Aesthetically more pleasing. However, the OSEI image didn't crop the edges of the storm system, and the increased amount of land mass visible allows easier identification of where the storm is occuring in relation to the South American coast. In addition, the infrared information contained in the OSEI image makes it far more easy to distinguish between relatively warm, low-lying clouds (yellowish) and the cold tops of the cloud towers near the eye of the storm (in white).
The 'fossil' does have a segmented look to it, making it resemble any of a variety of invertebrates. But note the peculiar concavity whose entrance the 'fossil' is wrapped around. If it is a fossil, there's no good explanation why it happens to be associated with that hole. But from a geological point of view, it's easy to explain. The concavity was originally a crystal of some water-soluble variety, probably a salt. Water dissolved the crystal, and some of the water bearing the dissolved salt chemically modified the rock immediately surrounding the hole, forming the 'fossil'.
Freedom comes at a price. giving something back to the country that makes your way of life possible
30% of my income isn't enough? Voting isn't enough? Jury duty isn't enough? And what way of life are you talking about? HIgh energy consumption and environmental pollution? Is that why we should fight in this oil war?
Atmospheric carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, gets removed and is replaced by oxygen, which isn't very reactive in the infrared. The atmosphere is less able to hold heat, and so the planet cools (except the exosphere, which actually heats up and increases the rate at which the atmosphere is escaping). CO2 ice builds up on the ice caps, and so the atmospheric pressure drops. These plastic greenhouses might make the planet worse.
We can only 'see' back to when the cosmic background radiation first escaped from the hot plasma of the Big Bang (when it had cooled to about 3000 K). There is some speculation that we might be able to see through this using gravitational waves.
The article mentioned dark spokes, but linked to a photo with practically no spokes visible. However, those that are visible are bright spokes, as is mentioned in the photo's caption. The person in charge of finding appropriate photos for the article failed to grasp that the spokes were either dark or bright depending on viewing angle, and so inadvertantly linked to bright spokes instead of the proper dark. Since the spokes are so hard to see in the photo that was chosen, it is quite possible the person didn't even bother to look at the photo or its caption. Astrobiology Magazine's quality control could be better than it is.
The bright spokes are seen when the light is forward scattered, which will not be possible until Cassini is further from the sun than Saturn is. Cassini is currently closer, so it should see them dark if it sees them at all. Other posters have provided links to excellent photos of spokes in both phases from the Voyager missions.
The strength of gravity at the neutron star's surface isn't enough to squeeze material there into the exotic nuclear material people associate with neutron stars. The pressure increases with depth, though, and so things at depth can be squeezed to densities where they transform. This leads to a layered structure for a neutron star.
The outermost layer (ignoring ash layers), the outer crust, is about.3 km of of heavy nuclei (Fe-56) and free electrons near the surface and heavier nuclei deeper in, all at densities less than 4*10^11 g/cc. At greater densities, neutron drip begins. This forms the.6 km inner crust of heavy nuclei (Kr-118), a superfluid of free neutrons, and relativistic degenerate electrons. At still greater densities (>2*10^14 g/cc), all the nuclei have dissolved, and so the innermost 9.7 km truly is like one giant atomic nucleus with superfluid neutrons, superfluid superconducting protons, and relativistic degenerate electrons, though there may be more exotic particles like pions in the core at densities > 4*10^14 g/cc.
As noted, lighter elements can accrete on top of the outer crust until the point where their own weight causes pressures and densities sufficient enough for fusion. BANG!
Entire galaxy clusters perform gravitational lensing. Galaxy clusters, in terms of mass and size, are vastly larger than these gas clouds, which are either a million kilometers away or wide, depending on how you interpret this poorly worded sentence:
The length of a telescope needed to peer into the mouth of the blazar would have to be gigantic, about a million kilometers wide.
That fact that meteors streak through the sky on a nightly basis is a testament to presence of dust, as are the Zodiacal Light and Gegenschein. Unfortunately there's not much of it. The article is about young planetary systems, which will have much more dust than our own. Mature systems will not have much of an IR component.
Hmmmm... Considering that not all lightning hits the ground (cloud to cloud lightning puts the source of the sound in the cloud itself), that lightning is a linear rather than point source of sound, that each bolt may contain hundreds or thousands of times the energy of a single cannon blast, that neither lightning nor hail can occur until ice starts to form in the storm, that the lightning moves with the cloud instead of remaining at a fixed geographic point like the cannon, and that what appears to be a single bolt to you is actually a series of repeat strokes that all use the same trunk to reach the ground but each of which branches from and discharges a different pocket of charge in the cloud, a thunderstorm could have less than one bolt every five seconds but be more effective than the cannon firing at one every five.
Even a dimwit AC should have the common sense to realize a thunderstorm is going to provide more of its own noise than some ridiculous little cannon firing briefly underneath it. But AC might be excused for defending that ridiculous position if (s)he is a Nissan exec..
The original 1979 study that purported to find a link between power lines and cancer didn't actually measure field strengths directly, instead guessing based on wiring codes. Later studies attempted to correlate various diseases with the actual measured strength of the magnetic field (here's an informative link with a good list of ref.'s at the bottom). This was done for an interesting reason. Humans are bags of saltwater and so conduct electricity well. Thus electric fields tend to be attenuated greatly by the human body. Magnetic fields can travel relatively unimpeded into the body, and it was thought that the magnetic fields would thus be the greater danger.
If ozone is the problem and it is generated by the electric field, then most of the studies done so far are irrelevant because they never measured electric field strengths. This will be rather difficult to study, as the lungs are most susceptible to ozone, and contributions to lung problems from smoking and air pollution will have to be subtracted. Smoking correlates with poverty level, and poverty level and the proximity of major roadways correlate well with each other and with the placement of high-voltage lines. It's going to be a huge statistical mess.
Note that I'm not worried enough to step away from the computer....
I thought about it, and realized it applies to point sources, while a power line is a linear source following an inverse law, at least when one is closer to the line than the line is long.
One may find numerous references on the 'net to nearby (presumably not near enough to kill you) lightning as being 120 db. Since the cannon is well below the cloud deck, the strength of its sound will be much smaller than 120 db in the cloud, and thus will be far softer than the sound from lightning, especially considering the device acts like a point source of sound while the lightning is a linear source. If the sound-disruption-of-hail theory is correct, then storms with lightning have no hail. I'd have to agree, this device is a scam.
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said--"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandius, King of Kings,
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
TThere is no plane big enough to carry an Apollo style mission into the sky. For example, Pegasus can only launch 1000 pound payloads into low Earth orbit (LEO), while an Apollo mission's command module, lunar lander, 3 astronauts with many weeks of supplies, and extra rocket fuel to get all the way to the moon weighed many many tons.
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Aesthetically more pleasing. However, the OSEI image didn't crop the edges of the storm system, and the increased amount of land mass visible allows easier identification of where the storm is occuring in relation to the South American coast. In addition, the infrared information contained in the OSEI image makes it far more easy to distinguish between relatively warm, low-lying clouds (yellowish) and the cold tops of the cloud towers near the eye of the storm (in white).
The OSEI image looks like it was hastily assembled.....
The 'fossil' does have a segmented look to it, making it resemble any of a variety of invertebrates. But note the peculiar concavity whose entrance the 'fossil' is wrapped around. If it is a fossil, there's no good explanation why it happens to be associated with that hole. But from a geological point of view, it's easy to explain. The concavity was originally a crystal of some water-soluble variety, probably a salt. Water dissolved the crystal, and some of the water bearing the dissolved salt chemically modified the rock immediately surrounding the hole, forming the 'fossil'.
Author of parent admits to not reading the Bad Astronomy website, where Hoagland's claims really were debunked.
Freedom comes at a price. giving something back to the country that makes your way of life possible 30% of my income isn't enough? Voting isn't enough? Jury duty isn't enough? And what way of life are you talking about? HIgh energy consumption and environmental pollution? Is that why we should fight in this oil war?
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Your links didn't work until I removed the extra spaces. Higgs Atlas
Atmospheric carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, gets removed and is replaced by oxygen, which isn't very reactive in the infrared. The atmosphere is less able to hold heat, and so the planet cools (except the exosphere, which actually heats up and increases the rate at which the atmosphere is escaping). CO2 ice builds up on the ice caps, and so the atmospheric pressure drops. These plastic greenhouses might make the planet worse.
We can only 'see' back to when the cosmic background radiation first escaped from the hot plasma of the Big Bang (when it had cooled to about 3000 K). There is some speculation that we might be able to see through this using gravitational waves.
Except that you now need oversize solar panels because each layer of plastic is reflecting or absorbing some of the light.
The bright spokes are seen when the light is forward scattered, which will not be possible until Cassini is further from the sun than Saturn is. Cassini is currently closer, so it should see them dark if it sees them at all. Other posters have provided links to excellent photos of spokes in both phases from the Voyager missions.
The outermost layer (ignoring ash layers), the outer crust, is about .3 km of of heavy nuclei (Fe-56) and free electrons near the surface and heavier nuclei deeper in, all at densities less than 4*10^11 g/cc. At greater densities, neutron drip begins. This forms the .6 km inner crust of heavy nuclei (Kr-118), a superfluid of free neutrons, and relativistic degenerate electrons. At still greater densities (>2*10^14 g/cc), all the nuclei have dissolved, and so the innermost 9.7 km truly is like one giant atomic nucleus with superfluid neutrons, superfluid superconducting protons, and relativistic degenerate electrons, though there may be more exotic particles like pions in the core at densities > 4*10^14 g/cc.
As noted, lighter elements can accrete on top of the outer crust until the point where their own weight causes pressures and densities sufficient enough for fusion. BANG!
Except that it didn't survive. While it blew down many square miles of trees, there's no Tunguska crater. It exploded before it hit the ground.
The Stream employees in Kalispell, MT, knew why they were let go. Stream closed up shop there and moved to Canada.
You forgot one thing. It was uphill both ways, to the store and back home.
The length of a telescope needed to peer into the mouth of the blazar would have to be gigantic, about a million kilometers wide.
That fact that meteors streak through the sky on a nightly basis is a testament to presence of dust, as are the Zodiacal Light and Gegenschein. Unfortunately there's not much of it. The article is about young planetary systems, which will have much more dust than our own. Mature systems will not have much of an IR component.
RT other FA. Its near M78. Until now the nebula was not visible, so you could call it a new nebula.
Even a dimwit AC should have the common sense to realize a thunderstorm is going to provide more of its own noise than some ridiculous little cannon firing briefly underneath it. But AC might be excused for defending that ridiculous position if (s)he is a Nissan exec..
If ozone is the problem and it is generated by the electric field, then most of the studies done so far are irrelevant because they never measured electric field strengths. This will be rather difficult to study, as the lungs are most susceptible to ozone, and contributions to lung problems from smoking and air pollution will have to be subtracted. Smoking correlates with poverty level, and poverty level and the proximity of major roadways correlate well with each other and with the placement of high-voltage lines. It's going to be a huge statistical mess.
Note that I'm not worried enough to step away from the computer....
I thought about it, and realized it applies to point sources, while a power line is a linear source following an inverse law, at least when one is closer to the line than the line is long.
One may find numerous references on the 'net to nearby (presumably not near enough to kill you) lightning as being 120 db. Since the cannon is well below the cloud deck, the strength of its sound will be much smaller than 120 db in the cloud, and thus will be far softer than the sound from lightning, especially considering the device acts like a point source of sound while the lightning is a linear source. If the sound-disruption-of-hail theory is correct, then storms with lightning have no hail. I'd have to agree, this device is a scam.
Almost twice as many /.ers are commenting on the penis enlargement story. If that's not a sign of excessive Intenet usage....
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said--"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandius, King of Kings,
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
TThere is no plane big enough to carry an Apollo style mission into the sky. For example, Pegasus can only launch 1000 pound payloads into low Earth orbit (LEO), while an Apollo mission's command module, lunar lander, 3 astronauts with many weeks of supplies, and extra rocket fuel to get all the way to the moon weighed many many tons.