If you mean "pretty much in the same place" as in "on the equator" then sure.
Though the orbit is geosynch, it isn't because of the distance of the center of mass of the thing. It's the distance of the center of mass of the thing while tied to the ground.
Let it go, and it gets an elipitcal orbit that is NOT geosynch, and the thing comes back from it's elipical orbit somewhere else on the same latitude.
Next, you are also assuming the thing does not have any "springyness" and bunch up on itself.
Not a trivial problem.
I bet you a taco dinner that if the cable gets cut on the ground it never comes back in a way that can be used.
One could also use "pop-from" authentication for roving users.
I've got a whole mail server with 20k users on it that only half of whom connect to the same network.
"Pop-From" just makes the user check for mail first, when a successful authentication for POP3 has been completed, SMTP traffic is opened up for 30 or so seconds after the last download. The email software then can have SMTP accepted by the server to send out their mail.
It works great, no messing with settings for roving users at all. Just about any email program I have run across works with it without further messing around, though Outlook has to be told to no "send immediately" otherwise the mail gets stuck in it's outgoing queue.
But according to stuff I have seen on the Discovery channel recently about the US Navy the big boats and subs all have a guy doing sextant, compass and map calculations as a back up 24/7.
It could be that your uncle was one of the bridge guys and didn't quite catch that it's policy to do that...
Hubble is used to generate images where quality is measured by pixels per area of the target, and making sure all the pixels are faithfully in the correct place on the image.
There are lots of other types of information that can be gathered; a full spectrum and spectral lines, shifted or not. Pulsing or changes in the amount of light, and so on.
So this type of lens extends the reach of devices that gather non-image type data by gathering light from a WIDE area and allowing us to pick it up on earth.
So think of it as a really really huge radio dish, not as a big hunk of glass.
Holy crap, I haven't seen a rant riddled with non-scientific bullshit like this in a long time.
Here's a few items for you retard-followers that modded this guy up:
1) Thermodynamics is the law. You don't get energy (photons) somewhere without taking it from somewhere else.
2) Power companies sell energy, they do this be measuring what arrives at the location and then charging for it. This argument basically says if I manage to punch a hole in a big gas storage tank somewhere the gas doesn't cost anything, should be free, and it's not theft. What do you call it? Electricty piracy? E-copyright infringment?
3) I don't know what state the guy is from, but in mine, farmers are compensated.
4) Lower property values? What, metal power towers messes up the asthetic appeal of piles of shit and dirty animals? Rotten old buildings, clouds of pesticide and nitrates are your "natures picaso"? Gimmie a break.
5) Sigh. (This guy failed every class he took I bet, including Econ for Dummies.) No one person's individual bill is increased by this... however the rate at which everybody is charged just got higher as the cost of providing X power to a house (to the company) just got increased by Y (the Y the bulbs took out). Even if you think the companies make a huge profit and can afford it... think they aren't going to try to maintain that profit and increase prices anyway?
6) If plugging an extension cord into your neighbor's outside outlet and using it to power appliances is theft, this is too. (Whether the guy get's in trouble for it is another story of course.)
Maybe your Playstation and computer work by candle wax. Mine don't, so I sorta like my power company. Let's all drop the "poor medical industry" stuff too, welcome to death by cancer. Let's all drop the "poor water sanitiation industry" as well... death by cholera. Oh, and don't forget that poor construction industry that built your house, roads, workplace and school.
Go live with the Taliban or something if you don't like it.
But they rely on the properties of a liquid goo turning to a solid when hit with UV lased light.
They can make three dimensional objects by simply lowering the object into the goo and adding more layers.
But you are still left with an OBJECT MADE OF THE HARDENED GOO. Great, it breaks, it's toxic, has no heat tolerance, and needs to be smoothed and screw holes tapped in it.
It's a great tool for manufacturers and those that develop machines and parts and stuff.
To make a USEFUL part out of it, you have to either put up with everything made of the same stuff (which really limits its usefulness) or then take the object to a foundry and get it copied into a metal shape.
I vote this thing is still decades off. Just like the flying car...
Seriously, rats are social, give "warning nips" before seriously trying to hurt you, like humans, and can learn tricks and stuff. Cheap like hampsters too.
Mine used to have an open top cage, and could climb out, go across the dresser, to the shelf, to the windowsill to my bedstand, to my bed and come sleep with me. (It was an albino, which cant see to well so they dont make blind leaps off of stuff... never ended up on the floor unless I put her there.)
Though if you get two, get littermates or they may spend a while working out pecking order.
In NT4, you can hold down the shift (or is it ctrl?) key while pressing "NO" to get "No to All".
I don't know about later versions though.
Its a really useful feature when you find a more compressed version some porn jpgs you want to add to your higher quality, less compressed partial set.... or something like that.
You guys have it all wrong. You should let them get in front or stop running first or whatever... how else are you going to get a good look at them while they are occupied?
A "drop" is not that. Search engine listings are a realative term, so it should be called "position" or "rank".
The others on the list may be getting better links now, or have updated their sites and had more interesting (to Googlebot) stuff or whatever even if your site is exactly the same.
Just because you were doing it well, doesn't mean (in the eyes of Google) there isn't somebody who can do it better.
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It isn't evidence until you are subpeonaed for it.
So if you destroy it, it is not a problem because it wasn't evidence at the time. Until then, it's just data. If you destroy it after you get the subpeona, then it's a problem. Why do you think they have those guys run around and hand out papers for? To make an auditable trail so the court can bitch slap you for not doing what they want because they KNOW you knew what they wanted you to do.
At worst, the University admins might end up in a long discussion about your network SOP with the FBI or something, but get fucking real. All the shoes I ever wore in my lifetime could be evidence too... but I sure as hell am not going to keep them when they wear out. (If any court wants my shoes, they are welcome to them, my feet sweat like crazy when doing first person shooters.) However any court wanting me to produce shoes from 10th grade won't get them, and I won't get in trouble because I don't have them either.
EXCEPT: when it is standard operating procedure to destroy those logs.
I.e. if you have them and get subpoena then and don't produce (or destroy) them it's obstruction of justice, if you dont have them as a matter of course and get subpoenaed its SOL for whomever wants them.
The only trick is to be able to prove you didn't have them... i.e. have a script running on a schedule or calendar reminder or something. It would suck to have the FBI looking for deleted data on a hard drive... but at least you wouldnt get in legal trouble then.
{I do the calendar, every month it reminds me to delete extra logs I no longer need, some get archived to CD, but most don't... I do not have hard drive space or time to keep all of them so I don't.}
The phone company keeps logs so they can BILL you or update services when they get overloaded. (There might be a law for them though...) ISPs don't have a law and may not be billing for time "unlimited" dial-up, so they can delete them if they want.
The parent poster is projecting way more responsibility on the ISP than there actually is. A gas station is expected to control if a stolen car gets fueled up or that the gas isn't used later to burn kittens or something, they are just expected to safely sell gas to anyone who wants it.
Not that I am an oceanographer or anything... But tides from the moon do cause currents; however the big "belt" currents of cold water circling the globe (or winding around rather) are caused by cooling of water at the poles (which then sinks) and to a certain extent the fresh water taken out by freezing.
Likewise, there is no country on Earth that has the budget to move enough mass either way to affect the Moon/Earth system. Simply ain't gonna happen.
(Earth loses atmosphere all the time, and takes on tons and tons of stardust from outerspace too... nobody worries about that changing orbits or tides.)
So mod parent down for "technically correct" but way overblowing the wrong thing.
Also note some versions that activity is edited out. If there are bloody footprints and blood after shooting someone then its probably the uncensored version.
The German and Auzzie versions are edited to keep the prostitutes from getting in the cars.
So you might not be able to do that depending on the game version.
[Additional hint: Save time by using a convertable, no animation that way.]
It will make an effect, whether we can measure it or not is another story.
Note however that a dam will keep more mass in water higher, and therefore will cause slowing, not speeding up of the Earth. (See my previous post if you want a wider picture of the concept.)
Motion of the Earth in rotation and in orbit changes the forces and the direction of forces due to gravity from other bodies. (I.e. Sun and Moon make tides on water, and slightly "morph" the surface crust.)
This energy in this motion is confronted by friction of the Earth, which is then lost as heat. (Tides warm the water flowing in and out of bays and so on...)
Therefore the energy of that heat comes from the motion of the Earth in rotation and orbit.
Over time, considerable energy is pulled out of the angular momentum (rotation) and orbital momentum of the Earth and lost to heat. Since the mass of the Earth doesn't change*, the only place the energy can come from is the energy stored in spin and orbital speed.
So the Earth's rotation slows over time (as the need for "leap seconds" has illustrated).
Next, why would the frequency of rotation not change even though there is less energy in the system than last year?
Because the distribution of mass within the Earth is not behaving as it was before.
Rotation speed is a function of angular momentum (energy in rotation) and the physical structure of the object. Given two examples, say a lead pipe and a bicycle wheel both with a mass of 1 kilo. Spin both at 3 turns per second (the pipe as if it were rolling on the floor the wheel as if on a bike in motion) and grab them to stop and note that the energy in angular momentum stored in each is not the same. Stopping the bicycle wheel takes more effort than stopping the pipe because the mass of the wheel is near the outside of the spin axis and the mass of the pipe is near to the spin axis (where it stores less energy as angular momentum at a given rotation frequency). With the same period of spin (3 times a second) the pipe has a lot less angular momentum.
Apply this information to the Earth, and one must conclude that whatever was going on inside the Earth has changed. Since we know that tides occured this year and that energy was taken out just like last year, the only way the frequency of rotation (length of day) could have behaved differently is by the physical re-arrangement of the mass of the Earth.
If for example, some of the dense core parts of the Earth stopped moving around and settled to a smaller unit at the center the Earth (with the same angular momentum) would speed up. (Think ice skater pulling in her arms to spin faster.)
But since the angular momentum is lost to heat every year, in order to temporarily make the Earth not lose that second of rotation over the year the breakdown of where the mass is in the Earth must have changed to a state where it can store less angular momentum at a given speed, i.e. heavy stuff sank to the middle.
I find this really interesting in the context of the Earth's magnetic field strength slowly going down too. Maybe the two events are connected and the magnetic flip is coming soon (geologic time) and whatever happens in the core to do that involves changes in the flow of the iron core that make it more ball-like than it was before.
Anyway, it's interesting to me.:) I think I'll go scare my co-workers with the leap second thing.
* Well, it does, we get lots of star dust dropped on us every year, and part of the atmosphere bleeds off into space, but apparently this doesnt add up to a cancelling effect on the other energies involved.
The same treehuggers complaining about the turbines probably let little Mr. Fluffy go out side unsupervised. What do you think Fluffy DOES out there? (besides crap in the sandbox of the kid next door)
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If you mean "pretty much in the same place" as in "on the equator" then sure.
Though the orbit is geosynch, it isn't because of the distance of the center of mass of the thing. It's the distance of the center of mass of the thing while tied to the ground.
Let it go, and it gets an elipitcal orbit that is NOT geosynch, and the thing comes back from it's elipical orbit somewhere else on the same latitude.
Next, you are also assuming the thing does not have any "springyness" and bunch up on itself.
Not a trivial problem.
I bet you a taco dinner that if the cable gets cut on the ground it never comes back in a way that can be used.
One could also use "pop-from" authentication for roving users.
I've got a whole mail server with 20k users on it that only half of whom connect to the same network.
"Pop-From" just makes the user check for mail first, when a successful authentication for POP3 has been completed, SMTP traffic is opened up for 30 or so seconds after the last download. The email software then can have SMTP accepted by the server to send out their mail.
It works great, no messing with settings for roving users at all. Just about any email program I have run across works with it without further messing around, though Outlook has to be told to no "send immediately" otherwise the mail gets stuck in it's outgoing queue.
You didn't say which Navy....
But according to stuff I have seen on the Discovery channel recently about the US Navy the big boats and subs all have a guy doing sextant, compass and map calculations as a back up 24/7.
It could be that your uncle was one of the bridge guys and didn't quite catch that it's policy to do that...
So will this Earth Simulator let me pound it with comets if there is not enough water?
What if I get sentient bugs before sentient mammals? The bugs never seemed to want to build space-ships...
Hubble is used to generate images where quality is measured by pixels per area of the target, and making sure all the pixels are faithfully in the correct place on the image.
There are lots of other types of information that can be gathered; a full spectrum and spectral lines, shifted or not. Pulsing or changes in the amount of light, and so on.
So this type of lens extends the reach of devices that gather non-image type data by gathering light from a WIDE area and allowing us to pick it up on earth.
So think of it as a really really huge radio dish, not as a big hunk of glass.
Holy crap, I haven't seen a rant riddled with non-scientific bullshit like this in a long time.
Here's a few items for you retard-followers that modded this guy up:
1) Thermodynamics is the law. You don't get energy (photons) somewhere without taking it from somewhere else.
2) Power companies sell energy, they do this be measuring what arrives at the location and then charging for it. This argument basically says if I manage to punch a hole in a big gas storage tank somewhere the gas doesn't cost anything, should be free, and it's not theft. What do you call it? Electricty piracy? E-copyright infringment?
3) I don't know what state the guy is from, but in mine, farmers are compensated.
4) Lower property values? What, metal power towers messes up the asthetic appeal of piles of shit and dirty animals? Rotten old buildings, clouds of pesticide and nitrates are your "natures picaso"? Gimmie a break.
5) Sigh. (This guy failed every class he took I bet, including Econ for Dummies.) No one person's individual bill is increased by this... however the rate at which everybody is charged just got higher as the cost of providing X power to a house (to the company) just got increased by Y (the Y the bulbs took out). Even if you think the companies make a huge profit and can afford it... think they aren't going to try to maintain that profit and increase prices anyway?
6) If plugging an extension cord into your neighbor's outside outlet and using it to power appliances is theft, this is too. (Whether the guy get's in trouble for it is another story of course.)
Maybe your Playstation and computer work by candle wax. Mine don't, so I sorta like my power company. Let's all drop the "poor medical industry" stuff too, welcome to death by cancer. Let's all drop the "poor water sanitiation industry" as well... death by cholera. Oh, and don't forget that poor construction industry that built your house, roads, workplace and school.
Go live with the Taliban or something if you don't like it.
3D printers are cool.
But they rely on the properties of a liquid goo turning to a solid when hit with UV lased light.
They can make three dimensional objects by simply lowering the object into the goo and adding more layers.
But you are still left with an OBJECT MADE OF THE HARDENED GOO. Great, it breaks, it's toxic, has no heat tolerance, and needs to be smoothed and screw holes tapped in it.
It's a great tool for manufacturers and those that develop machines and parts and stuff.
To make a USEFUL part out of it, you have to either put up with everything made of the same stuff (which really limits its usefulness) or then take the object to a foundry and get it copied into a metal shape.
I vote this thing is still decades off. Just like the flying car...
Seriously, rats are social, give "warning nips" before seriously trying to hurt you, like humans, and can learn tricks and stuff. Cheap like hampsters too.
Mine used to have an open top cage, and could climb out, go across the dresser, to the shelf, to the windowsill to my bedstand, to my bed and come sleep with me. (It was an albino, which cant see to well so they dont make blind leaps off of stuff... never ended up on the floor unless I put her there.)
Though if you get two, get littermates or they may spend a while working out pecking order.
Holy cow, that is the most insightful, intelligent and JUST idea I have heard in a long time.
I hope you don't mind if I spread the word.
In NT4, you can hold down the shift (or is it ctrl?) key while pressing "NO" to get "No to All".
I don't know about later versions though.
Its a really useful feature when you find a more compressed version some porn jpgs you want to add to your higher quality, less compressed partial set.... or something like that.
You guys have it all wrong. You should let them get in front or stop running first or whatever... how else are you going to get a good look at them while they are occupied?
Hahaha no! You just got me the "redundant" moderation. (See my post below, where I posted before seeing yours.)
Beavis rules.
Butthead: "Uhhhha, I am gonna emale you....in the butt.
Beavis: "Shutup! Port-knocker!
Drops may not be you.
A "drop" is not that. Search engine listings are a realative term, so it should be called "position" or "rank".
The others on the list may be getting better links now, or have updated their sites and had more interesting (to Googlebot) stuff or whatever even if your site is exactly the same.
Just because you were doing it well, doesn't mean (in the eyes of Google) there isn't somebody who can do it better.
Great song. It was the "Animals" though.
Here's another example:
Chinese Newspaper Spoofed by TheOnion
Proof again that some people take themselves too seriously and therefore fall for some outrageous stuff sometimes.
Original poster is correct.
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It isn't evidence until you are subpeonaed for it.
So if you destroy it, it is not a problem because it wasn't evidence at the time. Until then, it's just data. If you destroy it after you get the subpeona, then it's a problem. Why do you think they have those guys run around and hand out papers for? To make an auditable trail so the court can bitch slap you for not doing what they want because they KNOW you knew what they wanted you to do.
At worst, the University admins might end up in a long discussion about your network SOP with the FBI or something, but get fucking real. All the shoes I ever wore in my lifetime could be evidence too... but I sure as hell am not going to keep them when they wear out. (If any court wants my shoes, they are welcome to them, my feet sweat like crazy when doing first person shooters.) However any court wanting me to produce shoes from 10th grade won't get them, and I won't get in trouble because I don't have them either.
EXCEPT: when it is standard operating procedure to destroy those logs.
I.e. if you have them and get subpoena then and don't produce (or destroy) them it's obstruction of justice, if you dont have them as a matter of course and get subpoenaed its SOL for whomever wants them.
The only trick is to be able to prove you didn't have them... i.e. have a script running on a schedule or calendar reminder or something. It would suck to have the FBI looking for deleted data on a hard drive... but at least you wouldnt get in legal trouble then.
{I do the calendar, every month it reminds me to delete extra logs I no longer need, some get archived to CD, but most don't... I do not have hard drive space or time to keep all of them so I don't.}
The phone company keeps logs so they can BILL you or update services when they get overloaded. (There might be a law for them though...) ISPs don't have a law and may not be billing for time "unlimited" dial-up, so they can delete them if they want.
The parent poster is projecting way more responsibility on the ISP than there actually is. A gas station is expected to control if a stolen car gets fueled up or that the gas isn't used later to burn kittens or something, they are just expected to safely sell gas to anyone who wants it.
Not that I am an oceanographer or anything... But tides from the moon do cause currents; however the big "belt" currents of cold water circling the globe (or winding around rather) are caused by cooling of water at the poles (which then sinks) and to a certain extent the fresh water taken out by freezing.
Likewise, there is no country on Earth that has the budget to move enough mass either way to affect the Moon/Earth system. Simply ain't gonna happen.
(Earth loses atmosphere all the time, and takes on tons and tons of stardust from outerspace too... nobody worries about that changing orbits or tides.)
So mod parent down for "technically correct" but way overblowing the wrong thing.
Also note some versions that activity is edited out. If there are bloody footprints and blood after shooting someone then its probably the uncensored version.
The German and Auzzie versions are edited to keep the prostitutes from getting in the cars.
So you might not be able to do that depending on the game version.
[Additional hint: Save time by using a convertable, no animation that way.]
He must work at this place Fucking Machines (not safe for work).
It will make an effect, whether we can measure it or not is another story.
Note however that a dam will keep more mass in water higher, and therefore will cause slowing, not speeding up of the Earth. (See my previous post if you want a wider picture of the concept.)
The way I understand how this works:
:) I think I'll go scare my co-workers with the leap second thing.
Motion of the Earth in rotation and in orbit changes the forces and the direction of forces due to gravity from other bodies. (I.e. Sun and Moon make tides on water, and slightly "morph" the surface crust.)
This energy in this motion is confronted by friction of the Earth, which is then lost as heat. (Tides warm the water flowing in and out of bays and so on...)
Therefore the energy of that heat comes from the motion of the Earth in rotation and orbit.
Over time, considerable energy is pulled out of the angular momentum (rotation) and orbital momentum of the Earth and lost to heat. Since the mass of the Earth doesn't change*, the only place the energy can come from is the energy stored in spin and orbital speed.
So the Earth's rotation slows over time (as the need for "leap seconds" has illustrated).
Next, why would the frequency of rotation not change even though there is less energy in the system than last year?
Because the distribution of mass within the Earth is not behaving as it was before.
Rotation speed is a function of angular momentum (energy in rotation) and the physical structure of the object. Given two examples, say a lead pipe and a bicycle wheel both with a mass of 1 kilo. Spin both at 3 turns per second (the pipe as if it were rolling on the floor the wheel as if on a bike in motion) and grab them to stop and note that the energy in angular momentum stored in each is not the same. Stopping the bicycle wheel takes more effort than stopping the pipe because the mass of the wheel is near the outside of the spin axis and the mass of the pipe is near to the spin axis (where it stores less energy as angular momentum at a given rotation frequency). With the same period of spin (3 times a second) the pipe has a lot less angular momentum.
Apply this information to the Earth, and one must conclude that whatever was going on inside the Earth has changed. Since we know that tides occured this year and that energy was taken out just like last year, the only way the frequency of rotation (length of day) could have behaved differently is by the physical re-arrangement of the mass of the Earth.
If for example, some of the dense core parts of the Earth stopped moving around and settled to a smaller unit at the center the Earth (with the same angular momentum) would speed up. (Think ice skater pulling in her arms to spin faster.)
But since the angular momentum is lost to heat every year, in order to temporarily make the Earth not lose that second of rotation over the year the breakdown of where the mass is in the Earth must have changed to a state where it can store less angular momentum at a given speed, i.e. heavy stuff sank to the middle.
I find this really interesting in the context of the Earth's magnetic field strength slowly going down too. Maybe the two events are connected and the magnetic flip is coming soon (geologic time) and whatever happens in the core to do that involves changes in the flow of the iron core that make it more ball-like than it was before.
Anyway, it's interesting to me.
* Well, it does, we get lots of star dust dropped on us every year, and part of the atmosphere bleeds off into space, but apparently this doesnt add up to a cancelling effect on the other energies involved.
Fuzzy, cute, and deadly. The domestic cat (species, some are feral) kill an estimated 300 million animals per year too.
Here's a link:
http://www.aza.org/ConEd/HouseCatsPredators/
The same treehuggers complaining about the turbines probably let little Mr. Fluffy go out side unsupervised. What do you think Fluffy DOES out there? (besides crap in the sandbox of the kid next door)
Fluffy hunts!