Actually the meteorite was not outside the butterfly's sphere of influence.
First of all, the altered global weather patterns would affect photons "just passing thru" the outer atmosphere, not to mention similar particles passing thru same and the earth's altered magnetosphere. The minute deflection because of various ions, photons (both direct and "radiometer" effect, vis Edmun Scientific, that drinking bird is coolio!) would indeed be enough over billions of miles to deflect it from where her foot would otherwise be, which wouldn't even exist in the first place because, about a million minus one or two years ago, the weather patterns would have been different, leading to different copulation times, and within a generation a completely different set of people would exist (not to mention that, even had they been the same, they'd be doing different things.)
Second, I don't think if anyone knows how macroscopic things may effect the "hidden randum number generator" of quantum mechanics. That could be a second influence that, via butterfly effect, also migrates itself up to macroscopic levels. This effect could propagate at the speed of light, or even "spooky at a distance", the universe over, for that matter.
Read a sci fi short story once about someone suing the devil. There were problems in court with him taking the oath, not the least of which was that the oath was meaningless since the court had no way to incarcerate him should he commit perjury.
I think you mean slowed down until it reached what would have been terminal velocity had it been dropped from a standstill. For a thing that small, it probably was around 100mph, maybe less.
I, too, was surprised to learn smallish meteorites will slow enough to stop "burning up" but prior to actually burning up. There is a middle ground between burning up in the atmosphere and smashing into the ground with a crater. The error is in the assumption that it keeps burning up until it either disintegrates or hits the ground in a ball of fire and high speed impact.
I stopped caring when version after version came out, and none, up thru 6.whatever, ever fixed the one irritating bug: where Netscape goes into brainlock, refusing to process link clicks (only "open in new window" works, not direct clicking) and HTML button clicks, such that you had to kill Netscape off with ctrl-alt-delete. Exitting left a process in the task list churning and churning and churning.
Four major releases and they never fixed it.
I hate to say it, but sayonara, Netscape. IE sucked and sucked and continued to suck, but now it's passable, indeed there are pages, and beyond on microsoft.com, that only IE opens that the latest pre-7 didn't. Guess what? Not gonna try 7.0.
Rules #1 and #2, learned the hard way, are as follows:
#1. If, after a social gettogether, a girl with long blonde hair and C-sized unbound hooters comes, undrunk, to your dorm room and rolls around on the bed with you, fuck her.
#2. If a 32 year old divorcee with blonde hair and big lips rolls around on the bed with you, then asks, "Did you ever have a fantasy about being with two women? I know most men think about that kind of thing.", pick up the phone and say, "Call her up!"
It also says that God got tired of people living into their 700's, so he set the limit at 120....but wait! A number of people have been proven to live past 120. Therefore the Bible is wrong, therefore it can't be the inerrant word of God, taking the big three religions down with it.
...and that $0.37 cents gets you mail that spans a continent, which really isn't a bad deal. Expect to pay three times that just to mail a letter inside the Netherlands, which is basically the size of a large metropolitan area.
Does the socialist government still steal money to prop itself up by way of forcing returning expatriats to close all foreign money accounts and exchange money at the catastrophic official exchange rates?
1st was for an automotive engineer, not software engineer. The headhunter goofed thinking "hw and sw" = sw. Was so good at the interview made it to round 2 anyway, but turned it down.
2nd was for a company that kept dragging its feet as it was slow in getting into the area I was specializing in
3rd was for a mom and pop medical software company. When I mentioned a salary 15k less than what I was earning, thanks we'll call you
4th came thru last week, great joy at informing headhunter to turn down #2
Or maybe you'll work at Mickey D's because, being a CS student, you're obese and sedentary, and you just wanna be close to the source of all that luscious greasy cheesy ground fattybeef.
OMG, I want McDonald's right now! It's morning though. Hmmm...I know! Time for a pork cheeseburger!
>> When my 6 years is up I'll go home and pay cash >> for a house and a couple of nice cars. I might >> work, but I might not have to. > > Second, again, good for you. Seriously, if you can > do it, have fun.
Yeah, but imagine the hot piece of ass he can command as a wife back home, not to mention full-time live-in maids, who can also be hot pieces of ass.
Time to reevaluate being a king in "hell" or a nerd in the US.
What's truly unbelievable is that a Marxist would think the dot come and Internet era would have been achieved in a communist society. You'd still be waiting in multiyear queues for things like small TV's and noisy, grunting cars that look modern but are poorer quality than a model T. Assuming that a central planner has decided that that stuff isn't a waste of "our" resources.
> Nor do foreign workers possess any more brilliance > or aptitude for programming than the U.S. born ones
I can confirm this. Our India office had a major league software programming screwup. I don't think people are claiming Indian or Asians are superior in a reverse-racism sort of way. It's just economically cheaper.
There is a limit with the weight, too. The more, the harder it is. That column looked like it outweighed the space ship from ESB by several times. It can't be flung the same way stuff that weight a few hundred pounds can.
> why shouldn't Yoda be able to levitate and throw > his own body about to compensate for his low posture
Yes, and furthermore, given how gymnasts and figure skaters flip and spin around, this Yoda scene may be the first realistic Jedi fight scene. Combine the ability of humans to do that without any special mental powers to control, predict, levitate, etc. and the humans should be doing that, nevermind a little guy with a much smaller body.
/pedantic Did anyone notice the statement something like "you don't understand humans" said about Anakin and Natalie? The non-Jar Jar Naboobians are humans.
You mean the Osprey VTOL plane isn't wanted by the military, is hugely expensive, dangerous, and is only wanted by the congressional members of that district and state where it is made, and all this is public knowledge yet still the program exists?
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Actually the meteorite was not outside the butterfly's sphere of influence.
First of all, the altered global weather patterns would affect photons "just passing thru" the outer atmosphere, not to mention similar particles passing thru same and the earth's altered magnetosphere. The minute deflection because of various ions, photons (both direct and "radiometer" effect, vis Edmun Scientific, that drinking bird is coolio!) would indeed be enough over billions of miles to deflect it from where her foot would otherwise be, which wouldn't even exist in the first place because, about a million minus one or two years ago, the weather patterns would have been different, leading to different copulation times, and within a generation a completely different set of people would exist (not to mention that, even had they been the same, they'd be doing different things.)
Second, I don't think if anyone knows how macroscopic things may effect the "hidden randum number generator" of quantum mechanics. That could be a second influence that, via butterfly effect, also migrates itself up to macroscopic levels. This effect could propagate at the speed of light, or even "spooky at a distance", the universe over, for that matter.
Read a sci fi short story once about someone suing the devil. There were problems in court with him taking the oath, not the least of which was that the oath was meaningless since the court had no way to incarcerate him should he commit perjury.
I think you mean slowed down until it reached what would have been terminal velocity had it been dropped from a standstill. For a thing that small, it probably was around 100mph, maybe less.
I, too, was surprised to learn smallish meteorites will slow enough to stop "burning up" but prior to actually burning up. There is a middle ground between burning up in the atmosphere and smashing into the ground with a crater. The error is in the assumption that it keeps burning up until it either disintegrates or hits the ground in a ball of fire and high speed impact.
I stopped caring when version after version came out, and none, up thru 6.whatever, ever fixed the one irritating bug: where Netscape goes into brainlock, refusing to process link clicks (only "open in new window" works, not direct clicking) and HTML button clicks, such that you had to kill Netscape off with ctrl-alt-delete. Exitting left a process in the task list churning and churning and churning.
Four major releases and they never fixed it.
I hate to say it, but sayonara, Netscape. IE sucked and sucked and continued to suck, but now it's passable, indeed there are pages, and beyond on microsoft.com, that only IE opens that the latest pre-7 didn't. Guess what? Not gonna try 7.0.
No, that's Rule #3.
Rules #1 and #2, learned the hard way, are as follows:
#1. If, after a social gettogether, a girl with long blonde hair and C-sized unbound hooters comes, undrunk, to your dorm room and rolls around on the bed with you, fuck her.
#2. If a 32 year old divorcee with blonde hair and big lips rolls around on the bed with you, then asks, "Did you ever have a fantasy about being with two women? I know most men think about that kind of thing.", pick up the phone and say, "Call her up!"
It also says that God got tired of people living into their 700's, so he set the limit at 120. ...but wait! A number of people have been proven to live past 120. Therefore the Bible is wrong, therefore it can't be the inerrant word of God, taking the big three religions down with it.
Oh well, better luck next time.
...and that $0.37 cents gets you mail that spans a continent, which really isn't a bad deal. Expect to pay three times that just to mail a letter inside the Netherlands, which is basically the size of a large metropolitan area.
Does the socialist government still steal money to prop itself up by way of forcing returning expatriats to close all foreign money accounts and exchange money at the catastrophic official exchange rates?
Do consumers in India have a choice? Or is this association going to use the strong arm of the socialist government to intrude on the free economy?
Bah, thank god my IQ outstrips all yours.
Given the 80 hour weeks, it's trivial (in a hard work sort of way) to get 10 years of Java xp in only 5.
7 months
30 companies
10 headhunters
4 interviews
1st was for an automotive engineer, not software engineer. The headhunter goofed thinking "hw and sw" = sw. Was so good at the interview made it to round 2 anyway, but turned it down.
2nd was for a company that kept dragging its feet as it was slow in getting into the area I was specializing in
3rd was for a mom and pop medical software company. When I mentioned a salary 15k less than what I was earning, thanks we'll call you
4th came thru last week, great joy at informing headhunter to turn down #2
Or maybe you'll work at Mickey D's because, being a CS student, you're obese and sedentary, and you just wanna be close to the source of all that luscious greasy cheesy ground fattybeef.
OMG, I want McDonald's right now! It's morning though. Hmmm...I know! Time for a pork cheeseburger!
>> When my 6 years is up I'll go home and pay cash
>> for a house and a couple of nice cars. I might
>> work, but I might not have to.
>
> Second, again, good for you. Seriously, if you can
> do it, have fun.
Yeah, but imagine the hot piece of ass he can command as a wife back home, not to mention full-time live-in maids, who can also be hot pieces of ass.
Time to reevaluate being a king in "hell" or a nerd in the US.
What's truly unbelievable is that a Marxist would think the dot come and Internet era would have been achieved in a communist society. You'd still be waiting in multiyear queues for things like small TV's and noisy, grunting cars that look modern but are poorer quality than a model T. Assuming that a central planner has decided that that stuff isn't a waste of "our" resources.
Robert Heinlein said: "If you eat meat, you can't consider yourself morally superior to the butcher."
You realize, of course, you just made the case for the corporations, don't you?
> Nor do foreign workers possess any more brilliance
> or aptitude for programming than the U.S. born ones
I can confirm this. Our India office had a major league software programming screwup. I don't think people are claiming Indian or Asians are superior in a reverse-racism sort of way. It's just economically cheaper.
> The language in Bangalore center of the software
> industry in India is Kanada
Language sample: G'day Comrade! Let's have some vodka and back bacon, eh?
The problem is you rarely get there. The best guy on the battlefield of the middle ages was the trained knight with a giant 2-handed sword.
Of course, two can play at that game, and they might very well wear a short stilletto on their hip to grab in the situation you describe.
There is a limit with the weight, too. The more, the harder it is. That column looked like it outweighed the space ship from ESB by several times. It can't be flung the same way stuff that weight a few hundred pounds can.
> why shouldn't Yoda be able to levitate and throw
> his own body about to compensate for his low posture
Yes, and furthermore, given how gymnasts and figure skaters flip and spin around, this Yoda scene may be the first realistic Jedi fight scene. Combine the ability of humans to do that without any special mental powers to control, predict, levitate, etc. and the humans should be doing that, nevermind a little guy with a much smaller body.
/pedantic Did anyone notice the statement something like "you don't understand humans" said about Anakin and Natalie? The non-Jar Jar Naboobians are humans.
It's more irritating that Boba and "dad" have some kind of major league person in the development of the Empire.
What's next, Palpatine's cloned son is Wedge?
Mr. Kotter? Oh my god no...
It's pretty sad that the best CGI money can buy buys programmers who don't understand simple physics.
You mean the Osprey VTOL plane isn't wanted by the military, is hugely expensive, dangerous, and is only wanted by the congressional members of that district and state where it is made, and all this is public knowledge yet still the program exists?
No, not possible! Not possible!