Okkaaay...
No one said anything about the life-sustaing capacities of dark matter, so I'm not sure what to tell you on that one.
Scientist learn about what is in stars / planets by breaking apart the light that comes from / is reflected off of them. It's called spectroscopy, and you can learn about the basics of it here.
But the long and the short of it is that what they are talking about is most certainly "scientifically" proven. It's all pretty simple once you do your homework. Visit a local telescope: even the most low-rent ones have a prism, a light bulb a few filters to show you how to split light to figure out its spectra. It's a fundamental of astronomy that astronomers tend to gloss over because lay people just get glassy eyed if they try to explain it every time.
The article mentioned noise, emissions and vibration as reasons it might not be popular in cell phones and such, but it didn't say anything about heat. Sure, at a 50% efficiency over the 20-30% efficiency of large turbines they would produce less waste heat (proportionately), but would our little friends get hot?
Some audio discs use a copy protection technology that can prevent the disc from being read by a computer. This may also prevent the disc from being ejected. The audio discs are technically and legally not Compact Discs (CD format), and the CD logo has been removed from the disc. In the logo's former place is the printed message:
Well, IANAA either, but stars (suns) put out just about everything we can "see" or detect -- infrared, ultra-violet, microwaves, x-rays, blah blah blah. I would presume that one could calabrate an infrared detector to be sensitive to a narrow range of temperatures that would allow one to block out the ultra-hot star but still see a warm planet against a cold blanket of space.
The most important graph for this question:
"Infrared TPF concepts would use multiple telescopes configured into an interferometer and spread out over a large (30 meter) boom. The telescopes must operate at extremely low temperatures, and the spacecraft would necessarily be much larger. However, the image contrast requirement is much easier at infrared wavelengths -- only a million to one -- and thus the system optical quality is easier to achieve. "
I think you miss the point. An open understanding of other people and their cultures happens through idle curiosity. Part of understanding that there ARE MANY others is finding a way to remember a little part of each one. Make it a factoid. Put it on a calendar. Remind yourself in little ways that you do not exist in a vacuum.
Cinco de Mayo is coming up. The Mexican independence day means a lot to many members of my community (but not me).
But part of our great American culture is that we do take in bits of everything. We take the best of what's around and use it to better ourselves, our food and our culture. Whatever.
So the 5th of May means nothing to me personally, but I'm going to have a good time -- because why not have a good time? Am I going to drape myself in a Mexican flag and insist that my friends call me Mieguel? No. Does it mean I fully understand Mexican culture? No. Does it mean that I know it's there and can appreciate it -- breathe it in a little? Ci.
So part of grasping a culture is finding the little bits to hold on to. Find out when the holidays are. Find out what the foods are. Find out what the customs are. See what you can relate to. See how you can incorporate their style into your life. Bring them into your life.
And that, kids, is why everybody hates us. We always find the best. But we DON'T do that by shrugging and saying, "Yeah, we see you over there. Now keep to yourself."
I have to say, as the owner of a Duel 800 MHz G4 Tower, that I'm happy that I've stayed on top of the Mac heap since my July purchase. Of course, it's a little disapointing to see the chips not bumping up -- I'd like to see my machine left in the dust just for the sake of the company. But how many people on other hardware platforms would say that? Not many, I don't think.
Being Mac faithful has been a hard thing. It's so hard to justify a company locking down it's software to just use its hardware. It's so difficult to watch Apple make silly little choices like the dock and know that it will latch on to that choice until the next complete revision of the OS.
But, hey, it does cool stuff. I mean, just putting my machine to sleep is cool -- the power button pulsates in a white glow to let me know that it's on but down. It looks alive... like it is breathing.
And since I've been running 10.1, I haven't crashed. I've had to restart about four times in four months -- three times for system upgrades and once because I shut the computer down because I was going to be out of the house for a week -- and every time I realize that I've left my startup preferences all wrong, that I haven't been keeping up with my changes in my work flow. I'm still learning how I use it.
OS X is so rediculously stable (compared to all of my previous Mac/Win9X experiences). And it is so easy to use (compaired to my previous Linux/BeOS/BSD eperiences). Sure, there are imperfections -- the dock sucks when compaired to the ease-of-use of the Apple menu, etc, but it's not as confusing as any random X Windows client nor as difficult as and version of Microsoft's... thing.
I'm a satisfied customer, and everything that I've seen so far has just made me want to be more of a customer. And that can't be all bad, can it?
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Okkaaay ...
No one said anything about the life-sustaing capacities of dark matter, so I'm not sure what to tell you on that one.
Scientist learn about what is in stars / planets by breaking apart the light that comes from / is reflected off of them. It's called spectroscopy, and you can learn about the basics of it here.
But the long and the short of it is that what they are talking about is most certainly "scientifically" proven. It's all pretty simple once you do your homework. Visit a local telescope: even the most low-rent ones have a prism, a light bulb a few filters to show you how to split light to figure out its spectra. It's a fundamental of astronomy that astronomers tend to gloss over because lay people just get glassy eyed if they try to explain it every time.
The article mentioned noise, emissions and vibration as reasons it might not be popular in cell phones and such, but it didn't say anything about heat. Sure, at a 50% efficiency over the 20-30% efficiency of large turbines they would produce less waste heat (proportionately), but would our little friends get hot?
NASA has a bit more on that here.
The most important graph for this question:
"Infrared TPF concepts would use multiple telescopes configured into an interferometer and spread out over a large (30 meter) boom. The telescopes must operate at extremely low temperatures, and the spacecraft would necessarily be much larger. However, the image contrast requirement is much easier at infrared wavelengths -- only a million to one -- and thus the system optical quality is easier to achieve. "
I think you miss the point. An open understanding of other people and their cultures happens through idle curiosity. Part of understanding that there ARE MANY others is finding a way to remember a little part of each one. Make it a factoid. Put it on a calendar. Remind yourself in little ways that you do not exist in a vacuum.
Cinco de Mayo is coming up. The Mexican independence day means a lot to many members of my community (but not me).
But part of our great American culture is that we do take in bits of everything. We take the best of what's around and use it to better ourselves, our food and our culture. Whatever.
So the 5th of May means nothing to me personally, but I'm going to have a good time -- because why not have a good time? Am I going to drape myself in a Mexican flag and insist that my friends call me Mieguel? No. Does it mean I fully understand Mexican culture? No. Does it mean that I know it's there and can appreciate it -- breathe it in a little? Ci.
So part of grasping a culture is finding the little bits to hold on to. Find out when the holidays are. Find out what the foods are. Find out what the customs are. See what you can relate to. See how you can incorporate their style into your life. Bring them into your life.
And that, kids, is why everybody hates us. We always find the best. But we DON'T do that by shrugging and saying, "Yeah, we see you over there. Now keep to yourself."
Being Mac faithful has been a hard thing. It's so hard to justify a company locking down it's software to just use its hardware. It's so difficult to watch Apple make silly little choices like the dock and know that it will latch on to that choice until the next complete revision of the OS.
But, hey, it does cool stuff. I mean, just putting my machine to sleep is cool -- the power button pulsates in a white glow to let me know that it's on but down. It looks alive ... like it is breathing.
And since I've been running 10.1, I haven't crashed. I've had to restart about four times in four months -- three times for system upgrades and once because I shut the computer down because I was going to be out of the house for a week -- and every time I realize that I've left my startup preferences all wrong, that I haven't been keeping up with my changes in my work flow. I'm still learning how I use it.
OS X is so rediculously stable (compared to all of my previous Mac/Win9X experiences). And it is so easy to use (compaired to my previous Linux/BeOS/BSD eperiences). Sure, there are imperfections -- the dock sucks when compaired to the ease-of-use of the Apple menu, etc, but it's not as confusing as any random X Windows client nor as difficult as and version of Microsoft's ... thing.
I'm a satisfied customer, and everything that I've seen so far has just made me want to be more of a customer. And that can't be all bad, can it?
--Mike