You can see much better high-resolution imagery here
and here (the images at Eurimage
have been sharpened a bit and have better contrast). Don't forget to check out
the imagery of Biloxi - which has basically gone the way of Banda
Aceh.
Seriously though, we do need to remember that this book is a fictional novel
- a fictional novel in which the author himself claims in a foreword that certain of the false facts in the novel are in fact true. Sure - the Cohen brothers claimed that Fargo was based on a true story, but nobody was inclined to believe them. Millions of borderline illiterates think Dan Brown's fiction is indeed based on fact and millions more think the book is fun to read. They are all wrong.
The Da Vinci Code is nonsense, second hand nonsense and false facts, written
with all the style and formal elegance of a Post Office circular, My cat knows
more about history, art history, architecture, oh yes, and aviation than Dan
Brown.
There
are scores
of sites debunking the thing; though most of these are apologists for Catholicism
and Opus Dei there are a few that will set you straight.
Do yu really believe the
Louvrepyramid has
666panes
of glass?
I don't understand that either, but remember that the word 'assassin' derives from 'hashish' - from a 13C sect of killers that supposedly used it to work themselves up to a murderous state. Sure doesn't work that way for me...
The way things go (Der Lauf der Dinge) by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, 1987
Inside a warehouse, a precarious 70-100 feet long structure has been constructed using various items. When this is set in motion, a chain reaction ensues. Fire, water, law of gravity as well as chemistry determine the life-cycle of objects - of things. It brings about a story concerning cause and effect, mechanism and art, improbability and precision
Very difficult: DigitalGlobe (then
EarthWatch, with EarlyBird), Space
Imaging (Ikonos), Orbimage (Orbview)
all lost high
resolution satellites before they became operational - these early high-res
satellites were in fact based pretty much on off-the-shelf (but space qualified)
parts.
Landsat
6
was
lost
on
launch and Landsat 7 suffered a crippling
failure about a year ago. (BTW the
EarlyBird
launch
on
a
Russian
Cosmos, was said to have cost about $7 million, not 50 thousand). Having got
it up there, and got it working, you then need a ground segment too, which is
decidedly non-trivial.
I had always understood that Hubble itself was a derivative of the Keyhole KH-11 spy satellites - i.e. the satellite bus and basic telescope were an existing design (that's why it was so cheap...). The sensors would of course be quite different; Earth Observation satellites are more like scanners than cameras. Google KH-11 for more info., but don't blame me when your garden fills up with black helicopters.
Just because Gene Rodenberry visualized humankind exploring the universe in what seemed to be their pyjamas, all subsequent series have assumed a starship would have to be a military operation with everyone in uniform. This does not actually reflect very well on us.
Thanks - that's roughly what I thought. It still leaves me a little room to manoeuvre. Maybe after the system is flung out of the galaxy, things could settle down enough to let evolution produce my people... not that anyone is ever going to be able to check.
Is it possible for a star flung like this to keep any planets
it had
I'd really like an answer to this one, as I've used the concept in a novel -
I liked the idea
of a race that could look up in the sky and see the whole galaxy. What kind of
religion
would they dream up.
In truth I doubt a habitable environment could survive this kind of ride but I'd love to be proved wrong.
Scientists have also recovered much data from Huygens that had been thought lost due to a communications failure...
Scientists revealed that missing data could be recovered via a network of radio telescopes that listened for Huygens' signals as it plunged through Titan's atmosphere and settled on the surface on 14 January.
So far neither ESA nor NASA/JPL have anything to say about this, but I would assume this information came from the press conference that was scheduled for today.
A really smart gun would only shoot the seller and the buyer. I can't find the Scientific American article from years ago that showed how gun owners were far more likely to get themselves shot than the unarmed. Some people think this is a good thing.
Civilised people are not armed; even the ancient Romans were forbidden to carry weapons within the city.
I know the your Constitution is a sacred document and all that but if it really says, or can be construed to say, that every drunken redneck has the right to own an assault weapon, then it's stupid and wrong and you should change it. Duh!
You can't trust thieves to do too much thinking. Years ago, I worked as a stagehand in London on a farce called No Sex Please We're British (better than it sounds...). One weekend a thief stole a television set and several bottles of booze off the stage. Of course they were all props. What a disappointing evening that must have been.
... this system is ill-conceived - technically, strategically and politically. Scientific American has an article from last month that drives a horse and cart through the whole miserable boondoggle.
Here in Rome (that's in Italy for any Republicans who might be reading/....) there a lots of little blue corrugated plastic tubes sticking out of the pavement of my district with plastic bath plugs and bits of string closing them off. Of course most of these plugs have been pulled off, so you can see that the tubes are empty. I have been told - but cannot confirm - that these were intended to carry fibre optic cables in some abandoned enterprise. Since the hard work has been done it seems a pity not to use them.
Slashdot Mirror
... is that they kill smokers much too slowly.
You can see much better high-resolution imagery here and here (the images at Eurimage have been sharpened a bit and have better contrast). Don't forget to check out the imagery of Biloxi - which has basically gone the way of Banda Aceh.
Ah - but did you perhaps tell a flounder?
Seriously though, we do need to remember that this book is a fictional novel
- a fictional novel in which the author himself claims in a foreword that certain of the false facts in the novel are in fact true. Sure - the Cohen brothers claimed that Fargo was based on a true story, but nobody was inclined to believe them. Millions of borderline illiterates think Dan Brown's fiction is indeed based on fact and millions more think the book is fun to read. They are all wrong.
The Da Vinci Code is nonsense, second hand nonsense and false facts, written with all the style and formal elegance of a Post Office circular, My cat knows more about history, art history, architecture, oh yes, and aviation than Dan Brown. There are scores of sites debunking the thing; though most of these are apologists for Catholicism and Opus Dei there are a few that will set you straight.
Do yu really believe the Louvre pyramid has 666 panes of glass?
I don't understand that either, but remember that the word 'assassin' derives from 'hashish' - from a 13C sect of killers that supposedly used it to work themselves up to a murderous state. Sure doesn't work that way for me...
- and it lasts 30 minutes. Hypnotic, beautiful
That's the end...
Very difficult: DigitalGlobe (then EarthWatch, with EarlyBird), Space Imaging (Ikonos), Orbimage (Orbview) all lost high resolution satellites before they became operational - these early high-res satellites were in fact based pretty much on off-the-shelf (but space qualified) parts. Landsat 6 was lost on launch and Landsat 7 suffered a crippling failure about a year ago. (BTW the EarlyBird launch on a Russian Cosmos, was said to have cost about $7 million, not 50 thousand). Having got it up there, and got it working, you then need a ground segment too, which is decidedly non-trivial.
I had always understood that Hubble itself was a derivative of the Keyhole KH-11 spy satellites - i.e. the satellite bus and basic telescope were an existing design (that's why it was so cheap...). The sensors would of course be quite different; Earth Observation satellites are more like scanners than cameras. Google KH-11 for more info., but don't blame me when your garden fills up with black helicopters.
Try complaining. At least one site has already pledged to stop doing it.
Only to the incompetent...
"competent authority" is the real oxymoron.
No. It's a society of competent individuals cooperating rationally.
Sir.
Just because Gene Rodenberry visualized humankind exploring the universe in what seemed to be their pyjamas, all subsequent series have assumed a starship would have to be a military operation with everyone in uniform. This does not actually reflect very well on us.
Thanks - that's roughly what I thought. It still leaves me a little room to manoeuvre. Maybe after the system is flung out of the galaxy, things could settle down enough to let evolution produce my people... not that anyone is ever going to be able to check.
I'd really like an answer to this one, as I've used the concept in a novel - I liked the idea of a race that could look up in the sky and see the whole galaxy. What kind of religion would they dream up. In truth I doubt a habitable environment could survive this kind of ride but I'd love to be proved wrong.
(a) That's not a link
(b) It has the same typo as the original post (a space in front of 'releases')
Here is a link
So far neither ESA nor NASA/JPL have anything to say about this, but I would assume this information came from the press conference that was scheduled for today.
their business practices and their products - 2 out of 3 ain't bad...
A really smart gun would only shoot the seller and the buyer. I can't find the Scientific American article from years ago that showed how gun owners were far more likely to get themselves shot than the unarmed. Some people think this is a good thing.
Civilised people are not armed; even the ancient Romans were forbidden to carry weapons within the city.
I know the your Constitution is a sacred document and all that but if it really says, or can be construed to say, that every drunken redneck has the right to own an assault weapon, then it's stupid and wrong and you should change it. Duh!
You can't trust thieves to do too much thinking. Years ago, I worked as a stagehand in London on a farce called No Sex Please We're British (better than it sounds...). One weekend a thief stole a television set and several bottles of booze off the stage. Of course they were all props. What a disappointing evening that must have been.
... this system is ill-conceived - technically, strategically and politically. Scientific American has an article from last month that drives a horse and cart through the whole miserable boondoggle.
Here in Rome (that's in Italy for any Republicans who might be reading /. ...) there a lots of little blue corrugated plastic tubes sticking out of the pavement of my district with plastic bath plugs and bits of string closing them off. Of course most of these plugs have been pulled off, so you can see that the tubes are empty. I have been told - but cannot confirm - that these were intended to carry fibre optic cables in some abandoned enterprise. Since the hard work has been done it seems a pity not to use them.
Not Eliot, W.B. Yeats "The Second Coming" Anyway "Bedlam" was orignally a corruption of "Bethlehem" for what it's worth...