Ah, okay. Could have sworn at one time or another, that they actually used explosives to counteract the impact. Maybe earlier models of Soyuz capsules?
If memory serves, you can bail out of Russian capsules after reentry. They use high explosives to cushion the landings, so if those fail, you have Russian stew (the hard way). The airborne bailout is supposed to be one of those last resort deals.
Before anyone mods this down as Offtopic, read what I have to say:
Planetes takes place in the early 21st century, after the first major civilian space flight disaster is caused by a random floating bolt punching through the window. The general story follows a small company on a space station, who's business is collecting space junk and keeping the orbital paths (relatively) clear.
This, mind you, is a fairly logical business venture for civilian space travel. In order to keep orbital debris from posing a hazard to business, military, and civilian spacecraft, someone needs to work up there, collecting and either deorbiting or recycling space junk. It could cost in the billions to keep working up there, but the savings offered to those with vested interests up there would be several times that.
Secondly, you can make a good deal from recycling various components, or even more from governments who want their top secret property returned to them. And imagine the stuff you could sell on eBay, launch motors from an Atlas to display in your back yard? A left over chunk of insulation from an external fuel tank? A glove lost from an unsecured airlock? The mind boggles.
Unless digital radio plays an entire album (which seems unlikely, since every station on FM plays maybe 2-3 tracks from any given album), I doubt we're going to see pirates selling 3 song CDs on the black market. Unless someone is willing to sell a 3 track CD for the same price the recording industry cabal charges for 3 good tracks + 9 asslike quality track CDs.
I seriously doubt the music industry is losing penny one on this, since their bulk profits per CD amount to the crap nobody wants to play on the radio.
Needy Evie: I need someone who will love me and never leave me, is that you? Is it? ANSWER ME! STOP IGNORING ME! I'M TALKING TO YOU! I'm a little doll and I deserve to be loved! WHY CAN'T YOU SEE THAT!?
Be broadcast on Cartoon Network as well? Seems like every show that's been resurrected from Fox has been carried by Adult Swim, but it would be nice to have something other than the 60 or so reruns.
Wonder if Time/Warner gets a huge cut or something as well, since when Fox kills a show, it usually stays dead (unless it's called back after fans appeal).
One of the very few "interactive" toys of the time (the 1970s), it gave true geeks to be the inside view of life as a cyborg, between being able to physically change the cybernetic parts of Steve Austin, you could also have a view through the "eye" of the 6 Million Dollar Man, and even, via his "exercise station" view his exploits using a Fisher Price style 8mm film strip viewer. There were some cool electronic toys as well, but unless your parents were deep in cash, you didn't have it.
Sure, there was Micronauts, and even Battlestar Galactica toys at the time, but you could build stories and adventures around the Bionic Man. The others were primarily reenactments of the shows/commercials (even Micronauts didn't really have a story to speak of, until the Marvel Comics series that came out a few years later).
And of course there was the huge response to the Atari 2600 in the late 70s, in fact, it singlehandedly spawned an entire industry. Ignoring that little bit of history is like ignoring the discovery of electricity or fire, for that matter.
The article states that the micro quakes have been on the rise since the they started constructing the building.
Now I dunno about you, but I seriously doubt that the tower weighed 700,000 tons from the moment they poured the concrete foundations, which more than likely means the micro quakes simply coincided with the beginning of construction, independant of any outside human activity.
If the quakes increased in number as the building progressed, then it could be possible.
Carbon molecules called "buckyballs" - which hold great promise for nanotechnology - but have been shown to harm fish have been made safer by scientists.
The soccer-ball-shaped carbon nanoparticles were shown to cause brain damage in fish and kill water fleas in a study in March 2004. But now a team at Rice University in Houston, Texas, US, has come close to understanding how buckyballs - more formally known as fullerenes - kill cells and how their toxicity can be lowered in human cells.
Although the toxic nature of the carbon-60 nanoparticles may be useful in medicine, for example in fighting cancer, there are concerns that their potentially widespread use in fuel cells, drug delivery and cosmetics could mean they find their way into the environment, and so into animals and humans.
"There are a couple of different manufacturers that will, and are, mass producing fullerenes," says Christie Sayes, one of the team. "They could make it into consumer based products: fuel cells and batteries or make-up," she says.
By the same guys who largely deny there's any such thing as global warming: "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.", in regards to Iraq's nonexistant weapons of mass destruction.
Well we don't want the smoking gun to be beachfront property in Utah. Even now, those same cretins who claim no proof of global warming, are thinking up ways to spin a fast buck from the disappearing arctic ice caps.
Hell, for all we know, maybe all the excess CO2 is coming from right wingers chanting denial.
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I have an image of an entire generation dancing like the DDR Asian kid in the "You Got Served" episode of South Park?
The horror... The... Horror...
Ah, okay. Could have sworn at one time or another, that they actually used explosives to counteract the impact. Maybe earlier models of Soyuz capsules?
If memory serves, you can bail out of Russian capsules after reentry. They use high explosives to cushion the landings, so if those fail, you have Russian stew (the hard way). The airborne bailout is supposed to be one of those last resort deals.
And the Freepers prove my point, way to go. For a buncha rightwing nutjobs, you're sure eager to defend yourselves when called out.
Before anyone mods this down as Offtopic, read what I have to say:
Planetes takes place in the early 21st century, after the first major civilian space flight disaster is caused by a random floating bolt punching through the window. The general story follows a small company on a space station, who's business is collecting space junk and keeping the orbital paths (relatively) clear.
This, mind you, is a fairly logical business venture for civilian space travel. In order to keep orbital debris from posing a hazard to business, military, and civilian spacecraft, someone needs to work up there, collecting and either deorbiting or recycling space junk. It could cost in the billions to keep working up there, but the savings offered to those with vested interests up there would be several times that.
Secondly, you can make a good deal from recycling various components, or even more from governments who want their top secret property returned to them. And imagine the stuff you could sell on eBay, launch motors from an Atlas to display in your back yard? A left over chunk of insulation from an external fuel tank? A glove lost from an unsecured airlock? The mind boggles.
It was done by Freepers, www.freerepublic.com? Sounds like the sort of thing they would (and have) done.
Unless digital radio plays an entire album (which seems unlikely, since every station on FM plays maybe 2-3 tracks from any given album), I doubt we're going to see pirates selling 3 song CDs on the black market. Unless someone is willing to sell a 3 track CD for the same price the recording industry cabal charges for 3 good tracks + 9 asslike quality track CDs.
I seriously doubt the music industry is losing penny one on this, since their bulk profits per CD amount to the crap nobody wants to play on the radio.
It's pining for the fjords!
I thought we already had a "Talk Like a Pirate Day".
Ah, but the Simpsons doesn't have a movie (or 4). Yet.
In Soviet Union, music pirates YOU!
With Needy Evie: http://www.planetmadtv.com/forum/showthread.php?s= e4e2ef87fb36e21acd0709981447ed57&threadid=7217
Needy Evie: I need someone who will love me and never leave me, is that you? Is it?
ANSWER ME! STOP IGNORING ME! I'M TALKING TO YOU!
I'm a little doll and I deserve to be loved! WHY CAN'T YOU SEE THAT!?
Why, the Great Mighty Poo (http://images-srv.leonardo.it/progettiweb/myrjala /foto/img_435ec61d72c0d_middleb.jpg) from Conker's Bad Fur Day, of course.
Be broadcast on Cartoon Network as well? Seems like every show that's been resurrected from Fox has been carried by Adult Swim, but it would be nice to have something other than the 60 or so reruns.
Wonder if Time/Warner gets a huge cut or something as well, since when Fox kills a show, it usually stays dead (unless it's called back after fans appeal).
Welcome our drunken robot Santa overlords.
Are you sure it wasn't "Bah-weep-granna-weep-nini-bohn"?
Sure, next thing you know the universal late homework excuse will be "The Feds ate my homework.".
One of the very few "interactive" toys of the time (the 1970s), it gave true geeks to be the inside view of life as a cyborg, between being able to physically change the cybernetic parts of Steve Austin, you could also have a view through the "eye" of the 6 Million Dollar Man, and even, via his "exercise station" view his exploits using a Fisher Price style 8mm film strip viewer. There were some cool electronic toys as well, but unless your parents were deep in cash, you didn't have it.
Sure, there was Micronauts, and even Battlestar Galactica toys at the time, but you could build stories and adventures around the Bionic Man. The others were primarily reenactments of the shows/commercials (even Micronauts didn't really have a story to speak of, until the Marvel Comics series that came out a few years later).
And of course there was the huge response to the Atari 2600 in the late 70s, in fact, it singlehandedly spawned an entire industry. Ignoring that little bit of history is like ignoring the discovery of electricity or fire, for that matter.
The article states that the micro quakes have been on the rise since the they started constructing the building.
Now I dunno about you, but I seriously doubt that the tower weighed 700,000 tons from the moment they poured the concrete foundations, which more than likely means the micro quakes simply coincided with the beginning of construction, independant of any outside human activity.
If the quakes increased in number as the building progressed, then it could be possible.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6458
Carbon molecules called "buckyballs" - which hold great promise for nanotechnology - but have been shown to harm fish have been made safer by scientists.
The soccer-ball-shaped carbon nanoparticles were shown to cause brain damage in fish and kill water fleas in a study in March 2004. But now a team at Rice University in Houston, Texas, US, has come close to understanding how buckyballs - more formally known as fullerenes - kill cells and how their toxicity can be lowered in human cells.
Although the toxic nature of the carbon-60 nanoparticles may be useful in medicine, for example in fighting cancer, there are concerns that their potentially widespread use in fuel cells, drug delivery and cosmetics could mean they find their way into the environment, and so into animals and humans.
"There are a couple of different manufacturers that will, and are, mass producing fullerenes," says Christie Sayes, one of the team. "They could make it into consumer based products: fuel cells and batteries or make-up," she says.
I dunno, for me, the Grateful Dead died when Jerry Garcia did the same.
I'm waiting for Powdered Toast Man: The Movie! Now THAT'S worth my $8 matinee admission.
Or just stack two of the power supplies on top of each other, throw a steak inbetween, and you have a XBox 360 with a free George Foreman grill!
By the same guys who largely deny there's any such thing as global warming: "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.", in regards to Iraq's nonexistant weapons of mass destruction.
Well we don't want the smoking gun to be beachfront property in Utah. Even now, those same cretins who claim no proof of global warming, are thinking up ways to spin a fast buck from the disappearing arctic ice caps.
Hell, for all we know, maybe all the excess CO2 is coming from right wingers chanting denial.
Sony changed their name to "Sorry", and were promptly sued by Parker Brothers.