" one ringing the earth in a band 120 miles thick and 45,000 miles wide."
Presumably that would be outside the planet, and therefore would be counteracting the force of gravity towards the centre of the planet. Or is there some other wierd geometry involved.
"For ordinary consumers it is almost impossible to buy e.g. a new laptop with Win7. So the numbers are forced"
Maybe you can't get a new machine with Win7 from a big box retailer, but you can from a number of major online stores, and of course HP's own website. Of course you may have to pay a little more since you are getting Win7 professional rather than the 'home' version
It dominated the news broadcasts at the end of last year.
They said most of the people in that town could return to their homes on th 6pm news on 31 december.
I bet the cold weather was the cause. W've been having January temperatures for most of the last month in the region. Although at the moment it has warmed up to 245 Kelvin, and not much wind. (I live about 90 Km SE of Fargo
I guess you import the potatoes from Earth. You can synthesize the oil from the Jovian atmosphere. But its gonna be expensive just to get there yourself.
Next up, how to cook a burger on Venus... (oh wait, its already cooked, and so are you)
It wouldn't work so well around here, since NaCl brine freezes at 0F Low temps for the next three nights are forcast at -20F And we already had one -24F night this winter (I live west of Wisconsin)
Slashdot Mirror
I thought -CO3 was carbonate
" one ringing the earth in a band 120 miles thick and 45,000 miles wide."
Presumably that would be outside the planet, and therefore would be counteracting the force of gravity towards the centre of the planet.
Or is there some other wierd geometry involved.
I dunno, but theres lots of other Sky around, thats not owned by Murdoch. Including a couple of bands
But most SF authors also predicted a future of humanoid robots.
"For ordinary consumers it is almost impossible to buy e.g. a new laptop with Win7. So the numbers are forced"
Maybe you can't get a new machine with Win7 from a big box retailer, but you can from a number of major online stores, and of course HP's own website.
Of course you may have to pay a little more since you are getting Win7 professional rather than the 'home' version
The Book of Certitude (also referred to as the Kitab-i-Iqan)
If you are not an american, you should read the constitution of the country that you are from.
Is to change to using an absolute scale of temperature like Kelvin
AFAIK the US congress never passed the "Three Laws of Robotics" in the first place.
Maybe they should
And while we are talking about Asimov, maybe they should put some money into researching Thiotimoline
It dominated the news broadcasts at the end of last year.
They said most of the people in that town could return to their homes on th 6pm news on 31 december.
I bet the cold weather was the cause. W've been having January temperatures for most of the last month in the region.
Although at the moment it has warmed up to 245 Kelvin, and not much wind.
(I live about 90 Km SE of Fargo
I guess you import the potatoes from Earth.
You can synthesize the oil from the Jovian atmosphere.
But its gonna be expensive just to get there yourself.
Next up, how to cook a burger on Venus...
(oh wait, its already cooked, and so are you)
So Krystal Ball, Ari Melber, Abby Huntsman and Touré will have to try to be The 1st Cycle to the North Pole then
So how is the ozone hole doing in the southern hemisphere these days
"When you throw them at a distracted student the screen might break."
I don't suppose they use chalk for that these days, since they don't have blackboards anymore
" I think we can both agree that books, pencils and arithmetic are necessery"
Spelling lessons are also necessary.
BTW Kids in NZ learn English, rather than American.
(The other official language in NZ is Maori (te Reo o Aotearoa)
Yes there are Wiccans in NZ, and quite aa few other Fringe religions, but nothing as crazy as some of the extremists Christians in the US
"The entire population of Melbourne (or Sydney) is this entire country"
Not so many Kiwis are in Melbourne, they tend to go to Sydney or Queensland
Say whats this about Holden closing down? How will they have motor racing in Oz without Holden Vs Falcon?
(/me is a former Kiwi living in the US)
Apollo 15 was like 40 years ago...
It wouldn't work so well around here, since NaCl brine freezes at 0F
Low temps for the next three nights are forcast at -20F
And we already had one -24F night this winter
(I live west of Wisconsin)
While this might affect youtube.fr or whatever, it can't affect the main youtube site, or one costed in Canada, which could still be french-speaking
IMHO Sherlock Holmes is not Science Fiction
and NOT_Science_Fiction is whats on the SyFy channel
(It should be called The PsyPhi channel)
Mod parent up
Nobody wants Win8
Hpw is it going to get to Titan in the first place? Do we have a rocket that can go that far these days?
You position the fans pointing upward, that keeps the machine firmly on the desk
In Soviet Russia aircraft carrier lands on YOU
and since its that time of year
(to the tune of Chritmas is a coming)
Noun verbs you
Gentlemen
Noun verbs you
In Soviet Russia
Noun verbs YOU