But even so, in much less time than it would have taken me to go from one small shop or grocery store to another, I've done the family's major shopping for a week or two or even more.
Some 20,000 pieces of rubbish are currently being monitored in low-Earth orbit, the majority of which are discarded bits of spacecraft or debris from collisions.
A new back flip maneuver allowed station astronauts to photograph the shuttle's underbelly, and an extra-long robotic arm enabled astronauts see parts of the shuttle that were previously out of sight.
Have you ever had a conversation that seemed enjoyable but left you feeling wary or uneasy? Your instincts are telling you that at least part of the fun was false.
Will they change for any reason other than being faced with a force so much greater than themselves as a whole and even as being more than the sum of their parts?
As one person ironically put it in the comments section of Schwartz's online article, "As I was reading this very excellent article, I stopped at least half a dozen times to check my email."
That s part of what makes Fourier wonderful. Nonetheless, for some signal-processing applications, banded matrices could prove more efficient than the Fourier transform.