Ok to whoever modded me reduntant. Set your threshold to oldest first and you will see that I had first post! I know the joke is old but in respect to the thread I was the first to mention clusters. Or anything for that matter.
Hmm that would be some heavy-duty calculations to make a real time 3-d map of the universe. First off, allot of stars would have changed classes, you know.... blown up into red giants or shrunk into white dwarfs and such. Also interactions with other star's gravity wells would cause some of them to change course or even collide. This would be difficult, since in a lot of cases we only know the state of the star a few billion years ago. Nebulas dissipate, novas great new ones. Everybody knows about supernovas. Hell it wasn't until a few years back astronomers (or astrophysists) discovered that the Milky Way is absorbing another galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius. (I read this in a Scientific American article a while back. Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
It would be tough, but really cool if it could be done. It might even be considered a Wonder of the World.
So the real question remains. How big should we make the Beowulf Cluster of Imacs?
I wonder how long it will be before the American public gets so fed up with these "scientists" who seem to be constantly getting it wrong that they cease to pay any attention to them at all.
Ok if you haven't figured it out by now this is how it works. Scientists have Problem A, they make Theory A to explain Problem A. Later after experimentation and more data collection, they may learn that Theory A is incorrect because they didn't know so and so fact about said problem. Thus they come up with Theory B and so on and so forth. The majority of the American public kind of understands this philosophy without a problem.
First we get 'global warming' then other scientists disagree
Exactly the professionals who make it their daily work to understand how the ozone layer and other aspects the atmosphere have too little data to make a single theory. They're disagreement is about what theory most likely describes what is occurring in our atmosphere. Again this is under constant revision as understanding increases.
Then the NASA morons cannot even get a simple thing like a mars probe to land
If landing a mars probe is so easy then you do it.
they launch that hubbard space telescope which didn't work.
Have you been living under a rock? Fisrt, it is the HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE! It's named after Erwin Hubble who discovered the fudemental structure of galaxies and how they are moving away from each other. I have know idea who Hubbard is. The Hubble makes the cover of Newsweek at least twice a year with some beautiful astrophoto of something or the other. (The Eagle Nebula is my personal favorite.) The mirror was of by like.00005 of an inch or some hideously small number like that back when they launched. They had to send a repair mission and make the equalivent of glasses for the telescope. Again if you think putting a telescope in LEO, lined up perfectly so that it can be centered on one portion of the sky for upwards of a week, while traveling around the earth at 17.5 miles per second making allowances for bright objects like the sun and the moon that tend to get in the way is so easy, then you do it.
Scientists these days are just stupid and lazy. I blame the terrible state of America's education system.
Thank you for your wonderful and educated assessment of our education system. I am sure your schools produce brighter students then anywhere else, with little Einsteins in every other chair. If you would excuse me I have to reply to another troll who is bitching about how the said products of our flawed education system (Who happen to know the correct name of the space telescope by the way) seem to be on the way to economicly and militarily dominate the rest of the world. Have a nice day.
I'll admit I'm guilty of "Movie Trading". It's how I decide what I'm going to buy. For example none of my friends have Neon Genesis Evangelion and I'm sure as hell ain't going to find it at my local blockbuster. Since 25-30 greenbacks is way to much for me to spend on something I'm seeing for the first time, and might not even like.
So I became one with the devil one fateful day and fired up Morpheus. And on that day the worlds biggest evangelion freak was born.
I didn't play with linux for two weeks, cause I didn't want to reboot out of my win2k partion so I could keep downloading. Eventually I had the entire series all mine for free, some were fairly decent quality too.
Did I stick it to the artists who created such an animation masterpiece? Well some would say yes. Some would say they deserve to be ripped off simply for the fact that they charge so much for a three episode dvd. I'm not going to get into that. Plenty of threads covering that topic as it is.
In my case it dosen't really matter anyways. I purchesed all eight dvd's, have an almost complete collection of evangelion toys (Just need to get Unit 01). And a gorgeous Askua poster in a black frame hanging on the wall above my monitor.
Maybe my case is an exception. I never would have bought all this stuff if I never saw the crappy divxes. I relize they're is alot of freeloading on the p2p networks, but because of software like Morpheus and Gnutella I shelled out quite a bit of cash at my local Suncoast. This stuff isn't cheap!
In a giant crater in Cornwall, England we bring the stories of our world to life. In the huge covered conservatories, or Biomes as we call them, you can visit the majestic rainforests, the Mediterranean, South Africa and California and in the Outdoor Landscape discover more about the plants and places that share our Cornish climate.
I wonder what's in store for Biomes 2? I have an idea, since each city has a distinctive personality maybe we can adapt this for an urban enviroment.
Welcome to the London Biomes where we recreate the wonders of South Chigago. I know I've said this before outside, however I find it nessasary to remind everyone again to please insure that all jewlery and any belongings of value are hidden safely out of siight thoughout the tour. Umm hello sir, company rules clearly state no handouts to the winos. Alright everyone if you could look to your left someone wrote 'Welcme to Crakvile' on the side of that building in orange spraypaint. On that streetcorner to your right we find two middle-aged prostitutes who seem.....
this is off topic, but I had for years a tape of the original broadcast of Encounter at Farpoint.
Yeah I know it sucked, however it was a nice addition for my sci-fi collection. The VHS was made in EP mode and it was the complete 2-hour movie with original commercials. The picture quality degraded of course being made in 1987, but wasn't watched often and I stretched the tape once in a while. It held up fairly well for a long time.
I being the dumb fuckhead that I am, lent this prized novelty to my friend. I 'm sure you know how this is going to end. Just let me tell you what I got back. His little sister used my tape for....
do you expect it's Katz. Oh wow some great Sci-Fi authors have gotten some things right. Have you just woken up and smelled the coffee? Hello where have you been Katz? There is a reason why they are great. You know Jules Verne and the Nautilus, the moon landing? You have noticed these things before haven't you?
It takes a little more then a few R/C airplanes with video cameras and missiles to impress me.
So technology has allowed war to be less brutal and you think that's a bad thing? Conventional warfare has never been shocking enough on it's own merits to eliminate itself from history. Europe literally hacked at each other for centuries and you think by WW1 they would have been adaptive enough in tactics to realize after the first couple of times of slow marching into machine gun fire that gee it doesn't work.
Nope the stupid humans will continue to kill each other for dumb ass reasons much of the time. So one group has finally after all these centuries of stabbing, hacking, shooting, blowing up, radiating people have finally figured out a few ways to make it easier and less bloody for the boys. It's not world peace but I will take what I can get.
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Yeah it's nice being on the correct side of the atlantic.
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Ok to whoever modded me reduntant. Set your threshold to oldest first and you will see that I had first post! I know the joke is old but in respect to the thread I was the first to mention clusters. Or anything for that matter.
Blender was free as in beer, not speech.
A beowulf cluste..... oh right sorry.
only 9,000,780 more to go!
Sodomizing prostitutes after a drunken afternoon full of blackjack is legal however... kind of like the morality of Amsterdam.
I like the place already.
Hmm that would be some heavy-duty calculations to make a real time 3-d map of the universe. First off, allot of stars would have changed classes, you know.... blown up into red giants or shrunk into white dwarfs and such. Also interactions with other star's gravity wells would cause some of them to change course or even collide. This would be difficult, since in a lot of cases we only know the state of the star a few billion years ago. Nebulas dissipate, novas great new ones. Everybody knows about supernovas. Hell it wasn't until a few years back astronomers (or astrophysists) discovered that the Milky Way is absorbing another galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius. (I read this in a Scientific American article a while back. Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
It would be tough, but really cool if it could be done. It might even be considered a Wonder of the World.
So the real question remains. How big should we make the Beowulf Cluster of Imacs?
I wonder how long it will be before the American public gets so fed up with these "scientists" who seem to be constantly getting it wrong that they cease to pay any attention to them at all.
.00005 of an inch or some hideously small number like that back when they launched. They had to send a repair mission and make the equalivent of glasses for the telescope. Again if you think putting a telescope in LEO, lined up perfectly so that it can be centered on one portion of the sky for upwards of a week, while traveling around the earth at 17.5 miles per second making allowances for bright objects like the sun and the moon that tend to get in the way is so easy, then you do it.
Ok if you haven't figured it out by now this is how it works. Scientists have Problem A, they make Theory A to explain Problem A. Later after experimentation and more data collection, they may learn that Theory A is incorrect because they didn't know so and so fact about said problem. Thus they come up with Theory B and so on and so forth. The majority of the American public kind of understands this philosophy without a problem.
First we get 'global warming' then other scientists disagree
Exactly the professionals who make it their daily work to understand how the ozone layer and other aspects the atmosphere have too little data to make a single theory. They're disagreement is about what theory most likely describes what is occurring in our atmosphere. Again this is under constant revision as understanding increases.
Then the NASA morons cannot even get a simple thing like a mars probe to land
If landing a mars probe is so easy then you do it.
they launch that hubbard space telescope which didn't work.
Have you been living under a rock? Fisrt, it is the HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE! It's named after Erwin Hubble who discovered the fudemental structure of galaxies and how they are moving away from each other. I have know idea who Hubbard is. The Hubble makes the cover of Newsweek at least twice a year with some beautiful astrophoto of something or the other. (The Eagle Nebula is my personal favorite.) The mirror was of by like
Scientists these days are just stupid and lazy. I blame the terrible state of America's education system.
Thank you for your wonderful and educated assessment of our education system. I am sure your schools produce brighter students then anywhere else, with little Einsteins in every other chair. If you would excuse me I have to reply to another troll who is bitching about how the said products of our flawed education system (Who happen to know the correct name of the space telescope by the way) seem to be on the way to economicly and militarily dominate the rest of the world. Have a nice day.
I'll admit I'm guilty of "Movie Trading". It's how I decide what I'm going to buy. For example none of my friends have Neon Genesis Evangelion and I'm sure as hell ain't going to find it at my local blockbuster. Since 25-30 greenbacks is way to much for me to spend on something I'm seeing for the first time, and might not even like.
So I became one with the devil one fateful day and fired up Morpheus. And on that day the worlds biggest evangelion freak was born.
I didn't play with linux for two weeks, cause I didn't want to reboot out of my win2k partion so I could keep downloading. Eventually I had the entire series all mine for free, some were fairly decent quality too.
Did I stick it to the artists who created such an animation masterpiece? Well some would say yes. Some would say they deserve to be ripped off simply for the fact that they charge so much for a three episode dvd. I'm not going to get into that. Plenty of threads covering that topic as it is.
In my case it dosen't really matter anyways. I purchesed all eight dvd's, have an almost complete collection of evangelion toys (Just need to get Unit 01). And a gorgeous Askua poster in a black frame hanging on the wall above my monitor.
Maybe my case is an exception. I never would have bought all this stuff if I never saw the crappy divxes. I relize they're is alot of freeloading on the p2p networks, but because of software like Morpheus and Gnutella I shelled out quite a bit of cash at my local Suncoast. This stuff isn't cheap!
just what is the point for region encoding gam epads?
Ay, but how do we know he didn't invent the thing?
Off the top of my head I can remember these sci-fi stories that explored the types of societies that could develop on generation starships.
Star Trek TOS #68 For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky.
Orphans of the Sky by Robert Heinlein.
Eon by Greg Bear (well sortof if you ignored the infinateley long trans-dimensional tunnel attached to one end.)
The Songs of Distant Earth by Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
Then they're the stories about small groups of people who choose to live semi-secluded lives on board space-craft.
Enterprise #9 Fortunate Son
The traders from Citezen of the Galaxy by Rob. Heinlein.
I'm sure there are a lot more, however I can't think of them at the moment. Anybody else?
I'm sure W stays up late everynight watching football, choking on pretzels and thinking of new ways to dominate Canada. Plze.
From the site
In a giant crater in Cornwall, England we bring the stories of our world to life. In the huge covered conservatories, or Biomes as we call them, you can visit the majestic rainforests, the Mediterranean, South Africa and California and in the Outdoor Landscape discover more about the plants and places that share our Cornish climate.
I wonder what's in store for Biomes 2? I have an idea, since each city has a distinctive personality maybe we can adapt this for an urban enviroment.
Welcome to the London Biomes where we recreate the wonders of South Chigago. I know I've said this before outside, however I find it nessasary to remind everyone again to please insure that all jewlery and any belongings of value are hidden safely out of siight thoughout the tour. Umm hello sir, company rules clearly state no handouts to the winos. Alright everyone if you could look to your left someone wrote 'Welcme to Crakvile' on the side of that building in orange spraypaint. On that streetcorner to your right we find two middle-aged prostitutes who seem.....
More powerful than a locomotive
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!
Look up in the sky!
It's a bird!
It's a Plane!
No It's...
Cowboy Neal with his shiny new X0-147A Warfare Utility Supplement System (WUSS)
The answer to your question is in 2061 Odyssey 3.
yes please
don't
It's cool; the ultimatum was delivered in 2010. Check your calendar it's all good.
my head hurt too after watching Marky Mark in that piece of crap.
i love the subtitled ones. What lanquage is that anyways
Q-Who
Episode 42
Airdate 5-8-89
Stardate 42761.3
Written by Maurice Hurley
Directed by Rob Bowman
this is off topic, but I had for years a tape of the original broadcast of Encounter at Farpoint.
Yeah I know it sucked, however it was a nice addition for my sci-fi collection. The VHS was made in EP mode and it was the complete 2-hour movie with original commercials. The picture quality degraded of course being made in 1987, but wasn't watched often and I stretched the tape once in a while. It held up fairly well for a long time.
I being the dumb fuckhead that I am, lent this prized novelty to my friend. I 'm sure you know how this is going to end. Just let me tell you what I got back. His little sister used my tape for....
Maverick staring Mel Gibson and Jodi Foster.
do you expect it's Katz. Oh wow some great Sci-Fi authors have gotten some things right. Have you just woken up and smelled the coffee? Hello where have you been Katz? There is a reason why they are great. You know Jules Verne and the Nautilus, the moon landing? You have noticed these things before haven't you?
It takes a little more then a few R/C airplanes with video cameras and missiles to impress me.
So technology has allowed war to be less brutal and you think that's a bad thing? Conventional warfare has never been shocking enough on it's own merits to eliminate itself from history. Europe literally hacked at each other for centuries and you think by WW1 they would have been adaptive enough in tactics to realize after the first couple of times of slow marching into machine gun fire that gee it doesn't work.
Nope the stupid humans will continue to kill each other for dumb ass reasons much of the time. So one group has finally after all these centuries of stabbing, hacking, shooting, blowing up, radiating people have finally figured out a few ways to make it easier and less bloody for the boys. It's not world peace but I will take what I can get.
Yeah it's nice being on the correct side of the atlantic.
yeah it's a fucked up world isn't it.