According to wikipedia, it was initially supposed to be a debtors' colony. However, no debtors ever ended up actually going there. They probably couldn't afford it...
I hope they've taken into account the differing gravity of the moon in their gait algorithm
That should be easy. They just need to divide everything by 6.
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Actually, as soon as I saw this article, I went on Google Earth and looked for it. It's there!
Here are the coordinates: 18 59 25.13 S, 174 45 46.40 W
I have a friend who once dropped an EMPTY plastic cup on top of his computer. His PC restarted, and as soon as Windows came back up, his sound card didn't work. Somehow, dropping the cup on his PC corrupted his sound card drivers!
I would like to point out that a rational letter will go much further than an email, as it shows true dedication and effort on your part, whereas anyone can fire off an email in five minutes.
Very true. I'm in 10th Grade, and I can tell you how frustrating these things are. First of all, our school system rents Compaq (!) desktops and IBM laptops. The problem is that we have a very annoying mix here. Some Pentium IIs, some Pentium IIIs, a few Pentium 4s, and a new batch of Celeron Ds (groan) for the library. Only the Pentium 4s, the Celeron Ds, and the laptops (which are also Celerons) run XP. The rest run 98. They also had this program called DeepFreeze installed on all of the Win98 computers that rolled back all changes to the hard drive on restart. Some did have a safe partition that would be left alone, but you still couldn't install anything. My middle school orchestra teacher wanted to install a music notation program on one of them a few years ago, so I had to figure out how to break DeepFreeze. The answer? A DOS (or Linux or whatever) bootdisk. I just went in there, edited CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, and the registry, and then deleted the DeepFreeze folder. Worked like a charm. I then did the same to the rest of the computers in the orchestra room. Right after that, the next batch of computers didn't even come with it. I guess someone started complaining about not being able to do anything and have it stay that way! By the way, the older computers at my high school either don't have DeepFreeze, or it's already broken! Either they went around taking it off, someone else took it off like I did, or Windows just hiccupped and that was that. There is no type of lockdown system that can't be taken down by someone with a little knowledge of computers. Just thought I'd share my story of lockdown woes. On another note, I've learned BASIC, C++, Java, and a bit of Borland Assembler. Not at school, though. I went to the National Computer Camp http://www.nccamp.com/ for a number of years, and learned all of them there, with the exception of Java, which I got a book for. The only computer-related class at my school is Computer Applications, where you learn how to use M$ Office and write business letters, and maybe a little FrontPage. I'm not kidding. That's all they do, and then they go on the Internet and play games. Sigh...
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According to wikipedia, it was initially supposed to be a debtors' colony. However, no debtors ever ended up actually going there. They probably couldn't afford it...
That should be easy. They just need to divide everything by 6.
Actually, as soon as I saw this article, I went on Google Earth and looked for it. It's there!
Here are the coordinates: 18 59 25.13 S, 174 45 46.40 W
Naturally, I immediately made a placemark.
I have a friend who once dropped an EMPTY plastic cup on top of his computer. His PC restarted, and as soon as Windows came back up, his sound card didn't work. Somehow, dropping the cup on his PC corrupted his sound card drivers!
I would like to point out that a rational letter will go much further than an email, as it shows true dedication and effort on your part, whereas anyone can fire off an email in five minutes.
Actually, the real question here is "Wii"?
Very true. I'm in 10th Grade, and I can tell you how frustrating these things are. First of all, our school system rents Compaq (!) desktops and IBM laptops. The problem is that we have a very annoying mix here. Some Pentium IIs, some Pentium IIIs, a few Pentium 4s, and a new batch of Celeron Ds (groan) for the library. Only the Pentium 4s, the Celeron Ds, and the laptops (which are also Celerons) run XP. The rest run 98. They also had this program called DeepFreeze installed on all of the Win98 computers that rolled back all changes to the hard drive on restart. Some did have a safe partition that would be left alone, but you still couldn't install anything. My middle school orchestra teacher wanted to install a music notation program on one of them a few years ago, so I had to figure out how to break DeepFreeze. The answer? A DOS (or Linux or whatever) bootdisk. I just went in there, edited CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, and the registry, and then deleted the DeepFreeze folder. Worked like a charm. I then did the same to the rest of the computers in the orchestra room. Right after that, the next batch of computers didn't even come with it. I guess someone started complaining about not being able to do anything and have it stay that way! By the way, the older computers at my high school either don't have DeepFreeze, or it's already broken! Either they went around taking it off, someone else took it off like I did, or Windows just hiccupped and that was that. There is no type of lockdown system that can't be taken down by someone with a little knowledge of computers. Just thought I'd share my story of lockdown woes. On another note, I've learned BASIC, C++, Java, and a bit of Borland Assembler. Not at school, though. I went to the National Computer Camp http://www.nccamp.com/ for a number of years, and learned all of them there, with the exception of Java, which I got a book for. The only computer-related class at my school is Computer Applications, where you learn how to use M$ Office and write business letters, and maybe a little FrontPage. I'm not kidding. That's all they do, and then they go on the Internet and play games. Sigh...
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Come on, Tesla believed in it!
And so does SG-1!