Be my guest New Yorkers. May it salve your liberal guilt. In the meantime, it only costs me $50 a week to gas up my monster pickup.

The rate at which pictures are being released by the project are pathetic. I don't want to hear how low the data rate is from Pluto. Paranoid scientists are witholding dozens or hundreds of them to keep from being scoped. Spunik Planum is a glacier. Of what material, who knows? CO, N2, or some weird mixture. You can see that the region covers the darker terrain by the many embayment relationships at the meeting of terrains at its edge. The patterned ground is also a giveaway, but who can explain the large size of the patterns? What is the dark stuff? Organic gunk, not unlike light crude oil or LNG at fantastically low temperature. In processed approach images you can see the path that gas sublimating from the glacier takes as it sublimates and migrates to the pluto dark side from the sub solar latitude. It faintly stains the terrain. My guess is that glaciers like Sputnik Planum accumulate on the dark side during Pluto's pronounced winters, as the erode from the light side. They seem to be 100's of meters if not kilometers thick. The complex seasons produced by Pluto's elliptical orbit and high inclination surely disrupt the surface asymmetrically. Pluto is in southern summer and just passed perihelion. The south cap should be near its minimum extent. Pluto is a freaky place. Release more pictures greedy scientists!

Poor quality control/testing on SpaceX's part. Who knows what other surprises lurk out there. They are going to put a human on that thing? Boeing and Lockmart don't make mistakes like that. They do their homework.

A few thousand US Marines will be key in enforcing the nuclear deal. God bless Israel.

0-60 in 2.8 seconds, followed by a 4 hour charge. No thanks. I'll gas up.

Good for the House. There is no such thing as non-genetically modified food. Its called evolution for you tree-hugging luddites. MON just accelerates the process a litttle. For full disclosure, I am a happy MON shareholder.

Obama and Kerry are dangerous fools. Obama's top advisor, Valerie Jarrett, is an Iranian. Don't trust them.

I disagree.

Firstly, there's a difference between "public cloud" and "private cloud," where 'public' implies "someone else's computer," but given this, and given that you can do private clouds, clearly the ownership of the hardware is not the defining characteristic for "cloud."

Rather, I'd argue the definition for "cloud" has to include -- perhaps more importantly than any other part of the definition -- the ability to request a resource from the system via an API and get it automatically (barring resource constraint issues or artificial limits) without human involvement. THAT is what makes it "cloud," irrespective of whether you're making that API call against the systems your own IT folks set up to get a resource within your datacenter or you're making that call against AWS.

The spots are clear embayment features. The dark/light transition seems to follow the countour of topography. This suggests that the stuff was liquid or saturated sediment, like the dark regions on Titan. We may be looking at lake deposits on Pluto.

Don't make me laugh.

It will take a brave astronaut to get on an F9. Glad to see NASA threw in a token ethnic.

This wasn't hard to predict. What were you thinking reddit board, hiring a known disgruntled racial agitator. ? Tokenism is never good for the bottom line, no matter how much it assuages your white guilt.

slowin.space

The first thing everyone does when they learn OpenGL is texture map a map image in rectangular coordinates to a 3d sphere. Have fun.

/* Apply a texture image, a planetary map in a simple cylindrical
   projection in RGB format*/
static void
texture_map (const char *fname)
{
  GLubyte *image;
  GLint width, height;
  GLenum format;

  /* What are the valid sizes for the texture image? */
  /* glGetIntegerv (GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE) */
  image = LoadRGBImage (fname, &width, &height, &format);

  /* check image size to see if suitable as texmap */
  info ("Texture image: width = %d, height = %d, format = %x\n",
     width, height, format);

  /* texture map is ok to apply */
  glPixelStorei (GL_UNPACK_ALIGNMENT, 1);
  glTexImage2D (GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGB, width, height, 0,
        format, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, image);
  glTexParameterf (GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_CLAMP);
  glTexParameterf (GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_CLAMP);
  glTexParameterf (GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
  glTexParameterf (GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
  glTexEnvf(GL_TEXTURE_ENV, GL_TEXTURE_ENV_MODE, GL_MODULATE);
  glEnable (GL_TEXTURE_2D);
}

static void
solid_sphere (GLdouble radius, GLint slices, GLint stacks)
{
  glEnable (GL_CULL_FACE);
  glCullFace (GL_BACK);

  GLUquadricObj *obj = gluNewQuadric();
  gluQuadricDrawStyle (obj, GLU_FILL);
  gluQuadricNormals (obj, GLU_SMOOTH);
  gluQuadricTexture (obj, GL_TRUE);

  glNewList (Sphere, GL_COMPILE);
  gluSphere (obj, radius, slices, stacks);
  glEndList ();
}

void
define_globe (const char *teximage, float radius)
{
  texture_map (teximage);
  solid_sphere (radius, 36, 18);
}

void
draw_globe ()
{
  glEnable (GL_LIGHTING);    /* in case they aren't already */
  glEnable (GL_TEXTURE_2D);
  glCallList (Sphere);
}

GrowWise should be classified as drug paraphernalia. Great news! For the dope fiends. Just what we need. More potheads browning out the grid growing dope to sell to kids.

Europe exposed the backward Africans to modern civilization and industry. Europe deserves great praise.