You would have never funded the research into better clocks that eventually led to better navigation, which led to Columbus' voyages.
Are you holding your history book upside down? The problem of longitude was completely unsolved during Columbus's lifetime (15th-early 16th century). Marine chronometers didn't appear until the mid 18th century.
The problem here is with religion's inability to adequately explain scientific truths. This should be discussed in religion classes. Not science classes.
If everything happens according to the fundamental laws of the universe, then how it is possible for your omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent god to function?
It's about time teachers in the US stopped pandering to these idiotic demands for the discussion of religious dogma in science classes. It doesn't matter if the theory of evolution is consistent with any belief systems. If it's not science, then it doesn't belong in a science lesson. Period.
what if they used the wind energy to compress air that's otherwise stored on the ocean floor? All that nice, heavy water would avoid the need for high-pressure tanks, simply pushing the water out of the way would provide significant amounts of energy.
It's an idea. Although building and maintaining storage tanks at the bottom of the sea is probably not as easy as you seem to think it is.
Pumped-storage hydroelectricity is another option, which has already been used successfully in Wales and Scotland (and lots of other places around the world).
QR codes have plenty more uses besides advertising. For example the Japanese use them on business cards as a way of sharing their contact details and home page URL without anybody having to type anything in (so there's no chance of getting someone's details wrong because of a typing error).
Think of them as a sort of interface between the printed page and cyberspace.
An astronomer from 55 Cancri would probably detect Jupiter (mass/distance^2 = 11.7 Earths/AU^2), Venus (1.56 Earths/AU^2), Saturn (1.04), Earth (1.00), and possibly Mercury (0.367), while Mars (0.046), Uranus (0.039), and Neptune (0.019) would almost certainly go unnoticed.
The astronomer is not measuring gravitational pulls, but variations in the position of the star. These depend on the position of the barycenter (i.e. center of gravity) between the sun and each other planet. The earth weighs so little compared to the sun that the resulting wobble is barely perceptible, whereas Jupiter (much more massive and much further away) has a barycenter that actually lies above the sun's surface and is quite easily detected.
If you cancel the sending of any email that bounces, then it won't work because this is default behaviour for mailboxes that use greylisting. A lot of other mail systems simply drop emails to non-existent mailboxes, so they won't generate bounces either (this is because spammers have in the past used dictionary-type attacks to work out which email addresses are valid for a domain.)
Now you seem to be describing a different approach based on whitelisting. On what basis will you be checking email addresses to see of they are "used"? Catching bounces won't work.
When your site at www.paypal-user-login.bank gets rumbled and you have to switch to www.paypal-confirm-details.bank, it's going to cost you a lot of money. What do you reckon the useful lifetime of these phishing sites is? A few days perhaps? A couple of weeks at most? This is going to put a serious hole in your business model.
Of course you could always fall back on other techniques (e.g. www.paypal.bank.09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0.p hish.com). But the.bank TLD would at least be a start.
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So if I fired an M1 Garand rifle, which produces 168 db at a distance of 1 metre, then it would kill me instantly?
Maybe that's why the US didn't do so well in the Vietnam war.
Hard time would be much more effective.
Dropping him head-first into a flaming barrel of excrement would be much more entertaining.
The problem here is with religion's inability to adequately explain scientific truths. This should be discussed in religion classes. Not science classes.
What a load of tripe!
If everything happens according to the fundamental laws of the universe, then how it is possible for your omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent god to function?
It's about time teachers in the US stopped pandering to these idiotic demands for the discussion of religious dogma in science classes. It doesn't matter if the theory of evolution is consistent with any belief systems. If it's not science, then it doesn't belong in a science lesson. Period.
Maybe you saw it on TV about 5 months ago?
Here's a clip to refresh your memory.
It's an idea. Although building and maintaining storage tanks at the bottom of the sea is probably not as easy as you seem to think it is.
Pumped-storage hydroelectricity is another option, which has already been used successfully in Wales and Scotland (and lots of other places around the world).
QR codes have plenty more uses besides advertising. For example the Japanese use them on business cards as a way of sharing their contact details and home page URL without anybody having to type anything in (so there's no chance of getting someone's details wrong because of a typing error).
Think of them as a sort of interface between the printed page and cyberspace.
Copied onto a CD and lost in the UK postal system?
The astronomer is not measuring gravitational pulls, but variations in the position of the star. These depend on the position of the barycenter (i.e. center of gravity) between the sun and each other planet. The earth weighs so little compared to the sun that the resulting wobble is barely perceptible, whereas Jupiter (much more massive and much further away) has a barycenter that actually lies above the sun's surface and is quite easily detected.
Wikipedia explains this in a bit more detail.
Well which is it?
If you cancel the sending of any email that bounces, then it won't work because this is default behaviour for mailboxes that use greylisting. A lot of other mail systems simply drop emails to non-existent mailboxes, so they won't generate bounces either (this is because spammers have in the past used dictionary-type attacks to work out which email addresses are valid for a domain.)
Now you seem to be describing a different approach based on whitelisting. On what basis will you be checking email addresses to see of they are "used"? Catching bounces won't work.
That won't work. Read up on greylisting and you should see why.
When your site at www.paypal-user-login.bank gets rumbled and you have to switch to www.paypal-confirm-details.bank, it's going to cost you a lot of money. What do you reckon the useful lifetime of these phishing sites is? A few days perhaps? A couple of weeks at most? This is going to put a serious hole in your business model.
Of course you could always fall back on other techniques (e.g. www.paypal.bank.09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0.p hish.com). But the .bank TLD would at least be a start.
That's not such a crazy idea. Roger Penrose discusses it in his book The Large, the Small and the Human Mind. It's a fascinating read. (At least I thought so.)
Robots and beer don't mix. Here's the proof: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/32399/fosters_robot/
This list reads like a badly researched school project.
TFA: "Distillation, the means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points, was invented around the year 800"
Wikipedia: "The first evidence of true distillation comes from Babylonia and dates from the fourth millennium BC."