Let's see, life as we know it needs... carbon... check. methane. nitrogen... check. amonia. hydrogen... check. comes bundled with the carbon and nitrogen. water... hmm, well, that's what juno is looking for energy... check. It's Jupter we're talking about:) Second most energetic object in the solar system. various metalic elements... hmm, this could be tricky
At 4 out of 6, and I'd be surprised if the other two weren't there somewhere, I'd say Jupiter has a very good chance of harboring life. The level of complexity of the life is another matter, but Jupiters might be more likely to be a source of life than puny little Earth.
I had a friend who's allergic to latex. Forget the itch. Anaphylactic shock. When I asked him about the common use of latex being inconvenient, he said there were non-latex versions available.
Cash is king. To the point where many vending machines will take 10000yen (~$100) bills and return a stack of 1000yen (~$10) bills plus some coins when you buy a drink (however, most drink machines won't take anything bigger than 1000yen).
RFID cash replacement cards exist (as do ways of using your mobile phone as one), but places that accept them are rare outside the vicinity of train stations (or even in, in western Japan).
EFTPOS seems to be rarer that the RFID readers.
You can make online puchases with some places (eg, Amazon), and pay in cash at the local Lawson convenience store. COD is very common. Lawson even has a system where you can book for certain popular places (tokyo dysney, ghibli museum, etc) and pay in-store. Paying for your mobile phone is the same: many convenience stores will do the processing for you. Seems to be free, too (probably built into the mobile billing system).
The most technologically advanced country on the planet still likes to rub two coins together.
Discharge a AA nicad batery (~1200mAh) in 4.3 miscroseconds, and you have 1.2GW, so a few lettuce leaves poses no problem. Now, getting a GJ would take a few head of letuce.
IIRC, paper's ignition point is 451 degrees Farenheight (about 233 degrees C). If things get that hot in your computer, you have bigger things to worry about than the case catching fire. Then again, a bit of water cooling and you have a cofffe maker.
there could be water and fuel available almost the whole way.
If you stop and start. It takes LOT of energy and time to get up to speed -- or to slow down again -- to travel interstellar if you want to get there in less than a million years.
While very true, here's something to consider: with iceballs going that far out, that's a lot of expansion room for any humans willing to live on iceballs (and makes it rather difficult to wipe out the species). Sure, getting there by colonial expansion could take millions of years, so what? Other than the fact that's a long time to figure out how to get there faster:)
Australia has two seasons: summer (August, though for some strange reason, Australians insist on calling it winter) and "I'd rather be in hell" (the rest of the year). Except in Melbourne: all four seasons in one day.
Yes, the escape velocity is 42.1km/s. But anything in Earth's orbit already has a velocity of 29.78km/s (+/- a bit if in orbit around the Earth). This means that the delta-V required to escape the solar system from Earth's orbit is 12.32km/s. Less than half that required to de-orbit and fall into the sun.
This is actually a mistake that I make quite often (forgetting to factor in the current orbital velocity).
Then if something goes like really bad, we fire up the partially fueled engine and fly it into the sun. If not, we complete the mission.
Flying something into the sun is rediculously difficult (compared to Earth's orbit, the sun is pretty small). Much easier to just send the thing on its way and forget about it. If it's got enough delta-V to get it out of the solar system, we need not worry about it ever again.
I fully expect it to be the same, as it comes down to information content. It's just not possible to extract information that isn't there, no matter what algorithm you use. Same problem as with "Enhance!" in the movies.
That line alone would have been enough to make that movie good (there were plenty of other good bits, too: most definitely not the usual Hollywood used pablum).
I'll give you a hint: I can do it more accurately with a long piece of string and two daubs of mud than a construction worker can do with his set-square.
You're building a house and you need to put up a 5m long wall and a 12m long wall such that they are perfectly square to each other. How are you going to do it?
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Verbing nouns is something English speakers have been doing for a very long time.
doesn't need to be void, even. (I'm sure purists will complain about _t being reserved)
[header file] ...
typedef struct something_s something_t;
something_t *private stuff;
[C file] ...
struct something_s {
};
I use this sort of construct quite a lot.
More specifically, non-working ballpoint pens.
Let's see, life as we know it needs... :) Second most energetic object in the solar system.
carbon... check. methane.
nitrogen... check. amonia.
hydrogen... check. comes bundled with the carbon and nitrogen.
water... hmm, well, that's what juno is looking for
energy... check. It's Jupter we're talking about
various metalic elements... hmm, this could be tricky
At 4 out of 6, and I'd be surprised if the other two weren't there somewhere, I'd say Jupiter has a very good chance of harboring life. The level of complexity of the life is another matter, but Jupiters might be more likely to be a source of life than puny little Earth.
No, windows is not user friendly. It's actually very user antagonistic. It is, however, corporate (particularly *AA) friendly.
Rather than not being user friendly, Linux's problem is it is too user friendly: it's easy to get lost in the choices.
Most windows users want their hand held. Corporations want to use handcuffs. Windows provides the handcuffs.
The flora isn't far behind the fauna.
I had a friend who's allergic to latex. Forget the itch. Anaphylactic shock. When I asked him about the common use of latex being inconvenient, he said there were non-latex versions available.
Cash is king. To the point where many vending machines will take 10000yen (~$100) bills and return a stack of 1000yen (~$10) bills plus some coins when you buy a drink (however, most drink machines won't take anything bigger than 1000yen).
RFID cash replacement cards exist (as do ways of using your mobile phone as one), but places that accept them are rare outside the vicinity of train stations (or even in, in western Japan).
EFTPOS seems to be rarer that the RFID readers.
You can make online puchases with some places (eg, Amazon), and pay in cash at the local Lawson convenience store. COD is very common. Lawson even has a system where you can book for certain popular places (tokyo dysney, ghibli museum, etc) and pay in-store. Paying for your mobile phone is the same: many convenience stores will do the processing for you. Seems to be free, too (probably built into the mobile billing system).
The most technologically advanced country on the planet still likes to rub two coins together.
Discharge a AA nicad batery (~1200mAh) in 4.3 miscroseconds, and you have 1.2GW, so a few lettuce leaves poses no problem. Now, getting a GJ would take a few head of letuce.
Ah, but I am one.
As far as I'm concerned, there is but one appropriate rathing: PG, with a very strong emphasis on the P.
IIRC, paper's ignition point is 451 degrees Farenheight (about 233 degrees C). If things get that hot in your computer, you have bigger things to worry about than the case catching fire. Then again, a bit of water cooling and you have a cofffe maker.
And that too, is true, until you realize that the true purpose of war is to run a scythe through the popluation, preferably before they can breed.
there could be water and fuel available almost the whole way.
If you stop and start. It takes LOT of energy and time to get up to speed -- or to slow down again -- to travel interstellar if you want to get there in less than a million years.
While very true, here's something to consider: with iceballs going that far out, that's a lot of expansion room for any humans willing to live on iceballs (and makes it rather difficult to wipe out the species). Sure, getting there by colonial expansion could take millions of years, so what? Other than the fact that's a long time to figure out how to get there faster :)
Australia has two seasons: summer (August, though for some strange reason, Australians insist on calling it winter) and "I'd rather be in hell" (the rest of the year). Except in Melbourne: all four seasons in one day.
Yes, the escape velocity is 42.1km/s. But anything in Earth's orbit already has a velocity of 29.78km/s (+/- a bit if in orbit around the Earth). This means that the delta-V required to escape the solar system from Earth's orbit is 12.32km/s. Less than half that required to de-orbit and fall into the sun.
This is actually a mistake that I make quite often (forgetting to factor in the current orbital velocity).
Flying something into the sun is rediculously difficult (compared to Earth's orbit, the sun is pretty small). Much easier to just send the thing on its way and forget about it. If it's got enough delta-V to get it out of the solar system, we need not worry about it ever again.
I fully expect it to be the same, as it comes down to information content. It's just not possible to extract information that isn't there, no matter what algorithm you use. Same problem as with "Enhance!" in the movies.
That line alone would have been enough to make that movie good (there were plenty of other good bits, too: most definitely not the usual Hollywood used pablum).
And that matters, why?
That's one way, but an even easier way is to adjust the two walls until the diagonal is 13m.
I'll give you a hint: I can do it more accurately with a long piece of string and two daubs of mud than a construction worker can do with his set-square.
You're building a house and you need to put up a 5m long wall and a 12m long wall such that they are perfectly square to each other. How are you going to do it?
Forget the prime directive. It's all about suppression by making sure the advanced stay ahead of the primitive.
Sure, it was capable of traveling long distances without losing power, and it would have too, if a rather large island hadn't been in the way.