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Space Junk May Require ISS Maneuver In Advance of SpaceX's Dragon
SpaceX's Dragon capsule, loaded with food and scientific gear, is scheduled to launch toward the ISS tomorrow evening (with backup launch slots on each of the following two days). There's a last-minute wrinkle, though: Space.com managing editor Tariq Malik reports that a piece of space debris "will pass near enough to the space station on Monday morning (Oct. 8) to require an avoidance maneuver as a safety precaution, NASA space station program manager Mike Suffredini said in a briefing [Saturday]." Tomorrow's planned flight is to be the first under a $1.6 billion contract with NASA that calls for a dozen resupply flights by SpaceX, essential in the post-shuttle era."
I was under the impression that maneuvers like this happen every few months or so, so this really isn't a big deal at all. In fact, TFA says so:
NASA and its space station partners regularly move the space station when a piece of debris is expected to pass inside a preset safety perimeter. That safety zone is shaped like a pizza box and extends out 15 miles (25 kilometers) to either side, as well as a half-mile (0.75 km) above and below the station.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
Feeding time.
Female non-Peace Nobel laureates: 28 (with two for Marie Curie)
Men publish more hard science than women: Not any more.
Women's chance to prove themselves: They did in antiquity but have more recently had their rights curtailed and are slowly getting them back.
Nice try, though.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
Because it has "space" in the story, it seems interesting, but really, considering the amount of space junk out there and the now-familiar processes and procedures to avoid it, this is mostly boring stuff.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Hang in there, dude.
Someday science will stumble upon the right medication for you.
How quaint. A homosexual racist.
Let me guess. A women left you for a non-white person (probably African American with a larger penis then yourself) and your logical reasoned response was to go full homo and join the KKK?
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A pizza is 3 dimensions. This defines a 2D shape hence no thickness is mentioned, I imagine they mean the side of a pizza box which is rectangular while the surface is square:
From parent quote:
That safety zone is shaped like a pizza box and extends out 15 miles (25 kilometers) to either side, as well as a half-mile (0.75 km) above and below the station.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
I don't think so:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3168191&cid=41576321
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
I don't agree with the troll, and points 1 and 3 are correct, but #2 is both misleading and most of it barely qualifies as science.
Social sciences are by their very nature extremely inaccurate and extremely prone to study biases.
Hard science is still majority published by men. There isn't a real reason for this beyond cultural, and actual real gender differences. Women generally end up having more interest outside of STEM and most women, at least in most first world countries, finding the Sciences rather boring.
Women tend to be much more social creatures that like to be involved in many things at once, while men tend to be more single-minded, which lends itself to modern science extremely well as extreme specialization is often a requirement to get anything significant done. People do tend to gravitate towards things that are an easy fit for them sooo...
Of course there are exceptions to every rule and your Nobel prize list is ample evidence of that. However I think we can expect the real sciences(excluding perhaps medical science) to be male-dominated for the foreseeable future.
I guess tastes differ, I find it a well-written and nicely built up troll. Definitely better than 'first post' or 'ur all faggots'.
Stupid * Stupid....
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