I wasn't being literal about the "billiard ball" thing, but the article said that the impactor struck "a glancing blow", which usually implies a ricochet effect of some sort and also says that only 1/2 of the matter solidified into the moon.
On reading it again, the implication seems that the other 1/2 slammed into the earth once again, sometime later?
This actually makes the binary planet definition more reasonable, since it means the earth and moon are mostly the same stuff, as the material ripped away to form the moon came from the earth anyway.
What's not clear to me is where the "mars-sized object" that hit the earth-moon protoplanet like an oversized billiard cue ended up. Is it still in our solar system or did it end up somewhere else?
Bingo! The issue of interest is not are liquid explosives possible, it's why is the gov't creating such a fuss? As others have noted above, the Bojinka plot made use of nitroglycerin inside a bottle of contact lens solution. In 1995!
So why hasn't the gov't banned liquids, gels, etc. for the past 11 years? It's clearly in someone's interest to have the public with their knickers in a twist. So who benefits from fear and uncertainty? And why did the US pressure the British to make the arrests when they did, especially, as it has now been shown, many of the alleged terrorists didn't even have tickets and passports?
The whole argument about what particular kind of liquid weapon is possible is a red herring, anyway. We've known Osama bin Laden (remember him?) financed the 1995 operation for 11 years, despite Bush's declaration that this is something "new." (Of course, he denied anyone suspected people would fly planes into buildings either and it turned out the topic had been frequently studied. Maybe it's just news to him.)
What's the point of replying to an AC? Who knows? Anyway...
Liquid explosives don't make the idea of a bomb attack fishy. It does, however, make the government response fishy. OMFG! Liquid bombs! We never thought of that before! Everybody dump their vaseline! Just as we learned that the Bush administration response to 9/11 was a lie (They claimed to have never had any idea terrorist would crash planes into things), their response that this is new is also a lie. The 1995 Bojinka plot was financed by bin Laden...remember him?
As far as "not blabbing" goes, it's a bit past time for keeping secrets when you shut down one of the world's busiest airports and release the names of all the alleged terrorist and freeze their bank accounts.
Well, it was based on British surveillance as well, but you're right the whole thing is beginning to look fishy. First off, the idea of liquid explosives is not new. Eleven years ago the Bojinka plot tested their use. Second, British authorities claim that the theat was imminent, but some of the alleged terrorists didn't even have passports. Third, to date, the police have not reported the discovery of any bombs or bomb-making supplies.
I'd also like to see them support the standard VirtualCenter app on OS X. We've got a number of VM linux boxes under VMWare and I have to use windows to control when they're running/suspended/etc. A single control app on all platforms would be great.
For the Newton, it was the ability to carry it with you without constantly being aware you were lugging a computer around.
That and bad press as a result of a too-early release and a rocky start.
However, that makes the article's comparison that much more poignant, because it seems like the technology to build the Newton today would allow it to be about 1/2 the original weight and maybe 75% it's original size. Give it a color screen and WiFi and you'd have a killer machine.
The point of the "long tail" isn't that the sales stop being weighted towards the "hits". You still have a power-law distribution, that doesn't change. The point is that today, the distribution is artificially restricted, because items are dropped from availability. When you extend the number of products available, you make more money from the "tail" products and the portion that came from the original set of hits is smaller.
The first daughter came before Einstein and Mileva married, which is why she disappeared. The assumption is that she was put up for adoption to avoid scandal. No one knows for sure what happened to her.
While the executive order makes for nice PR, it has no effect on Kelo or any other action taken by local governments. Bush's order only applies to Federal emiment domain. Furthermore, it's probably really only good as "advice" to the Attorney General. If you want to get a law passed, you actually have to go through Congress, not that the Bush administration cares to bother with respectin separation of powers.
Yes, some glaciers are growing. However, the combined net change is a loss of glacial mass.
A similar effect is true of global temperature. Despite global warming, there are areas of the earth that are coolear. However, the global average is up. Note that temperatures at the poles can be affected very dramatically, the average at the north pole by as much as 8 degrees. This obviously has a greater impact on the polar ice than a 1 degree rise would have had.
Disturbing. Oddly enough, their terms of service does not say "Ask has the right to create censorbots that restrict what you can see on the web.
However, if you look at their preferences page, you'll see two options, which essentially say "Filter content, but allow me to bypass the filter" and "Filter content silently". This appears to violate their implied contract, i.e., that you'll have a chance to see "adult" material once you acknowledge the filter.
Well, if you don't like that comparison, compare it to the followers of Jim Jones at People's Temple. They were there with him and believed what he said. They died for it. That doesn't make Jim Jones the messiah. PLease note, I'm not attacking your Christianity, just your logic.
You're confusing self-consistant with accurate. Just because the Dead Sea scrolls' version of Isaiah is similar to current version simply means they were careful copiests. While there is much archaological evidence indicating that places and peoples mentioned in the Bible really existed, that doesn't make it accurate. Instead of reading books by preachers, try reading books by real archaeologists. In all of Egypt, for example, one of the most studied civilizations of all time, there is no corroborating evidence for the events described in Exodus.
You also seem to think that because people died for their beliefs it must be true. I guess that implies that all those Islamic suicide bombers are going to get their 72 virgins after all.
Yeah, and if you look at the contact list for this so-called news organization, it says a lot. Here are a few of the organizations the writers have affiliations with:
Drudge Report/Fox News - Right-wing mouthpieces Foundation for Defense of Democracies - Promotes Patriot Act, military action in Iraq, in guise of War on Terror American Policy Center - Pro-property rights, Anti-UN propaganda Sovereignty International - Anti-environmental, Anti-UN propaganda
While income statistics are useful in urban areas, for places with large agricultural populations, they may be less so. People may be growing a good deal of their own food, trading with their neighbors, etc., none of which shows up as income. A farmer with several chickens and a good-sized garden and zero (reportable) income could be far better off than someone living in the city on 2 or 3x times the "average" wage.
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Any data placed into Google Base is public. It's not really database functionality, it's more like a tagged and highly structured web page.
Thanks for the clarification.
I wasn't being literal about the "billiard ball" thing, but the article said that the impactor struck "a glancing blow", which usually implies a ricochet effect of some sort and also says that only 1/2 of the matter solidified into the moon.
On reading it again, the implication seems that the other 1/2 slammed into the earth once again, sometime later?
Hardly established fact, but currently the best and most widely accepted theory.
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See: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem
This actually makes the binary planet definition more reasonable, since it means the earth and moon are mostly the same stuff, as the material ripped away to form the moon came from the earth anyway.
What's not clear to me is where the "mars-sized object" that hit the earth-moon protoplanet like an oversized billiard cue ended up. Is it still in our solar system or did it end up somewhere else?
Why weren't liquids blocked before?
Bingo! The issue of interest is not are liquid explosives possible, it's why is the gov't creating such a fuss? As others have noted above, the Bojinka plot made use of nitroglycerin inside a bottle of contact lens solution. In 1995!
So why hasn't the gov't banned liquids, gels, etc. for the past 11 years? It's clearly in someone's interest to have the public with their knickers in a twist. So who benefits from fear and uncertainty? And why did the US pressure the British to make the arrests when they did, especially, as it has now been shown, many of the alleged terrorists didn't even have tickets and passports?
The whole argument about what particular kind of liquid weapon is possible is a red herring, anyway. We've known Osama bin Laden (remember him?) financed the 1995 operation for 11 years, despite Bush's declaration that this is something "new." (Of course, he denied anyone suspected people would fly planes into buildings either and it turned out the topic had been frequently studied. Maybe it's just news to him.)
What's the point of replying to an AC? Who knows? Anyway...
Liquid explosives don't make the idea of a bomb attack fishy. It does, however, make the government response fishy. OMFG! Liquid bombs! We never thought of that before! Everybody dump their vaseline! Just as we learned that the Bush administration response to 9/11 was a lie (They claimed to have never had any idea terrorist would crash planes into things), their response that this is new is also a lie. The 1995 Bojinka plot was financed by bin Laden...remember him?
As far as "not blabbing" goes, it's a bit past time for keeping secrets when you shut down one of the world's busiest airports and release the names of all the alleged terrorist and freeze their bank accounts.
Believe me, it's not just me doing the speculating.
Well, it was based on British surveillance as well, but you're right the whole thing is beginning to look fishy. First off, the idea of liquid explosives is not new. Eleven years ago the Bojinka plot tested their use. Second, British authorities claim that the theat was imminent, but some of the alleged terrorists didn't even have passports. Third, to date, the police have not reported the discovery of any bombs or bomb-making supplies.
I'd also like to see them support the standard VirtualCenter app on OS X. We've got a number of VM linux boxes under VMWare and I have to use windows to control when they're running/suspended/etc. A single control app on all platforms would be great.
In a recent interview with DVD newsroom an ex-Apple employee talks WWDC rumors.
IMDB notes that info in pre-production is subject to change. Plus, it's not like they're the only ones speculating about it.
Yeah, maybe if the Iraqi car bombers announced on national TV where and when they were going to show up next we could defend against them, too.
Thanks to Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern, we already know how to deal with Doomsday.
Underground vaults...ten women to every man. Where do I sign up?
...that nobody's going to buy it because of the operating system.
For the Newton, it was the ability to carry it with you without constantly being aware you were lugging a computer around.
That and bad press as a result of a too-early release and a rocky start.
However, that makes the article's comparison that much more poignant, because it seems like the technology to build the Newton today would allow it to be about 1/2 the original weight and maybe 75% it's original size. Give it a color screen and WiFi and you'd have a killer machine.
The point of the "long tail" isn't that the sales stop being weighted towards the "hits". You still have a power-law distribution, that doesn't change. The point is that today, the distribution is artificially restricted, because items are dropped from availability. When you extend the number of products available, you make more money from the "tail" products and the portion that came from the original set of hits is smaller.
The first daughter came before Einstein and Mileva married, which is why she disappeared. The assumption is that she was put up for adoption to avoid scandal. No one knows for sure what happened to her.
There's even a book about it.
The article there also includes excerpts from some of the letters.
Enough people enjoy gardening that I'm hestitant to agree that it's a waste of time. It could well be a waste of money, however.
While the executive order makes for nice PR, it has no effect on Kelo or any other action taken by local governments. Bush's order only applies to Federal emiment domain. Furthermore, it's probably really only good as "advice" to the Attorney General. If you want to get a law passed, you actually have to go through Congress, not that the Bush administration cares to bother with respectin separation of powers.
Yes, some glaciers are growing. However, the combined net change is a loss of glacial mass.
A similar effect is true of global temperature. Despite global warming, there are areas of the earth that are coolear. However, the global average is up. Note that temperatures at the poles can be affected very dramatically, the average at the north pole by as much as 8 degrees. This obviously has a greater impact on the polar ice than a 1 degree rise would have had.
I hope it goes more efficiently than our switch to the metric system.
Disturbing. Oddly enough, their terms of service does not say "Ask has the right to create censorbots that restrict what you can see on the web.
However, if you look at their preferences page, you'll see two options, which essentially say "Filter content, but allow me to bypass the filter" and "Filter content silently". This appears to violate their implied contract, i.e., that you'll have a chance to see "adult" material once you acknowledge the filter.
Well, if you don't like that comparison, compare it to the followers of Jim Jones at People's Temple. They were there with him and believed what he said. They died for it. That doesn't make Jim Jones the messiah. PLease note, I'm not attacking your Christianity, just your logic.
You're confusing self-consistant with accurate. Just because the Dead Sea scrolls' version of Isaiah is similar to current version simply means they were careful copiests. While there is much archaological evidence indicating that places and peoples mentioned in the Bible really existed, that doesn't make it accurate. Instead of reading books by preachers, try reading books by real archaeologists. In all of Egypt, for example, one of the most studied civilizations of all time, there is no corroborating evidence for the events described in Exodus.
A well-received modern book is The Bible Unearthed.
You also seem to think that because people died for their beliefs it must be true. I guess that implies that all those Islamic suicide bombers are going to get their 72 virgins after all.
Yeah, and if you look at the contact list for this so-called news organization, it says a lot. Here are a few of the organizations the writers have affiliations with:
Drudge Report/Fox News - Right-wing mouthpieces
Foundation for Defense of Democracies - Promotes Patriot Act, military action in Iraq, in guise of War on Terror
American Policy Center - Pro-property rights, Anti-UN propaganda
Sovereignty International - Anti-environmental, Anti-UN propaganda
This is not a trustworthy source.
While income statistics are useful in urban areas, for places with large agricultural populations, they may be less so. People may be growing a good deal of their own food, trading with their neighbors, etc., none of which shows up as income. A farmer with several chickens and a good-sized garden and zero (reportable) income could be far better off than someone living in the city on 2 or 3x times the "average" wage.