Average insolation at Mars orbit is much higher than at Titan, so the atmosphere of Mars has a much higher kinetic energy and thus even its larger mass is not enough to have it retain a Titan-density atmosphere.
Whether or not it has a magnetosphere, its atmosphere will leak away to space due to thermal boil-off. Solar wind accelerates the process by imparting additional kinetic energy to kick loose atoms already near escape at the top of the atmosphere.
Eric J. Lerner is Executive Director of the Focus Fusion Society and President of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics in Lawrenceville, NJ. He is the author of The Big Bang Never Happened, published in 1991 by Random House, and now in a Vintage paperback edition. He has been an independent researcher in plasma physics since 1979, and has become internationally known for his studies linking cosmic plasma phenomena and laboratory fusion devices, especially the dense plasma focus. He has developed original theories of quasars, large scale structure, the microwave background and the origin of light elements all based on the plasma cosmology approach, which is an alternative to the Big Bang theory.
So maybe Fred Hoyle wasn't convinced either, but the evidence for the Big Bang is pretty close to overwhelming at this point. It's not impossible that someone who believes that the Earth is flat can come up with a H-B fusion device, either, but it would seem a little unlikely.
Hate to respond to my own post, but forgot my fav Googlebar feature which makes it rule, while the official Google Toolbar continues to drool...
From a Web page, select an address - if it contains a full address with city/state, you can select the Google Maps icon in Gbar and boom, instant map (your mileage may vary by country).
If you are house hunting as I am, this combined with the GMaps Satellite view is killer.
(You will need to run the Experimental googlebar for the Maps button.)
The key differentiator between this concept and some of the early mode-switching cordless/cellular phones is that the same number is used by the phone whichever domain it is in.
And a number of companies are working on precisely the WiFi approach, for example, BridgePort Networks.
I don't think that this is a serious expression of concern on the part of IBM management. They are in the process of executing thousands of their employees in Europe at this moment. IBM still has a significant presence in the Raleigh-Durham area, and it's typical to "show the flag" at grad time - every company would of course like to have the cream of the crop in any field that pertains to them.
People have gotten the message that our corporate and government 'leaders' have been sending in the most unequivocal way - money. I.E. that it's a dog-eat-dog world, the cheapest way to make the most profit will be primarily funneled to those who are at the top of the pyramid. These are not CS or EE grads. A few managed to rise to the top in the past at tech firms, but that is very 70s-80s thinking. Now, it is strictly those who come from the marketing and finance side, and the most purely profitable industries we have in the U.S. now are in fact financial corporations that produce nothing tangible.
Only a fool would pursue a technical career for the money. It's a vocation, not a profession. Soon it will be something like being a humanities major - something all the relatives will roll their eyes about when they hear what Johnny is studying at university.
Photographing screens makes getting through this impenetrable security...a snap.
For less effort, putting monitor video through a recorder would get everything that you could display on a screen.
Better hire screening would provide much better security than all this folderol. All of this might keep the honest employee free of the temptation to casual snoop, but it wouldn't impede a determined thief.
1975. Description of a global computer network remarkably similar to the Internet - including a computer worm!! A remarkably prescient description, in many respects, of the late-90s.
"So, the combination is: one, two, three, four, five. That's the stupidest combination I ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!" - Dark Helmet in Spaceballs!
We don't see the broken-ass beta version for six months before the final...we only see the final (which may have some bugs, or issues, but is definitely usable)
Uh, dude, you ever hear of Mac OS X 10.0? It sure impressed the hell out of me that they SOLD the broken-ass beta version.
Hemoglobin isn't crystalline in the body, just in the X-ray crystallography lab. Transport proteins generally work by changing shape, which is hard if you are a crystal.
I found that quote from the article weird as well, because I can think of many proteins that use transition metals (cobalamin for example.) I think what the guy meant to say was that this is example is unique as an extra-organism biological material incorporating a transition metal.
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What's a carburetor? Or a Yugo, for that matter?
-1 for old and moldy as well as nonsensical.
Hook 'em 'Horns!
Middle-age has not been kind.
Average insolation at Mars orbit is much higher than at Titan, so the atmosphere of Mars has a much higher kinetic energy and thus even its larger mass is not enough to have it retain a Titan-density atmosphere.
Whether or not it has a magnetosphere, its atmosphere will leak away to space due to thermal boil-off. Solar wind accelerates the process by imparting additional kinetic energy to kick loose atoms already near escape at the top of the atmosphere.
So maybe Fred Hoyle wasn't convinced either, but the evidence for the Big Bang is pretty close to overwhelming at this point. It's not impossible that someone who believes that the Earth is flat can come up with a H-B fusion device, either, but it would seem a little unlikely.
Two clicks - Autolink + Click on resulting link. Gbar still wins, unless you have unsteady hands and don't like to select text.
Actually, the Autolink thing is clever, but the name is sort of generic - Automap would make the purpose clearer.
Hate to respond to my own post, but forgot my fav Googlebar feature which makes it rule, while the official Google Toolbar continues to drool...
From a Web page, select an address - if it contains a full address with city/state, you can select the Google Maps icon in Gbar and boom, instant map (your mileage may vary by country).
If you are house hunting as I am, this combined with the GMaps Satellite view is killer.
(You will need to run the Experimental googlebar for the Maps button.)
http://googlebar.mozdev.org/index.html
Rocks On. Available for FF and old school classic Mozilla, my preferred ride. It is the Keymaster AND Gatekeeper of XUL, baby.
Uh - no. 70 times more mass. They didn't say it was the same size.
/. posters, whose denseness frequently approaches that of neutronium.
It could be this new planet contains significant numbers of
'If I never saw it, how can you say it's extinct'?
Keep your eyes closed, man, if the view bothers you. Eventually, there will only one species left to go extinct.
I always said he was a genius.
Theo == str8b@llin'
The key differentiator between this concept and some of the early mode-switching cordless/cellular phones is that the same number is used by the phone whichever domain it is in.
And a number of companies are working on precisely the WiFi approach, for example, BridgePort Networks.
http://www.bridgeport-networks.com/
Mr Rainer Partenan has crossed the streams and added dilithium crystals for MAD HOT power density!
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I don't think that this is a serious expression of concern on the part of IBM management. They are in the process of executing thousands of their employees in Europe at this moment. IBM still has a significant presence in the Raleigh-Durham area, and it's typical to "show the flag" at grad time - every company would of course like to have the cream of the crop in any field that pertains to them.
People have gotten the message that our corporate and government 'leaders' have been sending in the most unequivocal way - money. I.E. that it's a dog-eat-dog world, the cheapest way to make the most profit will be primarily funneled to those who are at the top of the pyramid. These are not CS or EE grads. A few managed to rise to the top in the past at tech firms, but that is very 70s-80s thinking. Now, it is strictly those who come from the marketing and finance side, and the most purely profitable industries we have in the U.S. now are in fact financial corporations that produce nothing tangible.
Only a fool would pursue a technical career for the money. It's a vocation, not a profession. Soon it will be something like being a humanities major - something all the relatives will roll their eyes about when they hear what Johnny is studying at university.
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Photographing screens makes getting through this impenetrable security...a snap. For less effort, putting monitor video through a recorder would get everything that you could display on a screen. Better hire screening would provide much better security than all this folderol. All of this might keep the honest employee free of the temptation to casual snoop, but it wouldn't impede a determined thief.
1975. Description of a global computer network remarkably similar to the Internet - including a computer worm!! A remarkably prescient description, in many respects, of the late-90s.
"So, the combination is: one, two, three, four, five. That's the stupidest combination I ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!" - Dark Helmet in Spaceballs!
Uh, dude, you ever hear of Mac OS X 10.0? It sure impressed the hell out of me that they SOLD the broken-ass beta version.
Lately, I find that if I browse Wired, The Register, and Anandtech, I get 80% of /. content, only several days sooner.
I'm starting to miss Katz....
Hemoglobin isn't crystalline in the body, just in the X-ray crystallography lab. Transport proteins generally work by changing shape, which is hard if you are a crystal.
I found that quote from the article weird as well, because I can think of many proteins that use transition metals (cobalamin for example.) I think what the guy meant to say was that this is example is unique as an extra-organism biological material incorporating a transition metal.