I have a question

There's one question I have about the way this program works.

Kepler works bit detecting slight variations in the light from the offending star dimming as an object passes between the star and Kepler.

So how do they know that it's a planet passing thru and not a bit lump of ice/debris/alien spaceship etc?

There could be millions of objects passing between the star and kepler. So to filter out the dross you would need to see regular transitions?

Would it take circa one earth year (or thereabouts) to see meaningful results? An object that orbits a star in around 2-3 months is likely to be extremely close to the host planet and scorched to buggery. IE not life sustaining.

Did you watch the video?

I don't know if you watched the video or not, but the guy who voluenteers to "explain" how the sea water cooling system works, clearly didn't have a frickin clue what he was talking about..

Cringeworthy to watch!

no new(ish) software released for a while...

garageband overhaul or garageband on ios4.

boring.com

does he have shares in Tin Foil?

if i cover everything in Tin Foil will that stop the dust from eavesdropping in on my browsing habits!?

progress...?

I work for a very large corporate in the UK (poosibly the largest employer in the UK) and we've already instigated the upgrade to SP3. So your artical is partically incorrect, however you didn't say all corps so I'll refrain from flaming.

You mentioned that many large corps involved 3rd party companies to help with support and this can both muddy the water, and create longer gaps between roll outs. However this can also be affected by the IT staff ensuring that everything still works after the update (in the test enviroment) and not just rolling out a patch and waiting to see what breaks. Many corps don't go for the suck it and see approach. We tend to test shit before we break it!

It's worth noting though that the last major IT related headache we had ONLY affected SP3 machines and SP2 machines carried on regardless.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/22/mcafee_false_positive_analysis/

So much for SP3 being progress?

I thought it was a little unfair to say we're "ill-prepared". Had you concidered that we might have more complex systems to test and work through compared to your average 10-20 employ company?

Paris cos Sp3 as secure as her underwear

so...

so... now that apple allow you (the consumer) to pop the bottom case off... you didn't think to take a screwdriver to it and take a picture of the inside for us?

damn it

BT announes...

BT announes...4% increase in the cost of it products and services to cover "inflation and rising costs of operating in the UK"

BT profits...

mines to one with the crystal ball in the pocket

highly irresponsible

did these people never watch the creep show movies?!

So we've sent a probe to an asteroid and are now bringing back smaples? Did anyone not think this might possibly be a little bit dangerous? Did anyone even consider that there may be life/virii on that asteroid?

Maybe even the kind of virus that could possibly wipe out off life on earth?

Just saying...

mines the one with the tin foil hat in the pocket.

@flashing

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I nonimate this for FOTW

price

in line with previous Apple currence conversion rates...$499 in US means £499 sterling...

that is all.

news?

HOLY SHIT STOP PRESS!!!

Computer software has glitches/security issues! this like NEVER happened before in 40+ years of computing. And to top it all off the lusers are whining...what should we do!

cDc come back all is forgiven

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i see his point but it doesn't really hold

This articial really just doesn't hold any water at al,l other than mere hopeful speculation.

The main (be all and end all) driving force in this universe is gravity. Of all of the laws of physics gravity is the one that makes this universe work and it controls every aspect of it.

Without gravity this universe/galaxy/sun/planet/moon could not / would not exsist.

All life forms (carbon based) build their structure based on the gravitational force put upon them.

We have spines for very good reason. Our own bodies are build around a gravitational force of one G and our on travel to our planets relies heavy on our own ability to withstand the gravitational forces put upon us when we get there.

These same rules would apply to ETs one would assume.

Assuming that a planet such as jupiter-like sustains 5 or 6 moons. They will all be in different gravitational orbits and as such there will be different forces on the surface.

ET could see those moons, send probes to them, but could not visit for fear of being crushed to death.

In fact the human race is incrediably lucky to have a moon of our only to fuel our own space endevours.

A good example would be put a human on jupiters surface (if there was on) would be a little bit pointless as the human would be a smoothy in seconds. Aslo if we visited Europa (widely thought to harbour the only chance of life in this solar system) again we'd be crushed by the gravitational forces put upon it by jupiter.

The only way life could move from one moon to another would be if the two moons were in exactly the same orbit of the same planet thereby having the same gravitational forces. Highly unlikely but possible. Then however, the planet would be on the perceved "Dark Side" of the planet and Et wouldn't know it exsisted until they started ther eown space race.. ergo muting the point!