I am an Indian - so let me try to fill in the possible missing pieces in the story and the cultural perspective.
First of all the China-India border, especially in Ladakh is very tense with China occupying a border region called Aksai Chin for many decades. The Indian Army soldiers, who are most likely from the plains and who have never seen the sky in all its high altitude glory (we are talking about 15,000 - 20,000 ft altitude here) were likely tasked with looking out at the night sky and see anything 'interesting' - the officer who issued the order must have meant Chinese drones, but by the time the order got to the lookout guy from the officer via the JCO through the sergeant, it must have read look out for something 'bright'. The soldiers were seeing the brightest planets in their lives and obviously had plenty to write in their reports.
Then the sighting reports started pouring in and the officer in charge probably got suspicious and looked out and concluded that the objects were likely celestial. But just to make sure that he is right, he must have ringed up the battalion HQ to get some astronomy duded flown in to get a confirmation. That is probably why the request went straight to Indian Institute of Astrophysics. The astro-dudes flew in, confirmed that they are looking at planets and on their way back talked to a journalist about the incident and how stuuuuuuupid the army guys were.
And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
There were other (smaller) asteroids which made closest possible approaches. Such as the one which is known as the 'The Great Daylight 1972 Fireball of Wyoming' in local folklore. More details here...
http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/1972.html This one missed terra firma by just 58 Km, close enough to create sonic booms, but not close enough to hit the earth.
This article is pretty weak on facts. Consider the following
No scientists (not the uneducated environmentalists) ever disagreed on the fact that the Earth was much warmer about 1000 years ago. The Viking colonies in Greenland and other well known facts are proofs of this.
No Scientists are disputing the fact that the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere is pretty drastic in the last 100 years.
No scientists are disputing the fact that CO2 is a 'greenhouse gas'.
No scientists are disputing the fact that temperatures across the globe are rising steadily for the past 100 years.
The issue here is *NOT* the fact that the earth was warmer 100 years ago, but the issue *IS* the fact that the Earth is getting warmer for the last 100 years, which seems to be proportional to the CO2 emissions.
There are periods in Earth's history when temperatures dipped and rose quite drastically. Various theories are there trying to explain this phenomenon. But what we need to see now is whether the present rise is caused by external factors or human factors. If the earth can get much warmer in a period of very low atmospheric CO2, what would happen with so much CO2 as we have today.
(although I don't recall how exactly since they throw it at the air which doesn't have such a good calorific capacity...)
I think nanocoolers does not throw heat in the air. It works using themocouples. We all know of some joints of some materials which produce an electric potential difference when heat is applied. This is alrady used to produce small quantities of electricity from direct heat sources. ( No moving parts, see.. )
The thermocouples also has the property of cooling down when we apply a reverse electric potential. If we put a lot of these miniature thermocouples in the Processor and apply the correct voltage, then we directly cool down areas within the chip core.
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I am an Indian - so let me try to fill in the possible missing pieces in the story and the cultural perspective.
First of all the China-India border, especially in Ladakh is very tense with China occupying a border region called Aksai Chin for many decades. The Indian Army soldiers, who are most likely from the plains and who have never seen the sky in all its high altitude glory (we are talking about 15,000 - 20,000 ft altitude here) were likely tasked with looking out at the night sky and see anything 'interesting' - the officer who issued the order must have meant Chinese drones, but by the time the order got to the lookout guy from the officer via the JCO through the sergeant, it must have read look out for something 'bright'. The soldiers were seeing the brightest planets in their lives and obviously had plenty to write in their reports.
Then the sighting reports started pouring in and the officer in charge probably got suspicious and looked out and concluded that the objects were likely celestial. But just to make sure that he is right, he must have ringed up the battalion HQ to get some astronomy duded flown in to get a confirmation. That is probably why the request went straight to Indian Institute of Astrophysics. The astro-dudes flew in, confirmed that they are looking at planets and on their way back talked to a journalist about the incident and how stuuuuuuupid the army guys were.
That, I guess what would have happened.
Opinion poll can be easily be 'lead' into a specific conclusion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
Have a look at http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/litigoperatio n-.html before jumping into any conclusions.
There is no 'Book of Mozilla' in the real world.
See this thread for some more details. Also, google is your friend.
Now it reads
And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
Rejoice and download the Firebird.
There were other (smaller) asteroids which made closest possible approaches. Such as the one which is known as the 'The Great Daylight 1972 Fireball of Wyoming' in local folklore. More details here...
http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/1972.html
This one missed terra firma by just 58 Km, close enough to create sonic booms, but not close enough to hit the earth.
- No scientists (not the uneducated environmentalists) ever disagreed on the fact that the Earth was much warmer about 1000 years ago. The Viking colonies in Greenland and other well known facts are proofs of this.
- No Scientists are disputing the fact that the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere is pretty drastic in the last 100 years.
- No scientists are disputing the fact that CO2 is a 'greenhouse gas'.
- No scientists are disputing the fact that temperatures across the globe are rising steadily for the past 100 years.
The issue here is *NOT* the fact that the earth was warmer 100 years ago, but the issue *IS* the fact that the Earth is getting warmer for the last 100 years, which seems to be proportional to the CO2 emissions.There are periods in Earth's history when temperatures dipped and rose quite drastically. Various theories are there trying to explain this phenomenon. But what we need to see now is whether the present rise is caused by external factors or human factors. If the earth can get much warmer in a period of very low atmospheric CO2, what would happen with so much CO2 as we have today.
I think nanocoolers does not throw heat in the air. It works using themocouples. We all know of
some joints of some materials which produce an electric potential difference when heat is applied. This is alrady used to produce small quantities of electricity from direct heat sources. ( No moving parts, see.. )
The thermocouples also has the property of cooling down when we apply a reverse electric potential. If we put a lot of these miniature thermocouples in the Processor and apply the
correct voltage, then we directly cool down areas within the chip core.