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Post by smlbstcbr on Apr 21, 2010 22:26:46 GMT -4
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Post by smlbstcbr on Mar 23, 2010 22:19:31 GMT -4
I used to have a dream where I was jumping a la Matrix between buildings, it felt so real... Other dream I had is walking and suddenly feel like falling into a hole, made me wake up every time...
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Post by smlbstcbr on Mar 23, 2010 22:09:26 GMT -4
An Air Force pilot named Joe Kittinger made three high altitude parachute jumps in 1959 and 1960 that came close to breaking the sound barrier. His third jump was from 102,800 feet (20,000 feet lower than Felix Baumgartner plans to jump from). The matter is terminal velocity, given that he will not have any propulsion means to keep accelerating. Then, it is more likely to not achieve supersonic speeds...
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Post by smlbstcbr on Mar 19, 2010 22:32:10 GMT -4
I think it will be very difficult to do that, if not impossible, at least if you are not falling head-on to the ground to achieve the highest speed. He can overheat or freeze and if he manages to remain in one piece and with his helmet pointing to the Earth, how will he decelerate without braking his neck because of the whiplash?
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Post by smlbstcbr on Mar 10, 2010 14:58:38 GMT -4
Oh well, I had high hopes on the end of the world before 2012... ;D ;D ;D
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Post by smlbstcbr on Mar 10, 2010 11:55:01 GMT -4
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Post by smlbstcbr on Feb 1, 2010 21:27:06 GMT -4
Well, it looks like (at least that's what I read in BBC) that one reason to cancel Constellation is because it looked 'old fashioned'. Seems that they are demanding NASA to reinvent the wheel, in this particular case.
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jan 30, 2010 21:43:21 GMT -4
Sad if it comes true. Looks like space exploration is going to be science ficction for a time. Seems that some logo (like Buy and Large) is going to be the new flag on Mars...
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jan 25, 2010 21:29:24 GMT -4
I wonder what kind of transfer function can be applied to earth's atmosphere, though, if the whole planet makes a significative shift in temperature just because a 5% variation in an input value, then I think that none of us would be here. I believe that there has been worse things than our input of CO2 into the atmosphere and yet we are here. Obviously, we do need to focus in the air quality, forests, water, etc.
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jan 19, 2010 19:10:21 GMT -4
I read an editorial in the Wall Street Journal today that theorized that helping Haiti beyond its immediate needs will only continue its dependency on foreign aid. Worth a read. Well, in my humble opinion, I think he's right. It's what actually happened with USAID and the coca eradication here. They paid the peasants to stop planting coca and plant something else. But instead of doing so, the peasants just went looking for another plot of land, buy it for a bargain, plant coca and then getting money to get rid of it again. NGOs supplied fresh cash to finance Morales coup d'etat to Sanchez de Lozada. Many people here argued how come that, in Morales's words, the poor, with nothing in the world, peasants (cocaleros, no idea how to translate that) could afford to block the roads (including food) for more than six weeks without food or money. Morales's explanation is that they collaborate with each other, but how if they are really, really poor? The obvious answer is: NGOs. The money that comes from them goes, first, to pay wages for the leaders, next, trips and expenditures for propaganda. Eventually the money *might* arrive to the needed. When some of them reveal how the things are handled, the "movement" as they call themselves, names them as traitors, imperialists and they are expelled from their union (that's a name they also like a lot) and their goods are retained for the movement. Just outrageous.
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jan 19, 2010 18:32:49 GMT -4
I’m sorry, I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922 as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post. It would be interesting to know the globe's temperature trend in that decade.
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jan 18, 2010 0:03:01 GMT -4
Surprised I did not find any thread on this matter, though, given that it has been acknoledged that the stolen and revealed material is authentic, I guess Climategate can be considered a true conspiracy? Nah. You'll have things like this no matter what the subject matter. That's one of the reasons why I'm a fence-sitter instead of a denier...I can't fathom all AGW-leaning scientists (which is most of them) to be in on some kind of conspiracy. Certainly. What makes this peculiar case more relevant is that the deception involves high profile people. Jones and company did several things wrong, such as hiding the decline, applying certain tricks to fit data, deny access to information for peer review. All of them unethical and that's why it is believed that the release of these material might have been an inside job. To deny a climate change is just nonsense but to attribute all of the change to human activity needs more investigation and the case with Jones is that his investigation already had someone to point at, despite the data collected and his denial to debate results with skeptics made things worse.
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jan 15, 2010 13:56:20 GMT -4
A good advice (given that I live in a country which has corruption as a standard), only give donations to well known, public organizations. Corruption knows no limits and certainly, as happened here in 1998, if the donations are not carefully accounted for, they will end in someone else's pocket. Try not to donate money.
PS: In 1998, an earthquake destroyed part of several rural towns in my department, later it was found that more than 100 camp tents (military type) were hidden in the Defense Minister's house. They never made it to the people that desperately needed them.
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jan 15, 2010 12:23:37 GMT -4
Then we need to name it properly. How about, don't no, ummm... Warming deception?
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Post by smlbstcbr on Jan 15, 2010 11:22:21 GMT -4
Surprised I did not find any thread on this matter, though, given that it has been acknoledged that the stolen and revealed material is authentic, I guess Climategate can be considered a true conspiracy?
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