having posting problems?

[roid]

we're all having them. It seems to be caused by posting more than a few dozen words into a post.

One_way_ of-bypassing the_problem_ is~to break~up_your words_like-this. Coz it seems that by eliminating a certain amount of coherent words from your post it bypasses the problem.

[Krom]

I PMed RC, he said it should be fixed, try it and see...

November 3rd 1964 : D.C. residents cast first presidential votes

On this day in 1964, residents of the District of Columbia cast their ballots in a presidential election for the first time. The passage of the 23rd Amendment in 1961 gave citizens of the nation's capital the right to vote for a commander in chief and vice president. They went on to help Democrat Lyndon Johnson defeat Republican Barry Goldwater in 1964, the next presidential election.

Between 1776 and 1800, New York and then Philadelphia served as the temporary center of government for the newly formed United States. The capital's location was a source of much controversy and debate, especially for Southern politicians, who didn't want it located too far north. In 1790, Congress passed a law allowing President George Washington to choose the permanent site. As a compromise, he selected a tract of undeveloped swampland on the Potomac River, between Maryland and Virginia, and began to refer to it as Federal City. The commissioners overseeing the development of the new city picked its permanent name--Washington--to honor the president. Congress met for the first time in Washington, D.C., on November 17, 1800.

The District was put under the jurisdiction of Congress, which terminated D.C. residents' voting rights in 1801. In 1961, the 23rd Amendment restored these rights, allowing D.C. voters to choose electors for the Electoral College based on population, with a maximum of as many electors as the least populated state. With a current population of over 550,000 residents, 61-square-mile D.C. has three electoral votes, just like Wyoming, America's smallest state, population-wise. The majority of D.C.'s residents are African Americans and they have voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates in past presidential elections.

In 1970, Congress gave Washington, D.C., one non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives and with the passage of 1973's Home Rule Act, Washingtonians got their first elected mayor and city council. In 1978, a proposed amendment would have given D.C. the right to select electors, representatives and senators, just like a state, but it failed to pass, as have subsequent calls for D.C. statehood.

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[Isaac]

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[roid]

Finding planets around other stars is tricky enough, but actually getting images of them is all but impossible. That’s why Centauri Dreams has been so fascinated with the starshade concept, and with one particular design for it, called (depending on the mission) New Worlds Discoverer, New Worlds Observer or New Worlds Imager. We saw recently that Webster Cash (University of Colorado at Boulder) had been pitching NASA to do a concept study on New Worlds for a Discovery-class mission, but the proposal didn’t make the cut, in this round at least.

That’s disappointing, but as Cash told me in an interview earlier this year, “If we don’t win this one, we’ll win the next one.” There is reason for such optimism because the New Worlds mission designs offer many of the benefits of the Terrestrial Planet Finder mission once slated for this kind of work at a fraction of the cost, and as I mentioned earlier this week, New Worlds has the potential of working with the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover vistas never before seen, studying up to 100 stars in three years and examining the habitable zones of almost all of them.

Starshades are objects that block light, and if the world worked solely according to our senses, it would seem that putting an object directly in front of a star to mask its light should allow us to see the planets around it. But there’s a flaw in the plan: light waves diffract, bending around whatever object we use to mask the star’s light. Get right behind a disc-shaped space-based occulter and you would see a bright ring around its edge as light waves bend around the occulter, their interference sharply reducing the effectiveness of the device.



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ok neat, thread movinggggg