How do we even know Smoking Man is dead? We saw Krycheck push his wheelchair down a flight of stairs, and he was unconscious at the bottom, but Krycheck didn't even check for a pulse before walking away.
This article explains all about the cause of the Hindenberg disaster.
If people realized that the hydrogen was not to blame, the airship industry would be much more economically viable today; hydrogen is a better lifting gas than helium.
Large portions of the Hindenburg's skin were aflame before the hydrogen gas bags were even breached. It would have crahsed even if it had been filled with helium.
I am glad though, that they didn't throw in a token black character. They were dealing with small isolated populations. You likely wouldn't get someone with a really different skin color so it'd be a blatant "Don't hate us, here's your token minority" gesture. Now on the other hand, if they'd made (for instance) the wood elves dark (or the Rivendell ones) that would have made some sense because they were a seperate population. But it's unthinking knee-jerk PC gestures that stick out like a sore thumb.
Yes. Like having a black Vulcan in Star Trek: Voyager.
Funny that Iceland would go out of its way like this to prevent global warming. Iceland is one of the places that would actually benefit from global warming.
Yes, sales of used books hurt sales of new books to some degree. But the affordability of used books is a great benefit to consumers.
There are a lot more consumers than authors. So the trading of used books has a large net positive effect for society -- and reducing friction in this (and any) market is to be commended.
In fact, It would take the sun 33 years to produce that much energy.
I think your numbers are off a little. If we could somehow redirect that Texas-sized rock and make it crash into the sun, it would take far less than 33 years' time for the sun to vaporize it. You are basically saying that it would pass through the sun and emerge from the other side with only its outer layer melted off.
You're probably right about not being able to do the job with our entire nuclear arsenal, though.
The mass of any body is not consistent across it's surface. For instance, there are places on the earth that "pull" harder than others. This is well mapped on earth, and there are satellite launches planned or in orbit to more closely map this phenomenon, but we have just barely scratched the surface as far as research into, for instance, Jupiter's Local gravitational variations, which have a much greater impact on solar orbit calculations than any body in the solar system.
The earth's variable gravity field is caused by the uneven surface (presence of mountains and valleys) as well as concentrations of mass that are denser than average. While Jupiter may have a solid core, the vast majority of the planet is gaseuos or fluid. There can be no mountains or valleys, and any concentrations of mass that are denser than average would automatically sink and redistribute themselves.
For these reasons, I think you'll find that Jupiter's gravity field is quite uniform.
it turns out that water on Mars is an impossibility. Combining H2 with O is an entropic process, meaning it requires quite a bit of energy (specifically E = Lf*m where Lf is the heat of fusion of water). Mars has been shown to be too far from the Sun to get enough energy per square meter to build up any significant quantities of H2O.
Europa is further from the sun than Mars, and is absolutely covered in water. The bodies in the Oort Cloud are a lot further from the sun than either Mars or Europa, and they contain vast amounts of water.
And who the heck are Feldmeyer and Smythe? Google turns up nothing on these figments of your imagination.
Why are these headlines so misleading?
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Next they reduced the intensity of the signal laser until the polariton was 100% atomic. There were no photons left inside the chamber.
There were no photons, people. They didn't stop light. Halted light would mean there are photons in there, moving at exactly zero meters per second. There were no photons left.
could be possible within the next few years at a cost of about $5B US.
Since development started in the early 1970s, the U.S. has spent over $180 billion on the space shuttle program. And what do we have to show for it? Certainly not reliable, low-cost access to space!
$5 billion for a space elevator would be the bargain of the millenium.
The neutrons then pack together more and more tightly until the repulsive force between the neutrons prevents further collapse (for stars not quite massive enough to become black holes)
Which force causes neutrons to mutually repel one another?
Pan & Scan movies aren't cropping, or zooming, or anything: all they're doing is displaying only a "portion" of the screen, and another remaining portion is left offscreen.
When a portion of the image is offscreen, is it not CROPPED? Sheesh.
Ok, I'm sold on wavelets. Now, which browsers can decompress a JPEG-2000 file? And where can I get an app that allows me to take an image and "Save as..." JPEG-2000 format?
a signal will only propagate outwards until the total mass behind it exceeds a critical value (the location of this is called the "event horizon" in an analogy to black holes). At that point its deflection will equal more than 90 degrees...i.e. it will not go any farther from its point of origin.
Sending signals outward is useless unless we expect to find intelligence within the tiny (universally speaking) sphere defined by this event horizon.
In which direction would the signal be deflected? The "mass behind it" will in most cases be roughly equally distributed in all directions. Therefore, the net deflection is negligible.
Furthermore, you're just plain wrong. The Hubble telescope has imaged galaxies more than 12 billion light years away. So we know that the radius of your "tiny sphere" is at least 12 billion light years. That's probably a significant fraction of the entire universe, and plenty of territory for hunting for extraterrestrial signals.
We have several Windows machines, and they will likely remain for special purpose usage (web developers that need to view sites in Windows + IE, Quickbooks, other specialty applications
Those tasks can easily be done on a Mac running Virtual PC.
While the material now uses 25 times more power for its light output than fluorescent bulbs, Duggal says organic light-emitting diodes' efficiency could ultimately surpass that of fluorescent lighting.
That's awfully optimistic. If improving their efficiency was that easy, why hasn't it been done already?
The United States owns many nuclear weapons, and total unilateral disarmament is not an option right now.
Having said that, don't you think it would a good idea to draw up plans that spell out under what conditions we would or would not use those weapons?
Or would you rather just "wing it," and not give it any analysis or forethought, and perhaps leave it up to the whims of whoever the president is at the time a crisis arises?
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How do we even know Smoking Man is dead? We saw Krycheck push his wheelchair down a flight of stairs, and he was unconscious at the bottom, but Krycheck didn't even check for a pulse before walking away.
This article explains all about the cause of the Hindenberg disaster.
If people realized that the hydrogen was not to blame, the airship industry would be much more economically viable today; hydrogen is a better lifting gas than helium.
Why does WHOIS say that .gi is an invalid tld?
.tv is a valid tld.
.tv domian is for the Republic of Tuvalu, and .gi is for Gibraltar. Why should WHOIS treat these domains differently?
At the same time, it says that
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Large portions of the Hindenburg's skin were aflame before the hydrogen gas bags were even breached. It would have crahsed even if it had been filled with helium.
Aren't you aware that QuickTime 6, which implements MPEG 4, has been finished and ready for release for quite some time, but Apple is witholding it until the MPEG LA creates a sensible licensing scheme?
Apple is making a principled stand for all of us little guys.
The recent space.com article says,
NASA estimates there are 4 million pounds of junk orbiting Earth. More than half the impacting debris is manmade
This implies that 40% or so of the debris in orbit is of natural origin.
Which would mean that Earth has hundreds or thousands of tiny natural satellites (moons) that they never taught me about in school.
Is this just simple misreporting? Or does Earth have little moons that went undiscovered until NASA started tracking space debris?
I am glad though, that they didn't throw in a token black character. They were dealing with small isolated populations. You likely wouldn't get someone with a really different skin color so it'd be a blatant "Don't hate us, here's your token minority" gesture. Now on the other hand, if they'd made (for instance) the wood elves dark (or the Rivendell ones) that would have made some sense because they were a seperate population. But it's unthinking knee-jerk PC gestures that stick out like a sore thumb.
Yes. Like having a black Vulcan in Star Trek: Voyager.
Funny that Iceland would go out of its way like this to prevent global warming. Iceland is one of the places that would actually benefit from global warming.
Yes, sales of used books hurt sales of new books to some degree. But the affordability of used books is a great benefit to consumers.
There are a lot more consumers than authors. So the trading of used books has a large net positive effect for society -- and reducing friction in this (and any) market is to be commended.
In fact, It would take the sun 33 years to produce that much energy.
I think your numbers are off a little. If we could somehow redirect that Texas-sized rock and make it crash into the sun, it would take far less than 33 years' time for the sun to vaporize it. You are basically saying that it would pass through the sun and emerge from the other side with only its outer layer melted off.
You're probably right about not being able to do the job with our entire nuclear arsenal, though.
The mass of any body is not consistent across it's surface. For instance, there are places on the earth that "pull" harder than others. This is well mapped on earth, and there are satellite launches planned or in orbit to more closely map this phenomenon, but we have just barely scratched the surface as far as research into, for instance, Jupiter's Local gravitational variations, which have a much greater impact on solar orbit calculations than any body in the solar system.
The earth's variable gravity field is caused by the uneven surface (presence of mountains and valleys) as well as concentrations of mass that are denser than average. While Jupiter may have a solid core, the vast majority of the planet is gaseuos or fluid. There can be no mountains or valleys, and any concentrations of mass that are denser than average would automatically sink and redistribute themselves.
For these reasons, I think you'll find that Jupiter's gravity field is quite uniform.
it turns out that water on Mars is an impossibility. Combining H2 with O is an entropic process, meaning it requires quite a bit of energy (specifically E = Lf*m where Lf is the heat of fusion of water). Mars has been shown to be too far from the Sun to get enough energy per square meter to build up any significant quantities of H2O.
Europa is further from the sun than Mars, and is absolutely covered in water. The bodies in the Oort Cloud are a lot further from the sun than either Mars or Europa, and they contain vast amounts of water.
And who the heck are Feldmeyer and Smythe? Google turns up nothing on these figments of your imagination.
Next they reduced the intensity of the signal laser until the polariton was 100% atomic. There were no photons left inside the chamber.
There were no photons, people. They didn't stop light. Halted light would mean there are photons in there, moving at exactly zero meters per second. There were no photons left.
could be possible within the next few years at a cost of about $5B US.
Since development started in the early 1970s, the U.S. has spent over $180 billion on the space shuttle program. And what do we have to show for it? Certainly not reliable, low-cost access to space!
$5 billion for a space elevator would be the bargain of the millenium.
The neutrons then pack together more and more tightly until the repulsive force between the neutrons prevents further collapse (for stars not quite massive enough to become black holes)
Which force causes neutrons to mutually repel one another?
Pan & Scan movies aren't cropping, or zooming, or anything: all they're doing is displaying only a "portion" of the screen, and another remaining portion is left offscreen.
When a portion of the image is offscreen, is it not CROPPED? Sheesh.
Ok, I'm sold on wavelets. Now, which browsers can decompress a JPEG-2000 file? And where can I get an app that allows me to take an image and "Save as..." JPEG-2000 format?
(Preferably a cheap shareware app. Heh)
a signal will only propagate outwards until the total mass behind it exceeds a critical value (the location of this is called the "event horizon" in an analogy to black holes). At that point its deflection will equal more than 90 degrees...i.e. it will not go any farther from its point of origin.
Sending signals outward is useless unless we expect to find intelligence within the tiny (universally speaking) sphere defined by this event horizon.
In which direction would the signal be deflected? The "mass behind it" will in most cases be roughly equally distributed in all directions. Therefore, the net deflection is negligible.
Furthermore, you're just plain wrong. The Hubble telescope has imaged galaxies more than 12 billion light years away. So we know that the radius of your "tiny sphere" is at least 12 billion light years. That's probably a significant fraction of the entire universe, and plenty of territory for hunting for extraterrestrial signals.
Bob Park is one of the worst things to ever happen to science. Read this.
We have several Windows machines, and they will likely remain for special purpose usage (web developers that need to view sites in Windows + IE, Quickbooks, other specialty applications
Those tasks can easily be done on a Mac running Virtual PC.
A few years back, ultra-efficient RF lighting technology was all over the news. So far that seems to be vaporware (no pun intended).
While the material now uses 25 times more power for its light output than fluorescent bulbs, Duggal says organic light-emitting diodes' efficiency could ultimately surpass that of fluorescent lighting.
That's awfully optimistic. If improving their efficiency was that easy, why hasn't it been done already?
according to the World Health Org, only 31 people were killed in Chernobyl.
And approximately that many people are killed every year in coal mining accidents. Nuclear truly is a much safer source of energy.
Harry's been slashdotted bad.
The United States owns many nuclear weapons, and total unilateral disarmament is not an option right now.
Having said that, don't you think it would a good idea to draw up plans that spell out under what conditions we would or would not use those weapons?
Or would you rather just "wing it," and not give it any analysis or forethought, and perhaps leave it up to the whims of whoever the president is at the time a crisis arises?