DISTORTION OF US PROVOCATION OF KOREAN WAR PREFACE
Since June 25, 2000, the 50th year since their unleashing the Korean War, the United States has been bent on grossly distorting the history of the war and will continue to do so until 2003, with a sinister aim to shift the blame for their war, the blame for their aggression, onto the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Holy #&$@ing shit, what a bunch of nutballs!
Oh - and what's going to happen in 2003? This yankee imperialist running dog of capitalism wants to know!
The cryobot, which my advisor here at UH built for the Martian polar cap, as well as Europa. It was a tube that would be lowered nose-first from a lander onto the ice, and melt its way down using a heated tip in the nose, taking readings along the way. They actually tested it out in the Antarctic, but unfortunately, I wasn't here at the time, so didn't get to go along:(
Come to think of it, some of the guys right down the hall have been working on the airborne hyperspectral imager mentioned in the article; maybe I'll go ask them about this.
RTFA. It wasn't a microphone, but rather one of the probe's charged particle detectors that picked up the plasma from the vaporizing dust as it impacted.
One thing that I've seen nobody here discuss or even mention is the fact that we absolutely, desparately, need something to replace the shuttle, and soon. They're not getting any younger, and if we keep flying them (with all due respect to the remarkable maintainance and upgrades program), they'll all eventually be spread out in debris fields across the planet.
Even if congress doesn't fund the ambitious vision of the whitehouse, I imagine that they will realize the above, and fund the CEV (now known as "project constellation") - which is great because this vehicle will at least have the capability to fly beyond low Earth orbit. This is orders of magnitude better than we can do now, where going any further is impossible even if the will were there. Even if Bush's plan amounts to nothing, having a fleet of potentially deep-space faring craft makes taking the next step, far easier, both in terms of funding and political support.
I use iChat AV to keep in touch from Honolulu to D.C. Hardly any delay, and since the connection's wireless, I can walk around the house and give my friends on the east coast a virtual tour. Easy as pie, and when the network gets in the way, it's never the wireless end of things that causes problems. More likely someone else in the neighborhood downloading pron.
Well, among the people I work with, Slashdot is rather well-known, so odds are they're already aware of your sentiments. I'll try to pass it on at lunch today, though...I imagine it might go something like this:
"Hey guys? Just to let you know, some dude in the Netherlands named Chabotc seems to think you're all the bee's knees....you may now continue eating your Italian B.M.T"
Nah, seriously, I'll do my best. Full disclosure, though - I just got here about a week ago, so I'm still in the "testing the waters" phase of everything.
As one who actually works on the mars program (orbiters, though, not the rovers), I can tell you that MANY different options were considered. Most weighed enough that you'd have to sacrifice instrumentation to implement them, however, and as the nominal mission was only nintey days, it was decided that more guaranteed science results during that period were preferable to uncertian return during the extended mission.
The best idea I've heard so far for dust removal was to use electrostatic forces to make it all jump off, but for similar reasons this was not flown either.
Wow! I thought I was the only one who noticed this! Those sound effects are friggin' EVERYWHERE...it gives me flashbacks.
Others I've noticed often are the thunderclap from Infinity (actually, I just heard that one last night on the Princess Mononoke DVD), and the mechanical whine of the elevators (see the tow truck in Men in Black one for another use of this clip)
Wünderfaffen, yes - I noticed that too when reading the article. The most famous of these were the ME-262 and the V-2, neither of which had any equivalent* in the allied arsenal.
Thankfully, the most important wonderweapon was built in New Mexico.
*Technically incorrect, but the Glouscter Meteor was really no match for the 262 performance-wise.
Well, as any astronomer will tell you, no mirror reflects 100 percent of light, and making mirrors that even come reasonably close is extremely expensive. Shielding the entire survace of a combat vehicle with such a mirror would be impractical in the extreme under battlefield conditions.
Given the powers at which these lasers operate, I imagine that the mirror would be effective shielding for a few tenths of a second before the energy not reflected built up enough to scorch the silvering. Once that happens you're dead.
Are pretty big. Someone should go try to find one on terraserver, or lostoutdoors.com, or some other satellite photo page. If groom lake (popularly known as Area 51) is on there, then surely some MAC airbases are...
Sholdn't be too hard to find, unless they're well camoflagued, as they probably are. Still worth a shot, IMHO.
What you're referring to is space-based interferometry. I was talking to my astro prof a few months ago, and he showed me calculations that absolutely blew my mind.
An optical interferometric array on the far side of the moon, would have resolution sufficent to give us maps of earth-size planets -out to 100 light years, IIRC.
I was so impressed, that I even asked another faculty member, who concurred.
I have a TiBook, and girls I hardly know come up to me somewhat regularly telling me how "beautiful" my computer is. Most of them, if I had to guess, haven't a clue what's under the hood. They see it for what it is to them - an object that, above all, is pleasing to behold.
This isn't the only reason I take it to class, but it sure helps:)
Umm...Bungie was a mac _only_ developer until the Myth series. Even after that they had a simultaneous release policy that always made us Mac users smile. Halo, BTW, made its debut at Macworld a few years back.
Then they were bought out by M$, and the terrible thing came to pass. They still say Halo will be out for Mac, but most of us have stopped caring. Too bad, too. Many Mac users used to love them as they do Apple.
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Yup...some of the majors and I will be watching that episode tonight on the projector in the Astro Lab.
Incredibly well done, IMHO. Espically the scene where the wives find out...extremely moving.
That would be Lake Vostok, IIRC. The Russians have a research station on its shore. Kind of interesting, actually. The surface of the "lake" is a sheet of ice several hundred metres thick, however, unlike the rest of the surrounding ice, it's pretty smooth.
As the previous poster mentioned, seeing if there's anything alive in the water down there would be way cool.
I can put them side by side and watch the difference.
You've done this?
In any case, it is largely irrelevant when discussing the iMac, since the target audience would not notice such a small difference. That's not why they bought the machine.
(A difference that would probably be made up for by the nVidia anyway. -Your config had an ATI Rage)
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DISTORTION OF US PROVOCATION OF KOREAN WAR
PREFACE
Since June 25, 2000, the 50th year since their unleashing the Korean War, the United States has been bent on grossly distorting the history of the war and will continue to do so until 2003, with a sinister aim to shift the blame for their war, the blame for their aggression, onto the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Holy #&$@ing shit, what a bunch of nutballs!
Oh - and what's going to happen in 2003? This yankee imperialist running dog of capitalism wants to know!
The cryobot, which my advisor here at UH built for the Martian polar cap, as well as Europa. It was a tube that would be lowered nose-first from a lander onto the ice, and melt its way down using a heated tip in the nose, taking readings along the way. They actually tested it out in the Antarctic, but unfortunately, I wasn't here at the time, so didn't get to go along :(
Come to think of it, some of the guys right down the hall have been working on the airborne hyperspectral imager mentioned in the article; maybe I'll go ask them about this.
When you open the envelope, they ask you to buy a dozen magazines, first.
"If entry xx3417fg71239s is correct, we'll say $NAME, YOU'VE JUST WON 100 MILLION DOLLARS! "
RTFA. It wasn't a microphone, but rather one of the probe's charged particle detectors that picked up the plasma from the vaporizing dust as it impacted.
They converted its signal to audio.
Assuming your average Bible weighs one pound, you'd need to pay $10k for each of them at current launch prices.
Of course, that's likely to go down in the near future, but...
One thing that I've seen nobody here discuss or even mention is the fact that we absolutely, desparately, need something to replace the shuttle, and soon. They're not getting any younger, and if we keep flying them (with all due respect to the remarkable maintainance and upgrades program), they'll all eventually be spread out in debris fields across the planet.
Even if congress doesn't fund the ambitious vision of the whitehouse, I imagine that they will realize the above, and fund the CEV (now known as "project constellation") - which is great because this vehicle will at least have the capability to fly beyond low Earth orbit. This is orders of magnitude better than we can do now, where going any further is impossible even if the will were there. Even if Bush's plan amounts to nothing, having a fleet of potentially deep-space faring craft makes taking the next step, far easier, both in terms of funding and political support.
I use iChat AV to keep in touch from Honolulu to D.C. Hardly any delay, and since the connection's wireless, I can walk around the house and give my friends on the east coast a virtual tour. Easy as pie, and when the network gets in the way, it's never the wireless end of things that causes problems. More likely someone else in the neighborhood downloading pron.
Well, among the people I work with, Slashdot is rather well-known, so odds are they're already aware of your sentiments. I'll try to pass it on at lunch today, though...I imagine it might go something like this:
"Hey guys? Just to let you know, some dude in the Netherlands named Chabotc seems to think you're all the bee's knees....you may now continue eating your Italian B.M.T"
Nah, seriously, I'll do my best. Full disclosure, though - I just got here about a week ago, so I'm still in the "testing the waters" phase of everything.
As one who actually works on the mars program (orbiters, though, not the rovers), I can tell you that MANY different options were considered. Most weighed enough that you'd have to sacrifice instrumentation to implement them, however, and as the nominal mission was only nintey days, it was decided that more guaranteed science results during that period were preferable to uncertian return during the extended mission.
The best idea I've heard so far for dust removal was to use electrostatic forces to make it all jump off, but for similar reasons this was not flown either.
England had a long and bloody Civil War. Pick up a history book sometime.
Wow! I thought I was the only one who noticed this! Those sound effects are friggin' EVERYWHERE...it gives me flashbacks.
Others I've noticed often are the thunderclap from Infinity (actually, I just heard that one last night on the Princess Mononoke DVD), and the mechanical whine of the elevators (see the tow truck in Men in Black one for another use of this clip)
Wünderfaffen, yes - I noticed that too when reading the article. The most famous of these were the ME-262 and the V-2, neither of which had any equivalent* in the allied arsenal.
Thankfully, the most important wonderweapon was built in New Mexico.
*Technically incorrect, but the Glouscter Meteor was really no match for the 262 performance-wise.
Well, as any astronomer will tell you, no mirror reflects 100 percent of light, and making mirrors that even come reasonably close is extremely expensive. Shielding the entire survace of a combat vehicle with such a mirror would be impractical in the extreme under battlefield conditions.
Given the powers at which these lasers operate, I imagine that the mirror would be effective shielding for a few tenths of a second before the energy not reflected built up enough to scorch the silvering. Once that happens you're dead.
FWIW, the parent is not off topic.
Are pretty big. Someone should go try to find one on terraserver, or lostoutdoors.com, or some other satellite photo page. If groom lake (popularly known as Area 51) is on there, then surely some MAC airbases are...
Sholdn't be too hard to find, unless they're well camoflagued, as they probably are. Still worth a shot, IMHO.
Nope, just a physics major.
Oh, and to reply to the AC, I realized the correct acronym about two seconds later.
Am I the only one who first thought TLD = Thermoluminescient Dosimiter?
I know it doesn't fit the context, but, well...
What you're referring to is space-based interferometry. I was talking to my astro prof a few months ago, and he showed me calculations that absolutely blew my mind.
An optical interferometric array on the far side of the moon, would have resolution sufficent to give us maps of earth-size planets -out to 100 light years, IIRC.
I was so impressed, that I even asked another faculty member, who concurred.
Chicks Dig Style.
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Oh absolutely.
I have a TiBook, and girls I hardly know come up to me somewhat regularly telling me how "beautiful" my computer is. Most of them, if I had to guess, haven't a clue what's under the hood. They see it for what it is to them - an object that, above all, is pleasing to behold.
This isn't the only reason I take it to class, but it sure helps
And if you don't need a Mac, $1200 can get you top-of-the-line.
Have I got some land to sell you!
Umm...Bungie was a mac _only_ developer until the Myth series. Even after that they had a simultaneous release policy that always made us Mac users smile. Halo, BTW, made its debut at Macworld a few years back.
Then they were bought out by M$, and the terrible thing came to pass. They still say Halo will be out for Mac, but most of us have stopped caring. Too bad, too. Many Mac users used to love them as they do Apple.
Yup...some of the majors and I will be watching that episode tonight on the projector in the Astro Lab.
Incredibly well done, IMHO. Espically the scene where the wives find out...extremely moving.
That would be Lake Vostok, IIRC. The Russians have a research station on its shore. Kind of interesting, actually. The surface of the "lake" is a sheet of ice several hundred metres thick, however, unlike the rest of the surrounding ice, it's pretty smooth.
As the previous poster mentioned, seeing if there's anything alive in the water down there would be way cool.
After that I switched to Windows and now both Windows and Linux and I am a mac basher.
:)
Now there's a well-reasoned position
If you like linux, check out OSX - you won't be disappointed.
I can put them side by side and watch the difference.
You've done this?
In any case, it is largely irrelevant when discussing the iMac, since the target audience would not notice such a small difference. That's not why they bought the machine.
(A difference that would probably be made up for by the nVidia anyway. -Your config had an ATI Rage)