... I actually had this same idea several years ago. Then I built a simple prototype out of wood, tested it, and saw that it didn't do squat. Apparently my second thought should have been, "Don't test it, just build it and charge money for it."
Every few years I get a new box, and I think, "I'll try Debian, people seem to like it." Then I try to install it, and it never installs properly. My experience has been that the installers over the years have been non-intuitive, required too much detailed knowledge, and were clunky. That's why I've never used it. Instead I've used Red Hat, Fedora, and now Ubuntu.
Millions of viruses in solution can line up and stack themselves into layers, creating a material that flows like a liquid but maintains an internal pattern.
The next logical step would be to build 3 or 4 identical scopes in each hemisphere. This would let you observe an object 24hrs a day (with a redundant observatory, perhaps, in case of clouds).
The Whole Earth Telescope (WET) does just this to study asteroseismology with ~10 telescopes. Read about it
here. (They also use a pretty cool
metacomputing Linux system for data analysis. The other really cool thing about this group is that all their data is "open-sourced", i.e., publicly available to anyone that wants it, immediately.
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"Short term" means 5+ years minimum. MINIMUM.
... I actually had this same idea several years ago. Then I built a simple prototype out of wood, tested it, and saw that it didn't do squat. Apparently my second thought should have been, "Don't test it, just build it and charge money for it."
Every few years I get a new box, and I think, "I'll try Debian, people seem to like it." Then I try to install it, and it never installs properly. My experience has been that the installers over the years have been non-intuitive, required too much detailed knowledge, and were clunky. That's why I've never used it. Instead I've used Red Hat, Fedora, and now Ubuntu.
There's so many retards there
Really, there is so many retards here? That's your point?
Keep them away from Slashdot! Otherwise they'll hack in and fix this: The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them.
Like the naked weather chick? And they have beer? Cool.
Isn't this how the Blob was born?
Since I had trouble getting them after downloading, here they are:
OpenOffice.org MD5sums
2002-04-30
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f29b608ebc5512401f3c315475f4593c 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_Win32Intel_install.zip
67bf15ac86aaf3a09e334661d4cbe49e 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_SolarisSparc_install.tar.gz
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6e96524d13a76e612715ab95f9607b68 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_SolarisSparc_solver.tar.gz
a1b2339eeb66f0cacdbf878464c05628 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_Win32Intel_solver.zip
The only reason I clicked on this story was because I thought it said, "Chase the Rabbis." I was hoping for photos.
(Don't get mad, my girlfriend's Jewish.)
4 pages in your choice of formats here.
The next logical step would be to build 3 or 4 identical scopes in each hemisphere. This would let you observe an object 24hrs a day (with a redundant observatory, perhaps, in case of clouds). The Whole Earth Telescope (WET) does just this to study asteroseismology with ~10 telescopes. Read about it here. (They also use a pretty cool metacomputing Linux system for data analysis. The other really cool thing about this group is that all their data is "open-sourced", i.e., publicly available to anyone that wants it, immediately.