I'm certain that I saw:-) explained in a "filler" at the end of an article in Reader's Digest before 1974. It was mentioned by whom the symbol was being used, but I don't remember that detail. It was explained as being a symbol for "tongue-in-cheek".
Internet Doorway, of course, hadn't sent any of the unsolicited mail messages. The mail address in the header of the spam that identified the sender as Internet Doorway had been spoofed.
From an older article by the Author.
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/12/lega l/
Doesn't your global carbon budget show more carbon being lost to the ocean floor than known supplies? A forest burning every once in a while is a good idea, we need the carbon dioxide.
Rather than Big Bang, you obviously meant "the formation of the Earth". The amount of carbon present in the Solar System makes it obvious that there was a lot of it captured when the Earth formed. We're lucky we didn't end up with as much carbon in the atmosphere as Venus -- although maybe when the Moon stripped off our upper layers it might have removed a bunch of it.
Hey, that carbon is getting into the ecosystem sometime. Would you prefer it be changed to carbon dioxide or left as methane, when the latter has greenhouse effects which are 10-50 times more than the former?
Or you can wait for it to be released after it gets sucked back in a subduction zone -- there's must be some doing that right now. It will come back up in volcanoes or methane/petroleum leaks.
"they wouldn't live in a house made of murdered trees."
Hey, I'm doing carbon sequestration! I've locked the carbon in those trees safely in a dry place where they won't rot and thus won't release their carbon back to the environment.
There are indeed bacteria which eat hydrocarbons. Try a Google search for "hydrocarbon bacteria".
Or just buy a bacteria culture and try it yourself.
Actually, Gold's Deep Hot Biosphere says that the petroleum deposits which we harvest are already the result of underground bacteria feeding on hydrocarbons. The rotting-plants origin is a myth -- look up where it came from. If there were more heat down there the methane hydrates would be getting eaten.
Ancient peoples didn't have a short-hand for numbers as large as a million. IIRC the ancient greeks only had terms to count up to 10,000.
And the Speaker said: "And the armies shall number 200 uuuMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.. very strong..."
According to that, methane is only one-half of one percent of the Earth's greenhouse effect. Perhaps that person meant that methane doesn't warm us much; I don't know how much even its doubling would matter.
Yes, methane hydrates are old news. There are a lot of them -- some seem to be trapped methane caused by bacteria, although much of it happens near known oil and gas deposits and are simply due to methane being trapped as it leaks toward the surface.
Of course, the risk of these deposits is in the uncontrolled release of methane. It would be good if we can mine them and turn them into the less dangerous carbon dioxide.
After all, if we don't mine them some of them will evaporate anyway. Volcanic action, a rock from space, a sunken ship or fisherman's net scraping across...or simply a low-pressure hurricane crossing a deposit which has expanded to its upper limit.
For that matter, those deposits which don't evaporate...what can they do? Get trapped under layers of sediment? Evaporate when the ocean floor folds into a mountain top? Get sucked back into the planet at the end of the tectonic plate, and be emitted from a volcano or leakage to the surface? It all reaches the surface sometime.
Yes, at least one lake in Africa does have carbon dioxide accumulating on its bottom. A major reason is that the water is deep and the minor temperature changes at the surface don't cause any currents to circulate the water.
To prevent villages being destroyed again, right now there is at least one self-powered fountain by the lake. Scientists dropped a pipe to the bottom, pumped up a little water, and as the water charged with carbon dioxide rose...it bubbled and pushed itself up and out of the top of the pipe.
Now that it started, the frothing is pumping more water up and it will keep doing that until the amount of carbon dioxide gets very low. Several fountains are scheduled to be installed there.
Yes, I try to let my code be maintained by the newcomers. I try to create clear and well-documented code so anyone can fix or improve it later.
I often end up writing documentation for some other components in the project, as if it's not documented when my code has to interface to it...I figure it out and document it.
Besides, it might be me who has to fix it in six months after several other projects...
"How about a full report on it's usage in a heavy wardriven area like downtown Chicago or San Francisco?"
How would you measure the effect on wardrivers?
Videotape the street and watch for people who stop suddenly, then their hopeful expressions change just before they leave?
Slashdot Mirror
An ASR33 can only run at 110 baud. 300 was for really fast terminals.
I'm certain that I saw :-) explained in a "filler" at the end of an article in Reader's Digest before 1974. It was mentioned by whom the symbol was being used, but I don't remember that detail. It was explained as being a symbol for "tongue-in-cheek".
IABADH (I am beating a dead horse)
IANAAE (I am not an acronym expert)
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/12/leg
Doesn't your global carbon budget show more carbon being lost to the ocean floor than known supplies? A forest burning every once in a while is a good idea, we need the carbon dioxide.
Rather than Big Bang, you obviously meant "the formation of the Earth". The amount of carbon present in the Solar System makes it obvious that there was a lot of it captured when the Earth formed. We're lucky we didn't end up with as much carbon in the atmosphere as Venus -- although maybe when the Moon stripped off our upper layers it might have removed a bunch of it.
Oh, yeah... This is a No Smoking boat!
Or you can wait for it to be released after it gets sucked back in a subduction zone -- there's must be some doing that right now. It will come back up in volcanoes or methane/petroleum leaks.
Hey, I'm doing carbon sequestration! I've locked the carbon in those trees safely in a dry place where they won't rot and thus won't release their carbon back to the environment.
Actually, Gold's Deep Hot Biosphere says that the petroleum deposits which we harvest are already the result of underground bacteria feeding on hydrocarbons. The rotting-plants origin is a myth -- look up where it came from. If there were more heat down there the methane hydrates would be getting eaten.
Ancient peoples didn't have a short-hand for numbers as large as a million. IIRC the ancient greeks only had terms to count up to 10,000. And the Speaker said: "And the armies shall number 200 uuuMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.. very strong..."
Of course, the risk of these deposits is in the uncontrolled release of methane. It would be good if we can mine them and turn them into the less dangerous carbon dioxide.
After all, if we don't mine them some of them will evaporate anyway. Volcanic action, a rock from space, a sunken ship or fisherman's net scraping across...or simply a low-pressure hurricane crossing a deposit which has expanded to its upper limit.
For that matter, those deposits which don't evaporate...what can they do? Get trapped under layers of sediment? Evaporate when the ocean floor folds into a mountain top? Get sucked back into the planet at the end of the tectonic plate, and be emitted from a volcano or leakage to the surface? It all reaches the surface sometime.
To prevent villages being destroyed again, right now there is at least one self-powered fountain by the lake. Scientists dropped a pipe to the bottom, pumped up a little water, and as the water charged with carbon dioxide rose...it bubbled and pushed itself up and out of the top of the pipe.
Now that it started, the frothing is pumping more water up and it will keep doing that until the amount of carbon dioxide gets very low. Several fountains are scheduled to be installed there.
Now that you've seen Slashdot Science, wander over to K5 and look at the Physics summaries which are being posted there.
I often end up writing documentation for some other components in the project, as if it's not documented when my code has to interface to it...I figure it out and document it.
Besides, it might be me who has to fix it in six months after several other projects...
No, advertisers pay for the service. Don't edit them out. :-)
If someone tries to read a ROT-13 Google encryptor they'll be in violation of the DMCA...
Don't they just have to use the 8-FTU charset to have the mirror image characters be displayed?
So, have all the new countries signed the Outer Space Treaty?
Doesn't this violate a patent?
We'll make great improvements when I can get these electrodes to stay in the brain of the dust mites...
How would you measure the effect on wardrivers?
Videotape the street and watch for people who stop suddenly, then their hopeful expressions change just before they leave?