Unlike the Apollo program missions, which took three days to reach the Moon, GRAIL will make use of a three- to four-month low-energy trans-lunar cruise via the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L1 to reduce fuel requirements, protect instruments and reduce the velocity of the two spacecraft at lunar arrival to help achieve the extremely low 50 km (31 mi) orbits with separation between the spacecraft (arriving 24 hours apart) of 175 to 225 km (109 to 140 mi)
I used to travel somewhat regularly (business paid travel) to the UK. but that was before they started studying orwell's 'instructions' a bit too much and using it as a model for their new society.
I take it you're not American then? Because that would be the pot calling the kettle black, squared (or even cubed).
Now I don't know if you were trying for funny or not, but the 3M the GP was referring to was the number of accounts sold at roughly $60 each - so that's $180M and they've already broken even and gotten a hefty $45 million in profit.
Actually, you were right in the first post. All digital downloads are "temporarily out of stock" at EA's Origin store (the only way to get a digital download).
A total of 165,000 tonnes of gold have been mined in human history, as of 2009. This is roughly equivalent to 5.3 billion troy ounces or, in terms of volume, about 8500 m3, or a cube 20.4 m on a side.
The Siberian Traps are considered to have erupted via numerous vents over a period of roughly a million years or more, probably east and south of Norilsk in Siberia. Individual eruptions of basalt lavas could have exceeded 2000 km3.
This massive eruptive event spanned the Permian-Triassic boundary, about 250 million years ago, and is cited as a possible cause of the Permian-Triassic extinction event. This extinction event, also called the Great Dying, affected all life on Earth, and is estimated to have killed 90% of species living at the time. Life on land took 30 million years to recover from the environmental disruptions which may have been caused by the eruption of the Siberian Traps.
Vast volumes of basaltic lava paved over a large expanse of primeval Siberia in a flood basalt event. Today the area covered is about 2 million km – roughly equal to western Europe in land area – and estimates of the original coverage are as high as 7 million km. The original volume of lava is estimated to range from 1 to 4 million km.
Or the Highlander sequels. My god, did they really try to sell us that the immortals were aliens from space? No, sorry. There can be only one (Highlander movie), and it doesn't explain them at all. To so much better effect.
Iain Banks (born on 16 February 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife) is a Scottish writer. He writes mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
If I understand correctly, nazi symbols (like the swastika) aren't illegal per se in Germany, as long as they're used in the proper context. Used in entertainment or as a way to promote the nazi ideology is forbidden, but in a historical documentary about what happened in WW2, I don't believe the symbol necessarily need to be blurred out or removed from footage from that era for example.
I'm not German though so I'm not entirely sure about the rulings surrounding such symbols.
(3) Subsection (1) shall not be applicable if the means of propaganda or the act serves to further civil enlightenment, to avert unconstitutional aims, to promote art or science, research or teaching, reporting about current historical events or similar purposes.
In 2008, they only measured him running in a straight line, this time they looked at a complete 400m race. They concluded that he's at a disadvantage at the start and in every corner, and thus for the complete race he's not at an "unfair advantage".
That, and perhaps the fact that he's no threat - his personal best on any distance (100m, 200m, 400m) is about 2 seconds behind the World Record.
Its nested menus are accessed almost as smoothly as iPad page swipes
Note that the AC missed that it was a comparison to the smoothness of the menu system only, not a statement that the game will run on an iPad - it most definitely won't.
I'm sorry miss dyke, but it seems it's you who doesn't understand the term "fail-safe".
A fail-safe is there to prevent excessive damage in case of failure. It does not mean it's safe from failing, it means that when it fails it does so in a safe, controlled way.
fail-safe
[feyl-seyf] adjective, noun, verb, -safed, -safing. –adjective 1. Electronics . pertaining to or noting a mechanism built into a system, as in an early warning system or a nuclear reactor, for insuring safety should the system fail to operate properly. 2. equipped with a secondary system that insures continued operation even if the primary system fails.
Sure, that's the only shuttle Nasa has, but Russia has a lot of Soyuz capsules - just like the one the Italian astronaut Paulo Nespoli was sitting in when he took the picture in the article.
You may proceed with your "whoosh"-ing now, I know you want to.
And I showed you several links where officials said the orders were to kill not capture.
Why are you turning such a blind eye to the idea that the US might have carried out an assassination? It wouldn't be the first time, you know, and never a more satisfying target.
No, I don't "wish to imagine" anything. That's a strawman and you know it.
We've already agreed that the US should abide by the rules of war or the rules of civil justice. We've already agreed that a kill operation abides by neither. That's why the stated intention of the operation is important.
If the intention is capture, that is fine, even if he ends up dead. If the intention is kill, that is not fine.
We've gone over this a few times already. There have been US officials stating that there never was any intention of capturing Bin Laden. That is wrong and you've already agreed it is.
I find it hard to believe a capture operation was impossible - and if it was, I question why they went ahead with the mission, seeing as it's then just a kill mission. An assassination, plain and simple. Something we both agree the US shouldn't be doing.
You said you were against kill operations, but yet you lambaste me for saying I think it's wrong? Where's your vaunted intellectual honesty?
I read statements from US officials saying it was a "kill operation" with "no intention of capturing Bin Laden". That's not okay. I read statements from US officials saying it was an operation with intention of capturing Bin Laden. That's okay.
You've already yourself cast judgement on kill missions, saying they're not okay, I don't get why you're so upset that I'm agreeing with you.
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Why it took them so long to reach the Moon? Lunar transfer takes 3 days. Does anyone know?
Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory:
Unlike the Apollo program missions, which took three days to reach the Moon, GRAIL will make use of a three- to four-month low-energy trans-lunar cruise via the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L1 to reduce fuel requirements, protect instruments and reduce the velocity of the two spacecraft at lunar arrival to help achieve the extremely low 50 km (31 mi) orbits with separation between the spacecraft (arriving 24 hours apart) of 175 to 225 km (109 to 140 mi)
I used to travel somewhat regularly (business paid travel) to the UK. but that was before they started studying orwell's 'instructions' a bit too much and using it as a model for their new society.
I take it you're not American then? Because that would be the pot calling the kettle black, squared (or even cubed).
Now I don't know if you were trying for funny or not, but the 3M the GP was referring to was the number of accounts sold at roughly $60 each - so that's $180M and they've already broken even and gotten a hefty $45 million in profit.
Actually, you were right in the first post.
All digital downloads are "temporarily out of stock" at EA's Origin store (the only way to get a digital download).
Ridiculous.
Dumbass, thats the PC boxed version. The download version can't be sold out, its a download. Sheesh.
It would help if you tried it though. The download version is indeed sold out. All versions are "temporarily out of stock"...
Which is ridiculous, of course.
I'm keen on what the new ryan air slogans will be:
Come and Fly with us?
"Fly and Come with us"
I've been using vimperator for over a year now, and it's wonderful.
I highly recommend it.
From what I've read, all the gold in the world that has been mined could fill something like 2 olympic swimming pools, or something like that.
From Wikipedia:
A total of 165,000 tonnes of gold have been mined in human history, as of 2009. This is roughly equivalent to 5.3 billion troy ounces or, in terms of volume, about 8500 m3, or a cube 20.4 m on a side.
An Olympic-size swimming pool has a minimum volume requirement of 2500 m3, so 3.4 of them would be needed to hold all the gold ever mined.
If the Siberian Traps go, we're all fucked. That's called an extinction event.
Indeed. From Wikipedia:
The Siberian Traps are considered to have erupted via numerous vents over a period of roughly a million years or more, probably east and south of Norilsk in Siberia. Individual eruptions of basalt lavas could have exceeded 2000 km3.
This massive eruptive event spanned the Permian-Triassic boundary, about 250 million years ago, and is cited as a possible cause of the Permian-Triassic extinction event. This extinction event, also called the Great Dying, affected all life on Earth, and is estimated to have killed 90% of species living at the time. Life on land took 30 million years to recover from the environmental disruptions which may have been caused by the eruption of the Siberian Traps.
Vast volumes of basaltic lava paved over a large expanse of primeval Siberia in a flood basalt event. Today the area covered is about 2 million km – roughly equal to western Europe in land area – and estimates of the original coverage are as high as 7 million km. The original volume of lava is estimated to range from 1 to 4 million km.
Or the Highlander sequels. My god, did they really try to sell us that the immortals were aliens from space?
No, sorry. There can be only one (Highlander movie), and it doesn't explain them at all. To so much better effect.
An ostrich egg isn't an organism. The title goes to the Caulerpa, a kind of seaweed whose single cell can grow up to a meter in length.
The ostrich egg isn't an organism; the Caulerpa, on the other hand, is. Up to a meter in length.
I don't know about the army, but Bitching Betty is usually a woman.
From wikipedia:
Iain Banks (born on 16 February 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife) is a Scottish writer. He writes mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
You don't play MMO's as single player either
Oh, you'd be surprised at how many people treat MMOs as single-player games.
If I understand correctly, nazi symbols (like the swastika) aren't illegal per se in Germany, as long as they're used in the proper context. Used in entertainment or as a way to promote the nazi ideology is forbidden, but in a historical documentary about what happened in WW2, I don't believe the symbol necessarily need to be blurred out or removed from footage from that era for example.
I'm not German though so I'm not entirely sure about the rulings surrounding such symbols.
"Proper context", according to Strafgesetzbuch section 86a (paragraph 86a of the German Criminal Code) is:
(3) Subsection (1) shall not be applicable if the means of propaganda or the act serves to further civil enlightenment, to avert unconstitutional aims, to promote art or science, research or teaching, reporting about current historical events or similar purposes.
Personally, I liked his other nickname better: "The Fastest Man on No Legs" :)
In 2008, they only measured him running in a straight line, this time they looked at a complete 400m race. They concluded that he's at a disadvantage at the start and in every corner, and thus for the complete race he's not at an "unfair advantage".
That, and perhaps the fact that he's no threat - his personal best on any distance (100m, 200m, 400m) is about 2 seconds behind the World Record.
Where the hell does he mention the iPad in TFA?
Here (it's even in the summary):
Its nested menus are accessed almost as smoothly as iPad page swipes
Note that the AC missed that it was a comparison to the smoothness of the menu system only, not a statement that the game will run on an iPad - it most definitely won't.
I'm sorry miss dyke, but it seems it's you who doesn't understand the term "fail-safe".
A fail-safe is there to prevent excessive damage in case of failure. It does not mean it's safe from failing, it means that when it fails it does so in a safe, controlled way.
fail-safe
[feyl-seyf] adjective, noun, verb, -safed, -safing.
–adjective
1. Electronics . pertaining to or noting a mechanism built into a system, as in an early warning system or a nuclear reactor, for insuring safety should the system fail to operate properly.
2. equipped with a secondary system that insures continued operation even if the primary system fails.
Sure, that's the only shuttle Nasa has, but Russia has a lot of Soyuz capsules - just like the one the Italian astronaut Paulo Nespoli was sitting in when he took the picture in the article.
You may proceed with your "whoosh"-ing now, I know you want to.
This is my favorite feature of the area.
Interesting... Panning a bit east on that map (to the other side of Mesa Rd) there's a lot of large (500ft+) craters... Is that a nuclear test site?
And I showed you several links where officials said the orders were to kill not capture.
Why are you turning such a blind eye to the idea that the US might have carried out an assassination? It wouldn't be the first time, you know, and never a more satisfying target.
No, I don't "wish to imagine" anything. That's a strawman and you know it.
We've already agreed that the US should abide by the rules of war or the rules of civil justice. We've already agreed that a kill operation abides by neither.
That's why the stated intention of the operation is important.
If the intention is capture, that is fine, even if he ends up dead.
If the intention is kill, that is not fine.
We've gone over this a few times already. There have been US officials stating that there never was any intention of capturing Bin Laden. That is wrong and you've already agreed it is.
I find it hard to believe a capture operation was impossible - and if it was, I question why they went ahead with the mission, seeing as it's then just a kill mission. An assassination, plain and simple. Something we both agree the US shouldn't be doing.
You said you were against kill operations, but yet you lambaste me for saying I think it's wrong? Where's your vaunted intellectual honesty?
I'm not assuming anything.
I read statements from US officials saying it was a "kill operation" with "no intention of capturing Bin Laden". That's not okay.
I read statements from US officials saying it was an operation with intention of capturing Bin Laden. That's okay.
You've already yourself cast judgement on kill missions, saying they're not okay, I don't get why you're so upset that I'm agreeing with you.