Well, I suppose the government paid for the building, the test tubes, and the salary of the researchers so i guess they own the results.....on my behalf.
Maybe my tax dollars might save some lives. And maybe we'll see the words 'government' and 'intellectual' in the same sentence more often. Here's hoping.
Somewhat related to what your asking. A ten part series on how some present day tech got here. The shows don't delve deeply in to how it all works, but interesting none the less. It may spark an interest in older technology. Many things that were once only available in a lab I can now recreate in my garage.
One thing I did with my kids was to get a cash register roll of paper and a measuring tape and make a scale model of the solar system. This could be done in the gym on a cloudy day. You could also put on the asteroid belt and the diameter of some of the largest stars. Include the extremes of Pluto's orbit. Gives a fair idea of the distances involved.
As for viewing, are there any nice comets visible?
The trouble, it seems, is to construct a receiver capable of correctly identifying the pulses.
This reminds me of the story about the guy who made a rival to PKZip that was so efficient that it compressed a file down to one byte. Buy he was having trouble with the un-compressor....
Many moons ago, I installed 9ft spun aluminum sat systems. When the dish feed 'ring' was installed but the waveguide/LNA portion had not been inserted, you could stand on a ladder and put your ear to the feedpoint and hear birds/traffic/people at great distances. When I talked in to the feedpoint, my partner could walk a couple hundred feet away and we could easily talk to each other.
I'm sure a couple of those new Ku dishes with the LNB's removed and mounted so you could put your ears at the feedpoints would sound bitchin'.;^)
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Well, I suppose the government paid for the building, the test tubes, and the salary of the researchers so i guess they own the results.....on my behalf.
Maybe my tax dollars might save some lives.
And maybe we'll see the words 'government' and 'intellectual' in the same sentence more often.
Here's hoping.
No...no...The Guess Who
You know, that band who were also from Winnipeg.
Ahhh... the 70's.
(American Woman etc.)
Might have to click a button further down the list on the Slashdot 'Toy Collection' Poll.
Mail and telephone calls from off shore are also external communications.
What's their status?
Somewhat related to what your asking.
A ten part series on how some present day tech got here.
The shows don't delve deeply in to how it all works, but interesting none the less.
It may spark an interest in older technology.
Many things that were once only available in a lab I can now recreate in my garage.
We should find out what percentage of the population thinks that this is a good idea....
And for about 8 more dollars, they could attach a big funnel and bucket for those days when it rains and the solar part doesn't work so well.
I guess that would make it about 5 'Big Ben clock towers' long.
A minute or two on Wikipedia says that this would be the largest plant gemome.
It lists the largest genome as that of Polychaos dubium ("Amoeba" dubia) with 670,000,000,000 pairs.
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Lots of good suggestions and this may be a dupe.
One thing I did with my kids was to get a cash register roll of paper and a measuring tape and make a scale model of the solar system.
This could be done in the gym on a cloudy day. You could also put on the asteroid belt and the diameter of some of the largest stars.
Include the extremes of Pluto's orbit.
Gives a fair idea of the distances involved.
As for viewing, are there any nice comets visible?
Seems to me SPARC is playing CRAPS with any good will they have left.
Just like 7-Eleven, it never closes....
(and at 4 am it's full of Zombies!)
The trouble, it seems, is to construct a receiver capable of correctly identifying the pulses.
This reminds me of the story about the guy who made a rival to PKZip that was so efficient that it compressed a file down to one byte. Buy he was having trouble with the un-compressor....
I bet with liquid cooling you could get it to 18MHz!
I like Boston Gear -
http://www.bostongear.com/
User guides and other info as well.
Here is an interview with Dr Stanley Love explaining one method to move an asteroid without breaking it.
http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/05-06/nov12.html
Scroll down to 'Space Tug' and have a listen for about 8 minutes.
You don't even need the microphone.
Many moons ago, I installed 9ft spun aluminum sat systems. When the dish feed 'ring' was installed but the waveguide/LNA portion had not been inserted, you could stand on a ladder and put your ear to the feedpoint and hear birds/traffic/people at great distances. When I talked in to the feedpoint, my partner could walk a couple hundred feet away and we could easily talk to each other.
I'm sure a couple of those new Ku dishes with the LNB's removed and mounted so you could put your ears at the feedpoints would sound bitchin'. ;^)
Hope I'm not a dupe, but there's also the free subset of E-Bay, www.kijiji.com
No, I didn't read every post in this article, so I hope this isn't a dupe.
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Interesting link about concerts ( and giving away free CD's ) -
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_detail
200 years of coal you say. There might not be anyone around to run the plants...
http://www.harbornet.com/sunflower/hotter.html
Maybe this is like my 1973 Pinto. I'll only put so much in to it because I know it's going to be replaced.
See - http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/
Try this -
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno_(crat