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Oh, any unreasonable photographer will do that in a nice place.
That said, uploading to the Internet is kinda dumb. Just take a pair of cheap hard drives, download it to both, keep a copy on the laptop. If you're going through customs, give one to someone else in the unlikely event you're mistaken for a terrorist. You can also mail a drive back.
Forget the Internet for a while. You'll be healthier and happier.
If we're going to rag on drugs, we should start with alcohol. Ask any policeman, fireman, EMT, ER staffer. We have entire ER wings devoted to that one particular drug.
Since we, as a country, decided that it was OK to pickle ourselves into oblivion while simultaneously plastering bystanders to the concrete, then getting all high and mighty about pretty much any other 'recreational' substance is the height of hypocrisy.
I could be wrong, but laying on a couch and talking to your TV for hours on end has the potential to be a soul-deadening experience.
As if laying on your couch and simply watching your TV is the pinnacle of Western Civilization?
"TV, I'd like to watch 'Boardwalk Empire'"
"Mobile Tata - I don't understand boardwalk empire."
"TV, play 'Boardwalk Empire'"
"I couldn't find 'Boardwalk Empire' in your music, Mobile Tata.
"Oh fuck it, make me some popcorn"
"I'd blush if I could"
Somehow, I don't see this as working out too well
(Dialog pulled directly from yeah-but-it's-still-a-beta Siri)
Looks like there will be a box, here is a link from apple themselves:
http://images.apple.com/appletv/images/buystrip_hero.png
Did you just whoosh us?
Are you trying to be subtly humorous?
Or have you completely missed the fact that the little "Apple TV" picture you linked has been for sale for a couple of years and isn't the mythical Apple "Living Room Killer" device that the Jobsian disciples are fervently praying for?
This thing would be a lot more useful if it were possible to see the underlying satellite images. I can see two spots in a nearby national park that it claims have been subject to forest disturbances. One is deep in the backwoods and a little hard to attribute to anything other than natural processes or artifact, but the other is within a few kilometers of a road and is very likely that somebody cut it down illegally. It would be nice to see what this thing is seeing rather than sending out a crew to investigate what might just have been a cloud confusing a beta-quality tool.
Yeah. There are a number of local sites I'd like to look at. Especially the ones that are located in the water. I'm assuming the data comes from the forest edge, but it looks odd. If you look at the data for, example, Southeastern Alaska you see giant swaths of dots that occur in a regular pattern. I'm assuming that the center location of the data point and that area surrounding it has evidence of vegetation change from the sensor.
Zoom out and you see that the entire boreal landscape is dotted.
So, either 1) forestation changes (not necessarily de forestation, but some sort of change profound enough to get picked up by the system) is happening all over the boreal landscape (an enormous amount of the planet, larger than the Amazonian Rainforest) or 2) the data doesn't mean a whole lot - that there are two many false positives (at least in this presentation) to be particularly useful.
Either that or there are one hell of a lot of Canadian lumberjacks jumping about.
The only change would be the pennies in your pocket. That's all of what would be left of your savings after Romney finished off the rest of the 99%
At least Obama is likely to leave you with a quarter or two.
Merritt Island was a mosquito laden swamp before NASA got there. Cape Canaveral didn't really change the area all that much - it turned into a mosquito laden swamp dotted with a couple of roads and gantries with the occasional fragment of shredded aluminum scattered about.
I know this because I grew up there. Actually a bit south of the Cape but close enough.
I don't know much about SpaceX's launch frequencies. My point being that an occasional launch - every couple weeks or so - didn't seem to affect animals much, but perhaps daily explosions might be a different issue. Of course, as I mentioned, about the only thing that routinely gets the attention of a 'dillo is a car tire directly overhead.
What's the condition of Merritt? Before and after NASA? Is it affected the same way as Brownsville would be?
It is, was and will be a pestilential swamp. Mosquitoes, alligators and snakes don't much mind rocket launches. There are a bunch of birds there as well but they seem pretty happy. The launch facilities really just take up a small strip of land right on the coast. Given the requirement to have lots of space around each launcher it's easy to go off a main road and end up in the bush and think you're in the middle of nowhere.
There was a fair amount of hazmat stuff from the 50's and 60's lying around but that's mostly been cleaned up now.
A bigger issue would be frequency of launches. The Cape really isn't very active these days and hasn't been for a long time. If SpaceX was pushing hundreds of launches per year, that might affect wildlife. OTOH, armadillos are pretty damned stupid. Not much bothers them. Not even Texans.
Perhaps they could just lease the pad, like Google has done.
If it's good enough for Sergy, it should be OK with Elon.
Are you still an ALCOHOLIC?
