Yarkovsky effect
err isnt that pretty well accepted and understood? We have a huge amount of data on it from all the shit we have flying around up there.
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My cabinet was 2 miles from the house and 4 miles from the exchange so when I heard we were getting FTTC I was delighted. Not so delighted when I found the cabinet the council paid for the fibre to go to was at the fucking exchange, the cabinet I was connected to is no longer a cabinet, and I'm no better off.
I worked in the high speed chip design group of BTRL then we could have had 2.4Gb 10Km bidirectional runs of fibre for a lot less than the price BT pay now. The hardware price would have been in the low hundreds of pounds then - the power supplies being more pricey than the FO stuff.
A raspberry Pi, a couple of helical aerials on the wifi, a decent battery and a PV charger should be able to provide a bidirectional line of site relay for less than the price of putting it on a big stick and provide pretty much 24/7 cover. And if you can use a friends connection to BT and not them you can share the cost of his BB.
as doing an all nighter watching a job that needed to be finished asap and ran on an old OS on the same machines that ran Prestel. The job would just stop for no apparent reason and when restarted carry on quite happily. So there I was every twenty minutes of so banging a couple of keys to see if it was still running and around 2 in the morning I started to doze off and leaned forward to press myself into a standing position to go for a walk and the roll chair shot backwards and up the wall behind me leaving me face down on the floor with the chair pressing me down in a position that even your most supple porn star couldn't achieve. It bloody hurt and I couldn't move without it hurting even more. I think I stayed it that position for three hours until my back went into spasm and I think I dislocated both shoulders and my hips involuntary forcing my way through the side of the desk I was trapped under.After an hour or so of rolling around putting myself back together I went and found another terminal and restarted the job and finally logged out at 10 in the morning after it finished and it being a Saturday went to the pub for the rest of the weekend.
The worst bit came on Monday morning when no-one believed my explanation as to why there was a wrecked desk and monitor, a chair with two broken wheels and a filing cabined that had somehow got involved and needed cutting open with a hacksaw as it was so badly dented two drawer were jammed. I was not inclined to demonstrate and still am not sure how I managed to get stuck in that position let alone get out of it.
Send em up one at a time and just lego them together into a big sphere and eventually it will be safe to live in the middle. We send enough up the mass of the earth drops and it gets cheaper!
A similar technique can be used to make massive floating pontoons at sea - the outside ones will damp the waves and it would be nice in the centre.
Well in 1833 there were 240.000 meteors in 9 hours during a Leonid shower.
During a similar shower there were many suicides by people who thought it was the end of days and they've had to tone it down a bit since then. Health and Safety gone mad if you ask me.
As for visibility I live in a Dark Skies area so I guess we wont get any bright meteors. C'est la Vie!
Given the glowing tent I'm guessing this is really a montage though it could be just looking away from the radiant which sometimes leads to more erratics (meteors not from the storm just the random ones we get) in a long exposure.
Never sure why photographers seem to find a need to pollute sky pictures with earth based objects.
The lowest steps of the OS Godhead? I think you are missing the fact that the largest portion of OS Godhead tools and apps that you think are there to run your systems are there to allow you to manage the failures of the system. Linux doesnt have all that flashy stuff to clear up after itself as its not that incontinent.
As we say down in the west country when asked for directions "You dont want to start from here".
One of the fascinating things about life is we still dont know how it started here. We've got a vague idea what Luca was like - not capable of generating its own energy and probably surviving of energy produce by hydrothermal vents at well above 100C. On earth it seems to have been a one off event around 3.8 billion years ago. Mars is a lot smaller and apart from being round is not geologically very close to earth.
We're very lucky to be here, I'd be really really happy to find some life on Mars but I'm expecting to win the lottery first and I dont do it.
I think that might be a very small needle in a very bug haystack, and the haystack is on fire and hot enough to burn the needle.
We've got the perseids peaking this week. They come in at 37 miles a second. When something hits the ground near that speed the shock breaks quartz crystals - organic compounds dont stand a chance!
"The French and Germans have ALWAYS been anti-British" well not quite - they've always been cautious of the British as we were often seen as being in the club purely to cause trouble and slow down its development on behalf of the US. We joined the ERM at a level that was designed to fail and, then as now, we pissed in our own chips and came out far worse for it.
Whatever happens now needs to happen fast - we're obviously in the worst of both worlds.
He was the dickhead that offered the referendum in the hope that not too many of the rabid right wing of the tory party would skip over to UKIP and possibly loose a few tory seats.
Its totally his fault - even if people try and blame someone they also claim to be totally ineffectual in the same breath there is only one person to blame - the twat that offered the referendum and, unlike every other policy promise they break the moment they get into office, actually went though with it.
An EIV detector is a special piece of kit that can be remotely triggered causing problems that mean you HAVE to call in support at shitloads for a call-out. The EIV detector then senses the Engineer In Vicinity and the machine returns to functioning normally until the company charging for the engineer need some cashflow. The support company only needs people who can drive and carry the EIV transmitter with them so no real training needed.
Sometimes the EIV detectors fail to reset and the machine will perform faultlessly until the engineer drives round the corner out of sight and will not answer the phone until it counts as a complete new call-out.
I did spend some time trying to convert an IBM golfball typewriter to work on my MK14 but then got a Superbrain with CP/M and a C compiler on it. Whoo hoo!
ISTR using CP/M-86 on the first IBM PCs we had at work and then we moved to DOS for some reason.
Cheers Gary Kildall may your memory never be zero'd.
It seems that whales dive deep to eat things and generally shit at the surface - resulting in algal and other blooms and these fed similarly large populations of their predators and so on all the way up (down) the food chain. Given the reduction in the number of whales due to our greed and stupidity its thought the barren deeps were not really so barren a couple of hundred years ago.
"There is approximately only one WIMP interaction per kilogram of ordinary matter per century"
Except we dont really know do we - what with not having seen an interaction yet.
I wish them luck but its a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack when you dont know what the needle looks like, or the haystack come to that.
I've got a caddy and the radio is indeed relatively easy to control - if you dont have two early teen girls who delete your settings and a misses who seems to think traffic news from the whole world should interrupt the funny bits on r4!
Is has recently taken to showing a star in between a couple arrows. It was never there before and is not mentioned in the manuals and is really getting my OCD ccts overloaded. I may have to drill a whole in that bit of the screen to get rid of it!