From what I understand he doesn't sweat pipes underground. He has radiators and collects the condensate off of them, and also destills surface water in his power generation plant.
ALright Donnie Darko, I'll give you that. Not sure it should be on the top 100 but at least its arguable.
But A beutiful mind? Not saying its crap but its no where close to top 100 material. Its a feel good hit and has relativly little substance. The massage of the story is a yawn inspiring, "the mind can overcome"
Voyager's observations over the past few years show that the termination shock is far more complicated than anyone thought
anyone else catch this one?
We can't even understand shocks we can create in a laboratory, why would anyone have thought that the termination shock would be anything but rediculously complicated?
I mean its 2 rarefied plasmas colliding at literaly 1 million miles an hour.
IIRC speed of sound isn't really defined in vacuum (or rarefied gas). Since the solar wind particles aren't being interfered w/ by other gas particles they are basically ballistic.
Its easy to say that there is no sound in a vacuum, so there is no speed of sound, but this is only sort of true.
The speed of sound is also the limit at which a gas can pass information down stream, and if the solar wind could pass information downstream then there wouldn't be a termination shock
So it would appear that the solar wind is traveling at supersonic speeds relative to the galactic wind, but what that speed is I couldn't tell you.
We never really got into rarefied systems when I was studing fluids...
I think the message is that you don't know what you're missing if you don't use fire fox.
At least that was my impression watching the poping off head, and candy bar one. The scream I don't so much get.
The way I see it presumably they are using FF for the first time and the head pop-ing off, screaming, and obliviousness are side effects of the unexpected goodness.
In fact i remember reading in school that strategiacally placed dimples on the aft section of a long range bomber could increase its fuel efficiency (and thus its range) by something like 20%.
In case anyone want the formulas
friction drag for a flat plate of width b and length l oriented parallel to the up-stram flow:
Df=0.5*rho^2*V^3*b*l^2/u
where rho-density, v-velocity, u-viscosity
pressure drag is much more complicated, and i don't feel like re-learning fluid dynamics right now. so you'll have to settle for friction drag.
two kinds of wind resistance: Laminar Flow and Turbulent Flow.
Well there are 2 types of flows, which you pointed out above. Moving at highway speeds portions of you car will expieience both regimes. Above the roof and hood, and possibly around the doors there will likely be laminar flow. Bellow the car and behind the car there will be turbulent flow at highway speeds.
There are also 2 types of drag: pressure and friction. Friction drag is intuitive, friction drag is higher in turbulent flow than laminar flow. Pressure drag is slightly less intuitive, and is caused by the fact that there is a low pressure region behind an object in a flow, this low pressure region tends to suck back the object (car). This is the reason race cars draft. Pressure drag is often decreased by "tripping" the boundry layer causing the flow to become turbulent. This is the reason for spoilers and the actual reason for dimples on golf balls.
This is a major reason why wind-tunneling is so necessary and why golf-balls have those dimples - the dimples cause the air to flow more smoothly and thus change the resistance from v^4 to v^2. Good deal.
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Drag is always the sum of the pressure drag and the friction drag. You typically cant do much about the friction drag except make it smoother, but you can do things to change the pressure drag (stream-lining, boundry layer tripping.)
I think that friction drag increases with V^3, and pressure drag with V^2 but I'm not possivite on that.
I also don't think any of it increases with V^4, in fact the only physical phenomenon that I recall that changes to the fourth power of anything is radiative heating. (non-empirical correlations)
...new knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory.
The Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, insofar as it inquiries into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter
The problem here is that the fundies cling to thier god of the gaps. There is only room for god in things they don't understand. Everytime Science explains something there is less room for god.
There are plenty of intelligent people who believe in God and don't see a problem with science. Hell even John Paul II wrote an epistle that said evolution and God can co-exist. While he didn't go so far as to embrace evolution, acknowlidging that it is not haresy is important.
IMHO its the damn non-denominational 700 club watching bible thumping hillbillies that are turning this country into a theocracy. I hate it when a debate comes up to remove the ten commandments from the courthouse encites national outrage, but quitely subverting the education of our youth is recieved with another oh well it was bound to happen anyway.
And for the record I attended a Catholic high-school and recieved a damn fine education there. In fact I probably learned more about evolution in my school then they did in the public school. I believe in God, but I'm intelligent enough to recognize that just because we can explain natural phenomenon doesn't mean there is no God.
The last thing I would call myself is a republican, but that doesn't mean I buy everything the democratic party spews hook line and sinker either, especially divisive trashy groups like moveon.org.
I think we were decieved into going to Iraq, I think thats unforgivable, but now that we're there we might as well do the job right. Or at least as right as we can.
As for not being the world's police thats crap, and you know it. Furthermore, its not a bad thing that we won't tolerate things like genocide. We've been the world police ever since the Monroe Doctrine. And when we fall asleep and become isolationists? See WWII.
If we aren't the world police, then who's going to protect the pesants of strong arm dictatorships? The UN? The French?
Is it arrogent? Ya. But until someone else steps up we're not going to share with someone who is afraid to back up their "sanctions"
Like I said earlier I think we were decieved into going into Iraq, but thats not to say we shouldn't have been there (albiet with a better plan.) As to why we're not in N. Korea, which is undoubtedly a worse place to be, its because they probably actually do have nukes. And whether we like it or not that does factor into the cost-benefit analysis of going to war.
Clearly a philosphical agrument is lost on the nerds who frequent this page. For some odd reason we require practicle applications of technology, such as a, USB controlled disco dance floor.
Was going to say the same thing... you beat me to it.
At first I thought they were going to point out what that obvious cameras weren't cameras, and that cameras were located in places you didn't expect.
Then it turns out that he's just trying to make a statement, which in itself isn't a bad thing. However, it would be more to the point if the wallet requiring ID actually required and recorded something like a police badge, then the drivers license of the guy working behind the counter of the GAP trying to verify the name on your credit card.
As for having duffel bags with camera-domes, that's not counter surveillance or whatever crappy, attention grabbing, made-up, artsy word he used, its conducting your own surveillance. The very thing you're trying to make a point against.
The other issue presented is credibility of bloggers.
Here's a tidbit from the article:
For example, 39 percent said they found blogs less credible than newspaper articles, although an additional 32 percent said they either did not know or had no opinion.
No shit?
People tend to put more stock in reputable news agencies than some guy publishing his opinion on the web?
I know blogs can do many things, like uncover scandals, expose bad reporting, etc., but since I don't have the tools to investigate myself (or I'm too lazy/don't care enough.) I'm going to take the NY Times (even after their slip up with fabricated articles) word for it unless a serious amount of evidence mounts, which is what happened to 60 minutes. Blogs are good for getting people to look into abnormalities, but at the end of the night I have less reason to believe that my newspaper is fabricating evidence than some blog.
Look I wouldn't call not being able to publish home addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers bank acct. numbers, credit card numbers, etc. censorship. Sure it might fit the dictionary definition, but the fact of the matter is that bloggers don't have the same accountability as traditional journalists. If a traditional journalist slips a home address of a suspect into a newspaper I bet they are going to pay hell to their editiors for breech of ethics.
Since on the internet its almost trivial to maintain your anonymity if you want to, bloggers are immune to libel, violating the privacy of a minor and many other legal and ethical standards that the print media is held to. I don't know exactly what they are, but I know that there are legal issues with identifying minors in print, but I'd be willing to bet that if I really wanted to I could find out who Michael Jackson's or Kobe's accusers are. We have laws to protect minors and rape victims for a reason. I'm not entitled to know everything about everybody.
However, it's hard to draw a line in the sand and say in no case can you ever publish any of the following material. It would be nice if there were a blogging governing body, and a blogging code of ethics. Voilating an ethical precept would result in you losing you blog license. The media however, does not seem conducive to such oversight.
So in short I don't have a solution
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Apperently its illegal for the IRS to compete with private companies by offering their own efile suite. Don't ask me why but I read that shortly before throwing up my hands and filling out my 1040 on paper.
I also filed returns for 2 states, and they were both free, electronic, and provided by the state. So as to why its legal for the states to squash "competition" but not for the IRS is beyond me.
Agreed, but since this website is written in English, and mostly concerns American companies I assume that the audience primarily American/European. In this case most people will think Christianity when they hear religion.
I wouldn't say that the romans were particularly interested in adopting other religions. I think that their take on Judiaism and Christianity bear that out. For the romans religion was a reason to get together and party, and to command respect (the emporor was a god.)
When pesky ideas like God being more powerful than Ceasar, or eternal rewards sprang up after as a result of their conquest of the middle east they did all that they could to contain (in the case of judiasm) or quash (in the case of Chrisitanity) ideas that did not mesh with their own.
Religious conflict is almost always a cultural conflict at its root, that is to say it doesn't matter if the waring parties believe in the same thing, they can still manage to fight about religion (see 30 years war)
As far as christians adopting other practices that is very true (see Christmas/Saturnalia) but becomes more difficult with increasing heirarchy. But when a sect is relatively removed from the chain of command any religion will evolve and merge with native customs, for example voodoo, santa ria (sp?) and other slave island religions. Organizing a religion is really an attempt to preserve the culture in an unaltered state.
Religion is really only an excuse not to get along, the real reason for almost all religious conflicts is more deeply rooted than a belief system. It just helps make the boots on the ground think they are fighting for something more meaningful. Basically from 1950-1980 capatalism was th US's religion and communism had to be over thrown for the same reason that in the roman times christianity had to be overthrown.
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From what I understand he doesn't sweat pipes underground. He has radiators and collects the condensate off of them, and also destills surface water in his power generation plant.
ALright Donnie Darko, I'll give you that. Not sure it should be on the top 100 but at least its arguable.
But A beutiful mind? Not saying its crap but its no where close to top 100 material. Its a feel good hit and has relativly little substance. The massage of the story is a yawn inspiring, "the mind can overcome"
They seem to accidendly typed Blade Runner, when the really ment Ben Hur.
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We can't even understand shocks we can create in a laboratory, why would anyone have thought that the termination shock would be anything but rediculously complicated?
I mean its 2 rarefied plasmas colliding at literaly 1 million miles an hour.
IIRC speed of sound isn't really defined in vacuum (or rarefied gas). Since the solar wind particles aren't being interfered w/ by other gas particles they are basically ballistic.
Its easy to say that there is no sound in a vacuum, so there is no speed of sound, but this is only sort of true.
The speed of sound is also the limit at which a gas can pass information down stream, and if the solar wind could pass information downstream then there wouldn't be a termination shock
So it would appear that the solar wind is traveling at supersonic speeds relative to the galactic wind, but what that speed is I couldn't tell you.
We never really got into rarefied systems when I was studing fluids...
I think the message is that you don't know what you're missing if you don't use fire fox.
At least that was my impression watching the poping off head, and candy bar one. The scream I don't so much get.
The way I see it presumably they are using FF for the first time and the head pop-ing off, screaming, and obliviousness are side effects of the unexpected goodness.
Gabo.
sheesh if your going to make an obligatory quote, you might as well get it right
Lexus is already doing that to the underbody.
In fact i remember reading in school that strategiacally placed dimples on the aft section of a long range bomber could increase its fuel efficiency (and thus its range) by something like 20%.
In case anyone want the formulas
friction drag for a flat plate of width b and length l oriented parallel to the up-stram flow:
Df=0.5*rho^2*V^3*b*l^2/u
where rho-density, v-velocity, u-viscosity
pressure drag is much more complicated, and i don't feel like re-learning fluid dynamics right now. so you'll have to settle for friction drag.
Well there are 2 types of flows, which you pointed out above. Moving at highway speeds portions of you car will expieience both regimes. Above the roof and hood, and possibly around the doors there will likely be laminar flow. Bellow the car and behind the car there will be turbulent flow at highway speeds.
There are also 2 types of drag: pressure and friction. Friction drag is intuitive, friction drag is higher in turbulent flow than laminar flow. Pressure drag is slightly less intuitive, and is caused by the fact that there is a low pressure region behind an object in a flow, this low pressure region tends to suck back the object (car). This is the reason race cars draft. Pressure drag is often decreased by "tripping" the boundry layer causing the flow to become turbulent. This is the reason for spoilers and the actual reason for dimples on golf balls.
sorta
Drag is always the sum of the pressure drag and the friction drag. You typically cant do much about the friction drag except make it smoother, but you can do things to change the pressure drag (stream-lining, boundry layer tripping.)
I think that friction drag increases with V^3, and pressure drag with V^2 but I'm not possivite on that.
I also don't think any of it increases with V^4, in fact the only physical phenomenon that I recall that changes to the fourth power of anything is radiative heating. (non-empirical correlations)
Man I'd hate to be the guy behind the CR-V that never tops 2500 rpm
For the record those things irk more than just athiests. For instance non-feeble minded christinans hate being thrown in with those quacks.
While not an endorsement, its good enough for me
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The problem here is that the fundies cling to thier god of the gaps. There is only room for god in things they don't understand. Everytime Science explains something there is less room for god.
There are plenty of intelligent people who believe in God and don't see a problem with science. Hell even John Paul II wrote an epistle that said evolution and God can co-exist. While he didn't go so far as to embrace evolution, acknowlidging that it is not haresy is important.
IMHO its the damn non-denominational 700 club watching bible thumping hillbillies that are turning this country into a theocracy. I hate it when a debate comes up to remove the ten commandments from the courthouse encites national outrage, but quitely subverting the education of our youth is recieved with another oh well it was bound to happen anyway.
And for the record I attended a Catholic high-school and recieved a damn fine education there. In fact I probably learned more about evolution in my school then they did in the public school. I believe in God, but I'm intelligent enough to recognize that just because we can explain natural phenomenon doesn't mean there is no God.
Wait, they ride bicycles to the knife factory?
The last thing I would call myself is a republican, but that doesn't mean I buy everything the democratic party spews hook line and sinker either, especially divisive trashy groups like moveon.org.
I think we were decieved into going to Iraq, I think thats unforgivable, but now that we're there we might as well do the job right. Or at least as right as we can.
As for not being the world's police thats crap, and you know it. Furthermore, its not a bad thing that we won't tolerate things like genocide. We've been the world police ever since the Monroe Doctrine. And when we fall asleep and become isolationists? See WWII.
If we aren't the world police, then who's going to protect the pesants of strong arm dictatorships? The UN? The French?
Is it arrogent? Ya. But until someone else steps up we're not going to share with someone who is afraid to back up their "sanctions"
Like I said earlier I think we were decieved into going into Iraq, but thats not to say we shouldn't have been there (albiet with a better plan.) As to why we're not in N. Korea, which is undoubtedly a worse place to be, its because they probably actually do have nukes. And whether we like it or not that does factor into the cost-benefit analysis of going to war.
Clearly a philosphical agrument is lost on the nerds who frequent this page. For some odd reason we require practicle applications of technology, such as a, USB controlled disco dance floor.
Was going to say the same thing ... you beat me to it.
At first I thought they were going to point out what that obvious cameras weren't cameras, and that cameras were located in places you didn't expect.
Then it turns out that he's just trying to make a statement, which in itself isn't a bad thing. However, it would be more to the point if the wallet requiring ID actually required and recorded something like a police badge, then the drivers license of the guy working behind the counter of the GAP trying to verify the name on your credit card.
As for having duffel bags with camera-domes, that's not counter surveillance or whatever crappy, attention grabbing, made-up, artsy word he used, its conducting your own surveillance. The very thing you're trying to make a point against.
Here's a tidbit from the article: No shit?
People tend to put more stock in reputable news agencies than some guy publishing his opinion on the web?
I know blogs can do many things, like uncover scandals, expose bad reporting, etc., but since I don't have the tools to investigate myself (or I'm too lazy/don't care enough.) I'm going to take the NY Times (even after their slip up with fabricated articles) word for it unless a serious amount of evidence mounts, which is what happened to 60 minutes. Blogs are good for getting people to look into abnormalities, but at the end of the night I have less reason to believe that my newspaper is fabricating evidence than some blog.
Wow talk about sensationalist headlines
Look I wouldn't call not being able to publish home addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers bank acct. numbers, credit card numbers, etc. censorship. Sure it might fit the dictionary definition, but the fact of the matter is that bloggers don't have the same accountability as traditional journalists. If a traditional journalist slips a home address of a suspect into a newspaper I bet they are going to pay hell to their editiors for breech of ethics.
Since on the internet its almost trivial to maintain your anonymity if you want to, bloggers are immune to libel, violating the privacy of a minor and many other legal and ethical standards that the print media is held to. I don't know exactly what they are, but I know that there are legal issues with identifying minors in print, but I'd be willing to bet that if I really wanted to I could find out who Michael Jackson's or Kobe's accusers are. We have laws to protect minors and rape victims for a reason. I'm not entitled to know everything about everybody.
However, it's hard to draw a line in the sand and say in no case can you ever publish any of the following material. It would be nice if there were a blogging governing body, and a blogging code of ethics. Voilating an ethical precept would result in you losing you blog license. The media however, does not seem conducive to such oversight.
So in short I don't have a solution
Apperently its illegal for the IRS to compete with private companies by offering their own efile suite. Don't ask me why but I read that shortly before throwing up my hands and filling out my 1040 on paper.
I also filed returns for 2 states, and they were both free, electronic, and provided by the state. So as to why its legal for the states to squash "competition" but not for the IRS is beyond me.
Agreed, but since this website is written in English, and mostly concerns American companies I assume that the audience primarily American/European. In this case most people will think Christianity when they hear religion.
I wouldn't say that the romans were particularly interested in adopting other religions. I think that their take on Judiaism and Christianity bear that out. For the romans religion was a reason to get together and party, and to command respect (the emporor was a god.)
When pesky ideas like God being more powerful than Ceasar, or eternal rewards sprang up after as a result of their conquest of the middle east they did all that they could to contain (in the case of judiasm) or quash (in the case of Chrisitanity) ideas that did not mesh with their own.
Religious conflict is almost always a cultural conflict at its root, that is to say it doesn't matter if the waring parties believe in the same thing, they can still manage to fight about religion (see 30 years war)
As far as christians adopting other practices that is very true (see Christmas/Saturnalia) but becomes more difficult with increasing heirarchy. But when a sect is relatively removed from the chain of command any religion will evolve and merge with native customs, for example voodoo, santa ria (sp?) and other slave island religions. Organizing a religion is really an attempt to preserve the culture in an unaltered state.
Religion is really only an excuse not to get along, the real reason for almost all religious conflicts is more deeply rooted than a belief system. It just helps make the boots on the ground think they are fighting for something more meaningful. Basically from 1950-1980 capatalism was th US's religion and communism had to be over thrown for the same reason that in the roman times christianity had to be overthrown.