"Greg Giraldo" may have done a bit about this, but the OP is correct: Chris Rock DID do a number on it. It was aired last year and this, if I remember correctly, on HBO.
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Ok, sorry in advance for being nitpicky but I enjoy this sort of thing. Mea culpa.
A quick calculation shows that the OP figure of 4.7 tons of TNT is high by about 0.12 ton TNT equiv.:
KE = 0.5 * 370kg * (23000mph)^2 = 1.956E17 ergs
1 ton TNT = 4.26E16 ergs (rough, but fairly good approx.)
1.95E17 ergs / (4.26E16 ergs) = 4.58 ton TNT equiv.
No, no, no, no. Get out and vote EVEN IF YOU CAN'T.
I don't care how hard it is, how inconvenient it is, what state you live in - think your state's tally is a foregone conclusion? So what - the totals still matter.
Seriously, folks - no matter which "side" you're on, this election MATTERS. GO VOTE!
Or don't complain for four years.
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This is priceless. Particularly the "30%" part.
OMG.
But it's sad, too, to see poor little users go so wrong...
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Why the hell do you leave the stickers ON? Does your microwave, vacuum cleaner, fridge, coffeemaker, all still have the sales stickers on?
> These are people that seem unable to acknowledge > very real benefits from the Apple systems like > ease of access, good ergonomic design, and > thoughtful OS design.
No, we're people who DISAGREE. We don't find that there ARE benefits to using Apple systems. We DON'T find Apple machines ergonomic. We find the OS to be braindead, not thoughtful.
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> There are not enough mod points in the world for you.
Agreed. Poster deserves "+X Insightful" where X is some absurdley large integer. In lieu of being able to award said large integer, I'll just reply here echoing your comments.
> I think a proper comparison would be a Porsche > to a Ford
Well, having driven a Carrera 4 *and* a Taurus, I can see the point of the analogy. But having driven a Cobra (427, original) and a 914, I think it doesn't hold up all that well.
Ultimately, I'd prefer to have a PC (read: no proprietary junk, commodity components, tweakable, moddable) that has AT MOST a couple features of the Mac (uhh...I'm trying, hold on...uhh...).
I don't WANT to "live the Mac lifestyle" - I have my OWN damn lifestyle, which works very well, thank you very much. And the very fact that Mac snobs constantly prattle on about their "Mac lifestyle" only makes me want to gag harder. I've sat in cafes in SF and LA, NYC and in Europe, listening to silly Mac people talk about their own superiority as if THEY were superior humans for having the grace to own a f^&%ing powerbook. Imagine my loathing and bile-spitting disdain...except that I don't voice my own sense of superiority to these powerbook-toting, vw-driving Steve Jobs fanboys, while they eagerly rattle off the virtues of their nonsensical operating systems (which they often know nothing about aside from the sales litersture, which is read like Playboys used to be in bathroom stalls).
And that gets me to the OS. Why in the world would anyone choose, willingly, to use an OS that refused to maximize a window when told to? Or that insisted on being "cute" at every opportunity, even when being so is distracting, unnecessary and reeks of an out of control case of eyecandyitis? Christ, at least when I tell a window under pretty much ANY other OS to maximize, it DOES. And let's not even get started on the stubborn, Bush-like insistence on staying with the failed policy of single-button mice.
Now, I can hear some of you saying "well, uh...but we have a commandline! And it's *nix!" Well, yes sonny, you DO have a commandline. But I'd rather have my Linux commandline anyday, unencumbered by OS X's ridiculously overblown, unintuitive, overwrought GUI.
When I administer cheapo PC's that some bean-counter thought would make a good purchase, I find that they, too, sometimes just crash while sitting idly by as you describe.
But on machines that *I* spec, and *I* build, I don't see the same behavior...even running Windows.
Well, um...Lockheed, actually. Contracts generally specify that things like this are the responsibility of the contractor and come out of their profits, not NASA's budget.
> The matter that makes up the Earth, you and I, the > sun, our Galaxy, was all part of the explosion we > call the Big Bang.
Well, yes, and no. "The matter" was indeed formed during the big bang (well, shortly after it, during nucleosynthesis). But only Hydrogen, Helium and a little Lithium. The rest of the actual atoms you and I are made of were formed in stellar cores as a result of fusion (for elements lighter than and including Iron) or in stellar supernovae (for all elements heavier than Iron).
Pretty cool to look at a gold ring on your finger and contemplate its origin in an exploding star.
Mod parent funny and insightful...(I was wondering when someone would notice the units problem...)
...Mod previous posters who missed this as slow on the uptake, unless they thought it was too obvious to comment on, in which case mod them as spoilsports.
The frustration is because the authors of the original article are ignoring a huge elephant in the middle of the room, as the poster above you notes: the methods currently available GUARANTEE that we will see only large, jupiter like planets orbiting close to their parent stars, and so the entire article is a) unneccessary and b) bad science and c) harmful to the public's accurate perception of astronomy and the search for life both.
Well, I can't PROVE that the tooth fairy doesn't exist...but I am SURE that it doesn't nonetheless.
This argument is used often by christians who advocate the "intelligent design" hypothesis, claiming that science can't speak to the validity religion because the existence of god can't be "disproven".
But it's bad logic - we know that physical laws are universal, even though we admit that our understanding of those laws may be incomplete. But that doesn't mean our understanding of them is WRONG, and it doesn't mean that we can't use what we know to reliably infer things...such as that the tooth fairy doesn't exist, that life would be unlikely to be able to begin in an environment which is a) energy poor most of the time and b) has its energy rich period interrupted, resulting in a highly unstable environment for any life which DID manage to get started during an energy rich period.
> one of Christianity's greatest qualities is > the adaptability and universality of its > message.
read: its willingness to CHANGE its message when inconvenient facts present themselves (i.e., evolution, heliocentric solar system, women not made from ribs, etc.)
Mod me troll, I don't care. I think that it's high time that we all called a spade a spade and recognized religion for what it is.
Granted, but considering AMD's excellent new socket 939-based CPUs, I think that they will see a strong synergistic effect here, with some public doubt about Intel steering the fence-sitters toward Athlon 64 and 64 FX solutions.
The fact is that registering a domain, which can then be hosted by any number of el-cheapo hosting companies to do nothing more than host an email address is so cheap, and so easy, that it's a reasonable, useful, and - to respond to your criticism of the lack of permanency - PERMANENT solution to having to rely on a half-baked, "free" service.
Your hosting company shuts down? So what: there are hundreds more who are happy to park your domain & provide an email account - one that you can control, and that won't serve you ads. Bingo: your have a permanent, portable, self-controlled-and-administered email account, with none of the REAL privacy & reliability issues that poeople experience all the time with Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.
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"Greg Giraldo" may have done a bit about this, but the OP is correct: Chris Rock DID do a number on it. It was aired last year and this, if I remember correctly, on HBO.
Ok, sorry in advance for being nitpicky but I enjoy this sort of thing. Mea culpa.
A quick calculation shows that the OP figure of 4.7 tons of TNT is high by about 0.12 ton TNT equiv.:
KE = 0.5 * 370kg * (23000mph)^2 = 1.956E17 ergs
1 ton TNT = 4.26E16 ergs (rough, but fairly good approx.)
1.95E17 ergs / (4.26E16 ergs) = 4.58 ton TNT equiv.
Great. So some nations will be putting out less CO2 and other greenhouse gases.
That's all fine and well, but they'll be emitting those gases from factories that are UNDERWATER. At least if they're anyhwhere near a coastline...
> Anyone got any recommendations as to how ;-)
> I can do so?
I'll bet someone on ebay is selling vote...
> And get out and vote if you can.
No, no, no, no. Get out and vote EVEN IF YOU CAN'T.
I don't care how hard it is, how inconvenient it is, what state you live in - think your state's tally is a foregone conclusion? So what - the totals still matter.
Seriously, folks - no matter which "side" you're on, this election MATTERS. GO VOTE!
Or don't complain for four years.
This is priceless. Particularly the "30%" part.
OMG.
But it's sad, too, to see poor little users go so wrong...
Why the hell do you leave the stickers ON? Does your microwave, vacuum cleaner, fridge, coffeemaker, all still have the sales stickers on?
My GAWD, man! Oh, the HUMANITY!
> These are people that seem unable to acknowledge
> very real benefits from the Apple systems like
> ease of access, good ergonomic design, and
> thoughtful OS design.
No, we're people who DISAGREE. We don't find that there ARE benefits to using Apple systems. We DON'T find Apple machines ergonomic. We find the OS to be braindead, not thoughtful.
> I've got a life. An iLife.
Well aren't you just so SPECIAL!
Run along, kiddies.
> There are not enough mod points in the world for you.
Agreed. Poster deserves "+X Insightful" where X is some absurdley large integer. In lieu of being able to award said large integer, I'll just reply here echoing your comments.
> to a Ford
Well, having driven a Carrera 4 *and* a Taurus, I can see the point of the analogy. But having driven a Cobra (427, original) and a 914, I think it doesn't hold up all that well.
Ultimately, I'd prefer to have a PC (read: no proprietary junk, commodity components, tweakable, moddable) that has AT MOST a couple features of the Mac (uhh...I'm trying, hold on...uhh...).
I don't WANT to "live the Mac lifestyle" - I have my OWN damn lifestyle, which works very well, thank you very much. And the very fact that Mac snobs constantly prattle on about their "Mac lifestyle" only makes me want to gag harder. I've sat in cafes in SF and LA, NYC and in Europe, listening to silly Mac people talk about their own superiority as if THEY were superior humans for having the grace to own a f^&%ing powerbook. Imagine my loathing and bile-spitting disdain...except that I don't voice my own sense of superiority to these powerbook-toting, vw-driving Steve Jobs fanboys, while they eagerly rattle off the virtues of their nonsensical operating systems (which they often know nothing about aside from the sales litersture, which is read like Playboys used to be in bathroom stalls).
And that gets me to the OS. Why in the world would anyone choose, willingly, to use an OS that refused to maximize a window when told to? Or that insisted on being "cute" at every opportunity, even when being so is distracting, unnecessary and reeks of an out of control case of eyecandyitis? Christ, at least when I tell a window under pretty much ANY other OS to maximize, it DOES. And let's not even get started on the stubborn, Bush-like insistence on staying with the failed policy of single-button mice.
Now, I can hear some of you saying "well, uh...but we have a commandline! And it's *nix!" Well, yes sonny, you DO have a commandline. But I'd rather have my Linux commandline anyday, unencumbered by OS X's ridiculously overblown, unintuitive, overwrought GUI.
>Well strictly in terms of gravity, yes.
Actually, wouldn't it would be 5/6 more doable, not 1/6? 1/6 gravity = 5/6 easier to launch. Not that it matters.
Perhaps you're just choosing bad hardware.
When I administer cheapo PC's that some bean-counter thought would make a good purchase, I find that they, too, sometimes just crash while sitting idly by as you describe.
But on machines that *I* spec, and *I* build, I don't see the same behavior...even running Windows.
> Which gets billed to whom?
Well, um...Lockheed, actually. Contracts generally specify that things like this are the responsibility of the contractor and come out of their profits, not NASA's budget.
> How big was NASA's budget this year?
This WASN'T NASA. It was Lockheed-Martin.
There's enough NASA-bashing as it is - lay the blame where it belongs, please.
> The matter that makes up the Earth, you and I, the
e sis
> sun, our Galaxy, was all part of the explosion we
> call the Big Bang.
Well, yes, and no. "The matter" was indeed formed during the big bang (well, shortly after it, during nucleosynthesis). But only Hydrogen, Helium and a little Lithium. The rest of the actual atoms you and I are made of were formed in stellar cores as a result of fusion (for elements lighter than and including Iron) or in stellar supernovae (for all elements heavier than Iron).
Pretty cool to look at a gold ring on your finger and contemplate its origin in an exploding star.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang_nucleosynth
and
See previous excellent comment about the Kessel Run.
Heh.
> ...solely by using an ad hominem attack.
That's NOT an ad hominem attack. Such an attack would have been to attack the POSTER...but attacking a viewpoint does not qualify.
>I don't understand all the frustration here.
The frustration is because the authors of the original article are ignoring a huge elephant in the middle of the room, as the poster above you notes: the methods currently available GUARANTEE that we will see only large, jupiter like planets orbiting close to their parent stars, and so the entire article is a) unneccessary and b) bad science and c) harmful to the public's accurate perception of astronomy and the search for life both.
> you can't prove otherwise
Well, I can't PROVE that the tooth fairy doesn't exist...but I am SURE that it doesn't nonetheless.
This argument is used often by christians who advocate the "intelligent design" hypothesis, claiming that science can't speak to the validity religion because the existence of god can't be "disproven".
But it's bad logic - we know that physical laws are universal, even though we admit that our understanding of those laws may be incomplete. But that doesn't mean our understanding of them is WRONG, and it doesn't mean that we can't use what we know to reliably infer things...such as that the tooth fairy doesn't exist, that life would be unlikely to be able to begin in an environment which is a) energy poor most of the time and b) has its energy rich period interrupted, resulting in a highly unstable environment for any life which DID manage to get started during an energy rich period.
> one of Christianity's greatest qualities is
> the adaptability and universality of its
> message.
read: its willingness to CHANGE its message when inconvenient facts present themselves (i.e., evolution, heliocentric solar system, women not made from ribs, etc.)
Mod me troll, I don't care. I think that it's high time that we all called a spade a spade and recognized religion for what it is.
Granted, but considering AMD's excellent new socket 939-based CPUs, I think that they will see a strong synergistic effect here, with some public doubt about Intel steering the fence-sitters toward Athlon 64 and 64 FX solutions.
The fact is that registering a domain, which can then be hosted by any number of el-cheapo hosting companies to do nothing more than host an email address is so cheap, and so easy, that it's a reasonable, useful, and - to respond to your criticism of the lack of permanency - PERMANENT solution to having to rely on a half-baked, "free" service.
Your hosting company shuts down? So what: there are hundreds more who are happy to park your domain & provide an email account - one that you can control, and that won't serve you ads. Bingo: your have a permanent, portable, self-controlled-and-administered email account, with none of the REAL privacy & reliability issues that poeople experience all the time with Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.
(I'm still mourning the loss of the best SF series in recent memory)