This would quickly bankrupt most kids. Start Word, do some reading, some typing, talk on the phone, dinner, American Idol (for brain shrinkage) get back to work.
$5 a day will become $60 real quick; maybe it's to sell the $60 package.
The actual number of stars is 200-400B, not 100M, off by 3-4k:-(
However the thickness of the disk ~10k LY, so we are still in the ballpark in terms of distances, but now N ~ 2000-4000, much better. Hope none are Borg.
IIRC the Milky Way has 100M stars (and is 100k light years across; call it a flat disk for an "area" of 7.8B LY^2)
Your.000001% probability works out to 1/10^8, so 100*10^6 / 10^8 = 1, i.e. us. So GWB is the most powerful guy in the galaxy
Take out a couple of zeros and it's 100, spread out (uniformly, a guess) over 7.8B LY^2, or 8,800 light years apart.
Of course who knows the real probability (it is exactly N/100M, except we don't have N) but from your numbers we won't be seen green folks for a while.
At 0.010c we'd have ~880k years to reach the next one, so it's doable (by robots) before the sun conks out or the Andromeda merger.
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Andromeda is pretty far away, and anything we see happened a long time ago... bingo!
They found the Star Wars locale. If they can refine their work they could get a picture of the real Yoda.
Thanks, now add roving black hole to gamma-ray burst and false-vacuum collapse in the worry list.
...working on Y(1440).
True, since the new particle is Y(4140); nobody even remembers Y(1440).
Annoying only the dyslexic.
here is one vote for Ardipithecus Ramidus
precipitated perhaps by a mysterious black slab that just appeared one morning outside the cave?
Castro wanted the Russians to shoot, at which point they realized he was crazy.
"how many legit copies of windows are in Cuba?"
One
How would the US like it if the Russians started helping the Taliban drive out the foreign occupiers?
Didn't know either existed.
On the basis that Cisco functions and makes money, while DC is a disaster, Cisco_guy++.
Actually it is optimized, but to make typing as slow as possible; that was meant to reduce jamming in old typewriters.
If it's 42 we know it's the wrong answer
Vaya con Dios
(caps)
"the Milky Way is rotating at a speed of 161,000 km/h faster than previously thought."
Units converted from radians/mole
This would quickly bankrupt most kids. Start Word, do some reading, some typing, talk on the phone, dinner, American Idol (for brain shrinkage) get back to work.
$5 a day will become $60 real quick; maybe it's to sell the $60 package.
Booby traps?
Excellent idea, it would probably cost $10 if it was standard equipment.
the Tralfamadorians say the same thing before they destroy the universe by mistake
Odds for Palin becoming Pres., ~1/6 according to this guy at CNBC
Feeling Lucky? The Odds of a President Palin
http://www.cnbc.com/id/26738380/site/14081545
About the same odds of surviving one round of Russian roulette.
it's nobody's fault, but your dog is dead, lolz, but it's unlikely to happen again, at least to your dog
Unrelated, but Carter was an honest person
No! An obvious error and unforgiving geeks!
The actual number of stars is 200-400B, not 100M, off by 3-4k :-(
However the thickness of the disk ~10k LY, so we are still in the ballpark in terms of distances, but now N ~ 2000-4000, much better. Hope none are Borg.
IIRC the Milky Way has 100M stars (and is 100k light years across; call it a flat disk for an "area" of 7.8B LY^2)
Your .000001% probability works out to 1/10^8, so 100*10^6 / 10^8 = 1, i.e. us. So GWB is the most powerful guy in the galaxy
Take out a couple of zeros and it's 100, spread out (uniformly, a guess) over 7.8B LY^2, or 8,800 light years apart.
Of course who knows the real probability (it is exactly N/100M, except we don't have N) but from your numbers we won't be seen green folks for a while.
At 0.010c we'd have ~880k years to reach the next one, so it's doable (by robots) before the sun conks out or the Andromeda merger.
As a matter of fact Ohio gave the election to Bush. There were numerous other irregularities.
Dulles is far, how about 2 minutes from National.
Not to take away from your many good comments, but if you can make 20-40% a year on investments you should be in Wall Street instead.