Yeah, that's great and all, Don, but you'd be better off having that phone call with whoever runs Foxconn. Given that Apple doesn't actually, you know, build anything.
There are two main ways to detect planets. The first was is by occultation, where the planet passes in front of its parent star, causing a reduction in the amount of light reaching the observer. In effect, a solar eclipse, but the effect is much smaller. This method won't work here, because we actually occult the sun as seen from Planet X and not vice versa.
The method that could be used is by the radial velocity method, where a star is moved in it's orbit by the planet orbiting it. The problem here is that Planet X is so far away, and its orbit is so long, that you would need to observe the sun for thousands of years for the movement to be discernible. The (currently) furthest known object from the sun, Sedna takes about eleven and a half thousand years to complete a single orbit, and Planet X is likely to be even further away that that.
I like to put on my foggy old codger act to coddle them along;
"Start...run....event....viewer.....Oh, it's not good, I'll never remember all this. Do you want me to go to the computer and you can talk me through it? Oh, that's so good of you. It takes so long to start up, my grandson built it for me, but I don't know how to use it, really.....Oh, I think it's stuck, I'll have to turn it off and turn it on again, that what he always tells me to do, hee-hee-hee...etc, etc..."...While I fire up my here's-one-I-prepared-earlier VM that they can (usually) finally figure out a way to get me to let them connect to before they eat their own headsets out of sheer frustration.
Then WireShark tells me their IP address and I tell/b/ chan what that IP address is. It's usually around then that some civic-minded soul out there fires up the low-orbit ion cannon and then they usually have to find another ISP. It's always entertaining to watch what happens to their website until that happens
The jetstream moving further south due to a decreasing temperature differential between a rapidly warming Arctic and the not-as-rapidly-warming lower latitudes, allowing cold air from the poles to move further south than previously.
> I suppose you let your dog drive because it is safer
With better hearing, better vision and faster reflexes, it very probably would be. The only problem is, he can't reach the pedals and his paws keep slipping off the steering wheel.
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There's always going to be a requirement for someone to hold down the Driver Safety Device
Unless you're one of the under-taxed wealthy OP was referring to, he wasn't talking about you.
Yeah, that's great and all, Don, but you'd be better off having that phone call with whoever runs Foxconn. Given that Apple doesn't actually, you know, build anything.
I don't know, I was just thinking how appropriate . is for describing the singularity.
When it upgrades to "I'm right and you're going to hell if you don't agree"
> The coldest year on record was also evidence of 'climate change'
What, 1910?
Buuuut, seriously folks...Yes. It is part of the evidence. The other part is the 106 years that followed 1910.
Oh, yes, very definitely a record-breaking temperature drop, the like of which has never been seen before!
Four tons of weight would not get "lost in the noise" if it suddenly decided to move from, e.g., the middle of the plane to the tail end of it.
You lined up;
> Oil companies funding alarming information
against
> A scientist...leading to a conclusion that there is nothing going on to be alarmed about
Which one of these is describing AGW?
There are two main ways to detect planets. The first was is by occultation, where the planet passes in front of its parent star, causing a reduction in the amount of light reaching the observer. In effect, a solar eclipse, but the effect is much smaller. This method won't work here, because we actually occult the sun as seen from Planet X and not vice versa.
The method that could be used is by the radial velocity method, where a star is moved in it's orbit by the planet orbiting it. The problem here is that Planet X is so far away, and its orbit is so long, that you would need to observe the sun for thousands of years for the movement to be discernible. The (currently) furthest known object from the sun, Sedna takes about eleven and a half thousand years to complete a single orbit, and Planet X is likely to be even further away that that.
The answer to that question is: That's not the official site.
This is the official site: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia...
I like to put on my foggy old codger act to coddle them along;
"Start...run....event....viewer.....Oh, it's not good, I'll never remember all this. Do you want me to go to the computer and you can talk me through it? Oh, that's so good of you. It takes so long to start up, my grandson built it for me, but I don't know how to use it, really.....Oh, I think it's stuck, I'll have to turn it off and turn it on again, that what he always tells me to do, hee-hee-hee...etc, etc..." ...While I fire up my here's-one-I-prepared-earlier VM that they can (usually) finally figure out a way to get me to let them connect to before they eat their own headsets out of sheer frustration.
Then WireShark tells me their IP address and I tell /b/ chan what that IP address is. It's usually around then that some civic-minded soul out there fires up the low-orbit ion cannon and then they usually have to find another ISP. It's always entertaining to watch what happens to their website until that happens
No, but it certainly did some work on him instead.
The jetstream moving further south due to a decreasing temperature differential between a rapidly warming Arctic and the not-as-rapidly-warming lower latitudes, allowing cold air from the poles to move further south than previously.
Not a guess, as such, more like science.
You really have no idea just how big Africa is, do you?
> I suppose you let your dog drive because it is safer
With better hearing, better vision and faster reflexes, it very probably would be. The only problem is, he can't reach the pedals and his paws keep slipping off the steering wheel.
> Try algae instead. There's far more ocean than land surface...
Read the whole post, not just the first sentence. Unless you know a good way to get trees to grow in the ocean.
Did you learn programming with JavaScript, by any chance?
Found the GNU-Emacs user...
For a moment there, I had a horrible premonition
80's disco fashions look to be headed back in a big way
After all that advertising, they still hadn't sold enough to pay the bill?
Sounds like Google ads don't really work all that well.
....About 2.75 inches, you say?
It took a while to figure out where you'd gotten to, but the TFA you found yourself on is not the TFA.
Your TFA is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme... - It's a podcast linked to from the first actual TFA at http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi....
On the page for that podcast, one of the guest speakers is
> Nemone Metaxas is the presenter of BBC 6 Music's ‘Nemone's Electric Ladyland’
Not the engineer on the original recording.
He might be making the Humpty Dumpty play;
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