In this case unfortunately so close is too close and the speed is what kills it. Take a photograph of a racing car moving at 200 mph on the opposite side of a race track is no problem. Taking a picture of that same racing car as it passes 2 feet in front of you is pretty much impossible.
Cassini's cameras can't focus on the surface moving by so quickly. Should result in some spectacular approach and departure sequences though.
I'm beginning to think there should be a whole separate section of rental stores devoted to docudrama movies that are "based upon real events". That is, contain enough factual material to give insight into the actual events, but contain enough dramatization and dramatic license to disqualify them as documentaries.
Apollo 13 would definitely fall into this category as the Goofs section of the IMDB would attest.
Also:
Tora! Tora! Tora! Flight 93 Midway Flags of Our Fathers Letters from Iwo Jima Bridge on the River Kwai etc.
Intelligent Design "says" that scientific evidence suggests a creator as opposed to evolutionary processes but does not make statements as to the nature of the creator.
In other words: "Looks like God did it, but we don't want to describe God because we really don't know."
What evidence would prove that there *wasn't* a creator? If you say there is none then the theory is not falsifiable and thus is not scientific. Also, the scientific evidence for a creator should oppose *all other* theories for the different species on earth, not just the one creationists, ID believers, etc. don't like.
Stating the obvious will get you fired and lose you promotional opportunities.
It's called tact and tends to develop with maturity. Pointing out someone's incompetence whilst making it sound as though you are praising their superb abilities will avoid nasty conflicts and get you recognized by smart management above them who can see what you are doing. You can say just as much, if not more, by omission.
When asked to comment on my manager I just say he has fantastic knowledge of our products and I rely on him to provide good in-depth technical assistance on development issues. He is a really good developer.
The account I read stressed that two nuclear reactors had shut down in a way that implied they were the cause. They interviewed a plant supervisor who said things had shut down as they were supposed to and everything was OK, as they are supposed to say.
Right at the end the article also mentions that two coal-burning plants shut down as well.
Same thing, so why the emphasis on the nuclear plants?
You might be. I will stress the might because, as you can see by the posts here, there is far from consensus on the matter and this isn't something that should be diagnosed by armchair physicians and online self-diagnosis.
I was the exact same way. It took a couple of major project failures for me to say to myself "something is not right here" and go back to the doctors. Actually a couple. In the end the final determination was that I was clinically depressed and it turned out that it did run in my family.
Without going into details, now that the problem has been addressed (and yes, it does involve medication) my thinking has cleared up, the fog has lifted and I can see all to clearly now how my behaviour going back to my teenage years and before alienated people. My failures in personal and business situations could have been easily avoided had I been able to think then, the way I think now. It isn't just a change in outlook, it is a complete change in how my brain operates.
People in this situation also tend to self-diagnose Asberger's. Once again, it may or may not be a factor or may be an associated side-effect. If you can't think properly you may not be able to respond correctly in social circumstances and thus display symptoms of Asberger's. I will always remember when that attractive girl walked up to me in the bookstore with a smile on her face and said "Hi, do you remember me?" These days, even though I may not remember her, I would say something witty and suggest a cup of coffee at the local Starbucks or something instead of what I did then which was to say "No" and turn back to the magazine I was reading.
I think you should take time to see a real expert or three and don't bother listening to me or anyone else on Slashdot regarding medical diagnosis. This isn't really the place for such advice and most of it, like my own experience above is anecdotal at best.
In my younger days, before they finally figured out what the issue was, I would spend hours untangling knotted balls of string. I got very good at it and still derive a certain pride from turning a tangled mess of cabling into a cleanly laid-out network system.
The focus required to see which cables are tangled up where and to identify the loops that, once pulled out, will free up a myriad of other cables is just the type of ability you see in Asperger's and other high-order autistics.
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No way. Vancouver or just about anywhere else no the Pacific Northwest would have unlimited power.
Truck drivers regularly miss me by a fraction of a centimeter on public roads.
Very funny, but actually an extension of the same thing. The old cliche of "becoming one with the machine" as it pertains to driving is very apt. A good driver "knows" exactly what space the car occupies as it does become part of their personal space and they can parallel park instantly or do one of those "handbrake-slide-into-the-parking-space" tricks.
People who lack that perception are the ones endlessly backing into and out of a space when there's still a long way between them and the next car. Be interesting to see if there's been some test to see if these people also have a limited sense of personal space outside the car and are more prone to misjudging distances from their own bodies.
You may have had less of a problem if you had driven a lot in the UK. As a driver you concentrate more on where things should be and your brain can switch things around if they're suddenly reversed. I find that after a few years of going back and forth between here (Canada) and Japan (who drive on the left side of the road as in the UK) my brain's compensation kicks in almost immediately and I can naturally follow the reversed traffic rules as soon as I drive out of the airport car rental.
Once or twice I made a wide left turn in Japan and found myself facing oncoming traffic but the reminder "Wide Right!" soon fixed that.
How is the average sysadmin treated when a company decides to terminate them, even if it is an amicable separation?
Frog march to the door, no access to any machine, locks, passwords and combinations changed immediately.
All on the assumption that this person, because of their knowledge, is going to do physical or logical damage to the company systems. That is, on the assumption that they are already a psychopathic criminal with no sense of responsibility or morals.
And driving very well. In 10 years in Japan I never had an accident or what would even be a close call. This is in an environment where the roads are much narrower than anywhere else. There are accidents, of course, but recent fatal accident stats show the majority being old drivers.
10 years in Vancouver and I have a close call just about every day. There are scratches on our bumpers from people running into us because they misjudge distance.
The following notice has been posted on the school's website. Looks like some attitude was involved which would make more sense. Too bad the principal isn't prepared to provide more details about the use of software.
Detention Letter Press Release December 17, 2007
Recently, a file was uploaded to the Internet purporting to be a copy of a letter from Big Spring High School to a student regarding a two hour detention. The uploaded letter was an altered version of a detention letter sent to a student. Unfortunately, privacy concerns prevent the School District from giving a full explanation of the nature and source of the letter's alteration at this time. The Big Spring School District does have confirmation that the discipline letter was altered.
The reports, blogs and other sources on the Internet indicating that a Big Spring student was assigned detention for using the Firefox internet browser instead of Internet Explorer are untrue and were based on the fake letter. Detention is assigned in our schools after appropriate warnings are given, if students continue to engage in non-academic activities or fail to follow a teacher's directive during class time discipline can and will be assigned.
I like your bungee jump description. When I lived in Japan one of those rather sadistic shows that show up on Youtube these days had a "batsu" game where the player had their hands tied and feet attached to a bungee cord. They were then placed on their backs on a flat, slippery board, their head pointed out towards a 200m drop off a scenic tower. The board would slowly be raised higher if they answered questions incorrectly.
Just watching as the board got higher and they started to slip raised the hairs on the back of my neck as you knew they couldn't see where they were going and like your backwards bungee example it would probably be scary as hell.
Watch a car accident happen in real time. It's over almost instantly and if it's a violent rollover like yours you wonder the people inside ever perceive anything at all with all the quick changes going on.
But for someone in the middle of that accident the experience doesn't seem quite so harsh.
My experience was being cut off coming down a steep hill on my bicycle so I couldn't stop before hitting the back of the line of parked cars in front of me. Someone watching would have seen me brake hard, fly over my handlebars, smack onto the road then almost instantly smash into the back of a car: "Screech-thump-crash".
My experience of it was: "Damn, nowhere to go, gotta brake." "Damn, back brakes not enough, gotta go full on the front" although I knew this meant I would fly over the front which, sure enough, I did in what seemed to be a very graceful fashion. I hit the ground and rolled once which for some reason didn't hurt at all but I could see as I was rolling that I was about to impact the back of the last car with my head. I had enough time to clearly think to myself "shit, this is going to hurt" and then right after the impact: "Hey, that wasn't so bad."
I think what separates our experiences from this experiment is the presence of true mortal danger. Either of us could have died under the circumstances and that is what defines the perception of changed time. Being dropped off a tower in a glorified amusement park ride which you know to be perfectly safe is, although scary, just not in the same league as far as what your brain thinks in the middle of an unexpected potentially fatal incident.
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In this case unfortunately so close is too close and the speed is what kills it. Take a photograph of a racing car moving at 200 mph on the opposite side of a race track is no problem. Taking a picture of that same racing car as it passes 2 feet in front of you is pretty much impossible.
Cassini's cameras can't focus on the surface moving by so quickly. Should result in some spectacular approach and departure sequences though.
I'm beginning to think there should be a whole separate section of rental stores devoted to docudrama movies that are "based upon real events". That is, contain enough factual material to give insight into the actual events, but contain enough dramatization and dramatic license to disqualify them as documentaries.
Apollo 13 would definitely fall into this category as the Goofs section of the IMDB would attest.
Also:
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Flight 93
Midway
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Bridge on the River Kwai
etc.
Intelligent Design "says" that scientific evidence suggests a creator as opposed to evolutionary processes but does not make statements as to the nature of the creator.
In other words: "Looks like God did it, but we don't want to describe God because we really don't know."
What evidence would prove that there *wasn't* a creator? If you say there is none then the theory is not falsifiable and thus is not scientific. Also, the scientific evidence for a creator should oppose *all other* theories for the different species on earth, not just the one creationists, ID believers, etc. don't like.
Stating the obvious will get you fired and lose you promotional opportunities.
It's called tact and tends to develop with maturity. Pointing out someone's incompetence whilst making it sound as though you are praising their superb abilities will avoid nasty conflicts and get you recognized by smart management above them who can see what you are doing. You can say just as much, if not more, by omission.
When asked to comment on my manager I just say he has fantastic knowledge of our products and I rely on him to provide good in-depth technical assistance on development issues. He is a really good developer.
See what I just did?
The account I read stressed that two nuclear reactors had shut down in a way that implied they were the cause. They interviewed a plant supervisor who said things had shut down as they were supposed to and everything was OK, as they are supposed to say.
Right at the end the article also mentions that two coal-burning plants shut down as well.
Same thing, so why the emphasis on the nuclear plants?
You might be. I will stress the might because, as you can see by the posts here, there is far from consensus on the matter and this isn't something that should be diagnosed by armchair physicians and online self-diagnosis.
I was the exact same way. It took a couple of major project failures for me to say to myself "something is not right here" and go back to the doctors. Actually a couple. In the end the final determination was that I was clinically depressed and it turned out that it did run in my family.
Without going into details, now that the problem has been addressed (and yes, it does involve medication) my thinking has cleared up, the fog has lifted and I can see all to clearly now how my behaviour going back to my teenage years and before alienated people. My failures in personal and business situations could have been easily avoided had I been able to think then, the way I think now. It isn't just a change in outlook, it is a complete change in how my brain operates.
People in this situation also tend to self-diagnose Asberger's. Once again, it may or may not be a factor or may be an associated side-effect. If you can't think properly you may not be able to respond correctly in social circumstances and thus display symptoms of Asberger's. I will always remember when that attractive girl walked up to me in the bookstore with a smile on her face and said "Hi, do you remember me?" These days, even though I may not remember her, I would say something witty and suggest a cup of coffee at the local Starbucks or something instead of what I did then which was to say "No" and turn back to the magazine I was reading.
I think you should take time to see a real expert or three and don't bother listening to me or anyone else on Slashdot regarding medical diagnosis. This isn't really the place for such advice and most of it, like my own experience above is anecdotal at best.
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"The office of Galactic President exists only to distract attention away from those actually in power."
Written years before the Bush administration made it the best example in modern times.
In my younger days, before they finally figured out what the issue was, I would spend hours untangling knotted balls of string. I got very good at it and still derive a certain pride from turning a tangled mess of cabling into a cleanly laid-out network system.
The focus required to see which cables are tangled up where and to identify the loops that, once pulled out, will free up a myriad of other cables is just the type of ability you see in Asperger's and other high-order autistics.
No way. Vancouver or just about anywhere else no the Pacific Northwest would have unlimited power.
And by the way, my Dad is from Lincoln.
You're not that old.
When I see "BEA" I remember watching Trident jets landing at Manchester airport.
BEA (British European Airways) + BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corp) = British Airways (ca. 1974)
I know the following post was less vague as there aren't 15 months, but for clarity sake can we ask for ISO dates?
2008-01-05: No mistakes.
The pilot of Air Canada flight 143 aka the "Gimli Glider" would agree with you on that.
You just know Top Gear is going to take a look at this car some day.
As long as they give it the Peel P50 treatment.
Truck drivers regularly miss me by a fraction of a centimeter on public roads.
Very funny, but actually an extension of the same thing. The old cliche of "becoming one with the machine" as it pertains to driving is very apt. A good driver "knows" exactly what space the car occupies as it does become part of their personal space and they can parallel park instantly or do one of those "handbrake-slide-into-the-parking-space" tricks.
People who lack that perception are the ones endlessly backing into and out of a space when there's still a long way between them and the next car. Be interesting to see if there's been some test to see if these people also have a limited sense of personal space outside the car and are more prone to misjudging distances from their own bodies.
You may have had less of a problem if you had driven a lot in the UK. As a driver you concentrate more on where things should be and your brain can switch things around if they're suddenly reversed. I find that after a few years of going back and forth between here (Canada) and Japan (who drive on the left side of the road as in the UK) my brain's compensation kicks in almost immediately and I can naturally follow the reversed traffic rules as soon as I drive out of the airport car rental.
Once or twice I made a wide left turn in Japan and found myself facing oncoming traffic but the reminder "Wide Right!" soon fixed that.
The fear is already there.
How is the average sysadmin treated when a company decides to terminate them, even if it is an amicable separation?
Frog march to the door, no access to any machine, locks, passwords and combinations changed immediately.
All on the assumption that this person, because of their knowledge, is going to do physical or logical damage to the company systems. That is, on the assumption that they are already a psychopathic criminal with no sense of responsibility or morals.
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KABOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!
Probably something to do with psychology...
I think Freud had an opinion on this.
And driving very well. In 10 years in Japan I never had an accident or what would even be a close call. This is in an environment where the roads are much narrower than anywhere else. There are accidents, of course, but recent fatal accident stats show the majority being old drivers.
10 years in Vancouver and I have a close call just about every day. There are scratches on our bumpers from people running into us because they misjudge distance.
I like your bungee jump description. When I lived in Japan one of those rather sadistic shows that show up on Youtube these days had a "batsu" game where the player had their hands tied and feet attached to a bungee cord. They were then placed on their backs on a flat, slippery board, their head pointed out towards a 200m drop off a scenic tower. The board would slowly be raised higher if they answered questions incorrectly.
Just watching as the board got higher and they started to slip raised the hairs on the back of my neck as you knew they couldn't see where they were going and like your backwards bungee example it would probably be scary as hell.
I'm with you on that.
Watch a car accident happen in real time. It's over almost instantly and if it's a violent rollover like yours you wonder the people inside ever perceive anything at all with all the quick changes going on.
But for someone in the middle of that accident the experience doesn't seem quite so harsh.
My experience was being cut off coming down a steep hill on my bicycle so I couldn't stop before hitting the back of the line of parked cars in front of me. Someone watching would have seen me brake hard, fly over my handlebars, smack onto the road then almost instantly smash into the back of a car: "Screech-thump-crash".
My experience of it was: "Damn, nowhere to go, gotta brake." "Damn, back brakes not enough, gotta go full on the front" although I knew this meant I would fly over the front which, sure enough, I did in what seemed to be a very graceful fashion. I hit the ground and rolled once which for some reason didn't hurt at all but I could see as I was rolling that I was about to impact the back of the last car with my head. I had enough time to clearly think to myself "shit, this is going to hurt" and then right after the impact: "Hey, that wasn't so bad."
I think what separates our experiences from this experiment is the presence of true mortal danger. Either of us could have died under the circumstances and that is what defines the perception of changed time. Being dropped off a tower in a glorified amusement park ride which you know to be perfectly safe is, although scary, just not in the same league as far as what your brain thinks in the middle of an unexpected potentially fatal incident.
Oh, you would be the Son of God, then?
Teenagers...
Given the usual cost of these things it's 45 minutes of setup and video training followed by 3 or 4 "jumps" of 2-3 minutes max.
All for $75+.