Your post was implying that IAU doesn't consider this object as an extrasolar planet; which is not the case / has nothing to do with any vendettas against definition talking just about planets of our system.
Star clusters are very distinct from dwarf galaxies, and indeed tiny in comparison to...dwarf galaxies. Which are, you know, a galaxies other than our own.
No, it's a case of preying on the gullible by "manufacturers" (such phones are in reality offered, with customization/branding options, by few places in China (big surprise here...); from what I've seen - priced anywhere between $50 and $200, for essentially the same product)
The important parts inside are very mass produced, responsible for ~$25 Shanzhai handsets. The one from TFA is just a simplified software (at worst slight modification from one used already) and another slightly different "design" of exterior. Terribly shabby and unreliable when it comes to its basic functionality.
While big manufacturers also offer phones which are very simple (not into the area of fetishism, true), very easy to use, with very long-lasting battery; and reliable. Check out Nokia 1280 for example. Oh, also $25, without contract of course (bonus: built-in flashlight and FM radio - and don't try to tell me omitting these would increase the price)
Jaguar and CD32 were certainly underspecced, for their generation - in practice only slightly better from the gen they were meant to "replace", and declassed by sweet spot arrivals. That might have been partially the case with Dreamcast, too - if only because of the DVD.
And Lynx...I would say battery life is an important spec in such system.
1: Did we somehow escape the Archimedes' principle of buoyancy? I mean - come on, it's over two thousand years old, surely with our scientific and technological progress we should be able to build ships which are not constrained by it!
Problem is, people seem to assume (and wish) how our dreams from works of fiction should inevitably come true, if we only "work hard enough"... but Real World(tm) has practical limits; ignoring them won't do us any good (however pleasant it seems now to live beyond sustainability - though, truth be told, perhaps most of humanity lives on detritus already)
Just look at those airplanes from "our" times (/. & unicode links...), as imagined ~130 years ago (depiction no doubt influenced by rapid advances in (sub?)marine technology, capturing imagination of observers) - we can build them! (take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy), but it would be a horrible idea, at the least. Probably something similar gave us Shuttle (designers of which raised on scifi of ~1940s, inspired by rapid advances in aircraft technology & with lots of shiny spaceplanes) - which, in light of its purpose, is somewhat analogous to flying boats (not many those around nowadays)
Motorola F3 has one serious problem - its display is not raster, it's a segmented one (like in inexpensive calculators). Which means it hit new heights when it comes to awfulness of Motorola UI.
And awful UI is something you really don't want to see in such device, especially when there's so little of it. Why lowest end Nokia and, recently, Samsung phones are all the rage in such segment.
It's because it targets demographics that, apart from being more easily confused by latest tech, will fall to targeted claims of people who "care specifically about them".
All of this while Nokia 1280, a very simple and solid phone (those "for the elderly" are horrible, when it comes to basic phone functionality and durability), can be had for $20 without contract.
It's because it targets demographics that, apart from being more easily confused by latest tech, will fall to targeted claims of people who "care specifically about them"
All of this while Nokia 1280, a very simple and solid phone (those "for the elderly" are horrible, when it comes to basic phone functionality and durability), can be had for $20 without contract.
Things is, apparently there weren't equal amounts of matter and antimatter created. Supposedly the symmetry between matter and antimatter is not the case at very high energies, like just after the Big Bang.
Antimatter areas of the Universe would had to be reconciled with some pretty fundamental stuff (for which there is quite a lot support - enough so they would probably had to be far beyond our horizon / observable Universe, in which case: no, we can't observe them and it doesn't matter, they don't exist for us)
The inefficiency of antimatter production is enormous: you get only a tenth of a billion (10-10) of the invested energy back. If we could assemble all the antimatter we've ever made at CERN and annihilate it with matter, we would have enough energy to light a single electric light bulb for a few minutes....
Can we make antimatter bombs?
No. It would take billions of years to produce enough antimatter for a bomb having the same destructiveness as ‘typical’ hydrogen bombs, of which there exist more than ten thousand already.
Sociological note: scientists realized that the atom bomb was a real possibility many years before one was actually built and exploded, and then the public was totally surprised and amazed. On the other hand, the public somehow anticipates the antimatter bomb, but we have known for a long time that it cannot be realized in practice.
Yup. Interesting. More than basic depth estimation (better one in this case, sure - but optimized for human figure standing at particular distance, and apparently energy-hungry)
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PS. And how could I forget - he also hated smoking (in fact, it made Nazi Germany the first place with strong anti-tobacco movement)
So, easier than building higher on land?
Your post was implying that IAU doesn't consider this object as an extrasolar planet; which is not the case / has nothing to do with any vendettas against definition talking just about planets of our system.
Star clusters are very distinct from dwarf galaxies, and indeed tiny in comparison to...dwarf galaxies. Which are, you know, a galaxies other than our own.
The IAU doesn't define this as a planet in our system, what the definition is about...
Possible planet in the Andromeda galaxy
There's also slight possibility of observation of a planet that's around 3.7 billion light years away.
(we very much distinguish individual stars in some of the nearest galaxies...)
No, it's a case of preying on the gullible by "manufacturers" (such phones are in reality offered, with customization/branding options, by few places in China (big surprise here...); from what I've seen - priced anywhere between $50 and $200, for essentially the same product)
The important parts inside are very mass produced, responsible for ~$25 Shanzhai handsets. The one from TFA is just a simplified software (at worst slight modification from one used already) and another slightly different "design" of exterior. Terribly shabby and unreliable when it comes to its basic functionality.
While big manufacturers also offer phones which are very simple (not into the area of fetishism, true), very easy to use, with very long-lasting battery; and reliable. Check out Nokia 1280 for example. Oh, also $25, without contract of course (bonus: built-in flashlight and FM radio - and don't try to tell me omitting these would increase the price)
To be fair, lack of broadband wasn't a problem - copies were mede from disk to disk. And "sold" often.
BTW do you remember was indy...2D sidescroller...with some teen witch...kept mostly in purple palette...if I remember correctly(?)
BTW do you remember was indy...2D sidescroller...with some teen witch...kept mostly in purple palette...if I remember correctly...(?)
Leaving gaming behind - and if sometimes returning, often to the games of youth - is also part of getting old, though.
Jaguar and CD32 were certainly underspecced, for their generation - in practice only slightly better from the gen they were meant to "replace", and declassed by sweet spot arrivals. That might have been partially the case with Dreamcast, too - if only because of the DVD.
And Lynx...I would say battery life is an important spec in such system.
1: Did we somehow escape the Archimedes' principle of buoyancy? I mean - come on, it's over two thousand years old, surely with our scientific and technological progress we should be able to build ships which are not constrained by it!
Problem is, people seem to assume (and wish) how our dreams from works of fiction should inevitably come true, if we only "work hard enough"... but Real World(tm) has practical limits; ignoring them won't do us any good (however pleasant it seems now to live beyond sustainability - though, truth be told, perhaps most of humanity lives on detritus already)
Just look at those airplanes from "our" times (/. & unicode links...), as imagined ~130 years ago (depiction no doubt influenced by rapid advances in (sub?)marine technology, capturing imagination of observers) - we can build them! (take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy), but it would be a horrible idea, at the least. Probably something similar gave us Shuttle (designers of which raised on scifi of ~1940s, inspired by rapid advances in aircraft technology & with lots of shiny spaceplanes) - which, in light of its purpose, is somewhat analogous to flying boats (not many those around nowadays)
2: http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm
Motorola F3 has one serious problem - its display is not raster, it's a segmented one (like in inexpensive calculators). Which means it hit new heights when it comes to awfulness of Motorola UI.
And awful UI is something you really don't want to see in such device, especially when there's so little of it. Why lowest end Nokia and, recently, Samsung phones are all the rage in such segment.
It's because it targets demographics that, apart from being more easily confused by latest tech, will fall to targeted claims of people who "care specifically about them".
All of this while Nokia 1280, a very simple and solid phone (those "for the elderly" are horrible, when it comes to basic phone functionality and durability), can be had for $20 without contract.
It's because it targets demographics that, apart from being more easily confused by latest tech, will fall to targeted claims of people who "care specifically about them"
All of this while Nokia 1280, a very simple and solid phone (those "for the elderly" are horrible, when it comes to basic phone functionality and durability), can be had for $20 without contract.
Many Nokia phones, especially build on S30, have that much. Some recent ones hitting 6 or 7 weeks.
Things is, apparently there weren't equal amounts of matter and antimatter created. Supposedly the symmetry between matter and antimatter is not the case at very high energies, like just after the Big Bang.
Antimatter areas of the Universe would had to be reconciled with some pretty fundamental stuff (for which there is quite a lot support - enough so they would probably had to be far beyond our horizon / observable Universe, in which case: no, we can't observe them and it doesn't matter, they don't exist for us)
First, most of the energy released in matter-antimatter annihilation is carried away by neutrinos.
Secondly...CERN covered this on one occasion:
The inefficiency of antimatter production is enormous: you get only a tenth of a billion (10-10) of the invested energy back. If we could assemble all the antimatter we've ever made at CERN and annihilate it with matter, we would have enough energy to light a single electric light bulb for a few minutes. ...
Can we make antimatter bombs?
No. It would take billions of years to produce enough antimatter for a bomb having the same destructiveness as ‘typical’ hydrogen bombs, of which there exist more than ten thousand already.
Sociological note: scientists realized that the atom bomb was a real possibility many years before one was actually built and exploded, and then the public was totally surprised and amazed. On the other hand, the public somehow anticipates the antimatter bomb, but we have known for a long time that it cannot be realized in practice.
Yup. Interesting. More than basic depth estimation (better one in this case, sure - but optimized for human figure standing at particular distance, and apparently energy-hungry)
And the second example with such, basically, formal name of a character (actual pronunciation doesn't follow like that) makes it "most languages"?
Did anybody try to inform them how the "devout" Catholics are quite often also anti-EU?
All the interesting processing.
Though OTOH in "traditional" forms of relaxing / leisure activity we also mostly just allow ourselves to be tricked into something.
...an illusion, typically.