Q.
A. The chief river of the United States, rising in the lake region of northern Minnesota and flowing about 3,781 km (2,350 mi) generally southward to enter the Gulf of Mexico through a huge delta in southeast Louisiana. Probably discovered by Hernando de Soto in 1541, it was explored by Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet in 1673. La Salle claimed the entire region for France after he descended to the river's mouth in 1682.
20th century
In the spring of 1927, the river broke out of its banks in 145 places during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and inundated 27,000 sq mi (70,000 km²) to a depth of up to 30 ft (10 m).
On October 20, 1976, the automobile ferry MV George Prince was struck by a ship traveling upstream as the ferry attempted to cross from Destrehan, Louisiana, to Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew died, only eighteen survived the accident.
In 1988, record low water levels provided an opportunity and obligation to examine the climax of the wooden-hulled age. The Mississippi fell to 10 feet (3.0 m) below zero on the Memphis gauge. Four and a half acres of water craft remains were exposed on the bottom of the Mississippi River at West Memphis, Arkansas. They dated to the late 19th to early 20th centuries. The State of Arkansas, the Arkansas Archeological Survey, and the Arkansas Archeological Society responded with a two-month data recovery effort. The fieldwork received national media attention as good news in the middle of a drought.
The Great Flood of 1993 was another significant flood, primarily affecting the Mississippi above its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois.
Two portions of the Mississippi were designated as American Heritage Rivers in 1997: the lower portion around Louisiana and Tennessee, and the upper portion around Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri.
21st century
Campsite at the river in ArkansasIn 2002, Slovenian long-distance swimmer Martin Strel swam the entire length of the river, from Minnesota to Louisiana, over the course of 68 days.
In 2005, the Source to Sea Expedition (http://sourcetosea.net) paddled the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers to benefit the Audubon Society's Upper Mississippi River Campaign.[15][16]
On August 1, 2007, the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis collapsed during the evening rush hour.
Also in 2007, it is expected that more than 150 pleasure boats will travel down the river from Grafton to Cairo while participating in the Great loop, which is circumnavigation of Eastern North America by water.
20th century
In the spring of 1927, the river broke out of its banks in 145 places during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and inundated 27,000 sq mi (70,000 km²) to a depth of up to 30 ft (10 m).
On October 20, 1976, the automobile ferry MV George Prince was struck by a ship traveling upstream as the ferry attempted to cross from Destrehan, Louisiana, to Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew died, only eighteen survived the accident.
In 1988, record low water levels provided an opportunity and obligation to examine the climax of the wooden-hulled age. The Mississippi fell to 10 feet (3.0 m) below zero on the Memphis gauge. Four and a half acres of water craft remains were exposed on the bottom of the Mississippi River at West Memphis, Arkansas. They dated to the late 19th to early 20th centuries. The State of Arkansas, the Arkansas Archeological Survey, and the Arkansas Archeological Society responded with a two-month data recovery effort. The fieldwork received national media attention as good news in the middle of a drought.
The Great Flood of 1993 was another significant flood, primarily affecting the Mississippi above its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois.
Two portions of the Mississippi were designated as American Heritage Rivers in 1997: the lower portion around Louisiana and Tennessee, and the upper portion around Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri.
21st century
Campsite at the river in ArkansasIn 2002, Slovenian long-distance swimmer Martin Strel swam the entire length of the river, from Minnesota to Louisiana, over the course of 68 days.
In 2005, the Source to Sea Expedition (http://sourcetosea.net) paddled the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers to benefit the Audubon Society's Upper Mississippi River Campaign.[15][16]
On August 1, 2007, the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis collapsed during the evening rush hour.
Also in 2007, it is expected that more than 150 pleasure boats will travel down the river from Grafton to Cairo while participating in the Great loop, which is circumnavigation of Eastern North America by water.
What's a reasonable price to pay to retrieve data from a broken hard drive?
Q. My western digital external hard drive (aprox 80-100 GB) died the other night. It whirled and clicked for about two minutes and since then will not start up completely enough to connect to my computer. Just more whirling and clicking. Since then I've googled my heart out and learned all out the "click of death". I get it. I was bad. I didn't back up. Now that I'm past that I need to get the data from the broken hard drive. I guess I need a data recovery service. But with prices ranging on-line from $99-$3000, I'm a bit clueless. What's a reasonable price to pay? Is the &99 service going to do more harm than good? I don't want my hard drive mucked up to the point of no-return. But, on the other hand, I don't have $3000 to spend to get my family pictures.
Previous experiences, prices, or before-used companies very welcome.
Once they get my files off, where do they go? Do I need to buy another hard drive for them to put the files on?
Does any one have any recomendations of where I could go to get this done? I live in Ohio but am willing to mail out the hard drive.
Previous experiences, prices, or before-used companies very welcome.
Once they get my files off, where do they go? Do I need to buy another hard drive for them to put the files on?
Does any one have any recomendations of where I could go to get this done? I live in Ohio but am willing to mail out the hard drive.
A. Buy this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002 for $20 and do it yourself.I have recover data with this from many damaged drives.It takes longer when the drive is damaged but you will get your data back.
I live in Ohio too,if you want I'll do that for $50
I live in Ohio too,if you want I'll do that for $50
can someone tell me bout the 1947 Roswell alien sighting :)?
Q. no links please, just copy and paste the story somewere lol thanks.
A. sorry if this is a rather long answer
The story usually goes like this: It was a dark, stormy night in Roswell, around the Fourth of July weekend of 1947. An alien spaceship crashed on a ranch near the southeastern New Mexico town. A local rancher came across the wreck and took some of the debris to the sheriff, who brought in the Army Air Force in Roswell.
Maj. Jesse Marcel decided to accompany the rancher back to the site. After collecting some curious-looking debris with strange "alien" hieroglyphic markings, Marcel returned to the base. The Army Air Force announced the recovery in a news release.
Soon after, Marcel flew to Fort Worth, Texas, to show the material to Gen. Roger Ramey. But Ramey brought out a crummy old weather balloon and radar target for photographers, and tales of the cosmic cover-up began.
That wing of the story holds that, while the world placidly accepted the "flying saucer" as just a weather balloon, the government whisked the real alien ship and bodies (and, perhaps, even a living alien) to Wright Field in Ohio.
By studying the aliens' technology there, humans learned about lasers, integrated circuits and the like. President Truman formed a top-secret science commission to handle all matters alien, called "Majestic 12."
And now the aliens are living peaceably underground in Area 51, helping the United States reverse-engineer even more new gadgets. But the government has successfully and ruthlessly suppressed any official release of any information regarding these Earth-shaking events for more than five decades.
What really happened in Roswell
Something fell from the sky and landed near Roswell in the summer of 1947. But it didn't come from outer space. It came from . . . Alamogordo!
In fact, the legend of Roswell can be traced directly to a series of top-secret physics experiments designed to spy on Soviet nuclear tests.
The real story of the Roswell Incident actually begins on Aug. 27, 1883, the day that the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa blew its top with a blast literally heard around the world. Time-of-flight analyses were performed on the volcanic rumbles for several different cities, and it turned out that the sound waves must have traveled in very cold air -- such as can be found 50,000 feet up, between the troposphere (the lower atmosphere, where we live) and the stratosphere (the upper atmosphere).
Indeed, that part of the sky acts as a natural wave guide for very loud sounds, such as are produced by volcanoes -- or by nuclear bombs.
In the days after World War II, U.S. scientists were rightfully concerned about the Soviets getting The Bomb. Desperate for a way to monitor possible Soviet bomb tests, the scientists began Project Mogul, with the goal of using high-altitude microphones to triangulate the positions of bomb tests. Mogul was the secret name for the program, which involved getting the microphones placed in the upper atmosphere for long periods of time.
That turned out to be very difficult. At night, for example, it gets cold, and normal balloons drop like stones.
And so it was that an unclassified part of the program, "Constant-Level Balloons," was carried out by graduate students from New York University. The first launches of the elaborate microphone-carriers -- long trains of balloons, radar reflectors and parachutes -- were done on the East Coast. They failed miserably.
The project moved to Alamogordo.
Charles B. Moore, a New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology professor emeritus of physics, was then one of those NYU graduate students. He has made public many of his recollections of those days.
The NYU group's first launch from Alamogordo, on June 4, 1947, was lost somewhere around Arabela, N.M. "Chase crews" in those days didn't fly jaunty pickup trucks but flew B-17s that followed the balloon trains, listening for data.
The complex, 600-foot-long assemblage of Flight No. 4 included two dozen balloons, three radar reflectors, some parachutes and black boxes. The reflectors were shaped like jacks -- eight-sided structures made of balsa wood and tough, shiny, metallic-coated paper. A toy company in Manhattan made them on the side, and the company chose a curiously decorated tape to reinforce the reflectors.
Moore launched hundreds of these targets and marveled time and again at the unknown purpose of the strange hieroglyphic-like markings on the reflectors.
Ten days after the June 4 launch, rancher Mac Brazel came across a field strewn with remnants of balloons and bits of metallic foil -- almost certainly the remains of NYU Flight No. 4. Ten days after that, on June 24, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported a sighting of strange flying objects that "skipped like saucers."
This event plunged the nation into a brief but intense "flying disk" craze, with frantic new reports of sightings of the "disks" coming every day. There was even a total of $3,000 offered for the recovery of a real disk. For weeks, the story was every bit as intense as
The story usually goes like this: It was a dark, stormy night in Roswell, around the Fourth of July weekend of 1947. An alien spaceship crashed on a ranch near the southeastern New Mexico town. A local rancher came across the wreck and took some of the debris to the sheriff, who brought in the Army Air Force in Roswell.
Maj. Jesse Marcel decided to accompany the rancher back to the site. After collecting some curious-looking debris with strange "alien" hieroglyphic markings, Marcel returned to the base. The Army Air Force announced the recovery in a news release.
Soon after, Marcel flew to Fort Worth, Texas, to show the material to Gen. Roger Ramey. But Ramey brought out a crummy old weather balloon and radar target for photographers, and tales of the cosmic cover-up began.
That wing of the story holds that, while the world placidly accepted the "flying saucer" as just a weather balloon, the government whisked the real alien ship and bodies (and, perhaps, even a living alien) to Wright Field in Ohio.
By studying the aliens' technology there, humans learned about lasers, integrated circuits and the like. President Truman formed a top-secret science commission to handle all matters alien, called "Majestic 12."
And now the aliens are living peaceably underground in Area 51, helping the United States reverse-engineer even more new gadgets. But the government has successfully and ruthlessly suppressed any official release of any information regarding these Earth-shaking events for more than five decades.
What really happened in Roswell
Something fell from the sky and landed near Roswell in the summer of 1947. But it didn't come from outer space. It came from . . . Alamogordo!
In fact, the legend of Roswell can be traced directly to a series of top-secret physics experiments designed to spy on Soviet nuclear tests.
The real story of the Roswell Incident actually begins on Aug. 27, 1883, the day that the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa blew its top with a blast literally heard around the world. Time-of-flight analyses were performed on the volcanic rumbles for several different cities, and it turned out that the sound waves must have traveled in very cold air -- such as can be found 50,000 feet up, between the troposphere (the lower atmosphere, where we live) and the stratosphere (the upper atmosphere).
Indeed, that part of the sky acts as a natural wave guide for very loud sounds, such as are produced by volcanoes -- or by nuclear bombs.
In the days after World War II, U.S. scientists were rightfully concerned about the Soviets getting The Bomb. Desperate for a way to monitor possible Soviet bomb tests, the scientists began Project Mogul, with the goal of using high-altitude microphones to triangulate the positions of bomb tests. Mogul was the secret name for the program, which involved getting the microphones placed in the upper atmosphere for long periods of time.
That turned out to be very difficult. At night, for example, it gets cold, and normal balloons drop like stones.
And so it was that an unclassified part of the program, "Constant-Level Balloons," was carried out by graduate students from New York University. The first launches of the elaborate microphone-carriers -- long trains of balloons, radar reflectors and parachutes -- were done on the East Coast. They failed miserably.
The project moved to Alamogordo.
Charles B. Moore, a New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology professor emeritus of physics, was then one of those NYU graduate students. He has made public many of his recollections of those days.
The NYU group's first launch from Alamogordo, on June 4, 1947, was lost somewhere around Arabela, N.M. "Chase crews" in those days didn't fly jaunty pickup trucks but flew B-17s that followed the balloon trains, listening for data.
The complex, 600-foot-long assemblage of Flight No. 4 included two dozen balloons, three radar reflectors, some parachutes and black boxes. The reflectors were shaped like jacks -- eight-sided structures made of balsa wood and tough, shiny, metallic-coated paper. A toy company in Manhattan made them on the side, and the company chose a curiously decorated tape to reinforce the reflectors.
Moore launched hundreds of these targets and marveled time and again at the unknown purpose of the strange hieroglyphic-like markings on the reflectors.
Ten days after the June 4 launch, rancher Mac Brazel came across a field strewn with remnants of balloons and bits of metallic foil -- almost certainly the remains of NYU Flight No. 4. Ten days after that, on June 24, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported a sighting of strange flying objects that "skipped like saucers."
This event plunged the nation into a brief but intense "flying disk" craze, with frantic new reports of sightings of the "disks" coming every day. There was even a total of $3,000 offered for the recovery of a real disk. For weeks, the story was every bit as intense as
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