Fly first class on long-haul airlines (like Singapore). You'll see these things. (Even Virgin Atlantic has a working bar in Upper Class.) It'll cost you (or your company), but you'll see them.
What ever happened to being innocent before guilty? In a free society, courts have to prove -you- guilty, not you have to prove your innocence.
Ah, you haven't heard of the glories of civil law. It is, for example, how most drug law forfeitures are done - you have to prove your innocence to get the seized assets back. (I am not a lawyer, and if you have assets seized, you had better get one and not rely on/. for legal advice.)
Why the US Court system bought into this theory is beyond me; I think that they should be ashamed of themselves (but, then, they don't ask for my opinion).
"By the time of Venera-13 and 14, a surprising amount of complex equipment was simply installed outside the pressure hull, exposed to the intensely hostile surface conditions. By this time, Soviet engineers had developed new heat-resistant materials and electronics that were comfortable in this working environment."
ACTA was not supposed to be a treaty, but an Agreement (that second A) - i.e., something the President could do by Executive Order. That it really was a treaty in all-but-name was a large part of the reason why I opposed it.
At any rate, ACTA came from the US. This, isn't. So, based on the limited knowledge we have, I would consider these two efforts orthogonal.
Mod this parent up. If you have to go through regular security, you have to deal with their rules.
Given that a private plane is not going to leave you, I don't see he couldn't have just put it in checked luggage - or, maybe they viewed _all_ luggage as carry-on, which would be frustrating.
I have never had access to the commercial passenger space in an airport while taking a corporate jet. They are always in separate "general aviation" buildings. I have never had to go through security at general aviation either.
The idea is that the supernova exploded, send out a shell of gas (as supernovas do), and that this shell of gas mixed into the nebula forming the solar system, giving us lots of heavy elements, and highly amplified concentrations (but still trace amounts) of various isotopes coming from the decay of very radioactive isotopes only formed in supernova. Since these particular supernova products decay rapidly, in general galactic matter they would be hard to find, so finding their decay products is a clear sign of proximity to a supernova event.
The particles in question here are 100 nanometers across, and presumably condensed as the supernova shell cooled. Calling them "Shrapnel" is misleading - they would make a virus look huge. I would call them smoke particles, but they are even smaller than that.
Finding Chromium 54 in 100 nanometer diameter nanoparticles is new, and pretty cool (although I would not want to be the one operating the tweezers !), but the basic isotopic evidence for a nearby supernova just before (and possibly causing) the formation of the solar system is decades old.
With new observations, updated orbits show that the last time these objects got close to Earth was September 9, 1915, so these are apparently natural bodies, not "lost" interplanetary junk.
Please name one boycott / trade restriction that has worked. We (the USA) have been embargoing Cuba for almost 50 years, Iran for 30, North Korea for almost 60 years. We boycotted the People's Republic of China for some 25 years (and that was a real strict boycott, comparable to the current one against the North Korea). And, of course, our oil boycott of Japan in the early 1940's lead directly to Pearl Harbor.
After literally centuries of cumulative experience running boycotts and embargoes against various bad actors, have they ever served their purpose ? These are the foreign policy equivalent of the drug war - most people know that they are doing no good, but for some reason it is impossible to act rationally and admit it.
This is incipient tyranny, no more, no less. Just wait - if this isn't stopped, in five years these devices will be used routinely in High Schools (probably as a condition for participation in Athletics and other after School activities), and in ten years as a condition for employment in certain kinds of jobs.
I think that NASA should offer a major prize to do something... major. Say, $ 100 million to return 1 kilo of lunar soil, or 1 kg of an asteroid, or $ 500 million to return 1 kg of Phobos.
My understanding is that the "Skylab" module in the Air and Space Museum was actually intended to be launched "wet" as the flight hardware for the Venus flyby.
Nixon wanted to get out of manned spaceflight. Follow-on Apollo's were canceled, the Venus fly-by was canceled (you can see the crew module at the Air and Space Museum, except it's labeled "Skylab"), the Saturn V was thrown away, the Germans and Americans from the 1930's were all retired, from Von Braun on down, the middle-engineering of Apollo was all fired (I remember PhDs pumping gas in Florida), and what was left was the bureaucrats. Bureaucrats can run things, but they won't give you grand leaps.
If this is not a political prosecution, I don't know what is. As a Virginia taxpayer, I don't mind politicians bloviating, but I don't like them chewing up public resources to do so.
You know, if you timed it right, you could have a Wikipedia article that used a Slashdot story as a reference, and the Slashdot story could point back to the Wikipedia article.
Slashdot Mirror
Fly first class on long-haul airlines (like Singapore). You'll see these things. (Even Virgin Atlantic has a working bar in Upper Class.) It'll cost you (or your company), but you'll see them.
Oh, no, we passed that point about a decade ago.
For those who like getting their news from the source, here is the current (PDF) draft of the bill.
What ever happened to being innocent before guilty? In a free society, courts have to prove -you- guilty, not you have to prove your innocence.
Ah, you haven't heard of the glories of civil law. It is, for example, how most drug law forfeitures are done - you have to prove your innocence to get the seized assets back. (I am not a lawyer, and if you have assets seized, you had better get one and not rely on /. for legal advice.)
Why the US Court system bought into this theory is beyond me; I think that they should be ashamed of themselves (but, then, they don't ask for my opinion).
Venus is 425 C (or so), and these are rated up to 900 C, so they absolutely should work on Venus.
Of course, this is not new. From a description of the Soviet Venera landers :
"By the time of Venera-13 and 14, a surprising amount of complex equipment was simply installed outside the pressure hull, exposed to the intensely hostile surface conditions. By this time, Soviet engineers had developed new heat-resistant materials and electronics that were comfortable in this working environment."
ACTA was not supposed to be a treaty, but an Agreement (that second A) - i.e., something the President could do by Executive Order. That it really was a treaty in all-but-name was a large part of the reason why I opposed it.
At any rate, ACTA came from the US. This, isn't. So, based on the limited knowledge we have, I would consider these two efforts orthogonal.
Anyone got a link to the draft ? The OA says that they have it, but I don't see a link
And, we know this is correct how ?
The point is that even on a private plane, even on YOUR private plane, you are subjected to the same rules.
Actually (as will be clear if you read the rest of the threads here), you are generally not.
Mod this parent up. If you have to go through regular security, you have to deal with their rules.
Given that a private plane is not going to leave you, I don't see he couldn't have just put it in checked luggage - or, maybe they viewed _all_ luggage as carry-on, which would be frustrating.
I have never had access to the commercial passenger space in an airport while taking a corporate jet. They are always in separate "general aviation" buildings. I have never had to go through security at general aviation either.
Oh, and then later larger bodies like the parent meteorite formed, and included these nanoparticles, probably as dust captured by surfaces.
The idea is that the supernova exploded, send out a shell of gas (as supernovas do), and that this shell of gas mixed into the nebula forming the solar system, giving us lots of heavy elements, and highly amplified concentrations (but still trace amounts) of various isotopes coming from the decay of very radioactive isotopes only formed in supernova. Since these particular supernova products decay rapidly, in general galactic matter they would be hard to find, so finding their decay products is a clear sign of proximity to a supernova event.
The particles in question here are 100 nanometers across, and presumably condensed as the supernova shell cooled. Calling them "Shrapnel" is misleading - they would make a virus look huge. I would call them smoke particles, but they are even smaller than that.
Finding Chromium 54 in 100 nanometer diameter nanoparticles is new, and pretty cool (although I would not want to be the one operating the tweezers !), but the basic isotopic evidence for a nearby supernova just before (and possibly causing) the formation of the solar system is decades old.
With new observations, updated orbits show that the last time these objects got close to Earth was September 9, 1915, so these are apparently natural bodies, not "lost" interplanetary junk.
Please name one boycott / trade restriction that has worked. We (the USA) have been embargoing Cuba for almost 50 years, Iran for 30, North Korea for almost 60 years. We boycotted the People's Republic of China for some 25 years (and that was a real strict boycott, comparable to the current one against the North Korea). And, of course, our oil boycott of Japan in the early 1940's lead directly to Pearl Harbor.
After literally centuries of cumulative experience running boycotts and embargoes against various bad actors, have they ever served their purpose ? These are the foreign policy equivalent of the drug war - most people know that they are doing no good, but for some reason it is impossible to act rationally and admit it.
This is incipient tyranny, no more, no less. Just wait - if this isn't stopped, in five years these devices will be used routinely in High Schools (probably as a condition for participation in Athletics and other after School activities), and in ten years as a condition for employment in certain kinds of jobs.
Mod the parent up
I think that NASA should offer a major prize to do something... major. Say, $ 100 million to return 1 kilo of lunar soil, or 1 kg of an asteroid, or $ 500 million to return 1 kg of Phobos.
My understanding is that the "Skylab" module in the Air and Space Museum was actually intended to be launched "wet" as the flight hardware for the Venus flyby.
Nixon wanted to get out of manned spaceflight. Follow-on Apollo's were canceled, the Venus fly-by was canceled (you can see the crew module at the Air and Space Museum, except it's labeled "Skylab"), the Saturn V was thrown away, the Germans and Americans from the 1930's were all retired, from Von Braun on down, the middle-engineering of Apollo was all fired (I remember PhDs pumping gas in Florida), and what was left was the bureaucrats. Bureaucrats can run things, but they won't give you grand leaps.
Apollo could have reached some of the Near Earth Asteroids. This would have been a good idea in the 1970's, and it would be a good idea now.
If this is not a political prosecution, I don't know what is. As a Virginia taxpayer, I don't mind politicians bloviating, but I don't like them chewing up public resources to do so.
You know, if you timed it right, you could have a Wikipedia article that used a Slashdot story as a reference, and the Slashdot story could point back to the Wikipedia article.
Now, that would be a strange loop.
Very true. It's pretty mysterious why Mars should have any trojans at all, or if the ones it has are actually in stable orbits.