spaghetti squash
If the f=ma impact isn't enough to bollix it, then the stringy ejecta will bolas* the wanker.
(*bolus, if you're into collective nouns. Trebuchet, Rodney! Trebuchet!)
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If the f=ma impact isn't enough to bollix it, then the stringy ejecta will bolas* the wanker.
(*bolus, if you're into collective nouns. Trebuchet, Rodney! Trebuchet!)
The abstract mentions "an ultra-relativistic jet" rather than "radiation." I'm surprised that Katyanna wrote "radiation" here, although I'm far from understanding stellar mechanics myself.
This idea of radiative emissions coming from a relativistic jet of matter does remind me of Cherenkov radiation, though.
Good evening. This is your Captain
We are about to attempt a crash landing
Please extinguish all cigarettes
Place your tray tables in their
Upright, locked position
Your Captain says: Put your head on your knees
Your Captain says: Put your head in your hands
Captain says: Put your hands on your head
Put your hands on your hips. Heh heh
This is your Captain - and we are going down
We are all going down, together
And I said: Uh oh. This is gonna be some day
Standby. This is the time
And this is the record of the time
This is the time. And this is the record of the time
https://genius.com/Laurie-anderson-from-the-air-lyrics
Japan uses month-day. But then, they have symbols 月 and 日 tacked onto the numbers to signify month and day, respectively. Of course, they don't use something as stupid as mm-dd-yy, as you mentioned.
For the full three-part date, the only things that should be considered are big-endian (Japan, which also has 年 to go with 月日) or little-endian (pretty much everyone else) and not some idiotic random order.
Firstly, you would have to wonder how the database compiler came by the information. Did they ask the people?
If not (eg, it's not from a dating site or similar), then it's most likely to be a computed field, I think. There are other fields in there that could be the basis for computing this (eg applying an age range), so perhaps that's what has been done.
(I'm not saying that there is a genuine formula for this, but that someone could have made one up anyway.)
I was at a Lee "Scratch" Perry concert once. The bass from the sound system was just pure demonic. I was sure that they'd figured out a way to smuggle a brown note in there. I think that the Hayabusa crowd could learn a thing or two about loosening up a sample, without needing to probe too deeply. (At any rate, I was quickly subjugated, … 早伏された)
Names famous in politics and military, Henry Kissinger, William Perry [huh? has he got a new gig since forcing the Japanese into opening up trade relations with the US, or am I thinking of Matthew, whom we are obviously Friends with?] ...
Henry Kissinger, oh how I'm missin' ya!</br>
And wishing you were heeya!</br>
[...]</br>
with your crinkly hair</br>
and your glassy stare</br>
and your Machiavellllllian scheeeemes</br>
(oh well)
You've got nicer legs than Hitler, </br>
And bigger t**s than Cher!
void say(buf, count)
register char *buf;
register unsigned count;
{
register n = (count + 7) >> 3;
switch (count % 8) {
case 0: do { printf("%s",buf);
case 7: printf("%s",buf);
case 6: printf("%s",buf);
case 5: printf("%s",buf);
case 4: printf("%s",buf);
case 3: printf("%s",buf);
case 2: printf("%s",buf);
case 1: printf("%s",buf);
} while (--n > 0);
}
}
(Although it could have been worse. Could have been a ladle solo (ant steal yonder nor sorghum stenches shut ewe clique dis ligne que j'avais furnis))
Well, Florida was a tag before hashtags were even invented (farkin true!).
Weren't they still using gunpowder for grenades in WW2
Not sure. Detonators would have been something different and there's no guarantee that any gunpowder would have come into contact with water, so it could still be stable/effective.
I've looked, and "controlling your garage door" is basically the HELLO WORLD of Raspberry Pi
Remember to hook up some speakers so you can play an "Om" sample as you start to bring the door down, then play "Nom" every time time the door gets to the bottom. (Use a timeout to go back to "waiting to play 'om' state")
(Also has extra crime prevention potential)
I don't know if this has any basis in fact (maybe with superconductors?), but one way that might explain differences between our models of the Universe and observations might be some sort of local dimension lowering in certain systems. Absent singularities, we assume that the stuff of the Universe is smoothly differentiable and works in a field with a fixed, integer dimension number. But what if, when the curvature gradient of the mathematical space exceeds a critical threshold, the smoothness of that part of space breaks down and is replaced by a lower-dimensional lattice plus some effects that can be measured relative to that lattice's natural coordinate system? This would have to happen near a singularity, so perhaps it could be a basis for explaining how cosmic censorship works (nature abhorring naked singularities).
I'm not sure if, mathematically speaking, you can have regular lattices (or non-regular ones like Penrose tilings) embedded in fractal dimensions, but if so, this might offer an alternative place to look for models beyond those that break down by reducing the number of dimensions by an integer. Or perhaps there's an orderly transition process by which the number of dimensions is reduced by a whole number through an intermediate set of fractal-space tilings. Or maybe there's no need for fractal dimensions. If the singularity itself has characteristics of an aperiodic tiling, the breakdown of the "tiling space" of dimension n-1 could be a factor of the existing physical factors that are observable from outside and the size of the tiling space. So this exotic "ice-9" kind of space wouldn't be able to crystallise/convert normal space beyond a critical threshold.
I think that dimension reduction/crunching does seem to take place near black holes, since we appear to go from a 4d field to a system with fewer dimensions (eg, the "surface" of a black hole seems have one less dimension), but the problem which this explanation for more mundane systems is that we don't see singularities everywhere. So unless a kind of spontaneous "crystallisation" of pockets of space happens more commonly than we thing, then it's probably not a good explanation of dark energy/matter. However, maybe this is just an artefact of how we think about coordinate systems and instead of renormalisation in quantum field theory, we should maybe be treating infinities there as geometric objects, such as aperiodic tilings in one dimension lower than the main system, that can interact and evolve with each other in ways that provide an alternative mathematical understanding of the observed facts.
I know that this sounds quite crazy, but at least as an analogy, the idea of crystalline/lattice states isn't too far-fetched, and at least I can propose a concrete mechanism (some gradient metric exceeding a critical threshold) for normal states to spontaneously convert into the exotic state.
This whole saga seems ripe for a musical rendition on stage or film...
Thick as a Brick/Aqualung (Jethro Tull)
OK Computer/No Surprises/The Bends (Radiohead)
The Lucky One (Paddy "PADI" Casey)
Broken Household Appliance National Forest (Grandaddy, "The Sophtware Slump")
All Apologies (Nirvana) / The Apologist (R.E.M, "Up")
ground crew behind the Chinese launch of that micro drill payload in that secret satellite launch. Why? Because they are obviously missing out on the cultural subtext in the exchange they could have had as they enacted their mission. To wit:
This is not a drill!
This is a drill!