Huh? It's called a 'smokescreen'. Investigate a certain business for price fixing, find nothing wrong, everything goes on business as usual. Happens up here in Canada every time the government 'investigates' the gas companies for price fixing.
Eliminate cigarettes and alcohol and you end up with a heck of a lot of tax revenue not being gained that could be used for any number of better things.
... because god forbid that someone might end up playing a game that isn't based on an absolute bleeding edge engine of some sort. I mean, nobody plays the original Counterstrike anymore, that's ancient!:)
"This applet is provided as a 3D orbit visualization tool. The applet was implemented using only 2-body methods, and hence should not be used for determining accurate long-term trajectories (over several years or decades) or planetary encounter circumstances."
Yes, that's pretty much what it means. The smallest resolvable unit in the image (ie. one pixel) is roughly 10 light years across.
That's not to say that individual, very bright objects can't be seen in the image, however they'll wash out everything else in the 10-light-year space around them, appearing (at their absolute best resolution) as a single pixel. If they're too bright, they'll wash out neighboring pixels, too.
The owner of the equipment still has to allow them to install the tracking gear. I highly doubt the Nielsen people have managed to acquire the ability to unilaterally enter your home and mess with your AV gear...
Just because something is illegal does not mean people will not do it. In fact, a whole lot of people do do things just because they are illegal! How else do you explain the popularity of GHB and Ketamine?
Um... I think it's more because they're fun, and not because they're illegal, in the case of the two examples you've cited...
I don't know that I'd necessarily call it 'large scale', but a company (who's name escapes me) is busily erecting windmill generators all over southwestern Ontario, making deals with farmers and other landowners for places to put them.
I doubt a near-light-speed projectile would pass right through a largish object like a spacecraft, unless the projectile itself was quite massive. The energy released by an impact with even a small piece of matter at these velocities would reduce the projectile to a very hot plasma almost instantly.
Einstein's theory of general relativity tells us that to you he will have aged 24 hours, but to him you will have aged 24 hours.
Er, no. Once the 'traveller' has returned to the 'stationary' person's frame of reference, it will seem to both as though the traveller has aged less than the one who stayed put. The key is that the traveller experienced an acceleration, while the stay-behind didn't.
The energies of naturally-occurring cosmic rays far exceed those of our most powerful accelerator experiments on a routine basis. Anything we do in a particle collision experiment has already happened uncounted times in nature.
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I think the current US Administration has pretty much used up its entire allowance of "innocent until proven guilty", no?
Maybe they've discovered the ladderdown reactor?
Huh? It's called a 'smokescreen'. Investigate a certain business for price fixing, find nothing wrong, everything goes on business as usual. Happens up here in Canada every time the government 'investigates' the gas companies for price fixing.
Eliminate cigarettes and alcohol and you end up with a heck of a lot of tax revenue not being gained that could be used for any number of better things.
There, I fixed that for you.
... because god forbid that someone might end up playing a game that isn't based on an absolute bleeding edge engine of some sort. I mean, nobody plays the original Counterstrike anymore, that's ancient! :)
Snrrk... bwah-ha-ha-ha!!! Bankrupt telcos...!! Ha-haha!! Stop it, you're killing me!
It's pretty standard (layman's) usage that 'megatonnes', when talking about energy, is referring to 'megatonnes of TNT'. Silly. :)
Just paint half of it white. The difference in light pressure from the Sun would change its orbit usefully over this length of time.
I guess you missed the part where it said:
"This applet is provided as a 3D orbit visualization tool. The applet was implemented using only 2-body methods, and hence should not be used for determining accurate long-term trajectories (over several years or decades) or planetary encounter circumstances."
No, it's really named after a Choose Your Own Adventure Book.
Yes, that's pretty much what it means. The smallest resolvable unit in the image (ie. one pixel) is roughly 10 light years across.
That's not to say that individual, very bright objects can't be seen in the image, however they'll wash out everything else in the 10-light-year space around them, appearing (at their absolute best resolution) as a single pixel. If they're too bright, they'll wash out neighboring pixels, too.
Uh, other way around, eh?
So, law offices can break the law with impunity, and their memos can't be leaked, but corporate memos can?
The owner of the equipment still has to allow them to install the tracking gear. I highly doubt the Nielsen people have managed to acquire the ability to unilaterally enter your home and mess with your AV gear...
Oh, come on. Chindi should have actually been titled "Retards in Space", that's how "great" it was. :P
I wonder what Diebold also makes besides voting machines? Why, ATMs of course! Funny, that...
Just because something is illegal does not mean people will not do it. In fact, a whole lot of people do do things just because they are illegal! How else do you explain the popularity of GHB and Ketamine?
Um... I think it's more because they're fun, and not because they're illegal, in the case of the two examples you've cited...
I don't know that I'd necessarily call it 'large scale', but a company (who's name escapes me) is busily erecting windmill generators all over southwestern Ontario, making deals with farmers and other landowners for places to put them.
Come to Ontario (Canada)! We don't have any of those silly anti-nipple laws, here!
Oh my god! Countdown to Shutdown! I thought I was the only person who remembered that game. oO
M.U.L.E. must go down as one of the all-time best multiplayer games in history.
How about Origin Systems' oriental adventure game, Moebius?
Eon and Eternity would make an amazing pair of movies... but I think I'd want to see The Anvil of Stars as a film even more. Noach weapons, mmmm...
An "A Fire Upon The Deep" movie would absolutely make me pee myself in delight. Vernor Vinge has to be one of my top three favorite authors.
I doubt a near-light-speed projectile would pass right through a largish object like a spacecraft, unless the projectile itself was quite massive. The energy released by an impact with even a small piece of matter at these velocities would reduce the projectile to a very hot plasma almost instantly.
Einstein's theory of general relativity tells us that to you he will have aged 24 hours, but to him you will have aged 24 hours.
Er, no. Once the 'traveller' has returned to the 'stationary' person's frame of reference, it will seem to both as though the traveller has aged less than the one who stayed put. The key is that the traveller experienced an acceleration, while the stay-behind didn't.
The energies of naturally-occurring cosmic rays far exceed those of our most powerful accelerator experiments on a routine basis. Anything we do in a particle collision experiment has already happened uncounted times in nature.