It messes with human and animals circadian rhythm.
Your eyes see better in the dark when they've adjusted and when you move from really bright to dark places.. or vice versa, it takes your eyes a while to adjust. At night, you shouldn't have to do this. This is a safety issue.
Yeah, flagstaff is a great example of what you can do to cut down on light pollution. The International Dark Sky Association is a good resource for people who are interested.
There are many studies and none of them over the years have shown any correlation between lights and crime. There are many ways you can use lights and still cut down on light pollution. You can use motion sensors, you can use full cutoff shields so the light doesn't go into the sky. These are just a few.
The idea that more light = safer is false. In some ways, it actually allows criminals to plan how they're going to break into something. Not to mention, if a light is always on, most people just ignore it whereas if a light is triggered by motion it will attract a lot more attention.
As talked about on spaceweather.com, There is much discussion on the web today concerning a reported meteorite impact in Peru which created a toxic 30-meter wide crater. This report is probably erroneous. To gouge such a crater, the meteorite on impact would have liberated energy equal to about 1 kiloton of TNT (akin to a tactical nuclear weapon) leaving a clear signal in worldwide seismic and infrasound records. So far, no such signals have surfaced. If convincing evidence of impact does emerge, we will promptly report it here. Stay tuned.
If you know of a group of people who are interested in a feature, try using http://www.fundable.org/ to create a group action.
EG: You have 5 people interested, each person contributes $100, when all 5 people contribute the $100 then the money is unlocked and you can use that to finance the development of the feature.
It is believed that 78557 is the smallest Sierpinski number, and that is what we are trying to prove. There were 17 values, when this project started, that a prime had not been found in. We are working on finding a prime in these values (11 remaining) which will then prove that 78557 is, indeed, the smallest Sierpinski number.
See Chris Caldwell's page for more information.
As it stands right now, the worm was poorly coded or released into public early. The IRC client is pretty much useless - it doesnt have any commands and you can't do anything with it.
registered mail goes lock and key, hence why it isn't fast
priority is 2-3 days average, use usps.com/gov to see how long it'd normally take
overnight express is guaranteed.
I'm sure many of you don't know this, but the UPS and FedEx actually use the same planes to carry their packages. The USPS will (in remote locations) delivery FedEx packages, and soon all post offices will have a FedEx drop box.
I've been running ext3 for about a month now, and it is so much better than ext2. I'm glad to see that Linus decided to merge it in. I know that there were some issues for a while with ext3 not working with the new VM, but they finally started releasing patches for the latest 2.4 kernels.
I started off playing around on Linux/BSD/Solaris shells.. from there I built my own machines and put linux and bsd on them.. I played around, broke stuff, learned how to fix it, upgraded, wrote scripts.. etc. I taught myself basically everything.. either by playing around till it worked or reading FAQ's or asking people for help. My friend was working for a local ISP at the time, and they needed someone to do (ugh) technical support, and he offered me the position. He left about 6 months later, and I took over his job of doing the sysadmin work. I moved on to another local ISP, where I did sysadmin work and also work on the network. I'm currently taking classes to get my CCNA. I don't know if i'll go the sysadmin route or the networking route.. but more and likely, if I stay around this area, I'll be doing both because they seem to think you're their bitch and have you do everything.
According to an article on space.com at peak, North and Centeral America are supposed to see around 800 per hour, Australia and East Asia around 2,000 per hour, Western Australia and East/South East/Central Asia around 8,000 per hour. Europe and South America will be in sunlight during the peak so they will only see normal rates of 10-15 per hour.
Also stated is that Peter Jenniskens has predicted 4,200 per hour for North America at 5:09AM. His prediction is the highest yet.
You can also check out predictions for 30 US Cities here.
and following up, they're using bombers to do long range attacks and they will also be at least one food drop and more to come in the days further ahead of us
at least 2 us ships fired cruise missiles.. and yeah, the cruise missiles have about a 1,000 mile range.. it flys at 550MPH and has a 1,000 pound warhead.. it's also possible that they could use stealth bombers that can be armed with a warhead that has 1,500 mile range and packs a 3,000 pound warhead.. i'm sure they'll use the bombers later on in this attack
The cruise missles were not only from the US, but also from Britian (who got their technology from the US).. they're striking terroists camps, power, the Taliban's air defense system, and their bunkers.
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How much do you want for the Celestron Nextar SLT 130? What's it come with?
It messes with human and animals circadian rhythm.
Your eyes see better in the dark when they've adjusted and when you move from really bright to dark places.. or vice versa, it takes your eyes a while to adjust. At night, you shouldn't have to do this. This is a safety issue.
It's a waste of energy.
It effects animal migrations.
Yeah, flagstaff is a great example of what you can do to cut down on light pollution. The International Dark Sky Association is a good resource for people who are interested.
There are many studies and none of them over the years have shown any correlation between lights and crime. There are many ways you can use lights and still cut down on light pollution. You can use motion sensors, you can use full cutoff shields so the light doesn't go into the sky. These are just a few.
The idea that more light = safer is false. In some ways, it actually allows criminals to plan how they're going to break into something. Not to mention, if a light is always on, most people just ignore it whereas if a light is triggered by motion it will attract a lot more attention.
As talked about on spaceweather.com, There is much discussion on the web today concerning a reported meteorite impact in Peru which created a toxic 30-meter wide crater. This report is probably erroneous. To gouge such a crater, the meteorite on impact would have liberated energy equal to about 1 kiloton of TNT (akin to a tactical nuclear weapon) leaving a clear signal in worldwide seismic and infrasound records. So far, no such signals have surfaced. If convincing evidence of impact does emerge, we will promptly report it here. Stay tuned.
If you know of a group of people who are interested in a feature, try using http://www.fundable.org/ to create a group action.
EG: You have 5 people interested, each person contributes $100, when all 5 people contribute the $100 then the money is unlocked and you can use that to finance the development of the feature.
There will be pictures sometime around 2015 of Pluto, with the New Horizons mission.
To be honest, there really isnt much of a point besides saying "Hey, we proved it."
The project idea actually came out of a book of a bunch of math theorms that havent been proved yet..
It is believed that 78557 is the smallest Sierpinski number, and that is what we are trying to prove. There were 17 values, when this project started, that a prime had not been found in. We are working on finding a prime in these values (11 remaining) which will then prove that 78557 is, indeed, the smallest Sierpinski number. See Chris Caldwell's page for more information.
Chris Caldwell's page pretty much answers your questions concerning Sierpinski numbers and Risel numbers.
e rp inskiNumber
e se lNumber
http://primes.utm.edu/glossary/page.php?sort=Si
http://primes.utm.edu/glossary/page.php?sort=Ri
As it stands right now, the worm was poorly coded or released into public early. The IRC client is pretty much useless - it doesnt have any commands and you can't do anything with it.
Nbc 5 has some nice pictures of the meteor. The slideshow is really cool. Spaceweather.com also has some more information concerning it.
I was one of the people that felt and heard the sonic boom it created, my sister witnessed it in the sky.
registered mail goes lock and key, hence why it isn't fast
priority is 2-3 days average, use usps.com/gov to see how long it'd normally take
overnight express is guaranteed.
I'm sure many of you don't know this, but the UPS and FedEx actually use the same planes to carry their packages. The USPS will (in remote locations) delivery FedEx packages, and soon all post offices will have a FedEx drop box.
I've been running ext3 for about a month now, and it is so much better than ext2. I'm glad to see that Linus decided to merge it in. I know that there were some issues for a while with ext3 not working with the new VM, but they finally started releasing patches for the latest 2.4 kernels.
-Alien88
I started off playing around on Linux/BSD/Solaris shells.. from there I built my own machines and put linux and bsd on them.. I played around, broke stuff, learned how to fix it, upgraded, wrote scripts.. etc. I taught myself basically everything.. either by playing around till it worked or reading FAQ's or asking people for help. My friend was working for a local ISP at the time, and they needed someone to do (ugh) technical support, and he offered me the position. He left about 6 months later, and I took over his job of doing the sysadmin work. I moved on to another local ISP, where I did sysadmin work and also work on the network. I'm currently taking classes to get my CCNA. I don't know if i'll go the sysadmin route or the networking route.. but more and likely, if I stay around this area, I'll be doing both because they seem to think you're their bitch and have you do everything.
According to an article on space.com at peak, North and Centeral America are supposed to see around 800 per hour, Australia and East Asia around 2,000 per hour, Western Australia and East/South East/Central Asia around 8,000 per hour. Europe and South America will be in sunlight during the peak so they will only see normal rates of 10-15 per hour.
Also stated is that Peter Jenniskens has predicted 4,200 per hour for North America at 5:09AM. His prediction is the highest yet.
You can also check out predictions for 30 US Cities here.
and following up, they're using bombers to do long range attacks and they will also be at least one food drop and more to come in the days further ahead of us
at least 2 us ships fired cruise missiles.. and yeah, the cruise missiles have about a 1,000 mile range.. it flys at 550MPH and has a 1,000 pound warhead.. it's also possible that they could use stealth bombers that can be armed with a warhead that has 1,500 mile range and packs a 3,000 pound warhead.. i'm sure they'll use the bombers later on in this attack
also, the strikes came from the ships in the sea.. the British have the cruise missles only on submarine's, but we have them on ships also...
The cruise missles were not only from the US, but also from Britian (who got their technology from the US).. they're striking terroists camps, power, the Taliban's air defense system, and their bunkers.
Where are the copyrights going to stop? It seems that there should be a limit to the things you can copyright..
uh ok, and how is this off topic? It's IN THE ARTICLE.
actually, if you paid attention to the news at all, the NASDAQ $1 delisting rule has been suspended for a few months. I believe until January of 2002