We also launched CIA ops to goad the Soviets to invade Afghanistan,
Can you refer me to any material on this?
From what I have read I seems that while some in the Carter administration hoped that the Soviets might get tangled up in Afghanistan, possibly giving them "their Vietnam," they were by no means pleased at the invasion, and the the U.S. Dept of Stale long thought that nothing much could be done about it, only hoping that the Soviets would stop there and not push on. Wasn't the post-invasion support for the mujahadeen pushed upon a reluctant CIA by congressional action?
See Roman Numerals#IIII vs IV.
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Hail IVPPITER!
Now my favorite sport has hired a fucking Dog MURDER.
"Hot dogs! Get your hot dogs here!" (or is that only a baseball thing?)
Americans are so strange in the way they arbitrarily call certain species pets and other species food.
Unlike pingpong balls, charged particles can move through an object, leaving telltale radiation in their wake.
They must not be doing it right.
If only Ulysses was still operating, we could get some polar views as well.
I suppose it would also help if Ulysses had been equipped with a camera.
I wonder if we had anything observing the opposite side of the Sun when this happened.
The project's orbital information page states that the two spacecraft are currently separated by 128 degrees. (They orbit about 0.05 AU inside and outside earth's orbit, so that their orbital periods are 346 and 388 days, and their separation changes by about 44 degrees annually.) The entire sun will be visible when they achieve 180 degrees separation in February 2011. With earth based observations, the full sun will continue to be visible another eight years. A few months of contact will be lost in 2015 as they pass behind the sun. (If only Ulysses was still operating, we could get some polar views as well. It should be silently making its next solar passes sometime around 2013-2014.)
STEREOs lunar gravitational slingshot (animated at the project's orbital simulation page) was very cool.
They are supposed to be searching for Trojan asteroids as they pass through Earth's L4 and L5 Lagrangian points, but I've not heard of any results yet.
Then again whenever someone writes "Barrack Hussein Obama" you just never know
That's why I took all those headlines on 2008-11-05 with a grain of salt.
That's a very precise figure for something that's just a rough estimate!
Besides being both overly precise and essentially meaningless, there is no indication of how it was derived. They give a number of subtotals that sum to less than 5% of their total.
22,837,511,120 kg = 570,937,778 computers * 40 kg/computer [those are heavy boxen]
1,754,809,310 kg = 175,480,931 servers * 10 kg/server
87,000,000 kg = 15,000 km TAT-14 cable * 5.8 kg/m-of-cable
6,075,000 kg = 42,000,000 iPhones * approx 144.64 g/iPhone [the review they link to claims 133 g]
6,800,000 kg = 50,000,000 Blackberries * 136 g/Blackberry
24,692,195,430 kg sum
498,438,559,990 kg their total
The cable figure is only for the "TAT-14 cable that links the US to France, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and the UK", but they make no indication that they are scaling it up.
So, I wonder how they did arrive at their meaningless number.
The Pentagon is not in D.C.; it is in Arlington, Virginia. (Not that this bears on your particular argument.)
Although it does use D.C. zip codes.
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