Two moons in august - Off-topic

On august 27th at 12:30am eastern mars will be shining as the moon this is a rare chance to see mars with the naked eye. Mars will be 35m miles away from earth. Next one will happen In 2287 so no one now would be alive so watch it.
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htc fan89 said:
On august 27th at 12:30am eastern mars will be shining as the moon this is a rare chance to see mars with the naked eye. Mars will be 35m miles away from earth. Next one will happen In 2287 so no one now would be alive so watch it.
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Thanks man! will this be visible from britain?

Looks like this could be a hoax:
Around August 27 – the day of the hoax – Mars will be near the planet Venus on our sky’s dome. Venus is the sky’s brightest planet and the third-brightest object in the sky, after the sun and moon. In August 2010, you can use Venus to guide your eye to Mars.
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http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/best-time-to-see-mars-in-2010
http://www.snopes.com/science/astronomy/brightmars.asp
I just did some googling to see if we could see it from the uk...

Ahh I was so excite anyway my uncle emailed me this so gotta tell him it could be a false.
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htc fan89 said:
Next one will happen In 2287 so no one now would be alive
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Original Android has a shot.
good day.

My friend told me about that, and first thing I though was "BS". If it was so close it would be comparable to the size of a full moon, then that can't be safe. Mars is about twice the size of the moon, that means it would have to be twice as far from the earth as the moon (about 700,000 km) at perigee which is not far considering space, and mars is about 55 MILLION km from eart so then it would have to travel about 52 million km and be in the exact position to be compared to a full moon. Yes, you can call me a geek, and yes, I did these calculations in my head (but I think anyone can, it's not hard)

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WTF, my $600 phone cannot teleport me to The Starship Enterprise

I have tried but it just fails, and I cannot figure out how to make the teleportation possible over 3G. Looks like it is not supported and the nexus one is the butt of all jokes at the workplace.
Since it said it was a superphone i figure it would work damn you google for lying.
its $600 so it must do this!
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Have to say that the Holodeck drivers could be snappier. I mean that girl of ill repute in my brothels of the Gamma Quadrant program was only going at 40 fps.
If you've ever made sweet lurv with a strobe light on, you'll know the feeling.
HTC - High Tech Computer Corporation - Pah!! Horrible Technology Calamity, that's what I say. Bring on the iPhone, at least they have Steve's on the Jobs Girls in full 360 degree surround graphics.
Come on HTC let's blow Jobs away, swallow the bitter pill and come out with more thrusting hardware.
Mike
mikechannon said:
Have to say that the Holodeck drivers could be snappier. I mean that girl of ill repute in my brothels of the Gamma Quadrant program was only going at 40 fps.
If you've ever made sweet lurv with a strobe light on, you'll know the feeling.
HTC - High Tech Computer Corporation - Pah!! Horrible Technology Calamity, that's what I say. Bring on the iPhone, at least they have Steve's on the Jobs Girls in full 360 degree surround graphics.
Come on HTC let's blow Jobs away, swallow the bitter pill and come out with more thrusting hardware.
Mike
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I am sorry but girls in bikinis , men in bikinis , or girls in any sort of provocative dress whatsoever are not allowed in any holodeck programs on the Starship Cupertino by order of Captain Steve. So please keep that in mind before transporting up with your $600 superphone for your next tour of duty.
"Gamma Quadrant program was only going at 40 fps."
60 is always enough
and 30 is enough for it to move from slide show to movie
so I think you should just be content with your 40fps and hope for motion blur
denco7 said:
I am sorry but girls in bikinis , men in bikinis , or girls in any sort of provocative dress whatsoever are not allowed in any holodeck programs on the Starship Cupertino by order of Captain Steve. So please keep that in mind before transporting up with your $600 superphone for your next tour of duty.
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LoL - yeah, I was just reading about his immaculately conceived notion of iPhone apps.
Rudegar said:
"Gamma Quadrant program was only going at 40 fps."
60 is always enough
and 30 is enough for it to move from slide show to movie
so I think you should just be content with your 40fps and hope for motion blur
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Motion Blur, she starred in Friction Burns So Good, didn't she?
I never really liked her much because.... well... she always seems a bit out of focus to me. I've never "been with" a babe of fewer than 10 megapixels and as I like to watch, and feel my way around, optical zoom and digital manipulation facilities are essential for me.
Mike
Have you said the magic words?
My Nexus works just fine Beem me up Scotty!
galaxys said:
My Nexus works just fine Beem me up Scotty!
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Beaming went out with infra red ports........it's Bluetooth me up Scotty.............
denco7 said:
Beaming went out with infra red ports........it's Bluetooth me up Scotty.............
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Your right I need to update my Nexus
You must have the international version and not the inter-galactic version.....LOL You have to have the inter-galactic version for the tele-porting feature to be present!
I had read mine wrong too...................
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GNOve said:
I have tried but it just fails, and I cannot figure out how to make the teleportation possible over 3G. Looks like it is not supported and the nexus one is the butt of all jokes at the workplace.
Since it said it was a superphone i figure it would work damn you google for lying.
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You may want to use some freeware regedit to fix mispell in hklm/software/600dollarBS/enterpriCe/.
another bs thread.

[q] will smart phones take over the world

I think we have just begun with what these smart phones can do. like start our cars and control our home pc from our phone do our banking pay bills and swipe debit or credit cards. 5 years from now i think everyone will have a smart phone.
The mayans predicted that human life would end in 2012 and according to world statics the global warming problem will melt down the poles and the whole earth will drown
But they were wrong.......
With all of these new android smartphones someday one of them will be brought to life and it will rule the world (kind of like the transformers movie but androidfied (yeah that's a new word I invented))
So yeah we will be screwed in some years
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Shadow_Android said:
androidfied (yeah that's a new word I invented))
So yeah we will be screwed in some years
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http://androidify.com/
You didn't create it Haha
But yeah, I think smartphones won't rule the world, I simply believe they will dominate a large majority of our human lives.
I, for one, don't really welcome our robotic overlords.
Of course they will silly, haven't you seen The Terminator?
of course not!!! PINKY & THE BRAIN will take over the world
Smartphones will take over the world, if you smack my ass and call me Nancy.
DecisiveGamer said:
Smartphones will take over the world, if you smack my ass and call me Nancy.
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*smack**smack*
Like it Nancy? I can get a whip too
If you think about it , smartphones could take over the world if we made some terrible mistakes... And we will
We are self destructive
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Yeah! Yeah, big daddy!
I hope one day they make an app that lets me shoot a death beam from anywhere in space, where I want.
Maybe?
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conqu1stador said:
Maybe?
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Nah... the worse that could happen is that the phone decides to not wake me up with its alarm. Damn thing happened on Sunday.
sakai4eva said:
Nah... the worse that could happen is that the phone decides to not wake me up with its alarm. Damn thing happened on Sunday.
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it be better if it happened on a monday instead of a sunday. everybody hates the monday morning blues
I was on duty on Sunday. Made me 5 minutes late, which is quite bad.
Not, thats what i was sent to do mmmwah. Haaaa
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Smartphones now increasing in use ...thus it should be possible

Point of minecraft?

I hear alot about this game/thing... Whats the point of it? It looks like something that you building insanely pixelated. aated cities, lands etc... Just dont get it. There has to be more. What am I missing? I read there were like 200 million copies sold. And few million on phones
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Just try to play and you'll understand...
It's super addictive.
It's just basically making stuff and downloading other peoples levels they made that you have to do and like the other answer you got it is rather addictive!
Well, you're also missing stuff like crafting and survival. Depends on what difficulty you choose. Try for yourself.
I was wondering the same thing, because a bunch of guys I know love it. I tried it myself and I was bored within about 10 minutes. It's either you build something which isn't very impressive, or you sacrifice endless hours to make something awesome. But at the end of the day you don't really get anything for doing it... So I see no point either
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Well, you're also missing stuff like crafting and survival. Depends on what difficulty you choose. Try for yourself.
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Survival? How do you related survive and make objects?
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Fighting with mobs, crafting armors and weapons, surviving night and spending day to gather resources. That's what it looks like when you play on hardcore difficulty.
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Remember playing with legos when you were a kid?
Well some of us still want to play with legos when we grow up
I dont know what is so great about minecraft either, I played it and i did not really liked it, Im a real GTA fan so no big suprise.
It's no Oregon Trail, that's for sure!
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Remember playing with legos when you were a kid?
Well some of us still want to play with legos when we grow up
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My one friend modded his server and made everything look and act like star craft bw.
Pretty sweet achievement.. still has insane bugs..
If you're a call of duty type, then this game ain't for you.
Minecraft is more or less a creativity tool. If you aren't creative, then it's not for you.
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Its a fun and entertaining game. Time consuming though. However I only play the mobile version with some friends.
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I have the same question
I'm on mobile version,is there any enemy in this game?
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agent205 said:
I have the same question
I'm on mobile version,is there any enemy in this game?
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Not yet. Now its a free type of game.
They said there will be an update in February which brings the PC type of version.
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My 37 years old teacher' play minecraft too, is this normal? I can't believe it man..
shockem said:
Not yet. Now its a free type of game.
They said there will be an update in February which brings the PC type of version.
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Can't wait for that update man, February 8th!
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Right now it's the pseudo equivalent of creative mode only. In creative mode, there are no monsters, infinite resources, and your character can't die.
Survival mode is really what brings out the flavor in minecraft, if for no better reason than you have to "earn" what you build by harvesting everything and *not* dying.
Initially the dev team (Mojang) wanted the pocket edition to be like creative mode only. Now apparantly they're giving it some survival mode teeth, as that's what the community has been clamoring for.
Here's to hoping there wont be too many corners cut. If so, I may have to hunker down and actually buy this one.
There is a free demo version for anyone who's curious. The demo version doesn't let you save your worlds, so whatever you build is gone when you close thr game.
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I downloaded this pro version
It looks like a guide app
it showing some weapon,mob,block,etc, but there's no play button
Am i doing right?
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razorseal said:
I hear alot about this game/thing... Whats the point of it? It looks like something that you building insanely pixelated. aated cities, lands etc... Just dont get it. There has to be more. What am I missing? I read there were like 200 million copies sold. And few million on phones
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i simply find it grotesque, i can't fathom the ugliness of such game
it's like worse than going back to the computers from the 70s, just with color instead of monochrome
i still remember Atari games that looked exactly just like that

Super huge detailed space image *warning* 250mb

What happens when you take a monster 4.1 meter telescope in the southern hemisphere and point it at the same patch of sky for 55 hours?
This http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/large/eso1213a.jpg
Just a word of warning the picture is 17,000 x 11,000 pixels and comes in at around 250mb so if you want to to view its best to have at least 8mb broadband
Ps don't forget to save it if you wanna view it again
Source: http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/23/an-ultradeep-image-thats-full-galaxies/
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The Total Perspective Vortex from the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
.........., when you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little mark, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says, "You are here."
Sorry, you are limited to 8 thanks per day
thanks for the link man
Np dude amazing when you actually look at the picture in detail
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dam, My internet sucks so bad... it's like going dial up speed. Lol I'm paying 48 dollars for dial up speed.
Note my DROID RAZR does not agree with this pic lol I can't zoom in and then it makes my phone slow down and my gallery app force closes lol. Amazing photo though I guess ill have to view it on my computer haha. I guess a 250mb photo is a little to much for a phone.
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torikorocks said:
Note my DROID RAZR does not agree with this pic lol I can't zoom in and then it makes my phone slow down and my gallery app force closes lol. Amazing photo though I guess ill have to view it on my computer haha. I guess a 250mb photo is a little to much for a phone.
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im going to test if it works on mine, and laugh if it works probably moto is the problem haha no jk.
the weirdest thing about this is when you have the slightest understanding of general relativity, and look at this trying to connect the science behind it. SG-1 scenarios all over the place for sure, billions of past, ongoing and future civilizations in space, banned from visiting eachother via the awesome relativity laws
Do we have Cosmology/theoretical physics thread ?
Igoritza said:
the weirdest thing about this is when you have the slightest understanding of general relativity, and look at this trying to connect the science behind it. SG-1 scenarios all over the place for sure, billions of past, ongoing and future civilizations in space, banned from visiting eachother via the awesome relativity laws
Do we have Cosmology/theoretical physics thread ?
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The universe may never know, because who truly knows maybe one day we will know when and if we had space travel fast enough to do so
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Igoritza said:
Do we have Cosmology/theoretical physics thread ?
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We do indeed...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284024
XxLostSoulxX said:
The universe may never know, because who truly knows maybe one day we will know when and if we had space travel fast enough to do so
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Sorry to dissapoint you - but no. unfortunately. and sorry for the long post im about to write
Im kind of a science geek also, and Im updated with all the current stuff from theoretical physics and there is no actual way for us, or anybody out there to reach anyone else, or any other part of this picture apart from their starting point, for instance.
As it seems - the recent screw up with measuring neutrino speed was actually good for science (they taught that in 72 kilometers distance, neutrinos go 18 meters longer than photons but it was a mistake) cause it has been proven that Einstein was right, and that there is no higher possible speed than 299.792km/h (light in vacuum)
laws of universe are constant in every part of the universe, and for any kind of matter to go bigger distances there are only a couple of ways in theory:
1. entering some sort of "Hyperspace" (yeah, TV shows got that right) - long story short - we observe 3+1 dimensions, but on a much smaller scale, there is total of 11 dimensions (M theory) and our space-time configuration is only one of many combinations of all dimensions. If someone, somehow managed to change that, he would enter "hyperspace" where it would be possible to use "instant transmission", like Goku does. we are, on our current development scale, about 2000 years behind that discovery, and it may be very wrong (M theory, that is)
2. bending time-space: using artificial gravity, or using wormhole (blackhole that has sort of a tunnel that you could go through) - each method requires negative energy, that exist only in theory cause of the other theory called - vacuum energy. If someone is interested in that, I would offer explanation, and a simple one to understand. And we are also 2000 years behind that.
Seeing how we are more likely to kill ourselves before we get to the point where Gravity makes sense (biggest mystery in modern theoretical physics) - No, we wont go anywhere past the solar system.
Igoritza said:
Sorry to dissapoint you - but no. unfortunately. and sorry for the long post im about to write
Im kind of a science geek also, and Im updated with all the current stuff from theoretical physics and there is no actual way for us, or anybody out there to reach anyone else, or any other part of this picture apart from their starting point, for instance.
As it seems - the recent screw up with measuring neutrino speed was actually good for science (they taught that in 72 kilometers distance, neutrinos go 18 meters longer than photons but it was a mistake) cause it has been proven that Einstein was right, and that there is no higher possible speed than 299.792km/h (light in vacuum)
laws of universe are constant in every part of the universe, and for any kind of matter to go bigger distances there are only a couple of ways in theory:
1. entering some sort of "Hyperspace" (yeah, TV shows got that right) - long story short - we observe 3+1 dimensions, but on a much smaller scale, there is total of 11 dimensions (M theory) and our space-time configuration is only one of many combinations of all dimensions. If someone, somehow managed to change that, he would enter "hyperspace" where it would be possible to use "instant transmission", like Goku does. we are, on our current development scale, about 2000 years behind that discovery, and it may be very wrong (M theory, that is)
2. bending time-space: using artificial gravity, or using wormhole (blackhole that has sort of a tunnel that you could go through) - each method requires negative energy, that exist only in theory cause of the other theory called - vacuum energy. If someone is interested in that, I would offer explanation, and a simple one to understand. And we are also 2000 years behind that.
Seeing how we are more likely to kill ourselves before we get to the point where Gravity makes sense (biggest mystery in modern theoretical physics) - No, we wont go anywhere past the solar system.
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What if all the information that makes sense to us is actualy false haha, the word impossible is just an obstacle. I'm going to laugh and find you one day and say I told you that it could happen. Plus how do you know if there other people that have discovered and accomplished just havent got to our planey yet?
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think of it this way -
world record 100 meters running is: 9.58 meters, held by Usain Bolt from Jamaica. it has been long time (30 years when sport drugs came in) that record was ~9.80
and WHATEVER they do, and whit all the new drugs they invent - human wont be able to run it faster than 9 seconds.
Does that mean that somewhere in Africa there is an African man, that could do it in 6.5 seconds .. ? no. genetics are the same, gravity is the same, conditions are the same. now this is analogy that goes for: space-time-matter conditions all around the universe. they are the same. and ANY civilization that arose in universe would come to the same conclusions that we did. Aliens would have their Pitagoras, Aristotle, Newton, Einstein, Tesla, Bhor, Fermi, and so on, and they would also hit the milestone of the speed of light.
Kind of a proof that General relativity is right, and that there is no way of Faster-than-light travel is the fact that we humans didnt see anyone visit. And acording to science - Milky way is a perfect place for harboring earth-like planets suitable for carbon-based life (recent findings). There may very well be over 1 million civilizations just in ours galaxy, that CANT connect to each other.
Igoritza said:
think of it this way -
world record 100 meters running is: 9.58 meters, held by Usain Bolt from Jamaica. it has been long time (30 years when sport drugs came in) that record was ~9.80
and WHATEVER they do, and whit all the new drugs they invent - human wont be able to run it faster than 9 seconds.
Does that mean that somewhere in Africa there is an African man, that could do it in 6.5 seconds .. ? no. genetics are the same, gravity is the same, conditions are the same. now this is analogy that goes for: space-time-matter conditions all around the universe. they are the same. and ANY civilization that arose in universe would come to the same conclusions that we did. Aliens would have their Pitagoras, Aristotle, Newton, Einstein, Tesla, Bhor, Fermi, and so on, and they would also hit the milestone of the speed of light.
Kind of a proof that General relativity is right, and that there is no way of Faster-than-light travel is the fact that we humans didnt see anyone visit. And acording to science - Milky way is a perfect place for harboring earth-like planets suitable for carbon-based life (recent findings). There may very well be over 1 million civilizations just in ours galaxy, that CANT connect to each other.
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Here's the thing those unstable planets for "Us" maybe stable for those out there? Ever think of that maybe there's other people out there that have passed us because of that there are so may factors that we 100% truly don't know.
Plus who knows maybe some can do a 100 meter dash in 9.57 and below I gurantee it.
Think there's a lot of talented people out their that just don't promote or bother to show others that they can achieve something.
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Not to mention by looking at a planet thousand of light years away you are in fact looking at it thousands of years in the past. It could very well be different at that very planet now.
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patrao_n said:
Not to mention by looking at a planet thousand of light years away you are in fact looking at it thousands of years in the past. It could very well be different at that very planet now.
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Exactly we need some instant telescopic time
Still loading with a 8mb net... I think it'll never be complete
ArmorD said:
Still loading with a 8mb net... I think it'll never be complete
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I sat there for 30 mins lol because I have clear which, sucks miserably. I'm supposed to have unlimited and no cap but its 4 to 6MBps with bursts up to 8 to 10MBps. And nevr hit 1MB ever for download speed I average 200 to 500kbps with 3 to 4 bars out of 5 bars on clear modem. BS service
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Was just about to load this up on my data plan, luckily I noticed and switched wifi on!
Still waiting for it too load completely but from what I can see it looks epic!
I just downloaded the image through Wi-Fi n can view when ever I want
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14 day weather app

Thought some of you out there would like to know that this app is only 10p as part of app of the week I've noticed how it goes into great depth and can warn you on bad weather so will be interesting if it does as well as dark sky !
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its not possible until accuweather decide to measure 14 days ahead of us
im not sure this technology exist and humanity can get exact measures only 10 days ahead

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