This is a great experiment. Please re-read the paper you linked. The telltale was selected as a budget-friendly alternative to other wind measurement instruments. It's a very simple and reliable tool that can provide valuable data. It also does the job without using the lander's valuable battery power.
Recording wind direction and relative speed allows for some basic meteorology. With some calibration it can even provide absolute wind speed. It also can be used to determine local wind conditions before deploying other experiments that might be affected by high winds in a particular direction.
You want the government to deliver results? It did.
PS: Your windsocks, while maybe not of practical use to most third graders, are still used at airports around the world to provide critical wind data to pilots.
...I'll become more powerful than you can imagine. Oh, wait, bad analogy since he really just became a ghost that didn't seem to be able to do much besides spouting motivational speeches. But it sounds good in this context.
No, I'm not talking about the voice actors. I'm talking about you guys.
Basically the guy just said he got a pretty good gig (for which he expressed gratitude), but it would have been awesome if he had the same deal he would have gotten for a movie or TV deal. Then you guys go off like he said you all have to pull $100K out of your pocket and mail it to him.
I say if he can get the deal then props to him for it. If he can get his union to step up and do their job then kudos to him. If not then he can still choose to take the job or not. I get paid what I agreed to (well, actually a lot more since I've had a few raises over the years). Sure, I'd like to get more, just like everybody else, and if I really wanted it bad enough I'm sure I could find some way to make more. This guy isn't any different.
Sometimes I wonder the mindset that even goes into creating something like this.... I can understand if mobster types are trying to do a virtual bank robbery,... Close. It's called extortion. You do this to one of a site's machines. Then you send the demand for payment with a threat to do it to the rest of their machines. It's been happening to gambling and porn sites for years since law enforcement agencies don't usually get in a hurry to apprehend people who attack those sites. They have been using DDoS, so this would just be a bigger hammer.
You play solitaire with the draw one card option? Whomever you are I've just lost all respect that I might have had for you if I had ever met you. Please tell me you don't play Spider on the easy modes.
...please try to be open minded... Yes, it's fun. You should try it some time.
When someone can prove to me why one god is any more real than any other god, I'll believe. I would bet against this one.
I regard religion as a silly obsession for the weak and stupid... OK. You can regard anything as whatever you want. This is the most sensible statement in your post. You probably should have stopped here.
Religion absolutely requires strict autocratic control over the devout masses. As other posters have mentioned, your assertion of absolutes seriously wrecks your argument. It's true that some religions, and some religious groups have practiced this kind of control, but certainly not all of them. I am a member of a denomination that is based on the premise that each local congregation is autonomous. We have small regional and national organizations that provide resources, but have no authority over the local churches. Occasionally they will suggest some sort of policy or action, and invariably a large number of congregations tell them to take a hike.
Free thinking and free access to information corrupts belief in god because, "as you know, reality has a liberal bias." (Colbert.) Well, it's interesting to know that quotes from Colbert have the ability to control reality. There are a number of religions that actually encourage free thought and access to information. There are also quite a lot of religious people who have a strong liberal bias.
There is no proof of god and there is no universal truth,... Well, I'm not aware of any proof of any gods, but that doesn't preclude the existence of such proofs. Anyway, as others have pointed out, this statement is self-contradictory.
You don't have to believe in any gods. You're welcome to regard me as stupid and weak. Please try to be open-minded toward people who disagree with you. You might consider doing some research about religion; beyond what is offered by cable TV talk show hosts. There are a LOT of good critical examinations of the various religions and religion as a whole. It's quite a fascinating topic since religion is such a pervasive aspect of humanity.
For the benefit of those not in the UK, the National Lottery is where you buy a ticket for £1 and choose six numbers. If the numbers you pick come up - then you win a load of cash... Apparently, you don't even have to buy the ticket. I get notified at least once a week that I've won the UK National Lottery. I just haven't gotten around to responding to those emails yet to claim my cash.
...is there any way that involuntary botnet participation could be even slightly legal? What's legal got to do with anything? Have you looked at any governments lately?
Fisher-Price today announced that, rumors to the contrary, they do not intend to introduce notebooks for children... our customers would scoff at such fragility. This is especially funny when you consider that everything from Fisher-Price is made of plastic.
It's thousands of orders of magnitude more of a babe magnet than the original cube. Which means if you can solve it then you have a snowball's chance in hell of attracting a babe.
"Hot" and "Topics in modern physics" don't work in the same sentence for most people. I realize that some of you will have a hard time with this concept. See previous discussions regarding Slashdotters and girlfriends.
I'd rather keep my eye on the cute girl behind the counter. I was a bit concerned when she ran back to lock the drawer. Lesson for the day: If you suddenly find yourself bouncing around like a bobblehead the cash drawer isn't important. Fortunately this vid seems to have been captured far from the epicenter.
Because it's not totally accurate, It's a stereotype from a few years back, women do play MMORPG's these days. Or is it really just more men pretending to be women so that investors will think that MMORPGs have a wider audience than they really do? Some men are tricky that way.
What's this say about the MMORPGs? You know, Many Men On Line Role Playing Girls... Picture yourself as a thin girl with big boobs..? Nah. I generally make a more substanial build, curvy, nicely proportioned all around. She's gotta have more mass than the weapons she's using, and you find some pretty big weapons in MMOs.
So why was the totally accurate parent modded "Flamebait"?
Yeah, I HATE it when an article motivates me to go out an learn something I didn't already know. The world should hand me all of my intellectual and physical needs on a nice platter. Wah.
Right, because without any predators, Terran bacteria could easily overwhelm the Moon's indigenous...er...rock species? Now that's a scary scenario: bacteria break down all the rocks on the Moon, and all that's left is a cloud of dust orbiting the Earth.
While I agree that the scenarios you offer are plausible, I have to take exception with your invocation of Occam's Razor. I fail to see how migration followed by a specific sequence of interbreeding and/or genocide is simpler than an isolated tribe carrying on an indigenous language which they either created or encountered.
Does that explain why every few years about half of the Texas legislators suddenly appear in Oklahoma while the other are attempting to Gerrymander the state?
Some how i know this is george bush's fault. i don't care what the evidence says! Hey, thanks for clearing that up. I was having a hard time figuring out how global warming could have cut those cables.
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This is a great experiment. Please re-read the paper you linked. The telltale was selected as a budget-friendly alternative to other wind measurement instruments. It's a very simple and reliable tool that can provide valuable data. It also does the job without using the lander's valuable battery power.
Recording wind direction and relative speed allows for some basic meteorology. With some calibration it can even provide absolute wind speed. It also can be used to determine local wind conditions before deploying other experiments that might be affected by high winds in a particular direction.
You want the government to deliver results? It did.
PS: Your windsocks, while maybe not of practical use to most third graders, are still used at airports around the world to provide critical wind data to pilots.
Oh, wait, bad analogy since he really just became a ghost that didn't seem to be able to do much besides spouting motivational speeches.
But it sounds good in this context.
No, I'm not talking about the voice actors. I'm talking about you guys.
Basically the guy just said he got a pretty good gig (for which he expressed gratitude), but it would have been awesome if he had the same deal he would have gotten for a movie or TV deal. Then you guys go off like he said you all have to pull $100K out of your pocket and mail it to him.
I say if he can get the deal then props to him for it. If he can get his union to step up and do their job then kudos to him. If not then he can still choose to take the job or not. I get paid what I agreed to (well, actually a lot more since I've had a few raises over the years). Sure, I'd like to get more, just like everybody else, and if I really wanted it bad enough I'm sure I could find some way to make more. This guy isn't any different.
Even brick-o-gram(landshark). I vote for Brick-rolling.
You play solitaire with the draw one card option?
Whomever you are I've just lost all respect that I might have had for you if I had ever met you.
Please tell me you don't play Spider on the easy modes.
...please try to be open minded... Yes, it's fun. You should try it some time. When someone can prove to me why one god is any more real than any other god, I'll believe. I would bet against this one. I regard religion as a silly obsession for the weak and stupid... OK. You can regard anything as whatever you want. This is the most sensible statement in your post. You probably should have stopped here. Religion absolutely requires strict autocratic control over the devout masses. As other posters have mentioned, your assertion of absolutes seriously wrecks your argument. It's true that some religions, and some religious groups have practiced this kind of control, but certainly not all of them.I am a member of a denomination that is based on the premise that each local congregation is autonomous. We have small regional and national organizations that provide resources, but have no authority over the local churches. Occasionally they will suggest some sort of policy or action, and invariably a large number of congregations tell them to take a hike. Free thinking and free access to information corrupts belief in god because, "as you know, reality has a liberal bias." (Colbert.) Well, it's interesting to know that quotes from Colbert have the ability to control reality. There are a number of religions that actually encourage free thought and access to information. There are also quite a lot of religious people who have a strong liberal bias. There is no proof of god and there is no universal truth,... Well, I'm not aware of any proof of any gods, but that doesn't preclude the existence of such proofs. Anyway, as others have pointed out, this statement is self-contradictory.
You don't have to believe in any gods.
You're welcome to regard me as stupid and weak.
Please try to be open-minded toward people who disagree with you.
You might consider doing some research about religion; beyond what is offered by cable TV talk show hosts. There are a LOT of good critical examinations of the various religions and religion as a whole. It's quite a fascinating topic since religion is such a pervasive aspect of humanity.
...is there any way that involuntary botnet participation could be even slightly legal? What's legal got to do with anything?Have you looked at any governments lately?
It's thousands of orders of magnitude more of a babe magnet than the original cube. Which means if you can solve it then you have a snowball's chance in hell of attracting a babe.
"Hot" and "Topics in modern physics" don't work in the same sentence for most people.
I realize that some of you will have a hard time with this concept. See previous discussions regarding Slashdotters and girlfriends.
I'd rather keep my eye on the cute girl behind the counter.
I was a bit concerned when she ran back to lock the drawer. Lesson for the day: If you suddenly find yourself bouncing around like a bobblehead the cash drawer isn't important.
Fortunately this vid seems to have been captured far from the epicenter.
...and the robot insurance jokes. We've got to get the SNL stuff in here.
Picture yourself as a thin girl with big boobs..? Nah.
I generally make a more substanial build, curvy, nicely proportioned all around. She's gotta have more mass than the weapons she's using, and you find some pretty big weapons in MMOs.
So why was the totally accurate parent modded "Flamebait"?
Yeah, I HATE it when an article motivates me to go out an learn something I didn't already know.
The world should hand me all of my intellectual and physical needs on a nice platter.
Wah.
Stop lying. What you claim would require that a /. editor had actually read and edited a submission. We all know that can never happen.
While I agree that the scenarios you offer are plausible, I have to take exception with your invocation of Occam's Razor. I fail to see how migration followed by a specific sequence of interbreeding and/or genocide is simpler than an isolated tribe carrying on an indigenous language which they either created or encountered.
Does that explain why every few years about half of the Texas legislators suddenly appear in Oklahoma while the other are attempting to Gerrymander the state?