Supposedly there's still an aquifer right in the Tharsis region (Lunae Planum and Chryse Planitia). Also, isn't the triple point of water situated at pressures around 8 mbar ? Oddly enough, that's roughly the atmospheric pressure Mars gets in summer.
Bottom line is: there are a lot of surprises still awaiting us on this planet. Life ?
Go look at the Lunae Planum region of Mars, especially with that color-coded altitude. That there was water on Mars, lots of water, oceans and sea and lakes and rivers, just strikes you in the face when you look at the huge canyons that rivers carved (Kasei Valles, Echus Chasma, Ares Valles, etc...) there. One can even follow the borders of what could very well have been oceans on Mars (Chryse Planitia is, IMHO, the bottom of what was a sea).
Some scientists have estimated that there is enough water on Mars to cover it entirely with a 500 meters deep ocean (if it was perfectly flat).
I heard that IBM and Apple have started giving bogus information about non-existant but plausible projects to employees not involved in important, genuine projects, in order to identify NDA-violators.
It _should_ be quantum mechanics, but gravity has always been hard to fit into it, being a one-way, positive charge only kind of interaction. IMHO we should stop considering it fundamental because of these oddities...
This is exactly the model proposed by Haisch, Rueda, Puthoff, Ibison, Cole and Little in the Stochastics ElectroDynamics (SED) theory. They show that gravity is a long-range Van der Waals sort of force caused by repulsion by the vacuum because of quantum fluctuations. For example, that's the kind of repulsion shown in the Casimir effect, if you cut off part of the quantum fluctuations with conductive plates, or mask them partly with matter, you get a force because of the rest of the Universe around, in the same way that removing the air in a closed tube plunged in water makes the water rise inside it because of the air pressure around. The papers can be found here (careful, there are also some, err, rather dubious documents by Tom Bearden).
The theory also shows that inertia is a Lorentz magnetic force caused by quantum fluctuations in the vacuum, and that mass is a purely abstract concept (Mach's Principle). It's consistent with General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.
On one side scientists are determined to find a theory that unifies all the forces (so far the Stochastical ElectroDynamics theory unifies electromagnetism with gravity and inertia, while the Superstring theory has trouble unifying gravity with the other unified three electromagnetic force and weak / strong interactions).
And on the other side they'd want to find gravitational waves ? If the forces are really one and only interaction then it all comes down somehow to electromagnetic waves (whatever name we give them) ? Sounds a bit contradictory to me, after all we've not yet found Higgs bosons. But then, I'm probably an idiot, so feel free to tell me why.
In any case I still think gravity and inertia (and mass) are just consequences (long-range Van der Waals and Lorentz type of forces) of quantum fluctuations in the vacuum (think Casimir effect). It may be wrong, but damn that would really be a shame, 'cause it's one of the most simple and elegant unification theories I've seen yet.
I completely agree that my previous post lacked precision and was misguiding. There are a lot of conditions that determine the colour of a planet's sky, and I don't have those required informations for Mars, so I went and downloaded Maestro. The colored pictures taken with the PANCAM that are available where assembled from seperate channel pictures then corrected using filter response data. Here's the result. I upped the contrast a bit. Mars' sky is light blue.
I can already see the trend growing. Next, the Health Insurances Association of america will raid the homes of people declaring themselves ill to see if they're trying to avoid going to work fraudulently...
And wait for the day the Real Estate Association of North America will raid homes to evict bad payers. [/sarcasm]
You are wrong. The sky's color comes mainly from the scattering of light, which has to do with the wavelength of light. That's why the sky is blue on virtually every planet.
Check this panoramic photo (warning, 4.1 MB). Here's a small example of what it should look like to human eyes, without the stupid NASA red tint. See the rainbow around the sun ? It's because of ice in the upper atmosphere.
Add to this that there is one piece of valuable real estate known today, a mountain on the lunar south pole that has direct view of Earth far more frequently than any other place on the moon.
Strange. I always thought that half of the Moon had direct view of the Earth permanently and the other half never had direct view...
Luna's lack of gravity makes it easier to land, refuel, refill, maintain, take off. It is an excellent storage post for mined resources and medium-scale manufacturing.
Too bad the Moon is stationed near that huge gravity well known as "the Earth". To get from the Moon to Mars you have to spend nearly as much energy than the same trip from the Earth, and if you add in the energy needed for the initial Earth-Moon trip that's even worse. A Lagrange Point space station or no space hub at all make more sense.
Violence itself is not a cause nor a consequence of criminality. A violent society without crime and a society with purely non-violent crimes are both very possible. Violence only makes perceived damages more important. Reducing violence to reduce the damages consecutive to crime in the hope that it can reduce crime to zero is a FALLACY.
Won't happen in such a widespread form, given the way the copy-protection works. You have to first authorize the computer you want to play the files on. Then you get a valid key for this very computer, that won't decrypt the files on any other computer. This definitely rules out bundles of.m4p and key.
But I still think it will happen on a small scale, though for the immense majority of the iTMS customers it will be useless (not using VLC, having less than three computers to play the files on, too much technical hassle, etc...).
You are not thinking on the same scale as me. This reverse-engineering of the iTMS' AAC copy-protection means more people will share the music they buy with relatives / people they know, at a small scale. I don't think this marks the "end of the music industry" in any way, it will probably have no impact on the market, apart from letting Linux users listen to music they'd buy from the iTunes Music Store, which means more potential customers.
How long before people start exchanging their keys ? Now that the key can be had and used under virtually any platform, in an easily copied or transmitted file format, the copy-protection is effectively cracked.
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That licence... ... I don't think it means what you think it means.
... the email exchange basically go like:
- intern:
Hey, Ms Anti-RFID-Advocate, I'm working for a major retailer of soon-to-be-RFID'ed goods. Could you send me your bio ?
- Ms.:
Err, yes, but why ?
- intern (to manager):
I don't know what to tell her ! "Well, actually we're trying to see if you have a juicy past we could use against you." ?
Some people believe freedom is having the choice. I say that freedom is being independant, whether or not you have a choice.
Supposedly there's still an aquifer right in the Tharsis region (Lunae Planum and Chryse Planitia). Also, isn't the triple point of water situated at pressures around 8 mbar ? Oddly enough, that's roughly the atmospheric pressure Mars gets in summer.
Bottom line is: there are a lot of surprises still awaiting us on this planet. Life ?
I'd pay some money to see the judge's face when SCO's attorney claims 3 BILLION dollars for copyrighted error codes.
Go look at the Lunae Planum region of Mars, especially with that color-coded altitude. That there was water on Mars, lots of water, oceans and sea and lakes and rivers, just strikes you in the face when you look at the huge canyons that rivers carved (Kasei Valles, Echus Chasma, Ares Valles, etc...) there. One can even follow the borders of what could very well have been oceans on Mars (Chryse Planitia is, IMHO, the bottom of what was a sea).
Some scientists have estimated that there is enough water on Mars to cover it entirely with a 500 meters deep ocean (if it was perfectly flat).
I heard that IBM and Apple have started giving bogus information about non-existant but plausible projects to employees not involved in important, genuine projects, in order to identify NDA-violators.
Could this be an example ?
Apple would gain some of the music player market share for those stores' users, instead of being completely locked out.w
Given the current marketshare of the iTMS compared to its couterparts', I'd say that it is other stores' users that are locked out. Think about it.
You probably mean last year's story. Anyone else getting tired of the whole stupid case ?
I don't see why Intel wouldn't try to benefit from both technologies and offer a processor with HyperThreading AND dual-Core.
Bah, that's nothing. My 2.4 GHz microwave oven can dissipate up to 1000 Watts !
It _should_ be quantum mechanics, but gravity has always been hard to fit into it, being a one-way, positive charge only kind of interaction. IMHO we should stop considering it fundamental because of these oddities...
This is exactly the model proposed by Haisch, Rueda, Puthoff, Ibison, Cole and Little in the Stochastics ElectroDynamics (SED) theory. They show that gravity is a long-range Van der Waals sort of force caused by repulsion by the vacuum because of quantum fluctuations. For example, that's the kind of repulsion shown in the Casimir effect, if you cut off part of the quantum fluctuations with conductive plates, or mask them partly with matter, you get a force because of the rest of the Universe around, in the same way that removing the air in a closed tube plunged in water makes the water rise inside it because of the air pressure around. The papers can be found here (careful, there are also some, err, rather dubious documents by Tom Bearden).
The theory also shows that inertia is a Lorentz magnetic force caused by quantum fluctuations in the vacuum, and that mass is a purely abstract concept (Mach's Principle). It's consistent with General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.
On one side scientists are determined to find a theory that unifies all the forces (so far the Stochastical ElectroDynamics theory unifies electromagnetism with gravity and inertia, while the Superstring theory has trouble unifying gravity with the other unified three electromagnetic force and weak / strong interactions).
And on the other side they'd want to find gravitational waves ? If the forces are really one and only interaction then it all comes down somehow to electromagnetic waves (whatever name we give them) ? Sounds a bit contradictory to me, after all we've not yet found Higgs bosons. But then, I'm probably an idiot, so feel free to tell me why.
In any case I still think gravity and inertia (and mass) are just consequences (long-range Van der Waals and Lorentz type of forces) of quantum fluctuations in the vacuum (think Casimir effect). It may be wrong, but damn that would really be a shame, 'cause it's one of the most simple and elegant unification theories I've seen yet.
I completely agree that my previous post lacked precision and was misguiding. There are a lot of conditions that determine the colour of a planet's sky, and I don't have those required informations for Mars, so I went and downloaded Maestro. The colored pictures taken with the PANCAM that are available where assembled from seperate channel pictures then corrected using filter response data. Here's the result. I upped the contrast a bit. Mars' sky is light blue.
I can already see the trend growing. Next, the Health Insurances Association of america will raid the homes of people declaring themselves ill to see if they're trying to avoid going to work fraudulently...
And wait for the day the Real Estate Association of North America will raid homes to evict bad payers.
[/sarcasm]
You are wrong. The sky's color comes mainly from the scattering of light, which has to do with the wavelength of light. That's why the sky is blue on virtually every planet.
Check this panoramic photo (warning, 4.1 MB). Here's a small example of what it should look like to human eyes, without the stupid NASA red tint. See the rainbow around the sun ? It's because of ice in the upper atmosphere.
Add to this that there is one piece of valuable real estate known today, a mountain on the lunar south pole that has direct view of Earth far more frequently than any other place on the moon.
Strange. I always thought that half of the Moon had direct view of the Earth permanently and the other half never had direct view...
Luna's lack of gravity makes it easier to land, refuel, refill, maintain, take off. It is an excellent storage post for mined resources and medium-scale manufacturing.
Too bad the Moon is stationed near that huge gravity well known as "the Earth". To get from the Moon to Mars you have to spend nearly as much energy than the same trip from the Earth, and if you add in the energy needed for the initial Earth-Moon trip that's even worse. A Lagrange Point space station or no space hub at all make more sense.
That's "Zubrin", as in "Robert Zubrin", not "Zurbin". Thanl you for your inattention.
Not quite. North Korea is still the least free country of the World.
But I agree that it might change, N.Korean regime might collapse.
Violence itself is not a cause nor a consequence of criminality. A violent society without crime and a society with purely non-violent crimes are both very possible. Violence only makes perceived damages more important. Reducing violence to reduce the damages consecutive to crime in the hope that it can reduce crime to zero is a FALLACY.
Won't happen in such a widespread form, given the way the copy-protection works. You have to first authorize the computer you want to play the files on. Then you get a valid key for this very computer, that won't decrypt the files on any other computer. This definitely rules out bundles of .m4p and key.
But I still think it will happen on a small scale, though for the immense majority of the iTMS customers it will be useless (not using VLC, having less than three computers to play the files on, too much technical hassle, etc...).
You are not thinking on the same scale as me. This reverse-engineering of the iTMS' AAC copy-protection means more people will share the music they buy with relatives / people they know, at a small scale. I don't think this marks the "end of the music industry" in any way, it will probably have no impact on the market, apart from letting Linux users listen to music they'd buy from the iTunes Music Store, which means more potential customers.
How long before people start exchanging their keys ? Now that the key can be had and used under virtually any platform, in an easily copied or transmitted file format, the copy-protection is effectively cracked.