"Iapetus, Saturn's third largest moon, was first photographed by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 December 2004."
Really? First photographed in 2004? Didn't any of the earlier probes like Voyager take pictures of it?
I seem to remember something about strange light and dark patterns on that moon from a book i read many years ago. I think it was written by a "distinguished but elderly scientist"
You can't even (afforadably) get computer monitors with more than 1080p resolution, and bigger than 27 inches, but about 5 years ago I got a 1920x1200 28 inch monitor for $250
But I have a tablet with 2560x1440 or so on a less than 9 inch screen.
Maybe you don't need 4kx3k sreen or higher, but it would be nice to have higher resolution so you can pick the size that you want. In the days of analogue displays you could have less than the full resolution but you can't do that witht a digital display unless you go to 1/2 or 1/3 of the maximum res.
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Your feet would get sore
"Iapetus, Saturn's third largest moon, was first photographed by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 December 2004."
Really? First photographed in 2004? Didn't any of the earlier probes like Voyager take pictures of it?
I seem to remember something about strange light and dark patterns on that moon from a book i read many years ago.
I think it was written by a "distinguished but elderly scientist"
The space elevator is one way to make solar power satellites power this planet.
Just global warming, caused by everyone, including US producing more CO2 than the plants absorb for the last 160 years.
You can't even (afforadably) get computer monitors with more than 1080p resolution, and bigger than 27 inches, but about 5 years ago I got a 1920x1200 28 inch monitor for $250
But I have a tablet with 2560x1440 or so on a less than 9 inch screen.
Maybe you don't need 4kx3k sreen or higher, but it would be nice to have higher resolution so you can pick the size that you want. In the days of analogue displays you could have less than the full resolution but you can't do that witht a digital display unless you go to 1/2 or 1/3 of the maximum res.
Its the Fithp
Run for the hills
" Pluto is the only planet to be discovered by an American."
What about exoplanets? Surely many of those were discovered by americans.
Of course they are beyond the jurisdiction of the IAU
"You just quoted a fictional character that lived to ~250."
Lazarus was at least 2000 years old in Time Enough For Love (which is where those quotes were originally published)
$500,000 wouldn't even pay for the lawyers fees when you are sued by Paramount
>> "10 years ago we thought we were the only solar system with planets."
> What?
Yeah I knew that there were planets outside the solar system around a quarter century ago, when I read the quote below
"Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute. " - Baha'u'llah
A women may be less likely to be murdered but more likely to be raped.
Can ANY number be believed?
After all the Bible-literalist 6-day creationists don't believe that Pi = 3.1415926535.....
Because it says in the Bible that it is 3
"Was that a Felicity Kendal show?"
No, that was "The Good Life"
at least in English
I think they translated that as "Goode Neighbors" for American audiences
Can Canadians still file their returns by mail, or do they have to use the Internet?
"He sounds like the APK of astrophysics."
An Android app?
Or does APK stand for some(thing|one) else?
"Americans tend to be very culturally illiterate as a whole. It is one of the reasons we are not so well liked overseas,"
Isn 't there 2 sign languages: AMErican Sign LANguage and International Sign Language ?
Climate change will wipe them out too, probably by drought.
But you can use a fission reactor. And the Navy has fission reactors at sea (and underneath it)
That reminds me of when I was shopping for bluetooth headphones
Some of them were advertised as 'portable'
I wouldn't want to wear anything on my head that wasn't portable.
(remember the Osbourne 1)
"Wikipedia kills itself, I had edits in the article about "Lightsabers"
Wouldn't that be Lightsabres ? Saber is american
I used to run DOS3.3 on an Apple ][+
I got that in '81
PR#6
I use Thunderbird for Email, I have never used Outlook, Express or otherwise
Email, online banking, and some games that won't run on 7 are mainly all I use my XP box for these days.
You don't get into the imperial or metric part until you're talking Kilo bits
Metric Kilo = 1000
Imperial Kilo = 1024
"'You are illegally using the premises as a tourist"
Tourism is illegal in SF now huh?
""the company's stock price is too high for Toyota or Daimler to just buy it outright"
Which Daimler? The Jaguar witht a different badge, or Mercedes (Benz)
the latter's hybrids seem to be doing quite well at the moment (in Formula 1)