That happened to Biology during the early part of the 20th century, in the US. Because of the Scopes' trial, Biology books avoided anything to do with evolution. Since evolution is the cornerstone of Biology, there wasn't much the books could go into. As time went on, the publishers started to get less worried, and started putting more material in the books. Then, when the SCOTUS ruled Creation Science to be religion back in the 80s, the Biology textbooks really got going again.
If you take out the big bang, you would be doing the same thing to the Physics class as was done to the Biology class, back in the 40's and 50's.
Nintendo is allowed to have a flop or two at this point. The rebounding they made with the Wii has given them enough money to throw away at new consoles, they could probably release two bombs back to back and just be back to pre-Wii days. Sega tried to be first to the game with the Dreamcast because of the shitty position they were left in with the Saturn. If Sega had amassed success with the Saturn, they probably would have been safe to release the Dreamcast as early as they did.
Considering that many Hindus believe the universe to be far, far older than 14 billion years. It's also much older than Judaism, which is where the book of genesis comes from, so I doubt that people from back then could have a problem with really really big numbers.
Publicity stunt? The entire game's development has been one gigantic publicity stunt. How many people remotely connected to gaming are not aware of this game?
I'm betting that the increase of installation time was due to the VMWare environment. In the real world, on a decent system, you can do a full install of Windows 7 in less than 20 minutes, but his upgrade on a virtual machine took more than double that.
The Sahara is not a desert because of humans. It's a desert because of the motion of the Earth. The Earth wobbles like a top, it's why your astrological sign doesn't correspond to where the sun rises on the day you were born anymore. They were accurate about 2000 years ago, Leos being born with the sun in the constallation of Leo, and so on, but the precession of the Earth screwed that up. Similarly, the Sahara goes through forest->desert->forest every few thousand years. It's how Neanderthals were able to leave Africa and settle in Europe, but no members of our species were found in Europe until relatively recently. The Sahara dried up after some Neanderthals went through, and after it became a desert, our species was unable to traverse it. Until we got more advanced technology.
Because ex post facto law is forbidden by the Constitution. I'm all for bashing on Cheney and his fucked up ideas, but don't throw out one of the guiding principles of our country just because Cheney is an asshole.
If something you did yesterday is made illegal today, you can't get arrested tomorrow.
I'd say that if you can't compete with others, you have a right to complain. You just don't have a right to have the government attempt to buttress your failing business model.
Dark matter and dark energy are two totally different things. They're placeholders for vastly different phenomena. Dark matter explains why galaxies rotate at the speeds they do, even though their visible mass is much, MUCH, lower than the spinning speed shows it should be. Dark energy is the pressure that's causing the universe to accelerate outward. The universe isn't just expanding, the rate of the expansion is increasing, not decreasing as you would expect. Some force is being exerted on the fabric of the universe that's causing it to expand at a faster rate every second.
So, to recap: Dark matter = mass that's causing galaxies to spin faster than they should be Dark energy = force that's pushing the universe apart
Rocks that orbit the stars are irrelevant for the purposes of mass calculation. All the mass in our solar system that isn't the Sun or Jupiter is less than Jupiter. Jupiter's mass is less than 1/1000th of the Sun's. Granted, our solar system may not be representative of other star systems, I bet it would be. Due to the process of stellar formation, there's always a shit-ton more Hydrogen and Helium than anything else.
"Territorial integrity"? Does that mean it's illegal for people to protest about getting Scotland's independence while they're in London?
I think the Brits should try adopting something a little easier to remember. Something like "The Parliament shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech." We've got a similar sort of thing in the US, and it seems to be doing well.
Humans have 2 fewer chromosomes, because at some point after our divergence with the Chimpanzee, two of them fused.
That's not just idle speculation, it's actually been proven. If we shared a common ancestor with the other great apes, then either the ancestor had 46 or 48. Since Gorillas, Chimps, and Orangutans all have 48, it seems reasonable that humans must be the odd ones out.
You can't lose a pair of chromosomes, because it would kill the organism, so they must still be there. Every chromosome has a telomere on the ends, and a centromere in the middle. In order for our origin to reside in the great ape lineage, there must be a human chromosome that has two centromeres, and a telomere in the middle of a chromosome.
Since chromosomes are always paired, the correct way to look at is that humans have 23 pairs, and the other great apes have 24. It's chromosome pair 2, that contains the teleomere in the middle, as well as an extra centromere.
Presumably, energy weapons would be easier to use, not more difficult. So they would require less training than a firearm. There would be no recoil, you wouldn't have to change your ammo based on what kind of target you were up against, that sort of thing.
I would argue that during the Napoleonic Wars, the muskets Napoleon's troops used were vastly inferior to a simple bow and arrow. Hell, inferior even to a crossbow. The bows could be loaded faster, and would be much more accurate. Bows are also lighter than muskets, and much cheaper. The only one of your criteria that a musket would have over a bow, is durability.
If our presence in Afghanistan were a matter of national security, then surely Congress would have declared war on the country before we sent troops there.
This case would never reach the Supreme Court. At least, the one in DC. In might make the Supreme Court in Louisiana, if they have one. The Supreme Court has already deemed the teaching of "creation science" as unconstitutional in Edwards v Agulard back in the 80s.
So, when it got to a federal appeals court, the first they would probably do is compare the case to any jurisprudence that the SCOTUS has made in this area, and follow the precedent, unless there were something new or interesting about this particular case. The Dover case a few years ago was different, because it wasn't teaching "creation science", simply telling the kids about possible "alternate idea", that's how the federal district court heard that case.
If a Force-user can pull a Star Destroyer out of the sky, he could just as well fly everywhere. And make laser beams shoot out of his eyes. And pretty much be Superman. All he needs is a cape and glasses when he needs a disguise.
First, I find your lack of faith disturbing. Second, the power to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of The Force.
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That happened to Biology during the early part of the 20th century, in the US. Because of the Scopes' trial, Biology books avoided anything to do with evolution. Since evolution is the cornerstone of Biology, there wasn't much the books could go into. As time went on, the publishers started to get less worried, and started putting more material in the books. Then, when the SCOTUS ruled Creation Science to be religion back in the 80s, the Biology textbooks really got going again.
If you take out the big bang, you would be doing the same thing to the Physics class as was done to the Biology class, back in the 40's and 50's.
Spot on, but I believe you meant NP-Complete every time you said NP-Hard.
Nintendo is allowed to have a flop or two at this point. The rebounding they made with the Wii has given them enough money to throw away at new consoles, they could probably release two bombs back to back and just be back to pre-Wii days. Sega tried to be first to the game with the Dreamcast because of the shitty position they were left in with the Saturn. If Sega had amassed success with the Saturn, they probably would have been safe to release the Dreamcast as early as they did.
I've got my money on Lee Harvey Oswald. Jack Ruby's "murder" was a sham. I saw it on the Internet.
That analogy is flawed. To be correct, it would be more akin to that car maker offering you a similar car they currently make, 7 years down the road.
After all, these people aren't being offered cash, they're being offered a replacement machine.
Considering that many Hindus believe the universe to be far, far older than 14 billion years. It's also much older than Judaism, which is where the book of genesis comes from, so I doubt that people from back then could have a problem with really really big numbers.
Publicity stunt? The entire game's development has been one gigantic publicity stunt. How many people remotely connected to gaming are not aware of this game?
I'm betting that the increase of installation time was due to the VMWare environment. In the real world, on a decent system, you can do a full install of Windows 7 in less than 20 minutes, but his upgrade on a virtual machine took more than double that.
The Sun is only through about half of its lifespan. It's got about 5 billion years left, not 1 billion.
The Sahara is not a desert because of humans. It's a desert because of the motion of the Earth. The Earth wobbles like a top, it's why your astrological sign doesn't correspond to where the sun rises on the day you were born anymore. They were accurate about 2000 years ago, Leos being born with the sun in the constallation of Leo, and so on, but the precession of the Earth screwed that up. Similarly, the Sahara goes through forest->desert->forest every few thousand years. It's how Neanderthals were able to leave Africa and settle in Europe, but no members of our species were found in Europe until relatively recently. The Sahara dried up after some Neanderthals went through, and after it became a desert, our species was unable to traverse it. Until we got more advanced technology.
Because ex post facto law is forbidden by the Constitution. I'm all for bashing on Cheney and his fucked up ideas, but don't throw out one of the guiding principles of our country just because Cheney is an asshole.
If something you did yesterday is made illegal today, you can't get arrested tomorrow.
I'd say that if you can't compete with others, you have a right to complain. You just don't have a right to have the government attempt to buttress your failing business model.
It's the multi-player version of the prisoner's dilemma. It's called the "tragedy of the commons".
Dark matter and dark energy are two totally different things. They're placeholders for vastly different phenomena. Dark matter explains why galaxies rotate at the speeds they do, even though their visible mass is much, MUCH, lower than the spinning speed shows it should be. Dark energy is the pressure that's causing the universe to accelerate outward. The universe isn't just expanding, the rate of the expansion is increasing, not decreasing as you would expect. Some force is being exerted on the fabric of the universe that's causing it to expand at a faster rate every second.
So, to recap:
Dark matter = mass that's causing galaxies to spin faster than they should be
Dark energy = force that's pushing the universe apart
Rocks that orbit the stars are irrelevant for the purposes of mass calculation. All the mass in our solar system that isn't the Sun or Jupiter is less than Jupiter. Jupiter's mass is less than 1/1000th of the Sun's. Granted, our solar system may not be representative of other star systems, I bet it would be. Due to the process of stellar formation, there's always a shit-ton more Hydrogen and Helium than anything else.
"Territorial integrity"? Does that mean it's illegal for people to protest about getting Scotland's independence while they're in London?
I think the Brits should try adopting something a little easier to remember. Something like "The Parliament shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech." We've got a similar sort of thing in the US, and it seems to be doing well.
Mister Washington, is that you? Where have you been hiding these past few centuries?
Humans have 2 fewer chromosomes, because at some point after our divergence with the Chimpanzee, two of them fused.
That's not just idle speculation, it's actually been proven. If we shared a common ancestor with the other great apes, then either the ancestor had 46 or 48. Since Gorillas, Chimps, and Orangutans all have 48, it seems reasonable that humans must be the odd ones out.
You can't lose a pair of chromosomes, because it would kill the organism, so they must still be there. Every chromosome has a telomere on the ends, and a centromere in the middle. In order for our origin to reside in the great ape lineage, there must be a human chromosome that has two centromeres, and a telomere in the middle of a chromosome.
Since chromosomes are always paired, the correct way to look at is that humans have 23 pairs, and the other great apes have 24. It's chromosome pair 2, that contains the teleomere in the middle, as well as an extra centromere.
Presumably, energy weapons would be easier to use, not more difficult. So they would require less training than a firearm. There would be no recoil, you wouldn't have to change your ammo based on what kind of target you were up against, that sort of thing.
And humans are wildly different from monkeys or apes.
That's like saying that Texans are wildly different from Americans.
It's a meaningless comparison, because one is a subgroup of the other.
I would argue that during the Napoleonic Wars, the muskets Napoleon's troops used were vastly inferior to a simple bow and arrow. Hell, inferior even to a crossbow. The bows could be loaded faster, and would be much more accurate. Bows are also lighter than muskets, and much cheaper. The only one of your criteria that a musket would have over a bow, is durability.
To be fair, it might seem complex just because he's making it as internally consistent as possible.
Newton's three laws of motion are very simple, but his Principia is a beast to read.
I just hope he fucked up somewhere, because I was really hoping that P = NP, because it would make the universe of Computer Science so much sexier.
If our presence in Afghanistan were a matter of national security, then surely Congress would have declared war on the country before we sent troops there.
This case would never reach the Supreme Court. At least, the one in DC. In might make the Supreme Court in Louisiana, if they have one. The Supreme Court has already deemed the teaching of "creation science" as unconstitutional in Edwards v Agulard back in the 80s.
So, when it got to a federal appeals court, the first they would probably do is compare the case to any jurisprudence that the SCOTUS has made in this area, and follow the precedent, unless there were something new or interesting about this particular case. The Dover case a few years ago was different, because it wasn't teaching "creation science", simply telling the kids about possible "alternate idea", that's how the federal district court heard that case.
If a Force-user can pull a Star Destroyer out of the sky, he could just as well fly everywhere. And make laser beams shoot out of his eyes. And pretty much be Superman. All he needs is a cape and glasses when he needs a disguise.
First, I find your lack of faith disturbing. Second, the power to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of The Force.