I am not a lawyer, but I have read the DMCA, and it (this section) applies to copyrighted "works", which devices are not generally considered to be. So, no, I don't think that this is relevant. Can you show case law to the contrary ?
I don't really know, and intensity is not the only thing - you need to know how it would affect the atmosphere, climate, biosphere, etc. and that depends on what state the the climate, atmosphere biosphere, etc., were in. I was just trying to provide an existence proof to show that something was likely to survive.
What sort of timescale are we looking at for such a galaxy to exhaust it's stars and become invisible to us?
Depends, but almost certainly >> the age of the Milky Way. After all, we have a bunch of globular clusters orbiting the galaxy, with no gas and all old stars, which are certainly still visible.
So if the atmosphere of a life bearing planet can shield enough of the xrays, then life could well continue on a planet during the super radiant stage.
Exactly. Or, even if not, life could reform.
Given the number of galaxies that the Milky Way has eaten (which would restock the missing gas), and the "missing" 500 million years or so of life in the very early history of our planet, I would not be too shocked if this had happened to the Milky Way a while ago, say 4.3 to 4.2 billion years ago. Of course, there is no evidence of this.
If this happened now, some life on Earth, such as bacteria buried kilometers down in the crust, would almost certainly survive it. As for us, well, there might be a mine-shelter gap...
For once, the Slashdot post is better than the original article.
The cessation of star-making is not the same as the cessation of life. It might be good for life. It might be bad. All we really know right now is that this has not happened to the Milky Way galaxy, so we have a sample of one where it did not occur.
The other thing missing in the original article is that galaxies are active things, and can and frequently do "eat" other galaxies - which brings new gas into the galaxy, and thus could restart star making (or make the black hole active again, or both).
Here is an astrophysics prediction : this galaxies will have a high Mass to Light ratio, since gas and dust will be expelled, but not dark matter.
...so the police withdrew and are allowing the school district to handle the half-grown hacker.
Of course, that's just what they are telling the press. In reality, of course, the boy is being put in charge of a supersecret underground Government cybersecurity lab on a deserted island even as we speak.
The mitochondria "code" is supposed to be totally separate from the nuclear "code," but what if it isn't ? Even if the DNA is totally different in heritage, the cell and its mitochondria have evolved together, and that might extend to assuming that certain proteins, say, will be available even though they are produced by the other body. Plop another mitochondria in there, and there might be problems down the road.
Look at this object. Within minutes, there are multiple independent video recordings of it from all over (basically true for every large meteor over an occupied area for the last decade or more), a path will be determined within hours to days, and pieces are likely to be found in short order.
I simply do not care about any UFO report from the past decade that does not meet that standard. Find multiple, independent surveillance camera or other video views of it, and I am interested. If you don't have that then you are wasting your time and breath IMHO.
What you see is a plasma - the air (plus whatever is vaporized from the meteor itself) is both ionized (making a plasma) and disassociated (i.e., molecular bonds are broken). That's why it conducts, so in the radio is a good reflector (of radar) and is opaque (causing a communications blackout for reentering spacecraft).The colored tails (AKA persistent trains) that are reported (and can last a long time, as apparently happened with this one) are spectral lines emitted from gas combining back into molecules, or by excited electrons falling back into the ground state.
There is another, larger, volcano nearby called Katla and...
"Eyjafjallajokull has blown three times in the past thousand years," Dr McGarvie told The Times, "in 920AD, in 1612 and between 1821 and 1823. Each time it set off Katla." The likelihood of Katla blowing could become clear "in a few weeks or a few months", he said.
Given this, and given that the last eruption was on and off for 2 years, we could have travel interruptions for a while to come.
I would bet that pieces will be found of the meteor. FIrst, the orbit / path will be well known, with so many multiple videos of it from different locations.
"One of the misconceptions about bright meteors is that they're due to very tiny objects," said Hammergren. But "if something is bright enough to light up the sky like daytime and cause sonic booms throughout the entire area, it's big. It was major," he said. "If it was daytime, people would have undoubtedly seen smoke trails."
I think that this is very sound reasoning. Happy hunting to rockhounds in Wisconsin !
Now, why do we never get such multiple confirmations of UFOs ?
So, when was it exactly in the USA that you had the right to clearly and unashamedly violate copyright on a massive scale.
You do know, right, that the USA used to be one of the biggest copyright violators on the planet in the 19th Century ? That a whole publishing industry was created around pirated copies of works from Europe ? And that Hollywood is where it is to escape IPR prosecution from Edison in New York ?
Anyone want to start a pool on how long it takes before this is revealed to be the legal equivalent of astro-turf (i.e., funded by a major studio or by the MPAA) ?
Lunokhod 2 has been returning Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) pulses since the early 1970's. Not only is it not lost, its position is known to a centimeter or better.
Finding Lunokhod 1, which has been missing since 1971, would be a real coup, especially if LLR returns could be obtained from it.
Now, how do you change the velocity of the solar system by 200 meters/sec ? That's all we need to dodge Gliese 710, and we have a few hundred thousand years to think about it.
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I am not a lawyer, but I have read the DMCA, and it (this section) applies to copyrighted "works", which devices are not generally considered to be. So, no, I don't think that this is relevant. Can you show case law to the contrary ?
Who am I to tell Apple what's best for their devices?"
Assuming that you haven't been shoplifting, they are not their devices. They are your (our) devices.
Having said that, if Apple says that doing such-and-such may wreck the machines, you've been warned.
What sort of intensity are we talking about here?
I don't really know, and intensity is not the only thing - you need to know how it would affect the atmosphere, climate, biosphere, etc. and that depends on what state the the climate, atmosphere biosphere, etc., were in. I was just trying to provide an existence proof to show that something was likely to survive.
What sort of timescale are we looking at for such a galaxy to exhaust it's stars and become invisible to us?
Depends, but almost certainly >> the age of the Milky Way. After all, we have a bunch of globular clusters orbiting the galaxy, with no gas and all old stars, which are certainly still visible.
So if the atmosphere of a life bearing planet can shield enough of the xrays, then life could well continue on a planet during the super radiant stage.
Exactly. Or, even if not, life could reform.
Given the number of galaxies that the Milky Way has eaten (which would restock the missing gas), and the "missing" 500 million years or so of life in the very early history of our planet, I would not be too shocked if this had happened to the Milky Way a while ago, say 4.3 to 4.2 billion years ago. Of course, there is no evidence of this.
If this happened now, some life on Earth, such as bacteria buried kilometers down in the crust, would almost certainly survive it. As for us, well, there might be a mine-shelter gap...
No
For once, the Slashdot post is better than the original article.
The cessation of star-making is not the same as the cessation of life. It might be good for life. It might be bad. All we really know right now is that this has not happened to the Milky Way galaxy, so we have a sample of one where it did not occur.
The other thing missing in the original article is that galaxies are active things, and can and frequently do "eat" other galaxies - which brings new gas into the galaxy, and thus could restart star making (or make the black hole active again, or both).
Here is an astrophysics prediction : this galaxies will have a high Mass to Light ratio, since gas and dust will be expelled, but not dark matter.
...so the police withdrew and are allowing the school district to handle the half-grown hacker.
Of course, that's just what they are telling the press. In reality, of course, the boy is being put in charge of a supersecret underground Government cybersecurity lab on a deserted island even as we speak.
I have to admit that this makes me nervous.
The mitochondria "code" is supposed to be totally separate from the nuclear "code," but what if it isn't ? Even if the DNA is totally different in heritage, the cell and its mitochondria have evolved together, and that might extend to assuming that certain proteins, say, will be available even though they are produced by the other body. Plop another mitochondria in there, and there might be problems down the road.
Look at this object. Within minutes, there are multiple independent video recordings of it from all over (basically true for every large meteor over an occupied area for the last decade or more), a path will be determined within hours to days, and pieces are likely to be found in short order.
I simply do not care about any UFO report from the past decade that does not meet that standard. Find multiple, independent surveillance camera or other video views of it, and I am interested. If you don't have that then you are wasting your time and breath IMHO.
If true, that's a "persistent train" and is caused by spectral lines from excited plasma recombining and going back into the ground state.
What you see is a plasma - the air (plus whatever is vaporized from the meteor itself) is both ionized (making a plasma) and disassociated (i.e., molecular bonds are broken). That's why it conducts, so in the radio is a good reflector (of radar) and is opaque (causing a communications blackout for reentering spacecraft).The colored tails (AKA persistent trains) that are reported (and can last a long time, as apparently happened with this one) are spectral lines emitted from gas combining back into molecules, or by excited electrons falling back into the ground state.
The orbit of this will be found very quickly - probably within 24 hours. That will rule in or out whether it was in Earth orbit.
Note that
- there are orbits for all satellites bigger than a few kilograms, secret or no. It's hard to hide up there and
- there have been number of multi-state meteors in the past. This, if a meteor, would not be very unusual.
There is another, larger, volcano nearby called Katla and ...
"Eyjafjallajokull has blown three times in the past thousand years," Dr McGarvie told The Times, "in 920AD, in 1612 and between 1821 and 1823. Each time it set off Katla." The likelihood of Katla blowing could become clear "in a few weeks or a few months", he said.
Given this, and given that the last eruption was on and off for 2 years, we could have travel interruptions for a while to come.
I would bet that pieces will be found of the meteor. FIrst, the orbit / path will be well known, with so many multiple videos of it from different locations.
Second, astronomer Mark Hammergren, of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, predicts that it may have weighed as much as 1000 pounds.
"One of the misconceptions about bright meteors is that they're due to very tiny objects," said Hammergren. But "if something is bright enough to light up the sky like daytime and cause sonic booms throughout the entire area, it's big. It was major," he said. "If it was daytime, people would have undoubtedly seen smoke trails."
I think that this is very sound reasoning. Happy hunting to rockhounds in Wisconsin !
Now, why do we never get such multiple confirmations of UFOs ?
+ 1 on this. This is not being funded by SETI at all.
I do not see, and the original article did not provide, any grounds for a suit.
That's the one I really want to see ! It could become a classic movie, if done correctly.
That was exactly my thought. I don't see any sign (in reading various articles about this) that Facebook actually sued.
Note : Just because a company says they will sue doesn't mean they will sue.
Apparently, he didn't even get a lawyer, so who knows what he actually agreed to ? He certainly doesn't.
So, when was it exactly in the USA that you had the right to clearly and unashamedly violate copyright on a massive scale.
You do know, right, that the USA used to be one of the biggest copyright violators on the planet in the 19th Century ? That a whole publishing industry was created around pirated copies of works from Europe ? And that Hollywood is where it is to escape IPR prosecution from Edison in New York ?
Anyone want to start a pool on how long it takes before this is revealed to be the legal equivalent of astro-turf (i.e., funded by a major studio or by the MPAA) ?
There, CNN, fixed your headline for you.
Lunokhod 2 has been returning Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) pulses since the early 1970's. Not only is it not lost, its position is known to a centimeter or better.
Finding Lunokhod 1, which has been missing since 1971, would be a real coup, especially if LLR returns could be obtained from it.
Now, how do you change the velocity of the solar system by 200 meters/sec ? That's all we need to dodge Gliese 710, and we have a few hundred thousand years to think about it.
Why should "corporate and government security geeks" be especially worried about 1950's technology ?