Yes, blue giants - that was the term mentioned in many articles about the history of the solar system. That's an interesting thought - would a supernova leave behind enough material for another star large enough to form and then go supernova again. Did one supergiant form the local area of stars that surround our sun. Whatever fragments remained of the heavy element core that formed the first time, would act as a nucleus for new stars the next time round. As these stars went supernova, their remains would gradually spread over a wider volume of space, and get smaller until only red giants could form.
Strange to think that the rocky cores of our planets (and all the heavy elements) came from the exploded remains of a fast-living red giant that went supernova. The remaining hydrogen/helium reforms a new star (our Sun) and the atmospheres of the gas giant planets, while the heavy elements formed the rocky planets. Always wondered where our solar system is located relative to the original red giant.
Not to be confused with Moon Lets in the back pages of magazines like The Inquirer or The Fortean times, where you can rent several acres of moon surface. They'll help you make the payments and fill out the paperwork. It's your problem how to get there.
The claim was that they would have to shut down video streaming traffic in order to make space for public sector/private-sector E-mail correspondence. This was compared to clearing the freeways of private traffic when a national disaster had occurred like an earthquake.
My college campus once tried "privatizing" their campus network to the student dorms. Students were expected to pay rental to a startup company in order to get telephone and internet service. Rather not surprisingly, the students took to setting up their own networks using wi-fi routers and cheapernet cables hung from window to window, along with mobile phones for communication. The campus managers had to restore free service.
The equipment would have to be T-junctioned off a main link with no possibility of loopback, so there is no way of telling it is there. So I'd guess it doesn't have any blocking capability.
Getting an ISP to block traffic, would simply be a case of adding IP address entries to a block list and deleting DNS lists. There are some websites that provide IP block lists for home linux systems. Just append the list to the/etc/hosts file.
There was once an experiment where electronic circuit researchers did an experiment with genetic algorithms to see if evolution could come up with a better design that humans could. They set their design system to randomly arrange components and wires, run some simulation/crosstalk interference tests, and modify the most successful designs. Eventually after about a day, the system came up with a design that matched the specification. But to their surprise, half the circuit wasn't connected. Nevertheless, they built a real-world model of the curcuit, and to their surprise, it actually worked and made use of the electromagnetic fields that would normally have been considered a crosstalk problem.
It sounds like something out of the 1980's internet . Back then, many corporate websites didn't have high-speed T1 lines, let alone broadband to access gopher, ftp or USENET. Workers were lucky to get a 64-kbit ISDN link to serve an entire office block. The solution to downloading large files, was to send a Email request to an server, which would in turn ftp the relevant file, chop the file into little chunks and uuencode them to you by E-mail. It would be up to you to reassemble them or to use a suitable E-mail client to do it automatically for you.
Bring this technique up to date with today technology, and you would either having a mailing list or an E-mail server that could receive requests. In return, these would send out mail attachments comprised of the requested contents as encrypted zip files.
A fisheye lens would do - couple of those and you only need two cameras - use video processing to stitch the two movies together and you have a full 360x180 view. Or get one of those "Gorgon Stare" military surveillance camera systems.
1993/1994 was the time the first TCP/IP stacks became available for PC's - you could run SLIP or PPP through a standard dial-up modem and your PC was "a node on the Internet" with it's own static IP address.... then by default you had your own mail server and even have the ISP dial your PC to run an HTTP server, or pay extra for an ISDN line.
There were so few E-mail addresses and they changed so infrequently that some companies came out with white-page E-mail address books sold in the local bookstores.
Same here - most companies and colleges had internal E-mail systems, but getting access to any national network (JANET) required being involved in research. Demon Internet was the first ISP residential service provider in 1993/4 and provided USENET/E-mail access using just a V.34 modem, PPP, and a TCP/IP on DOS.
E-mail and web addresses were common on the side of vans or shop windows until around 2000. It's funny to see them engraved on metal and concrete manhole covers, metal tape and
The asteroid isn't simply one big rock - it seems to be a orbiting pile of rubble that has coalesced into a single object. The cables would probably just cut straight through - though they might snag on one of the larger rocks (50m radius) and apply some force onto it.
There are several bridges in the Bay Area - Dumbarton bridge (84), San Mateo bridge(92). Whenever one of these bridges was blocked by a road accident, or for road maintenance, traffic would just route to any one of the other bridges. One day, they raised tolls for one of the bridges, and traffic patterns completed changed as commuters just routed round to the cheaper ones. Next day, the other bridges had put up their prices and traffic patterns returned to normal.
If anything, commuters will favor the bridge that doesn't slow them down with toll booth charges.
HP Labs managed to recover the instruction manual that was written on the side of the machine, so the archaeologists are more or less certain they know the purpose of each internal gear, as well as the dials and indicators.
It's like the argument between the 3D API's, OpenGL ARB extensions vs OpenGL vendor extensions vs. Direct3D all over again... OpenGL ARB extensions were for all the new features that everyone could agree on. Vendor extensions were for custom features that individual vendors provided. Direct3D adds new features on a per-monthly basis with users having to compile their applications with static libraries. The argument was that the other two systems were too slow.
I heard about this story. The Israelis had decided to make the change in daylight saving mode a day early. This caught out the Palestinians who hadn't heard of the change announced on the radio. Witnesses said they just saw the car explode in the middle of the highway.
I played the Facebook game Lyonesse - they got round the problem of a linear game by having doors you have to unlock paths/door based on acquiring various objects and the ability to loop back to where you started.
That would be fairly simple - just take a giant Tesla coil with you - that provides lightning. But you would still need to capture and contain the anti-matter particles, so that requires a fairly strong magnetic field. As a bonus you would be able to play Ghostbusters Ghostbusters on a tesla coil
This star comparison video gives a good idea of the relative size of Betelgeuse to our Sun. Wish I could watch the supernova video from close-up - though there are simulation videos.
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Yes, blue giants - that was the term mentioned in many articles about the history of the solar system. That's an interesting thought - would a supernova leave behind enough material for another star large enough to form and then go supernova again. Did one supergiant form the local area of stars that surround our sun. Whatever fragments remained of the heavy element core that formed the first time, would act as a nucleus for new stars the next time round. As these stars went supernova, their remains would gradually spread over a wider volume of space, and get smaller until only red giants could form.
Strange to think that the rocky cores of our planets (and all the heavy elements) came from the exploded remains of a fast-living red giant that went supernova. The remaining hydrogen/helium reforms a new star (our Sun) and the atmospheres of the gas giant planets, while the heavy elements formed the rocky planets. Always wondered where our solar system is located relative to the original red giant.
Moonlets....
Not to be confused with Moon Lets in the back pages of magazines like The Inquirer or The Fortean times, where you can rent several acres of moon surface. They'll help you make the payments and fill out the paperwork. It's your problem how to get there.
The claim was that they would have to shut down video streaming traffic in order to make space for public sector/private-sector E-mail correspondence. This was compared to clearing the freeways of private traffic when a national disaster had occurred like an earthquake.
My college campus once tried "privatizing" their campus network to the student dorms. Students were expected to pay rental to a startup company in order to get telephone and internet service. Rather not surprisingly, the students took to setting up their own networks using wi-fi routers and cheapernet cables hung from window to window, along with mobile phones for communication. The campus managers had to restore free service.
The equipment would have to be T-junctioned off a main link with no possibility of loopback, so there is no way of telling it is there. So I'd guess it doesn't have any blocking capability.
Getting an ISP to block traffic, would simply be a case of adding IP address entries to a block list and deleting DNS lists. There are some websites that provide IP block lists for home linux systems. Just append the list to the /etc/hosts file.
There was once an experiment where electronic circuit researchers did an experiment with genetic algorithms to see if evolution could come up with a better design that humans could. They set their design system to randomly arrange components and wires, run some simulation/crosstalk interference tests, and modify the most successful designs. Eventually after about a day, the system came up with a design that matched the specification. But to their surprise, half the circuit wasn't connected. Nevertheless, they built a real-world model of the curcuit, and to their surprise, it actually worked and made use of the electromagnetic fields that would normally have been considered a crosstalk problem.
You mean TV CCTV-4 International, as made available on the Sky network in Europe?
It sounds like something out of the 1980's internet . Back then, many corporate websites didn't have high-speed T1 lines, let alone broadband to access gopher, ftp or USENET. Workers were lucky to get a 64-kbit ISDN link to serve an entire office block. The solution to downloading large files, was to send a Email request to an server, which would in turn ftp the relevant file, chop the file into little chunks and uuencode them to you by E-mail. It would be up to you to reassemble them or to use a suitable E-mail client to do it automatically for you.
Bring this technique up to date with today technology, and you would either having a mailing list or an E-mail server that could receive requests. In return, these would send out mail attachments comprised of the requested contents as encrypted zip files.
A fisheye lens would do - couple of those and you only need two cameras - use video processing to stitch the two movies together and you have a full 360x180 view. Or get one of those "Gorgon Stare" military surveillance camera systems.
Maybe an Imax 360 HD 3D camera will Dolby surround sound and music specially composed by the Philharmonic orchestra will be the next big thing...
1993/1994 was the time the first TCP/IP stacks became available for PC's - you could run SLIP or PPP through a standard dial-up modem and your PC was "a node on the Internet" with it's own static IP address.... then by default you had your own mail server and even have the ISP dial your PC to run an HTTP server, or pay extra for an ISDN line.
There were so few E-mail addresses and they changed so infrequently that some companies came out with white-page E-mail address books sold in the local bookstores.
Same here - most companies and colleges had internal E-mail systems, but getting access to any national network (JANET) required being involved in research. Demon Internet was the first ISP residential service provider in 1993/4 and provided USENET/E-mail access using just a V.34 modem, PPP, and a TCP/IP on DOS.
E-mail and web addresses were common on the side of vans or shop windows until around 2000. It's funny to see them engraved on metal and concrete manhole covers, metal tape and
We could always launch a heavy chunk of metal in a sling-shot orbit towards the Sun and have it hit Earth several months later.
The asteroid isn't simply one big rock - it seems to be a orbiting pile of rubble that has coalesced into a single object. The cables would probably just cut straight through - though they might snag on one of the larger rocks (50m radius) and apply some force onto it.
So what happens when someone decides to borrow other peoples plates?
You end up with tractors and combine harvesters being issued for speeding violations in downtown during rush hour.
There are several bridges in the Bay Area - Dumbarton bridge (84), San Mateo bridge(92). Whenever one of these bridges was blocked by a road accident, or for road maintenance, traffic would just route to any one of the other bridges. One day, they raised tolls for one of the bridges, and traffic patterns completed changed as commuters just routed round to the cheaper ones. Next day, the other bridges had put up their prices and traffic patterns returned to normal.
If anything, commuters will favor the bridge that doesn't slow them down with toll booth charges.
HP Labs managed to recover the instruction manual that was written on the side of the machine, so the archaeologists are more or
less certain they know the purpose of each internal gear, as well as the dials and indicators.
High resolution image
Fascinating to know that someone was designing interactive user interface 2000 years ago...
It's like the argument between the 3D API's, OpenGL ARB extensions vs OpenGL vendor extensions vs. Direct3D all over again ...
OpenGL ARB extensions were for all the new features that everyone could agree on. Vendor extensions were for custom features that individual vendors provided. Direct3D adds new features on a per-monthly basis with users having to compile their applications with static libraries. The argument was that the other two systems were too slow.
I heard about this story. The Israelis had decided to make the change in daylight saving mode a day early. This caught out the Palestinians who hadn't heard of the change announced on the radio. Witnesses said they just saw the car explode in the middle of the highway.
I played the Facebook game Lyonesse - they got round the problem of a linear game by having doors you have to unlock paths/door based on acquiring various objects and the ability to loop back to where you started.
That would be fairly simple - just take a giant Tesla coil with you - that provides lightning. But you would still need to capture and contain the anti-matter particles, so that requires a fairly strong magnetic field. As a bonus you would be able to play Ghostbusters Ghostbusters on a tesla coil
This star comparison video gives a good idea of the relative size of Betelgeuse to our Sun. Wish I could watch the supernova video from close-up - though there are simulation videos.
Star comparison video
"...Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse...."
Is he here yet?
Looks like something you would see on the repair blog "thereifixedit.com:
Improvised heatsink