I don't know, I've seen Space Statio 3D at IMAX and loved it. Way better then Gravity. 100% accurate from a scientific point of view and very intense (especially the launches of the Space Shuttle and Proton rocket). And it was (partially) filmed in space, using an IMAX camera.
Do you have any idea on the volume ratio for nuclear spent fuel and classical waste? And it's not like we can convert fossil fuel waste to drinking water either, we still have to store it somewhere, polluting the site.
Fun fact: due to traces of uranium in coal, a classic power plant actually releases into atmosphere more radioactive material than a nuclear power plant does. Witout considering the greenhouse gases.
"On top of the four Falcon Heavy launches planned for the U.S. Air Force this year (...)"
Uhm, what? Falcon Heavy's first flight is scheduled for 2013 and it will be a test flight, I doubt it will carry any commercial cargo. Maybe the planning for the US Air Forces launches was done this year, that can be true, but I'm certain that no Falcon Heavy will lift-off in 2012.
Ever played with LEGO? Ever built your own fort or tree house? Ever went on a beach and built up castles or simply dig holes?
Minecraft if the digital version of all of these activities and more (adventure, exploration, unusual landscapes, 3D viewer for models impossible to see otherwise - Star Trek ships for instance).
I find it amusing how US media is worried about Fukushima nuclear contamination of Japan and surrounding arrea, including US territories or... Europe. They seem to forgot hundreds of nuclear tests made by the US both in Pacific and continental US. I wonder which event released more radioactive material in the atmosphere, a few hundreds nuclear test or the damaged reactors from Fukushima? (and I'm not even considering detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
This will never happen due to massive cost a Shuttle needs for operation. A private company will pursue financial profit and the Shuttle is anything but financially profitable. It would have been if the initial projection of 60 flights/year were a reality, but that never happened and never will. Ad this to decaying infrastructure (no more ET being build) and personnel layoffs. If the remaining Shuttle mission will be successful, their place should be in museums. They've done their job, bringing Man into orbit and building the ISS. Don't push their luck, a Shuttle is a very, very fragile system and only very skilled men a huge amount of luck made it possible to fly so many missions with only two total failures.
As for the plans for a new shuttle, it's futile as long as we don't have a clear destination for it. The STS program was intended for LEO, not GEO, not Moon flyby, no Mars landing. We've been to LEO, we already have a huge space station there, let's go further. Makes no sense to have a shuttle fly astronauts to asteroids or Mars.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Shuttle. It's a brilliant flying machine and she did a really good job. But it's time for a new vehicle.
For the love of God... This is the most stupid pledge of an environmentalist to date. Replace steaks with bugs or your planet will die! Farting cows, that's the problem with environment today.
Really. I mean... REALLY?
Extensions were nice when they first appeared on Firefox. Then they become a pain, causing all sorts of problems. Your Firefox is crashing too often? Try disabling the extensions! Your Firefox is eating up your RAM? Try disabling the extensions! Headache? Have you tried disabling the extensions? I really liked browsers who stand out of extensions bandwagon, but now it's really hard to find one: Chrome, Safari even Opera have them now. I don't need to change my Twitter status form the extensions, or to learn about latest whether updates. I usually use my browser to surf the web.
An autoupdate feature would be nice. I had download the latest version, close my running Dropbox, wait a few seconds to close all its files and handles, then copy the newest version and overwrite the old one. All by myself! Then run it again. A little to much work for a Mac user, don't you think?
And keep in mind that the US is not the only player here. The 100 billion dollars will be divided between Russia, Japan, Canada. Off course, NASA takes the biggest chunk here, but anyway, in the end it really comes up to probably around 25$/year for each American.
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Java!
I don't know, I've seen Space Statio 3D at IMAX and loved it. Way better then Gravity. 100% accurate from a scientific point of view and very intense (especially the launches of the Space Shuttle and Proton rocket). And it was (partially) filmed in space, using an IMAX camera.
Do you have any idea on the volume ratio for nuclear spent fuel and classical waste? And it's not like we can convert fossil fuel waste to drinking water either, we still have to store it somewhere, polluting the site. Fun fact: due to traces of uranium in coal, a classic power plant actually releases into atmosphere more radioactive material than a nuclear power plant does. Witout considering the greenhouse gases.
...will it run Half-Life 3?
A simillar mission was rejected from NASA funding plans a few weeks ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Mare_Explorer
"On top of the four Falcon Heavy launches planned for the U.S. Air Force this year (...)"
Uhm, what? Falcon Heavy's first flight is scheduled for 2013 and it will be a test flight, I doubt it will carry any commercial cargo. Maybe the planning for the US Air Forces launches was done this year, that can be true, but I'm certain that no Falcon Heavy will lift-off in 2012.
Please STOP IT!.
Is there a way to test this new Chrome OS dev release in a virtual machine, like VMware?
c. choice of desktop manager, not just KDE
Wait, what?
Relevant link.
Dennis Ritchie didn't die, he just GOSUB without RETURN.
Ever played with LEGO? Ever built your own fort or tree house? Ever went on a beach and built up castles or simply dig holes? Minecraft if the digital version of all of these activities and more (adventure, exploration, unusual landscapes, 3D viewer for models impossible to see otherwise - Star Trek ships for instance).
Here's a free comic book related to this event: CBZ or PDF
I find it amusing how US media is worried about Fukushima nuclear contamination of Japan and surrounding arrea, including US territories or... Europe. They seem to forgot hundreds of nuclear tests made by the US both in Pacific and continental US. I wonder which event released more radioactive material in the atmosphere, a few hundreds nuclear test or the damaged reactors from Fukushima? (and I'm not even considering detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
So Debian is for Ubuntu what BSD is for OSX?
This will never happen due to massive cost a Shuttle needs for operation. A private company will pursue financial profit and the Shuttle is anything but financially profitable. It would have been if the initial projection of 60 flights/year were a reality, but that never happened and never will. Ad this to decaying infrastructure (no more ET being build) and personnel layoffs. If the remaining Shuttle mission will be successful, their place should be in museums. They've done their job, bringing Man into orbit and building the ISS. Don't push their luck, a Shuttle is a very, very fragile system and only very skilled men a huge amount of luck made it possible to fly so many missions with only two total failures. As for the plans for a new shuttle, it's futile as long as we don't have a clear destination for it. The STS program was intended for LEO, not GEO, not Moon flyby, no Mars landing. We've been to LEO, we already have a huge space station there, let's go further. Makes no sense to have a shuttle fly astronauts to asteroids or Mars. Don't get me wrong, I love the Shuttle. It's a brilliant flying machine and she did a really good job. But it's time for a new vehicle.
They were also designed for 60 flights/year. They were not even close.
For the love of God... This is the most stupid pledge of an environmentalist to date. Replace steaks with bugs or your planet will die! Farting cows, that's the problem with environment today. Really. I mean... REALLY?
Extensions were nice when they first appeared on Firefox. Then they become a pain, causing all sorts of problems. Your Firefox is crashing too often? Try disabling the extensions! Your Firefox is eating up your RAM? Try disabling the extensions! Headache? Have you tried disabling the extensions? I really liked browsers who stand out of extensions bandwagon, but now it's really hard to find one: Chrome, Safari even Opera have them now. I don't need to change my Twitter status form the extensions, or to learn about latest whether updates. I usually use my browser to surf the web.
An autoupdate feature would be nice. I had download the latest version, close my running Dropbox, wait a few seconds to close all its files and handles, then copy the newest version and overwrite the old one. All by myself! Then run it again. A little to much work for a Mac user, don't you think?
Thanks for uploading it anyway, it's a piece of YouTube jewelry!
And here are some extra clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsvVU24uDIc
Rendered in the highest definition possible, but uploaded as a 480p YouTube clip...
And keep in mind that the US is not the only player here. The 100 billion dollars will be divided between Russia, Japan, Canada. Off course, NASA takes the biggest chunk here, but anyway, in the end it really comes up to probably around 25$/year for each American.
You meant Saturn V instead of Apollo, right?