Twenty-five KNOWN craters. The number is far, far higher, and expect that number to soar with better and detailed satellite imagery available to the general public.
His suggestion is that Aborigines may have learned to recognise craters from more recent impacts and then deduced the origin of the Palm Valley
I would like to point to a similar story. In France the town of Rochechouart sits on a meteor crater. The name of the town, dating back centuries, literally means 'Fallen rock'. But the crater is 200e6 years old and is hardly recognizable from the ground (it's 21km in diameter, yes, it was a big hit). So who and how did they name the city ?
Many people in history and pre-history mined meteorites for iron. They learnt to associate meteorites with impact events and so associated iron mines with impacts.
In the case of an insect I can't see it having sufficiently low drag to take advantage of lift.
I don't follow you here. What makes you think a dragonfly has too much drag to be able to gain enough speed to generate lift? Between the lift and the air currents, I can see how it could conserve quite a lot of energy if it knows how to ride the currents.
I mean if it finds itself in a body of sink (air going down) it won't be able to fly out into air which is rising (lift) while an albatross would be able to do that because it can fly faster.
Digital sold RDB to Oracle, I suppose, about 15 years ago now. From that date you couldn't really buy RDB anymore. The value of RDB to Digital was the amount of money anybody would pay them to kill it. The same goes for OSS. If you develop a nice tool which competes with a commercial product, somebody may pay you to make it go away.
Is that good for a FOSS project? Depends on your POV. It could be very good for the copyright holders and their accountants, lawyers, ex wives, etc.
True but at least in the case of the sailplane (or albatross) you need control authority to steer out of sink and into lift which does take energy. In the case of an insect I can't see it having sufficiently low drag to take advantage of lift. To do that you need to be able to put your nose down and fly out of sink sometimes.
* While being interrogated, a detainee has to
o Answer all questions
o Provide all information or material requested of them
o Prove that they do not have the material requested—if they are unable to do so and do not provide the material they can be imprisoned for up to 5 years
If I own a hard disk the contents might appear random. This random data might be encrypted content or the disk may have come like that. If I upload a file to a cloud service every byte in that file is assumed to mean something, so otherwise why did I upload it?
There is less plausible deniability with cloud storage.
Why not use the sewers? They're supposed to be enclosed anyway -- they're already pretty hot, and if we built them correctly, we could compress, burn, and expel the gas -- which would maybe produce more energy and utilize existing infrastructure than this idea.
The system relies on having a high air temperature at ground level so that the hot air rises up the column and remains hotter than the surrounding air as it rises. My suspicion is that the air just above the ground will be hotter than rock 500 metres down, but probably not much further. You need a good temperature gradient to extract heat so you would have to go very deep to get a good gradient WRT the surface air. This might work at night or in a colder climate, but when you think about it it just becomes a normal geothermal system.
Do you mean like an artificial Thermal? Maybe you could build a class of compact sailplanes to exploit it. Winch them up towers above the rim of the tower and launch into the plume.
Its OT but I had a moment of cognitive dissonance the other week when I opened a letter addressed to my wife's business from google. Never before had I seen their logo on paper. It took a moment to take in what I was seeing.
Yeah I hate the way anybody can just walk past my house and drop stuff in the letterbox. I would be much happier if the federal government vetted everything so I could just fly to Canberra to collect my safe, filtered mail.
I saw it myself in Ireland in December 2007. You take your Christmas cards to this booth outside the church. A priest puts a stamp on each card for one pound per card.
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Wait until Dec. 31, 9999. Watch as people panic about there being 5 digits in the year and how programs were only written to accommodate 4 digit years for the past 8000 years!
They are going to have thaw out a lot of old cobol programmers.
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Because everybody forgot about Y2K on Jan 1 2000. Planes didn't fall from the sky, remember (well not immediately, anyway).
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Twenty-five KNOWN craters. The number is far, far higher, and expect that number to soar with better and detailed satellite imagery available to the general public.
I have long been suspicious about the configuration of Port Philip and Western Port bays.
His suggestion is that Aborigines may have learned to recognise craters from more recent impacts and then deduced the origin of the Palm Valley
I would like to point to a similar story. In France the town of Rochechouart sits on a meteor crater. The name of the town, dating back centuries, literally means 'Fallen rock'. But the crater is 200e6 years old and is hardly recognizable from the ground (it's 21km in diameter, yes, it was a big hit). So who and how did they name the city ?
Many people in history and pre-history mined meteorites for iron. They learnt to associate meteorites with impact events and so associated iron mines with impacts.
In the case of an insect I can't see it having sufficiently low drag to take advantage of lift.
I don't follow you here. What makes you think a dragonfly has too much drag to be able to gain enough speed to generate lift? Between the lift and the air currents, I can see how it could conserve quite a lot of energy if it knows how to ride the currents.
I mean if it finds itself in a body of sink (air going down) it won't be able to fly out into air which is rising (lift) while an albatross would be able to do that because it can fly faster.
I suppose it is generally good for an OSS product to be acquired by a natural consumer of the product, but not by a competitor.
The cop said I hereby require you to disclose a key or any supporting evidence to make the information intelligible.
From that standpoint silence and "I don't recall" are exactly the same. Do you have more information about "section 53 of RIPA Part III" than me?
Digital sold RDB to Oracle, I suppose, about 15 years ago now. From that date you couldn't really buy RDB anymore. The value of RDB to Digital was the amount of money anybody would pay them to kill it. The same goes for OSS. If you develop a nice tool which competes with a commercial product, somebody may pay you to make it go away.
Is that good for a FOSS project? Depends on your POV. It could be very good for the copyright holders and their accountants, lawyers, ex wives, etc.
True but at least in the case of the sailplane (or albatross) you need control authority to steer out of sink and into lift which does take energy. In the case of an insect I can't see it having sufficiently low drag to take advantage of lift. To do that you need to be able to put your nose down and fly out of sink sometimes.
Dunno about that.
* While being interrogated, a detainee has to
o Answer all questions
o Provide all information or material requested of them
o Prove that they do not have the material requested—if they are unable to do so and do not provide the material they can be imprisoned for up to 5 years
Maybe the dragonfly can feed on other insects along the way. Also I wondered if it is light enough to sit on the water using surface tension.
You will need to explain why you uploaded files containing only random data. That is going to look very suspect.
They really can't ya know.. just remember these three words: "I don't recall". End of story.
Not in the UK.
If I own a hard disk the contents might appear random. This random data might be encrypted content or the disk may have come like that. If I upload a file to a cloud service every byte in that file is assumed to mean something, so otherwise why did I upload it?
There is less plausible deniability with cloud storage.
Why not use the sewers? They're supposed to be enclosed anyway -- they're already pretty hot, and if we built them correctly, we could compress, burn, and expel the gas -- which would maybe produce more energy and utilize existing infrastructure than this idea.
The system relies on having a high air temperature at ground level so that the hot air rises up the column and remains hotter than the surrounding air as it rises. My suspicion is that the air just above the ground will be hotter than rock 500 metres down, but probably not much further. You need a good temperature gradient to extract heat so you would have to go very deep to get a good gradient WRT the surface air. This might work at night or in a colder climate, but when you think about it it just becomes a normal geothermal system.
Do you mean like an artificial Thermal? Maybe you could build a class of compact sailplanes to exploit it. Winch them up towers above the rim of the tower and launch into the plume.
Never before had I seen their logo on paper
You've never printed out a map from GoogleMaps?
No.
...it is a very ugly piece of hardware.
It looks like two Newtons stuck together.
Its OT but I had a moment of cognitive dissonance the other week when I opened a letter addressed to my wife's business from google. Never before had I seen their logo on paper. It took a moment to take in what I was seeing.
Yeah I hate the way anybody can just walk past my house and drop stuff in the letterbox. I would be much happier if the federal government vetted everything so I could just fly to Canberra to collect my safe, filtered mail.
s/not know if/not known if/
Thanks.
I saw it myself in Ireland in December 2007. You take your Christmas cards to this booth outside the church. A priest puts a stamp on each card for one pound per card.
I have just discovered that the Earth is going to be swallowed by a giant space goat on January 7 2110...
Hey you are right! Your link returns 404.
Yep its what the US does best:
Wait until Dec. 31, 9999. Watch as people panic about there being 5 digits in the year and how programs were only written to accommodate 4 digit years for the past 8000 years!
They are going to have thaw out a lot of old cobol programmers.
Because everybody forgot about Y2K on Jan 1 2000. Planes didn't fall from the sky, remember (well not immediately, anyway).