The Moon has Transient Lunar Phenomena - lights and other features that come and go. These have been observed enough, over a long enough time, and are correlated enough with recent lunar features to make me think they are real.
So to me, the real questions is, are these LRO features correlated with the TLP locations ?
You're not going to use the last guy turning the heat off in the evening as the time to start your black ops raid.
Now, I suspect that this was collateral damage Ii.e., not the intended target). However, have you ever hear of cryptographic traffic analysis ? (The British used it to deduce German sub movements before they could reliably decrypt the Enigma.) Did you know that people look at things like pizza deliveries to certain offices as signs of impending military moves ? I bet those same people would love to also have the thermostat setting changes for those offices.
There are obvious commercial analogs. For example, if there are rumors of a possible merger of between company X and either Y or Z, you might be able to make a good deal of money if you knew whether Y or Z's financial people were working late.
Keep in mind that China has a recorded history of what, something between 11,000 and 17,000 years?
Say what ? The Qin Shi Huang Emperor "buried the scholars and burned the books" in 213 BCE so the history of anything much before his reign is exceedingly fragmentary. The oldest extant Chinese writings are the Oracle "bones", which date from no earlier than 1500 BCE. Even Sima Qian started his history with the Yellow Emperor (~ 2600 BC), the first ruler he considered as probably historical.
So, two thousand years ? Yes. Three, four thousand ? Maybe. Ten thousand ? No way.
I deal with Chinese companies on a regular basis, and can assure you that they are innovating like mad. China is following the same classic development arc, which goes something like copy, steal, make, innovate, that the Japanese did ~ 50 years ago.
Yes, some businesses are beginning to require wiped travel laptops for entering the US. I have to say that I do not know anyone personally who has had laptop issues at the US border (although I know that there are some people who are on some sort of list and have them frequently). The assumption is, if you go to China, you will probably be hacked, and it's not going to happen at Customs.
By the way, in my experience Chinese firms are incredibly paranoid about this, much more so than US firms. I suspect that paranoia has some justification.
The US no longer has transit visas (except IIRC for UN diplomats). Everyone on a plane that transits the US is forced to get off and go through customs and is there subject to interrogation and arrest.
Interpol's Wikipedia article says that "[i]n order to maintain as politically neutral a role as possible, Interpol's constitution forbids it to undertake any interventions or activities of a political, military, religious, or racial nature." That, and "[u]ntil the 1980s Interpol did not intervene in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in accordance with Article 3 of its Constitution forbidding intervention in 'political' matters."
So, Nazi war crimes are political, but insulting the Prophet is not religious. This does not surprise. Interpol's full name is the International Criminal Police Organization; it was called the the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) prior to 1956. Past Presidents of the ICPC include Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Reinhard Heydrich. When Heydrich was planning the Final Solution at the Wannsee Conference, he was President of the ICPC. If you think that this background gives me a certain lack of respect for the ICPO, you are correct.
Read the article. This might be able to tell weed from tobacco in the field, but not covered over by paper; it has no penetrative power. (Neither application is mentioned in the article, by the way.)
Let's see, From time to time, Americans and even residents of the United Kingdom have been wealthier than Germans (actually, isn't that the case right now?), and also I believe that the Greeks have had their moments in the Sun. Are these shifts in fortune to be blamed on changes in language ? China 400 years ago was wealthy, then 100 years ago it was not, now it is becoming wealthy again. Has the Chinese language changed, and then changed back, in a way to be responsible for that as well ? For that matter, is every language in Africa somehow deficient ?
Pardon me if I doubt this.
On the other hand, if Newt Gingrich announces tomorrow that, if he is elected, the lunar colonists will get a new, revised, English to make them healthier and more economically competitive, I can't say I would be too surprised.
No one person or even small group of persons exclusively "invented" the Internet. It is the result of many years of ongoing collaboration among people in government and the university community. But as the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time.
Last year the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his role. He said: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet." We don't think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it is timely to offer our perspective..
I know both of these gentlemen, and getting them to agree on anything is not easy. Anyone, at this late date, who thinks its funny to denigrate Al Gore in this fashion is, IMHO, an idiot.
Having read FTA, he is claiming IPR on part of the interactive part of the web, the company seems like a pure troll (they make nothing), and he might, just might, win.
Note that someone seems to be confusing the Internet with the World Wide Web, so I am not sure which he is claiming IPR on. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW) at CERN in 1989. The Internet dates at the latest to the start of the NSFNET (1985). Either way, this seems to indicate that a patent issued in 1993 may have some issues with prior art.
Space tends to be tougher, and space agencies tend to have money to develop such things. Also, if can get it to work there, then the ground applications are probably fairly straight-forward.
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The Moon has Transient Lunar Phenomena - lights and other features that come and go. These have
been observed enough, over a long enough time, and are correlated enough with recent lunar features to make me think they are real.
So to me, the real questions is, are these LRO features correlated with the TLP locations ?
Aren't there still pieces of debris from that Chinese anti-satellite test a while back?
Yeah. Most of there are still there, 800 km up, and are likely to be there until somebody cleans up the mess.
Any true deep space combat would likely be years of boredom, interspersed with microseconds of terror.
In this case, I do.
That would only work if they could prove the documents were indeed forgeries....
For some reason, Wilde vs Queensberry comes to mind here.
Go ahead. Make my day. Sue on that basis. Let me make some popcorn.
While the goal of the bill may seem reasonable,
This is the Arizona Republican Party we are talking about here. Of course the goals of this Bill are not reasonable.
You're not going to use the last guy turning the heat off in the evening as the time to start your black ops raid.
Now, I suspect that this was collateral damage Ii.e., not the intended target). However, have you ever hear of cryptographic traffic analysis ? (The British used it to deduce German sub movements before they could reliably decrypt the Enigma.) Did you know that people look at things like pizza deliveries to certain offices as signs of impending military moves ? I bet those same people would love to also have the thermostat setting changes for those offices.
There are obvious commercial analogs. For example, if there are rumors of a possible merger of between company X and either Y or Z, you might be able to make a good deal of money if you knew whether Y or Z's financial people were working late.
Keep in mind that China has a recorded history of what, something between 11,000 and 17,000 years?
Say what ? The Qin Shi Huang Emperor "buried the scholars and burned the books" in 213 BCE so the history of anything much before his reign is exceedingly fragmentary. The oldest extant Chinese writings are the Oracle "bones", which date from no earlier than 1500 BCE. Even Sima Qian started his history with the Yellow Emperor (~ 2600 BC), the first ruler he considered as probably historical.
So, two thousand years ? Yes. Three, four thousand ? Maybe. Ten thousand ? No way.
I deal with Chinese companies on a regular basis, and can assure you that they are innovating like mad. China is following the same classic development arc, which goes something like copy, steal, make, innovate, that the Japanese did ~ 50 years ago.
If you travel to China, this is old news.
Yes, some businesses are beginning to require wiped travel laptops for entering the US. I have to say that I do not know anyone personally who has had laptop issues at the US border (although I know that there are some people who are on some sort of list and have them frequently). The assumption is, if you go to China, you will probably be hacked, and it's not going to happen at Customs.
By the way, in my experience Chinese firms are incredibly paranoid about this, much more so than US firms. I suspect that paranoia has some justification.
Seek a new job. Otherwise, if your invention or code makes any money, expect to be sued.
The US no longer has transit visas (except IIRC for UN diplomats). Everyone on a plane that transits the US is forced to get off and go through customs and is there subject to interrogation and arrest.
Every absolute monarchy is a dictatorship.
Interpol's Wikipedia article says that "[i]n order to maintain as politically neutral a role as possible, Interpol's constitution forbids it to undertake any interventions or activities of a political, military, religious, or racial nature." That, and "[u]ntil the 1980s Interpol did not intervene in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in accordance with Article 3 of its Constitution forbidding intervention in 'political' matters."
So, Nazi war crimes are political, but insulting the Prophet is not religious. This does not surprise. Interpol's full name is the International Criminal Police Organization; it was called the the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) prior to 1956. Past Presidents of the ICPC include Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Reinhard Heydrich. When Heydrich was planning the Final Solution at the Wannsee Conference, he was President of the ICPC. If you think that this background gives me a certain lack of respect for the ICPO, you are correct.
Unless you have a way to show that one moral system is better than another, you can't say one country's laws and preferences are better than another.
Sorry, but I do say that dictatorships are worse than democracies, and Saudi Arabia is a ferocious dictatorship.
There's a unity among Bible translators and publishers that stands in stark contrast to the fractured, fratricidal smartphone industry.
Also, alas, in stark contrast to the fractured and occasionally literally fratricidal world of their theological paymasters.
Read the article. This might be able to tell weed from tobacco in the field, but not covered over by paper; it has no penetrative power. (Neither application is mentioned in the article, by the way.)
Let's see, From time to time, Americans and even residents of the United Kingdom have been wealthier than Germans (actually, isn't that the case right now?), and also I believe that the Greeks have had their moments in the Sun. Are these shifts in fortune to be blamed on changes in language ? China 400 years ago was wealthy, then 100 years ago it was not, now it is becoming wealthy again. Has the Chinese language changed, and then changed back, in a way to be responsible for that as well ? For that matter, is every language in Africa somehow deficient ?
Pardon me if I doubt this.
On the other hand, if Newt Gingrich announces tomorrow that, if he is elected, the lunar colonists will get a new, revised, English to make them healthier and more economically competitive, I can't say I would be too surprised.
Note that "create" is not the same as "invent."
From Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn :
No one person or even small group of persons exclusively "invented" the
Internet. It is the result of many years of ongoing collaboration among
people in government and the university community. But as the two people
who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the
Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a
Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to
our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time.
Last year the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his
role. He said: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the
initiative in creating the Internet." We don't think, as some people have
argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover,
there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's
initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving
Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and
promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it
is timely to offer our perspective..
I know both of these gentlemen, and getting them to agree on anything is not easy. Anyone, at this late date, who thinks its funny to denigrate Al Gore in this fashion is, IMHO, an idiot.
I filed for a patent on this joke in 1999, and, as soon as it is approved, I plan to sue everyone who ever used it into bankruptcy.
Having read FTA, he is claiming IPR on part of the interactive part of the web, the company seems like a pure troll (they make nothing), and he might, just might, win.
Jesus F. Christ, give this a rest. This wasn't funny the first time I heard this bullshit in about 1999, and it sure hasn't improved with age.
Note that someone seems to be confusing the Internet with the World Wide Web, so I am not sure which he is claiming IPR on. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW) at CERN in 1989. The Internet dates at the latest to the start of the NSFNET (1985). Either way, this seems to indicate that a patent issued in 1993 may have some issues with prior art.
Space tends to be tougher, and space agencies tend to have money to develop such things. Also, if can get it to work there, then the ground applications are probably fairly straight-forward.