Why did you post this anonymously? Some of us browse at +1 to avoid the crap, but this is the single most informative piece of information to give the folks who still believe that it was a hydrogen fire (well, maybe you could have posted this link).
And moderators, please mod me as redundant AFTER you mod the parent up to informative. The Anonymous Coward wrote:
The Hindenburg's demise was not a result of an initial hydrogen-fueled explosion.
It caught fire because of the way the airship was designed, and how it dissipated the electrostatic charge that built up on the outer skin.
The ship's skin was a series of panels that were stitched (not really, more like tied) together. When the landing lines are lowered, the charge in these panels are supposed to flow through the entire skin of the airship and down the landing lines.
Because of poor design/construction, some of these panels retained their electric charge because of poor contact with their surrounding panels. The voltage between the charged panels and the non-charged panels was great enough to produce a spark.
BUT... the spark did NOT ignite the hydrogen.
The spark ignited the SKIN.
Since the skin had to be reflective to reflect heat, the germans coated the skin with a mixture that contained aluminum oxide powder.
Sound familiar? Aluminum oxide powder is used as solid rocket booster propellant in the space shuttle.
It was the fire on the skin that ignited the hydrogen cells. Hydrogen burns clear, and is barely visible in daylight. The initial fire on the airship was orange-red.
Dittos to that Amen! "Sealab 2021" is proving that you don't need good animation to tell great stories. Watch this show! They're pulling a "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" and adding new dialogue to the old animation to make what is (so far) the best new show of 2001.
I like to think of old 3.5 inch disks, with 1.4 MB on each. The new double FireWire will be like shooting 2,000 disks a second through a wire.
As much as I love Apple, it's not quite that good. It's 3.2 gigaBITS per second, not bytes, so that's only 285 floppies per second.
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The Sega Nomad (portable Genesis/MegaDrive) has a port for a second controller. AND a port to send the video signal to a TV screen, so that second player can actually see what's going on.
Checking out the top 10 gets you into the same problem as listening to commercial radio. Do some exploring. "Good" depends what you like, I guess. I like Garage bands. On mp3.com, I have found and enjoy Ashtray Babyhead, Kissinger, and O'Doyle Rules.
Girl bands? Try MadelynIris If you like experimental stuff, 2NU. Punk? The Real McKenzies. I could go on, but let us know what style of music you like!
I would think of paying because I want them to stay in business.
Why not pay them using a method that benefits both of you? Buy the DAM (normal audio) CD's by the bands you like, or buy an MP3 CD with 10 alubums worth of stuff!
I wouldn't feel guilty for blocking a Sephora ad--I'm male, and wouldn't even buy their product.
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Ummm, what exactly is ILLEGAL about MP3 encoders and CD-recording software that we can use now? The only main difference is that the XP-included utilities are likely of lower quality than ones you get for free elsewhere.
Frontpages using Flash are the online version of an SUV.
My favorite is when the folks trying to sell you broadband use Flash, and it appears that all the graphics load before the links. I spent 45 seconds punching "Skip Intro" (coming in with 56K dialup) before it finally took.
Now there's an understatement. Three days in the fluorescent lighting in my cube, and mine was a huge green mass of algae. Yuk. I really wouldn't recommend these in a corporate environment.
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(they're.pif file extensions with the name of a local private document) and are not the actual document itself.
Not necessarily. I was ignoring all of the SirCam documents I got until one floated in with the title "credit application.doc.pif" on it. I planned to let the sender know, but the e-mail account had been terminated (maybe because of the virus?) Then, being a good citizen, and completely fearless because I'm running a Mac, I opened it to see if there was a name/phone. Turns out it was a blank credit application, but a perfectly readable document otherwise.
I really do feel sorry for the Victims of Microsoft. I hope that this and Code Red will wake a few people up.
...deploying recovery methods which will allow the Government to read and interpret data...
Which would cover them if his key was written on a Post-it note affixed to the bottom of the keyboard.
That says "recovery methods," not "montoring methods." It's more than semantics. It's the difference between finding a smoking gun and placing a device which would notify them of future firings of a gun that hadn't been implicated in a crime. It's a wiretap, whether those are active transmitters, or simply recorders which would have to be physically retrieved at another time.
I know some of you have a beef with court-ordered surveillance, and that's cool. But if you don't, then how is this case any different from surreptitious voice recording?
Uh, because the court didn't order any surveillance? It was a search warrant, not a wiretap order. And now the Feds won't even say if the technology crossed the line (which means it probably did). Just another example of the culture of arrogance that Robert Mueller is about to be grilled about how he intends to correct it.
I'm sitting here with mod points, but since I don't see a 1, Grossly uninformed) pulldown, I guess I'll have to post some facts instead.
until hot chimneys were discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic, most scientist took for granted that life needed oxygen, and a narrow range of pressure and temperature.
Ever heard of anaerobic bacteria? I don't recall finding too many human digestive tracts at the bottom of the ocean. Here's a few keywords for your Google search: methanogenesis, denitrification, sulfate reduction.
Nowadays, we know that the organisms that live near the chimneys don't need oxygen, live in waters heated at 350 centigrades and seem pretty happy at pressures well over 100 atmospheres (they actually die when they're brought back to the surface due to the lack of pressure).
Does your cable system get the International Channel? You may have programmed it out of your remote, but there's original stuff on late-night Wednesdays (schedule grid at http://www.internationalchannel.com/ic/grid1.asp. I'm not an anime fan, but checked it out for a friend who likes his Dragonball Z subtitled. DBZ is raw (as in not subtitled or dubbed, but Armored Trooper Votoms and Irresponsible Captain Tylor are subtitled in English.
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And moderators, please mod me as redundant AFTER you mod the parent up to informative. The Anonymous Coward wrote:
If you can find a copy, Frederik Pohl's Midas World has a few interesting (mostly dystopian) takes on what we could "do" with the power.
Dittos to that Amen! "Sealab 2021" is proving that you don't need good animation to tell great stories. Watch this show! They're pulling a "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" and adding new dialogue to the old animation to make what is (so far) the best new show of 2001.
As much as I love Apple, it's not quite that good. It's 3.2 gigaBITS per second, not bytes, so that's only 285 floppies per second.
The Sega Nomad (portable Genesis/MegaDrive) has a port for a second controller. AND a port to send the video signal to a TV screen, so that second player can actually see what's going on.
Girl bands? Try MadelynIris If you like experimental stuff, 2NU. Punk? The Real McKenzies. I could go on, but let us know what style of music you like!
Why not pay them using a method that benefits both of you? Buy the DAM (normal audio) CD's by the bands you like, or buy an MP3 CD with 10 alubums worth of stuff!
I wouldn't feel guilty for blocking a Sephora ad--I'm male, and wouldn't even buy their product.
No, silly. Irony that he shares the name of stand-up comedian Brian Regan.
Somebody's a step ahead of you.
Ummm, if somebody (other than Apple--see the fine print) is giving an mp3 encoder away for free, chances are they're not paying the required royalties to Fraunhofer (US $2.50-5.00 per unit).
My favorite is when the folks trying to sell you broadband use Flash, and it appears that all the graphics load before the links. I spent 45 seconds punching "Skip Intro" (coming in with 56K dialup) before it finally took.
Strangely enough, I got my copy of the Developer Tools CD by clicking on a banner ad, right here on Slashdot, back in the spring.
Vietnam War Draft-dodging adopted, to be specific.
I really do feel sorry for the Victims of Microsoft. I hope that this and Code Red will wake a few people up.
That says "recovery methods," not "montoring methods." It's more than semantics. It's the difference between finding a smoking gun and placing a device which would notify them of future firings of a gun that hadn't been implicated in a crime. It's a wiretap, whether those are active transmitters, or simply recorders which would have to be physically retrieved at another time.
Non-oxygen-breathing does not equate with non-carbon-based.
Please wait until you've finished your 10th grade biology class before making this proposal.
Whoops! How did I mess up that URL? Here it is: http://www.spaceref.com/iss/computer/