heavens-above.com shows it as about 5 to 8 mag over my location for the next set of passes (see 9 Mar - 19 Mar)
http://heavens-above.com/PassS...
Which is hardly "the brightest thing in the sky other than the Sun" and not even naked eye visible at all even at 5.0 mag if you're at a light polluted area. It's possible the heavens-above estimate is low for the magnitude? Your plain old LEO satellites will beat these magnitudes all the time, I've seen many from the dark skys of Nebraska when I was there in an astronomy club. But you had to look right at dusk when the sky was just getting dark but so the Sun was still hitting the satellite. The Humanity Star will go dark just like any other LEO sat because it goes into shadow so quickly due to the low orbit.
> Trump into escalating with Russia to "prove" he isn't a puppet.
I'd think the fact that the whole "colluding" thing has crashed and burned as a GPS Fusion scam paid for by the DNC has fixed that well enough.
>Though I do wonder if the temperature at the comets solar perigee will ultimately reach, and if it will exceed the probes functional temperature range.
Not likely, the perihelion for this comet is 1.24 A.U. so the probe got more solar heat leaving Earth than it will ever get on the comet. What they are hoping for is that as it gets closer to the Sun it might get enough extra light even in its poor location to charge back up.
That's a rumor of a strategy, usually quoted from unidentified third parties or as personal opinions of military historians. I don't know of any official Israeli government document or statement that there's such a doctrine. It would be hard for them to since there's no official admission by Israel that they possess nuclear weapons.
When looked up in wikipedia it's described as "...the name that some military analysts have given to Israel's hypothetical deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a "last resort" against nations whose military attacks threaten its existence" hardly equivalent to nuking "every major European city" which implies those cities are in nations not attacking Israel.
I think the 'crashy' people are installing huge numbers of questionable plugins. I have good luck with Firefox but only install a few well selected plugins (noscript, better privacy, adblock, flash block, littlefox, and self destructing cookies). Because many of those plugins block crud like flash ads I get even better stability.
Go to other areas of Europe and Russia that have normal forest breakdown, grab some soil and dead leaves and spread them in select locations around Chernobyl. If the fungi and mold was damaged back when the radiation was really high it can be reseeded now that it's lower
That's true right now, the 3K background is higher than the tiny temperature of the black holes.
But the background temperature will get lower and lower as the universe expands, eventually it would get lower than the hawking temperature of even the largest black holes. At that point all black holes will be shrinking.
I'd be more interested in someone making a neutrino detector sensitive enough to detect the silicon burning stage just before the supernova explodes. That would give a day of warning.
Mostly that's because these companies have the Government for their main customer. That's the only explanation I can come up with for the diversity training I see at some companies. I have to assume the feds have some requirement that they only deal with companies with a certain set of diversity policies. You take your annual training and mostly it's business as usual. Companies that mostly sell to plain old private companies or individuals probably ignore the diversity stuff.
A lot of people don't realize that the average age of US nuclear weapons is a lot higher than some other powers. All are older than 20 years and the last new U.S. design was from 1991.
So an unknown and likely significant fraction of our nukes would probably dud if used. We at least need to rotate old nukes to make new ones into the arsenal so the ones we have are at least reliable. Plus some work needs to be going on to keep the skill pool of the nuclear engineers up, the engineers with experience of actually building a weapon are getting pretty up there in age and lots have retired.
Smart interceptors (like Iron Dome, today) are always going to be way more expensive (like $90k) than the incoming warhead (Palestinian Shahab, like $300).
One thing the Israeli's do is only expend an Iron Dome if and only if the incoming Kasam or Shahab is heading to a populated area. When the adversary is going as cheap as these Hamas rockets are, they have pretty poor accuracy and frequently land in empty areas.
I was reading that the vulnerability is not in general standalone Java but only in the Java plugin in your browser, that is, you can secure from the issue by disabling the Java plugin in your web browsers but it's not that big of a risk to a standalone Java app. Is that true?
Another interesting point about red dwarfs, along with the extremely long life time they have (ten trillions years), is that the universe locks away some material as brown dwarf pairs. In the extreme future after star formation is all done, a few of these pairs will spiral together from gravitational radiation forming new red dwarf stars if the total mass of the two objects is more than the minimum red dwarf mass.
The deal here in Maryland that makes the voting lines slow is the ballots are getting a bit long. The one here in 2012 had 30 selections to make. I got in line at 3:30pm and was done at 4:13 only because I had pre-filled out a sample ballot all my selections. A lot of people I saw there seem to go in cold and look over the all the ballot language in the booth, taking a lot more time.
I bet if you actually fused enough H to He to account for the current world usage of helium the required fusion energy would be WAY huge (as in dead, glowing earth huge)
The Chrome way is actually pretty clever and sneaky. That way the web site can't tell you're not seeing the ads, the firefox way makes it possible for them to detect that there's a user ip that viewing content but not pulling the ads. At that point on Firefox you usually get a nag page telling you to turn off adblock and/or kicked off the web site.
Or don't take it to the dumpster, BestBuy takes old hardware off your hands for free and that way it gets properly recycled instead of leaking toxic metals in a dump somwhere
Yes, I would think they'd notice something was odd, in the lower parts of the dig the walls would be unusually warm from the waste heat from the waste casks. Any civilization advanced enough to dig up a centuries old waste dump thousands of feet underground would make the connection that the only thing that would make heat like that for all those centuries would have to be nuclear related.
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heavens-above.com shows it as about 5 to 8 mag over my location for the next set of passes (see 9 Mar - 19 Mar) http://heavens-above.com/PassS... Which is hardly "the brightest thing in the sky other than the Sun" and not even naked eye visible at all even at 5.0 mag if you're at a light polluted area. It's possible the heavens-above estimate is low for the magnitude? Your plain old LEO satellites will beat these magnitudes all the time, I've seen many from the dark skys of Nebraska when I was there in an astronomy club. But you had to look right at dusk when the sky was just getting dark but so the Sun was still hitting the satellite. The Humanity Star will go dark just like any other LEO sat because it goes into shadow so quickly due to the low orbit.
> Trump into escalating with Russia to "prove" he isn't a puppet. I'd think the fact that the whole "colluding" thing has crashed and burned as a GPS Fusion scam paid for by the DNC has fixed that well enough.
So Russia with a GDP the size of Italy is now magically creating wonder weapons like this? Looks like oropaganda to me.
>Though I do wonder if the temperature at the comets solar perigee will ultimately reach, and if it will exceed the probes functional temperature range. Not likely, the perihelion for this comet is 1.24 A.U. so the probe got more solar heat leaving Earth than it will ever get on the comet. What they are hoping for is that as it gets closer to the Sun it might get enough extra light even in its poor location to charge back up.
Another surprising fact, the Sun's core is so dense (150 g/cc) that a metric ton of core only needs the volume of a cube 19cm per side to occupy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
That's a rumor of a strategy, usually quoted from unidentified third parties or as personal opinions of military historians. I don't know of any official Israeli government document or statement that there's such a doctrine. It would be hard for them to since there's no official admission by Israel that they possess nuclear weapons. When looked up in wikipedia it's described as "...the name that some military analysts have given to Israel's hypothetical deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a "last resort" against nations whose military attacks threaten its existence" hardly equivalent to nuking "every major European city" which implies those cities are in nations not attacking Israel.
I think the 'crashy' people are installing huge numbers of questionable plugins. I have good luck with Firefox but only install a few well selected plugins (noscript, better privacy, adblock, flash block, littlefox, and self destructing cookies). Because many of those plugins block crud like flash ads I get even better stability.
Go to other areas of Europe and Russia that have normal forest breakdown, grab some soil and dead leaves and spread them in select locations around Chernobyl. If the fungi and mold was damaged back when the radiation was really high it can be reseeded now that it's lower
That's true right now, the 3K background is higher than the tiny temperature of the black holes. But the background temperature will get lower and lower as the universe expands, eventually it would get lower than the hawking temperature of even the largest black holes. At that point all black holes will be shrinking.
I'd be more interested in someone making a neutrino detector sensitive enough to detect the silicon burning stage just before the supernova explodes. That would give a day of warning.
Mostly that's because these companies have the Government for their main customer. That's the only explanation I can come up with for the diversity training I see at some companies. I have to assume the feds have some requirement that they only deal with companies with a certain set of diversity policies. You take your annual training and mostly it's business as usual. Companies that mostly sell to plain old private companies or individuals probably ignore the diversity stuff.
>Perhaps the smart idea is to cut back Maybe but only if all other powers are cutting back, currently they are not
A lot of people don't realize that the average age of US nuclear weapons is a lot higher than some other powers. All are older than 20 years and the last new U.S. design was from 1991. So an unknown and likely significant fraction of our nukes would probably dud if used. We at least need to rotate old nukes to make new ones into the arsenal so the ones we have are at least reliable. Plus some work needs to be going on to keep the skill pool of the nuclear engineers up, the engineers with experience of actually building a weapon are getting pretty up there in age and lots have retired.
One thing the Israeli's do is only expend an Iron Dome if and only if the incoming Kasam or Shahab is heading to a populated area. When the adversary is going as cheap as these Hamas rockets are, they have pretty poor accuracy and frequently land in empty areas.
I was reading that the vulnerability is not in general standalone Java but only in the Java plugin in your browser, that is, you can secure from the issue by disabling the Java plugin in your web browsers but it's not that big of a risk to a standalone Java app. Is that true?
Another interesting point about red dwarfs, along with the extremely long life time they have (ten trillions years), is that the universe locks away some material as brown dwarf pairs. In the extreme future after star formation is all done, a few of these pairs will spiral together from gravitational radiation forming new red dwarf stars if the total mass of the two objects is more than the minimum red dwarf mass.
The deal here in Maryland that makes the voting lines slow is the ballots are getting a bit long. The one here in 2012 had 30 selections to make. I got in line at 3:30pm and was done at 4:13 only because I had pre-filled out a sample ballot all my selections. A lot of people I saw there seem to go in cold and look over the all the ballot language in the booth, taking a lot more time.
Yeah, although more expensive, synthetic sapphire might be better
I bet if you actually fused enough H to He to account for the current world usage of helium the required fusion energy would be WAY huge (as in dead, glowing earth huge)
Apparently in the speech he referred to the Military in general and not troops in particular.
Your UPS wasn't set up correctly, it's supposed to signal the server to gracefully shutdown before the battery goes dry.
The Chrome way is actually pretty clever and sneaky. That way the web site can't tell you're not seeing the ads, the firefox way makes it possible for them to detect that there's a user ip that viewing content but not pulling the ads. At that point on Firefox you usually get a nag page telling you to turn off adblock and/or kicked off the web site.
Or don't take it to the dumpster, BestBuy takes old hardware off your hands for free and that way it gets properly recycled instead of leaking toxic metals in a dump somwhere
Yes, I would think they'd notice something was odd, in the lower parts of the dig the walls would be unusually warm from the waste heat from the waste casks. Any civilization advanced enough to dig up a centuries old waste dump thousands of feet underground would make the connection that the only thing that would make heat like that for all those centuries would have to be nuclear related.