I think it should also be pointed out that if the fire is emmitting in the infrared, it is *also* emitting in the microwave. Infact, it is emitting across the spectrum with a peak wavelength determined by the temperature. see the wiki on blackbody radiation.
If it's really as slow as you say, they'd be out of business quite fast. It's not like they've got incredible flavor or healthfullness. The only thing those places got goin' for them is speed.
It wasn't a gaping hole all the way to the core. The hit caused a chain reaction resulting in reactor overload. Probably all the rebels did was collapse the hole, causing the heat to build up instead of being dissapated, resulting in the destruction of the death star when they fired the superlaser.
Of course, then you have to believe that the superlaser didn't have any kind of sensor on the port to disallow operation when the port is closed off, but that's not that hard of an oversight to imagine, especially if it was purposely put there to sabotage the plans a la DaVinci's notebooks.
I don't think the light is part of the process at all. It's a red, green, or blue (or sometimes purple) herring. The light is probably added by whatever OSHA dealy they had a long time ago to show where the dangerous part is...
But the real question is: where did lucas get a telescope powerful enough to record all of this?
um.. the vent WAS protected. It was ray-shielded. However, since it was a thermal exhaust vent, it can't be both ray-shielded AND particle shielded: you gotta let something through to bleed off the heat. They chose ray, aparantly prefering the efficiency of evaporative cooling or perhaps they simply considered the risk of energy weapons to be greater than the risk of some crack pilot who'd been shooting wamp rats his whole life.
and.. I thought the whole point of the ewoks was that they happened to be in the right place at the right time for such an insignificant race to affect the course of galactic history. there's a whole allegory thing goin' on there that apparantly you missed.
the reason is simple: lawyers are in charge of making the laws.
they have no interest whatsoever in simplifying the law, or even creating good (or bad) law and a vague interest increasing the volume of law: the more laws on the books, good or bad, the more work there is for lawyers.
The problem compounds because there are few people in the US with both the money and schedules flexible enough to run for office, and "barrister" is a profession which provides both.
So there is a positive feedback loop: legislators create more laws, more complicated law requires more lawyers, more lawyers are available/rich enough to run for office, lawyers-turned-legislators do what they know: argue and create complicated law, etc. They don't even need to be aware of the cycle to contribute to it.
The relay issue is solved. A halo orbit about L2 requires very little propellant to maintain and would provide a clear view of both the telescope and an earthly ground station 24 hours a day.
We know how to do communications satellites, and we know how to do halo orbits (SOHO is a very good example), there's no new technology there (well electric propulsion would make the propellant last longer, but by the time we build anything, that won't be anywhere near novel.
But.. while the telescope is directly facing the sun, you still have an opportunity: unobstructed radio observation of the sun itself!
Indeed. I believe I heard somewhere (so that makes it hearsay.. take with salt) that this is actually empirical data resulting from an accidental decompression in a vacuum chamber.
Yeah PS2's game selection is great! I can play "Brand-name cars go in circles" or "Branded generic sports game" or "third person gangstas"
But.. Sony does not make all the games, so it's not really fair to judge them on that.
But it's irrelevant. They put in all the game-system they could for the budget they had. (or they spent the least amount of money for the game-system they needed) either way, they did the best they could
now.. their digital cameras on the other hand... Everything but the pictures looks fantastic!
well just a guess, but I'd say not much without some fairly expensive modifications to his home. Thicken the walls, double-pane glass, basically whatever you would do in an airport zone.
you could also try active noise cancelling headphones, but I can't see anyone wearing those things for any length of time.
I don't think you understand the nature of the free market. It exists. It will always exist. Whatever encumberances you place to attempt to shape it to your image will simply become part of it as market pressures. It knows nothing of "legal" or "illegal" but only "supply" and "demand" and how they are influenced by the former.
It requires not your worship, and ignores your disdain, but only by understanding it can you hope to reap its fruits.
In the 2000 and 2004 elections, Volusia county used scantron style paper voting. Every station had a sharpie and you were expected to black out a rather large container for each vote.
Despite having gone overwhelmingly for Gore in 2000 (or perhaps because of it) it was one of the counties which the Gore campaign requested recount. No irregularities were found.
furthermore, a quick google search reveals that Ion Sancho was elections supervisor for Leon County in 2000, which is in the panhandle, and not anywhere near volusia county.
Of course, you have to know about it a couple of months in advance, so an "absentee" ballot can be sent to you, but there is no requirement that you actually go anywhere to get one. They are offered to shut-ins for instance.
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I think it should also be pointed out that if the fire is emmitting in the infrared, it is *also* emitting in the microwave. Infact, it is emitting across the spectrum with a peak wavelength determined by the temperature. see the wiki on blackbody radiation.
If it's really as slow as you say, they'd be out of business quite fast. It's not like they've got incredible flavor or healthfullness. The only thing those places got goin' for them is speed.
Yeah forget karma whoring. The percentage is too low. I've decided to become a karma PIMP.
I thought there were supposed to be joke articles today...
I made the same mistake with the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
It wasn't a gaping hole all the way to the core. The hit caused a chain reaction resulting in reactor overload. Probably all the rebels did was collapse the hole, causing the heat to build up instead of being dissapated, resulting in the destruction of the death star when they fired the superlaser.
Of course, then you have to believe that the superlaser didn't have any kind of sensor on the port to disallow operation when the port is closed off, but that's not that hard of an oversight to imagine, especially if it was purposely put there to sabotage the plans a la DaVinci's notebooks.
I don't think the light is part of the process at all. It's a red, green, or blue (or sometimes purple) herring. The light is probably added by whatever OSHA dealy they had a long time ago to show where the dangerous part is...
But the real question is: where did lucas get a telescope powerful enough to record all of this?
how can they not use energy? they glow brightly in a color appropriate to some aspect of the character weilding them.
um.. the vent WAS protected. It was ray-shielded. However, since it was a thermal exhaust vent, it can't be both ray-shielded AND particle shielded: you gotta let something through to bleed off the heat. They chose ray, aparantly prefering the efficiency of evaporative cooling or perhaps they simply considered the risk of energy weapons to be greater than the risk of some crack pilot who'd been shooting wamp rats his whole life.
and.. I thought the whole point of the ewoks was that they happened to be in the right place at the right time for such an insignificant race to affect the course of galactic history. there's a whole allegory thing goin' on there that apparantly you missed.
you say addressed as if it is past tense..
so where can I pick up a copy of this "Vista" of which you speak?
No they're not. They're still formulaic, they just use a different, "more artsy" formula.
sigh. that's not the reason.
the reason is simple: lawyers are in charge of making the laws.
they have no interest whatsoever in simplifying the law, or even creating good (or bad) law and a vague interest increasing the volume of law: the more laws on the books, good or bad, the more work there is for lawyers.
The problem compounds because there are few people in the US with both the money and schedules flexible enough to run for office, and "barrister" is a profession which provides both.
So there is a positive feedback loop: legislators create more laws, more complicated law requires more lawyers, more lawyers are available/rich enough to run for office, lawyers-turned-legislators do what they know: argue and create complicated law, etc. They don't even need to be aware of the cycle to contribute to it.
If earth creatures are any cue, nasty, dangerous aliens will probably be "cute" and the docile, easygoing aliens will be "ugly."
The relay issue is solved. A halo orbit about L2 requires very little propellant to maintain and would provide a clear view of both the telescope and an earthly ground station 24 hours a day.
We know how to do communications satellites, and we know how to do halo orbits (SOHO is a very good example), there's no new technology there (well electric propulsion would make the propellant last longer, but by the time we build anything, that won't be anywhere near novel.
But.. while the telescope is directly facing the sun, you still have an opportunity: unobstructed radio observation of the sun itself!
Indeed. I believe I heard somewhere (so that makes it hearsay.. take with salt) that this is actually empirical data resulting from an accidental decompression in a vacuum chamber.
Yeah PS2's game selection is great! I can play "Brand-name cars go in circles" or "Branded generic sports game" or "third person gangstas"
But.. Sony does not make all the games, so it's not really fair to judge them on that.
But it's irrelevant. They put in all the game-system they could for the budget they had. (or they spent the least amount of money for the game-system they needed) either way, they did the best they could
now.. their digital cameras on the other hand... Everything but the pictures looks fantastic!
well just a guess, but I'd say not much without some fairly expensive modifications to his home. Thicken the walls, double-pane glass, basically whatever you would do in an airport zone.
you could also try active noise cancelling headphones, but I can't see anyone wearing those things for any length of time.
You are off by a facto of about 10 if comparing to commercial airliners:
1/2 mile = 2,700 ft.
so you're even more correct about not having the range.
Dude. Your shirt rusted.
I don't think you understand the nature of the free market. It exists. It will always exist. Whatever encumberances you place to attempt to shape it to your image will simply become part of it as market pressures. It knows nothing of "legal" or "illegal" but only "supply" and "demand" and how they are influenced by the former.
It requires not your worship, and ignores your disdain, but only by understanding it can you hope to reap its fruits.
In the 2000 and 2004 elections, Volusia county used scantron style paper voting. Every station had a sharpie and you were expected to black out a rather large container for each vote.
Despite having gone overwhelmingly for Gore in 2000 (or perhaps because of it) it was one of the counties which the Gore campaign requested recount. No irregularities were found.
furthermore, a quick google search reveals that Ion Sancho was elections supervisor for Leon County in 2000, which is in the panhandle, and not anywhere near volusia county.
Actually, the answer to your question is, "yes."
Of course, you have to know about it a couple of months in advance, so an "absentee" ballot can be sent to you, but there is no requirement that you actually go anywhere to get one. They are offered to shut-ins for instance.
No that's exactly why they were put into place. To make a nice even playing field with only two teams...
ahem...
"The Lion King."
Indeed, however myth requires a certain flexability with the realism, for sometimes it is not the characters that grow, but the audience.