I'm not anything close to an expert, but wouldn't a stall be easily recoverable at 32,000+ feet? If a plane fell from this altitude without any radio contact I would think it would be some kind of catastrophic structural or mechanical failure.
There are reasonable responses, and there are unreasonable responses. The police usually lean toward the unreasonable responses these days. They smash in the door with guns blazing when the only indication that something is amiss is a single phone call from an anonymous source.
It was implied that it was expensive due to the rocket equation...implying the cost cannot be brought down due to constraints imposed by physics...That is the bullshit. Yes, it'll still be expensive. But the shuttle program was deliberately expensive.
Oh bullshit. Space is still expensive because the US government doesn't want anyone else up there. It's actively working against making space exploration any cheaper. The Russians can put stuff into orbit for a fraction what the US can do it for....but you hardly ever hear anyone dwelling on this fact. And if you do, we just say it's because they have substandard technology. What the Russians actually did was go with the cheapest design possible and reused it again and again.
The US could have done this too. But we insisted on 30+ years of the shuttle. Americans still believe the shuttle is better and think a capsules are antiquated and inferior to the shuttle. The think the space station could not have been built without it. Well, how hard would it have been to build a Mir style space station with lots of Skylab sized components....on Saturn rockets...forty years ago.
Perhaps this is the best argument for abandoning the manned space program. The government clearly has no interest in it accomplishing anything with it.
We can already study space from right here in our computer chairs. Does getting 600 kilometers closer to Andromeda help anything?
If fact, it does. Being outside of the atmosphere means visible light telescopes are tremendously more useful. Radio telescopes on the far side of the moon would be far more effective. Studying each of the planets is far more effective if you're actually on or near them.
Yes we can create robots that go out there and study very specific things. They are planned well in advance, do only very limited things, and frequently fail because they're not totally autonomous and adapt poorly to the unexpected.... case and point: Rosetta's Philae lander....or any number of probes that have malfunctioned or been lost. If you put a single human out there, they can fix the problem. A person can conduct hundreds of experiments where a machine is limited to a few. A person can analyze and interpret results onsite, even design new experiments. A person can build things, onsite.
Robots have their uses. But they're not a replacement for humans. Not yet anyway.
I don't agree with it...but a lot of people feel freedom is good as long as it's freedom censored by them. Of course, that's not really freedom, but try to tell them that.
Because there are enough of these people to have government representation and therefore have the ability to impose their values on you, just as you have representation and have your "freedoms" imposed on them.
I always thought the en-dash and hyphen were the same thing and the em-dash was the long one. Apparently there's hyphen, en-dash, and em-dash and the text of the book does indeed use the en-dash...and looks a little weird.
Fangs burst through her gums as her jaw elongated into a razor–filled [razor-filled] muzzle and her ears elongated. After less than thirty seconds, the woman had been replaced by sleek, muscular, brown–furred [brown-furred] monster.
Yes, but without anybody buying your art, or doing anything useful with your code, I think you'd probably end of feeling like your efforts are futile and lose interest.
What you can or cannot believe isn't important, the truth is that canabis can have a devastating effect on the developing teenage mind.
Then legalizing and age restricting it will probably make it harder to acquire. As I recall, when I was in highschool in the early 90's--with the "War on Drugs" in full force--it was far easier to acquire pot, LSD, and cocaine than it was to get beer. Now that's just sad.
Give them a taste for free, then when they're hooked, gouge them.... Visual Studio and.Net do tend to be well received by everyone. The consensus is that it's a good product and a pleasure to use. The only problem with it is that you have to run it on Windows. So, perhaps the plan is to support.Net on Linux for a while, then yank the support for Linux away and force everyone back to Windows and SQL Server or rewrite their application for another platform.
Venus will never be inhabitable until we can radically alter the atmosphere. Colonizing the atmosphere is pointless. Where are you going to get raw materials? It would be far easier to hollow out an asteroid and colonize the interior than it ever would be to establish a presence on Venus.
Well it's clear you don't want to be part of the group. You can probably take your lunch tray from our little social microcosm and sit at your own table all alone and nobody will care. At least until you come back and shoot up the school because your self inflicted ostracization fucked you up mentally.
The beauty of an AI system is the system can be designed from the ground up avoid the restrictions we have.
Any sort of sapient artificially intelligent program we "create" is almost certainly not going to be designed from the ground up. It will most likely be designed with the ability to learn, and it will teach itself.
Well, now that you got your rant out, I'm going to tell you that you missed my point.
I don't really care too much about making social commentaries or judgements. I just think it would be interesting to see how it affects you psychologically when you are a treated differently by society. I suspect that you'll quickly become a different person and behave and perceive the world like that other person. You might ever see yourself behaving in a manner that you despise in others. It would be quite an effective way make everyone a lot more tolerant of everyone else (not just black and white Americans) because everyone can empathize with everyone else. But more importantly....what an excellent trip toy.
The point is to experience it, not just be told what it's like. We've all been told. It's a different thing entirely to experience it. And frankly, I don't have a black neighbors.
Uh, this is not an accusation. As far as I call this is just an interesting social experiment. And one that I'm eager to participate in. Ever since I got Oculus Rift, I've been wanting to experience the world through the eyes of other people and see how it psychologically affects me to be treated like somebody else. Somebody uglier, or more attractive, or smarter, or dumber, or a better dresser, or a different gender, or a different race, or a richer/poorer, a different age, sicklier, buff and intimidating. Surely this is something that would be extremely interesting to most people.
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I'm not anything close to an expert, but wouldn't a stall be easily recoverable at 32,000+ feet? If a plane fell from this altitude without any radio contact I would think it would be some kind of catastrophic structural or mechanical failure.
There are reasonable responses, and there are unreasonable responses. The police usually lean toward the unreasonable responses these days. They smash in the door with guns blazing when the only indication that something is amiss is a single phone call from an anonymous source.
On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642
I don't understand. Which part of this says there's nothing special about Dec 25th?
Why can't we? I don't understand your reaction either. It doesn't seem insulting to me. Just seems like an interesting fact delivered in a clever way.
It was implied that it was expensive due to the rocket equation...implying the cost cannot be brought down due to constraints imposed by physics...That is the bullshit. Yes, it'll still be expensive. But the shuttle program was deliberately expensive.
Oh bullshit. Space is still expensive because the US government doesn't want anyone else up there. It's actively working against making space exploration any cheaper. The Russians can put stuff into orbit for a fraction what the US can do it for....but you hardly ever hear anyone dwelling on this fact. And if you do, we just say it's because they have substandard technology. What the Russians actually did was go with the cheapest design possible and reused it again and again.
The US could have done this too. But we insisted on 30+ years of the shuttle. Americans still believe the shuttle is better and think a capsules are antiquated and inferior to the shuttle. The think the space station could not have been built without it. Well, how hard would it have been to build a Mir style space station with lots of Skylab sized components....on Saturn rockets...forty years ago.
Perhaps this is the best argument for abandoning the manned space program. The government clearly has no interest in it accomplishing anything with it.
We can already study space from right here in our computer chairs. Does getting 600 kilometers closer to Andromeda help anything?
If fact, it does. Being outside of the atmosphere means visible light telescopes are tremendously more useful. Radio telescopes on the far side of the moon would be far more effective. Studying each of the planets is far more effective if you're actually on or near them.
Yes we can create robots that go out there and study very specific things. They are planned well in advance, do only very limited things, and frequently fail because they're not totally autonomous and adapt poorly to the unexpected.... case and point: Rosetta's Philae lander....or any number of probes that have malfunctioned or been lost. If you put a single human out there, they can fix the problem. A person can conduct hundreds of experiments where a machine is limited to a few. A person can analyze and interpret results onsite, even design new experiments. A person can build things, onsite.
Robots have their uses. But they're not a replacement for humans. Not yet anyway.
Do you ever tire of assuming that minor spelling mistakes in an informal forum does not mean the author doesn't know the difference between the two?
I don't agree with it...but a lot of people feel freedom is good as long as it's freedom censored by them. Of course, that's not really freedom, but try to tell them that.
Because there are enough of these people to have government representation and therefore have the ability to impose their values on you, just as you have representation and have your "freedoms" imposed on them.
This is actually good compared to most self published work.
Fangs burst through her gums as her jaw elongated into a razor–filled [razor-filled] muzzle and her ears elongated. After less than thirty seconds, the woman had been replaced by sleek, muscular, brown–furred [brown-furred] monster.
Yes, but without anybody buying your art, or doing anything useful with your code, I think you'd probably end of feeling like your efforts are futile and lose interest.
What you can or cannot believe isn't important, the truth is that canabis can have a devastating effect on the developing teenage mind.
Then legalizing and age restricting it will probably make it harder to acquire. As I recall, when I was in highschool in the early 90's--with the "War on Drugs" in full force--it was far easier to acquire pot, LSD, and cocaine than it was to get beer. Now that's just sad.
Give them a taste for free, then when they're hooked, gouge them.... Visual Studio and .Net do tend to be well received by everyone. The consensus is that it's a good product and a pleasure to use. The only problem with it is that you have to run it on Windows. So, perhaps the plan is to support .Net on Linux for a while, then yank the support for Linux away and force everyone back to Windows and SQL Server or rewrite their application for another platform.
Venus will never be inhabitable until we can radically alter the atmosphere. Colonizing the atmosphere is pointless. Where are you going to get raw materials? It would be far easier to hollow out an asteroid and colonize the interior than it ever would be to establish a presence on Venus.
Well it's clear you don't want to be part of the group. You can probably take your lunch tray from our little social microcosm and sit at your own table all alone and nobody will care. At least until you come back and shoot up the school because your self inflicted ostracization fucked you up mentally.
The beauty of an AI system is the system can be designed from the ground up avoid the restrictions we have.
Any sort of sapient artificially intelligent program we "create" is almost certainly not going to be designed from the ground up. It will most likely be designed with the ability to learn, and it will teach itself.
You need a hot desert to get the sand. You need sand to get the worms.
Sand trout make the desert. Then they turn into worms. Amateur.
Well, now that you got your rant out, I'm going to tell you that you missed my point.
I don't really care too much about making social commentaries or judgements. I just think it would be interesting to see how it affects you psychologically when you are a treated differently by society. I suspect that you'll quickly become a different person and behave and perceive the world like that other person. You might ever see yourself behaving in a manner that you despise in others. It would be quite an effective way make everyone a lot more tolerant of everyone else (not just black and white Americans) because everyone can empathize with everyone else. But more importantly....what an excellent trip toy.
The point is to experience it, not just be told what it's like. We've all been told. It's a different thing entirely to experience it. And frankly, I don't have a black neighbors.
Naturally that will be the first simulation I try....unless somebody is watching.
Uh, this is not an accusation. As far as I call this is just an interesting social experiment. And one that I'm eager to participate in. Ever since I got Oculus Rift, I've been wanting to experience the world through the eyes of other people and see how it psychologically affects me to be treated like somebody else. Somebody uglier, or more attractive, or smarter, or dumber, or a better dresser, or a different gender, or a different race, or a richer/poorer, a different age, sicklier, buff and intimidating. Surely this is something that would be extremely interesting to most people.
That's my favorite hymn.
Because that's just what you do in the middle of the night.