Re: YOUNG galaxies. YOUNG!!! FFS!!!
Abso-fucking-lutely. The UCLA associate professor of physics and astronomy and co-author of the study really should know better.
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The a/c was wrong to wish cancer on someone. By all means wish jail on someone who promotes animal cruelty (which is illegal) but not cancer.
Lester was wrong to promote animal cruelty (and before you say "oh but he just talked about it he didn't promote it" yes he did promote it by going to a cockfight and putting money on it).
"If it wasn't for Lester's article I wouldn't be on my way to Devon to pick up a load of chickens *right this very second* and looking for a small out of the way arena."
If you are saying that you are about to hold a cockfight then I hope you get caught and go to jail: there is no excuse for animal cruelty, which is why it is illegal.
A mate of mine was telling me about when he was learning to paraglide. He kept crashing into trees when trying to land, even if there was only one tree for miles around. Eventually he realised that it was because he kept looking at the tree: the paraglider was 'steered' in the direction he was looking because of subtle body movements associated with turning the head. Once he started making a conscious effort to ignore the tree and look only at a patch of empty field he was able to make perfect landings.
So yes, steering a wheelchair by looking where to go is potentially dangerous as people tend to look at obstacles and hazards.
True, we can't do a damn thing about the really big ones, the ones that will wipe out most species on the planet... but we CAN do a lot about the medium-sized ones that will take out only a single city... for example, evacuate that city. Even if we only get 24 hours notice most people will survive that sort of hit by simply getting out of the way - as long as someone like Rob McNaught has funding to give us the necessary warning.
Which is what Steve Brooks was saying, in his own colourful way.
And therein lies a potential source of huge bias in the study: there are plenty of serious diseases (Chron's is just one, there are many others e.g. emphysema, some cancers, some thyroid diseases, some heart diseases) which make people thin. Those serious diseases can significantly reduce the life expectancy of the sufferer. So what the study *may* be showing is that thinness is an indicator of existing serious life-threatening disease, not that thinness is in itself in any way causal.
I used to go out with a girl who crashed computers and stopped watches as you describe, and also caused calculators and other electronic equipment to fail. Very odd phenomenon. She also had a photographic memory, I have no idea if that is somehow connected.
The perspex lid is just sitting on the seal. When the motor fires the lid will lift off because it is not actually glued on at all. The safety teather ensures that if the lid lifts of at high speed the lid won't go far enough to hurt someone. The mirror is sacrificial: if the lid destroys the mirror no-one cares because by that point they know that the motor can ignite, which is the only question they are trying to answer.
"You might well ask why anyone would want such a large TIF file from 150 years ago. Well, I chose this image example to illustrate just this point. In the long line of soldiers in the photograph, there's one guy in the back row (towards the RHS) that stands out from the others by what he's doing (download the large TIF to find out)."
I waited AGES for it to download, and what did I see? Just some guy looking towards the camera while all the other soldiers are looking away from the camera. Please tell me that's not all it is - I was really hoping for something interesting.
I've read lots and lots of El Reg articles which say doing <whatever> isn't worth the effort because it will only result in "a paltry few-percent-at-best saving". I can't help but think that if all those few percents were added up the total could be significant indeed.
Cheaper for whom? Cheaper for you: you don't have to buy the entitre bus, but you do have to buy the entire 4.6 litre 4x4. It's not just about the price of the bus ticket, it's about total running cost.
Of course if you need to own the 4.6 litre 4x4 anyway to drive to places that aren't served by busses at all then that's another matter, but the OP said *just* use busses.
I sit corrected. Having googled and read a bit I have found that your are right about the local area transformer working both ways. Even so, there are limits to how much PV power can be fed into the system, and the limits can be significant... I found the following IEA report helpful:
http://www.hme.ca/gridconnect/IEA_PVPS_Task_5-10_Impacts_of_PV_Power_Penetration.pdf
There is a limit to how much rooftop solar PV can be used in a local area, i.e. the area served by the local area transformer. This is because the local area transformer only works one way. When the amount generated by local rooftop solar PV approaches the amount being consumed locally there cannot be any more generated, because it's not possible to send power backwards through the local area transformer to the grid. I believe the power company can even send signals to inverters telling them to limit their output if this situation is likely. The obvious solution is to make transformers which can feed back to the grid.
Instead of a small castor wheel, use a large track-ball similar in design to the balls you used to see under computer mouses before they went all optical. Your ball will need to sit in a circular cage around its equator (the cage will probably want three or four nylon bushes to hold the ball snug). You'll also need a nylon bush above the top of the ball which will allow the weight of the PaddockChompBot to sit on the ball. The bigger the ball, the better it will cope with bumps.
GAGA has balls!
They can simplify the research even further by focussing (groan) on the input of just one of the bee's eyes and just half of the bee's brain. After all, if humans can still function properly while covering one eye (see icon) (now cover one eye and you can still see icon) there is a good chance that one-eyed bees can also function properly.
Or to put it another way...
Half a bee, philosophically, must, ipso facto, half not be. But half the bee has got to be, vis a vis, its entity. D'you see?
"I don't want screw off bottle tops!
Can't reuse the bottles as easily for my home brew!"
Sure you can. It's easy. This is the kind of twist-top bottle cap we are talking about:
http://gardennotesforrelocalisation.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/twist-on-home-brew.html
and here is a close-up:
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-14736985/stock-photo-beer-bottle-close-up-with-bottle-cap-with-clipping-path.html
They work great with a standard home-brewer's capper.
Some years snow remains all year round near the top of Australia's highest mainland mountain (Mount Kosciuszko). A drop in average temperatures could see that snow remaining all year round *every* year, which would cause it to gradually build up and form a small glacier. Interestingly, this patch of snow lies on the side of a glacial cirque... so we know that a glacier *can* form here.