HOLY CRAP.. you are right... wow, me and friend looked a year ago and couldn't find anything, I guess we could've asked someone at school but it never crossed my mind after that afternoon. we were trying to find radar data for a particular thunderstorm event that effected our hometown back in 1993. thank you, anonymous coward / Aaron
Of course, if you were truly intellegent you'd realize that no one knows the answer right now. I'm not saying global warming is a sham, but neither am I saying that its not gonna happen, frankly, I'm under the opinion a large change in climate would occur over several centuries or more, we've been studying weather for not quite 200 years. How can we say we know whats going to happen?
Aside from that... does anyone notice how you read things like "the temperature has risen.5 degrees in the last century". Did they forget their high school physical science class and significant digits? I'm just speculating but something tells me thermometers we used even 50-60 years ago are nowhere near as precise as they are now, anyone in a high school science class would tell you that information you get thats more precise than the thermometers you got it from is bullshit, right?
One last thing.. everyone points to the this years' hurricanes as an example of global climate change. Sure, it was odd that Florida would get hit three times but its not out of the question that the country as a whole gets mulitple hits from major hurricanes. The 1950s are still to this day the worse decade as far as hurricane strikes on the US go. The 1950s had also had a devasting drought (at least here in Texas). Again you can't really say whats going to happen because frankly WE DONT KNOW.
The article was debating weather (pun intended) archive data should be made free. The data is already easily available but you usually have to buy a CD which ranges anywhere from 10 bucks (or so) for NEXRAD images to 5000 for the CD mentioned in the article.
This article had nothing to do with making current weather information free! It is allready free, the US has the best weather service in the world, is the top country in the world for weather research, and its all FREE!! Check out MeteoFrance's website, you have to pay for info. Before you have a knee-jerk reaction: RTFA.
Personally, I don't think its a big issue, the only people who need a CD of archived data for the whole US would be researchers. As far as if you were curious about old weather data for your hometown you could probably go to your local weather field office and ask them for it (or check their website).
Someone may have mentioned this already, I haven't had time to look through all the posts. But, did anyone notice the haze around the light? At first I thought it was steam from a building and didn't think much of it, then I realized the towering cumulus cloud in the background isn't a cold weather cloud, at least not in weather cold enough to make steam obvious.
After I saw the before and after pictures and noticed that the haze wasn't present there... I'd say I have to go with the bug theory. It seems perfectly possible the flash illuminated a shiny bug as it was flying by and perhaps the haze if a reflection off the wings? I'd also have to say that it seems unlikely that its an "explosion". I own a Canon G5 (which is basically a G3 with one more megapixel) and it suffers from hellified chromatic aberation. I've seen happen from own flash on objects 30-40 feet away. I'd say whatever the light source was in that picture had to have been rather diffuse otherwise there would've been "purple fringing"
I'm a hunter in Texas, and I feel incredibly angry that this guy is doing this! Its obviously a highly unethical publicity stunt, in Texas it is a illegal to hunt from automobile much less a computer on the internet, please don't think that we are all nuts like this guy! I also question the article, as it mentions that state wildlilfe officials are "up in arms". I honestly don't think its that big of a deal to them, this guy is a nut-job, there should be no problems whatsoever for accomodating new regulations against taking a shot from a computer. You're also legally required to tag your deer as soon as you can, which means as soon as you find it, I don't see how this could ever be legal.
I also don't even see how this has relevance to target practice, there are so many factors when you actually shoot that aren't there if a machine is doing the shooting for your. The only thing I can think is that it might help with learning to cope with wind, but if its only shooting.22LR you are learning the characteristics of a round that its only good for hunting squirrels and rabbit. I'd be interested to see how this guy thinks he's going to make money, there is simply no replacement for time at the gun range, although, I suppose the novelty of it might be enough for him to bring in some revenue.
Four years ago, if you had said that my favorite style of music would be a genre of country music I'd have probably decked you and told you to never speak such blasephemies. But now I love country, I'm not talking about your run of the mill radio-country/Nashville country, I'm talking about "Texas country" or "progressive country". In an era where rock and roll is composed entirely of people with annoying whiney voices and no musical talent whatsoever and rap/hip-hop artists are starting to remind me more and more of the way 80's heavy metal bands started acting with their excesses of everything, Texas country has filled my musical gap.
I know, I know... most of the people on Slashdot are probably thinking I've started smoking crack or something, but I can honestly say I can't remember the last time I bought a new rock album. Try bands like Cross Canadian Ragweed or Reckless Kelly, they are more southern rock than country. Pat Green is the godfather of the Texas music scene, although I think he's starting sound more and more "Nashville", check out his older albums. There are too many other names to mention here but i'll put a link on the bottom of the page.
Of all current styles of music this seems to be the only one that doesn't have completely innane lyrics, i.e. the lyrics aren't about how much their life sucks like most current rock songs, doing drugs and having sex like most current rap songs(remind you of 80's metal?, hehe), and finally the lyrics aren't some lame patriotic theme or a corny love song like "Nashville country". Not to mention that the artists actually write their own songs, which can't be said about alot of forms of music popular these days. If you still doubt me, then by all means check out some of these bands. I don't think anyone outside of Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana even knows they exist. At the universities here in Texas I don't think I know a single person who hasn't at least heard of these guys. I hope I helped you find alternatives to the RIAA's list of crap....
have these people ever been to Vermont? my best friend is from Vermont, i've been multiple times, the only "technology research" place there is IBM in South Burlington which laid off something like half of their workforce a couple of years ago! what are these people smoking?
In Texas we have something called a concealed handgun license... My friend's brother had a knife pulled on him at a post office so he pulled out his gun and the would-be robber just ran away, he didn't even need to fire a shot:)
look at it another way, and i did research on this for a english paper years ago so i may not remember exact details. The most common murder weapon in the US was no weapon (unless you consider hands and feet a weapon). If i remember right, the murder rate with no weapon in the US still exceeded the murder rate of England. Guns were only used in about 30% of all murders in the US. Whats my point? even if guns were banned and we could guarentee that the people who used guns to kill people wouldn't have killed if they didn't have guns, the US still has a higher murder rate than most european countries.
I also saw an argument somewhere (i forgot where) that the murder rate of amongst whites in the US is comparable to the murder rate of european countries, i could never find the data to back it up but it did give me something to think about (by the way i'm not white so don't accuse me of being a racist). i came from a very diverse medium sized town, i'd say about 30-40% white, which had a very high murder rate (about 30 per 100,000), in comparison the murder rate of the next largest town in the county which is only slightly smaller than my hometown is about 1 per 100,000. Again, i'm not promoting racism, i'm a minority (i hate that word), NRA member, gun owner, who is trying to show that the murder problem in the US goes much deeper than just the fact alot of us own guns.
This technology does not exist yet! It would also be a pain in the ass for gun manufactures to implement. New Jersey has bassically banned the sale of handguns with this law. This is the first state to do so and they did it in a way I would call sneaky, at best. Each gun law is a building block until the ownership of guns is completely banned, like the UK. With this said I have a story to share.
Gun control was originated in the post-civil war south as jim crow laws. Ironically, and check it out for yourself, www.bradycampaign.org, the brady campaign for gun control, which was a big player in this New Jersey law, gives its highest marks for gun control, to the states that also have very high crime. I checked it out using crime stats from fbi.gov *i think* though i have forgetten exctactly where i got them. The crime rates for the rates that recieved "A" were twice as high the rates for the states recieved "F" when you took the average. The state of Vermont, where it is legal to carry a concealed handgun WITHOUT a license has a gun death rate of one every two or three years. Compare this to the crime rate of New Jersey, which for the most part has made it illegal to buy a handgun, much less carry one, and i think you will see that as well meaning as these laws may sound, they are ineffective as criminals don't obey laws anyway.
- yes, i'm a gun nut, i will admit that, but with things going on right now like our "war on terror" , the USA "Patriot" act, and DMCA, can you blame me?
MS Works! hah! thats funny
http://engr111.tamu.edu/
thats a freshman engineering course that you take your first semester in school.... if you notice you'd need word, excel, and powerpoint! M$ has wormed itself in quite nicely, these guys want powerpoints for the final project!
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HOLY CRAP.. you are right... wow, me and friend looked a year ago and couldn't find anything, I guess we could've asked someone at school but it never crossed my mind after that afternoon. we were trying to find radar data for a particular thunderstorm event that effected our hometown back in 1993. thank you, anonymous coward / Aaron
Aside from that... does anyone notice how you read things like "the temperature has risen .5 degrees in the last century". Did they forget their high school physical science class and significant digits? I'm just speculating but something tells me thermometers we used even 50-60 years ago are nowhere near as precise as they are now, anyone in a high school science class would tell you that information you get thats more precise than the thermometers you got it from is bullshit, right?
One last thing.. everyone points to the this years' hurricanes as an example of global climate change. Sure, it was odd that Florida would get hit three times but its not out of the question that the country as a whole gets mulitple hits from major hurricanes. The 1950s are still to this day the worse decade as far as hurricane strikes on the US go. The 1950s had also had a devasting drought (at least here in Texas). Again you can't really say whats going to happen because frankly WE DONT KNOW.
This article had nothing to do with making current weather information free! It is allready free, the US has the best weather service in the world, is the top country in the world for weather research, and its all FREE!! Check out MeteoFrance's website, you have to pay for info. Before you have a knee-jerk reaction: RTFA.
Personally, I don't think its a big issue, the only people who need a CD of archived data for the whole US would be researchers. As far as if you were curious about old weather data for your hometown you could probably go to your local weather field office and ask them for it (or check their website).
Someone may have mentioned this already, I haven't had time to look through all the posts. But, did anyone notice the haze around the light? At first I thought it was steam from a building and didn't think much of it, then I realized the towering cumulus cloud in the background isn't a cold weather cloud, at least not in weather cold enough to make steam obvious. After I saw the before and after pictures and noticed that the haze wasn't present there... I'd say I have to go with the bug theory. It seems perfectly possible the flash illuminated a shiny bug as it was flying by and perhaps the haze if a reflection off the wings? I'd also have to say that it seems unlikely that its an "explosion". I own a Canon G5 (which is basically a G3 with one more megapixel) and it suffers from hellified chromatic aberation. I've seen happen from own flash on objects 30-40 feet away. I'd say whatever the light source was in that picture had to have been rather diffuse otherwise there would've been "purple fringing"
I'm a hunter in Texas, and I feel incredibly angry that this guy is doing this! Its obviously a highly unethical publicity stunt, in Texas it is a illegal to hunt from automobile much less a computer on the internet, please don't think that we are all nuts like this guy! I also question the article, as it mentions that state wildlilfe officials are "up in arms". I honestly don't think its that big of a deal to them, this guy is a nut-job, there should be no problems whatsoever for accomodating new regulations against taking a shot from a computer. You're also legally required to tag your deer as soon as you can, which means as soon as you find it, I don't see how this could ever be legal. I also don't even see how this has relevance to target practice, there are so many factors when you actually shoot that aren't there if a machine is doing the shooting for your. The only thing I can think is that it might help with learning to cope with wind, but if its only shooting .22LR you are learning the characteristics of a round that its only good for hunting squirrels and rabbit. I'd be interested to see how this guy thinks he's going to make money, there is simply no replacement for time at the gun range, although, I suppose the novelty of it might be enough for him to bring in some revenue.
I know, I know... most of the people on Slashdot are probably thinking I've started smoking crack or something, but I can honestly say I can't remember the last time I bought a new rock album. Try bands like Cross Canadian Ragweed or Reckless Kelly, they are more southern rock than country. Pat Green is the godfather of the Texas music scene, although I think he's starting sound more and more "Nashville", check out his older albums. There are too many other names to mention here but i'll put a link on the bottom of the page.
Of all current styles of music this seems to be the only one that doesn't have completely innane lyrics, i.e. the lyrics aren't about how much their life sucks like most current rock songs, doing drugs and having sex like most current rap songs(remind you of 80's metal?, hehe), and finally the lyrics aren't some lame patriotic theme or a corny love song like "Nashville country". Not to mention that the artists actually write their own songs, which can't be said about alot of forms of music popular these days. If you still doubt me, then by all means check out some of these bands. I don't think anyone outside of Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana even knows they exist. At the universities here in Texas I don't think I know a single person who hasn't at least heard of these guys. I hope I helped you find alternatives to the RIAA's list of crap....
-Joe
Links:
http://www.texasmusicguide.com/
http://www.lonestarmusic.com/
http://www.patgreen.com/
http://www.crosscanadianragweed.com/
http://www.texasmusicmovement.com/
hotter earth -> higher upper level wind speeds -> hurricanes can't form, or at least they can't form into strong ones
have these people ever been to Vermont? my best friend is from Vermont, i've been multiple times, the only "technology research" place there is IBM in South Burlington which laid off something like half of their workforce a couple of years ago! what are these people smoking?
In Texas we have something called a concealed handgun license... My friend's brother had a knife pulled on him at a post office so he pulled out his gun and the would-be robber just ran away, he didn't even need to fire a shot :)
look at it another way, and i did research on this for a english paper years ago so i may not remember exact details. The most common murder weapon in the US was no weapon (unless you consider hands and feet a weapon). If i remember right, the murder rate with no weapon in the US still exceeded the murder rate of England. Guns were only used in about 30% of all murders in the US. Whats my point? even if guns were banned and we could guarentee that the people who used guns to kill people wouldn't have killed if they didn't have guns, the US still has a higher murder rate than most european countries. I also saw an argument somewhere (i forgot where) that the murder rate of amongst whites in the US is comparable to the murder rate of european countries, i could never find the data to back it up but it did give me something to think about (by the way i'm not white so don't accuse me of being a racist). i came from a very diverse medium sized town, i'd say about 30-40% white, which had a very high murder rate (about 30 per 100,000), in comparison the murder rate of the next largest town in the county which is only slightly smaller than my hometown is about 1 per 100,000. Again, i'm not promoting racism, i'm a minority (i hate that word), NRA member, gun owner, who is trying to show that the murder problem in the US goes much deeper than just the fact alot of us own guns.
This technology does not exist yet! It would also be a pain in the ass for gun manufactures to implement. New Jersey has bassically banned the sale of handguns with this law. This is the first state to do so and they did it in a way I would call sneaky, at best. Each gun law is a building block until the ownership of guns is completely banned, like the UK. With this said I have a story to share. Gun control was originated in the post-civil war south as jim crow laws. Ironically, and check it out for yourself, www.bradycampaign.org, the brady campaign for gun control, which was a big player in this New Jersey law, gives its highest marks for gun control, to the states that also have very high crime. I checked it out using crime stats from fbi.gov *i think* though i have forgetten exctactly where i got them. The crime rates for the rates that recieved "A" were twice as high the rates for the states recieved "F" when you took the average. The state of Vermont, where it is legal to carry a concealed handgun WITHOUT a license has a gun death rate of one every two or three years. Compare this to the crime rate of New Jersey, which for the most part has made it illegal to buy a handgun, much less carry one, and i think you will see that as well meaning as these laws may sound, they are ineffective as criminals don't obey laws anyway. - yes, i'm a gun nut, i will admit that, but with things going on right now like our "war on terror" , the USA "Patriot" act, and DMCA, can you blame me?
MS Works! hah! thats funny http://engr111.tamu.edu/ thats a freshman engineering course that you take your first semester in school.... if you notice you'd need word, excel, and powerpoint! M$ has wormed itself in quite nicely, these guys want powerpoints for the final project!
NASA reports indicate that a 100lb piece of satellite traveling at 17000 mi/hr has a momentum of 8976*10^6 kg(m/s) :)