Heck, there are nearly 500MEP and they can give good feedback, why can't 100 senators?
That makes no sense at all. There are 732 MEPs serving 460 million people, so they each serve 630 thousand. In the US, it would take 470 senators to get that kind of coverage, but there are only 100.
Obviously that's a matter of perspective. A real vacuum wouldn't have a bow shock. Also, the interstellar and intergalactic media are orders of magnitude more tenuous than the interplanetary medium.
But I see your point. If those 5 particles are hydrogen ions (ie. protons), then the Earth sweeps through about 30 grams of hydrogen per second.
Someone says this any time the term "supersonic" comes up in connection with outer space. This Electric Universe theory might have a lot of things to criticize, but the notion of supersonic speeds in space isn't one of them. See bow shock and termination shock for instance.
Interplanetanetary space (even interstellar space) is nowhere near a "hard vacuum".
It took more than courage. There are an unlimited number of theories that would explain the MM experiment. Clearly some of our theories about nature were false, and the others were true, and there were nearly unlimited combinations and permutations to sift through. Out of all these possibilities, Einstein found the right one, in the sense that his answer was far more successful at explaining observations than the answers of others working on the same problem at the same time.
Intel isn't preventing AMD from using their software. They are preventing their own customers -- people who purchased the Intel IPP software -- from getting reasonable performance out of AMD hardware. That is anticompetitive.
Thanks for the reference to Io. I originally had "permanent liquid" but removed the word "permanent" because I thought I'd get into arguments over that one.
Yeah, I thought so. I was trying to keep an open mind, and imagine that the compiler might have qsort as a great big intrinsic function that it knows intimately. Then it's just the call site and the compare function would need to be in the same translation unit.
No, qsort() does an indirect function call in hottest innermost loop. A hand-coded data-specific sort routine will always be faster unless the comparison operation itself is very slow.
Unless your compiler knows about qsort and can (1) inline it, and (2) inline the comparison function into it, then you'll always have that indirect call in the innermost loop. (I just checked; gcc can't do it. I haven't tried the Intel or MS compilers.)
Because if something isn't done, and soon, to correct the continuing abuses on our (American) freedoms, there will be individuals stepping forward who will reverse that phrase.
They don't need to reverse it. They only need to convince themselves that the first three have failed.
You don't need much deceleration to get into orbit around bodies with atmospheres. You just do a small burn to turn your orbit from a hyperbola into an ellipse with a periapsis in the atmosphere and an apoapsis well within the body's hill sphere. Atmospheric drag gives you all the deceleration you need.
From that point of view, I'd expect Mars would be easier to reach than Phobos, though clearly the latter has the upper hand when it comes to the return trip.
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Good point. I guess I was just trying to say that having fewer representatives doesn't somehow make it easier for them to reply personally.
Not to be confused with Walter Kurtz.
I'm not sure I get your point. Did you notice I agreed with you?
But I see your point. If those 5 particles are hydrogen ions (ie. protons), then the Earth sweeps through about 30 grams of hydrogen per second.
Don't quit your day job.
Interplanetanetary space (even interstellar space) is nowhere near a "hard vacuum".
It took more than courage. There are an unlimited number of theories that would explain the MM experiment. Clearly some of our theories about nature were false, and the others were true, and there were nearly unlimited combinations and permutations to sift through. Out of all these possibilities, Einstein found the right one, in the sense that his answer was far more successful at explaining observations than the answers of others working on the same problem at the same time.
Intel isn't preventing AMD from using their software. They are preventing their own customers -- people who purchased the Intel IPP software -- from getting reasonable performance out of AMD hardware. That is anticompetitive.
Thanks also for the "hydrologic cycle" info.
Hint: spacecraft are solid.
So? What's your point?
Liquids require pressure (see this) while solids and gasses don't, and pressure is a rare thing in space.
Sub-par is a good thing.
Yeah, I thought so. I was trying to keep an open mind, and imagine that the compiler might have qsort as a great big intrinsic function that it knows intimately. Then it's just the call site and the compare function would need to be in the same translation unit.
Unless your compiler knows about qsort and can (1) inline it, and (2) inline the comparison function into it, then you'll always have that indirect call in the innermost loop. (I just checked; gcc can't do it. I haven't tried the Intel or MS compilers.)
He's 33.
What's the advantage of super-fast trains over airplanes?
Actually, by that chart, they use aerobraking to get captured by Mars, so by their numbers, it's 3800 m/s. So you can get six trips!
Not everyone in the world is a native English speaker, you ignorant boob.
I get about 4500 m/s. That's 3600 to escape LEO and 900 to get captured by Mars. Am I wrong?
From that point of view, I'd expect Mars would be easier to reach than Phobos, though clearly the latter has the upper hand when it comes to the return trip.
Agreed. Many who say "I don't want to draw a line" then proceed to take a position that draws the line all the way to one extreme end of the spectrum.