When I read the headline, my mental image was of course of Kenny the Clown moonlighting as a second story man. Now, that would be a surveillance tape I would like to see.
Radon is mostly an indoor ventilation problem, as it accumulates in basements and other low places; the solution is to vent to the outside. In most cases, there is not a problem in the open air.
I bet that the 1 REM Denver average is a lot of people with no to moderate exposure, and a smaller bunch that really get hit, and the latter's exposure could certainly be reduced with a little engineering.
It would be better to use observations of Mars's natural satellites, especially Phobos. This has been explored with Phobos's transits of the Sun, which could give you positions to a few 100 meters. However, the real problem is not really that they don't know where the rover is, but that they don't know where objects on Mars are relative to the rover, and orbital and ground imaging suffices for that.
If they can make the frakking SkyCrane work I think that they can get a laser to work. After all, unlike the SkyCrane, the ChemCam can be fully tested here on Earth.
People have been talking about doing Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in space for decades, so I hope it works well with Chemcam. It has a lot of promise, both to speed up exploration, and in places like asteroids and comets, where it may not be feasible or safe to actually touch the target.
They have picked a boring nearby rock for the first target. There has been a discussion of whether or not Mars rocks have a "desert patina" (or varnish), and, if so, what is its nature, and even if it has a biological component. The Chemcam samples the top layer of the target, so may help to answer that.
What do you want to bet that Google bought Motorola purely to do this - i.e., that they don't really care about making the hardware, and so are willing to gut Motorola,in order to sue Apple ?
Note that much of the Internet runs on RAND, and RAND terms can always be dropped against your attacker if you get sued. Look for a major countersuit from Apple.
You kind of echo what I state, but indirectly. Remember that up until the 50's, we taught very differently. The methods up until then were based on the Trivium and Quadrivium. Learn reading, writing, grammar, and basic math. From there you learn more advanced concepts. We taught debate and rhetoric at younger ages so that the populous was better able to think. In the 50's we drastically changed the way we taught people, and everything went to teaching only what was on a test.
Trivium ? Quadrivium ? I don't think so.
I grew up in Georgia around then, and most schools there were big on rote memorization.
I still remember having to memorize all of the state capitols. Couldn't get out of 3rd grade without reciting them back in order. On the other hand, there basically weren't any standardized tests, at least until the PSAT.
This is an attempt by Republicans to denigrate the Democratic party and make it seem un-American. Yes, it is stupid, but it is purposeful stupidity. (And, yes, they will strongly deny it, but then they would, wouldn't they?)
(And despite that, many state offices explicitly require a religious affirmation anyway -- usually non-denominational, but enough to exclude atheists -- so it really has no impact on holding office at all).
Just try and enforce one of those atheist clauses and see how far you get. Those are all dead letters.
So, we need to keep religion completely out of education standard.
No, actually we don't.
Yes, actually we do. Our system of government is secular, and has been from the start, despite the lies of the likes of David Barton. They don't like it, they can leave, or try and change the Constitution.
Or they could, you know, secede, but that didn't work out too well the last time it was tried.
And while we may complain about wealthy corporations doing immoral things to make money, remember they're not required to be a fount of morality - they're legally required to maximise profits for shareholders within the law.
Actually, no they are not. They have a fiduciary responsibility to act in their shareholder's best interest, which is rather different. And, in practice, they almost never get called on this (i.e., sued by shareholders) if they are not actively looting the company, so even that requirement is frequently ignored.
If corporate executives act immorally, it is because they have no morals, not because they are being coerced.
Surely the OP doesn't think the DSN is on the Internet ? It sure wasn't when I worked with it, and that was at a time when that sort of protection might have seemed paranoid.
Step 1 : Request data on every member of the City Council (or whatever the local government equivalent is). Step 2 : Find out who's "daily routine" includes frequent trips to a local strip club, and who is spending the night at locations not their home. Step 3 : Publish anonymously in wikileaks. Step 4 : Watch this policy change amazingly fast.
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When you turn on Find My iPad.
When I read the headline, my mental image was of course of Kenny the Clown moonlighting as a second story man. Now, that would be a surveillance tape I would like to see.
Yep, although there is a lot of sand and muck down near Portsmouth, which is where I think a lot of the NH people live, so the majority may be OK.
But, if you have a granite basement, you should worry about ventilating it.
Radiation in Denver is unavoidable.
Radon is mostly an indoor ventilation problem, as it accumulates in basements and other low places; the solution is to vent to the outside. In most cases, there is not a problem in the open air.
I bet that the 1 REM Denver average is a lot of people with no to moderate exposure, and a smaller bunch that really get hit, and the latter's exposure could certainly be reduced with a little engineering.
It would be better to use observations of Mars's natural satellites, especially Phobos. This has been explored with Phobos's transits of the Sun, which could give you positions to a few 100 meters. However, the real problem is not really that they don't know where the rover is, but that they don't know where objects on Mars are relative to the rover, and orbital and ground imaging suffices for that.
The search for life on Mars != the search for ET.
If they can make the frakking SkyCrane work I think that they can get a laser to work. After all, unlike the SkyCrane, the ChemCam can be fully tested here on Earth.
People have been talking about doing Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in space for decades, so I hope it works well with Chemcam. It has a lot of promise, both to speed up exploration, and in places like asteroids and comets, where it may not be feasible or safe to actually touch the target.
They have picked a boring nearby rock for the first target. There has been a discussion of whether or not Mars rocks have a "desert patina" (or varnish), and, if so, what is its nature, and even if it has a biological component. The Chemcam samples the top layer of the target, so may help to answer that.
What do you want to bet that Google bought Motorola purely to do this - i.e., that they don't really care about making the hardware, and so are willing to gut Motorola,in order to sue Apple ?
Note that much of the Internet runs on RAND, and RAND terms can always be dropped against your attacker if you get sued. Look for a major countersuit from Apple.
They are not exclusive.
You kind of echo what I state, but indirectly. Remember that up until the 50's, we taught very differently. The methods up until then were based on the Trivium and Quadrivium. Learn reading, writing, grammar, and basic math. From there you learn more advanced concepts. We taught debate and rhetoric at younger ages so that the populous was better able to think. In the 50's we drastically changed the way we taught people, and everything went to teaching only what was on a test.
Trivium ? Quadrivium ? I don't think so.
I grew up in Georgia around then, and most schools there were big on rote memorization.
I still remember having to memorize all of the state capitols. Couldn't get out of 3rd grade without reciting them back in order. On the other hand, there basically weren't any standardized tests, at least until the PSAT.
This is an attempt by Republicans to denigrate the Democratic party and make it seem un-American. Yes, it is stupid, but it is purposeful stupidity. (And, yes, they will strongly deny it, but then they would, wouldn't they?)
(And despite that, many state offices explicitly require a religious affirmation anyway -- usually non-denominational, but enough to exclude atheists -- so it really has no impact on holding office at all).
Just try and enforce one of those atheist clauses and see how far you get. Those are all dead letters.
So, we need to keep religion completely out of education standard.
No, actually we don't.
Yes, actually we do. Our system of government is secular, and has been from the start, despite the lies of the likes of David Barton. They don't like it, they can leave, or try and change the Constitution.
Or they could, you know, secede, but that didn't work out too well the last time it was tried.
Anyone who is surprised by this (or who thinks that Sweden is not a part of it) is simply not paying attention.
And while we may complain about wealthy corporations doing immoral things to make money, remember they're not required to be a fount of morality - they're legally required to maximise profits for shareholders within the law.
Actually, no they are not. They have a fiduciary responsibility to act in their shareholder's best interest, which is rather different. And, in practice, they almost never get called on this (i.e., sued by shareholders) if they are not actively looting the company, so even that requirement is frequently ignored.
If corporate executives act immorally, it is because they have no morals, not because they are being coerced.
I don't know about ending, but I think we have already passed peak copyright, and things may look very different in a decade or so.
NASA and the DSN pay for direct connections, by fiber or satellite as needed.
Mars is up there and easy to find, and used 32 meter "Intelsat Standard A's" are a drag on the market. That should be enough to get you going.
Have at it. I would allocate about $ 1 million USD for startup costs, given a cheap dish.
Curiosity no longer responds after firmware update
Shh. Don't jinx it. That happened to the Spirit rover, and at about this point in its mission.
Direct landline or undersea connection and/or satellite from the DSN to the JPL SFOF. That doesn't touch the Internet either.
Trust me, they worry about this sort of stuff, a lot more than the Nuclear Regulatory Commission apparently does.
Yes, and, of course, you would need to know that you don't ever get a command line prompt with a RTT of 28 minutes.
+1 internets to you...
Having said that though, nuclear power plant, on the internet, whaat..
Yeah, what's with that?
Surely the OP doesn't think the DSN is on the Internet ? It sure wasn't when I worked with it, and that was at a time when that sort of protection might have seemed paranoid.
Step 1 : Request data on every member of the City Council (or whatever the local government equivalent is).
Step 2 : Find out who's "daily routine" includes frequent trips to a local strip club, and who is spending the night at locations not their home.
Step 3 : Publish anonymously in wikileaks.
Step 4 : Watch this policy change amazingly fast.