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http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroidflyby.html The simulation of the flyby doesn't seem to be correct. The attached image is my plot(s) for the flyby path of 2012 DA14. I had to reverse the side elevation, at least it was symetric, scale it, and plot each against the other as the NASA/JPL images and the simulation were in opposition. BTW, pink is the color you get when you reverse a dark image. I don't think it will hit, there is a possibility it will become a satellite, NASA only said it would not hit the Earth or any other planet although they made no mention of the moon which usually helps to capture quasi moons. The last image is from the second reference from the wiki below which links to an Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) PDF. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_decay

Some results from the Irish DNA project data. http://www.jogg.info/51/files/Wright.htm Some Dál gCais, (or Dalcassian) family names.

My avatar is a feedback loop image with 0.5m in air (between CRT and CCD) and 0.5m in vacu running at 25 fps. That's why I wonder why we don't try to make astronomical observations without (1) planetary rotation, (2) earths orbit around the sun and (3) the suns rotation around our galactic center to see what our universe really looks like without the spin.

A Beautiful Mind goes into this in detail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Beautiful_Mind_(film)

Hi Cap'n Refsmmat, At high school we studied 2 years of calculus and here are some things that I found made differentiation/integration a bit easier to understand. In its simplest form differentiation is the application of n * x ^ (n - 1) to all elements of x in equations of the form of a * x^2 + b * x + c = 0. The roots of the basic form are - b +/- the square root of (b^2 - 4 * a * c)/2a: [math]x=\frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4 ac}}{2a}[/math] The first differential of this basic form is 2 * a * x + b = 0 and the integral of this first differential is the original basic form because integration is the exact opposite of differentiation (the application of x^(n+1) / n to all elements of x + add a constant (x^0, which may = 0)). The units of acceleration M / second^2, speed M / second and distance travelled M all have a pure integral/differential relationship (between M with respect to time) that gets right to the heart of Newtons calculus and his mechanics. These proofs from first principles are good examples of pure applied calculus. Finally, in the basic form the last differential always goes to 0 and the first integral is the same and also goes to 0, unless you use a modified calculus, so make sure you don't overshoot on the way down or the way up.

It also cannot simultaneously be 0 and one and infinity. 0/0 could be regarded as one and not one if anything divided by itself = one, none or not none if anything divided by 0 = 0, or infinity or not infinity if anything divided by 0 = infinity.

The modulo operator can be used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation a = Students n = Bottles per pack = (3 + 1) x = Total Bottles purchased a mod n = a - (n * INT(a/n)) = 0 if a is divisible by n or = the remainder if otherwise. But there are much easier ways to skin this cat. So x = INT(0.5 + (a/n)) * n is simpler if the INT(number) function rounds up if the decimal part is > 0.5. and x = ROUND(0.5 + (a/n), 0) * n can be used, ROUND(number, decimals), if INT() doesn't round up > 0.5. ROUND(0.5 + 27/4,0) * 4 = 7 * 4 = 28 ROUND(0.5 + 31/4,0) * 4 = 8 * 4 = 32

Many companies have their staff sign Confidentiality Undertakings if they work in sensitive areas due to Information Privacy and Information Security legislation. If government regulations do not require reporting of breaches and there is no whistleblower protection then you will not hear about it.

Actually Moontanman in those times men usually married when they could support a wife and family. The exceptions were when a woman became a widow and married a younger brother of her brother in law (married to her sister) to keep the property in the family.

For LCR=1 statement B is added to the end of statement A and both are pushed through the same pipeline concurrently with other similar pairings that are not dependent on A or B. In the case where statement D was dependent on statement C which was dependent on statement B which was dependent on statement A and LCR=1 then the program would compile (A+B+C+D) to run on only one pipeline/thread. LCR<=1 is the minimum requirement for a program structure that will compile on a concurrent compiler.

I have always thought that the first big tick, when the theoretical BB universe started going from a stable singular state to an expanding state, is conceptually like turning on a switch or pulling a trigger. While [math]t_0+\epsilon[/math] works but [math]t_0[/math] doesn't, there are implications for the gap. So I wonder if there is a critical threshold, that we may be getting closer to experimentally, that we should possibly be accutely aware of. That is of course only a concern if the BB theory is valid (and nobody seems the least bit concerned). At least the end would be mercifully quick

Its a big world John, how's global warming climate change going in your neck of the woods?

But the rebuttal leaves a few outstanding questions due to the assumptions given. (1) ' the circular speed is independent of radius in the mid-plane' (2) Moni Bidin et al. (2012) ' the mean azimuthal velocity of the stellar tracers is independent of Galactocentric radius at all heights' This implies that, at large heights above the mid plane, circular speed is dependent on radius while everywhere else circular speed is independent of radius. The dark matter appears to be the result of two separate 'systems', one averaged and one discrete, being conflated together. http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mcquasar.asp

Here's a quote from the foundation Chairman of the Australian Research Council that was published in todays Australian newspaper (about flawed science and the government owned Australian Broadcasting Commission) . http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/us/politics/house-gop-agrees-to-lift-debt-ceiling-for-3-months.html?hp

I have reconsidered my position and, In a perverse lateral kind of way, I do certainly agree with you 3 that the current political solution to 'global warming' will reap excellent results within a very short time span, albeit with much collateral damage. I mean, who would ever have thought that by collectively trashing the global financial system to such an extent that the odds of recession in the EU and/or the US are almost odds on, with huge guaranteed profits waiting to be made on the down side, and the resulting emission reductions from the mass closure of industries and other losses being socialised, are already starting to pay dividends. I'll let you 3 tell everybody else the good news. BTW, there is evidence of continuous human occupation for the past 8000 years within 5-10 miles of where I live. During the recent 'heat wave' the average national maximum temperature was 40 degrees c while my local average was 30 degrees c during this same period. Several of the other state capitals went from 11+ to 11- average degree maximums over 3 days during this 'heat wave' period. My region has an anti mediteranean climate which means that it normally rains in summer and is dry in winter with similar temperature ranges. There are only three other areas in the world with similar climates, east Madagascar, Saudi Arabia (east side of mountains) and along the eastern side of the Andes in South America. The 10 degree difference between 30 degrees average temp and 40 degrees average temp was mainly due to a combination of humidity and wind that resulted in evaporative cooling with little rain. We seem to be having a problem with the water level within the Great Artesian Basin part of our national evaporative cooling system. With any luck a good top up from the coming monsoon will help sort things out.

Political solutions are not real solutions, as many Australians well know. A Carbon tax that makes unclean energy profitable at the expense of clean energy actually causes more harm than good.

EquisDeXD, it is clear from Swansont's post that what is being described is not a real world cable. Take for example a space based observation point at a comoving distance stationary with regard to the hubble flow. The observer could be consistent with the flow and be connected to earth via an inline chain of communication satellites. To keep our communications consistent you would have to send out satellites as the comoving point moved away from our soloar system. Would you really expect to vary the distance between the satellites as the observer moved away?

If I recall correctly there was a 10 year moritorium on recombinant DNA research in the 1970's.

http://www.google.com.au/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=china+blizzard&oq=china+bli&gs_l=hp.1.1.0l2j0i10l2.78.3210.0.6401.5.5.0.0.0.1.450.1739.2-2j1j2.5.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.t0rbFLtJPXI&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.dGY&fp=806291c8bec8badb&bpcl=40096503&biw=1366&bih=714 So am I. BTW, you will be waiting for quite a while unless you start your own thread.

Just build up a truth table of all of the different conversions and create a case statement that provides the correct translation for each conversion. You will also have to be careful where you place this statement in your code as you may not get a public variable from the declaration. The shortest path is really up to you.

The pricing mechanism calculations for the Australian Carbon tax are an indication of the science involved. The carbon price (for the budget figures) as set out in the plan would increase Renewable Energy while forcing the worst polluting power stations out of the market. These dirty operators would be paid to stop polluting. Unfortunately all the economics only works when the exact carbon tax rate estimated is used. As a result of these modelling restriction there are 3 things that can be determined:- (1) On half the budgeted Carbon tax rate (a) electricity prices rise substantially, (b) polluting power generation plants become economic and (c ) the Renewable Energy Targets (RET) put pressure on electricity prices so business puts pressure on the government to reduce the RET. (2) On double the budgeted Carbon tax rate (a) electricity prices rise substantially more than (1), polluting power plants become uneconomic and RET becomes becomes viable. (3) The current Carbon pricing model as used in Australia will only work to promote the reduction of dirty power pollution and promote the RET when the market Carbon price is at least at its budgeted rate or more. Either way electricity prices increase but only one price range will give an environmental dividend. Sorry, this model does not work with the European rate and the market will do what it likes whenever it likes. That is why we need an integrated global system and people who think outside the self serving political square. You may not be aware of the 10% GST calculation where a 10% tax is added onto the price of most goods and services. While the actual calculation is based on the original amount plus the 10% tax, the calculation used is by back calculating from the end price to the pre tax price. The reason why this is done is that rounding (down) will not give you the exact calculation result without fractions so going from the after tax price and using normal rounding (up) is the easiest way to calculate the correct amounts of the original price before tax. While the 32% figure might be the politically palatable figure the real answer is a close to a 50% increase when compared with your bill 12 months ago.

I wouldn't expect anything John, if you can't actually think for yourself and cannot ask pertinent questions then no explanation can change your opinion.

Hi John, While NZ is just as far away from Brisbane as Hobart is NZ was experiencing much cooler weather than southern Australia. From 2004 to 2008 Queensland had the heatwaves and now the heatwaves have moved 2000 kilometers south. No tax system is going to prevent what happens when these hot flows of air actually get down to antarctica so we should probably be doing a bit of forensic meteorology and working out exactly where these hot flows come from and target the sources. The forecasts for Australian capitals today compared with yesterday are:- Melbourne 25, -16 change Adelaide 32, -12 change Hobart 25, -16 change Sydney 29, + 4 change Perth 37, + 12 change Canberra 39, + 3 change Brisbane 29, no change

While I am sceptical about Global Warming I really think the current problem could be better described as some sort of Global Temperature Imbalance and human heat generation has something to do with it.

And if you take 32% off you will have 68% remaining meaning that your original bill (68% of your current bill) is close to 50% higher (32/68) now than your original bill. Basically if you pay $10 for a product that has $5 tax you are being taxed 100% not 50%. Right now in Brisbane the temperature is around 29 degrees centigrade while the current temperatures for the other state capitals (and the ACT) are:- Melbourne 41 Adelaide 44 Hobart 42 Sydney 25 Perth 25 Canberra 36 This heatwave is being caused by a flow of hot air (it's not el Nino or la Nina but neutral patterns) being funneled down the center of Australia between highs on the east and west coasts. Have a look on google earth and see where the hot cities are with respect to antarctica. Brisbane is sub tropical and the majority of the remainder are temperate. Kevin Rudd, the previous Australian PM took an integrated global carbon credit trading system to Copenhagen and dropped it after the rest of the world failed to jump on board. He was then rolled by Australias current PM, the person who promised that there would be no carbon tax under a government she led, who then introduced a carbon tax. Incidentally these heat waves have been going on like this down south for the past 4-5 years and Brisbane has failed to get much over 35 degrees c during the same period. Victoria has a large brown coal burning power station industry that supplies the deficiencies in the power grid for most of the other states. Why are the heatwaves mainly ocurring where they do and, considering that the most long line power being transmitted to other states is lost in the generating state, what does the Victorian power generation industry have to do with it? Economically it probably has something to do with some dodgy financing many years ago. Basically if you factor off the net present value of the depreciation of the power asset you are buying/building into the purchase package you can not use the depreciation of the asset (compensation for loss of value of the asset over time) to maintain the asset and you must run your operation as hard and fast as you can to optimise profits.