To implement the new policy it had to be released to all air crew, including non-us crews. Maybe the "leak" came from that direction. By the time it was released to those people it wasn't really secret, anyway.
Isn't Apophis big enough that, should it hit Earth, to "not be there [where it lands]" is the same as not being on Earth?
No, not even close. You would definitely be safe on a different continent, though the shock waves and airborne dust would be spectacular. My guess is the impact would be survivable at 1000km range if you had protective equipment. Maybe you would be okay in a blockhouse with oxygen and food 100km from impact.
Knowing the risk doesn't somehow change the meaning of the odds.
No, but knowing when Apophis will make its closest approach does change the odds a lot because I could use a simple telescope to predict where it will land, and not be there.
I know when the lottery will be held but there is no lotteryscope I can use to predict the outcome.
It would be great if we could land a transponder on 99942 Apophis on or after the next closest approach because our best option in the case of an impact will be to evacuate the landing site well in advance. To do that we need really accurate tracking data, hence the transponder.
Its a good thing that much of the work done in the last 40 years or so on unmanned space flight has been in the design of transponders of one sort or another. Its just a shame we don't have a vehicle ready to go.
NO, there is a bigger chance to be hit by an asteroid than to win a lottery. Because Apophis is under observation we know exactly what the risk is. The real risks come from objects we are not currently observing.
A great fear of mine is that a machine will decide what I should or should not know about. Another is that a machine like this could be tampered with by any human being to make the same decision.
Big Brother SkyNet is watching you, and telling you all you need to know.
Its right there at the bottom of google news:
The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program.
No. It works as a regular phone for me. The main issue is that data is just 2G. Its a better phone/sms client overall than the cheap Motorola I was using previously.
Yeah remote desktops are the wet dream for outsourcing where I work.
Yeah sure... replace a low-bandwidth, local application with a remote one that heavily relies on a fast network (and we all know it won't stop evil employees from taking business data where it shouldn't go). Sounds like a losing proposition to me. Am I missing something here, or are your bosses stupid?
I think you may be on to something there right at the end...
Yeah remote desktops are the wet dream for outsourcing where I work. Imagine a system where the evil (cheap) foreigners see a video of the actual code so they can't take the revision history home on an SD card and sell it in the flea market for one tenth the real value!
As a commercial pilot who isn't taking the airline route: The pilot thing is funny. People don't trust a pilot who isn't wearing a uniform. Even as a corporate charter pilot you are expected to wear a uniform.
Conversely, air traffic controllers seem to always work in casual clothes.
I probably should point out that I am an Australian, and because of the configuration of our borders it takes a lot of effort to get close enough to us to ask for asylum. While the US has a big problem with people who just walk across the border and stay, or people who overstay their visa, we have problems with people who arrive in unseaworthy boats and surrender to the first navy boat they see.
The last big load to be intercepted claimed to be Tamil, from Sri Lanka. The thing is I work with a guy who is Tamil, from Sri Lanka. He went back to Sri Lanka to get married. The goes there to watch the cricket. I just don't believe that people of that ethnic group, from that country, qualify in large numbers for asylum.
So he will do this much earlier. Or is there some physics that makes an explosion 30 minutes before landing more dangerous then 1 hour and 30 minutes?
The US TSA is trying to avoid explosions over their territory. Fortunately for me I don't have to work in the USA so it isn't an issue for me. Over on BoingBoing one recent traveller said that the onboard GPS position display was disabled as a security measure. Passengers were still able to time their journey though.
The father of one of the Bali 9 reported his son to the Australian Federal Police before they went to Bali and got caught. The AFP did nothing about it because they would lose a great catch that way. In policing there is less credit for catching somebody who might have gone on to do a bad thing than if you catch a really bad criminal in the process of committing the crime. So even though you could catch the bad guy you wait for the really big catch. Bad luck if he gets away at the list minute.
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I personally find the rollover popups in TFA to be more offensive, but I take your point. Whats in your list?
To implement the new policy it had to be released to all air crew, including non-us crews. Maybe the "leak" came from that direction. By the time it was released to those people it wasn't really secret, anyway.
Isn't Apophis big enough that, should it hit Earth, to "not be there [where it lands]" is the same as not being on Earth?
No, not even close. You would definitely be safe on a different continent, though the shock waves and airborne dust would be spectacular. My guess is the impact would be survivable at 1000km range if you had protective equipment. Maybe you would be okay in a blockhouse with oxygen and food 100km from impact.
Knowing the risk doesn't somehow change the meaning of the odds.
No, but knowing when Apophis will make its closest approach does change the odds a lot because I could use a simple telescope to predict where it will land, and not be there.
I know when the lottery will be held but there is no lotteryscope I can use to predict the outcome.
It would be great if we could land a transponder on 99942 Apophis on or after the next closest approach because our best option in the case of an impact will be to evacuate the landing site well in advance. To do that we need really accurate tracking data, hence the transponder.
Its a good thing that much of the work done in the last 40 years or so on unmanned space flight has been in the design of transponders of one sort or another. Its just a shame we don't have a vehicle ready to go.
their nuclear subs are barely staying afloat
Isn't that the whole point about subs?
(sorry. I'll be here all night, etc).
NO, there is a bigger chance to be hit by an asteroid than to win a lottery. Because Apophis is under observation we know exactly what the risk is. The real risks come from objects we are not currently observing.
You owe me a new keyboard. And I still haven't got the prawn.
LOL
I represent the International Business Machines company....
Which reminds me I need to buy a hose adapter today. Its 35 degrees C and the hose from my tank can't reach all the garden.
Maybe the signal strength shown on his computer includes signals reflected from the pan back into the wifi modem.
Tm Fnnlnd
Between my liking for my wife's prawn crackers and my need for a good 3G signal.
I just spell it En Zed.
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A great fear of mine is that a machine will decide what I should or should not know about. Another is that a machine like this could be tampered with by any human being to make the same decision.
Big Brother SkyNet is watching you, and telling you all you need to know.
Its right there at the bottom of google news:
The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program.
No. It works as a regular phone for me. The main issue is that data is just 2G. Its a better phone/sms client overall than the cheap Motorola I was using previously.
Yeah remote desktops are the wet dream for outsourcing where I work.
Yeah sure... replace a low-bandwidth, local application with a remote one that heavily relies on a fast network (and we all know it won't stop evil employees from taking business data where it shouldn't go). Sounds like a losing proposition to me. Am I missing something here, or are your bosses stupid?
I think you may be on to something there right at the end...
Yeah remote desktops are the wet dream for outsourcing where I work. Imagine a system where the evil (cheap) foreigners see a video of the actual code so they can't take the revision history home on an SD card and sell it in the flea market for one tenth the real value!
As best I understand it, to trigger explosives like PETN, you have to have a starter that burns really hot.
How about if you had a liquid you could burn, like lighter fluid or petrol? Could you use that to get the PETN hot enough to explode?
As a commercial pilot who isn't taking the airline route: The pilot thing is funny. People don't trust a pilot who isn't wearing a uniform. Even as a corporate charter pilot you are expected to wear a uniform.
Conversely, air traffic controllers seem to always work in casual clothes.
I probably should point out that I am an Australian, and because of the configuration of our borders it takes a lot of effort to get close enough to us to ask for asylum. While the US has a big problem with people who just walk across the border and stay, or people who overstay their visa, we have problems with people who arrive in unseaworthy boats and surrender to the first navy boat they see.
The last big load to be intercepted claimed to be Tamil, from Sri Lanka. The thing is I work with a guy who is Tamil, from Sri Lanka. He went back to Sri Lanka to get married. The goes there to watch the cricket. I just don't believe that people of that ethnic group, from that country, qualify in large numbers for asylum.
It was pretty amazing what could be done it 8k bytes of memory. :)
Oh for sure. I noticed at one point that the 1MHz clock for the 6502 was right in the AM band.
So he will do this much earlier. Or is there some physics that makes an explosion 30 minutes before landing more dangerous then 1 hour and 30 minutes?
The US TSA is trying to avoid explosions over their territory. Fortunately for me I don't have to work in the USA so it isn't an issue for me. Over on BoingBoing one recent traveller said that the onboard GPS position display was disabled as a security measure. Passengers were still able to time their journey though.
The father of one of the Bali 9 reported his son to the Australian Federal Police before they went to Bali and got caught. The AFP did nothing about it because they would lose a great catch that way. In policing there is less credit for catching somebody who might have gone on to do a bad thing than if you catch a really bad criminal in the process of committing the crime. So even though you could catch the bad guy you wait for the really big catch. Bad luck if he gets away at the list minute.