I don't think this is a real news article because the girl on the right looks Photoshopped. I have also never seen this toy in the stores and Wizco Toys has no discernable website, which is odd as well.
N.B. - I read The Onion weekly, in case you were worried for me.
I think a lot of your questions about how evolution, cosmology, and the rest of science attempt to explain all sorts of phenomena (without resorting to a default "because of God") can be answered by visiting the Talk.Origins Archive.
If they can't be answered, there are some very helpful admins who answer most of the mail they receive with not only answers, but links to the source of the answers.
It's better than wading through the/. community who aren't as well informed and react in as much of a knee-jerk fashion as the uber-religious side of the issue.
Maybe I can be of some assistance. You may want to purchase a copy of The Big Bang Theory- A Personal View written by Eccentrica Gallumbits (the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six). It is published by Ursa Minor and does not sell quite as well as the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
It's quite clear if you look up "Universe" in the Guide link I have provided that the material for the Big Bang came from the spontaneous disappearance of a previous universe which someone had figured out.
We're talking about 23 years of expenditures. The first station design by Reagan was in '84, the 6.6 billion budget addition from GW Bush is slated to go until 2007. Even if the totals run closer to the highly overestimated answer of 100 Billion (by the GAO), that's still only about 4 billion per year for a technological marvel that was supposed to be supported by 3/4 of the world's space programs but is ultimately built primarily by the US.
The Russians have been useless in getting any part of it done, so in order to maintain our own timetable and keep expenditures reasonable, we've had to either help them or replace their efforts, so that cadres of NASA employees weren't being bankrolled to sit on their hands waiting for the Russians.
If the ISS weren't so stifled by a lack of support from countries who previously voiced their desire to be involved, then it'd not only have cost us less but have been bigger and more capable of sustaining a maintenance crew AND a scientific staff. Instead, they're limited to a maintenance crew who dabble in science, so the returns have been limited.
Given that we spent almost 1 billion to blow up the dirt in Afghanistan for a month, I think 4 billion a year in space development is only fair.
The only question that remains is could the 4 billion (or for that matter, the 1 billion from the DoD as well) be spent on more important domestic issues, like the economy, healthcare, education, and building Krispy Kreme's in Boston, Mass...
The answer is of course, a resounding yes. I'm sure every teacher in America would like a 100% pay increase. Our kids would be the smartest around and in 15 years, they'd come up with fiscal savings plans to outdo even the tightest of Swiss banks. But the likelihood that something so radical would occur is miniscule, so instead of worrying about where 40 billion dollars over 20 years could have gone, worry about how to get American AIDS victims to give Bill Gates an 8 ft condom instead of the Indians AIDS victims. Get money that doesn't have to funnel through the government into the hands of those causes you find justify their cost. NASA will keep getting top dollar projects along with the DoD for the forseeable future. The short-term goal must lie in monies garnered from someone else's pockets.
Why should the architect of a website be forced to devolve what is a visionary new medium instead of the impetus being on the creators of translation software for the handicapped person's experience? In other words, if Dean Kamen's wheelchair can climb stairs...when can we stop having to put in ramps?
I realize that this may sound insensitive, but why not have innovative websites drive innovative translators rather than stifle innovation in defense of the least common denominator?
I have a few friends who use the phone adapter on their Visor (adding a speaker and antenna). Every time I call them (or vice versa), they're using their PDA. They also use it for everything people use the 2 inch LCD phones for (calendar, alarms, phone book, etc).
In the meantime, I have a 2 inch LCD phone, so I don't use my PDA nearly as often....then again, it's a Palm III with 2 MB of storage. This becomes a lesson in futility if you want to use AvantGo, Vindigo, and 3-5 games at any one time.
If I go out and buy a newer 8MB PDA, I'd probably use it more often. Then again, I'm also a guy who would whip out a GameBoy on a busy bus/train, instead of stare out the windows...so I might not be a totally unbiased sample for whether the average Joe uses his PDA.
Joe Six-Pack metaphors are fun! Don't buzzkill the fun, man!
3000 miles of shelf space...why, that'd be like enough shelf space to go from LA to NYC! Enough shelf space to almost reach the molten core of the Earth! Enough shelf space to circle the Earth (at the Artic Circle)!
Enough shelf space to go 1/80th of the way to the MOON!!!!
Well, there is your problem right there. Since it's not backlit, if you fuse your retina to the screen, you're blocking all the reflective light from getting to the GBA. No wonder you can't see anything on the screen.
I went to that site to play a fair game of Connect Four in the hopes of getting a final answer as to which browser is truly better than the others. Unfortunately, hoodlums have logged in with multiple browsers to throw the game by playing poorly with one browser in the hopes of defeating a defenseless opponenent!
I mean, truly, who plays checker 3 to slot 1 when the opponent has opened with a classical Harvey the Wonder Hamster attack in slots 4,5, and 6!!
Outrageous! I see the only way this will ever be settled is through the time-honored (and FAR less unruly) game of Go Fish! Harumph, I'm taking my checkers and going home...
It's very simple. We need a ship. A ship the shape of a triangle. This ship should be of simple control. Forward movement and rotation only! A single gun capable of halving (on occasion trifurcating) any size asteroid will be mounted on the front. When it has halved the pieces to a significantly small size, they will disappear upon further assault. This ship will also be fitted with a shielding system. Pulling down on the joystick or using a separate button system should activate a circular shield capable of withstanding a certain period of collision with objects, regardless of frequency. In future revisions of this vehicle, we will include a hyperwarp feature to jump out of harms way (unfortunately, technology will not allow us to determine the point of reentry, making this a daunting choice for the pilot).
Finally, be sure to look out for ellusive UFOs with hostile aliens ready to destroy our ship (regardless of its peaceful intentions of saving our planet).
I distinctly remember training many hours on the simulator for this solution not twenty years ago. I don't know why we're worried about this problem seeing as we already have the solution.
Unfortunately, the next time Temple-Tuttle (the source of the debris that we're watching) comes through in 30 or so years, it will not be passing close enough to leave a good amount of dust in our orbital path to create the kind of storm we're treated to this year. In fact the next pass after that still won't be close enough. It won't be until 2098 before it passes within.0062 AUs (close enough to get a storm in the following year or three).
All of this information and some great viewing suggestions and times are attainable in a really good article at Sky and Telescope.
Are there any camera/trigger combo mechanisms which could take more than one picture per flight? I mean if I let a kite out for 6 minutes, it's going to get a great shot from really high up...but then I have to reel the kite back in to take another picture.
Anybody have any ideas on a fairly easy way to hook up something like an RC button to both shoot the picture and advance the film...or maybe a lightweight camera that auto-advances...so the RC motor only has to hit the exposure button...?
@Home was with comcast originally. They went down the drain. I wonder how long it will take them to drive ATT's broadband division into the crapper too.
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A google only has 100 zeros, thus 100 places
Not true. From http://www.google.com/press/facts.html:
Employees:
More than 500.
And they're not zeros, they're somebodies and they do an damn fine job at making a search engine.
I don't think this is a real news article because the girl on the right looks Photoshopped. I have also never seen this toy in the stores and Wizco Toys has no discernable website, which is odd as well.
N.B. - I read The Onion weekly, in case you were worried for me.
Sorry, the corrected link to the Talk.Origins Archive is here.
I think a lot of your questions about how evolution, cosmology, and the rest of science attempt to explain all sorts of phenomena (without resorting to a default "because of God") can be answered by visiting the Talk.Origins Archive.
If they can't be answered, there are some very helpful admins who answer most of the mail they receive with not only answers, but links to the source of the answers.
It's better than wading through the
Maybe I can be of some assistance. You may want to purchase a copy of The Big Bang Theory- A Personal View written by Eccentrica Gallumbits (the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six). It is published by Ursa Minor and does not sell quite as well as the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
It's quite clear if you look up "Universe" in the Guide link I have provided that the material for the Big Bang came from the spontaneous disappearance of a previous universe which someone had figured out.
There you go, now you are fulfilled.
We're talking about 23 years of expenditures. The first station design by Reagan was in '84, the 6.6 billion budget addition from GW Bush is slated to go until 2007. Even if the totals run closer to the highly overestimated answer of 100 Billion (by the GAO), that's still only about 4 billion per year for a technological marvel that was supposed to be supported by 3/4 of the world's space programs but is ultimately built primarily by the US.
The Russians have been useless in getting any part of it done, so in order to maintain our own timetable and keep expenditures reasonable, we've had to either help them or replace their efforts, so that cadres of NASA employees weren't being bankrolled to sit on their hands waiting for the Russians.
If the ISS weren't so stifled by a lack of support from countries who previously voiced their desire to be involved, then it'd not only have cost us less but have been bigger and more capable of sustaining a maintenance crew AND a scientific staff. Instead, they're limited to a maintenance crew who dabble in science, so the returns have been limited.
Given that we spent almost 1 billion to blow up the dirt in Afghanistan for a month, I think 4 billion a year in space development is only fair.
The only question that remains is could the 4 billion (or for that matter, the 1 billion from the DoD as well) be spent on more important domestic issues, like the economy, healthcare, education, and building Krispy Kreme's in Boston, Mass...
The answer is of course, a resounding yes. I'm sure every teacher in America would like a 100% pay increase. Our kids would be the smartest around and in 15 years, they'd come up with fiscal savings plans to outdo even the tightest of Swiss banks. But the likelihood that something so radical would occur is miniscule, so instead of worrying about where 40 billion dollars over 20 years could have gone, worry about how to get American AIDS victims to give Bill Gates an 8 ft condom instead of the Indians AIDS victims. Get money that doesn't have to funnel through the government into the hands of those causes you find justify their cost. NASA will keep getting top dollar projects along with the DoD for the forseeable future. The short-term goal must lie in monies garnered from someone else's pockets.
Why should the architect of a website be forced to devolve what is a visionary new medium instead of the impetus being on the creators of translation software for the handicapped person's experience? In other words, if Dean Kamen's wheelchair can climb stairs...when can we stop having to put in ramps?
I realize that this may sound insensitive, but why not have innovative websites drive innovative translators rather than stifle innovation in defense of the least common denominator?
I have a few friends who use the phone adapter on their Visor (adding a speaker and antenna). Every time I call them (or vice versa), they're using their PDA. They also use it for everything people use the 2 inch LCD phones for (calendar, alarms, phone book, etc).
In the meantime, I have a 2 inch LCD phone, so I don't use my PDA nearly as often....then again, it's a Palm III with 2 MB of storage. This becomes a lesson in futility if you want to use AvantGo, Vindigo, and 3-5 games at any one time.
If I go out and buy a newer 8MB PDA, I'd probably use it more often. Then again, I'm also a guy who would whip out a GameBoy on a busy bus/train, instead of stare out the windows...so I might not be a totally unbiased sample for whether the average Joe uses his PDA.
How would you like a alvnernmpal digelflorp?
I already have two! And I love them both! I bought them with my new e-Visa!!
The military doesn't need one.
Joe Six-Pack metaphors are fun! Don't buzzkill the fun, man!
3000 miles of shelf space...why, that'd be like enough shelf space to go from LA to NYC! Enough shelf space to almost reach the molten core of the Earth! Enough shelf space to circle the Earth (at the Artic Circle)!
Enough shelf space to go 1/80th of the way to the MOON!!!!
without fusing my naked retina to the screen
Well, there is your problem right there. Since it's not backlit, if you fuse your retina to the screen, you're blocking all the reflective light from getting to the GBA. No wonder you can't see anything on the screen.
Or, you could just buy one of these case mods.
I went to that site to play a fair game of Connect Four in the hopes of getting a final answer as to which browser is truly better than the others. Unfortunately, hoodlums have logged in with multiple browsers to throw the game by playing poorly with one browser in the hopes of defeating a defenseless opponenent!
I mean, truly, who plays checker 3 to slot 1 when the opponent has opened with a classical Harvey the Wonder Hamster attack in slots 4,5, and 6!!
Outrageous! I see the only way this will ever be settled is through the time-honored (and FAR less unruly) game of Go Fish! Harumph, I'm taking my checkers and going home...
It's very simple. We need a ship. A ship the shape of a triangle. This ship should be of simple control. Forward movement and rotation only! A single gun capable of halving (on occasion trifurcating) any size asteroid will be mounted on the front. When it has halved the pieces to a significantly small size, they will disappear upon further assault. This ship will also be fitted with a shielding system. Pulling down on the joystick or using a separate button system should activate a circular shield capable of withstanding a certain period of collision with objects, regardless of frequency. In future revisions of this vehicle, we will include a hyperwarp feature to jump out of harms way (unfortunately, technology will not allow us to determine the point of reentry, making this a daunting choice for the pilot).
Finally, be sure to look out for ellusive UFOs with hostile aliens ready to destroy our ship (regardless of its peaceful intentions of saving our planet).
I distinctly remember training many hours on the simulator for this solution not twenty years ago. I don't know why we're worried about this problem seeing as we already have the solution.
Great, then my taco shells will cost ten times more than they do now.
I mean really, who's going to pay to put up an enclosure over an entire corn crop??
Have you ever actually *seen* an entire corn crop?
Unfortunately, the next time Temple-Tuttle (the source of the debris that we're watching) comes through in 30 or so years, it will not be passing close enough to leave a good amount of dust in our orbital path to create the kind of storm we're treated to this year. In fact the next pass after that still won't be close enough. It won't be until 2098 before it passes within .0062 AUs (close enough to get a storm in the following year or three).
All of this information and some great viewing suggestions and times are attainable in a really good article at Sky and Telescope.
Are there any camera/trigger combo mechanisms which could take more than one picture per flight? I mean if I let a kite out for 6 minutes, it's going to get a great shot from really high up...but then I have to reel the kite back in to take another picture.
Anybody have any ideas on a fairly easy way to hook up something like an RC button to both shoot the picture and advance the film...or maybe a lightweight camera that auto-advances...so the RC motor only has to hit the exposure button...?
Maaaayyyyybe, they're just running an old version of this with this.
Well, you never know...
@Home was with comcast originally. They went down the drain. I wonder how long it will take them to drive ATT's broadband division into the crapper too.
I thought this was in California, not Poland...
Interestingly, the library scene is not in the remastered IMAX version. Neither is the scenic lunch at the waterfall with Padme and Anakin.
This is not the library I am looking for. I will move along.
No, Florida can't count. There's a difference.
Shinobi is back.
This parent must have been modded up just to keep the sheep noises joke funny for those that browse higher than a level of 2.