Yes, it happened ~4-5 billion years ago. The Moon is the leftover debris from that event. The Earth itself did not form a solid crust for several million years afterwards, there is considerable evidence that the Earth lost it's entire atmosphere at that time. The present atmosphere is a combination of volcanic outgassing and cometary impacts. Any life that existed before that impact was completely destoyed.
The questions posed by this article are old news. Bakker settled this back in the early 70's. The maximal contact idea is dependent on the precise configuration of the junction of the nechk and body. In any case, I suspect that it is wrong. The area of maximal contact probably served as a limiting device to keep the things from dragging thier heads in the dirt and stomping themselves to death. The normal pose is more likely to be shown by the configuration of ligament rods and bone scars from the aforesaid ligaments.
Interesting - you believe in salvation through a holy zombie despite a total lack of explanation as to how the reanimation of dead bodies relates to human events ?
The ultimate ending of evolution is the creation of the Kwisatz Haderach. Once we find the spice melange, then we can jump ahead in this evolution thing.
The Spice Melange
1 part paprika, 1 part nutmeg, 12 parts cinnamon, 1 part garlic powder, 1 part cumin powder, 1 part pepper (habanero),...
I don't know, I am honestly worried about where that court ruling could take us. Technically speaking they are not "breaking" anything. They are simply crafting and sending out packets. Do we really want a world where our packets can become illegal weapons?
You mean like the letters the post office sends in your name cancelling all your subscriptions?
That is how they are reducing bandwidth, and it's mail fraud.
Show me a miracle! Not just a long shot chance, but an honest to god miracle (this means not someone who was resuscitated 5 minutes after death, or 1 hour after being frozen underwater. I'm talking about ashes->living. I'm talking about buried->talking)
Thou shalt not put the LORD thy God to the test. God is not a dime store magician doing tricks for your entertainment. Besides that, even if an indisputable miracle happened before your very eyes, you still would not believe it, even if you had thousands or millions of witnesses (mass hallucination). The fact of the matter is that you WANT God to be a fantasy, therefore for you He is. Your spirit (soul) is dying, if not already dead, you are killing it with your unbelief. When your body dies so will you. Which is what you expect to happen anyway.
It's stupid to base an argument on the impossibility of proving a negative result; yet thats what most creationists do.
Man, talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Can you PROVE God does not exist? Then why are you insisting I believe as you do?
Creationists, why do you expect the fallen world which is marred by sin to correspond to scripture? Engaging in this foolish debate with the atheists only feeds their egos, and harms your and their souls.
A user NOT trusting his tools is a very strange thing.
21 CFR part 11 specifies that a metrology function SHALL verify the accuracy of all tools and equipment used for the manufacture, analysis, and distribution of pharmaceutical products. The FDA requires by law that you do not trust your tools.
Simply put...god doesn't exist. He's an imaginative figure branded into people's minds to try and keep them in line. For those of you who are ignorant enough to believe in him, he only exists in your mind, I apologize for the awakening.
Could you get me a positive proof of that assertion? Please keep in mind you have a high bar to pass, the father does not hide from his children, as they say.
I absolutely do not accept that Democrats are just as corrupt as Republicans. By number and gravity of scandals in the past fifty years, the Republicans have been worse.
Republicans are thieves. That's why all their scandals are about money.
Democrats are perverts. that's why all their scandals are about sex.
So who would you rather be in charge, a thief or a pervert?
Inventors cannot simply go into the garage and come up with great innovations. There won't be another Goodyear or Watt, tinkering in their spare time with something and then come out with the next big thing. First of all, the times of "simple" revolutionary findings are over. And second, the fact that most likely some corporation already holds a patent on something still to be discovered is not really an incentive to actually sit down and try to invent something.
If you were in a small village in Greece where you had to walk everywhere by foot, the next village over would be a long way away. The village four villages over would be a tremendous distance. A whole country over would be a gigantic distance, and going to France, for example, would be way out of your league. Traveling to eastern Asia, the Americas, or Australia would look like a pipe dream.
Well, we've got a long time to get there. And we've got a lot of little steps on the road to galactic civilization, including permanent space stations, profitable manufacturing, colonization of nearby planets, colonization of planets further our in the solar system, etc. 100 years to galactic expansion is ridiculous... after 100 years, we'd be lucky if we've got a buzzing little colony on the moon, let alone Mars or other solar systems.
My Dad is from a little village in Greece. We live in America.
We do not need a Silicon sphere to measure a kg. These spheres will be exorbitantly priced and while offering a very high precision, are not required for the applications you outline.
Useful would be accepting that a kilogram is "X molecules of Y" and letting standards organizations and manufacturers of calibrated instruments create masses to adhere to the definition within varying tolerances.
The defn. of a meter for example is the distance traveled by light in a few billionths of a second or something.
I am questioning the necessity of the sphere, not the necessity of defining masses in terms of physical constants.
And how are you going to count the molecules? I use a calibrated (NIST traceable) analytical balance. And yes, the calibration weights do cost a fortune.
Scientists in the US say that initial data from a new way of scanning Mars has shown up to half of the Red Planet's surface may contain ice.
The new method of scanning for water offers vastly more accurate readings than before, they say.
The data could prove vital for the Phoenix Mars Mission which launches this August and which will put a lander on the surface to dig for ice.
The new data shows wide variation as to how deep below the surface ice exists.
Seasonal changes
The deposits - far beyond the ice that is known to exist in the planet's North Pole - could be so large that were they to melt, they would deluge the planet in water forming an ocean.
Up until now, scientists had been able to search for water deposits using a spectrometer fixed to the orbiting Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
It is a device that measures gamma rays coming from a planet to detect different materials.
However, only readings that are accurate to within several hundred kilometres can be obtained.
Now Dr Joshua Bandfield of Arizona State University has devised a new method for detecting ice.
By comparing seasonal changes in thermal infrared patterns, detected by the same Odyssey spacecraft, he says he can make readings accurate to within just hundreds of metres.
Dr Bandfield said water ice in terms of surface area would be "probably roughly a third to a half".
Though there is plenty of water ice, the new thermal imaging data also shows that there is considerable variation across the planet in terms of how far down ice can be found.
The fact that Microsoft is late to the party is what makes it a patent trap. If it were just sudo, it wouldn't be patentable. When it's "a method for controlling process elevation, comprised of (sudo) and (a fancy display mechanism) and (extra monitoring)", it becomes patentable.
Microsoft is setting a trap for future patent lawsuits. Deny or Allow?
Ironic that they just won a lawsuit at SCOTUS that denies that particular strategy. Now patents must "substantially advance the state of the art".
MS Should just nullify all EU licenses and see how long they bitch and moan about this stuff. Pull everything from the shelves and say piss off.
You are talking about the body that gives MS licences the force of law in the EU. If MS did that how long do you think it would take the EU to size the rights to, and reverse engineer Vista? More importantly, how do you think that MS would respond to warrants for the arrest of all it's senior management being issued by INTERPOL? (The US is signatory).
So now you don't have to program in order to be a computer scientist, Cool! Does that mean that I don't need to learn about all those chemicals to be a chemist?
I work in a research chemistry lab. At work the calculator I use is either a TI-36X or a Casio fx-115MS. I like the Casio better. Neither on has graphing capability. They both have the great asset of being full function scientific calculators available for less than $20.00 US.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, it happened ~4-5 billion years ago. The Moon is the leftover debris from that event. The Earth itself did not form a solid crust for several million years afterwards, there is considerable evidence that the Earth lost it's entire atmosphere at that time. The present atmosphere is a combination of volcanic outgassing and cometary impacts. Any life that existed before that impact was completely destoyed.
The questions posed by this article are old news. Bakker settled this back in the early 70's. The maximal contact idea is dependent on the precise configuration of the junction of the nechk and body. In any case, I suspect that it is wrong. The area of maximal contact probably served as a limiting device to keep the things from dragging thier heads in the dirt and stomping themselves to death. The normal pose is more likely to be shown by the configuration of ligament rods and bone scars from the aforesaid ligaments.
Well, first you need a cyclotron...
Good!
Interesting - you believe in salvation through a holy zombie despite a total lack of explanation as to how the reanimation of dead bodies relates to human events ?
Your comment is inane.
The Spice Melange
1 part paprika, 1 part nutmeg, 12 parts cinnamon, 1 part garlic powder, 1 part cumin powder, 1 part pepper (habanero),
Mix well and run for your life.
You mean like the letters the post office sends in your name cancelling all your subscriptions?
That is how they are reducing bandwidth, and it's mail fraud.
Show me a miracle! Not just a long shot chance, but an honest to god miracle (this means not someone who was resuscitated 5 minutes after death, or 1 hour after being frozen underwater. I'm talking about ashes->living. I'm talking about buried->talking)
Thou shalt not put the LORD thy God to the test. God is not a dime store magician doing tricks for your entertainment. Besides that, even if an indisputable miracle happened before your very eyes, you still would not believe it, even if you had thousands or millions of witnesses (mass hallucination). The fact of the matter is that you WANT God to be a fantasy, therefore for you He is. Your spirit (soul) is dying, if not already dead, you are killing it with your unbelief. When your body dies so will you. Which is what you expect to happen anyway.
It's stupid to base an argument on the impossibility of proving a negative result; yet thats what most creationists do.
Man, talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Can you PROVE God does not exist? Then why are you insisting I believe as you do?
Creationists, why do you expect the fallen world which is marred by sin to correspond to scripture? Engaging in this foolish debate with the atheists only feeds their egos, and harms your and their souls.
Infidel Dog! All know the Holy Stallman (St. Gnutius of EMACS) is of M.I.T.! You would have us pray to the B.S.D. Heretics!
21 CFR part 11 specifies that a metrology function SHALL verify the accuracy of all tools and equipment used for the manufacture, analysis, and distribution of pharmaceutical products. The FDA requires by law that you do not trust your tools.
Could you get me a positive proof of that assertion? Please keep in mind you have a high bar to pass, the father does not hide from his children, as they say.
Republicans are thieves. That's why all their scandals are about money.
Democrats are perverts. that's why all their scandals are about sex.
So who would you rather be in charge, a thief or a pervert?
Wanna Bet! (EVIL Grin)
Well, we've got a long time to get there. And we've got a lot of little steps on the road to galactic civilization, including permanent space stations, profitable manufacturing, colonization of nearby planets, colonization of planets further our in the solar system, etc. 100 years to galactic expansion is ridiculous... after 100 years, we'd be lucky if we've got a buzzing little colony on the moon, let alone Mars or other solar systems.
My Dad is from a little village in Greece. We live in America.
Useful would be accepting that a kilogram is "X molecules of Y" and letting standards organizations and manufacturers of calibrated instruments create masses to adhere to the definition within varying tolerances.
The defn. of a meter for example is the distance traveled by light in a few billionths of a second or something.
I am questioning the necessity of the sphere, not the necessity of defining masses in terms of physical constants.
And how are you going to count the molecules? I use a calibrated (NIST traceable) analytical balance. And yes, the calibration weights do cost a fortune.
1.0 Atm Pressure
This is known as STP conditions. Unfortuneatly this varies a bit.
Weight is a force.
Gravitational attraction is an acceleration (see A. Einstien et al).
Therefore
Weight=mass times accelation
or
F=ma
A standard mass is required in order to perform any valid work in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Engineering, Trade (I want a pound of balony), etc.
Standardized weights and measures are a basic requirement for a civilized society.
Yes
Sounds like privacy to me.
BTW First Post
Scientists in the US say that initial data from a new way of scanning Mars has shown up to half of the Red Planet's surface may contain ice.
The new method of scanning for water offers vastly more accurate readings than before, they say.
The data could prove vital for the Phoenix Mars Mission which launches this August and which will put a lander on the surface to dig for ice.
The new data shows wide variation as to how deep below the surface ice exists.
Seasonal changes
The deposits - far beyond the ice that is known to exist in the planet's North Pole - could be so large that were they to melt, they would deluge the planet in water forming an ocean.
Up until now, scientists had been able to search for water deposits using a spectrometer fixed to the orbiting Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
It is a device that measures gamma rays coming from a planet to detect different materials.
However, only readings that are accurate to within several hundred kilometres can be obtained.
Now Dr Joshua Bandfield of Arizona State University has devised a new method for detecting ice.
By comparing seasonal changes in thermal infrared patterns, detected by the same Odyssey spacecraft, he says he can make readings accurate to within just hundreds of metres.
Dr Bandfield said water ice in terms of surface area would be "probably roughly a third to a half".
Though there is plenty of water ice, the new thermal imaging data also shows that there is considerable variation across the planet in terms of how far down ice can be found.
Microsoft is setting a trap for future patent lawsuits. Deny or Allow?
Ironic that they just won a lawsuit at SCOTUS that denies that particular strategy. Now patents must "substantially advance the state of the art".
You are talking about the body that gives MS licences the force of law in the EU. If MS did that how long do you think it would take the EU to size the rights to, and reverse engineer Vista? More importantly, how do you think that MS would respond to warrants for the arrest of all it's senior management being issued by INTERPOL? (The US is signatory).
So now you don't have to program in order to be a computer scientist, Cool! Does that mean that I don't need to learn about all those chemicals to be a chemist?
I work in a research chemistry lab. At work the calculator I use is either a TI-36X or a Casio fx-115MS. I like the Casio better. Neither on has graphing capability. They both have the great asset of being full function scientific calculators available for less than $20.00 US.
Oh he's a lumberjack and he's OK,
He sleeps all night and he works all day!