Although I was born in early seventies when I was a kid I was scared of a nuclear exchange between Russia and America, this was around I was ten and I believed that Reagan wouldn't hesitate if the push came to the shove. At least this idiot will not use the A and H bombs against random targets (I hope).
You have to understand why Osama bin Laden decided to fight America. It wasn't because they bombed his family into bits, it was such a small thing: American Army being in a Holy land.
Bush isn't that much different than Osama bin Laden, he fights because he believes he is right. Belief alone is not enough reason for many things, starting wars being one.
Crusades started because an other religion's army took over an other Holy land.
One single thing that's important for me: Atomic commits. Beautiful thing and it works.
Although Subversion's performance is as good as CVS when used with a large number of files (read bad) its usability and security features make switching worth. I use it to store every bit of code and document I wrote at home and work in addition to our regular revision system. Makes life easier in the long run.
Although some CVS junkies prefer fsfs back-end, I prefer the database one, at least it is recoverable easily. easier to maintain and backup. I just cannot trust a disk/inode failure.
Doesn't have to be there. The best best case scenario would be if it fell down when the area was under water. That would be really brilliant. You would get just a nice big splash.
Even without water, it doesn't have to create a crater. It is quite small, such an object might not create a crater if it fell down at a shallow angle or low speed trajectory. Also probably it fell down billions of years ago, not last week. The crater might have eroded away, if it was too shallow (the rock looks approx. fist sized), it wouldn't have created a crater.
In the good olde days of Olde Earthe, people used to walk around and pick up iron meteorites and make trinklets off them.
After a while these ran out and humanity started to look under the ground to find them. Then they invented mines.
It is quite plausible to have meteorites around you. Especially in a geologically dead world like Mars, a rock is either billions of years old or fell off the sky. When you look at the amount of craters, you can clearly see that apparently quite a lot of stuff fell off the sky!:) On earth we don't have these any more because probably they were just lost in the overgrowth and with the help of the worms moved around or as I mentioned, were picked up by people and got used.
Iron used to be quite important and had "magical" capabilities. Especially when you think most of the stuff they could found were came from the sky, you can understand why it was supposed to have special properties.
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If not oil and "he tried to kill my dad!" causes, why Iraq? If we were looking for nasty guys to invade, there are more than 20 odd petty dictators all around the world. Why US is not invading Myramar? North Korea? A number of African countries including Liberia?
Unfortunately it was all about oil and petty revenge...
And the UN inspectors went back in during 2003 and couldn't find anything. Then America invaded, kicked UN inspectors out and rolled its own inspectors. They couldn't find anything as well. So, what was your point? The fact that wherever and how hard they looked and searched, since they didn't exist, they couldn't be found. The problem is, you can't prove a negative statement. Damn logics.
I myself like looking through the telescope. I've been an active amateur astronomer for quite some time. OTOH, I always had trouble with people looking through my telescope and feeling crestfallen.
I don't like the GOTO-like telescopes, they take the fun out of amateur astronomy. If I want to see pretty pictures at a click, I'd use internet.:)
Why not? They already own the spyware market. I don't have any spyware running on my Linux boxes. The only platform I have which can get infected with this rubbish is my one and only Windows machine.
You don't have to see it with the reflected light. If it is hot enough you can see it by the light itself generates. Almost all of this will be in the infrared region. As long as you have a receiver which is cooler than the transmitter (planet), you can (theoretically) see it.
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What about "Only the old people in Korea watch sunspots?" posts?
Sun rotates around itself in 25 days plus a couple of hours. Look at the Sun entry at Wikipedia. Don't bother me.
Sun turns around itself as well. A sun-day takes 25 days, almost a month. We can only see one side of it.
About 95% of the sea species went extinct and you are not calling this "Great Dying"? :-) That's a massive, great, almost complete wipeout.
Damn, this is supposed to be the solar minimum, what the hell is going on here?
Try this link instead. It is a javascript+JPEGs in high-res movie, works better than the link submitted in the story.
Although I was born in early seventies when I was a kid I was scared of a nuclear exchange between Russia and America, this was around I was ten and I believed that Reagan wouldn't hesitate if the push came to the shove. At least this idiot will not use the A and H bombs against random targets (I hope).
Bush isn't that much different than Osama bin Laden, he fights because he believes he is right. Belief alone is not enough reason for many things, starting wars being one.
Crusades started because an other religion's army took over an other Holy land.
Although Subversion's performance is as good as CVS when used with a large number of files (read bad) its usability and security features make switching worth. I use it to store every bit of code and document I wrote at home and work in addition to our regular revision system. Makes life easier in the long run.
Although some CVS junkies prefer fsfs back-end, I prefer the database one, at least it is recoverable easily. easier to maintain and backup. I just cannot trust a disk/inode failure.
awww, I'm sticking my neck here, it can't be said enough times: switch to SVN.
Even without water, it doesn't have to create a crater. It is quite small, such an object might not create a crater if it fell down at a shallow angle or low speed trajectory. Also probably it fell down billions of years ago, not last week. The crater might have eroded away, if it was too shallow (the rock looks approx. fist sized), it wouldn't have created a crater.
After a while these ran out and humanity started to look under the ground to find them. Then they invented mines.
It is quite plausible to have meteorites around you. Especially in a geologically dead world like Mars, a rock is either billions of years old or fell off the sky. When you look at the amount of craters, you can clearly see that apparently quite a lot of stuff fell off the sky! :) On earth we don't have these any more because probably they were just lost in the overgrowth and with the help of the worms moved around or as I mentioned, were picked up by people and got used.
Iron used to be quite important and had "magical" capabilities. Especially when you think most of the stuff they could found were came from the sky, you can understand why it was supposed to have special properties.
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Is it an african mosquito or european one?
Unfortunately it was all about oil and petty revenge...
And the UN inspectors went back in during 2003 and couldn't find anything. Then America invaded, kicked UN inspectors out and rolled its own inspectors. They couldn't find anything as well. So, what was your point? The fact that wherever and how hard they looked and searched, since they didn't exist, they couldn't be found. The problem is, you can't prove a negative statement. Damn logics.
I don't think since Germany invaded Poland because of an alleged border incident the World has seen such blatant lies... It iss rather depressing.
I don't like the GOTO-like telescopes, they take the fun out of amateur astronomy. If I want to see pretty pictures at a click, I'd use internet. :)
Maybe we can put a new spin on this. What about Green Aliens will eat your kids!! or Martians are coming!
Why not? They already own the spyware market. I don't have any spyware running on my Linux boxes. The only platform I have which can get infected with this rubbish is my one and only Windows machine.
You don't have to see it with the reflected light. If it is hot enough you can see it by the light itself generates. Almost all of this will be in the infrared region. As long as you have a receiver which is cooler than the transmitter (planet), you can (theoretically) see it.
Damn, they found my secret base! It won't be there the next time you look for it! :)
We're bouncing bloody lasers off the stuff they left there. What kind of proof people really need to believe we've landed?
the equation only true when you have a uniform density. Gas giants don't have uniform density and they are very dense at the core.
argh, I didn't mean androcentric... damn, what's the word... I've lost my cognitive abilities! Anthropocentrism? Probably that's what I've meant!