If the estimated speed on screen during his jump was anything to go by, he smashed the sound barrier (though that is yet to be confirmed). The only record he didn't come away with was longest (duration) free fall, which is still held by Kittinger. It's not clear yet why he pulled his chute early, although he sounded like he was worrying about something.
Internet censorship is common in conservative majority-Muslim countries, but it may have more to do with politics and technology than with religion. I.e., Iran is not so different from Cuba and China.
Not really the most fitting use for "I.e." It translates as "that is," so would make more sense to write it as:
Internet censorship is common in conservative majority-Muslim countries, but Iran is not so different from Cuba and China - i.e., it may have more to do with politics and technology than with religion."
From the article: 'n an attempt to uncover the various reasons
"n an attempt"? That mistake leaps out of the page. I'd usually joke about editors not even reading submissions, but it's getting beyond a joke.
Oh, do fuck off. We can't all know everything. A tiny, tiny bit of context would not go amiss. Slashdot is supposed to be an inclusive news site, not an exclusive clubhouse.
Recently, a group of physicists have devised a way that could conceivably figure out one way or the other whether that is the case.
In other news, the group of higher-dimensional physicists who are running this universe a simulation figured out a way to falsify the results of the test.
That kind of thing has been around for a while for your non-driverless car. You can get cameras that continuously record, only saving the last few minutes if you hit a button (or, with some systems I expect, a pedestrian).
Spy Gadgets: A Visit With a Real-Life Guy Who Runs a Shop
Far from meeting our Quartermaster deep in the bowels of MI5 or at an abandoned Underground station, we were invited into SpyMaster's flagship store just off Oxford street; it's a glass-fronted shop just like any other - no M, no whiskey cabinet (so far as we could see) and no ejector seats in sight.
Yes, because he doesn't work for MI6 (which is where Bond works, not MI5 as above). He runs a shop.
Secondly, the lead would likely swap periodically, as birds have done for thousands of years.
But isn't that because birds get tired? Planes don't get tired - the lead plane will just burn more fuel than the rest, but as long as it's got enough for the trip, why does it need to swap out?
(please note that this post is aimed more at the editor than the submitter, whose first language may not be English)
"Xenon, the second heaviest of the noble gasses, is only found in trace amounts in the atmosphere.
So far so good.
[The] [a]tmosphere contains less xenon than other lighter noble gasses.
Could be read as meaning that the other noble gasses contain more xenon than the atmosphere, but as a sentence it's passable.
...it is hiding in the earths mantle.
It's called [the] Earth, and you forgot the possesive apostrophe.
Now a group at the University of Bayreuth in Germany think that they might have found the answer.
"The answer," given the context, can only seem to mean that they've found out where the xenon is hiding, but...
I[t] turns out that xenon does not dissolve easily into magnesium silicate perovskite, thus it cannot hide there. And because it had no place to hide, it is now gone forever."
Oh, okay, so "the answer" seems to be "we still don't know, but it's not where we thought it was"? Rather than "it is now gone forever" it seems (from reading one of articles, shock horror) that it was never actually there in the first place - perhaps substituting "come from" in place of "hide" would have made more sense.
Disclaimer: the following is just how I try to visualise spacetime and relativity, and is probably full of mistakes.
and we're going a good fraction of c now, right? Is whatever number that is relevant at all?
The bit you have to remember is, "a good fraction of c relative to what?" There is no velocity except that which you can measure against some other, arbitrary, object/frame of reference.
- How fast are we going?
We, like everything else in the universe, could be considered to be travelling at the speed of light - into the future. If you were to look a comet racing past at 0.1c through space, consider that the remainder of its (relative) velocity is in the direction of time.
Imagine you and a friend are on a 2d grid, and everyone travels at a set speed - 1 unit per second. If your friend is moving horizontally away from you at a speed of 0.707 units per second, you know that he must be moving vertically away from (or towards) you at 0.707 units per second in order for his total velocity to be 1 unit per second.
Imagine you and your friend starting out at (0,0). The plan is for you to move straight up the y-axis and for him to go diagonally sideways to (0.707,0.707), then back towards you diagonally - he won't meet you, because you'll be further ahead, but if you imagine that your line of travel is a timeline, he'll intersect your timeline at (0,1.414) - but at this point his timeline will be longer than yours. This is a sort of inverse twin paradox - your friend has travelled further than you at this point, even though he was travelling at the same speed, so he's older at this point on his timeline than you are.
The reason the twin paradox is the other way around is because time has this funky inverse relationship with space - like rotating a square but having it collapse down on you instead.
Alternatively, think of space and time like a banana. Then forget that, because it's nothing like that.
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If the estimated speed on screen during his jump was anything to go by, he smashed the sound barrier (though that is yet to be confirmed). The only record he didn't come away with was longest (duration) free fall, which is still held by Kittinger. It's not clear yet why he pulled his chute early, although he sounded like he was worrying about something.
The crap they fill helium party balloons is mostly waste from medical uses.
Internet censorship is common in conservative majority-Muslim countries, but it may have more to do with politics and technology than with religion. I.e., Iran is not so different from Cuba and China.
Not really the most fitting use for "I.e." It translates as "that is," so would make more sense to write it as:
Internet censorship is common in conservative majority-Muslim countries, but Iran is not so different from Cuba and China - i.e., it may have more to do with politics and technology than with religion."
From the article: 'n an attempt to uncover the various reasons
"n an attempt"? That mistake leaps out of the page. I'd usually joke about editors not even reading submissions, but it's getting beyond a joke.
I know what a hyperlink is and how to use one, so I'm probably over-qualified.
Bill Nye 'the Science Guy' Urges Letters To Obama To Restore NASA Budget Cuts
"Restoring cuts" sounds like NASA getting less money.
Oh, do fuck off. We can't all know everything. A tiny, tiny bit of context would not go amiss. Slashdot is supposed to be an inclusive news site, not an exclusive clubhouse.
As a simulation. Damn you Slashdot!
Recently, a group of physicists have devised a way that could conceivably figure out one way or the other whether that is the case.
In other news, the group of higher-dimensional physicists who are running this universe a simulation figured out a way to falsify the results of the test.
So in my words
FTFY. You've inferred that this must all be about increasing vehicle velocity, but I don't see that implied anywhere.
That kind of thing has been around for a while for your non-driverless car. You can get cameras that continuously record, only saving the last few minutes if you hit a button (or, with some systems I expect, a pedestrian).
Does not 802.11 a (wireless) Ethernet... ... thus the notion of MAC still applies?
Uh... what?
If you were to stand next to Software Titan Bill Gates, would you both seem normal-sized?
With this bill there really isn't much of a reason to be outwardly in support of it.
That alone is reason enough to chuck it out!
Spy Gadgets: A Visit With a Real-Life Guy Who Runs a Shop
Far from meeting our Quartermaster deep in the bowels of MI5 or at an abandoned Underground station, we were invited into SpyMaster's flagship store just off Oxford street; it's a glass-fronted shop just like any other - no M, no whiskey cabinet (so far as we could see) and no ejector seats in sight.
Yes, because he doesn't work for MI6 (which is where Bond works, not MI5 as above). He runs a shop.
That practice is dangerous for American consumers
but the rest of you can go fuck yourselves ;)
Who's Alan Cox?
It's first-to-file, not first-to-fly.
Secondly, the lead would likely swap periodically, as birds have done for thousands of years.
But isn't that because birds get tired? Planes don't get tired - the lead plane will just burn more fuel than the rest, but as long as it's got enough for the trip, why does it need to swap out?
I'd boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.
Ah, yes, I was wondering who'd spot that first. Well done. You've won, uh, this paperclip!
That's only for actual puns. I'm not sure what this is.
the majority of phone numbers on Facebook are not safe
Is this a viral campaign for another awful horror movie? If you call these unsafe numbers you'll die within 24 hours, that kinda thing?
It was never there in the first place. The summary's not too hot. Try reading "come from" in place of "hide" for starters.
"Xenon, the second heaviest of the noble gasses, is only found in trace amounts in the atmosphere.
So far so good.
[The] [a]tmosphere contains less xenon than other lighter noble gasses.
Could be read as meaning that the other noble gasses contain more xenon than the atmosphere, but as a sentence it's passable.
...it is hiding in the earths mantle.
It's called [the] Earth, and you forgot the possesive apostrophe.
Now a group at the University of Bayreuth in Germany think that they might have found the answer.
"The answer," given the context, can only seem to mean that they've found out where the xenon is hiding, but...
I[t] turns out that xenon does not dissolve easily into magnesium silicate perovskite, thus it cannot hide there. And because it had no place to hide, it is now gone forever."
Oh, okay, so "the answer" seems to be "we still don't know, but it's not where we thought it was"? Rather than "it is now gone forever" it seems (from reading one of articles, shock horror) that it was never actually there in the first place - perhaps substituting "come from" in place of "hide" would have made more sense.
Yours sincerely,
Captain Pedantic
and we're going a good fraction of c now, right? Is whatever number that is relevant at all?
The bit you have to remember is, "a good fraction of c relative to what?" There is no velocity except that which you can measure against some other, arbitrary, object/frame of reference.
- How fast are we going?
We, like everything else in the universe, could be considered to be travelling at the speed of light - into the future. If you were to look a comet racing past at 0.1c through space, consider that the remainder of its (relative) velocity is in the direction of time.
Imagine you and a friend are on a 2d grid, and everyone travels at a set speed - 1 unit per second. If your friend is moving horizontally away from you at a speed of 0.707 units per second, you know that he must be moving vertically away from (or towards) you at 0.707 units per second in order for his total velocity to be 1 unit per second.
Imagine you and your friend starting out at (0,0). The plan is for you to move straight up the y-axis and for him to go diagonally sideways to (0.707,0.707), then back towards you diagonally - he won't meet you, because you'll be further ahead, but if you imagine that your line of travel is a timeline, he'll intersect your timeline at (0,1.414) - but at this point his timeline will be longer than yours. This is a sort of inverse twin paradox - your friend has travelled further than you at this point, even though he was travelling at the same speed, so he's older at this point on his timeline than you are.
The reason the twin paradox is the other way around is because time has this funky inverse relationship with space - like rotating a square but having it collapse down on you instead.
Alternatively, think of space and time like a banana. Then forget that, because it's nothing like that.