It's something of an injustice to credit "Southern Illinois University" researchers for this. The unmodified SIU is in Carbondale, while these researchers were in the Edwardsville branch.
The James Webb Space Telescope - if it's ever actually launched - will run its onboard science operations using scripts written in a tailored version of JavaScript.
whenever I upgrade my non-Apple Web browser on there. As others have noted, it allows unfettered web access, which could lead to inappropriate websites. No big deal.
Got sent to a maillist that covers just about everyone who works at a NASA center east of the Mississippi. Once you add up the virus-generated emails, the emails warning everyone it's a worm, and the emails complaining "for God's sake don't reply to everybody" (which replied to everybody), there were several score messages sent to thousands of users.
Virtually all the comments on here are missing a key point: everything they say is true, but it was true twenty years ago when there were a lot more women going into computer science than are now, though still far fewer than men.
I think what's changed is that many other professions have openeed up to women. When I started work as a programmer, almost all doctors, lawyers, etc. were male. Computer programming, though, was much closer to a pure meritocracy - no one cared about your chromosomes so long as you could code. So it was a good avenue for intelligent women to pursue. Now, they have plenty of alternatives and, as others have noted, women seem to be more inclined than men to pursue more people-oriented professions, like doctors and lawyers, when those options are open to them.
I wonder how many atheists will just pooh-pooh this evidence instead of actually trying to retort it.
Okay, here goes:
(Items 1 and 2 don't have particular arguments, so I'm skipping those):
3. Niagara Falls only dates to the last ice age, so it's not that old. Are do you expect a waterfall to last as long as the Earth does?
4. Halley's is not a long-period comet. There are comets with periods of millions of years and whose orbits go out hundreds of astronomical units, far past Pluto. Where did they come from, or did God create them on their way in?
5. Eddy and Boornazian are wrong about the Sun shrinking in diameter.
6. Even Answers in Genesis (a creationist organization) says the argument about Moon dust is fallacious.
7. Helium can escape the atmosphere through the mechanism of ion outflow.
8. Salt doesn't stay suspended in the waters of the Dead Sea but becomes part of the rock around it.
9. The rate of 2.4 children per family is a huge increase and far from typical. Remember, these children have to survive to adulthood and breed. Even if you assume that such a rate has persisted, you can calculate back to find such absurdities as only about a dozen Egyptians being around to build the Pyramids.
10. Contrary to the claim, there are many ways of independently calibrating radiometric data.
11. People seem to think that a coelacanth is a specific species of fish. It's not, it's a whole classification, on the same level as rodentia. It's no surprise that the grouping has lasted seventy million years.
It took me maybe fifteen minutes to come up with evidence that every single one of these claims was false to the point of being ludicrous. It should be no wonder that atheists (or any rational human being) just pooh-poohs young Earth claims if these are as good as they get.
I have yet to see a definitive answer on why they won't retrieve HST, but I do think it's difficult to rule the above out. (Of course, it seems more likely that it's just a mattter of logistics.)
The bottom line is that they're not going to send up a half-billion-dollar shuttle mission and risk astronauts' lives just to bring HST back (and that's all it would or could do). They had a hard enough time justifying the upcoming servicing mission.
Why can't a teacher tell his students that many people believe God created the universe?
The decision says nothing, nada, zip about what teachers can say in the classroom. What it does say is that teachers can't be forced to read anti-evolutionary statements in class.
I find it ironic that a judgment against a school board requiring teachers to present certain viewpoints (to which they strenously objected - see the trial testimony) is considered hindering free speech.
Not to mention that the safety record of shuttle flights far exceeds what was expected. I remember NASA saying when Challenger blew up that we were very overdue for just such an incident, and it was a fluke that one hadn't happened sooner. Not to say that more shuttles should blow up, but the safety record of shuttle flights is exemplary.
Your memory is faulty. According to the Rogers Commission Report on the Challenger accident, NASA estimates on shuttle loss of vehicle/loss of life failure rate ranged from 1 in 100 (by the engineers) to 1 in 100,000 (by the paper-pushers). There's no way the shuttle would fly with the 4+% failure rate that would have meant the Challenger accident was in line with expectations.
And even when it is on the roll, each rover doesn't move terribly fast, and often needs to navigate around terrain. Nevermind the fact that if you did want to move a long distance, you'd only be able to move a few metres, take a snapshot of your surrroundings, send them back to Earth, and await the next set of movement instructions. Both sending the snapshot and retreiving the next set of instructions takes several hours due to the distances involved, resulting in quite a bit of time spent not going anywhere.
This isn't the whole story. The rover travels in either of two modes: either directly controlled from Earth in complete detail, or instructed by Earth to move to a specific location but allowed to determine its own path (or to give up if there's no safe path). The rovers would not get very far - and certainly Spirit would not have made it the several kilometers from the landing site to the Columbia Hills - if the movement instructions had to be fully scripted from Earth since typically there's only once chance to upload instructions every Martian day.
More information here and a Quicktime animation video here.
I believe the image shows the impact of a dime-to-quarter-sized meteorite traveling slightly under the speed of sound at splash-down. Not only does it satisfy Occam's Razor with only a single item explaining all features on the image (dark trail, white arc, bright flash), but also represents a phenomena which actually isn't that unusual, and which have been recorded on film on more than one instance before.
I'm not aware of any images of meteors actually hitting the Earth. I think this would be a first in that regard.
Also, your explanation does not explain why in the diff image there's no line marking where the lamppost blocks the smoke, as there would be if the light and smoke had formed from a splash in the sea behind the lamppost. Good try, though - I'm leaning toward the bug hypothesis myself, but there are problems with that one, too.
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About the dust billowing thing... what's making the dust move in the first place? The exhaust from the rocket motor. This is a gas, and will swirl and eddy like any other. The moon dust, caught in these eddies, will "billow".
There's no reason for the gas to swirl and eddy since there's no atmosphere to provide friction to cause the swirls and eddies. It will just blow directly outwards, taking the dust along with it.
Not unless it was a hollywood moon set. lunar dust does not billow or race off anywhere - in a vacuum it falls straight down again once the driving force- the engine exhaust in this case- is removed, despite the low gravity; dust, feathers and hammers all fall at the same rate.
Actually, the dust will retain whatever momentum was given it. If it's given a push outwards, it will continue to move outwards until it falls down to the ground, since there is no air to slow it down.
As for the others, Apollo 7's crew was blacklisted because of their "grumpiness" in flight, Mike Collins quit being an astronaut after Apollo 11, Dick Gordon did the same after Apollo 12 and so did Jack Swigert after Apollo 13 (can't say I blame him). Stu Roosa was Apollo 14's CM pilot but his shot at commanding Apollo 17 was overtaken by Gene Cernan who had been LM pilot on Apollo 10. Apollo 18, 19 and 20 were cancelled and that was that.
Dick Gordon did not quit but was in line to command Apollo 18. When Apollo 18 was cancelled, there was a fight to have the 18 crew fly 17, since geologist Jack Schmitt was part of the 18 crew and there was a lot of pressure to send at least one scientist. The solution was to move Schmitt to 17 and bump Joe Engle, who had been training as part of the 17 crew.
Stu Roosa would not have been in line to command Apollo 17. He might have served as backup commander and then been in line to command Apollo 20 if that mission hadn't been cancelled. As it was, he served as backup command module pilot for 17.
Microsoft was losing to DR-DOS at the start of the nineties, until Microsoft added a false message about the incompatability of DR-DOS (Gates knew it was false from Microsoft's own testing).
This message never appeared in versions sold to consumers. Is the rest of your information as accurate?
Also at that time, Geoworks was five years ahead of Microsoft in providing a modern, working GUI for DOS. DR-DOS and Geoworks were being pre-installed on a large percentage of PCs. But Microsoft made a change to DOS specifically to cause Geoworks to fail.
Apparently, because I can't find a single reference to this by Googling.
Why do you think all states have two senators, regardless of population?
Because that was the only way the smaller states would ratify the Constitution, in a situation where each state, regardless of size, had one vote, and nine were needed for the Constitution to go into effect.
By the same reckoning, it seems we ought to make sure that left-handers, Latvian-Americans, and Linux enthusiasts are all represented in Congress. After all, there are plenty of minorities not based on geography.
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It's something of an injustice to credit "Southern Illinois University" researchers for this. The unmodified SIU is in Carbondale, while these researchers were in the Edwardsville branch.
The James Webb Space Telescope - if it's ever actually launched - will run its onboard science operations using scripts written in a tailored version of JavaScript.
whenever I upgrade my non-Apple Web browser on there. As others have noted, it allows unfettered web access, which could lead to inappropriate websites. No big deal.
for my wife's and my book collection, which currently takes up space in every room of our house.
Got sent to a maillist that covers just about everyone who works at a NASA center east of the Mississippi. Once you add up the virus-generated emails, the emails warning everyone it's a worm, and the emails complaining "for God's sake don't reply to everybody" (which replied to everybody), there were several score messages sent to thousands of users.
Reasonably priced, good instructors - I've taken at least half-a-dozen Web-related classes from them and not been disappointed yet.
Virtually all the comments on here are missing a key point: everything they say is true, but it was true twenty years ago when there were a lot more women going into computer science than are now, though still far fewer than men.
I think what's changed is that many other professions have openeed up to women. When I started work as a programmer, almost all doctors, lawyers, etc. were male. Computer programming, though, was much closer to a pure meritocracy - no one cared about your chromosomes so long as you could code. So it was a good avenue for intelligent women to pursue. Now, they have plenty of alternatives and, as others have noted, women seem to be more inclined than men to pursue more people-oriented professions, like doctors and lawyers, when those options are open to them.
Okay, here goes:
(Items 1 and 2 don't have particular arguments, so I'm skipping those):
3. Niagara Falls only dates to the last ice age, so it's not that old. Are do you expect a waterfall to last as long as the Earth does?
4. Halley's is not a long-period comet. There are comets with periods of millions of years and whose orbits go out hundreds of astronomical units, far past Pluto. Where did they come from, or did God create them on their way in?
5. Eddy and Boornazian are wrong about the Sun shrinking in diameter.
6. Even Answers in Genesis (a creationist organization) says the argument about Moon dust is fallacious.
7. Helium can escape the atmosphere through the mechanism of ion outflow.
8. Salt doesn't stay suspended in the waters of the Dead Sea but becomes part of the rock around it.
9. The rate of 2.4 children per family is a huge increase and far from typical. Remember, these children have to survive to adulthood and breed. Even if you assume that such a rate has persisted, you can calculate back to find such absurdities as only about a dozen Egyptians being around to build the Pyramids.
10. Contrary to the claim, there are many ways of independently calibrating radiometric data.
11. People seem to think that a coelacanth is a specific species of fish. It's not, it's a whole classification, on the same level as rodentia. It's no surprise that the grouping has lasted seventy million years.
It took me maybe fifteen minutes to come up with evidence that every single one of these claims was false to the point of being ludicrous. It should be no wonder that atheists (or any rational human being) just pooh-poohs young Earth claims if these are as good as they get.
As the Bad Astronomer notes, the odds of nothing happening have shrunk from 99% to 96%.
I have yet to see a definitive answer on why they won't retrieve HST, but I do think it's difficult to rule the above out. (Of course, it seems more likely that it's just a mattter of logistics.)
The bottom line is that they're not going to send up a half-billion-dollar shuttle mission and risk astronauts' lives just to bring HST back (and that's all it would or could do). They had a hard enough time justifying the upcoming servicing mission.
In case of communications failure, the Sojourner rover was programmed to return to the lander and circle it. It's unlikely that it's kilometers away.
I haven't found anywhere on a NASA site that shows the purported Sojourner rover - only New Scientist and one other online news site do, so far.
Judging by the Washington Post classifieds, demand for IT workers in this area (DC and suburbs) is a fraction of what it was during the dot-com boom.
Why can't a teacher tell his students that many people believe God created the universe?
The decision says nothing, nada, zip about what teachers can say in the classroom. What it does say is that teachers can't be forced to read anti-evolutionary statements in class.
I find it ironic that a judgment against a school board requiring teachers to present certain viewpoints (to which they strenously objected - see the trial testimony) is considered hindering free speech.
A for Andromeda
Not to mention that the safety record of shuttle flights far exceeds what was expected. I remember NASA saying when Challenger blew up that we were very overdue for just such an incident, and it was a fluke that one hadn't happened sooner. Not to say that more shuttles should blow up, but the safety record of shuttle flights is exemplary.
Your memory is faulty. According to the Rogers Commission Report on the Challenger accident, NASA estimates on shuttle loss of vehicle/loss of life failure rate ranged from 1 in 100 (by the engineers) to 1 in 100,000 (by the paper-pushers). There's no way the shuttle would fly with the 4+% failure rate that would have meant the Challenger accident was in line with expectations.
And where was this plutonium before it was put in spacecraft?
On the Earth.
Um, no. Plutonium has too short a half-life to exist naturally. It has to be produced in nuclear reactors.Everything dangerous we play with is just stuff we found already existing in nature.
Like guns and knives and tactical nuclear weapons, you mean?
According to Steve Squyres.
And even when it is on the roll, each rover doesn't move terribly fast, and often needs to navigate around terrain. Nevermind the fact that if you did want to move a long distance, you'd only be able to move a few metres, take a snapshot of your surrroundings, send them back to Earth, and await the next set of movement instructions. Both sending the snapshot and retreiving the next set of instructions takes several hours due to the distances involved, resulting in quite a bit of time spent not going anywhere.
This isn't the whole story. The rover travels in either of two modes: either directly controlled from Earth in complete detail, or instructed by Earth to move to a specific location but allowed to determine its own path (or to give up if there's no safe path). The rovers would not get very far - and certainly Spirit would not have made it the several kilometers from the landing site to the Columbia Hills - if the movement instructions had to be fully scripted from Earth since typically there's only once chance to upload instructions every Martian day.
More information here and a Quicktime animation video here.
I'm not aware of any images of meteors actually hitting the Earth. I think this would be a first in that regard.
Also, your explanation does not explain why in the diff image there's no line marking where the lamppost blocks the smoke, as there would be if the light and smoke had formed from a splash in the sea behind the lamppost. Good try, though - I'm leaning toward the bug hypothesis myself, but there are problems with that one, too.
There's no reason for the gas to swirl and eddy since there's no atmosphere to provide friction to cause the swirls and eddies. It will just blow directly outwards, taking the dust along with it.
Actually, the dust will retain whatever momentum was given it. If it's given a push outwards, it will continue to move outwards until it falls down to the ground, since there is no air to slow it down.
Dick Gordon did not quit but was in line to command Apollo 18. When Apollo 18 was cancelled, there was a fight to have the 18 crew fly 17, since geologist Jack Schmitt was part of the 18 crew and there was a lot of pressure to send at least one scientist. The solution was to move Schmitt to 17 and bump Joe Engle, who had been training as part of the 17 crew.
Stu Roosa would not have been in line to command Apollo 17. He might have served as backup commander and then been in line to command Apollo 20 if that mission hadn't been cancelled. As it was, he served as backup command module pilot for 17.
Microsoft was losing to DR-DOS at the start of the nineties, until Microsoft added a false message about the incompatability of DR-DOS (Gates knew it was false from Microsoft's own testing).
This message never appeared in versions sold to consumers. Is the rest of your information as accurate?
Also at that time, Geoworks was five years ahead of Microsoft in providing a modern, working GUI for DOS. DR-DOS and Geoworks were being pre-installed on a large percentage of PCs. But Microsoft made a change to DOS specifically to cause Geoworks to fail.
Apparently, because I can't find a single reference to this by Googling.
Because that was the only way the smaller states would ratify the Constitution, in a situation where each state, regardless of size, had one vote, and nine were needed for the Constitution to go into effect.
By the same reckoning, it seems we ought to make sure that left-handers, Latvian-Americans, and Linux enthusiasts are all represented in Congress. After all, there are plenty of minorities not based on geography.