Unless, (a) the stuff coming out is under pressure (b) the stuff coming out is "burning" and giving off chemical energy (c) the stuff coming out can be made to take part in a chemical reaction (d) the stuff is volatile enough that warming it with (say) sunlight, causes it to expand sufficiently to exit the rock at speed etc. etc. etc. I'd like to see a spectrum and Doppler of the stuff coming off before I'd give up on what it can be made to do.
Sure it's a long shot but lots of discoveries are made when scientists and experimenters play with their toys.
To compute the change in trajectory, you'll need to take into account the effect of all that stuff that's now spewing out of the comet which has turned into a mini rocket motor.
Could be a new way to steer an asteroid... make a shaped hole to its volatile core early enough (perhaps seed it with some extra chemicals) and, over time you can change its course so it misses the earth.
First, though, you need to establish what's inside the thing so you can make the right kind of hole and insert the right kind of stuff (a catalyst perhaps).
I'm sure NASA wanted to change this lady's future (possibly mankind's). If this research leads to a practical mechanism for steering certain types of big space rocks, we may just prevent the next extinction event.
"Dear Complainant, If the stars control what we all do then NASA's personal were destined to alter the path of the comet so that it now, more accurately, reflects your fate."
Yeah but you are meant to use the words in, something approaching, their original order. You know, to preserve meaning so you can embellish extend the mindshare.
("mindshare", I can't believe I used that word!! Mod me DOWN please).
It would not have been a problem if M$oft had simply forgotten what they learned under NDA.
The problem was that they remembered enough of what they learned for the technology to find its way into their products.
Then they "forgot" the NDA itself!!
They should be charged with perjury and the destruction of evidence. Unfortunately, the current government would not approve and any case would likely be dropped.
You can be emailed the trojan in its uncompressed (dangerous) form as an attachment. Emailers encode the resource fork and email clients automatically decode it when you single-click on the attachment e.g. in Mail.app on MacOS X.
Mail.app is nice enough to warn you that you're about to execute an application and gives you the option to "Open" "Cancel", or "Save". If you're cavalier and just click the "Open", you're hosed. If you click "Save" and later activate the saved file in the Finder, you're hosed.
I do not know if other email clients are even that kind though.
Slashdot Mirror
Unless, (a) the stuff coming out is under pressure (b) the stuff coming out is "burning" and giving off chemical energy (c) the stuff coming out can be made to take part in a chemical reaction (d) the stuff is volatile enough that warming it with (say) sunlight, causes it to expand sufficiently to exit the rock at speed etc. etc. etc. I'd like to see a spectrum and Doppler of the stuff coming off before I'd give up on what it can be made to do.
Sure it's a long shot but lots of discoveries are made when scientists and experimenters play with their toys.
After 6 days of calculation, they took the next day off.
To compute the change in trajectory, you'll need to take into account the effect of all that stuff that's now spewing out of the comet which has turned into a mini rocket motor.
Could be a new way to steer an asteroid... make a shaped hole to its volatile core early enough (perhaps seed it with some extra chemicals) and, over time you can change its course so it misses the earth.
First, though, you need to establish what's inside the thing so you can make the right kind of hole and insert the right kind of stuff (a catalyst perhaps).
I'm sure NASA wanted to change this lady's future (possibly mankind's). If this research leads to a practical mechanism for steering certain types of big space rocks, we may just prevent the next extinction event.
GO NASA GO
You just have to turn it back on itself.
"Dear Complainant,
If the stars control what we all do then NASA's personal were destined to alter the path of the comet so that it now, more accurately, reflects your fate."
If you can just add one more reason, you can have his record too :-)
I was thinking more of a URL server (basis of Web Browsing).
ps I'm not Republican
pps I might be a bastard
ppps Al Gore *did* invent the internet
He's patented the internet. Perhaps Al Gore did not invent it after all!!
Yeah but you are meant to use the words in, something approaching, their original order. You know, to preserve meaning so you can embellish extend the mindshare.
("mindshare", I can't believe I used that word!! Mod me DOWN please).
It would not have been a problem if M$oft had simply forgotten what they learned under NDA.
The problem was that they remembered enough of what they learned for the technology to find its way into their products.
Then they "forgot" the NDA itself!!
They should be charged with perjury and the destruction of evidence. Unfortunately, the current government would not approve and any case would likely be dropped.
Much more real-world than even the dog chewing on your memory card.
:-(
Just insert the card the wrong way up into your card reader. Our Compact Flash card reader is not well keyed and allows this.
Instant card death on powerup
You can be emailed the trojan in its uncompressed (dangerous) form as an attachment. Emailers encode the resource fork and email clients automatically decode it when you single-click on the attachment e.g. in Mail.app on MacOS X.
Mail.app is nice enough to warn you that you're about to execute an application and gives you the option to "Open" "Cancel", or "Save". If you're cavalier and just click the "Open", you're hosed. If you click "Save" and later activate the saved file in the Finder, you're hosed.
I do not know if other email clients are even that kind though.
Wow...The guy pouring water over the fire was completely vaporized!!
According to the /. online dictionary...
Homonym:
One of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning.
So the best you can say about "then" and "than" is that they are *almost* homonyms.
:-)
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I was just trying to turn my SPARC into a FLAME and I Carbonized it!! (X cultural Apple/Sun joke).