According to my ancient notes, something like this would have an impact energy of about 10 kilotons, should it make it though the atmosphere. Unless it's an iron meteorite (relatively rare), something that small won't make it through, but will airburst at tens of km altitude. If it should hit, it would be very bad for whatever was right under it, but wouldn't have any global effects. For comparison, Meteor crater and Tunguska were something like 10 Megatons.
"We didn't choose to be bureaucrats.
No that's what the Mighty Ja made us.
We'd treat people like swine
And make them stand in line
Even if nobody paid us!
Indeed my wife's car has climate controls on the steering wheel. Problem is, I'm not used to looking for them there, so I always do it the old fashioned way.
The density difference between the negaHelium and air would be greater than that between Helium (classic flavor) and air. Hence, the negaHelium experiences a greater buoyancy force, and should rise faster.
What they're saying is that it takes algae 100 years to recover from this kind of event, no matter how long ago that actually happened. If the impact were to happen right now, it would take 100 years to recover. If it happened 65 Mya, it takes 100 years to recover. We just don't know the start and end times that well, so they can't say the recovery was done by 65.0001 Mya.
Another example is the formation of the solar system. The half life of Al-26 is only about 0.7 million years. So we know the majority of the Al-26 was gone by 5 My after the formation of CAIs' (commonly taken as age 0 for the solar system). We just don't know that date very well. It's about 4.6 Gya, but we can't say that the Al-26 was gone by 4.595 Gya. We may know that this impact crater on Mars is 10 My younger than another, but don't know either date well enough to say impact A happened at 4.11 Gya and impact B happened at 4.10 Gya. Could be 4.15 and 4.14, for example, but we know the spacing.
With NSPIRES, you can weed out the obvious low-scoring applicants. Only those who can successfully navigate NSPIRES can actually submit grant proposals.
In fact you can tell the Gamecube version is the original, because they flipped the artwork on the Wii version. Link is normally left-handed, but most players are right-handed and would want to use the sword (Wii-remote) with their dominant hand. It's somewhat less confusing if the game character also uses that chirality. Rather than reprogram all Link's movements to be right-handed, they just flipped everything. If you compare the two games, one is a mirror image of the other.
It's only Prime Rib if it comes from Prime beef. Otherwise, it's just a standing rib roast (which itself is a noble thing). Chances are, you're not buying Prime at the supermarket.
The hardest part of the general GRE was writing out the honor pledge. The test was all on a computer (may have been the first year for that, since I had to drive an hour to the nearest testing center), but we had to write out the dang honor pledge in cursive. I hadn't written in cursive for years, apart from my signature. Not sure why we couldn't just sign the version they had printed on the form. We had to copy it over (anyone see the irony here?) and then sign it. I haven't used cursive since. I maintain plenty of notebooks, but printing is good enough for me.
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Actually, #4 is still true.
According to my ancient notes, something like this would have an impact energy of about 10 kilotons, should it make it though the atmosphere. Unless it's an iron meteorite (relatively rare), something that small won't make it through, but will airburst at tens of km altitude. If it should hit, it would be very bad for whatever was right under it, but wouldn't have any global effects. For comparison, Meteor crater and Tunguska were something like 10 Megatons.
"We didn't choose to be bureaucrats.
No that's what the Mighty Ja made us.
We'd treat people like swine
And make them stand in line
Even if nobody paid us!
Not yet! I'm working on it. It'll be a few months for my stickerfruit to ripen.
It also takes care of the cars, unless you happen to be driving an old diesel or something.
Indeed my wife's car has climate controls on the steering wheel. Problem is, I'm not used to looking for them there, so I always do it the old fashioned way.
The goal is to make a Very Hungry Caterpillar.
I don't think that would work. No court would accept the argument that the noise emanating from those vehicles could be classified as "music".
You could get an occasional table.
Would that make it an "ignoble" gas? A mean-spirited, EVIL gas? Of doom?
I'd like to see a vending machine that takes those.
The density difference between the negaHelium and air would be greater than that between Helium (classic flavor) and air. Hence, the negaHelium experiences a greater buoyancy force, and should rise faster.
Well, I'm pretty sure the spacecraft and all its instruments are broken now. That WAS the milestone.
Also, if there are native bacteria there, we don't want to accidentally wipe it out by contamination from Earth.
"The question... is vague. It doesn't say what KIND of candy or... or whether anyone is watching."
That is of course, entirely correct. According to NASA, they were "Named alphabetically in the order they were discovered...."
Turkey bacon is an abomination unto the Lord.
What they're saying is that it takes algae 100 years to recover from this kind of event, no matter how long ago that actually happened. If the impact were to happen right now, it would take 100 years to recover. If it happened 65 Mya, it takes 100 years to recover. We just don't know the start and end times that well, so they can't say the recovery was done by 65.0001 Mya. Another example is the formation of the solar system. The half life of Al-26 is only about 0.7 million years. So we know the majority of the Al-26 was gone by 5 My after the formation of CAIs' (commonly taken as age 0 for the solar system). We just don't know that date very well. It's about 4.6 Gya, but we can't say that the Al-26 was gone by 4.595 Gya. We may know that this impact crater on Mars is 10 My younger than another, but don't know either date well enough to say impact A happened at 4.11 Gya and impact B happened at 4.10 Gya. Could be 4.15 and 4.14, for example, but we know the spacing.
+1 Correct
If he proposes good laws, then wouldn't you rather keep him in the legistature?
Pretty much. "million years ago" actually. It's a common abbreviation in geologic literature. You also often see "Ma" for "mega-annum".
With NSPIRES, you can weed out the obvious low-scoring applicants. Only those who can successfully navigate NSPIRES can actually submit grant proposals.
In fact you can tell the Gamecube version is the original, because they flipped the artwork on the Wii version. Link is normally left-handed, but most players are right-handed and would want to use the sword (Wii-remote) with their dominant hand. It's somewhat less confusing if the game character also uses that chirality. Rather than reprogram all Link's movements to be right-handed, they just flipped everything. If you compare the two games, one is a mirror image of the other.
It's only Prime Rib if it comes from Prime beef. Otherwise, it's just a standing rib roast (which itself is a noble thing). Chances are, you're not buying Prime at the supermarket.
The hardest part of the general GRE was writing out the honor pledge. The test was all on a computer (may have been the first year for that, since I had to drive an hour to the nearest testing center), but we had to write out the dang honor pledge in cursive. I hadn't written in cursive for years, apart from my signature. Not sure why we couldn't just sign the version they had printed on the form. We had to copy it over (anyone see the irony here?) and then sign it. I haven't used cursive since. I maintain plenty of notebooks, but printing is good enough for me.