On the other hand, Albert Einstein wrote that the humanity will disappear in 4 days after the last bee disappears. One never knows.
Mosquito in itself is not dangerous, but parasites which it carries and distributes are (mostly from 00h00 till 04h00). Perhaps, good screens on windows and an UV-electric mosquito cleaner indoors will do?
If a human could cover the same number of the lengths of his body as an ant per the same amount of time, he would run at the speed about 1500 km/h (about 1000 miles/h).
There are a lot of such phenomena in the wild life world. It is one more reason to protect biodiversity, so that these species do not disappear and could be studied by engineers in the future.
I cannot agree more. That is a terrible story which will be going on and on for many millenniums. I do not claim that this "conspiracy theory" rumor is true.
I do not know. I hope not. But I heard it for several times and was curious to ask if there was new information on it.
The total cost of LEO MAPPING SATELLITE is much higher. Zillions times higher, because the eventual cost of cleaning the orbit from millions pieces of space junk should also be included:
These are hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk around the planet. This is not stupid?
Digital camera and super-computer themselves are not big, but the telescope is. So what? Expensive? Like what? Like 3 days of war?
I speak of an extended WiFi as a figure of speach. I mean that these real-time HD photos of Earth from the moon shall not be put in a drawer in some agency, but shall be available for distribution via clear API to all taxpayers, to make our world better.
A robot shall not necessarily have wheels or legs. Such an Earth telescope-digital-camera could also be a sort of a robot.
We pay by the tax money for the International Space Station, for the Space Telescopes, etc., but why not to build instead on the moon the earth imaging station.
Certainly it should be a WiFi with en extended range, but the point is the real-time HD Earth images available via API to all, for free, for the money, which we paid already, so that astronauts can make pirouettes inside the ISS. But why instead not to build something useful?
The best way to learn and explore is to do something practical and useful. It should be the solution of abundance. Abundance of free up-to-date HD earth images.
OK. 6 moon quakes per year for the whole moon. It does not mean 6 moon quakes per year at a given spot. A quake affects a particular area, the same as on earth.
Following this logic the Earth surface is unstable too, still the photographers do place tripod on the earth surface to get the photo-camera stable. No electronic stabilizer can compete with a tripod.
Plus on the moon there is no wind. On Earth one has to use a special tripod to get camera stable in windy conditions.
In short, you're trying to solve a problem that's already solved
I nearly believed. But than I opened in GoogleMaps at a place where for almost 5 years there is a huge building, and the map still shows a meadow. The current images are often obsolete. Looked at another place, still no satellite map update for years.
My vision is the large station with ndustrial scale telescope-digital-camera equipment, an international effort. And a sort of WiFi router so that anyone can log-in and use real time images of the Earth for their applications.
If this station uses a supercomputer than it can produce millions and millions of images per day. It would be another world.
A flying satellite needs fuel to stay in orbit. The moon does not.
But the moon surface is rock stable. That is why photographers use tripods to avoid camera jittering.
The issues of tiny meteors could be solved by automatically changeable upper protection glass over the lenses. Photographers also use them to protect expensive lenses from an accidental damage.
Practically it would mean delivering to the moon surface large tilt & pan camera with a huge telescopic lenses, a box. And also sort of a large WiFi router with antennas. Difficult, but doable.
This camera can work 24/7, as this side of the moon always faces the Earth. An AI application can select areas free from clouds and fog and shoot HD images constantly, directly in the map panels image format, which could be automatically transmitted and feed into the digital map.
Difficult, expensive, but useful and still better than spending billions on exploring black holes.
Privacy issues should be addressed, I agree. But there is definitely a value in having precise maps. For example, reliable navigation devices can reduce global gas consumption significantly.
Why not to build on the moon a large telescope-digital-photo-camera and make the HD images of Earth surface in almost real time?
Not images of space, but images of Earth, of what is interesting and vital to us.
Shooting cloudless areas on Earth constantly and feeding data into digital maps.
I have an impression that moon pass over every piece of land on Earth. But nowadays the satellite images of Earth on digital maps are often obsolete, 4 - 5 years old, especially for small towns and villages.
There will be no cost of stabilizing an artificial satellite.
The compulsory bicycle helmet and glasses make also face-recognition impossible.
Cycling is also good for physical shape and moral. Even a criminal may think: "...wait a minute, I can move around for free, I have an excellent physical shape now, I am constantly in good mood, I eat less,... maybe I do not need all this illegal money that much...".
I those parts it is almost impossible for young men and women to start a legitimate business.
A start up is to pay up to 135 types of taxes. Regulations change almost daily. One needs an army of accountants and lawyers just to think of starting operations.
Th New York was nearly destroyed by a bunch of shepherds with box-cutters.
Nuclear devices were miniaturized into small suitcase still in 80s. This is what really dangerous.
Why spend energy and money on past threats. II would suggest instead to cooperate on co-development. It is impossible to have the empire of prosperity in the ocean of misery.
Instead of spending billions on petty quarrel MCCain and Putin could assist in earnest people in hot dry parts.
Use a mirror in another data-center for your e-commerce website. Post link on the main website to the mirror or mirrors.
Update mirrors with a script.
The ideas (prejudices) of monarchy, monotheism, etc. are set firmly in our heads, but why your e-commerce should have only one and only URL? Let it have 2 or 3 URLs.
We use a mirror for the 4th year, and it is the 4th year of sanity for me.
Millions of Chinese tourists travel abroad each year. On a tiny SDHC camera card of 256 GB one can bring several movies in HD quality, plus about all texts of the humanity.
What is the point of this expensive firewall? The "iron curtain" is just not possible with the flash memory cards of high capacity. Any intelligent curious person can bring for himself a library to last for years.
What if a tourist saves forbidden website or reading material, packs it onto ZIP, RAR, or 7Z archive, then renames archive as JPG. At home he/she has to just rename.JPG back to.ZIP.
It is hardly possible to check every JPG file of every tourists. Tourists bring thousands of JPG files back home on flash drives and SDHC cards.
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust
destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and
where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is,
there your heart will be also.
The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body
will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be
full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is
that darkness!
No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the
other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You
cannot serve both God and Money.
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or
drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more
important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at
the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns,
and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable
than they?
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field
grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in
all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God
clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is
thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little
faith? For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly
Father knows that you need them.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things
will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for
tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
Slashdot Mirror
On the other hand, Albert Einstein wrote that the humanity will disappear in 4 days after the last bee disappears. One never knows.
Mosquito in itself is not dangerous, but parasites which it carries and distributes are (mostly from 00h00 till 04h00). Perhaps, good screens on windows and an UV-electric mosquito cleaner indoors will do?
If a human could cover the same number of the lengths of his body as an ant per the same amount of time, he would run at the speed about 1500 km/h (about 1000 miles/h).
There are a lot of such phenomena in the wild life world. It is one more reason to protect biodiversity, so that these species do not disappear and could be studied by engineers in the future.
I cannot agree more. That is a terrible story which will be going on and on for many millenniums. I do not claim that this "conspiracy theory" rumor is true.
I do not know. I hope not. But I heard it for several times and was curious to ask if there was new information on it.
There were rumors in the former USSR that Chernobyl plant was sabotaged in 1986 by an unknown kind of an cyber-electronic weapon from a satellite.
It would be interesting to learn if there were any leaks on that.
I always dismissed these rumors, but if there was really an attempt to sabotage the Natanz nuclear plant, then well...
It would be sort of a not nice thing to learn if it turns out to be the case. Not nice at all.
I am surprised that programmers are still coping at all. All these summer times, winter times, changing start and end dates at will.
It is like a quicksand.
The total cost of LEO MAPPING SATELLITE is much higher. Zillions times higher, because the eventual cost of cleaning the orbit from millions pieces of space junk should also be included:
http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/space-debris-3-polar-orbit.jpg
A LEO satellite lasts couple of years and then it is one more piece of junk around the planet. Shall we send more and more of them into space?
An artificial satellite lasts how long? Sometimes several days, sometimes couple of years, but no longer than 10 years.
Have you seen this image?
http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/space-debris-3-polar-orbit.jpg
These are hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk around the planet. This is not stupid?
Digital camera and super-computer themselves are not big, but the telescope is. So what? Expensive? Like what? Like 3 days of war?
I speak of an extended WiFi as a figure of speach. I mean that these real-time HD photos of Earth from the moon shall not be put in a drawer in some agency, but shall be available for distribution via clear API to all taxpayers, to make our world better.
A robot shall not necessarily have wheels or legs. Such an Earth telescope-digital-camera could also be a sort of a robot.
We pay by the tax money for the International Space Station, for the Space Telescopes, etc., but why not to build instead on the moon the earth imaging station.
Certainly it should be a WiFi with en extended range, but the point is the real-time HD Earth images available via API to all, for free, for the money, which we paid already, so that astronauts can make pirouettes inside the ISS. But why instead not to build something useful?
The best way to learn and explore is to do something practical and useful. It should be the solution of abundance. Abundance of free up-to-date HD earth images.
OK. 6 moon quakes per year for the whole moon. It does not mean 6 moon quakes per year at a given spot. A quake affects a particular area, the same as on earth.
Following this logic the Earth surface is unstable too, still the photographers do place tripod on the earth surface to get the photo-camera stable. No electronic stabilizer can compete with a tripod.
Plus on the moon there is no wind. On Earth one has to use a special tripod to get camera stable in windy conditions.
In short, you're trying to solve a problem that's already solved
I nearly believed. But than I opened in GoogleMaps at a place where for almost 5 years there is a huge building, and the map still shows a meadow. The current images are often obsolete. Looked at another place, still no satellite map update for years.
My vision is the large station with ndustrial scale telescope-digital-camera equipment, an international effort. And a sort of WiFi router so that anyone can log-in and use real time images of the Earth for their applications.
If this station uses a supercomputer than it can produce millions and millions of images per day. It would be another world.
A flying satellite needs fuel to stay in orbit. The moon does not.
But the moon surface is rock stable. That is why photographers use tripods to avoid camera jittering.
The issues of tiny meteors could be solved by automatically changeable upper protection glass over the lenses. Photographers also use them to protect expensive lenses from an accidental damage.
Practically it would mean delivering to the moon surface large tilt & pan camera with a huge telescopic lenses, a box. And also sort of a large WiFi router with antennas. Difficult, but doable.
This camera can work 24/7, as this side of the moon always faces the Earth. An AI application can select areas free from clouds and fog and shoot HD images constantly, directly in the map panels image format, which could be automatically transmitted and feed into the digital map.
Difficult, expensive, but useful and still better than spending billions on exploring black holes.
Privacy issues should be addressed, I agree. But there is definitely a value in having precise maps. For example, reliable navigation devices can reduce global gas consumption significantly.
Negative result is also the result. Probably they realized that they do need the knowledge of the net to perform their job.
The inventor of special forces, Russian imperial genera Suvorov used to say: "One beaten is worth two unbeaten."
There is always the next try.
Why not to build on the moon a large telescope-digital-photo-camera and make the HD images of Earth surface in almost real time?
Not images of space, but images of Earth, of what is interesting and vital to us.
Shooting cloudless areas on Earth constantly and feeding data into digital maps.
I have an impression that moon pass over every piece of land on Earth. But nowadays the satellite images of Earth on digital maps are often obsolete, 4 - 5 years old, especially for small towns and villages.
There will be no cost of stabilizing an artificial satellite.
One more reason to cycle.
... maybe I do not need all this illegal money that much ...".
The compulsory bicycle helmet and glasses make also face-recognition impossible.
Cycling is also good for physical shape and moral. Even a criminal may think: "...wait a minute, I can move around for free, I have an excellent physical shape now, I am constantly in good mood, I eat less,
I those parts it is almost impossible for young men and women to start a legitimate business.
A start up is to pay up to 135 types of taxes. Regulations change almost daily. One needs an army of accountants and lawyers just to think of starting operations.
There is so much sun in California, there is water to clean panels, social stability to build large generators.
This failure, it does not sound right.
Th New York was nearly destroyed by a bunch of shepherds with box-cutters.
Nuclear devices were miniaturized into small suitcase still in 80s. This is what really dangerous.
Why spend energy and money on past threats. II would suggest instead to cooperate on co-development. It is impossible to have the empire of prosperity in the ocean of misery.
Instead of spending billions on petty quarrel MCCain and Putin could assist in earnest people in hot dry parts.
Once I was almost hit by a silent electric motorcycle, which was speeding on a cycling path in a city at about 70 km/h, completely silent.
Use a mirror in another data-center for your e-commerce website. Post link on the main website to the mirror or mirrors.
Update mirrors with a script.
The ideas (prejudices) of monarchy, monotheism, etc. are set firmly in our heads, but why your e-commerce should have only one and only URL? Let it have 2 or 3 URLs.
We use a mirror for the 4th year, and it is the 4th year of sanity for me.
WiFi telescope on a mountain top http://hackaday.com/2008/06/10/wifi-telescope/ ?
Millions of Chinese tourists travel abroad each year. On a tiny SDHC camera card of 256 GB one can bring several movies in HD quality, plus about all texts of the humanity.
What is the point of this expensive firewall? The "iron curtain" is just not possible with the flash memory cards of high capacity. Any intelligent curious person can bring for himself a library to last for years.
What if a tourist saves forbidden website or reading material, packs it onto ZIP, RAR, or 7Z archive, then renames archive as JPG. At home he/she has to just rename .JPG back to .ZIP.
It is hardly possible to check every JPG file of every tourists. Tourists bring thousands of JPG files back home on flash drives and SDHC cards.
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
Mathew 6:20 - 6:34
I am a navigator myself and I am not comfortable with the idea of new obstacles appearing in water. In bad weather it may be an issue.
Besides people do make human errors. In such cases it is good if the environment is at least a bit forgiving.