I see the Sarlac as something akin to the venus fly trap.
In fact, comparing the Sarlac to a venus-fly-trap makes this blog sound laughable:
"A monstrous yet immobile plant that lives in an exposed pit..., waiting for animals to apparently feel suicidal and trek out to throw themselves in? Yeah, not so much. Not every Sarlaac can count on an army of ants to feed it tidbits."
And before everyone replies with "well the Venus fly trap has sugary treats or whatever to attract prey", how do we know that the Sarlac doesn't have something similar and Jabba's just flinging people in as a humourous way to dispose of his enemies?
And "VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone". I've met Jack Valenti and he seriously does believe that everyone who copies everything is a criminal.
People are often talking about moving the ISS into an orbit that is more useful for exploration.. say, an orbit that crosses the inclination of the Moon now and then.
You don't need to change the orbital plane of the ISS to be able to reach the moon. *Any* two planes intersect eachother in a line. This means that there are two points on this intersection (at the distance of the moon) that lies in both the orbital plane of the ISS and the moon. If you launch from the ISS so that you get to one of these points when the moon is there, then you can go directly from the ISS to the moon without a plane change. This occurs every 2 weeks (half the orbit of the moon).
Repeat: You do not need to change planes to get from the ISS to the moon.
During the day, under sunny conditions maybe. How about at night, or when it's raining. For that, you need batteries to cover the power outage and significantly larger solar cells to account for the charge and losses
C) Overcomplicating technology, the machines that took us to the moon were simple, simplicity allows you to work out a bunch of bugs and simplicity allows for more accurate human override.
Really, no. The Saturn V is possibly the most complicated machine ever made. IIRC it had over 6 million components. There was nothing simple about it.
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I see the Sarlac as something akin to the venus fly trap. In fact, comparing the Sarlac to a venus-fly-trap makes this blog sound laughable: "A monstrous yet immobile plant that lives in an exposed pit ..., waiting for animals to apparently feel suicidal and trek out to throw themselves in? Yeah, not so much. Not every Sarlaac can count on an army of ants to feed it tidbits."
And before everyone replies with "well the Venus fly trap has sugary treats or whatever to attract prey", how do we know that the Sarlac doesn't have something similar and Jabba's just flinging people in as a humourous way to dispose of his enemies?
And "VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone". I've met Jack Valenti and he seriously does believe that everyone who copies everything is a criminal.
People are often talking about moving the ISS into an orbit that is more useful for exploration.. say, an orbit that crosses the inclination of the Moon now and then.
You don't need to change the orbital plane of the ISS to be able to reach the moon. *Any* two planes intersect eachother in a line. This means that there are two points on this intersection (at the distance of the moon) that lies in both the orbital plane of the ISS and the moon. If you launch from the ISS so that you get to one of these points when the moon is there, then you can go directly from the ISS to the moon without a plane change. This occurs every 2 weeks (half the orbit of the moon). Repeat: You do not need to change planes to get from the ISS to the moon.
But they'll change it so that the moon shoots first and everyone will complain about how it ruined their childhood.
During the day, under sunny conditions maybe. How about at night, or when it's raining. For that, you need batteries to cover the power outage and significantly larger solar cells to account for the charge and losses
C) Overcomplicating technology, the machines that took us to the moon were simple, simplicity allows you to work out a bunch of bugs and simplicity allows for more accurate human override.
Really, no. The Saturn V is possibly the most complicated machine ever made. IIRC it had over 6 million components. There was nothing simple about it.
...does this statistic take into account PlayStations, laptops, and other electronics which include Blu-ray players?
Did you even RTFA? http://hothardware.com/newsimages/Item10047/blu-ray-adoption.png