If the balance is anything other than a point, this is only true if you can find a place where the gradient of the gravity field is zero within the volume occupied by the experiment.
Surely this is true in the relatively shallow waters, but not when it gets deep. It would have to be an awfully large storm to even be noticeable once the water gets deep, and this well is in 5000 feet of water..
Homeless people have little to no stake in society or the future so their votes will tend to go in the most short sighted, self serving direction possible.
Well, I assume they will vote republican then. You should be happy.
Now tell me why anybody should want this outside of the media/video industry... I work in the seismic data processing industry (oil and gas exploration). We regularly (almost every project) deliver datasets to clients that are on the orders of 1-5 TB. Many of our milestone QC datasets for clients are 500-750 GB. Putting these on a flash drive or portable hard drive is much faster than a bunch of 3592E tapes, plus easier and quicker for the client to access. Flash drives certainly have the advantage over USB hard disks of being faster to write to (usually). If these were cheap enough, and they will be at some point, I could see these being commonly used. On the other hand, maybe just a solid state portable disk drive, which these are just a variant of, will be cheaper (time and money).
I would encourage taking as much geology as possible. I am a geologist. I must, however unfortunately, correct one thing. The outside work is tough to get and doesn't typically pay as much as the inside work. The better paying outside work usually is one's own research in academia, though I am sure that many geologists in the petroleum industry spend a bit of time outdoors. Most of the rest of the jobs are low paying grunt work, such as groundwater monitoring. That being said, I can think of no better career than that of a geologist.
Well, in reality, a kilogram is a unit of mass, not weight. So it would not weigh any kilograms. It might, on the other hand, weigh some number of Newton's (or pounds for the scientifically illiterate).
i quit geological engineering after three years. geology is not significant. despite what some geologist may say. by their own word "geology is not an exact science". and nothing could be more true, it's a collection of hikers looking for a reason to visit the latest 'geological' hot spot... like hawaii, or chile.
Well, I am a geologist and I can say that it is definately significant. Most every resource mined on this planet comes to you through the work, if not always discovery, of geologists. Not to mention all of the work done by other branches of geology such as geochemists and paleontologists to explain the origin and deveopement of life on earth. Now, as for geological engineering, that may be another story. They are usually, in my experience (with no offense meant to any engineer), engineers who took some geology classes because they figures two or three would teach them all the geology they would need to know. Nothing could be further from the truth. Engineers, also in my experience, have a very difficult time understanding geology. Has something to do with not being trained to look at the big picture, as well as the smallest possible detail.
Just because 3 billion people believe something doesn't make it true. The burden lies on them to prove their belief through actual scientific means (and not the if-we-say-it-enough-times-it-has-to-be-true science that is typically cited in today's world, especially by every politician that I have ever heard speak).
More interesting is that some current research suggests that during magnetic reversals, there is a period of time during which the earth actually has no magnetic pole. It seems to me this would be what would be most devistating to humans (technologically). But, I suppose, research will continue, and we will just have to wait and see.
Well, a combination of rising sea level since the last glacial maxima (~10 ka) and either seismic acitivity and/or normal subsidence could, in theory, account for it. 6000 years is an pretty tiny amount of time, but they did say something like "at least 6000 years", could be more. Some real data is needed before a real theory can be developed, not just speculation.
As a geologist (and one who has seen the thin sections of some of the moon rocks) I'll tell you that there is quite a bit that could not be done remotely with any reasonable results. First off, just making thin sections would be very difficult. A lot of petrography and petrology is as much an art as it is a science.
I suppose, however, alot of the electromagnetic and x-ray diffraction stuff could be done pretty easily on the surface by robots.
Be careful and remember one very important thing: The government is you, or at least a representation of you (ala Abe Lincoln). You have no right to expect anything from the government that you, yourself, are not willing to give.
They argue that code written by a school employee (and this usually includes grad students)is a work for hire and that the school should retain ownership and control.
This might be interesting. Here (in IL), it is verboten for grad students to unionize. They consider the teaching (which the vast majority of grad students, like myself, do to be primarily eduactional. Hence we are not "employees" in every sense of the word.
Now, I would like to know, are we suddenly employees when it comes to producing something that they could sell. And, if so, whouldn't we have the right to unionize?
Forget about copy protection. Any non-classified image or map produced by the USGS (or any branch of the goverment) is in the public domain. Use them as you please. Though it would be nice to give credit where credit is due.
In-stream hydro power is very high on the list of the most environmentally unfriendly power sources out there. It does terrible things upstream for quite a distance and downstream till the end.
In the lond term, the earth is actually beginning what should be a warming trend (in the glacial/interglacial sense). This "should" happen over periods on the order of 10-50 thousand years (or more in some cases). We just need to ask what we are doing, that is unrelated to natural processes, to speed up the trend. When this question has been answered (personally I think it has), then the time to act is now.
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If the balance is anything other than a point, this is only true if you can find a place where the gradient of the gravity field is zero within the volume occupied by the experiment.
When water hits a vacuum, pressure drops far enough that it boils, not freezes.
mis-modded (sorry)
Car show. Specifically a car show.
How is this news. This has been happening to me when I use Google for several months.
Like any "feature", sometime it is very useful, sometimes not.
Big deal....
Surely this is true in the relatively shallow waters, but not when it gets deep. It would have to be an awfully large storm to even be noticeable once the water gets deep, and this well is in 5000 feet of water..
Homeless people have little to no stake in society or the future so their votes will tend to go in the most short sighted, self serving direction possible.
Well, I assume they will vote republican then. You should be happy.
... And electronics is increasing in it's flight from the US. Well, at least the rocks aren't going anywhere anytime soon.I would encourage taking as much geology as possible. I am a geologist. I must, however unfortunately, correct one thing. The outside work is tough to get and doesn't typically pay as much as the inside work. The better paying outside work usually is one's own research in academia, though I am sure that many geologists in the petroleum industry spend a bit of time outdoors. Most of the rest of the jobs are low paying grunt work, such as groundwater monitoring. That being said, I can think of no better career than that of a geologist.
Radioactive decay is correct. (MS in Geology/Geophysics). Frictional heating, while certainly present, is insignificant.
g is nonzero, very small, but still nonzero.
Well, in reality, a kilogram is a unit of mass, not weight. So it would not weigh any kilograms. It might, on the other hand, weigh some number of Newton's (or pounds for the scientifically illiterate).
Well, I am a geologist and I can say that it is definately significant. Most every resource mined on this planet comes to you through the work, if not always discovery, of geologists. Not to mention all of the work done by other branches of geology such as geochemists and paleontologists to explain the origin and deveopement of life on earth. Now, as for geological engineering, that may be another story. They are usually, in my experience (with no offense meant to any engineer), engineers who took some geology classes because they figures two or three would teach them all the geology they would need to know. Nothing could be further from the truth. Engineers, also in my experience, have a very difficult time understanding geology. Has something to do with not being trained to look at the big picture, as well as the smallest possible detail.
"A person isn't an idiot because he can't use a computer. A person is an idiot when he blindly criticizes someone."
You are partly correct. A person is an idiot when he or she refuses to learn.
Just because 3 billion people believe something doesn't make it true. The burden lies on them to prove their belief through actual scientific means (and not the if-we-say-it-enough-times-it-has-to-be-true science that is typically cited in today's world, especially by every politician that I have ever heard speak).
More interesting is that some current research suggests that during magnetic reversals, there is a period of time during which the earth actually has no magnetic pole. It seems to me this would be what would be most devistating to humans (technologically). But, I suppose, research will continue, and we will just have to wait and see.
Well, a combination of rising sea level since the last glacial maxima (~10 ka) and either seismic acitivity and/or normal subsidence could, in theory, account for it. 6000 years is an pretty tiny amount of time, but they did say something like "at least 6000 years", could be more. Some real data is needed before a real theory can be developed, not just speculation.
As a geologist (and one who has seen the thin sections of some of the moon rocks) I'll tell you that there is quite a bit that could not be done remotely with any reasonable results. First off, just making thin sections would be very difficult. A lot of petrography and petrology is as much an art as it is a science.
I suppose, however, alot of the electromagnetic and x-ray diffraction stuff could be done pretty easily on the surface by robots.
Be careful and remember one very important thing: The government is you, or at least a representation of you (ala Abe Lincoln). You have no right to expect anything from the government that you, yourself, are not willing to give.
They argue that code written by a school employee (and this usually includes grad students)is a work for hire and that the school should retain ownership and control.
This might be interesting. Here (in IL), it is verboten for grad students to unionize. They consider the teaching (which the vast majority of grad students, like myself, do to be primarily eduactional. Hence we are not "employees" in every sense of the word.
Now, I would like to know, are we suddenly employees when it comes to producing something that they could sell. And, if so, whouldn't we have the right to unionize?
steve
Forget about copy protection. Any non-classified image or map produced by the USGS (or any branch of the goverment) is in the public domain. Use them as you please. Though it would be nice to give credit where credit is due.
As a note:
In-stream hydro power is very high on the list of the most environmentally unfriendly power sources out there. It does terrible things upstream for quite a distance and downstream till the end.
In the lond term, the earth is actually beginning what should be a warming trend (in the glacial/interglacial sense). This "should" happen over periods on the order of 10-50 thousand years (or more in some cases). We just need to ask what we are doing, that is unrelated to natural processes, to speed up the trend. When this question has been answered (personally I think it has), then the time to act is now.