There are other possibilities that are in principle quite observable. I would actually favor either condensed matter nuggets or axions to WIMPS, but that may be just me.
Can't be brown dwarfs, thank's to micro lensing constraints. Can't be supernova, as it was present before the microwave background. It could be smaller compact stuff - see this for the current allowed holes in the condensed matter mass spectrum, and this for some ideas and references for an alternative DM theory involving condensed matter.
The Dark Matter is still there, as something (we don't know what). This doesn't "dim" the existence of DM as an effect* at all. What this does is (again) dim some faint hopes it might be WIMPS. It doesn't constrain other models / theories at all.
* : even if the DM is MOND, or some other gravity correction, it might not be matter, but the effect would still exist.
I'm raised protestantian, as Martin Luther defined it. Certainly there is no trinity.
Uh, my understanding is that Lutherans subscribe to the Nicene Creed. So do the Baptists (Southern and otherwise), Methodists, Presbyterians, the Catholics and the Orthodox, and in fact every Christian church I have ever been in*.
The Trinity, and the divinity of Christ (that "true God from true God" part), is built into the Nicene Creed. It is a feature, not a bug. You may not believe in it, but don't go saying all those churches don't know what they are doing when they recite it.
* You will get bonus points here by intelligently bringing up the Filioque.
Well, big chunks of the US aerospace industry (i.e., their audience) still use English units. You don't see this in formal publications as much as you used to, but it's still fairly common.
Well, it's an analogy. Generally, in the spacecraft case, the plug is just pulled, for a bunch of different reasons (which is why it doesn't happen all that often). In this case, L'Garde was trying to reuse a bunch of technology they developed for previous inflatable structures in space. This led to the sail inflation mechanism weighing more than the Sunjammer itself, which is not desirable, and likely not what you would do if you started from scratch. No new contractor would want to come in and try and make the L'Garde proprietary technology work, and NASA is well aware of that. So, there will be sails flown relatively soon, but they won't look like L'Garde's Sunjammer.
Oh, yes. FAME (to pick my previous example) absolutely deserved to be canceled. It hurt some people I have real respect for, but there it is. I am sure the current situation is pretty similar. (This is analogous to firing a contractor when they are halfway finished building an addition to your house - it is so messy and represents such a real loss of money, and also such a loss of face, that it is almost never done without some real provocation.)
It's worse than that. There are slugs, pounds and poundals, and (IMHO) anyone who doesn't immediately convert these units to MKS is just being silly.
Sunjammer was to have a total surface area of ~ 1,200 square metres, so its thrust at 1 AU would have been 2 x 1361 W / m^2 x 1200 / c ~ 0.01 Newtons (assuming the sail had a near perfect reflectivity). On the surface of the Earth, that thrust would be generated by a weight of 0.01 / 9.8 ~ 1 gm, or ~ 0.002 pounds.
while that was an absolutely stupid thing to do, its not really relevant to the topic at hand here now is it??
It's not even really true; it's just bamboozlement for people who want to be bamboozled. If you listen to the actual fracking interview, he says that his goals, on this particular trip to the Middle East include outreach to the Muslim world, including reminding them in their role in the development of science. That is a non-surprising goal for an official trip to a particular region. I have a news flash - at the recent IAC meeting, he congratulated the Indians on the initial success of their MOM Mars mission. I suppose the Telegraph will take offense of that too.
I have met Mr. Bolden several times, and had the opportunity to see him in action. He is an excellent NASA administrator who is seriously focused on "boots on Mars," not self-esteem initiatives.
A vote of no confidence. I remember when NASA canceled the USNO FAME satellite - they said it was over the budget, but really it was over the management team. I expect that there is something similar here - fortunately, there is still NASA Marshall's Solar Scout, which is much smaller and cheaper than the Sunjammer.
Oh, and most of these are not legally treaties, although they (unconstitutionally) try and have the effect of treaties (again, they do this precisely because they know they could never get an actual treaty with the desired terms through the Senate) . The one good side of doing it that way is that a future President could abrogate the existing agreements at the stroke of a pen.
You mean the guy who shut your Parliament down rather than face a vote of no confidence? I don't see how you can regard him as legitimate or, for that matter, why you still tolerate having a Governor General.
Or they could have been some of Catherine the Great's Volga Germans, whom I believe still qualify for German citizenship, even if they were born in Russia and never spoke German.
Slashdot Mirror
The loss includes the first satellite for Planetary Resources, the Arkyd, an orbiting telescope intended to hunt for asteroids.
They can always go bankrupt and come back under the same name.
IANAL and all that, and the fool that has himself as a client is nothing compared to the fool who takes legal advice from Slashdot.
Don't look out of the window much I see.
Yeah, I have flown the old BEA (all rear facing seats). Didn't like take off too much.
Fine, if it comes with a really good imaging system passengers can access. A VR set "would be nice."
In reality, of course, it would likely mean that only the 1% will be able to see what's going on outside, as that sounds like a First Class option.
There are other possibilities that are in principle quite observable. I would actually favor either condensed matter nuggets or axions to WIMPS, but that may be just me.
Can't be brown dwarfs, thank's to micro lensing constraints. Can't be supernova, as it was present before the microwave background. It could be smaller compact stuff - see this for the current allowed holes in the condensed matter mass spectrum, and this for some ideas and references for an alternative DM theory involving condensed matter.
The Dark Matter is still there, as something (we don't know what). This doesn't "dim" the existence of DM as an effect* at all. What this does is (again) dim some faint hopes it might be WIMPS. It doesn't constrain other models / theories at all.
* : even if the DM is MOND, or some other gravity correction, it might not be matter, but the effect would still exist.
We had that. It was called the phone system.
There, fixed your headline for you.
He didn't say which galaxy it would be at the other end of. Of course, at a redshift (z) ~ 0.005, there would be lots to choose from.
FAME deserved it. Let' s just leave it at that and walk away from the wreckage.
I'm raised protestantian, as Martin Luther defined it.
Certainly there is no trinity.
Uh, my understanding is that Lutherans subscribe to the Nicene Creed. So do the Baptists (Southern and otherwise), Methodists, Presbyterians, the Catholics and the Orthodox, and in fact every Christian church I have ever been in*.
The Trinity, and the divinity of Christ (that "true God from true God" part), is built into the Nicene Creed. It is a feature, not a bug. You may not believe in it, but don't go saying all those churches don't know what they are doing when they recite it.
* You will get bonus points here by intelligently bringing up the Filioque.
Well, big chunks of the US aerospace industry (i.e., their audience) still use English units. You don't see this in formal publications as much as you used to, but it's still fairly common.
Well, it's an analogy. Generally, in the spacecraft case, the plug is just pulled, for a bunch of different reasons (which is why it doesn't happen all that often). In this case, L'Garde was trying to reuse a bunch of technology they developed for previous inflatable structures in space. This led to the sail inflation mechanism weighing more than the Sunjammer itself, which is not desirable, and likely not what you would do if you started from scratch. No new contractor would want to come in and try and make the L'Garde proprietary technology work, and NASA is well aware of that. So, there will be sails flown relatively soon, but they won't look like L'Garde's Sunjammer.
Oh, yes. FAME (to pick my previous example) absolutely deserved to be canceled. It hurt some people I have real respect for, but there it is. I am sure the current situation is pretty similar. (This is analogous to firing a contractor when they are halfway finished building an addition to your house - it is so messy and represents such a real loss of money, and also such a loss of face, that it is almost never done without some real provocation.)
It's worse than that. There are slugs, pounds and poundals, and (IMHO) anyone who doesn't immediately convert these units to MKS is just being silly.
Sunjammer was to have a total surface area of ~ 1,200 square metres, so its thrust at 1 AU would have been 2 x 1361 W / m^2 x 1200 / c ~ 0.01 Newtons (assuming the sail had a near perfect reflectivity). On the surface of the Earth, that thrust would be generated by a weight of 0.01 / 9.8 ~ 1 gm, or ~ 0.002 pounds.
while that was an absolutely stupid thing to do, its not really relevant to the topic at hand here now is it??
It's not even really true; it's just bamboozlement for people who want to be bamboozled. If you listen to the actual fracking interview, he says that his goals, on this particular trip to the Middle East include outreach to the Muslim world, including reminding them in their role in the development of science. That is a non-surprising goal for an official trip to a particular region. I have a news flash - at the recent IAC meeting, he congratulated the Indians on the initial success of their MOM Mars mission. I suppose the Telegraph will take offense of that too.
I have met Mr. Bolden several times, and had the opportunity to see him in action. He is an excellent NASA administrator who is seriously focused on "boots on Mars," not self-esteem initiatives.
A vote of no confidence. I remember when NASA canceled the USNO FAME satellite - they said it was over the budget, but really it was over the management team. I expect that there is something similar here - fortunately, there is still NASA Marshall's Solar Scout, which is much smaller and cheaper than the Sunjammer.
Oh, and most of these are not legally treaties, although they (unconstitutionally) try and have the effect of treaties (again, they do this precisely because they know they could never get an actual treaty with the desired terms through the Senate) . The one good side of doing it that way is that a future President could abrogate the existing agreements at the stroke of a pen.
Agreed, but just because you have one boil doesn't mean you should agree to get more.
You mean the guy who shut your Parliament down rather than face a vote of no confidence? I don't see how you can regard him as legitimate or, for that matter, why you still tolerate having a Governor General.
Leave nothing to chance.
This is not a free trade agreement, this is corporations attempting to legislate without actually having to deal with pesky legislatures.
Anyone who supports the US Constitution should be against this.
Or they could have been some of Catherine the Great's Volga Germans, whom I believe still qualify for German citizenship, even if they were born in Russia and never spoke German.
Adolph Hitler
There was lots of groundbreaking research published in German in 1930. By 1950, not so much.