That's a truism right there. At the same time, the solar energy industry has stagnated in Germany, I believe the topic was posted here on Slashdot about a week ago. So what's going on in Germany?
BTW, interesting correlation between your user ID and chronological placement of comment.
Actually, they found the cause of the perturbation. Somebody went through the century-old maintenance logs of one of the telescopes involved in the Neptune measurements (I believe it was Yerkes, but don't quote me on that), and discovered that during a series of nightly observations of Neptune's orbit, some technician had removed the equatorial mount gears for either cleaning, maintenance or replacement, and that should NOT have happened, as the calibration goes a little bit out of sync. Therefore, Planet X was a wild goose chase, a phantom, mathematical artifact of human error.
Felipe Cubillos, progressive businessman and beloved philanthropist, leader of post-earthquake rebuilding campaign "Desafio Levantémos a Chile" (Lift Up Chile Challenge). Felipe Camiroaga, TV personality and reporter, on the flight to do a story on rebuilding efforts being conducted on the islands.
Yeah. Name checking The Wrath Of God is a rusted, tired, cherry-picking exercise that cuts both ways. For every self-righteous Sodom and Gomorrah invocation, right wing moralists (FWIW, "moralist" and "moral" are not the same thing) miraculously forget that:
Less than two weeks after LA and San Diego tilted the infamous recall election towards a republican governator, the worst forest fires in SoCal history occurred. Four hurricanes devastated Florida in 2004, when the state tilted yet another election towards a certain New England cowboy. Space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas, right over the ranch of some New England cowboy, in fact.
The list of "omens" and "portents" cutting in every single direction goes on ad nauseam.
This type of argument gained particular traction and nationwide dissemination with Falwell and Robertson. Using their own twisted sensibility, and since the East Coast earthquake was epicentered in Richmond VA, one could say the earth cracked open a bit to rapture Falwell's corpse downward.
"The Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas refers to a designated three-day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011, during which Texas governor Rick Perry asked that Texans pray for "the healing of our land [Texas]" and for an end to the drought."
You know, Texas. Pious, tea bagging Red State. No gays allowed.
"The drought became worse after the Days of Prayer. While only 15-17% of the state was undergoing exceptional drought during the Days of Prayer, the percentage grew to 50% a month later, and by late June, more than 70% of the state was experiencing exceptional drought conditions, a level at which it has stayed up to August 18, 2011."
Here's a puzzling fact I just checked on Wikipedia: Baikonur's elevation is a measly 100 meters above sea level. Why didn't the USSR choose someplace high in the Urals?
The big difference here, in contrast to Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg, is the elimination of vertical launchpads. Keep in mind that NASA wisely chose to launch space missions from strategic spots where, in case of a mishap, the rocket crashes in the ocean. Can you imagine the catastrophe of tons and tons of ignited LOX flooding a populated area? NASA did.
This is why NASA is hunting around for alternative launch spots with the exact same geographic characteristics as the current ones, Guyana has made some noise for equatorial missions, Baja California for circumpolar missions.
But now, with horizontal takeoff and a little bit of scramjet mojo, you can build a spaceport just about anywhere. Much smaller payloads than NASA, as well as suborbital flights only so far, but it's a highly encouraging milestone.
Having put in my two cents' worth, something just occurred to me: Risk of crashing in a populated area like Illinois or Ohio aside, surely there would be a significant benefit to launching traditional NASA missions from a facility high in the Rocky Mountains, a 3-4 kms gravitational head start would save TONS of fuel.
- Hecubus, have you seen the movie "Presumed Innocent"? - Yes I have, Master, and his wife kills her. - But I haven't seen the movie yet... EVIL! EVIL!
Buying bread from a man in Brussels who was six foot four, and full of mussels. I said "Do you speaka my language?" He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich.
As the research is being conducted at ITESM, it should be "Terrorists Target (mon)Terrey Tech Teacher".
But seriously and obviously, if the research is suppressed in Monterrey, a place like, say Chandigarh, would sooner or later pick up the slack. So these provincial, misguided pedobombers would only manage to injure their own country, but fortunately for Mexico that ain't gonna happen.
BTW, pedo is "fart" in Spanish, pedobombers is exactly the epithet they deserve.
On Google News, IBT's headlines on the subject are: Massive Solar Storm Could Cause Catastrophic Nuclear Threat in US as well as Severe Solar Storm to Create Global Chaos and Complete Darkness and Solar Storm Watch: Could This be Armageddon?
It's not even about "whoever screams the loudest gets the attention" anymore, it's just a loud, hollow mindset, by default. Sheesh.
Agreed, I've come to think that Phobos and Deimos should be reclassified as gravitationally trapped debris or something along those lines. To qualify as a satellite, using volume percentages would be problematic in the realm of gas and ice giant planets, so maybe something along the lines of spherical shape would be the way to go.
Impressive how language, any language, is such a flexible and volatile thing; how an added, subtracted or rearranged word can create noise in the attempt to convey information. Add to that the difficulty in suppressing the emotional inertia and current state of transmitter and receivers alike, as well as lack of universal consensus as to what a specific word can mean, and you get the idea as to how lossy a format the written word is.
In context, it sounds as if *impressively* would have been a better choice than *surprisingly*.
Couldn't we move ahead ten years to Caddyshack or something?...is the WRONG answer! There are, however, some lovely consolation prizes waiting for you backstage, thank you for playing. For our viewers at home, the correct answer was any of the following: SCTV, Kids In The Hall, Mr Show, The Whitest Kids U Know.
You're forgetting the albums: "Previous Record", "Another Record", "Matching Tie, Handkerchief" and "Contractual Obligation". In fact, it was thru album skits played on rock radio that many USA audiences had their first taste of the Python. Then there's peripheral material like "Four Yorkshiremen", "The Complete And Utter History Of Britain", "Looks Like Another Brown Trouser Job" and of course "Fawlty Towers" among many others, I'd even include "A Fish Called Wanda" in there.
Patton? That wasn't Coppola, that was some dude named Franklin Schaffner. Coppola did participate in the screenplay, but that hardly counts as a Coppola movie. Because if it did, in that case you'd have to count The Godfather as a Lucas film too, because he was a second unit director.
Without hesitation, I would count Raiders as a Spielberg AND Lucas film, it was very much a joint collaboration, Lucas came up with the idea and was intimately involved down to the very end.
In regards to Kubrick (and I haven't checked the NFR list), where's The Shining? I'd also add The Killing (1956), his first great film and one of the best heist movies of all time; you can trace a direct line from The Killing to Reservoir Dogs, with the storyline jumping back and forth in time and even down to the black suits with skinny ties.
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...nuclear technologies have never been safer...
That's a truism right there. At the same time, the solar energy industry has stagnated in Germany, I believe the topic was posted here on Slashdot about a week ago. So what's going on in Germany?
BTW, interesting correlation between your user ID and chronological placement of comment.
Actually, they found the cause of the perturbation.
Somebody went through the century-old maintenance logs of one of the telescopes involved in the Neptune measurements (I believe it was Yerkes, but don't quote me on that), and discovered that during a series of nightly observations of Neptune's orbit, some technician had removed the equatorial mount gears for either cleaning, maintenance or replacement, and that should NOT have happened, as the calibration goes a little bit out of sync.
Therefore, Planet X was a wild goose chase, a phantom, mathematical artifact of human error.
Felipe Cubillos, progressive businessman and beloved philanthropist, leader of post-earthquake rebuilding campaign "Desafio Levantémos a Chile" (Lift Up Chile Challenge).
Felipe Camiroaga, TV personality and reporter, on the flight to do a story on rebuilding efforts being conducted on the islands.
What's average resolution these days for satellite imagery? That seems awfully low.
Those are my feelings exactly about the Huygens Probe images of Titan. What is it with these european space cameras?
Back in 1977 when Voyager 1 began its' journey, it took this classic snapshot:
http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/The-Earth-Moon-System1.jpg
But whatever... whatever.
Yeah. Name checking The Wrath Of God is a rusted, tired, cherry-picking exercise that cuts both ways.
For every self-righteous Sodom and Gomorrah invocation, right wing moralists (FWIW, "moralist" and "moral" are not the same thing) miraculously forget that:
Less than two weeks after LA and San Diego tilted the infamous recall election towards a republican governator, the worst forest fires in SoCal history occurred.
Four hurricanes devastated Florida in 2004, when the state tilted yet another election towards a certain New England cowboy.
Space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas, right over the ranch of some New England cowboy, in fact.
The list of "omens" and "portents" cutting in every single direction goes on ad nauseam.
This type of argument gained particular traction and nationwide dissemination with Falwell and Robertson. Using their own twisted sensibility, and since the East Coast earthquake was epicentered in Richmond VA, one could say the earth cracked open a bit to rapture Falwell's corpse downward.
See? It can just go on and on...
"The Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas refers to a designated three-day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011, during which Texas governor Rick Perry asked that Texans pray for "the healing of our land [Texas]" and for an end to the drought."
You know, Texas. Pious, tea bagging Red State. No gays allowed.
"The drought became worse after the Days of Prayer. While only 15-17% of the state was undergoing exceptional drought during the Days of Prayer, the percentage grew to 50% a month later, and by late June, more than 70% of the state was experiencing exceptional drought conditions, a level at which it has stayed up to August 18, 2011."
How you like them apples?
Here's a puzzling fact I just checked on Wikipedia: Baikonur's elevation is a measly 100 meters above sea level.
Why didn't the USSR choose someplace high in the Urals?
The big difference here, in contrast to Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg, is the elimination of vertical launchpads.
Keep in mind that NASA wisely chose to launch space missions from strategic spots where, in case of a mishap, the rocket crashes in the ocean.
Can you imagine the catastrophe of tons and tons of ignited LOX flooding a populated area? NASA did.
This is why NASA is hunting around for alternative launch spots with the exact same geographic characteristics as the current ones, Guyana has made some noise for equatorial missions, Baja California for circumpolar missions.
But now, with horizontal takeoff and a little bit of scramjet mojo, you can build a spaceport just about anywhere. Much smaller payloads than NASA, as well as suborbital flights only so far, but it's a highly encouraging milestone.
Having put in my two cents' worth, something just occurred to me: Risk of crashing in a populated area like Illinois or Ohio aside, surely there would be a significant benefit to launching traditional NASA missions from a facility high in the Rocky Mountains, a 3-4 kms gravitational head start would save TONS of fuel.
Now why the hell did this come out as AC? I'm logged on, damn you Slashdot!
- Hecubus, have you seen the movie "Presumed Innocent"?
- Yes I have, Master, and his wife kills her.
- But I haven't seen the movie yet... EVIL! EVIL!
Agreed. Obscure and compelling, it's a thing of beauty!
It's got all the fatty, sugary, geeky goodness of the Slashdot Food Network.
Buying bread from a man in Brussels
who was six foot four, and full of mussels.
I said "Do you speaka my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich.
As the research is being conducted at ITESM, it should be "Terrorists Target (mon)Terrey Tech Teacher".
But seriously and obviously, if the research is suppressed in Monterrey, a place like, say Chandigarh, would sooner or later pick up the slack.
So these provincial, misguided pedobombers would only manage to injure their own country, but fortunately for Mexico that ain't gonna happen.
BTW, pedo is "fart" in Spanish, pedobombers is exactly the epithet they deserve.
On Google News, IBT's headlines on the subject are:
Massive Solar Storm Could Cause Catastrophic Nuclear Threat in US
as well as
Severe Solar Storm to Create Global Chaos and Complete Darkness
and
Solar Storm Watch: Could This be Armageddon?
It's not even about "whoever screams the loudest gets the attention" anymore, it's just a loud, hollow mindset, by default. Sheesh.
Thanks, I was trying to remember the name of that bad boy. Cruithne!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3753_Cruithne
Agreed, I've come to think that Phobos and Deimos should be reclassified as gravitationally trapped debris or something along those lines.
To qualify as a satellite, using volume percentages would be problematic in the realm of gas and ice giant planets, so maybe something along the lines of spherical shape would be the way to go.
I have a map of the Universe, it's actual size. It says One Megaparsec = One Megaparsec.
Or even worse, it says One Kessel Run = Less Than Twelve Parsecs.
Impressive how language, any language, is such a flexible and volatile thing; how an added, subtracted or rearranged word can create noise in the attempt to convey information. Add to that the difficulty in suppressing the emotional inertia and current state of transmitter and receivers alike, as well as lack of universal consensus as to what a specific word can mean, and you get the idea as to how lossy a format the written word is.
In context, it sounds as if *impressively* would have been a better choice than *surprisingly*.
I'd prefer to think that it's a gathering cluster of white monoliths!
Operation Desert Storm didn't make him look good enough to not be a one-termer.
Couldn't we move ahead ten years to Caddyshack or something? ...is the WRONG answer! There are, however, some lovely consolation prizes waiting for you backstage, thank you for playing.
For our viewers at home, the correct answer was any of the following: SCTV, Kids In The Hall, Mr Show, The Whitest Kids U Know.
You're forgetting the albums: "Previous Record", "Another Record", "Matching Tie, Handkerchief" and "Contractual Obligation". In fact, it was thru album skits played on rock radio that many USA audiences had their first taste of the Python.
Then there's peripheral material like "Four Yorkshiremen", "The Complete And Utter History Of Britain", "Looks Like Another Brown Trouser Job" and of course "Fawlty Towers" among many others, I'd even include "A Fish Called Wanda" in there.
Oh yeah!
Does your husband
misbehave
Grunt and grumble
rant and rave
Shoot the brute
some Burma Shave
Pa acted
so tickled
Ma thought
he was pickled
He'd just used
Burma Shave
Patton? That wasn't Coppola, that was some dude named Franklin Schaffner.
Coppola did participate in the screenplay, but that hardly counts as a Coppola movie.
Because if it did, in that case you'd have to count The Godfather as a Lucas film too, because he was a second unit director.
Without hesitation, I would count Raiders as a Spielberg AND Lucas film, it was very much a joint collaboration, Lucas came up with the idea and was intimately involved down to the very end.
In regards to Kubrick (and I haven't checked the NFR list), where's The Shining? I'd also add The Killing (1956), his first great film and one of the best heist movies of all time; you can trace a direct line from The Killing to Reservoir Dogs, with the storyline jumping back and forth in time and even down to the black suits with skinny ties.