User: noip

Re:Why Must NASA Develop a Launcher?

On: NASA Pitches Heavy Lift Vehicle To Congress

There ARE commercial launchers in the same ballpark as the Ares 5, as mentioned above. Falcon X - 125t LEO Falcon XX - 140t LEO in comparison Saturn 5 - 119t LEO

Re:Like riding a firecracker

On: Utah vs. NASA On Heavy-Lift Rocket Design

I think Wehrner Vom Braun refused to design man rated vehicles with a solid rocket stage (he mustn't have been responsible for the Redstone I guess).

Redstone, being an evolutionary development of the V-2 was liquid fueled.

Re:The privacy/security scale tips again.

On: National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches

Unfortunately, such a measure would not have prevented the World Trade Centre attack. At least one of the perpetrators was already on the Flight Deck before departure.

Re:OrgMode

On: How Do You Manage the Information In Your Life?

Works on everything, syncs to iPad and iPhone (mobileorg). The more you use it, the deeper the rabbit hole goes.

Dream On

On: Australian Gov't Seeks To Record Citizens' Web Histories

This seems to have more in common with tin-foil hats and paranoia ..

Our Dead Man's Handle .....

On: What Does Your Dead Man's Switch Do?

Well, we just sit up all night in the middle of the Pacific, trying not to touch anything, hoping it'll go off ..... :) (yes, they have them on aeroplanes now ... ) N