Wait, the people who organize all of the reviews, keep the list of reviewers, store all of that information, arrange for the printing, manage the typesetting, chase after academics who don't format their work properly or who submit in a bad format are not doing 'actual work'?
Perhaps the GP meant that not everyone gets paid, as opposed to nobody gets paid.
I'm simply tired of playing the typical online debate game, where somebody demands proof (and work) and without it assumes that they have somehow accomplished a refutation of an argument.
I won't claim that I've refuted your argument, but if you can't be bothered to post a link, why should anyone else bother?
Strictly speaking, radar could have not have prevented the attack even if it were used properly. Its proper use would have given the Americans some warning.
"Intelligence is not about truth. If something were known to be true, states would not need intelligence agencies to collect the information or analyze it.
But can we know something to be true after we collect the information?
And if you don't sufficiently scatter the impactor - because we do not know what the physical properties and internal construction of Joe Random Asteroid is?
Then we alter its speed/direction. Slowing it down so to make it an hour later would cause it to miss the earth by 100,000 kilometers.
As for gravity towing, if we use a 30,000-kilogram ship to tow an asteroid 5 kilometers away, and taking G to be 6.7x10^{-11} m^3 kg^{-1} s^{-2}, the acceleration would be 6.7x10^{-11}x30,000/5000^2 meters per second squared. This turns out to be 8x10^{-14} meters per second squared. To move the asteroid 6,400,000 meters (the radius of the earth) would require more than 10^10 seconds, which is 300 years. Good luck with that.
Also, the gravity tow device would have to match the orbital speed of the asteroid. Taking 10 km/s as an "average" speed, how would the tow device maintain station? The surface gravity of Ceres is less than 1 m/s^2 (6.7x10^{-11} X 9.5x10^20 / 480,000^2), so the asteroid's gravity isn't helping much. Of course a smaller asteroid would have a lower surface gravity.
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Wait, the people who organize all of the reviews, keep the list of reviewers, store all of that information, arrange for the printing, manage the typesetting, chase after academics who don't format their work properly or who submit in a bad format are not doing 'actual work'?
Perhaps the GP meant that not everyone gets paid, as opposed to nobody gets paid.
Which is why I prefer latex foo.tex; dvips foo.dvi -o; ps2pdf foo.ps. This results in foo.pdf, including PSTricks from the original source file.
Arthur: They could grip it by the source code.
Guard: It's not a question of grip; it's a question of executable ratios!
I'm simply tired of playing the typical online debate game, where somebody demands proof (and work) and without it assumes that they have somehow accomplished a refutation of an argument.
I won't claim that I've refuted your argument, but if you can't be bothered to post a link, why should anyone else bother?
Saddam himself believed he had WMD, or else why would he have played a shell game with UN inspectors?
Perhaps he wanted Iran to believe that he had WMDs.
Because we might have to use social media to prevent an invasion of Iran?
And where are you looking? And you are making a claim, so it isn't my job.
Their blog posts are being used against them.
Strictly speaking, radar could have not have prevented the attack even if it were used properly. Its proper use would have given the Americans some warning.
"Intelligence is not about truth. If something were known to be true, states would not need intelligence agencies to collect the information or analyze it.
But can we know something to be true after we collect the information?
What about the original The Italian Job?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064505/?ref_=sr_2
paralyzable
Capable of halting the processor?
That sounds fun.
And if you don't sufficiently scatter the impactor - because we do not know what the physical properties and internal construction of Joe Random Asteroid is?
Then we alter its speed/direction. Slowing it down so to make it an hour later would cause it to miss the earth by 100,000 kilometers.
As for gravity towing, if we use a 30,000-kilogram ship to tow an asteroid 5 kilometers away, and taking G to be 6.7x10^{-11} m^3 kg^{-1} s^{-2}, the acceleration would be 6.7x10^{-11}x30,000/5000^2 meters per second squared. This turns out to be 8x10^{-14} meters per second squared. To move the asteroid 6,400,000 meters (the radius of the earth) would require more than 10^10 seconds, which is 300 years. Good luck with that.
Also, the gravity tow device would have to match the orbital speed of the asteroid. Taking 10 km/s as an "average" speed, how would the tow device maintain station? The surface gravity of Ceres is less than 1 m/s^2 (6.7x10^{-11} X 9.5x10^20 / 480,000^2), so the asteroid's gravity isn't helping much. Of course a smaller asteroid would have a lower surface gravity.
That might be 30 million units at $200 each. I might consider that a bit ambitious, but is it that far out for an Apple product?
+1 LMAO
Yeah, that 46-bit version is unstable.
But again, would all of the smaller pieces hit the earth?
Shall we call this material Borgium? Resistance is useless!
I mention that the timing may get messed, but I'm stuck in 2D trig? Doesn't the 4-dimensiomality make it easier to solve?
What makes you believe that it will all hit the earth?
And if you scatter the stuff enough, it won't even hit the earth.
Wouldn't any nudge make them drift apart? Their mutual gravity is weak.
That's Cyrus Vance Jr. Cyrus Vance (Secretary of State under Carter) died in 2002.
Unless you are slowing it down, it still needs to miss by at least one earth radius.