TV, Pioneer receiver, Comcast HDDVR, Blu-ray player, HD DVD player, DVD recorder, 7 speakers and a subwoofer. Most components connected via HDMI and Ethernet, plus the power cables. 8 speaker cables. A MESS! Haven't been able to design a nice flow for all that.
What are you people talking about? Blu-rays DO NOT cost 2 or 3 times what a DVD does! New releases at Walmart are typically $19.96 for DVD and $24.96 for blu-ray. The upgrade in quality (not just the picture, but the sound too, maybe even more so the sound!) is well worth the $5. And if you wait a couple of months, MANY can be found for $10 or so. Players are available for under $100, and even the premium models (3D, wireless networking, streaming apps built in) are often under $200. Streaming rarely provides 1080p picture, and I'm not aware of ANY streaming services providing the pristine lossless audio of blu-ray.
I have presented to several of my friends/coworkers/family the idea that interstellar space IS NOT the great void we seem to have been assuming for so long, but instead may well be filled with all manor of significant objects, including brown dwarfs, rogue planets, etc. We don't have to make some multi-lightyear jump across nothingness to reach the stars; we can jump from world to world to world, like a great migration wave-front, gathering resources and establishing waypoints as we go. It was an article in Analog SF magazine that got me thinking along these lines. It may take generations to reach the next major star, but at least there will be fun exploration along the way.
Have these folks attacked UoP too? Their system has been all messed up this week, though they are claiming it is hardware related. I need to get back to class!
Once again, as always, Catholic comments are being totally misconstrued by the media. No one ever said the app was a replacement for confession. The so called 'lowly' priest was saying the app could be an effective tool to help PREPARE for confession. The Vatican does not say anywhere the app is BANNED like the title of this story, they simply are reinterating that the app is not a replacement for confession.
Come on, this is supposed to be a site full of smart people, you can't get this right?
My mom (Mary Ann Kelch) and sister (Amy Kelch) have/used to work there. I need to call them and see if they felt anything, they live in Chili.
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Babylon 5 and Firefly are two of my all-time favorite shows, but I don't see how you can not realize that LOST did in fact end on EXACTLY the same note it began: the focus was always on the characters! The ending was all about the characters, not the setting. The show was about the characters, not the setting. The Island remained mysterious, both to us AND the characters. It was meant to be so.
Complete scientific explanations are great, and sure it would have been interesting to get a few more of those out of Lost, but the Island was NEVER what the show was about: it was about the people. Every moment of the show was about the people; how they reacted to the stresses they faced (plane crash, mysterious monsters, evil island residents, lack of rescue, pressing button on a short timescale, uncontrolled time shifts, loves lost, loves gained, etc, etc, etc.) Why do you think we got all the flashbacks/flashforwards/flashsideways!? The Island was just a strange, mysterious setting in which to put the characters and watch them react.
Personally, I love the fact we actually don't know what happened to Ford/Kate, etal. on the plane that did leave the island. According to Christian, they may well have gotten back to civilization and lived long lives. I love the fact that Ben was STILL conflicted, and even though forgiven, not yet ready to move on. I don't yet know what to make of the fact that Michael and Walt were missing, yet the dog was there with Jack at the end.
If a show answers ALL the questions, what is the point? Lost gave us something to think about long after the show has ended. I am grateful it was here, shining brightly in the current wasteland of mindless, idiotic, juvenile reality tv!
Oh my gosh do you have a perverted view of the Catholic Church!!! In no way whatsoever does the Catholic Church discourage humans to study the universe/creation thereof. In fact they have their own scientists who are actively engaged in the process themselves. We have no problem with the Big Bang, evolution, or any other cosmological discussion or theory.
As for the "smighting, shame, pain, and torture", the new Testatment makes it clear that only man does any of that, not our loving God. Where the heck did you get your ideas?
There were two astronauts per landing, so 12 men walked on the moon on six missions. There were also three circumlunar missions, Apollo 8, 10 and 13 (13 being an aborted lander mission).
Easily my favorite sci-fi universe. I would have loved to get aboard a single seater, spin the nav dials and head off to parts unknown. If you have never read any Gateway books, try them!
United States, Britain, New Zealand, all seeing similar fireballs within a week of each other? A report of one coming down in Siberia? Is this some elaborate worldwide hoax? Sounds much too suspiciously like "War of the Worlds"! Even the time of year is right! This is definitely weird!
If it is a relatively new debris stream from a comet or something, I hope nothing really big is coming!
So far all we've built are the tug boats and ferrys that get you out of port. Now we need a real spacecraft. Think Enterprise, but on an interplanetary rather than interstellar scale. Assign a permanent captain and crew. Rotate the habitable areas for artificial gravity. Build it in space, make it big enough for the crew and at least a dozen passengers (scientists now, maybe tourists and entertainment producers later), and never worry about landing it anywhere. Use a combination of SSME or better engines to break earth orbit, and use VASIMR engines for interplanetary cruise. Make it modular, so that improved power systems, propulsion modules, planetary landers, etc. can be swapped out as they become available. This thing should be capable of flying to the moon, Mars, Venus, asteroids, comets, and even the outer planets with added consumables. Design a mission, this thing will get you there with all the equipment you need.
For many reasons, antimatter technology is clearly not ready for prime time. We will only get going if we focus on a realistic propulsion technique. The Advanced Space Propulsion Labs at NASA (http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/aspl) under the direction of former shuttle astronaut Dr Franklin Chang-Diaz, is working on the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR). It is scheduled to be flight tested in 2004, and could be ready for a manned Mars mission by the next decade. The only thing that could hold it up is the need to generate 10-15MW of electricity to power the drive on a manned mission. Like submarines, our interplanetary spacecraft will almost certainly need a nuclear power plant on board. Now, how do we get that by the nuclear wackos? By the way, specific impulse on this thing ranges from 3000 to 30000s! Totally efficient!
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TV, Pioneer receiver, Comcast HDDVR, Blu-ray player, HD DVD player, DVD recorder, 7 speakers and a subwoofer. Most components connected via HDMI and Ethernet, plus the power cables. 8 speaker cables. A MESS! Haven't been able to design a nice flow for all that.
What are you people talking about? Blu-rays DO NOT cost 2 or 3 times what a DVD does! New releases at Walmart are typically $19.96 for DVD and $24.96 for blu-ray. The upgrade in quality (not just the picture, but the sound too, maybe even more so the sound!) is well worth the $5. And if you wait a couple of months, MANY can be found for $10 or so. Players are available for under $100, and even the premium models (3D, wireless networking, streaming apps built in) are often under $200. Streaming rarely provides 1080p picture, and I'm not aware of ANY streaming services providing the pristine lossless audio of blu-ray.
I have presented to several of my friends/coworkers/family the idea that interstellar space IS NOT the great void we seem to have been assuming for so long, but instead may well be filled with all manor of significant objects, including brown dwarfs, rogue planets, etc. We don't have to make some multi-lightyear jump across nothingness to reach the stars; we can jump from world to world to world, like a great migration wave-front, gathering resources and establishing waypoints as we go. It was an article in Analog SF magazine that got me thinking along these lines. It may take generations to reach the next major star, but at least there will be fun exploration along the way.
Have these folks attacked UoP too? Their system has been all messed up this week, though they are claiming it is hardware related. I need to get back to class!
Thank you. Much the same as what I said. Just more of the hundreds of years of utter misrepresentation of the Church and its teachings. Incredible.
Once again, as always, Catholic comments are being totally misconstrued by the media. No one ever said the app was a replacement for confession. The so called 'lowly' priest was saying the app could be an effective tool to help PREPARE for confession. The Vatican does not say anywhere the app is BANNED like the title of this story, they simply are reinterating that the app is not a replacement for confession.
Come on, this is supposed to be a site full of smart people, you can't get this right?
My mom (Mary Ann Kelch) and sister (Amy Kelch) have/used to work there. I need to call them and see if they felt anything, they live in Chili.
Babylon 5 and Firefly are two of my all-time favorite shows, but I don't see how you can not realize that LOST did in fact end on EXACTLY the same note it began: the focus was always on the characters! The ending was all about the characters, not the setting. The show was about the characters, not the setting. The Island remained mysterious, both to us AND the characters. It was meant to be so.
Complete scientific explanations are great, and sure it would have been interesting to get a few more of those out of Lost, but the Island was NEVER what the show was about: it was about the people. Every moment of the show was about the people; how they reacted to the stresses they faced (plane crash, mysterious monsters, evil island residents, lack of rescue, pressing button on a short timescale, uncontrolled time shifts, loves lost, loves gained, etc, etc, etc.) Why do you think we got all the flashbacks/flashforwards/flashsideways!? The Island was just a strange, mysterious setting in which to put the characters and watch them react.
Personally, I love the fact we actually don't know what happened to Ford/Kate, etal. on the plane that did leave the island. According to Christian, they may well have gotten back to civilization and lived long lives. I love the fact that Ben was STILL conflicted, and even though forgiven, not yet ready to move on. I don't yet know what to make of the fact that Michael and Walt were missing, yet the dog was there with Jack at the end.
If a show answers ALL the questions, what is the point? Lost gave us something to think about long after the show has ended. I am grateful it was here, shining brightly in the current wasteland of mindless, idiotic, juvenile reality tv!
Lexx!!! I miss that show...
Oh my gosh do you have a perverted view of the Catholic Church!!! In no way whatsoever does the Catholic Church discourage humans to study the universe/creation thereof. In fact they have their own scientists who are actively engaged in the process themselves. We have no problem with the Big Bang, evolution, or any other cosmological discussion or theory.
As for the "smighting, shame, pain, and torture", the new Testatment makes it clear that only man does any of that, not our loving God. Where the heck did you get your ideas?
There were two astronauts per landing, so 12 men walked on the moon on six missions. There were also three circumlunar missions, Apollo 8, 10 and 13 (13 being an aborted lander mission).
...I'd love to see more pics of Sheri!!!!
Easily my favorite sci-fi universe. I would have loved to get aboard a single seater, spin the nav dials and head off to parts unknown. If you have never read any Gateway books, try them!
United States, Britain, New Zealand, all seeing similar fireballs within a week of each other? A report of one coming down in Siberia? Is this some elaborate worldwide hoax? Sounds much too suspiciously like "War of the Worlds"! Even the time of year is right! This is definitely weird!
If it is a relatively new debris stream from a comet or something, I hope nothing really big is coming!
Yes, doesn't it look like the alien swimming creature that rescued Ed Harris? Wonder if it glows at all?
So far all we've built are the tug boats and ferrys that get you out of port. Now we need a real spacecraft. Think Enterprise, but on an interplanetary rather than interstellar scale. Assign a permanent captain and crew. Rotate the habitable areas for artificial gravity. Build it in space, make it big enough for the crew and at least a dozen passengers (scientists now, maybe tourists and entertainment producers later), and never worry about landing it anywhere. Use a combination of SSME or better engines to break earth orbit, and use VASIMR engines for interplanetary cruise. Make it modular, so that improved power systems, propulsion modules, planetary landers, etc. can be swapped out as they become available. This thing should be capable of flying to the moon, Mars, Venus, asteroids, comets, and even the outer planets with added consumables. Design a mission, this thing will get you there with all the equipment you need.
That's a space program.
For many reasons, antimatter technology is clearly not ready for prime time. We will only get going if we focus on a realistic propulsion technique. The Advanced Space Propulsion Labs at NASA (http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/aspl) under the direction of former shuttle astronaut Dr Franklin Chang-Diaz, is working on the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR). It is scheduled to be flight tested in 2004, and could be ready for a manned Mars mission by the next decade. The only thing that could hold it up is the need to generate 10-15MW of electricity to power the drive on a manned mission. Like submarines, our interplanetary spacecraft will almost certainly need a nuclear power plant on board. Now, how do we get that by the nuclear wackos? By the way, specific impulse on this thing ranges from 3000 to 30000s! Totally efficient!