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The idea of helicopter drops was revived as a serious policy proposal in the early 2000s by economists considering the lessons from Japan. Ben Bernanke famously delivered a speech on preventing deflation in November 2002 as a Federal Reserve Board governor, where he said that Keynes "once semi-seriously proposed, as an anti-deflationary measure, that the government fill bottles with currency ...
GIF animation of an Apollonian sphere packing with transparent background. Transparency in computer graphics is possible in a number of file formats. The term "transparency" is used in various ways by different people, but at its simplest there is "full transparency" i.e. something that is completely invisible. Only part of a graphic should be ...
Transparent background color; this is a bit field, the lowest bit signifies transparency 311: 00 00: Delay for animation in hundredths of a second; not used: 313: 10: 16: Color number of transparent pixel in GCT 314: 00: End of GCE block Image Descriptor 315: 2C ',' An Image Descriptor (introduced by 0x2C, an ASCII comma ',') 316: 00 00 00 00 ...
A rain of animals is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which flightless animals fall from the sky. Such occurrences have been reported in many countries throughout history, an example being Lluvia de peces , a phenomenon that has occurred many times in Honduras . [ 1 ]
The photograph depicts a lush green rolling hill with cirrus clouds during a daytime sky, with mountains far in the background. [1] [2] It was taken by Charles O'Rear, a former National Geographic photographer and resident of St. Helena, California, in the Napa Valley region north of San Francisco, while on his way to visit his girlfriend in ...
Two other effects which occurred between reionization and our observations of the cosmic microwave background, and which appear to cause anisotropies, are the Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect, where a cloud of high-energy electrons scatters the radiation, transferring some of its energy to the CMB photons, and the Sachs–Wolfe effect, which causes ...
Things That Fall from the Sky is a collection of eleven short stories by American author Kevin Brockmeier. "These Hands" was selected for Prize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards , "The Ceiling" appeared in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2002 (First Prize), and "Space" appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2003 .
Stars Falling from the Sky is the soundtrack album for the television series. It was released on January 25, 2010 by Chili Music, distributed by M.net. The title song, "Stars Falling from the Sky," was released as a digital single on January 12, 2010. That song is performed by the South Korean girl group Kara.