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The quote in italics above was taken from Wikipedia. I intended to cite it, but didn't catch it in the preview.
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Or look at the Arab dictatorships of the Middle East: sure, a lot of them are wealthy, but they're basically all failures. In scientific terms they have produced nothing, in economic terms they produce nothing except oil, and in military terms, none of them could take on Israel in a fight.
Let's not get excited and go overboard.
The region of Iraq was historically known as Mesopotamia (Greek: "between the rivers"). It was home to the world's first known civilization, the Sumerian culture, followed by the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian cultures, whose influence extended into neighboring regions as early as 5000 BC. These civilizations produced some of the earliest writing and some of the first sciences, mathematics, laws and philosophies of the world; hence its common epithet, the "Cradle of Civilization"
Also read a bit about the Islamic Golden Age beginning in the 8th century.
Sheesh. DARPA is designed specifically to avoid being an "old boys network". DARPA staff are rotated out after 4-6 years -- no one is around long enough to form an "old boys network".
From Wikipedia: The staff is rotated to ensure fresh thinking and perspectives, and to have room to bring technical staff from new areas into DARPA. It also allows the program managers to be bold and not fear failure.
Actually, I'm not sure I'd actually be able to reach the ENTER key with my pinky without moving my hand. It looks like its not 1 key, or 2 keys, but three keys away! That would really be a stretch...
If you want a sail driven by solar wind/protons, you've got the Mini-Magnetospheric Plasma Propulsion idea, M2P2.
From the link:
M2P2 would generate a magnetic field and then inject plasma (ionized gas) that would drag the magnetic field lines out and form a plasma bubble 30 to 60 km (18-36 mi) in diameter.
And, the plasma bubble is very light... lighter than a solar sail.
LOL. Actually, it only costs 800,000 USD. And, it's actually quite a technology.
The window (WORF; for Window Observational Research Facility) is 20 inches in diameter. It is made of very high quality glass suitable for use with high-resolution telescopes.
2. When the Falcon landed in a "cave" inside a smallish asteroid (1 km radius), Han Solo got out and wandered around without a pressurized space-suit.
This doesn't mean there is gas suffusing the space between stars. In general, there are less than 10 hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter between stars. The Falcon actually landed on the inside of a worm-like creature dwelling inside the asteroid. It's quite possible that its interior was pressurized. Note, however, they were wearing breathing masks.
3. Small fighter-ships in space combat manuver as if they were airplanes, slicing through a medium which imposes a maximum speed to their movement, rather than being able to accelerate indefinately (until stopped by lightspeed or fuel exhaustion).
In reality, it isn't a "gaseous medium" that imposes the maximum velocity, it's the velocity of the mass the ship is ejecting from its engine(s) that imposes it.
Secondly they used TAP method which is outdated and inefficient. Predictive text input is much faster.
Um; IMHO that "predictive system" guesses wrong more often than I would deem acceptable to actually increase my efficiency.
This is not fair, as for very long distance morse messages one can have intermediaries as well which would lengthen the process considerably.
Depending on the frequency you morse over, you can easily send messages across the planet with no intermedaries.
I've recently been to Japan and had the rare privelege seeing a teenage school-girl on a Train sitting and texting on two phones at the same time! Beat that!
While I think it's cool you've been to Japan, this hardly excites me. If you can send messages to multiple sources at the same time why did she find the need to use two phones?
Anthony Daniels discusses this question on his personal website:
Q Thank you for connecting to your fans. We really appreciate that one of our idols will actually listen to our opinion. Will we ever discover the backstory for the silver shin?
LoserkidBXCR
A As you may have gathered from all the fluff that is surrounding Episode III, Threepio is, for the first time, completely gold from knee to foot. I believe this is in honour of the expensive carpets in Miss Padme's bedroom and the rather elegant designs of her more public areas. I hope that remark isn't open to misinterpretation. And now I come to think about it, in Ep II, her bedroom had the privacy of Penn Bus Station. Oh well. Actually, Threepio was always slightly embarrassed not to be perfectly formed so it's a topic of conversation best not attempted. Artoo likes to talk about stuff like that.
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The quote in italics above was taken from Wikipedia. I intended to cite it, but didn't catch it in the preview.
Or look at the Arab dictatorships of the Middle East: sure, a lot of them are wealthy, but they're basically all failures. In scientific terms they have produced nothing, in economic terms they produce nothing except oil, and in military terms, none of them could take on Israel in a fight.
Let's not get excited and go overboard.
The region of Iraq was historically known as Mesopotamia (Greek: "between the rivers"). It was home to the world's first known civilization, the Sumerian culture, followed by the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian cultures, whose influence extended into neighboring regions as early as 5000 BC. These civilizations produced some of the earliest writing and some of the first sciences, mathematics, laws and philosophies of the world; hence its common epithet, the "Cradle of Civilization"
Also read a bit about the Islamic Golden Age beginning in the 8th century.
Sheesh. DARPA is designed specifically to avoid being an "old boys network". DARPA staff are rotated out after 4-6 years -- no one is around long enough to form an "old boys network".
From Wikipedia: The staff is rotated to ensure fresh thinking and perspectives, and to have room to bring technical staff from new areas into DARPA. It also allows the program managers to be bold and not fear failure.
Bloggers will be downgraded to the status of the great unwashed masses.
Oh please. Downgraded? I thought the neat thing about blogging was that it was done by people like me... a member of the unwashed masses!
Heh. I worked on New Horizons. Let's just say that science is a cruel mistress.
p.s. I stole that phrase from the movie Big Blue.
Secure that shit, Hudson!
Actually, I'm not sure I'd actually be able to reach the ENTER key with my pinky without moving my hand. It looks like its not 1 key, or 2 keys, but three keys away! That would really be a stretch...
So, I guess you'd need a screensaver for your keyboard, too?
I think you mean Challenger. Columbia was destroyed during reentry.
If you want a sail driven by solar wind/protons, you've got the Mini-Magnetospheric Plasma Propulsion idea, M2P2.
From the link:
M2P2 would generate a magnetic field and then inject plasma (ionized gas) that would drag the magnetic field lines out and form a plasma bubble 30 to 60 km (18-36 mi) in diameter.
And, the plasma bubble is very light... lighter than a solar sail.
LOL. Actually, it only costs 800,000 USD. And, it's actually quite a technology.
The window (WORF; for Window Observational Research Facility) is 20 inches in diameter. It is made of very high quality glass suitable for use with high-resolution telescopes.
Read a bit more here.
2. When the Falcon landed in a "cave" inside a smallish asteroid (1 km radius), Han Solo got out and wandered around without a pressurized space-suit.
This doesn't mean there is gas suffusing the space between stars. In general, there are less than 10 hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter between stars. The Falcon actually landed on the inside of a worm-like creature dwelling inside the asteroid. It's quite possible that its interior was pressurized. Note, however, they were wearing breathing masks.
3. Small fighter-ships in space combat manuver as if they were airplanes, slicing through a medium which imposes a maximum speed to their movement, rather than being able to accelerate indefinately (until stopped by lightspeed or fuel exhaustion).
In reality, it isn't a "gaseous medium" that imposes the maximum velocity, it's the velocity of the mass the ship is ejecting from its engine(s) that imposes it.
Secondly they used TAP method which is outdated and inefficient. Predictive text input is much faster.
Um; IMHO that "predictive system" guesses wrong more often than I would deem acceptable to actually increase my efficiency.
This is not fair, as for very long distance morse messages one can have intermediaries as well which would lengthen the process considerably.
Depending on the frequency you morse over, you can easily send messages across the planet with no intermedaries.
I've recently been to Japan and had the rare privelege seeing a teenage school-girl on a Train sitting and texting on two phones at the same time! Beat that!
While I think it's cool you've been to Japan, this hardly excites me. If you can send messages to multiple sources at the same time why did she find the need to use two phones?
Q Thank you for connecting to your fans. We really appreciate that one of our idols will actually listen to our opinion. Will we ever discover the backstory for the silver shin? LoserkidBXCR
A As you may have gathered from all the fluff that is surrounding Episode III, Threepio is, for the first time, completely gold from knee to foot. I believe this is in honour of the expensive carpets in Miss Padme's bedroom and the rather elegant designs of her more public areas. I hope that remark isn't open to misinterpretation. And now I come to think about it, in Ep II, her bedroom had the privacy of Penn Bus Station. Oh well. Actually, Threepio was always slightly embarrassed not to be perfectly formed so it's a topic of conversation best not attempted. Artoo likes to talk about stuff like that. AD