A cubic gigaparsec is a cube with an edge of 3.26 * 10^9 light years. Or roughly a volume of 3.46 * 10^28 cubic light years.
By your own admission, the galaxy is 15 orders of magnitude smaller than a gigaparsec (disclaimer, I haven't checked your number).
If there are 10^5 hypervelocity stars in a cubic gigaparsec, then there is roughly a 10^-10 chance of one of them being inside the Milky Way. That's.00000001% probability.
A speed of 800Gbps would equate to downloading 33 HD films â" in a single second
In other new, Sony, Universal, and the rest of the MAFIAA have sued Tafazolli, the University of Surrey, Samsung and the ITU for "contributory copyright infringment".
Agreed, but those are of a completely different order than the wormhole.
Those are blatant *ERRORS*. The wormhole is at the edge of physics, and may or may not be possible (most likely not possible), but it is plausible. I am therefore willing to go along with it.
The others are flat out "nits" or "errors", depending upon how charitable you want to be.
How did this spammer manage to post all those spammy posts in less than one minute, while we all have to wait anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes to post a second comment?
Methinks there is a hole somewhere in slashcode. Not that Dice gives a damn.
That's not a modem. That's completely different technology from a modem.
A modem converts binary to analog acoustical data. Based on the infrastructure of the telephone systems, 56K (actually 53K or so, if I remember correctly) was the limit.
What you have is a pure digital connection, on an infrastructure designed to carry pure digital data.
Gargantua was a Kerr object. I seem to recall [DISCLAIMER: I may be wrong] that in that case the event horizon is stretched into a disk, and if you approach it perpendicular to the disk, it's possible to survive the tidal forces.
OBDISCLAIMER: I'm a nitpicker. I'm even a member of a movie nitpicking site.
That said, I'm with nine-times. There is a thing in fiction, particularly in film, called "willing suspension of disbelief". Yes, the wormhole may not be possible, but it's plausible, and it moves the plot. You suspend your disbelief and go along for the ride.
I live in Los Angeles. The point of the building codes here is NOT that the structure be undamaged by a quake, but rather that the struct not collapse during a quake. It can be as severely damaged as all get out, but if it doesn't collapse, then the occupants have a much better chance of survival.
I always tell people, the safest place to be during a major earthquake is "somewhere else", but if you can't be somewhere else, then you want to be in Southern California. We *know* that the quake is coming, and we build to survive it. For example, where would you rather be during a 7.5 quake: Los Angeles, or St. Louis? STL is sitting on the New Madrid fault, which cut loose with an 8+ quake in the early 1800s.
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According to various news organizations that shall remain nameless, aliens are here right now, taking away our jerbs!!!
The solution?
Just pick up a phone,
I'm always home,
Call me any time...
Dial 362-4360
I lead a life of crime!
Does information weigh more or less than a coconut?
You're not Google's customer.
You're Google's product.
Yes, they did.
Local CBS 2 story
On top of that, within a week of issuance, they were hacked by the kids to break the security "locks" the district had installed.
The Bayonne Bridgemen Drum and Bugle Corps must be thrilled!!!
Thank you for posting that, Bruce. You don't mind if I call you Bruce to keep it simple, do you?
No problem. As another calibration tool, consider that the radius of the *CURRENTLY VISIBLE* universe is roughly 5 gigaparsecs.
A cubic gigaparsec is a cube with an edge of 3.26 * 10^9 light years. Or roughly a volume of 3.46 * 10^28 cubic light years.
By your own admission, the galaxy is 15 orders of magnitude smaller than a gigaparsec (disclaimer, I haven't checked your number).
If there are 10^5 hypervelocity stars in a cubic gigaparsec, then there is roughly a 10^-10 chance of one of them being inside the Milky Way. That's .00000001% probability.
A speed of 800Gbps would equate to downloading 33 HD films â" in a single second
In other new, Sony, Universal, and the rest of the MAFIAA have sued Tafazolli, the University of Surrey, Samsung and the ITU for "contributory copyright infringment".
Agreed, but those are of a completely different order than the wormhole.
Those are blatant *ERRORS*. The wormhole is at the edge of physics, and may or may not be possible (most likely not possible), but it is plausible. I am therefore willing to go along with it.
The others are flat out "nits" or "errors", depending upon how charitable you want to be.
How did this spammer manage to post all those spammy posts in less than one minute, while we all have to wait anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes to post a second comment?
Methinks there is a hole somewhere in slashcode. Not that Dice gives a damn.
Apples and Oranges.
That's not a modem. That's completely different technology from a modem.
A modem converts binary to analog acoustical data. Based on the infrastructure of the telephone systems, 56K (actually 53K or so, if I remember correctly) was the limit.
What you have is a pure digital connection, on an infrastructure designed to carry pure digital data.
Gargantua was a Kerr object. I seem to recall [DISCLAIMER: I may be wrong] that in that case the event horizon is stretched into a disk, and if you approach it perpendicular to the disk, it's possible to survive the tidal forces.
OBDISCLAIMER: I'm a nitpicker. I'm even a member of a movie nitpicking site.
That said, I'm with nine-times. There is a thing in fiction, particularly in film, called "willing suspension of disbelief". Yes, the wormhole may not be possible, but it's plausible, and it moves the plot. You suspend your disbelief and go along for the ride.
I have squirrel related cable outages. Apparently the little buggers love to gnaw at the insulation, and TWC refuses to put mesh jacketed cable up.
Maybe it's time to switch, now that I have to get converters for my kids old analog TVs.
Follow up to parent.
DISCLAIMER: IANA Structural Engineer.
I live in Los Angeles. The point of the building codes here is NOT that the structure be undamaged by a quake, but rather that the struct not collapse during a quake. It can be as severely damaged as all get out, but if it doesn't collapse, then the occupants have a much better chance of survival.
I always tell people, the safest place to be during a major earthquake is "somewhere else", but if you can't be somewhere else, then you want to be in Southern California. We *know* that the quake is coming, and we build to survive it. For example, where would you rather be during a 7.5 quake: Los Angeles, or St. Louis? STL is sitting on the New Madrid fault, which cut loose with an 8+ quake in the early 1800s.
Like THAT would ever happen.
It only works with the original VHS, because Han has to shoot first.
It's "Duty Calls". http://xkcd.com/386.
You'd be surprised at how *TIRING* using an eye mouse is. My late wife bitched about it all the time.
How did they know to put "BC" on the EOY General Journal?
This is commercially available now, Dynavox and Tobii have offered it for a while.
The BIG news here is the open sourcing. Well done, Samsung.
D-Flat was named that because C-Sharp was taken. It was published in Dr. Dobbs by Al Stevens.
Of course, the fact that C-Sharp was an existing windowing library didn't bother Microsoft at all, when naming their language.