"Giant mystery blob discovered near the dawn of time"
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The link to the article with the above-mentioned title in today's Insider is IE7-lethal. The same link in the online version does the same thing. I'm at work, where Firefox ist verboten. Yes, Kent, it kills Internet Explorer 7. It navigates to the article, and just when it's settled down enough to read, BOOM! :sigh:. Update: The direct link to the article is http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517471,00.html[^].
Software Zen:
delete this;I was just pondering the concept that astronomers looking at the sky are of course looking into the past. And this raised a question: how can we have any idea what the universe looks like at this current point in time? I've see a couple of 3d maps of "the universe" but how did they build these? As you get further away it's the universe as it was when the light left. It's rather like trying to build a picture of the world's current events via geography: for every mile from where you are now, subtract 1 year. So sitting here in Surrey, UK in 2009: Central London is 20 miles away. So it's 1989 and Mrs Thatcher is still the Prime Minister, and the Berlin Wall is about to disappear. Over in Paris it's 1866 and Claude Monet has been exhibitiing some new paintings. In New York it's 1100BC. In San Francisco it's about 3500BC and there might be the last few remaining Mammoths wandering around.
'Howard
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
it kills Internet Explorer 7.
Not for me, it doesn't. Works fine (IE7 on XP, all fully patched).
IE7 on XP SP2, fully patched. Navigating to the direct link in my updated post works fine, so maybe there's something in the way the news item referal via CP is handled. Of course, I have no idea what the network Gestapo where I work does to our web activity as it goes by.
Software Zen:
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I was just pondering the concept that astronomers looking at the sky are of course looking into the past. And this raised a question: how can we have any idea what the universe looks like at this current point in time? I've see a couple of 3d maps of "the universe" but how did they build these? As you get further away it's the universe as it was when the light left. It's rather like trying to build a picture of the world's current events via geography: for every mile from where you are now, subtract 1 year. So sitting here in Surrey, UK in 2009: Central London is 20 miles away. So it's 1989 and Mrs Thatcher is still the Prime Minister, and the Berlin Wall is about to disappear. Over in Paris it's 1866 and Claude Monet has been exhibitiing some new paintings. In New York it's 1100BC. In San Francisco it's about 3500BC and there might be the last few remaining Mammoths wandering around.
'Howard
Howard Richards wrote:
In San Francisco it's about 3500BC
That could account for a lot.
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I was just pondering the concept that astronomers looking at the sky are of course looking into the past. And this raised a question: how can we have any idea what the universe looks like at this current point in time? I've see a couple of 3d maps of "the universe" but how did they build these? As you get further away it's the universe as it was when the light left. It's rather like trying to build a picture of the world's current events via geography: for every mile from where you are now, subtract 1 year. So sitting here in Surrey, UK in 2009: Central London is 20 miles away. So it's 1989 and Mrs Thatcher is still the Prime Minister, and the Berlin Wall is about to disappear. Over in Paris it's 1866 and Claude Monet has been exhibitiing some new paintings. In New York it's 1100BC. In San Francisco it's about 3500BC and there might be the last few remaining Mammoths wandering around.
'Howard
Howard Richards wrote:
It's rather like trying to build a picture of the world's current events via geography
It's like the world was before instant communication was invented. News from China came via boat. It could be weeks after an event in China before the UK knew anything about it.
Simon
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The link to the article with the above-mentioned title in today's Insider is IE7-lethal. The same link in the online version does the same thing. I'm at work, where Firefox ist verboten. Yes, Kent, it kills Internet Explorer 7. It navigates to the article, and just when it's settled down enough to read, BOOM! :sigh:. Update: The direct link to the article is http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517471,00.html[^].
Software Zen:
delete this;I thought this was a continuation of the fat tax thread.
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I was just pondering the concept that astronomers looking at the sky are of course looking into the past. And this raised a question: how can we have any idea what the universe looks like at this current point in time? I've see a couple of 3d maps of "the universe" but how did they build these? As you get further away it's the universe as it was when the light left. It's rather like trying to build a picture of the world's current events via geography: for every mile from where you are now, subtract 1 year. So sitting here in Surrey, UK in 2009: Central London is 20 miles away. So it's 1989 and Mrs Thatcher is still the Prime Minister, and the Berlin Wall is about to disappear. Over in Paris it's 1866 and Claude Monet has been exhibitiing some new paintings. In New York it's 1100BC. In San Francisco it's about 3500BC and there might be the last few remaining Mammoths wandering around.
'Howard
Sounds like a science fiction novel I read once. On board this starship, while it was underway, the speed of light was effectively 10 meters per second. This meant that things you saw were significantly in the past.
Software Zen:
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The link to the article with the above-mentioned title in today's Insider is IE7-lethal. The same link in the online version does the same thing. I'm at work, where Firefox ist verboten. Yes, Kent, it kills Internet Explorer 7. It navigates to the article, and just when it's settled down enough to read, BOOM! :sigh:. Update: The direct link to the article is http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517471,00.html[^].
Software Zen:
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I was just pondering the concept that astronomers looking at the sky are of course looking into the past. And this raised a question: how can we have any idea what the universe looks like at this current point in time? I've see a couple of 3d maps of "the universe" but how did they build these? As you get further away it's the universe as it was when the light left. It's rather like trying to build a picture of the world's current events via geography: for every mile from where you are now, subtract 1 year. So sitting here in Surrey, UK in 2009: Central London is 20 miles away. So it's 1989 and Mrs Thatcher is still the Prime Minister, and the Berlin Wall is about to disappear. Over in Paris it's 1866 and Claude Monet has been exhibitiing some new paintings. In New York it's 1100BC. In San Francisco it's about 3500BC and there might be the last few remaining Mammoths wandering around.
'Howard
it helps that astronomical time scales are huge - it takes a long time for something to happen to a star, and even longer for a whole galaxy. so if we see some 5000 year old light, we can be reasonably sure that nothing major has happened to the object which created that light in those 5000 years. sure, we're still looking at the past, but a few millennia for a star is no big deal.
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
it kills Internet Explorer 7.
Not for me, it doesn't. Works fine (IE7 on XP, all fully patched).
Ditto, no problem here.
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The link to the article with the above-mentioned title in today's Insider is IE7-lethal. The same link in the online version does the same thing. I'm at work, where Firefox ist verboten. Yes, Kent, it kills Internet Explorer 7. It navigates to the article, and just when it's settled down enough to read, BOOM! :sigh:. Update: The direct link to the article is http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517471,00.html[^].
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
I'm at work, where Firefox ist verboten.
I feel your pain. If it makes you feel any better, everything but IE *6* is banned at my company. Something went wrong with my IE6 and the only way they could solve it was by upgrading to IE7, but the other sods are on IE6.
Cheers, Vıkram.
Carpe Diem.
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
I'm at work, where Firefox ist verboten.
I feel your pain. If it makes you feel any better, everything but IE *6* is banned at my company. Something went wrong with my IE6 and the only way they could solve it was by upgrading to IE7, but the other sods are on IE6.
Cheers, Vıkram.
Carpe Diem.
We had the same prohibition until last fall. Some of our intranet applications, which are an incestuous coupling of SAP and Lotus Notes, were only compatible with IE6.
Software Zen:
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The link to the article with the above-mentioned title in today's Insider is IE7-lethal. The same link in the online version does the same thing. I'm at work, where Firefox ist verboten. Yes, Kent, it kills Internet Explorer 7. It navigates to the article, and just when it's settled down enough to read, BOOM! :sigh:. Update: The direct link to the article is http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517471,00.html[^].
Software Zen:
delete this;Bizarre. That must be Yahoo's revenge for all the threats of purchase by Microsoft. Sorry about that.
-------------- TTFN - Kent
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
I'm at work, where Firefox ist verboten.
I feel your pain. If it makes you feel any better, everything but IE *6* is banned at my company. Something went wrong with my IE6 and the only way they could solve it was by upgrading to IE7, but the other sods are on IE6.
Cheers, Vıkram.
Carpe Diem.
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Bizarre. That must be Yahoo's revenge for all the threats of purchase by Microsoft. Sorry about that.
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No apology necessary; I was making more of an observation than a complaint.
Software Zen:
delete this;