> except the US has now been at war for almost 11 years and most people
At first glance many people (here in US at least) are not aware we are at war. Take a look at most mainstream media and very little is mentioned about war activity in Afghanistan and Iraq. Although we have "pulled out" (actually replaced soldiers with contractors) some think we can then use those resources to start another war, which is probably the objective as it's election year.
You'll need more than 200 billion detectors though. Good luck with that.
Or hire a lot of illegal immigrants to take apart detectors. Many drug dealers did this with Sudafed tablets back when you can buy the pills without papers. They bought them by the boxes, hired illegals for low wages to tediously pop the tablets out of the packages and crush them into a container. A PBS show about meth (or some other illegal drug) interviewed various people about this. One meth house in AZ (I think) is where they hired some illegals and gave them $6/hr to "process" sudafed tablets, illegals didn't know what specially it was for but it was pretty good wages without toiling in the hot sun. One of these guys after awhile advocated they should ask for $9/hr, but the others said for him to not create problems with the gringos. Later the house was raided by DEA but none of the dealers there and the illegals were of little value for tracking down the dealers than hired them. When the illegals found out dealers were clearing millions in profit, "Damn! I told you we should have ask for $9/hr!"
I have formal training in orbital mechanics, astrophysics, engineering and worked at NASA writing gn&c software. Good enough?
Any books besides the one by Bate, Mueller, White? Any NASA or other websites you can recommend? Regarding 10+ years a lot of time, sounds reasonable by physics but not a lot by politics (a lot can happen in 10 years, a few more costly wars).
I have not done the calculations but I think deflecting a big asteroid is difficult considering energies required to change its trajectory. Hell, it takes a lot to simply move a spacecraft from one orbital plane to another. I know it's all great in the movies (and references to Bruce Willis) but almost all who have an opinion of asteroid deflection don't seem to be knowledgable of astrodynamics (Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Bate, Mueller, White), http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Dover-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486600610/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331078557&sr=8-1
I can't understand how people survived only 15 years ago...it must have been a horrific state of affairs.
People were a lot tougher back then, especially those 50 years ago. They were able to function without internet, computers, cable tv, microwave ovens...
Yes, Flickr is convenient but posting your images on sites you do not own... well they can remove them. Or worse are sites, I think picasaweb, have fine print that says images posted become "property" of them and not you. I forgot specifically which photosharing site but a pro photog says he rarely posts his work on such sites except his own domain because fine print says person given up ownership.
Though Flickr provides means for people to post comments which can be great fun when you have something that resonates with the public, but don't want to spend time moderating every comment. Sure is terrible Gorman lost all those comments, there must have been some real doozies of sorts posted.
OK so I don't own any ebooks but I wonder what if some of these require online connection? Or will they eventually require online connection so it constantly polls to be sure you are not packing a pirated copy? A terrible situation is only way to read that ebook is it has to have online connection. I'm not talking about reading articles on the internet, I'm talking about something you either purchase or get from a friend and you own. If you can't open it, then you don't own it.
>an increase of $2 a gallon hits you with a whopping $5.80 increase per week -- what's that, a big mac? A latte and a half?
yep, good comparison. I call it the diet coke syndrome (you see this kind of decision making take place all the time i.e. cut NASA budget but ignore DoD to reduce deficit). Someone wants to lose weight so they order a diet coke along with a large meal. Hey, you lose weight by reducing overall intake, diet coke is small fraction (no, no, no, don't give me that statistical analysis of when dining at McDonalds everyday, a diet coke makes a substantial difference. It's ***junk food***). Be a man, and have a real coke.
Is it already here? though trying to find at http://www.eia.gov/countries/data.cfm which lists top to bottom countries that import oil to United States, Canada is #1 importer of oil to USA, Mexico is #2 (used to be #1 few years ago but went from 14.9 billion barrels to 9.something (forgot time scale). I never saw any discussion among policy makers of these trends. What caught my attention looking at import tables (the format that was easy to examine and I'm still trying to find it) when Mexico dropped substantial amount (could it be driver of their economic woes?). Meanwhile I've read Canada is becoming more environmentally destructive (like Russia/Siberia). Examining those charts we could tell Arab countries to shove it, however, other countries are far more depended on them. Oil is sold based on $US and with dollar devaluing, no wonder price per barrel is going up.
In regards to going to war with Iran, it's election year and the best way to increase your popularity and distract from economic woes is attack another country. Iran probably knows they don't stand a chance and will be flattened. However, their leaders may sacrifice their own country because they also know US going in full scale will also plunge US into deeper economic recession.
I think some concerts will stop you as they may not want video recording of performances outside their own staff. Although there are others (i.e. up and coming bands moving out of garages) will want you to record and get their name out into the masses.
, I had access to an old training video camera at all times. Every time there was a gig I wanted to attend to, I went to my workplace, grabbed that camera, went to the gig, got in,
This may work for another five years or so. I can access events with my over the shoulder ENG camera, or attend choice spots at parades. However, cameras even for news stations are getting smaller. More of them are packing the "Fisher Price" cams and getting same size as consumer cams. Old school of large camera = expensive-ENG-must-be-a-real-newsguy, new school large camera = old technology. Yes, pack a $60K Panasonic with P2 cards and the techies will say "old technology!" It may become packing a shoulder cam would be interpreted as archaic as packing a CB radio.
I recently saw an anchor and his ENG person, anchor was a large old guy and ENG person was a young small lady. Opposite of what you would find from a news station. I asked her about trends of cameras getting smaller, she said small cameras don't have the stability. Let's see what five years will bring. But bring a tripod, ***required*** for good shots with small HD cameras.
I wonder what if [something] be invented that would obsolete the laser printer. Could it be HP's demise?
Kodak made the vast majority of its revenue from photographic film (both retail and specialty) and the processing associated with said film (producing prints, copies, slides, etc).
Imagine what would happen to companies like Gillette if a new product emerged which used lasers to shave one's face in a couple seconds. Suddenly all those people who were buying razors on a repeating basis would stop because they would buy the ronco-matic laser-shave. Could Gillette survive such a shift?.
Whenever I see such headlines or summaries "With China sporting anti-ship weapons that could sink U.S. carriers from a distance," I have to cry foul: Stop outsourcing our industrial base to China! Developing a new bomber will require us to buy more crap (parts, desktop stuff for offices of new bomber project) from China. And to do this when we have no money, we will have to borrow more money from China. It is all insane and wonder what top men at DC and at corporations are thinking.
Alright, so I've begun with a overgeneralized sweeping heading but during a discussion with other amateur (ham radio) television on what DTV format should be used, I said ATV will probably become a very small niche because of two reasons (lead by trends on broadcast television). One, vast majority watch TV either by cable or satellite. Watching TV using an antenna like in the 20th century is mysterious to most people (including older ham radio guys), when I say we transmit video over the air from our hilltop repeater to non-ATV people, I get this deer-in-the-headlights look.
Then there is the iPhone and this is the OTA TV killer. In fact one of our ardent ATV guys said, "we can do it all with the iphone so we don't need to set a camera, transmitter, and antenna" (really, I was shocked to hear this person say that). Of course predictions are tough especially the future, however, but one advantage of OTA TV is you don't have to log on with a account and password (which is acquired by paying with credit card that requires name, address, SSN). And don't have to deal with data drops and bit stream freezes.
When I see articles like this, I cannot stop thinking it seems familiar of way back when kings and emperors from different countries get in a tizzy which leads to economic, political shifts and/or wars that impacts commoners (that never had a say on the whole matter anyway).
holy organisms, batman! I just threw out a comment borrowing phrases from various people. hell, I never suggested evolution was bad and church is great. Argument that should be discussed is The Church using such topics to maintain control over people (it's mainly about power, not religion). Maybe we need a atheist for president then cannot use excuse to wage war because "it is God's calling."
True evolutionary theory starts with the idea that all life evolved over billions of years, starting with simple inorganic compounds that combined into some of the basic organic building blocks (amino acids, nucleotides, etc).
And that is quite remarkable as perhaps there a Supreme Being guided this creation of inorganic compounds (or going way back to subatomic particles) into what now exists. And gave ability to us mortal beings ability to decide whether continue evolving or burn it all into the ground.
Along with the body being active, moon has a active exosphere and surrounded by a sodium cloud bright enough to be seen by the unaided eye if not for the brightness of the moon's surface. This active "atmosphere" will be further investigated by LADEE, Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, spacecraft being built now at NASA Ames and Space Systems Loral (on San Antonio off hwy 101 few miles north of Ames), to be launched next year. LADEE is Small Spacecraft/Big Science. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LADEE/main/ And discussion on exosphere at http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/articles/solar-storms-sandblast-moon
Probably some of these 20-year-olds are doing something else these days, even now I meet some who are hard science and critical thinking. I'm sure back then they had their share of 20-year olds with 2 year old mentalities.
An interesting comment on yahoo article by 7againstThebes, "When he didn't launch the first time...or the second...or the third...etc., he didn't blame politicians, he didn't blame the NASA staff, he didn't blame his fellow astronauts. He's a real pro in every sense of the word. Kids, watch him and learn."
Most are too young to remember, and many old timers have forgot, it was scrub after scrub after scrub after scrub after scrub... till they ***finally*** got that can off the ground. Getting off the ground is hard, really hard, and it ain't cheap.
I was talking with a 20-something while in FL waiting for the STS-135 launch. She is majoring in engineering (forgot what field, she changed from being a literature major). I asked her what does she think of SpaceX and she totally went "oh wow, I sure hope I can work for SpaceX!!!!!" My impression is she interested in participating in the space program but first choice is to work at SpaceX, as if they "connect" with 20 somethings unlike NASA, Lockmart, Boeing,etc.
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> except the US has now been at war for almost 11 years and most people
At first glance many people (here in US at least) are not aware we are at war. Take a look at most mainstream media and very little is mentioned about war activity in Afghanistan and Iraq. Although we have "pulled out" (actually replaced soldiers with contractors) some think we can then use those resources to start another war, which is probably the objective as it's election year.
You'll need more than 200 billion detectors though. Good luck with that.
Or hire a lot of illegal immigrants to take apart detectors. Many drug dealers did this with Sudafed tablets back when you can buy the pills without papers. They bought them by the boxes, hired illegals for low wages to tediously pop the tablets out of the packages and crush them into a container. A PBS show about meth (or some other illegal drug) interviewed various people about this. One meth house in AZ (I think) is where they hired some illegals and gave them $6/hr to "process" sudafed tablets, illegals didn't know what specially it was for but it was pretty good wages without toiling in the hot sun. One of these guys after awhile advocated they should ask for $9/hr, but the others said for him to not create problems with the gringos. Later the house was raided by DEA but none of the dealers there and the illegals were of little value for tracking down the dealers than hired them. When the illegals found out dealers were clearing millions in profit, "Damn! I told you we should have ask for $9/hr!"
I have formal training in orbital mechanics, astrophysics, engineering and worked at NASA writing gn&c software. Good enough?
Any books besides the one by Bate, Mueller, White? Any NASA or other websites you can recommend? Regarding 10+ years a lot of time, sounds reasonable by physics but not a lot by politics (a lot can happen in 10 years, a few more costly wars).
I have not done the calculations but I think deflecting a big asteroid is difficult considering energies required to change its trajectory. Hell, it takes a lot to simply move a spacecraft from one orbital plane to another. I know it's all great in the movies (and references to Bruce Willis) but almost all who have an opinion of asteroid deflection don't seem to be knowledgable of astrodynamics (Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Bate, Mueller, White), http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Dover-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486600610/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331078557&sr=8-1
An engineer, a physicist, and a statistician go out hunting together.
Samantha, you forgot the car analogy!!! I like the story though.
I can't understand how people survived only 15 years ago...it must have been a horrific state of affairs.
People were a lot tougher back then, especially those 50 years ago. They were able to function without internet, computers, cable tv, microwave ovens...
Yes, Flickr is convenient but posting your images on sites you do not own... well they can remove them. Or worse are sites, I think picasaweb, have fine print that says images posted become "property" of them and not you. I forgot specifically which photosharing site but a pro photog says he rarely posts his work on such sites except his own domain because fine print says person given up ownership.
Though Flickr provides means for people to post comments which can be great fun when you have something that resonates with the public, but don't want to spend time moderating every comment. Sure is terrible Gorman lost all those comments, there must have been some real doozies of sorts posted.
OK so I don't own any ebooks but I wonder what if some of these require online connection? Or will they eventually require online connection so it constantly polls to be sure you are not packing a pirated copy? A terrible situation is only way to read that ebook is it has to have online connection. I'm not talking about reading articles on the internet, I'm talking about something you either purchase or get from a friend and you own. If you can't open it, then you don't own it.
>an increase of $2 a gallon hits you with a whopping $5.80 increase per week -- what's that, a big mac? A latte and a half?
yep, good comparison. I call it the diet coke syndrome (you see this kind of decision making take place all the time i.e. cut NASA budget but ignore DoD to reduce deficit). Someone wants to lose weight so they order a diet coke along with a large meal. Hey, you lose weight by reducing overall intake, diet coke is small fraction (no, no, no, don't give me that statistical analysis of when dining at McDonalds everyday, a diet coke makes a substantial difference. It's ***junk food***). Be a man, and have a real coke.
Is it already here? though trying to find at http://www.eia.gov/countries/data.cfm which lists top to bottom countries that import oil to United States, Canada is #1 importer of oil to USA, Mexico is #2 (used to be #1 few years ago but went from 14.9 billion barrels to 9.something (forgot time scale). I never saw any discussion among policy makers of these trends. What caught my attention looking at import tables (the format that was easy to examine and I'm still trying to find it) when Mexico dropped substantial amount (could it be driver of their economic woes?). Meanwhile I've read Canada is becoming more environmentally destructive (like Russia/Siberia). Examining those charts we could tell Arab countries to shove it, however, other countries are far more depended on them. Oil is sold based on $US and with dollar devaluing, no wonder price per barrel is going up.
In regards to going to war with Iran, it's election year and the best way to increase your popularity and distract from economic woes is attack another country. Iran probably knows they don't stand a chance and will be flattened. However, their leaders may sacrifice their own country because they also know US going in full scale will also plunge US into deeper economic recession.
does your wife have poofy hair and lots of makeup?
Shocked, I tell you, I'm shocked there's bribery going on in this country.
>large concerts
I think some concerts will stop you as they may not want video recording of performances outside their own staff. Although there are others (i.e. up and coming bands moving out of garages) will want you to record and get their name out into the masses.
, I had access to an old training video camera at all times. Every time there was a gig I wanted to attend to, I went to my workplace, grabbed that camera, went to the gig, got in,
This may work for another five years or so. I can access events with my over the shoulder ENG camera, or attend choice spots at parades. However, cameras even for news stations are getting smaller. More of them are packing the "Fisher Price" cams and getting same size as consumer cams. Old school of large camera = expensive-ENG-must-be-a-real-newsguy, new school large camera = old technology. Yes, pack a $60K Panasonic with P2 cards and the techies will say "old technology!" It may become packing a shoulder cam would be interpreted as archaic as packing a CB radio.
I recently saw an anchor and his ENG person, anchor was a large old guy and ENG person was a young small lady. Opposite of what you would find from a news station. I asked her about trends of cameras getting smaller, she said small cameras don't have the stability. Let's see what five years will bring. But bring a tripod, ***required*** for good shots with small HD cameras.
I wonder what if [something] be invented that would obsolete the laser printer. Could it be HP's demise?
Kodak made the vast majority of its revenue from photographic film (both retail and specialty) and the processing associated with said film (producing prints, copies, slides, etc).
Imagine what would happen to companies like Gillette if a new product emerged which used lasers to shave one's face in a couple seconds. Suddenly all those people who were buying razors on a repeating basis would stop because they would buy the ronco-matic laser-shave. Could Gillette survive such a shift? .
Whenever I see such headlines or summaries "With China sporting anti-ship weapons that could sink U.S. carriers from a distance," I have to cry foul: Stop outsourcing our industrial base to China! Developing a new bomber will require us to buy more crap (parts, desktop stuff for offices of new bomber project) from China. And to do this when we have no money, we will have to borrow more money from China. It is all insane and wonder what top men at DC and at corporations are thinking.
Alright, so I've begun with a overgeneralized sweeping heading but during a discussion with other amateur (ham radio) television on what DTV format should be used, I said ATV will probably become a very small niche because of two reasons (lead by trends on broadcast television). One, vast majority watch TV either by cable or satellite. Watching TV using an antenna like in the 20th century is mysterious to most people (including older ham radio guys), when I say we transmit video over the air from our hilltop repeater to non-ATV people, I get this deer-in-the-headlights look.
Then there is the iPhone and this is the OTA TV killer. In fact one of our ardent ATV guys said, "we can do it all with the iphone so we don't need to set a camera, transmitter, and antenna" (really, I was shocked to hear this person say that). Of course predictions are tough especially the future, however, but one advantage of OTA TV is you don't have to log on with a account and password (which is acquired by paying with credit card that requires name, address, SSN). And don't have to deal with data drops and bit stream freezes.
geez, now I see why discussing religion can be deadly... look at them minus points.
When I see articles like this, I cannot stop thinking it seems familiar of way back when kings and emperors from different countries get in a tizzy which leads to economic, political shifts and/or wars that impacts commoners (that never had a say on the whole matter anyway).
holy organisms, batman! I just threw out a comment borrowing phrases from various people. hell, I never suggested evolution was bad and church is great. Argument that should be discussed is The Church using such topics to maintain control over people (it's mainly about power, not religion). Maybe we need a atheist for president then cannot use excuse to wage war because "it is God's calling."
True evolutionary theory starts with the idea that all life evolved over billions of years, starting with simple inorganic compounds that combined into some of the basic organic building blocks (amino acids, nucleotides, etc).
And that is quite remarkable as perhaps there a Supreme Being guided this creation of inorganic compounds (or going way back to subatomic particles) into what now exists. And gave ability to us mortal beings ability to decide whether continue evolving or burn it all into the ground.
Along with the body being active, moon has a active exosphere and surrounded by a sodium cloud bright enough to be seen by the unaided eye if not for the brightness of the moon's surface. This active "atmosphere" will be further investigated by LADEE, Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, spacecraft being built now at NASA Ames and Space Systems Loral (on San Antonio off hwy 101 few miles north of Ames), to be launched next year. LADEE is Small Spacecraft/Big Science. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LADEE/main/ And discussion on exosphere at http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/articles/solar-storms-sandblast-moon
> Today, some "20-year-old" will probably just...
Probably some of these 20-year-olds are doing something else these days, even now I meet some who are hard science and critical thinking. I'm sure back then they had their share of 20-year olds with 2 year old mentalities.
An interesting comment on yahoo article by 7againstThebes, "When he didn't launch the first time...or the second...or the third...etc., he didn't blame politicians, he didn't blame the NASA staff, he didn't blame his fellow astronauts. He's a real pro in every sense of the word. Kids, watch him and learn."
Most are too young to remember, and many old timers have forgot, it was scrub after scrub after scrub after scrub after scrub... till they ***finally*** got that can off the ground. Getting off the ground is hard, really hard, and it ain't cheap.
I was talking with a 20-something while in FL waiting for the STS-135 launch. She is majoring in engineering (forgot what field, she changed from being a literature major). I asked her what does she think of SpaceX and she totally went "oh wow, I sure hope I can work for SpaceX!!!!!" My impression is she interested in participating in the space program but first choice is to work at SpaceX, as if they "connect" with 20 somethings unlike NASA, Lockmart, Boeing,etc.