So 8% of my DNA comes from a virus and not from my ancestors? I guess that means that I was infected with the DNA after conception and for some reason it's not heritable since I didn't get any from my ancestors. The big story, then, is that there is a mechanism that excludes the viral DNA during meiosis.
Dr Feschotte must have cringed when he read the release.
I got access to the data through my NASA contacts early on and download quite a bit for some western states. We used/and still use the GPS position and altitude of our aircraft to extract elevation from SRTM and then compute the height over ground for our remote sensing data to aid in geo-rectification of our images of wildfires.
The article says that alcohol has only been around for 3,000 years. This implies that leavened bread has only been around for that long. Wonder what the yeasts were producing before and why so many animals have the enzyme alcohol dehydroginase.
Someone is driving on the freeway at night going 75 wearing the smart contacts. As a van is passed on a curve all the LEDs in the contacts light up fully. "Single car crash", states the report, "must have fallen asleep".
Oh, you mean something like the space station in a circular orbit has the space shuttle behind it and the space shuttle has adjusted its orbit so that it is matching the speed (not a vector) with the space station. Won't be a collision as the angular separation will be maintained so there won't be any damage or capture.
By same orbit I meant that their angular momenta would have opposite signs.
Think of the two objects, satellites, having telescopes that point straight ahead, that is, the line of sight is tangent to the orbit, and they both are focused on some distant star and are moving toward that star at that instant. At that instant they have the same velocity.
"As long as you're traveling at the same speed and direction as the bulletlike flecks, you don't have to worry about damage"
That's not true. Consider two objects in the same circular orbit traveling in opposite directions exactly 180 degrees apart. They are traveling in the same speed and direction (in physics that's called velocity) and will surely collide.
I think that viruses, bacteria, and fungal spores are too small to be effectively removed by nose hairs and nose mucus. Respiratory diseases are often spread by coughing and sneezing and the pathogens enter the body via the respiratory system. Is it only mouth breathers that become infected from airborne pathogens then?
It's difficult to understand how a killed vaccine can mutate. Influenza vaccines are killed vaccines, BTW.
"Then again, we have grown adults who still insist on picking their nose and eating their boogers at traffic lights. Ask any cop who's done time in a patrol car."
So the grown adult is ingesting, for the most part, bacteria and viruses from his own body. Not terribly dangerous in my opinion. Don't want to shake hands with though.
Of course if he hasn't washed his hands for a while he may be infecting himself by introducing bad things into his nose.
I would expect that the communications and organization software could be used in to good advantage in a swarm of cruise missiles that might be from 3 to 6 meters or more long.
Of course if each "bee" has a quarter gram of HE a swarm might be able to deliver enough to do some precise damage, but that's not what I was thinking.
KPCC has at least daily interviews about the status and expectations of the fire with the observatory director and the interviews may be available on line.
A few years ago I printed pictures and offenses of sex offenders that lived near a tiny convenience store that kids in my neighborhood frequented. When I took them to the store the clerk (who lived on the premises) was able to identify most of them and pointed out that about half had moved, died, or were in jail. She knew the family at one of the addresses and told me that the person in the picture didn't live there.
So, except for the offenders now in jail or dead, for each positive error there must be a negative error as the person lives somewhere else. The lists are not to be trusted without some other corroborating evidence.
As pointed out in another post most sex offenders of children are friends or relatives of the children's family and others don't hunt near where they live.
Half the milage was not meant to be accurate as I don't know the magnitude. But vehicles are not well insulated, hot air will flow across them transferring heat, the A/C compressor needs to compress the working fluid to be quite bit hotter than the air that cools it, and the front and rear windows let in a lot sunlight. I think that the penalty must be more than 10 percent. If it's only a 10% hit why don't the manufacturers discuss it?
You're in transit from Santa Barbara and stopped there for 45 minutes to eat and get charged. Took longer than expected to find an unattended electrical socket.
It's just under 300 miles from Banning, CA, to Phoenix, AZ. Wonder what the mileage would be for that drive leaving Banning around 10 am the first week of September and using the air-conditioner. Probably wouldn't get to Blyth which is about half way. The electric and hybrid car ads and news stories never talk about the added burden of the air-conditioner and its power requirements.
"he first version uses a red-green-blue filter; the second, an infrared-green-blue. "
What kind of filters are these? if It's a band pass the first just blocks infrared (assuming they use a silicon detector), or are they band pass filters used on sequential images, or are they band blocking taken on sequential images so that you get red + green + ir, and blue + green + ir, and red + blue + ir ? I'm assuming they they have just the one detector.
"... spacecraft traveling at hypersonic speeds..."
I'll bite, what is the speed of sound in the regions in which he ballutes will be used? Doesn't it depend on both pressure and temperature? Are the SiFi movies right and there is sound in space after all?
"space satellites could generate power 24 hours a day, unaffected by cloudy weather or Earth's day-night cycle."
That might be true depending on the orbit. If it's in an expensive synchronous orbit it will still be in earth's shadow once a day but I would expect that the beam would have a pretty large diameter at Fresno. If it's in any other orbit Fresno will be in line of sight for only part of the time. So how do they generate and transfer power over 90% of the time?
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So 8% of my DNA comes from a virus and not from my ancestors? I guess that means that I was infected with the DNA after conception and for some reason it's not heritable since I didn't get any from my ancestors. The big story, then, is that there is a mechanism that excludes the viral DNA during meiosis.
Dr Feschotte must have cringed when he read the release.
I got access to the data through my NASA contacts early on and download quite a bit for some western states. We used/and still use the GPS position and altitude of our aircraft to extract elevation from SRTM and then compute the height over ground for our remote sensing data to aid in geo-rectification of our images of wildfires.
The article says that alcohol has only been around for 3,000 years. This implies that leavened bread has only been around for that long. Wonder what the yeasts were producing before and why so many animals have the enzyme alcohol dehydroginase.
Someone is driving on the freeway at night going 75 wearing the smart contacts. As a van is passed on a curve all the LEDs in the contacts light up fully. "Single car crash", states the report, "must have fallen asleep".
Oh, you mean something like the space station in a circular orbit has the space shuttle behind it and the space shuttle has adjusted its orbit so that it is matching the speed (not a vector) with the space station. Won't be a collision as the angular separation will be maintained so there won't be any damage or capture.
Is that what was meant?
By same orbit I meant that their angular momenta would have opposite signs.
Think of the two objects, satellites, having telescopes that point straight ahead, that is, the line of sight is tangent to the orbit, and they both are focused on some distant star and are moving toward that star at that instant. At that instant they have the same velocity.
"As long as you're traveling at the same speed and direction as the bulletlike flecks, you don't have to worry about damage"
That's not true. Consider two objects in the same circular orbit traveling in opposite directions exactly 180 degrees apart. They are traveling in the same speed and direction (in physics that's called velocity) and will surely collide.
I think that viruses, bacteria, and fungal spores are too small to be effectively removed by nose hairs and nose mucus. Respiratory diseases are often spread by coughing and sneezing and the pathogens enter the body via the respiratory system. Is it only mouth breathers that become infected from airborne pathogens then?
It's difficult to understand how a killed vaccine can mutate. Influenza vaccines are killed vaccines, BTW.
"Then again, we have grown adults who still insist on picking their nose and eating their boogers at traffic lights. Ask any cop who's done time in a patrol car."
So the grown adult is ingesting, for the most part, bacteria and viruses from his own body. Not terribly dangerous in my opinion. Don't want to shake hands with though.
Of course if he hasn't washed his hands for a while he may be infecting himself by introducing bad things into his nose.
I would expect that the communications and organization software could be used in to good advantage in a swarm of cruise missiles that might be from 3 to 6 meters or more long.
Of course if each "bee" has a quarter gram of HE a swarm might be able to deliver enough to do some precise damage, but that's not what I was thinking.
This appears to have military applications, say a swarm of cheap cruise missiles that any country could afford. Other than that it is way cool.
Ahhh, nuts! You beat me.
"That Reasons Like a Human"
Spends most of it's time ogling - wait there's a honky in this black neighborhood, must be up to no good.
KPCC has at least daily interviews about the status and expectations of the fire with the observatory director and the interviews may be available on line.
A few years ago I printed pictures and offenses of sex offenders that lived near a tiny convenience store that kids in my neighborhood frequented. When I took them to the store the clerk (who lived on the premises) was able to identify most of them and pointed out that about half had moved, died, or were in jail. She knew the family at one of the addresses and told me that the person in the picture didn't live there.
So, except for the offenders now in jail or dead, for each positive error there must be a negative error as the person lives somewhere else. The lists are not to be trusted without some other corroborating evidence.
As pointed out in another post most sex offenders of children are friends or relatives of the children's family and others don't hunt near where they live.
Half the milage was not meant to be accurate as I don't know the magnitude. But vehicles are not well insulated, hot air will flow across them transferring heat, the A/C compressor needs to compress the working fluid to be quite bit hotter than the air that cools it, and the front and rear windows let in a lot sunlight. I think that the penalty must be more than 10 percent. If it's only a 10% hit why don't the manufacturers discuss it?
You're in transit from Santa Barbara and stopped there for 45 minutes to eat and get charged. Took longer than expected to find an unattended electrical socket.
It's just under 300 miles from Banning, CA, to Phoenix, AZ. Wonder what the mileage would be for that drive leaving Banning around 10 am the first week of September and using the air-conditioner. Probably wouldn't get to Blyth which is about half way. The electric and hybrid car ads and news stories never talk about the added burden of the air-conditioner and its power requirements.
"he first version uses a red-green-blue filter; the second, an infrared-green-blue. "
What kind of filters are these? if It's a band pass the first just blocks infrared (assuming they use a silicon detector), or are they band pass filters used on sequential images, or are they band blocking taken on sequential images so that you get red + green + ir, and blue + green + ir, and red + blue + ir ? I'm assuming they they have just the one detector.
convert 0x10 to decimal
Ah, yes, a typo, but the import is that the Google calculator can be used to convert decimal to hex. I now shall undoubtably be modded as a troll.
Google: 16 in hex
result: 0x01
Gotta ask the right question!
"... spacecraft traveling at hypersonic speeds..."
I'll bite, what is the speed of sound in the regions in which he ballutes will be used? Doesn't it depend on both pressure and temperature? Are the SiFi movies right and there is sound in space after all?
"space satellites could generate power 24 hours a day, unaffected by cloudy weather or Earth's day-night cycle."
That might be true depending on the orbit. If it's in an expensive synchronous orbit it will still be in earth's shadow once a day but I would expect that the beam would have a pretty large diameter at Fresno. If it's in any other orbit Fresno will be in line of sight for only part of the time. So how do they generate and transfer power over 90% of the time?
If it can't publish it will never get tenure, will be fired, and then hired by Rumsfield who is still looking for WMD.