* low orbits of artificial Earth satellite - up to 100 t
* the geostationary orbit - up to 20 t
* the lunar mission trajectory - up to 32 t.
A nuke powered launch vehicle could lift a 1000 ton payload to orbit or a 300 ton Mars mission that could get there faster and not have to rely on producing fuel for the return trip.
The smallest feasible Mars expedition requires 150 or so tons in Earth orbit, which takes 5 trips on the most powerful rocket flying today, the Space Shuttle. A large nuclear powered booster could put six times that mass in orbit in one flight. According to this article, an Apollo size rocket with gas core engines would be safe, economical and would even get rid of excess nuclear waste.
This is not new. NASA tested Nuke engines in the 60's. If we are serious about going to Mars, we have to start building nuke engines.
Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun, A man whose allegiance Is ruled by expedience. Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown, 'Ha, Nazi, Schmazi,' says Wernher von Braun.
Don't say that he's hypocritical, Say rather that he's apolitical. 'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun.
Some have harsh words for this man of renown, But some think our attitude Should be one of gratitude, Like the widows and cripples in old London town, Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.
You too may be a big hero, Once you've learned to count backwards to zero. "In German oder English I know how to count down, Und I'm learning Chinese!" says Wernher von Braun.
There was a movie biography of Wernher von Braun life produced in the 50's called I Aim for the Stars. I read somewhere that someone wrote on the bottom of a movie poster outside a theatre: I Aim for the Stars... but sometimes I hit London.
Actually NASA just said it hit at 193 mph. Terminal velocity varies according to the density, weight and area of a falling object but I thought 100 mph that everyone else was quoting seemed somewhat slow for something coming in from space.
I just finished reading the 2 volumes on the Eugenics Wars. It did a good job of weaving the Star Trek universe into our actual real world events. It is also a good example of the quality of the writers putting out the ST novels. If there are so many novels out there begging to be adapted to movies or a series, why do they keep putting out crappy movies written by people who do not really know the franchise?
Last fall I received an email from a Nigerian who identified himself as a psychologist and was interested in obtaining some stress management materials I referenced on my website. As soon as I read it I thought to myself that this was going to be the start of a 419 scam. I almost ignored it but then thought that I would play along. I told him that to mail the materials I would need $15US to cover the postage and to my surprise a couple weeks later a cheque arrived. I was sure it was going to bounce but when it didn't, I sent him what he asked for. The moral is that Nigeria is a big country and not everyone there is trying to run a scam.
The weekend estimates for F 9/11 has it number 1 with $21.8 mil for an average of $25k per screen. Compare that to White Chicks that brought in $19 mil but on 2,726 screens for an average per screen of only $7.19k. By limiting to less than 1 third the number of screens Moore almost guarantees that mosts of the shows will be sold out and there will be line ups to buy tickets. This makes news that is free advertising for the movie. An interesting tactic. It reminds me of when Churchill was explaining why he had the British Parliment renovated with less seats than the total number of members. He said that when everyone attended to vote on an important bill some would have to stand at the back and sit in the aisles. This would lend a sense of importance and urgency to the bill and increase the drama of the event. Maybe 868 was the only number of screens available at short notice but in this case it is turning out as a shrewd tactics as the records fall.
Doesn't this strike anyone else as pretty, well..useless? Cellphone in a wrist-watch? How do I dial a number when I want to make a call? Or is there some attachable keypad you use to dial the number?
I have to use MS Word at work but I use WordPerfect 11 at home when I need to get real work done. WP lets me format a document the way I want to as opposed to Word where you have to do what Word thinks is best. If ever I have a problem with formatting in WP I just open Reveal Codes and fix it as opposed to spending an hour fighting with Word. Lots of other bonuses now in WP such as the built in dictionary and publish to pdf. Too bad that Corel let Paul Allen and Vector steal the company last year. There is no way now that they will ever sell the company to someone who could really threaten MS Word's monopoly.
The linked article speculates that it might have been a Russian PG-7VR which has a dual warhead but it would not have to be in this case. A dual warhead is designed to pentrate reactive armour(explosive blocks designed to disrupt the jet). The first small charge on an extended probe sets off the reactive armour which allows the main charge to pass through the main armour.
In this case though the M1 does not have reactive armour. It has an advance form of Chobham armour which uses ceramic plates laminated in layers between layers of depleted uranium armour which can defeat shaped charge weapons and kinetic energy rounds. Unfortunately there are a small number of areas not covered by the special armour and this round appears to have found one. See a diagram here. The jet hit the top of the side protective skirt which denotated the warhead as it is designed to do. The jet then penetrated the thin side armour behind the suspension and entered the crew compartment missing the crew but damaging a number of turret controls. Technically it was not a 'mobility kill' as it only knocked out the turret but the crew was unharmed and the tank was able to drive back on its own power. It is worrying that an RPG jet could travel that far after hitting the side skirt but then again the tank is so well designed that any ammo that could have caused a catastrophic explosion was protected by further saftey systems. The worst that could have happened in this case was if one of the crew would have been in the path of the jet. It was in all likelyhood not a mystery projectile but just a regular RPG round whose gunner made a lucky shot to penetrate a vulnarable part of the hull. It is such a rare event that it is not worth worrying much about.
For many years the Ontario Teacher's pension fund was a major investor in Corel and Corel basically offered WordPerfect for free to Ontario schools. When Corel was stolen by Vector the pension fund lost over $500 mil. Now with no reason for a special relationship and with the WordPerfect - Student/Teacher version costing $99 and it makes sense that the Board of Education would look for a better deal. Bill Gates and Vector(owners of Corel) probally thought this would force the schools over to MS Office but in this case it back fired on them.
I am running win xp pro with zone alarm firewall. Twice today I have had a blue screen come up and say that there is a system stop due to a program trying to write to a read only portion of memory. It then says that it is dumping physical memory to disk. After about a minute it reboots and runs fine. Does this sound like the worm in question?
From amazon: According to Guinness World Records, at over five by seven feet (and 133 pounds), this staggeringly beautiful photographic book is the largest published book in the world--about one of the world's smallest countries.
[snip]... Charitable Donation and Shipping Estimate A limited edition of 500 copies will be produced. The $10,000 "price" (less than $100 per page) is a donation to Friendly Planet (a publicly supported charitable organization exempt from federal income tax pursuant to IRC 501(c)(3)). Each copy is built expressly for the recipient, is numbered, and can include a personal dedication message.
Police forces are very expensive for a community so most see revenue from traffic offenses as a way of subsidizing the entire force. If they can still receive the revenue and free up the police for prenting the real crimes, then communities will can choose between lower crime or reducing the number of police required for their force.
I would think that most police would rather be doing real law enforcement rather than writing tickets. Worse is when people fight the ticket and requires the police to go to court to justify why they wrote the ticket.
Why should we be using police officers to enforce traffic laws when technology can do it better? Would not a better use of their time and training be preventing violent crime? Traffic enforcement is so randomly enforced now that many feel they can get away with it. If this can reduce traffic fatalities and put more police back in the communities to prevent serious violent crime, then I am all for it.
This is great advertising for trilian. I never heard of it til now. I just bought a new PC that came with Win XP. I installed MSN messenger 6 and all of a sudden passport would not let me authenticate. I could not even log on to hotmail on IE6. It is funny as I can log on to hotmail using netscape. My kids were bugging me to fix it but now that I installed Trilian I can use messenger again. great product and I hope they work out something with M$ before Oct 15 as it is definitely a keeper.
According to Rotten Tomatoes only 15 reviewers bothered even to write about Avenging Angelo which was not enough to give it a 'freshness'rating. Gigli may be the worst movie of all time with only 8% positive reviews. The hulk had 61% positive and CA-FT 42%. Apparently Gigli is even worse than 'The Postman' that received 9% positive.
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The Energia company website says:
Mass of payloads delivered to:
* low orbits of artificial Earth satellite - up to 100 t
* the geostationary orbit - up to 20 t
* the lunar mission trajectory - up to 32 t.
A nuke powered launch vehicle could lift a 1000 ton payload to orbit or a 300 ton Mars mission that could get there faster and not have to rely on producing fuel for the return trip.
The smallest feasible Mars expedition requires 150 or so tons in Earth orbit, which takes 5 trips on the most powerful rocket flying today, the Space Shuttle. A large nuclear powered booster could put six times that mass in orbit in one flight. According to this article, an Apollo size rocket with gas core engines would be safe, economical and would even get rid of excess nuclear waste.
This is not new. NASA tested Nuke engines in the 60's. If we are serious about going to Mars, we have to start building nuke engines.
Some people think that Von Braun actually said 'But sometimes I hit London, but it is an old joke popularized by Mort Sahl.
Von Braun did say
'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department'.
It was even put into a 1965 song by Tom Lehrer:
Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun,
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience.
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown,
'Ha, Nazi, Schmazi,' says Wernher von Braun.
Don't say that he's hypocritical,
Say rather that he's apolitical.
'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun.
Some have harsh words for this man of renown,
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old London town,
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.
You too may be a big hero,
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero.
"In German oder English I know how to count down,
Und I'm learning Chinese!" says Wernher von Braun.
There was a movie biography of Wernher von Braun life produced in the 50's called I Aim for the Stars. I read somewhere that someone wrote on the bottom of a movie poster outside a theatre: I Aim for the Stars ... but sometimes I hit London.
Nasa updated the impact velocity to 193 mph.
Actually NASA just said it hit at 193 mph. Terminal velocity varies according to the density, weight and area of a falling object but I thought 100 mph that everyone else was quoting seemed somewhat slow for something coming in from space.
I just finished reading the 2 volumes on the Eugenics Wars. It did a good job of weaving the Star Trek universe into our actual real world events. It is also a good example of the quality of the writers putting out the ST novels. If there are so many novels out there begging to be adapted to movies or a series, why do they keep putting out crappy movies written by people who do not really know the franchise?
The rest of us will escape to the stars.
This connection could even provide VoIP, though latency might be noticable (better than no phone though!)
So the old saying is true: Its better to be latent than never.
Their email address is info@odeonuk.com
Last fall I received an email from a Nigerian who identified himself as a psychologist and was interested in obtaining some stress management materials I referenced on my website. As soon as I read it I thought to myself that this was going to be the start of a 419 scam. I almost ignored it but then thought that I would play along. I told him that to mail the materials I would need $15US to cover the postage and to my surprise a couple weeks later a cheque arrived. I was sure it was going to bounce but when it didn't, I sent him what he asked for. The moral is that Nigeria is a big country and not everyone there is trying to run a scam.
The weekend estimates for F 9/11 has it number 1 with $21.8 mil for an average of $25k per screen. Compare that to White Chicks that brought in $19 mil but on 2,726 screens for an average per screen of only $7.19k. By limiting to less than 1 third the number of screens Moore almost guarantees that mosts of the shows will be sold out and there will be line ups to buy tickets. This makes news that is free advertising for the movie. An interesting tactic. It reminds me of when Churchill was explaining why he had the British Parliment renovated with less seats than the total number of members. He said that when everyone attended to vote on an important bill some would have to stand at the back and sit in the aisles. This would lend a sense of importance and urgency to the bill and increase the drama of the event. Maybe 868 was the only number of screens available at short notice but in this case it is turning out as a shrewd tactics as the records fall.
Doesn't this strike anyone else as pretty, well..useless? Cellphone in a wrist-watch? How do I dial a number when I want to make a call? Or is there some attachable keypad you use to dial the number?
The technology already exists to have a HUD projected on your glasses or even using lasers to superimpose images directly on your retinas. Many cell phones already have voice dialing and for text messages there are
projected keyboards
I have to use MS Word at work but I use WordPerfect 11 at home when I need to get real work done. WP lets me format a document the way I want to as opposed to Word where you have to do what Word thinks is best. If ever I have a problem with formatting in WP I just open Reveal Codes and fix it as opposed to spending an hour fighting with Word. Lots of other bonuses now in WP such as the built in dictionary and publish to pdf. Too bad that Corel let Paul Allen and Vector steal the company last year. There is no way now that they will ever sell the company to someone who could really threaten MS Word's monopoly.
The linked article speculates that it might have been a Russian PG-7VR which has a dual warhead but it would not have to be in this case. A dual warhead is designed to pentrate reactive armour(explosive blocks designed to disrupt the jet). The first small charge on an extended probe sets off the reactive armour which allows the main charge to pass through the main armour.
In this case though the M1 does not have reactive armour. It has an advance form of Chobham armour which uses ceramic plates laminated in layers between layers of depleted uranium armour which can defeat shaped charge weapons and kinetic energy rounds. Unfortunately there are a small number of areas not covered by the special armour and this round appears to have found one. See a diagram here. The jet hit the top of the side protective skirt which denotated the warhead as it is designed to do. The jet then penetrated the thin side armour behind the suspension and entered the crew compartment missing the crew but damaging a number of turret controls. Technically it was not a 'mobility kill' as it only knocked out the turret but the crew was unharmed and the tank was able to drive back on its own power. It is worrying that an RPG jet could travel that far after hitting the side skirt but then again the tank is so well designed that any ammo that could have caused a catastrophic explosion was protected by further saftey systems. The worst that could have happened in this case was if one of the crew would have been in the path of the jet. It was in all likelyhood not a mystery projectile but just a regular RPG round whose gunner made a lucky shot to penetrate a vulnarable part of the hull. It is such a rare event that it is not worth worrying much about.
For many years the Ontario Teacher's pension fund was a major investor in Corel and Corel basically offered WordPerfect for free to Ontario schools. When Corel was stolen by Vector the pension fund lost over $500 mil. Now with no reason for a special relationship and with the WordPerfect - Student/Teacher version costing $99 and it makes sense that the Board of Education would look for a better deal. Bill Gates and Vector(owners of Corel) probally thought this would force the schools over to MS Office but in this case it back fired on them.
I am running win xp pro with zone alarm firewall. Twice today I have had a blue screen come up and say that there is a system stop due to a program trying to write to a read only portion of memory. It then says that it is dumping physical memory to disk. After about a minute it reboots and runs fine. Does this sound like the worm in question?
From amazon:
...
According to Guinness World Records, at over five by seven feet (and 133 pounds), this staggeringly beautiful photographic book is the largest published book in the world--about one of the world's smallest countries.
[snip]
Charitable Donation and Shipping Estimate
A limited edition of 500 copies will be produced. The $10,000 "price" (less than $100 per page) is a donation to Friendly Planet (a publicly supported charitable organization exempt from federal income tax pursuant to IRC 501(c)(3)). Each copy is built expressly for the recipient, is numbered, and can include a personal dedication message.
If it is not reducing crime, perhaps it would have been wiser to put more police on the streets?
If you are keen to read the Dutch court ruling or the Dutch News Channel, you can use World Lingo Translator.
Police forces are very expensive for a community so most see revenue from traffic offenses as a way of subsidizing the entire force. If they can still receive the revenue and free up the police for prenting the real crimes, then communities will can choose between lower crime or reducing the number of police required for their force.
I would think that most police would rather be doing real law enforcement rather than writing tickets. Worse is when people fight the ticket and requires the police to go to court to justify why they wrote the ticket.
Why should we be using police officers to enforce traffic laws when technology can do it better? Would not a better use of their time and training be preventing violent crime? Traffic enforcement is so randomly enforced now that many feel they can get away with it. If this can reduce traffic fatalities and put more police back in the communities to prevent serious violent crime, then I am all for it.
This is great advertising for trilian. I never heard of it til now. I just bought a new PC that came with Win XP. I installed MSN messenger 6 and all of a sudden passport would not let me authenticate. I could not even log on to hotmail on IE6. It is funny as I can log on to hotmail using netscape. My kids were bugging me to fix it but now that I installed Trilian I can use messenger again. great product and I hope they work out something with M$ before Oct 15 as it is definitely a keeper.
According to Rotten Tomatoes only 15 reviewers bothered even to write about Avenging Angelo which was not enough to give it a 'freshness'rating. Gigli may be the worst movie of all time with only 8% positive reviews. The hulk had 61% positive and CA-FT 42%. Apparently Gigli is even worse than 'The Postman' that received 9% positive.
A good source for reviews is Rotten Tomatoes. The Hulk had 61% positive reviews(119 out of 196). Charlies Angels received only 40% and Gigli 8%.