That's hilarious. Post was downmodded because I mentioned the 19th century Mormon's habit of stealing everything not nailed down, in accordance with their Doctrine of the Consecration of Goods.
The Domincans created a Quechua/Spanish dictionary before Pizarro even reached Cusco, so it's not unreasonable. The dating is problematic though, unless perhaps it was created by the Portuguese or Venetian merchants that were suspected to have been using secret trade routs to bring rare items to Europe before the 'official' discovery of the Americas.
Unlikely. Vellum and parchment were expensive, and bookworms and moths were likely to infest stock that was just shoved in a corner and forgotten for 5 or 10 generations. If they had extra they just wouldn't have bought more, it's not like monasteries and publishers had warehouses full of excess stock.
Just to pick nits, the goal of alchemy was to produce the Philosopher's Stone, which granted eternal life to imbibers. Turning lead (or other base metals) to gold was simply the test of whether the Philosopher's Stone had been successfully produced or not.
There was pre-Colombian contact, although perhaps not extensive. Central American and Alaskan jade show up in Chinese tombs of the 13th and early 14th centuries, and peppers from the Americas have been grown in Szechuan since ancient times.. IIRC, the Piri Reis map mentions Portuguese sailors visiting the territories shown on that map. A mummy in Paracas had TB, and another (in Tumbes?) had syphilis, both European diseases. Of course if you want to go further back the round stone heads of the Olmec show what are very clearly African faces, and black peoples were mentioned by Europeans when they arrived in Central America. Even further back the bottle gourd was cultivated in tropical South America apparently as soon as humans arrived in the area, and it has been an exclusively domesticated (as in, can't reproduce naturally) since at least 9,000 years ago.
The IV labs are incredibly cool. Imagine walking into a 5+star restaurant kitchen that is also equipped with a metal lathe, a vacuum chamber, a 400 liter tank of liquid nitrogen, an electron microscope, and a terawatt laser that can automatically target female mosquitoes. So yeah, they do some really neat stuff.
No, IV is not owned by Apple and/or Microsoft, although there are plenty of Apple and MS alumni working there. Microsoft gazillionaire Nathan Myrvold is the primary founder, his original goal was to make sure that IP that was not being used could be shopped around and licensed to ensure that whatever technology it promoted would be used. Company has morphed a bit since then, of course.
There are photos extant from almost a century ago until today, and multiple videos (even some on YouTube). There are also a plethora of reliable observations over the years. Did you doubt the existence of giant squid before actual examples were caught?
Browse master. If he had just put one NT 3.51 machine (even Workstation) on the network it would have automatically promoted itself to browse master and a lot of his headaches would have gone away. The few Win 9x boxes that still argued with the NT server (some always did) could easily be identified and a 30 second reg hack would have shut them up as well. Before the advent of the Brain Dump sites being an MCSE meant you actually knew something, and probably had beaten yourself up learning it.
I think more than anything NT 3.51 was competing with Win 3.11. It was so much more stable and multi-tasked so much better than Win 3.11 that it was worth the price, and the networking went from painful and slow to almost automatic. I think IBM shot themselves in the foot by not making OS/2 more compatible with the MS networking model, since almost from the beginning it was obvious that the MS network model was going to be less expensive and easier to administer than Novell (then AD put the stake in that particular corpse).
Yeah, I know, replying to myself. I can't help remembering Voyager's 'Grand Tour' to the outer planets. Congress refused to approve a mission of that extent, instead NASA had to package it as a much shorter mission to Jupiter and Saturn. They (rather sneakily, for a government bureaucracy) launched during the only window that would allow the Grand Tour, and then went after supplemental funding for the supposedly "extended mission" they had planned for all along. Still amazes me that the Shrub White House tried to cancel the miniscule cost of continuing to monitor the spacecraft.
Oh, no, this is certainly a miracle. The miracle is that politicians actually budgeted sufficient money to carry out a program that wouldn't complete until after their term in office had ended. If Congress had been told that Opportunity's mission was going to last a decade the funding would never have been approved.
Back in 2000 (when anyone still used AOL) a lot of us were appalled that with the child filter on AOL would allow access to the Republican party site, the NRA, the big booze manufacturers, the American Nazi Party, all the US military web sites, and a bunch of other far-right web sites, but blocked access to the Democratic party site, Al Gore's web site, MADD, NOAA(?), and pretty much every left-leaning news site. A lot of us cared about the false positives then, and access through the child filter went up and down depending on the volume of complaints until the election was over.
Seriously? Oh, crap. So the Western-culture countries are just giving up and handing the future to Asia. I suppose it's the logical conclusion of the MBA disease, where if something doesn't make a profit this accounting cycle then it's not worth doing.
It wasn't until the 1960s that scientists finally admitted that ball lightning actually existed. Since they couldn't explain how it could exist they declared it an 'old wives tale'.
My grandmother was terrified of lightning storms, and I used to sit with her during them growing up. She said that in the 1940s lightning hit the telephone pole outside and blew the telephone right off the wall, starting a fire in the wall she put out with a pan of water. Another time my dad, who would have been about 5 years old, and my grandfather were in the barn trying to calm the cattle. Looking out the window she saw a ball of lightning roll in one end of the barn and then out the other without lighting the mounds of straw and hay inside on fire. She could never abide thunderstorms after that.
They're rocks that weren't there the day before, **that's** what the hullabaloo is a about. It's not like Earth, where stuff is moving around all the time and a rabbit or squirrel could just randomly kick it into view. They have no idea how they got there, it's a shock that they saw anything move, much less a rock this big, ore for that matter two of them.
I'm sure that's essentially what folks told my ancestors before they left Europe a century or two ago, with "unowned farmland" instead of "resource scarcity". Growing food? You have to find water, clear the land that's covered with trees, break the roots up, keep the animals out of the fields, keep the Mormons from stealing the harvest and the livestock, etc. Lots of people died, sometimes entire colonies were wiped out by starvation, weather, or irate native peoples. The lucky and hard-working survived, and that will happen in space as well.
The Unmanned Space Flight forums have some better images than most you'll see on the standard snews sites. There are at least two rocks and some sand that has appeared in the image. That's on the uphill side of the rover, it's likely that this stuff rolled down the hill. What started it rolling is unknown, of course.
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Modded 0? Really? Just because I don't hate on IV? Good grief.
That's hilarious. Post was downmodded because I mentioned the 19th century Mormon's habit of stealing everything not nailed down, in accordance with their Doctrine of the Consecration of Goods.
Oh, and I forgot the nicotine and cocaine found in Egyptian mummies, produced by plant which ONLY existed in the Americas.
The Domincans created a Quechua/Spanish dictionary before Pizarro even reached Cusco, so it's not unreasonable. The dating is problematic though, unless perhaps it was created by the Portuguese or Venetian merchants that were suspected to have been using secret trade routs to bring rare items to Europe before the 'official' discovery of the Americas.
Unlikely. Vellum and parchment were expensive, and bookworms and moths were likely to infest stock that was just shoved in a corner and forgotten for 5 or 10 generations. If they had extra they just wouldn't have bought more, it's not like monasteries and publishers had warehouses full of excess stock.
Just to pick nits, the goal of alchemy was to produce the Philosopher's Stone, which granted eternal life to imbibers. Turning lead (or other base metals) to gold was simply the test of whether the Philosopher's Stone had been successfully produced or not.
There was pre-Colombian contact, although perhaps not extensive. Central American and Alaskan jade show up in Chinese tombs of the 13th and early 14th centuries, and peppers from the Americas have been grown in Szechuan since ancient times.. IIRC, the Piri Reis map mentions Portuguese sailors visiting the territories shown on that map. A mummy in Paracas had TB, and another (in Tumbes?) had syphilis, both European diseases. Of course if you want to go further back the round stone heads of the Olmec show what are very clearly African faces, and black peoples were mentioned by Europeans when they arrived in Central America. Even further back the bottle gourd was cultivated in tropical South America apparently as soon as humans arrived in the area, and it has been an exclusively domesticated (as in, can't reproduce naturally) since at least 9,000 years ago.
The IV labs are incredibly cool. Imagine walking into a 5+star restaurant kitchen that is also equipped with a metal lathe, a vacuum chamber, a 400 liter tank of liquid nitrogen, an electron microscope, and a terawatt laser that can automatically target female mosquitoes. So yeah, they do some really neat stuff.
No, IV is not owned by Apple and/or Microsoft, although there are plenty of Apple and MS alumni working there. Microsoft gazillionaire Nathan Myrvold is the primary founder, his original goal was to make sure that IP that was not being used could be shopped around and licensed to ensure that whatever technology it promoted would be used. Company has morphed a bit since then, of course.
There are photos extant from almost a century ago until today, and multiple videos (even some on YouTube). There are also a plethora of reliable observations over the years. Did you doubt the existence of giant squid before actual examples were caught?
Browse master. If he had just put one NT 3.51 machine (even Workstation) on the network it would have automatically promoted itself to browse master and a lot of his headaches would have gone away. The few Win 9x boxes that still argued with the NT server (some always did) could easily be identified and a 30 second reg hack would have shut them up as well. Before the advent of the Brain Dump sites being an MCSE meant you actually knew something, and probably had beaten yourself up learning it.
I think more than anything NT 3.51 was competing with Win 3.11. It was so much more stable and multi-tasked so much better than Win 3.11 that it was worth the price, and the networking went from painful and slow to almost automatic. I think IBM shot themselves in the foot by not making OS/2 more compatible with the MS networking model, since almost from the beginning it was obvious that the MS network model was going to be less expensive and easier to administer than Novell (then AD put the stake in that particular corpse).
No, the weather (yearly) has definitely changed over the last 100 years (climate).
Yeah, I know, replying to myself. I can't help remembering Voyager's 'Grand Tour' to the outer planets. Congress refused to approve a mission of that extent, instead NASA had to package it as a much shorter mission to Jupiter and Saturn. They (rather sneakily, for a government bureaucracy) launched during the only window that would allow the Grand Tour, and then went after supplemental funding for the supposedly "extended mission" they had planned for all along. Still amazes me that the Shrub White House tried to cancel the miniscule cost of continuing to monitor the spacecraft.
Oh, no, this is certainly a miracle. The miracle is that politicians actually budgeted sufficient money to carry out a program that wouldn't complete until after their term in office had ended. If Congress had been told that Opportunity's mission was going to last a decade the funding would never have been approved.
It's a miracle anyone can find an article on the Internet from 10 years ago . . .
Does it hurt to be that stupid? If not, it should.
Back in 2000 (when anyone still used AOL) a lot of us were appalled that with the child filter on AOL would allow access to the Republican party site, the NRA, the big booze manufacturers, the American Nazi Party, all the US military web sites, and a bunch of other far-right web sites, but blocked access to the Democratic party site, Al Gore's web site, MADD, NOAA(?), and pretty much every left-leaning news site. A lot of us cared about the false positives then, and access through the child filter went up and down depending on the volume of complaints until the election was over.
Seriously? Oh, crap. So the Western-culture countries are just giving up and handing the future to Asia. I suppose it's the logical conclusion of the MBA disease, where if something doesn't make a profit this accounting cycle then it's not worth doing.
It wasn't until the 1960s that scientists finally admitted that ball lightning actually existed. Since they couldn't explain how it could exist they declared it an 'old wives tale'.
My grandmother was terrified of lightning storms, and I used to sit with her during them growing up. She said that in the 1940s lightning hit the telephone pole outside and blew the telephone right off the wall, starting a fire in the wall she put out with a pan of water. Another time my dad, who would have been about 5 years old, and my grandfather were in the barn trying to calm the cattle. Looking out the window she saw a ball of lightning roll in one end of the barn and then out the other without lighting the mounds of straw and hay inside on fire. She could never abide thunderstorms after that.
They're rocks that weren't there the day before, **that's** what the hullabaloo is a about. It's not like Earth, where stuff is moving around all the time and a rabbit or squirrel could just randomly kick it into view. They have no idea how they got there, it's a shock that they saw anything move, much less a rock this big, ore for that matter two of them.
I'm sure that's essentially what folks told my ancestors before they left Europe a century or two ago, with "unowned farmland" instead of "resource scarcity". Growing food? You have to find water, clear the land that's covered with trees, break the roots up, keep the animals out of the fields, keep the Mormons from stealing the harvest and the livestock, etc. Lots of people died, sometimes entire colonies were wiped out by starvation, weather, or irate native peoples. The lucky and hard-working survived, and that will happen in space as well.
Link directly to the image.
And to the forum thread.
That's easy. Just do them on another planet and you'll get all the publicity that you could ever want!
The Unmanned Space Flight forums have some better images than most you'll see on the standard snews sites. There are at least two rocks and some sand that has appeared in the image. That's on the uphill side of the rover, it's likely that this stuff rolled down the hill. What started it rolling is unknown, of course.