Related web pages... and map showing its position.
on
Killer Asteroid
·
· Score: 1
explorezone.com has a news article on this which includes and interview with the astronomers.
My map of Near Earth Objects has 1999 AN10 marked on it, and will be updated daily. It's Currently the red object near mercury.
And Benny Peiser's Cambridge Conference network mailing list broke the news of this to it's readers - readers like Arthur C Clarke, Bill Napier, Mark Bailey and other big names in the field.
Hardly - in the UK we've been trying to get the UK to spend 10 million pounds over the next 10 years for a telescope and centre to look for the killer rock.
How many cruise missiles to lauch against serbia does that buy you? 5?
LINEAR and NEAT are the only government funded programmes, NEAT isn't really up to the task, and there are persistent rumours of LINEAR restricting information. And they're both in the USA - so when it's daytime there nobody is looking.
I even got as far as desiging a standalone mp3 dJ console - a box the size of a large CD player with controls on tops and 2 CD trays out front. With a hard disk inside storing all teh DJ's favourite requests (I know I like playing my latest white label, but the audience always asks for old favourites) and an ability to play audio CD's or mp3 tracks off the CD's or disk.
Pop mixer controls on teh top and scratch disc's on tops to give control of the CD's et. voilla a perfect DJ box... leave the record box behind...
I'm currenty trying to get an interface which does the same with the mouse on a screen.... for liveIce mp3 broadcasts.
There are plenty of Mpeg encoders around - Mpeg2Encode which has been incorporated into ImageMagick ( but it requires stupid amounts of memory if you use Image Magick - it loads all teh frames into memory before encoding) - but this only does fixed bitreate streams. I Tend to use the Berkley Mpeg encoder which does variable rate streams nicely (I've about a gigabyte worth of simiulations and movies I've made). For people that can#t live without a GUI there's MpegTool.
These all generate video streams only - if you want to add audio you need to get an mpeg audio stream (but don't use mpeg layer 3 - not many video players support it) and a Multiplexer which packs the video and audio streams into an mpeg systems stream.
In the 70's the British Interplanetary Society tried to design a hypothetical interstellar space probe.
This was going to travel at about 10% of the spped of light, but the neat idea they had to deal with the possibility of colliding with small fragments was to use a dustcloud travelling in front of the probe.
Any small fragemtns which were in the probe's path would encounter the cloud first, and would burn up into a coud of plasma which the probe would handle more easily. There would be a number of maintenance robots which would maintain the cloud at a sufficient density over the entire (60 year) trip.
Interestingly enough the BIS also published a mission design to put man on the moon, in the 1930's - but that used the technology of the day. Solid fuel rocket clusters, sextants, and lots of coffee to keep the navigator awake - no computers existed.
Tink of the loonie, I meen poor astrologers
on
Is Pluto a Planet?
·
· Score: 1
> new planets started popping up (Uranus, Mercury and lastly Pluto).
Ooops..... you Mean Uranus, Neptune and Pluto;-)
Mercury is one of the classical 5 planets (other than earth)
Slashdot Mirror
explorezone.com has a news article on this which includes and interview with the astronomers.
My map of Near Earth Objects has 1999 AN10 marked on it, and will be updated daily. It's Currently the red object near mercury.
And Benny Peiser's Cambridge Conference network mailing list broke the news of this to it's readers - readers like Arthur C Clarke, Bill Napier, Mark Bailey and other big names in the field.
Hardly - in the UK we've been trying to get the UK to spend 10 million pounds over the next 10 years for a telescope and centre to look for the killer rock.
How many cruise missiles to lauch against serbia does that buy you? 5?
LINEAR and NEAT are the only government funded programmes, NEAT isn't really up to the task, and there are persistent rumours of LINEAR restricting information.
And they're both in the USA - so when it's daytime there nobody is looking.
I even got as far as desiging a standalone mp3 dJ console - a box the size of a large CD player with controls on tops and 2 CD trays out front. With a hard disk inside storing all teh DJ's favourite requests (I know I like playing my latest white label, but the audience always asks for old favourites) and an ability to play audio CD's or mp3 tracks off the CD's or disk.
Pop mixer controls on teh top and scratch disc's on tops to give control of the CD's et. voilla a perfect DJ box... leave the record box behind...
I'm currenty trying to get an interface which does the same with the mouse on a screen.... for liveIce mp3 broadcasts.
Her serveer is another Linux box which handles a huge (ludicrous even) number of hits.....
There are plenty of Mpeg encoders around - Mpeg2Encode which has been incorporated into ImageMagick ( but it requires stupid amounts of memory if you use Image Magick - it loads all teh frames into memory before encoding) - but this only does fixed bitreate streams. I Tend to use the Berkley Mpeg encoder which does variable rate streams nicely (I've about a gigabyte worth of simiulations and movies I've made). For people that can#t live without a GUI there's MpegTool.
These all generate video streams only - if you want to add audio you need to get an mpeg audio stream (but don't use mpeg layer 3 - not many video players support it) and a Multiplexer which packs the video and audio streams into an mpeg systems stream.
Xanim only plays I frames from mpeg video streams... the last time I tried it didn't know how to demultiplex audio and video from a sytems stream...
mtv does fine for me.
Anyone for Jetpac 64?
In the 70's the British Interplanetary Society tried to design a hypothetical interstellar space probe.
This was going to travel at about 10% of the spped of light, but the neat idea they had to deal with the possibility of colliding with small fragments was to use a dustcloud travelling in front of the probe.
Any small fragemtns which were in the probe's path would encounter the cloud first, and would burn up into a coud of plasma which the probe would handle more easily. There would be a number of maintenance robots which would maintain the cloud at a sufficient density over the entire (60 year) trip.
Interestingly enough the BIS also published a mission design to put man on the moon, in the 1930's - but that used the technology of the day. Solid fuel rocket clusters, sextants, and lots of coffee to keep the navigator awake - no computers existed.
> new planets started popping up (Uranus, Mercury and lastly Pluto).
;-)
Ooops..... you Mean Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
Mercury is one of the classical 5 planets (other than earth)