Actually, the dust problem would be largely mitigated by vacuum cementing.
On Mars, OTOH, there's a thin atmosphere...just enough to prevent vacuum cementing from happening, and to blow all that dust around. The dust problem on Mars is much worse than the dust problem on the Moon.
Good old rock is an excellent barrier to solar radiation.
Odds are that if we were to establish a Moon base, the great majority of it would be subterranean (or subselenian, anyway). We wouldn't live 'on' the moon as much as 'in' it.
The only heat loss on the moon would occur by conduction into the surface of the moon.
According to that logic, the moon itself should be white-hot due to all the heat from the sun that's been trapped there. In addition to conduction, heat can also be transferred via radiation.
Yes, just a big rock, chock full of raw materials we need for your trip to Mars, and with only 1/6 the gravity and no atmosphere, it's easy to get those materials into orbit.
"Skipping" the moon is sheer lunacy (pardon the pun). Once established, the Moon Base will py for itself countless times over.
Yes, that's what I was thinking...if they do change their stance, it would be interpreted as an implicit admission of guilt, so may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb, I guess.
Although this really doesn't address my second point...if a judge ruled in Apple's favor, shouldn't they be able to stop this sort of thing in the interim, until the case is settled one way or another?
If my memory serves, a judge passed a ruling on this a little while ago. Shouldn't they be at least slowing down a bit while this is resolved? And if not, why didn't someone give some sort of cease-and desist order?
(Disclaimer: IANAL, and watching them on TV gives me a headache.)
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes."
- Andy Warhol
Screw that...in the future, everyone will have their own public-access TV show.
Seriously though, where is this going? It sounds like for every person who decides to actually publish something with thought and content, about 100 people will just be publishing their webcam of them going about their day. This impending explosion of mind-numbing neo-reality TV is going to make Survivor look like Shakespeare.
Here's a tip: folks, if you're wondering if your day-to-day existence is interesting enough to make into a reality TVshow, odd are you're WRONG. Keep it to yourself.
We question the need for digital-to-analog converters. It should be noted that we allow DHCP to harness homogeneous epistemologies without the evaluation of evolutionary programming [2], [12], [14]. Contrarily,the lookaside buffer might not be the panacea that end-users expected. However, this method is never considered confusing. Our approach turns the knowledge-base communication sledgehammer into a scalpel.
I've received auto-generated spam emails that read a lot like this. Nice to know the WMSCI is on their toes...but judging from the content on their home page, I'm not surprised that they consider this paper conference material.
From the WMSCI's website:
Through WMSCI conferences, we are trying to relate the analytic thinking required in focused conference sessions, to the synthetic thinking, required for analogies generation, which calls for multi-focus domain and divergent thinking. We are trying to promote a synergic relation between analytically and synthetically oriented minds, as it is found between left and right brain hemispheres, by means of the corpus callosum. Then, WMSCI 2005 might be perceived as a research corpus callosum, trying to bridge analytically with synthetically oriented efforts, convergent with divergent thinkers and focused specialists with non-focused or multi-focused generalists.
What's scary is that the second paragraph was written by humans.
(FYI, the full text of the paper in question can be found here, and the WMSCI website can be found here.
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Actually, the dust problem would be largely mitigated by vacuum cementing.
On Mars, OTOH, there's a thin atmosphere...just enough to prevent vacuum cementing from happening, and to blow all that dust around. The dust problem on Mars is much worse than the dust problem on the Moon.
Good old rock is an excellent barrier to solar radiation.
Odds are that if we were to establish a Moon base, the great majority of it would be subterranean (or subselenian, anyway). We wouldn't live 'on' the moon as much as 'in' it.
The only heat loss on the moon would occur by conduction into the surface of the moon.
According to that logic, the moon itself should be white-hot due to all the heat from the sun that's been trapped there. In addition to conduction, heat can also be transferred via radiation.
That's what window blinds are for.
A lunar eclipse is veiwed from the earth when the moon gets between the sun and the earth.
Um...no. That's a solar eclipse. A lunar eclipse is when Earth gets in between the Sun and the Moon.
When part of the moon gets in its own shadow, that corresponds with what we call "night" here on earth.
Huh??? How exactly does the moon get 'in its own shadow'??? What sort of wierd non-euclidian reality are you from?
The moon is just a big rock
Yes, just a big rock, chock full of raw materials we need for your trip to Mars, and with only 1/6 the gravity and no atmosphere, it's easy to get those materials into orbit.
"Skipping" the moon is sheer lunacy (pardon the pun). Once established, the Moon Base will py for itself countless times over.
"Gol-darned claim-jumpin' bushwackin' astro-nots!"
Fine, I'll build my own moon base! With blackjack...and hookers...in fact, forget the base!
Yes, that's what I was thinking...if they do change their stance, it would be interpreted as an implicit admission of guilt, so may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb, I guess.
Although this really doesn't address my second point...if a judge ruled in Apple's favor, shouldn't they be able to stop this sort of thing in the interim, until the case is settled one way or another?
If my memory serves, a judge passed a ruling on this a little while ago. Shouldn't they be at least slowing down a bit while this is resolved? And if not, why didn't someone give some sort of cease-and desist order?
(Disclaimer: IANAL, and watching them on TV gives me a headache.)
Way to go, guys...the site is slashdotted, and now the children won't learn about hunger.
Won't someone think of the children???
Screw that...in the future, everyone will have their own public-access TV show.
Seriously though, where is this going? It sounds like for every person who decides to actually publish something with thought and content, about 100 people will just be publishing their webcam of them going about their day. This impending explosion of mind-numbing neo-reality TV is going to make Survivor look like Shakespeare.
Here's a tip: folks, if you're wondering if your day-to-day existence is interesting enough to make into a reality TVshow, odd are you're WRONG. Keep it to yourself.
All the other part is a troll/ Sarcasiscally/flaimbait material to get your attention. In other words, excellent slash front page material.
Mabye this is why I can't seem to get a submission accepted...I'm just not being inflammatory enough.
Exactly. American beers like Bud and Miller are designed to be drunk ice-cold, so you can't actually taste the rankness.
Wow...guess that makes me a one-percenter.
And BTW, not all American beer sucks...Sam Adams is quite passable.
I see a clever new business opportunity here:
GenetiBrau: the Beer made from 100% genetically modified ingredients!
(I'd drink it.)
The more obscure your references are and the more complicated your train of thought, the smarter you must be, right?
Seems to work for Dennis Miller.
Excerpt from the submitted paper:
I've received auto-generated spam emails that read a lot like this. Nice to know the WMSCI is on their toes...but judging from the content on their home page, I'm not surprised that they consider this paper conference material.
From the WMSCI's website:
What's scary is that the second paragraph was written by humans.
(FYI, the full text of the paper in question can be found here, and the WMSCI website can be found here.
Wow...I'm 0 for 2....soon to be three (they've been sitting for the submission for two days).
Suddenly I feel better.
Didn't we just see the solution to this problem here two days ago?
Yeah...I hate it when people steal my IP.
Sounds like what you need is GFI LANguard Portable Storage Control.
Good product...I highly recommend it.