The trees that were directly below the air explosion were still upright. The trees at some distance were flattened. A large explosion all around Europe was heard on that night, along with a glow in the sky. But it took several months for the expedition to find out what had caused the explosion/light. By that time, the crater would have filled with water and appeared to be a lake to the expedition team.
If it had been a loosely packed asteroid or a comet, it would have disintegrated into lots of small chunks and vaporised before reaching the ground.
The eyewitness reports are interesting:
"Kezhemskoe village. On the 17th an unusual atmospheric event was observed. At 7:43 the noise akin to a strong wind was heard. Immediately afterwards a horrific thump sounded, followed by an earthquake which literally shook the buildings, as if they were hit by a large log or a heavy rock. The first thump was followed by a second, and then a third.
We have friends who own a house next to quarry. Whenever there is a major explosion there always seems to two explosions heard; the first seems to be the shockwave travelling through the ground (a large dull sound thump) while the second is the shockwave through the air which sounds like a shotgun being fired. Then there is the all clear. So maybe the lake is the crater.
The new Scottish Parliament building will be designed by a Spanish architect who says his initial inspiration was drawn from the image of upturned boats.
It happens to a lot of university campus networks in the UK. When both off-campus and on-campus broadband Internet access became an important issue for students, the first response of many universities was to create their own little startup telecom companies in partnership with private investors and give the companies cute names (eg. Tartan Telecom, Now Net).
This instantly became a disaster because there were at least three different agendas pulling at the same company:
(1) Creating startups/spinoff companies for the university (2) Making a profit for shareholders (3) Investing in state-of-the-art Internet infrastructure to provide Internet access for students
In most cases, the resulting outcome was that the minimum Internet service was provided at extortionate rates ie. The students refused to pay, and even resorted to stringing up their own networks using wifi and CAT-5 strung from window to window, and using mobile phones instead of land lines.
On my university campus, what few payphones there are, don't give change, and charge around 2p/second, emergency or not. There's actually a call box that hasn't worked for about (it was broken when I first saw it, and it's still broken five years later), that was installed by a university startup telephone company that went bust.
I'd like a laptop with the same level and freedom of connectivity as a mobile phone. While there are mobile phone cards for laptops, they usually come with a minimum of 12-month contracts with tiered data transfer rates. Compare that to a mobile phone which can be pay-as-you-go with a top-up card that can be used at any bank machine.
Having a pay-as-you-go service for Internet service for laptops would be really useful, especially when working away from home or work.
The best solution seems to be to privatize half the service - not always possible though. One city council privatized their school bus service. Soon, they were facing above inflation price increases. So they bought back the in-house bus service and gave it 50% of the business. Then they could play both parties off against each other. If the private service tried increasing prices, the in-house team would become more cost effective and vice versa.
There were stories in the past of criminals stealing hardware and reselling it in "developing countries". The only got caught out when one of the system admin's in said country requested that the vendor send out a field maintenance engineer to "upgrade" the system. The first thing the field engineer did was check the serial numbers of each component which quickly gave the game away.
Several of the womenfolk in my family worked as nurses to bring in a second salary. They gave up their positions in the health service after Mrs. Thatcher decided to partially privatize the health service (to create the "internal market").
One of the first things that she privatized was the ward cleaning services. In particular, Mrs. Thatcher was outraged that cleaners were using three different sets of disinfectants as well as spending what seemed to be half their time cleaning door handles. But there were sound scientific reasons for doing all of this. NHS scientists had determined that three levels of disinfectant were required. A high concentration disinfectant was used for cleaning floors where bandages, blood and outdoor shoes would bring in contamination. A middle concentration disinfectant for cleaning frequently contacted surface (door handles, panels etc.. ) and a low concentration disinfectant for clean walls and ceilings. As cleaners were part of the ward team, they got to know which areas needed the most attention
To stop this "waste", the government decided to privatize the cleaning services so that they would be specified only by a contract and not through team-work. Consequently we have all the problems we have now with infection.
For this reaon alone, many experienced nurses who have retired will not consider going back into the profession.
Yes, it can. And object inside objects too. These system typically work by having a container of liquid combined with a base that slowly moves down. A laser traced out the intersection of the object with an imaginary horizontal plane. This causes a chemical reaction that converts the liquid into solid. This layer will bind to the layer immediately below. So as the base moves slowly down, the intersecting plane moves up along the height of object.
I've seen the results of these systems. They could model everything from differential gear systems to gearboxes and implicit surfaces.
I see electronics kits in the stores. I used to see 100-in-1 experiments (Mykit systems etc...), now the shops only stock 5-in-1 and 3-in-1 sets. I'm not sure if that it because of a difference in stores (hobbyist stores vs. toy store) or just a general trend.
There is another purpose. The article mentions that one of the tactics used by the pirates is to send out a fake distress call. Then whatever vessel approaches the pirates then becomes hijacked and ransomed for money. If a AUV ship is sent out, it can pick up survivors (if it is a genuine distress call) or shoot the **** out of the pirates.
Ceto - The Ceto was a steam yacht reportedly renamed "Broadcasting Yacht" and fitted out for radio broadcasting purposes in 1928. Starting from off the coast of Dundee, Scotland, 'Daily Mail Radio/Radio Daily Mail' (Reports vary) broadcast easy listening music to various points around the British coast as it cruised around the nation's coastline. The sole sponsors of this voyage were Britain's Daily Mail, Evening News, and Sunday Dispatch newspapers, and the intent was apparently not to set up an offshore station but rather to publicise the papers. The brain behind this publicity stunt was Valentine Smith, the Daily Mail's publicity officer.
Slashdot Mirror
The trees that were directly below the air explosion were still upright. The trees at some distance were flattened. A large explosion all around Europe was heard on that night, along with a glow in the sky. But it took several months for the expedition to find out what had caused the explosion/light. By that time, the crater would have filled with water and appeared to be a lake to the expedition team.
If it had been a loosely packed asteroid or a comet, it would have disintegrated into lots of small chunks and vaporised before reaching the ground.
The eyewitness reports are interesting:
"Kezhemskoe village. On the 17th an unusual atmospheric event was observed. At 7:43 the noise akin to a strong wind was heard. Immediately afterwards a horrific thump sounded, followed by an earthquake which literally shook the buildings, as if they were hit by a large log or a heavy rock. The first thump was followed by a second, and then a third.
We have friends who own a house next to quarry. Whenever there is a major explosion there always seems to two explosions heard; the first seems to be the shockwave travelling through the ground (a large dull sound thump) while the second is the shockwave through the air which sounds like a shotgun being fired. Then there is the all clear. So maybe the lake is the crater.
Same with the
The new Scottish Parliament building will be designed by a Spanish architect who says his initial inspiration was drawn from the image of upturned boats.
6000 pounds to stop kerb falls
Oldest part of building needs renovation
That should be Bucket full of...
I read through some of the links - this is possibly the funniest/saddest link I found:
...
Your bucket is full of
This is a motivational course for teachers, which compares being a teacher to being a POW in North Korea...
New Spanish security rules likely to cause airport delays
While it is may be interesting all the things they can detect, jam in tray 3,
I find using ketchup works much better than toner ink - although it does tend to drip a lot.
Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) build their systems out of bricks.
Sounds like the Sinclair C5 which was permitted to go on the roads.
That's why you always aim for the head; their feathers are too tough for shotgun pellets.
Wow! A new material to replace Kevlar - turkey feathered body armor.
It happens to a lot of university campus networks in the UK. When both off-campus and on-campus broadband Internet access became an important issue for students, the first response of many universities was to create their own little startup telecom companies in partnership with private investors and give the companies cute names (eg. Tartan Telecom, Now Net).
This instantly became a disaster because there were at least three different agendas pulling at the same company:
(1) Creating startups/spinoff companies for the university
(2) Making a profit for shareholders
(3) Investing in state-of-the-art Internet infrastructure to provide Internet access for students
In most cases, the resulting outcome was that the minimum Internet service was provided at extortionate rates ie. The students refused to pay, and even resorted to stringing up their own networks using wifi and CAT-5 strung from window to window, and using mobile phones instead of land lines.
Well, that sounds better than Windows Vista/CE/ME/NT/XP
The Advert here
On my university campus, what few payphones there are, don't give change, and charge around 2p/second, emergency or not. There's actually a call box that hasn't worked for about (it was broken when I first saw it, and it's still broken five years later), that was installed by a university startup telephone company that went bust.
And don't forget the 21" monitor.
That's achievable - eyeglass monitors or Head mounted displays
And a full keyboard and a mouse.
For flat surfaces:
http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/images/virtual-laser-keyboard-hand.jpg
Alternatively:
Senseboard - which doesn't project a keyboard at all
or
Lightweight eyetracker with any number of On screen keyboards
I'd like a laptop with the same level and freedom of connectivity as a mobile phone. While there are mobile phone cards for laptops, they usually come with a minimum of 12-month contracts with tiered data transfer rates. Compare that to a mobile phone which can be pay-as-you-go with a top-up card that can be used at any bank machine.
Having a pay-as-you-go service for Internet service for laptops would be really useful, especially when working away from home or work.
The best solution seems to be to privatize half the service - not always possible though. One city council privatized their school bus service. Soon, they were facing above inflation price increases. So they bought back the in-house bus service and gave it 50% of the business. Then they could play both parties off against each other. If the private service tried increasing prices, the in-house team would become more cost effective and vice versa.
There were stories in the past of criminals stealing hardware and reselling it in "developing countries". The only got caught out when one of the system admin's in said country requested that the vendor send out a field maintenance engineer to "upgrade" the system. The first thing the field engineer did was check the serial numbers of each component which quickly gave the game away.
Several of the womenfolk in my family worked as nurses to bring in a second salary. They gave up their positions in the health service after Mrs. Thatcher decided to partially privatize the health service (to create the "internal market").
One of the first things that she privatized was the ward cleaning services. In particular, Mrs. Thatcher was outraged that cleaners were using three different sets of disinfectants as well as spending what seemed to be half their time cleaning door handles. But there were sound scientific reasons for doing all of this. NHS scientists had determined that three levels of disinfectant were required. A high concentration disinfectant was used for cleaning floors where bandages, blood and outdoor shoes would bring in contamination. A middle concentration disinfectant for cleaning frequently contacted surface (door handles, panels etc.. ) and a low concentration disinfectant for clean walls and ceilings. As cleaners were part of the ward team, they got to know which areas needed the most attention
To stop this "waste", the government decided to privatize the cleaning services so that they would be specified only by a contract and not through team-work. Consequently we have all the problems we have now with infection.
For this reaon alone, many experienced nurses who have retired will not consider going back into the profession.
Teamwork- sharing our successes and failures together
Here's One Title
And there is always SCRAM for the Atari 400/800
Yes, it can. And object inside objects too. These system typically work by having a container of liquid combined with a base that slowly moves down. A laser traced out the intersection of the object with an imaginary horizontal plane. This causes a chemical reaction that converts the liquid into solid. This layer will bind to the layer immediately below. So as the base moves slowly down, the intersecting plane moves up along the height of object.
I've seen the results of these systems. They could model everything from differential gear systems to gearboxes and implicit surfaces.
I read the story about the Killer Robot Cannon. Not sure if the picture is the system is question or if it's a frame from Starship Troopers".
I see electronics kits in the stores. I used to see 100-in-1 experiments (Mykit systems etc...), now the shops only stock 5-in-1 and 3-in-1 sets. I'm not sure if that it because of a difference in stores (hobbyist stores vs. toy store) or just a general trend.
There is another purpose. The article mentions that one of the tactics used by the pirates is to send out a fake distress call. Then whatever vessel approaches the pirates then becomes hijacked and ransomed for money. If a AUV ship is sent out, it can pick up survivors (if it is a genuine distress call) or shoot the **** out of the pirates.
... whose DJ's then became famous DJ's for legitimate stations.
The earliest pirate radio station in the UK was actually by the Daily Mail:
Ceto - The Ceto was a steam yacht reportedly renamed "Broadcasting Yacht" and fitted out for radio broadcasting purposes in 1928. Starting from off the coast of Dundee, Scotland, 'Daily Mail Radio/Radio Daily Mail' (Reports vary) broadcast easy listening music to various points around the British coast as it cruised around the nation's coastline. The sole sponsors of this voyage were Britain's Daily Mail, Evening News, and Sunday Dispatch newspapers, and the intent was apparently not to set up an offshore station but rather to publicise the papers. The brain behind this publicity stunt was Valentine Smith, the Daily Mail's publicity officer.
This link explains it all.
/etc/acpi/events/power.conf looks like:
/bin/grep gnome-power-manager | /bin/grep -qv grep || /sbin/shutdown -h now
Indeed, my
# ACPID config to power down machine if powerbutton is pressed, but only if
# no gnome-power-manager is running
event=button/power.*
action=/bin/ps awwux |
If your laptop had a builtin webcam, you could probably get it to take a picture when it was powered on, then E-mail the picture to somewhere.
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