Oh, gods, the hurting. Not sure if you intended the reference, but there's an anime by that name that is SO BAD. Just seeing the name again gives me heart palpitations.
A bit off topic, but I've always wondered. How well do hotcakes actually sell? Why is this particular breakfast food the standard for product popularity? Why not croissants or bagels? Just needed to get that off my chest. And now please continue with your browsing.
Sucking requires a pressure gradient. LEO is a near vacuum to begin with, so it would be hard to further lower the pressure enough to make a 'space' Roomba effective.
I still use my TI-85 that I got when I went to college in '96. Still works as good as ever. By no means the spiffiest thing out there, but it does what I need it to do, and I know how to use it. It's comfortable. The built in unit conversions are particularly nice. Anything complicated I'll do on a computer, but sometimes I just want a quick answer or graph. I haul my backpack in to work every day, but that's the only thing in it I use regularly. The day I left my bag at home, the TI-85 was the only thing I missed.
It's a neat idea. Are there any observations to support it? Peter Huybers from MIT just presented an alternative model which explains the 40 ky - 100 ky switch nicely without resorting to solar fluctuations. The basic idea is that you start out with ice ages every 40 ky, but at some point the ice accumulation retards heating, and one or even two thawing cycles get skipped. This gives you longer cold periods and a warm period every 80 ky or 120 ky. If you randomly distribute cycles with these two intervals, you can get a peak at 100 ky (but you can't just superimpose the sine curves with those two frequencies). He suggests that the 100 ky cycle isn't real, and just an effect we see from skipping some thaws. This is supposedly supported by oxygen isotope measurements, but I'm not enough of a geochemist to verify that.
Mars does have stable rotation along it's axis. It may have experienced True Polar Wander early on, but that would be difficult today. However, Mars does experience significant shifts in obliquity (axial tilt), which causes the rotational axis to point in a different direction in inertial space. The obliquity shifts happen on a much larger timescale (I want to say tens of thousands of years, but I could be misremembering) than a Martian year, so it's not quite right to say that Mars "tumbles over itself as it goes around the Sun."
However, you are quite correct to say that this may have huge effects on the climate of Mars.
Actually, that part's correct. The official name for the controller is the "Wii-Remote". Nintendo planned to call it the "Wiimote", but later discovered that term was copyrighted by some other toy company already. Why anyone else would want the name is beyond me. By that point, the name "Wiimote" was already being used by gamers, much like "Xerox" is sometimes used as a general term for "photocopy", even though the former is a copyrighted brand name.
I found VHS superior to DVD when I wanted to show video clips in a class I taught. I can cue up a VHS tape to the exact spot I want, pop it out of my player, pop it into the classroom VCR and it's all set to go. No fiddling around with chapter selections or anything, I just hit Play. I also use a VCR to tape "Good Eats", and the occasional other program, since I don't have Tivo and (for complicated reasons) the DVR is not hooked up to the satellite receiver.
Of course, no one will argue that VHS picture or sound quality is superior to DVD. Certainly I never buy movies on VHS. I got me a VCR/DVR combo, so I can copy my VHS collection of anime fansubs onto DVD, but so far I've been unimpressed with the quality of the copies.
The fact that the moon as a very weak magnetic field is almost proof in and of itself that it doesn't have a molten core:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field#Magnet ic_field_of_celestial_bodies [wikipedia.org]
A molten core is necessary, but insufficient condition for the generation of a magnetic field. The core must also be convecting, which implies its losing heat to the mantle above it. If the core is only cooling conductively, then the core fluid will just rotate along with the planet and that won't generate a magnetic field. The core of Mars is likely molten [Yoder et al. (2003), Science, 300, p.299-303], but it has no global magnetic field (although the strong remanent magnetism strongly implies it had one early on [see e.g. Arkani-Hamed (2003), J. Geophys. Res. 109, E03006]). The high rigidity in the lunar mantle and the small possible size of the lunar core makes core convection very difficult there. (Yes, IIAPS (I am a planetary scientist).)
My PS2 is my primary DVD player. It does a heckuva lot better at that than the actual DVD player I got which skipped, overheated, and generally refused to read DVDs that had nary a flaw.
I believe the whole ice one the Moon thing was mostly hyped up by the media. I think that few in the scientific community actually _expected_ to find it (though most would agree it's worth looking, and would _hope_ to find it). While you could certainly keep the ice around in sheltered craters at the poles, actually _delivering_ it is a bit trickier. You could hit it with comets, but that mateial would vaporize on impact and mostly be lost.
The seismic experiments didn't get that detailed of a picture; largely just a spherically symmetric radial structure. You wouldn't expect to detect a small patch of ice in a localized region on the surface unless it were right under your source or detector.
The off-axis design also means you don't get diffraction patterns from the collector, a more important issue than the small amount of light that would be blocked.
How many kids did you know in school who didn't play computer games? I haven't been in school for fifteen years, and even then the only people who never played computer games were the handful of nerdy geek kids who didn't own a computer and/or would rather play scrabble with their parents.
Wait, are you saying that the nerdy geeks are the ones who DIDN'T play with computers? There's an old robot saying that applies here. "Does not compute."
Vehicles (particularly modern ones) are notoriously expensive to fix, even when the damage is not that severe. I had a '97 Honda that was totaled in '01. (I was waiting at a light. The guy behind me didn't stop and knocked me into the car in front of me.) I don't think there was any damage to the frame or the engine, but enough components under the hood got damaged that it was cheaper to replace the car than to repair it. Or so my insurance company told me.
Even more odd is the fact that Uranus seems to lack any significant internal heat generation like the other gas giants have. I don't know if the reason for that has ever been resolved.
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Oh, gods, the hurting. Not sure if you intended the reference, but there's an anime by that name that is SO BAD. Just seeing the name again gives me heart palpitations.
A bit off topic, but I've always wondered. How well do hotcakes actually sell? Why is this particular breakfast food the standard for product popularity? Why not croissants or bagels? Just needed to get that off my chest. And now please continue with your browsing.
Or to paraphrase Stephen Colbert: PS3: Great Console or The Greatest Console? (I'll put you down for 'Great'.)
No, no. The theme park goes on the Moon.
"We're whalers on the moon. We carry a harpoon. But there ain't no whales, so we tell tall tales and sing our whaling tune."
Sucking requires a pressure gradient. LEO is a near vacuum to begin with, so it would be hard to further lower the pressure enough to make a 'space' Roomba effective.
I still use my TI-85 that I got when I went to college in '96. Still works as good as ever. By no means the spiffiest thing out there, but it does what I need it to do, and I know how to use it. It's comfortable. The built in unit conversions are particularly nice. Anything complicated I'll do on a computer, but sometimes I just want a quick answer or graph. I haul my backpack in to work every day, but that's the only thing in it I use regularly. The day I left my bag at home, the TI-85 was the only thing I missed.
It's a neat idea. Are there any observations to support it? Peter Huybers from MIT just presented an alternative model which explains the 40 ky - 100 ky switch nicely without resorting to solar fluctuations. The basic idea is that you start out with ice ages every 40 ky, but at some point the ice accumulation retards heating, and one or even two thawing cycles get skipped. This gives you longer cold periods and a warm period every 80 ky or 120 ky. If you randomly distribute cycles with these two intervals, you can get a peak at 100 ky (but you can't just superimpose the sine curves with those two frequencies). He suggests that the 100 ky cycle isn't real, and just an effect we see from skipping some thaws. This is supposedly supported by oxygen isotope measurements, but I'm not enough of a geochemist to verify that.
Mars does have stable rotation along it's axis. It may have experienced True Polar Wander early on, but that would be difficult today. However, Mars does experience significant shifts in obliquity (axial tilt), which causes the rotational axis to point in a different direction in inertial space. The obliquity shifts happen on a much larger timescale (I want to say tens of thousands of years, but I could be misremembering) than a Martian year, so it's not quite right to say that Mars "tumbles over itself as it goes around the Sun." However, you are quite correct to say that this may have huge effects on the climate of Mars.
But clearly, you care enough to make a post about not caring about it. ;)
I think Gamestops are the only places with the Interactive displays.
It's probably more common for the number to be tattooed on the left arm, so that they can read it while dialing with the right.
It's spelled "arithmetic".
Actually, that part's correct. The official name for the controller is the "Wii-Remote". Nintendo planned to call it the "Wiimote", but later discovered that term was copyrighted by some other toy company already. Why anyone else would want the name is beyond me. By that point, the name "Wiimote" was already being used by gamers, much like "Xerox" is sometimes used as a general term for "photocopy", even though the former is a copyrighted brand name.
I found VHS superior to DVD when I wanted to show video clips in a class I taught. I can cue up a VHS tape to the exact spot I want, pop it out of my player, pop it into the classroom VCR and it's all set to go. No fiddling around with chapter selections or anything, I just hit Play. I also use a VCR to tape "Good Eats", and the occasional other program, since I don't have Tivo and (for complicated reasons) the DVR is not hooked up to the satellite receiver. Of course, no one will argue that VHS picture or sound quality is superior to DVD. Certainly I never buy movies on VHS. I got me a VCR/DVR combo, so I can copy my VHS collection of anime fansubs onto DVD, but so far I've been unimpressed with the quality of the copies.
The fact that the moon as a very weak magnetic field is almost proof in and of itself that it doesn't have a molten core: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field#Magnet ic_field_of_celestial_bodies [wikipedia.org]
A molten core is necessary, but insufficient condition for the generation of a magnetic field. The core must also be convecting, which implies its losing heat to the mantle above it. If the core is only cooling conductively, then the core fluid will just rotate along with the planet and that won't generate a magnetic field. The core of Mars is likely molten [Yoder et al. (2003), Science, 300, p.299-303], but it has no global magnetic field (although the strong remanent magnetism strongly implies it had one early on [see e.g. Arkani-Hamed (2003), J. Geophys. Res. 109, E03006]). The high rigidity in the lunar mantle and the small possible size of the lunar core makes core convection very difficult there. (Yes, IIAPS (I am a planetary scientist).)
My PS2 is my primary DVD player. It does a heckuva lot better at that than the actual DVD player I got which skipped, overheated, and generally refused to read DVDs that had nary a flaw.
I wouldn't be wasting that 'U'. You'll be needing it when you draw the 'Q' on the next turn.
Unless I'm totally missing something, Lehrer didn't write much in the way of parody. Bloody brilliant satire, but AFAIK, most of it was original.
I believe the whole ice one the Moon thing was mostly hyped up by the media. I think that few in the scientific community actually _expected_ to find it (though most would agree it's worth looking, and would _hope_ to find it). While you could certainly keep the ice around in sheltered craters at the poles, actually _delivering_ it is a bit trickier. You could hit it with comets, but that mateial would vaporize on impact and mostly be lost.
The seismic experiments didn't get that detailed of a picture; largely just a spherically symmetric radial structure. You wouldn't expect to detect a small patch of ice in a localized region on the surface unless it were right under your source or detector.
The off-axis design also means you don't get diffraction patterns from the collector, a more important issue than the small amount of light that would be blocked.
Not quite. A third of the world's population live in India and China. That's a lot, but it doesn't make a majority.
Vehicles (particularly modern ones) are notoriously expensive to fix, even when the damage is not that severe. I had a '97 Honda that was totaled in '01. (I was waiting at a light. The guy behind me didn't stop and knocked me into the car in front of me.) I don't think there was any damage to the frame or the engine, but enough components under the hood got damaged that it was cheaper to replace the car than to repair it. Or so my insurance company told me.
Even more odd is the fact that Uranus seems to lack any significant internal heat generation like the other gas giants have. I don't know if the reason for that has ever been resolved.