Pedantically speaking, SALT isn't the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere. There are plenty larger -- for example, the Parkes Observatory in Australia is 64 meters across. It doesn't match the size of the largest telescope in the northern hemisphere, either. To do so it would have to be as large as Arecibo, 305 meters across.
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Except that there are more than likely way more Quake and Doom players than WoW players.
If you'd read the article (I know, it's strenuous having to click links and actually parse text without first jerking your knee), you'd find that they've tried to counter this "with 'anti-skimming' technology to reduce the chance of the signal being intercepted between the passport and the electronic reader", which is probably a wire mesh in the passport cover. They're also encrypting the transmission stream when the data are read off the chip.
Plus, it's too late now, you should have raised your objections when you had the opportunity. Barn door, horses, all that.
Of course, if you microwave your passport, wiping out the RFID chip, it's no longer a valid passport, and you'll have to spring the $90 or whatever it costs for a new one.
So yeah, go ahead and microwave your passport if you want. All it'll get you is a book with your picture in it.
No. Major eruptions are needed, not puffs of steam and ash.
Where's the Slashdot retraction or apology?
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Given that Slashdot was one of the "news" sites that perpetuated this myth, why aren't we seeing any kind of retraction or apology from the Slashdot editors that they screwed up in not fact-checking, especially on the original story? Would it be so hard for one of them to amend that story with a link to this one saying "sorry, this report isn't true"?
A roommate I had once couldn't be bothered to take trash outside to the garbage can, because that would have involved opening a door and going down three steps. The only time she managed to make that arduous journey she put the garbage bag next to the garbage can.
As others have said, make sure you've got positive pressure in your case. Turn around some of your fans so they're sucking air in.
As for filtering the intake, your cheapest bet is to use some used dryer sheets. You know, like Bounce sheets. Tape one over each fan grille and you'll be good to go. They're cheap, you probably have them anyhow, and you don't need any fancy contraption to hold them on.
I don't understand. First you say that "their electric consumption is actually minimal", then you say "running both all month equates to about a 60$ electricity increase", and then you say "I told her I would cover the bill. it never went up...."
You're saying there's no increase in electricity consumption (the "it never went up" part), there's a minimal increase in electricity consumption (the "electric consumption is actually minimal" part), and there's a substantial increase in electricity consumption (the "a 60$ electricity increase"). So which is it?
But what if we got a space probe to do that Tom Hanks Apollo 13 movie "sling shot" by doing a flyboy of a supermassive blackhole, accellerating it beyond the speed of light?
Sure, as soon as you can find a super-massive black hole close enough to the earth. The closest black hole (as of 2002) is stellar mass and is about 1600 light years away.
You'd be better off using the Sun to get a gravitational boost than going to a "nearby" black hole. And there's no point in going to a super-massive black hole because there aren't any close enough -- there's one at the centre of the galaxy, but that's a little far away to use.
Preview doesn't let you edit edit-able PDFs, does it? I had some PDFs downloaded from the IRS that, when downloaded on my Windows box with Reader installed, allowed me to fill in some of the boxes. I don't think I could do that using Preview.app.
And all pretty cosmic phenomena Spitzer can see are also observable by the Hubble telescope.
Not entirely true, as they operate over different wavelength bands. Spitzer operates in the mid- to far-infrared, whereas the longest wavelengths Hubble can view are in the near-infrared. Different wavelengths view different processes and different objects. Did you ever stop to think why there are different types of telescopes? It's because what's revealed in one waveband is invisible in others.
That, and perhaps the fact that the revelation that starts are, indeed, hot, was not a groundbreaking enough discovery to move the Spitzer into the visible spectrum.
If and when the Hubble is updated, could this type of gear be added, or orbited in tandem, to allow both visual and infared examination of space?
The Hubble Space Telescope already has infrared capabilities, just not at the longer wavelengths that Spitzer can do. The Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) is an instrument on HST, and it can go as long as 2.5 microns, whereas Spitzer observes from roughly 3 to 180 microns.
I confiscated 3 or 4 cards and destroyed them while a cashier after getting "Please Call" back instead of an authorization.
Surely you called the credit card company first?
I was trying to buy a GameCube with my credit card once, but it kept coming up as "Please Call". The cashier didn't know what to do, so I got denied. Turns out what happened was earlier that day I got stuck at a ferry terminal and used my credit card to make a bunch of phone calls to friends and family to get someone to pick me up. The credit card company saw all of these small charges being made within a short period of time and flagged my account as being suspicious, and wouldn't let any more charges go on my card. Had the cashier phoned, everything would have been cleared up.
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It's Bill Jr's foundation, it's just that his father runs it. William H. Gates Jr. is married to Melinda French Gates, so if it's his father's why would he put his wife's name on it? And why's his picture on the page you linked to?
Go look at this orbit simulation. If you run it into the future you'll see that the vast majority of the time this thing is pretty far away from the Earth, farther away from the Earth than the moon. And given it's a small body, we can't accurately predict where it's going to be in 50 years. It'd be much better to put something on the Moon than on this asteroid.
Go look at this JPL press release. See the white line in the closeup view? That's the error on the position. If that white line intersected Earth, then there would be some probability that this asteroid would strike us.
They can predict these things through hundreds of observations from observers around the world. Through mathematical modelling they can calculate what the orbit is going to be. As more observations come in and as the forecast time comes closer the errors go down.
I used to imagine a telescope of a pan filled with mercury, spinning, and attached to the lens assembly via rods on top, and the whole device turning to create gravity for the mercury so it stays in the pan, while the whole telescope like a lighthouse scans the skies.
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Pedantically speaking, SALT isn't the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere. There are plenty larger -- for example, the Parkes Observatory in Australia is 64 meters across. It doesn't match the size of the largest telescope in the northern hemisphere, either. To do so it would have to be as large as Arecibo, 305 meters across.
Except that there are more than likely way more Quake and Doom players than WoW players.
If you'd read the article (I know, it's strenuous having to click links and actually parse text without first jerking your knee), you'd find that they've tried to counter this "with 'anti-skimming' technology to reduce the chance of the signal being intercepted between the passport and the electronic reader", which is probably a wire mesh in the passport cover. They're also encrypting the transmission stream when the data are read off the chip.
Plus, it's too late now, you should have raised your objections when you had the opportunity. Barn door, horses, all that.
Of course, if you microwave your passport, wiping out the RFID chip, it's no longer a valid passport, and you'll have to spring the $90 or whatever it costs for a new one.
So yeah, go ahead and microwave your passport if you want. All it'll get you is a book with your picture in it.
...to link to the web browser in question.
No. Major eruptions are needed, not puffs of steam and ash.
Given that Slashdot was one of the "news" sites that perpetuated this myth, why aren't we seeing any kind of retraction or apology from the Slashdot editors that they screwed up in not fact-checking, especially on the original story? Would it be so hard for one of them to amend that story with a link to this one saying "sorry, this report isn't true"?
Re: laziness.
A roommate I had once couldn't be bothered to take trash outside to the garbage can, because that would have involved opening a door and going down three steps. The only time she managed to make that arduous journey she put the garbage bag next to the garbage can.
Yes, people are becoming lazy.
As others have said, make sure you've got positive pressure in your case. Turn around some of your fans so they're sucking air in.
As for filtering the intake, your cheapest bet is to use some used dryer sheets. You know, like Bounce sheets. Tape one over each fan grille and you'll be good to go. They're cheap, you probably have them anyhow, and you don't need any fancy contraption to hold them on.
I don't understand. First you say that "their electric consumption is actually minimal", then you say "running both all month equates to about a 60$ electricity increase", and then you say "I told her I would cover the bill. it never went up...."
You're saying there's no increase in electricity consumption (the "it never went up" part), there's a minimal increase in electricity consumption (the "electric consumption is actually minimal" part), and there's a substantial increase in electricity consumption (the "a 60$ electricity increase"). So which is it?
Sure, as soon as you can find a super-massive black hole close enough to the earth. The closest black hole (as of 2002) is stellar mass and is about 1600 light years away.
You'd be better off using the Sun to get a gravitational boost than going to a "nearby" black hole. And there's no point in going to a super-massive black hole because there aren't any close enough -- there's one at the centre of the galaxy, but that's a little far away to use.
So that's why it's called the Queen city of Vermont.
That's the name of the planet orbitting inside of Mercury's orbit.
No, seriously!
That sound you just heard? That was the joke flying over your head.
Well, Ontario is down with OPP, yeah you know me.
Preview doesn't let you edit edit-able PDFs, does it? I had some PDFs downloaded from the IRS that, when downloaded on my Windows box with Reader installed, allowed me to fill in some of the boxes. I don't think I could do that using Preview.app.
Oh really?
Not entirely true, as they operate over different wavelength bands. Spitzer operates in the mid- to far-infrared, whereas the longest wavelengths Hubble can view are in the near-infrared. Different wavelengths view different processes and different objects. Did you ever stop to think why there are different types of telescopes? It's because what's revealed in one waveband is invisible in others.
This sentence makes absolutely no sense at all.
The Hubble Space Telescope already has infrared capabilities, just not at the longer wavelengths that Spitzer can do. The Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) is an instrument on HST, and it can go as long as 2.5 microns, whereas Spitzer observes from roughly 3 to 180 microns.
Surely you called the credit card company first?
I was trying to buy a GameCube with my credit card once, but it kept coming up as "Please Call". The cashier didn't know what to do, so I got denied. Turns out what happened was earlier that day I got stuck at a ferry terminal and used my credit card to make a bunch of phone calls to friends and family to get someone to pick me up. The credit card company saw all of these small charges being made within a short period of time and flagged my account as being suspicious, and wouldn't let any more charges go on my card. Had the cashier phoned, everything would have been cleared up.
It's Bill Jr's foundation, it's just that his father runs it. William H. Gates Jr. is married to Melinda French Gates, so if it's his father's why would he put his wife's name on it? And why's his picture on the page you linked to?
Go look at this orbit simulation. If you run it into the future you'll see that the vast majority of the time this thing is pretty far away from the Earth, farther away from the Earth than the moon. And given it's a small body, we can't accurately predict where it's going to be in 50 years. It'd be much better to put something on the Moon than on this asteroid.
Go look at this JPL press release. See the white line in the closeup view? That's the error on the position. If that white line intersected Earth, then there would be some probability that this asteroid would strike us.
They can predict these things through hundreds of observations from observers around the world. Through mathematical modelling they can calculate what the orbit is going to be. As more observations come in and as the forecast time comes closer the errors go down.
I'm really enjoying being able to use the Googlenet.
You mean something like this?
Sure, the LZT can only look straight up, but liquid mirror telescopes are being done, and done fairly well.