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How to replace RSA keys shorter than 2048 bits being used in TKLM 2.0.1 , TIP UI service Community Blog
Aditi Prasad Tags: ikeyman 2048bits tip tipconsole rsa tklm rsakeysshorterthan2048 423 Visits
The following steps will help you to replace the RSA keys shorter than 2048 bits in the X509 certificate chain being used by the TIP service inside Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager 2.0.1. Please note that you need to take a back up of the keystore key.p12, you...Modified by Aditi Prasad
Velocity, volume, variety: Big Data in the cloud
CalvinPowers Tags: cloud rsa backup rational rational-software-archite... db2 bigdata cast-iron websphere facebook web-services 4 Comments 5,680 Visits
Sam Siewert is an Assistant Professor at the University Of Alaska Anchorage who has just published an article on developerWorks about the implication of Big Data in the Cloud and some of the tools that can be used to visualize large...
from Blog: This Week on developerWorks WebcastModified by CalvinPowers
Using an Ideation Blog Ideation Blog
MarianaAlu Tags: rsa rsarte ideation blog 2,817 Visits
Rational Software Architect Community Ideation Blog R ational Software Architect Community can contribute and vote on ideas on " Ideation Blog...
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2013. La seguridad es la protagonista.
Durante dos semanas al año, expertos en seguridad de todo el mundo se dan cita en Estados Unidos para acudir a dos eventos imprescindibles en sus agendas. RSA y Pulse. Durante muchos años...
from Blog: IBM y la Seguridad Inteligente
Strong Authentication with Access Manager and RSA SecurID Community Blog
powers-old-account Tags: access-manager security rsa securid 1,454 Visits
Simon Stebbins just published a new video tutorial on deploying strong authentication and fine grained policy control using IBM Security Access Manager for Web and RSA SecurID. https://ibm.biz/BdxgdW
from Blog: Security on developerWorksModified by powers-old-account
2013 Webcast Series: Good Design is Good Business! Community Blog
RogerSnook Tags: design uml rational rhapsody architecture event design-manager webcast rsa 2,673 Visits
2013 marks another year with continued interest in Architecture and Design, after all, Good Design is Good Business! I'm pleased to announce a webcast series that includes a number of useful topics and better yet, some wonderful speakers that include...Modified by RogerSnook
Integrating your enterprise and software architectures
SteveArnold Tags: rsa software architect system ea architecture enterprise 1,116 Visits
Historically, many organizations develop enterprise and software architectures in isolation from each other, or they try to reconcile them manually. This isolation causes several problems: It limits the value of the enterprise...
Part 2: Design a work flow application using Rational Software Architect (RSA)
RamaShetty Tags: rational rsa interaction sequence architect diagram work software flow 3,176 Visits
Part 2: Design a work flow application using Rational Software Architect (RSA) A work flow entails execution of a series of activities or tasks in a particular sequence or in parallel if they are independent of each other. An UML activity diagram is...
Grand Slam tennis events serve up quality mobile apps faster
RogerSnook Tags: mobile-appdev-group mobile rtc rsa 1,765 Visits
Even if you're not a big tennis fan, you may be interested in IBM's showcase of technology that runs the Grand Slam events ( Australian Open [currently running as I write this], Roland Garros/French Open, Wimbledon and US Open) each year. While the...
from Blog: The Mobile Frontier
Techniques and Best Practices for modeling deployment architectures using RSA Topologies
GaryZeien Tags: rsa deployment_planning 698 Visits
For those of you that have used, or tried to use the deployment modeling capabilities in Rational Software Architect v8+ ( product information ) you may struggle with just how to create the topology model(s). I wanted to share with you some techniques I have...
from Blog: Solution Modeling tips using Rational tools
Using RSA's Rich Text Editing capabilities to capture Use Cases and Architectural Decisions
Did you know... So one of the challenges we face is finding a quick and simple way to capture content related to architectural decisions and/or use cases within and in conjunction to a model. There is a capability in Rational Software Architect...
from Blog: Solution Modeling tips using Rational tools
User Experience Design Best Practices anyone? Community Blog
RogerSnook Tags: design use-case user-story ux scenario rsa storyboard uml 1,219 Visits
I was recently asked for recommendations on how user experience teams can design and understand the relationship between elements of the UI design (vs. the underlying software objects). Those (UX and UI) are two good topics unto themselves! I'm going to...
Latest News about IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) - Sept. 2012
FarizSaracevic Tags: rational rsa fariz ibmalm alm rrc testing clm rqm agile quality-management jazz agilealm design-management requirements rtc 2 Comments 2,712 Visits
September is back to school month. Kids are adjusting to school after a long and enjoyable summer, and for parents, like myself, to get into the groove of juggling work and kid's activities. Sometimes, I wish we could follow similar patterns with development...
A free training on Design Management 4.0
jl.marechaux Tags: architecture clm agileadopt alm rational agility-at-scale agile rsa 1,340 Visits
About 10 days ago, I blogged on the new Design Management 4.0 release. If you want to experiment with design management, you can download the DM 4.0 trial edition . Now to gain skills on DM 4.0, wouldn't it be cool to have access to some training material?...
ALM Community Office Hours
FarizSaracevic Tags: clm jazz requirements management rational quality-management ibmalm agilealm rrc alm rqm rsa fariz design-management testing rtc agile 1 Comment 2,896 Visits
We all have our experiences working on various project to share, as well as preferred way how to use Rational solutions/applications. I often hear need to provide details about certain features or I get an email with specific question from clients. Wouldn't...
Design Manager's FREE training! Community Blog
RogerSnook Tags: design-manager training rsa rational 917 Visits
You have probably heard that Design Management 4.0 was released on Sept 7th . But do you know that the product contains a free training? Essentials of Design Management with RSA is a free, self paced training to support and facilitate DM adoption. It...
Rational CLM extended with Design Management 4.0
FarizSaracevic Tags: testing rsa rrc quality-management ibmalm management source-control rtc design-management rqm fariz requirements agile jazz clm rational alm 1,551 Visits
You heard me taking about extending Rational CLM with Design Management (DM) since Rational Innovate in June, 2012. We provided you a chance to read how DM fits into Rational CLM with the Money that Matters Lifecycle Scenario and test drive it with DM beta...
RSA Design Manager 4.0 is now available
jl.marechaux Tags: rsa agile clm alm rational architecture agileadopt agility-at-scale 1,633 Visits
The IBM Rational Solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management has a new component! Rational Software Architect Design Manager 4.0 has been released on September 7th. This new version contains many enhancements to the 3.x release, in particular the...
Model Runway: See the latest Design Best Practices at BlueCross BlueShield Community Blog
RogerSnook Tags: design healthcare rational webcast ibm mda event uml architecture rsa 1 Comment 3,408 Visits
I recall plenty of laughs around the office for these words, "Who's the best modeler (of all of our architects and developers)?" And while some were dressed better than others, we, of course , were referring to who had the best design or UML...
Ant Build using Rational Application Developer/Rational Software Architect, getProjectData Community Blog
For those starting on Ant Script builds using Rational Software Architect: You might get the following message on running the Ant build script - Problem: failed to create task or type getProjectData Cause: The name is undefined. Action: Check the spelling....
from Blog: developerWorks India
Webcast on Effective Collaboration for Better Design
jl.marechaux Tags: agility-at-scale agile architecture agileadopt rational rsa alm 1,150 Visits
In July, Todd Dunnavant and I presented at the Good Design is Good Business , a virtual, online conference for both clients and IBMers. We talked about the collaborative design management capabilities ( DM ) that are being added to the IBM Rational offering....
Design Management with RSA 8.5: Effective Collaboration for Better Design Community Blog
RogerSnook Tags: rational uml rsa design architecture ibm design-manager sketching 2,249 Visits
Hey software developers, engineers, architects, or programmers, we all do design. But how can you improve upon your designs? You probably do it now through "peer reviews" or "architectural reviews", which can often take a lot of time to:...
Book Giveaway: Designing Solutions using the SOAD Model Accelerator Community Blog
To celebrate summer and our latest version of the SOAD Model Accelerator , we're having a contest. We're having a draw to give away printed copies of our book Designing Solutions using the SOAD Model Accelerator . To enter the draw, send an email to ...
Top 3 New Value Features in RSA 8.5 and RAD 8.5 Community Blog
RogerSnook Tags: websphere was java rsa rational uml web2.0 hibernate rad spring design ibm soa 3,957 Visits
What's new in RAD and RSA 8.5? Attend this session and learn about the top new features of RSA (Rational Software Architect) and RAD (Rational Application Developer) that can save you time and money. In RSA we will be discussing how to improve collaboration...
SOA + Telecommunications = TelcoML! (An introduction to the TelcoML design standard) Community Blog
RogerSnook Tags: telecommunications soa design rsa telcoml ibm rational telecom uml rhapsody 2,291 Visits
So what do you get when you cross SOA with Telecommunications? No joke: you get a new standard called TelcoML! As with most designs, it is standardization that propels the segment into the mainstream popularity - this is true in both the physical world...
Top 10 Success Secrets for Software Architects (Good Design is Good Business Series) Community Blog
RogerSnook Tags: design architecture rsa best-practices process 2 Comments 3,873 Visits
Interested in becoming a successful Software Architect or strengthening your skills in this area? Experienced author and IBM Executive IT Architect, Peter Eeles shares his "10 Keys for Successful Architects" based on his book "The Process of...
Innovate 2012 Preview: "Model Behavior" Community Blog
RogerSnook Tags: sketching innovate rsa cop 1,447 Visits
Good Design is Good Business would like to announce the upcoming session, "Model Behavior", a preview of an actual session to be delivered at the Innovate 2012 Conference! While "Model Behavior" can be interpreted as "ideal...
ALM and agility
jl.marechaux Tags: alm rational agility-at-scale agileadopt architecture tools rsa pragmatic agile clm 1,463 Visits
If you ever worked in a project where a scaling factor applies, you know that appropriate tooling can help a lot achieve your objectives. But on the other hand, tools are often identified as impediments for agile adoption. The Agile Scaling Model defines...
SOA Briefing: Enhance your Rational Software Architect experience with the Service-Oriented Analysis and Design (SOAD) Model Accelerator Community Blog
RogerSnook Tags: rational-chat soa soma rsa 1 Comment 1,957 Visits
Rational Software Architect (RSA) is one of the most popular design and development platforms on the market today. If you are designing and developing SOA solutions, the "Ready for Rational" SOAD Model Accelerator builds upon RSA's value with...
The most-loved articles about Rational software from 2011
jl.marechaux Tags: agile architecture pragmatic tools rsa agility-at-scale rational 1,426 Visits
On February 14th has been published the list of the most-loved Rational articles in 2011 . Even if I am not sure what "most-loved" means here (can you really be in love with a technical paper??), I am glad to see that the one I wrote on architecture with RSA 8...
Better quality and agility with collaborative design
jl.marechaux Tags: rsa-dm pragmatic tools agile rsa rational agility-at-scale architecture 1,116 Visits
Success in agile development comes from teamwork. No matter which agile process you apply, collaboration is always at the heart of recommended best practices. Quality systems are also based on good design to make them easier to maintain and extend. The Better...
Optimizing your MDM Server workspace using binary modules
jtonline Tags: ear mdm-developers mdm-workbench rational teamshare rsa draft workspace rad projects 2,118 Visits
It's great to be able to kick off the new year with another article from Catherine Griffin. This is a draft which has already proved popular on the MDM Workbench forum , so I'm posting it here with some minor updates which Catherine has added to the Web...
from Blog: MDM Workbench
Agility with Rational Software Architect V8
jl.marechaux Tags: sketch tools rsa rational agile featured agileadopt 2,497 Visits
Experienced Agile teams working on software-intensive systems conduct architectural analysis activities to mitigate technical risks and build better solutions. As a picture is worth a thousand words, those teams leverage diagrams for better agility. It is...
Evolutionary architecture with RSA v8
jl.marechaux Tags: ebook tools featured agility-at-scale rational rsa architecture 3,393 Visits
Back in October, I published two papers on how to define application architectures with Rational Software Architect V8. Envision the architecture Iteratively refine the architecture In addition to the web version of the articles, I have created e-books for...
Interview with a DMer
For those who want ot know more about DM and where it is going, I though I'd interview Alan Yeung, Senior Development Manager for Design Manager, to find out more about the realities of Design Manager, and what it brings new to modeling. As you will read,...
from Blog: Rational Thinking from South West Europe
IBM Education Assistant Roundup: RSA Design Manager and more!
mquimby Tags: rsa rqm multimedia rhapsody education dm ibm-education-assistant top-content iea hot-support-content 2,242 Visits
We have new tutorials available for Rational Rhapsody and Rational Quality Manager on the IBM Education Assistant website. We also have Rational Software Architect making its IBM Education Assistant debut with two new Design Manager tutorials. Rational...
What's new in RSA - Solution Centre at Innovate 2011
Want to know what's happening in Ration Software Architect? Be there at the solution center at Innovate 2011 in Delhi . We'll demo on the features included in RSA current releases. Here is briefly what we are going to talk about: Rational Software Architect...
Colaboração, Comunicação e Rastreabilidade no desenvolvimento de produtos de Software
RodolphoUgoliniNeto Tags: uml rsa requisitos rastreabilidade rrc jazz 4,074 Visits
Quando falamos em desenvolvimento de software a palavra "time" vem logo a nossa cabeça. Nós da Rational sempre acreditamos (e dissemos) que "Desenvolvimento de Software é um esporte de Time". Com esta idéia em mente criamos a tecnologia...
from Blog: O Mundo depende de Software
Project Interchange Feature in Rational Software Architect
Hazem Saleh (IBM) Tags: interchange software project rational architect rsa 1 Comment 4,139 Visits
In the previous versions of Rational Software Architect (RSA), there was a very good feature called "Project Interchange" which was used for exporting and importing RSA projects easily between workspaces. In the current RSA version (V8.0), this...
from Blog: Hazem Saleh
Introducing Design Management Server(Rhapsody,RSA) Community Blog
Saurabh.Saxena Tags: jazz rhapsody rsa 2,110 Visits
Hi All, Recently IBM has launched Design management server. We know popular designer tools like IBM RSA, Rhapsody. Now what jazz people did , they integrated the features of these to one interface. ya thats right . I am trying to setup Design...
from Blog: Delhi Technology Club
Two GRUG webcasts this week
kellypuffs Tags: rdz grug collaborative-design-mana... cics rhapsody banking rsa 1,940 Visits
Don't miss your opportunity to sign up for two great Global Rational User Group (GRUG) webcasts this week! Can't attend the live webcast? Register to be notified when the replay becomes available. June 28: Architecting Smarter Banking Solutions with IBM...
Rational beats Visual Studio in Evans user satisfaction survey
Great news, we've beaten Visual Studio overall in the Evan's user satisfaction survey, and we came out as best in application modeling, requirements management, quality of technical support, support for remote development, frameworks, and breadth of...
Sketching in Rational Software Architect 8.0.x
from Blog: Random Rational tidbits
RSA Breach, World Backup Day and the use of Encryption
TonyPearson Tags: enc+security+systems emc aes rsa ibm olpc breach ts1130 truecrypt sysresccd chuck+hollis securid apt gparted ts1120 encryptstick unetbootin 1 Comment 5,757 Visits
Normally, when EMC fails, it is worth a giggle. Companies are run by humans, and nobody is perfect. However, their latest one, failing to defend their RSA SecurID two-factor website, is no laughing matter. Breaches like this undermine the trust needed for...
from Blog: Inside System Storage -- by Tony Pearson
What motivates you? My new favorite video
slaningham Tags: rsa smart_planet motivation social_business 1,436 Visits
Just watched this brilliant video, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA , illustrating his case for hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace. I can envision some great discussions around this. Thoughts?
from Blog: Scott Laningham
Build a Java Data Objects application by using Rational Software Architect 8.0 and the Google App Engine SDK
kellypuffs Tags: rsa rational-software-archite... google-app-engine whitepaper 2,613 Visits
Learn how you can use IBM® Rational® Software Architect to create a Java Data Object (JDO) enterprise application, leveraging the Google App Engine SDK in this new developerWorks article. This article shows you how to do that by ...
New Whitepaper Published: How to Connect Rational System Architect to Oracle
kellypuffs Tags: rsa rational-system-architect oracle whitepaper 2,780 Visits
Title : How to connect Rational System Architect to Oracle Abstract: This document describes how to connect IBM Rational System Architect application with Oracle as the backend DBMS. This document will also help you to understand the Oracle...
Survey for RSA 8.0 Integrated Self-Paced Training
kellypuffs Tags: rsa ispt survey 2,482 Visits
Oh, wait. Not THAT kind of survey. Just a quick note to let you know that a survey has been created to gather your feedback on the new Rational Software Architect Integrated Self-Paced Training we mentioned in an earlier blog post. We'd very much appreciate...
Rational Software Architect v8.0 - Integrated Self-Paced Training now available!
kellypuffs Tags: training education rsa 2 Comments 6,124 Visits
Did you know? There are so many people in IBM and Rational dedicated to helping you be successful with your Rational products. Rational Software Architect 8.0 contains an outstanding Integrated Self-Paced Training (ISPT) course within the product itself,...
.Net Development in Rational Software Architect for Websphere Software Community Blog
Saurabh.Saxena Tags: profiling c# .net rsa 2,040 Visits
Hi My name is Saurabh Saxena. Now I am going to teach you how to do .net development using Rational Software Architect for WAS. For this you will need Emonic(Eclipse Mono Integration), NANT, .NetFrameWork/MONO, RSA for WAS, Apache HTTP Server 2.2. You can try...
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I feel the soulution of this pussle is not the best one.. If white pawn at the begining cut the the black pawn...thats the best solution...
If I'm incorrect pls...correct me!!!
Nice puzzle! That last move however was stupid to force, as white can take with queen as well as with the king :-)
The rest of the moves were forced however, pretty interesting tactics by both players.
I agree, a really interesting puzzle, with white walking a tightrope to avoid letting black get away with a draw. All the moves are forced until the last one - I think (as previously suggested) 10...Qf4, 11. Kd7+ Qb8 12. Qa1+ Qa7 13. QxQa7# might have been a prettier finish. Or maybe 10...Qh4+, 11. QxQh4 Kb1, 12. Kd7 Ka1 13. Qd8# or Qh8#
yeah can someone tell why the king didn't take the pawn on b6 in the beeginning?
I assume you mean bxa6 as the first move for white? The b pawn will promote before white's h pawn after b5, so black will win from this position.
1. bxa6 b5 2. h4 b4 3. b3 h5 4. b2 h6 5. b1(Q) and the queen prevents h7.
Couldn't the King just move out the way, Checkmate?
Post #40 (bottom of page 2) covers this line along with most others. Basically the h pawn will promote before the a pawn, but this time if black promotes with a1(Q), the white queen simply takes it (ie Qh8xQa1) and there is no stalemate to prevent it as in the puzzle. It will actually take white a little bit longer to win in practice, but it is much more likely that white will make a mistake playing it the other way, where there is only one winning move each turn until the last one.
yeah me having same question y didnt king take b6 at beginning?
because you can't queen on a1 after white queens on h8 as long as there is no stalemate, it's a complicated concept called "diagonal".
I almost fell for that one too.. however QxQ !
Phenomenal moves to ensure the victory.
why didn't the king take the pawn on b6 to begin with?
Because white is going to promote first. In the real game the reason white can't immediately capture black's queen after promoting is because that will make it a stalemate.
If black takes the pawn on b6 white be be able to just capture black's queen and win easily.
Very nice puzzle & a good Q & equally good explanation!
Thanks to all ! :-)
this is the answer who have a question why black's king didnt take b6 pawn..
and this is the answer who have a question why not bxa6..
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Nice one. Queen secon and third move was hard to find
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balck offered his queen to whites queen idky he didnt take it ..y did he even offer to exchange when he would just lose his queen..
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Want a challenge? Try your hand at public-land turkey hunting this year.
Are you looking for a tough turkey hunting challenge to undertake this spring? Try this! Pick out a public hunting area in one of the Southern states, go in blind, and attempt to shoot yourself a longbeard Eastern turkey! If you find success on an even half-consistent basis, and you've undoubtedly earned the right to call yourself a turkey hunter!
To up the odds of success, pick out a public area known for producing turkeys. Here are some recommendations (and a couple of warnings) from across the South.
Even when turkeys didn't exist in much of the United States, they were holding on and hunted in Alabama. So that means these birds are especially experienced and hunter-wary. However, Alabama has an extraordinary...
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I took advantage of the absolute beautiful weather we had the last 2 days and did some chainsaw work at the farm. Cut all the grape vines I could find, fell a bunch of trash trees in one area then hinged smaller maples to create bedding in what was open area before, hinged some maples in another area, and hinged and stacked to create 400 feet of wall along 2 sides of the woods to do some funneling. And when it was all done, I found 3 ticks. I look forward to seeing how everything does when it greens up.
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Imam Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti who was arrested for falsely implicating Rimsha Masih, a 14-year old mentally-challenged Christian girl of burning pages of the Quran in Aug 2012 has been acquitted by a trial court on Saturday for lack of evidence.
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During the trial, prosecution witnesses went back on their statements, blaming the police of coercion to testify against Chishti. Chishti's lawyer Advocate Syed Wajid Gilani called the verdict a 'victory of truth'.
The prosecution has alleged that Chishti desecrated the Quran to concoct evidence against Rimsha, a resident of a Christian slum in suburban Islamabad.
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The country's blasphemy law, a legacy of the former dictator General Zia ul-Haq, has led to vigilante acts by mobs on allegations of blasphemy, often as a means to settle personal scores.
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Following the arrest of Rimsha, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) reported of least 16 people who are on death row for blasphemy and at least 20 others who are serving life sentences. The USCIRF noted that more cases are reportedly brought against members of the Muslim majority than adherents of any other faith group, although religious minorities like Christians, Hindus, and Ahmadis are accused at a rate disproportionate to their tiny share of the population.


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The ARSC is aware that, in many instances, SSARSs reference the practitioner to statements on auditing standards. The ARSC is further aware that, for many practitioners, compilations and reviews represent the highest level of service performed and, therefore, those practitioners may be unfamiliar with the auditing literature. The ARSC determined that it would be in the best interest of practitioners performing compilations and reviews as well as in the public interest if certain references to the auditing literature were eliminated from the SSARSs and those concepts incorporated in the SSARSs. The proposed statement will eliminate those references to auditing literature from SSARSs and, where appropriate, incorporate guidance similar to that originally referenced.
The proposed statement would be effective for compilations and reviews of financial statements for periods ending on or after Dec. 15, 2007. Early application would be permitted.
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www.aicpa.org/Professional+Resources/Accounting+and+Auditing/ Audit+and+Attest+Standards/Exposure+Drafts+of+Proposed+Statements/
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Newton County is home to two big bicycle races a year, a bicycle club and one bicycle shop.
It's a relatively calm morning at the Newton County 911 center. Nate Stykes is giving instructions to a mother whose child is having a seizure. A few feet away, Love Frazier assures an elderly individual with chest pains that an ambulance is on the way.
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The 11Alive report from "The Investigators" on Newton County Attorney Tommy Craig, and the pay he received in 2014, brought a lot of attention to the Board of Commissioners this week, a lot of which was negative from the talk around the county and social media responses.
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Since 2012, when the plant closed its doors for good, the buildings at 9172 Industrial Dr., N.E., formerly Berry Plastics, have been slowly deteriorating.
Smoke may be present in Newton County today as a prescribed fire is being conducted in Jasper and Jones counties.
A traffic stop for a broken headlight led to the seizer of a 45 cal. handgun, a crack pipe and an open container of alcohol early Thursday morning.
A couple was arrested Friday evening after allegedly getting drunk and arguing with another person on Washington Street.
The cries of business owners along Hazelbrand Road have been heard, and it's possible the Georgia Department of Transportation will adjust its plans for the concrete median on U.S. Highway 278.
Golfers from around the community gathered Friday at The Oaks Course for the second annual B.C Crowell Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament. The tournament helped raise funds for the two $1,000 scholarships which are awarded to students from Eastside, Alcovy and/or Newton high schools.
The city continues to crackdown on unsanitary and unsafe housing, and some unlicensed apartments on Lunsford Circle in Covington are scheduled to be evacuated Thursday.
The City of Covington and Covington Main Street is the winner of the Georgia Downtown Association's Award of Excellence in Downtown Development. The award is presented to one city each year showing the greatest improvement in overall downtown redevelopment.
A Bishop man was killed early Thursday morning when he lost control of his vehicle on Interstate 20 near exit 101.
Southern Heartland Arts' annual "Artful Harvest" event took place Thursday evening with judges awarding first, second and third place awards to a variety of artists and styles of art. Afterwards refreshments were served and people had a chance to mingle and check out the art. The art will be on display in the meeting room of the Newton County Library on Floyd Street through Sept. 29 and is free to view. Many pieces are also available for purchase.
Three high school students were given citations after being caught with alcohol on the school bus Thursday afternoon.
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David NaDell wants to maintain the small, pleasant community in Mansfield, while improving the small things, such as roads and sidewalks. That's why he's running for the Post 4 council seat.
The newly formed NewRock Legal Society is hosting a Know Your Rights Forum Saturday to educate the public on the most common legal issues, including bankruptcy, debtor's rights, divorce, child support, criminal prosecutions, estate planning and personal injury law.
Need in Newton County is greater than ever before, and after giving out $13,700 in aid in August, FaithWorks is temporarily closed.
Two Newton County School System school buses were involved in a collision at the intersection of Brown Bridge Road and Magnet Road at approximately 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, September 15. The two buses (Bus 20-86, Veterans Route 6 and Bus 20-69, Veterans Route 7) were transporting students to Veterans Memorial Middle School.
To honor local firefighters and police officers on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, America's National Girl Kaitlyn Cole and Summer Hollis baked more than 600 cookies and delivered them to departments in Covington, Conyers, Walnut Grove, McDonough and Loganville.
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He's not exactly stepping aside quietly. Reaction to Eric Holder's resignation ranged from hagiographic to diabolical. Civil rights leaders praised him as the strongest attorney general since Bobby Kennedy. Fox News derided him as the nation's all-time worst attorney general, who left behind a "trail of scandals." Maybe we could all agree that Holder's legacy lies somewhere in between.
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One of the characteristics of the modern era is the emergence of new bureaucratic and social mechanisms for the management and control of violence. Our information-theoretic analysis of 150 years of spoken word testimony in the English criminal justice system provides new insight into this critical process. We show how, beginning around the 1800s, trials for violent and nonviolent offenses become increasingly distinct. Driven by a shifting set of underlying signals, this long-term shift in the underlying norms of the system involves both changes in bureaucratic practice and in civil society as a whole. This work validates new methods for the study of previously inaccessible epistemic phenomena hidden in historical archives — facts not only about what people did, but about what they could have known and could have believed. I conclude with new extensions of this work to the study of discourse and ideology in the French Revolution, through the Archives Parlementaires, and in the US Congressional Record.
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5-1-1 and need to reapply lime
Say the plan is to keep a plant in 5-1-1 for two years. You apply the initial lime charge. Furthermore, say you irrigate with distilled/pure/rain water. Will that type of water, the incorporated peat and the decomposing bark constantly try to drive the soil pH down below say 5.0, necessitating another lime application before the two year repot?
I'm no guru, but I've been growing in the 5-1-1 for several years now, and for the most part I don't re-apply lime. The 5-1-1 isn't really intended to be used longer than a season, but I think most of us are pressing it into service (to use one of Al's phrases) for more than one season. A couple years back, I did re-apply lime to my Moro blood orange by pulling back the surface mix and applying about a tablespoon all around, then replacing the mix so that the lime was covered. I watered well afterwards. However, I didn't notice any great difference in vitality, so I haven't bothered since.
I think the pH of the 5-1-1 will climb and stabilize, more or less, and as long as you are using a quality fertilizer, you should be good.


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UFO's and Extraterrestrial Aliens: Why
Earth Has Never Been Visited
Have alien intelligences from other parts of the universe visited the earth? This page is an attempt to rationally look at the issue of UFO's and extraterrestrials. Within the last few years, scientists have gained considerable knowledge about the universe so that the question of extraterrestrial visitations can be addressed from a scientific, rational perspective.
Aliens visiting from elsewhere in the universe?
Have we been visited by extraterrestrial beings from elsewhere in the universe? First, I would like to eliminate the idea that we have been visited by beings located outside our own galaxy. Andromeda, the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way is 2 million light years distant. This means that if there were aliens in Andromeda, it would take them longer than 2 million years to come to earth.1 Another problem is why they would want to visit our galaxy. The Andromeda galaxy is considerably larger than our galaxy. If life were common in the universe, there should be many times more of it in Andromeda, than in our wimpy galaxy. Why would they even want to visit us? A third problem for potential aliens is detecting us. We have been sending radio waves for less than 100 years. It will be another 2 million years before those signals reach our closest neighboring galaxy. The light (and other electromagnetic signals) that they now see represent the way the earth looked 2 million years ago. Beings in other galaxies would have no way of knowing that advanced life forms existed in our galaxy.
SETI - aliens in our own galaxy?
Scientists have been actively searching for extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy for the last forty years. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has extended out to 40,000 light years from earth (in comparison, the galaxy is 100,000 light years across).2 To date, no signal from any extraterrestrial stellar system has ever been detected.
How many alien civilizations in our galaxy?
The Drake Equation (named for Frank Drake, the originator of the equation) is a way to estimate how many intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations might inhabit our galaxy. Below is the Drake Equation:
N = R* x fs x fp x nE x fl x fi x fc x L
- R* = average star formation rate
- fs = fraction of "suitable" stars capable of supporting a habitable planet.
- fp = fraction of suitable stars with planets.
- nE = average number of "Earth-like" planets.
- fl = average fraction of Earth-like planets with life.
- fi = average fraction of life-bearing planets evolving at least one intelligent species.
- fc = average fraction of planets with intelligent civilizations capable of interstellar communication.
- L = average lifetime that a civilization remains technologically active and will use radio communication.
These are the values based upon the most recent astronomical data:
A most optimistic estimate for the number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy is 150. This would mean that each intelligent civilization would be separated by an average of 2,000 light years. Such vast distances make contact unlikely and finding other advanced civilizations improbable. If these civilizations exist, they will not detect our radio signals for another 1900 years. How will they even know we are here? For information on how these results were calculated, see the appendix. John Gribbin's new book, Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique, concludes with this statement, "The reasons why we are here form a chain so improbable that the chance of any other technological civilization existing in the Milky Way Galaxy at the present time is vanishingly small. We are alone, and we better get used to the idea."
Fermi Paradox - Where are they?
Enrico Fermi, a prominent nuclear physicist of the last century, asked the question, "Where are they? Shouldn't their presence be obvious?" Given at least 10 billion years for the existence of the Milky Way galaxy, one would think that intelligence would have developed before now - if life were common in the universe. Even at slow interstellar speeds, humans with advanced rocketry skills might be able to explore the galaxy in a few tens of million years. Some have suggested that aliens would choose not to reveal themselves to us. However, Frank Drake estimated that at least 10,000 advanced civilizations exist in the Milky Way. Carl Sagan raised the estimate to 1,000,000. Would all those civilizations stay at home or choose to conceal themselves from us? It seems highly unlikely. It would seem more likely that they do not exist.
Interstellar space travel - BIG problems
Obviously, our current rocket technology is incapable of providing the speed needed to make interstellar travel realistic. Matter/anti-matter engines might provide the power to accelerate near the speed of light. However, there is no way to contain or generate large amounts of anti-matter. The only way that we have produced anti-matter is through extremely large (miles across) particle accelerators. However, the meager few anti-matter particles generated are rapidly destroyed through interactions with ordinary matter. Nuclear power would provide a long-lived fuel supply for interstellar travel. Even so, such fuel would last only tens of years before being spent. Fusion power is yet to be harnessed, but, likewise, fuel would eventually run out. According to Frank Drake, "To send a spacecraft the size of a small airliner at one-tenth the speed of light requires as much energy as the US now produces in more than a hundred years."3 In fact, the minimum amount of fuel required for such a spacecraft is 100 tons (assuming that a fusion reactor converts mass into kinetic energy at 100% efficiency).4 This does not sound practical to me!
Assuming that fuel and propulsion problems could be eventually solved, there are other, more serious, problems to contend with. Traveling near the speed of light is no simple problem. Running into small particles (like the size of a grain of sand) would punch major holes in any spacecraft, due to the high speed of impact. According to Frank Drake, "At relativistic speeds, even a collision with a particle of a few grams results in something close in energy to a nuclear bomb blast. Not good news for the space travelers."3 A major biological problem seldom mentioned in the press is the blue shifting of the light from ordinary stars when traveling near the speed of light. The Doppler effect of traveling at such speeds would blue shift ordinary visible light all the way to the wavelength of gamma and x-rays. Shielding gamma rays is next to impossible (they can even travel through many feet of solid metal). When they do strike matter (like space traveler's bodies), the results are devastating. This problem alone might restrict the speed of space travel to a fraction of the speed of light.
Other significant problems would be involved in trying to keep biological organisms alive for many years of space travel. The lack of gravity would likely be fatal within a couple years (determined from the effects of prolonged weightlessness among the astronauts of the Space Station). Generating gravity would be possible through spinning, but might severely restrict the design of propulsion systems. In addition, it would be impossible to carry enough food and water for such a trip. Two solutions are possible - though not within the technology that we currently possess. One solution is to recycle all carbon and water. This process would have to involve capturing all biological waste (and dead bodies) and converting it back into food and water (doesn't sound appetizing, does it?). The idea of making a self-contained bio-habitat is appealing, but impractical, due to the large amount of space required. A recent attempt to do this on earth was a miserable failure, since the designers failed to provide enough space to support all members of the small crew. A second possible solution to the food problem would be to put the travelers into suspended animation. Currently, we have no idea how to do this, and it does not seem possible to do so.
What about all the sightings, Roswell, abductions, etc.
UFO believers would ask about Roswell, UFO sightings and alien abductions. The problem I have with the whole Roswell/government conspiracy thing is that there is not one piece of physical evidence. The government has never been able to keep any kinds of secrets - much less over a period of 40 years. Regarding abductions, none of the people involved have been shown to have any signs of tampering, which would be readily apparent by MRI.
PBS has a good series on why scientists are skeptical about UFOs and abductions. See the comments of
This paper has shown that the probability of aliens visiting the earth is virtually zero. Potential aliens in other galaxies are too far away to detect our presence (since radio signals will not reach them for millions of years) and the travel times make intergalactic travel impractical. Recent scientific studies demonstrate that the universe is much less hospitable to life than it would seem from our unique Solar System and planet. A large proportion of our galaxy is uninhabitable. Parts of it would not even be expected to produce rocky planets. The highly unlikely collision that produced our large moon prevented the earth from being a waterworld.5 It also ejected the majority of our primordial atmosphere, which prevented the earth from going through a runaway greenhouse effect similar to what happened to Venus, our sister planet. Finally, our Solar System is unique in that it has large gas giants located only in the outer regions. Other systems discovered have gas giants located either near their star or in both inner and outer regions of their planetary system. The presence of gas giants near the star would eject any rocky planets from orbit. The presence of gas giants in the outer region of planetary systems is absolutely necessary for the survival of advanced life forms. Without Jupiter, the number of catastrophic collisions that the earth would experience would be at least 10,000 times greater. So instead of suffering massive species extinction events every 100 million years, the earth would experience these events every 10,000 years.6 Only bacteria and other simple life forms would be able to survive this kind of bombardment - no advanced life could ever form in the vast majority of planetary systems. These problems indicate that there would be no more than 150 advanced civilizations within our galaxy - and, more likely, we are completely alone in our galaxy.
Interstellar space travel is much more difficult than indicated in movies and television series, such as Star Trek and Star Wars and the like. First, it is not possible to travel at speeds greater than the speed of light - the physics of the universe prevent it. Second, traveling near the speed of light is impractical for biological organisms. Collisions with particles even the size of a grain of sand would be catastrophic. An even worse problem is that the light from ordinary stars would be blue-shifted all the way to the gamma end of the spectrum when traveling near the speed of light. These gamma rays would destroy all biological life - even if it were in suspended animation (if that were possible). In essence, these problems would restrict the speed of travel to well below the speed of light. The most optimistic estimate for the presence of extraterrestrial civilizations would put them 2000 light years apart. With no intermediate habitable stopping points, space travel over this distance would be impractical. So, even if we are not alone in this galaxy, it would be highly unlikely that any extraterrestrial civilization could have visited us. What about all the "evidence" for extraterrestrials and UFOs? See the links below for more information.
Actual photo of aliens at Area 51
Related UFO Links
- UFOs and the Existence of Supernatural Demonic Forces
- Weird Life: Must Life Be Based on Carbon and Water?
- Crop Circle Confession: How to get the wheat down in the dead of night By Matt Ridley
- Mysterious Circles Fact or Fiction? - Just a couple of "good ole boys" with an artistic bent having fun on Friday nights! Sorry, no mystery here.
- Circular Reasoning: The 'Mystery' of Crop Circles and Their 'Orbs' of Light (Skeptical Inquirer September 2002)
- Nickell, Joe, and John F. Fischer. 1992. The crop-circle phenomenon: an investigative report. Skeptical Inquirer 16:2 (Winter), 136-149.
- How to Make Your Own UFO (from NASA)
- Alien Autopsy: Table of Contents - Have a good laugh at their mistakes!
- The Truth Is, They Never Were 'Saucers' - Psychic Vibrations (Skeptical Inquirer September 1997) - The original 1947 sighting said they looked like boomerangs that "flew erratic, like a saucer if you skip it across the water," but the reporter's account called them "flying saucers." The legend had begun...
Related Pages
- The Incredible Design of the Earth
- From the Beginning to Man- How God Declares His Love to Us Through the Design of the Universe
- Is the Chemical Origin of Life (Abiogenesis) a Realistic Scenario?
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Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe by Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee
A recent (2000) secular book that recognizes the improbable design of the earth. Paleontologist Peter D. Ward and astrobiologist Donald Brownlee examine the unusual characteristics of our galaxy, solar system, star, and Earth and conclude that ET may have no home to go to.
Appendix - how the results were calculated
- (average star formation rate) The current rate of star formation is ~3 stars/year. However, in the past, the rate was higher. The average rate over the history of our galaxy was ~10 stars/year.7
- fs
- (fraction of "suitable" stars capable of supporting a habitable planet) 95% of stars are smaller than the Sun.8 Small stars put out less energy, requiring potential life-containing planets to be closer to their star. The gravitational tidal effects result in synchronous rotation (where one side of the planet always faces the star), would affect atmospheric freeze-out due to the cold dark side. Large stars (more than twice the size of the Sun) burn erratically and rapidly (burn out in less than 1 billion years - too short to develop advanced life).8 Variable stars, neutron stars, and white dwarf systems are too unstable to support life. Only the area within 10,000 light years of the Sun are suitable stars (the galactic habitable zone).9 Radiation levels are too high near the center of our galaxy due to high densities. In addition, planetary orbits are likely to be less stable, due to stellar interactions. Stars in the outer region of our galaxy are unsuitable, since the rate of star formation is too low, resulting in low metallicity. Only about 20% of stars fall within the galactic habitable zone. Not only is the Sun within this zone, but it is between spiral arms, which puts it in a low density area. The Sun is at the co-rotation radius of the galaxy, which means that the orbits of surrounding stars are stable - proceeding at the same rate.10 In other regions of the galaxy, stars rotate at different rates around the galactic center, going in and out of the spiral arms as the galaxy rotates. The co-rotation radius is the only radius in the galaxy where stellar orbits do not interact. (0.05 * 0.2 = 0.01)
- fp
- fraction of suitable stars with planets. To date, about 10% of stars studied have planets orbiting them.11 Rocky planets cannot form unless the amount of metallicity is at least 60% of that of the Sun. The Sun is an unusually metal-rich star (richest out of 174 well-studied stars).8 The number of rocky planets is unknown, since none have been detected to date. Part of the problem is due to the limits of detection. This should change by 2009 when the Kepler Mission becomes operational.11 Optimistic estimates claim that rocky planets are common (at least 75% of systems will have them). However, if the abundance of rocky planets is similar to the percentage of stars that have gas giants, the estimate could go as low as 10% (and possibly much lower).
- nE
- average number of "Earth-like" planets. Not all rocky planets would be capable of supporting advanced life. Small rocky planets would loose their atmospheres (like Mars) shortly after formation. Large rocky planets would hold too much atmosphere, resulting in runaway greenhouse effect. Probably less than 10% of rocky planets would be right size to support advanced life. The habitable zone for planets is relatively small, representing less than 10% of the area where rocky planets might form. The planet must be able to support plate tectonics. Without plate tectonics, planets would be waterworlds (no dry land) and necessary nutrients would never be recycled. Intelligent life capable of communicating with us could not be exclusively aquatic, requiring the presence of land. Plate tectonics are a function of the thickness and composition of the crust and the presence of a large metallic core. None of the other rocky planets in our Solar System, other than earth, exhibit plate tectonics. Venus, which is nearly the same size as earth, does not have plate tectonics. Although driven by radioactive decay that keeps the mantle liquid, the ability of plate tectonics to function seems to be due to the removal of ~70% of the primordial crust of the Earth to a position in orbit overhead (during the collision that formed the moon).12 If that crust were returned and replaced on Earth it would fill the ocean basins with wall-to-wall continent. This would choke plate tectonics, as on Venus, and displace the oceans to flood the land to a depth of several miles. Nick Hoffman, Senior Research Scientist at La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia, claims that extraterrestrial "worlds will be, almost without exception, waterworlds."13 Although collisions would have been common during the accretion phase of formation of the Solar System, a highly unlikely collision would be required to eject the earth's crust into orbit and deposit the core of the collider into the earth's core. The probability of such an event would likely be less than 1 in 10,000. Other problems involve the presence of other gas planets in the stellar system. The current information on extrasolar planets indicate that a large percentage of the giant planets tend to migrate inward towards their star after formation, which would eject any Earth-sized planets from the habitable zone. A very optimistic estimate of this value would be 0.01. It is more likely that this value would be less than 0.00001.
- fl
- average fraction of Earth-like planets with life. This value is quite disputable and subject to a wide latitude of possible values. Many scientists assume that since the earth developed life at a time when the conditions were inhospitable, that life emerges on virtually every planet that is capable of supporting it, There are some major flaws with this idea. First, it is now known that the "prebiotic conditions" assumed to have been present soon after the earth's formation never existed. Oxidation of zircons over 4 billion years ago demonstrate that free oxygen was present on the earth before life emerged.14 None of the prebiotic chemistry works in the presence of even small amounts of free oxygen. Even with unrealistic "prebiotic conditions" the chemistry will not produce all the necessary biomolecules required for the first living system. In addition, hydrothermal sea vents, the current choice for the origin of life, would be unsuitable, since cell membranes cannot assemble in the presence of the salt of the oceans (See Is the Chemical Origin of Life (Abiogenesis) a Realistic Scenario?). Among all the 30,000 meteors collected on earth, none contain any evidence that life exists outside of the earth. The assumption that fl is nearly 1 is based upon the rapid appearance of life early in the history of the earth, which many claim indicates that it is easily produced abiotically in this universe. However, the science indicates that the biological precursors of living systems cannot be produced naturalistically, nor can they be assembled under conditions that existed on earth. Realistically this value would be very small - probably even zero.
- fi
- average fraction of life-bearing planets evolving at least one intelligent species. Intelligence is not something that would be expected to appear automatically. Taking the earth as an example, it took over 3 billion years for intelligent species to appear. Many worlds on which life might survive would be inhospitable to advanced life forms. For example, the rotation of the earth at its creation was complete in a scant 8 hours. At such rotation rates, a calm day would be characterized by 1,000 mph winds. Needless to say, intelligent beings would find it difficult surviving such conditions. The only reason the earth's rotation period is now 24 hours is because of our large moon. The gravitational braking of the moon has slowed the earth's rotation to a reasonable rate, while the earth's gravity has slowed the moon's rotation period to be in synchrony with its rate of revolution. Our large moon provides extraordinary stability to the inclination of the earth's orbit (23.5°).15 Most planets exhibit up to 90° flips over periods of millions of years. Flips in which one pole faces the star would result in temperature instabilities of major proportion. The side facing the star would get very hot, while the side facing away from the star would be extremely cold. The length of the planet's day would be the equivalent of the planet's year, with many months of scorching temperatures followed by many months of frozen winter. Plants would be unable to survive such conditions, resulting in the collapse of the entire planet's ecosystems. Our Solar System is unique in that it has large gas giants located only in its outer regions. Other systems discovered so far have gas giants located either near their star or in both inner and outer regions of their planetary system. The presence of gas giants near the star would eject any rocky planets from orbit. The presence of gas giants in the outer region of planetary systems is absolutely necessary for the survival of advanced life forms. Without Jupiter, the number of catastrophic collisions that the earth would experience would be at least 10,000 times greater. So instead of suffering massive species extinction events every 100 million years, the earth would experience these events every 10,000 years.5 Only bacteria and other simple life forms would be able to survive this kind of bombardment - no advanced life could ever form in the vast majority of planetary systems. Since we have discovered no other planetary systems (out of nearly 200 found to date) with large gas giants in a location to protect an inner planet from devastating impacts, we must put these odds at less than 0.01. The odds of a rocky planet having a collision to form a large stabilizing moon would also be much less than 0.01. Therefore, a very optimistic estimate of fi would be 0.0001 (0.01 x 0.01). It is much more likely that the value would closer to one in a million.
- fc
- average fraction of planets with intelligent civilizations capable of interstellar communication. It would seem that any intelligent civilization would eventually develop the ability to communicate through radio signals (unless they destroyed themselves with nuclear weapons). It would seem that this value would be close to one, although it would be difficult to estimate scientifically.
- average lifetime that a civilization remains technologically active and will use radio communication. The lifetime of civilization is difficult to estimate, but we can get an idea from our own planet. It took 4.5 billion years for advanced life to appear on the earth. The earth will be completely inhospitable to life within the next billion years due to increased solar luminosity (maybe sooner with human-caused global warming).16 According to Peter Ward, "The presence of complex life on the Earth will end in no more than a billion years (and perhaps much sooner), due to a sequentially predictable breakdown of habitable systems on our planet.") Therefore, we can expect an average advanced civilization to exist for about one billion years. However, it is likely that additional factors may make this time much shorter. We are currently releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at a rate that could cause a runaway greenhouse effect in a period of a few hundred years. Fortunately, it seems that the oceans have absorbed a large amount of that extra carbon, potentially saving us from our own self-induced doom.
- It is physically impossible to travel at the speed of light or faster. In addition, it takes near infinite energy to accelerate an object from stationary to the speed of light. For this reason, interstellar travel can only be a fraction of the speed of light. Realistically, it would probably take at least 20 million years.
- Relentless Evolution: Great Debates Part V
- The amount of energy the U.S.A. produces over 200 years is equal to 1.6 x 1022 joules. 1 kg of mass produces 9 x 1016 joules if all the mass is converted to energy (E=mc2), assuming nuclear fusion could be controlled. This means that the minimum amount of fuel required for such a trip is 180,000 kg (200 tons), which would be more than the weight of the spacecraft itself. This assumes 100% efficiency in converting mass to energy (which, of course is impossible). The amount of energy required to go even faster than 1/10 the speed of light goes up so that infinite energy would be required to travel at the speed of light. Obviously, infinite energy would require infinite mass to produce.
- The Moon And Plate Tectonics: Why We Are Alone
- Life on Earth: How Jupiter Helped and Hurt
- Lecture 35: Intelligent Life in the Universe from Terry Herter, Cornell University.
- Lecture 24: Is There Other Intelligent Life in the Universe?
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Search of the Milky Way's Habitable Zone
Forming Other Earths
- Mishurov, Y.N. and L. A. Zenina. 1999. Yes, the Sun is Located Near the Corotation Circle. Astronomy & Astrophysics 341: 81-85.
- The
Kepler Mission: Looking for Earth-sized Worlds
In globular cluster 47 Tucanae, scientists found zero extrasolar planets out of 37,000 stars searched (Astronomers Ponder Lack of Planets in Globular Cluster from the Hubble Space Telescope).
- The Moon And Plate Tectonics: Why We Are Alone
- Venus - What the Earth would have been like
- Bortman, H. 2001. Life
Under Bombardment from the NASA Astrobiology Insititute. - Alternating
layers of oxidized iron in the so-called banded iron formation from Akilia
Island in West Greenland demonstrates that free oxygen has been present on
earth longer than 3.85 billion years.
Dimroth, E. and M. Kimberley. 1976. Precambrian atmospheric oxygen: Evidence in the sedimentary distributions of carbon, sulfur, uranium, and iron. Can. J. Earth Sci., 13:1161-1185.
Carver, J. H. 1981. Prebiotic atmospheric oxygen levels. Nature 292: 136-138.
Ohmoto H., Y. Watanabe, H. Ikemi, S.R. Poulson, B.E. Taylor. 2006. Sulphur isotope evidence for an oxic Archaean atmosphere. Nature 442:873-874.
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