ZachKessin

The air will conduct heat, but not very well, it is very thin, very dry and very cold.

Mars rotates at an angle of about 25Degrees, Earth is about 23Degrees, the closest bright star to the pole would be Deneb, which is in Cygnus, but I don’t think it is very close to the pole.

Mars does have seasons, but they would be about twice as long as ours as a year on Mars is about 687 Earth Days. You can actually see the polar ice on mars advancing and retreating with the seasons from Earth with a decent telescope. I would expect that you could in fact keep track of that with about $600 worth of telescope and a sketch pad

I think ‘screen names’ are a very bad thing. The biggest danger of the internet, as I see it, is the anonimity it provides.

Thats why I post under my legal name*, If I can’t sign my name to it I probably should not say it on the internet (or anywhere else)

* Or at least something pretty close to it, I don’t use my middle name here for example, but you get the point

Some notes on mars:

The problem is that air conditioning won’t work, since there is no air to cool the coils.

Actually there is air on Mars, not very much of it, but some. You would not be able to breath it (wrong chemistry and not nearly enough pressure)

As for Luna (Earth’s moon) it would actually be visible from Mars, Earth would appear as a double planet. However Mars’s moons are very small and have very fast orbital periods.

A “day” on Mars is called a “Sol” and is about 25 hours.

How to construct a Mikva or Sukkah on Mars is left as an exercise for those more creative than I.

First of all 90% of what you read on the internet is wrong, some of it is mis-informed some of it is out right lies. There has not been a single scientific paper ever to show any link between autism and vaccinations.

However in almost every case where vaccination rates drop if the virus or bacteria is still in the environment outbreaks happen!

If you think that vaccinations are a scam aimed at hurting children ask yourself this question… how many children do you know who have been killed recently by Measles, Mumps, Polio, Whooping cough, Diphtheria or Smallpox? For most people reading this that number will be 0, if we had been somehow having this conversation in 1911 and not 2011 It would have been MUCH higher.

My father is a micro-biologist and he recommends anyone who works in public health should take a walk threw a grave yard from the 19th century to see all the graves of children and know exactly why public health is such an important field of work.

(My grandfather had Diptheria in his youth, he missed a year of school because of it, thankfully he survived and lived to be 99 years old)

I assume most people here have seen a small child learn to walk. While they are doing it they fall down. Well when they do you pick them up and have them try again.

Life is much like that. Sooner or later something you try is going to go wrong and knock you down. The secret is to get back up and learn from it. Most (all?) successful people had a number of failures and setbacks on the way to being successful, the secret is to learn from them and try not to make the same mistakes again.

For example back in the 1980’s Steve Jobs got fired by Apple and spent 10 or 15 years doing other thing before coming back to Apple to become one of the best CEO’s in America.

Albert Einstein college of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Which is where Charlie is a professor. And as for why he is not here, he has been swamped with work for a while now.

We spoke a few hours ago over facebook and he is fine (if very busy)

Not to mention that if you are getting the Degree to get a job, most Hiring managers can tell the difference. If you send me a CV with a such a degree on it, there is about a 99% chance it will just go right into the “NO” stack.

THe moon landings (all 6 off them) were real. Most of the “Evidence” that it was fakes is really flimsy and falls apart if you look at it closely.

Plus if it was faked why didn’t the Russians say anything. They easily could have tracked the missions from the ground.

Oh and there is Gravity on the moon, its about 1/6 of that on Earth.

I would also say that renting on the short term basis can make sense if the couple does not have the cash to buy and own a house. Buying a house that you loose 5 years later because you can’t afford the payments is not a good deal.

One of the biggest challenges for any couple is money. Being on the same page with regards to money will be a key factor in success of a couple. After 7 years my wife and I are still working on this and trying to really nail it.

We are currently doing Dave Ramsey’s FPU class which has been a great help for us.

I think the MythBusters took this one on a while back. A trip to their web site should give you a definitive result. But I think you are going to get wet either way.

Start towing them if they park in the handicap spaces and they don’t have a sticker. That will get them to stop.

Many years ago I lived in London and cycled to work. One thing drivers don’t realize that that when you are on a bike you see things that drivers don’t. Many things like say a storm drain or broken glass on the road are real hazards to someone on a bicycle, while can be ignored for the driver of a car.

He’s fine, I spoke to him the other day. He’s just been busy with work and stuff. ANd Coffee Addict, chill, Charlie is one of the nicest people you could every hope to know.

So my point is that it is not that I am incapable, but rather didn’t know that grammer, punctuation and spelling really counted in the CR!

Grammar, punctuation and spelling always count! Being able to write well is about the most important skill you can have.

As for the most fun thing I’m doing this summer… We made a wedding last month but for the rest of the summer, it will be job hunting. Before someone asks for me Job hunting has been a lot of fun!

In my case Linux. I have been running Linux as my primary desktop for 20 years. It is stable, virus free and oh yea *FREE*, as is most of the software. check out http://www.ubuntu.com/

I could also be a generic term for “I can’t quite put my finger on it, but something feels off”. I find that when my gut tells me that about something It is generally a good idea to listen.

How can an American (living in the U.S.) obtain a second citizenship?

There are a few ways

1) Be defended from someone who is from a country where you can get citizenship

2) Move to a different country and become a citizen (rules will vary by country)

3) Make Aliyah to Israel.

Just a side note, if you do say go to a treif place and bring outside food, please leave a tip for the wait staff as if you had ordered! Those folks work hard to pay their bills and there is no reason to make them loose out o a tip due to you. (And of course be nice to them etc)

Definitely a Zionist! Moving to Israel was the best thing I ever did.

I don’t know what VB.net positions go for. A salary in that range is not totally out of the question for a programmer in Israel. But it is on the high side. So if you want to hit that kind of number you will have to be a top notch person and be able to really bring your “A” Game to work every day.

So far no one has figured out who I really am.

Really have people over! Are we really worried that two people are going to do something they shouldn’t while the host’s wife is in the kitchen getting desert and the guest’s husband goes to the bathroom? Lets use some common sense here.

I would be very careful with timeshares, the satisfaction rating for them industry wide is about 8% and they are basically unsalable once you buy them. Really avoid the things.

Have him put his hat in a backpack. That is how I used to carry stuff on my bike. About 12 years ago I lived in London and commuted to work on a bicycle.