How the hell can this be considered low cost and easy to install? I thought that sending things into space was expensive and since we strapped it to a rocket and waited for the fuel to explode that would not be very easy.
And tickets from space seems a little unnecessary to me.
The Sunset on Mars picture is stunning. Thanks for the link.
Also it is quite a feat of engineering I think too. For them to last this long on another world is amazing.
Oh hell I don't understand why we even have home-ec anyways. When I took it back in 7th and 8th grade I knew everything anyways. My parents taught me to sew and cook and clean for myself. The stupid robo-baby was a completely ignorant idea because it did not act like a real baby, having been around my cousins when they were born, I think 4 of the 8. The robo-babies act nothing like real ones and provided. The sad thing is I lived in the dorms my first year of college and there were people who did not know how to wash their own laundry or cook scrambled eggs at our omelet bar we had so the whole idea of it is wasted and unnecessary. I'd love to see the person that says "Oh thank god for home-ec other wise I'd never have known what a baby would have been like."
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See I look at it like this. I can watch on hulu after some time currently. Fox series are like 8 days after the air date, ABC, NBC, and SYFY are like the next day. If they are willing to cut the commercials down by half 4 total commercials becomes 2 total over a 42 minute episode. At the current lengths they have, 30 second ads stay as 30 second ads, 15s stay as 15s, ect. Also have the episodes up within an hour or two the air date on TV then I'd be willing to pay like 5-10/month. But I doubt that will happen so I'm just going to have to torrent them I guess.
Wait a second... Where are you getting a 20x and 30x eyepiece from? It has the parts to make a 20mm eyepiece that gives you 25x with the focal length (500mm) and a 2x baralow which makes the eyepiece function as if it was 10mm or you had a 1000mm focal length telescope depending on how you see it. Then the 18x correct view eyepiece is another configuration.
I just got mine last weekend and they are very cool little telescopes. Although the day after I got it we have had clouds almost all night every night, so no star gazing for me...
making money from the book store like that is always a treat. I've done that once with a book and got back $10 more than I paid for it. Although I still paid something like 70 buck for the book so I was still pissed that it cost me that much.
Ya 10 years ago is pretty dated for college courses now. My local community college charges 131/credit hour. 3 hour course costs you 393 plus your books and any fees you might have to pay. And well books are a entirely different monster to deal with. My world religions class I'm taking has two books, one for 98 and the other was 70 and I could not find them online used.
I actually had a class that dealt with workplace harassment and discrimination, and sexual orientation is not protected under any of the laws. Although it should be but it is a common mistake many people think.
When ever I think of alternate endings I always remember playing Star Ocean 2: Till The End Of Time for the PSX... I'm not sure how many times I played that just to find different endings or new little quirks about the game. I was told that there were something like 80 different endings for the game.
Why are taxi miles irrelevant? Maybe I don't understand what you claim taxi miles to be. I understand them as miles driven in a vehicle used as a taxi. That would be similar to city driving in those cities, except more than most people.
I'm a little confused by your post... Your parent poster linked to topics that indicated cars who have driven 240,000 and 300,000 miles each without any problems to the battery. The second article,http://jcwinnie.biz/wordpress/?p=3579, said:
"Only two of our 182 hybrid battery packs have had to be replaced during the years hybrids have been a part of the city's taxi fleets," Gillespie said. "One was replaced under warranty and the other was driver error." The taxis in the city average 90,000 miles a year.
So maybe you could clarify your post for me because it is a little confusing on what you said against the data presented.
True, but I just deleted all the info so it looks like a brand new facebook account with my name and my email, which is an email I hardly use. Not to mention I did state that all they will have is a list of bands I liked that has not been updated for quite some time, a list of some general hobbies, like 'computers' for instance, and the email. I never really liked putting a bunch of info out on a site that so many people could access. Not my style I guess. So I guess they can bombard my school email account with offers for computer junk, anime conventions and Nirvana tour dates but I doubt I'll answer to any of them.
Actually it was easy for me... I found all the people I actually cared about on the site. Which happened to be all my friends because I did not add everyone under the sun. Told them how to get in touch with me, then proceeded to delete everything I had uploaded in the first place. Started removing all information about me, which was not much because I was never very fond of putting up all my info on there anyways. Then closed the account. So they can have my schools email and that I play guitar and like anime but that is about it. Sure they may have backups but screw it I'll live. And I don't mind not having facebook anymore either.
I still hold to the picture I found online somewhere that explains copyright infringement and piracy. It defines piracy as "Stealing shit on the high seas." Which I find to be much better than what most people say it is... Not to mention it is so much more funny when people bring up piracy and I ask them when they started stealing shit on the high seas.
Well I don't know if it would float in the atmosphere then. I'd guess that to contain a vacuum and keep the balloon filled you would need to have it quite strong. And to do that it would add weight. Which would in turn require a larger balloon structure. Then that would require a larger vacuum and so on. I think it would get to a point where it would become too large to even attempt.
That actually sounds like a pretty good idea. But the moment it got into too turbulent of winds it seems like it would loose a wing or something would get damaged and it would just fall to the center of the planet and get crushed. Which is something that might not be bad at all either. If there was some way we could get info out of it as it was plummeting then we could get some nice insight on the planet.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the idea of that would be hard to accomplish in the first place. Your talking about something like a weather balloon correct? I was watching some science channel show where they were talking about that idea, but it would be hard because a large portion of Saturn or Jupiter is made up of hydrogen and helium gas, and to get a gas lighter than that is kind hard.
Unless you were to heat hydrogen or helium in order to make it lighter than the hydrogen or helium that is currently in the atmosphere. Other than that you would have to create a new element that had an atomic mass smaller than hydrogen which I'm not sure if it is possible to even do. Atomic mass of 0 would be an interesting element for sure.
Then again I could be wrong, and if so let me know because that would be interesting.
No I have that turned off. Never a fan of having extra stuff run in the background that I never really need. Not to mention if it took 20 seconds to start up I'd not mind. I'm not a speed freak like most people. However at the time of writing this message I just rebooted an hour or so ago and have not fired up OO.org, so I'll test it again real quick for ya.
Ok, so this time it took 9 seconds for me. I even checked to see if there was any OO.org things running in the background that I did not see.
Ok, well on my lil acer laptop running vista it took 6 seconds from the time I clicked the icon to get the untitled new word document up. After 6 seconds I could start typing up my paper. 1.8ghz Pentium something, and 1.5 gigs of ram.
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How the hell can this be considered low cost and easy to install? I thought that sending things into space was expensive and since we strapped it to a rocket and waited for the fuel to explode that would not be very easy. And tickets from space seems a little unnecessary to me.
The Sunset on Mars picture is stunning. Thanks for the link. Also it is quite a feat of engineering I think too. For them to last this long on another world is amazing.
Oh hell I don't understand why we even have home-ec anyways. When I took it back in 7th and 8th grade I knew everything anyways. My parents taught me to sew and cook and clean for myself. The stupid robo-baby was a completely ignorant idea because it did not act like a real baby, having been around my cousins when they were born, I think 4 of the 8. The robo-babies act nothing like real ones and provided. The sad thing is I lived in the dorms my first year of college and there were people who did not know how to wash their own laundry or cook scrambled eggs at our omelet bar we had so the whole idea of it is wasted and unnecessary. I'd love to see the person that says "Oh thank god for home-ec other wise I'd never have known what a baby would have been like." End rant...
See I look at it like this. I can watch on hulu after some time currently. Fox series are like 8 days after the air date, ABC, NBC, and SYFY are like the next day. If they are willing to cut the commercials down by half 4 total commercials becomes 2 total over a 42 minute episode. At the current lengths they have, 30 second ads stay as 30 second ads, 15s stay as 15s, ect. Also have the episodes up within an hour or two the air date on TV then I'd be willing to pay like 5-10/month. But I doubt that will happen so I'm just going to have to torrent them I guess.
Astronomy Picture of the Day has a copy of it on their website too. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090926.html
Wait a second... Where are you getting a 20x and 30x eyepiece from? It has the parts to make a 20mm eyepiece that gives you 25x with the focal length (500mm) and a 2x baralow which makes the eyepiece function as if it was 10mm or you had a 1000mm focal length telescope depending on how you see it. Then the 18x correct view eyepiece is another configuration.
I just got mine last weekend and they are very cool little telescopes. Although the day after I got it we have had clouds almost all night every night, so no star gazing for me...
making money from the book store like that is always a treat. I've done that once with a book and got back $10 more than I paid for it. Although I still paid something like 70 buck for the book so I was still pissed that it cost me that much.
Ya 10 years ago is pretty dated for college courses now. My local community college charges 131/credit hour. 3 hour course costs you 393 plus your books and any fees you might have to pay. And well books are a entirely different monster to deal with. My world religions class I'm taking has two books, one for 98 and the other was 70 and I could not find them online used.
I actually had a class that dealt with workplace harassment and discrimination, and sexual orientation is not protected under any of the laws. Although it should be but it is a common mistake many people think.
At which time you get a BSOD your car crashes into a building and your computer explodes killing you and everyone in a 10 block radius...
Ooops I meant Star Ocean 2: The Second Story. Thanks for the catch.
When ever I think of alternate endings I always remember playing Star Ocean 2: Till The End Of Time for the PSX... I'm not sure how many times I played that just to find different endings or new little quirks about the game. I was told that there were something like 80 different endings for the game.
Why are taxi miles irrelevant? Maybe I don't understand what you claim taxi miles to be. I understand them as miles driven in a vehicle used as a taxi. That would be similar to city driving in those cities, except more than most people.
I'm a little confused by your post... Your parent poster linked to topics that indicated cars who have driven 240,000 and 300,000 miles each without any problems to the battery. The second article ,http://jcwinnie.biz/wordpress/?p=3579, said:
"Only two of our 182 hybrid battery packs have had to be replaced during the years hybrids have been a part of the city's taxi fleets," Gillespie said. "One was replaced under warranty and the other was driver error." The taxis in the city average 90,000 miles a year.
So maybe you could clarify your post for me because it is a little confusing on what you said against the data presented.
If you turn enough corners you will eventually be facing the same way you started in the first place...
True, but I just deleted all the info so it looks like a brand new facebook account with my name and my email, which is an email I hardly use. Not to mention I did state that all they will have is a list of bands I liked that has not been updated for quite some time, a list of some general hobbies, like 'computers' for instance, and the email. I never really liked putting a bunch of info out on a site that so many people could access. Not my style I guess. So I guess they can bombard my school email account with offers for computer junk, anime conventions and Nirvana tour dates but I doubt I'll answer to any of them.
Actually it was easy for me... I found all the people I actually cared about on the site. Which happened to be all my friends because I did not add everyone under the sun. Told them how to get in touch with me, then proceeded to delete everything I had uploaded in the first place. Started removing all information about me, which was not much because I was never very fond of putting up all my info on there anyways. Then closed the account. So they can have my schools email and that I play guitar and like anime but that is about it. Sure they may have backups but screw it I'll live. And I don't mind not having facebook anymore either.
Yes I am, thanks for the link.
I still hold to the picture I found online somewhere that explains copyright infringement and piracy. It defines piracy as "Stealing shit on the high seas." Which I find to be much better than what most people say it is... Not to mention it is so much more funny when people bring up piracy and I ask them when they started stealing shit on the high seas.
Well I don't know if it would float in the atmosphere then. I'd guess that to contain a vacuum and keep the balloon filled you would need to have it quite strong. And to do that it would add weight. Which would in turn require a larger balloon structure. Then that would require a larger vacuum and so on. I think it would get to a point where it would become too large to even attempt.
That actually sounds like a pretty good idea. But the moment it got into too turbulent of winds it seems like it would loose a wing or something would get damaged and it would just fall to the center of the planet and get crushed. Which is something that might not be bad at all either. If there was some way we could get info out of it as it was plummeting then we could get some nice insight on the planet.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the idea of that would be hard to accomplish in the first place. Your talking about something like a weather balloon correct? I was watching some science channel show where they were talking about that idea, but it would be hard because a large portion of Saturn or Jupiter is made up of hydrogen and helium gas, and to get a gas lighter than that is kind hard.
Unless you were to heat hydrogen or helium in order to make it lighter than the hydrogen or helium that is currently in the atmosphere. Other than that you would have to create a new element that had an atomic mass smaller than hydrogen which I'm not sure if it is possible to even do. Atomic mass of 0 would be an interesting element for sure.
Then again I could be wrong, and if so let me know because that would be interesting.
No I have that turned off. Never a fan of having extra stuff run in the background that I never really need. Not to mention if it took 20 seconds to start up I'd not mind. I'm not a speed freak like most people. However at the time of writing this message I just rebooted an hour or so ago and have not fired up OO.org, so I'll test it again real quick for ya.
Ok, so this time it took 9 seconds for me. I even checked to see if there was any OO.org things running in the background that I did not see.
Ok, well on my lil acer laptop running vista it took 6 seconds from the time I clicked the icon to get the untitled new word document up. After 6 seconds I could start typing up my paper. 1.8ghz Pentium something, and 1.5 gigs of ram.