I've been interested in astronomy since I was in the second grade back in the mid-60s, so interested that I did my masters thesis in binary star photometry.
In the four decades that I've been reading Sky and Telescope it seems to me that every 2 to 4 years there's a planetary alignment of some kind. There's generally some talk of the rarity of this event, and there won't be another such for x-hundred years.
I've gotten to where these events don't excite me. The one virtue of these events is that they are useful to kids with new telescopes that are having a hard time finding planets to observe with their new scopes. You get three very bright objects in the same small portion of the sky and it's much easier on the novice astronomer to find them with the naked eye and then with their shiny new mirrors.
The significance is that you can get 1.8 Gig on a disk with a diameter of less than 2.5 inches. That's roughly the diameter of a standard(US) 12 FL OZ soda can. Useful for small portable devices.
Then we sat on the sand for some time and observed,
How the oceans that cover the world were perturbed
By the tides from the orbiting moon overhead.
How relaxing the sound of the waves is, you said.
I began to expound upon tidal effects
When you asked me to stop, looking somewhat perplexed.
So I did not explain why the sunset turns red
And we watched the occurrence... in silence... instead.
If I were a parent in the school district in point, I'd not allow my child to use a school owned computer, or so much as touch a school owned computer. I can easily afford Powerbook, or an iBook for my child. If the school refuses to allow my child to use *my* laptop, then my child will do with out.
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I sense your disturbance of the Farce.
I recognize you for the Sith you are, Darth Caustic!
Unfortunately the dp/dt was not with my left pinky when I was typing the word mAy...
No the real Force is with you if you are accelerating, or decelerating.
My the second derivative of your momentum with respect to time be with you.
Ha! I thought so!
Knights do not say mu. Kittens say mu.
YOU FIEND!
Never quote the most EVIL song of the 1970s!
To set the record stright:
"Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" --Issac Newton
"Principia Mathematica" --Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell
I'm thinking about undersea devices that are used to tap comm cables. Bury some seismic sensors in a hole in the Mid-East.
There are any number of possible applications that could be powered by radio-thermoelectric generators.
That's right no Mr. Fusion, and sense it's Pu 238 no Mr. Fission either.
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I've been interested in astronomy since I was in the second grade back in the mid-60s, so interested that I did my masters thesis in binary star photometry.
In the four decades that I've been reading Sky and Telescope it seems to me that every 2 to 4 years there's a planetary alignment of some kind. There's generally some talk of the rarity of this event, and there won't be another such for x-hundred years.
I've gotten to where these events don't excite me. The one virtue of these events is that they are useful to kids with new telescopes that are having a hard time finding planets to observe with their new scopes. You get three very bright objects in the same small portion of the sky and it's much easier on the novice astronomer to find them with the naked eye and then with their shiny new mirrors.
The significance is that you can get 1.8 Gig on a disk with a diameter of less than 2.5 inches. That's roughly the diameter of a standard(US) 12 FL OZ soda can. Useful for small portable devices.
The disk diameter is 60mm, or 2.36 inches.
http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/article_1534_ 1.asp
The above URL will take you to the Sky and Telescope web page that covers this event.
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Then we sat on the sand for some time and observed,
How the oceans that cover the world were perturbed
By the tides from the orbiting moon overhead.
How relaxing the sound of the waves is, you said.
I began to expound upon tidal effects
When you asked me to stop, looking somewhat perplexed.
So I did not explain why the sunset turns red
And we watched the occurrence... in silence... instead.
Shouldn't receive punishment is a different statement that should not be prosecuted for a felony.
The issue at hand is the severity of the punishment, not the elimination of punishment.
If I were a parent in the school district in point, I'd not allow my child to use a school owned computer, or so much as touch a school owned computer. I can easily afford Powerbook, or an iBook for my child. If the school refuses to allow my child to use *my* laptop, then my child will do with out.
End of story.
Gotta go with 'none of the above.'
Methinks that some reasonably smart congressional aids explained the facts of life. (Pun intended)
Lots of older folks don't want 'no stinking digital TV"! They don't want to have to buy another TV period. This is a demographic that votes!
All the above facts = No Profit! (Politically speaking)
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2.) Being financially independent means 'I don't need no stinking job.'
3.) A.)I don't know you.
B.)Your obviously an idiot.
C.) Profit!
Opps...
It's the previous version that was under GNU.
Geez...
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I didn't realize that there were any members of the Democratic National Committee posting on
"But who would ever do that?"
Fishing Physicists, Angling Astronomers, Bassin' Biologist,...
"The universe sucks..."
No. Your quote is off. It's: "Space Sucks."
You've obviously never hung out with the Space Physics crowd at Rice.
If I weren't a Vulcan I'd resent the previous post.
Just downloaded it. Very nice! Wish that I'd had this back in the day.
BibDesk is GNU. Someone ought to be able to take the source code and brew up a nice version that will work with either KDE, or Gnome.