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An explosion is no way similar to a bullet, like comparing laser to a light bulb. The energy or rays gets dispersed over distance.


I think you misunderstand the point of gabipurcaru's analogy. nmc's confusion was about time, not energy dispersion. That is, nmc indicated that we would somehow be safe because the explosion happened 12 million years ago. But gabipurcaru pointed out how long ago something happened is irrelevant if the energy that reaches you is high enough.

You are correct that we are safe because of energy dispersion - or, put another way, because it is 12 million light-years away. But nmc thought we were safe because it was 12 millions years ago, and gabipurcaru tried to show by analogy why that is not true.


Lasers or light bulbs, photon density (flux) follows the inverse square law.

EDIT: For the follow-up questioning the correctness of my comment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_square_law#Light_and_o... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_flux


I believe this is incorrect, anyone can confirm?



and if you keep going down the rabbit hole you'll end up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia


The above video has also been removed.

Use this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNVgVl6v6YU


This looks awesome - Minecraft meets Dune meets Homeland?


I watched this just few hours ago. I guess i am not the only person to surf documentaries on youtube.


;)

Found it from here: www.youtubedocumentaries.com


Was there any specific reason to choose iOs over android?

It would seem a android emulator is far easier to build but i may be wrong.

Edit: Cocos2d port Cocos2dx is also available for android.


Developers are more interested in learning iOS because it has a higher monetary return?


Android is catching up really fast, though i agree to what u said. In my opinion game developers should not limit their scope to one platform.


I'm a professional iOS game developer with a relatively popular game currently in the App Store. However, I'm an Android user.

In terms of revenue, Android may be catching up, but iOS will remain significantly more profitable for the forseeable future. Also, support for Android is a nightmare.


The emulator is powered by App.io, they've done some pretty awesome stuff! We've also been using Apportable to port our Cocos2d games over to Android and it works like a charm!


Well that explains it. Thanks.


The thing that scares me most about US is not NSA spying but health care system.

People can get broke by breaking their fingers.


Or a rich person wanting to escape a horrible country(Government).


My streak lasted 14 days. It was sadly broken because github used US time and my commit late night(Indian time) and the next day morning was grouped to the same day(US Day) :(.


Not sure why is it the most demanded, but i know quite a lot of people who started learning programming with Python. It is the second most recommended language after JS to start programming, this view is also reinforced by many MOOC as well.


Congrats on growing a company in Indian market, let alone a bootstrapped one.

I worked for a MNC for past 5 years, i quit this April and started dabbling with new technologies and platforms, with the intent to create a SaaS. As a person who is interested in startup, this article gives me a lot of hope.


Glad to be of some inspiration :)


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