And whats this about shuttle rocket booster? Do we really want to use solid rockets? They may be good for ICBM's which have to be ready to launch in seconds, but have not been to great for manned missions like Challenger
The people who got the highest dose at Hiroshima and Nagasaki also suffered from the other effects of the bomb, like heat and blast, and there wasn't emough left of them to measure
More to the point, its 2014 - do we have to have screensavers? The original reason for a screensaver was to prevent phosphor burn on the old monochrome CRT screens. They make no sense in this day of digital LED and LCD screens. These days the best screensaver is turn off the display, especially on mobile devices to save battery, but it would also be good for plugged in devices, tp save power (probably generated by burning some carbon containing fuel.
My guess would be General Communication Head Quarters
UK has lots of secret government organisations, that answer directly to the PM and cabinet, not to parliament. MI5, MI6, Special Branch, UNIT and TORCHWOOD
Will people ever be ready for stuff like replicators, site to site transporters and Holodecks? Let alone going to far off civilizations at speeds faster than light and meeting wierd aliens.
Most of this 'free' software has a "do you accept the terms and conditions" clause that you have to click "I agree" in order to install or run the software. Now the enforcability of such agreements may be open to dispute, especcially if it entailled some sacrifice on the users part (you agree to give up your firstborn child to us..) but it usually would cover "we can change the user interface at any time, and don't complain if memory leaks cause your system to crash eventually)
Say, it seems to be available on Amazon' Newstand for Kindle. Do you know if the sales there go through this fscking distributor, or does the money go directly to the magazine?
When I used to have an Amiga, I used UEdit I had to give them up when I came to this country 12 years ago:( The euthor, Rick Stiles, died of cancer and the program was released as freeware on fish disks (768-769) but I had been a registered user since 1988
"It wasn't nearly half of the POWER used in Germany at that moment. It was, for a moment, about half of the public ELECTRIC grid, in a country where electric is unpopular because it's becoming outrageously expensive. Most of the power used in Germany is not from the public electricity grid."
Do people have their own household generators running on natural gas or something? I could understand that power for heating could mostly come from gas, but presumably that is only needed in the winter? ( Does Germany even have winter? I think Fahrenheit (the guy who invented the temperature scale) was German and he seemed to think that 0F was as cold as you could get, so I guess they don't have a real winter there.)
I don't think there are many VC's (recipients of the Victoria Cross) left alive these days (Its the British and Commonwealth equivalent of the Medal of Honor)
It was the British Empire back then, The Scotch and the Welsh went out and conquered the world too. Remember the 24th Regiment singing Men of Harlech as they fought off the Zulus at Rourke's Drift in 1879
I am sure the rocks and sand are some sort of oxide. The reason Mars lost its water (billion years ago) was it has very little magnetic field - there was no shield against solar wind, and the water molcules in the upper atmosphere got split into Hydrogen and oxygen, and ther lighter hydrogen escaped.
Anyway water won't be much of a problem if you have enough energy.
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to the Saturn V
And whats this about shuttle rocket booster? Do we really want to use solid rockets? They may be good for ICBM's which have to be ready to launch in seconds, but have not been to great for manned missions like Challenger
The people who got the highest dose at Hiroshima and Nagasaki also suffered from the other effects of the bomb, like heat and blast, and there wasn't emough left of them to measure
So whats a Billion Brazillan Boletos worth in BitCoin?
More to the point, its 2014 - do we have to have screensavers?
The original reason for a screensaver was to prevent phosphor burn on the old monochrome CRT screens. They make no sense in this day of digital LED and LCD screens. These days the best screensaver is turn off the display, especially on mobile devices to save battery, but it would also be good for plugged in devices, tp save power (probably generated by burning some carbon containing fuel.
My guess would be General Communication Head Quarters
UK has lots of secret government organisations, that answer directly to the PM and cabinet, not to parliament.
MI5, MI6, Special Branch, UNIT and TORCHWOOD
Don't forget the siffy channel, theyre into ghosts and other crap too
Russia has very short summer
Will people ever be ready for stuff like replicators, site to site transporters and Holodecks? Let alone going to far off civilizations at speeds faster than light and meeting wierd aliens.
I guess they could cope with com-badges
Yeah, Platinum would be better, since it is rarer, and has more uses (eg as a catalyst)
Of course there are other metals that are even rarer, like Plutonium, but you can't carry that around in your pocket...
"(How do Americans manage to consume so much electricity in their households?)"
That electricity is used because of global warming.
Air conditioners use a lot of power in the summer, when its 82F and 100% humidity
Most of this 'free' software has a "do you accept the terms and conditions" clause that you have to click "I agree" in order to install or run the software.
Now the enforcability of such agreements may be open to dispute, especcially if it entailled some sacrifice on the users part (you agree to give up your firstborn child to us..) but it usually would cover "we can change the user interface at any time, and don't complain if memory leaks cause your system to crash eventually)
Say, it seems to be available on Amazon' Newstand for Kindle. Do you know if the sales there go through this fscking distributor, or does the money go directly to the magazine?
When I used to have an Amiga, I used UEdit :(
I had to give them up when I came to this country 12 years ago
The euthor, Rick Stiles, died of cancer and the program was released as freeware on fish disks (768-769)
but I had been a registered user since 1988
The cycles of global warming
And those who came at first to scoff
remained behind to pray
"I don't remember any war where Australia was a side."
World War I , World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Afghanistan, Iraq
There was also a place in asia called East Timor which was at war with Indonesia. Aussie and NZ forces went there as peacekeepers...
"It wasn't nearly half of the POWER used in Germany at that moment. It was, for a moment, about half of the public ELECTRIC grid, in a country where electric is unpopular because it's becoming outrageously expensive. Most of the power used in Germany is not from the public electricity grid."
Do people have their own household generators running on natural gas or something? I could understand that power for heating could mostly come from gas, but presumably that is only needed in the winter? ( Does Germany even have winter? I think Fahrenheit (the guy who invented the temperature scale) was German and he seemed to think that 0F was as cold as you could get, so I guess they don't have a real winter there.)
Video gaming might be a sport, (in a similar way to which chess is a sport) but its not athletic
I don't think there are many VC's (recipients of the Victoria Cross) left alive these days
(Its the British and Commonwealth equivalent of the Medal of Honor)
"Uh why is mercury thermometers, baromiters, and sphygmomanometer's considered the gold standard then?"
Because if you have actual molten gold in the tubes of your measuring devices you know its getting too hot...
It was the British Empire back then, The Scotch and the Welsh went out and conquered the world too.
Remember the 24th Regiment singing Men of Harlech as they fought off the Zulus at Rourke's Drift in 1879
IANA ?
I Am Not A what?
aren.t they also used to take out people who hunt crocodiles?
Greg Norman these days
Doesn't the soil of Mars contain Iron Oxide?
I am sure the rocks and sand are some sort of oxide. The reason Mars lost its water (billion years ago) was it has very little magnetic field - there was no shield against solar wind, and the water molcules in the upper atmosphere got split into Hydrogen and oxygen, and ther lighter hydrogen escaped.
Anyway water won't be much of a problem if you have enough energy.