This Martian, in particular. Phaeton was obstructing his view of Jupiter. Had we been around to hear it, there would've been a Phaeton-shattering Kabooom from his Illudium Q-36 explosive space modulatooor.
Good points, but you've gotta start somewhere. The purpose of the iron atom is to show what the tuning fork is made of. That's the best I can do given that I'm not a cunning [intergalactic] linguist.
Given that the frequency was a constant due to the intrinsic properties of the tuning fork, I think the picture works. It should probably be labeled '1 cycle' instead of 1 Hertz. You could embellish it to say that 3000 of these waves = 1 sec if the fork vibrated at 3000 Hz.
In the first frame put an image of a tuning fork and a representative atom of iron. Have the disk itself next to the tuning fork to indicate that the tines should be the same length as the diameter of the disk they have in their [hot | cold | slimy ] alien hands.
In the next picture, show the tuning fork being struck, and waves emanating from it.
In the next frame, show the details of a single sine wave, and put lines marking one cycle of the wave and text that says the symbolic equivalent of '1 Hertz'.
In the next frame, show the tuning fork vibrating again, with the symbols for whatever frequency the pure iron fork resonates at.
Show the sine wave with an arbitrary integer max amplitude of 1000 and show it being sampled periodically, with the numbers being copied into a list.
In the next frame, show a human with sound waves emanating from their mouth, and numbers flowing into a list.
Put a list of numbers on the disk so that they can reconstruct a simple WAV-like file of human speech.
Take it easy, cowboy! I meant there was very little science in just that one image, not the whole mission. I know that eventually papers will be written, but I'd like some preliminary data, like raw spectrographs, etc. They release raw images, why not raw datasets? They teased us with the whole perchlorate thing - why not give us the raw data?
Is it just me, or is there apparently very little science in that picture (to my untrained eye, anyway)? It shows the size of the particle, true, but very little else, IMHO. I guess I was underwhelmed by the picture - I was hoping for more resolution to show any texture of the particles.
Has anyone seen any hard science out of this mission yet? I see press releases, but no spectrographs or elemental makeup data on the soil samples baked so far.
In the US at least, we use that term for a device that measures very small things, a micro [=very small] meter [=that which measures]. It's pronounced 'my kromiter', not 'micro meter'. I think using it to mean a millionth of a meter would be confusing, regardless of it being technically correct.
No, his landlord can't prevent him from mounting an external antenna to the part(s) of property he rents. His window frames, decks, etc are fair game. Read it again - it's all about _allowing_ external antennas for renters. There are darned few exceptions. Prior to this rule, landlords could disallow antennas anywhere, including ones mounted to a renters deck, for instance.
The FCC can not tell a property owner he or she must allow an antenna.
The tiniest amount of googling shows that your statement is demostrably false. This FCC document clearly states:
The rule prohibits restrictions that impair a person's ability to install, maintain, or use an antenna covered by the rule. The rule applies to state or local laws or regulations, including zoning, land-use or building regulations, private covenants, homeowners' association rules, condominium or cooperative association restrictions, lease restrictions, or similar restrictions on property within the exclusive use or control of the antenna user where the user has an ownership or leasehold interest in the property.
Richard Hull, the guy behind fusors.net lives 8 miles from me. At least now I know which way to look to see the nuclear flash/smoke from the hole where is house was when it all goes wrong! 8-)
Seriously, I think his work is extremely interesting, and I applaud him. I love to tinker, too. My 'nuclear dream' is to commercialize alpha-only sources for survival gear. If you don't think a tiny amount of an alpha source can generate large amounts of heat, read this fascinating article. I'd love to have a chunk of Gd148 to experiment with.
Back in the old days, I remember a 5 MB (yes, megabyte) head-per-track drive. It literally had an arm that went from the center all the way across the platter to the edge, and had a bazillion heads mounted on it. It didn't move; the data came to it - all 5 MB. It used a platter that must've been 14 inches in diameter.
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Michael Shermer, a competitive cyclist and "Skeptic" columnist for Scientific American wrote an article called The Doping Dilemma on this very subject. It examines the doping issue using gaming theory to analyze the costs and payoffs of doping and suggests ways to make doping never pay off.
I think I see it. Is it white and geodesic in shape? Definitely alien in design and construction. Note the high perch - they must either fly, have extremely long legs for their body size, or are obsessed with defensive measures. Perhaps they're the aliens that invaded the US government and started the TSA.
abs(not). All they do is lay around and tan(themselves), and cos(loans) for their loser children who _derive_ less and less pleasure from their conspicuous consumption. They think 'electron' means that guy from the 80's movie is running for office.
There's no sin() of it getting any better, either. The only _integration_ that's going on is when they mix below- and above-average students so no one's feelings are hurt.
One of my email addresses starts with 'None_Yobidness@....'. That fits my personality; when someone asks for my email address, I can truthfully say that it's None Yobidness!
Thanks for the education. I had always considered the term 'right-to-work' to mean that an employer must have just cause to terminate employment, not anything to do with unions, per se.
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This Martian, in particular. Phaeton was obstructing his view of Jupiter. Had we been around to hear it, there would've been a Phaeton-shattering Kabooom from his Illudium Q-36 explosive space modulatooor.
Good points, but you've gotta start somewhere. The purpose of the iron atom is to show what the tuning fork is made of. That's the best I can do given that I'm not a cunning [intergalactic] linguist.
Given that the frequency was a constant due to the intrinsic properties of the tuning fork, I think the picture works. It should probably be labeled '1 cycle' instead of 1 Hertz. You could embellish it to say that 3000 of these waves = 1 sec if the fork vibrated at 3000 Hz.
I have an old faulty modem that writes excellent Perl code to my terminal screen.
The slashdot crowd is probably aware that weapons are the ONLY use for Uranium spheres.
I don't know about that - I think they make great combination ultra-heavy, self-illuminating paperweights/coffee warmers.
Take it easy, cowboy! I meant there was very little science in just that one image, not the whole mission. I know that eventually papers will be written, but I'd like some preliminary data, like raw spectrographs, etc. They release raw images, why not raw datasets? They teased us with the whole perchlorate thing - why not give us the raw data?
Nostradamus told Confucius about Muhammed.
Is it just me, or is there apparently very little science in that picture (to my untrained eye, anyway)? It shows the size of the particle, true, but very little else, IMHO. I guess I was underwhelmed by the picture - I was hoping for more resolution to show any texture of the particles.
Has anyone seen any hard science out of this mission yet? I see press releases, but no spectrographs or elemental makeup data on the soil samples baked so far.
In the US at least, we use that term for a device that measures very small things, a micro [=very small] meter [=that which measures]. It's pronounced 'my kromiter', not 'micro meter'. I think using it to mean a millionth of a meter would be confusing, regardless of it being technically correct.
No, his landlord can't prevent him from mounting an external antenna to the part(s) of property he rents. His window frames, decks, etc are fair game. Read it again - it's all about _allowing_ external antennas for renters. There are darned few exceptions. Prior to this rule, landlords could disallow antennas anywhere, including ones mounted to a renters deck, for instance.
The FCC can not tell a property owner he or she must allow an antenna.
The tiniest amount of googling shows that your statement is demostrably false. This FCC document clearly states:
Richard Hull, the guy behind fusors.net lives 8 miles from me. At least now I know which way to look to see the nuclear flash/smoke from the hole where is house was when it all goes wrong! 8-)
Seriously, I think his work is extremely interesting, and I applaud him. I love to tinker, too. My 'nuclear dream' is to commercialize alpha-only sources for survival gear. If you don't think a tiny amount of an alpha source can generate large amounts of heat, read this fascinating article. I'd love to have a chunk of Gd148 to experiment with.
Man, he looks like he took some birdshot to the face. I hope that's not radiation damage.
I'm thinking A/V control pad. Humm...
Back in the old days, I remember a 5 MB (yes, megabyte) head-per-track drive. It literally had an arm that went from the center all the way across the platter to the edge, and had a bazillion heads mounted on it. It didn't move; the data came to it - all 5 MB. It used a platter that must've been 14 inches in diameter.
Michael Shermer, a competitive cyclist and "Skeptic" columnist for Scientific American wrote an article called The Doping Dilemma on this very subject. It examines the doping issue using gaming theory to analyze the costs and payoffs of doping and suggests ways to make doping never pay off.
I think I see it. Is it white and geodesic in shape? Definitely alien in design and construction. Note the high perch - they must either fly, have extremely long legs for their body size, or are obsessed with defensive measures. Perhaps they're the aliens that invaded the US government and started the TSA.
I think so. 8-)
So, uh, what was her email address again? -wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science?
abs(not). All they do is lay around and tan(themselves), and cos(loans) for their loser children who _derive_ less and less pleasure from their conspicuous consumption. They think 'electron' means that guy from the 80's movie is running for office.
There's no sin() of it getting any better, either. The only _integration_ that's going on is when they mix below- and above-average students so no one's feelings are hurt.
One of my email addresses starts with 'None_Yobidness@....'. That fits my personality; when someone asks for my email address, I can truthfully say that it's None Yobidness!
I see cliff dwellings in this picture.
Some government contracts require a percentage of the work to be done by minority/women/veteran/disadvantaged owned businesses.
Some government contracts require a percentage of the work to be done in violation of the anti-discrimination laws that the rest of us must obey.
There, fixed that for you. 8-~
Thanks for the education. I had always considered the term 'right-to-work' to mean that an employer must have just cause to terminate employment, not anything to do with unions, per se.