Perhaps ultimately, but at least one has been up there over 50 years.
They do not carry on board telescopes.
Except for the ones that do...
I suggest to place on the Moon a large international telescope directed to the Earth.
2000 times further away. Poor coverage of the poles. No coverage of every point on Earth for two weeks out of four.
Seems to me a fleet in LEO would be far more practical. If you're going to put a telescope on the moon, build a behemoth in a polar crater and use it for looking into space.
A robotized HD high-speed telescope-digital camera on the surface of the moon could provide nearly real time imagery of the whole Earth surface. It could be very useful for mapping Earth.
No. It'd be imagery of half the surface, and you wouldn't be able to look at the other half until two weeks later.
You'd have to be a complete moron to claim that there is no evidence for medical and pharmacologic treatment of schizophrenia: the evidence is almost 60 years old. The only conclusion to draw from this is that the British Psychological Society is, in fact, composed of vast groups of complete morons who do not believe in science or the scientific method.
You can only draw that conclusion if the BPS were claiming such a thing; are they?
When, as we all know so well, the world was exactly the same as it is now.
Also, in other news, men and women are different and a gender imbalance somewhere doesn't automatically mean something is horribly wrong and must be fixed.
And here's some actual statistics - the ratio last year was 67:33, a bit closer to 50:50 than 76:4.
If you dont know what cyanogenmod is, then you really should not be here.
If you don't want to sound like a condescending douchebag, then you really shouldn't be posting here.
This is, ostensibly, a news site. It deals in information. If (as is the usual complaint when this comes up) you should "just Google it," you've just lost people to Google and any of the myriad better written pieces.
Yes, it's at base a subjective call as to what to define and what not to, but when all it takes is a few words inserted in the proper, subtle, journalistic fashion, and it doesn't happen, you end up leaving readers feeling excluded.
Would it kill you to define "Cyanogenmod" like any respectable publication would? Yes, yes, I know - "if you don't know you shouldn't be allowed to read Slashdot" - but then that's exclusionist bullshit, obviously. I know it's a popular open source Android build, but just because I know, and just because you know, that doesn't mean that everyone who comes here should know, and that anyone who doesn't is beneath contempt. It is possible to be interested in tech news and not know every detail of every branch.
Good news for users of the popular Android* distribution Cyanogenmod...
See how easy it is to do it without anyone even noticing? Brief, informative, and not condescending. The real news does it all the time.
*"Nurr, but you didn't define Android, what if someone doesn't know what that is? Yuck yuck yuck..." It's not all-or-nothing, obviously, and you have to draw the line somewhere. I'd say one-level-up is usually about right. Just read a decent newspaper and see how it's done.
Personally, the main bit which caused me to roll my eyes is right at the beginning, where the two astronauts admire the sunset, tumbling uncontrollably, while facing in entirely the wrong direction...
Don't be surprised if you find the scene and that bit of dialogue to be half-a-movie apart in the actual film.
Or the game creators could just stop being cheap, and record/licence 100 different smashy-glass sounds instead of 3. And don't get me started on that damn squeaky-door noise in movies!
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One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Bronies suffer from fettishism. It isn't always sexual.
FTFY.
Gates's magnanimity toward his former rival and Apple is a reflection, perhaps, of his current position in life:
Yeah, Gates being alive and Jobs being dead, mainly.
This is a phenomenon known as a Garden path sentence [wikipedia.org].
I'm pretty sure it's just a crappily written one.
Gollum writeses
Fixed.
Allow me to introduce you to the USDA's guide to what are the acceptable levels of insects in your food.
And if that doesn't gross you out, go ahead and google around for the acceptable upper limit of faeces. There is one, and it's not zero.
Satellites' orbits are unstable.
Perhaps ultimately, but at least one has been up there over 50 years.
They do not carry on board telescopes.
Except for the ones that do...
I suggest to place on the Moon a large international telescope directed to the Earth.
2000 times further away. Poor coverage of the poles. No coverage of every point on Earth for two weeks out of four.
Seems to me a fleet in LEO would be far more practical. If you're going to put a telescope on the moon, build a behemoth in a polar crater and use it for looking into space.
Or you'll have me to forkin' answer to.
The distance is not the problem. There are telescopes already which make photos of planets around other stars.
And those photos would be clearer get if we were 2000 times closer, like the satellites in LEO are than the moon.
A robotized HD high-speed telescope-digital camera on the surface of the moon could provide nearly real time imagery of the whole Earth surface. It could be very useful for mapping Earth.
No. It'd be imagery of half the surface, and you wouldn't be able to look at the other half until two weeks later.
Satellite imagery is spotty. Satellites have unstable orbits. They contribute to the space junk issue.
"Spotty"? What does that mean? Also satellites do have the slight advantage of being 2000 times closer.
Robots are smaller than humans.
Except for the ones which are bigger.
Unless of couse its sarcasm, but you can never tell on the internet.
Maybe you can't.
Do you have a link to any such studies? Not doubting - in fact it sounds all too believable - but it'd be good to have a source.
You'd have to be a complete moron to claim that there is no evidence for medical and pharmacologic treatment of schizophrenia: the evidence is almost 60 years old. The only conclusion to draw from this is that the British Psychological Society is, in fact, composed of vast groups of complete morons who do not believe in science or the scientific method.
You can only draw that conclusion if the BPS were claiming such a thing; are they?
why don't they just use $_MY_FAVOURITE_LANGUAGE for the high level stuff. It's a great stable, fun, easy to program, powerful language.
And would that be Python 2.7.4, or Python 3.2.4, or Python 3.3.1?
Oh, really? You read, two days ago, about how they fixed the ammonia leak this morning? You're a freakin' genius, you idiot.
at least as of 15 years ago or so...
When, as we all know so well, the world was exactly the same as it is now.
Also, in other news, men and women are different and a gender imbalance somewhere doesn't automatically mean something is horribly wrong and must be fixed.
And here's some actual statistics - the ratio last year was 67:33, a bit closer to 50:50 than 76:4.
Smartphones Driving Violent Crime Across US
Are they? Are they really? Or is it just quicker, easier, and more productive for a mugger to demand your phone instead of your wallet these days?
Or is there a whole generation of kids who would otherwise never have thought to turn to crime except that all those phones are soooo shiny...
But do you seriously have that much contempt for the average Slashdot user that you think they're incapable of looking something up for themselves?
No, I just don't think they should always have to when a niche project like Cyanogenmod gets mentioned.
If you dont know what cyanogenmod is, then you really should not be here.
If you don't want to sound like a condescending douchebag, then you really shouldn't be posting here.
This is, ostensibly, a news site. It deals in information. If (as is the usual complaint when this comes up) you should "just Google it," you've just lost people to Google and any of the myriad better written pieces.
Yes, it's at base a subjective call as to what to define and what not to, but when all it takes is a few words inserted in the proper, subtle, journalistic fashion, and it doesn't happen, you end up leaving readers feeling excluded.
Good news for users of the popular Android* distribution Cyanogenmod...
See how easy it is to do it without anyone even noticing? Brief, informative, and not condescending. The real news does it all the time.
*"Nurr, but you didn't define Android, what if someone doesn't know what that is? Yuck yuck yuck..." It's not all-or-nothing, obviously, and you have to draw the line somewhere. I'd say one-level-up is usually about right. Just read a decent newspaper and see how it's done.
If the mallet is inside a vacuum inside the sphere, its dimensions are irrelevant because it won't be producing any sound waves.
Yes it will, but they'll be confined to the surface of the sphere (and the mallet).
Your impossible geometry wouldn't be very different from a completely possible thing.
You missed the part about the mallet being simultaneously longer than, and entirely within, the sphere.
It's not an emergency if you get a night's sleep first.
Personally, the main bit which caused me to roll my eyes is right at the beginning, where the two astronauts admire the sunset, tumbling uncontrollably, while facing in entirely the wrong direction...
Don't be surprised if you find the scene and that bit of dialogue to be half-a-movie apart in the actual film.
Or the game creators could just stop being cheap, and record/licence 100 different smashy-glass sounds instead of 3. And don't get me started on that damn squeaky-door noise in movies!