wasn't this same person or was it FBI said foreign spies are infiltrating universities?
"Attracting the best and brightest international talent to our colleges and universities and enabling them to contribute to their professional growth is an important part of our nation's economic, scientific and technological competitiveness," explained DHS Chief Janet Napolitano.
Going back to original topic of bringing in foreign nationals, I think real problem is universities are getting too used to them paying full tuition and pricing out domestic students. Then once we educate these foreign nationals, we kick them out (then their native country gets benefit of their education).
But on question of spies, other countries don't need to send spies because we export our technology and techniques to other countries.
not really, Houston is regarded as poor caretakers and presenters of space artifacts. Saturn V rusting away and dirty with bird poop. Visitor center... last I heard it looked like it promotes Nascar. Former Shuttle manager Wayne Hale wrote in his 2011 blog that Houston does not deserve an orbiter, i.e. when was last time Houston mayor visited JSC? (he can't remember), when was last time Gov. visited JSC? (Ann Richards in the 1990s). http://waynehale.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/why-houston-did-not-get-a-shuttle/
BTW, the "rules defined in the Bible" are incredibly archaic and even permit things we find abhorrent.. chattel slavery, women as property, genocide, etc.
yes, including those that say if you don't believe in the love of Jesus, we'll kill you.
I once posted something to the effect that life developing from evolution was like as if was guided by a Supreme Being. i.e. how we have people like ourselves existing considering what the universe was in the beginning (The Big Bang). But damn, I got my ass flamed bad, got negative mod points, all kinds of crap. Just go to shows, if it ain't one thing, it's another. You either believe in creationism (and get flamed for being a narrowminded religious nut) or believe in evolution (and get flamed for being a godless communist).
whether it be dodging the draft in 1960s or go where you can make booze in prohibtion era. Canucks have their weddings in USA to dodge music payments (before it's too late as MAFIAA will want to implement same in USA). Now if Mexico were to implement same laws.... not sure how they will enforce them (may be kind of rough though).
Imagine what that would be like of a successful and safe flight of Dragon carrying people to and from ISS. SpaceX may even beat a crewed Orion (so far they are ahead in terms of actually flying something). There are many critics saying it cannot be done, but reminds me back in usenet days, someone posted a story of a sci-fi author who noted names and home phone numbers of every journalist that denigrated Apollo program during 1960s. Then while really drunk while Neil and Buzz walked the surface of the moon, and in middle of the night he called these journalists on the phone, yelled, "Ya dumb son-of-a-bitch!" and hung up.
Yes, it is disorganized and there is no Cash Central or Head Ham. You cannot determine how much of the cash floating around is in US or in foreign countries, how much people are packing or amount "banked" under Sealy Posturepedic. Although Federal Reserve Notes are sanctioned by the government but they don't "breakdown" like electronic systems. If Wells Fargo, BofA, Paypal, etc. servers go down, everybody goes down. Unlike if someone were to loose a suitcase full of cash, it is not going to impact others (except those owned with some cash). Of course if there is a complete breakdown of the nation, i.e. China in 1949, cash will not be of much use.
Amateur radio is decentralized, and cannot be broken like cellphone systems, trunked systems, broadcast networks. However it can be an organizational pain in the ass with all these hamsters with varying capabilities, there is no single person you can go to either stop all activities or assemble a Radio Army. There are ARES/RACES groups which they can organize a number of amateur radio operators but they only can get a small percentage of licensed hams in their area. However, at times things can be "stopped" such as squelching 440 repeaters in PAVE PAWS areas. Overvall, as long as hams got power to radios whether it be batteries, generators, or solar. They can keep right on yapping. Sorry I used this instead of a car analogy.
Reminds me some years ago when a city councilman wanted to significantly reduce number of liquor stores. He said poorer areas of city have higher concentration of such stores enticing poor people to spend money on liquor and cigarettes. He also pointed out there are many more billboards for these products in lower income neighborhoods, and then policy makers wonder why poor people waste so much time of cigs and booze. For me, I think number of stores should be reduced (I admit I've not done statistical surveys to see if poor neighborhoods have higher concentration liquor stores than wealthy). But lots of luck implementing because people will scream guvmint regulations/interference/socialism (or whatever govt gripe of the month) destroying our choice of how we want to live.
It's happened before. much of the laborers on the transcontinental railroad were Chinese immigrants. They were better workers because they heat their water to make tea which also killed bacteria unlike the white guys that drank their water straight from the source (and back then water supply was not as clean like nowadays). I can see it now, white guys spend all their time doing finance stuff, Chinese spend their time doing technical stuff. Going to space is very technical.
Reading this article abstract I immediately thought of the 1966 movie starring Anita Ekberg, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcx9qfNbu64 with the nice figure and beautiful hairstyle, however, I cannot see will have this in any future moon bases. And I don't think there ever will be any moon bases. Russia and US are both broke and have lost much of their industrial base, Europeans have more important matters to deal with, Japanese? they seem to be quiet about their space accomplishments, Chinese: they're ready to go, they haven't done anything yet.
From IMDB:
The Americans and the Russians each have a two-person base on the moon. The Americans have had to keep replacing their astronaut teams because they quickly go crazy; they have been using only male astronauts on the unspoken assumption that this would avoid any possibility of impropriety. The Russians, as godless Communists, are under no such constraints, and their male-female team has remained well-adjusted. At the start of the film, a male and female American astronaut team is sent up to replace the sex-starved all-male team. The government insists on them being married first to preserve morality. Most of the story revolves around the eventual consummation of this marriage of convenience, and around their relationship with their Russian neighbors, who keep casually dropping by.
unfortunately cannot ride this thing on outside like in the movie. however, changing subject here, build a mock H-bomb (maybe something like this http://frogstorm.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/The-Mk15-Hydrogen-Bomb.jpg), take it to a skydiving center that has a Caribou (jumpship with large rear door). Obviously you need to be experienced skydiver, ride the bomb out the back followed by a videographer. Wave a cowboy hat while in freefall. Add proper soundtrack to video when done.
... can build something like this full motion BSG Viper simulator http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/7541
what someone on a PA microphone said while introducing this to crowds at Maker Faire Bay Area.
I'm noticing more hamsters doing their video stuff over iphones and neglecting amateur television (ATV). Yes, iPhone is easy and ATV takes work but there is loss of individuals doing hands-on experimentation.
what's not surprising is so many tea party/anti-federal government types while that state (and other southern states with big military bases) hosts Ft Knox which is huge base which pumps lotsa money from the federal govt into their local economy. Then there's local yokels sometimes suggest they succeed from the Union (and get all the gold).
Remember, the Soyuz has been flying since, what?, 1970?
1967 was first flight which ended in a fatality, Komarov flew Soyuz 1 almost got stuck in orbit but managed to deorbit but parachute malfunctioned. It is still hotly discussed as that flight was pushed ahead by Politburo, basically management wanted to go ahead while the engineers wanted more preparation time. Then a later flight (1970?) after highly successful space station visit, three cosmonauts died when Soyuz accidently depressurized during re-entry (or seperation from the Saylut), they were not wearing pressure suits. Bad start in its early days but Soyuz has done quite well in spite of couple launch vehicle aborts and a few ballistic entries. All things considered Soyuz outlived Apollo, Shuttle, and probably Orion as well.
Little while ago I talked with someone who had opportunity to sit inside a Soyuz, he is a tall guy and barely fit in the entry seat. Someone else mentioned they sit in beanbags like in the 1960s as not sure orientation vehicle will hit the ground. On Dennis Tito's flight, retros fired close to ground (as they should) but capsule was more horizontal due to parachute swing (shouldn't be like that) so capsule hit ground in not so much of a soft landing (so I was told). Also heard they pack firearms (and cosmonaut training includes firearms training) as cannot guarentee they will land in a friendly country (and even in Russia there are areas of where bandits rule).
Other than that, interesting collection of pictures. I was thinking they could hire some people to clean up rusty scraps of metal scattered about (or maybe they are all broke and still a miracle Russia has a space program).
When you hire (or have a friend do it for free) a photographer, they concentrate on taking pictures of people and the event. Before they have to gather equipment and plan for the occasion (will extra lighting be required? are there specifics not to take pics?). Then after the event, job is not over as photog needs to distribute the images (how many of you have a friend who took all kinds of photos but nobody ever sees them?). Like pilots (which some can be replaced by Otto or some other software program) do more than just fly the plane. There is planning and organization that is done before each flight.
People that say photogs will be replaced by software are the ones selling the software! A good photog is extremely valuable. I don't care if you are doing an engineers week banquet, ballroom dance showcase, wedding, 75th anniversary of whatever,.... you gotta have a person assigned to do just one thing: Photography. Otherwise it won't get done. And as you all know, pics or it didn't happen.
But if you can't buy it, then gotta make it as this "fusioneer" as described in "Extreme DIY: Building a homemade nuclear reactor in NYC" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10385853 (though I have doubts as the experts at Lawrence Livermore been talking for 50 years they should have in 10 years able to demonstrate electric power production from a fusion reactor.) But I guess having a fusion reactor working or not in the basement would be pretty cool.
From those early days (late 1970s) there were zillion computer companies in USA (i.e. Ohio Scientific). In later 1980s most pretty much disappeared (along with the S-100 bus among other things). Someone said back then reason most went out of business was lousy customer service. Someone has problems with the computer, they call the company but response would be "that's your own tough s---." I'm sure that is not the only reason though once a company becomes a monopoly, they would not do that (they simply put customer service in other countries). However, those early days of first getting into computers I was amazed when I picked up one of those early Apple II manuals, "wow you can actually read this!" As compared to IBM 360 manuals which were big, thick, and scary.
Recently I was talking with someone from Ukraine, has a startup of applying software methods in building design (not a CAD system but buildings that can be modified like software or something like that, I didn't fully understand his concepts). He made a comment of people that leave their homelands are the ones that strive for innovation, creativity, trying new stuff, or whatever you want to call it. He said look at regions of the world, those with lots of immigrants and those without, the ones with lots of immigrants are the places with highest developments and latest innovations. Those countries where people tend to stay generation after generation are places with poorest economic conditions. I asked what was it like growing up in Ukraine which he said, "I didn't feel like I fit in, I don't like drinking."
Meanwhile another immigrant, from India working as a physicist at CalTech, mentioned how bad the H1-1B laws are which conversation went on to some people in California establishing a barge to house startups. These barges will be parked off the coast so startups can bring in immigrants and not deal with H1-1B and other work visa bureaucracies. He also mentioned companies are considering hospital ships so doctors can practice treatments that are highly politicized (i.e. stem cell). Wham, month later this became a slashdot article: http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/05/08/1327222/nearly-150-companies-show-interest-in-the-tech-love-boat
Slashdot Mirror
Now they are complaining that the affluent people are moving back in.
also the gays are complaining they are getting priced out of the Castro district.
"Attracting the best and brightest international talent to our colleges and universities and enabling them to contribute to their professional growth is an important part of our nation's economic, scientific and technological competitiveness," explained DHS Chief Janet Napolitano.
Going back to original topic of bringing in foreign nationals, I think real problem is universities are getting too used to them paying full tuition and pricing out domestic students. Then once we educate these foreign nationals, we kick them out (then their native country gets benefit of their education).
But on question of spies, other countries don't need to send spies because we export our technology and techniques to other countries.
not really, Houston is regarded as poor caretakers and presenters of space artifacts. Saturn V rusting away and dirty with bird poop. Visitor center... last I heard it looked like it promotes Nascar. Former Shuttle manager Wayne Hale wrote in his 2011 blog that Houston does not deserve an orbiter, i.e. when was last time Houston mayor visited JSC? (he can't remember), when was last time Gov. visited JSC? (Ann Richards in the 1990s). http://waynehale.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/why-houston-did-not-get-a-shuttle/
BTW, the "rules defined in the Bible" are incredibly archaic and even permit things we find abhorrent.. chattel slavery, women as property, genocide, etc.
yes, including those that say if you don't believe in the love of Jesus, we'll kill you.
I once posted something to the effect that life developing from evolution was like as if was guided by a Supreme Being. i.e. how we have people like ourselves existing considering what the universe was in the beginning (The Big Bang). But damn, I got my ass flamed bad, got negative mod points, all kinds of crap. Just go to shows, if it ain't one thing, it's another. You either believe in creationism (and get flamed for being a narrowminded religious nut) or believe in evolution (and get flamed for being a godless communist).
whether it be dodging the draft in 1960s or go where you can make booze in prohibtion era. Canucks have their weddings in USA to dodge music payments (before it's too late as MAFIAA will want to implement same in USA). Now if Mexico were to implement same laws.... not sure how they will enforce them (may be kind of rough though).
Imagine what that would be like of a successful and safe flight of Dragon carrying people to and from ISS. SpaceX may even beat a crewed Orion (so far they are ahead in terms of actually flying something). There are many critics saying it cannot be done, but reminds me back in usenet days, someone posted a story of a sci-fi author who noted names and home phone numbers of every journalist that denigrated Apollo program during 1960s. Then while really drunk while Neil and Buzz walked the surface of the moon, and in middle of the night he called these journalists on the phone, yelled, "Ya dumb son-of-a-bitch!" and hung up.
Anyone collecting names and phone numbers?
Yes, it is disorganized and there is no Cash Central or Head Ham. You cannot determine how much of the cash floating around is in US or in foreign countries, how much people are packing or amount "banked" under Sealy Posturepedic. Although Federal Reserve Notes are sanctioned by the government but they don't "breakdown" like electronic systems. If Wells Fargo, BofA, Paypal, etc. servers go down, everybody goes down. Unlike if someone were to loose a suitcase full of cash, it is not going to impact others (except those owned with some cash). Of course if there is a complete breakdown of the nation, i.e. China in 1949, cash will not be of much use.
Amateur radio is decentralized, and cannot be broken like cellphone systems, trunked systems, broadcast networks. However it can be an organizational pain in the ass with all these hamsters with varying capabilities, there is no single person you can go to either stop all activities or assemble a Radio Army. There are ARES/RACES groups which they can organize a number of amateur radio operators but they only can get a small percentage of licensed hams in their area. However, at times things can be "stopped" such as squelching 440 repeaters in PAVE PAWS areas. Overvall, as long as hams got power to radios whether it be batteries, generators, or solar. They can keep right on yapping. Sorry I used this instead of a car analogy.
and you pyramid builders better be careful or you'll get sued by the Egyptians.
Reminds me some years ago when a city councilman wanted to significantly reduce number of liquor stores. He said poorer areas of city have higher concentration of such stores enticing poor people to spend money on liquor and cigarettes. He also pointed out there are many more billboards for these products in lower income neighborhoods, and then policy makers wonder why poor people waste so much time of cigs and booze. For me, I think number of stores should be reduced (I admit I've not done statistical surveys to see if poor neighborhoods have higher concentration liquor stores than wealthy). But lots of luck implementing because people will scream guvmint regulations/interference/socialism (or whatever govt gripe of the month) destroying our choice of how we want to live.
It's happened before. much of the laborers on the transcontinental railroad were Chinese immigrants. They were better workers because they heat their water to make tea which also killed bacteria unlike the white guys that drank their water straight from the source (and back then water supply was not as clean like nowadays). I can see it now, white guys spend all their time doing finance stuff, Chinese spend their time doing technical stuff. Going to space is very technical.
From IMDB:
The Americans and the Russians each have a two-person base on the moon. The Americans have had to keep replacing their astronaut teams because they quickly go crazy; they have been using only male astronauts on the unspoken assumption that this would avoid any possibility of impropriety. The Russians, as godless Communists, are under no such constraints, and their male-female team has remained well-adjusted. At the start of the film, a male and female American astronaut team is sent up to replace the sex-starved all-male team. The government insists on them being married first to preserve morality. Most of the story revolves around the eventual consummation of this marriage of convenience, and around their relationship with their Russian neighbors, who keep casually dropping by.
Sounds like you're just riding a bomb.
unfortunately cannot ride this thing on outside like in the movie. however, changing subject here, build a mock H-bomb (maybe something like this http://frogstorm.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/The-Mk15-Hydrogen-Bomb.jpg), take it to a skydiving center that has a Caribou (jumpship with large rear door). Obviously you need to be experienced skydiver, ride the bomb out the back followed by a videographer. Wave a cowboy hat while in freefall. Add proper soundtrack to video when done.
... can build something like this full motion BSG Viper simulator http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/7541
what someone on a PA microphone said while introducing this to crowds at Maker Faire Bay Area.
I'm noticing more hamsters doing their video stuff over iphones and neglecting amateur television (ATV). Yes, iPhone is easy and ATV takes work but there is loss of individuals doing hands-on experimentation.
these guys are going to be in for a big surprise.
what's not surprising is so many tea party/anti-federal government types while that state (and other southern states with big military bases) hosts Ft Knox which is huge base which pumps lotsa money from the federal govt into their local economy. Then there's local yokels sometimes suggest they succeed from the Union (and get all the gold).
Remember, the Soyuz has been flying since, what?, 1970?
1967 was first flight which ended in a fatality, Komarov flew Soyuz 1 almost got stuck in orbit but managed to deorbit but parachute malfunctioned. It is still hotly discussed as that flight was pushed ahead by Politburo, basically management wanted to go ahead while the engineers wanted more preparation time. Then a later flight (1970?) after highly successful space station visit, three cosmonauts died when Soyuz accidently depressurized during re-entry (or seperation from the Saylut), they were not wearing pressure suits. Bad start in its early days but Soyuz has done quite well in spite of couple launch vehicle aborts and a few ballistic entries. All things considered Soyuz outlived Apollo, Shuttle, and probably Orion as well.
Little while ago I talked with someone who had opportunity to sit inside a Soyuz, he is a tall guy and barely fit in the entry seat. Someone else mentioned they sit in beanbags like in the 1960s as not sure orientation vehicle will hit the ground. On Dennis Tito's flight, retros fired close to ground (as they should) but capsule was more horizontal due to parachute swing (shouldn't be like that) so capsule hit ground in not so much of a soft landing (so I was told). Also heard they pack firearms (and cosmonaut training includes firearms training) as cannot guarentee they will land in a friendly country (and even in Russia there are areas of where bandits rule).
Other than that, interesting collection of pictures. I was thinking they could hire some people to clean up rusty scraps of metal scattered about (or maybe they are all broke and still a miracle Russia has a space program).
Excellent mention, which is too bad because "landmarks" can also be free advertising, but lawyers seem to make a stink about everything.
When you hire (or have a friend do it for free) a photographer, they concentrate on taking pictures of people and the event. Before they have to gather equipment and plan for the occasion (will extra lighting be required? are there specifics not to take pics?). Then after the event, job is not over as photog needs to distribute the images (how many of you have a friend who took all kinds of photos but nobody ever sees them?). Like pilots (which some can be replaced by Otto or some other software program) do more than just fly the plane. There is planning and organization that is done before each flight.
People that say photogs will be replaced by software are the ones selling the software! A good photog is extremely valuable. I don't care if you are doing an engineers week banquet, ballroom dance showcase, wedding, 75th anniversary of whatever,.... you gotta have a person assigned to do just one thing: Photography. Otherwise it won't get done. And as you all know, pics or it didn't happen.
I was wondering if anyone selling reactors on ebay (not legal but so is selling human kidneys, which someone always post), I did find a Lionel at only $269.95 (C-9 Factory New - Brand New), http://www.ebay.com/itm/LIONEL-24294-NUCLEAR-REACTOR-/160558274893
But if you can't buy it, then gotta make it as this "fusioneer" as described in "Extreme DIY: Building a homemade nuclear reactor in NYC" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10385853 (though I have doubts as the experts at Lawrence Livermore been talking for 50 years they should have in 10 years able to demonstrate electric power production from a fusion reactor.) But I guess having a fusion reactor working or not in the basement would be pretty cool.
From those early days (late 1970s) there were zillion computer companies in USA (i.e. Ohio Scientific). In later 1980s most pretty much disappeared (along with the S-100 bus among other things). Someone said back then reason most went out of business was lousy customer service. Someone has problems with the computer, they call the company but response would be "that's your own tough s---." I'm sure that is not the only reason though once a company becomes a monopoly, they would not do that (they simply put customer service in other countries). However, those early days of first getting into computers I was amazed when I picked up one of those early Apple II manuals, "wow you can actually read this!" As compared to IBM 360 manuals which were big, thick, and scary.
Unfortunately, part of the effect of the Steve Jobs reality distortion field was to basically write Woz out of Apple history almost completely...
sounds like what Jack Warner did to his three brothers.
When cable TV was originally created, it was promoted as an advertisement-free alternative to regular TV.
Good mention, many people never knew that (and it reminded those that forgot).
I have to say, girlintraining always posts interesting comments.
Recently I was talking with someone from Ukraine, has a startup of applying software methods in building design (not a CAD system but buildings that can be modified like software or something like that, I didn't fully understand his concepts). He made a comment of people that leave their homelands are the ones that strive for innovation, creativity, trying new stuff, or whatever you want to call it. He said look at regions of the world, those with lots of immigrants and those without, the ones with lots of immigrants are the places with highest developments and latest innovations. Those countries where people tend to stay generation after generation are places with poorest economic conditions. I asked what was it like growing up in Ukraine which he said, "I didn't feel like I fit in, I don't like drinking."
Meanwhile another immigrant, from India working as a physicist at CalTech, mentioned how bad the H1-1B laws are which conversation went on to some people in California establishing a barge to house startups. These barges will be parked off the coast so startups can bring in immigrants and not deal with H1-1B and other work visa bureaucracies. He also mentioned companies are considering hospital ships so doctors can practice treatments that are highly politicized (i.e. stem cell). Wham, month later this became a slashdot article: http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/05/08/1327222/nearly-150-companies-show-interest-in-the-tech-love-boat