They ought to have abandoned leap seconds in the year 2000, which would have made a dandy new epoch, and simplified all date calculations for a millennium or so. There is absolutely no reason to inflict leap seconds on civil time; the amount I'm off from the center of my current time zone already introduces more error than that. It's just not important to anyone but astronomers or masochists. Well, and maybe sadists (especially standards wonks).
Sorry, that's bogus. I spent 14 years blind in one eye, in the middle of my life. Yes, there are many tricks that you can use to compensate for lack of binocular vision, and I learned most of 'em, but it is not the same, and I missed my stereoscopic vision terribly. I was fortunate to get my stereo vision back with a cornea transplant, and have never taken it for granted since. Integrating a 2d video signal over time is much harder work for your brain than the relatively instant and effortless 3d awareness that binocular vision can provide when stereo fusion is achieved. If it's not there, it's just not there, and there's only so much you can do to compensate.
Well, even leaving conservation of momentum out of it, before you sign up for the kind of time machine that tracks the ground under your feet, you'd better calculate the odds that the ground beneath your feet today was a pool of magma 100 million years ago.:)
So you think the SF Bay Area was in exactly the same place 100 million years ago, do you? Quite apart from the motion of the earth around the sun, and the motion of the sun around the galaxy, and the motion of galaxy through space, the terranes that now comprise the Bay Area were off in at least six different parts of the world at that time. So you'll have to be a bit more specific...
Perl 6 also provides implicit parallelism through hyperoperators (vector processing) and feeds (object pipes). Junctions are really for logic, so it's not guaranteed that all the threads run to completion. That's what hyperoperators are for. And feeds are aimed directly at using the Cell processor (and such) efficiently.
"...In the presence of the colloidal PVA-Pt as a catalyst and triethanolamine (TEOA) as a sacrificial electron donor, the photosensitized reduction of water to H2 takes place."
It's particularly expensive if you have to keep replacing the landlines because you live in a part of the world where desperately poor people eke out a living by stealing the copper to turn it into jewelry.
You are confusing Larry Wall with Randal Schwartz. Larry never worked for Intel. (Now, it might well be that Larry Wall should be locked up, not for cracking, but simply because he's crackers. Though maybe with some of the newer antipsychotic drugs that might not be necessary.)
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Dude, that's gotta be faked. The shadows on the craters shows the light coming from the right, but the shadows on the "thumbtacks" show the light coming from the left.
What makes you think the asteroid will go straight when it goes past the earth? It won't. Its path will bend toward the moon. There may be no shielding effect at all, and in fact the moon may be "antishielded" slightly depending on the focusing power of the earth's gravitational field for a rock passing at a particular speed and distance.
It's gonna change the orbit of the asteroid a heck of a lot more than the orbit of the moon...we might just be able to measure the change in lunar orbit, assuming the impact doesn't dust up the laser reflectors we left there once upon a time.
Er, all the hemispheres are always rotating on the NS axis.
The latitude has about the same uncertainty at this point as the longitude, which I expressed as "plus or minus 6 hours", which comes out to +/- 90 degrees in your units. I freely admit that degrees work better for latitude than do hours.
That is, the crater would be that big across. A larger area is of course affected. So make it 6-8 "kilometers square", or more likely, "kilometers round".:-)
6-8 square kilometers of eastern hemisphere, more or less. In theory, you can obliterate a large city. But nobody will die, because we'll make sure it doesn't hit, unless civilization collapses really soon, in which case we're all hosed anyway.
Sorry, it's aimed mostly at the eastern hemisphere. If it hits, it'll be at about 9:22pm in London (.89 of a day at UTC), and since the rock is coming in almost directly from the night side of the planet, it's mostly aimed about 3 zones east of London plus or minus 6 hours. Or were you thinking that Iraq would have been renamed "Texas" by then?
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The grinch detector seems to be working well here.
They ought to have abandoned leap seconds in the year 2000, which would have made a dandy new epoch, and simplified all date calculations for a millennium or so. There is absolutely no reason to inflict leap seconds on civil time; the amount I'm off from the center of my current time zone already introduces more error than that. It's just not important to anyone but astronomers or masochists. Well, and maybe sadists (especially standards wonks).
Sorry, that's bogus. I spent 14 years blind in one eye, in the middle of my life. Yes, there are many tricks that you can use to compensate for lack of binocular vision, and I learned most of 'em, but it is not the same, and I missed my stereoscopic vision terribly. I was fortunate to get my stereo vision back with a cornea transplant, and have never taken it for granted since. Integrating a 2d video signal over time is much harder work for your brain than the relatively instant and effortless 3d awareness that binocular vision can provide when stereo fusion is achieved. If it's not there, it's just not there, and there's only so much you can do to compensate.
Everyone knows the main purpose of Delaware is actually to mark the credit card junk mail you can throw out without looking at it.
I'd much rather know where I'll be in 22 years...
Well, even leaving conservation of momentum out of it, before you sign up for the kind of time machine that tracks the ground under your feet, you'd better calculate the odds that the ground beneath your feet today was a pool of magma 100 million years ago. :)
So you think the SF Bay Area was in exactly the same place 100 million years ago, do you? Quite apart from the motion of the earth around the sun, and the motion of the sun around the galaxy, and the motion of galaxy through space, the terranes that now comprise the Bay Area were off in at least six different parts of the world at that time. So you'll have to be a bit more specific...
The party page uses exclusive buttons. But what if we want to go to more than one party? Or what if we want to go to them all? :-)
Obviously the best thing would be to engineer the car to run on cellulose directly, like some of the early cars did. :-)
And if you can't translate it into words of one syllable, you probably don't really understand it yourself. :-)
That's nothin'. Never underestimate the bandwidth of an Airbus full of station wagons...
Perl 6 also provides implicit parallelism through hyperoperators (vector processing) and feeds (object pipes). Junctions are really for logic, so it's not guaranteed that all the threads run to completion. That's what hyperoperators are for. And feeds are aimed directly at using the Cell processor (and such) efficiently.
It's particularly expensive if you have to keep replacing the landlines because you live in a part of the world where desperately poor people eke out a living by stealing the copper to turn it into jewelry.
You are confusing Larry Wall with Randal Schwartz. Larry never worked for Intel. (Now, it might well be that Larry Wall should be locked up, not for cracking, but simply because he's crackers. Though maybe with some of the newer antipsychotic drugs that might not be necessary.)
Dude, that's gotta be faked. The shadows on the craters shows the light coming from the right, but the shadows on the "thumbtacks" show the light coming from the left.
What makes you think they haven't tried to recruit Larry Wall?
What makes you think the asteroid will go straight when it goes past the earth? It won't. Its path will bend toward the moon. There may be no shielding effect at all, and in fact the moon may be "antishielded" slightly depending on the focusing power of the earth's gravitational field for a rock passing at a particular speed and distance.
We know within a few minutes, according to the referenced webpages. The chances are less than 1 in 45 that I'm the one being an arsehole here.
It's gonna change the orbit of the asteroid a heck of a lot more than the orbit of the moon...we might just be able to measure the change in lunar orbit, assuming the impact doesn't dust up the laser reflectors we left there once upon a time.
Er, all the hemispheres are always rotating on the NS axis.
The latitude has about the same uncertainty at this point as the longitude, which I expressed as "plus or minus 6 hours", which comes out to +/- 90 degrees in your units. I freely admit that degrees work better for latitude than do hours.
That is, the crater would be that big across. A larger area is of course affected. So make it 6-8 "kilometers square", or more likely, "kilometers round". :-)
6-8 square kilometers of eastern hemisphere, more or less. In theory, you can obliterate a large city. But nobody will die, because we'll make sure it doesn't hit, unless civilization collapses really soon, in which case we're all hosed anyway.
Sorry, it's aimed mostly at the eastern hemisphere. If it hits, it'll be at about 9:22pm in London (.89 of a day at UTC), and since the rock is coming in almost directly from the night side of the planet, it's mostly aimed about 3 zones east of London plus or minus 6 hours. Or were you thinking that Iraq would have been renamed "Texas" by then?
According to this press release it detached successfully.