So...um...how do you miss it? You go straight out in any direction. When you see a lot of icy chunks floating around, you're there.
I think that watching The Empire Strikes Back may have given you the wrong idea about just how densely packed objects like asteroids and comets are in our solar system.
Consider this. Get your own envelope and pencil if you want to follow along at home. The inner boundary of the Oort cloud is at about 5,000 AU, or 750 billion km from the Sun. The outer boundary is expected to be somewhere around 100,000 AU or 1500 billion km. Inside that volume are an estimated twelve billion objects. Nobody has been able to count them, but Jan Oort guessed that there would be that many and no astronomer has been able to contradict him yet.
That gives us a total volume on the order of 10^28 km^3, with just 12,000,000,000 objects in it. That's 10^18 km^3 for each object, giving you an average distance between objects of at least a million kilometers. A million km is three times the distance from the Earth to the Moon, and the size of a cometary nucleus is on the order of ten km. You'd be lucky just to see a 10 km object at that distance, let alone see it well enough to justify the trip out there.
That means that if you're aiming for an object in the Oort cloud but miss by up to a million km, you're going to sail right through empty space. You won't narrowly dodge between densely packed cometary bodies, rolling and weaving to avoid laser blasts, and then have to hide inside the belly of a giant space worm while the Empire searches for you. You'll just pass on by and miss everything.
Real astronomy isn't nearly as exciting as Star Wars, but that's probably good news for everyone who lives in our galaxy.
So it blocks the radiation, but it does not block the radiation?
Usually, the student will be located _inside_ their clothing while objects like cell towers will be located _outside_. If this is not the case then maybe your school board has bigger problems than they had originally expected.
I guess I'm new enough that I actually read things that I am replying to. And when they don't make sense to me I read them again, instead of pitching a fit.
Some day I only hope to be as jaded and worldly as you are.
The Hollywood Singularity will occur when a movie is remade before the previous remake has finished production.
Babylon 5 ran from February 22, 1993 to November 25, 1998. Star Trek - Deep Space 9 ran from January 3, 1993 to June 2, 1999. As this is a clear case of the remake being released two months before the original, I think your singularity has long since passed and time is running backwards now.
I predict that this will lead to a rise in the popularity of black and white or silent films.
Or should we lock them out and make them administer the network in person so we can stand behind and watch them?
If I wanted to, and I usually don't but then again I usually don't have someone standing behind me and watching everything I do, I could do a whole lot of damage to somebody's network and data even while he was watching me. And when I was done it would be hard to prove that I had done anything at all.
The only way to prevent that kind of thing would be to have someone watching me who knows exactly what I'm doing and understands that, say, creating an at job to echo the number zero five times into a text file will cause that file to be picked up by another scheduled task which would overwrite a source address in another file which would then be included in a firewall configuration later that weekend, and leave a giant back door open on the Internet where I and my friends could gain free access to your entire network. And if you have someone who understands all that but who still has time to just stand around watching me, then why wouldn't they be doing the job themselves?
Just what we need... surround ourselves with ourselves. That will challenge us and cause us to grow into intelligent, tolerant and well rounded individuals.
I don't like hearing this kind of talk, so I'm going to mod it down.
Beats me. I'm still trying to figure out where the "98 km/L" figure came from.
Does anyone in the civilized world actually measure fuel economy in those units? It's magically close to one litre per hundred kilometers, which is an alarmingly good (if someone round) number. Why try to hide it with nonsense units like km/L?
If everything anyone ever said about IT and computers came true there would be a worldwide market for about five of them, and they would be the size of small office buildings.
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I think that watching The Empire Strikes Back may have given you the wrong idea about just how densely packed objects like asteroids and comets are in our solar system.
Consider this. Get your own envelope and pencil if you want to follow along at home. The inner boundary of the Oort cloud is at about 5,000 AU, or 750 billion km from the Sun. The outer boundary is expected to be somewhere around 100,000 AU or 1500 billion km. Inside that volume are an estimated twelve billion objects. Nobody has been able to count them, but Jan Oort guessed that there would be that many and no astronomer has been able to contradict him yet.
That gives us a total volume on the order of 10^28 km^3, with just 12,000,000,000 objects in it. That's 10^18 km^3 for each object, giving you an average distance between objects of at least a million kilometers. A million km is three times the distance from the Earth to the Moon, and the size of a cometary nucleus is on the order of ten km. You'd be lucky just to see a 10 km object at that distance, let alone see it well enough to justify the trip out there.
That means that if you're aiming for an object in the Oort cloud but miss by up to a million km, you're going to sail right through empty space. You won't narrowly dodge between densely packed cometary bodies, rolling and weaving to avoid laser blasts, and then have to hide inside the belly of a giant space worm while the Empire searches for you. You'll just pass on by and miss everything.
Real astronomy isn't nearly as exciting as Star Wars, but that's probably good news for everyone who lives in our galaxy.
So Canadian users are either totally screwed, or have just been saved a whole lot of pain.
There could be, depending on where your home is.
On the other hand if you were lucky the judge presiding might also be a Verizon customer.
But I thought that once software was exposed to the healing rays of Steve it would "Just Work".
How can anything that runs on The Holy Mac be bad?
Usually, the student will be located _inside_ their clothing while objects like cell towers will be located _outside_. If this is not the case then maybe your school board has bigger problems than they had originally expected.
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I guess I'm new enough that I actually read things that I am replying to. And when they don't make sense to me I read them again, instead of pitching a fit.
Some day I only hope to be as jaded and worldly as you are.
Thanks for your unbiased review, Neill.
Huh. It's safest just to let Sheriff Joe arrest you and fight it in court. Juan Mendoza Farias thought that too.
Well, I'm pretty sure that those roving gangs of mentally handicapped people are going to think twice before loitering in any convenience stores. I'm sure that Arizonans can be proud of his "tough on being confused in public" stance, and those pansies from Amnesty International just don't understand just how much danger the coffee pot could have been in from that 130 pound giant if Sheriff Joe and his boys hadn't beaten and tortured him to death.
Of course, I'm just cherry picking the one, lone example of a harmless little guy with the mind of a twelve year old who was murdered by Sheriff Joe. I'm sure that everybody else who has died while in Sheriff Joe's custody have been dangerous, vicious criminals and not, say, people whose only crime was appearing to be mexican, or a blind man serving a short sentence for shoplifting, who accidentally fell out of his bunk so hard that he broke his neck, ruptured his intestines, gave himself severe internal bleeding and broke all of his own toes.
Yeah, that's the kind of "tough on blind guys who commit misdemeanors" stance that we can all support, isn't it?
Babylon 5 ran from February 22, 1993 to November 25, 1998. Star Trek - Deep Space 9 ran from January 3, 1993 to June 2, 1999. As this is a clear case of the remake being released two months before the original, I think your singularity has long since passed and time is running backwards now.
I predict that this will lead to a rise in the popularity of black and white or silent films.
I'm just happy that Starbuck's uniform never turned white.
If this were a movie then Mr. Spock would say that your pattern indicates two dimensional thinking.
Then, Captain Kirk would pound you in the butt in a totally heterosexual way with photon torpedoes.
I think it's a good thing that we aren't in a movie.
If I wanted to, and I usually don't but then again I usually don't have someone standing behind me and watching everything I do, I could do a whole lot of damage to somebody's network and data even while he was watching me. And when I was done it would be hard to prove that I had done anything at all.
The only way to prevent that kind of thing would be to have someone watching me who knows exactly what I'm doing and understands that, say, creating an at job to echo the number zero five times into a text file will cause that file to be picked up by another scheduled task which would overwrite a source address in another file which would then be included in a firewall configuration later that weekend, and leave a giant back door open on the Internet where I and my friends could gain free access to your entire network. And if you have someone who understands all that but who still has time to just stand around watching me, then why wouldn't they be doing the job themselves?
And if I were planning to steal from you, that's exactly what I would say.
I thought we were boycotting wikis.
I don't like hearing this kind of talk, so I'm going to mod it down.
Beats me. I'm still trying to figure out where the "98 km/L" figure came from.
Does anyone in the civilized world actually measure fuel economy in those units? It's magically close to one litre per hundred kilometers, which is an alarmingly good (if someone round) number. Why try to hide it with nonsense units like km/L?
That's amazing. I knew that people in the USA were bigger than usual, but I had no idea they were that big.
That leaves Jimmy, Sally and Suzy from Canada. I don't know them but I'm certain they're really, really nice.
If everything anyone ever said about IT and computers came true there would be a worldwide market for about five of them, and they would be the size of small office buildings.
"Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your penis?"
Emplyees have got to have their standards.
Because that would be cheating, obviously.
Duh.
That's funny. When I did the same search for "Why is Microsoft Windows so expensive?" the fifth result for me had the title "Why Is Windows So Cheap?"
"Spoon!"
Well, "Fork". It's close enough. If you're that opposed to it, make your own office suite. With Blackjack. And Hookers.
I call dibs on the name "Openopenofficedotorg.com"