There are several good reasons to concentrate on infrared radiation. A few, off the top of my head, are: the relative transparency of the interstellar medium in the infrared compared to optical and UV; the optical design of infrared telescopes is closer to that of the familiar optical types compared to X-ray and gamma-ray telescopes;
the presence of strong emission lines in the infrared from ionization species unavailable in the optical; the fact that UV and optical emission from distant objects is seen in the infrared due to their high redshifts; and that the thermal emission of circumstellar dust peaks in the infrared. Similar lists exist for the other bandpasses, but screw them:)
Good reasons for placing infrared telescopes into space include the high opacity of the Earth's atmosphere in the infrared, the high thermal emissivity of the Earth and atmosphere in the infrared, and the low temperatures at which the detectors need to be kept.
If women want to display equality, they need to compete on equal ground.
And if women are expected to compete without advantages, the ground on which they compete has to be equal. Which means an academic environment absent of sexism. And a financial environment with equal pay for equal work, and gender-neutral access to that work. It has been shown repeatedly in the history of America that the easiest (and often only) method for equalizing the ground is to elevate a significant population of qualified females into a heavily male-dominated field.
This also produces whining, but it seems a small cost at the end of the day.
Oh WFPC2, I will miss your tell-tale chevron superimposed over the sky like a Batsignal. Also, I will miss your useful filter set, so unlike that on WFC3 which treats nebular astronomy as if it were a mere curiosity. Galactic astronomers are such telescope hogs.
If I were still in the biz I would curse thee, WFC3! But, given all of the bad luck HST has had over its lifetime that would just be piling on.
How do we know it is fact when one of the fundamental premises behind it has changed so deeply?
Because the warming has been observed. The problem of the ocean currents summarized here is not one of causative mechanism, but of energy transfer. In other words, this is more about the pattern of global warming, not the existence of it.
That's all well and good, and as it should be. The ONLY problem here, is that some folks want to make trillion-dollar adjustments to industry all over the world based on these models which are still in such a preliminary state.
No, there are TWO problems — the one you mention, and another one, where the people who make their coin on the status quo (and the politicians that they own) will ignore all evidence that the current way of doing business might make the planet unlivable. Or, at a minimum, cost a trillion dollars to adjust to as it changes.
...remake the Edith Keeler episode as a feature film, but change it in some way as to really just make Harlan Ellison flip out.
That's easy — just leave his name off it. Double points for shooting the originally submitted script. Triple points for adding the dialogue "Hello, little fuck."
In other news, Kansas has passed legislation to allow the teaching of alternate theories of photosynthesis, including Intelligent DeShine. This theory argues that plants produce food from sunlight by the mediation of "christons", which have the mystical property of being three particles in one, allowing them to convert the sunny warmth of the 6000-year-old Sun into original sin-free gluten.
You didn't think the Eucharist was made out of wheat by accident, did you? Heathen.
Fuck the studios' happiness. These are the same people who claimed to the author of FORREST GUMP that there were no net profits to share with him. You remember that bomb, doncha? Only made $330M domestic in theatres. How anybody at that studio could afford to feed a family after that disaster is beyond me. And by "family" I mean "cocaine habit."
And the United States, a self-confessed democracy over its existence, managed to kill at minimum one out of 50 of its own citizens in a civil war, eradicate a substantial fraction of its native population, forcibly import a substantial number of people for servile labor, imprison a large number of citizens based on coincident heritage of one combatant party during a mid-century war (but ignoring those of coincident heritage of other combatants), and expend a significant amount of post-war energies persecuting those who made the mistake of agreeing with the governing philosophy of a nation we had made an erstwhile ally of that conflict. (For sake of brevity, I shall halt this litany before entering the 1960s, before I have to use phrases like "Ellsberg" or "warrantless wiretaps".)
One might say that reflection on just these incidents might give one very strange ideas about democracy. Luckily you don't seem the type to suffer from inward analysis, being so busy judging other nations and all.
Storms are created by temperatures differences, which are in turn created by sunlight warming different areas at different rates. So yes, the same kinds of things will happen on Jupiter, if nothing else based on the temperature difference from the day to the night side. The real question is, why has the Red Spot been so stable for so long?
You are overlooking one important energy source: Jupiter itself. Because of ongoing differentiation, Jupiter produces about twice as much energy as it receives from the Sun. Given this and the fact that this source is coming from below rather than above, it is likely the more important contribution to the dynamics of the atmosphere.
No, real Trek fans are feeling burned out too, and are tired of Paramount 'effing up the franchise with trash like Enterprise.
Let's lay blame where it belongs: at the feet of Berman and Braga. If anything, Paramount should be applauded for giving those hacks the damn boot and trying again with a different, and hopefully much better, team.
I think Colber[t] actually pronounces his name as ColberT in private. This is based on me catching him one time on air saying ColberT when there was no comic reason for him to do so. ( I hate saying there's no comic reason for something since there is always the possibility that a joke flew by undetected ) It's unlikely that someone who had always pronounced their name one way would slip, though not impossible.
SC has stated in interviews that the family pronounces it with the hard T. His father wanted to use (revert to?) the French pronounciation, but did not do so in deference to HIS father. So, in honor of his (by then) late father, SC changed from the hard T as he left South Carolina to go to Northwestern.
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You missed one important leg that broke off of the stool: credit default swaps. Essentially, the mortgage crisis was multiplied as bets were placed on the failure of these securitizations, since there was no limit to how many bets could be placed on a single one. Paying off those bets — or rather, being unable to afford to pay off those bets — is what killed the capitalization of firms such as AIG.
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There are several good reasons to concentrate on infrared radiation. A few, off the top of my head, are: the relative transparency of the interstellar medium in the infrared compared to optical and UV; the optical design of infrared telescopes is closer to that of the familiar optical types compared to X-ray and gamma-ray telescopes; the presence of strong emission lines in the infrared from ionization species unavailable in the optical; the fact that UV and optical emission from distant objects is seen in the infrared due to their high redshifts; and that the thermal emission of circumstellar dust peaks in the infrared. Similar lists exist for the other bandpasses, but screw them :)
Good reasons for placing infrared telescopes into space include the high opacity of the Earth's atmosphere in the infrared, the high thermal emissivity of the Earth and atmosphere in the infrared, and the low temperatures at which the detectors need to be kept.
And if women are expected to compete without advantages, the ground on which they compete has to be equal. Which means an academic environment absent of sexism. And a financial environment with equal pay for equal work, and gender-neutral access to that work. It has been shown repeatedly in the history of America that the easiest (and often only) method for equalizing the ground is to elevate a significant population of qualified females into a heavily male-dominated field.
This also produces whining, but it seems a small cost at the end of the day.
Come on, this is NASA we're talking about. There is no way they ever would have gone with a Blu-Ray format.
They would have gone with HD-DVD.
GAAAH! You just blinded the eyes in my mind! MINDBLINDER!
Wait, I thought that the Pirate Bay was in Sweden.
Awww, you made me cry, you bitch.
Oh WFPC2, I will miss your tell-tale chevron superimposed over the sky like a Batsignal. Also, I will miss your useful filter set, so unlike that on WFC3 which treats nebular astronomy as if it were a mere curiosity. Galactic astronomers are such telescope hogs.
If I were still in the biz I would curse thee, WFC3! But, given all of the bad luck HST has had over its lifetime that would just be piling on.
Oh man, what I wouldn't have given to have that English teacher misspell that word as "douchebag".
Because the warming has been observed. The problem of the ocean currents summarized here is not one of causative mechanism, but of energy transfer. In other words, this is more about the pattern of global warming, not the existence of it.
And Netcraft confirms it!
No, there are TWO problems — the one you mention, and another one, where the people who make their coin on the status quo (and the politicians that they own) will ignore all evidence that the current way of doing business might make the planet unlivable. Or, at a minimum, cost a trillion dollars to adjust to as it changes.
Yes, so unlike those non-socialist countries IRELAND and HOLLAND. Sheesh.
I think you multiplied instead of divided — 0.2 mK is equivalent to 17 neV. Much more impressive, but presumably doable.
Our last President had an MBA from Harvard. Just what are you trying to say?
That's easy — just leave his name off it. Double points for shooting the originally submitted script. Triple points for adding the dialogue "Hello, little fuck."
That's what he WANTS you to think. You bought the lie, you simple-minded dilettante!
In other news, Kansas has passed legislation to allow the teaching of alternate theories of photosynthesis, including Intelligent DeShine. This theory argues that plants produce food from sunlight by the mediation of "christons", which have the mystical property of being three particles in one, allowing them to convert the sunny warmth of the 6000-year-old Sun into original sin-free gluten.
You didn't think the Eucharist was made out of wheat by accident, did you? Heathen.
Fuck the studios' happiness. These are the same people who claimed to the author of FORREST GUMP that there were no net profits to share with him. You remember that bomb, doncha? Only made $330M domestic in theatres. How anybody at that studio could afford to feed a family after that disaster is beyond me. And by "family" I mean "cocaine habit."
And the United States, a self-confessed democracy over its existence, managed to kill at minimum one out of 50 of its own citizens in a civil war, eradicate a substantial fraction of its native population, forcibly import a substantial number of people for servile labor, imprison a large number of citizens based on coincident heritage of one combatant party during a mid-century war (but ignoring those of coincident heritage of other combatants), and expend a significant amount of post-war energies persecuting those who made the mistake of agreeing with the governing philosophy of a nation we had made an erstwhile ally of that conflict. (For sake of brevity, I shall halt this litany before entering the 1960s, before I have to use phrases like "Ellsberg" or "warrantless wiretaps".)
One might say that reflection on just these incidents might give one very strange ideas about democracy. Luckily you don't seem the type to suffer from inward analysis, being so busy judging other nations and all.
GP had it right. Snide evolutionists don't bother asking such questions of Hawking. Since he's, you know, not a biologist.
You are overlooking one important energy source: Jupiter itself. Because of ongoing differentiation, Jupiter produces about twice as much energy as it receives from the Sun. Given this and the fact that this source is coming from below rather than above, it is likely the more important contribution to the dynamics of the atmosphere.
Let's lay blame where it belongs: at the feet of Berman and Braga. If anything, Paramount should be applauded for giving those hacks the damn boot and trying again with a different, and hopefully much better, team.
SC has stated in interviews that the family pronounces it with the hard T. His father wanted to use (revert to?) the French pronounciation, but did not do so in deference to HIS father. So, in honor of his (by then) late father, SC changed from the hard T as he left South Carolina to go to Northwestern.
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If they felt pain they would scream, and I hear no screaming in this.
You missed one important leg that broke off of the stool: credit default swaps. Essentially, the mortgage crisis was multiplied as bets were placed on the failure of these securitizations, since there was no limit to how many bets could be placed on a single one. Paying off those bets — or rather, being unable to afford to pay off those bets — is what killed the capitalization of firms such as AIG.
Yeah, too bad they don't have a brand-new revenue stream from a popular exclusive device to finance such an upgrade.