PE is a simple cert, easy to get for any working engineer. It carries no prestige.
PE is a license issued by the state govt (i.e. Dept of Consumer Affairs), same agency that issues licenses to medical doctors, beauticians, construction contractors, etc. In some ways it can be difficult depending on how long since graduating or if use all subject matters in the exams (first is FE exam, then PE exam for the particular field of engineering). Once registered you can be traced (your address is publicly available from DCA) or in some ways easier to take you to court if something goes wrong. In terms of prestige, for civil engineering you cannot go anywhere in the profession without a PE. For other engineering i.e. electronics in Silicon Valley it makes no difference (cowboy wild west pioneering mentality) even though many independent consultants cannot really apply industrial exemption (not that anyone will do anything about it).
No not at all. There were a few close calls on previous flights, and also after. Each one would have ended with huge change in policies. Human spaceflight is where a country can demonstrate its technical prowess to rest of the world. When things go bad, not only loss of human life, a huge loss of prestige.
That is in 1960s/1970s can easily use a slim-jim or a coat hanger (bent with small hook), stick inside door at window line, push down and up until the hook grabs the mechanism and the door lock button pops up. I remember when a friend left keys in car, called a locksmith and arrived on scene, 5 seconds later unlocked the car with a slim-jim. His reaction, "well why in the hell even lock the car in the first place!!!" Then can easily hot wire the car by reaching under and digging up the wires. For column keys, stick a heavy-duty tool and simply force it to start position.
Then later cars not so easy to steal. Protective mechanisms around door locks, column locks with more theft prevention measures, and car alarms. A side problem is increase in car jackings as need to force owner after they started the car. There is also "smash and grab" car burglaries that increased a lot in recent years as they are fast and police no longer respond (not that they can do much after the fact).
Sounds like back to the future where cars are now easily steal-able. Now what was that trick Bif used to make it so he is the only one that can start his car?
They're falling back on outdated ideas like "manifest destiny" and painting Mars like a second Earth, struck some cord among a very vocal hard core group that has shouted down any rational space strategy ever since. This is why we will land a man on Mars 20 years from now, and we've been saying that for the past 50 years. I see no land rush to the Gobi Desert even though that place is thousand times easier to settle. We romanticized of settling Mars because it is so far away. Meanwhile we should ask if we can land a man on the Moon, why can't we land a man on the Moon? Also ISS is only one Soyuz failure away from being abandoned.
Reading this along with the other article regarding FBI wants backdoor into Apple phones, I'm thinking law enforcement priorities getting skewed. Reminds me of back in the days when John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde were considered national threats when in reality they were just basic thugs that robbed banks. Larger criminals were the mob (which FBI did nothing about until Hoover died in 1970s) and a even more serious threat was the rise of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
besides the huge fireballs in space, why is that everyone with spacecraft capable of superluminal flight over interstellar distances engage in combat at close range like naval battleships?
Fire in space is an incredibly arcane subject, with almost nothing known.
and probably something that needs extensive study, earthbound building fires have been mitigated (read some magazines by Society of Fire Protection Engineers) but many lessons were learned the hard way throughout the decades. But asking for fire experiments on ISS surely makes everyone cringe as extensive measures must be used to keep it well contained. Problem is need to do experiments to see when fire gets out of control (i.e. take a couch with smoldering cigarette and video all the way to fully engulfed building, see what happens in the process). Maybe rig some Progress vehicles after delivering supplies to do fire experiments?
get their education? Yes, probably I can google it to find out but my feeling is these smart guys and others were well educated (reading, writing, math, organizing, critical thinking, managing, etc.) but it didn't come from many of these whiz-bang concepts they are promoting (it didn't exist for them). I see it as they got a good education during their childhood/teenager years so they immediately able to absorb high level college courses (unlike many of us had to struggle at JC to catch up of what we didn't get in HS). But these guys forgot of what it takes to be well grounded in this stuff they figured don't need to waste all that time, just jump right into high level stuff. Yeah, lots of luck jumping into a Boeing 787 before learning the basics in a Cessna 182 (but also need to be able to read the manual and follow instructions from the CFI).
Or maybe it is all part of a scheme to end public schooling and return to the days where your family either taught you at home (before you take up a job at local factory along with other children) or wealthy enough to send you to private school.
when they completed TLI burn and as a child watching it on a B&W TV (over the air reception with rabbit ears), the news commentator said "and that's the burn that will take them to the Moon." In that instant everything changed. Going LEO is like a short walk to the corner drugstore. At mission control in Houston the earth/moon trajectory plot was put on the big board, one of the controllers said, "finally we're going someplace!" And that was only 7 years of going around and around in LEO. However, I wonder if the same were to be repeated again, the "magic" may not be there (think of earth rise photo returned by the crew that lead to Earth Day, EPA, NOAA, etc.). Now these days we got a bunch of religious zealots, deniers, SJWs, but the pics and vid are HD.
Not really but an advertisement for programming software in 1980s magazine. Picture of a stone tablet and a hammer and chisel. Tablet had partial listing of "FOR, NEXT" statements with tagline, "still programming the old fashion way?" One thing certain stone tablets will last a millennia!
They may be serious about this time, technology especially robotics have come a long way since those days. Of course it could also be another cover. I'm thinking another impressive cover by the Navy was construction of a rescue sub to rescue crew of a "downed" submarine. These things were outfitted with latest technologies of all kinds of stuff (most had little to do with rescue). It's real purpose was to tap undersea cables, Navy pretty much ruled out submarine rescue because most ocean areas are so deep, submarine rescue is as distant as sending a rescue spaceship to a disabled Shuttle (NASA had tentative plans but such was marginal). Navy emphasize effort to make sure a submarine does not sink (sub safe program after Thresher).
There are questions such as environmental impact or can it be efficient? Asteroid mining may be feasible (think of getting a big rock with high percentage of platinum) but if it takes several rockets with all their complexity and expense that exceeds the price of platinum grade metals?
My main concern is environmental impact. i.e. open coal pit mine. About your Glomar Explorer comment, fascinating story, everyone fell for it because that would be something Howard was known to do wild projects. One of many articles said there were teams of lawyers taking Hughes Corp. to court arguing about maritime rights and property, etc. When the story broke of real purpose of Glomar Explorer, they were pissed. "Damn, all this work on legalities and court proceedings for nothing!"
I was talking with someone that works with storage systems, he mentioned other technologies to replace HD and their looking into massive petabytes (sp?) of storage capacity. I asked with so much data, when does anyone have enough time to look back at it. His reply, "they will not."
OK some data will be examined, I'm thinking from my perspective. I have about three major email accounts. One has 360 messages, I recently trashed 800 but few years ago I archived 2000 messages (but haven't looked at them since). Another account as 10,000 messages both the inbox and out. Probably many I can trash (but it takes sooooo long to review them). Third account has 5000 I think. And these are small compared to many others. Plus there's everything else from reports to jokes. What takes lot of memory is videos. I also have stacks of DVDs, DV tapes, VHS tapes. I guess hang on to this like a library because no way I will go back and watch them all (some I may). It seems I will be dead of old age by the time I get to the last video. Of course the media will deteriorate so I guess it's all moot.
I was talking with someone, he mentioned in his daughter's class had a visitor lecturing the children about how wrong and bad it is to copy pictures, music, etc. I was thinking back in my days that would have been blown off but then it was not easy to copy things. Now it seems MPAA main function is to chase down pirates and bust them to get their assets to keep MPAA functioning.
Interesting commentary, and congrats getting a Score 5. Regarding word problems in algebra classes are tricky worded of some kind of puzzle. Maybe they should use examples like we have in the real world. Did you know all math begins as a word problem, i.e. the boss wants you to do something (analyze certain things, deliver a comparison table). Many schools like to use timed tests (aka "drill and kill") because they are easy to prepare, easy to implement and grade. I met this teacher where she likes to teach math using different shapes of jars and glasses to fill with dried beans (shows proportions).
One thing that turned me on about math is graphs. These were cool, I can do all kinds of analysis of all kinds of stuff. And have fun making pretty pictures with the colored pens. Dammit, why didn't they give us that in elementary school?
One thing that Americans have totally sucked at math including math majors is practical finances. Everybody has to get a job. Everybody has to pay for housing, food, gas, medical, taxes, whatever. OK there are some who don't or homeless, or figured out how to game the system, or simply choose crime for a career. But generally if they have good understanding of math for finances they can better see if they are living beyond their means, taking a loan they no way be able to repay, or they're about to be screwed by a huckster or financial advisor.
maybe so but almost all (and yes this includes Vimeo which I have never been able to get any of those to play) don't work most of the time. Or if they do work, there's so many flashing ads on the side or popup crap. Youtube is popular because those videos can be played with many different browsers. OK some of them have an annoying 30 sec ad you have to watch. Yes, there are alternates but it seems to me you have to set up a platform to do various scripting/interchange/whatever and have lots of programming/networking experience. I just want to watch the video (and I'm not a programmer but I whine a lot on/.).
Yeah, they're angry, but apparently not about the right things. They should be angry about the growing gap between rich and poor, [ snip ] Instead, they're angry about Muslims and Mexicans, who really, really aren't the cause of Americas problems.
I believe this is deliberate. Get the masses arguing among themselves, i.e. culture war BS. The scariest thing to those in power is when the masses organize into a formable political power. If they do, then need to immediately create a label to squelch that effort (i.e. corrupt unions, lazy socialists).
Speaking of Trump and why he is so successful, Scott Adams wrote, "if you are not familiar with the dozens of methods of persuasion that are science-tested, there’s a good chance someone is using those techniques against you." in his blog of "Clown Genius" at http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1...
I think NASA should do some research on supersonic flight, i.e. a technology demonstrator. And if commercial markets want to take it from there, then they can go for it. If not then document what was done. Cmon you guys, it ain't that much money, we piss magnitudes more on other guvmint programs and yet everyone is conspicuously silent about those but when NASA programs are mentioned, then comes the usual "Think of the starving children!" Besides an airplan, there are other things such as control systems, materials, lubrications, new glass for windows, etc. Kind of like what NACA did, their airplanes later went to museums rather than prototypes for mass productions. Some of this NACA stuff was embraced by US companies that eventually put the US #1 in airplanes. The big question should be can supersonic transport scale up? Concorde, Tu144, and if Boeing built the SST, none of these can scale up like subsonic transports.
A major hazard is if this demonstrator program proceeds then have to do something very dangerous. One, get serious money to design and build a flying machine. Two, high risk of encountering developmental problems from software bugs to delayed delivery of important parts, and have to get a strong program manager to manage people when they get disorganized. Besides dangers of the demonstrator crashing and killing flight crew, there is also danger of inviting the media for the big event of first flight but something might go wrong so they have to cancel the flight. Then everyone will bitch about all the time they wasted traveling to Edwards, setting up cameras for nothing. Hey, many of the X15 flights were excruciatingly painful to get all those systems going before take off (and many times they had scrub. Scott Crossfield said one time he sat in the cockpit for 8 hours while everybody else was trying to get all the systems going).
Or do it the easy way, make a PPT and do a video with flashy CGI and awesome music.
Pretty much anyone besides NASA as nobody in US including Musk plans for missions to the Moon. Question would be who will be the first to land on the moon since Apollo program? Many post interesting plans so we'll have to see.
I wish this country gets over its lunar phobia, I miss those days like at Ames Research Center where they had Moonfest in 2009 with featured speakers like Larry Krause, exhibits from various divisions, Ames Jazz Band playing music with Moon in the lyrics.
Back in the days they always said Phoenix missile on the F14 can take out an enemy aircraft 120 miles away (or some long distance like that). There are other missiles of this capability so seeing a blip on radar but what is it really? Enemy aircraft or something else like a civilian airliner or a UH60 carrying UN officials? There are many other cases of friendly fire, what thought has been put into this (like everyone else, I didn't RTFA).
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I guess these things don't matter much when compared to cyber in regards to threats facing America.
PE is a simple cert, easy to get for any working engineer. It carries no prestige.
PE is a license issued by the state govt (i.e. Dept of Consumer Affairs), same agency that issues licenses to medical doctors, beauticians, construction contractors, etc. In some ways it can be difficult depending on how long since graduating or if use all subject matters in the exams (first is FE exam, then PE exam for the particular field of engineering). Once registered you can be traced (your address is publicly available from DCA) or in some ways easier to take you to court if something goes wrong. In terms of prestige, for civil engineering you cannot go anywhere in the profession without a PE. For other engineering i.e. electronics in Silicon Valley it makes no difference (cowboy wild west pioneering mentality) even though many independent consultants cannot really apply industrial exemption (not that anyone will do anything about it).
No not at all. There were a few close calls on previous flights, and also after. Each one would have ended with huge change in policies. Human spaceflight is where a country can demonstrate its technical prowess to rest of the world. When things go bad, not only loss of human life, a huge loss of prestige.
That is in 1960s/1970s can easily use a slim-jim or a coat hanger (bent with small hook), stick inside door at window line, push down and up until the hook grabs the mechanism and the door lock button pops up. I remember when a friend left keys in car, called a locksmith and arrived on scene, 5 seconds later unlocked the car with a slim-jim. His reaction, "well why in the hell even lock the car in the first place!!!" Then can easily hot wire the car by reaching under and digging up the wires. For column keys, stick a heavy-duty tool and simply force it to start position.
Then later cars not so easy to steal. Protective mechanisms around door locks, column locks with more theft prevention measures, and car alarms. A side problem is increase in car jackings as need to force owner after they started the car. There is also "smash and grab" car burglaries that increased a lot in recent years as they are fast and police no longer respond (not that they can do much after the fact).
Sounds like back to the future where cars are now easily steal-able. Now what was that trick Bif used to make it so he is the only one that can start his car?
They're falling back on outdated ideas like "manifest destiny" and painting Mars like a second Earth, struck some cord among a very vocal hard core group that has shouted down any rational space strategy ever since. This is why we will land a man on Mars 20 years from now, and we've been saying that for the past 50 years. I see no land rush to the Gobi Desert even though that place is thousand times easier to settle. We romanticized of settling Mars because it is so far away. Meanwhile we should ask if we can land a man on the Moon, why can't we land a man on the Moon? Also ISS is only one Soyuz failure away from being abandoned.
Reading this along with the other article regarding FBI wants backdoor into Apple phones, I'm thinking law enforcement priorities getting skewed. Reminds me of back in the days when John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde were considered national threats when in reality they were just basic thugs that robbed banks. Larger criminals were the mob (which FBI did nothing about until Hoover died in 1970s) and a even more serious threat was the rise of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
besides the huge fireballs in space, why is that everyone with spacecraft capable of superluminal flight over interstellar distances engage in combat at close range like naval battleships?
Fire in space is an incredibly arcane subject, with almost nothing known.
and probably something that needs extensive study, earthbound building fires have been mitigated (read some magazines by Society of Fire Protection Engineers) but many lessons were learned the hard way throughout the decades. But asking for fire experiments on ISS surely makes everyone cringe as extensive measures must be used to keep it well contained. Problem is need to do experiments to see when fire gets out of control (i.e. take a couch with smoldering cigarette and video all the way to fully engulfed building, see what happens in the process). Maybe rig some Progress vehicles after delivering supplies to do fire experiments?
I disagree, the fashions were horrible.
about time someone summarized this. I guess you posted AC so the school admins won't give you a bad time for telling us your observations.
get their education? Yes, probably I can google it to find out but my feeling is these smart guys and others were well educated (reading, writing, math, organizing, critical thinking, managing, etc.) but it didn't come from many of these whiz-bang concepts they are promoting (it didn't exist for them). I see it as they got a good education during their childhood/teenager years so they immediately able to absorb high level college courses (unlike many of us had to struggle at JC to catch up of what we didn't get in HS). But these guys forgot of what it takes to be well grounded in this stuff they figured don't need to waste all that time, just jump right into high level stuff. Yeah, lots of luck jumping into a Boeing 787 before learning the basics in a Cessna 182 (but also need to be able to read the manual and follow instructions from the CFI).
Or maybe it is all part of a scheme to end public schooling and return to the days where your family either taught you at home (before you take up a job at local factory along with other children) or wealthy enough to send you to private school.
when they completed TLI burn and as a child watching it on a B&W TV (over the air reception with rabbit ears), the news commentator said "and that's the burn that will take them to the Moon." In that instant everything changed. Going LEO is like a short walk to the corner drugstore. At mission control in Houston the earth/moon trajectory plot was put on the big board, one of the controllers said, "finally we're going someplace!" And that was only 7 years of going around and around in LEO. However, I wonder if the same were to be repeated again, the "magic" may not be there (think of earth rise photo returned by the crew that lead to Earth Day, EPA, NOAA, etc.). Now these days we got a bunch of religious zealots, deniers, SJWs, but the pics and vid are HD.
I didn't RTFA article but I cannot see why /. used the humor graphic.
Not really but an advertisement for programming software in 1980s magazine. Picture of a stone tablet and a hammer and chisel. Tablet had partial listing of "FOR, NEXT" statements with tagline, "still programming the old fashion way?" One thing certain stone tablets will last a millennia!
They may be serious about this time, technology especially robotics have come a long way since those days. Of course it could also be another cover. I'm thinking another impressive cover by the Navy was construction of a rescue sub to rescue crew of a "downed" submarine. These things were outfitted with latest technologies of all kinds of stuff (most had little to do with rescue). It's real purpose was to tap undersea cables, Navy pretty much ruled out submarine rescue because most ocean areas are so deep, submarine rescue is as distant as sending a rescue spaceship to a disabled Shuttle (NASA had tentative plans but such was marginal). Navy emphasize effort to make sure a submarine does not sink (sub safe program after Thresher).
There are questions such as environmental impact or can it be efficient? Asteroid mining may be feasible (think of getting a big rock with high percentage of platinum) but if it takes several rockets with all their complexity and expense that exceeds the price of platinum grade metals?
My main concern is environmental impact. i.e. open coal pit mine. About your Glomar Explorer comment, fascinating story, everyone fell for it because that would be something Howard was known to do wild projects. One of many articles said there were teams of lawyers taking Hughes Corp. to court arguing about maritime rights and property, etc. When the story broke of real purpose of Glomar Explorer, they were pissed. "Damn, all this work on legalities and court proceedings for nothing!"
I was talking with someone that works with storage systems, he mentioned other technologies to replace HD and their looking into massive petabytes (sp?) of storage capacity. I asked with so much data, when does anyone have enough time to look back at it. His reply, "they will not."
OK some data will be examined, I'm thinking from my perspective. I have about three major email accounts. One has 360 messages, I recently trashed 800 but few years ago I archived 2000 messages (but haven't looked at them since). Another account as 10,000 messages both the inbox and out. Probably many I can trash (but it takes sooooo long to review them). Third account has 5000 I think. And these are small compared to many others. Plus there's everything else from reports to jokes. What takes lot of memory is videos. I also have stacks of DVDs, DV tapes, VHS tapes. I guess hang on to this like a library because no way I will go back and watch them all (some I may). It seems I will be dead of old age by the time I get to the last video. Of course the media will deteriorate so I guess it's all moot.
They suffer the same problem that all leftist regimes do - they cannot allow their people to think freely, because to do so would be their own end.
Rightist regimes do the same, speak out against their favorite corp sponsor, don't be surprised if laid off or some other consequence.
I was talking with someone, he mentioned in his daughter's class had a visitor lecturing the children about how wrong and bad it is to copy pictures, music, etc. I was thinking back in my days that would have been blown off but then it was not easy to copy things. Now it seems MPAA main function is to chase down pirates and bust them to get their assets to keep MPAA functioning.
Since you can't call up Poseidon and order some calm seas
wow, this reminds me Poseidon is a god and not a trademark name of Lockheed.
Interesting commentary, and congrats getting a Score 5. Regarding word problems in algebra classes are tricky worded of some kind of puzzle. Maybe they should use examples like we have in the real world. Did you know all math begins as a word problem, i.e. the boss wants you to do something (analyze certain things, deliver a comparison table). Many schools like to use timed tests (aka "drill and kill") because they are easy to prepare, easy to implement and grade. I met this teacher where she likes to teach math using different shapes of jars and glasses to fill with dried beans (shows proportions).
One thing that turned me on about math is graphs. These were cool, I can do all kinds of analysis of all kinds of stuff. And have fun making pretty pictures with the colored pens. Dammit, why didn't they give us that in elementary school?
One thing that Americans have totally sucked at math including math majors is practical finances. Everybody has to get a job. Everybody has to pay for housing, food, gas, medical, taxes, whatever. OK there are some who don't or homeless, or figured out how to game the system, or simply choose crime for a career. But generally if they have good understanding of math for finances they can better see if they are living beyond their means, taking a loan they no way be able to repay, or they're about to be screwed by a huckster or financial advisor.
Streaming sites are a dime a dozen.
maybe so but almost all (and yes this includes Vimeo which I have never been able to get any of those to play) don't work most of the time. Or if they do work, there's so many flashing ads on the side or popup crap. Youtube is popular because those videos can be played with many different browsers. OK some of them have an annoying 30 sec ad you have to watch. Yes, there are alternates but it seems to me you have to set up a platform to do various scripting/interchange/whatever and have lots of programming/networking experience. I just want to watch the video (and I'm not a programmer but I whine a lot on /.).
Yeah, they're angry, but apparently not about the right things. They should be angry about the growing gap between rich and poor, [ snip ] Instead, they're angry about Muslims and Mexicans, who really, really aren't the cause of Americas problems.
I believe this is deliberate. Get the masses arguing among themselves, i.e. culture war BS. The scariest thing to those in power is when the masses organize into a formable political power. If they do, then need to immediately create a label to squelch that effort (i.e. corrupt unions, lazy socialists).
Speaking of Trump and why he is so successful, Scott Adams wrote, "if you are not familiar with the dozens of methods of persuasion that are science-tested, there’s a good chance someone is using those techniques against you." in his blog of "Clown Genius" at http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1...
I think NASA should do some research on supersonic flight, i.e. a technology demonstrator. And if commercial markets want to take it from there, then they can go for it. If not then document what was done. Cmon you guys, it ain't that much money, we piss magnitudes more on other guvmint programs and yet everyone is conspicuously silent about those but when NASA programs are mentioned, then comes the usual "Think of the starving children!" Besides an airplan, there are other things such as control systems, materials, lubrications, new glass for windows, etc. Kind of like what NACA did, their airplanes later went to museums rather than prototypes for mass productions. Some of this NACA stuff was embraced by US companies that eventually put the US #1 in airplanes. The big question should be can supersonic transport scale up? Concorde, Tu144, and if Boeing built the SST, none of these can scale up like subsonic transports.
A major hazard is if this demonstrator program proceeds then have to do something very dangerous. One, get serious money to design and build a flying machine. Two, high risk of encountering developmental problems from software bugs to delayed delivery of important parts, and have to get a strong program manager to manage people when they get disorganized. Besides dangers of the demonstrator crashing and killing flight crew, there is also danger of inviting the media for the big event of first flight but something might go wrong so they have to cancel the flight. Then everyone will bitch about all the time they wasted traveling to Edwards, setting up cameras for nothing. Hey, many of the X15 flights were excruciatingly painful to get all those systems going before take off (and many times they had scrub. Scott Crossfield said one time he sat in the cockpit for 8 hours while everybody else was trying to get all the systems going).
Or do it the easy way, make a PPT and do a video with flashy CGI and awesome music.
Pretty much anyone besides NASA as nobody in US including Musk plans for missions to the Moon. Question would be who will be the first to land on the moon since Apollo program? Many post interesting plans so we'll have to see.
I wish this country gets over its lunar phobia, I miss those days like at Ames Research Center where they had Moonfest in 2009 with featured speakers like Larry Krause, exhibits from various divisions, Ames Jazz Band playing music with Moon in the lyrics.
Back in the days they always said Phoenix missile on the F14 can take out an enemy aircraft 120 miles away (or some long distance like that). There are other missiles of this capability so seeing a blip on radar but what is it really? Enemy aircraft or something else like a civilian airliner or a UH60 carrying UN officials? There are many other cases of friendly fire, what thought has been put into this (like everyone else, I didn't RTFA).