"They were so afraid of the 0.001% chance of Cassini crashing into Earth".
That sounds about as likely as someone messing up their metric/Imperial units? What would the public perception have been if Cassini had passed Earth 2 months *after* the Mars Climate Orbiter missed, sorry, hit, rather than vice versa?
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Assumption are that if you're less than 5 years someone else is doing the 'accidental discharge' for you (i.e. on-topic). You're therefore 6.5 times more likely to acccidentally drown. 5-14 years deaths make-up 6% of accidental discharges and 9% of drownings.
So put this against the background of childhood. Would an average child spend 'only' 6.5 greater time swimming, taking baths, etc., or being exposed to accidental gunshot discharge? Rather undermines the original 'plastic bucket' comment.
"...keep in mind that many more children per year die in plastic buckets of water then due to a gunshot wound."
This is a joke? Modded insightful? A brief google shows the latest (2001) figures from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had 2,911 children and teens dead that year from gunshot wounds. Not even 1/2 that many children in the same age group drown each year, let alone in plastic buckets.
Sniggering like Bevis and Butthead at the man's name is not on-topic.
The first thing you see on the page is a picture of a man who is serious. Very serious. A man who is not to be messed with. He is not smiling. He will not be your friend. He will be having stern words with you if you mess up. And then you read his name...
Let me punch him. Really. The earlier versions of the Windows update automatically downloaded a WHOLE bunch of useless MS stuff (e.g. Outlook) that W2K WOULDN'T LET ME DELETE- yes I know I'm shouting). It filled my disk up, which through a chain of events crashed it and I lost a bunch of stuff. There computer. Bastard.
Germany and Spain only counted heat deaths as those directly attributable to heat, rather than as a statistical excess (i.e. in the hundreds). The general figure of 20 000 now widely accepted for Europe summer 2003 must be taken as one of the highest meteorological morbidities of the last 50 years.
Agree on almost everything about the US Govt.'s manipulation of the media. However, the situation is China is pretty straightforward. Their Govt. routinely suppresses whole news organisations. That's several magnitudes difference from the US.
Full of shit? Hardly. UK for example, Stories about the royal family (eg. Charles gay incident) and Blair (eg. childs suicide bid) are routinely censored despite the tabloid nature of the press there.
Hmmm. I read about 'Blair-child-bid' on Slashdot first; did some research and it seems to be a readily accepted urban legend; first posting about it on chatrooms are months in advance of now taken-as-fact 'exam stress' bid this May. Charles gay? Who cares?
Which brings us to ideas about the responsibilities of the press, as well as their rights. This secondary issue is about libel. In UK and Ireland, the burden of proof is on the news source in any libel trial. This is reversed in the US. Which is why the National Enquirer et al. flourish there, and why UK newspapers employ so many lawyers over here. Which is a better system?
The real reason things aren't covered is the former in the 'cock-up versus conspiracy' debate. Most stories aren't considered news-worthy because either people aren't bothered about them (why? is the real question) or it's a pain in the arse for the journos to cover, e.g. compare the coverage of tropical-cyclone related stories in Florida this autumn compared with China (thousands dead in landslides from typhoons) or the Caribbean (3 000 dead in Dominican Reublic from Jeanne).
Plus the football results don't seem to get updated whilst being viewed
Ah..., how many penalty shoot-outs I've watched on Ceefax, as tense as watching it 'live'! Ceefax is quite wonderful and 2012 simply isn't going to happen- they only got rid of the last 425 line transmitter in the late eighties so our 625 is safe for some time.
Of course that nice laser beam could even light up the newspaper for them so it could be read better...
C'mon, current active optics systems are attached to v. expensive, large, 21st century telescopes on the ground, staffed by the best kit and brains that physics can buy. Yes, those Big Birds, etc. took some lovely images, but they simply can't have had active optics. You're approaching physical sampling limits if you've got a satellite orbiting at 150 miles (?) whilst trying to sample the air current pattern, correct for it AND reading the damn paper, all whilst moving at 17 500 mph.
I can think of at least two other possible technologies that would get around your "impossibility".
Name 'em.
And has anyone got a firm UT date/time? I'm looking at the weather and forest fire count in N. Korea and finding nothing untoward, clouds or fires.
Of course, we in the UK still have a military censor
although these days it's now 'voluntary', and one hopes it is now doing what it was set-up for, i.e., "careless talk costs lives" stuff, rather than covering up any embarrassing mistakes...
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No. Hubble regularly looks at Earth for calibration purposes. See: http://www.stsci.edu/stsci/meetings/shst2/williams r.html
That sounds about as likely as someone messing up their metric/Imperial units? What would the public perception have been if Cassini had passed Earth 2 months *after* the Mars Climate Orbiter missed, sorry, hit, rather than vice versa?
Accidental discharge of firearms All 5-14
762 48
Drowning or submersion All 5-14
3,447 321
Assumption are that if you're less than 5 years someone else is doing the 'accidental discharge' for you (i.e. on-topic). You're therefore 6.5 times more likely to acccidentally drown. 5-14 years deaths make-up 6% of accidental discharges and 9% of drownings.
So put this against the background of childhood. Would an average child spend 'only' 6.5 greater time swimming, taking baths, etc., or being exposed to accidental gunshot discharge? Rather undermines the original 'plastic bucket' comment.
This is a joke? Modded insightful? A brief google shows the latest (2001) figures from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had 2,911 children and teens dead that year from gunshot wounds. Not even 1/2 that many children in the same age group drown each year, let alone in plastic buckets.
The first thing you see on the page is a picture of a man who is serious. Very serious. A man who is not to be messed with. He is not smiling. He will not be your friend. He will be having stern words with you if you mess up. And then you read his name...
Let me punch him. Really. The earlier versions of the Windows update automatically downloaded a WHOLE bunch of useless MS stuff (e.g. Outlook) that W2K WOULDN'T LET ME DELETE- yes I know I'm shouting). It filled my disk up, which through a chain of events crashed it and I lost a bunch of stuff. There computer. Bastard.
10 000 in France http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3181941.st m
Germany and Spain only counted heat deaths as those directly attributable to heat, rather than as a statistical excess (i.e. in the hundreds). The general figure of 20 000 now widely accepted for Europe summer 2003 must be taken as one of the highest meteorological morbidities of the last 50 years.
Full of shit? Hardly. UK for example, Stories about the royal family (eg. Charles gay incident) and Blair (eg. childs suicide bid) are routinely censored despite the tabloid nature of the press there.
Hmmm. I read about 'Blair-child-bid' on Slashdot first; did some research and it seems to be a readily accepted urban legend; first posting about it on chatrooms are months in advance of now taken-as-fact 'exam stress' bid this May. Charles gay? Who cares?
Which brings us to ideas about the responsibilities of the press, as well as their rights. This secondary issue is about libel. In UK and Ireland, the burden of proof is on the news source in any libel trial. This is reversed in the US. Which is why the National Enquirer et al. flourish there, and why UK newspapers employ so many lawyers over here. Which is a better system?
The real reason things aren't covered is the former in the 'cock-up versus conspiracy' debate. Most stories aren't considered news-worthy because either people aren't bothered about them (why? is the real question) or it's a pain in the arse for the journos to cover, e.g. compare the coverage of tropical-cyclone related stories in Florida this autumn compared with China (thousands dead in landslides from typhoons) or the Caribbean (3 000 dead in Dominican Reublic from Jeanne).
Ah..., how many penalty shoot-outs I've watched on Ceefax, as tense as watching it 'live'! Ceefax is quite wonderful and 2012 simply isn't going to happen- they only got rid of the last 425 line transmitter in the late eighties so our 625 is safe for some time.
C'mon, current active optics systems are attached to v. expensive, large, 21st century telescopes on the ground, staffed by the best kit and brains that physics can buy. Yes, those Big Birds, etc. took some lovely images, but they simply can't have had active optics. You're approaching physical sampling limits if you've got a satellite orbiting at 150 miles (?) whilst trying to sample the air current pattern, correct for it AND reading the damn paper, all whilst moving at 17 500 mph.
I can think of at least two other possible technologies that would get around your "impossibility".
Name 'em.
And has anyone got a firm UT date/time? I'm looking at the weather and forest fire count in N. Korea and finding nothing untoward, clouds or fires.
..at the other end of the Labour distribution from Blunkett is one T. Blair!
Of course, we in the UK still have a military censor although these days it's now 'voluntary', and one hopes it is now doing what it was set-up for, i.e., "careless talk costs lives" stuff, rather than covering up any embarrassing mistakes...