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How do you keep the ISS stable in orbit?
How do you keep the ISS stable in orbit?
>> ^SunTzu:
flying around the planet at thousands of miles an hour, a man who puts his life in danger to further the knowledge of mankind.
what do they actually even do up there?
i now i'm being ignorant and that they probably do a lot of great stuff but we never specifically hear about any of it
there's never been a news story like "bananas made of jam invented on ISS! astronaut Jamforbrains gets nobel for being awesome!"
Rofl..
He's probably involved in various zero gravity experiments up there, acting as proxy on behalf of people on earth who come up with new questions as to what happens if you do this in zero gravity. I don't know the specific purpose of the ISS unfortunately, but i suspect your question is a bit like asking "Why are you looking through this telescope at the moon?"
And the answer is, who the hell knows what you'll find? Why did we sail around the world and discover new countries, new species of animal.. why do we still search for new species? Why do we test those species of plant and animal to see what they do, what they're made of, what properties they have? Why step outside of our front door?
Because if we didn't, we'd never have invented the wheel or mastered fire.
Imagine how much shit we've found in our own oceans that we didn't know about a few hundred years ago. Imagine what we've done with that new knowledge.
Can you possibly begin to imagine the sort of shit we might find out there in space, which is infinitely bigger than our ocean?
Imagine if you'd asked marie curie why she was messing around with a luminous material? "Did you make a banana made of this new material? Stop wasting your time!" And we've just lost the x-ray machine.
Cmon, man.. that sort of question depresses me.. of all the amazing things we've found out through stargazing, through expeditions into space (the hubble deep field picture, to me, is worth all the money on earth) the one thing that would validate such a trip, to you, is a fucking jam banana?
Hugh Laurie is "all man" on Blackadder
Hugh Laurie was hilarious. Anyone know what he's up to these days?
Oof....
Yeah smugglarn, you're right. I have ALWAYS hated mr. bean. Blackadder, however, is occasionally can't-breathe-funny.
Atheism commercial
"I want your land" / "We deserve this land/asset"
"These people are responsible for our ills"
"We are better than these people" / "They aren't people"
"2000 years ago, this guy insulted this other guy's mother" / "No, he insulted OUR mother!"
"They started it"
Sometimes we must go to war because OTHER PEOPLE are ignorant/selfish, and we are left with no recourse. But this is still a war caused by ignorance/selfishness.
What causes war is ignorance and selfishness, where most religions TEACH ignorance, and are motivated by selfishness.
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder - Trailer
TED: Finding the supermassive blackhole in our galaxy
Like she said...she still didn't get it down to the schwarzschild radius. Either their model for black holes is wrong, or there isn't a black hole there.
Like she said, there are imperfections in the tools they are using. In her own words, correcting the atmospheric imperfections will allow us to see stars closer still than those we can see, meaning more mass, meaning closer to the radius. And who is to say we'll ever be able to see everything that is at the centre? Who's to say the means of correction don't provide false positives or negatives - if i corrected an image of a pebble under a stream, would i see 1 pebble, 2 pebbles, or half a pebble, and if i could never put my hand in and check, how would i know the truth? We'd need more and powerful telescopes outside our own atmosphere. What about the masses of objects that we don't yet know about that we have to identify through means other than direct observation? Yes?
God damn but her voice was annoying. Great video though.
The Patriot First EPIC fight scene *tomahawk*
Why Switzerland Has the Lowest Crime rate in the World
Yeah, national service can be a very very good thing for some people.
Training Day - King Kong ain't got shit on me!
Food Ad Tricks - Making A Commercial Burger
Star Trek Lip Dub - Soup Kitchen in My Pants
Hedonistic machine lubricates itself
'Accidental' Download Sending Guy To Prison
'Accidental' Download Sending Guy To Prison
I remember it being very complicated to investigate because of this.
We were also told, however, that whilst images were an implication of something, it wasn't necessarily the end of the story. It was a full investigation, not simply a hunt for pictures/videos/whatever. We had to identify how the pictures came to be, establish intent, etc.
That's in england though. But i find it very difficult to believe that a computing forensics investigative team in any country would forego all of this, find one picture, but not bother to find where it came from (it could have been put onto his pc by someone else), and send him to jail based on this.
The office's last scene, David Brent philosophy
Cannabis Treats Autistic Ten Year Old Child
>> ^dannym3141:
LOL ^
Also, why has she built an outdoor cage for her autistic son?
Is that a serious question? The same reason you would put up a baby in a playpen. If the kid can't walk because he's that severely mentally handicapped but you want him to be able to be outside alone and not have to worry about him drowning himself what would you do ?
Is that a serious question?
Move to a house without a pool and use something less severe than metal bars.
Billboard Fail
http://static.funnyjunk.com/pictures/rapist_search.jpg
^ That one.
Warehouse Pallet Truck Show-Off
4-way Auto-Mario: Queen (Don't Stop Me Now)
It would be about 2 minutes of whirly noises interspersed with barely identifiable upward scale progressions which happen to occur every so often in "Don't Stop Me Now".
Feels like i'm over analysing, but shit - you started it by attacking my opinion with an answerable question!
4-way Auto-Mario: Queen (Don't Stop Me Now)
>> ^dannym3141:
So they made mario brothers occasionally make plinking sounds that sometimes synch up with some of the notes of parts of a song?
Is it more impressive to aim for the sun and fall far short, or aim for the moon and hit it spectacularly? In other words - do a simpler song, better.
Good luck finding a song that's worth listening to that only has the exact same pitches as the sound effects from mario world...
The fact that the song is complex is what makes it impressive. Do you honestly think this would be more impressive if it were "4-way auto Mario: the happy birthday song?"
If it sounded like the happy birthday song, followed all the notes, sounded good, added flourishes (this is the bit where you hit the moon 'spectacularly'), yes. Far, far, far more impressive than doing 4 notes of "Don't Stop Me Now" every 20 seconds or so.
To you, what makes this impressive is the complexity of the song? Very well, i could overdub this with "Through the Fire and the Flames" and it'd probably coincide with some of the notes too, is that impressive to you? It's a very complex song that's for sure, and i'd hit "some" of the notes. Surely the accuracy of hitting objects in a game that sounded very similar to a song is what makes these types of videos impressive, no?
And therein lies my criticism.