they did that with Voyager: turned it back on Earth and the answer came back "Inconclusive". I don't think they were that far away, either.
Interesting. Of course, they were launched 37 years ago, and antennae+sensor capabilities have greatly increased since then.
Before getting all confident that we can detect ET civilization, how about sending a satellite or three to 10-20 Lunar orbits (what's the Lunar equivalent of the AU?) to determine if we can detect ourselves -- especially when Earth is between it and the Sun.
If not, then no sense bloviating on religion and ET.
10 years ago, and I was a late-comer to the idea.
If you are seeking a language to write administrative applications then you should look further. COBOL back in the days or Java nowadays would suit you better.
Too bad that Computer Scientists are a bunch of elitist Haters who only know COBOL from legend. Even back in the day, CompSci professors loathed/disdained it, and the most popular textbook series was from the grossly incompetent Shelly & Cashman.
Once I re-learned it from people who grokked the language, I discovered how powerful it is at it's intended task.
Finding people willing to write in it is hard, though, so -- before Java -- many managers decided that business apps would be written in C rather than the appropriate language.
- Variables can start with a numeric, since whitespace is the token separator. This has some distinct uses in a globally scoped language, when combined with PERFORM THRU.
- "Concatenated OR". It lets you write code like IF 8 = A OR B OR C OR D OR E THEN
- 88 Level variables
Tape has always had a limited life-span and is too easily damaged to completely trust with high-value archival data. Instead, archival on tape usually means "we're not quite confident enough to just delete this crap".
Maybe the cheap crap. I've pulled 7 year old data off of SuperDLT tapes.
Enterprises have been doing this with tape for 30 years.
In fact, modern tape technology probably has a higher "volumetric" density than BD.
Damn, you beat me to it...
But will it run Linux??
Are you in the habit of being an asshole?
Resolution is measured linearly, not quadratically.
Why? The surface of the Earth is two-dimensional (three, if you want to be picky), not one-dimensional.
Or 4x the resolution (a 50cm square being 4x as large as a 25cm square)?
Just ask the Germans what happened to their request for their gold stored in the US.
Are there any "THE GOLD IS MISSING WERE DOOOOOOOOMED!!!" sites that are not scaremongers?
Ask Slashdot. Instead I'd go to forums where actual field ecologists -- the ones who actually go out and sample water, etc -- to see what they suggest.
and prove that the IP they have is going to right place.
Eh? It's gmail. The need is to associate a gmail account with a person, not with an IP address.
And doing that depends mainly on how much PII the person tells Google when he registers the account.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
