Poor bacterial inhabitants of Ganymede's central plateau, always being shafted by uniform map projections.

Half hour time switches seem to make a lot of sense if the sun is what you're concernet about. Take mexico (from the map above). It would be green in one time zone and red in the previous.

Relevant how?

My wife has these, and is also incredibly superstitious. As a psychologist I have been trying to explain the phenomenon to her but I'm stuck for help. How, good people, can I try and explain to her that these aren't malicious spirits?

It's a good job they didnt go into the detail of him wetting himself like in the book.

Glad to hear it =)

I'd completely agree. That experience matches neatly with my wife's experience of being a digital artist. She says that you can't just pick up a stylus if you have no experience of painting. To add to that, she creates traditional components to use in digital works, and often lines on paper first if she's doing comics.

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Thousands worldwide would probably be an understatement. And are you telling me that said illustrator did not train with pen and paper? I'm not saying that CAD has no place, but it certainly hasn't rendered traditional methods pointless.

I couldn't agree more. It isn't to say that final end proposals aren't made using software, but the best designers have perfected their art with pen and paper. And pen and paper (and letter transfers) can still cut it at the proposal stage.

Thanks to OCAD, we can now say goodbye to ink, brushes, gouache, rule pens, drafting tables, and rub-down letters.

It's still done this way by many thousands of professionals.

Not necessarily, just not very secure in it's maintenance and construction. Maester Aemon seemed pretty concerned and he was south of the wall.

What you have in that interview is a great scientist attempting (and failing) to communicate, and a great communicator who is also a scientist. If you can find it, check out Jim Al Khalili's series on chemistry.

I agree, that threw me too. Spartan might have been what they were going for.

Got to say, it would probably go a long way if resources could be put towards the website. Flashy may not be inherently interesting, but it does say a lot about an orginisation.

You can tell that the Acronym defines the meaning rather than the reverse when Nasa has never released a SQXIG probe.

It's an internet miracle.

In things like this they usually have a worst case safety range, incase it flew horizontal with all its fuel, straight for a bright red wheeled water carrying object.

I seem to remember commenting about Barclay somewhere else =p

You never can have enough :D

Incorrect.