How much does it have to suck to die, with your observations being discredited, and your claims laughed at? Then a decade later, the scientific community goes "oops, you were right".
This guy had a carrier shot out from under him. I don't think the naysaying of a bunch of geek theorists bothered him much.
My old friend Dr. Godel would like to have a word with you about the recklessness of going about smugly thinking your little model has captured every possibility.
Here's a thought. What if each spacecraft did not lug a big old shield up into orbit. What if we build an orbiting "overcoat" which had the necessary shielding and a space inside to accomodate the spacecraft.
And that overcoat is built by hauling material from the earth into space (with every transport flight being exposed to the very risk that now jeopardises the Hubble repair mission), putting it together there (with those unlucky astronauts who have to do this being exposed to the very risk that now jeopardises the Hubble repair mission), to then haul up the actual spacecraft (with that transport flight being exposed to the very risk that now jeopardises the Hubble repair mission).
You are not, by chance, an accountant, a corporate lawyer or a politician?
Some people choose to sleep with their pants on because they are reluctant to get out of bed in the morning and suffer cold legs.
putting a impact shield around spacecraft - but the kind of impact speeds we are talking about probably makes this uneconomical as the shield would need to be massive.
The spacecraft would have trouble getting off the ground. That's even worse than uneconomical.
Here's a thought. What if each spacecraft did not lug a big old shield up into orbit. What if we build an orbiting "overcoat" which had the necessary shielding and a space inside to accomodate the spacecraft. Then you launch as light as you can and dock with your overcoat. Slip it on, and you are good. Unchecked by launch weight, you could make this overcoat as thick as needed to protect against micrometeorites as well as radiation.
POTUS: Hello? Caller: Hi. Do you have...uh...like Prince Albert in a can? POTUS: Excuse me? Caller: Wait! I mean...is your refrigerator running? Could you like go and check it? POTUS: How did you get this number? Who is this? Caller: Uh...this is Haywood. Haywood Jablo- Click.
If you are majoring in science or engineering at MIT, you must declare and finish what they call a humanities "concentration". Not quite a minor, but close.
One of the best professors I had a MIT was Thorburn, who taught a class in narrative. Some of the homework was going into his office and watching episodes of Harry O on a big new BetaMax (this was in 76-77). We spent a lot of time talking about TV and how the artist makes art within the boundaries of the medium, be it stage, movie, small screen, flat oil painting, sculpture, etc. I wrote a long paper about the differences between the musical scores of the movies Jaws and The Horror of Party Beach.
Check out the A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes remix featuring Bun B and Lil Wayne.
I have noticed this cycle in the Boston area over the last 20 years. The squirrel population will follow the acorn yield. Some years there are very few squirrels about, and the chipmunk population seems to boom. Then the squirrels will have a great year and have too many little ones. Some of the babies will end up on the ground, pushed out by the others.
Don't let your kids adopt them or talk you into taking them to a wildlife shelter. Believe me. All you have to do is put them back into a tree in a basket. The mommy squirrel will come find them and take them home by the scruff like a kitten.
The "inky blackness of space" is only simple if interpreted by a spectrally-limited human eye seeing only a tiny part of it from a distance. Space is crammed with a chaotic mess of strange crap on the macroscale and a lot more weird junk on the micro. Quasars, dark matter, nebulae, dark energy, black holes, virtual particles, gluon soup, quarks....
I will, as they say on the Internets, fix that for you:
If simplicity is the benchmark, space itself is in no way evidence of design.
"OMG, I would totally buy OSX in a second and run it on my box. Why doesn't Apple become a software company? Everyone would drop MS in a second. Apple would make a lot of money on volume."
etc etc
This is why few boards of directors come to Slashdot looking for their next CEO.
The analysis shows that the nucleobases contain a heavy form of carbon which could only have been formed in space.
FAIL
There is plenty of 13C on earth, along with the much more abundant 12C and the occasional and unstable 14C.
What they found was that the ratio of 12C to 13C was not that which would be found if the bases had been formed on earth from the available carbon pool.
And why is Stein so worked up, anyway? After all, he's a Jew. He's going to Hell.
I am your Lord Jesus Christ, and I approved this message.
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Am I the first brother to RTFA? Will is a Theta Xi, one of the original (if not the first, sorry pledge trainer) fraternity founded for engineering students.
You have to wonder about the workplace dynamics. People where I work sometimes get up a lottery pool when the prize is big. What happens in a small shop when half the workers hit the lottery? Do the other half offer congratulations but silently resent them? It would take inhuman strength not too. In the Microsoft cafeteria, there must be a lot of younger employees eating with people who have been there long enough to be much more wealthy than the new guys could ever hope to be - at that company, anyway. It isn't any surprise that most of the ones who didn't hit the MS lottery look elsewhere for theirs.
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The original article has this at the end:
The Forrester report "How Much Monday are Your Idle PCs Wasting?" is available for $279.
How much does it have to suck to die, with your observations being discredited, and your claims laughed at? Then a decade later, the scientific community goes "oops, you were right".
This guy had a carrier shot out from under him. I don't think the naysaying of a bunch of geek theorists bothered him much.
My old friend Dr. Godel would like to have a word with you about the recklessness of going about smugly thinking your little model has captured every possibility.
Here's a thought. What if each spacecraft did not lug a big old shield up into orbit. What if we build an orbiting "overcoat" which had the necessary shielding and a space inside to accomodate the spacecraft.
And that overcoat is built by hauling material from the earth into space (with every transport flight being exposed to the very risk that now jeopardises the Hubble repair mission), putting it together there (with those unlucky astronauts who have to do this being exposed to the very risk that now jeopardises the Hubble repair mission), to then haul up the actual spacecraft (with that transport flight being exposed to the very risk that now jeopardises the Hubble repair mission).
You are not, by chance, an accountant, a corporate lawyer or a politician?
Some people choose to sleep with their pants on because they are reluctant to get out of bed in the morning and suffer cold legs.
putting a impact shield around spacecraft - but the kind of impact speeds we are talking about probably makes this uneconomical as the shield would need to be massive.
The spacecraft would have trouble getting off the ground. That's even worse than uneconomical.
Here's a thought. What if each spacecraft did not lug a big old shield up into orbit. What if we build an orbiting "overcoat" which had the necessary shielding and a space inside to accomodate the spacecraft. Then you launch as light as you can and dock with your overcoat. Slip it on, and you are good. Unchecked by launch weight, you could make this overcoat as thick as needed to protect against micrometeorites as well as radiation.
They're my friends, Roy. I made them.
POTUS: Hello?
Caller: Hi. Do you have...uh...like Prince Albert in a can?
POTUS: Excuse me?
Caller: Wait! I mean...is your refrigerator running? Could you like go and check it?
POTUS: How did you get this number? Who is this?
Caller: Uh...this is Haywood. Haywood Jablo-
Click.
IANAL
YANAL
then who the hell is a lawyer?
TWTHIAL?
WWJD?
JWRTFM!
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If you are majoring in science or engineering at MIT, you must declare and finish what they call a humanities "concentration". Not quite a minor, but close.
One of the best professors I had a MIT was Thorburn, who taught a class in narrative. Some of the homework was going into his office and watching episodes of Harry O on a big new BetaMax (this was in 76-77). We spent a lot of time talking about TV and how the artist makes art within the boundaries of the medium, be it stage, movie, small screen, flat oil painting, sculpture, etc. I wrote a long paper about the differences between the musical scores of the movies Jaws and The Horror of Party Beach.
Check out the A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes remix featuring Bun B and Lil Wayne.
Killer!
Mission Commander: Andrew Zimmern.
Any other volunteers?
Anybody?
The very existence of Mickey Mouse guarantees that nothing will ever again enter the public domain in the good old USA.
I have noticed this cycle in the Boston area over the last 20 years. The squirrel population will follow the acorn yield. Some years there are very few squirrels about, and the chipmunk population seems to boom. Then the squirrels will have a great year and have too many little ones. Some of the babies will end up on the ground, pushed out by the others.
Don't let your kids adopt them or talk you into taking them to a wildlife shelter. Believe me. All you have to do is put them back into a tree in a basket. The mommy squirrel will come find them and take them home by the scruff like a kitten.
The "inky blackness of space" is only simple if interpreted by a spectrally-limited human eye seeing only a tiny part of it from a distance. Space is crammed with a chaotic mess of strange crap on the macroscale and a lot more weird junk on the micro. Quasars, dark matter, nebulae, dark energy, black holes, virtual particles, gluon soup, quarks....
I will, as they say on the Internets, fix that for you:
If simplicity is the benchmark, space itself is in no way evidence of design.
Is it a lander or did it impact?
When I book a flight, I want to know the landing time, not the impact time.
"OMG, I would totally buy OSX in a second and run it on my box. Why doesn't Apple become a software company? Everyone would drop MS in a second. Apple would make a lot of money on volume."
etc
etc
This is why few boards of directors come to Slashdot looking for their next CEO.
On the nanoscale (not this one), it will not be Bend it like Beckham. It will be Kick it like Casimir.
a. Make up a solution so it will basically react with the acid.
b. Make up a solution so it will react with the acid.
There
on something called a "transistor". Apparently Apple hovered in the wings waiting for the patent on this technology to expire so they could steal it.
Who is this Taco fellow and why can't he read for comprehension?
The analysis shows that the nucleobases contain a heavy form of carbon which could only have been formed in space.
FAIL
There is plenty of 13C on earth, along with the much more abundant 12C and the occasional and unstable 14C.
What they found was that the ratio of 12C to 13C was not that which would be found if the bases had been formed on earth from the available carbon pool.
"We were pretty well known on the internet. We were pretty popular. We had some funds available."
Still, good on them for coming to a fork in the road - one to eviltown and the other to goodville - and choosing wisely.
And why is Stein so worked up, anyway? After all, he's a Jew. He's going to Hell.
I am your Lord Jesus Christ, and I approved this message.
Am I the first brother to RTFA? Will is a Theta Xi, one of the original (if not the first, sorry pledge trainer) fraternity founded for engineering students.
You have to wonder about the workplace dynamics. People where I work sometimes get up a lottery pool when the prize is big. What happens in a small shop when half the workers hit the lottery? Do the other half offer congratulations but silently resent them? It would take inhuman strength not too. In the Microsoft cafeteria, there must be a lot of younger employees eating with people who have been there long enough to be much more wealthy than the new guys could ever hope to be - at that company, anyway. It isn't any surprise that most of the ones who didn't hit the MS lottery look elsewhere for theirs.