Of course the question is what would someone who never even considered the possibility of extraterrestrial life, nor ever heard of other worlds, think if he saw something strange in the sky. He certainly wouldn't think of a flying saucer. Maybe he would think of an angel? Or maybe take it as omen of some sort, similar to e.g. comets?
I want a wiki that contains a coredump of all human knowledge, notable or not. I'd get stuck in even worse wikiloops.
Then just start it. I'll happily contribute the article "List of positive integer numbers which have exactly two digits when written in standard decimal notation without leading zeros." Yes, I know those numbers!:-)
Wikipedia would have this, and lots of other content, if there wasn't those guys who are known as The Deletionists who pretty much delete every article which isn't controversial mess. Non-controversial topics don't have many people keeping a close eye on them, and when they get flagged for deletion, nobody really notices that before too late.
"Australian technology, what's that? Never heard, DELETE!"
I just found that there's a Wikipedia entry deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia despite the fact that this clearly isn't what you would normally consider encyclopedic material. I wonder why the deletionists didn't delete it.
and now we're reduced to begging for rides from the commies?
No. First, Russia today isn't communist, and hasn't been for quite some time. Second, it's not begging for rides, it's buying rides. Just as you're not begging for food at your local grocery when you buy it there.
Well, he didn't state the requirement that he should reach space alive. That alone should cut a huge amount of the cost.:-)
He also didn't tell from where he wants to start. If his self-designed rocket is first carried into the upper atmosphere by a professional rocket, this again saves a lot of cost and probably considerably simplifies the design. AFAIK, space officially starts at 100km height, so if the professional rocket carries him to a height of 99.9km, I guess designing a rocket which manages the last 100 meters before it breaks shouldn't be that hard.
Alas, we'll start to run into this problem: current disk drive interfaces won't be able to keep up, unless we use the Serial ATA Revision 3.0 spec.
Why should we use a spec made for spinning disks at all? The logical thing would be to access this as what it is: Memory. After all, you don't use SATA for reading your BIOS either, do you?
You compare two clocks built the same way. Since they are basically identical, it's a fair assumption that they also have the same precision.
If you have a clock with known precision (measured the way described above), you can measure a different clock with it. If the measured precision is worse than the known precision of the known clock, you know the other clock is worse. If the measured precision is equal to the precision of the known clock, the other clock is at least as precise. In order to learn more about its precision, you have to compare it either to a clock known to be more precise, or to (a copy of) itself.
I would assume because the dust cloud around the pulsar that remains from the supernova that created it is slowly spiraling back into it... changes in mass effect angular momentum.
Changes in mass don't affect angular momentum. However, due to conservation of angular momentum, changes in mass may affect the period of rotation, which is what is used as clock here. And of course, the dust cloud has angular momentum itself, which of course also adds to the angular momentum of the neutron star when it hits.
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Of course the question is what would someone who never even considered the possibility of extraterrestrial life, nor ever heard of other worlds, think if he saw something strange in the sky. He certainly wouldn't think of a flying saucer. Maybe he would think of an angel? Or maybe take it as omen of some sort, similar to e.g. comets?
Then just start it. I'll happily contribute the article "List of positive integer numbers which have exactly two digits when written in standard decimal notation without leading zeros." Yes, I know those numbers! :-)
Wikipedia would have this, and lots of other content, if there wasn't those guys who are known as The Deletionists who pretty much delete every article which isn't controversial mess. Non-controversial topics don't have many people keeping a close eye on them, and when they get flagged for deletion, nobody really notices that before too late.
"Australian technology, what's that? Never heard, DELETE!"
I just found that there's a Wikipedia entry deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia despite the fact that this clearly isn't what you would normally consider encyclopedic material. I wonder why the deletionists didn't delete it.
No. Just the moon race.
No. First, Russia today isn't communist, and hasn't been for quite some time. Second, it's not begging for rides, it's buying rides. Just as you're not begging for food at your local grocery when you buy it there.
Well, he didn't state the requirement that he should reach space alive. That alone should cut a huge amount of the cost. :-)
He also didn't tell from where he wants to start. If his self-designed rocket is first carried into the upper atmosphere by a professional rocket, this again saves a lot of cost and probably considerably simplifies the design. AFAIK, space officially starts at 100km height, so if the professional rocket carries him to a height of 99.9km, I guess designing a rocket which manages the last 100 meters before it breaks shouldn't be that hard.
So let the UI designers design the UI, and then let the professional artists design the background image and color scheme.
They are right under your fingers... you used them to type in your message, remember?
How do you know? He might have used a touch screen interface with virtual keyboard, or even handwriting recognition.
In writing, of course. It's the better choice for anything with legal implications anyway.
Why should we use a spec made for spinning disks at all? The logical thing would be to access this as what it is: Memory. After all, you don't use SATA for reading your BIOS either, do you?
More to the point, we still produce core dumps, although the times when there was core memory to dump are long gone.
And of course, solid state disks usually are not disk shaped.
Yes, it can. Humans and computers are both part of the universe, and both can count in prime numbers.
I'd disagree, but then I would have to neuralize you.
You compare two clocks built the same way. Since they are basically identical, it's a fair assumption that they also have the same precision.
If you have a clock with known precision (measured the way described above), you can measure a different clock with it. If the measured precision is worse than the known precision of the known clock, you know the other clock is worse. If the measured precision is equal to the precision of the known clock, the other clock is at least as precise. In order to learn more about its precision, you have to compare it either to a clock known to be more precise, or to (a copy of) itself.
Lunch time doubly so.
(couldn't resist)
This is what the guide says about resisting from quoting it: Futile.
However, the next edition will change this to: Mostly futile.
Somewhere out there, the aliens reading this are laughing
Yes, but only until they find out that their Higgs clocks are now heavily disturbed by the LHC and therefore don't work as well as they did before.
Changes in mass don't affect angular momentum. However, due to conservation of angular momentum, changes in mass may affect the period of rotation, which is what is used as clock here. And of course, the dust cloud has angular momentum itself, which of course also adds to the angular momentum of the neutron star when it hits.
Black holes don't suck.
A simple way is to take two of them and see how much they differ. If they were perfect clocks, they'd always show exactly the same time.
There's a better one at Maximegalon.
How do you set a pulsar? :-)
BTW, should I set it to UTC or local time?
SCNR
So you deny aliens the status as man? That's biosphereism! :-)
He laughs at all those who think the pulsars are there to measure time.
Doesn't Hewlett-Packard also produce software? (Place 39, vs. place 47 for IBM)
Since when is ExxonMobil a software company?
"Maybe programmers should be forced to look at buggy programs . . . ?"
We did give them all Windows machines.
Coincidentally, suicide rates among programmers skyrocketed....
Interestingly enough, as I write this, the captcha is "Dismember"... Go figure.
I thought looking at Windows as it's dying should immunize you against dying.