Foam does more damage than ice. Ice is dense and keeps its velocity high, which translates to a low velocity relative to the shuttle. Foam on the other hand is much less dense and slows down very quickly, translating to high velocities relative to the shuttle. This argument makes no sense to me.
Ignoring air resistance, which won't be much different for similarly-shaped pieces, once detached from the shuttle, pieces of ice and foam would accelerate towards the ground at the same rate. The shuttle continues to accelerate upwards at the same rate relative to the two. Ice has higher density and would thereby accumulate consequently higher momentum and greater kinetic energy than the foam. Since ice is also much harder and would deform less, it would clearly be the more significant impactor.
The only thing I can imagine would do it is some pandemic virus that makes everyone tone deaf. That's funny. Listening to what passes for popular music these days, I'd've thought that already happened. "In my day, we didn't have fancy e-lectronic gizmos for playing music. To listen to music at home, we had to walk 20 miles, return with a hired band of musicians, and listen to them play by candlelight!
I keep mine in a redundant infinite array of parallel universes. That is the only safe way in case any number of solar systems falls into any number of black holes. Fry: "So there is an infinite number of parallel universes?" Professor: "No, just the two." Fry: "Oh, well, I'm sure that's enough." Bender: "I'm sick of parallel Bender lauding his cowboy hat over me!"
Yes, when parents don't feed their children [reason omitted], its [sic] a victimless crime, no one other than the parent is hurt! Not taking care of one's children is indeed a crime with a victim, no matter what the reason, and actionable.
However, this is not a successful argument for drugs being illegal. If a parent neglected a child because he played his XBox nonstop, does that mean XBoxes should be illegal?
Of course, they'll have to rebury it to prevent changing the timeline. "Ooh, a lesson in not changing history from Mister I'm My Own Grandpa! Let's get the hell out of here already! Screw history!"
Your analysis appears to be using the figures for a regular supernova and extrapolating upwards. A gamma ray burst or a hypernova are different animals. A hypothetical GRB at a distance of 500 light years, about 20 times the distance you mentioned for a supernova, would be considered "nearby" and has been suggested as a plausible extintion event in our planet's history.
Seriously though, do you thing the folks at Google thought they'd get sued almost daily for you tube? I wonder who has to serve the 15 years? Given Google's propensity for distributed computing, each employee might spend a couple minutes every so often in a corner of their cube doing nothing.
They aren't dead yet. Although, the dead collector will be around on Thursday... SCO: I'm getting better! IBM: You're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment. CART DRIVER: I can't take him like this. It's against regulations. SCO: I don't want to go on the cart. IBM: Don't be such a baby. CART DRIVER: I can't take him. SCO: I feel fine. IBM: Do us a favor. CART DRIVER: I can't. IBM: Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long. CART DRIVER: I've got to go round to the Robinson's, they've lost nine today. IBM: When's your next round? CART DRIVER: Thursday. SCO: I think I'll go for a walk. IBM: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Look, isn't there something you could do? SCO:...I feel happy...I feel happy...
*THWACK*
IBM: Thanks very much. CART DRIVER: 's all right. See you on Thursday.
In related news the Republican National Convention has appointed a newly cloned Hitler as the RNC Deputy CEO of public affairs. "If you're going to be in the Los Angeles area, und would like tickets to 'Hitler', call 213-DU WERDEST EINE KRANKENSCHWESTER BRAUCHEN!!!!"
Well, if it's the kind of call where a minute or two is significant, then wouldn't that be an... emergency call? Not necessarily. It could be that, in that two minutes, an officer could have prevented someone from getting injured or from the situation escalating to an emergency. At that time of the morning, I imagine they get a lot of calls about drunk people acting stupid.
Since acting as its members' copyright-enforcement organization is virtually the entire function of the RIAA such a decision would utterly sink it. No. It also lobbies Congress, and without copyright enforcement chewing up resources, it could focus all its time and energy on that.
Close.
"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards." - Mark Twain, Following the Equator; Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
No. Apparently the mission objectives are a dozen orbits around Ballmer's ego while safely retrieving items of loose furniture in unstable orbits around him. Now I can't get the image of Steve Ballmer as Peter Griffin out of my head, damn you.
The most powerful cosmic ray particles ever observed, which have are millions of times more energy than anything we can create, each have approximately the force of a thrown baseball. It might be worth noting that these ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are not exactly common.
The irony of being a grammar Nazi by pointing out that the statement "People like you make Nazi's look good." is incorrect. It should be "People like you make Nazis look good." - unless there is some unseen object that the Nazis posses, the apostrophe before the "s" is unnecessary and incorrect. Simply adding a "s" to the end is sufficient to make it plural. While we're being pedantic, note that "Nazi's" would be a singular possessive, not a plural possessive. The putative unmentioned (rather than "unseen") object would be possessed by a singular, unspecified Nazi, not the Nazis as a group.
Most file-systems don't lock files that you are executing, so they can be overwritten whilst mapped into memory. This can abused in lots of amusing ways. Some subset of Windows versions lock executables for processes that are currently running. Because some critical system executables can't really be shut down during normal operations, this means some files will always be locked while the system is running. This means installs and updates to the system have to use a "move on reboot" hook in the OS and insist you reboot for the changes to take effect.
Personally, I prefer overwriting the file and restarting any relevant processes to cold-starting the OS, but maybe that's just me.
In my case he didn't get a chance to spend more than a grand before I phoned the card in, so it was just petty theft. One wonders if there's a downside to waiting a skosh to see if the loser was going to rack up sufficient theft to make it a felony. If a loser cow-orker stole from me, I'd prefer to see him end up in PMITA prison, myself.
Wouldn't a fuel-cell engine be essentially an electric engine? Would it be quieter than a gasoline engine? Engines that use combustion fuels are powered by bursty or continuous explosions. Explosions are inherently noisy.
Well QA departments usually maintains a serie of tests and run them on various architectures and measure the time taken by each test. Trying to copy/erase/rename files seems like a basic operation you don't want regression on, so it is probably part of a test. The fact that such a thing wasn't caught on a flag product just amaze me. Developers tend to have the same blind spots, so any time you rewrite something you run a good chance of reintroducing problems you've already fixed in a previous implementation. It wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft's QA had focused mainly on correctness rather than speed, given the sheer amount or rework that went into Vista.
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Ignoring air resistance, which won't be much different for similarly-shaped pieces, once detached from the shuttle, pieces of ice and foam would accelerate towards the ground at the same rate. The shuttle continues to accelerate upwards at the same rate relative to the two. Ice has higher density and would thereby accumulate consequently higher momentum and greater kinetic energy than the foam. Since ice is also much harder and would deform less, it would clearly be the more significant impactor.
"That's the way it was, and we liked it!"
Professor: "No, just the two."
Fry: "Oh, well, I'm sure that's enough."
Bender: "I'm sick of parallel Bender lauding his cowboy hat over me!"
However, this is not a successful argument for drugs being illegal. If a parent neglected a child because he played his XBox nonstop, does that mean XBoxes should be illegal?
Your analysis appears to be using the figures for a regular supernova and extrapolating upwards. A gamma ray burst or a hypernova are different animals. A hypothetical GRB at a distance of 500 light years, about 20 times the distance you mentioned for a supernova, would be considered "nearby" and has been suggested as a plausible extintion event in our planet's history.
I suddenly have this image in my head of Yul Brynner saying, "When I sit, you sit. When I kneel, you kneel. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!"
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IBM: You're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
CART DRIVER: I can't take him like this. It's against regulations.
SCO: I don't want to go on the cart.
IBM: Don't be such a baby.
CART DRIVER: I can't take him.
SCO: I feel fine.
IBM: Do us a favor.
CART DRIVER: I can't.
IBM: Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
CART DRIVER: I've got to go round to the Robinson's, they've lost nine today.
IBM: When's your next round?
CART DRIVER: Thursday.
SCO: I think I'll go for a walk.
IBM: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Look, isn't there something you could do?
SCO:
*THWACK*
IBM: Thanks very much.
CART DRIVER: 's all right. See you on Thursday.
- Mark Twain, Following the Equator; Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVgR6fAHKuU
A planet where apes evolved from men?
Wish I had mod points.
Personally, I prefer overwriting the file and restarting any relevant processes to cold-starting the OS, but maybe that's just me.
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