I was googling for info and came across a page from JPL. The date is 1998 and the photo from Galileo.
An excerpt:
"A recently discovered black spot in Jupiter's clouds is darker than any featue ever before observed on the giant planet. The spot may be theresult of a downward spiraling wind that blows away high clouds and revealsdeeper, very dark cloud layers."
Here's the link:
it causes all kinds of problems on non-hardened space vehicles by setting up external charging and current on the surface which can leak inside, causing Single Event Upsets (SEUs) with on-board computers, or worse. The current solar cycle is proving to be very interesting and the effects on space vehicles has been unprecedented.
People living in Colorado will get more radiation mowing their yards.
As a person who lives in CO and frequently snowboards above the timberline, I can attest to the power of the sun. I support nuclear power and and every time I see a mountain top that has been chopped off for coal, I want to choke the next hippie-environmental-NIMBY fool who gets in my path. Wake up and smell the U-235/238! We have the ability to solve most of our energy problems today if we don't listen to the oil-company^H^H^H^H^H^H^H propaganda about the "dangers" of nuke-u-ler energy.
let's proclaim how "advanced" most Windows users are that iTMS is limiting. Now are these the same folks who "forget" to update their systems and routinely click on hot_babe_of_the_month.jpg.vbs?
I've used this little fact a few times when folks get paranoid over "radiation" from cellphones, laptops, and (while at a much lower frequency) powerlines. Just think about the myriad brain cancer cases roving this planet due to the lowly cordless telephone!
This was back during my elementary and junior high days when the PC was still foreign and mysterious to most families. Ironically, I recently had the pleasure(?) of working on an IBM mainframe where you push the 'Attn' key to recall your session when a process is running. I guess they thought normal folks would need to do the same thing back then. Kinda scary actually.
that the 'SysRq' key stood for "System Requirements", and would tell you what kind of hardware you needed for a program you were trying to load. Jeez, I was way off!
Sure it's a theory, but this "theory" was used to prove the "laws" of Newtonian mechanics were wrong and not all-encompassing--they are just good approximations to what we observe as humans during our daily routines.
The researchers measured how much the Sun's gravity bent an electromagnetic beam, in this case the radio signal transmitted by the spacecraft and received by the ground stations.
1919 Eclipse
Probably the most important eclipse in the history of science occurred on 29 May 1919. Just six months after the end of World War I, British astronomers used it to test a new idea that came from Germany in 1915.
The proposition was that gravity affected light, space and time itself, and as a result the Sun would deflect starlight passing by it. Changes in the apparent direction of stars in the sky, seen close to the Sun during a total eclipse, could confirm the idea.
"Titan is not a pleasant place for life. It is far too cold for liquid water to exist, and all known forms of life need liquid water. Titan's surface is -180?C. According to one exotic theory, long ago, the impact of a meteorite, for example, might have provided enough heat to liquify water for perhaps a few hundred or thousand years."
Then the RIAA will likely scare you into ceasing all downloading. Folks like my mom were scared off KaZaa for fear of "getting sued." Of course folks like her aren't the flagrant violators, it's the younger set whose most valuble posession is probably their computer. No wonder downloading hasn't abated.
"in the middle of the night and, unexpectedly, a country tune blares out of your radio, you might wonder... did a magnetar do that?"
Or do you just have poor taste in music?
Being a.22 rifle, I would wager the kids got it as a present or it was just laying out..22s are looked at as toys by most people and "not a real gun." I've seen this time and again in many houses. This is very foolish especially when you consider some of the high power cartridges used for hunting.
"Better yet lock up your guns so the kids can't go on a murder spree on whim."
This is a great idea and *most* responsible gun owners do this. It's the idiots who leave a loaded weapon in an easily accessible place "so I can defend my house" mentality who ruin it for the rest of us. Teaching your kids gun safety regardless of whether you actually own one is also good practice. They'll understand the responsibility of handling a gun and won't let fear cloud their minds.
"Or even better don't have any guns."
That's fine, I respect your right to not own a gun, but don't try to make me live that way.
"Oh wait this is America where guns and penises are comingled."
Nice flamebait.
Something I'm sure many of you have been noticing in the past few years: The telcos, in order to increase revenue streams (as any good business should) have launched many new *technologies* and have spent millions on marketing these systems to the general public. One interesting thing to note is that it seems that every new service that comes out has a *lower* bandwidth than the service it proceeds. For instance, full-duplex cellphones work exceedingly well and with two people talking simultaneously at a rate of approximately 150-200 wpm, you can effectively communicate. Then came Nextel with there "cool" 2-way radio service. Now we're talking at half-duplex speed. Then the text-messaging became (is?) all the rage among the younger set. Even less bandwidth and less efficient communications. Now they want to sell an AIM service? So we have a half-duplex system at perhaps 60 wpm maximum speed. Now, I must say I love IM and it's very convenient, but I still can't help but notice the trend. What's next, Morse code?...-.-
Slashdot Mirror
it's an artifact of the telescope. In this case the scope is a SCT design. It gives an upside-down and reversed left-right image at the eyepiece.
I was googling for info and came across a page from JPL. The date is 1998 and the photo from Galileo.
An excerpt:
"A recently discovered black spot in Jupiter's clouds is darker than any featue ever before observed on the giant planet. The spot may be theresult of a downward spiraling wind that blows away high clouds and revealsdeeper, very dark cloud layers." Here's the link:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01496
Here you go: http://www.ips.gov.au/Main.php?CatID=2 May be of some help to you. I use it for LUF/MUF. Great site from the AUS .gov
it causes all kinds of problems on non-hardened space vehicles by setting up external charging and current on the surface which can leak inside, causing Single Event Upsets (SEUs) with on-board computers, or worse. The current solar cycle is proving to be very interesting and the effects on space vehicles has been unprecedented.
People living in Colorado will get more radiation mowing their yards.
As a person who lives in CO and frequently snowboards above the timberline, I can attest to the power of the sun. I support nuclear power and and every time I see a mountain top that has been chopped off for coal, I want to choke the next hippie-environmental-NIMBY fool who gets in my path. Wake up and smell the U-235/238! We have the ability to solve most of our energy problems today if we don't listen to the oil-company^H^H^H^H^H^H^H propaganda about the "dangers" of nuke-u-ler energy.
let's proclaim how "advanced" most Windows users are that iTMS is limiting. Now are these the same folks who "forget" to update their systems and routinely click on hot_babe_of_the_month.jpg.vbs?
I've used this little fact a few times when folks get paranoid over "radiation" from cellphones, laptops, and (while at a much lower frequency) powerlines. Just think about the myriad brain cancer cases roving this planet due to the lowly cordless telephone!
This was back during my elementary and junior high days when the PC was still foreign and mysterious to most families. Ironically, I recently had the pleasure(?) of working on an IBM mainframe where you push the 'Attn' key to recall your session when a process is running. I guess they thought normal folks would need to do the same thing back then. Kinda scary actually.
that the 'SysRq' key stood for "System Requirements", and would tell you what kind of hardware you needed for a program you were trying to load. Jeez, I was way off!
Sure it's a theory, but this "theory" was used to prove the "laws" of Newtonian mechanics were wrong and not all-encompassing--they are just good approximations to what we observe as humans during our daily routines.
Cassini's experiment
The researchers measured how much the Sun's gravity bent an electromagnetic beam, in this case the radio signal transmitted by the spacecraft and received by the ground stations.
1919 Eclipse source: http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM7I9R1VED_index_0.html
"Hey man, I think there's still some powder down there"
But don't get too excited...
Then the RIAA will likely scare you into ceasing all downloading. Folks like my mom were scared off KaZaa for fear of "getting sued." Of course folks like her aren't the flagrant violators, it's the younger set whose most valuble posession is probably their computer. No wonder downloading hasn't abated.
"in the middle of the night and, unexpectedly, a country tune blares out of your radio, you might wonder ... did a magnetar do that?"
Or do you just have poor taste in music?
Being a .22 rifle, I would wager the kids got it as a present or it was just laying out. .22s are looked at as toys by most people and "not a real gun." I've seen this time and again in many houses. This is very foolish especially when you consider some of the high power cartridges used for hunting.
"Better yet lock up your guns so the kids can't go on a murder spree on whim." This is a great idea and *most* responsible gun owners do this. It's the idiots who leave a loaded weapon in an easily accessible place "so I can defend my house" mentality who ruin it for the rest of us. Teaching your kids gun safety regardless of whether you actually own one is also good practice. They'll understand the responsibility of handling a gun and won't let fear cloud their minds. "Or even better don't have any guns." That's fine, I respect your right to not own a gun, but don't try to make me live that way. "Oh wait this is America where guns and penises are comingled." Nice flamebait.
Embed some "extra" code to help them out...
pry the shortwave frequencies from my cold, dead fingers.
Something I'm sure many of you have been noticing in the past few years: The telcos, in order to increase revenue streams (as any good business should) have launched many new *technologies* and have spent millions on marketing these systems to the general public. One interesting thing to note is that it seems that every new service that comes out has a *lower* bandwidth than the service it proceeds. For instance, full-duplex cellphones work exceedingly well and with two people talking simultaneously at a rate of approximately 150-200 wpm, you can effectively communicate. Then came Nextel with there "cool" 2-way radio service. Now we're talking at half-duplex speed. Then the text-messaging became (is?) all the rage among the younger set. Even less bandwidth and less efficient communications. Now they want to sell an AIM service? So we have a half-duplex system at perhaps 60 wpm maximum speed. Now, I must say I love IM and it's very convenient, but I still can't help but notice the trend. What's next, Morse code? ...-.-