Johnny Foreigner is a semi-savage, and can't speak a word of the King's English (or President, or whatever you colonists have these days). I'm not sure what language our President speaks, but it certainly doesn't seem to be English.
My favorite theory on lightsabres is that the blade is actually a wire encased in and/or emitting some kind of field which keeps it stiff and does the actual burning, cutting and glowing (the glowing could be the l.s. blade reacting with surrounding air?). Very similar to Larry Niven's variable swords in some of his "Known Space" stories. Notice in SW IV (and probably the rest of the movies) that the blade visibly extends out at a fairly slow rate when the lightsabre is switched on, and retracts when switched off. I figured that this is the wire being spooled out and reeled back in.
Normally, corrections from a DGPS ground station are accurate enough to be useful only within 100 miles or so of the station's GPS receiver location. Beyond that, the errors in the signal (mostly from ionispheric conditions) are more and more different from those being measured at the ground station. So DGPS stations are inherently local (although Belgium is pretty small).
WAAS is different because it includes an ionispheric model and corrections from multiple ground stations to estimate the corrections for any given location over a much wider area.
Tombaugh discovered Pluto using 13" astrograph telescope which is still at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. link It can be seen by the general public as part of their day walking tour.
I assume Obi is referring to a galactic system of coordinates where "Galactic North" and "Galactic South" are in the corresponding directions of their galaxy's axis.
"Right Asension", which is similar to longitude. For astronomer's ease-of-use, they divided the sky sphere up into 24 hours in this direction, so it is easy to determine when a given position rotates into view. The equivalent of latitude is "Declination", which is measured in degrees the same way as latitude is. R.A. and Dec. are relative to the sky, so a fixed star is always at the same R.A. and Dec. no matter how the Earth is turned (ignoring precession of the Earth's axis, which complicates things over the years) 0 hours R.A. is the Vernal Equinox.
It is rather like seeing the same story through the eyes of a different story teller.
That's the way I decided to approach the movies, as "another telling of the story". I've been a longtime fan of LOTR, having read it probably 15 or 16 times since that far-off ancient day in high school when I was introduced to "The Hobbit" by my English teacher.
So far, I've enjoyed the movies -- I want to enjoy the movies, especially after the Bakshi and other travesties. Most of the changes have justifications or at least can be rationalized, viewed in the context of movie requirements. Yes, Faramir didn't haul Frodo, Sam and Gollum to Osgiliath -- but watching that Frezetta-style scene on the wall with the ringwraith made it all worthwhile. The ents were a bit cartoonish. No, there weren't elves at Helm's Deep. That being said, I still think PJ has created the definitive LOTR movie(s); at least until somebody else tries in a couple of decades or so. Christopher Lee as Saruman -- yes!
Heck, the "Wizard of Oz" movie bears little resemblance to the original books, but now is better-known than them and has become an integral part of our culture in its own right.
I'm another one who used a surplus teletype for hard copy output on my first home computer around 1976, a Digital Group Z-80 kit system, with all of 2K of RAM until I later added another 16K board. The TTY was an Underwood, and I genned up a 5V -> 200V current interface out of a few Radio Shack parts and an LED+phototransistor paper sensor for isolation. I then modified DG's 1.5 KB "operating system" to do ASCII -> BAUDOT output. It usually ran just fine, and when it didn't, dousing the innards with WD-40 would generally fix the problem (Really!) WD-40 was also great at rejuvinating printer ribbons when they dried out.
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You can trust your car to the 'bot that wears the Star
Yes, there is a certain resemblance...
...and he is us.
I've always felt that I am the result of everyone else's imagination...
Does the scene involve explosive decompression?
My favorite theory on lightsabres is that the blade is actually a wire encased in and/or emitting some kind of field which keeps it stiff and does the actual burning, cutting and glowing (the glowing could be the l.s. blade reacting with surrounding air?). Very similar to Larry Niven's variable swords in some of his "Known Space" stories. Notice in SW IV (and probably the rest of the movies) that the blade visibly extends out at a fairly slow rate when the lightsabre is switched on, and retracts when switched off. I figured that this is the wire being spooled out and reeled back in.
So now would hacking into your network be considered assault?
And you could use the same stunt pilots that were going to do the recovery...
How many kilohamsters is that?
Considering humanity's success in managing its' affairs so far, I think that you have A. and B. backwards...
A lead, depleted uranium or other dense, nonmagnatic projectile could be launched in an iron sabot which peels off after leaving the gun.
But most of all, we could finally find out what it's like to try to solve Babylon 5 problems with Star Trek solutions...
WAAS is different because it includes an ionispheric model and corrections from multiple ground stations to estimate the corrections for any given location over a much wider area.
Let their what be light?
Tombaugh discovered Pluto using 13" astrograph telescope which is still at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. link
It can be seen by the general public as part of their day walking tour.
I assume Obi is referring to a galactic system of coordinates where "Galactic North" and "Galactic South" are in the corresponding directions of their galaxy's axis.
"Right Asension", which is similar to longitude. For astronomer's ease-of-use, they divided the sky sphere up into 24 hours in this direction, so it is easy to determine when a given position rotates into view. The equivalent of latitude is "Declination", which is measured in degrees the same way as latitude is. R.A. and Dec. are relative to the sky, so a fixed star is always at the same R.A. and Dec. no matter how the Earth is turned (ignoring precession of the Earth's axis, which complicates things over the years) 0 hours R.A. is the Vernal Equinox.
About 18 miles south, on the other side of a small ridge called "Point of the Mountain".
Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, throws himself on the funeral pyre of his son (who isn't dead yet). His son, Faramir, is rescued (AFAIR, by Aragorn)
It was David Brin.
It is rather like seeing the same story through the eyes of a different story teller.
That's the way I decided to approach the movies, as "another telling of the story". I've been a longtime fan of LOTR, having read it probably 15 or 16 times since that far-off ancient day in high school when I was introduced to "The Hobbit" by my English teacher.
So far, I've enjoyed the movies -- I want to enjoy the movies, especially after the Bakshi and other travesties. Most of the changes have justifications or at least can be rationalized, viewed in the context of movie requirements. Yes, Faramir didn't haul Frodo, Sam and Gollum to Osgiliath -- but watching that Frezetta-style scene on the wall with the ringwraith made it all worthwhile. The ents were a bit cartoonish. No, there weren't elves at Helm's Deep. That being said, I still think PJ has created the definitive LOTR movie(s); at least until somebody else tries in a couple of decades or so. Christopher Lee as Saruman -- yes!
Heck, the "Wizard of Oz" movie bears little resemblance to the original books, but now is better-known than them and has become an integral part of our culture in its own right.
I'm another one who used a surplus teletype for hard copy output on my first home computer around 1976, a Digital Group Z-80 kit system, with all of 2K of RAM until I later added another 16K board. The TTY was an Underwood, and I genned up a 5V -> 200V current interface out of a few Radio Shack parts and an LED+phototransistor paper sensor for isolation. I then modified DG's 1.5 KB "operating system" to do ASCII -> BAUDOT output. It usually ran just fine, and when it didn't, dousing the innards with WD-40 would generally fix the problem (Really!) WD-40 was also great at rejuvinating printer ribbons when they dried out.
We don't know how many players are sitting this one out, or playing in other, possibly better, game systems.
I believe it was Harlan Ellison who called the original series "Battlestar Galaxative".