Hello All,
An article on Nature.com has images of geometric shapes that form in spinning water. The second image in the article is very similar to the Saturn pole images on the NASA site. ( http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060515/full/060515 -17.html )
I think it is interesting that the NASA article states that Saturn's exact rate of rotation is not known...could its rotation be of an unexpected velocity that can cause the geometric shape to form on the pole just like those that form in spinning cylinders of water?
- Quasifrodo
Saturday (day one): Out-of-the-box, my MacBook had a bad optical drive. I called Apple support and the support person told me someone would call me back on Monday.
Sunday (day two): I decided that waiting two days just to arrange a solution was not good enough. So, I took my newly-born-defective MacBook to the extremely busy Apple Store (Tampa, Fl). I walked right up to a sales person and told them that --out of the box-- my Mac's optical drive did not work.
Within minutes, a Genius looked at my Mac, and he explained that it did indeed need a new optical drive and if they had the parts it would take a couple days...BUT, if I purchased PROCARE I could have it done that day.
Hmmm....
I ended up paying the $99 for ProCare so I could hold a functioning computer in my hands...a computer that should have been functioning in the first place.
All in all, the service was good but it was only speedy because I paid an additional $99.
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Hello All, An article on Nature.com has images of geometric shapes that form in spinning water. The second image in the article is very similar to the Saturn pole images on the NASA site. ( http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060515/full/060515 -17.html )
I think it is interesting that the NASA article states that Saturn's exact rate of rotation is not known...could its rotation be of an unexpected velocity that can cause the geometric shape to form on the pole just like those that form in spinning cylinders of water?
- Quasifrodo
Saturday (day one): Out-of-the-box, my MacBook had a bad optical drive. I called Apple support and the support person told me someone would call me back on Monday. Sunday (day two): I decided that waiting two days just to arrange a solution was not good enough. So, I took my newly-born-defective MacBook to the extremely busy Apple Store (Tampa, Fl). I walked right up to a sales person and told them that --out of the box-- my Mac's optical drive did not work. Within minutes, a Genius looked at my Mac, and he explained that it did indeed need a new optical drive and if they had the parts it would take a couple days...BUT, if I purchased PROCARE I could have it done that day. Hmmm.... I ended up paying the $99 for ProCare so I could hold a functioning computer in my hands...a computer that should have been functioning in the first place. All in all, the service was good but it was only speedy because I paid an additional $99.