As a balloon rises in the atmosphere, more and more pressure is placed on it.
Dead wrong.
Pressure = height of fluid above x its density x acceleration due to gravity. As a balloon rises, the pressure outside decreases.
Most balloons expand as they rise, so that they stay at the same pressure as the outside air. (Because remember, PV/T = constant.)
Its no fun responding to trolls in the hope of giving them some education, maybe...
whether they make any money of [sic] google.com... is a different story.
Actually, google.com makes real money off ads - its just that they're not obnoxious (and easily blocked) banners. Sometimes, when you do any of the somewhat generic searches, there is an URL returned at the top of the page, above the search results, which is 100% topical, but paid for. Advertising like that, I can appreciate.
Read more about it here:
http://www.google.com/ads/index.html - they boast a clickthrough rate 4-5x the industry average, and you bet they make you pay for it!
Its a pity the moderator didn't get it, and slapped you with a flamebait mod. C'est la vie, and all that stuff...
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After reading "Hannibal", my first thought was, "I have been trolled -- at hardcover prices, too!"
Ah, priceless - that's exactly the feeling I had, and I never could put it in words. Though I got trolled at paperback prices, and it was far superior to the airline food, so I can't complain too much...
I don't know about obsessing over Natalie Portman, but pouring hot grits down your pants definitely counts as adultery (as in, "kids, don't do this at home...")
Clearly, this company was founded by Dr. Evil: "We shall fund the company with... One Meee-leon Dollars"
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Reading this NYT article actually made me chuckle - I visited the Hayden on Jan 2nd, and in two hours of casual exploration, I found the place riddled with errors. Scary!
For example, there's a quasar image, labelled as an image of the Cartwheel galaxy; sure enough, some distance away is the true Cartwheel galaxy, and no, its not labelled as a quasar, its labelled correctly. Huh? Labels are rampantly swapped in their example of objects at various wavelengths: as an astronomy grad student, I know what the Orion nebula looks like, and boy, it looks different from the Sun - its almost like someone dropped all the captions, then picked them up and stuck them back on at random. And finally, the labels for elliptical and spiral galaxies are swapped. I kid you not!
And this was a cursory walkthrough, not a very detailed examination - things are just plain wrong! I was planning to write a note to the director, but I'm not so sure its a good idea... Apparently they spent all their money on the (extremely beautiful!) building, and had no money left to hire a couple of trained monkeys (grad students) to do some fact checking.
... how one gets to a bash prompt on the ReplayTV?
Someone I know got one for Christmas, and I've not worked up the courage to take it apart yet. But if there was an easy "plug in a cable" approach, I'd be willing to try it...
The Arecibo antenna is actually a volcanic caldera, and can only sees a certain band of the celestial sphere
I hate to nitpick, but Arecibo is not a volcanic caldera, in spite of what the tabloid press might report. In fact, it is a large limestone sinkhole in the karst terrain of Puerto Rico: check out this link for more info. (I promise its not a goatse.cx link.)
One of the cuter stories is that when they were searching for the perfect site on Puerto Rico, they took a dime and slid it around on a contour map of the island - and where it fit nicely inside the contours, there the dish went... Its amazing to look at, and I recommend a visit if you vacation in PR.
OTOH, your other point is completely correct - Arecibo only sees a limited range of the sky, and cannot view anything south of a certain declination (14? I forget). Not being able to see the Gal;actic center is particularly galling! That's why the new GBT (100m, unlike 305m at Arecibo, but the GBT is fully steerable) is so exciting.
Just an uniformed opinion...
You got that bit right, at least.
Do you have any idea how valuable a sample of alien life (even the most primitive algae) would actually be? Any exobiologist would give his eye-teeth to be able to study a sample of alien DNA-eqivalent. It would change the field of comparative biology from pure speculation to hard science - heck, the confirmation that life exists (or existed) outside the earth would probably be the most significant thing we have ever discovered.
Think about it: finally, PROOF that life can emerge and evolve given half a chance, PROOF that the earth is not a cosmic accident or God's little private joke. Liquid gold does not compare in value, and nor does oil, not even with two frat-boy oilmen in the Oval Office.
... particularly the images of Saturn, and the Red Spot on Jupiter. Gorgeous stuff, and definitely in our Solar System. Here's a link to the Heritage Project.
... and how did you solve the images at the end problem?
First of all, discourage the floating away by using a location preference:
\begin{figure}[htb] ...
\end{figure}
so that TeX is encouraged to place the figure here, at the page top, or at the bottom, before assigning it to a float.
After that, the likely explanation is that you have at least one figure which is too large to fit in the available space on the page: if so, that and all subsequent floats float away to the end.
If you're including eps figures, fiddle the \epsscale value. Or try negative \vspace before and after including your figure.
Hope that helps...
Waterworld changed directors in mid-stream, and you can tell: the scenery and the atmosphere is done imaginatively and well, the background plot is semi-plausible, the first half is pretty damn good. In the middle of the movie, they went "whoa! we have no more money" and hauled in a cheap-ass director to finish up what the first guy began (sorry, don't recall names) - and so the whole business with the pyrotechnics and the ship blows chunks.
It had great potential - what a f***ing waste. I still liked the atmosphere, though.
As long as the issues are mistakes, and not fraud, just accept it and take it as an object lesson in why we should do user testing. Who knows what other mistakes were made on other ballots in, say, Iowa or Wisconsin?
Just out of curiosity, would you be saying the same thing if Bush had lost the state by 750 votes, with 3500 Bush voters claiming that they'd voted for Nader by mistake? Really?
I was looking for a listing of AT commands to send to my modem, but Google doesn't index AT because it is the word "at"! A least it is so fast that you don't waste a lot of time if it doesn't work:)
Please, people, if you pull a story off the main page and then restore it, add an Update: line so that I don't get this feeling that I'm slowly losing my mind. I didn't dream it all, did I? This was on the main page, pulled off around comment #30, and restored around #50... what's going on? Please?
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Dead wrong.
Pressure = height of fluid above x its density x acceleration due to gravity. As a balloon rises, the pressure outside decreases. Most balloons expand as they rise, so that they stay at the same pressure as the outside air. (Because remember, PV/T = constant.)
Its no fun responding to trolls in the hope of giving them some education, maybe...
Actually, google.com makes real money off ads - its just that they're not obnoxious (and easily blocked) banners. Sometimes, when you do any of the somewhat generic searches, there is an URL returned at the top of the page, above the search results, which is 100% topical, but paid for. Advertising like that, I can appreciate.
Read more about it here: http://www.google.com/ads/index.html - they boast a clickthrough rate 4-5x the industry average, and you bet they make you pay for it!
Sniff - I miss the inchfan.
Sheesh.
Ah, priceless - that's exactly the feeling I had, and I never could put it in words. Though I got trolled at paperback prices, and it was far superior to the airline food, so I can't complain too much...
Netscape*toolBar.numUserCommands: 1
Netscape*toolBar.userCommand1.commandName: findInObject
Netscape*toolBar.userCommand1.labelString: Find
Netscape*toolBar.userCommand1.commandIcon: Find
I find it useful, at least...
"We shall fund the company with
For example, there's a quasar image, labelled as an image of the Cartwheel galaxy; sure enough, some distance away is the true Cartwheel galaxy, and no, its not labelled as a quasar, its labelled correctly. Huh? Labels are rampantly swapped in their example of objects at various wavelengths: as an astronomy grad student, I know what the Orion nebula looks like, and boy, it looks different from the Sun - its almost like someone dropped all the captions, then picked them up and stuck them back on at random. And finally, the labels for elliptical and spiral galaxies are swapped. I kid you not!
And this was a cursory walkthrough, not a very detailed examination - things are just plain wrong! I was planning to write a note to the director, but I'm not so sure its a good idea... Apparently they spent all their money on the (extremely beautiful!) building, and had no money left to hire a couple of trained monkeys (grad students) to do some fact checking.
Someone I know got one for Christmas, and I've not worked up the courage to take it apart yet. But if there was an easy "plug in a cable" approach, I'd be willing to try it...
I hate to nitpick, but Arecibo is not a volcanic caldera, in spite of what the tabloid press might report. In fact, it is a large limestone sinkhole in the karst terrain of Puerto Rico: check out this link for more info. (I promise its not a goatse.cx link.)
One of the cuter stories is that when they were searching for the perfect site on Puerto Rico, they took a dime and slid it around on a contour map of the island - and where it fit nicely inside the contours, there the dish went... Its amazing to look at, and I recommend a visit if you vacation in PR.
OTOH, your other point is completely correct - Arecibo only sees a limited range of the sky, and cannot view anything south of a certain declination (14? I forget). Not being able to see the Gal;actic center is particularly galling! That's why the new GBT (100m, unlike 305m at Arecibo, but the GBT is fully steerable) is so exciting.
You got that bit right, at least.
Do you have any idea how valuable a sample of alien life (even the most primitive algae) would actually be? Any exobiologist would give his eye-teeth to be able to study a sample of alien DNA-eqivalent. It would change the field of comparative biology from pure speculation to hard science - heck, the confirmation that life exists (or existed) outside the earth would probably be the most significant thing we have ever discovered.
Think about it: finally, PROOF that life can emerge and evolve given half a chance, PROOF that the earth is not a cosmic accident or God's little private joke. Liquid gold does not compare in value, and nor does oil, not even with two frat-boy oilmen in the Oval Office.
First of all, discourage the floating away by using a location preference:
...
\begin{figure}[htb]
\end{figure}
so that TeX is encouraged to place the figure here, at the page top, or at the bottom, before assigning it to a float.
After that, the likely explanation is that you have at least one figure which is too large to fit in the available space on the page: if so, that and all subsequent floats float away to the end.
If you're including eps figures, fiddle the \epsscale value. Or try negative \vspace before and after including your figure. Hope that helps...
It had great potential - what a f***ing waste. I still liked the atmosphere, though.
Just out of curiosity, would you be saying the same thing if Bush had lost the state by 750 votes, with 3500 Bush voters claiming that they'd voted for Nader by mistake? Really?
Try searching for "Hayes modemcommand" instead...
<XML>
...meaningless gibberish follows...
<OBJECT TYPE="Word Document">
</OBJECT>
Not the most useful thing, is it?