would be interesting to find out if the root cause of the failure is something they left out to cut costs... probably why SpaceX refuse to talk about money (although, they're not above begging the Treasury for a cut of NASA's budget, citing State-backed competition from Russia for the crewed flight development)...
or inventing trigonometry? Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi introduced Europe to algebra, the base ten numbering system and the concept of "zero". Thabit ibn Qurra: first Ptolemaic Reformer and founder of statics. Ibn Al-Haytham: tenth Century pioneer of complex optical systems. Ibn Zuhr: gave us food groups. In the TWELFTH Century.
Writing Muslims off as corner-shop camel jockeys is just... passé, to put it extremely politely.
apart from most of the mission itinerary? Oh, not much...
And you can thank him for the "Pale Blue Dot" mosaic, which in my very humble opinion is one of the most beautiful images ever taken by a manmade probe.
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
—Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1997 reprint, pp. xv–xvi
that was Voyager VI, and the movie was made back when deep space primary exploration was a: in its infancy and b: looked forward to further funding, which TMP failed to secure as was its intent, because the US Government even then was unwilling to underwrite any further probes for the moment - they had other projects to pay for, such as the STS, hence money for Voyagers III onward had to come from the public in donations or through private investment.
There's one that spins so fast it's more like a discus than a classical sphere, named Haumea. The only one so far discovered that's (arguably) larger than Pluto is Eris, and that's considering a margin of +/-30km.
I was thinking more along the lines of classic Galactica 1980 alt fiction where they discover a shipyard on Pluto equipped to build battlestars using asteroids as raw materials. Which they do. And somehow compressing the timeline so Boxey AKA Troy Adama, by now Fleet Admiral of the Earth Defence Force takes a contingent of battlestars back to the Homeworlds and on to Scimtar and the Cylon Hive to eradicate them. Oh, spoiler alert: while they're away, the Cylons take a different route in to the Terran system with their entire force of base ships and take all in to the orbit of Mars, where the Earth forces hold them at bay until Troy's return... with a somewhat unexpected, albeit very aged, guest (Starbuck).
(I think it was Richard Hatch wrote that one as part of his reboot. Must dig it out at some point and read it again, it was actually rather good).
higher by a few dozen *feet*. Not enough to make a real difference. The important bit here is a: accessibility to the site, which is already "there" as the area is crisscrossed with service roads, and the fact that the mountain is toward the edge and receding from the Hawaii Plume at the rate of about an inch a year. Loa is still fairly well over the middle of it, hence very much volcanically active. Kea is pretty dormant, its last recorded eruption having taken place four millennia ago.
Why doesn't the Forest Service simply set up RF generators to flood the local 2.4/5Ghz spectrum and cause them to lose control/crash?
Because there is NO lawful justification for interfering with the band in such a manner. This is why there are no cellphone jammers along the highways. Idiots still causing traffic incidents while texting or checking out Kim Kardashian's latest status update. In fact, not even the GOVERNMENT are allowed to use jammers, which is precisely why they're being so cagey about Stingray.
1. they're remotely operated UAVs, not drones. 2. Shoot the motherfuckers down. Yes, you read that right. If an aircraft is in airspace it shouldn't be, destroy the fucking thing. If there's a situation that calls for larger aircraft equipped to deal with the situation, and there's a fucking UAV in the way, tag it, kill it and wait for the first twat to roll into a police station to complain that his toy has been shot down and arrest the cunt,
except Hawai'i isn't at a plate boundary, in fact it's two thusand miles from the nearest one: this is pure volcanism, Hawai'i is riding a mantle plume which is currently 25 miles to the South East of Loa, under the Loihi sea mount.
Mauna Loa is over ten times the size of Mauna Kea. Kea is only higher by 107 feet, as measured from its base in the Hawaiian Trough. Loa is 9700 cubic miles of stretched shield volcano, while Kea is only 770 cubic miles.
This. BTW, Russia didn't exactly acquire Crimea, the Crimeans voted to secede from Ukraine and join Russia in March last year. The split from Russia and transfer of the territory to Ukraine occurred in 1954(?) under Kruschev. Basically from that point it became an annex under treaty, having been under Russian control for at least three hundred years previous to that.
Byline from The Guardian: "16 Mar 2014 - Crimea voted to secede from Ukraine in a referendum that most of the world has condemned as illegal.".
Of course, referendums are illegal. Uh huh. I have a big problem with that assertion, and that is that we have, individually and collectively, the born right of self determination, guaranteed by Constitution (in any former or current Colony or Commonwealth state including the United States) and *sort of* reinforced by Statute (see the Human Rights Act 1998 for a miserable failure of the Law to protect our individual rights - it doesn't even MENTION individual rights! Not only that, it pretty much tramples Magna Carta). As such, Crimea's referendum is not only perfectly legal, but according to THEIR OWN CONSTITUTION (if you apply Ukraine's Constitution to the situation, and please read it - don't take my word for any of this), it is legally binding. The Crimean people have as much right to vote to secede as did the Scots - we English didn't get a vote in the matter, why the fuck should the Ukrainians get a vote on Crimea??
There is NOTHING in International Law that outlaws referendums. There is also NOTHING in International Law that prevents a country, region, town or a HOUSEHOLD from seceding from its parent State according to the documented will of the majority.
Per the ICJ advisory on the independence of Kosovo of 22 July 2010: "international law contains no 'prohibition on declarations of independence'".
Opera Mini is a portable, non-persistent browser (as in it doesn't cache anything - it's designed for embedded systems). Ergo, there's little room (or excuse) for sideways installing.
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would be interesting to find out if the root cause of the failure is something they left out to cut costs... probably why SpaceX refuse to talk about money (although, they're not above begging the Treasury for a cut of NASA's budget, citing State-backed competition from Russia for the crewed flight development)...
the Arabs had algebra in the bag five HUNDRED years BEFORE Descartes.
or inventing trigonometry?
Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi introduced Europe to algebra, the base ten numbering system and the concept of "zero".
Thabit ibn Qurra: first Ptolemaic Reformer and founder of statics.
Ibn Al-Haytham: tenth Century pioneer of complex optical systems.
Ibn Zuhr: gave us food groups. In the TWELFTH Century.
Writing Muslims off as corner-shop camel jockeys is just... passé, to put it extremely politely.
Musk has discovered the path to silicon-based spiritual enlightenment?
Perhaps OP meant ascent?
apart from most of the mission itinerary? Oh, not much...
And you can thank him for the "Pale Blue Dot" mosaic, which in my very humble opinion is one of the most beautiful images ever taken by a manmade probe.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w... (halfway down the brown band on the right of the image, that half a pixel of blueish white.
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
—Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1997 reprint, pp. xv–xvi
that was Voyager VI, and the movie was made back when deep space primary exploration was a: in its infancy and b: looked forward to further funding, which TMP failed to secure as was its intent, because the US Government even then was unwilling to underwrite any further probes for the moment - they had other projects to pay for, such as the STS, hence money for Voyagers III onward had to come from the public in donations or through private investment.
There's one that spins so fast it's more like a discus than a classical sphere, named Haumea. The only one so far discovered that's (arguably) larger than Pluto is Eris, and that's considering a margin of +/-30km.
Source: The most complete list ANYWHERE.
I was thinking more along the lines of classic Galactica 1980 alt fiction where they discover a shipyard on Pluto equipped to build battlestars using asteroids as raw materials. Which they do. And somehow compressing the timeline so Boxey AKA Troy Adama, by now Fleet Admiral of the Earth Defence Force takes a contingent of battlestars back to the Homeworlds and on to Scimtar and the Cylon Hive to eradicate them. Oh, spoiler alert: while they're away, the Cylons take a different route in to the Terran system with their entire force of base ships and take all in to the orbit of Mars, where the Earth forces hold them at bay until Troy's return... with a somewhat unexpected, albeit very aged, guest (Starbuck).
(I think it was Richard Hatch wrote that one as part of his reboot. Must dig it out at some point and read it again, it was actually rather good).
well, yes when power management on say a new tablet means that you can run for ten hours and more continuously with the wifi and bluetooth on.
if it allows them to do their JOBS in the face of IDIOTS who have no regard for public safety, then I am all for it.
higher by a few dozen *feet*. Not enough to make a real difference. The important bit here is a: accessibility to the site, which is already "there" as the area is crisscrossed with service roads, and the fact that the mountain is toward the edge and receding from the Hawaii Plume at the rate of about an inch a year. Loa is still fairly well over the middle of it, hence very much volcanically active. Kea is pretty dormant, its last recorded eruption having taken place four millennia ago.
except that guns would be a hell of a lot safer for all concerned than a fucking EMP.
pretty sure exploding lithium batteries are more violently destructive than a goose's breastplate, as would be metal parts such as motors.
Why doesn't the Forest Service simply set up RF generators to flood the local 2.4/5Ghz spectrum and cause them to lose control/crash?
Because there is NO lawful justification for interfering with the band in such a manner. This is why there are no cellphone jammers along the highways. Idiots still causing traffic incidents while texting or checking out Kim Kardashian's latest status update. In fact, not even the GOVERNMENT are allowed to use jammers, which is precisely why they're being so cagey about Stingray.
Citation: 18 U.S.C. 1362 and 18 U.S.C. 1367, 47 U.S.C. 301, 47 U.S.C. 302a, 47 U.S.C. 333, 47 U.S.C. 503, 47 U.S.C. 510.
1. they're remotely operated UAVs, not drones.
2. Shoot the motherfuckers down. Yes, you read that right. If an aircraft is in airspace it shouldn't be, destroy the fucking thing. If there's a situation that calls for larger aircraft equipped to deal with the situation, and there's a fucking UAV in the way, tag it, kill it and wait for the first twat to roll into a police station to complain that his toy has been shot down and arrest the cunt,
Oh, and the chain actually starts in the Aleutian group, several thousand miles to the North.
except Hawai'i isn't at a plate boundary, in fact it's two thusand miles from the nearest one: this is pure volcanism, Hawai'i is riding a mantle plume which is currently 25 miles to the South East of Loa, under the Loihi sea mount.
Citation: Jackson et. al., 1972
Mauna Loa is over ten times the size of Mauna Kea. Kea is only higher by 107 feet, as measured from its base in the Hawaiian Trough. Loa is 9700 cubic miles of stretched shield volcano, while Kea is only 770 cubic miles.
This. BTW, Russia didn't exactly acquire Crimea, the Crimeans voted to secede from Ukraine and join Russia in March last year. The split from Russia and transfer of the territory to Ukraine occurred in 1954(?) under Kruschev. Basically from that point it became an annex under treaty, having been under Russian control for at least three hundred years previous to that.
Byline from The Guardian: "16 Mar 2014 - Crimea voted to secede from Ukraine in a referendum that most of the world has condemned as illegal.".
Of course, referendums are illegal. Uh huh. I have a big problem with that assertion, and that is that we have, individually and collectively, the born right of self determination, guaranteed by Constitution (in any former or current Colony or Commonwealth state including the United States) and *sort of* reinforced by Statute (see the Human Rights Act 1998 for a miserable failure of the Law to protect our individual rights - it doesn't even MENTION individual rights! Not only that, it pretty much tramples Magna Carta). As such, Crimea's referendum is not only perfectly legal, but according to THEIR OWN CONSTITUTION (if you apply Ukraine's Constitution to the situation, and please read it - don't take my word for any of this), it is legally binding. The Crimean people have as much right to vote to secede as did the Scots - we English didn't get a vote in the matter, why the fuck should the Ukrainians get a vote on Crimea??
There is NOTHING in International Law that outlaws referendums. There is also NOTHING in International Law that prevents a country, region, town or a HOUSEHOLD from seceding from its parent State according to the documented will of the majority.
Per the ICJ advisory on the independence of Kosovo of 22 July 2010: "international law contains no 'prohibition on declarations of independence'".
awesome. So the police should know who to arrest, and just go do it already.
you're comparing an ancient manmade structure to a fucking volcano?? How does that work again?
For example, from Kau Forest Reserve?
what, even from the far slope of the *other mountain*?
ok, we've all been there. :)
the fuck did I just read??
Opera Mini is a portable, non-persistent browser (as in it doesn't cache anything - it's designed for embedded systems). Ergo, there's little room (or excuse) for sideways installing.