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What would happen to a teaspoon of neutron star material if released on Earth? I've read on NASA's page on neutron star that one teaspoonful of that star would weigh over 20 billion tonnes on Earth. If it was somehow possible to bring it to earth would it:   Burn and disappear during Earth atmosphere entry? Assuming we have 20 billion tonnes of mass occupying the volume of a teaspoon here on Earth, would it fall through the ground under its own weight? Wrong Java resource bundle loaded biblatex: How to omit "p." at \cite? I am trying to ask a question on SE, have some mock data in Excel I've copied, and am simply trying to paste in to my question.  I've done this before dozens of times, but suddenly am having this issue.  However, when I do so, I get prompted to upload an image. (This happens with Ctrl + V and also right click --> Paste):    Am I overlooking something?  Edit: Playing around, I can copy from Firefox/browsers and Word, and paste in to the box as usual. Excel seems to be the only one giving the issue so far.  Edit2:  are still having this issue. How to check if a string contains a substring in Bash How can you draw more detailed/smoother images in pygame? Creating Ellipse in WGS84, but with metric parameters I have the function  --Ellipse(x,y,rx,ry,rotation,#of segments in 1/4 of ellipse) SELECT ST_Translate( ST_Rotate( ST_Scale( ST_Buffer(ST_Point(0,0), 0.5, $6), $3, $4), $5), $1, $2)   I have points in WGS84 (x,y), radiuses in meters (rx, ry), rotation angle in degrees. And I need a new WGS84 geometry as a result.  As you can see I can't call this function without conversions between WGS84 and some metric SRID. But my points aren't in a definite region. So a SRID which is optimal for one point, throws an error for another point during conversion.  Is there a common way to get an optimal metric projection (SRID) for a WGS84 point? Or at least to use some rough, but world-wide universal metric projection? Or maybe there's a trick for this case? SGS2 screen gets more and more dark blue, possibly after overheated charging Recommended books for advanced undergraduate electrodynamics What books are recommended for an advanced undergraduate course in electrodynamics? Sum of compact sets Let $A,B$ two non-empty compact subsets of a normed space X. How can we prove that the set $S=A+B=\{a+b : a \in A, b \in B\}$ is compact?  Here's my reasoning:  Let $\Omega = \{\Omega_1, \Omega_2,…\}$ be an open cover of $S$. $\Omega$ induces two open cover $X,Y$ respectively of $A,B$, where   $X_i = \{a \in A : a+b \in \Omega_i~~for~some~b\}$   $Y_i = \{b \in B : a+b \in \Omega_i~~for~some~a\}$  in practice $\Omega_i = X_i + Y_i$.  Now my idea is build a finite subcover this way: consider a finite subcover $X_F = \{X_j : j \in J\}$ where $J$ is a finite set of indices. If $Y_F = \{Y_j : j \in J\}$ is a finite subcover of $B$, then we are done as $\{\Omega_j : j \in J\}$ is a subcover of $\Omega$. Otherwise we can keep adding indexes to set $J$ until $Y_F$ becomes a finite subcover of $B$.   This is not too formal but I don't want to make a simple question unreadable, I think the idea should be clear.   Does this works? Is there a better/easier way to get the same result? I want to write $ k = \{k1,k2,k3,...,kn\} $. How could I do this? QGIS ->ArcGIS Server configuration possible? Is it possible to connect a QGIS Desktop 1.8.0 to an ArcGIS Server 10.0 ? and of course publish services on it?.   The configuration would be like this Quantum GIS-> ArcGIS Server 10.0 on Amazon EC2+ POstgreSQL (+PostGIS)-> web app.   Is it possible to create a configuration like this? Do you think I could use it for networking? I was just wondering since i have the 12.04 lts ubuntu edition if it's possible to upgrade it to 13.04 or even 14.04 after it gets released without losing any of my files and installed apps?  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Common problems:   — Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)     — Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)     — Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)   — Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) ALERT! /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell!   BusyBox v.1.21.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.21.1-1ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash)    Enter 'help' for list of built-in commands.    (initramfs)   Output of lsblk as requested:  $ lsblk NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda      8:0    0 232.9G  0 disk  ├─sda1   8:1    0   231G  0 part  ├─sda2   8:2    0     1K  0 part  └─sda5   8:5    0     2G  0 part [SWAP] sr0     11:0    1   1.2G  0 rom  /cdrom loop0    7:0    0   1.1G  1 loop /rofs Let $X$ be a metric space. Prove that if every continuous function $f: X \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is bounded, then $X$ is compact.  This has been asked before, but all the answers I have seen prove the contrapositive. 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