If you really want to have a a/serious/ thought discussion on this, consider the following:
1) Nothing much can be said about objects with not much atmosphere, since the only observable outcome would be the temperature of the body which would just fluctuate due to radiational cooling since there's no atmosphere to keep any excess heat in. This would eliminate Mercury and most of the moons.
2) Thinking there will be any measureable outcome from single digit changes from an object that appears as a tiny spec in the sky is dubious. This eliminates the planets in the outer systems (Jupiter onward). The amount of thermal mass they have makes that even more unlikely.
What does this leave? Venus, Earth, and Mars. No doubt Earth is one sample set. Venus is a much harder question as the source to its internal heat has been under debate.
http://eclipseedge.org/msgboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=608/
so it would be difficult to tell what caused a temperature increase even if there was measured.
Two samples don't prove a theory. But it should at least cause people to think that there might be other reasons and they bear serious investigation.
The upper, steepest section, which appears highly fractured due to blocks pulling away from the wall, is the likely source zone for the falls. The precise trigger mechanism is not yet known, although the disappearance of the carbon dioxide frost Isn't it obvious by the loss of frost? Damn oil companies are ruining Mars already.
It's because the OS people don't have a good version they can call their own. There is *no* difference between java and OpenGL, but the whiners don't whine to SGI about OGL because mesa is an acceptable alternative.
It's pretty much the baby logic - you don't have it so cry until you do.
Outsourcing is to the IT industry workers as
GPL is to IT intellectual property.
Same forces apply to both. Hard to condemn one and advocate the other.
You're thinking about Japanese entirely the wrong way: it's not that ONE WORD has many different meanings, it's that many words sound the same.
IE, they are homonyms, like there, their, and they're. Easily distinguishable when reading, but confusing when spoken. Only poets would think this is a good thing - it's pretty much a bad idea in a language, both computer and human.
Of course it's a ways off (if you can call a unreachable goal as being "a ways off"), given the current way that things are being done in this arena.
It is mindboggling that millions are spent on projects like the tokamak where even *IF* they make a breakeven burn, they can't tell you how they are going to get the energy out of the machine!
There are other alternate concepts out there
(try looking up "plasmak" in google for one), but large-budget items like the PPPL, NIF, etc., that has accomplished very little are sucking up any research dollars out there.
I think that it is "a ways off" until some people get the clue that the conventional ideas just don't work and try taking risks and fund other ideas that might.
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1) Nothing much can be said about objects with not much atmosphere, since the only observable outcome would be the temperature of the body which would just fluctuate due to radiational cooling since there's no atmosphere to keep any excess heat in. This would eliminate Mercury and most of the moons.
2) Thinking there will be any measureable outcome from single digit changes from an object that appears as a tiny spec in the sky is dubious. This eliminates the planets in the outer systems (Jupiter onward). The amount of thermal mass they have makes that even more unlikely.
What does this leave? Venus, Earth, and Mars. No doubt Earth is one sample set. Venus is a much harder question as the source to its internal heat has been under debate. http://eclipseedge.org/msgboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=608/ so it would be difficult to tell what caused a temperature increase even if there was measured.
Two samples don't prove a theory. But it should at least cause people to think that there might be other reasons and they bear serious investigation.
This really is not too new. This person has been doing impressive things with robosnakes for at least 15 years.... http://www.snakerobots.com/
It's pretty much the baby logic - you don't have it so cry until you do.
Outsourcing is to the IT industry workers as GPL is to IT intellectual property. Same forces apply to both. Hard to condemn one and advocate the other.
You're thinking about Japanese entirely the wrong way: it's not that ONE WORD has many different meanings, it's that many words sound the same. IE, they are homonyms, like there, their, and they're. Easily distinguishable when reading, but confusing when spoken. Only poets would think this is a good thing - it's pretty much a bad idea in a language, both computer and human.
It is mindboggling that millions are spent on projects like the tokamak where even *IF* they make a breakeven burn, they can't tell you how they are going to get the energy out of the machine!
There are other alternate concepts out there (try looking up "plasmak" in google for one), but large-budget items like the PPPL, NIF, etc., that has accomplished very little are sucking up any research dollars out there. I think that it is "a ways off" until some people get the clue that the conventional ideas just don't work and try taking risks and fund other ideas that might.