My church just handed out (free!) 2013 calendars to parishoners. I was starting to worry about that Dec. 31st thing, but now I know we're good for another 12 months.

Besides, who with any business sense publishes a calendar that lasts 5000 years, and distributes it carved in stone?

I would add the old "Antenna data reference manual" and a somewhat newer book by the same author, Joseph Carr, Practical Antenna Handbook.

I've heard that, in addition to smoke removal, fresh air (or water) lowers a room's temperature and can prevent flash-over. There must be an optimal solution among the inputs -- people get degrees in this stuff.

The Bounty was on its way to a long-planned winter home in Galveston. I'm guessing they hurried to leave early, just not early enough.

This is the best reply I've read here. I think that back when they built the current system (article says 1961) the military wanted to know where everything was so they could identify the military threats. (You also don't want to launch your counter-strike when that Russian rocket booster burns up over Alaska.) That's still the case, but the use for collision avoidance is becoming more important now. The data go into real-time calculations and also into long-term environmental models.

The data (sure...minus classified) are already available to the public, with the caveat that these are averaged/low-res data not suitable for collision avoidance.

You didn't account for the "Aack! I look like that?!" factor that could easily lead to NO boobs (for you) at all. S.O. would need to already like mirrors/threesomes.

Cannibalism will clear up all my symptoms? There must be a downside...

There was a project like this. It didn't turn out well.

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My utility sent out info about their on-going switch to smart meters. They'll save money by not having meter readers driving to each home! Yay! There's also a new line item on the monthly bill: Smart meter. They didn't say *I* would save money, after all. Plus I don't yet have a smart meter.

That he thinks the GP has a "pencil-like thingie" and spits out "utility fog".

I saw a presentation on NASA's current thoughts on shielding, but didn't take notes so I can't quote specifics. The shielding choices they listed were water, polyethylene, and liquid hydrogen. The LH2 was the most effective and thinnest shield. A water shield for an Earth-Mars trip was something like 1-3 meters thick and not thought to be practical for launch from Earth. Someone did suggest captured "comet cores" as the best source of a water shield.

The peak in the center of crater Drygalski is an "uplift", which is common in craters. The Wikipedia page on impact craters describes this briefly and has other nice images. These LPI lunar maps helped me identify the crater itself.

Only points straight up? Insert this above your Secondly:

The spacecraft's orbit is too far south to pass over the HAARP site.

The HDU work to-date has focused on developing processes, procedures, and some technologies you'd need to live away from Earth. The first assumption is, "We have a habitat." They're still figuring out where to put lights and bunks before building expensive hardware for tests in near-Earth space. With current Administration/NASA plans, the next step is a Lagrange point and/or asteroid. Mars (and those siting and assembly issues) will have to wait...

Where/when I grew up in Texas, sweetened fizzy water was called "coke". A party host would ask, "What kind of coke do you want?" A perfectly OK answer could be, "Oh, I'll have Sprite."