Sets some interesting challenges never mind the amount of time to get there but simple landing and taking off again will be horrendous. Bear in mind that to achieve even Low earth Orbit you kneed some pretty impressive ordinance. Getting back from the moon will be a piece of piss in comparison at only 16.6% earth gravity but Mars's gravity is 38% earth gravity which means any escape mechanism is going to kneed orders of magnitude more impulse in order to achieve marsion orbit compared to to same feat on the moon. I'm not sure it could be achieved with a single stage rocket although I admit it's a possibility. But what about Launch a pad???? Will it be Liquid or Solid propellant???? Many many questions of which I'm sure even NASA hasn't even started to look for answers yet.
Have you thought of approaching one of your local universities with a view to making a lot of the design a project for a gifted student (Cut him in on any royalties). It's the kind of thing most Uni's are crying out for. If it ends up winning any awards you are happy the Uni's happy and so is the student.
Wikipedia is only as good as the people who update & moderate. Although I'd say in general it is unbiased I have certainly had instances where updates I've made making an article more accurate (Including all the Citations) has simply been reverted back to its original for no apparent reason. Therefore I always take wiki with a pinch of salt.
I think their Gmail Goggles option that makes you do maths before sending an Email is a better idea as not only does it make sure you are compos mentis but also it's slightly educational (or at least keeps the grey matter on it's toes)
to see any potential effect of the global cooling of these events. We'll have to wait for a bigger one in order to update some of those climate science base lines.
True but it's still generally pretty easy to gain access to it. And lets face it most black hat's are not above gaining physical access either to the paper with the info or the PC. My point was nothing is 100% secure. Thinking paper is secure is a foolish approach plenty data breaches have happened purely because someone didn't shred before binning an important document then there's the all too frequent instances of some numpty leaving a file containing top secret info (Even when it had the same on the cover of the folder) on the damned tube!!! If you want to believe paper is secure be my guest it's your problem not mine.
There are a number of exploits for paper based storage. Amongst the most commonly used are Photocopiers & Fax machines. In the end no storage medium is absolutely safe.
and this time they are not going to have a bunch of expat Germans with paper-clips on their files to bail them out. I think what is more worrying is that Iran & North Korea may well have manned space flight programs up and running before the USA does. What needs to happen is more Funding for NASA and they need someone with a lot of Political Savy running it (Like James Web in the 60's)
But surely posting this on/. is a bit like putting another padlock on fort knocks as surely no one in here would even think of using Norton (Unless we are talking classic motor bikes obviously).
in there already bearing in mind how abundant linux is in universities & colleges and how responsible most students are (And yes I was the 1st in my class to figure out how to crash the network oooh how clever I thought I was). Hope you find something though
Each booster has 2 thrusters. I'm not sure how many the core would have had but I'd guess its a minimum of 3. The 1st stage of the Soyuz is actually the 1st stage of the R7 ICBM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-7_Semyorka
RTFA it scans the face using infra red. You are right about twins though also how will it cope with beards/Mustaches/Sun glasses. Not such an issue at a 6th form college I know plus this a voluntary system which I'm sure the students support because it saves them about 40 mins a day sitting their whilst a teacher goes through the register.
One has to wonder about the sense of sending a satellite into space to monitor carbon emissions bearing in bind how much CO2 the 1st stage of that rocket alone must have released!
Including this launch that makes 6 out of 8 successful launches (i.e. was 6 out of 7). I'm curios about the update though as it would seam to make the initial excuse for the failure a bit invalid as my understanding from initial reports was that the fairing between the final stage and the launch shielding for the payload (yes I know there's a specific word for that but I'm getting on a bit) had failed to detach properly if that was the case then surely the satellite & 3rd stage would still be in orbit.
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Sets some interesting challenges never mind the amount of time to get there but simple landing and taking off again will be horrendous. Bear in mind that to achieve even Low earth Orbit you kneed some pretty impressive ordinance. Getting back from the moon will be a piece of piss in comparison at only 16.6% earth gravity but Mars's gravity is 38% earth gravity which means any escape mechanism is going to kneed orders of magnitude more impulse in order to achieve marsion orbit compared to to same feat on the moon. I'm not sure it could be achieved with a single stage rocket although I admit it's a possibility. But what about Launch a pad???? Will it be Liquid or Solid propellant???? Many many questions of which I'm sure even NASA hasn't even started to look for answers yet.
Just a thought
Wikipedia is only as good as the people who update & moderate. Although I'd say in general it is unbiased I have certainly had instances where updates I've made making an article more accurate (Including all the Citations) has simply been reverted back to its original for no apparent reason. Therefore I always take wiki with a pinch of salt.
I think their Gmail Goggles option that makes you do maths before sending an Email is a better idea as not only does it make sure you are compos mentis but also it's slightly educational (or at least keeps the grey matter on it's toes)
Still waiting for the big one
This could make the apple bricking patch look like a kindergarten party
I can remember having Linux on my old Atari ST way more than 15 years ago. Of course back then there wasn't much to run on it :)
In the end no storage medium is absolutely safe.
Memorize all important data!
Hmmm I can tell you havent been waterboarded recently :)
Tickets for Gitmo anyone
True but it's still generally pretty easy to gain access to it. And lets face it most black hat's are not above gaining physical access either to the paper with the info or the PC. My point was nothing is 100% secure. Thinking paper is secure is a foolish approach plenty data breaches have happened purely because someone didn't shred before binning an important document then there's the all too frequent instances of some numpty leaving a file containing top secret info (Even when it had the same on the cover of the folder) on the damned tube!!! If you want to believe paper is secure be my guest it's your problem not mine.
There are a number of exploits for paper based storage. Amongst the most commonly used are Photocopiers & Fax machines. In the end no storage medium is absolutely safe.
and this time they are not going to have a bunch of expat Germans with paper-clips on their files to bail them out. I think what is more worrying is that Iran & North Korea may well have manned space flight programs up and running before the USA does. What needs to happen is more Funding for NASA and they need someone with a lot of Political Savy running it (Like James Web in the 60's)
But surely posting this on /. is a bit like putting another padlock on fort knocks as surely no one in here would even think of using Norton (Unless we are talking classic motor bikes obviously).
in there already bearing in mind how abundant linux is in universities & colleges and how responsible most students are (And yes I was the 1st in my class to figure out how to crash the network oooh how clever I thought I was). Hope you find something though
Each booster has 2 thrusters. I'm not sure how many the core would have had but I'd guess its a minimum of 3. The 1st stage of the Soyuz is actually the 1st stage of the R7 ICBM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-7_Semyorka
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It's only now they've computerised the records that they can use the Data Protection Act to prosecute.
Absolute rubbish the UK DPA has applied to paper records since it was updated in was updated in 1998 please get your facts straight
RTFA it scans the face using infra red. You are right about twins though also how will it cope with beards/Mustaches/Sun glasses. Not such an issue at a 6th form college I know plus this a voluntary system which I'm sure the students support because it saves them about 40 mins a day sitting their whilst a teacher goes through the register.
This sounds like there's a history of Prostate cancer in your family I'm surprised you only found out afterwards as many cancers are hereditary.
Please no "In Soviet Russia....." Jokes they stopped being funny years ago!
Famously Al Capone & Tax evasion.
Still a bad day for Orbital
One has to wonder about the sense of sending a satellite into space to monitor carbon emissions bearing in bind how much CO2 the 1st stage of that rocket alone must have released!
I was just glad not to be bothered by all those werewolves & vampires from facebook :)
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Yes I don't always get my facts right so what?
Wow is there anyone on this thread who is claiming to be a feminist actually female???