And in those rare times when you avoided the stars, there weren't any Klingons anywhere to shoot, and in the even rarer times when there were, I always missed, due to the aiming system being too confusing... Great game though!:-)
The ISS is international, the chinese don't need NASA to let them get involved, they can simply go to Europe or Russia, who I'm sure will be more than willing to let them in. IIRC NASA doesn't want tourists on the ISS, but that didn't stop Russia from taking them anyway. To hell with NASA, I say.
All depends on how small small is, doesn't it? I haven't RTFA because I'm too lazy, but I would guess Mars' atmosphere is thick enough to stop such meteors.
"oversized neurons--the largest in the animal kingdom--of sea slugs known as Aplysia."
I never would have guessed that a slug would have big neurons... does anyone have any idea why this would be? Do big neurons help, or hinder, brain activity?
To what extent do things like Alzheimer's cause death? They harm quality of life, certainly, but not being able to remember things is not fatal. (other than secondary things, like forgetting you can't fly)
You don't seem to know what a 'theory' is. All science is based on theory. Cells are a theory, gravity is a theory, hydrogen is a theory. So, of course, prions are a theory. How widely accepted the theory is, I don't know, but it's definately a theory.
Ice cores, former seabeds, current lakebeds. There are ways of finding out the state of the climate before we started keeping records. They're not as reliable, prehaps, but they are still useful.
I believe the current you refer to has another name, but I can't remember what it is at the moment... Anyway, it seems we've been watching similar documentaries on the issue, because that's pretty much what I remember.
Smog is very different to greenhouse gases, despite them sharing a common source. For a start, smog is a very local thing. You need the right climate, the right landscape, and the right polution for it to form, and not many cities have that, so globally smog is not a serious issue.
I'm inclined to agree with most of your points, but I think the point the environmentalists are trying to make is that the temperature change is much faster now than it has been in the past, rather than it changing more. Things can adapt to slow changes, but fast changes can be more drastic.
I still don't think we have anything to worry about, personally.
Hours, I would expect. The preparation takes some time. It's weeks this time because they want to get it all correct the first time, they want the right amount of light on the right bit of the stations, etc. It's not an easy thing to fix, by any means.
No. They can still belive that censorship is a good thing if they want to. Imposing your values means forcing people to share you values, normally by not letting them know there is an alternative, or sometimes by killing them. Without censorship people can belive what they like (they may not be able to do it, but that's not the point), with censorship, they can't.
"Are they defending human rights, or simply trying to impose their own beliefs on people from other cultures?"
Censorship is imposing your values on others, stopping censorship is not. Stopping people hiding information does not force them to have your values.
What to you count as an "offense"? I would expect all spammers have sent more than 2 spam messages. Do you have to be caught, let off scott free, and then caught again before anything happens? Sounds like an easy ride to me...
This doesn't seem like a reliable method, because it requires a star to be right behind the one you want to find a planet around, which must be quite unlikely, unless I'm missing something.
In fact, having just scanned through the article, they do mention that problem:
"Because the effect works only in rare instances, when two stars are perfectly aligned, millions of stars must be monitored."
Not that experiment. The one they are refering to is the one about watching stars during solar eclipses, and they are in the wrong place due to the sun's gravity bending the light. The one you are thinking of it completely different, and is about frame-dragging.
My Mum (a teacher) used to use something like this in her school, to save money. It was all software based IIRC (except the switch so you could have a monitor, keyboard and mouse each). That was at least 5 years ago.
The article seems to suggest that the universe is actually shaped like a horn, which is only 2D, implying they are including the "inside" as well, which means not only can you get the the end (and come back in again apparently) you can head out the edge as well. They could mean a 3-horn (the 3D equivelent of a horn) but they don't say that, does anyone have any further information?
We don't have the sample to work out an experimental probability, but we do have the brains to work out a vague probability based on simple logical assumptions (The drake equation or something, IIRC).
He's comparing the solar system to the universe, and he is completely correct. The solar system is significantly smaller than the universe.
The chance of a collision doing that somewhere in the universe is quite high, the chance of it doing it in orbit around the same star as a species of intelligent (and I use the term lightly) beings is quite low. (And yes, of course I don't know the likely hood of intelligent beings, but I can guess the orders of magnitude involved reasonably well)
Most of the time I need to write "color" it's in HTML (I don't do much display stuff in other languages), and I don't think there is an option to modify HTML.:-( (And I'm not writing an XSLT script to turn EnglishML into HTML)
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And in those rare times when you avoided the stars, there weren't any Klingons anywhere to shoot, and in the even rarer times when there were, I always missed, due to the aiming system being too confusing... Great game though! :-)
The ISS is international, the chinese don't need NASA to let them get involved, they can simply go to Europe or Russia, who I'm sure will be more than willing to let them in. IIRC NASA doesn't want tourists on the ISS, but that didn't stop Russia from taking them anyway. To hell with NASA, I say.
All depends on how small small is, doesn't it? I haven't RTFA because I'm too lazy, but I would guess Mars' atmosphere is thick enough to stop such meteors.
Not in science. Maths has proof, so theorems are known with certainty, but there is not scientific equivilent.
"oversized neurons--the largest in the animal kingdom--of sea slugs known as Aplysia."
I never would have guessed that a slug would have big neurons... does anyone have any idea why this would be? Do big neurons help, or hinder, brain activity?
To what extent do things like Alzheimer's cause death? They harm quality of life, certainly, but not being able to remember things is not fatal. (other than secondary things, like forgetting you can't fly)
You don't seem to know what a 'theory' is. All science is based on theory. Cells are a theory, gravity is a theory, hydrogen is a theory. So, of course, prions are a theory. How widely accepted the theory is, I don't know, but it's definately a theory.
Ice cores, former seabeds, current lakebeds. There are ways of finding out the state of the climate before we started keeping records. They're not as reliable, prehaps, but they are still useful.
I believe the current you refer to has another name, but I can't remember what it is at the moment... Anyway, it seems we've been watching similar documentaries on the issue, because that's pretty much what I remember.
Smog is very different to greenhouse gases, despite them sharing a common source. For a start, smog is a very local thing. You need the right climate, the right landscape, and the right polution for it to form, and not many cities have that, so globally smog is not a serious issue.
I'm inclined to agree with most of your points, but I think the point the environmentalists are trying to make is that the temperature change is much faster now than it has been in the past, rather than it changing more. Things can adapt to slow changes, but fast changes can be more drastic.
I still don't think we have anything to worry about, personally.
Hours, I would expect. The preparation takes some time. It's weeks this time because they want to get it all correct the first time, they want the right amount of light on the right bit of the stations, etc. It's not an easy thing to fix, by any means.
Worms are not usually considered intelligent beings...
No. They can still belive that censorship is a good thing if they want to. Imposing your values means forcing people to share you values, normally by not letting them know there is an alternative, or sometimes by killing them. Without censorship people can belive what they like (they may not be able to do it, but that's not the point), with censorship, they can't.
"Are they defending human rights, or simply trying to impose their own beliefs on people from other cultures?" Censorship is imposing your values on others, stopping censorship is not. Stopping people hiding information does not force them to have your values.
Thanks.
What to you count as an "offense"? I would expect all spammers have sent more than 2 spam messages. Do you have to be caught, let off scott free, and then caught again before anything happens? Sounds like an easy ride to me...
I've had PestPatrol recommended to me to remove spyware, does anyone have any experince of it? Is it any good?
This doesn't seem like a reliable method, because it requires a star to be right behind the one you want to find a planet around, which must be quite unlikely, unless I'm missing something.
In fact, having just scanned through the article, they do mention that problem:
"Because the effect works only in rare instances, when two stars are perfectly aligned, millions of stars must be monitored."
Not that experiment. The one they are refering to is the one about watching stars during solar eclipses, and they are in the wrong place due to the sun's gravity bending the light. The one you are thinking of it completely different, and is about frame-dragging.
My Mum (a teacher) used to use something like this in her school, to save money. It was all software based IIRC (except the switch so you could have a monitor, keyboard and mouse each). That was at least 5 years ago.
The article seems to suggest that the universe is actually shaped like a horn, which is only 2D, implying they are including the "inside" as well, which means not only can you get the the end (and come back in again apparently) you can head out the edge as well. They could mean a 3-horn (the 3D equivelent of a horn) but they don't say that, does anyone have any further information?
We don't have the sample to work out an experimental probability, but we do have the brains to work out a vague probability based on simple logical assumptions (The drake equation or something, IIRC).
He's comparing the solar system to the universe, and he is completely correct. The solar system is significantly smaller than the universe.
The chance of a collision doing that somewhere in the universe is quite high, the chance of it doing it in orbit around the same star as a species of intelligent (and I use the term lightly) beings is quite low. (And yes, of course I don't know the likely hood of intelligent beings, but I can guess the orders of magnitude involved reasonably well)
Most of the time I need to write "color" it's in HTML (I don't do much display stuff in other languages), and I don't think there is an option to modify HTML. :-( (And I'm not writing an XSLT script to turn EnglishML into HTML)
I suppose you want me to drop the "u" from colour, too, don't you? Well, it isn't going to happen (unless I'm coding something and have no choice...).