Not sure if NASA's current planned "Something closer in design to the Apollo command module", the
Orion module, would be good at servicing the shuttle. The space shuttle has a very effective robot
arm, and air lock and changing areas to get space suited. Orion has a minimal docking capability,
and doesn't look like its been designed for space walks. I doubt it will be long before space enthusiasts
start looking back to the golden days of the shuttle. And clamour for a new winged reusable space craft.
No one even starting planning a next generation space station, except for a few space Hotel Plans.
I think we can be pretty sure, that the ISS will get its extension to 2020. It would be too embarrassing
to scrap in 5 years, and all the world space programs would be cut back if it was decommissioned.
128 Bit encoding running at up to 8 GHz, not that any
current or near term CPU has a bus half as fast a that.
That a lot of bandwidth. Are current graphic card bottlenecked at all by the PCI
bus?
Much as the CGI in the trailer looks good. I just can't imaging
any plot that isn't downright stupid being able to pit Elves against
space marines. I bet this will be very silly indeed.
When a company famous for making buggy software, suddenly
goes into hardware from nowhere, how can expect anything
other than a high failure rate. I'll bet microsoft accounts made
hardware designing in the cheapest, least reliable components
to.
Maybe, but I wan't to see how there going get this gadget small
enough to fit on a air craft carrier, and create more than a dribble
of Aviation fuel at a time. You've got your electrolysis unit, a
carbon dioxide seperator, a unit to react the hydrogen with the
carbon dioxide, out come some real missy sludge type oil, which
mean you need a big fractional distillation plant on the output, followed
by a condenser, then you have to add all the additives that go into making a good
aviation fuel. You've be lucky if you could fit all that on an oil rig, never mind a
carrier. Plus there all the process control systems, and the operators for it.
I doubt it will be easy to get the solar sail within 0.1 AU of the Sun, that is very close, and will
need a lot of energy to begin will. Apart from the relativistic course correction need to nagivate
(which isn't that numerically difficult), the sail will have to deal with variation in the amount
of Sun light and Solar wind, coming towards the Sail, which may vary at random, and be
much more difficult to nagivate with. Good luck to Solar Sailors.
Voyages to mostly empty null spots in the solar system, seem boring to me both from the point of view of space science and from the POV of human achievement.
It would be worth it, if they were going to place permanent way stations, there. Even then, way stations are only worth it, if there somewhere to go on to.
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Mars is fascinating, is there life there. What can we know about the history of the Solar System from there. Will it be easy to colonise. I think Mars and the Moon are
both worth manned missions and permanent basis.
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Its so damn expensive getting stuff up into space, and so useful having stuff up there. That is ought to be worth,
have manufacturing and mining bases out there. These ought to be as robotic as possible. People on earth ought
to be able to by shares in and operate asteroid mining ROV (remote operated vehicles) as fun investments. There is
a lot of expensive metals up there, to make it worth while. Other manu factoring options, a chip foundry, solar cell
plant, smelting for aluminium, iron and titanium (plenty Al, and Ti on the moon), oxygen from the moon-rock, hydrogen from the
solar wind, carbon, methane from the asteroids. Space bases manufacturing for space based operations.
What sort of culture would a beast that's busts out
humans (and predictors) stomachs have. Possibly
a huge catalog of which species make could homes
for there young, and how best to subdue them. Epic
tales of queens valiantly defined there nests against
nature disasters maybe.
Yeah the lead will absorb radiation, but when it absorbs those fast neutrons
from the fusion reaction, it will split like uranium does in fission. Except some
very nasty radioactive daughter products. With the lead, this is not be clean
energy, it will rather dirty indeed.
Similar to reiserfs in terms of tolerance. Oh great, thats safe, just
don't marry it.:-), Look up reiserfs on slashdot, if you don't get
that. Seriously though thanks for all the hard work from Linus
developers.
If survival is best metric of Intelligence and there measuring it on a computer game.
The winning AI bot will be the one that stays far away from Gordon Freeman.
Haven't to where funny glasses just to watch the
programs doesn't sound comfortable to me. And I
wouldn't be surprised if people don't get eye ache
out of watching it.
Why should aliens probe every part of the galaxy, with
probes that leave evidence in solar systems for millions
of years. More likely, a nanosize probe, would be sent
and send back results. More over is there any
particular reason to colonize a whole galaxy, the distances
been the stars are to big for any practical trade, so it
economics is against it.
Organic Food is a scam, to make rich people with a green leanings,
to spend three times as much for there food. In the name of being
kind to animals, and third worlders, supermarket create prestige
organic brands to suckers shoppers into paying more.
As a builder of RSS processing technology, I'm really happy
they like RSS snippets. As for the wrapper, I can only hope
it contains some proper semantic tagging, for useful stuff,
like the location of the event, the subject of the item. etc.
Agree with the above. Also its not like the stock market will stay down, that long,
come five years or something, it will be the middle of a boom again, and the
plant owner will have the money to do the decommissioning, hopefully radproof
robotics will have cut the price of decommissioning in that time. But it something
that has to be done and done well, and governments should spend some research
money on getting the decommissioning industry bootstrapped.
Somewhere between an elliptical galaxy and a globular cluster
sitting on there own, with a very high rate of star formulation.
Oh, and a very odd color, there aren't any green stars (nothing
glows green hot its doesn't fit in the color vs temperate diagram),
and the only common gas thats green is one of particular types
of oxygen ions. The green color is due to the red-shift of the
objects. Full of new stars the green pees (hate the name), would
shine bright blue, until the red shift, turns the blue to green, (is that
clear?)
Very possible. Elite doesn't really need state of the art
graphics, because you're normally shotting at a tiny
dot in the distance. Still it wouldn't hurt. Lets have
planetary mining, ability to buy, sell, build and destroy
base camps on planets and asteroids. And make it
a massive multi-player on line game. Suddenly where
miles from original Elite, but keep the trading and the
space combat part of the original.
This is only news here, because geek like to remember
the funny but dire Star Trek IV. The aluminium stays transparent
for fractions of a second, and its only transparent to extreme
UV light. Not a brand new construction material. And such
laser distorted materials are unlikely ever to be useful.
I was hoping one of these groups would invite some new and
powerful algorithm for categorisation. Its a nearest match/
similarity problem, so any algorithm would be very useful
else where. But they just seem to have taken existing many techniques
and merged them, by combining the votes/scores from each
algorithm, in a way thats probably fits just the movie matching
problem and not anything else.
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