NTP servers require an accurate clock source, they don't generate time out of thin air. This is either directly from an atomic clock (which requires corrections for all these problems you've mentioned), or from GPS time (There are lots of GPS based NTP servers out there, your imaginary problems were solved ages ago.).
Someone had better tell the makers of GPS-based time servers that their products are useless!
For your next trick, name a clock source that doesn't have this problem. GPS even provides the proper correction, I'm pretty sure the vibrations of cesium atoms don't.
Websites done in flash are useless. I have never seen an exception. I can't bookmark anything. I can't link to a specific page. I can't copy any text. I can't search. Navigation buttons don't work.
All so some idiot can have spiffy transition effects between pages.
It will be quite clear in the results, and they will most certainly stop making them. You've still got to go down a huge chain of wrong things to get there.
The the safety of the LHC does not depend on a single calculation.
For a black hole created by the LHC to destroy the earth essentially requires everything we know about physics to be wrong.
First, can it even create them? The Standard Model says no - not even close. A certain category of String Theory models say maybe. This same models predict that these black holes are everywhere, being created all the time, even here on Earth.
Will black holes evaporate? They certainly should. If we are wrong about this than in all probability we are wrong about being able to create them at all as well - and we should hope we are, since they'd have swallowed up the universe by now if they were dangerous.
Is a stable micro black hole even dangerous? The numbers I've seen show a black hole like this would behave more or less like a neutrino. Maybe hitting an atom every few thousand or million years. The sun will enter its red giant stage, destroy Earth, and shrink down to a white dwarf before the black hole gains any significant mass. I don't think we will care much at that point.
Also, I should point out that there really isn't anyplace humans are capable of going where gravity is not a major factor. Even if we leave Earth's "Sphere of Influence", we are then in the suns, which is even more powerful. Earth, with us on it, is hurtling around the sun at nearly 30km/s (relative to the sun), compared to the 7.8km/s (relative to earth) of an object in LEO. The weaker the gravity, the slower the orbital velocity at a givin distance, and the velocity slows the farther away you go. Objects in LEO are only 300-400km away from earth, while we are 1 AU (149598000km) away from Sol. Makes earth seem rather puny and insignificant.;)
And of course, Sol is orbiting the galaxy, and the galaxy is falling toward a galaxy cluster....
At the altitudes most spacecraft orbit at, the gravity loss due to distance is negligible. Gravitational acceleration may be 9.80m/s/s instead of 9.81m/s/s, if the diffrence is even that large. Almost all of the weightless effect comes from freefall in LEO.
While nobody got hurt, firing the hybrid rocket motor indoors was a very bad idea. They should have called Eric Gates before instead of after, as he would have told them how stupid the idea was...plus outdoor test + cameras = nice video (that motor did have a nice flame), rather than a shop full of smoke.
Scientific theories cannot be proven though, thats the definition. They can only be proven wrong. Until they are proven wrong, they are valid theories.
ID cannot be proven or disproven, thus it is not a scientific theory, but an opinion. An opinion that isn't even based on evidence.
The problem is the atmosphere. Even on earth plotting a trajectory through air can be rather inaccurate. Everything from pockets of turbulance, to what direction and how hard the wind was blowing that day can drasticly effect the trajectory. It gets even worse if it broke up, or a parachute didn't deploy, or got tangled. This is the reason why they have a landing elipse that is hundreds of miles in diameter.
The probe will be launched into solar orbit. Perapsis (the low point in the orbit) will still be near earth. It will eventually come back round to this point, hence it will come back to near earth, even if not to it.
That doesn't mean earth will be at that spot in its orbit at the time, of course.
Everything in earth orbit is already 'captured' by the sun, as the earth is orbiting the sun. Anything that reaches escape velocity and leaves earth goes into 'heliocentric', or solar orbit. Leaving the solar system takes a hell of a lot more power than it takes to escape from earth, thus its quite possible that it will, eventually, come back. It may even hit earth, if the orbit is right.
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Yes, I'm sure the Streisand effect will resurrect the central server and allow the software to be used again.
So the way you choose to deal with a "barbaric religion" is to become just like them?
Right, Christians have never, ever committed terrorism.
Has the last few years really made people this fucking stupid?
The IRA and Abortion Clinic bombers would like a word with you.
Slashdot moderation violates our founding ideals. You shouldn't use slashdot.
http://spot.livejournal.com/315383.html
This actually gives details.
NTP servers require an accurate clock source, they don't generate time out of thin air. This is either directly from an atomic clock (which requires corrections for all these problems you've mentioned), or from GPS time (There are lots of GPS based NTP servers out there, your imaginary problems were solved ages ago.).
Someone had better tell the makers of GPS-based time servers that their products are useless!
For your next trick, name a clock source that doesn't have this problem. GPS even provides the proper correction, I'm pretty sure the vibrations of cesium atoms don't.
You're going to wonder how you said that, I suspect, but think for a bit.
You just said a 4 digit number has only 256 possible values. Now count from 0 to 9999...
Websites done in flash are useless. I have never seen an exception. I can't bookmark anything. I can't link to a specific page. I can't copy any text. I can't search. Navigation buttons don't work.
All so some idiot can have spiffy transition effects between pages.
Even the console version crashes all the time. I rented it rather than buying it, and I'm glad I did.
IF they make any black holes
AND they don't evaporate
It will be quite clear in the results, and they will most certainly stop making them. You've still got to go down a huge chain of wrong things to get there.
The the safety of the LHC does not depend on a single calculation.
For a black hole created by the LHC to destroy the earth essentially requires everything we know about physics to be wrong.
First, can it even create them? The Standard Model says no - not even close. A certain category of String Theory models say maybe. This same models predict that these black holes are everywhere, being created all the time, even here on Earth.
Will black holes evaporate? They certainly should. If we are wrong about this than in all probability we are wrong about being able to create them at all as well - and we should hope we are, since they'd have swallowed up the universe by now if they were dangerous.
Is a stable micro black hole even dangerous? The numbers I've seen show a black hole like this would behave more or less like a neutrino. Maybe hitting an atom every few thousand or million years. The sun will enter its red giant stage, destroy Earth, and shrink down to a white dwarf before the black hole gains any significant mass. I don't think we will care much at that point.
...which isn't a Orlowski article.
Most of those five years seem to have been dedicated to making the UI shinier. (And developing shutdown menus).
This wasn't Utopia, was it?
I quit playing it a few years ago when their ads started playing sound. I'm sure they've gone downhill from there.
Also, I should point out that there really isn't anyplace humans are capable of going where gravity is not a major factor. Even if we leave Earth's "Sphere of Influence", we are then in the suns, which is even more powerful. Earth, with us on it, is hurtling around the sun at nearly 30km/s (relative to the sun), compared to the 7.8km/s (relative to earth) of an object in LEO. The weaker the gravity, the slower the orbital velocity at a givin distance, and the velocity slows the farther away you go. Objects in LEO are only 300-400km away from earth, while we are 1 AU (149598000km) away from Sol. Makes earth seem rather puny and insignificant. ;)
And of course, Sol is orbiting the galaxy, and the galaxy is falling toward a galaxy cluster....
At the altitudes most spacecraft orbit at, the gravity loss due to distance is negligible. Gravitational acceleration may be 9.80m/s/s instead of 9.81m/s/s, if the diffrence is even that large. Almost all of the weightless effect comes from freefall in LEO.
Probobly because thats the sketch he was referring to. ;)
(Well, unless gangs of keep left signs really are roving the streets...)
While nobody got hurt, firing the hybrid rocket motor indoors was a very bad idea. They should have called Eric Gates before instead of after, as he would have told them how stupid the idea was...plus outdoor test + cameras = nice video (that motor did have a nice flame), rather than a shop full of smoke.
Scientific theories cannot be proven though, thats the definition. They can only be proven wrong. Until they are proven wrong, they are valid theories.
ID cannot be proven or disproven, thus it is not a scientific theory, but an opinion. An opinion that isn't even based on evidence.
Thanks to the state government, Indiana will now.
The problem is the atmosphere. Even on earth plotting a trajectory through air can be rather inaccurate. Everything from pockets of turbulance, to what direction and how hard the wind was blowing that day can drasticly effect the trajectory. It gets even worse if it broke up, or a parachute didn't deploy, or got tangled. This is the reason why they have a landing elipse that is hundreds of miles in diameter.
A favorite of mine was browsing astronautix.com, looking up scale data for a model...
"Buy Space Shuttle on eBay!!!"
He never said it would be in Earth orbit.
The probe will be launched into solar orbit. Perapsis (the low point in the orbit) will still be near earth. It will eventually come back round to this point, hence it will come back to near earth, even if not to it.
That doesn't mean earth will be at that spot in its orbit at the time, of course.
Everything in earth orbit is already 'captured' by the sun, as the earth is orbiting the sun. Anything that reaches escape velocity and leaves earth goes into 'heliocentric', or solar orbit. Leaving the solar system takes a hell of a lot more power than it takes to escape from earth, thus its quite possible that it will, eventually, come back. It may even hit earth, if the orbit is right.