railroad. The main station in Pittsburgh, for example, kept six different clocks. In 1883, there were twenty-seven different local times in Illinois alone. Railroad users were inconvenienced and confused by the lack of uniformity. The difficulty came to an end in 1883 when U.S. and Canadian railroads adopted four standardized time zones which replaced the multiplicity of local times.
Daylight Saving Time: When, Where, and Why? The adoption of DST was an outgrowth of the experiences with time zone adoption.
Or how about me? I'm not perfect, but I know now what I'm good at.
I'll say. The last thing we need are clones of Anonymous Coward.
Sounds like Parts: The Clonus Horror.
How about having the Shatmaster play a good guy? "NOOO...OOOO...OOOO...!!!!!"