Actually, I did a science experiment somewhere in middle school to the same effect to demonstrate photosynthesis. you can imprint photo negatives onto leaves using tobacco and photosynthesis.
The new shuttle has two airlocks but it only used to have one. The old one is located in the cargo bay and after the Columbia accident, a new one was installed on the outside of the "crew" part of the orbiter.
While it's not video, mission controllers at NASA do what's called "cross-talking" over audio. Basically, they conduct anywhere from one to several conversations simultaneously that are pertinent to their particular station. The representative I talked to said it takes some getting used to to be able to listen to one conversation while talking in another, but it's doable.
Disclaimer: all of the following information is hearsay from two truckers I know; if anyone wants to google for facts and prove this correct/incorrect, I salute you.
According to them, Texas' rest stops aren't as nice/luxurious because the majority of money goes to maintaing roads instead of funding rest stops. They said this wasn't exactly a bad thing though, that compared to a lot of the states they drove through, the roads were smoother and better kept up, and that they'd rather have that than some fancy rest area.
Very true, yet another piece of technology that has wondeful applications in our not-so-distant future. However, knowing the miltiary and NASA, this will never replace a good old doctor if anything for sheer redundancy.
I atteneded a few lectures on possible plans for a mission to the moon/mars/beyond, and a former astronaut said one of the most important qualities they were looking for in astronaut applications was medical ability. NASA would never consider a mission to anywhere distant without a competent surgeon or the like on board.
While it may be gone, it won't ever be a total loss as long as HP learned something from it.
Maybe something about more cost efficient technology, or maybe being more wary of the hype that comes with shiny new things.
I honestly hope that Will Wright makes good on his statement that there will be more free time in Sims 2. That's the reason most of us quit playing the first game...after a while, it just got too depressing. It was like watching yourself go through life: wake up, eat, shower, job, eat, sleep. No ones want to play a video game to remind them of how monotonous and repetitive their own life is.
Another problem with the scarcity of organs is simply the laziness and apathy of Americans when it comes to filling out the card. Perhaps a way to aid the lack of organs would be to make the system one of opting-out. That is, when you go to get your driver's license, you would have to consciously tell them you didn't want to volunteer as a donor. They've used this system in parts of Europe (maybe the Netherlands?) with great success, with a small percentage actually opting-out. I could see a system like this making a huge dent in that list of 80,000 waiting for some form of transplant.
Not everyone who posts here on slashdot can lift such a device. It's easier for some users to build a complicated tripod that holds a shotgun. Then, after a terrible "In Soviet Russia..." joke, a system of pulleys and levers fed started in motion by the good sense of a common man causes the trigger to be pulled and the hard drive to be turned into high-performance shrapnel/glitter/confetti.
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Actually, I did a science experiment somewhere in middle school to the same effect to demonstrate photosynthesis. you can imprint photo negatives onto leaves using tobacco and photosynthesis.
According to Wikipedia, giant squids don't have swim bladders. Instead, they use ammonia in some way or another.
The new shuttle has two airlocks but it only used to have one. The old one is located in the cargo bay and after the Columbia accident, a new one was installed on the outside of the "crew" part of the orbiter.
for April fool's, I slept with my friend's wife. Actually, I did that last year too, I'm so unoriginal.
While it's not video, mission controllers at NASA do what's called "cross-talking" over audio. Basically, they conduct anywhere from one to several conversations simultaneously that are pertinent to their particular station. The representative I talked to said it takes some getting used to to be able to listen to one conversation while talking in another, but it's doable.
Disclaimer: all of the following information is hearsay from two truckers I know; if anyone wants to google for facts and prove this correct/incorrect, I salute you.
According to them, Texas' rest stops aren't as nice/luxurious because the majority of money goes to maintaing roads instead of funding rest stops. They said this wasn't exactly a bad thing though, that compared to a lot of the states they drove through, the roads were smoother and better kept up, and that they'd rather have that than some fancy rest area.
Very true, yet another piece of technology that has wondeful applications in our not-so-distant future. However, knowing the miltiary and NASA, this will never replace a good old doctor if anything for sheer redundancy.
I atteneded a few lectures on possible plans for a mission to the moon/mars/beyond, and a former astronaut said one of the most important qualities they were looking for in astronaut applications was medical ability. NASA would never consider a mission to anywhere distant without a competent surgeon or the like on board.
While it may be gone, it won't ever be a total loss as long as HP learned something from it. Maybe something about more cost efficient technology, or maybe being more wary of the hype that comes with shiny new things.
I honestly hope that Will Wright makes good on his statement that there will be more free time in Sims 2. That's the reason most of us quit playing the first game...after a while, it just got too depressing. It was like watching yourself go through life: wake up, eat, shower, job, eat, sleep. No ones want to play a video game to remind them of how monotonous and repetitive their own life is.
Finally, something to run doom3 on. Though I may still have to turn shadows off...
Another problem with the scarcity of organs is simply the laziness and apathy of Americans when it comes to filling out the card. Perhaps a way to aid the lack of organs would be to make the system one of opting-out. That is, when you go to get your driver's license, you would have to consciously tell them you didn't want to volunteer as a donor. They've used this system in parts of Europe (maybe the Netherlands?) with great success, with a small percentage actually opting-out. I could see a system like this making a huge dent in that list of 80,000 waiting for some form of transplant.
Was I the only one who saw the story title and thought, "hm, bandwidth swap?...swingers....kinky..."?
Not everyone who posts here on slashdot can lift such a device. It's easier for some users to build a complicated tripod that holds a shotgun. Then, after a terrible "In Soviet Russia..." joke, a system of pulleys and levers fed started in motion by the good sense of a common man causes the trigger to be pulled and the hard drive to be turned into high-performance shrapnel/glitter/confetti.