I grew up in a country where most foreign shows and movies are shown dubbed on TV. The result videos look exactly like a dubbed movie to me. My brain automatically says "this is not the original audio from this footage" when watching this.
I use IMDB to check the ratings of a movie I want to see (in my defense, I am old) and if a movie has a 6.5+ rate I consider it worth of my money and time. But more than that, I always check the ratings distribution and the ratings in my demographics, they are much better than just an average.
To give an example, Twilight has a rating 5.2, but almost 30% of the ratings are either 1 or 10, so I know this is a "love-it-or-hate-it" movie. In my demographics, the average is 4.9, while for "Females under 18" it is 6.6, so I know this movie is not for me.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day, on the other side, has the ratings describing a normal curve peaking on 9, and an average of 8.7 in my demographics (the highest of all), so this movie is right for me.
I have a workmate who buys lottery tickets from time to time and he loves what he does here so much that he said that if he won big money on the lottery we wouldn't even know or notice. And I believe him when he says that.
Well, I don't work with this aspect of the mission, only with one of the data indexing and visualization solutions. This is just the first data release, not all data acquired by the satellite was included in this data release, some are still to be processed. Besides, Gaia is orbiting the Sun, not Earth so each parallax measurement of a star is 6 months apart and to increase the precision several measurements must be taken (so I was told, I am a software engineer, not an astrophysicist).
Actually counting and identifying the stars it the "easy part". But it takes time and several observations of each star to get information about the variable attributes, like proper motion, flux variations, etc. Most of the stars used don't have a reliable measurement of parallax and/or distance, only about 2 million stars have parallax measurements (most of them derived from the Tycho2 catalog from Hipparcos mission). The goal is to have all the attributes (or most of them) for all the stars, reaching one petabyte of data.
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Our own asteroid belt WAS a planet. And it was destroyed by Xenu. Everyone knows that, duh!
... the alien megastructure was destroyed in an interplanetary war and now it's all debris! I want to believe!!!
Hey, I'm proud of my man-boobs, you insensitive clod!
I grew up in a country where most foreign shows and movies are shown dubbed on TV. The result videos look exactly like a dubbed movie to me. My brain automatically says "this is not the original audio from this footage" when watching this.
You missed the detail that he/she spelled "earth" with a lowercase "e"...
Am I doing this joke right?
One guys "crap" is another guys entertainment.
I use IMDB to check the ratings of a movie I want to see (in my defense, I am old) and if a movie has a 6.5+ rate I consider it worth of my money and time. But more than that, I always check the ratings distribution and the ratings in my demographics, they are much better than just an average.
To give an example, Twilight has a rating 5.2, but almost 30% of the ratings are either 1 or 10, so I know this is a "love-it-or-hate-it" movie. In my demographics, the average is 4.9, while for "Females under 18" it is 6.6, so I know this movie is not for me.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day, on the other side, has the ratings describing a normal curve peaking on 9, and an average of 8.7 in my demographics (the highest of all), so this movie is right for me.
Good, because that's what the laptops crave.
But does it have electrolytes?
arccos(-4*4/4/4) If you don't have a calculator with you, https://www.wolframalpha.com/i...
... love!
I have a workmate who buys lottery tickets from time to time and he loves what he does here so much that he said that if he won big money on the lottery we wouldn't even know or notice. And I believe him when he says that.
Sounds like a plot for the series...
You can run an infinite loop in only 6 seconds!
I just watched it on Netflix and at the end there was a note "©2016, all rights reserved".
Why?
Well, I don't work with this aspect of the mission, only with one of the data indexing and visualization solutions. This is just the first data release, not all data acquired by the satellite was included in this data release, some are still to be processed. Besides, Gaia is orbiting the Sun, not Earth so each parallax measurement of a star is 6 months apart and to increase the precision several measurements must be taken (so I was told, I am a software engineer, not an astrophysicist).
Actually counting and identifying the stars it the "easy part". But it takes time and several observations of each star to get information about the variable attributes, like proper motion, flux variations, etc. Most of the stars used don't have a reliable measurement of parallax and/or distance, only about 2 million stars have parallax measurements (most of them derived from the Tycho2 catalog from Hipparcos mission). The goal is to have all the attributes (or most of them) for all the stars, reaching one petabyte of data.
No, that's 1.1 billion, the article is correct. (Source: I work at the team that produced the density map that illustrate the article)
It's 2015. Er, I mean... 2016.
Something not quite right there.
And it seems to be your Esperanto. "Sambuko" is Esperanto for "elderberry".
The river Temarc, in winter.
Sokath! His eyes uncovered!
Best Star Trek episode EVER!
Via patrino estas hamstro kaj via patro odoris sambuko.