...because two things haven't happened so far. I haven't spotted anybody stealing my car, and no ET spaceship has landed in front of me. Real cameras seem to work just peachy for everything else.
No. If you aren't between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn you will never, ever see the sun overhead. The highest it can possibly be is (113.6 degrees - latitude) mod 90.
And even if you're between the Tropics, you still will never see the sun overhead unless you accept some margin of error. In order to be exactly overhead, it would have to cross your longitude and your latitude at exactly the same time, and the probability of that is zero. If roughly an eighth of a degree off is acceptable, you'll see it twice a year.
By contrast, the sun culminates, exactly, once a day everywhere on the planet.
It's rare for the sun to be directly overhead anywhere, and impossible outside the Tropics.
At noon local standard time (assuming the leap-second problem has been taken care of, per the thread topic), it culminates for an observer on the base meridian of the time zone.
It always culminates at noon local solar time -- which is a bit of a tautology, because local solar time is computed from the time when it culminates.
This thing is no more a "submarine" than the ones at Disneyland. It's just a boat that can get itself partially underwater (the snorkel has to remain exposed) by maneuvering with its fins. It is always positively buoyant -- no ballast tanks -- and if it loses speed it simply bobs to the surface.
Yes, that's code enforcement, not criminal law enforcement. It lets neighborhoods establish the prevailing level of neatness they want...here in the Denver 'burbs there are laid-back neighborhoods like mine, where I can park my sailplane trailer in the driveway, and broomstick-up-the-ass neighborhoods where you can't put your trash out front the day before pickup day.
Bob Guccione did something like that to the Miss America pageant. After Vanessa Williams won it in 1984, he got hold of a lesbian nude photo spread she'd posed for some years before, and published it in Penthouse, causing the pageant to strip her of the title. The following year, after the fifty entrants had been chosen, he announced that he had photo spreads of several of them -- and if one of those won, he would publish hers. The pageant took the easy way out and picked Miss Utah.
In other news, analysts suspect that Barnes & Noble may have a vague idea that sales of their manuals for Office, Photoshop, AutoCAD et al may have something to do with piracy...
Read the deed to your property and I'll bet you discover that you signed your name to one or more easements. They give someone else the right to use your property in certain ways.
If you feel the easement holder is overstepping the bounds of the easement, tell it to the judge. He may decide you're right. But sole, total control of your property is a very romantic concept -- and it's dead, it's gone, and it's not coming back.
rj
Slashdot Mirror
http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/14/65214-004-5A49F3A6.jpg
rj
...because two things haven't happened so far. I haven't spotted anybody stealing my car, and no ET spaceship has landed in front of me. Real cameras seem to work just peachy for everything else.
rj
Anything that's had LOX flowing through it has some "mileage" on it.
rj
Well, if you don't know if there's gonna be a hurricane, then you don't know what the weather's gonna be, do you?
rj
Unless you're talking psychology.
rj
...The name "Firefox" is taken.
rj
rj
I learned about an enjoyable site...that's informative.
rj
From a more familiar viewpoint, 2145 watts is about 2.9 horsepower...
rj
No. If you aren't between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn you will never, ever see the sun overhead. The highest it can possibly be is (113.6 degrees - latitude) mod 90.
And even if you're between the Tropics, you still will never see the sun overhead unless you accept some margin of error. In order to be exactly overhead, it would have to cross your longitude and your latitude at exactly the same time, and the probability of that is zero. If roughly an eighth of a degree off is acceptable, you'll see it twice a year.
By contrast, the sun culminates, exactly, once a day everywhere on the planet.
rj
That will get you up to twice a year.
rj
rj
Working with their allies? Ruthless bastards...
rj
No there isn't, but you can make it culminate at noon.
rj
Just call me Candide, I guess...
rj
*** And that person gets a 5? He's probably the douche that -1'd the first guy. ***
Ummm, no. Slashdot's moderating system doesn't permit that.
rj
...mod Mr. Hockey +5 Informative. I had no idea there was slashing in hockey. Do they use, like, kendo swords or something?
rj
rj
Weather modeling comes to mind, both terrestrial and space.
rj
The CheeseBorger at the restaurant wasn't bad...and until our waiter arrived I hadn't known there are gay Klingons.
rj
Don't you have a local TV reporter who loves stuff like that?
rj
Yes, that's code enforcement, not criminal law enforcement. It lets neighborhoods establish the prevailing level of neatness they want...here in the Denver 'burbs there are laid-back neighborhoods like mine, where I can park my sailplane trailer in the driveway, and broomstick-up-the-ass neighborhoods where you can't put your trash out front the day before pickup day.
rj
rj
In other news, analysts suspect that Barnes & Noble may have a vague idea that sales of their manuals for Office, Photoshop, AutoCAD et al may have something to do with piracy...
rj
Read the deed to your property and I'll bet you discover that you signed your name to one or more easements. They give someone else the right to use your property in certain ways. If you feel the easement holder is overstepping the bounds of the easement, tell it to the judge. He may decide you're right. But sole, total control of your property is a very romantic concept -- and it's dead, it's gone, and it's not coming back. rj