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Actually, it doesn't, the Georgian hominids represent the prototypical Homo erectus, but there were already prototypes of ergaster in Africa, namely australopithicus africanus, sediba, and homo rudolfensis. The only major difference is cranial capacity, which is variable in the georgian early archaics and the sample size of rudolfensis is too inadequate to tell. The Desinovan hominid has mostly neandertal DNA, but has traces of older archaics which includes an mtDNA that date to before 1.5 mya for the TMRCA with humans and neanderthals. How we can deduce that Africa was the source is that morphological variance in Africa for late australopithicus and Homo is much greater that in Asia from the period of 1.5 mya to 2.0 mya. This is indicative of a movement of genes from one place to another. Clearly Dmanisi was part of the groups of hominids, may have migrated in and out of Africa, but eventually something similar established in Eurasia. After which there appears to have been one or more migrations from Africa, this may have included the ancestors of most of the desinovans, classic Neanderthals and finally homo sapiens. However it is not clear whether desinovan evolved from European 'heidelbergensis' or African as there have been hominids that are morphologically similar and show a continuity of evolution all the way to Skhul V. Then finally it is probable but not clear that homo florensiensis evolved from Erectus, the hominim had many features similar with Georgian, but also feature similar to australopithicus, so it could have represented an additional wave from Africa. Given the 5 or so somewhat distinct morphotypes of homo erectus after 500kya in Asia, it is probable that most evolved from a single root population before 1 mya. The modern human population as a whole is about 98% Out of africa after 140 kya (this includes all mtDNA and all Y chromosome types). Japanese, according to Sarah Tishkoff have as much as 6% of Neandertal-like DNA, and the latest studies from specific tribes in Papua New Guinea show them with about 15% (although I haven't had a chance to read the paper). The larger regional percent is nodal at about 8%. And of course the last Neandertals were observed in Gibralter Spain, whose Neandertal percent is 2%. Even Paabo, who discovered the Neandertal DNA suggest that admixture occurred in SW asia before 40kya, and this could have included NE Africa. The latest claim from desinovan recombination studies is a very small number (1, 2) desinovan-DNA carriers mixed with humans in PNG, this is what happens with founder effects. I suspect a similar result with Neandertals, but that there are cryptic additional events in Asia. I pick the anthropocene, cause its got a catchy new name that starts with something like the KT (CP) boundary, that is something really bad starts to happen in a very short period of time.

I was just remembering the Wrath of Khan, and Kirks crippled ship with a whole bunch of killed crew and the engineering core flooded with tachyon particles? But, some how the manage to break orbit on impulse and cross into a nebula and suddenly his ship is invisible. Some how I don't think that a moon sized planet is going to have a nebula boundary within less than the distance between the Earth and moon, maybe the boundary is the width of the opposing heliopause.

I don't think that is the cap, I think they are holding power until the nose cone is deployed, then they go to full. There is actually some logic to this, because their space craft does not have an optimal, prograde angle angle. You can tell because the stage 1 rises first relative to the camera as the space craft has pitched up and view is pointing down, as the spacecraft gains thrust the stage 1 comes back into view and quickly disappears on the anti-horizon side of the image. So it kind of makes sense to push up deploy the nose cone while the remnant atmosphere is thinning then turn and go full power. You can tell when the Merlin is close to full power, the outside edge of the bell starts to flex About T+3:00, but if you want to see real flexing of the bell go to about 3:45 and watch the velocity increasing and the amount of flexing. By 4:20 minutes its gaining about 21kmh/sec with a TWR almost double (1.61) that of 2::52. The second stage has a burn time of 397 seconds and thus in has burned maximally 24% of the fuel, so yeah through 3 minutes and to 4 minutes the second stage engine is still powering up, not likely due to bell housing temperature effects either. Another thing is that you can see vibrational gimbling from 3:00 goes on and may be causing some of the optical illusion that the bell housing is flexing.

But there is also alot more bounce when the Merlins are at (full power) versus cut to 90%.

It may only be the main engine that is set to do this. I was watching the Merlin vacuum engine at low speed, it appears to go through a prolonged power up, it does not reach its full power up for many seconds after initiation. Go to +2:44 (21:17 in the CRS-8 Technical video) and set you you-tube settings to 0.25 rate. Its starts at a velocity of about 4/10ths of second later and velocity starts slowing down its drop, previously about -20 kmh/second. The initial quarter of a second dropped the decline to about -10 kmh/second, the next quarter second the drop is around 0 kmh/sec and it holds that for about 2/3rds of a second, then is ramps up power again to gain 3 kmh/secong (Remembering we start with -20, the angle of attack has risen after decoupling so is fighting more gravity) About 2 seconds after the original engine engage it increases to 6 kmh/second and by 5 seconds later is about 9 kmh/second, after this the power up slows. If we remember the boosting topped out at about 3.6g of ground relative acceleration. 9kmh/s is about 0.25g and given the ground deceleration and loss of potential (we are not aware of) the engine is only producing TWR of 0.8. The video makes the acceleration to look greater than it is, its actually kmh/3.6 which gives meters per second.

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-mercury-transit-science-20160506-story.html Watch the click bait stuff.

how about aquabaking? Another one put extendable propellar blades as drag planes and allow it to autorotate onto the barge, of course covered with very flammable cardboard, on top of the aerogel on top of the barge (for lithobraking), on top of the water for aquabreaking. The best of all possible ways to smash something into 100s of spinning, radiating, on fire, shattered, and finally wet pieces.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-s-icy-moon-hydra

In theory the states should be predetermine. What the media release says, a photon is carrying information, it interaction in an optical fiber 25km from a crystal and the information is then conveyed to a crystal where the second photon of a pair resides. We are seeing article after article demonstrating variations of this idea.

I was thinking mars.

Mercury

Barge made of aerogel covered with a ton of really flammable cardboard boxes,

I think the heat is low density enough its not too much of a problem, the real stress is in flight, particularly around Mach 1.5, when the boundary layer basically passes the plume. I would think the bay is already pretty fire resistent given its a rocket engine.

I cant, the numbers immediately follow text with no space in between often so close that the first number is touching the last letter of text. The superscipts and subscipts are rendering as non-offset normal sized fonts. The fonts themselves make the numbers look screwy, for example a zero looks like an "o". Normally its a good idea to create an html table or similar. There were a few other small things.

Computers are not getting faster, they are laterizing into tasking. If you need a single fast processor, its all but stopped.

Numeric fonts superscript and subscripts not rendering on the IPAD.

Not in our core area, but kind of cool for the biology minded out there http://www.iflscience.com/environment/super-salty-murderous-deadpool-lurks-bottom-gulf-mexico http://www.iflscience.com/environment/watch-lava-tube-draining-lake

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/failure-is-moving-science-forward/?ex_cid=538fb

aestethics, nothing is cooler than an old beat up pickup truck. Get someone out there with a squeegee and clean out a swath thats says "Clean me!". Better yet, get a tagger to spray paint a cartoon of the Tazmanian devil on the side, thats how you spiff up old frieght cars.

You know your right, at least I was consistent up until this point, I disagree with you. lol. Mars is hard, there's no doubt about it, but if SpaceX can keep cracking launches into orbit and landing on barges, gets easier. When you get close to 60 you'll find that arguing with success has little odds.

You lost the argument, your ego has been hurt but you can stop with the diversions now. Nope, I found that your reference was drawn from wikipedia, but you purposefully did not provide the reference and wikipedia reference was an unmarked deadlink, both articles references are, in fact, deadlinks. I then tracked down the source of the deadlink (otherwise known as a low performance duck-duck go web search), which absolutely refuted what you said; and so to conclude, and I understand your reply, its emotive. Next time when you enter these conversations with others I will simply reference them back to my previous post, in this way maybe you will do better research and stop carelessly using hype. In the past we have entered these conversations, they typically evolve the same way, you are refuted and get your feelings hurt, I understand, the way to prevent this is to do better research.

For once im in agreement with Freddino how can that be. All you need to do is to put a docking hub in reasonably stable LEO, an orbit that can say last 6 months, start launch 90 million dollar kerosine supply launches into LEO, in the last launch supply Oxygen and have a recycler already on the hub and feedback lines (some tech may be required to get interlocks on the lines. You can get, the docking port 2 kerosine and 2 L02, it aint that difficult to recycle O2 as long as you have a liquid/gas separator. You can then place your Mars mission on the 5th port and the last kero/O2 tank on the last port and its main engine, it literally be just a stage 2 with an extra tank. In this way you can boost the falcon 9 heavy from LEO to as you move from earth you drop 1 ox and 1 kero docks then another 1 ox and 1 kero and then you have more than enough to do a Mars insertion and mars return. The cost here is 90x7 ~ < billion dollars. If SX can get there BC and CC synchronized they could literally be launching 2 rockets at once.

Theory and observation are two different things, I have to read their paper, unless you have a copy and paste some of the results here, then it will be next year. I know the theory, I've written here on the restriction, but the article says that photon X which is deterministic slams into Y2 and Xs information shows up in Y1, now I know how media hype leaves out important details. This particular hype is making the claim the Angie+ greets Bob and he becomes Bob-, it may be the case that Bob+ is ignored, in which case Angie+Bob- is selective, in which case Bob+ will only be observed when AngieBob are detected, but in that case they did not say this. The issue here is whether bob is predetermine or indeterminate until biased observation. Couple of other things that were not stated 1. They did not give time stamp information. 2. They did not inform whether the crystal block was the source of the photon or trapped the photon from a different source. 3. Was X deterministic or was XY2 deterministic in which case it was not communication. The devil here is in the details. But it appears that the state of technology is very close. One of the papers mentioned that they cant get around closed time-like curve limitations by making certain that the loops never close back on one the space-time cone. This thread begins with a question mark, unusual claims need unusual levels of support.

Not just horizontal it also carries greater verticle. Why don't we ask SpaceX to feed all thier telemetry here, lol.

But if you look at the largest galaxy in the universe from the visible edge its just a spec, its nothing more than a emotional argument. We humans are, for better or worse, what we are and we live on the planet we live on. Theology is just a good excuse to fight, there is an endless list of other irrational reasons. Its not a cause to reason, its to the point that some of the most ferocius warriors have come to state that war is not the best aswer to the problem, and yet when a war-worthy crisis shows up 95% of niave individuals will support it. I have to remind you that the same group that 'lied to themslves' built the backbone of modern science, in some universites the science degree goes along with the theology degree. I have my personal distaste of modern faith, but im not going to reinvent the past to hide from the facts of sciences modern origin. I think the way out fir humans to recognize thier behaviors so that they can fully mature before having one foot in the grave. This is so that they can live a bigger proportion of there lives contributing to a socially robust and war resistent societies. If humans can do this we could do this then our threat to aliens markedly subsides, but also we can get off the rock and start colonizing this solar system and building the infrastructure required tongo interstellar. And yes we are special, at least in our neighborhood, maybe even further, its really immaterial if there is sentient life in every galaxy, if its not within a few lifetimes of light years, its not really relevant to how we progress. Only spirit to be outstanding or progessive has divinity, our flesh does not bind it, the characteristics of those aliens and their characters that make them great amoung themselves they might have thier own special ideas. The problem with life, as you look around here on earth and elsewhere, its a struggle to survival, a wild animal that is being rescued for its survival still attacks its rescuer. Paranoias are build into our survival, and people do silly things in an attempt to survive. Humans epitomize the problem, we left ancestors and traveled to different environments, and finally since the neolitihc there has been this fast pace cultural revolution and in this you have anti-civil hoards like the huns and mongols that mess all up. Its no wonder paranoias exist, who would have guessed in1918 that germany would have controlled everything from Moscow to the Pyrenees in 15 years. So its a matter of breaking the cycle of corruption and war.