What "new language"? Sindarin is hardly new (by conlang standards, not natural ones, obviously). And I don't see why it's so hard to belive. It's an after school club, loads of teachers teach their pupils about their hobbies.
From the article:
"Glenn, a retired Democratic senator from Ohio and the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth..."
Is the fact that he was a senator really more important than the fact that he was the first American in space? The reason people will listen to him on this issue is because of the latter, not the former (His political experience may in actual fact be more important, but that doesn't change things).
No. He meant redundant. A redundant question is one that doesn't need to be asked, a rhetorical question is one that doesn't need to be answered. Big difference.
It's not just used to test knowledge, but to find out knowledge as well. And sometimes, simply to provoke thought. Very interesting things, questions... Try responding to this:
Is this a question
Damn! That was going to be my guess. Now I'll have to go with a mouse with a PS/2 style plug, assuming the last thing you did to the post was click "post".
*hopes he doesn't use keyboard shortcuts...*
No, it was never the "Euro" term. The French have always used Billion to mean 10^9, and the americans copied. Britain has recently switched to using the same system.
People have tried (and still are trying), but because of the problems getting ISPs to recognise them (the ISP has to simulate the uberDNS I was talking about), they don't do very well.
I do need to learn some physics, which is why I am studying it (and really should be doing coursework, rather than reading/.), so I think I'll stick with commenting on point 4 for now: It's not sunny here, because "here" is England, and it is never sunny in England, so I'll stay inside and have fun doing coursework. (Spot the delibrate mistake...)
Good point, a small object would reach a certain temperature faster, but that's because it has less energy to start with. It still losses energy slower.
Yes, but the amount of heat required to break those forces is much smaller in a vacumn. It's the same reason that means you can't make a good cup of tea on top of Mt. Everest.
Sweat wouldn't cool you down any more than it does in an atmosphere, in fact, it would cool you down less. Liquids boil in a vacumn because of the low pressure, temperature has nothing to do with it. Sweat cools you down because the water uses heat from your body to evaporate, as it doesn't need heat to evaporate in space, it wouldn't cool you down.
Indeed, you wouldn't freeze, because there's nowhere for the heat to go. Usually things lose heat by conduction (and convection), which is fast, in space you have only radiation, which is much slower. (However, if you were walking around on the dark side of the moon you might lose heat throught your feet to the ground)
But isn't random noise random, as the name suggests? (or at least chaotic, but without more information than it is realistically possible to get, it's as good as random) Minusing a random number will get you a random number. You can try and find some sort of systematic error and minus that, but pretending random error is systematic is going to cause problems, no?
Firstly, my condolences to all involved. As everyone else has already said, but I'll repeat, this is a tragic event.
However, this hopefully won't be the end of the Indian space efforts. When the SS Columbia was lost it brought NASA's manned space travel to almost a standstill, let's hope the Indians can work out what went wrong, ensure it won't happen again and carry on doing great work. If it all stops, their lives will have been for nothing.
Not only does India need this to bring itself into a greater position in the internation scientific community, but the rest of the world needs it to encourage them to try as well.
If you read more carefully you'ld see I already said that:
"We may be able to understand our own solar system a little more by seeing how others form, but..."
It would be useful for you, but it would be more useful for a hacker to have that information. I would keep it secret, if I were them. It might be worth telling the owners of the infected computers, but it should not be made public.
This method finds planets as they form, which means they will probably be billions of years away from evolving life. Although it is certainly interesting, I doubt such observations will have any direct uses. We may be able to understand our own solar system a little more by seeing how others form, but as far as finding ETIs or potential colony sites, this won't be much help.
The current methods of finding planets (mainly by wobbling stars, AFAIK) is more likely to find things of interest.
Careful, that was a double negative, so your 2 sentances contradicted eachother. I'll assume the 2nd one was what you meant, in which case, I agree. Moons of super-jovian planets could be worth looking into. They could be better, because the planet regulated things, or they could be worse because the planet confuses things. There would probably by very strong tides, because of the iteraction of the star and the planet, for a start.
And for those who can't understand sarcasm: Funny mods don't give karma. Read the FAQ. (It does seem a little unfair though, because after you've got 4 funny mods, you can't get any other mods, so can't get any karma...)
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That, and I don't think JK Rowling is into conlangs, so we might be waiting a while for the dictionary...
What "new language"? Sindarin is hardly new (by conlang standards, not natural ones, obviously). And I don't see why it's so hard to belive. It's an after school club, loads of teachers teach their pupils about their hobbies.
From the article: "Glenn, a retired Democratic senator from Ohio and the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth..." Is the fact that he was a senator really more important than the fact that he was the first American in space? The reason people will listen to him on this issue is because of the latter, not the former (His political experience may in actual fact be more important, but that doesn't change things).
No. He meant redundant. A redundant question is one that doesn't need to be asked, a rhetorical question is one that doesn't need to be answered. Big difference.
It's not just used to test knowledge, but to find out knowledge as well. And sometimes, simply to provoke thought. Very interesting things, questions... Try responding to this: Is this a question
Damn! That was going to be my guess. Now I'll have to go with a mouse with a PS/2 style plug, assuming the last thing you did to the post was click "post". *hopes he doesn't use keyboard shortcuts...*
No, it was never the "Euro" term. The French have always used Billion to mean 10^9, and the americans copied. Britain has recently switched to using the same system.
People have tried (and still are trying), but because of the problems getting ISPs to recognise them (the ISP has to simulate the uberDNS I was talking about), they don't do very well.
Because 2 DNSs would mean 2 internets. (Unless there was an uberDNS, but then you would just move the problem up a layer)
I do need to learn some physics, which is why I am studying it (and really should be doing coursework, rather than reading /.), so I think I'll stick with commenting on point 4 for now: It's not sunny here, because "here" is England, and it is never sunny in England, so I'll stay inside and have fun doing coursework. (Spot the delibrate mistake...)
Good point, a small object would reach a certain temperature faster, but that's because it has less energy to start with. It still losses energy slower.
Yes, but the amount of heat required to break those forces is much smaller in a vacumn. It's the same reason that means you can't make a good cup of tea on top of Mt. Everest.
Sweat wouldn't cool you down any more than it does in an atmosphere, in fact, it would cool you down less. Liquids boil in a vacumn because of the low pressure, temperature has nothing to do with it. Sweat cools you down because the water uses heat from your body to evaporate, as it doesn't need heat to evaporate in space, it wouldn't cool you down.
A spaceship has a much larger surface area than a human, so it would take longer for a human to freeze.
Indeed, you wouldn't freeze, because there's nowhere for the heat to go. Usually things lose heat by conduction (and convection), which is fast, in space you have only radiation, which is much slower. (However, if you were walking around on the dark side of the moon you might lose heat throught your feet to the ground)
But isn't random noise random, as the name suggests? (or at least chaotic, but without more information than it is realistically possible to get, it's as good as random) Minusing a random number will get you a random number. You can try and find some sort of systematic error and minus that, but pretending random error is systematic is going to cause problems, no?
Isn't the whole point of a chaotic system that you *can't* work it backwards like that, because it's all too complicated?
Firstly, my condolences to all involved. As everyone else has already said, but I'll repeat, this is a tragic event.
However, this hopefully won't be the end of the Indian space efforts. When the SS Columbia was lost it brought NASA's manned space travel to almost a standstill, let's hope the Indians can work out what went wrong, ensure it won't happen again and carry on doing great work. If it all stops, their lives will have been for nothing.
Not only does India need this to bring itself into a greater position in the internation scientific community, but the rest of the world needs it to encourage them to try as well.
May they RIP.
If you read more carefully you'ld see I already said that: "We may be able to understand our own solar system a little more by seeing how others form, but..."
isn't it more of a galaxy-like object? aren't they a specific type of active-galaxy?
I'm boring enough that that isn't a problem. :-)
It would be useful for you, but it would be more useful for a hacker to have that information. I would keep it secret, if I were them. It might be worth telling the owners of the infected computers, but it should not be made public.
This method finds planets as they form, which means they will probably be billions of years away from evolving life. Although it is certainly interesting, I doubt such observations will have any direct uses. We may be able to understand our own solar system a little more by seeing how others form, but as far as finding ETIs or potential colony sites, this won't be much help. The current methods of finding planets (mainly by wobbling stars, AFAIK) is more likely to find things of interest.
Careful, that was a double negative, so your 2 sentances contradicted eachother. I'll assume the 2nd one was what you meant, in which case, I agree. Moons of super-jovian planets could be worth looking into. They could be better, because the planet regulated things, or they could be worse because the planet confuses things. There would probably by very strong tides, because of the iteraction of the star and the planet, for a start.
And for those who can't understand sarcasm: Funny mods don't give karma. Read the FAQ. (It does seem a little unfair though, because after you've got 4 funny mods, you can't get any other mods, so can't get any karma...)