Tyson also noted how Sandra Bullock's hair did not float freely as it would in zero-gravity. This is arguably not so much an error in physics, but a reflection of the limitations of cinematic technology to accurately portray actors in zero-gravity.
Sounds like Tyson has never heard of hair gel, or styling wax, or the like.
Oh no, you don't! No way in hell am I going to let those fuckers into space. They've voted against funding NASA since the end of the Cold War and have recently shut down NASA (and everything else) entirely. They get to stay here on boring old Earth while the rest of us get to have an awesome party on the ISS.
Are you kidding? Nothing would get NASA funded to adequate levels faster than having congressional lives at stake
News summaries are allowed to contain spoilers, you know.
(RTFA, and it did work.)
No, The summary did just what it was supposed to do: entice you to Read The Fancy Article. If it contianed the spoiler, you wouldn't have read the article.
I reasoned (correctly) that a DC cop car with two fully uniformed female officers was extremely unlikely to be a hoax.
Yes. The odds of two fully uniformed females showing up in a cop car and being something other than actual cops are extremely unlikely in my circles too.
A shitty little Cessna with zero auto controls and instant death on a a mistake is a hell of a lot more stressful and panic inducing than sitting in a large computer/gaming rig.
Its REALLY not that hard.
I remember playing MS Flight simulator on my grandfathers IBM XT with hercules monochrome graphics, and we were, after some practice able to land a cessna.
And I was able to bullseye womp-rats in my T-16 back home.
It's here because it is a nerd's dream disaster scenario. Jocks dream of making a triple play to win the game. Nerds dream of being at the controls of a plane in distress and bringing it in to a safe landing.
I recall reading about a compiler or interpreter somewhere along the line which actually would redefine the value of the "constant" 0. So although it will catch errors, it may not always catch them.
Population density isn't a good metric, at least in the people-per-square-unit format, because it doesn't tell you how dispersed the population really is. Consider two islands with identical area, and identical populations. On one island, the people spread out across the entire island; on the other, they cluster into a single village by the lagoon. Mathematically, they have the same population density, but it's going to be far easier to provision the second island.
"Back in Nebraska, our cat got stuck in my brother's camp trunk, and we did not need to open it to know there was all kinds of dead cat in there." - Penny.
Balls don't trace parabolas. They trace ellipses where one of the focal points is the center of mass of the Earth. In order to trace a parabola, the ball would have to be travelling at around 11.2 km/s
I guess it'll be appropriate when they award JK Rowling the Literature prize for the Harry Potter sequel she's going to write in 2019.
Well...I almost hate to say it, but the franchise is actually ripe for prequel stories: The Founding of Hogwarts (four books right there - one for each of the founding members); Tales of James and Lilly Potter, Dumbledore, Lucius, Snape, etc, when they were in school. Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang and how they got started.
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Tyson also noted how Sandra Bullock's hair did not float freely as it would in zero-gravity. This is arguably not so much an error in physics, but a reflection of the limitations of cinematic technology to accurately portray actors in zero-gravity.
Sounds like Tyson has never heard of hair gel, or styling wax, or the like.
I beg to differ. Much of Apollo 13 was filmed while in the "Vomit Comet" to shoot freefall scenes.
Actually, while there was some Vomit Comet freefall shots, much of Apollo 13 was shot with the actors doing knee bends to simulate Zero-G
Yes... That's exactly what we WANT you to believe.
Oh no, you don't! No way in hell am I going to let those fuckers into space. They've voted against funding NASA since the end of the Cold War and have recently shut down NASA (and everything else) entirely. They get to stay here on boring old Earth while the rest of us get to have an awesome party on the ISS.
Are you kidding? Nothing would get NASA funded to adequate levels faster than having congressional lives at stake
Verify the hop count to the target, Vasily ; one ping only.
News summaries are allowed to contain spoilers, you know.
(RTFA, and it did work.)
No, The summary did just what it was supposed to do: entice you to Read The Fancy Article. If it contianed the spoiler, you wouldn't have read the article.
... but the copyright for the work in question will expire in 3-6 years.
[ROLF] Bwahahaha! Tee hee hee! Oh! My spleen! Hahaha! Copyright will expire. Oh, that's priceless... Hahaha.
The other men in space in the sixties were "Cosmonauts."
Perhaps, but were they friends?
I hate cats...
Schrodinger's bumper sticker?
What did you expect a video of, exactly?
Well, I was expecting a slow motion video of the collapse of a quantum wavefunction, myself.
I reasoned (correctly) that a DC cop car with two fully uniformed female officers was extremely unlikely to be a hoax.
Yes. The odds of two fully uniformed females showing up in a cop car and being something other than actual cops are extremely unlikely in my circles too.
So... Will this system also detect malicious government attacks and bouts of official stupidity?
A shitty little Cessna with zero auto controls and instant death on a a mistake is a hell of a lot more stressful and panic inducing than sitting in a large computer/gaming rig.
Its REALLY not that hard.
I remember playing MS Flight simulator on my grandfathers IBM XT with hercules monochrome graphics, and we were, after some practice able to land a cessna.
And I was able to bullseye womp-rats in my T-16 back home.
It's here because it is a nerd's dream disaster scenario. Jocks dream of making a triple play to win the game. Nerds dream of being at the controls of a plane in distress and bringing it in to a safe landing.
Maybe it wasn't the lights. Maybe he had peril sensitive sunglasses on.
Yes.
The proverb among pilots is "Any landing you walk away from is a good landing".
Professional pilots obviously hold themselves to a higher standard than that, but for a first-time flyer that landing met the requirements completely.
My sig for a while was "Any landing you walk away from is a good landing. - Flight sim pilot"
I recall reading about a compiler or interpreter somewhere along the line which actually would redefine the value of the "constant" 0. So although it will catch errors, it may not always catch them.
It was me.. Sorry.
He's at 0000::0:1. Get him!
rtlls-send-inverted-tessane dept. didn't want you to think that effort went to waste.
Who is Tessane; what is an RTLSS, and what does sending one inverted accomplish?
Population density isn't a good metric, at least in the people-per-square-unit format, because it doesn't tell you how dispersed the population really is. Consider two islands with identical area, and identical populations. On one island, the people spread out across the entire island; on the other, they cluster into a single village by the lagoon. Mathematically, they have the same population density, but it's going to be far easier to provision the second island.
"Back in Nebraska, our cat got stuck in my brother's camp trunk, and we did not need to open it to know there was all kinds of dead cat in there." - Penny.
Balls don't trace parabolas. They trace ellipses where one of the focal points is the center of mass of the Earth. In order to trace a parabola, the ball would have to be travelling at around 11.2 km/s
I guess it'll be appropriate when they award JK Rowling the Literature prize for the Harry Potter sequel she's going to write in 2019.
Well...I almost hate to say it, but the franchise is actually ripe for prequel stories: The Founding of Hogwarts (four books right there - one for each of the founding members); Tales of James and Lilly Potter, Dumbledore, Lucius, Snape, etc, when they were in school. Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang and how they got started.
Finally! Somebody is thinking of the children!
Yes! We'll finally be able to find out what makes Optimus Prime tick!
Evolution is slow.
NATURAL evolution is slow. Human guided evolution (eg, animal husbandry) produces useful results a lot more quickly.