The Hubble images the Pinwheel galaxy http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0602.html The largest image is a monsterous 455 megs!! (about ten light years...
Yes, I know all about it - since we're the original creators of the image it's brought our network to a screeching crawl. Donald ... From: "Winchell Chung"...
... Interesting, at least from the perspective of a non-astronomer, to see all the galaxies which are behind the main image. There seems to be a spiral galaxy...
... I defer to Dr. McLean, but on the site several image captions mention how some stars and background galaxies had their images turned more red by galactic...
... How much to not post that on Slashdot ? -- We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because...
... For those of you that commented on my die rolling gizmo and how it didn't work in Firefox, the problem was that I wrote it in a 'broken' manner to work...
http://www.aist.go.jp/aist_e/latest_research/2006/20060210/20060210.html -- -- -- The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST,...
I had read about this before. But if those lasers are powerful enough to excite the nitrogen atoms in the air, I wouldn't want to wave my hand through the...
On Mar 2, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Nyrath the nearly wise ... I agree with that sentiment. It's pretty, but you'd want a glass wall between you and the display. You...
Owen Chamberlain, who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the anti-proton at Berkeley Lab's Bevatron, lost his long-time battle with Parkinson's on Feb....
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/02mar_redjr.htm?list17940 Quote: "The official name of this storm is "Oval BA," but "Red Jr." might be better. It's...
Greetings: "So the big question is whether or not Red Jr. will last or get eaten by it's bigger brother." I seem to recall there being a case of a second red ...
ObSpoilerWarning: latest BSG. First, I'd like to introduce myself: my name is William Hsu, and I am an SF fan of various sundry genres, hard science and...
I have been all over projectrho.com and have not found what I am looking for... Kudos to Winch for a hella-cool site, tho I am far from being a math major...
Welcome aboard... I would, however, suggest putting spoiler space in before talking about a new ep of a show... As for your question/comment.... * * * * * * * ...
Spoiler Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... It seems to be related to the distance of the jump. Remember that in the pilot...
... Are you looking for the distances between particular stars, or the average separation of close neighbors in our galactic 'hood? (Or both?) Solstation.com...
... in the ... that ... do with ... take a ... It may also be that the Cylons are all "networked" computers while the BSG human piloted units do not have that...
... I haven't seen this episode (or any others in series 2 yet, except the opener), but I can assert with reasonable confidence that if your description above...
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I found a 3d map that I was able to extrapolate the info I needed. Actually, kinda cool.... http://www.solstation.com/map27ly.htm Magic 104 North Conway, NH ...
On Saturday, March 4, 2006, rmrobinson1227 <Lyonesse@...> ... Actually, there sort-of is. Nyrath has the HabHYG (at least, and possibly the HYG)...
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... <snip> ... the opener), but I can assert with reasonable confidence that if your description above is accurate, then NO-ONE on that show knows the FIRST...
... The real question isn't whether they could network the ship's computers to do the calculation faster. The REAL question is "is a jump calculation a task...
Please see the following link for what I'm talking about, www.clusterworld.com/value_cluster.shtml You can also pick up the book "Beowulf Computing with...
... <snip> ... computers to ... calculation a ... cannot be ... isn't ... tasks ... the same ... and I ... processing ... According to the information I have,...
... Let's see: I hardly know where to begin. Well, I'll keep it short and quote from the relevant part of the website Greg gave: ... "With parallel computing,...
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Greetings: Spoiler Space Inserted "On the first one, one of her team jumps to the wrong coordinates." I have a feeling that the particular Raptor mis-jumped ...
