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"You'll need to suffer to make any real art"
"Nothing is more real than nothing"
“A goal without a plan is only a wish”
"You'll need to suffer to make any real art"
"Nothing is more real than nothing"
“A goal without a plan is only a wish”
Значение ты угадал, только целиком фразу не захватил. Это 'make up with'.
Когда начинаешь угадывать значение слова по контексту это же хороший знак, да?
Спасибо за ссылку
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Так как я всё равно здесь, вкину как в старые добрые
Good morning chat
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Martian soils do not contain water. And they do.
Until recently it was believed that water on Mars exists only in polar ice caps and, probably, deeply underground. The rest of the territory was believed to be dry deserts, mountains, rocks and craters. Even though the temperature there is below the freezing point of water, at the Martian low atmospheric pressure water and ice would evaporate very quickly.
However, in an experiment conducted by scientists of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the USA, with the use of unique tools of the Curiosity rover water was found. It is present in quantities sufficient for providing water supply for future manned missions to Mars. Unexpectedly, it was found right on the surface, in the tiny sedimentary debris similar to sand, which scientists call "the Martian dirt".
The experiment was designed to detect gases locked in the Martian dirt. A tiny piece of dirt, no larger than a half of a baby aspirin pill, was scooped from the surface and put into a special instrument, the Tunable Laser Spectrometer, where it was heated to 835 degrees Celsius, after which the released gases were analyzed.
It appeared that the dirt contains water in quantity of about 2% of its mass. Out of one cubic foot of the dirt it is possible to extract about two pints of water (or about a liter of water out of 27 liters of dirt) by just heating it to several hundred degrees. However, this water is not suitable for drinking, because the same dirt releases chlorine, about 0.5% of its mass.
Unlike free water, which evaporates on the surface of Mars very quickly, this water does not evaporate because it is chemically bound to grains of certain minerals in the dirt.
The experiment was repeated with several samples taken in different places, and the outcome of each was the same. Scientists believe that all plain surfaces are covered with this kind of dirt.
This text is based on the information presented in the BBC popular science radio programmes.
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"You'll need to suffer to make any real art"
"Nothing is more real than nothing"
“A goal without a plan is only a wish”
BoBr,
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How The Internet Is Destroying Your Brain
-Just Being Online Makes You Really, Really Depressed
It has been theorized for basically as long as the Internet has been publicly available that being online can make you seriously, clinically depressed. It’s not an assertion made without evidence, as numerous surveys of infrequent-to-addicted internet users show a positive correlation between their number of web surfing hours logged and their subsequent feelings of sadness, isolation, and alienation. Some critics postulate that heavy use of the internet more than doubles a person’s chance of being depressed;others say that the internet might not be depression’s trigger so much as it is its refuge.
-Online Socializing Makes You Insular
When communicating in person, the entire interaction is punctuated with non-verbal cues that can totally supercede the meaning of the words within it. Absent the conversation partner right in front of you to indicate his or her sarcasm or sincerity, you have only your own filters through which to interpret the language. It should come as no surprise that your internal filters are surprisingly dependent on your present mood; thus a semantically ambiguous phrase like “no thanks” sent after a particularly rough commute home is much more easily-absorbed as a sardonic dismissal instead of–and perhaps how it was intende–a mere polite refusal.
If the opposite happens, and you are endowed with a ton of friends on Facebook or some other social media site, other studies have demonstrated that your stress levels are likely through the roof. The higher your friend count, they say, the more likely you are to be consumed with publishing bite-sized and socially acceptable aspects of your personality to the online public, which only exacerbates issues with your real-life relationships. The end result: the stress of maintaining online friends prevents you from making–and maintaining–any more real ones.
-It Encourages Multitasking, Which Reduces Your Ability To Task, Period
The Internet, with the aid of computer hotkeys, has given its users the incredibly easy ability to jump between tasks, subjects and ideas within a matter of seconds. Because there’s no wait, we make these jumps frequently–really frequently–about every two minutes. Except we never actually utilize the “multi” part–or even the “task” part of the Internet’s supposed gift. Instead, we get caught in the ceaseless mental doldrums between interrupting and restarting. And so, given that clear memories of single events are unattainable on the Internet, the brain attempts to compensate for that with blurry, multiple-exposure memories of everything that happened.
Multi-tasking in this sense can reduce one’s ability to pay attention at all, and in turn reduces our ability to think critically and problem solve. Studies have shown that after a while, your ability to recall memories starts to deteriorate, along with your IQ. The more one multi-tasks, the greater the cognitive damage becomes and the harder it is for you to recover. And if these habits begin in childhood, the risk of developing an attention deficiency disorder spikes, as well as many other behavior problems down the line.
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Марс отказался покорятся
2125: A Dark Day
Source: Sentinel NewsOrg
Uploaded: Mid-Atlantic Servers @ 7:53EST
Author: Kelsey Forset
START FILE . . .
Today is a dark day. In the pursuit of human advancement, the history books tend to favor the brave men and women who succeed. The Wright Brothers, the John Glenns, the Edwin Pierces distinguished themselves because they were the ones that did it, that made it through. But around the monolith of every achievement are the bodies of those that tried and failed. Today is a dark day and today we’re going to celebrate the brave men and women who laid down their lives in the tragedy that struck Mars at 04:38 EST this morning.
While the public waits for an official statement regarding what happened, our sources have indicated that a chemical miscalculation in the planetary atmospheric processors made the new atmosphere unstable. “[The atmosphere] didn’t stick,” said a government official who asked not to be named. The planet was in the final stages of terraforming. An oxygen-sustaining environment had been in place for the past two weeks. The scientific community on the planet were still vetting the system but were two days away from officially declaring the planet secure.
This confidence in the atmosphere meant that none of the crew were wearing the appropriate breathing apparatus. While technically a violation of operating protocol, we are told that there was no indication for the ground crew to assume that the atmosphere was anything but stable. Whatever was ultimately responsible happened so fast that no one was able to sound an alarm or seal the ventilations of the various installations around the planet.
The tragedy will no doubt rekindle the long-standing arguments about the merits of terraforming. In the President’s blog-statement this morning, she addressed the possibility of an International committee to investigate how to move forward from this. “While I understand that the notion of terraforming stirs emotions both for and against, the four thousand eight hundred and seventy-six souls died working to push humanity forward, we need to make sure that whatever decision we come to, we move forward honoring the sacrifice made by the heroes of Mars.”
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Новые слова
Favor - Оказывать предпочтение (to choose or prefer one possibility); Оказывать предпочтение (to act unfairly by treating one person better than another)
Distinguish - Различать (to recognize the differences between two people, ideas, or things); Выделять, делать особенным (to make one person or thing seem different from another)
Notion - Понятие, представление (an idea or belief)
Stir - Мешать, взбалтывать (to mix food or liquid by moving a spoon, or similar object, round and round in it); Волновать, возбуждать (to make someone feel a strong emotion)
Vetting это же вентилировать?The scientific community on the planet were still vetting the system but were two days away from officially declaring the planet secure.[свернуть]
Star Citizen Lore
Последний раз редактировалось Void92; 31.05.2017 в 09:25.
Void92,
Еще stir - легкое физическое движение: "Branches stirred gently in the wind, scratching at one another with wooden fingers."
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