Further clarification: By the twice the magnitude, what I really meant is it is 10^30 (supernova) x 10^30 (supernova). Yes I know that is way beyond twice the magnitude of a supernova, it is 10^30 times the magnitude of a supernova.
That's nothing. How about a direct impact with a quasar?
Your Inputs: Distance from Impact: 0.00 km = 0.00 miles Projectile Diameter: 9999999999999.00 m = 32799999999996.72 ft = 6,210,000,000.00 miles (The Earth has a diameter of about 7,900 miles) Projectile Density: 999999999999 kg/m3 (Blackhole) Impact Velocity: 160999999998.39 km/s = 99,980,999,999.00 miles/s (Approx. 537, 000 times the speed of light) Impact Angle: 90 degrees Target Density: 1 kg/m3 Target Type: Competent Rock or saturated soil
Energy: 6.79 x 1078 Joules = 1.62 x 10^63 MegaTons TNT (Twice the magnitude of a supernova) The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 5.2 x 10^50years (If one occurs before the last proton in the universe is ripped apart by Entralpy, it would be the equivalent of winning the lottery - aka. the odds still would not be in its favor.)
Crater Size: Transient Crater Diameter: 172935713696720512.00 km = 107,393,078,205,663,440.00 miles Final Crater Diameter: 30291868642950488064.00 km = 18,811,250,427,272,253,440.00 miles (3.2 million lightyears - a megaparsec - Our Galaxy is part of a group or cluster of galaxies that is known as the Local Group. The Local Group has a diameter of about 3 million lightyears and contains two big galaxies and about 20 smaller ones. http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/sunspot/pr/answerbook/ motion.html) The crater formed is a complex crater.
Ejecta: Your position was inside the transient crater and ejected upon impact.
That's nothing. How about a direct impact with a quasar?
Your Inputs:
Distance from Impact: 0.00 km = 0.00 miles
Projectile Diameter: 9999999999999.00 m = 32799999999996.72 ft = 6210000000.00 miles
Projectile Density: 999999999999 kg/m3
Impact Velocity: 160999999998.39 km/s = 99980999999.00 miles/s
Impact Angle: 90 degrees
Target Density: 1 kg/m3
Target Type: Competent Rock or saturated soil
Energy:
6.79 x 1078 Joules = 1.62 x 10^63 MegaTons TNT
The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 5.2 x 10^50years
Crater Size:
Transient Crater Diameter: 172935713696720512.00 km = 107393078205663440.00 miles
Final Crater Diameter: 30291868642950488064.00 km = 18811250427272253440.00 miles
The crater formed is a complex crater.
Ejecta:
Your position was inside the transient crater and ejected upon impact.
oh yeah, the lupin the 3rd plots never go beyond one episode and have almost no depth too. The stories are mostly kinda of cheesy too. "shot through the heart" has some depth. Just don't want to give ya the wrong idea.
You should also check out Rouroni Kenshin - wandering samarui - great anime. Also you might want to check out Lupin the 3rd - its a late 70's tv series but some of the main characters seem almost identitical (not visually) to the ones in Cowboy Bebop. Soem people like it even though it is old and kinda of more kiddie-ish than Bebop.
I think they lose viewers more becuase they lose orginality. you have a great premise. That's easy. Now build on it. That's hard. I started watching farscape second season, picked it up at the end of the third after I missed the first part of season 3, and didn't have much trouble. You can miss a few episodes and still get the hang of it. Same with deep space 9. I hated its first season. It sucked. Then I started watching around season 3 again and picked it up pretty quickly. Same with a lost season of stargate, a lost season of voyager. If the show is good it is easy to pick up almsot anywhere.
The best season for farscape was season one. When Crichton got accustomed to space and stopped acting like a cooler version of arthur dent, the series somehow changed. They should try to get it to retrun to its roots. Serious, but not too serious.
No, they gave tremors another season and picked the has-been series andromeda (if you haven't seen the last season or so its starting to become like Earth: final conflict and sliders were they take a good premise, run with it for about a year, then drive it into the ground). Plus scare tactics and mad house... Farscape, stargate, and a few reruns are the only things worth watching left on that channel. And if the play Taken again, I am going to vomit.
They already do. Bill Gates - may not like him but at least he is one of us (or was - though Allen and Woz were far better representives from that era).
Plus it wil be the onl network with a rising number of male viewers between the ages of 18-34. appealing to a demographic that everyone is losing would not only eb a good long term investment on thier part but also generate publicity - 'hey watch sci-fi they are the only ones who play shows for ppl our age'...
Battlestar Galatica is becoming a series (oh, the humanity!). The dune ones are probably only miniseries because Herbert is dead. The rest are mostly just ABC/NBC two part movies that Sci-fi got the rights to air. Farscape is on miniseries probably becuase they didn't want to risk the investment of an entire season - sort of testing the waters. I really hope they bring it back. It deserved at least proper last season at least to wrap up all the dangling threads, if for nothing else because it supposedly saved sci-fi. Plus, it was winnning awards even for the last season and the reruns were getting nominations. Yeah, I know cable is a business, but maybe sci-fi should sacrifice some of their budget even if they don't get great ratings just for the pr. A sacrifice for fans will get them a huge amount of respect that would probably pay off with higher viewership of the channel in general in the long run.
The first gulf war was like WW1. It didn't solve any of the root problems that led to its start. As a result the gulf war accomplished very little. The bombing in 1997(?) accomplished more. The attack by the israelis accomplished more (1980 something). But none solved the root problem - Iraq was not a peaceful nation and it remained in a very sensitive region. Gulf war 1 didn't make Iraq peaceful. It only contained Iraq. And like all tactics of containment, it was bound to eventually fail. They say the causes of W2 began in the armistace that ended WW1. They didn't, the reasons for WW2 began before WW1. WW1 didn't solve anything becuase it was by exhaustion and not decision that the war ended. The same with Gulf war 1. It was not by decision that it ended. Our victory wasn't a final victory. So the problems that caused the first remained to cause the second.
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Yeah. they did a study on the norweigen plant destruction after the war (I think just recetly in fact liek the the last three years) to see how close the germans were to making a bomb. It utrns out that even with the plant, they would have taken at least a decade to develope an atomic device (ie 1955).
I think the problem he is having is the same problem a lot of americans are having. Bascially, we don't really hate anyone. Even the people we dislike, we don't really hate. So when we are faced with people like terrorists who definitely hate others, so much so that they'd kill themselves just to take a few of their enemies with them, we can't understand them. A lot of people, when they hear that other people hate americans, think in terms of what they call hate - a strong dislike. They don't understand that these people don't just dislike us, they really hate us.
"starting with the commonly-observed phenomenon that things look bigger under water"
This seems supiciously like the Doctor's explanation as to why the inside of the Tardis is bigger than the outside: Take two cubes, one bigger than the other. Now hold the bigger one at an arms length just far enough so that it looks like it can fit in the small one. That's how its done!
Leela: "That's nonesense"
Doctor: "Nonesense? That's transdimensional engineering, a key time lord discovery."
What we need are controls on externalities. As pointed out here:
An externality exists in economics any time there is a separation of costs and benefits, and the decision maker does not have to incur the full cost but receives the full benefits of the decision. The fact is, there is no economic force, no supply and demand equilibrium, no rational decision process of either business or consumer, that will make an externality go away. Classic examples of externalities are when a business dumps toxic waste into a nearby river and the downstream residents incur the costs of cancer. The business is able to lower its costs and pass those lower costs on to its customers, and never pay for the treatment of the cancer patients. We have laws in this country against dumping and pollution because they are externalities -- they require a legislative solution. -Rory L. Terry
It's becuase of these that pure capitalism doesn't work.
I can see it now: China, we declare war on you. We'll need tanks though, so can you make a few for us. Don't bother making any for yourslef, we'll just destroy them with the ones you made for us.
Actaully, its a bit more complicated than that. We can buy more than we sell. So how does that equal out? Inflation. The same with the budget deficit - you make up for it by printing more money. Before the 1930's where poltiicians decided to spend more so thinking they could make up for it in the good times, inflation was not a rate but an occurance. When inflation went down, it really went down. Then as I alluded before, some dumbass decided to spend more on the budget than they had. It drove up inflation which they thought they could cure when the good times came from overspending. But when they did, they didn't stop with the budget deficits. So now inflation is a way of life. Same with trade deficits. The larger the deficit grows, the weaker our currency becomes. Normally, this would equal out becuase as our currency becomes devalued, it becomes cheaper to invest here. The only reason we haven't felt it too much is becuase Japan, China, Tiawan, and the other trade vicotrs are keeping their currency bound to ours. As a result, their currency remains equal to ours and they keep the export market equal and hence in their favor. This is of course simplified itself. The matter is terribly complicated. But basically, we pay the extra by selling off the worth of our currency. Eventually though, it will no longer be sustainable, the dollar will plummet, and we'll end up in recession.
Most of the thrid world doesn't have a middle class. As a result, not only will the wages 'reach equilibrium' but also the precentages of have and have nots. And guess how many third world countries there are without middle class as compared to ones with? Many who decry outsourcing would not be as worried if it was the ceo's too whose wages were reaching an equilibrium. But they aren't. As many of us get poorer from outsouring, a small percentage are getting very very rich. That is the real concern, the real threat we fear: a country like that of the third world, were we have to sit and watch our children starve to death while the rich kid in the mansion smokes with $100 bills. They are getting rich by selling our livelihood. What we fear is a world that is not only not better for our kids but much much worse. And to make matters worse, not only are they unsympathetic to our concerns but they actualy have the gall to tell us its good for us. "You may starve to death and your kids will live in abject poverty with the wages of a pakastani bricklayer and have about the same chance for a better future while we sit in our million dollar homes and get fat, but its good for the economy so toughen up." Easy to tell someone to toughen up, not so easy when your the one who has to do it. Don't think that just because your in the thrid world, your the only one getting screwed. They are screwing us here too. Lower consumer prices? Bread and circuses; nothing more. Giving us what they think we want till they don't need us anymore. We may think we are benefitting, but we aren't. Like fatted lambs led to the slaughter.
Bottom line: Many who decry outsourcing really are decrying the corporations' abuse of everyone so that a few can get rich on the backs of the many.
As for superflous consumerism, who do you think is the most guilty of it? The ppl doing to outsourcing. They consume more than any of us. Ppl have been deriding the materialistic nature of siociety since the beginning of the industrial revolution. They thought in the sixities they were going to fix that with their generation but they sold out. The sold their ideals for bread and circuses. You want to end the over consumption, end the corporations who have long since stopped giving it to us and instead have begun to force feed it down our throats. "You'll be happy if you just buy this... and ignore the man over there standing behind the curtain."
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Further clarification: By the twice the magnitude, what I really meant is it is 10^30 (supernova) x 10^30 (supernova). Yes I know that is way beyond twice the magnitude of a supernova, it is 10^30 times the magnitude of a supernova.
That's nothing. How about a direct impact with a quasar?
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Your Inputs:
Distance from Impact: 0.00 km = 0.00 miles
Projectile Diameter: 9999999999999.00 m = 32799999999996.72 ft = 6,210,000,000.00 miles (The Earth has a diameter of about 7,900 miles)
Projectile Density: 999999999999 kg/m3 (Blackhole)
Impact Velocity: 160999999998.39 km/s = 99,980,999,999.00 miles/s (Approx. 537, 000 times the speed of light)
Impact Angle: 90 degrees
Target Density: 1 kg/m3
Target Type: Competent Rock or saturated soil
Energy:
6.79 x 1078 Joules = 1.62 x 10^63 MegaTons TNT (Twice the magnitude of a supernova)
The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 5.2 x 10^50years (If one occurs before the last proton in the universe is ripped apart by Entralpy, it would be the equivalent of winning the lottery - aka. the odds still would not be in its favor.)
Crater Size:
Transient Crater Diameter: 172935713696720512.00 km = 107,393,078,205,663,440.00 miles
Final Crater Diameter: 30291868642950488064.00 km = 18,811,250,427,272,253,440.00 miles (3.2 million lightyears - a megaparsec - Our Galaxy is part of a group or cluster of galaxies that is known as the Local Group. The Local Group has a diameter of about 3 million lightyears and contains two big galaxies and about 20 smaller ones. http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/sunspot/pr/answerbook
The crater formed is a complex crater.
Ejecta:
Your position was inside the transient crater and ejected upon impact.
What does this mean?
If it hits, your fucked.
That's nothing. How about a direct impact with a quasar? Your Inputs: Distance from Impact: 0.00 km = 0.00 miles Projectile Diameter: 9999999999999.00 m = 32799999999996.72 ft = 6210000000.00 miles Projectile Density: 999999999999 kg/m3 Impact Velocity: 160999999998.39 km/s = 99980999999.00 miles/s Impact Angle: 90 degrees Target Density: 1 kg/m3 Target Type: Competent Rock or saturated soil Energy: 6.79 x 1078 Joules = 1.62 x 10^63 MegaTons TNT The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 5.2 x 10^50years Crater Size: Transient Crater Diameter: 172935713696720512.00 km = 107393078205663440.00 miles Final Crater Diameter: 30291868642950488064.00 km = 18811250427272253440.00 miles The crater formed is a complex crater. Ejecta: Your position was inside the transient crater and ejected upon impact.
"To me the authors are vandals not revolutionaries, and may have ensured WMA becomes the standard."
Way to save your ass from litigation for posting a link to drm breaking code. Um, yeah, I believe the same... (looks out for RIAA stormtroopers)
oh yeah, the lupin the 3rd plots never go beyond one episode and have almost no depth too. The stories are mostly kinda of cheesy too. "shot through the heart" has some depth. Just don't want to give ya the wrong idea.
You should also check out Rouroni Kenshin - wandering samarui - great anime. Also you might want to check out Lupin the 3rd - its a late 70's tv series but some of the main characters seem almost identitical (not visually) to the ones in Cowboy Bebop. Soem people like it even though it is old and kinda of more kiddie-ish than Bebop.
I think they lose viewers more becuase they lose orginality. you have a great premise. That's easy. Now build on it. That's hard. I started watching farscape second season, picked it up at the end of the third after I missed the first part of season 3, and didn't have much trouble. You can miss a few episodes and still get the hang of it. Same with deep space 9. I hated its first season. It sucked. Then I started watching around season 3 again and picked it up pretty quickly. Same with a lost season of stargate, a lost season of voyager. If the show is good it is easy to pick up almsot anywhere.
The best season for farscape was season one. When Crichton got accustomed to space and stopped acting like a cooler version of arthur dent, the series somehow changed. They should try to get it to retrun to its roots. Serious, but not too serious.
No, they gave tremors another season and picked the has-been series andromeda (if you haven't seen the last season or so its starting to become like Earth: final conflict and sliders were they take a good premise, run with it for about a year, then drive it into the ground). Plus scare tactics and mad house... Farscape, stargate, and a few reruns are the only things worth watching left on that channel. And if the play Taken again, I am going to vomit.
I figured it was like a transporter - you have to destroy the orginal to create the new one on the other.
"the series wasn't cancelled due to lack of interest"
So was the Family Guy.
"nerds will will reign supreme"
They already do. Bill Gates - may not like him but at least he is one of us (or was - though Allen and Woz were far better representives from that era).
Plus it wil be the onl network with a rising number of male viewers between the ages of 18-34. appealing to a demographic that everyone is losing would not only eb a good long term investment on thier part but also generate publicity - 'hey watch sci-fi they are the only ones who play shows for ppl our age'...
Battlestar Galatica is becoming a series (oh, the humanity!). The dune ones are probably only miniseries because Herbert is dead. The rest are mostly just ABC/NBC two part movies that Sci-fi got the rights to air. Farscape is on miniseries probably becuase they didn't want to risk the investment of an entire season - sort of testing the waters. I really hope they bring it back. It deserved at least proper last season at least to wrap up all the dangling threads, if for nothing else because it supposedly saved sci-fi. Plus, it was winnning awards even for the last season and the reruns were getting nominations. Yeah, I know cable is a business, but maybe sci-fi should sacrifice some of their budget even if they don't get great ratings just for the pr. A sacrifice for fans will get them a huge amount of respect that would probably pay off with higher viewership of the channel in general in the long run.
Life is sweet. The world is suddenly a beautiful place.
The first gulf war was like WW1. It didn't solve any of the root problems that led to its start. As a result the gulf war accomplished very little. The bombing in 1997(?) accomplished more. The attack by the israelis accomplished more (1980 something). But none solved the root problem - Iraq was not a peaceful nation and it remained in a very sensitive region. Gulf war 1 didn't make Iraq peaceful. It only contained Iraq. And like all tactics of containment, it was bound to eventually fail. They say the causes of W2 began in the armistace that ended WW1. They didn't, the reasons for WW2 began before WW1. WW1 didn't solve anything becuase it was by exhaustion and not decision that the war ended. The same with Gulf war 1. It was not by decision that it ended. Our victory wasn't a final victory. So the problems that caused the first remained to cause the second.
Yeah. they did a study on the norweigen plant destruction after the war (I think just recetly in fact liek the the last three years) to see how close the germans were to making a bomb. It utrns out that even with the plant, they would have taken at least a decade to develope an atomic device (ie 1955).
I think the problem he is having is the same problem a lot of americans are having. Bascially, we don't really hate anyone. Even the people we dislike, we don't really hate. So when we are faced with people like terrorists who definitely hate others, so much so that they'd kill themselves just to take a few of their enemies with them, we can't understand them. A lot of people, when they hear that other people hate americans, think in terms of what they call hate - a strong dislike. They don't understand that these people don't just dislike us, they really hate us.
"starting with the commonly-observed phenomenon that things look bigger under water"
This seems supiciously like the Doctor's explanation as to why the inside of the Tardis is bigger than the outside: Take two cubes, one bigger than the other. Now hold the bigger one at an arms length just far enough so that it looks like it can fit in the small one. That's how its done!
Leela: "That's nonesense"
Doctor: "Nonesense? That's transdimensional engineering, a key time lord discovery."
Hack into the system and change the numbers back. And when/if the manager finds out, ask him how he knows the numbers are wrong.
Do the monitors still have that damn ghosting? Only CRT's don't have those and no laptops use CRT's (or they wouldn't be laptops.)
What we need are controls on externalities. As pointed out here:
An externality exists in economics any time there is a separation of costs and benefits, and the decision maker does not have to incur the full cost but receives the full benefits of the decision. The fact is, there is no economic force, no supply and demand equilibrium, no rational decision process of either business or consumer, that will make an externality go away. Classic examples of externalities are when a business dumps toxic waste into a nearby river and the downstream residents incur the costs of cancer. The business is able to lower its costs and pass those lower costs on to its customers, and never pay for the treatment of the cancer patients. We have laws in this country against dumping and pollution because they are externalities -- they require a legislative solution. -Rory L. Terry
It's becuase of these that pure capitalism doesn't work.
I can see it now: China, we declare war on you. We'll need tanks though, so can you make a few for us. Don't bother making any for yourslef, we'll just destroy them with the ones you made for us.
Actaully, its a bit more complicated than that. We can buy more than we sell. So how does that equal out? Inflation. The same with the budget deficit - you make up for it by printing more money. Before the 1930's where poltiicians decided to spend more so thinking they could make up for it in the good times, inflation was not a rate but an occurance. When inflation went down, it really went down. Then as I alluded before, some dumbass decided to spend more on the budget than they had. It drove up inflation which they thought they could cure when the good times came from overspending. But when they did, they didn't stop with the budget deficits. So now inflation is a way of life. Same with trade deficits. The larger the deficit grows, the weaker our currency becomes. Normally, this would equal out becuase as our currency becomes devalued, it becomes cheaper to invest here. The only reason we haven't felt it too much is becuase Japan, China, Tiawan, and the other trade vicotrs are keeping their currency bound to ours. As a result, their currency remains equal to ours and they keep the export market equal and hence in their favor. This is of course simplified itself. The matter is terribly complicated. But basically, we pay the extra by selling off the worth of our currency. Eventually though, it will no longer be sustainable, the dollar will plummet, and we'll end up in recession.
Most of the thrid world doesn't have a middle class. As a result, not only will the wages 'reach equilibrium' but also the precentages of have and have nots. And guess how many third world countries there are without middle class as compared to ones with? Many who decry outsourcing would not be as worried if it was the ceo's too whose wages were reaching an equilibrium. But they aren't. As many of us get poorer from outsouring, a small percentage are getting very very rich. That is the real concern, the real threat we fear: a country like that of the third world, were we have to sit and watch our children starve to death while the rich kid in the mansion smokes with $100 bills. They are getting rich by selling our livelihood. What we fear is a world that is not only not better for our kids but much much worse. And to make matters worse, not only are they unsympathetic to our concerns but they actualy have the gall to tell us its good for us. "You may starve to death and your kids will live in abject poverty with the wages of a pakastani bricklayer and have about the same chance for a better future while we sit in our million dollar homes and get fat, but its good for the economy so toughen up." Easy to tell someone to toughen up, not so easy when your the one who has to do it. Don't think that just because your in the thrid world, your the only one getting screwed. They are screwing us here too. Lower consumer prices? Bread and circuses; nothing more. Giving us what they think we want till they don't need us anymore. We may think we are benefitting, but we aren't. Like fatted lambs led to the slaughter.
Bottom line: Many who decry outsourcing really are decrying the corporations' abuse of everyone so that a few can get rich on the backs of the many.
As for superflous consumerism, who do you think is the most guilty of it? The ppl doing to outsourcing. They consume more than any of us. Ppl have been deriding the materialistic nature of siociety since the beginning of the industrial revolution. They thought in the sixities they were going to fix that with their generation but they sold out. The sold their ideals for bread and circuses. You want to end the over consumption, end the corporations who have long since stopped giving it to us and instead have begun to force feed it down our throats. "You'll be happy if you just buy this... and ignore the man over there standing behind the curtain."