I am very happy about this... I remember during campaign 2000, someone was selling georgewbush.com for $500,000. The Bush team rejected the offer, using such sites as bush2000.com, etc. Well, later in the campaign, of course, georgewbush.com was their official website. I was NOT a W fan (or voter), but this is still pretty awful to do. Just checking in November 2000, Gore2004.com, Lieberman2008.com, Bush2004.com and EVERY possible combination I could think of were taken. Cyber-squatting is so lame, IMO.
The hidden gems in W&G are also wonderful.
- Grommit reads a newspaper entitled "Dog Reads Paper"
- Check out the name of W&G's wash service in "A Close Shave" for a cute pun (too clever to post here!)
- Penguin replaces Grommit's framed picture of a bone with a framed picture of a sardine!
So many more... if you haven't seen these before, you simply must purchase them!
Just wondering at what temperature this was performed at. According to the Law of Thermodynamics, these "super cold" neutrons would behave differently at or near absolute zero, right?
Well, I'm only a first year med student, so my knowledge is not vast, though we did cover it extensively in immunology...
As far as HIV goes, it cannot survive outside a small range of temperatures, pH and chemical content. For this reason, it is transmittable via blood, but not via sweat or water vapor we exhale (unlike, say, the cold virus). So, I'm not so sure, but would have to plead ignorance, that HIV is too frail to survive in the near absolute zero temperature and overall environment of space or the Moon.
Also, there was a recent article in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Assoc)that shows that an unknown disease from the 1950's is now believed to have actually been HIV. I don't remember where it was published, but it was interesting nevertheless.
FYI, a virus such as HIV is RNA, not DNA. It uses reverse transcriptase to make DNA, but the virus's own genetic code is, in fact, RNA. These viruses are called "Retroviruses."
(Gonna get a 0 even though it's insightful, I'm used to it...)
Great question!
Actually, it was a famous experiment done in 1991 when Galileo was making it's 2nd flyby of venus and earth to build up speed.
The late (and very missed) Carl Sagan proposed that Galileo be an experiment to search for life on other planets (moons included). For example, what evidence is there from space that intellegent life exists on earth? Great Wall of China aside (which could easily be mistaken for something natural had one not known any better), Sagan proposed a set agenda for searching for intellegent life.
He proposed looking at exact O2 levels, "agricultural patterns" such as farm blocks, pollution levels which would suggest an inductrial society, etc. It successfully found life only in a single area (I forget which).
As a final note, it failed to pick up evidence of any intellegent life on Manhattan island. The cameras did not pick up anything significant, as it's resolution was not meant for such observations!
I wonder how long it is, and I'm surprised it hasn't already happened on this board, that some conspiracy freak says that it wasn't "lost," but rather a coverup because it photographed an Io city or something!
Gonna get a "0" on this, because whether it's informative or funny, I always get "0"
NASA is more concerned with the 80 bars of plutonium onboard Galileo contaminating the perhaps inhabited moons Europa and/or Callisto (both found to contain liquid oceans) than the bacteria which may or may not still be on board Galileo since its launch from Cape Canaveral in 1989.
If you would like to know... Hubble cannot look at the moon because they way it's optics work (designed to look into deep space), the moon travels too darn fast for it relative to earth that viewing it is unfeasable. However, back in 2000, a group of astronomers from Hawaii managed to actually manipulate Hubble into viewing it. See summer 2000 of Sky & Telescope or Astronomy, I forget which one. It was very interesting (although it had to be at lowest power, so this was not to see details of the moon, but rather to demonstate the feasability of this act.)
BTW, I'll most definately get a "0" for this, even though it is informative, since I always get a zero, but anyway...:-)
With 22 seasons, this will be, like someone said, around $4.50 an episode. But still... Simpsons DVD 1 was 13 episodes for $30 ($20 many places on the internet).
My question is... why charge $100 when DVD media costs them what... pennies? They'd still get every TNG geek to lay down $350 for the series if they charged "only" $50.
Just seems unfair to me...
I remember when Lucas said that there will be NO pre-sales of Episode 1 tickets, so it wasn't too outrageous that people would wait in line for them. Later, however, online sales were allowed about 4 weeks before the release, thus negating the need to wait in geekdom. So why do these fools think this is necessary? And it's just some theatre in Seattle, not like Mann's Chinese Theatre or something!
Do we have to hear MORE of these people??? Geez, as if caring about an INTERNATIONAL Spacecraft such as Cassini (the probe which will go to the moon Titan was made by the European Space Agency) makes us forget the terrorist attacks.
What Flamebait...
Anyway, that probe's had problems too, but they fixed it.
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I'm not sure how popular a show called "Millenium" would be starting in the fall of 2002! :-)
Why not name it "Y2K?"
I am very happy about this...
I remember during campaign 2000, someone was selling georgewbush.com for $500,000. The Bush team rejected the offer, using such sites as bush2000.com, etc. Well, later in the campaign, of course, georgewbush.com was their official website. I was NOT a W fan (or voter), but this is still pretty awful to do. Just checking in November 2000, Gore2004.com, Lieberman2008.com, Bush2004.com and EVERY possible combination I could think of were taken. Cyber-squatting is so lame, IMO.
According to AICN, the title of the Wallace and Gromit is THE GREAT VEGETABLE PLOT. :-)
Will this rule or what???
The hidden gems in W&G are also wonderful. - Grommit reads a newspaper entitled "Dog Reads Paper" - Check out the name of W&G's wash service in "A Close Shave" for a cute pun (too clever to post here!) - Penguin replaces Grommit's framed picture of a bone with a framed picture of a sardine! So many more... if you haven't seen these before, you simply must purchase them!
Just wondering at what temperature this was performed at. According to the Law of Thermodynamics, these "super cold" neutrons would behave differently at or near absolute zero, right?
How about we excrete this turd from slashdot...
So when do the liquid metal exoskeletons come out? :-)
Well, I'm only a first year med student, so my knowledge is not vast, though we did cover it extensively in immunology...
As far as HIV goes, it cannot survive outside a small range of temperatures, pH and chemical content. For this reason, it is transmittable via blood, but not via sweat or water vapor we exhale (unlike, say, the cold virus). So, I'm not so sure, but would have to plead ignorance, that HIV is too frail to survive in the near absolute zero temperature and overall environment of space or the Moon.
Also, there was a recent article in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Assoc)that shows that an unknown disease from the 1950's is now believed to have actually been HIV. I don't remember where it was published, but it was interesting nevertheless.
Somebody read The Andromeda Strain one too many times! Gonna get a 0 on this even though it's funny. Why does /. discriminate against high UIDs? :-)
FYI, a virus such as HIV is RNA, not DNA. It uses reverse transcriptase to make DNA, but the virus's own genetic code is, in fact, RNA. These viruses are called "Retroviruses." (Gonna get a 0 even though it's insightful, I'm used to it...)
Great question! Actually, it was a famous experiment done in 1991 when Galileo was making it's 2nd flyby of venus and earth to build up speed. The late (and very missed) Carl Sagan proposed that Galileo be an experiment to search for life on other planets (moons included). For example, what evidence is there from space that intellegent life exists on earth? Great Wall of China aside (which could easily be mistaken for something natural had one not known any better), Sagan proposed a set agenda for searching for intellegent life. He proposed looking at exact O2 levels, "agricultural patterns" such as farm blocks, pollution levels which would suggest an inductrial society, etc. It successfully found life only in a single area (I forget which). As a final note, it failed to pick up evidence of any intellegent life on Manhattan island. The cameras did not pick up anything significant, as it's resolution was not meant for such observations!
I wonder how long it is, and I'm surprised it hasn't already happened on this board, that some conspiracy freak says that it wasn't "lost," but rather a coverup because it photographed an Io city or something!
Gonna get a "0" on this, because whether it's informative or funny, I always get "0"
NASA is more concerned with the 80 bars of plutonium onboard Galileo contaminating the perhaps inhabited moons Europa and/or Callisto (both found to contain liquid oceans) than the bacteria which may or may not still be on board Galileo since its launch from Cape Canaveral in 1989.
If you would like to know... Hubble cannot look at the moon because they way it's optics work (designed to look into deep space), the moon travels too darn fast for it relative to earth that viewing it is unfeasable. However, back in 2000, a group of astronomers from Hawaii managed to actually manipulate Hubble into viewing it. See summer 2000 of Sky & Telescope or Astronomy, I forget which one. It was very interesting (although it had to be at lowest power, so this was not to see details of the moon, but rather to demonstate the feasability of this act.) BTW, I'll most definately get a "0" for this, even though it is informative, since I always get a zero, but anyway... :-)
With 22 seasons, this will be, like someone said, around $4.50 an episode. But still... Simpsons DVD 1 was 13 episodes for $30 ($20 many places on the internet). My question is... why charge $100 when DVD media costs them what... pennies? They'd still get every TNG geek to lay down $350 for the series if they charged "only" $50. Just seems unfair to me...
I remember when Lucas said that there will be NO pre-sales of Episode 1 tickets, so it wasn't too outrageous that people would wait in line for them. Later, however, online sales were allowed about 4 weeks before the release, thus negating the need to wait in geekdom. So why do these fools think this is necessary? And it's just some theatre in Seattle, not like Mann's Chinese Theatre or something!
link?
Damn slashdot! I sent in this link LAST NIGHT a minute after CNN posted it! -REJECTED!!!
Do we have to hear MORE of these people??? Geez, as if caring about an INTERNATIONAL Spacecraft such as Cassini (the probe which will go to the moon Titan was made by the European Space Agency) makes us forget the terrorist attacks. What Flamebait... Anyway, that probe's had problems too, but they fixed it.