I think the phrase "legal torrent sites" could be interpreted to mean "sites that host legal torrents" in addition to "legal...sites" and until someone tells me otherwise, lokitorrent and suprnova were not illegal in my opinion*, though they may have assisted in illegal activities such as copyright infringement.
*One should note that this is my opinion only so far at it is meaningless. If I thought my opinion were actually important, I would do more thinking and less/. posting.
They just don't have the manpower to keep the Mac OS X version up to date. It's also not as much as a priority for them because it is a small market (unlike windows) and there is an alternative (unlike linux). I agree with you that it sucks as I sit here "writing an 8-10 page paper" in NeoOffice which is based on OOo 1.1.2 or something but I find it acceptable. It reads the filetypes just as well as OOo and it's not X11 based which are both nice, but it's not Cocoa either and doesn't look Apple, but I still recommend it over OOo.
I hate to say this, but either you can help someone out or pay someone to contribute for you, but if you do neither, you can't really expect it to get done. Someday (after I graduate from college in another 2 years if I'm lucky) I hope to be able to give back to the community, but in the meantime I'll just work with what's there and give feedback. It reminds me of something my mom says that kinda sucks but it's life: If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself. And something about if you complain and whine about the way it's being done you'd better be ready to do a better job, but I never liked listening when she was telling me that. =)
Except that the other telescopes do not cover the same frequency. Yes, Shri Kulkarni (I believe he was the one) developed some impressive adaptive optics for the Keck Telescopes, but people still need Hubble because it's in space instead of under the earth's absorptive atmosphere. Similarly, Spitzer and other planned telescopes are not replacements because they operate at different frequencies. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the only option is to service Hubble, though I think it would be a good PR move as no new telescope will be as famous, since we could decide to send up a newer and better one, but we would need to get our @$$ in some serious gear to get it up soon.
Mod me -1 Redundant, but some people just don't get it the first time and so I'm trying to explain it differently (that's why we have dupes, remember).
I sure hope you are talking about Fahrenheit there as I think most people would assume that when not specified CPU temperature is in Celsius and 98C is pretty warm (and I don't even know if a pair of pants would protect your jewels from that furnace). Anyway, metric is the way to go -- but then maybe I should tell that to the JPL engineers across the street, so I guess for now I will settle for not making the rest of the world think we are all stupid for being American by at least letting them know we are using Fahrenheit.
Now, since/. is primarily American, mod me to hell just for asking for the units.
Amusing yes. But Insightful?! Only if you've been living under a fricken boulder since before IE 4 came out. As long as you've clearly been away from/. and the Interweb for a while maybe I should explain that "tabbed browsing" is not the ability in lynx to tab between hyperlinks but rather a feature in something called a Graphical User Interface based browser that allows for multiple webpages to be open at once and allows the user to tab through them. So how did you get mod points?
Actually, he gave you credit for it, though he didn't properly cite it according to MLA specification. I think that makes it copyright infringement for copying it without permission instead of plagarism. Don't worry; it's better for you this way: if you assume that by posting it to slashdot he reproduced it several hundred thousand times without permission, you can make a good $150,000 times 100,000 equals $150 billion. =)
Re:How? (Score:5, Informative)
by crow (16139) on Thursday February 24, @11:32AM (#11767258)
(http://www.votecrow.com/ | Last Journal: Monday July 01, @01:30PM)
It's a stock swap. No money is involved. This is typical of how mergers often work. The companies agree to merge, and they agree what the company being acquired is worth, do some math, and convert the shares of the acquired company into shares of the new company. The math is much like doing a stock split, though the ratio usually involves a number of decimal points. (The accounting for the investors is also much like a stock split.)
The real question in this case is why is Mandrakesoft's stock worth enough for Conectiva investors to consider this to be a worthwhile deal (as opposed to grabbing on to a sinking ship). I haven't looked at the business side of either company, so I can't comment there.
Actually, he gave you credit for it, though he didn't properly cite it according to MLA specification. I think that makes it copyright infringement for copying it without permission instead of plagarism. Don't worry; it's better for you this way: if you assume that by posting it to slashdot he reproduced it several hundred thousand times without permission, you can make a good $150,000 times 100,000 equals $150 billion. =)
Yep. My 20 GB Click Wheel iPod has a battery life in excess of 15 hours, though it was only advertised as having a 12 hour battery life. Similarly when my G4 Powerbook was new (Titanium 1 GHz, so that would be 2 years ago) its battery lasted a little over 5 hours if I remember correctly with settings set to optimize life where only 4.5 hours was advertised. Now however, the capacity has dropped gradually to a couple of hours since I use it so much and so I am thinking of getting a new battery, if I ever get the cash to buy one.
Let me start by saying that our star's light (electromagnetic radiation) peaks in the visible region of the spectrum (which is why we evolved to be able to see it). This energy comes from nuclear fusion (usually Hydrogen/Deuterium/Tritium -> Helium; it's complicated and you can look it up if you want).
So why doesn't this definition work? Because planets emit their own light too; and I don't mean reflection or reemission. Take Jupiter for example. It's big right? If you dropped a ton of stuff into it all of that potential energy gets converted into kinetic energy as it falls and then thermal energy when it hits. Now if you think about it, at one time or another all of the mass present in Jupiter had to fall into it, converting potential energy to thermal energy which got stored up in the core. Now, 4.5 billion years later (if you chose to believe that) it is still radiating away all of this energy in the form of infrared electromagnetic radiation (light). It emits more light than it absorbs! But it isn't a star.
I'm sorry. When I said that all of the software that actually runs the plant is over 25 years old and some obscure custom shit I meant the monitoring stuff and the control stuff.
I agree that it is stupid that the computer is connected to the network. I would also like to mention that it is unacceptable for the operators to be unfamiliar with the 1969 technology. At San Onofre, operators are trained and on the simulator (looks and acts identical) one week out of five where all sorts of stuff is thrown at them for them to deal with - so that they would have the training to be able to use the nifty, fancy technology and the redundant backups.
Anyway, nuclear power plants are all different. Many of them do not have the vulnerabilities that this one did; and I hope that these winblows-controlled systems are in the minority.
I even worked in IT. Here is how it works (at least at the one I worked at): all of the software that actually runs the plant is over 25 years old (and therefore does not run Windows). It runs some obscure custom shit, not that obscurity is efficient at security, but I guess it kinda helps. Yes, the computers used by the Secretaries, the Maintenance staff, the Managers, etc. all run Windows. The servers ran Red Had 7.3. This is all fluff. If this breaks or gets corrupted one of two things happens to the reactor: 1. Nothing or 2. Nothing. There are two ways the the system is electrically connected to the outside world, and both of them are through high voltage power lines, which cannot really be used to send data in to break things. If you want to break something, you need to physically be there to do it.
If you work in a nuclear power plant, you are going to continue to do everything you can think of to make it even harder for someone to sabotage the place. Physically, this includes multiple walls, gates, barricades, guns, and more to protect the containments. From a procedural standpoint, this means anyone who wants to get on-site gets ran through a database to check your history, after getting an employee escort. Anyone who wants to get into the protected area gets personally approved after a more in depth background check, and a heck of a lot of red tape.
If you are just Joe Public (no offense), you have a much higher chance of dying in a car accident so I wouldn't worry about this.
And No, I didn't RTFA, but I figured as long as my comment was more useful than the rest of them (read: references to 24), I figured this comment would be helpful.
Good God NO! Where have you been sicne 1915? Did you miss General Relativity? Space-time is curved so that when the light follows a straight path near a massive body it curves.
By the way, momentum = Energy/c = h*f/c. p=mv for non-relativistic particles, and guess what? Photons are sure as hell relativistic.
To be complete and give more information that relating to the parent, the full equation (c/o Einstein) is E^2-p^2c^2=m^2c^4. Thus one can see that for m=0 (like a photon) E=pc. If one tries to use p=mc for a photon then you get that E=Sqrt[2]mc^2 oops or if you plug in E=mc^2 to this equation you do NOT get =mv.
Playing music is fun with the Creative Zen Touch's easy navigation. Built to hold 10,000(1) songs with an incredible 24 hour(2) battery life at 128kbps MP3 or 32 hour(2) at 48kbps.
(1) Based on 4 minutes per song at 128kbps MP3 encoding and 64kbps WMA encoding
(2) 24 hours battery life at 128kbps MP3 or 32 hours at 48kbps MP3 From Creative's own site.
From this one would expect that it holds 10,000 128 kbps MP3s, right? No. It'll only hold 5,000 of those, nevermind the second half of footnote one or the fact that one might easily assume that the 128 kbps MP3 in the advertisment applies to both the battery life and the capacity, the capacity is entirely based on 64 kbps WMA encoding. Finally, they claim 32 hours of battery life at 48kbps MP3. WTF? Who listens to 48kbps MP3?
I refuse to buy a Creative Player if for no other reason than their misleading advertising. The goal is not to see how small one can make the bitrate to fit more 4 minute songs on the same size drive. Use 128 kbps like everyone else please.
I recently got an iPod (for Christmas) and all I have to say is that I am very pleased. It's battery is supposed to last 12 hours with 128 kbps (AAC) encoded files and when I decided to test it to see how long it would last, it lasted over 15 hours on 192 kbps MP3s, well above its advertised capacity especially when one takes into account that 192 kbps encoding requires more reading from the hard drive than 128 kbps encoding.
First, you know this is truly dorky because they specifically mention that the stream will play for free for Unix, Mac, and Linux users. Yay for Caltech! (Sorry, being a student there I am a bit biased.)
The other day I was thinking, why is there a person driving this thing? The reason our DARPA entry stopped was because it ran into a chain link fence (because it didn't see it). I mean, how hard can it be to write some software to tell the float to follow the float in front of it at the same speed and not run into anything. All it has to do is go straight, make a couple of turns, and not hit anything. It can't be that hard, can it?::sigh:: Maybe next year.
Photoelectric Effect - none (High School Caclulus)
Special Relativity - none (High School Calculus)
Quantum Mechanics - 2 years
General Relativity - 2 years of college math, maybe 3 depending on your college
Bose-Einstein Condensate - probably 3-4 years of college math, haven't done it, and again, it would depend on your college
I used years because my school is on the quarter system.
Special Relativity really is not all that hard. While I cannot claim to have rederived it all from scratch, I've rederived a good portion of it using not more than some Calculus and Algebra. QM is a bit interesting as it starts out not requiring that much math (like the photoeletric effect), but rapidly increases to requiring tensors, operators, and other multi-dimensional (semi-)infinite wells and shit.
(I was trying to get the greater than symbol to work and having no luck and accidentally hit submit instead of preview. And apparrently I was trying way to hard since it's just > even with html tags.)
So -1 is better than -4 but not necessarily a higher number?! Oh no!! All mathematicas is going to hell!
1>2 since clearly 1 is a more pure, perfect, and better number than 2.
Since 1+1=2, we can substitute to get 1>1+1 and then subtract 1 from each side to get that 0>1. Therefore, it is obvious that 1 is a negative number.
Similarly, -1>-2 since -1 is better than -2. Or we can subtract 3 from each side of our initial equation to get that -2>-1. See what happens when we use greater=better. Maybe we should go back to greater=/=better so math will not be broken.
So -1 is better than -4 but not necessarily a higher number?! Oh no!! All mathematicas is going to hell!
1&622 since clearly 1 is a more pure, perfect, and better number than 2.
Since 1+1=2, we can substitute to get 1ɭ+1 and then subtract 1 from each side to get that 0>1.
Similarly, -1>-2. Or we can subtract 3 from each side of our initial equation to get that -2>-1
It helps to use 12.59 km/s as the impact velocity instead of 17. Seismic effects drop to 5.8 on Richter Scale when this velocity is used.
The serious damage will happen if it hits land. The atmosphere will cause it to break up (starting at 50 km up) into smaller fragments that will shower a 1.25 km by 0.88 km area. This is not significantly dispersed to prevent a crater from forming so expect a 5 km diameter crater (0.5 km deep) followed by a 6.7 magnitude seismic result (noticibly worse than if it hits water). Don't expect much ejecta 100 km away or more and don't expect too much of an air blast/noise.
I would also like to point out that this asteroid has decreased in size from 440 meters in diameter to 390 meters in diameter. So let's hope that as the probability goes up, that size will go down. As a result, the energy has dropped to 1,500 megatons of TNT. Don't worry too much, something this big hits earth every 35,000 years on average.
I would also like to point out that this asteroid has decreased in size from 440 meters in diameter to 390 meters in diameter. So let's hope that as the probability goes up, that size will go down. Similarly, the energy has dropped to 1,500 megatons of TNT (after atmospheric losses). Also, the atmosphere will cause it to break up (starting at 50 km up) into smaller fragments that will shower a 1.25 km by 0.88 km area. This is not significantly dispersed to prevent a crater from forming so expect a 5 km diameter crater (0.5 km deep) followed by a 6.7 magnitude seismic result. Don't expect much ejecta 100 km away or more and don't expect too much of an air blast/noise. Don't worry too much, something this big hits earth every 35,000 years on average.
It'll be interesting to see if insurance companies keep the phrase "objects falling from sky" in the list of insured accidents.
Here is another Guardian article with some more information about the quiz, as opposed to the quiz itself, which is ridiculously hard. It tells a bit about the author (quizmaster) of the quiz and other bits of useful information like the fact that they take the quiz once before winter break and then once after winter break after having some time to prepare responses using any means available (including the Internet, which is one reason it has gotten harder in recent years -- the author wants to make sure that google is all but useless).
Anyway, I'd hate to have to take one of these, and the last thing I want to do over break is look up 180 obscure questions.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm going to go ahead and correct your grammar because I assume English was not your first language: it's "proof of concept." Auf wiedersehen.
I think the phrase "legal torrent sites" could be interpreted to mean "sites that host legal torrents" in addition to "legal...sites" and until someone tells me otherwise, lokitorrent and suprnova were not illegal in my opinion*, though they may have assisted in illegal activities such as copyright infringement.
*One should note that this is my opinion only so far at it is meaningless. If I thought my opinion were actually important, I would do more thinking and less /. posting.
They just don't have the manpower to keep the Mac OS X version up to date. It's also not as much as a priority for them because it is a small market (unlike windows) and there is an alternative (unlike linux). I agree with you that it sucks as I sit here "writing an 8-10 page paper" in NeoOffice which is based on OOo 1.1.2 or something but I find it acceptable. It reads the filetypes just as well as OOo and it's not X11 based which are both nice, but it's not Cocoa either and doesn't look Apple, but I still recommend it over OOo.
I hate to say this, but either you can help someone out or pay someone to contribute for you, but if you do neither, you can't really expect it to get done. Someday (after I graduate from college in another 2 years if I'm lucky) I hope to be able to give back to the community, but in the meantime I'll just work with what's there and give feedback. It reminds me of something my mom says that kinda sucks but it's life: If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself. And something about if you complain and whine about the way it's being done you'd better be ready to do a better job, but I never liked listening when she was telling me that. =)
Except that the other telescopes do not cover the same frequency. Yes, Shri Kulkarni (I believe he was the one) developed some impressive adaptive optics for the Keck Telescopes, but people still need Hubble because it's in space instead of under the earth's absorptive atmosphere. Similarly, Spitzer and other planned telescopes are not replacements because they operate at different frequencies. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the only option is to service Hubble, though I think it would be a good PR move as no new telescope will be as famous, since we could decide to send up a newer and better one, but we would need to get our @$$ in some serious gear to get it up soon.
Mod me -1 Redundant, but some people just don't get it the first time and so I'm trying to explain it differently (that's why we have dupes, remember).
I sure hope you are talking about Fahrenheit there as I think most people would assume that when not specified CPU temperature is in Celsius and 98C is pretty warm (and I don't even know if a pair of pants would protect your jewels from that furnace). Anyway, metric is the way to go -- but then maybe I should tell that to the JPL engineers across the street, so I guess for now I will settle for not making the rest of the world think we are all stupid for being American by at least letting them know we are using Fahrenheit.
Now, since /. is primarily American, mod me to hell just for asking for the units.
Amusing yes. But Insightful?! Only if you've been living under a fricken boulder since before IE 4 came out. As long as you've clearly been away from /. and the Interweb for a while maybe I should explain that "tabbed browsing" is not the ability in lynx to tab between hyperlinks but rather a feature in something called a Graphical User Interface based browser that allows for multiple webpages to be open at once and allows the user to tab through them. So how did you get mod points?
Actually, he gave you credit for it, though he didn't properly cite it according to MLA specification. I think that makes it copyright infringement for copying it without permission instead of plagarism. Don't worry; it's better for you this way: if you assume that by posting it to slashdot he reproduced it several hundred thousand times without permission, you can make a good $150,000 times 100,000 equals $150 billion. =)
Ah crap. Now you can sue me too.
by crow (16139) on Thursday February 24, @11:32AM (#11767258)
(http://www.votecrow.com/ | Last Journal: Monday July 01, @01:30PM)
It's a stock swap. No money is involved. This is typical of how mergers often work. The companies agree to merge, and they agree what the company being acquired is worth, do some math, and convert the shares of the acquired company into shares of the new company. The math is much like doing a stock split, though the ratio usually involves a number of decimal points. (The accounting for the investors is also much like a stock split.)
The real question in this case is why is Mandrakesoft's stock worth enough for Conectiva investors to consider this to be a worthwhile deal (as opposed to grabbing on to a sinking ship). I haven't looked at the business side of either company, so I can't comment there.
Actually, he gave you credit for it, though he didn't properly cite it according to MLA specification. I think that makes it copyright infringement for copying it without permission instead of plagarism. Don't worry; it's better for you this way: if you assume that by posting it to slashdot he reproduced it several hundred thousand times without permission, you can make a good $150,000 times 100,000 equals $150 billion. =)
Yep. My 20 GB Click Wheel iPod has a battery life in excess of 15 hours, though it was only advertised as having a 12 hour battery life. Similarly when my G4 Powerbook was new (Titanium 1 GHz, so that would be 2 years ago) its battery lasted a little over 5 hours if I remember correctly with settings set to optimize life where only 4.5 hours was advertised. Now however, the capacity has dropped gradually to a couple of hours since I use it so much and so I am thinking of getting a new battery, if I ever get the cash to buy one.
Apparently, 4020 of us have mistyped /. today, though I went there on purpose today after accidentally going there a couple days ago.
Let me start by saying that our star's light (electromagnetic radiation) peaks in the visible region of the spectrum (which is why we evolved to be able to see it). This energy comes from nuclear fusion (usually Hydrogen/Deuterium/Tritium -> Helium; it's complicated and you can look it up if you want).
So why doesn't this definition work? Because planets emit their own light too; and I don't mean reflection or reemission. Take Jupiter for example. It's big right? If you dropped a ton of stuff into it all of that potential energy gets converted into kinetic energy as it falls and then thermal energy when it hits. Now if you think about it, at one time or another all of the mass present in Jupiter had to fall into it, converting potential energy to thermal energy which got stored up in the core. Now, 4.5 billion years later (if you chose to believe that) it is still radiating away all of this energy in the form of infrared electromagnetic radiation (light). It emits more light than it absorbs! But it isn't a star.
I would be forced to conclude that they will be sterile for the rest of their life.
I'm sorry. When I said that all of the software that actually runs the plant is over 25 years old and some obscure custom shit I meant the monitoring stuff and the control stuff.
I agree that it is stupid that the computer is connected to the network. I would also like to mention that it is unacceptable for the operators to be unfamiliar with the 1969 technology. At San Onofre, operators are trained and on the simulator (looks and acts identical) one week out of five where all sorts of stuff is thrown at them for them to deal with - so that they would have the training to be able to use the nifty, fancy technology and the redundant backups.
Anyway, nuclear power plants are all different. Many of them do not have the vulnerabilities that this one did; and I hope that these winblows-controlled systems are in the minority.
I even worked in IT. Here is how it works (at least at the one I worked at): all of the software that actually runs the plant is over 25 years old (and therefore does not run Windows). It runs some obscure custom shit, not that obscurity is efficient at security, but I guess it kinda helps. Yes, the computers used by the Secretaries, the Maintenance staff, the Managers, etc. all run Windows. The servers ran Red Had 7.3. This is all fluff. If this breaks or gets corrupted one of two things happens to the reactor: 1. Nothing or 2. Nothing. There are two ways the the system is electrically connected to the outside world, and both of them are through high voltage power lines, which cannot really be used to send data in to break things. If you want to break something, you need to physically be there to do it.
If you work in a nuclear power plant, you are going to continue to do everything you can think of to make it even harder for someone to sabotage the place. Physically, this includes multiple walls, gates, barricades, guns, and more to protect the containments. From a procedural standpoint, this means anyone who wants to get on-site gets ran through a database to check your history, after getting an employee escort. Anyone who wants to get into the protected area gets personally approved after a more in depth background check, and a heck of a lot of red tape.
If you are just Joe Public (no offense), you have a much higher chance of dying in a car accident so I wouldn't worry about this.
And No, I didn't RTFA, but I figured as long as my comment was more useful than the rest of them (read: references to 24), I figured this comment would be helpful.
I can't be bothered to do the calculation.
So you're posting on /. instead?
since objects need mass to be affected by gravity
Good God NO! Where have you been sicne 1915? Did you miss General Relativity? Space-time is curved so that when the light follows a straight path near a massive body it curves.
By the way, momentum = Energy/c = h*f/c. p=mv for non-relativistic particles, and guess what? Photons are sure as hell relativistic.
To be complete and give more information that relating to the parent, the full equation (c/o Einstein) is E^2-p^2c^2=m^2c^4. Thus one can see that for m=0 (like a photon) E=pc. If one tries to use p=mc for a photon then you get that E=Sqrt[2]mc^2 oops or if you plug in E=mc^2 to this equation you do NOT get =mv.
More information here.
Outpost.com claims that too:
40 GB
20 GB
I've sent them 3 e-mails since Thanksgiving. I eventually gave up.
Scott
Playing music is fun with the Creative Zen Touch's easy navigation. Built to hold 10,000(1) songs with an incredible 24 hour(2) battery life at 128kbps MP3 or 32 hour(2) at 48kbps.
(1) Based on 4 minutes per song at 128kbps MP3 encoding and 64kbps WMA encoding
(2) 24 hours battery life at 128kbps MP3 or 32 hours at 48kbps MP3
From Creative's own site.
From this one would expect that it holds 10,000 128 kbps MP3s, right? No. It'll only hold 5,000 of those, nevermind the second half of footnote one or the fact that one might easily assume that the 128 kbps MP3 in the advertisment applies to both the battery life and the capacity, the capacity is entirely based on 64 kbps WMA encoding. Finally, they claim 32 hours of battery life at 48kbps MP3. WTF? Who listens to 48kbps MP3?
I refuse to buy a Creative Player if for no other reason than their misleading advertising. The goal is not to see how small one can make the bitrate to fit more 4 minute songs on the same size drive. Use 128 kbps like everyone else please.
I recently got an iPod (for Christmas) and all I have to say is that I am very pleased. It's battery is supposed to last 12 hours with 128 kbps (AAC) encoded files and when I decided to test it to see how long it would last, it lasted over 15 hours on 192 kbps MP3s, well above its advertised capacity especially when one takes into account that 192 kbps encoding requires more reading from the hard drive than 128 kbps encoding.
First, you know this is truly dorky because they specifically mention that the stream will play for free for Unix, Mac, and Linux users. Yay for Caltech! (Sorry, being a student there I am a bit biased.) The other day I was thinking, why is there a person driving this thing? The reason our DARPA entry stopped was because it ran into a chain link fence (because it didn't see it). I mean, how hard can it be to write some software to tell the float to follow the float in front of it at the same speed and not run into anything. All it has to do is go straight, make a couple of turns, and not hit anything. It can't be that hard, can it? ::sigh:: Maybe next year.
Photoelectric Effect - none (High School Caclulus)
Special Relativity - none (High School Calculus)
Quantum Mechanics - 2 years
General Relativity - 2 years of college math, maybe 3 depending on your college
Bose-Einstein Condensate - probably 3-4 years of college math, haven't done it, and again, it would depend on your college
I used years because my school is on the quarter system.
Special Relativity really is not all that hard. While I cannot claim to have rederived it all from scratch, I've rederived a good portion of it using not more than some Calculus and Algebra. QM is a bit interesting as it starts out not requiring that much math (like the photoeletric effect), but rapidly increases to requiring tensors, operators, and other multi-dimensional (semi-)infinite wells and shit.
(I was trying to get the greater than symbol to work and having no luck and accidentally hit submit instead of preview. And apparrently I was trying way to hard since it's just > even with html tags.)
So -1 is better than -4 but not necessarily a higher number?! Oh no!! All mathematicas is going to hell!
1>2 since clearly 1 is a more pure, perfect, and better number than 2. Since 1+1=2, we can substitute to get 1>1+1 and then subtract 1 from each side to get that 0>1. Therefore, it is obvious that 1 is a negative number. Similarly, -1>-2 since -1 is better than -2. Or we can subtract 3 from each side of our initial equation to get that -2>-1. See what happens when we use greater=better. Maybe we should go back to greater=/=better so math will not be broken.
So -1 is better than -4 but not necessarily a higher number?! Oh no!! All mathematicas is going to hell!
1&622 since clearly 1 is a more pure, perfect, and better number than 2.
Since 1+1=2, we can substitute to get 1ɭ+1 and then subtract 1 from each side to get that 0>1.
Similarly, -1>-2. Or we can subtract 3 from each side of our initial equation to get that -2>-1
How about greater=greater? Is that ok?
It helps to use 12.59 km/s as the impact velocity instead of 17. Seismic effects drop to 5.8 on Richter Scale when this velocity is used.
The serious damage will happen if it hits land. The atmosphere will cause it to break up (starting at 50 km up) into smaller fragments that will shower a 1.25 km by 0.88 km area. This is not significantly dispersed to prevent a crater from forming so expect a 5 km diameter crater (0.5 km deep) followed by a 6.7 magnitude seismic result (noticibly worse than if it hits water). Don't expect much ejecta 100 km away or more and don't expect too much of an air blast/noise.
I would also like to point out that this asteroid has decreased in size from 440 meters in diameter to 390 meters in diameter. So let's hope that as the probability goes up, that size will go down. As a result, the energy has dropped to 1,500 megatons of TNT. Don't worry too much, something this big hits earth every 35,000 years on average.
First of all, you will be wanting to throw a 390 meter diameter rock at the earth. As for the asteroid simulator pages there are several:
Arizona Site - I prefer this one for its data.
UMD Site - I like the nifty pictures.
I would also like to point out that this asteroid has decreased in size from 440 meters in diameter to 390 meters in diameter. So let's hope that as the probability goes up, that size will go down. Similarly, the energy has dropped to 1,500 megatons of TNT (after atmospheric losses). Also, the atmosphere will cause it to break up (starting at 50 km up) into smaller fragments that will shower a 1.25 km by 0.88 km area. This is not significantly dispersed to prevent a crater from forming so expect a 5 km diameter crater (0.5 km deep) followed by a 6.7 magnitude seismic result. Don't expect much ejecta 100 km away or more and don't expect too much of an air blast/noise. Don't worry too much, something this big hits earth every 35,000 years on average.
It'll be interesting to see if insurance companies keep the phrase "objects falling from sky" in the list of insured accidents.
Here is another Guardian article with some more information about the quiz, as opposed to the quiz itself, which is ridiculously hard. It tells a bit about the author (quizmaster) of the quiz and other bits of useful information like the fact that they take the quiz once before winter break and then once after winter break after having some time to prepare responses using any means available (including the Internet, which is one reason it has gotten harder in recent years -- the author wants to make sure that google is all but useless).
Anyway, I'd hate to have to take one of these, and the last thing I want to do over break is look up 180 obscure questions.