news for you, plenty of stations around the world have even more power. some of them broadcast news and music, because(surprise) they are radio stations for news and music that serve large areas.
No Fermi Paradox for travel either. humans can't keep at a project for ten thousand years, why expect another species to have millions-years one? will humans as a species even last that long, 3 million years ago there were bipedal apes like we see at zoos, 3 million years from now we might be animals again. We don't have the means to go 0.01C, and it would take almost 500 years to get to nearest star which is NOT suitable for colonization. We can't make life support system or computer systems that last even 100 years. Interstellar travel is extremely difficult if possible at all, might be too much trouble and expense for most ETI
Since HAARP has HF, VHF and UHF, and not satellite microwave systems, the stupidity is clearly on a Russian looking for a scapegoat, who has joined the ranks of scientifically ignorant wingnuts who blame HAARP for everything that was blamed on Satan and Witchcraft 400 years ago
it's a great place to put high power HF, VHF and UHF for probing atmosphere and van allen radiation belts, which is what HAARP is for. Every dumb ignorant wingnut blames HAARP for hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes....nice to see Russian official sink to that level of brainlessness.
there is no Fermi Paradox yet, we've only learned how to use radio and light waves for comm in the last century and a half (discounting smoke signals and mirrors in the sun). Thus far, we've been searching mostly microwave frequencies for ET signals, but the smart thing for them would be to use light or even higher frequency waves (gain, effective radiated power). It's a bit early in the game to say there are no signs of any ET around us
In a couple years kepler will have sufficient data so we can estimate the number of rocky worlds in habitable zones, that's what is most interesting to me. Once we find such worlds, we'd need to fund the type of probe that can analyze atmosphere, life as we know it does a very detectable transformation. Then step up our optical SETI efforts in those world's directions (they won't use radio waves, sorry microwave SETI dudes....)
Some products can only be tested on animals since it is intended for their use. Microsoft Windows, for example, should never be tested with a sapient creature.
no, the absorption characteristics constantly are in flux, that's the whole point. the net forcing function is NOT known, we don't know net heat in, we don't know where heat the goes and what amount is stored, we don't know heat amount re-radiated into space at all points on the globe, there is not a network of sensors for that.
no, even in waterless atmosphere CO2's absorption function will vary. the sun's output will vary. it is too complex to model, so thousands of models are made by a process that includes ex post facto "book cooking". It is not science, it is at best the same as stock market modeling.
Developers of enterprise software should not be mandating versions, they should be TOLD what version of browser they will support. Tail does not wag dog, you devs are TAIL.
removing a gas essential to all life on earth is quite foolish, when in fact we don't even know what percentage of the greenhouse effect is due to CO2. The best scientific estimates range from 9 to 32 percent. All we do know for sure is the dominant greenhouse gas on earth is water vapor.
the industry is not seeing that, J2EE/Java is in decline, server share being eaten by.NET and scripting languages. good riddance, it's so 1990s and at the core just warmed over 1980s concepts.
hmmm, wonder wikipedia is wrong, could there have been experiments with unmanned balloons with automatic cameras in the 19th century? certainly tethered balloons were used that way (though I wouldn't count those as "drones", would have to be untethered....)
Oracle's Linux is Red Hat Linux, they add some GPL licensed improvements. Anyone is free to use those, that includes Red Hat. I work as migrator/integrator/architect for a VAR with clients some of whom have IT budgets over $1 billion, I've not yet seen anyone use Oracle's Linux to run Oracle's wares (or anything else, for that matter), all choose Red Hat (some Centos too)
if those were CPU hours, please calculate for us how long before the Japanese K computer with its 68,544 CPU would reach 5 million CPU hours. hint: less than a week. If that's CPU core hours, divide your result by 8 for the 8 cores each has!
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news for you, plenty of stations around the world have even more power. some of them broadcast news and music, because(surprise) they are radio stations for news and music that serve large areas.
HAARP's purpose is quite well known, it is for study of excitation of the ionosphere and van allen belts by radio waves.
read all about it, and ignore the wingnuts, please. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haarp
No Fermi Paradox for travel either. humans can't keep at a project for ten thousand years, why expect another species to have millions-years one? will humans as a species even last that long, 3 million years ago there were bipedal apes like we see at zoos, 3 million years from now we might be animals again. We don't have the means to go 0.01C, and it would take almost 500 years to get to nearest star which is NOT suitable for colonization. We can't make life support system or computer systems that last even 100 years. Interstellar travel is extremely difficult if possible at all, might be too much trouble and expense for most ETI
Since HAARP has HF, VHF and UHF, and not satellite microwave systems, the stupidity is clearly on a Russian looking for a scapegoat, who has joined the ranks of scientifically ignorant wingnuts who blame HAARP for everything that was blamed on Satan and Witchcraft 400 years ago
it's a great place to put high power HF, VHF and UHF for probing atmosphere and van allen radiation belts, which is what HAARP is for. Every dumb ignorant wingnut blames HAARP for hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes....nice to see Russian official sink to that level of brainlessness.
there is no Fermi Paradox yet, we've only learned how to use radio and light waves for comm in the last century and a half (discounting smoke signals and mirrors in the sun). Thus far, we've been searching mostly microwave frequencies for ET signals, but the smart thing for them would be to use light or even higher frequency waves (gain, effective radiated power). It's a bit early in the game to say there are no signs of any ET around us
neither radio nor light signals would not be detectable at such distances, not even at the distance of Andromeda which is the nearest spiral galaxy
In a couple years kepler will have sufficient data so we can estimate the number of rocky worlds in habitable zones, that's what is most interesting to me. Once we find such worlds, we'd need to fund the type of probe that can analyze atmosphere, life as we know it does a very detectable transformation. Then step up our optical SETI efforts in those world's directions (they won't use radio waves, sorry microwave SETI dudes....)
Some products can only be tested on animals since it is intended for their use. Microsoft Windows, for example, should never be tested with a sapient creature.
no, that is only the hypothesis of animal rights activists, and also some (unscientific) lawmakers. it is an assumption without proof
no, the absorption characteristics constantly are in flux, that's the whole point. the net forcing function is NOT known, we don't know net heat in, we don't know where heat the goes and what amount is stored, we don't know heat amount re-radiated into space at all points on the globe, there is not a network of sensors for that.
no, even in waterless atmosphere CO2's absorption function will vary. the sun's output will vary. it is too complex to model, so thousands of models are made by a process that includes ex post facto "book cooking". It is not science, it is at best the same as stock market modeling.
Developers of enterprise software should not be mandating versions, they should be TOLD what version of browser they will support. Tail does not wag dog, you devs are TAIL.
how conscious and sentient is a rodent? probably a little conscious and not sentient at all.
removing a gas essential to all life on earth is quite foolish, when in fact we don't even know what percentage of the greenhouse effect is due to CO2. The best scientific estimates range from 9 to 32 percent. All we do know for sure is the dominant greenhouse gas on earth is water vapor.
IBM DB2 is a far superior product to Oracle's DBMS, faster and much less money
no one I know has that problem, and we're talking data centers of one of the U.S. largest cities plus some state government departments
Hi Oracle boy. Funny, none of my clients wants to run one of those either.......
the industry is not seeing that, J2EE/Java is in decline, server share being eaten by .NET and scripting languages. good riddance, it's so 1990s and at the core just warmed over 1980s concepts.
if it's anti-missile, then yes "hope" would be the right word
hmmm, wonder wikipedia is wrong, could there have been experiments with unmanned balloons with automatic cameras in the 19th century? certainly tethered balloons were used that way (though I wouldn't count those as "drones", would have to be untethered....)
not to mention the bellies of little stupid geek spawn
Oracle's Linux is Red Hat Linux, they add some GPL licensed improvements. Anyone is free to use those, that includes Red Hat. I work as migrator/integrator/architect for a VAR with clients some of whom have IT budgets over $1 billion, I've not yet seen anyone use Oracle's Linux to run Oracle's wares (or anything else, for that matter), all choose Red Hat (some Centos too)
if those were CPU hours, please calculate for us how long before the Japanese K computer with its 68,544 CPU would reach 5 million CPU hours. hint: less than a week. If that's CPU core hours, divide your result by 8 for the 8 cores each has!
the IPCC is an agenda driven propaganda organ. quit pretending it is a scientific body, they have no credibility whatsoever.
"where is the heat??!!" -- ipcc climategate email