To just finish up on the above thoughts. Hysterus was simply the ancient greek word for womb. It is true that they believed that the womb travelled throughout the body, and caused hysteria when it reached the head specifically. Keep in mind that the ancients for the most part had absolutely no knowledge of human anatomy, as dissection was considered to be defouling the body.
The only way that anyone could learn anything about the internals of another was to see them split open on the battlefield, which did not often present a very good chance for detailed analysis...
I really can't see the use of a laser mounted in a 747. IMHO, it's way too slow compared to the missiles, and will not be able to scramble fast enough.
The speed of the plane is pretty much irrelevant when you're talking about a plane that can fly at high altitude with a weapon that can hit a target less than a second after hitting fire, every time. There would be no reason for the plane to 'scramble' anywhere.
I'm an IE6.0 windows user, and I stumbled across Pop-Up Stopper by panic ware. It just displays a little icon in the system tray, which can be turned on and off by double clicking. It has been almost foolproof so far, and it's completely free. They also have retail products that provide even more services (though I haven't tested any myself).
In Canada, we only have two main high-speed companies (Bell, Rogers) and it's no coincidence that both of them changed their policies and their rates at the same time. We now have a total download limit of 3GB per month with $8 per GB above that. Naturally this poses no problem for the average user, or for companies that can largely afford to cover bandwidth costs.
However, it limits the amount of content our web-based business can provide. We were developing a web-based multi-user game for promotion for our next series, but now users in Canada (at least, and other countries are following) will be very wary of any downloads or games that eat up bandwidth. While we can shell out the cash to get our own direct net feed, it still doesn't have any affect on our users.
Until more companies are able to get into the market, these prices are going to continue to soar. And with so many new MMORPG's coming out (EQ2, Star Wars, etc) I wonder how many people are going to be able to afford to play, certainly the users just getting email and their weather online won't want to pay for the gamers and warez geeks downloading divX movies.
Actually, according to relativity all celestial objects have a certain radius (for spherical, or roughly spherical it's called the Schwardzchild radius) inside which no light can escape the object's gravity. That radius is directly dependent on its mass.
The thing is that most things (like Earth) are much larger than their radii. For Earth it's about a centimeter, for the Sun about a kilometer, so there's no problem.
For a black hole, since it is incredibly small (almost a mathematical point), it is obviously smaller than it's Schwarzchild radius. Hence no light can get out, hence a 'black' hole.
This isn't entirely true, as research has shown lately black holes glow a bit, and if it's rotating then there's even more to deal with... but close enough.
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To just finish up on the above thoughts. Hysterus was simply the ancient greek word for womb. It is true that they believed that the womb travelled throughout the body, and caused hysteria when it reached the head specifically. Keep in mind that the ancients for the most part had absolutely no knowledge of human anatomy, as dissection was considered to be defouling the body.
The only way that anyone could learn anything about the internals of another was to see them split open on the battlefield, which did not often present a very good chance for detailed analysis...
I really can't see the use of a laser mounted in a 747. IMHO, it's way too slow compared to the missiles, and will not be able to scramble fast enough.
The speed of the plane is pretty much irrelevant when you're talking about a plane that can fly at high altitude with a weapon that can hit a target less than a second after hitting fire, every time. There would be no reason for the plane to 'scramble' anywhere.
I'm an IE6.0 windows user, and I stumbled across Pop-Up Stopper by panic ware. It just displays a little icon in the system tray, which can be turned on and off by double clicking. It has been almost foolproof so far, and it's completely free. They also have retail products that provide even more services (though I haven't tested any myself).
Free pop-up stopper download page here.
In Canada, we only have two main high-speed companies (Bell, Rogers) and it's no coincidence that both of them changed their policies and their rates at the same time. We now have a total download limit of 3GB per month with $8 per GB above that. Naturally this poses no problem for the average user, or for companies that can largely afford to cover bandwidth costs.
However, it limits the amount of content our web-based business can provide. We were developing a web-based multi-user game for promotion for our next series, but now users in Canada (at least, and other countries are following) will be very wary of any downloads or games that eat up bandwidth. While we can shell out the cash to get our own direct net feed, it still doesn't have any affect on our users.
Until more companies are able to get into the market, these prices are going to continue to soar. And with so many new MMORPG's coming out (EQ2, Star Wars, etc) I wonder how many people are going to be able to afford to play, certainly the users just getting email and their weather online won't want to pay for the gamers and warez geeks downloading divX movies.
Actually, according to relativity all celestial objects have a certain radius (for spherical, or roughly spherical it's called the Schwardzchild radius) inside which no light can escape the object's gravity. That radius is directly dependent on its mass.
The thing is that most things (like Earth) are much larger than their radii. For Earth it's about a centimeter, for the Sun about a kilometer, so there's no problem.
For a black hole, since it is incredibly small (almost a mathematical point), it is obviously smaller than it's Schwarzchild radius. Hence no light can get out, hence a 'black' hole.
This isn't entirely true, as research has shown lately black holes glow a bit, and if it's rotating then there's even more to deal with... but close enough.