These days, the brightest thing in the evening sky to the south-south-east is the planet Jupiter (get a pair of binoculars, at least 50mm, and you'll be able to see the disc and tell that it's not a star... maybe even make out some of the four Gallilean moons).
It could be one of a couple of other stars, but I'd put money on your bright "star" being Jupiter.
Can anybody name a product launch without "mixed" feedback?
Windows ME and the Catwoman movie.
The reviews were pretty much unanimous on both of those.
I'm an American, but I also happen to speak fluent Russian, and lived in Russia for a number of years. I can say that, generally speaking, Russians are wonderfully anal-retentive about their language. They would correct my mistakes without a second thought, which helped me learn to speak well pretty quickly.
I knew one teenage girl while I was there was from Belarus, and her family spoke Belarussian at home, so her Russian was less than perfect - it was probably the quivalent of some backwoods "hick" English. She too was constantly corrected by her peers until she fixed her mistakes....And as far as I know, there is no governing body controlling the Russian language. Its speakers just appreciate it.
So far, no one has found a road-and wheel combination in which the road has the same shape as the wheel.
What if the wheel were not radially semetrical? Imagine it being flat on one side and then having a curve on the other side, sort of like a half of a pizza (although probably with catenary curves). If the road was then made of flat surfaces alternating with curved surfaces, could the wheel be aligned such that the curved surface of the wheel rides on the flat surface of the road, and vice-versa?
The physicists and mathematicians can decide whether that would really work. It's just the first thing that came to mind....
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These days, the brightest thing in the evening sky to the south-south-east is the planet Jupiter (get a pair of binoculars, at least 50mm, and you'll be able to see the disc and tell that it's not a star... maybe even make out some of the four Gallilean moons).
It could be one of a couple of other stars, but I'd put money on your bright "star" being Jupiter.
Can anybody name a product launch without "mixed" feedback? Windows ME and the Catwoman movie. The reviews were pretty much unanimous on both of those.
I forgot what tomorrow's date was until I saw slashdot. My first reaction was "WTF!?" and my second reaction was "Oh yeah, it's THAT day."
I'm an American, but I also happen to speak fluent Russian, and lived in Russia for a number of years. I can say that, generally speaking, Russians are wonderfully anal-retentive about their language. They would correct my mistakes without a second thought, which helped me learn to speak well pretty quickly.
...And as far as I know, there is no governing body controlling the Russian language. Its speakers just appreciate it.
I knew one teenage girl while I was there was from Belarus, and her family spoke Belarussian at home, so her Russian was less than perfect - it was probably the quivalent of some backwoods "hick" English. She too was constantly corrected by her peers until she fixed her mistakes.
What if the wheel were not radially semetrical? Imagine it being flat on one side and then having a curve on the other side, sort of like a half of a pizza (although probably with catenary curves). If the road was then made of flat surfaces alternating with curved surfaces, could the wheel be aligned such that the curved surface of the wheel rides on the flat surface of the road, and vice-versa?
The physicists and mathematicians can decide whether that would really work. It's just the first thing that came to mind....