Comment Re:Profile as private? (Score 1) 806
Actually, he typed *******, but it shows as hunter2 on your side.
Spain's President, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero,
Spain's president? seriously?
Yeah, it's worse than that -- many of the structural elements are made of steel, smelted, cast, and machined using processes that go back even further than Diesel.
OMG y dont we kill these jiants insted of stand on there sholdiers!
If you think that's bad, the guys using the LHC are Homo Sapiens. That's like 200000 years old, it should be run by iPhones, or something...
...That I read the title as "Vulcan Debates Possibility of Alien Life?"
It says you should go back to elementary school?
The latest version of Linux offers a whole host of new features – for example a USB 3.0 infrastructure, drivers for the Sound Blaster X-Fi, KMS support for Radeon chips and improved versions of Btrfs and Ext4. As is traditional with new Linux versions in the main development branch, however, this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Whenever we go to select a laptop for flying, we have a certification process to determine the best ones. We'll test it for how well it withstands radiation. [The ISS is exposed to as much radiation in a day as computers down on Earth are in a year.] We also test for off-gassing, in case the computer emits chemicals that could create fumes on the Station.
You'd be surprised at how many computers would survive on the ISS. I can't think of an occurrence when we've have a computer fail from the radiation itself. It may reduce the lifetime of how long we can keep the equipment in orbit, but most of the time the failures are just like the ones here on the ground -- we'll have a hard-drive failure or we'll have an application problem and end up reloading the machine
"The delay in sending or receiving data from Mars takes between three-and-a-half to 20 minutes at the speed of light. "
How are they coming up with that? I thought it was closer to 90 minutes...
I may be wrong, but I think they divided the minimum and the maximum distance between the Earth and Mars by the speed of light...
Well it is the year 5770 in Israel.
And still no flying cars...
Mach 1 at the throat is calculated as sqrt(gamma*R*T) where T is in kelvin if R=287. Gamma will most likely be 1.4 and is pretty constant for ideal gases. T can vary greatly, but 3000K is around the right order of magnitude.
Uh? R=287 is true for air, with 29 g/mol, with pure water, it's 462, and more for the mixture of water and hydrogen that comes out of the nozzle.
I'd like to know the relative orientations of the galactic and solar system ecliptics.
About 60 degrees.
It can run a root shell, but the manufacturer and carrier, together, can't add items to the interface? What, is the firmware burned into ROM or something? Obviously I'm missing something here, since I thought Maemo was quite customizable.
For carriers, customizing means "shoving our shit down the customer's throat", and Nokia plans to give full control of the N900 to the customer, not the carrier.
on our side of the pond we have cities with more cell towers than your entire country and we want coverage in every little corner in the US even if no one lives for miles around
Tell me, which city has over 70000 cell towers?
...24 hours of sun...
Maybe my geography or astronomy are off - Feel free to correct/bitch-slap me if I'm confused.
How does a satellite in geosynchronous orbit get 24-hours/day of sunlight?
/bitch-slap
The equator and the ecliptic are not on the same plane, which means the only times when a geosynchronous satellite is in eclipse is around the equinoxes. In the worst case it can last up to 80 minutes of shadow.
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