I voted on 28 Oct before Sandy came through. It was cold and blustery and took over three hours. I think this is the first Presidential election MD has had early voting for, and massively underestimated the turnout. The line wrapped around the parking lot. Folks were generally very nice about waving incomers to available parking spaces and holding places in line for people to run in to use the facilities, pop over to the 7-11 to get coffee, or retrieve additional outerwear from their vehicles.
I was at one of five early voting stations in Anne Arundel County, and they had a total of ten voting machines available for it. Judging by the rate at which people left (about one per minute), I estimate that it took an average of ten minutes to cast a ballot. There were a lot of ballot questions and such on there, but I got the impression that many voters hadn't bothered to read them before showing up. Why stand in line to vote if you haven't made up your mind yet? Poll workers were constantly walking down the line offering sample ballots for people to read and never got any takers.
Let's try it first with some extant Earth life, a gila monster or bacterium or something for which we know the answer. There's no point in sending this to Mars before we can make it work on Earth.
I don't think the color matters, since it's even more un-American to actually use the turn signals. If you must use one, then leave it on for at least fifteen minutes. By no means should you actually do what the signal indicates.
Color is all done with filters. The CCD just detects light. You select for color by placing a filter in front of it to only let a chosen wavelength band through, depending on what you want to look for. You can make a color composite (what is commonly called a "color picture") by taking the same image in three different wavelength bands.
Why even waste time RTFT (Title)? Just start commenting. To paraphrase one Zapp Brannigan: Make as many posts as you can as fast as you can. Don't stop for _any reason_.
The government may classify information as Confidential if it would damage national security if disclosed to the public. That doesn't appear to be the case here, but it's true that not all government information is nor should be publicly available. That's not to say the classification system doesn't get misused, but that's another issue.
By law, NASA funds can only be spent at US institutions. The recipient may be a foreign citizen, but must be an employee of a US institution. I would assume ESA, JAXA, ISRO and others have similar policies for their respective countries.
While there is no global magnetic field today, strong crustal magnetism suggests that it must have had such a field in the past. Dynamo activity would have stopped once the core-mantle heat flow became unfavorable to core convection.
In the sciences, the dissertation is typically published. Each chapter is usually a separate paper. In fact it's common to take all your published (or at least submitted) research papers and staple them together (or combine into a single LaTeX file), and call that the dissertation.
The problem is that while funding may have been continued at the previous year's level, NASA can't plan on that happening. There can be no new project starts unless Congress passes the appropriations bill. So NASA may have the same funds as the previous year on a continuing resolution, but it's only allowed to spend that money on the previous year's programs. Even if those are complete. That means the agency may have piles of cash sitting around that it doesn't need for old projects, but is not allowed to spend on new projects. I've had grant proposals that were selected for funding, but the grant could not be awarded and the work could not start until an appropriations bill for that year was passed and signed. It's an appallingly inefficient process, but NASA presently lacks the authority to improve it.
I'm also a planetary geophysicist and generally agree with your assessment. I also note that the author is a terrestrial geologist. This is as far as I can tell, his first foray into planetary science, and so he may not be so familiar with the planetary literature. Plate tectonics has previously been hypothesized on Mars (Sleep, 1994). The press release suggests that somehow, for forty years, no one has seriously looked at Valles Marineris. It clearly has a tectonic origin, but I don't see evidence for plate tectonics.
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I voted on 28 Oct before Sandy came through. It was cold and blustery and took over three hours. I think this is the first Presidential election MD has had early voting for, and massively underestimated the turnout. The line wrapped around the parking lot. Folks were generally very nice about waving incomers to available parking spaces and holding places in line for people to run in to use the facilities, pop over to the 7-11 to get coffee, or retrieve additional outerwear from their vehicles.
I was at one of five early voting stations in Anne Arundel County, and they had a total of ten voting machines available for it. Judging by the rate at which people left (about one per minute), I estimate that it took an average of ten minutes to cast a ballot. There were a lot of ballot questions and such on there, but I got the impression that many voters hadn't bothered to read them before showing up. Why stand in line to vote if you haven't made up your mind yet? Poll workers were constantly walking down the line offering sample ballots for people to read and never got any takers.
Actually, "y'all" is singular. The plural is "All y'all."
Wind speed isn't everything, and that's all the Category tells you. Sandy was gigantic, and likely had more total energy than the 1938 'cane.
Let's try it first with some extant Earth life, a gila monster or bacterium or something for which we know the answer. There's no point in sending this to Mars before we can make it work on Earth.
I have never heard of a paper being rejected by a journal and then sent to Nature or Science. It's the other way around.
That's exorbitant. I'm only willing to pay half of that rate.
I wonder what land fish taste like...
I don't think the color matters, since it's even more un-American to actually use the turn signals. If you must use one, then leave it on for at least fifteen minutes. By no means should you actually do what the signal indicates.
As long is it's organic salt...
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) is effectively color. The Wide Angle Camera (WAC) on LROC has seven visible-band and two UV filters.
Color is all done with filters. The CCD just detects light. You select for color by placing a filter in front of it to only let a chosen wavelength band through, depending on what you want to look for. You can make a color composite (what is commonly called a "color picture") by taking the same image in three different wavelength bands.
While it is amazing, LROC isn't really the right instrument for this observation. If the ice is covered by dust, it will be hard to see in visible light. The LAMP (Lyman-alpha), LEND (neutron), and Mini-RF (the RADAR used in this study) are better for detecting buried water ice.
Why even waste time RTFT (Title)? Just start commenting. To paraphrase one Zapp Brannigan: Make as many posts as you can as fast as you can. Don't stop for _any reason_.
Comets. Icebergs of the sky. By jackknifing from one to the next at breakneck speed, we might get some kind of gravity boost ... or something.
The government may classify information as Confidential if it would damage national security if disclosed to the public. That doesn't appear to be the case here, but it's true that not all government information is nor should be publicly available. That's not to say the classification system doesn't get misused, but that's another issue.
I don't believe that number was reached by flying a grad student through the sun with a thermometer.
That's exactly how that measurement was made. Turns out that grad students are both cheaper and more expendable than alternative techniques.
Here you go.
The House has 435 members at full capacity. There were only ten who did not vote (and evidently six vacancies); not enough to make any difference.
By law, NASA funds can only be spent at US institutions. The recipient may be a foreign citizen, but must be an employee of a US institution. I would assume ESA, JAXA, ISRO and others have similar policies for their respective countries.
While there is no global magnetic field today, strong crustal magnetism suggests that it must have had such a field in the past. Dynamo activity would have stopped once the core-mantle heat flow became unfavorable to core convection.
Only after about a minute and a half of guffawing.
+1 for correct use of the phrase "begs the question".
In the sciences, the dissertation is typically published. Each chapter is usually a separate paper. In fact it's common to take all your published (or at least submitted) research papers and staple them together (or combine into a single LaTeX file), and call that the dissertation.
I don't think a contest between Green and Purple is likely to turn out well.
And the launch has been scrubbed. They'll try again tomorrow.
The problem is that while funding may have been continued at the previous year's level, NASA can't plan on that happening. There can be no new project starts unless Congress passes the appropriations bill. So NASA may have the same funds as the previous year on a continuing resolution, but it's only allowed to spend that money on the previous year's programs. Even if those are complete. That means the agency may have piles of cash sitting around that it doesn't need for old projects, but is not allowed to spend on new projects. I've had grant proposals that were selected for funding, but the grant could not be awarded and the work could not start until an appropriations bill for that year was passed and signed. It's an appallingly inefficient process, but NASA presently lacks the authority to improve it.
I'm also a planetary geophysicist and generally agree with your assessment. I also note that the author is a terrestrial geologist. This is as far as I can tell, his first foray into planetary science, and so he may not be so familiar with the planetary literature. Plate tectonics has previously been hypothesized on Mars (Sleep, 1994). The press release suggests that somehow, for forty years, no one has seriously looked at Valles Marineris. It clearly has a tectonic origin, but I don't see evidence for plate tectonics.