Why would you have to make any assumptions? If you are attempting to predict where an incoming object will impact the Earth
We're talking about an object that didn't hit the Earth. If one were to try and say, "Well, if it had hit the Earth, where would it have hit?", they might as well ask, "If I were female, how tall would I be?". Both are nonsense questions because in order to answer them, you'd have to make assumptions with no basis in reality.
one would use observations of that object to determine is velocity and position, if these are measured accuratly enough, which can be done using interferometers, you can calculate exactly where it will start to interact with the Earth at which point you begin to have uncertainty due to atmosphereic interactions.
The point is that it didn't hit.
One question: Could someone clarify what exactly you mean by "in the ecliptic?" Unless you are assuming a source of asteroids which has a period related to Earth's I cannot see any reason that one hemisphere would be prefered over the other even when there is a source(with period unrelated to Earth's) of asteroids.
I assume that by "in the ecliptic", he meant that it was inside the Earth's orbit (i.e. closer to the sun).
Are you saying that Aqua actually does "anti-aliasing, sub-pixel text positioning, scaling for a screen with a different size/resolution" or that you think it might?
I does.
Also, typically floating point operations are much slower than equivalent integer operations.
Actually, IIRC, except for some divisions, on the PowerPC, all simple operations (integer and floating-point) execute in the same amount of time: a single cycle.
and personally I've had uptimes for weeks before rebooting for the obligatory auto-update security patches.
Oh, boy, weeks of uptime. You do realize that that is pitiful, as is the fact that you have to reboot after a security update. In most real OSes, all it takes to install an update is:
./configure
make install
kill <some program>
<some program>
No reboot, no hassle, and uptimes measured in months or years.
I can't help but get shivers every time I see someone want to put something up there. I guess I like the relatively unspoiled view (no I don't have a telescope) that we have.
There is no way that this could "spoil the view", as it would be on the far side of the moon (i.e. the side that is never visible from the Earth).
Wouldn't it make more sense to push for Mars?
Not really, as there isn't a side of Mars that constantly points away from the Earth. Plus, communication with a base on Earth would be even more difficult, because the Sun would be in between the Earth and Mars for large chunks of time.
Actually, when the Earth is between the Sun and Moon, we get a full Moon (lunar eclipses always happen during the full moon). Conversely, during the new moon, the moon is between the Earth and Sun (Solar eclipses always occur during a new moon)
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No, it wasn't an overcoat, it was built into her body. (Hey, they needed an excuse to get her naked, didn't they?)
make install
kill <some program>
<some program>
No reboot, no hassle, and uptimes measured in months or years.
Actually, when the Earth is between the Sun and Moon, we get a full Moon (lunar eclipses always happen during the full moon). Conversely, during the new moon, the moon is between the Earth and Sun (Solar eclipses always occur during a new moon)