Today it's the 25th anniversary since the first time-paradox took place in our universe's history, as a result of one RIAA lawyer travelling back to the year 1982. Apparently, while browsing a nerdy news site (suspected of hosting "copyright thiefs"), he came across with evidence of the first illegal copy of copyrighted music on a Compact Disc.
"Those scientists clearly were infringing intellectual property!" said the lawyer, before being sucked in a wormhole created out of pure evil, while laughing frenetically.
Now we know from several witnesses that, once the world's first time-traveller arrived, he accidentally stomped on a cockroach, triggering a time-paradox known as "the Granfather paradox". He wasn't available for comments, since he's currently trapped in a hell of a space-time singularity that will last forever.
The Deep Impact mission will help answer fundamental questions about comets, such as:
Is the nucleus layered?
Are cometary nuclei highly cohesive and tightly-packed, or porous conglomerates? (Checked!)
Do any parts of a cometary nucleus contain pristine material that have been untouched since the creation of the comet during the Solar System's early history?
It's nice to know that one of those questions just got answered (so it's time to update the wikipedia article:)
Congratulation to all the staff behind the Deep Impact project.
This is my favorite, the deformation of the water due to a clip's weight.
It made me remember something... when you hold a small thing (like a clip) very near your eye (so it blurs), the images you see in the background bends near the borders of the object... why?
Well, if you acelerate time fast enough, and choose the right frame of reference, the Earth could describe a cloud around the sun as well as an electron around a nucleus.
(disclaimer: I used to dream about atoms being little solar systems too, and I dont want to throw those ideas from my childhood so easily!!:)
the same mechanism should also work in the atmospheres of Venus and Jupiter where thunderstorms are also frequent and sporadic neutron streams should arise there.
Accordly to wikipedia, water in the atmospheres of Venus and Jupiter are far lower compared to Earth's levels (.002% for Venus and 0.1% for Jupiter), so maybe observations of neutron emissions are not so affected by the "thundery" neutrons like the article proposes.
Reading the article about deuterium at wikipedia, I found a bit strange that there's no known natural process to produce it... maybe some chemistry-geek could comment on that... the article says that there is 10^15 deuterium atoms per cubic centimeter on Earth's atmosphere, considering the 6800:1 ratio when compared to hydrogen...
Is only that 10^15 atoms per cm^3 seems like too much atoms without known origin for me... (other than the big-bang, like the wikipedia article says)
The wikipedia article says that the spokes are viewed in the B ring. Here says that the B inner edge has a density of 20 - 100 gm/cm2. So my question is, could the ring's ice particles be ionized by collissional processes, like the ice particles in a cumulonimbus clouds?
Another question... which travels faster around saturn, the spokes or the ring's particles?
And thanks for your informative post, glad to see anything different than +5 Funnies...
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So here I was, reading again the same thread I've just submitted a reply about one hour ago... and reading my _own_ comment, I've wondered about the existance of a post-graduate level in Counter-Strike.
Obviously this cfsmp3 guy is one of these phd that google hired for creative solutions... so google asked him how to expand its array of mail servers in one million accounts, and guess what is the cheapest solution that this brilliant cs phd discovered?
Also, set the number of second per update at 3600, so your image will update every hour (I don't know exactly the update times at soho website, I think 1 hour is ok)
I have four gkrellkam panels, one for watching sunspots, another for coronal holes (currently in "bake-out"), another for the auroral oval and the above one. The links for those images are:
Auroral oval (replace "pmapS.gif" to "pmapN.gif" for the northern hemisphere)
Take a look to the SOHO website (lastest images->near realtime images) for more images... sadly the SOHO now is in a kind of blind point, so many of them are marked as "CCD Bakeout". Maybe it will be back online in a few weeks.
Of course you can use gkrellkam for a lot of other purposes, like getting weather satellite images... oh, and getting images from a ordinary webcam;)
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Today it's the 25th anniversary since the first time-paradox took place in our universe's history, as a result of one RIAA lawyer travelling back to the year 1982. Apparently, while browsing a nerdy news site (suspected of hosting "copyright thiefs"), he came across with evidence of the first illegal copy of copyrighted music on a Compact Disc.
"Those scientists clearly were infringing intellectual property!" said the lawyer, before being sucked in a wormhole created out of pure evil, while laughing frenetically.
Now we know from several witnesses that, once the world's first time-traveller arrived, he accidentally stomped on a cockroach, triggering a time-paradox known as "the Granfather paradox". He wasn't available for comments, since he's currently trapped in a hell of a space-time singularity that will last forever.
Warning: Do not look into China with remaining Hubble's cameras
Thank you very much for the informative comment.
CmdrTaco: Hey, I heard that Futurama is back
Hemos: No. we just thought you would enjoy that for a moment.
Anyway, that was the best nanosecond of my life
And that's why you have to be careful with those damn butterflies when you do time-travel
I want my iPod to materalize from the search engine's webpage on my screen directly to my hands.
The team also found the comet was much weaker structurally than previously believed; the soufflé-like comet is more empty space than rock and ice.
From the wikipedia article on Deep Impact:
The Deep Impact mission will help answer fundamental questions about comets, such as:
Is the nucleus layered?
Are cometary nuclei highly cohesive and tightly-packed, or porous conglomerates? (Checked!)
Do any parts of a cometary nucleus contain pristine material that have been untouched since the creation of the comet during the Solar System's early history?
It's nice to know that one of those questions just got answered (so it's time to update the wikipedia article :)
Congratulation to all the staff behind the Deep Impact project.
GAmen.
Quarantine, like the review says, "the Great Grandaddy of Grand Theft Auto"
No, it's STandFord University.
Have you seen their T-skirt?
The Voyager I is currently at a distance of 95 AU. 122 AU could be the distance from the sun to the heliopause.
This is my favorite, the deformation of the water due to a clip's weight.
It made me remember something... when you hold a small thing (like a clip) very near your eye (so it blurs), the images you see in the background bends near the borders of the object... why?
Well, if you acelerate time fast enough, and choose the right frame of reference, the Earth could describe a cloud around the sun as well as an electron around a nucleus.
(disclaimer: I used to dream about atoms being little solar systems too, and I dont want to throw those ideas from my childhood so easily!! :)
with other Microsoft products and wrapped in neutral packaging
Bill: I hate these filthy Neutrals, Steve. With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me.
And 360 Degree pupils!!!
But at least we can begin to construct that Total Perspective Vortex machine
FTA:
the same mechanism should also work in the atmospheres of Venus and Jupiter where thunderstorms are also frequent and sporadic neutron streams should arise there.
Accordly to wikipedia, water in the atmospheres of Venus and Jupiter are far lower compared to Earth's levels (.002% for Venus and 0.1% for Jupiter), so maybe observations of neutron emissions are not so affected by the "thundery" neutrons like the article proposes.
Reading the article about deuterium at wikipedia, I found a bit strange that there's no known natural process to produce it... maybe some chemistry-geek could comment on that... the article says that there is 10^15 deuterium atoms per cubic centimeter on Earth's atmosphere, considering the 6800:1 ratio when compared to hydrogen...
Is only that 10^15 atoms per cm^3 seems like too much atoms without known origin for me... (other than the big-bang, like the wikipedia article says)
nherm@localhost:~$ cat > slashdot_post
back in my days we dindt have those fancy text editors and we where hppy^H^H^H^Hhapy^H^H
^C
nherm@localhost:~$
The wikipedia article says that the spokes are viewed in the B ring. Here says that the B inner edge has a density of 20 - 100 gm/cm2. So my question is, could the ring's ice particles be ionized by collissional processes, like the ice particles in a cumulonimbus clouds?
Another question... which travels faster around saturn, the spokes or the ring's particles?
And thanks for your informative post, glad to see anything different than +5 Funnies...
$ cat
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hey cat theres a mouse overthere go get it
hey cat theres a mouse overthere go get it
asdf
asdf
quit
quit
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Stupid cat.
I tried using 2000+ passes using /dev/urandom, but somehow I ended up with a full installation of Windows 95.
Then a friend of mine told me something about monkeys hitting typewriters and Shakespeare's complete works...
Soviet Clippy: "I see you're trying to write a human..."
So here I was, reading again the same thread I've just submitted a reply about one hour ago... and reading my _own_ comment, I've wondered about the existance of a post-graduate level in Counter-Strike.
No more coffee for nherm! /me goes to sleep
Obviously this cfsmp3 guy is one of these phd that google hired for creative solutions... so google asked him how to expand its array of mail servers in one million accounts, and guess what is the cheapest solution that this brilliant cs phd discovered?
Ask slashdot, of course!
Nice try, google, you evil overlord...
I have four gkrellkam panels, one for watching sunspots, another for coronal holes (currently in "bake-out"), another for the auroral oval and the above one. The links for those images are:
sunspots
coronal holes
Auroral oval (replace "pmapS.gif" to "pmapN.gif" for the northern hemisphere)
Take a look to the SOHO website (lastest images->near realtime images) for more images... sadly the SOHO now is in a kind of blind point, so many of them are marked as "CCD Bakeout". Maybe it will be back online in a few weeks.
Of course you can use gkrellkam for a lot of other purposes, like getting weather satellite images... oh, and getting images from a ordinary webcam ;)
An image of the slashdotted server viewed from MESSENGER spacecraft can be found here