- Varuna was discovered in 2000 and measures 1,000 kilometers in diameter. - Ixion was discovered in 2001 and is thought to be of similar size as Quaoar and Varuna. -.. and Quaoar itself has actually been imaged in 1982 - 2001 but not detected as a planet until now. How embarassing.:-)
That's just a figure I picked up while browsing through Quaoar sites..:) I think it's meant to give us an idea of the distance, not to say that it's possible in practice.
I think the chance of finding additional Pluto-sized planets is much lower than you suggest. What did I suggest?:-)
I'm saying Pluto-sized planets might be out there. Which is suggesting that there might be zero, or perhaps two or five. I wouldn't be surprised if a Pluto-sized body was found, simply because it's said that with today's technology, only 5% of the sky has been searched and they've already come up with Quaoar - a body half the size of Pluto. What's saying that a Pluto-sized body can't be out there, which Clyde couldn't find with 1940 technology?
- Around half the size of Pluto (and there's been dispute if Pluto is a planet).
- 5% of the sky was looked at before finding Quaoar, so there might very well be a dozen more Quaoar-sized "planets" in the Kupier belt. Even Pluto-sized planets might be out there.
- Water, methane, methanol, and carbon dioxide ice seem to exist on Quaoar.
- Quaoar's name isn't decided yet and its designation is 2002 LM60 until a name is officially decided upon in a few months.
- Quaoar is pronounced "kwah-o-wahr" and is the name of a great force of creation among the Tongva people.
- Quaoar is 42 AU from Earth, while Pluto and Neptune are both 30 AU from Earth. 1 Astronomical Unit = One "Sun to Earth" distance.
- If standing on Quaoar, what one would see at the Sun (and the Earth) would be what happened 5 hours ago, since light takes 5 hours to travel to Quaoar.
- A Space Shuttle would need 25 years to travel to Quaoar.
" Ha! That guy is posting questionable links by linking to Slashdot which linked to News.com that linked to DeCSS. *slashdot nerd looking up personal data to post as a reply with a funny/absurd comment* "
Was that post either: a) Off topic? b) A misunderstanding of the topic, thinking it said "Deciding Your Future With Linux" c) A suggestion that the FSG should be satisfied with Red Hat 8?:-)
Several hundred lawyers, under the leadership of the RIAA Leader, CEO Hilary B. Rosen, have declared their intentions to save the world from Napster.
This movement has made it difficult for the limited number of P2P Developers to maintain peace and order in the warez community.
Shawn Fleming, file sharing pioneer, is returning as a developer of Napster II for the critical issue of creating a grand utility to assist the overwhelmed warez community...
From the opening crawl, TILT DOWN through a vast sea of stars to the massive planet of Earth. Soon after, a couple of starships with subtle RIAA marks fly overhead the planet, followed by a large, chrome Law Creator battleship.
PARIS: Quantum cryptography, a technique of producing secret messages that are reputedly uncrackable, may soon be used by orbiting communications satellites thanks to experiments by British and German researchers.
The traditional weakness of sending encoded messages is eavesdropping. Quantum cryptography gets around this by sending an encoded message and, separately, a key to decode it, which are transmitted in pulses of individual light particles called photons.
By the nature of quantum mechanics, if a single photon is intercepted en route, that changes the state of the information package as it arrives at the other end.
That is a telltale for the legitimate recipient that his message has been tampered with -- the same as if someone received a letter that had been clumsily opened and then resealed, leaving traces of glue and fingerprints on the envelope.
The problem with quantum codes, though, has been how to send messages over long distances.
Data is of course already sent by laser light down fibre-optic networks. But this technique is unsuitable for quantum cryptography, for the laser signal has to be boosted every 10 kilometers (six miles), which causes the quantum state of the key to be rearranged.
Researchers from QinetiQ, the commercial arm of the British military research agency, and from Munich's Ludwig-Maximilian University say they have now demonstrated that it is possible to send a quantum-encoded message through the air.
Reporting in Thursday's issue of Nature, the British science weekly, they say they successfully transmitted packages across 23.4 kilometers (14.62 miles) between mountains in the German Alps.
A laser transmitter was set up at the top of the 2,950-metre (9,587-feet) Zugspitze, and sent out pulses to a receiver, a 25-centimetre (10-inch) shop-bought telescope, positioned on line of sight on another peak, the 2,244-metre (7,293) Westlichekarwendespitze.
With some adjustments to amplify the signal, it should be possible to send keys to satellites in near-Earth orbit, at an altitude of 500-1,000 kilometers (310-620 miles), the scientists say.
"This marks a step towards... a global key-distribution system," the authors say.
Quantum codes have obvious uses for military and government communications.
The big question, though, is whether they should be allowed to enter the commercial domain, where they could be used by organised crime and terrorism to thwart eavesdropping by police.
What NASA has to say...
on
Life on Pluto?
·
· Score: 4, Informative
Basically, they say traces of water vapor can be found in the Sun, to water ice at Pluto and beyond in the Kupier Belt. Water ice can also be found in comets, and some water on earth is thought to be from such comets.
However, only liquid water is life enabling, where the best candidates for this are Mars (beneath the surface) and below the icy surfaces on the largest of Jupiter's moons, especially Europa (Europa ice crust). The reason Europa might support life is because Jupiter's huge gravity likely affects the moon creating great forces similar to the tidal waves on earth, which could warm the moon.
If you ask me, the Europa shots look far more interesting to me. And Europa is easier to reach than Pluto anyway.:)
Oh, I thought a misprediction just caused a bubble in the pipeline, so... Ok, then the problem is a bit larger than I thought. I still wonder if the trade-off is worth it or not. If it's better with a high speed and high penalties or lower speed and less penalties. If they, in the end, would perform mostly the same, the high speed choice seem better from a marketing perspective.
Well, if the life survived at the pretty extreme conditions (acidic, etc) at Venus. I mean, they woiuldn't *come* from that environment, so I find it hard to believe that they'd function in the way to *survive* in that environment. Then it's easier for me to believe that the life there is native to Venus. Although *neither* of these life theories feel easy to accept.
But who knows? There are bacteria surviving in the depths of volcanos on earth.
I think the P3 pipeline had 10 stages, while the P4 had 20. So the problem with branch predictions are the Pentium 4's problem.;-)
But what about the P4's Hyper Pipeline tech that allow it to do 3 pipeline stages per clock cycle? The P4's Branch Prediction Unit (BPU) is also said to be improved by around 30% when compared to the one found in the P3. Perhaps these improvements even things out a bit while still making it easy to achieve high clock speeds?
Hmm.. Well, AMD's Barton core that's supposed to be released in October or so still use a.13 micron die (mostly "just" 512Kb L2 cache and 333Mhz FSB). And I thought that was the core they were going to live on until the Hammer processors.:-/
Sure, they *could* manage to start manufacturing the Truly Final Non-Hammer Core sometime in mid-2003, but by then the Hammers should be out (?) and I'd definitely go for and AMD Athlon (Clawhammer) 3400+ in Q1 2003. Mwhaha:)
But they might plan on having.09 micron Athlon XP's and Clawhammer models overlapping each other throughout 2003, although it *seems* unlikely since the Clawhammer (at least the initial models) also use a.13 micron die. Much like if the tech isn't quite there yet for affordable prices.
Slashdot Mirror
(Phoenix) Bugzilla Bug 171082:
Do everything possible to minimize the build size.
Targeted for Phoenix 0.3 according to Bugzilla.
- Varuna was discovered in 2000 and measures 1,000 kilometers in diameter. .. and Quaoar itself has actually been imaged in 1982 - 2001 but not detected as a planet until now. How embarassing. :-)
- Ixion was discovered in 2001 and is thought to be of similar size as Quaoar and Varuna.
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8) I'm mute, you insensitive clod. ;-)
That's just a figure I picked up while browsing through Quaoar sites.. :) I think it's meant to give us an idea of the distance, not to say that it's possible in practice.
I think the chance of finding additional Pluto-sized planets is much lower than you suggest. :-)
What did I suggest?
I'm saying Pluto-sized planets might be out there. Which is suggesting that there might be zero, or perhaps two or five. I wouldn't be surprised if a Pluto-sized body was found, simply because it's said that with today's technology, only 5% of the sky has been searched and they've already come up with Quaoar - a body half the size of Pluto. What's saying that a Pluto-sized body can't be out there, which Clyde couldn't find with 1940 technology?
- Around half the size of Pluto (and there's been dispute if Pluto is a planet).
- 5% of the sky was looked at before finding Quaoar, so there might very well be a dozen more Quaoar-sized "planets" in the Kupier belt. Even Pluto-sized planets might be out there.
- Water, methane, methanol, and carbon dioxide ice seem to exist on Quaoar.
- Quaoar's name isn't decided yet and its designation is 2002 LM60 until a name is officially decided upon in a few months.
- Quaoar is pronounced "kwah-o-wahr" and is the name of a great force of creation among the Tongva people.
- Quaoar is 42 AU from Earth, while Pluto and Neptune are both 30 AU from Earth. 1 Astronomical Unit = One "Sun to Earth" distance.
- If standing on Quaoar, what one would see at the Sun (and the Earth) would be what happened 5 hours ago, since light takes 5 hours to travel to Quaoar.
- A Space Shuttle would need 25 years to travel to Quaoar.
- Google News about Quaoar.
I see you foresaw:
... by posting anonymously. ;-)
" Ha! That guy is posting questionable links by linking to Slashdot which linked to News.com that linked to DeCSS. *slashdot nerd looking up personal data to post as a reply with a funny/absurd comment* "
The time has finally come for this, I guess.
I knew it would happen sooner or later, but never thought Slashdot would set the standards!
??
:-)
Was that post either:
a) Off topic?
b) A misunderstanding of the topic, thinking it said "Deciding Your Future With Linux"
c) A suggestion that the FSG should be satisfied with Red Hat 8?
I don't think it's a question whether a solution works, since they usually does, but if it's standardized.
OPENING CRAWL
There is unrest in the P2P Community.
Several hundred lawyers, under the leadership of the RIAA Leader,
CEO Hilary B. Rosen, have declared their intentions to save the world
from Napster.
This movement has made it difficult for the limited number of
P2P Developers to maintain peace and order in the warez community.
Shawn Fleming, file sharing pioneer, is returning as a developer
of Napster II for the critical issue of creating a grand utility
to assist the overwhelmed warez community...
From the opening crawl, TILT DOWN through a vast sea of stars to the
massive planet of Earth. Soon after, a couple of starships with subtle
RIAA marks fly overhead the planet, followed by a large, chrome
Law Creator battleship.
etc, etc
Wow, dual karma whoring. :-)
That doesn't happen every... aah, on second thought, never mind.
Here's an overview at JPL.
:)
Basically, they say traces of water vapor can be found in the Sun, to water ice at Pluto and beyond in the Kupier Belt. Water ice can also be found in comets, and some water on earth is thought to be from such comets.
However, only liquid water is life enabling, where the best candidates for this are Mars (beneath the surface) and below the icy surfaces on the largest of Jupiter's moons, especially Europa (Europa ice crust). The reason Europa might support life is because Jupiter's huge gravity likely affects the moon creating great forces similar to the tidal waves on earth, which could warm the moon.
If you ask me, the Europa shots look far more interesting to me. And Europa is easier to reach than Pluto anyway.
Yup, don't we adore the people thinking about the children? :-)
Not that it will make a big difference to the viewer? Why is it interesting to see which choice they make?
Count me in. :-)
Qa... wha?
No, it is: "some things are better left unread".
;-)
Actually, if you read closely, the plaintext output is:
"The unknown message is: some things are better left unread"
I admit I didn't get it at first, but if just you read closely...
Oh, I thought a misprediction just caused a bubble in the pipeline, so... Ok, then the problem is a bit larger than I thought. I still wonder if the trade-off is worth it or not. If it's better with a high speed and high penalties or lower speed and less penalties. If they, in the end, would perform mostly the same, the high speed choice seem better from a marketing perspective.
Well, if the life survived at the pretty extreme conditions (acidic, etc) at Venus. I mean, they woiuldn't *come* from that environment, so I find it hard to believe that they'd function in the way to *survive* in that environment. Then it's easier for me to believe that the life there is native to Venus. Although *neither* of these life theories feel easy to accept.
But who knows? There are bacteria surviving in the depths of volcanos on earth.
I mean, it always feel impressive to say "our CPU runs at a tenth of the room temperature", doesn't it? :-)
Achieve super high speeds for super short durations to impress the spectators.
I think the P3 pipeline had 10 stages, while the P4 had 20. So the problem with branch predictions are the Pentium 4's problem. ;-)
But what about the P4's Hyper Pipeline tech that allow it to do 3 pipeline stages per clock cycle? The P4's Branch Prediction Unit (BPU) is also said to be improved by around 30% when compared to the one found in the P3. Perhaps these improvements even things out a bit while still making it easy to achieve high clock speeds?
Hmm.. Well, AMD's Barton core that's supposed to be released in October or so still use a .13 micron die (mostly "just" 512Kb L2 cache and 333Mhz FSB). And I thought that was the core they were going to live on until the Hammer processors. :-/
:)
.09 micron Athlon XP's and Clawhammer models overlapping each other throughout 2003, although it *seems* unlikely since the Clawhammer (at least the initial models) also use a .13 micron die. Much like if the tech isn't quite there yet for affordable prices.
Sure, they *could* manage to start manufacturing the Truly Final Non-Hammer Core sometime in mid-2003, but by then the Hammers should be out (?) and I'd definitely go for and AMD Athlon (Clawhammer) 3400+ in Q1 2003. Mwhaha
But they might plan on having
LOL @ the other comments. :-D
:)
How about a more serious reply?
Umm... faster pr0n movie encoding?
If that isn't a serious advantage to a nerd, I don't know what is...