Yes - this kind of procurement scam used to be illegal.
Before Bush's wars.
(yes, I do fault Obama for taking advantage of it, instead of fixing it, like he promised. But congress under Bush pretty much unanimously legalized this no-bid contract procedure - with nary a whimper of opposition).
Werner Von Braun is dead.
And his dream was to conquer space. Not health insurance.
So the flying spaghetti monster could, one day, be for real...
It was created when a walking lasagne monster got too close to a black hole.
this is rediculous
I thought you said it was radiation.
If someone falls into a black hole, is their soul stuck there for the 62 zillion years it takes the black hole to evaporate?
If you pushed someone into a black hole, could you beat the murder rap by pointing out that he still hadn't finished falling in, from the jury's reference frame?
If you modified Shrõdinger's experiment so that the decay of an atom dropped the cat into a black hole rather than gassing it, then put a cat in the box to create a superposition of "the cat is in the black hole" and "the cat is not in the black hole", is it possible for the superposition to collapse to "the cat is not in the black hole"?
I don't think we can see anything at all, at present, other than their gravitational effect. For example, the mass of something at the center of our galaxy can be determined by the orbits of some stars zipping around it, and the size of those orbits put an upper bound on that something's diameter.
If we were nearer we should be able to see something similar to black body radiation, assuming we weren't blinded by the material swarming around it and falling in.
Interestingly, some physicists think that we might be able to "see" inside a black hole by detecting gravitons / gravity waves.
Wow. It's pretty pathetic when the only 'good' thing you have to say about something is that it's not quite as bad as something else.
Unfortunately, that's the way of it when the topic is major US political parties.
A good science/engineering university library subscribes to hundreds of technical journals and keeps them in stacks going back decades.
Lots of universities simply can't afford all the journals they ought to have.
I don't know the NSF's exact rule, but for the last few years every grant proposal has been required to include a Data Dissemination Plan.
as well as undertaking odd and unexpected projects like trying to bring Internet access to developing nations via balloons and blimps.
In this case they're trying to bring internet access to pirates.
IE 11 ain't done until Google won't run.
Has a vaguely familiar ring...
Gee, never heard that one before.
What the people pushing these ideas don't seem to know is that it's not the tools, it's the way of thinking about a problem. I once worked at a place where we made a manager a tool that would let him create his own reports, and he immediately started adding up all flavors of apples and oranges (e.g., dollars of this and pounds of that). Then he wanted the small IT staff to help him make sense out of his reports.
What is the problem that so many Americans have with socialised medicine? A healthy community is a productive community and pays more taxes to get the job done. I just don't understand why you have a debate about it.
Because doing it your way would destroy the huge profits people are making off of doing it our way.
Democrats are reluctant to provide good government at the expense of someone's profits; for Republicans, it's completely out of the question.
Clinton era plan, Obama era plan, same thing.
When asked as he left the podium whether he believed America would be going through all this political turmoil again in a few months, the President didn't waste words. "No."'"
. . . still naive.
I dunno... some people are still trying to kill Social Security.
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