I thought he was just an idiot. But I think he was referring to the farside at night.
During those 2 weeks it indeed would be extremely dark, without any earthlight. But the nearside at night would also be pretty dark when the earth above it was full dark, once every 24 hours for an hour or so.
I don't know what you mean. When the earth as seen from the moon is fully dark, the nearside of the moon is obviously fully illuminated (unless there is a lunar eclipse going on). And when the nearside of the moon is fully dark, the earth as seen from the moon is fully illuminated (unless there is a solar eclipse going on), so the night/near side of the moon would receive a maximum amount of earthlight. And both these things don't happen once every 24 hours or so, but once every 2 weeks or so. Between those two extremes, you have a partly darkened nearside receiving earthlight from a partly illuminated earth. But to see a part of the lunar surface that's in total darkness, receiving no light from either the sun or the earth, an observer has to get away from the earth, e.g. into lunar orbit or to the L2 point. In the L2 point, since the earth is invisible all the time, any observable part of the lunar surface that's not lit by the sun would be in total darkness. Maybe I was an idiot because this is all sort of off-topic. But it just occurred to me that the moon would be a visually striking object when seen from the L2 point because of these phenomena (in addition to the fact that it would appear 6 or so times bigger in the sky than as seen from the earth).
I know. By "dark side of the moon" I mean the part of the lunar surface that doesn't receive direct sunlight at a particular moment in time. I didn't mean to say that that's always the same geographical region of the surface.
The part of the dark side that you would see from L2 would be REALLY dark though, because it would not only NOT receive light from the sun, but it would also NOT receive light from the earth. Effectively, it would only be lit by starlight, which is almost nothing. That's in contrast to the part of the dark side that you can see from earth, which is never totally dark, because it receives earthlight.
One could make the "holistic" argument that we should teach everybody (or at least all our children) to code, much like we decided centuries ago that we should teach everybody to read and write. Because coding might well be considered a basic skill that's required to better understand how the information age works, what drives it, and what its challenges are. That's somewhat similar to how reading and writing skills at some point in the past were deemed necessary to successfully deal with the increasing complexity of the world back then.
Once that's done, you could go one and require all employees in a company to code (when necessary), much like you require (pretty much) all employees to read and write when necessary.
They're only more dangerous if every other fucking idiot on the road is going grocery shopping in their fucking Dodge Ram with the two wheels side-by-side rather than a normal human-sized car.
I guess if you already have a Dodge Ram (whatever that is -- probably a car completely non-marketable outside the US) because you need it at times, you wouldn't want to buy a second vehicle just for driving to the grocery store.
"It can't possibly be that I have my own opinions"
No, it can't be, since you are a Navy official and counterinformation is exactly your job field. Of course you have your own opinions, bit you for sure are not allowed to freely share them on these matters.
Therefore, a payed shill.
Yeah, I get it now. People like Jon Stewart or some liberal MSNBC reporter first had their opinion, and then chose their job (which they get paid for) to go along with it. With Navy officials, it's the other way round.:-P
Isn't "temperature" defined only for a system of many particles in some sort of thermodynamic equilibrium? I guess if you just crash highly accelerated particles into one another and convert the involved energies into a "temperature", you can arrive at pretty astonishing values, but you haven't really fulfilled the definition...
The other option is -- in theory -- to return immediately by firing the CSM engine against the direction of travel, but no-one considered that seriously because a tank had just exploded inside the CSM and nobody dared to use that for anything anymore. But yeah, it was basically these two options, and they were conceived sometime in 1962 or so as part of the early Apollo development. If you ask me, the idea that some outsider from MIT had to tell NASA about the free-return path option is nonsense, and considering the fact that the guy who claims it now is 97 years old -- well, maybe he's just developing Alzheimer's disease. Or something.
Oh man. So the descent stage, hovering on its own exhaust plume, is supposed to lower the rover down on a bunch of wires? Who came up with that idea? Kudos to NASA if this all works, but are these decisions really guided by the desire to (statistically) maximize the (Mars) science output, rather than a bunch of engineering/robotics geeks testing out their newest toys?
Its a god damn flag on the moon. Who gives a shit? Oh Im sorry I forgot this isnt just any flag, its an AMERIKAHN FLAG!!!!! So that makes this earth shattering news.
No, the fact that it's on the moon makes it news. If there were any Pizza Hut flags on the moon, they'd be news too. It's just that... there aren't.
If we had any balls, we wouldn't have to forensically analyze long-distance data to figure out if the flags are standing or not. We'd just be looking out the damn window and see.
This is the Apollo 14 lift-off from the LEM's onboard camera, which shows the flag at the moment of ignition and the two or three seconds after that. Although the flag holds up, it's pretty obvious how it could have been blown over during the Apollo 11 launch.
Would a clean room implementation of DirectX for Steam on Linux be impossible?
I'd think most games these days are programmed against an engine rather than directly against DirectX/OpenGL. So you would probably want to port that engine (if it hasn't been done yet) rather than the game-specific code.
If mankind ever does become able to travel the stars, even 10's of thousands of years in the future than some one on another planet should have already have accomplished it. There are trillions of planets in the Milky Way and some of them should be millions of years more advanced than we are.
Unless Earth is the only planet on which intelligent life has evolved.
Well, Assange stayed in the UK for 18 months on the grounds that Sweden would be much more US-friendly than even the UK, and would immediately extradite him. It looks like he now wants to do everything to ensure that nobody can ever falsify that theory. It would be terrible for him if the Swedish authorities just released him after two hours of questioning. The guy has pretty much painted himself into a corner by now.
I just don't see how I am supposed to enter my engineering equations into a tablet.
By using a stylus, high-res screen and appropriate software? It just has to work somewhat like paper, with the obvious added capabilities and things like OCR, and Maple/Mathematica on top of that, if required.
I think Torvalds less critical of closed source drivers and more critical of closed specs. Nouveau would be improved greatly if Nvidia provided more transparency on the hardware.
The way they probably see it, the hardware-independent graphics API layer (DirectX/OpenGL) is the "spec", and the stack that they offer, including the hardware, hardware-software interface, and the driver, is their "implementation" of that spec. So the hardware-software interface (which Linus wants them to publish) is sort of an implementation detail, which they may want to change without notice.
The guy has pretty much painted himself into a corner by now. He stayed in the UK for 18 months on the grounds that Sweden would be much more US-friendly than even the UK, and would immediately extradite him. So now, after 18 months, he must do everything to ensure that nobody can ever falsify that theory. It would be terrible for him if the Swedish authorities just released him after two hours of questioning.
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How do you replace something that's not there? Wouldn't you be *adding* it instead?
I thought he was just an idiot. But I think he was referring to the farside at night. During those 2 weeks it indeed would be extremely dark, without any earthlight. But the nearside at night would also be pretty dark when the earth above it was full dark, once every 24 hours for an hour or so.
I don't know what you mean. When the earth as seen from the moon is fully dark, the nearside of the moon is obviously fully illuminated (unless there is a lunar eclipse going on). And when the nearside of the moon is fully dark, the earth as seen from the moon is fully illuminated (unless there is a solar eclipse going on), so the night/near side of the moon would receive a maximum amount of earthlight. And both these things don't happen once every 24 hours or so, but once every 2 weeks or so. Between those two extremes, you have a partly darkened nearside receiving earthlight from a partly illuminated earth. But to see a part of the lunar surface that's in total darkness, receiving no light from either the sun or the earth, an observer has to get away from the earth, e.g. into lunar orbit or to the L2 point. In the L2 point, since the earth is invisible all the time, any observable part of the lunar surface that's not lit by the sun would be in total darkness. Maybe I was an idiot because this is all sort of off-topic. But it just occurred to me that the moon would be a visually striking object when seen from the L2 point because of these phenomena (in addition to the fact that it would appear 6 or so times bigger in the sky than as seen from the earth).
I know. By "dark side of the moon" I mean the part of the lunar surface that doesn't receive direct sunlight at a particular moment in time. I didn't mean to say that that's always the same geographical region of the surface.
The part of the dark side that you would see from L2 would be REALLY dark though, because it would not only NOT receive light from the sun, but it would also NOT receive light from the earth. Effectively, it would only be lit by starlight, which is almost nothing. That's in contrast to the part of the dark side that you can see from earth, which is never totally dark, because it receives earthlight.
One could make the "holistic" argument that we should teach everybody (or at least all our children) to code, much like we decided centuries ago that we should teach everybody to read and write. Because coding might well be considered a basic skill that's required to better understand how the information age works, what drives it, and what its challenges are. That's somewhat similar to how reading and writing skills at some point in the past were deemed necessary to successfully deal with the increasing complexity of the world back then.
Once that's done, you could go one and require all employees in a company to code (when necessary), much like you require (pretty much) all employees to read and write when necessary.
It's about as wide as a six lane highway, higher than a two story building,
Are six lane highways and buildings the new units of length now? I was still getting used to football fields and city blocks.
They're only more dangerous if every other fucking idiot on the road is going grocery shopping in their fucking Dodge Ram with the two wheels side-by-side rather than a normal human-sized car.
I guess if you already have a Dodge Ram (whatever that is -- probably a car completely non-marketable outside the US) because you need it at times, you wouldn't want to buy a second vehicle just for driving to the grocery store.
"It can't possibly be that I have my own opinions"
No, it can't be, since you are a Navy official and counterinformation is exactly your job field. Of course you have your own opinions, bit you for sure are not allowed to freely share them on these matters.
Therefore, a payed shill.
Yeah, I get it now. People like Jon Stewart or some liberal MSNBC reporter first had their opinion, and then chose their job (which they get paid for) to go along with it. With Navy officials, it's the other way round. :-P
Isn't "temperature" defined only for a system of many particles in some sort of thermodynamic equilibrium? I guess if you just crash highly accelerated particles into one another and convert the involved energies into a "temperature", you can arrive at pretty astonishing values, but you haven't really fulfilled the definition...
The other option is -- in theory -- to return immediately by firing the CSM engine against the direction of travel, but no-one considered that seriously because a tank had just exploded inside the CSM and nobody dared to use that for anything anymore. But yeah, it was basically these two options, and they were conceived sometime in 1962 or so as part of the early Apollo development. If you ask me, the idea that some outsider from MIT had to tell NASA about the free-return path option is nonsense, and considering the fact that the guy who claims it now is 97 years old -- well, maybe he's just developing Alzheimer's disease. Or something.
Oh man. So the descent stage, hovering on its own exhaust plume, is supposed to lower the rover down on a bunch of wires? Who came up with that idea? Kudos to NASA if this all works, but are these decisions really guided by the desire to (statistically) maximize the (Mars) science output, rather than a bunch of engineering/robotics geeks testing out their newest toys?
Its a god damn flag on the moon. Who gives a shit? Oh Im sorry I forgot this isnt just any flag, its an AMERIKAHN FLAG!!!!! So that makes this earth shattering news.
No, the fact that it's on the moon makes it news. If there were any Pizza Hut flags on the moon, they'd be news too. It's just that... there aren't.
If we had any balls, we wouldn't have to forensically analyze long-distance data to figure out if the flags are standing or not. We'd just be looking out the damn window and see.
Area 51 is still closed to the public though :P
This is the Apollo 14 lift-off from the LEM's onboard camera, which shows the flag at the moment of ignition and the two or three seconds after that. Although the flag holds up, it's pretty obvious how it could have been blown over during the Apollo 11 launch.
It requires better accuracy than an Olympic golfer teeing off in London and hitting a hole-in-one in Auckland, New Zealand.
It probably does not, because the golfer couldn't do midcourse corrections.
Would a clean room implementation of DirectX for Steam on Linux be impossible?
I'd think most games these days are programmed against an engine rather than directly against DirectX/OpenGL. So you would probably want to port that engine (if it hasn't been done yet) rather than the game-specific code.
'The eyeglass is permanently attached and does not come off my skull without special tools.'
What the... I mean how does that work? Has it been implanted into his skull bone? I hope he isn't a Borg drone.
Yep. Fast. Cheap. Good.
Pick two.
I think it would be hard to be slow and cheap.
If mankind ever does become able to travel the stars, even 10's of thousands of years in the future than some one on another planet should have already have accomplished it. There are trillions of planets in the Milky Way and some of them should be millions of years more advanced than we are.
Unless Earth is the only planet on which intelligent life has evolved.
Well, Assange stayed in the UK for 18 months on the grounds that Sweden would be much more US-friendly than even the UK, and would immediately extradite him. It looks like he now wants to do everything to ensure that nobody can ever falsify that theory. It would be terrible for him if the Swedish authorities just released him after two hours of questioning. The guy has pretty much painted himself into a corner by now.
I just don't see how I am supposed to enter my engineering equations into a tablet.
By using a stylus, high-res screen and appropriate software? It just has to work somewhat like paper, with the obvious added capabilities and things like OCR, and Maple/Mathematica on top of that, if required.
Corporate lawsuits never involve such small numbers.
I believe you meant $00,000,000
...plus 7% sales tax.
I think Torvalds less critical of closed source drivers and more critical of closed specs. Nouveau would be improved greatly if Nvidia provided more transparency on the hardware.
The way they probably see it, the hardware-independent graphics API layer (DirectX/OpenGL) is the "spec", and the stack that they offer, including the hardware, hardware-software interface, and the driver, is their "implementation" of that spec. So the hardware-software interface (which Linus wants them to publish) is sort of an implementation detail, which they may want to change without notice.
The guy has pretty much painted himself into a corner by now. He stayed in the UK for 18 months on the grounds that Sweden would be much more US-friendly than even the UK, and would immediately extradite him. So now, after 18 months, he must do everything to ensure that nobody can ever falsify that theory. It would be terrible for him if the Swedish authorities just released him after two hours of questioning.
Scaled Composites people have said for many years that their end goal is reusable orbiters with aerodynamic first stages.
All first stages are "aerodynamic". I think the correct term you wanted to use is "air-breathing".