That leap in capacity is due to the different wavelengths of light carrying the data. The laser will use infrared light with a wavelength of 1.06 microns, which is thousands of times shorter than radio waves. Since all light travels at the same speed through space, shorter wavelengths carry more information in the same time.
All light is electromagnetic radiation, but not all electromagnetic radiation is light. Light is the small, visible portion of the elecromagnetic spectrum. So, Virginia's radio is *not* replaying music broadcast over light.
Not sure if this is proper or not, but I use "Centre" for an institution, as in "Centre for the Performing Arts", and "Center" for middle, as in "This doughnut has a hole in the center".
Greece, Rome, and Babylon also had great economies and educational systems. They fell. The US will also fall one day. Rome lasted for 2000 years. The US is only 228 years old, a punk teenager as far as empires go (and apparently has the attitude to match).
Wrong. You do get rich by spending money, if you buy the right things. Buy a DVD player, and you wind up giving Blockbuster $12 on rental fees. You buy a hotel, and you pocket $50 per room per night.
It's stuff like this that newbies haven't a clue about, intermediates hunger for, and perhaps even a few experts don't even know. This is exactly why some people find the command line cryptic and clumsy.
It is a new advertising conduit. In Toronto, several gas station pumps now have video displays built in. So, why not blast video to a cell phone, and reap the advertising dollar.
Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. GEN 7:2 (NIV)
Some other Noah's ark trivia:
God also commanded Noah to take every kind of food onboard for his family and the animals to eat.
The flood lasted 150 days before the waters started to recede
The ark was floating for about five months.
Noah, his family, and the animals were on the ark for over a year.
There are actual laws dictating which way a person must vote? That's counter to what the electoral college system (and democracy) is all about, isn't it? If electoral college members are required to vote a particular way, then it's pointless having them in the first place.
According to my (admittedly small) understanding of the American electoral process, the only thing that has happened is that the Electoral College has been chosen. These elite people will vote to choose who will be president. They could still choose Kerry, could they not?
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Sperm and eggs can be frozen and surrogate mothers used to diversify the gene pool. It is done with livestock all the time.
But... but... but a lot of my interests REQUIRE the use of lasers!
Talk to the FCC. They're the ones that divvy up the spectrum.
From another "Fancy Article" on the mission:
That leap in capacity is due to the different wavelengths of light carrying the data. The laser will use infrared light with a wavelength of 1.06 microns, which is thousands of times shorter than radio waves. Since all light travels at the same speed through space, shorter wavelengths carry more information in the same time.
All light is electromagnetic radiation, but not all electromagnetic radiation is light. Light is the small, visible portion of the elecromagnetic spectrum. So, Virginia's radio is *not* replaying music broadcast over light.
And supplementarily, lasers were originally called optical masers.
The L in LASER stands for Light. Perhaps they could use MASERs.
However, this is the first time an ion engine has been used to leave orbit and re-enter orbit.
It also did it with a mere 70Kg of propellant.
Because our planet has already experienced this. The odds against it happening twice are astronomical.
I guess that would make it impulse, then :-)
Not sure if this is proper or not, but I use "Centre" for an institution, as in "Centre for the Performing Arts", and "Center" for middle, as in "This doughnut has a hole in the center".
Greece, Rome, and Babylon also had great economies and educational systems. They fell. The US will also fall one day. Rome lasted for 2000 years. The US is only 228 years old, a punk teenager as far as empires go (and apparently has the attitude to match).
Wrong. You do get rich by spending money, if you buy the right things. Buy a DVD player, and you wind up giving Blockbuster $12 on rental fees. You buy a hotel, and you pocket $50 per room per night.
I'm sure many a Greek, Babylonian, and Roman thought the same way.
Well, nobody will be yelling at the Americans either, once they've been conquered and subjugated.
Having to grep against "(1)" is annoying
It's stuff like this that newbies haven't a clue about, intermediates hunger for, and perhaps even a few experts don't even know. This is exactly why some people find the command line cryptic and clumsy.
It is a new advertising conduit. In Toronto, several gas station pumps now have video displays built in. So, why not blast video to a cell phone, and reap the advertising dollar.
NO, silly! You attach it to the handlebars of your bicycle.
There are actual laws dictating which way a person must vote? That's counter to what the electoral college system (and democracy) is all about, isn't it? If electoral college members are required to vote a particular way, then it's pointless having them in the first place.
According to my (admittedly small) understanding of the American electoral process, the only thing that has happened is that the Electoral College has been chosen. These elite people will vote to choose who will be president. They could still choose Kerry, could they not?
they're willing to kill over their different ideas....
We need to nuke them
Seems like that willingness isn't restricted to the Middle East.
The death star is in orbit around Saturn
That is not so. The sun shines (at one time or another) over the whole surface of the Moon, just like it shines over the whole surface of the Earth.