Saying that this launch failure has certainly put a crimp in SpaceX's plans to nuzzle up to the DoD/NSA funding teat.
Probably, but it shouldn't - it's not like ULA have had a perfect record*
* Actually, I looked that their success rate for Delta II, Delta IV, Delta IV Heavy & Atlas V and they're all pretty damn good. Lockheed and Boeing have been in the game since the start however, and they also know how to charge for their services.
Railgun - payload has to survive the stupendous acceleration - General Atomics Blitzer for example *only* reaches Mach 5 (22% of LEO speed) but experiences 60,000g. Skylon - great on paper. It's British so I'd like it succeed, but I'm not holding my breath. VentureStar - never made it off the paper, and it's been cancelled.
SpaceX's launch system isn't revolutionary, however it's recovery system is. People have talked about it for decades, but nobody else has even tried it (no the Delta Clipper doesn't count - it's record flight was 142 seconds up to 3,140m). Airbus & ULA have their powerpoint concepts - nothing else.
Or ask. I got to confuse some German bikers in France once. Got out of a car with a GB plate at the top of the Col d'Iseran and asked in German for them to take a photo of me by the sign. Saw them on and off for the next 100 km or so - always got a wave.
I was thinking on starting off a conspiracy theory about a shady group sabotaging the ISS resupply missions. Alas I don't really have the imagination to come up with a suitably ridiculous hypothesis.
According to this list they're going backwards: * The first 51 missions were successful - Progress M * The following 25 missions succeeded - Cygnus * The next 4 missions were successful, followed by two successive failures (Progress M & Falcon 9)
On a serious note - the NASA press conference mentioned that the Progress M 3rd stage has been reverted to an older configuration, so the failures we're seeing are possibly due to multiple launch systems being continuously developed.
I don't think the gp has seen the conditions those astronomers have to work in - it can be bloody cold and the lack of oxygen at those altitudes (Chile anyway) can be downright dangerous as it can impair your mind.
If there was a conspiracy surely they'd be building telescopes by at sea level close to bars and strip clubs.
As an atheist I would prefer to see the advancement of mankind. As a Christian, my father sees graves as a mere shell - it slightly surprised me when he told me th that, but in hindsight I shouldn't have been.
The concept of sacred ground is simply something I don't understand.
It's sure as hell better than the [absolute minimum] 476ms round trip to GEO. Maybe that's what they're comparing their low latency to - existing satellite internet connections.
I was going to suggest that the more sensible option would be to get rid of the woman as she was faking sickness to get days off - especially if the "sickness" goes when the light is off - but then she would probably have sued because just because it's psychosomatic it doesn't mean she's actually sick.
I've looked at doing that for home (not RPi), the only problem was that I couldn't find what POTS hardware to use with Asterisk. What would you use, unless of course you'll be using a SIP trunk.
There's every need if the mail originated from the ISP. The OP said nothing about from address - the hops recorded in the headers may have been an indication. They're something I regularly check when I get spam sent to an account where the address is rarely used.
No, it's not as black and white. But the fact is that the the church banned books on Copernican theory in 1616, 16 years before "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" was published and the pope cast as Simplicio.
Well, let's test this scientific theory of yours by asking for examples... Please, list such "intrusions"..
Well, there's the Bible - the people who originally wrote it existed on the material plane. They also needed faith to believe that the stories (or in several cases voices in their heads) were real. Therefore faith has had to intrude on the material plane, if it didn't we'd have no knowledge of it.
The laws and traditions deal with ethics and philosophy, not scientific discipline(s). I wonder, why you even brought these up.
Probably because in the past (and present), religion has deemed to weigh in on scientific arguments. I hate to bring up the cliche that is Galileo, but as foolish as he was, he (and others) had their scientific writings banned by the Catholic church.
Citations, please [regarding great detail]
Granted, it's not great detail, but they do claim to understand why god did things - generally it's because he's angry with his creation for not behaving the way he knew they wouldn't.
Citations, please. [regarding falsifiability]
Talking serpent, great flood...
Personally, it's not the faith in a supernatural being that I find bewildering, it's the faith that said omniscient being is good and that it didn't create humanity for the sole purpose of trolling them. Read the bible without the view that god is good and you realise it describes us being set up to fail from the get go.
What a superb way of doing business. Reminds me of a speaker at a business conference in the 80s who got a standing ovation. He described how he increased company revenue by refusing to pay his creditors until they went out of business. For some reason those lauding him didn't seem to think that the same thing could happen to them.
Any small businesses we've dealt with recently have refused to take cheques - probably for that exact reason.
I gave up on NatWest when the bank manager refused to allow me to withdraw the £500 deposit that I had to pay my new landlord - incredibly embarrassing and had to deal with the concern that he would find me untrustworthy. Apparently having a bank card and driving licence want good enough ID.
I got a phone call apologising after I wrote a letter of complaint explaining that she was likely costing the bank business as I was now moving banks and they'd be losing my new self-employed business account, and that they should be concerned about her as it's likely she tested other graduates similarly. I enjoyed telling her "no, nothing she can do will help -it's too late"
Really, I had assumed that France would have gone the way of several Scandinavian countries and gotten rid of cheques. I'm looking forward to the day they're obsoleted in the UK so we don't have to do a banking run for the few cheques we get a week. I shredded my cheque book in about 2008 and haven't missed it.
I think we need a Slashdot poll - "when was the last time you wrote out a cheque"
Well that's lovely in theory. Then again, in theory communism works!
I'd love to live in a world where accusations weren't acted on unless evidence was shown, but I don't think there's a single place where that happens, so we have to forgo ideal laws with ones that are workable. Human nature is a bitch.
Well, if the owner of the building told people that they're free to write on their walls... Do you know many property owners that provide that service?
Nice to see some clarification about what it *actually* means, not the immediate jump to conclusions that so many people (including myself) made. As you say it might influence other countries which can now look at this Estonian law and say "why don't we do that too - the ECHR says it's ok". It's the kind of shit UK governments (of both flavours) would do, even if the current one is wanting to opt out of the ECHR
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Saying that this launch failure has certainly put a crimp in SpaceX's plans to nuzzle up to the DoD/NSA funding teat.
Probably, but it shouldn't - it's not like ULA have had a perfect record*
* Actually, I looked that their success rate for Delta II, Delta IV, Delta IV Heavy & Atlas V and they're all pretty damn good. Lockheed and Boeing have been in the game since the start however, and they also know how to charge for their services.
Railgun - payload has to survive the stupendous acceleration - General Atomics Blitzer for example *only* reaches Mach 5 (22% of LEO speed) but experiences 60,000g.
Skylon - great on paper. It's British so I'd like it succeed, but I'm not holding my breath.
VentureStar - never made it off the paper, and it's been cancelled.
SpaceX's launch system isn't revolutionary, however it's recovery system is. People have talked about it for decades, but nobody else has even tried it (no the Delta Clipper doesn't count - it's record flight was 142 seconds up to 3,140m). Airbus & ULA have their powerpoint concepts - nothing else.
Or ask. I got to confuse some German bikers in France once. Got out of a car with a GB plate at the top of the Col d'Iseran and asked in German for them to take a photo of me by the sign. Saw them on and off for the next 100 km or so - always got a wave.
I was thinking on starting off a conspiracy theory about a shady group sabotaging the ISS resupply missions. Alas I don't really have the imagination to come up with a suitably ridiculous hypothesis.
According to this list they're going backwards:
* The first 51 missions were successful - Progress M
* The following 25 missions succeeded - Cygnus
* The next 4 missions were successful, followed by two successive failures (Progress M & Falcon 9)
On a serious note - the NASA press conference mentioned that the Progress M 3rd stage has been reverted to an older configuration, so the failures we're seeing are possibly due to multiple launch systems being continuously developed.
Not enough caps and too much punctuation. D-
I don't think the gp has seen the conditions those astronomers have to work in - it can be bloody cold and the lack of oxygen at those altitudes (Chile anyway) can be downright dangerous as it can impair your mind.
If there was a conspiracy surely they'd be building telescopes by at sea level close to bars and strip clubs.
As an atheist I would prefer to see the advancement of mankind. As a Christian, my father sees graves as a mere shell - it slightly surprised me when he told me th that, but in hindsight I shouldn't have been.
The concept of sacred ground is simply something I don't understand.
It's sure as hell better than the [absolute minimum] 476ms round trip to GEO. Maybe that's what they're comparing their low latency to - existing satellite internet connections.
They're injecting the dog meat? That's horrific, I thought they were only eating it.
Simple - put neon tubes everywhere and starve the loons out of town.
I'm guessing it's the stickers or paint on the actual equipment causing the problems, seeing as it's all probably the same Ericsson or Huawei kit.
I was going to suggest that the more sensible option would be to get rid of the woman as she was faking sickness to get days off - especially if the "sickness" goes when the light is off - but then she would probably have sued because just because it's psychosomatic it doesn't mean she's actually sick.
In glorious 2160 X 2160 - check out that pixely goodness.
You pay to receive calls?
I've looked at doing that for home (not RPi), the only problem was that I couldn't find what POTS hardware to use with Asterisk. What would you use, unless of course you'll be using a SIP trunk.
There's every need if the mail originated from the ISP. The OP said nothing about from address - the hops recorded in the headers may have been an indication. They're something I regularly check when I get spam sent to an account where the address is rarely used.
...although he has previously said that people should have fewer children -- never mind how.
He may not say it, but the implication is there - don't have any fun.
No, it's not as black and white. But the fact is that the the church banned books on Copernican theory in 1616, 16 years before "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" was published and the pope cast as Simplicio.
Well, let's test this scientific theory of yours by asking for examples... Please, list such "intrusions"..
Well, there's the Bible - the people who originally wrote it existed on the material plane. They also needed faith to believe that the stories (or in several cases voices in their heads) were real. Therefore faith has had to intrude on the material plane, if it didn't we'd have no knowledge of it.
The laws and traditions deal with ethics and philosophy, not scientific discipline(s). I wonder, why you even brought these up.
Probably because in the past (and present), religion has deemed to weigh in on scientific arguments. I hate to bring up the cliche that is Galileo, but as foolish as he was, he (and others) had their scientific writings banned by the Catholic church.
Citations, please [regarding great detail]
Granted, it's not great detail, but they do claim to understand why god did things - generally it's because he's angry with his creation for not behaving the way he knew they wouldn't.
Citations, please. [regarding falsifiability]
Talking serpent, great flood...
Personally, it's not the faith in a supernatural being that I find bewildering, it's the faith that said omniscient being is good and that it didn't create humanity for the sole purpose of trolling them. Read the bible without the view that god is good and you realise it describes us being set up to fail from the get go.
What a superb way of doing business. Reminds me of a speaker at a business conference in the 80s who got a standing ovation. He described how he increased company revenue by refusing to pay his creditors until they went out of business. For some reason those lauding him didn't seem to think that the same thing could happen to them.
Any small businesses we've dealt with recently have refused to take cheques - probably for that exact reason.
I gave up on NatWest when the bank manager refused to allow me to withdraw the £500 deposit that I had to pay my new landlord - incredibly embarrassing and had to deal with the concern that he would find me untrustworthy. Apparently having a bank card and driving licence want good enough ID.
I got a phone call apologising after I wrote a letter of complaint explaining that she was likely costing the bank business as I was now moving banks and they'd be losing my new self-employed business account, and that they should be concerned about her as it's likely she tested other graduates similarly. I enjoyed telling her "no, nothing she can do will help -it's too late"
Really, I had assumed that France would have gone the way of several Scandinavian countries and gotten rid of cheques. I'm looking forward to the day they're obsoleted in the UK so we don't have to do a banking run for the few cheques we get a week. I shredded my cheque book in about 2008 and haven't missed it.
I think we need a Slashdot poll - "when was the last time you wrote out a cheque"
Well that's lovely in theory. Then again, in theory communism works!
I'd love to live in a world where accusations weren't acted on unless evidence was shown, but I don't think there's a single place where that happens, so we have to forgo ideal laws with ones that are workable. Human nature is a bitch.
Well, if the owner of the building told people that they're free to write on their walls... Do you know many property owners that provide that service?
Nice to see some clarification about what it *actually* means, not the immediate jump to conclusions that so many people (including myself) made. As you say it might influence other countries which can now look at this Estonian law and say "why don't we do that too - the ECHR says it's ok". It's the kind of shit UK governments (of both flavours) would do, even if the current one is wanting to opt out of the ECHR