Amazing how the world of the very small has so many similarities with the world of the large, or to us, the normal world. Looking at these images reminds me of fractal diagrams I played with during high school math classes. No matter how far down you zoom into the fractal, the image continues to retain it physical and topological properties down into infinitesimal levels. From TFA, the most striking image for me was the simplest. The titanium alloy stress test looks all the world like a lonesome path in the forest, quiet and serene. Simply amazing.
Hawking radiation particles don't come from *inside* the black hole; that's impossible. Instead they are the "virtual particle" pairs that are constantly created (and almost always immediately destroyed) from vacuum fluctuations of the fabric of space time, specifically those pairs pop into existence straddling the infinitely thin line that is the event horizon. Due to gravitational acceleration, these particles become real due to the Unruh effect. If the antimatter particle, say an antiproton, is captured, it will remove mass from the black hole when it encounters a matter particle and releases energy. Coincidentally, the same amount of mass "radiated" is as the antiproton destroyed. Courtesy of the transitive property of addition, the net effect is the same as if the black hole had ejected one proton from within the event horizon.
Absolutely beautiful. Just one more striking image of a rock billions of miles away that makes me feel infinitely tiny. That said, for those who downloaded the full-res view, did anyone else notice the green rocks shown northwest of the southern crater? Scroll all the way to the right, middle of the image to see them....wonder what that is?
Any US credit card company that will not agree to block unauthorized charges from a specific vendor is a sham. I don't have the specifics in front of me, but IIRC such behavior is in violation of both Mastercard's and Visa's merchant agreements. Policy like this, and a certified letter to the executives of the issuing organization and MC or VISA, will do the trick.
Pay the bill and cancel the card. State in the letter that as of the date written you have paid your obligation and that you are notifying the card processor (MC/VISA). Be specific of the charges that they will not refuse and keep copies. Forward one letter to the Attorney General of your state, and one to the AG of the state where the card issuer's headquarters are located.
Any future credit dings from this company can be handled with a formal dispute with the credit bureau. Send them the copy of the letter to the company, letter to MC/VISA, MC/VISA's response, and the attorney general's response, via certified mail with delivery receipt. They have exactly 30 days to verify the negative marks and notify you of the results. Most likely, with that sort of ammunition, they will be unable to find the negative information as "accurate"...but beware, dealing with the credit bureaus is a crapshoot.
Agreed - delivery of aminos is not delivery of life. I was going to make that point, but I gave the Slashdot crowd the benefit of the doubt that they would see it that way too. +1 to you, good sir.
Interesting read. It has been one of the more pressing questions of the theory of biogenesis: where did the first organic matter come from? I have always found chirality and the left-handed nature of Earth's proteins to be more than mere coincidence.
It is strange that our location in the galaxy led to a slight imbalance in the amount of gravitationally polarized light striking chunks of rock and metal floating in a cosmic dance 4 billion years before I was born....yet that combination of factors resulted in the alanine in my body to contain only the left-handed chiral.
Studies like this are the cause of my personal religious dilemma. Most of the major religions came about 1500-5000 years ago...and at the time they were conceived, they convincingly explained every natural occurrence well enough to placate the masses. I wonder what the Pope would have to say about this study...was God a southpaw??
Actually, the cable co's are trying to get away from sending ALL the available channels at once, using switched digital video. However, the consumer electronics industry is railing against this change because (for the short-term) it will break compatibility with the current end-user decoding, CableCARD. Until TV manufacturers and the FCC get on board with OCAP, and start putting return-capable modules into their TV's, it's tough titties for all of us.
Of course, it's not the first 15 miles of the marathon that are hard - it's the final 9.2 that really get you. After all, it's not where you start...it's how you finish.
MightyMartian, I typically agree with 100% of your posts (Your sig makes it easy to spot ya), but I'm going to have to stand up for candidate Paul on this one. I've been most unusually apathetic this election cycle, something I'm typically not. Each side, Reps and Dems, has 3 mouthpiece clones spouting the standard crap over the airwaves and at rallies.
I wanted to look for a candidate that I could at least agree with on more than a tiny handful of issues, but I didn't know where to start. I took the candidate selector test at a website I found (selectsmart.com, I think) and the results told me I might like Ron Paul. I at first thought, "What? That whack job???" but then I researched his position on the current issues and his stance on foreign and domestic policy.
I like what he has to say. A lot. I like how he promotes personal liberty and personal responsibility at the same time. I like the fact that his foreign policies involve non-intervention, and returning the Defense Department to its title: national defense. (Not two preemptive undeclared wars) I've advocated that the US should not be the World Police for a long time. I've made many of the same arguments regarding his economic beliefs towards a balanced budget. Why should government of, for, and by the people be permitted to run a deficit and devalue the currency by just printing more when you run short year after year? The people can't do it. The govt shouldn't be permitted to do so, either. Outside of the death penalty, I like his stance on every issue. I've been so motivated by his intense, unwavering beliefs and his solid voting record that last night, I made my first ever campaign contribution.
Am I a retarded cultist for supporting the person that best fits my political beliefs after investigating each candidate's platform? I don't think so. I'm not trying to turn this into a policy debate, and I don't necessarily agree with some of the tactics that some Ron Paul grassroots supporters are trying to take, either. At least the AC/GP's post was topical to the discussion at hand, even if it was a thinly veiled political Slashvertisement. Making ad hominem attacks against those who have found a lesser-known candidate to be to their liking is a low blow to the process of "democracy", or what passes for democracy in the US today. Coming from one of my favorite Slashdot posters, your parent post disappoints me.
The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is surely a Japanese company. "the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as 'your plastic pal who's fun to be with'." That's funny, the RealDoll Corporation has the same slogan.
You have good points, but I feel comfortable in taking off my tinfoil hat as far as the GOP polls go. The LOSER of the election was the one to benefit. I agree that a scheme could be in place, replacing votes on the electronic machine. If so, paper balloting used in these races will tell the tale. I'm not usually one of the 'sheeple', but I'll accept the published results at face value. On the other hand, the US could also be a secret Zionist state controlled by the Stonemasons, and this entire lifetime of experience could fade to black should the Matrix ever seg-fault on us.
I'm still not 100% convinced this merits a fraud investigation.
I find it interesting to note as an impartial observer that Romney appears to have gained an even larger advantage via machine voting than did Clinton. Link: http://ronrox.com/paulstats.php?party=REPUBLICANS In large towns, Obama fared 4.5% better than the statistical average in districts where Diebolds were used, where Clinton was almost 4% below average. On the GOP primary, Romney was a whopping 10.1% above average. Romney fared better than statistical models would predict in EVERY class of voting district. Clinton only gained machine votes in the small and medium towns, and gave back ground in the larger districts.
I believe this information points not to voter fraud, or Diebold hacking, as much as I would like to see it happen (only to prove a point). Rather, across the board, i believe the larger districts were probably not accurately sampled in the majority of pre-election polling. Many of the media polls and other reported metrics were taken at gatherings and candidate rallies, as well. Typically, only the most passionate supporters, or those who are the most undecided attend these functions. It is difficult to accurately gauge voter opinion for the entire state from such small sample sizes.
Disclaimer: I am a registered Republican in the state of Arizona, and am undecided. I have no preference for a candidate at this time.
Good lord - you just nearly quoted my project manager. During a conference call this morning, he literally said..."lets take this conversation offline. I'll touch base with you later to discuss some of these action items" and you just hit the nail on the head. +1 to you, but you're already modded to 5.
Forgive my imprecise language. I was not directly referring to the Tunguska blast. Rather, I was describing the potential damage of a medium/large asteroid landing intact in the ocean, such as the one that caused the Yucatan seafloor crater. I should have been more clear.
You mean after the gigantic tsunamis die down? Well, once the rebuilding begins on a global scale, elevated precipitation will likely be the least of one's worries, especially if you live within 20 miles of the coast.
Free American English Lesson: Adverbs modify verbs.
Verb in the Subject Sentence: Missed (past tense)
Context: This asteroid was very near to Earth when it missed us.
Adjective: Near (adverb form: nearly)
Thus: The asteroid nearly missed Earth.
Your sentence gets a thumbs up by me! ...Grammar Nazis, please keep walking.:)
I've often wondered...how the populations (including the military) in some of the more... nervous areas of the globe would react to a suddden blinding light in the sky followed by an enormous blast wave.
I'll grant you that they do not explode in the traditional TNT/explosives sense of the word. However, falling space debris can indeed "explode" when entering the atmosphere. As they push deeper and deeper and the air gets thicker, it presents more and more resistance on the falling object. Eventually, the wall of air becomes so dense that the action-reaction forces break the falling object up. Violently. Combine that with the fact that the asteroid/comet/meteor and surrounding air has been heated significantly due to friction, and you get a fireball and a tremendous shock wave in the air.
To test this premise, I recommend throwing an egg or three at the front door of your local police station, as hard as you can. You will see that (among other things) the egg does indeed explode.
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Amazing how the world of the very small has so many similarities with the world of the large, or to us, the normal world. Looking at these images reminds me of fractal diagrams I played with during high school math classes. No matter how far down you zoom into the fractal, the image continues to retain it physical and topological properties down into infinitesimal levels. From TFA, the most striking image for me was the simplest. The titanium alloy stress test looks all the world like a lonesome path in the forest, quiet and serene. Simply amazing.
Hawking radiation particles don't come from *inside* the black hole; that's impossible. Instead they are the "virtual particle" pairs that are constantly created (and almost always immediately destroyed) from vacuum fluctuations of the fabric of space time, specifically those pairs pop into existence straddling the infinitely thin line that is the event horizon. Due to gravitational acceleration, these particles become real due to the Unruh effect. If the antimatter particle, say an antiproton, is captured, it will remove mass from the black hole when it encounters a matter particle and releases energy. Coincidentally, the same amount of mass "radiated" is as the antiproton destroyed. Courtesy of the transitive property of addition, the net effect is the same as if the black hole had ejected one proton from within the event horizon.
I wish I had mod points. That was legitimately the funniest post I've seen on /. in months. +1, my friend; +1.
That's the spot! Wonder what it could be?
Touche, point taken.
Absolutely beautiful. Just one more striking image of a rock billions of miles away that makes me feel infinitely tiny. That said, for those who downloaded the full-res view, did anyone else notice the green rocks shown northwest of the southern crater? Scroll all the way to the right, middle of the image to see them. ...wonder what that is?
Any US credit card company that will not agree to block unauthorized charges from a specific vendor is a sham. I don't have the specifics in front of me, but IIRC such behavior is in violation of both Mastercard's and Visa's merchant agreements. Policy like this, and a certified letter to the executives of the issuing organization and MC or VISA, will do the trick.
Pay the bill and cancel the card. State in the letter that as of the date written you have paid your obligation and that you are notifying the card processor (MC/VISA). Be specific of the charges that they will not refuse and keep copies. Forward one letter to the Attorney General of your state, and one to the AG of the state where the card issuer's headquarters are located.
Any future credit dings from this company can be handled with a formal dispute with the credit bureau. Send them the copy of the letter to the company, letter to MC/VISA, MC/VISA's response, and the attorney general's response, via certified mail with delivery receipt. They have exactly 30 days to verify the negative marks and notify you of the results. Most likely, with that sort of ammunition, they will be unable to find the negative information as "accurate"...but beware, dealing with the credit bureaus is a crapshoot.
Agreed - delivery of aminos is not delivery of life. I was going to make that point, but I gave the Slashdot crowd the benefit of the doubt that they would see it that way too. +1 to you, good sir.
Interesting read. It has been one of the more pressing questions of the theory of biogenesis: where did the first organic matter come from? I have always found chirality and the left-handed nature of Earth's proteins to be more than mere coincidence.
It is strange that our location in the galaxy led to a slight imbalance in the amount of gravitationally polarized light striking chunks of rock and metal floating in a cosmic dance 4 billion years before I was born....yet that combination of factors resulted in the alanine in my body to contain only the left-handed chiral.
Studies like this are the cause of my personal religious dilemma. Most of the major religions came about 1500-5000 years ago...and at the time they were conceived, they convincingly explained every natural occurrence well enough to placate the masses. I wonder what the Pope would have to say about this study...was God a southpaw??
Actually, the cable co's are trying to get away from sending ALL the available channels at once, using switched digital video. However, the consumer electronics industry is railing against this change because (for the short-term) it will break compatibility with the current end-user decoding, CableCARD. Until TV manufacturers and the FCC get on board with OCAP, and start putting return-capable modules into their TV's, it's tough titties for all of us.
Of course, it's not the first 15 miles of the marathon that are hard - it's the final 9.2 that really get you. After all, it's not where you start...it's how you finish.
In all seriousness, at first I thought you were a moron. Now I know you're human. Better luck next time! :)
MightyMartian, I typically agree with 100% of your posts (Your sig makes it easy to spot ya), but I'm going to have to stand up for candidate Paul on this one. I've been most unusually apathetic this election cycle, something I'm typically not. Each side, Reps and Dems, has 3 mouthpiece clones spouting the standard crap over the airwaves and at rallies.
I wanted to look for a candidate that I could at least agree with on more than a tiny handful of issues, but I didn't know where to start. I took the candidate selector test at a website I found (selectsmart.com, I think) and the results told me I might like Ron Paul. I at first thought, "What? That whack job???" but then I researched his position on the current issues and his stance on foreign and domestic policy.
I like what he has to say. A lot. I like how he promotes personal liberty and personal responsibility at the same time. I like the fact that his foreign policies involve non-intervention, and returning the Defense Department to its title: national defense. (Not two preemptive undeclared wars) I've advocated that the US should not be the World Police for a long time. I've made many of the same arguments regarding his economic beliefs towards a balanced budget. Why should government of, for, and by the people be permitted to run a deficit and devalue the currency by just printing more when you run short year after year? The people can't do it. The govt shouldn't be permitted to do so, either. Outside of the death penalty, I like his stance on every issue. I've been so motivated by his intense, unwavering beliefs and his solid voting record that last night, I made my first ever campaign contribution.
Am I a retarded cultist for supporting the person that best fits my political beliefs after investigating each candidate's platform? I don't think so. I'm not trying to turn this into a policy debate, and I don't necessarily agree with some of the tactics that some Ron Paul grassroots supporters are trying to take, either. At least the AC/GP's post was topical to the discussion at hand, even if it was a thinly veiled political Slashvertisement. Making ad hominem attacks against those who have found a lesser-known candidate to be to their liking is a low blow to the process of "democracy", or what passes for democracy in the US today. Coming from one of my favorite Slashdot posters, your parent post disappoints me.
You have good points, but I feel comfortable in taking off my tinfoil hat as far as the GOP polls go. The LOSER of the election was the one to benefit. I agree that a scheme could be in place, replacing votes on the electronic machine. If so, paper balloting used in these races will tell the tale. I'm not usually one of the 'sheeple', but I'll accept the published results at face value. On the other hand, the US could also be a secret Zionist state controlled by the Stonemasons, and this entire lifetime of experience could fade to black should the Matrix ever seg-fault on us.
I'm still not 100% convinced this merits a fraud investigation.
I find it interesting to note as an impartial observer that Romney appears to have gained an even larger advantage via machine voting than did Clinton. Link: http://ronrox.com/paulstats.php?party=REPUBLICANS In large towns, Obama fared 4.5% better than the statistical average in districts where Diebolds were used, where Clinton was almost 4% below average. On the GOP primary, Romney was a whopping 10.1% above average. Romney fared better than statistical models would predict in EVERY class of voting district. Clinton only gained machine votes in the small and medium towns, and gave back ground in the larger districts.
I believe this information points not to voter fraud, or Diebold hacking, as much as I would like to see it happen (only to prove a point). Rather, across the board, i believe the larger districts were probably not accurately sampled in the majority of pre-election polling. Many of the media polls and other reported metrics were taken at gatherings and candidate rallies, as well. Typically, only the most passionate supporters, or those who are the most undecided attend these functions. It is difficult to accurately gauge voter opinion for the entire state from such small sample sizes.
Disclaimer: I am a registered Republican in the state of Arizona, and am undecided. I have no preference for a candidate at this time.
What a wonderful development; MS buys FAST for search, and the majority of the computing world faces a little more SLOW: Software Lock-in On Windows.
Good lord - you just nearly quoted my project manager. During a conference call this morning, he literally said ..."lets take this conversation offline. I'll touch base with you later to discuss some of these action items" and you just hit the nail on the head. +1 to you, but you're already modded to 5.
Forgive my imprecise language. I was not directly referring to the Tunguska blast. Rather, I was describing the potential damage of a medium/large asteroid landing intact in the ocean, such as the one that caused the Yucatan seafloor crater. I should have been more clear.
I know - it was late and I was being facetious. I can't believe I got a positive mod point for that.
You mean after the gigantic tsunamis die down? Well, once the rebuilding begins on a global scale, elevated precipitation will likely be the least of one's worries, especially if you live within 20 miles of the coast.
Free American English Lesson: Adverbs modify verbs.
...Grammar Nazis, please keep walking. :)
Verb in the Subject Sentence: Missed (past tense)
Context: This asteroid was very near to Earth when it missed us.
Adjective: Near (adverb form: nearly)
Thus: The asteroid nearly missed Earth.
Your sentence gets a thumbs up by me!
Badly.
I'll grant you that they do not explode in the traditional TNT/explosives sense of the word. However, falling space debris can indeed "explode" when entering the atmosphere. As they push deeper and deeper and the air gets thicker, it presents more and more resistance on the falling object. Eventually, the wall of air becomes so dense that the action-reaction forces break the falling object up. Violently. Combine that with the fact that the asteroid/comet/meteor and surrounding air has been heated significantly due to friction, and you get a fireball and a tremendous shock wave in the air.
To test this premise, I recommend throwing an egg or three at the front door of your local police station, as hard as you can. You will see that (among other things) the egg does indeed explode.