I believe the article is talking about a Lagrange Point. I don't know if calling it 'gravitationally neutral' is the most accurate way of describing it, but I suppose it is one way that the general public might understand and reasonably acceptable. The article talks about capturing the asteroid between the Earth and the Moon and stopping it, and there does exist a Lagrangian point (L1) in the Earth-Moon system between the two bodies.
Ever been out of the United States, Floppy? Try Mexico City, Mexico; Ahwaz, Iran; or Linfen, China. Those cities will turn your freshly showered pure-white cottontail black before the end of the day! Regrettably, many countries do not have the same type of increasing restrictions on auto-exhaust and factory emissions that the United States requires to better air quality. Further, this is as much about heat as it is about exhaust. Heat traps airborne pollutants. Heat combined with growing populations, massive urbanization and industrialization, and ever more cars on the road; yeah it's going to lead to more deaths due to respiratory problems, cancers, and other diseases.
It's a shock to no one but you, Bucky.
Up at the same time 4179 Toutatis makes it's closest flyby? Not a coincidence. While all telescopes will be trained on the 3-mile rock gently drifting past, the true mission of the X-37B will be underway. What's that mission? Oh you know, the usual...space-aliens from Vega.
I wouldn't want my data sold to anyone...ever...period!
However as real-time monitoring devices become more prevalent, more precise, and more capable; I can see a strong argument made for the data being captured and analyzed in aggregate by "trusted sources". The CDC could get an early warning of an outbreak, or it could be found that a disproportionally large number of people in a small town are getting cancer due to poor working conditions in a factory or pollution.
As with any data collection tool, it has as much potential to harm as it does to help...but so does a hammer.
If you could go back in time and speak to the founding fathers of our country, what advice or admonishments would you offer with regard to intellectual property, copyright, patents, and making information freely available, in order to best head off the problems we've faced in these areas since? Do you feel it is the responsibility of government to legislate our way out of these problems, or are there more natural ways to combat them leveraging basic human nature (survival, greed, etc.)?
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If you were Asian, you wouldn't have made that grammatical error.
Didn't these guys do this last year with the Global Village Construction Set on Kickstarter?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/622508883/global-village-construction-set
I guess I would throw it back to the slashdot team and ask, what is it you hope to achieve with rebranding? Why a new logo? Is it merely to commemorate the history of slashdot? If so, I'd say you've already done that with the month-long logo fun.
Rebranding is done for a number of reasons. Historical milestone isn't typically one of them. It's sometimes used as an excuse for "We haven't grown our user base for a while and need something fresh to entice more visitors", but the event alone isn't usually enough. This is generally true because if you are happy with your growth and retention, don't mess with it.
If you aren't happy with growth or retention, that could be due to any number of factors and a new logo isn't likely to fix it. Knowing who the target demographic is would be the key to rebranding. But I advise extraordinary caution. Slashdot is old-guard when it comes to the internet, an institution really. An unchanging logo conveys stability and reliability. It also helps smooth transitions to other changes you may make in the future with respect to appearance, functionality, or content.
I do have to agree though. Dayton would have been a much better place to store the shuttle than on the deck of an aircraft carrier in an inflatable hangar. It just makes so much more sense to put one in the National Museum of the USAF. It may not be the reality, but it definitely smacks of political favoritism.
1. Lift
2. Weight
3. Thrust
4. Drag
"Screws are falling out all the time; the world's an imperfect place" -- John Bender
Yeah, I think http://www.betterplace.com/ has the better idea. Swapping out a battery in just a few minutes is far superior to waiting 30 minutes for a charge.
Yeah same thing for me. I had a 4-digit WAY back in the day, but it was probably a one-off thing when I first signed up. I couldn't remember the login when I became a regular reader later and had to register another. I'm sure the account is still there, but I have no idea what the username even was back then. The email address I used is long gone too; probably a dial-up Earthlink account or something like that.
This is why science is awesome. The very same guy that advocated the "Out of Africa" theory, circled back in the face of more evidence and is re-evaluating. He's not so prideful to say he was possibly wrong, or partially wrong, or mostly right but needing a few tweaks. He has no reason to feel shame, as generally no scientist should as long as they are doing good work. I applaud Mr. Stringer.
There was a line in the movie "Chain Reaction" where the lead scientist says, "We learned something very important today. We learned another way this doesn't work." or something to that effect. That is also what makes science awesome. Learning what doesn't work is almost as important as learning what does.
Every time I see something like this, I get that "What am I doing with my life?" feeling and start thinking I need to get out of my particular field of IT and start contributing to the body of human knowledge. Computational Materials Science, here I come!
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