"The project recently received support from Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and IHI Corp, who are now teaming up in the race to develop an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet."
I have no questions about his skill or accuracy. He's a champ. However, you might want to take your sarcasm detector to the repair shop and have it looked at.
I shall summon the difference between revisions for the 1992 Summer Olympics article, which shows the text as it looked when I referenced it compared to the text as it was edited roughly an hour later.
Barcelona restored dignity four years later with an archer dramatically lighting the Olympic flame with a burning arrow flying through the night sky.
Billions of people around the globe gasped in admiration as the archer bravely found his target with unerring accuracy.
Or so it seemed.
In reality, he had not actually landed the arrow in the middle of the cauldron - he had fired it way outside the stadium as instructed.
Organisers dared not risk his aim failling short and landing into the grandstand and instead told him to fire it directly over the target area... some pyrotechnics-helpful camera angles would take care of the visual effect.
Back in 1992, the Olympic torch in Barcelona was supposed to be lit by an archer shooting a flaming arrow. Yeah... no. He shot it towards the cauldron, but it was set to be lit on its own via pyros. The flaming arrow passed way over the cauldron, safe from setting any of the audience on fire or perforating them, and the torch lit anyway.
This really will be a glorious future. Think about it: no more "...was killed by a drunk driver" commercials! Now, we just need to worry about drunk programmers.
...potentially more "I learned it from watching you!" commercials.
STS-124 is carrying Kibo, making it a rather heavy liftoff. It would have taken Discovery a little longer than usual to get away from the pad, subjecting it to a longer duration acoustic/vibration environment.
Also, it wasn't that far off the pad when the bricks were flying off according to this image. (Same photo as TFA, but a little farther out)
So... my girlfriend was here on the one-year OPT (Optional Practical Training) extension to the F-1 student visa. When the announcement was made about extending it from 12 months to 29 months, I was ecstatic.
However.
It turns out, after she consulted her company's HR -- who subsequently consulted her company's corporate lawyers -- her company refused to sign up for the free eVerify system that was required for the extension. As I understand it, this extension is available only to STEM students whose host companies sign up for this eVerify system, not just to all of them. Apparently, her corporate lawyers noticed that if they sign up for eVerify, they were also signing up for DHS to come into their facilities any time they wanted to without notice and audit them. Corporate lawyers said "pass."
I'm sure I have the story slightly mangled, but I think the gist of it is solid: the OPT extension was a farce. Her old university's international programs coordinator said that less than 1% of the students eligible for this would get it 'cos their companies wouldn't sign up for eVerify. Surely a fictitious statistic, 1%, but the point is that it's absurdly low.
I don't buy into that mentality all the time, but... bureaucracy or not, you're participating in their prize, get used to their rules or play a different game. Shut up and win.
The number of teams is irrelevant to who wins; it's only an interesting stat for the organizers to advertise. How many teams were signed up for the first X PRIZE? Something on the order of 20, right? How many teams had a legitimate chance to win? 1.
By and large, it's a unicorn race, then someone shows up with a horse and wins. I expect roughly the same from GLXP: both (1) a low ratio of legitimate to total entrants; and (2) a really cool finish.
Selene has to drop out now? No big deal. Their unicorn wasn't ahead of the others anyway.
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I was just thinking...
The 1989 Loma Prieta quake "only" killed 67 people, even though it happened during a World Series game with tens of thousands of people in one stadium.
How do you think the facilities for the Beijing Olympics are spec'd with regards to earthquake environments? Is this even an earthquake zone? What would happen if this happened during an Olympic event?
Not trying to be doom/gloomy -- just wondered...
In these discussions, there seems to be two boxes of people: (1) people born before 1980 (Gen X, etc.); (2) people born after 1980 (Gen Y, etc.)
I'm curious about what my place is, since I was born in 1980, not before or after... I shall dub us: the singularity.
Assuming no solar radiation or atmospheric drag (purely orbital mechanics), it might be possible to park in the same orbit as ISS; assuming those things (i.e., the Crackerjack box, I suppose) the two orbits -- ISS and parked vehicle -- would start to become noticeably different in a matter of days...
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Fixed that for you.
Perhaps you thought their intended use was to blow up?
Hmmm. In that case, they could just make the missiles out of PowerPoint slides and nobody would be any the wiser.
Fixed that for you.
Frank mentioned it on 2009-01-17 on Google Earth Blog.
The Soyuz space capsule was an incredible engineering accomplishment.
On the other hand, their stage separation design isn't so good...
Or it might indicate that many people thought that he hit it when, in fact, he hadn't.
I have no questions about his skill or accuracy. He's a champ. However, you might want to take your sarcasm detector to the repair shop and have it looked at.
I shall summon the difference between revisions for the 1992 Summer Olympics article, which shows the text as it looked when I referenced it compared to the text as it was edited roughly an hour later.
The citation for the Wikipedia article is (was) from the BBC: "Ceremonial hall of shame."
Barcelona restored dignity four years later with an archer dramatically lighting the Olympic flame with a burning arrow flying through the night sky.
Billions of people around the globe gasped in admiration as the archer bravely found his target with unerring accuracy.
Or so it seemed.
In reality, he had not actually landed the arrow in the middle of the cauldron - he had fired it way outside the stadium as instructed.
Organisers dared not risk his aim failling short and landing into the grandstand and instead told him to fire it directly over the target area... some pyrotechnics-helpful camera angles would take care of the visual effect.
There you have it.
Back in 1992, the Olympic torch in Barcelona was supposed to be lit by an archer shooting a flaming arrow. Yeah... no. He shot it towards the cauldron, but it was set to be lit on its own via pyros. The flaming arrow passed way over the cauldron, safe from setting any of the audience on fire or perforating them, and the torch lit anyway.
OR MAYBE IT WAS AN OLYMPIC MIRACLE AND HE HIT IT
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This really will be a glorious future. Think about it: no more "...was killed by a drunk driver" commercials! Now, we just need to worry about drunk programmers.
...potentially more "I learned it from watching you!" commercials.
I concur.
I'm blind in one eye you blue-tinted insensitive clods!
Here's Latuya Bay in Google Maps
Chisel what you want to keep onto stone tablets, or use clay tablets then encase them in a clay envelope. Then bury them in a pit in your back yard.
Haven't you seen History of the World Part I? Even that's not reliable. Moses lost 33% of the Commandments by trusting chiseled stone.STS-124 is carrying Kibo, making it a rather heavy liftoff. It would have taken Discovery a little longer than usual to get away from the pad, subjecting it to a longer duration acoustic/vibration environment.
Also, it wasn't that far off the pad when the bricks were flying off according to this image. (Same photo as TFA, but a little farther out)
So... my girlfriend was here on the one-year OPT (Optional Practical Training) extension to the F-1 student visa. When the announcement was made about extending it from 12 months to 29 months, I was ecstatic.
However.
It turns out, after she consulted her company's HR -- who subsequently consulted her company's corporate lawyers -- her company refused to sign up for the free eVerify system that was required for the extension. As I understand it, this extension is available only to STEM students whose host companies sign up for this eVerify system, not just to all of them. Apparently, her corporate lawyers noticed that if they sign up for eVerify, they were also signing up for DHS to come into their facilities any time they wanted to without notice and audit them. Corporate lawyers said "pass."
I'm sure I have the story slightly mangled, but I think the gist of it is solid: the OPT extension was a farce. Her old university's international programs coordinator said that less than 1% of the students eligible for this would get it 'cos their companies wouldn't sign up for eVerify. Surely a fictitious statistic, 1%, but the point is that it's absurdly low.
And yes, before you ask, she is hot.
I don't buy into that mentality all the time, but... bureaucracy or not, you're participating in their prize, get used to their rules or play a different game. Shut up and win.
The number of teams is irrelevant to who wins; it's only an interesting stat for the organizers to advertise. How many teams were signed up for the first X PRIZE? Something on the order of 20, right? How many teams had a legitimate chance to win? 1.
By and large, it's a unicorn race, then someone shows up with a horse and wins. I expect roughly the same from GLXP: both (1) a low ratio of legitimate to total entrants; and (2) a really cool finish.
Selene has to drop out now? No big deal. Their unicorn wasn't ahead of the others anyway.
I was just thinking... The 1989 Loma Prieta quake "only" killed 67 people, even though it happened during a World Series game with tens of thousands of people in one stadium. How do you think the facilities for the Beijing Olympics are spec'd with regards to earthquake environments? Is this even an earthquake zone? What would happen if this happened during an Olympic event? Not trying to be doom/gloomy -- just wondered...
They could just launch a billion of them.
> Go north
You have been eaten by a grue. > hello astronaut
Nothing happens here.
In these discussions, there seems to be two boxes of people: (1) people born before 1980 (Gen X, etc.); (2) people born after 1980 (Gen Y, etc.) I'm curious about what my place is, since I was born in 1980, not before or after... I shall dub us: the singularity.
Assuming no solar radiation or atmospheric drag (purely orbital mechanics), it might be possible to park in the same orbit as ISS; assuming those things (i.e., the Crackerjack box, I suppose) the two orbits -- ISS and parked vehicle -- would start to become noticeably different in a matter of days...