Naturally, I never have mod points when I actually want to use them. I'm with you on the Cook's Illustrated. They also have a series of cookbooks under "The Best Recipe" title, which I find quite handy, and which I'm sure you're aware of if you get the magazine.
The killbots? A trifle. It was simply a matter of outsmarting them. You see, each killbot comes with a preset kill limit. I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down.
If you want to go out of the ecliptic plane, you would need to dramatically alter your orbital inclination. You'd somehow need to get into a polar encounter with Jupiter, dump your orbital angular momentum, pick some up in an orthogonal direction, and get flung out of the ecliptic. If you can manage that (it's dynamically possible, I just don't think it's easy to set up. I know you can exchange eccentricity for inclination), then you won't encounter any other planets so you only get the one gravity assist.
And as someone else mentioned, it's the galactic plane that's really important here and will determine which direction you want to go.
I should preface this with the disclaimer that I don't have any facts to back this up; it's pure truthiness. I've just heard it a number of times, looked it up in my gut, and my gut tells me this is the case.
I've heard that the price of the 1st class seats subsidizes the "bargain" you're getting in Economy. That's right, even with a coach seat as funktacularly expensive as it is, it's apparently not enough for the airlines to break even on. Why that is, I don't know. But the 1st class is where the airlines make all their money. If all seats on the plane were first-class style, very few could afford to fly.
One time I asked for $20 and the machine spat out $100. But all that money actually came out of my account. Apparently that machine had been screwed up to interpret any amount you requested as $100. That wasn't much of a problem for me, but someone with a low balance could have overdrawn their account by accident.
My gut told me that wasn't true, but I just checked the reference list for the last paper I wrote. Out of 40 references, 23 American 1st authors and 17 had 1st authors from other countries. But the closest runners-up were France and Germany at 4 each.
Of course it's sometimes hard to tell a person's country of origin from their institution, so I may have overestimated the American percentage. For example, I know that the first authors of 3 of those cited papers did the work at US institutions, but are originally from elsewhere. When possible, I put the paper to the author's country of origin, but since I don't know each author that I've cited personally, I just used their institution. And I totally neglected the nationality of any co-authors. All in all a very poor survey, but it's probably a decent order-or-magnitude estimate.
So would it be possible for Google to just blur out the windows and faces in the images? I know little to less about image processing, so I don't know how easy that would be to automate. That would leave the street view intact (the actual service Google wants to provide) while eliminating the undesired side effect of seeing inside people's homes.
2007 cars have always come out 6 months into 2006? They didn't only do that once?
Likewise, I'm sure that more than 2,007 cars came out last year.
It's clear what you meant, of course. I'm just being amused by the phrasing.
But what would be the cost of actually bringing that material back to Earth? Would we expend more trying to get it than the metal's actually worth?
Also, TFA quoted some number for the amount of aluminum Eros may contain, and then went on to say "similar amounts of gold, platinum, . .." The chondritic abundance of aluminum is half a million times greater than gold (Lodders, 2003, ApJ 591, 1220), so I'm not sure where that comes from. (Lodders, 2003, ApJ 591, 1220). The mass of Eros is 7*10^15 kg. That gives 10^9 kg of gold in Eros. That's a far cry from the 20 million tonnes quoted for Al, but still much more than what has been mined on Earth.
The mass of the Earth's crust (not the whole Earth, just the crust) is 5*10^22 kg. The Earth's crust is not chondritic and gold is highly siderophile, so the crustal abundance is much lower. Still even at only 3 ppb, Earth's crust contains more than 10^14 kg of gold, only a trace amount of which has actually been mined. So I fail to see how it's easier to get it from the asteroids than the Earth.
I think the only requirement to call something a "drink", is that it's in a liquid phase. Or is to be dissolved in a liquid before consumption. Of course, soup might fall into the same category then. There should be some distinguishing feature, like salt content. I don't think any of this is regulated anyway. Oh, I know, common sense could be used to separate the two. Something like that.
I might add that this was before the gunman's NAME had even been established, and there was no way to know if he had ever played a videogame of any type.
But space-faring civilizations may not necessarily be more advanced. In "The Road Not Taken" (Harry Turtledove) an aggressive alien civilization comes to Earth seeking to conquer it. However, apart from space travel technology was basically Civil War era stuff (gunpowder weapons) and Earth pwned them. The idea was that once a civilzation discovered the trivial secret to FTL travel, all their developemnt went into that. Earth somehow never discovered this out and so everything else advanced instead: farming, computers, weapons, etc. In this scenario, we could win. Of course it seems implausable that FTL could be achieved with a steam-powered starship, but it made for a cute story.
That's a great method as long as you make certain to use local files. I saw one presentation where the presenter had posted his web presentation to his geocities account and ran it off there. Every time he advanced a "slide", an ad came up.
Altering the Earth's gravity wouldn't cause the junk to de-orbit, it would simply evolve to a new orbit. It's primarily the Earth's atmosphere that causes stuff to de-orbit. It's super-thin, but it's not actually zero. The gas drag changes the velocity of the orbiting particles.
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DSN also means Deep Space Network", the communications facility that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions.
Sounds like somebody just went a little crazy with the Subtle Knife.
Naturally, I never have mod points when I actually want to use them. I'm with you on the Cook's Illustrated. They also have a series of cookbooks under "The Best Recipe" title, which I find quite handy, and which I'm sure you're aware of if you get the magazine.
The killbots? A trifle. It was simply a matter of outsmarting them. You see, each killbot comes with a preset kill limit. I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down.
If you want to go out of the ecliptic plane, you would need to dramatically alter your orbital inclination. You'd somehow need to get into a polar encounter with Jupiter, dump your orbital angular momentum, pick some up in an orthogonal direction, and get flung out of the ecliptic. If you can manage that (it's dynamically possible, I just don't think it's easy to set up. I know you can exchange eccentricity for inclination), then you won't encounter any other planets so you only get the one gravity assist. And as someone else mentioned, it's the galactic plane that's really important here and will determine which direction you want to go.
I should preface this with the disclaimer that I don't have any facts to back this up; it's pure truthiness. I've just heard it a number of times, looked it up in my gut, and my gut tells me this is the case.
I've heard that the price of the 1st class seats subsidizes the "bargain" you're getting in Economy. That's right, even with a coach seat as funktacularly expensive as it is, it's apparently not enough for the airlines to break even on. Why that is, I don't know. But the 1st class is where the airlines make all their money. If all seats on the plane were first-class style, very few could afford to fly.
One time I asked for $20 and the machine spat out $100. But all that money actually came out of my account. Apparently that machine had been screwed up to interpret any amount you requested as $100. That wasn't much of a problem for me, but someone with a low balance could have overdrawn their account by accident.
But will it blend?
My gut told me that wasn't true, but I just checked the reference list for the last paper I wrote. Out of 40 references, 23 American 1st authors and 17 had 1st authors from other countries. But the closest runners-up were France and Germany at 4 each.
Of course it's sometimes hard to tell a person's country of origin from their institution, so I may have overestimated the American percentage. For example, I know that the first authors of 3 of those cited papers did the work at US institutions, but are originally from elsewhere. When possible, I put the paper to the author's country of origin, but since I don't know each author that I've cited personally, I just used their institution. And I totally neglected the nationality of any co-authors. All in all a very poor survey, but it's probably a decent order-or-magnitude estimate.
Zathras always end up on cutting-room floor.
There are some gas stations 'round here (South Bay Area, CA) that charge extra if you pay with a CC. Like 6 cents a gallon.
I'd expect rather a lot of slashdotters would be able to work it out.
One License to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
So would it be possible for Google to just blur out the windows and faces in the images? I know little to less about image processing, so I don't know how easy that would be to automate. That would leave the street view intact (the actual service Google wants to provide) while eliminating the undesired side effect of seeing inside people's homes.
In my experience, it's the insensitive clods that usually make the best anchors.
2007 cars have always come out 6 months into 2006? They didn't only do that once? Likewise, I'm sure that more than 2,007 cars came out last year. It's clear what you meant, of course. I'm just being amused by the phrasing.
But what would be the cost of actually bringing that material back to Earth? Would we expend more trying to get it than the metal's actually worth? Also, TFA quoted some number for the amount of aluminum Eros may contain, and then went on to say "similar amounts of gold, platinum, . . ." The chondritic abundance of aluminum is half a million times greater than gold (Lodders, 2003, ApJ 591, 1220), so I'm not sure where that comes from. (Lodders, 2003, ApJ 591, 1220). The mass of Eros is 7*10^15 kg. That gives 10^9 kg of gold in Eros. That's a far cry from the 20 million tonnes quoted for Al, but still much more than what has been mined on Earth.
The mass of the Earth's crust (not the whole Earth, just the crust) is 5*10^22 kg. The Earth's crust is not chondritic and gold is highly siderophile, so the crustal abundance is much lower. Still even at only 3 ppb, Earth's crust contains more than 10^14 kg of gold, only a trace amount of which has actually been mined. So I fail to see how it's easier to get it from the asteroids than the Earth.
The character's name was Quina. Quenya was the language of the Noldor in Tolkien's writings.
I think the only requirement to call something a "drink", is that it's in a liquid phase. Or is to be dissolved in a liquid before consumption. Of course, soup might fall into the same category then. There should be some distinguishing feature, like salt content. I don't think any of this is regulated anyway. Oh, I know, common sense could be used to separate the two. Something like that.
But you must! Otherwise, you wouldn't have come to Slashdot.
I might add that this was before the gunman's NAME had even been established, and there was no way to know if he had ever played a videogame of any type.
But space-faring civilizations may not necessarily be more advanced. In "The Road Not Taken" (Harry Turtledove) an aggressive alien civilization comes to Earth seeking to conquer it. However, apart from space travel technology was basically Civil War era stuff (gunpowder weapons) and Earth pwned them. The idea was that once a civilzation discovered the trivial secret to FTL travel, all their developemnt went into that. Earth somehow never discovered this out and so everything else advanced instead: farming, computers, weapons, etc. In this scenario, we could win. Of course it seems implausable that FTL could be achieved with a steam-powered starship, but it made for a cute story.
That's a great method as long as you make certain to use local files. I saw one presentation where the presenter had posted his web presentation to his geocities account and ran it off there. Every time he advanced a "slide", an ad came up.
Altering the Earth's gravity wouldn't cause the junk to de-orbit, it would simply evolve to a new orbit. It's primarily the Earth's atmosphere that causes stuff to de-orbit. It's super-thin, but it's not actually zero. The gas drag changes the velocity of the orbiting particles.
Finally, a mission for the Stephen and Melinda Gates Foundation!
Kevin Bacon was in Apollo 13, so look around the Astrophysics region.