Discovery Channel already covered this option, or maybe one of the BBC documentaries. And instead of saying stupid things like "feel each other" they spoke about the "long term gravitational effect, however miniscule it would be" - that's what would slowly nudge the asteroid from its existing path and hopefully not into us.
The massive limitation (no pun intended) is that the asteroid in question needs to be detected when it's really really really far away, to give enough time to a) launch a spaceship designed for this, b) have it reach the asteroid and then c) still have enough time/distance for the gravitational effect of the ship to affect the asteroid significantly enough to have it adequately deviate from its path.
While it's the most realistic option from the perspective of current space technology, it's only likely to be useful for asteroids which we already know are likely to hit many many years from now. It would have been more useful to give some sort of indication of time/distance required to actually have it work, relative to the mass and velocity of likely asteroids.
Examples include a pacemaker that can be tuned remotely,...
Fear your pacemaker!!! People with heart problems will now have an increased risk of death!!!
Uh. Well you know what I mean. Fear!!!
I think "death by wifi enabled pacemaker" is most likely. It was coveredpreviously, so now it's just a matter of time and effort for someone actually do it. Well, it's also required that someone with a pacemaker is hated enough by someone else who has access to get the serial number, etc. and then go through with murdering him/her or find someone else with the skills and inclination. That reduces your population of potential perpetrators.
Is it possible this will happen? Yes. In the next 24 months? Yes. Will it be found or proved? Probably not.
To make things more ambiguous (along the GPs point), "Interstellar space": Voyager 1 is 17 light hours from us (so under 0.2% the distance to Proxima Centauri). Not sure when or how they decided interstellar space starts before the Oort Cloud (1 ly away).
A justification could be made that astronomically-scaled systems may have plenty of in-between objects that are far enough away to be considered interstellar space. However, when defining an interstellar comet: "At present, an interstellar comet can only be detected if it passes through our solar system, and could be distinguished from an Oort cloud comet by its strongly hyperbolic trajectory (indicating that it is not gravitationally bound to the Sun)." - so if interstellar comets are not interstellar unless they originate from outside the Oort Cloud, I don't see why we consider Voyager 1 even remotely approaching interstellar space when it's still so far from the Oort Cloud.
And reversibly, due to Voyager 1's known one-way trajectory out/away from the Sun, it could be considered not gravitationally bound to the Sun. So is or will be interstellar if not destroyed before.
Anyway, I think 'exiting the heliosphere' is the point of the article. 'Interstellar space' is a sensationalist term in the headline.
well..."The Solar System consists of the Sun and its planetary system of eight planets, their moons, and other non-stellar objects." So that happened a while ago.
Between the solar system and interstellar space is the heliosphere (which encompasses the solar system, bordered/demarcated by the heliopause).
Would the distance between the two galaxies be 26.6 billion years and longer than the age of the universe?
Good point: Yes and No.
Would it happen, yes, already has: If the universe is 93 billion light years in diameter, it is obviously possible to to find a galaxy 26.6 billion light years away but it should not be older than 13.7 billion years.
Because 13.3 billion light years away vs 13.3 billion years ago are not the same in the "Expanding universe" theory. The summary says "the galaxy is 13.3 billion light years away" - which makes it not as old as that statement implies --- imagine an early universe 1 billion light years across, with 2 galaxies forming near the edge diametrically opposite each other. They could now be 93 billion light years apart from each other but they would still be slightly younger than this one (MACS0647-JD). Similarly, it's possible that this galaxy could have been formed 12 billion years ago and has since moved relatively or "apparently" further away to 13.3 billion light years. 1.3 billion light years in 1.3 billion years in an expanding universe doesn't seem impossible since the universe is already larger (93 billion light years) than it is old (13.7 billion years).
The article didn't explain how they've correlated distance with age. Doppler shift?
The "No" part to your question, and the part which makes some of my answer wrong, is for observable: There would also be the implication that what is "observed" can not be older than 13.7 billion years so you would need to wait another 13.3 billion years to observe the 13.3 billion year-old galaxy **at** 26.6 billion light years away.
For a direct cloud upload to "expand my brain capacity" people are more likely to use near-brain local storage than the "cloud". And yes, like Dropbox, Amazon S3, etc. eventually even brain local storage will be complemented with "remote" storage. And if the MMI stuff works out, same goes for computing power.
When or how long it takes to get there is a wild guess. And a bit obvious as a "vision" or prediction in this day and age.
Wrong. GET is supposed to be "nullipotent". You're correct about GET not supposed to have any side effects.
PUT and DELETE are idempotent - "multiple identical requests should have the same effect as a single request"
The reason browsers don't have them is because of the HTML/XHTML spec - "HTML forms (up to HTML version 4 and XHTML 1) only support GET and POST as HTTP request methods."[1] So if they implemented it, most likely would be done differently by each browser, and more so in IE as usual.
I'm no economist but I think India has far greater earth- and sea-based concerns that could do with some govt spending.
OTOH...if it's done for under US$100 million, then it could just be a great big advertisement to do more outsourced launches...or whatever the PC-term for that is these days...as a major revenue source in the future.
Homeworld was, for me, the first truly 'epic space battle' type game. Full 360 deg space-mapping, camera views, fighter-POVs. It would have been a perfect fit to mod Homeworld into a BSG game for RTS.
I have played TIE Figther which would have also been great for the FPS perspective.
More than 10% of the 1.2M road traffic accidents in the world per year, occur in India alone: 133,938. Closet rival in that regard - China, with about half that rate. The Top Gear India special last year... if you saw the part when they are driving on the highways... you'll see what I mean.
The fatalities per 100K population and per 100K vehicles is low compared to other countries because the average is skewed by the high population (1.2 billion!) and the vast areas of countryside where traffic density and "382 per sq.km population density" is much lower.
Sounds a lot more sensational when you compare the title's "comet plunges into sun and survives" event vs the actual "comet flew through hot atmosphere of the sun".
I understood it as: Secure --> Network...and... Classified --> Document/Content sensitivity+visibility
So they're referring to both - secure network yes but no using it to get your covert mission orders via video conf on the device, for example. They probably still expect their personnel to use previously established procedures/devices. Could be a bit of a grey area though.
The database holds timezone information...about different timezones. Did they pay the world's governments the royalties for publishing their countries' priviliged info? That is clearly a trademark violation!
Option B: Some company wielding a patent for a 'database schema specifically designed to maintain timezone information' is going after him --- with the added claim that by warning everyone in advance, he would be facilitating the propagation of the patented schema/design, resulting in a further patent violation.
(imho, must be something retarded if he's a defendant and the case involves "timezones database"...too basic to be infringing; and yet important)
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Discovery Channel already covered this option, or maybe one of the BBC documentaries. And instead of saying stupid things like "feel each other" they spoke about the "long term gravitational effect, however miniscule it would be" - that's what would slowly nudge the asteroid from its existing path and hopefully not into us.
The massive limitation (no pun intended) is that the asteroid in question needs to be detected when it's really really really far away, to give enough time to
a) launch a spaceship designed for this,
b) have it reach the asteroid and then
c) still have enough time/distance for the gravitational effect of the ship to affect the asteroid significantly enough to have it adequately deviate from its path.
While it's the most realistic option from the perspective of current space technology, it's only likely to be useful for asteroids which we already know are likely to hit many many years from now. It would have been more useful to give some sort of indication of time/distance required to actually have it work, relative to the mass and velocity of likely asteroids.
I think "death by wifi enabled pacemaker" is most likely.
s/death/murder
Fear your pacemaker!!! People with heart problems will now have an increased risk of death!!!
Uh. Well you know what I mean. Fear!!!
I think "death by wifi enabled pacemaker" is most likely. It was covered previously, so now it's just a matter of time and effort for someone actually do it. Well, it's also required that someone with a pacemaker is hated enough by someone else who has access to get the serial number, etc. and then go through with murdering him/her or find someone else with the skills and inclination. That reduces your population of potential perpetrators.
Is it possible this will happen? Yes.
In the next 24 months? Yes.
Will it be found or proved? Probably not.
"classified directory" vs "classifieds directory"
To make things more ambiguous (along the GPs point), "Interstellar space": Voyager 1 is 17 light hours from us (so under 0.2% the distance to Proxima Centauri). Not sure when or how they decided interstellar space starts before the Oort Cloud (1 ly away).
A justification could be made that astronomically-scaled systems may have plenty of in-between objects that are far enough away to be considered interstellar space. However, when defining an interstellar comet: "At present, an interstellar comet can only be detected if it passes through our solar system, and could be distinguished from an Oort cloud comet by its strongly hyperbolic trajectory (indicating that it is not gravitationally bound to the Sun)." - so if interstellar comets are not interstellar unless they originate from outside the Oort Cloud, I don't see why we consider Voyager 1 even remotely approaching interstellar space when it's still so far from the Oort Cloud.
And reversibly, due to Voyager 1's known one-way trajectory out/away from the Sun, it could be considered not gravitationally bound to the Sun. So is or will be interstellar if not destroyed before.
Anyway, I think 'exiting the heliosphere' is the point of the article. 'Interstellar space' is a sensationalist term in the headline.
well..."The Solar System consists of the Sun and its planetary system of eight planets, their moons, and other non-stellar objects." So that happened a while ago.
Between the solar system and interstellar space is the heliosphere (which encompasses the solar system, bordered/demarcated by the heliopause).
Correction, the "observable" factor makes most of what I said about the age of MACS0647-JD wrong. Was trying to make 2 different points at once.
Would the distance between the two galaxies be 26.6 billion years and longer than the age of the universe?
Good point: Yes and No.
Would it happen, yes, already has: If the universe is 93 billion light years in diameter, it is obviously possible to to find a galaxy 26.6 billion light years away but it should not be older than 13.7 billion years.
Because 13.3 billion light years away vs 13.3 billion years ago are not the same in the "Expanding universe" theory. The summary says "the galaxy is 13.3 billion light years away" - which makes it not as old as that statement implies --- imagine an early universe 1 billion light years across, with 2 galaxies forming near the edge diametrically opposite each other. They could now be 93 billion light years apart from each other but they would still be slightly younger than this one (MACS0647-JD). Similarly, it's possible that this galaxy could have been formed 12 billion years ago and has since moved relatively or "apparently" further away to 13.3 billion light years. 1.3 billion light years in 1.3 billion years in an expanding universe doesn't seem impossible since the universe is already larger (93 billion light years) than it is old (13.7 billion years).
The article didn't explain how they've correlated distance with age. Doppler shift?
The "No" part to your question, and the part which makes some of my answer wrong, is for observable:
There would also be the implication that what is "observed" can not be older than 13.7 billion years so you would need to wait another 13.3 billion years to observe the 13.3 billion year-old galaxy **at** 26.6 billion light years away.
In fact, this is how you unlock many Motorola devices and others.
"Others" in this case. Nexus 4: LG.
The real question is...would it correctly translate to and from "All your base are belong to us"?
What is "correctly" in this case?
Several related things were discussed here: Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive?; 4 months ago.
Yeah, thought so.
For a direct cloud upload to "expand my brain capacity" people are more likely to use near-brain local storage than the "cloud". And yes, like Dropbox, Amazon S3, etc. eventually even brain local storage will be complemented with "remote" storage. And if the MMI stuff works out, same goes for computing power.
When or how long it takes to get there is a wild guess. And a bit obvious as a "vision" or prediction in this day and age.
(They are of course present in XMLHttpRequest.)
Wrong. GET is supposed to be "nullipotent". You're correct about GET not supposed to have any side effects.
PUT and DELETE are idempotent - "multiple identical requests should have the same effect as a single request"
The reason browsers don't have them is because of the HTML/XHTML spec - "HTML forms (up to HTML version 4 and XHTML 1) only support GET and POST as HTTP request methods."[1] So if they implemented it, most likely would be done differently by each browser, and more so in IE as usual.
1: http://stackoverflow.com/a/166501/1431750
Challenge accepted!
Exactly what I was going to post. Mis-clicked the moderation, posting to undo.
BSG reference to the Eternal Return:
"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."
There's also the recent "reduction" of the poverty line to Rs. 28... $0.50 a day. So the new claim would be that only 30% live below the poverty line.
I'm no economist but I think India has far greater earth- and sea-based concerns that could do with some govt spending.
OTOH...if it's done for under US$100 million, then it could just be a great big advertisement to do more outsourced launches...or whatever the PC-term for that is these days...as a major revenue source in the future.
Homeworld was, for me, the first truly 'epic space battle' type game. Full 360 deg space-mapping, camera views, fighter-POVs.
It would have been a perfect fit to mod Homeworld into a BSG game for RTS.
I have played TIE Figther which would have also been great for the FPS perspective.
Looking forward to playing this.
typos.
s/Closet/Closest
s/see/know
s/saw/see
More than 10% of the 1.2M road traffic accidents in the world per year, occur in India alone: 133,938. Closet rival in that regard - China, with about half that rate. The Top Gear India special last year ... if you saw the part when they are driving on the highways ... you'll see what I mean.
The fatalities per 100K population and per 100K vehicles is low compared to other countries because the average is skewed by the high population (1.2 billion!) and the vast areas of countryside where traffic density and "382 per sq.km population density" is much lower.
...great Ice Cream!
Scientists do indeed have great imagination.
Sounds a lot more sensational when you compare the title's "comet plunges into sun and survives" event vs the actual "comet flew through hot atmosphere of the sun".
(My $0.02 as the summarizer)
I understood it as: ...and... Classified --> Document/Content sensitivity+visibility
Secure --> Network
So they're referring to both - secure network yes but no using it to get your covert mission orders via video conf on the device, for example. They probably still expect their personnel to use previously established procedures/devices. Could be a bit of a grey area though.
The database holds timezone information...about different timezones. Did they pay the world's governments the royalties for publishing their countries' priviliged info? That is clearly a trademark violation!
Option B: Some company wielding a patent for a 'database schema specifically designed to maintain timezone information' is going after him --- with the added claim that by warning everyone in advance, he would be facilitating the propagation of the patented schema/design, resulting in a further patent violation.
(imho, must be something retarded if he's a defendant and the case involves "timezones database"...too basic to be infringing; and yet important)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/argentina-isps-ip-overblocking