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  1. Re:Black holes orbiting each other? on A Naked Black Hole Is Screaming Through the Universe (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    By definition, objects a long distance from each other are outside each other's escape velocity. Earth and Mars, for example would never go into orbit around each other without the influence of a larger object like Jupiter or the sun. This is the starting condition for the two black holes.

  2. Black holes orbiting each other? on A Naked Black Hole Is Screaming Through the Universe (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    Normally, when two galaxies collide, the supermassive black holes at their centers start to orbit one another, moving closer and closer together in an inescapable gravitational attraction.

    I don't see how this can be true. If our galaxy collided with another, both black holes would plough on, on their own trajectories. Even if they came close enough to interact, they would be well above each other's escape velocity and so would continue while the gas clouds in their galaxies formed a new galaxy.

  3. Agreed but the advantage of ssh is that it gives you a web proxy using no server configuration at all. A vanilla ubuntu t2.micro instance does the whole job out of the box.

  4. Are they really, seriously, going to stop their people from doing ssh'ing to cloud servers? Because if they are, they won't have a high tech industry at all. I might have been in the market for freelance django developers, but not from Turkey apparently.

  5. I don't think we can emphatically deny the possibility, given his history of poor judgement.

  6. So it wasn't blown up by a shoulder launched missile after all?

  7. Re:Why does the ESA have a worse record of landing on "Splat" of Schiaparelli Mars Lander Likely Found (spaceflightnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Viking came after apollo, and most likely learned a lot from the automatic powered descent of the LM. Europe doesn't have the same background in aerospace.

  8. Re:Bulls-eye! on "Splat" of Schiaparelli Mars Lander Likely Found (spaceflightnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Its only the last half inch that hurts.

  9. Re:Cars on Russians Seek Answers To Central Moscow GPS Anomaly (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Satellites are not in buildings on Russians Seek Answers To Central Moscow GPS Anomaly (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    A better answer might be that the best reasonable directional antennas are not directional enough to reject a strong local jamming signal.

  11. Re:Doesn't sound very safe on Russians Seek Answers To Central Moscow GPS Anomaly (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Pilot error blamed for Syd flight failure

    One approach trajectory for runway 34 in MEL flies directly over a runway at the much smaller Essendon airport and some large jets have come close to landing there because they follow their navigation, see a runway and go for it.

    People fuck up. In the dark with rain going they might see lights below, assume they are in the right spot and put their A340 down in Putin's bedroom.

  12. Re:Doesn't sound very safe on Russians Seek Answers To Central Moscow GPS Anomaly (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I would agree but there are a lot of idiots out there.

  13. Re:Diversion on Russians Seek Answers To Central Moscow GPS Anomaly (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    No attacks intended for the Kremlin won't go anywhere but traffic for the airport might go to the Kremlin...

  14. Doesn't sound very safe on Russians Seek Answers To Central Moscow GPS Anomaly (yahoo.com) · · Score: 0

    transported 18 miles away at the airport

    Broadcasting GPS data for the local airport seems like a good way to have an aeroplane land on top of you.

    I could completely understand if GPS didn't work at all, or gave a an unimportant location.

  15. Preliminary indications are that the structure did actually crush, and that it is in fact stationary.

    Success!

  16. Re:Sad to see anti-European sentiment from America on Schiaparelli Mars Lander May Have Exploded On Impact, European Agency Says (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That landing method still uses braking rockets, which didn't work in this case.

  17. Two large chunks escaped on Schiaparelli Mars Lander May Have Exploded On Impact, European Agency Says (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    If the parachute is behind the lander (in the direction of travel) then the two smaller dark spots above the large dark spot are where chunks of the lander would bounce after impact. The chunks are in the 12 and 2 o'clock positions. Also the parachute is more than 1km from the impact site, which seems a lot given the altitude of separation. But it makes sense if the lander retained its horizontal velocity at separation, while the parachute braked in the atmosphere.

  18. Re:Science Fiction is busy destroying itself on Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? (galacticbrain.com) · · Score: 1

    The Mars Trilogy was the height of Robinson's career. Its primarily character focused and it is quite optimistic about the technical challenges and risks of colonization. But there are few real clangers. Few obvious plot holes. The purpose of the plot is to keep the characters doing stuff when in reality they would be more likely to be dying early deaths due to radiation and accidents.

  19. Re:Literary Awards Use Literary Rules... on Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? (galacticbrain.com) · · Score: 1

    Turner may have been good but he was too damn depressing to read, let alone enjoy.

  20. Re:Sci Fi? on Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? (galacticbrain.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes one of only three of four really good Heinlein books, with the rest being pulp.

  21. Re:Science Fiction is busy destroying itself on Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? (galacticbrain.com) · · Score: 1

    Kim Stanley Robinson seems popular, though when I tried reading one of his books, it was clear he didn't have the slightest grasp about a number of topics he was writing about

    I'd be interested in an example of this. I can think of some bad science in Aurora and 2312 but elsewhere it is quite solid. There is more solid science in the Mars Trilogy than many comparable books which feature terraforming.

  22. Re:Mass appeal on Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? (galacticbrain.com) · · Score: 1

    But Incandescence was a pretty poor novel as Egan novels go. It doesn't compare to Permutation City or Diaspora.

    His most literary novel would be Teranesia.

  23. Re:How long does it last? on Law-Defying Transistor Smashes Industry 'Limit', Measures Just 1nm (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    You can run at lower current. Given the smaller cross section this has to happen anyway as there is less room for electrons to flow.

  24. Re: 1nm Gate Size on Law-Defying Transistor Smashes Industry 'Limit', Measures Just 1nm (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    not heard of any major break through in lithographic limits lately

    Could it be done with electrons?

  25. Re:1nm Gate Size on Law-Defying Transistor Smashes Industry 'Limit', Measures Just 1nm (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Wow, 1nm means using gamma waves. I see the issue now.