Not according to this article which was posted at 12:08 PM EST.
From the article:
But controllers at the Pasadena, California, office of the Planetary Society, the mission's U.S. backers, said the craft appeared to be "alive" and sending signals to tracking stations.
"We have no evidence that anything is wrong with the spacecraft at all," said Bruce Betts, the Planetary Society's director of projects, late on Tuesday.
My original comment was modded down because someone didn't like my comment about my observed comparison between CNN and Fox so I'm reposting the link.
Who the fuck is the shithead moderator who moderated this Flamebait? What part is Flamebait? My observed results of the comparison between the two news outlets? That's science folks. You know, observe and record the results.
Bunch of pissant, whiny fucktards who can't stand to see a different opinion than their own.
does this story posted at 12:08 PM EST say that the controllers in California say "the craft appeared to be "alive" and sending signals to tracking stations."?
"We have no evidence that anything is wrong with the spacecraft at all," said Bruce Betts, the Planetary Society's director of projects, late on Tuesday.
Either Fox is slow with the news (big surprise)* or the folks in the project and in Russia still don't know for sure.
* Whenever there has been some kind of sudden, breaking news, I switch between CNN and Fox to see who has it first. As a rule, CNN is always first on reporting it and does, overall, a much better job of actually reporting what is taking place.
P.S. To see some of the stories you've been missing, check out my journal.
World peace will never happen so long as humans exist.
Nor can you eliminate all diseases. The best you can do is produce vaccines to innoculate people from the current incarnation of said afflictions. However, thanks to evolution, the bugs will develop an immunity to our vaccines and become even stronger. This is already happening as witnessed by a few bugs which are resistant to all but the most toxic new antibiotics.
Diseases are actually a good thing. They help cull the herd by removing the weak and sick. This allows for the stronger to survive.
Imagine how many people would be on this planet if diseases were kept in check. We are already seeing the effects of an ever-increasing population on our water, food and resources supplies.
Regardless of whether you think I'm being a troll what I have said is truthful
P.S. To see some of the stories you've been missing, check out my journal.
in greenhouses built on Mars colonies or other planets.
Er, what other planets? Other than Earth I'm not aware of any other planet which has the potential for allowing greenhouses to be built. At least none that are close enough to allow resupply of food without a multi-year trip.
Was this a slipup or are the folks at the ESA not telling us something (tinfoil hat goes on).
P.S. To see some of the stories you've been missing, check out my journal.
But people complain to their managers that they have to walk 15 feet to the printer, so the manager whacks IT till they get a ink jet.
As someone who is responsible for over 800 printers across the Commonwealth, I can attest to the laziness of users. We had an office that was relocating and part of the move involved purchasing more printers since the office would also be adding more people.
At first it sounded like they would have 4 printers for 10 people but after a bit of research it became clear that it would be 6 printers for 50+ people. When it was discussed that some people might have to walk a few feet to get the printer my response was, "Yeah, so? The exercise will do them good."
The question of adding more printers for this office was never brought up again.
For the record, we have one printer in my area for 10 people and most of us have to walk 20 feet or more to get to it. No one has ever complained about having to walk that distance to get a one page printout.
The charge sheet alleges that he hacked into an army computer at Fort Myer, Virginia, where he obtained codes, information and commands before deleting about 1,300 user accounts.
While not $1 billion in damages there is a cost to recovering and reconstructing those accounts. Not to mention trying to figure out where all those holes in security came from and patching them.
If the paper had said that this subset of the jewish religion was dumber than others due to genetics would people still have the same reaction or would they have dismissed it as anti-semitic?
There certainly was a distinct Jewish ethnic group in Poland before the war, with its own language, culture, clothing, sometimes separated sharply from other groups -- isn't that enough for you?
By that definition the Amish of Pennsylvania and Ohio are a distinct ethnic group. They have their own language, culture, most certainly clothing and are sharply separated from other groups.
However, I defy you to find anyone who classify the Amish as a distinct ethnic group.
Besides, it is has been shown that jews are genetically similar to palestinians and other groups of the region. Which of course makes sense since if one uses the biblical story of the egyptians using jews, and others, as slaves, it would logically follow that the jews were people already living in the region and thus would be genetically related to the overall arabic population (I'm using arabic in the widest possible term even though the Iranians would, given the chance, slit my throat for calling them arabs when Persian is the more correct term).
The only reason jews are jews is not because of genetics but of religion. Or maybe you would like to think that the jews were spontaneously created rather than adopting their ways for religious purposes?
Replying to my own posting (yayyyy!!!), I remember several years ago when Victoria Secrets was found to be doing the same thing with their catalog sales.
They would send out the same catalog to the same address but would have different prices for the same items depending on how much you had previously bought or were male or female. People began to figure this out and complained.
Link 1 about this issue and another link from a 1998 Forbes article on the issue of price discrimination.
For a more in-depth look at price discrimination, see this link which is a muli-page essay from the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology from 2001.
I have to wholeheartedly agree with your comment about eBay. Just last week I was looking at an eyecup for a camera. The seller had the original box with the price sticker on it which said $13.00.
The eyecup eventually went for $14 plus shipping.
This wasn't the first time I had seen something with the original sticker on it go for more than what it originally cost.
I would love to see how much debt these kind of people are in since they apparently don't care how much they pay for something.
Because there are only 20 episodes of the original? SciFi would have two choices: either run the episodes once a night every night or once a week for twenty weeks.
After you've run the episodes, then what? Repeat them?
Also, if you'll notice along the left side of the page I linked, right below the picture of Darren McGavin, there is a link from October of 2004 which says that ABC is in the process of remaking the Night Stalker series. Oh wait, that new series will be showing this fall.
Where are you buying your milk? I just paid $3.05 for a gallon on saturday. Almost makes it worth it to drink gasoline at $2.09/gallon.
Just another in a long list of reasons why Pennsylvania has a 'brain drain'. The morons in office just tax us to death and give the money to private entities to build stadiums and bribe their constituents (walking around money or WAMs).
Yes, this is offtopic to the master topic and merely a reply to the parent so mod me accordingly if you so choose.
To all those who hold the opinion that there is nothing wrong with teaching Creationism as a viable alternative 'theory' to Darwins theory of Evolution, I ask this one simple question: Can you prove or disprove your god, or any supreme being, does or does not exist.
While no theory can completely prove a known fact, whatever a theory proposes must be testable. If it cannot be tested in some fashion then it is not a theory.
That is the cruxt of the matter. Proving whatever a theory proposes. We know for an absolute fact that Darwins theory is correct because of horses. Horses you say? Yes, horses.
The fossil evidence shows, without a doubt, that horses were not always horses. The modern day horse is descended from a creature about the size of a large dog but which in no way can be considered a horse.
Thus, what Darwins theory has proposed has been tested and can therefore be considered a valid theory. The same can never be said of Creationism/ID.
The biggest mistake that those who oppose Darwins theory being taught in schools make is that they misinterpret what Darwins theory actually says. The theory does not say all creatures must evolve from other creatures. Rather, the theory says that all creatures may evolve from other creatures. A noteworthy difference.
No, this is just the latest attempt to drag this country back to the Dark Ages where people believed that various gods and demons caused everything from earthquakes to the passage of the Sun and Moon across the sky.
Since Creationism/ID relies on a being who can never be proven or disproven it is not a theory and never will be.
What is truly sad about this whole situation is that these people don't want to learn. Their outlook on life must be one of: "Well, I don't understand it so I guess it's a supreme being taking care of things."
While I have mod points the vast majority of comments revolve around the obvious quips. However, in reading your comment it must be said that 13 is now a reality.
The 2005 BMW 760i has a 'Start' button you must press (along with a transponder you insert into a slot) to start and stop the car. So does the Lexus Gs 430 as do some Mercedes and Toyotas.
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From the article:
But controllers at the Pasadena, California, office of the Planetary Society, the mission's U.S. backers, said the craft appeared to be "alive" and sending signals to tracking stations.
"We have no evidence that anything is wrong with the spacecraft at all," said Bruce Betts, the Planetary Society's director of projects, late on Tuesday.
My original comment was modded down because someone didn't like my comment about my observed comparison between CNN and Fox so I'm reposting the link.
Who the fuck is the shithead moderator who moderated this Flamebait? What part is Flamebait? My observed results of the comparison between the two news outlets? That's science folks. You know, observe and record the results.
Bunch of pissant, whiny fucktards who can't stand to see a different opinion than their own.
Yes, this IS Flamebait so mod accordingly.
"We have no evidence that anything is wrong with the spacecraft at all," said Bruce Betts, the Planetary Society's director of projects, late on Tuesday.
Either Fox is slow with the news (big surprise)* or the folks in the project and in Russia still don't know for sure.
* Whenever there has been some kind of sudden, breaking news, I switch between CNN and Fox to see who has it first. As a rule, CNN is always first on reporting it and does, overall, a much better job of actually reporting what is taking place.
P.S. To see some of the stories you've been missing, check out my journal.
Once again we can see the absolute lack of humor that many on this site have.
For all the supposed intelligence that many readers claim they have, there sure are alot of people who should use the dictionary more often.
Might I suggest the word 'sarcasm'?
A few of you bad apples ruined it for the rest of us.
I hope you're happy.
World peace will never happen so long as humans exist.
Nor can you eliminate all diseases. The best you can do is produce vaccines to innoculate people from the current incarnation of said afflictions. However, thanks to evolution, the bugs will develop an immunity to our vaccines and become even stronger. This is already happening as witnessed by a few bugs which are resistant to all but the most toxic new antibiotics.
Diseases are actually a good thing. They help cull the herd by removing the weak and sick. This allows for the stronger to survive.
Imagine how many people would be on this planet if diseases were kept in check. We are already seeing the effects of an ever-increasing population on our water, food and resources supplies.
Regardless of whether you think I'm being a troll what I have said is truthful
P.S. To see some of the stories you've been missing, check out my journal.
Er, what other planets? Other than Earth I'm not aware of any other planet which has the potential for allowing greenhouses to be built. At least none that are close enough to allow resupply of food without a multi-year trip.
Was this a slipup or are the folks at the ESA not telling us something (tinfoil hat goes on).
P.S. To see some of the stories you've been missing, check out my journal.
As someone who is responsible for over 800 printers across the Commonwealth, I can attest to the laziness of users. We had an office that was relocating and part of the move involved purchasing more printers since the office would also be adding more people.
At first it sounded like they would have 4 printers for 10 people but after a bit of research it became clear that it would be 6 printers for 50+ people. When it was discussed that some people might have to walk a few feet to get the printer my response was, "Yeah, so? The exercise will do them good."
The question of adding more printers for this office was never brought up again.
For the record, we have one printer in my area for 10 people and most of us have to walk 20 feet or more to get to it. No one has ever complained about having to walk that distance to get a one page printout.
Holy shit, YES! Khandi Alexander was and still is hot even though she now wears scrubs on CSI: Miami. Talk about a pair of legs.
Unfortunately the link above does not do justice to her.
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison.
If that doesn't show just how forward-looking the founding fathers were, I don't know what does.
P.S. To see some of the stories you've been missing, check out my journal.
The charge sheet alleges that he hacked into an army computer at Fort Myer, Virginia, where he obtained codes, information and commands before deleting about 1,300 user accounts.
While not $1 billion in damages there is a cost to recovering and reconstructing those accounts. Not to mention trying to figure out where all those holes in security came from and patching them.
However, when a paper is presented which says that jews and palestinians are genetically the same, that's a bad thing.
If the paper had said that this subset of the jewish religion was dumber than others due to genetics would people still have the same reaction or would they have dismissed it as anti-semitic?
What, no pictures of the cute japanese girls? You must be an otaku! :)
By that definition the Amish of Pennsylvania and Ohio are a distinct ethnic group. They have their own language, culture, most certainly clothing and are sharply separated from other groups.
However, I defy you to find anyone who classify the Amish as a distinct ethnic group.
Besides, it is has been shown that jews are genetically similar to palestinians and other groups of the region. Which of course makes sense since if one uses the biblical story of the egyptians using jews, and others, as slaves, it would logically follow that the jews were people already living in the region and thus would be genetically related to the overall arabic population (I'm using arabic in the widest possible term even though the Iranians would, given the chance, slit my throat for calling them arabs when Persian is the more correct term).
The only reason jews are jews is not because of genetics but of religion. Or maybe you would like to think that the jews were spontaneously created rather than adopting their ways for religious purposes?
So long as it was only the social lubrication and not the other kind. Non-lubed is definitely not a good thing.
That must be it. After all, that horde of lawyers and getting shot down at every turn in court isn't costing you a dime.
They would send out the same catalog to the same address but would have different prices for the same items depending on how much you had previously bought or were male or female. People began to figure this out and complained.
Link 1 about this issue and another link from a 1998 Forbes article on the issue of price discrimination.
For a more in-depth look at price discrimination, see this link which is a muli-page essay from the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology from 2001.
I have to wholeheartedly agree with your comment about eBay. Just last week I was looking at an eyecup for a camera. The seller had the original box with the price sticker on it which said $13.00.
The eyecup eventually went for $14 plus shipping.
This wasn't the first time I had seen something with the original sticker on it go for more than what it originally cost.
I would love to see how much debt these kind of people are in since they apparently don't care how much they pay for something.
Because there are only 20 episodes of the original? SciFi would have two choices: either run the episodes once a night every night or once a week for twenty weeks.
After you've run the episodes, then what? Repeat them?
Also, if you'll notice along the left side of the page I linked, right below the picture of Darren McGavin, there is a link from October of 2004 which says that ABC is in the process of remaking the Night Stalker series. Oh wait, that new series will be showing this fall.
Perhaps you missed the Night Stalker marathon on May 18th? (bottom of the page)
Who is the mod who was stupid enough to classify these comments as Troll? These are dead-on ontopic and informative/insightful.
I wish I had points. You deserve better.
Rather than post the entire review, here is the link to the story from CNNs site.
Don't you mean buggalo?
Where are you buying your milk? I just paid $3.05 for a gallon on saturday. Almost makes it worth it to drink gasoline at $2.09/gallon.
Just another in a long list of reasons why Pennsylvania has a 'brain drain'. The morons in office just tax us to death and give the money to private entities to build stadiums and bribe their constituents (walking around money or WAMs).
Yes, this is offtopic to the master topic and merely a reply to the parent so mod me accordingly if you so choose.
While no theory can completely prove a known fact, whatever a theory proposes must be testable. If it cannot be tested in some fashion then it is not a theory.
That is the cruxt of the matter. Proving whatever a theory proposes. We know for an absolute fact that Darwins theory is correct because of horses. Horses you say? Yes, horses.
The fossil evidence shows, without a doubt, that horses were not always horses. The modern day horse is descended from a creature about the size of a large dog but which in no way can be considered a horse.
Thus, what Darwins theory has proposed has been tested and can therefore be considered a valid theory. The same can never be said of Creationism/ID.
The biggest mistake that those who oppose Darwins theory being taught in schools make is that they misinterpret what Darwins theory actually says. The theory does not say all creatures must evolve from other creatures. Rather, the theory says that all creatures may evolve from other creatures. A noteworthy difference.
No, this is just the latest attempt to drag this country back to the Dark Ages where people believed that various gods and demons caused everything from earthquakes to the passage of the Sun and Moon across the sky.
Since Creationism/ID relies on a being who can never be proven or disproven it is not a theory and never will be.
What is truly sad about this whole situation is that these people don't want to learn. Their outlook on life must be one of: "Well, I don't understand it so I guess it's a supreme being taking care of things."
The 2005 BMW 760i has a 'Start' button you must press (along with a transponder you insert into a slot) to start and stop the car. So does the Lexus Gs 430 as do some Mercedes and Toyotas.