I broke the rules and RTFA, this is the first time that they have managed to combine an Earth-based observation and a space-based one separated by far enough from each other to give a reasonably accurate baseline for an accurate measurement of both distance and mass. From the article:
Calculations estimated it to be 10,200 (+/- 1,300) light-years away. . . These observations also allowed the mass of the object to be measured — around 0.23 solar masses
Well, I know that 2/3 of the drivers in my neighborhood are idiots on the road (they may be great software engineers, but utter morons behind the wheel) I'm not terribly frightened by this technology. An autonomous vehicle that makes the wrong decision in 10% of situations will still be an improvement. I once saw one of my neighbor's kids BACKING UP on the freeway in rush hour traffic because he had missed his exit. I can pretty much guarantee that Hyundai's car won't do that.
I wish they still made the Toyota HiLux pickup, the Toyota mini-van and the VW Rabbit (and Rabbit Pickup) in their original no-frills configurations. There's a lot to be said about a vehicle that you can beat the crap out of for a decade and fix with hand tools.
Actually binary systems seem to be fairly common, about 16% of all asteroids have a moon. The advantage of attacking the moonlet is that they can get very exact measurements of the effect of the collision fairly quickly by measuring the change in its orbit.
BTW, "shooting stars" are generally about the size of a grain of sand. Good luck getting rid of all of those.
Wish they would just give the Navy's R&D budget to NASA. We already know how to kill massive numbers of people and destroy an entire region's infrastructure, and neither of those process need to get any more efficient.
A 40 kt headwind is 50% of the speed of an 80 kt airship, but only 10% of the speed of a 400 kt airliner. That's the difference between taking twice as long to arrive at your destination, or only an extra 1/10th of the time.
This might be interesting for use in the Andes and Himalayas, where much of the terrain is too high for helicopters to operate reliably and too rough for long airstrips.
Sears makes a lot of money off its contractor "referrals". My dad was a remodeler for many years. He got a couple of jobs through Sears during a slow spell and was kind of pleased. Then he ran into a friend at the lumber yard who had lost his business and was working for someone else. He explained that Sears gave him plenty of business and life was good. Eventually he was working exclusively for Sears, and didn't have time for any of his outside customers.
Then Sears started to squeeze him. They started taking more and more of his profits, to the point where the only way that he could even break even was to do rushed, slipshod work and pay peanuts for unqualified employees. Finally he decided it wasn't worth the trouble and closed up shop, going to work for a former competitor.
You've never had to work around a bunch of PETA members, I take it. A lot of them are trust fund brats with enough money to buy used gene splicing equipment off eBay and the idea that Earth would be better off without humans.
I'm going to assume that you "never get tired of repeating this" because you're too young to remember the 1960s. One of the best examples of why government regulation is necessary is the situation of the Cuyahoga River. The several chemical and paint companies that lined the river banks dumped their effluent into the river since no regulations requiring their safe disposal existed. In the 1960s the mix and concentration of chemicals finally started spontaneously combusting, and the country was treated to the sight of the river burning on national television. That more than any other single event prompted the creation of the EPA.
People want to drink clean water and eat food that's not contaminated and breathe air that won't kill them. There is no market solution for these needs, that's why people want government to regulate society's activities.
That seems to be the model they have in mind, preload the drones at the Fulfillment Center, toss them in the truck, drive to the area where they'll be dispatched, and let them go. One truck then proceeds to make a dozen or more deliveries simultaneously. I still think it's pie-in-the-sky stuff for now, but if they can do something like deliver to a bin on the roof of apartment buildings instead of suburban doors it might make a lot of sense.
I rarely reply to ACs, but this one is right, especially if you live in the South where tropical cockroaches like to nibble on PCB boards. Cover the air inlets/outlets with window screening, and clean them occasionally. Keep the box up off the concrete, it sweats and the case will corrode where it touches cement. My advice would be to strap it to the bottom of the floor. That will keep it away from rodents and most of the roaches. A fanless case would be preferable, both to keep out dust and because otherwise the vibration of the fan will come up through the floor. Pay attention to orientation, if you ever have to swap out a drive or plug some USB device into it you don't want to have to take the thing out of its mounting to do it. What are you doing for power? Not many crawl spaces have power to anything but maybe a pull-chain light bulb. Run a decent grounded outlet, extension cords get brittle, corrode, fray and get munched on.
Reporters Without Borders is not a French group, it's mostly a creation of the US State Department. You're thinking of Doctors Without Borders, which actually does some worthwhile work.
Uh, no. Saddam's son, who had been in charge of the program to destroy the WMD, defected to the west, bringing 11 filing cabinets of documentation with him. The US/UK knew very clearly that they had been destroyed, and in fact 10 Downing Street was complaining internally that "the evidence is being fixed" to falsify the reasons to invade. Iraq was allowing the inspectors free rein by then, even allowing them to search his private rooms in the various presidential palaces. The inspectors said that they were "more than ninety percent finished" when the Bush Administration told them they had to leave because the Air Force was going to target their compound.
You do realize that the Westboro BAPTIST church is not Catholic right?
I think you just stepped on your own post. So far the Supreme Court has allowed prohibitions on hate speech, and until they rule otherwise it can be banned.
Horsepuckey. If you threaten to kill me you can go to jail. There are lots of limits on speech, and rightfully so. You're free to threaten to kill me, or to yell "Fire" in a crowded theatre, as long as you're willing to deal with the results.
Most of Gros Pointe Shores is extremely dangerous to black people at any time of day. By stepping inside the city limits they are allowing themselves to be arrested and beaten without recourse to the courts.
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I broke the rules and RTFA, this is the first time that they have managed to combine an Earth-based observation and a space-based one separated by far enough from each other to give a reasonably accurate baseline for an accurate measurement of both distance and mass. From the article:
Calculations estimated it to be 10,200 (+/- 1,300) light-years away. . . These observations also allowed the mass of the object to be measured — around 0.23 solar masses
Well, I know that 2/3 of the drivers in my neighborhood are idiots on the road (they may be great software engineers, but utter morons behind the wheel) I'm not terribly frightened by this technology. An autonomous vehicle that makes the wrong decision in 10% of situations will still be an improvement. I once saw one of my neighbor's kids BACKING UP on the freeway in rush hour traffic because he had missed his exit. I can pretty much guarantee that Hyundai's car won't do that.
Or with the turn signal on . . .
I wish they still made the Toyota HiLux pickup, the Toyota mini-van and the VW Rabbit (and Rabbit Pickup) in their original no-frills configurations. There's a lot to be said about a vehicle that you can beat the crap out of for a decade and fix with hand tools.
People already read books, watch movies and browse the net while driving, or haven't you driven in the Puget Sound area?
Try DIR at the command prompt. I pretty much never use the GUI search, I've always found it to be slow and cumbersome.
I think "privatized" is the actual idea, as in selling off taxpayer-built assets for pennies on the dollar to wealthy cronies.
Actually binary systems seem to be fairly common, about 16% of all asteroids have a moon. The advantage of attacking the moonlet is that they can get very exact measurements of the effect of the collision fairly quickly by measuring the change in its orbit.
BTW, "shooting stars" are generally about the size of a grain of sand. Good luck getting rid of all of those.
Wish they would just give the Navy's R&D budget to NASA. We already know how to kill massive numbers of people and destroy an entire region's infrastructure, and neither of those process need to get any more efficient.
A 40 kt headwind is 50% of the speed of an 80 kt airship, but only 10% of the speed of a 400 kt airliner. That's the difference between taking twice as long to arrive at your destination, or only an extra 1/10th of the time.
Just start a fusion power plant! It should produce plenty of helium! Fusion power is only 20 years away . . .
This might be interesting for use in the Andes and Himalayas, where much of the terrain is too high for helicopters to operate reliably and too rough for long airstrips.
Sears makes a lot of money off its contractor "referrals". My dad was a remodeler for many years. He got a couple of jobs through Sears during a slow spell and was kind of pleased. Then he ran into a friend at the lumber yard who had lost his business and was working for someone else. He explained that Sears gave him plenty of business and life was good. Eventually he was working exclusively for Sears, and didn't have time for any of his outside customers.
Then Sears started to squeeze him. They started taking more and more of his profits, to the point where the only way that he could even break even was to do rushed, slipshod work and pay peanuts for unqualified employees. Finally he decided it wasn't worth the trouble and closed up shop, going to work for a former competitor.
My dad never worked for Sears again.
You've never had to work around a bunch of PETA members, I take it. A lot of them are trust fund brats with enough money to buy used gene splicing equipment off eBay and the idea that Earth would be better off without humans.
There is no road after Fairbanks. That seems to be the main reason that Fairbanks exists.
Your dictionary wasn't written in the US, I take it.
I'm going to assume that you "never get tired of repeating this" because you're too young to remember the 1960s. One of the best examples of why government regulation is necessary is the situation of the Cuyahoga River. The several chemical and paint companies that lined the river banks dumped their effluent into the river since no regulations requiring their safe disposal existed. In the 1960s the mix and concentration of chemicals finally started spontaneously combusting, and the country was treated to the sight of the river burning on national television. That more than any other single event prompted the creation of the EPA.
People want to drink clean water and eat food that's not contaminated and breathe air that won't kill them. There is no market solution for these needs, that's why people want government to regulate society's activities.
That seems to be the model they have in mind, preload the drones at the Fulfillment Center, toss them in the truck, drive to the area where they'll be dispatched, and let them go. One truck then proceeds to make a dozen or more deliveries simultaneously. I still think it's pie-in-the-sky stuff for now, but if they can do something like deliver to a bin on the roof of apartment buildings instead of suburban doors it might make a lot of sense.
I rarely reply to ACs, but this one is right, especially if you live in the South where tropical cockroaches like to nibble on PCB boards. Cover the air inlets/outlets with window screening, and clean them occasionally. Keep the box up off the concrete, it sweats and the case will corrode where it touches cement. My advice would be to strap it to the bottom of the floor. That will keep it away from rodents and most of the roaches. A fanless case would be preferable, both to keep out dust and because otherwise the vibration of the fan will come up through the floor. Pay attention to orientation, if you ever have to swap out a drive or plug some USB device into it you don't want to have to take the thing out of its mounting to do it. What are you doing for power? Not many crawl spaces have power to anything but maybe a pull-chain light bulb. Run a decent grounded outlet, extension cords get brittle, corrode, fray and get munched on.
Reporters Without Borders is not a French group, it's mostly a creation of the US State Department. You're thinking of Doctors Without Borders, which actually does some worthwhile work.
At the time the intel looked good
Uh, no. Saddam's son, who had been in charge of the program to destroy the WMD, defected to the west, bringing 11 filing cabinets of documentation with him. The US/UK knew very clearly that they had been destroyed, and in fact 10 Downing Street was complaining internally that "the evidence is being fixed" to falsify the reasons to invade. Iraq was allowing the inspectors free rein by then, even allowing them to search his private rooms in the various presidential palaces. The inspectors said that they were "more than ninety percent finished" when the Bush Administration told them they had to leave because the Air Force was going to target their compound.
You do realize that the Westboro BAPTIST church is not Catholic right?
Way to miss the point.
I think you just stepped on your own post. So far the Supreme Court has allowed prohibitions on hate speech, and until they rule otherwise it can be banned.
in the USA you can only restrict speech that poses an imminent danger of unlawful action
Where is that defined in the Constitution? Hint.. It's not
Horsepuckey. If you threaten to kill me you can go to jail. There are lots of limits on speech, and rightfully so. You're free to threaten to kill me, or to yell "Fire" in a crowded theatre, as long as you're willing to deal with the results.
Most of Gros Pointe Shores is extremely dangerous to black people at any time of day. By stepping inside the city limits they are allowing themselves to be arrested and beaten without recourse to the courts.