Magnificent book. I got a copy when I was under 10 years old and read it, changed my life. I heard a great quote concerning it: "It is one of the most bought, least read books in the world that every owner claims to understand". I truly hope he pulls through.

P.S. I understood the book.

"Pi string in the article is pretty cool in a nerdy sort of way."

First thought: Ah, they have some kind of string representation of pi instead of just using a double. Excuse me, I'll kill myself now.

Yeah. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong if people would stop that.

So we lost a machine that would have given us concrete evidence on the *possible* increase in carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. And now NASA lost it even though they haven't lost an earth orbit bound spacecraft in a while. Let me get my tinfoil hat.

I think it landed roughly at 9.780327 m/sec^2 but the impact velocity was 320 m/s. (additional nitpicking: m, not M).

I thought the imperial system is dated to be from about that age.

Since I somehow managed to mess up posting two times with a long reply, I'll just write a few lines..

I don't deny the holocaust. Nazi regime killed over 10 million people, while the Soviets did away with approximately 20 million. Soviets ravaged their way throughout Europe and would have invaded Denmark if the Americans wouldn't have managed to get in their way. Yet the swastika is all but banned in the European union but the hammer and the sickle carry no such stigma.

The reason for my post was the GP who said Finland has nothing to be proud of. Finland was deceived and betrayed by France and the UK during the winter war, and later we were pulled to the German sphere of influence because that was basically the only thing we could do to save our independence. Your enemy's enemy is your friend.

Having said all this, take it with the grain of salt that I'm Finnish, and there's generally no love lost between Finns and Russians.

I didn't state the number but I can pitch in: "G. F. KrivoÅejev, Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century, 1997, ISBN 1-85367-280-7, Greenhill Books" states 126 875 dead or missing (estimate), 264 908 wounded and 3 100 prisoners. That's approximately 400 000 casualties. Additionally Kruschev said that 1.5 million men were sent to Finland and one million of them were killed. Although this is certainly an exaggeration it has a hint of truth since in reality, no one knows the numbers. The army was not organized, they were merely gathering men and sending them over to be slaughtered. Some people weren't even arranged to companies. For additional information I suggest William Trotter: Frozen Hell.

As opposed to United States who fought alongside Sovient tyrants and mass murderers. I'm not trying to justify any Nazi actions but the allies carry as dark a history as well. Why Germans are accused is merely because history is written by victors.

This is a bit complicated. There's several on-site museums but you have to be willing to travel a bit. The most interesting site is Suomussalmi, where the a smallish Finnish force decimated two divisions and one tank brigade.. There's several monuments and museums on-site..
If you want to learn more about the important locations and events, I suggest reading "Frozen Hell" by William Trotter.

Stephen Larson alerts us to the out-of-court settlement of Gatehouse v NY Times, a lawsuit that attempted to stop the Boston Globe from linking to headlines and excerpting initial sentences from a competitor's Web site. Read more here.

I don't mean increased accuracy. Integration and other continuous modeling and simulation could be improved by using analog-digital hybrids. This was also their original purpose.