Actually, China proposed to do exactly that... The US said China's tech is not mature enough, it was on Spacedaily, among other sites... So China is forced to do it on their own.
Might work for the Western world, but backfire 200% in the Arab countries...
They will either see right through this OR think the pics are real, and the 'evil Americans' trying to lie about is, making things far worse. They *KNOW* it happened, so don't try to conceal that fact, there are people alive that were in that pile... Despite the shame they'll talk, BBC had a story running, already, from one of them (not possible to prove, they said..)
The problem is that we were led to believe so by the industry... Also who recalls the first ads where people scratched the CD's really bad with scissors(!) and how it would be still readable? (one of the tricks to diss vynil) CD's were the future, virtually undestructable, and that meme stuck. Very good advertising.
result: *a lot* of people are still backing up important data on cd's, thinking it is safe, even musea. I'm doing a masters in Conservation/restoration of visual media, and try to specialise in digital 'stuff," so i talk about these things with archivists and believe me, i've had several discussions with people in smallr musea, proudly showing me their rows upon rows of purty CD-R's... When i point out the issues known with longetivity, they go from 'yea, right, funny,' to utter horror when we do a random check of their archive...
"but they told us they have a shelf life of more thn 100 years!" Indeed they did, and it's criminal IM not-so HO....
Anyway, it only means more work for me in the future, perhaps:p
"There's a 333MHz speed bump, which nobody will notice during normal use"
Heh, man, that hurts! I'm typing this on a freaking 350MHz G3....
Only shows how fast it goes, with processorspeeds... Moore's Law etc, sounds boring, until you think about it. When I bought my G3, a 50MHz speed bump was not bad at all, now it would be below the 'tech talk' treshold, ever seen a processor advertized as X.X5 GHz lately?
"Man, I am so used to seeing IIS in a security vulnerability I had to give it a second glance"
Heh, a bit related to 'misreading': a case of confusing acronyms: I thought a worm had infected the computers of the International Space Station (ISS) when the news first broke...
You just missed it, I guess, I'm European, and I knew about it, IIRC i eead it on BBC Online and other places, too...
It might've been no real headline news, but it was definitely a headline in the science-sections in several newspapers... I recall asking myself the same question as ACC: 'how did they etermine it was one organism?'
That referring to JPL: Jet Propulsion Laboratories...
They're the ones that send out the pics, and are sometimes referred to as "the laboratories"
So no strange secret Mars plants in a lab on 'a place that isn't Mars'
A.C.C. commented on pictures from Odyssey, IIRC, once, in the same vein, saying the strange stuff that you could see on a certain pic was 'unmistakingly plant-like'
Some people are strange, i must be one of them, because i still use that puck. Wouldn't change it for another one, too. Only thing that lacks is a scrollwheel, but i mostly use keyboard shortcuts extensively, so i don't miss that option too much.
'Normal' mice feel 'too big' for me, lately, esp. that horrible first optical Mac mouse...
Hee Hee... actually, i think you're right, 'xcept on one point: i guess it's actually difficult to sound bad on a Juno 106 or even better 60 (arpeggiator)
These old simple babies still rule!
I was about to go and sell mine, but went to a small gig in a pub, saw The Locust giving that old beauty a bit of excercise through a tube amp 'at 11'
Came home and apologized to my keyboard for thinking bad thoughts (i really did!)
Such a simple keboard, yet such a rich sound, it gets used in techno/electro through hard-rocking noise bands, i even saw one playing together with a Cello and violin, and it didn't sound out of place.
(Yes, I'm a devotee to the Juno, can you tell?)
Half a million more...
You know what's also amazing and worth thinking of? In the same timeframe in the future, there'll be again that increase in performance... Imagine computers half a million times more capable than the one you got now, for the same price... What these machines will be able to do... Now we're still struggling with for instance real-time speech recog. Some years into te future, small devices will be able to do that without a sweat, Your cell-phone will be more powerful than a G5 or pentiumIII... etc.
We're in for an interesting future. Read Ray Kurzweil's age of sentient machine (or something like that) it makes the mind reel...
Part of their (smart) thinking: if the major airstrips get bombed, they have literally thousands of places where they widened stretches of 'normal' roads, so they can land, take off there, there are also numerous hidden hangars and maintenance stuff.
Idea is that an enemy would never come around to bomb *all* these stretches, most are 'fake'
Swedes are 'Neutral' but have a fairly large defence system. Just a "don't mess with us" sign to the outside world. Remember, sweden was close to USSR, and there were numerous problems with Soviet subs in their territories...
Electron microscopes are a wholly different ballpark...
tunneling is waaaaaaay smaller scale stuff, you can resolve induvidual atoms on a surface with it....
of how i used to curse, as a kid, on my crappy cassettedeck not wanting to load my programs... Diskdrives too expensive, not to mention harddisks...
And you want to do that VOLUNTARILY?
Geez...
it's not really a webcam, just some software generated imagery, but still nice enough for me...
And, i wouldn't call Beagle a dismall achievement. The fact that it got built is a tremendous achievment. Landing is tough, esp. for a first time (as European probe)
I keep hoping, maybe against all odds, that Mars Express (100% successful, BTW) will be able to contact Beagle 2
European 'bande-dessine' (comic, strip...) author Enki Bilal used this in his works *years* ago... But I can't remember any title...
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Hydrogen cars actually emit less H2O than today's petrol powered cars.
Petrol breaks down in CO2, other stuff and LOTS of H2O. (long Hydrocarbon chains in petrol)
It's all about the 'running' stuf. When you run, both of your feet momentarily don't touch the ground. Humans do it w/o problems, robots not. That's the breakthrough. Speed will come later, but it's mainly a breakthrough in complex movement-patterns that's been achieved here.
The *good news* is that there are people willing to fork out such a big amount of money. So if these launches continue at the current slow pace and the current high prices, some rich sponsors will read these things in the news and be more easily coaxed to fund the very private enterprises that are now building/planning a more low-cost solution to this new market. See it as some kind of advertisment saying: "see? even at these ridiculous costs there are people willing to go, we can do it x times cheaper, imagine the potential market"
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Actually, China proposed to do exactly that... The US said China's tech is not mature enough, it was on Spacedaily, among other sites... So China is forced to do it on their own.
Might work for the Western world, but backfire 200% in the Arab countries...
They will either see right through this OR think the pics are real, and the 'evil Americans' trying to lie about is, making things far worse. They *KNOW* it happened, so don't try to conceal that fact, there are people alive that were in that pile... Despite the shame they'll talk, BBC had a story running, already, from one of them (not possible to prove, they said..)
The problem is that we were led to believe so by the industry... Also who recalls the first ads where people scratched the CD's really bad with scissors(!) and how it would be still readable? (one of the tricks to diss vynil) CD's were the future, virtually undestructable, and that meme stuck. Very good advertising.
:p
result: *a lot* of people are still backing up important data on cd's, thinking it is safe, even musea. I'm doing a masters in Conservation/restoration of visual media, and try to specialise in digital 'stuff," so i talk about these things with archivists and believe me, i've had several discussions with people in smallr musea, proudly showing me their rows upon rows of purty CD-R's... When i point out the issues known with longetivity, they go from 'yea, right, funny,' to utter horror when we do a random check of their archive...
"but they told us they have a shelf life of more thn 100 years!"
Indeed they did, and it's criminal IM not-so HO....
Anyway, it only means more work for me in the future, perhaps
"There's a 333MHz speed bump, which nobody will notice during normal use"
Heh, man, that hurts! I'm typing this on a freaking 350MHz G3....
Only shows how fast it goes, with processorspeeds... Moore's Law etc, sounds boring, until you think about it. When I bought my G3, a 50MHz speed bump was not bad at all, now it would be below the 'tech talk' treshold, ever seen a processor advertized as X.X5 GHz lately?
Amazing times
"Man, I am so used to seeing IIS in a security vulnerability I had to give it a second glance"
Heh, a bit related to 'misreading': a case of confusing acronyms: I thought a worm had infected the computers of the International Space Station (ISS) when the news first broke...
You just missed it, I guess, I'm European, and I knew about it, IIRC i eead it on BBC Online and other places, too...
It might've been no real headline news, but it was definitely a headline in the science-sections in several newspapers... I recall asking myself the same question as ACC: 'how did they etermine it was one organism?'
"There's some pictures from the laboratories"
That referring to JPL: Jet Propulsion Laboratories...
They're the ones that send out the pics, and are sometimes referred to as "the laboratories"
So no strange secret Mars plants in a lab on 'a place that isn't Mars'
A.C.C. commented on pictures from Odyssey, IIRC, once, in the same vein, saying the strange stuff that you could see on a certain pic was 'unmistakingly plant-like'
Some people are strange, i must be one of them, because i still use that puck. Wouldn't change it for another one, too. Only thing that lacks is a scrollwheel, but i mostly use keyboard shortcuts extensively, so i don't miss that option too much.
'Normal' mice feel 'too big' for me, lately, esp. that horrible first optical Mac mouse...
...charges about $1 per CD to rip it for you. Now *that's* what I call a perfessional Rip-off! ;)
Hee Hee... actually, i think you're right, 'xcept on one point: i guess it's actually difficult to sound bad on a Juno 106 or even better 60 (arpeggiator) These old simple babies still rule! I was about to go and sell mine, but went to a small gig in a pub, saw The Locust giving that old beauty a bit of excercise through a tube amp 'at 11' Came home and apologized to my keyboard for thinking bad thoughts (i really did!) Such a simple keboard, yet such a rich sound, it gets used in techno/electro through hard-rocking noise bands, i even saw one playing together with a Cello and violin, and it didn't sound out of place. (Yes, I'm a devotee to the Juno, can you tell?)
Half a million more ...
You know what's also amazing and worth thinking of? In the same timeframe in the future, there'll be again that increase in performance... Imagine computers half a million times more capable than the one you got now, for the same price... What these machines will be able to do... Now we're still struggling with for instance real-time speech recog. Some years into te future, small devices will be able to do that without a sweat, Your cell-phone will be more powerful than a G5 or pentiumIII... etc.
We're in for an interesting future. Read Ray Kurzweil's age of sentient machine (or something like that) it makes the mind reel...
Pypal, anyone? Sue, if they make the Saturn V an open source project... ;)
but it contains water (vapour), and *that* would be visible, because it would cristallize....
Part of their (smart) thinking: if the major airstrips get bombed, they have literally thousands of places where they widened stretches of 'normal' roads, so they can land, take off there, there are also numerous hidden hangars and maintenance stuff. Idea is that an enemy would never come around to bomb *all* these stretches, most are 'fake'
Swedes are 'Neutral' but have a fairly large defence system. Just a "don't mess with us" sign to the outside world. Remember, sweden was close to USSR, and there were numerous problems with Soviet subs in their territories...
Electron microscopes are a wholly different ballpark... tunneling is waaaaaaay smaller scale stuff, you can resolve induvidual atoms on a surface with it....
of how i used to curse, as a kid, on my crappy cassettedeck not wanting to load my programs... Diskdrives too expensive, not to mention harddisks... And you want to do that VOLUNTARILY? Geez...
Still, there are vastly more window panes etc. Than wind turbines... so comparison is skewed again... (I'm pro turbines, BTW)
it's not really a webcam, just some software generated imagery, but still nice enough for me... And, i wouldn't call Beagle a dismall achievement. The fact that it got built is a tremendous achievment. Landing is tough, esp. for a first time (as European probe) I keep hoping, maybe against all odds, that Mars Express (100% successful, BTW) will be able to contact Beagle 2
That's the one i meant... Yes Bilal is a Great artist... Very personal style... Great atmosphere...
European 'bande-dessine' (comic, strip...) author Enki Bilal used this in his works *years* ago... But I can't remember any title...
Hydrogen cars actually emit less H2O than today's petrol powered cars. Petrol breaks down in CO2, other stuff and LOTS of H2O. (long Hydrocarbon chains in petrol)
It's all about the 'running' stuf. When you run, both of your feet momentarily don't touch the ground. Humans do it w/o problems, robots not. That's the breakthrough. Speed will come later, but it's mainly a breakthrough in complex movement-patterns that's been achieved here.
The *good news* is that there are people willing to fork out such a big amount of money. So if these launches continue at the current slow pace and the current high prices, some rich sponsors will read these things in the news and be more easily coaxed to fund the very private enterprises that are now building/planning a more low-cost solution to this new market. See it as some kind of advertisment saying: "see? even at these ridiculous costs there are people willing to go, we can do it x times cheaper, imagine the potential market"