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"Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room."
Interacting with things going on in a room? It's hard to imagine.
First it was "The Greenhouse Effect" but people love greenhouses because they're full of beautiful plants and flowers so that was out. Then it was "Global Warming." But the globe wasn't warming so that had to go. Then it was "Climate Change." But the climate wasn't actually changing so had to dump that one too. Now it's Climate Justice because who doesn't want justice?
"“In real time here means, ‘as soon as the burst radiation arrives on the Earth,’” astronomer Daniele Malesani, co-author of a new paper about the discovery, told me over email. "
So, not in real time then. "Astronomers record mystery signals" isn't as exciting though is it?
So true. Best of both worlds. I tell people how tall I am in feet and inches, express my mass in pounds, measure my bike tires in psi and give photo sizes in inches but I have no problem buy 500mL of chocolate milk or measuring my bike rides in kms. Use whatever. It doesn't matter.
Base 12 is actually much easier to "bring calculation...within the arithmetic of every man..."
12 has 6 factors. 10 has 4. Divide 12 into thirds and you get a nice and neat "4" instead of.33333333....
That's a failure on Lockheed's part to use NASA's measuring system of choice. In other words, Lockheed knew what the customer operated in but for some reason delivered a product using Imperial. It's not like Lockheed couldn't deliver in metric. They just didn't. So the OPs point still stands. Why should the US convert? Does it really matter at this point?
To answer your question: "Who wants to "afford" a Mac?": Some of us actually use computers for working. Besides, I'm on a computer 12 hours a day and I'm quite entertained but I never play a "game" on it.
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from the looks-dark-to-the-east dept.
jamie found a post on the Not Exactly Rocket Science blog on research indicating that some birds can literally see magnetic fields, but only if the vision in their right eye is sharp (abstract at Current Biology). "The magnetic sense of birds was first discovered in robins in 1968, and its details have been teased out ever since. Years of careful research have told us that the ability depends on light and particularly on the right eye and the left half of the brain. The details still aren’t quite clear but, for now, the most likely explanation involves a molecule called cryptochrome. Cryptochrome is found in the light-sensitive cells of a bird’s retina and scientists think that it affects just how sensitive those cells are. ... The upshot is that magnetic fields put up a filter of light or dark patches over what a bird normally sees. These patches change as the bird turns and tilts its head, providing it with a visual compass made out of contrasting shades."