Re:Sounds like a good idea
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Defining "Planet"
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· Score: 2, Informative
Seems to me that the only problem with the whole sphere thing is that objects of higher densities could be spherical at a much lower diameter, neutron stars for example.
I have taken several classes on the universe and our solar system, and everything I've heard makes me believe that Pluto should not even be considered a planet, due to its extremely small size and different composition that the rest of the outer planets.
Good to see that the slashdot community knows about this hillarious website. I discovered it just a few months ago, and have been laughing my ass off at it ever since.
Unless the shuttle was specifically going to the ISS, it would be nearly impossible to change orbit to get there. We haven't gotten to the point where we can simply hop around to any orbit we want.
I can hardly believe all this. They were brave souls, may they rest in peace.
It is good to see that in this age of major corporatism and restrictive copyright laws that there is at least some vestige of free expression. Too bad it is not showing in my area.
Yeah, I can just see that. After a long day of working at the local lab, your priestess comes home and invites a bunch of people over. Then she gets angry and casts starfall.
Now that would be a good game
I don't know how many of you have actually seen any of these films, but in my opinion, the first film Koyaanisqatsi is one of the finest films ever made. It has no plot, no dialogue, simply 90 minutes of footage set to a brilliant score by Philip Glass. They finally released the first two films in the series on DVD September th 29th, and you'd better believe I had them preordered weeks in advance. I highly reccomend that anyone who has not already seen them do so, but be sure you have time to devote to REALLY watching them, trust me, it is worth it.
Re:Wrong - China can't get away with it
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Upcoming Cyberwars
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I highly doubt that the US would risk using nukes against the Chinese short of them using nukes on taiwan, and even then there would probably be much hesitation. Even a tactical nuclear strike would be unwise; nuclear weapons have only been used twice offensively, and the debate on whether it was "right" or not still continues. Besides that, China's nuclear capability may be weak, but do you think the Russians would sit idly by, even if the fallout didn't drift into Russian territory?
However, it does seem unlikely that China would risk (conventional) war with the US over Taiwan; they may have over one billion people, but much of their military technology dates back to the fifties. In the case of invasion, the US would almost certainly come to Taiwan's aid, for better or for worse.
I wonder how much longer they can increase the storage capacity for them lil' buggers. I seem to recall a Scientific American article on the subject, which came to the conclusion that we are likely nearing the limit of the technology.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I personaly was really disapointed when I found out that Bush yanked the funding for this. It's good to see that it might still happen.
Yeah, though I don't think you even need to look to other galaxies. When you look at how tiny the Earth is when compared to our Solar System, you realize that everything that man as ever accomplished (with the exception of a few space probes) is confined to a tiny speck of dust adrift in an endless sea. Still though, rather than making me feel insignificant, I am in awe of all the wonders we have yet to discover.
That is a really good idea, actually putting up a celebrity of sorts. The teacher in space program is pretty neat, but putting up someone like Bill Nye (or Beakman, he ruled!) would probably reach a much larger audience and generally have more of an impact. I can't help but laugh when I think of him floating around the ISS, pointing out all of the fascinating scientific phenomena on board in his wide-eyed child sort of way........
Reporter: Uh, question for the barbeque chef. Don't you think there is an inherent danger in sending underqualified civilians into space?
Homer: I'll field this one. The only danger is if they send us to [ominous] that terrible Planet of the Apes. Wait a minute...Statue of Liberty...that was OUR planet! You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell![weeps]
The DMCA has formerly been largely unknown to the general populace, with only/. readers and hardcore computer enthusiasts making complaints. However, if the DMCA continues to make idiotic decisions such as these, we may begin to see more of a public interest in the fallacies of the DMCA. We can only hope.........
Re:you just dont get it
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Time Travel
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This guy obviously didn't see Time Machine. If you read the article, it says that the whole reason he invented this time machine was so that he could go back in time to prevent hi father from smoking himself to death. This obviously wouldn't work, because by preventing the death of his father, he would eliminate his motivation for making a time machine. Thus his father would still be killed in some equally tragic way. If there is one thing the Time Machine movie taught us, it is that.
Second: You'd have to make sure you didn't collide with anything (I'm sure you'd hire a formet sub captain or something)
If you check the specs of the sub, it does have an active sonar array, so the chances of a random collision would be low (provided you knew how to work it)
Yeah, is does cost a whole lot of money, but your own personal submarine! I can hardly think of anyhting cooler, other than your own personal space shuttle. Think of it, you could pretend that you were captain Nemo, exploring the ocean depths......
That is all well and good, but is it spyware free? For those of us who have no programming skills (I know, I'm behind the times), is there any way to get the "good" version of Limewire?
Damn right man. It was bad enough in the late 90's when we just had money to blow and we still weren't exploring space. Now with huge portions of the budget going to fight terrorism, we are unlikely to see anything new and exciting in space for quite some time. I mean, come on, do we really need to put that much money into national defense when the threat is a few thousand ill equipped, untrained wackos on the other side of the world? Not that it would matter, space seems to be lower on the government payroll than subsidizing new Pauly Shore movies.
Well, yeah, but I respect the fact that he had the guts to actually write about this whole copy protection thing. As for his movie reviews, I trust 'em about half the time.
....I'm pretty sure that Matrix II is scheduled for the summer of 2003, not 2002. But hey, tell me if it's otherwise, because I'm not sure I can wait another year.
Good call man. I have spent quite a bit of time trying to find a version of Tron Arcade for download, but to no avail. Does anyone out there know where to obtain such a thing?
Slashdot Mirror
Ummm, it comes out May 15th, a thursday.
Seems to me that the only problem with the whole sphere thing is that objects of higher densities could be spherical at a much lower diameter, neutron stars for example.
I have taken several classes on the universe and our solar system, and everything I've heard makes me believe that Pluto should not even be considered a planet, due to its extremely small size and different composition that the rest of the outer planets.
Good to see that the slashdot community knows about this hillarious website. I discovered it just a few months ago, and have been laughing my ass off at it ever since.
Unless the shuttle was specifically going to the ISS, it would be nearly impossible to change orbit to get there. We haven't gotten to the point where we can simply hop around to any orbit we want.
I can hardly believe all this. They were brave souls, may they rest in peace.
It is good to see that in this age of major corporatism and restrictive copyright laws that there is at least some vestige of free expression. Too bad it is not showing in my area.
Yeah, I can just see that. After a long day of working at the local lab, your priestess comes home and invites a bunch of people over. Then she gets angry and casts starfall. Now that would be a good game
Whoops, meant to say the DVDs were released on the 17th of September.
I don't know how many of you have actually seen any of these films, but in my opinion, the first film Koyaanisqatsi is one of the finest films ever made. It has no plot, no dialogue, simply 90 minutes of footage set to a brilliant score by Philip Glass. They finally released the first two films in the series on DVD September th 29th, and you'd better believe I had them preordered weeks in advance. I highly reccomend that anyone who has not already seen them do so, but be sure you have time to devote to REALLY watching them, trust me, it is worth it.
I highly doubt that the US would risk using nukes against the Chinese short of them using nukes on taiwan, and even then there would probably be much hesitation. Even a tactical nuclear strike would be unwise; nuclear weapons have only been used twice offensively, and the debate on whether it was "right" or not still continues. Besides that, China's nuclear capability may be weak, but do you think the Russians would sit idly by, even if the fallout didn't drift into Russian territory?
However, it does seem unlikely that China would risk (conventional) war with the US over Taiwan; they may have over one billion people, but much of their military technology dates back to the fifties. In the case of invasion, the US would almost certainly come to Taiwan's aid, for better or for worse.
I wonder how much longer they can increase the storage capacity for them lil' buggers. I seem to recall a Scientific American article on the subject, which came to the conclusion that we are likely nearing the limit of the technology.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I personaly was really disapointed when I found out that Bush yanked the funding for this. It's good to see that it might still happen.
Yeah, though I don't think you even need to look to other galaxies. When you look at how tiny the Earth is when compared to our Solar System, you realize that everything that man as ever accomplished (with the exception of a few space probes) is confined to a tiny speck of dust adrift in an endless sea. Still though, rather than making me feel insignificant, I am in awe of all the wonders we have yet to discover.
That is a really good idea, actually putting up a celebrity of sorts. The teacher in space program is pretty neat, but putting up someone like Bill Nye (or Beakman, he ruled!) would probably reach a much larger audience and generally have more of an impact. I can't help but laugh when I think of him floating around the ISS, pointing out all of the fascinating scientific phenomena on board in his wide-eyed child sort of way........
Reporter: Uh, question for the barbeque chef. Don't you think there is an inherent danger in sending underqualified civilians into space?
Homer: I'll field this one. The only danger is if they send us to [ominous] that terrible Planet of the Apes. Wait a minute...Statue of Liberty...that was OUR planet! You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell![weeps]
The DMCA has formerly been largely unknown to the general populace, with only /. readers and hardcore computer enthusiasts making complaints. However, if the DMCA continues to make idiotic decisions such as these, we may begin to see more of a public interest in the fallacies of the DMCA. We can only hope.........
This guy obviously didn't see Time Machine. If you read the article, it says that the whole reason he invented this time machine was so that he could go back in time to prevent hi father from smoking himself to death. This obviously wouldn't work, because by preventing the death of his father, he would eliminate his motivation for making a time machine. Thus his father would still be killed in some equally tragic way. If there is one thing the Time Machine movie taught us, it is that.
Second: You'd have to make sure you didn't collide with anything (I'm sure you'd hire a formet sub captain or something)
If you check the specs of the sub, it does have an active sonar array, so the chances of a random collision would be low (provided you knew how to work it)
You do realise that 20000 leagues below sea level would be getting damn close to the center of the Earth, right?
Yeah, is does cost a whole lot of money, but your own personal submarine! I can hardly think of anyhting cooler, other than your own personal space shuttle. Think of it, you could pretend that you were captain Nemo, exploring the ocean depths......
That is all well and good, but is it spyware free? For those of us who have no programming skills (I know, I'm behind the times), is there any way to get the "good" version of Limewire?
Damn right man. It was bad enough in the late 90's when we just had money to blow and we still weren't exploring space. Now with huge portions of the budget going to fight terrorism, we are unlikely to see anything new and exciting in space for quite some time. I mean, come on, do we really need to put that much money into national defense when the threat is a few thousand ill equipped, untrained wackos on the other side of the world? Not that it would matter, space seems to be lower on the government payroll than subsidizing new Pauly Shore movies.
Well, yeah, but I respect the fact that he had the guts to actually write about this whole copy protection thing. As for his movie reviews, I trust 'em about half the time.
....I'm pretty sure that Matrix II is scheduled for the summer of 2003, not 2002. But hey, tell me if it's otherwise, because I'm not sure I can wait another year.
As Heinlen said: "Earth is too small a basket for mankind to keep all its eggs in."
Good call man. I have spent quite a bit of time trying to find a version of Tron Arcade for download, but to no avail. Does anyone out there know where to obtain such a thing?