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i'm sure i remember the premise that having a moon the size it is 'protected' the Earth from meteors & asteroids allowing the both the internal structures & atmosphere of the Earth to form more rapidly & hence producing more conducive conditions for the development of life through stability.

This being the case then, conversely, without the moon the Earth would have been more ravaged than it has been over it's existence & there would not be the level of complexity of life forms that both are & have been on it.

Yes - they 'could' offer to allow you the holiday time in lieu of notice (& it would be your choice to accept or not), but the reason for a notice period, if the employee chooses to leave, is to allow time for the employer to find a replacement/cover.

Obviously, if you are forced to work the notice period you will also be entitled to pay for the acrued holiday.

Without formating & reinstalling everything, you'll need to find some 3rd party software to resize the partitions as Windows can't do this natively.

Personally i use Norton's Partition Magic (simply because it's always worked & so have no reason to look for anything else), but there's a variety of software out there that can do it & a quick Google search will quickly find you a solution.


A more general idea would be to not install/save everything to the boot partition at it's a little foolish to do so - the main reason for not doing so is that the boot partition tends to have the majority of the temp files stored on it & it quickly gets fragmented (hence slowing the machine down) - the less that's on there that's necessary, the less any fragmentation will effect performance - however there are other sundry benefits.

(even better is to have a small & fast drive solely for the OS - i tend to use 17.5GB U320's, but even that's way more than necessary)

Oh & you can, of course, cut'n'paste the MyDocuments folder to another partition, change the Pagefile location, edit the registry to move the Desktop location, etc to free up space...

From recollection, the theory (Hooke & Newton?) goes that if the tunnel & the object travelling were frictionless & there was no air resistance, the object would exactly reach the same distance from the centre that it started at -> maxium velocity being reached & the least (in theory approaching zero since the surrounding Earth would exert a gravitational pull from all sides) gravitational effect from the Earth being at the centre of the Earth (since it's the mass & rotation of the Earth beneath us that has the most significant gravitational effect) -> the velocity gained as a result of gravity, if there was no other loss of energy, being exactly what's needed to negatively accelerate to a stopping point at the other side.

The problems that arise are that you need not only to be able to remove friction, create a vacuum etc (otherwise you'd decreasing oscilate to the centre), but also deal with the increased heat & pressure d.t. depth which would kill you before you got anywhere near the centre.

Oh & you'd also need to overcome gravitational effects from other massive objects... & probably a load of other stuff that i can't think of off the top of my head.


The theory also 'worked' for any straight tunnel going through the Earth at any angle (rather than necessarily straight through the centre).

They also tend to do less well in education d.t. factors such as - lack of parental ability, support & valuing education / poorer nutrition / resources targeted at better schools (be that money, equipment, quality of staff, etc) / increased -ve peer pressure (+ve towards crime, truancy, etc or -ve against education) / etc

Separately from education, there will also tend to be -ve long term health effects d.t. poorer nutrition / extended drug use / lack of health education / higher rates of teenage pregnancy /etc.


The main result of all of these factors (both mine, TSG's & others that have been missed), is to seriously disadvantage these people for the rest of their lives - obviously i'm not suggesting that they will all 'fail' or necessarily suffer from all or any of these issues, but that there will be a greater tendency for that to happen.