Um, the new dollar coin, the Sacagawea, cannot be mistaken for a quarter at all
Not with visual inspection, sure. But try sticking your hand into a pocket full of change and reliably pulling out a dollar coin instead of a quarter. Compare your success rate to that with pennies, dimes, and nickels. Come back and tell me the dollar coin wasn't poorly designed.
You have apparently never seen or held a Sacagawea golden dollar. The outside edge of this coin is smooth, not ridged like a quarter. It is very possible distinguish these from quarters by touch alone.
The golden dollar was doing fine. It would have ben accepted. Its biggest problem is that once they got enough of them in circulation, if you went to the bank and got a roll of dollar coins, they would be mixed with those aweful Susan Bs. Now a Susie B is hard to tell from a quarter.
The biggest problem I have had with dollar coins were the foreign drachmas or shillings that would come hiden in the middle of the roll. ---Just take the odd coin back to your bank, thry'll promptly give you a Susie B for it. On the bright side I did get a roll with a €2 coin in it once.
I don't think anyone is saying that it's all natural.
I am!
When volcanoes spew more greenhouse gases in a day than mankind has done in 10,000 years... Gimme a break.
When freon is heavier than air... and I am supposed to believe it depletes the ozone layer way up in the sky -without doing anything to tropospheric ozone... Gimme a break
When the changes in the sun are observed and show some corrilation with changes seen on Earth I am supposed to believe it's my fault? gimme a break.
The data isn't wrong, just the people reading it.
'Global Warming' as caused by man is Junk Science.
You shouldn't assume as you make an ASS out of U and ME both
If there is any change or trend in the climate I believe it is part of a natural cycle and is caused by the sun. Quote any numbers you like, you can't prove me wrong.
Just make up more names... talk about the government red tape... sheesh what? you need to have it in triplicate 3 month prior to the year you want to use them in or something?
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Well I don't know about relative velocity, but what about an apparent velocity greater than light.
Lets say you had a big movie screen in the sky... (really big, 1 AU squared or bigger {64 square light-minutes? I'm not sure what a square light minute is so...um ok you get it I hope}) an put it far away (4+ AUs)
Now aim a super giant laser pointer at it. move the dot from one corner of the screen to the other.
The apparent velocity of the dot is greater than the speed of light, however no component of this experiment has moved at greater than the speed of light. What does it look like to the person with the laser pointer? How would this dot appear to an observer standing on the movie screen?
God exists in all dimensions of space and time on all points simultaneously. He does indeed know what you will do like you know how die hard ends as he is existing in the past present and future SIMULTANEOUSLY.
God does not process all the information, rather God is all the information, the sum total of existance is God's conscienceness.
"In the beginning there was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" --- We are not gods, we are a part of God, everything is. We are the very essence of God's thoughts and Dreams. God exists everywhere and everywhen
God is the Alpha AND the OMEGA, not The Alpha until the Omega. The beginning and the end---and everything in the middle all at the same time.
Think about it. How would you react to all the love and hate in the world if you experienced it simultaneously? all historical events at the same time? it does indeed introduce a very different perspective than you have.
And I didn't expect them to help move it. However my point was why didn't they call some form of services on their handy dandy, high tech radio network to help? You know like the red cross, the local authorities, somebody.
Did they know about it? As great as we Ham Radio Ops are, we are not psychic.
Is it also possible that things reported by hams to the appropriate agencies are not acted upon. Sometimes they appropriate agencies do not have the manpower to respond.
My question is last year when my grandmother's house was filling with water (twice) thanks to Francis & Ivan. Where were the ham's? The hams (along with nobody elese) provided no assistance in getting the several hundred pound oxygen tank/assembly out of the house
SO you are upset about what? That communications people who volunteer their time and equipment - put their lives at risk to help others and spend their own money doing this were very busy doing what they do that they couldn't be grunts to help your mother move her oxygen?
What's so hard to understand?
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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You should have no trouble hearing the ISS, The Shuttle or any satellites using Ham Radio.
How to do it
You need to know when to listen. Yes you can get keps and computer software and learn how to use it, however it's real easy for average Joe to just go to http://www.heavens-above.com/ and look it up. They tell you when and in what direction. ---It's great because you can see the ISS and other orbiting things too.
These satellites use several frequecies accross several bands. The most common ones you'd be interested in will be in the 2-Meter (145 MHz) and 70 centimeter (437 MHz) bands -as it's easy to get scanners that can pick up those frequencies. Luckily many of the satellites do transmit FM (as opposed to sideband or other mode) which is exactly what a cheap scanner likes.
You may hear voices! this makes it easy, because the scanner is all you need.
You may hear packet-splats --- when you hear them the term will make perfect sense.
Cheap way to decode packet
You can hook the headphone jack of your scanner into the line in on your computer's sound card! There are many freeware OSS programs to decode it too. Sure, a dedicated Terminal Node Controller (TNC) is nice and even cheap, but free is always better when you're just playing with it to see what it is! info on using your soundcard for packet http://www.soundcardpacket.info/
You may want to know about other OSCARs out there (Orbital Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio) see: http://www.amsat.org/
Tips
Satellites aren't using high power, don't try to listen from your scanner with it's antenna in the basement -it won't work.
Use an external antenna if possible -It's a scanner not a transmitter, if all else fails, try a hunk of wire
Doppler shift... yes you heard me DOPPLER SHIFT... these things move fast! the signal may be off by more than 15kHz from where it's supposed to be... As the satellite approches, it will be higher, as it receeds it will be lower. It will be helpful to have a scanner that has a VFO... a way to rotate the dial and keep up with the satellite... otherwise program several channels 5 kHz apart both above and below the expected frequency so you can get to the next one quickly. Th more you can move in frequency to keep up with the satellite the longer you can hear it.
What you hear -if anything- depends on what they are doing at the time. You aren't going to hear astronaut John Phillips, KE5DRY if he's having supper with the shuttle crew, or sleeping, or went home on a soyuz, or doing just about anything else. - Sometimes the satellites are shut off... while they fix it, or they experiment, they are on s-band or under power resrictions... whatever
"The mantle is not liquid. It is solid - we know this because the full range of seismic waves can pass through the mantle (so-called shear waves cannot pass through liquids - which is how we know that the outer core is in this state)."
Furthermore, I'm not sure if Earth-sized mass would assume spherical shape if it was solid rock (as opposed to molten rock for the most part); on the other hand, liquids in freefall will assume a spherical shape simply out of surface tension, regardless of their lack of mass.
Except, of course, that any mass is sufficient; quantum uncertainty means that no matter is truly solid, so given enough time, any and all bodies with nonzero mass will become spherical.
So which is it???? Can they become spherical or not? I have never heard of a Jupiter sized cube! Never heard of a solid object larger than about 700 kilometers wide that wasn't round due to its own gravity. I have never heard of a liquid celestial object at all.
Personally, I think that trying to define the exact meaning of these terms is an exercise in futility; it assumes that nature fits into neatly labeled boxes, and that simply isn't true.
We are humans. Naming things, defining them, putting the universe in to little easy to understand boxes is what we do.
And even Jupiter undergoes some deuterium fusion in its core.
Really? Got a reference? I'm really interested in this one since everything I've seen suggests that the core temperature of Jupiter is less than one-eighth of that needed to support deuterium-deuterium fusion. Jupiter would need to be at least 13 times bigger to support deuterium-deuterium fusion.
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You were watching PBS... just giving credit where credit is due. It was excellent. I had to double check that I still didn't have cable or satellite.
Um, the new dollar coin, the Sacagawea, cannot be mistaken for a quarter at all
You have apparently never seen or held a Sacagawea golden dollar. The outside edge of this coin is smooth, not ridged like a quarter. It is very possible distinguish these from quarters by touch alone.
The golden dollar was doing fine. It would have ben accepted. Its biggest problem is that once they got enough of them in circulation, if you went to the bank and got a roll of dollar coins, they would be mixed with those aweful Susan Bs. Now a Susie B is hard to tell from a quarter.
The biggest problem I have had with dollar coins were the foreign drachmas or shillings that would come hiden in the middle of the roll. ---Just take the odd coin back to your bank, thry'll promptly give you a Susie B for it. On the bright side I did get a roll with a €2 coin in it once.
nd finding a way to listen the Hams is always good,
Being able to talk to hams is even better!
Contact the ARRL to find out how. http://www.arrl.org/hamradio.html
If you assume for the sake of argument, you have just forsaken the argument.
I am!
When volcanoes spew more greenhouse gases in a day than mankind has done in 10,000 years... Gimme a break.
When freon is heavier than air... and I am supposed to believe it depletes the ozone layer way up in the sky -without doing anything to tropospheric ozone... Gimme a break
When the changes in the sun are observed and show some corrilation with changes seen on Earth I am supposed to believe it's my fault? gimme a break.
The data isn't wrong, just the people reading it.
'Global Warming' as caused by man is Junk Science.
You shouldn't assume as you make an ASS out of U and ME both
If there is any change or trend in the climate I believe it is part of a natural cycle and is caused by the sun. Quote any numbers you like, you can't prove me wrong.
Just make up more names... talk about the government red tape... sheesh what? you need to have it in triplicate 3 month prior to the year you want to use them in or something?
Troy
Uma
Vera
Warren
Xerxes
Yvette
Zeke
And if they need another, go back to Q --- Quinten
If you have to play and "American" Idol style game to become one.... why not call them idolnauts.
Well I don't know about relative velocity, but what about an apparent velocity greater than light.
Lets say you had a big movie screen in the sky... (really big, 1 AU squared or bigger {64 square light-minutes? I'm not sure what a square light minute is so...um ok you get it I hope}) an put it far away (4+ AUs)
Now aim a super giant laser pointer at it. move the dot from one corner of the screen to the other.
The apparent velocity of the dot is greater than the speed of light, however no component of this experiment has moved at greater than the speed of light. What does it look like to the person with the laser pointer? How would this dot appear to an observer standing on the movie screen?
That's like saying "Well I call the Earth 'Bob' and I can't understand why you don't see it."
No.
God is omni present.
God exists in all dimensions of space and time on all points simultaneously. He does indeed know what you will do like you know how die hard ends as he is existing in the past present and future SIMULTANEOUSLY.
God does not process all the information, rather God is all the information, the sum total of existance is God's conscienceness.
"In the beginning there was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" --- We are not gods, we are a part of God, everything is. We are the very essence of God's thoughts and Dreams. God exists everywhere and everywhen
God is the Alpha AND the OMEGA, not The Alpha until the Omega. The beginning and the end---and everything in the middle all at the same time.
Think about it. How would you react to all the love and hate in the world if you experienced it simultaneously? all historical events at the same time? it does indeed introduce a very different perspective than you have.
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Did they know about it? As great as we Ham Radio Ops are, we are not psychic.
Is it also possible that things reported by hams to the appropriate agencies are not acted upon. Sometimes they appropriate agencies do not have the manpower to respond.
SO you are upset about what? That communications people who volunteer their time and equipment - put their lives at risk to help others and spend their own money doing this were very busy doing what they do that they couldn't be grunts to help your mother move her oxygen?
Why didn't you get her oxygen out of there?
When all else fails...
...Amateur Radio!
Hell, Anonymous Coward, you didn't even tell us your Slashdot account!
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Seems very to the point to me.
Here is the CHEAP answer:
YES
You should have no trouble hearing the ISS, The Shuttle or any satellites using Ham Radio.
How to do itYou need to know when to listen. Yes you can get keps and computer software and learn how to use it, however it's real easy for average Joe to just go to http://www.heavens-above.com/ and look it up. They tell you when and in what direction. ---It's great because you can see the ISS and other orbiting things too.
These satellites use several frequecies accross several bands. The most common ones you'd be interested in will be in the 2-Meter (145 MHz) and 70 centimeter (437 MHz) bands -as it's easy to get scanners that can pick up those frequencies. Luckily many of the satellites do transmit FM (as opposed to sideband or other mode) which is exactly what a cheap scanner likes.
You may hear voices! this makes it easy, because the scanner is all you need.
You may hear packet-splats --- when you hear them the term will make perfect sense.
Cheap way to decode packetYou can hook the headphone jack of your scanner into the line in on your computer's sound card! There are many freeware OSS programs to decode it too. Sure, a dedicated Terminal Node Controller (TNC) is nice and even cheap, but free is always better when you're just playing with it to see what it is! info on using your soundcard for packet http://www.soundcardpacket.info/
You may want to know about other OSCARs out there (Orbital Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio) see: http://www.amsat.org/
TipsSatellites aren't using high power, don't try to listen from your scanner with it's antenna in the basement -it won't work.
Use an external antenna if possible -It's a scanner not a transmitter, if all else fails, try a hunk of wire
Doppler shift... yes you heard me DOPPLER SHIFT... these things move fast! the signal may be off by more than 15kHz from where it's supposed to be... As the satellite approches, it will be higher, as it receeds it will be lower. It will be helpful to have a scanner that has a VFO... a way to rotate the dial and keep up with the satellite... otherwise program several channels 5 kHz apart both above and below the expected frequency so you can get to the next one quickly. Th more you can move in frequency to keep up with the satellite the longer you can hear it.
Downlinks
ISS: 145.800 MHz
PCSAT2: 437.975 MHz
AO-51: 435.300 MHz
What you hear -if anything- depends on what they are doing at the time. You aren't going to hear astronaut John Phillips, KE5DRY if he's having supper with the shuttle crew, or sleeping, or went home on a soyuz, or doing just about anything else. - Sometimes the satellites are shut off... while they fix it, or they experiment, they are on s-band or under power resrictions... whatever
Well if yer not gunna call it Minerva, I'll go with Buffy before Bob, we still need more celestial-chicks.
No it isn't.
"The mantle is not liquid. It is solid - we know this because the full range of seismic waves can pass through the mantle (so-called shear waves cannot pass through liquids - which is how we know that the outer core is in this state)."
http://earth.leeds.ac.uk/assyntgeology/extra_infoJust driving the point home.
Also...why did you pick two, specifically? What's to stop 15 planetesimals from all orbitting a center of mass that happens to be outside of them all?Because they can't be a double-planet if there's more than two :P --Feel free to define triple, quad... etc. if you like.
Furthermore, I'm not sure if Earth-sized mass would assume spherical shape if it was solid rock (as opposed to molten rock for the most part); on the other hand, liquids in freefall will assume a spherical shape simply out of surface tension, regardless of their lack of mass.
Except, of course, that any mass is sufficient; quantum uncertainty means that no matter is truly solid, so given enough time, any and all bodies with nonzero mass will become spherical.
So which is it???? Can they become spherical or not? I have never heard of a Jupiter sized cube! Never heard of a solid object larger than about 700 kilometers wide that wasn't round due to its own gravity. I have never heard of a liquid celestial object at all.
Personally, I think that trying to define the exact meaning of these terms is an exercise in futility; it assumes that nature fits into neatly labeled boxes, and that simply isn't true.We are humans. Naming things, defining them, putting the universe in to little easy to understand boxes is what we do.
Really? Got a reference? I'm really interested in this one since everything I've seen suggests that the core temperature of Jupiter is less than one-eighth of that needed to support deuterium-deuterium fusion. Jupiter would need to be at least 13 times bigger to support deuterium-deuterium fusion.