Our magnetic field deflects most of the mean stuff that comes from our parent star, and greatly contributes to the circumstance that we are not fried on a daily basis.
None of the solar wind particles are energetic enough to get through the atmosphere. What the magnetic field does do is prevent the solar wind from eroding the atmosphere away. A planet with three times the mass of Earth might be able to retain adequate air even without much of a magnetic field. The lack of a field might even be beneficial in that it might allow excess air to be carried away.
Does this planet has something like that, or is the surface like a microwave oven, which would sterilize it effectively?
Microwave ovens can only sterilize by getting the stuff in them hot.
Mod parent up. Reckless driving is already illegal. If there was decent enforcement these people would already be getting ticketed. They aren't, so what makes you think adding another unenforced law will help, no matter how ferocious the rarely imposed punishment is? The most effective deterrent for any crime is getting caught. A 50% chance of a $500 fine would stop them. A one in a million chance of losing their licenses won't slow them down.
Wrong. Certain classes of products are embargoed. Most non-military stuff can be exported to Iran from the USA. The embargo on Libya has been mostly lifted. Some things can even be exported to Cuba and even North Korea.
...to serve subpoenas. If you receive one you can (and should) contest it. They will then have to convince the judge that there is good reason you specifically should be ordered to obey this particular subpoena, and if such an order issues they will have to pay all your expenses.
He probably knows less about the subject than Obama does. I doubt that Obama imagines that he understands it while Gore likely knows a whole lot that isn't true.
I think that the point is that with Gore we would have had a different but not necessarily better set of fuckups (I think we still would have been better off, though. I detest him, but unlike Bush he isn't stupid.)
That test was an air burst. In any case a nuclear weapon delivers its energy as heat while a meteorite delivers its as kinetic energy so the effects are not going to be the same even when the energy is.
Not bloody likely. There's little chance that he has the foggiest notion what an IP number is (well, he may have a foggy notion, but it is almost certainly wrong).
Would this micro black hole even be able to consume a particle if it's forced to interact with the particle as a wave because of its size?
Yes, but it would have a very small collision cross section for an electron, for example. This means that it would have a low probability of "consuming" any particular particle it encountered. This why a such a micro black hole would take billions of years to consume the Earth even if it were stable and was gravitationally captured.
Hospital employees are generally well paid compared to hairdressers. If the machine can save $5.00 per wash and do 1,000 washings per year it will pay for itself in about five years.
Might make more sense to look for alternative ways to wash hair, though.
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None of the solar wind particles are energetic enough to get through the atmosphere. What the magnetic field does do is prevent the solar wind from eroding the atmosphere away. A planet with three times the mass of Earth might be able to retain adequate air even without much of a magnetic field. The lack of a field might even be beneficial in that it might allow excess air to be carried away.
Microwave ovens can only sterilize by getting the stuff in them hot.
Three times the mass does not necessarily mean three times the gravity. The surface gravity is sure to be more than 1G, though.
With that close an orbit it's hard to see how it could not be locked. There could be quite a bit of libration, though.
Mod parent up. Reckless driving is already illegal. If there was decent enforcement these people would already be getting ticketed. They aren't, so what makes you think adding another unenforced law will help, no matter how ferocious the rarely imposed punishment is? The most effective deterrent for any crime is getting caught. A 50% chance of a $500 fine would stop them. A one in a million chance of losing their licenses won't slow them down.
Not good enough. Death penalty.
As any cop or politician will tell you, more laws, of course. How about "three strikes"? Or "zero tolerance"? Surely that would do it!
Iranians are not arabs. You have a point, though. One should never trust any one source.
> So access to windows source and Siemens PLC seems a must...
I see no need for access to Windows source, and anyone can buy the Siemens hardware.
Wrong. Certain classes of products are embargoed. Most non-military stuff can be exported to Iran from the USA. The embargo on Libya has been mostly lifted. Some things can even be exported to Cuba and even North Korea.
The worm? "...Windows-specific..."
So would I, but I'd put Israel way ahead. However, I don't discount the possibility that no government was involved.
...to serve subpoenas. If you receive one you can (and should) contest it. They will then have to convince the judge that there is good reason you specifically should be ordered to obey this particular subpoena, and if such an order issues they will have to pay all your expenses.
It does, but so does IPV4. IPSec .
He probably knows less about the subject than Obama does. I doubt that Obama imagines that he understands it while Gore likely knows a whole lot that isn't true.
I think that the point is that with Gore we would have had a different but not necessarily better set of fuckups (I think we still would have been better off, though. I detest him, but unlike Bush he isn't stupid.)
Let's keep it that way.
That test was an air burst. In any case a nuclear weapon delivers its energy as heat while a meteorite delivers its as kinetic energy so the effects are not going to be the same even when the energy is.
Not bloody likely. There's little chance that he has the foggiest notion what an IP number is (well, he may have a foggy notion, but it is almost certainly wrong).
It's a bad analogy. Frequency and wavelength are inverses. Mass and energy are equivalents.
Yes, but it would have a very small collision cross section for an electron, for example. This means that it would have a low probability of "consuming" any particular particle it encountered. This why a such a micro black hole would take billions of years to consume the Earth even if it were stable and was gravitationally captured.
> Yes. It makes you an elitist.
There is, unfortunately, nothing ridiculous about that (it is ironic, though, as most elitists are not elite in any sense).
Hospital employees are generally well paid compared to hairdressers. If the machine can save $5.00 per wash and do 1,000 washings per year it will pay for itself in about five years.
Might make more sense to look for alternative ways to wash hair, though.
Except that it is the US Air Force that actually does the job.
Amazing.