Comment Re:Chicken Little (Score 1) 118
India already has nuclear weapons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
India already has nuclear weapons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
You don't have to change your wireless region, it will likely just work (few use channels 12 and 13 here anyway).
Just get a plug adaptor for your laptop. The power supply for most laptops supports 100-240 VAC, 50-60 Hz. If unsure, read the label on it.
Most London streets have "look left" and "look right" painted on the road at the crossings.
Since when are 1-letter second-level domains allowed? I thought it was limited to two letters and up.
Several reasons:
Size - Mars is just smaller than Earth, and even the Earth's core is cooling down.
No large moon - Earth's moon causes tidal forces in both bodies. This causes heat, although the moon's small size allowed its core to cool like Mars. Mars' small moons don't have the same effect and have not always been there (they are likely captured asteroids).
Farther from the Sun - the same tidal forces that a moon would impart, the Sun does as well. But less of it, as Mars is farther away.
This hapenned supposedly when Mars had an active nucleus that generated a magnetic field, protecting the atmosphere from solar winds.
Nowadays liquid water cannot exist on Mars surface, and the bigger mistery is why Mars lost it's magnetic field.
It lost its magnetic field as the core cooled. The fluid movement of a metallic core is what generates Earth's magnetic field.
My company provides VSAT service in the Middle East and Africa, including as far east as Afghanistan.
VSAT latency is 600-1000 ms, and many VSAT Internet service providers prioritise voice-over-IP. We certainly do, although to a limited number of providers due to technical limitations.
Given sufficient bandwidth, VoIP will do fine. Be sure to use a service that supports good audio compression, and turn it on. Use G.729 or G.723, and never G.711.
On an iDirect VSAT network with cRTP enabled (RTP header compression), a G.729 call needs about 16 kbit each way. Good VSAT service in that area will have at least 64 kbit upload and 256 kbit download.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.