The Canadian mission is undoubtedly a robotic one (i.e. not manned). Since the EU has an unmanned mission on the way as well (Mars Express), then it's hardly surprising Canada has the technological expertise to do likewise.
Size and shape - I can't agree with you there. It looks too thin and elongated to be Australia (indeed, it looks like a pretty featureless blob) and the map has it not much bigger in area than Ireland. To be the right size, it'd have to be the size of Europe. It's also sat off the tip of India, rather than as far from India as Europe is.
It looks far more like an elongated teardrop on its side than Australia. Australia has large features in the coastline that should appear in any sketch map. Either way it is so badly drawn that conclusions drawn from shape are meaningless.
consider first that in all academic fields it tends to be the young postgrads who are loudest and most confident in defending the current thinking. Older academics are (on average, of course) a little less sure of themselves: could it possibly be that they have learned something?
Only up to a point - a 31 year old researcher may be in a better position to question the orthodox theory than a 21 year old one, but he's also far more likely to do so than the average 61 year old professor. New and radical theories tend to finally win out when the younger researchers become the senior lecturers and the supporters of the old one retire.
But we could build the pyramids if we wished to. The Egyptians certainly didn't use cranes to lift. As for lift, try actually doing some research - first hit on google for me came up with a floating crane in Hamburg capable of lifting 200 tonnes. The weight of the blocks in the pyramids? 2.5 tonnes each. You don't need massive cranes for that, you need a slipway and about eight men with ropes. 2,300,000 blocks over 20 years would therefore require a minimum of 300 people employed full time.
Funny that you berate someone for using 'we' meaning civilisation, and then do so yourself. While you may be saying that you have no plan yourself to go to the moon, others certainly do - NASA investigations into the presence of water in permanent shadows in craters at the poles of the moon was expressly for that reason. The reason no-one has gone back for some time is that there is no great benefit in landing more craft on the moon (incidentally, these will last until they get hit by meteorites) just to walk around, but establishing a more permanent presence is worth it. How long after Columbus (re)discovered the Americas did Europeans start colonising it?
Pyramids - any engineer worth his salt could work out how to build the Pyramids, working out how the Egyptians built the pyramids is a different matter. But the ancient Egyptians wouldn't have had a hope of building even the first Aswan Dam.
While it is possible to build sea-going vessels capable of transatlantic voyages using ancient technology (see for example Thor Heyerdahl's RaII, you don't need to believe in Atlantis, which was made up out of a combination of past civilisations and exaggeration, to believe it.
It's not a matter of inheriting others DNA, just the 'best' of the two parents - so if a successful film director marries a star actress, they'll pay their private doctors to make sure the kids inherit his brains and her looks (rather than the other way around).
The article stated that the amount of heat emitted if these antimatter atoms encountered matter wouldn't heat a cup of coffee, before any of the more panicky readers of/. start expecting the end of the world
Well, all the details say is the laser is 'blue-violet' - now I'm guessing that this is Gallium Nitride (educated guess, I did my PhD on this stuff), which isn't that old a technology (LEDs of this material were first demonstrated in 1994 by Shuji Nakamura).
So, economies of scale have to come in, they probably still need to improve the lifespan of the lasers further - in short, I suspect if you want a DVD player now, you should buy one now. A cheap one, anyway.
No, the majority of German scientists working in the US after the war were former Germans/Austrians, but since many of these either had Jewish relatives, or were not willing to carry on working in Germany when half their research group had been sacked for being Jewish, they left before the war started.
Nazi efficiency is a myth. British manufacturing output during WWII tended to outstrip German. They didn't bother cranking up Germany's output until 1944, by which time it was far too late. Add in British and US bombing, and resistance actions in occupied countries, and they didn't have a chance of getting a bomb in time.
Well yes, companies involved in paper production, printing, post delivery and waste disposal will be hit, as will ISPs that charge per minute when the citizens of Vermont don't have to download thirty unwanted emails to see what Aunt Mabel has sent, but if their jobs relied on people annoying me, why should I feel sorry?
For example, Noahs ark has been found. It size and position is exactly as described in the bible. Nobody cares except those who are looking for truth.
Wonderful. Does it also explain why the historical records of the Chinese and Egyptians, which go back further than the biblical date for the 'flood', fail to mention that they have been underwater for 40 days?
Interesting that you don't bother putting in a reference for you claims. Let's see if you can prove it isn't a rock formation...
so does this mean the drug of the future is going to allow you to really fly by mutating the right genes and thus wings appear on your back?
Well, you'll either have to lose a lot of weight, or they'd have to be pretty large wings. Fancy having something the size of a handglider attached to you permanently?
In this case, I suspect they'd argue that they aren't a monopoly. Other games machines are available. The ruling as it is also doesn't ban other people from writing programs to run on this equipment directly (indirectly, on the other hand...)
The 'territories' are those defined in the licensing. If they say 'Europe' or 'North America', you can play it in those regions. If they say 'Slough' or 'Des Moines', well you have my pity. Anywhere else, it isn't licensed, so is therefore illegal. Where it says this? In the license, and in the Judge's ruling.
Sort of had them at the last academic conference I went to - or at least the identity badges had the name, affiliation, post and email address of the attendee in a coded pattern on the back which industrial exhibitors could scan in.
But of course, they were still handing out business cards, as until they incorporate the scanning device into all PDAs and mobile phones, people aren't going to use them all the time. They probably won't afterwards either. So I think an attractive email address will still be, well, attractive
They don't tend to award the Nobel prize for Physics too quickly - the 2001 prize was awarded for work published in 1995, for example.
Indeed, as the nominations for the 2002 prize have to be in within the next fortnight (deadline is Feb 1st), and most will have been submitted already, this work cannot possibly have any chance of winning this year.
God, yes. Imagine what you'd get if you mixed up a bunch of English, Germans, Irish, Scots, Welsh, Scandinavians, Dutch, French, Italians, Spanish, people from their former colonies, etc. all up into one country, claiming to be the united states of an entire continent. Why, it would be a vicious behemoth, forcing the rest of the planet to bend to its will.
Er... hold on...
The above is sarcasm to make a point. I don't believe this applies to the US, and I don't believe it would necessarily apply to the EU.
Paraphrased from Mark Harrison, "Resource Mobilization for World War II: The U.S.A., U.K., U.S.S.R., and Germany, 1938-1945," in Economic History Review XLI, no. 2 (1988): 175-177, 187, 190.
The US, UK and Soviet Union followed a much more intensive rearmament than Germany, which created a large fighting force based on only limited military stockbuilding. After 1940 German munitions production rose only slowly whereas Allied production multiplied. As a result, when German production finally accelerated in 1943-4, it was already too late to close the gap.
Strictly speaking, feudalism wasn't inherently a freeloading system - the lord owed protection to his vassals. Although such a deal was tilted in favour of the lords, and easily open to abuse, it was that original offer of something (protection) in return for something else (up to as much as the lord could squeeze out of them). Not that the deal was fair, or you got to renegotiate, but a lord does have some interest in insuring that all his people don't get killed by robbers, as then there is no-one to make him richer.
Just because a system isn't equitable, it doesn't mean those on top are freeloaders.
It is, however, disconcerting that this same technology can prevent legitimate news, views, and opinions from easily making it to one location or another.
Not sure if I'm being incredibly dense here, but doesn't this work in that the host of the website can choose if they don't want people from certain countries reading their website, so if you want your views spread from your website, this doesn't stop you. The converse - blocking users from accessing websites from certain countries (e.g. in China) - already happens.
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The Canadian mission is undoubtedly a robotic one (i.e. not manned). Since the EU has an unmanned mission on the way as well (Mars Express), then it's hardly surprising Canada has the technological expertise to do likewise.
It looks far more like an elongated teardrop on its side than Australia. Australia has large features in the coastline that should appear in any sketch map. Either way it is so badly drawn that conclusions drawn from shape are meaningless.
Only up to a point - a 31 year old researcher may be in a better position to question the orthodox theory than a 21 year old one, but he's also far more likely to do so than the average 61 year old professor. New and radical theories tend to finally win out when the younger researchers become the senior lecturers and the supporters of the old one retire.
But we could build the pyramids if we wished to. The Egyptians certainly didn't use cranes to lift. As for lift, try actually doing some research - first hit on google for me came up with a floating crane in Hamburg capable of lifting 200 tonnes. The weight of the blocks in the pyramids? 2.5 tonnes each. You don't need massive cranes for that, you need a slipway and about eight men with ropes. 2,300,000 blocks over 20 years would therefore require a minimum of 300 people employed full time.
Pyramids - any engineer worth his salt could work out how to build the Pyramids, working out how the Egyptians built the pyramids is a different matter. But the ancient Egyptians wouldn't have had a hope of building even the first Aswan Dam.
It's not a matter of inheriting others DNA, just the 'best' of the two parents - so if a successful film director marries a star actress, they'll pay their private doctors to make sure the kids inherit his brains and her looks (rather than the other way around).
The article stated that the amount of heat emitted if these antimatter atoms encountered matter wouldn't heat a cup of coffee, before any of the more panicky readers of /. start expecting the end of the world
So, economies of scale have to come in, they probably still need to improve the lifespan of the lasers further - in short, I suspect if you want a DVD player now, you should buy one now. A cheap one, anyway.
No, the majority of German scientists working in the US after the war were former Germans/Austrians, but since many of these either had Jewish relatives, or were not willing to carry on working in Germany when half their research group had been sacked for being Jewish, they left before the war started.
Nazi efficiency is a myth. British manufacturing output during WWII tended to outstrip German. They didn't bother cranking up Germany's output until 1944, by which time it was far too late. Add in British and US bombing, and resistance actions in occupied countries, and they didn't have a chance of getting a bomb in time.
Europe give subsidies, the US gives special tax breaks for exporters. It all amounts to the same in the end.
Well yes, companies involved in paper production, printing, post delivery and waste disposal will be hit, as will ISPs that charge per minute when the citizens of Vermont don't have to download thirty unwanted emails to see what Aunt Mabel has sent, but if their jobs relied on people annoying me, why should I feel sorry?
Wonderful. Does it also explain why the historical records of the Chinese and Egyptians, which go back further than the biblical date for the 'flood', fail to mention that they have been underwater for 40 days?
Interesting that you don't bother putting in a reference for you claims. Let's see if you can prove it isn't a rock formation...
In this case, I suspect they'd argue that they aren't a monopoly. Other games machines are available. The ruling as it is also doesn't ban other people from writing programs to run on this equipment directly (indirectly, on the other hand...)
The 'territories' are those defined in the licensing. If they say 'Europe' or 'North America', you can play it in those regions. If they say 'Slough' or 'Des Moines', well you have my pity. Anywhere else, it isn't licensed, so is therefore illegal. Where it says this? In the license, and in the Judge's ruling.
Now, when are the Dallas Cowboy's cheerleaders next flying?
Hmm, I don't think Thunderball (fourth James Bond film) sucked.
But of course, they were still handing out business cards, as until they incorporate the scanning device into all PDAs and mobile phones, people aren't going to use them all the time. They probably won't afterwards either. So I think an attractive email address will still be, well, attractive
Indeed, as the nominations for the 2002 prize have to be in within the next fortnight (deadline is Feb 1st), and most will have been submitted already, this work cannot possibly have any chance of winning this year.
Er... hold on...
The above is sarcasm to make a point. I don't believe this applies to the US, and I don't believe it would necessarily apply to the EU.
Paraphrased from Mark Harrison, "Resource Mobilization for World War II: The U.S.A., U.K., U.S.S.R., and Germany, 1938-1945," in Economic History Review XLI, no. 2 (1988): 175-177, 187, 190.
Just because a system isn't equitable, it doesn't mean those on top are freeloaders.
Not sure if I'm being incredibly dense here, but doesn't this work in that the host of the website can choose if they don't want people from certain countries reading their website, so if you want your views spread from your website, this doesn't stop you. The converse - blocking users from accessing websites from certain countries (e.g. in China) - already happens.