That LES you described for Dragon does seem interesting. Maybe Elon and his engineers have a unique advantage of starting from scratch (but standing on the shoulders of giants) to design a launch vehicle not so intertwined with paradigms of Shuttle and Apollo, and not having to meet design requirements based ranking senate and congressional committee members.
"Shoulders of Giants" refers to NASA, Von Braun, Goddard, and key people that developed rocket science and infrastructure.
nasawatch.com has lots of discussion of HLV. Some, I believe Dennis Wingo would be one, have said campaigning for HLV is a non-starter. Reason is developing a HLV is so expensive there is no way it will ever receive congressional approval (examine now and past 30 years it is difficult to get huge boost in NASA funding).
Therefore, look to other methods using smaller launch vehicles than Saturn V. May not be that great (and the launches not as spectacular as a 350+ft rocket) but you may get some funding.
I read and hear all this talk that they are ready to pop in seats and have jump in that beauty. BUT what about abort systems? OK, so I have RTFA or all websites but I wonder if they need to manrate, then there will be additional weight penalty for an escape tower, additional tests (take a look at all the work NASA is doing design on abort rocket motors and tower).
Dragon has one advantage over Orion is the launch system does not have an "aggressive launch profile" like Ares rocket (which is a screamer in lower atmosphere and has really high dynamic Q). Oh, there is consideration of another launch vehicle but some have written "it has to be done with solid rocket technology!" (somebody needs to read up on what Goddard and Oberth worked on in the 20th century).
>Why is it better for the US Government to pay a corporation to build spacecraft?
Because it has always been done (speaking of manned spacecraft) beginning with McDonnell building Mercury. I'm not sure if Explorer and Vanguard were built by companies but just about every satellite was built by private companies. There is no US Govt Rocket & Spacecraft Manufacturing Plant.
One exception is O/OREOS that was built by Ames and SCU.
> last time I checked Lockheed Martin wasn't giving us any sweet deals on the F-22 or F-35.
Interesting observation. F35 was introduced as CALF (common affordable lightweight fighter), it is now CLF.
>[videohelp.com] Put in 'crop 4:3' in the search bar. Have fun.
Thanks! I found much discussion on this topic, didn't answer my question directly but gave me a better sense of direction to find a solution (i.e. forget Premeire, get Vegas instead).
This site has lotsa video discussion, good and informative articles (but have to be careful not to spend too much time reading at work!).
Another example of getting better knowledge by word-of-mouth.
3. No having to wait for other advertisements on webpages (I hate seeing "waiting for adyieldmanager.com")
4. When downloading large files, I want constant download speed. Not when first downloading it is 230kbps to then later slow to 15kbps.
I could care less of broadcast TV, not much on it anyway these days.
And "surfing the web" or "googling" is becoming just as worthless. Not to go OT, I was trying to find where I can chop the upper and lower black portions of 4:3 video footage for a true 16:9, all the sites I found are bankrupt forums describing using the crop mode in Adobe Premeire (which doesn't work) or useless answer such as "google for instruction manual" (there is none).
Most websites I found are either ones I know of for past few years or from word-of-mouth.
That is what they used on Skylab even though they had a shower but having to vacuum all those floating water droplets was time consuming. Interesting Scott had vertical orientation once in his bunker. From the book "A House In Space" by SF Cooper talked about room layout needs to be vertically defined top and bottom, some portions were not and were disorientating.
I bet it a real shower and a real bath feels great after 6 months. And a real girl too.
I think it was great Doug spent the amount of time chatting with hams. I scan 145.800 regularly and it seems whenever ISS passed over USA, he was calling for stations and he actually answered questions from us groundbound hams. Hey, he even replied to me! (Doug KF5BOC replies phonetically so you can confirm contact). I would have liked to ask if it becomes solid noise of all those calling on 2 meters (call ISS on 144.490, listen on 145.800. typical FM 25KHz channel). My antenna was a j-pole in the window, I used 10watts going up. I think ISS uses 10 watts going down but with pure line-of-sight, low power is crystal clear (with exception to pileups).
There is also packet on 145.825, I haven't tried that yet. I was monitoring it one time, a ham in Hayward, CA kept trying to get ISS to reply (an automated system) but it kept replying with another callsign from New Mexico (probably someone with beam blasting lots of power).
>The capabilities are what is secret. But it can probably pick up a cell phone or wifi for geosync
but will they get sued by the MPAA or RIAA? If so, such secrets will be revealed during court trials? Doesn't seem like a good idea to tap wifi, you''ll get sued by the MAFIAA.
I read someplace scientists were concerned about bringing celestial matter to earth because this would require recalculating atomic weights in the periodic table. Any chemists want to comment on this?
Is this why my comments rarely appear on forums? Seriously, I leave a comment and many times it never appears, is it simply a placebo, or worse a place to harvest email addresses?
hilarious story, what if combined with bad data from Google Maps.... anything could happen!
I sometimes wonder above "cruise missile coordinates" (lat,long) displayed for my callsign but those show map location off by a few miles anyway. Maybe that's why they call it "missile" instead of "hittiles."
Maybe it just ain't got what the original had. Lorne Greene, Farrah Fawcett hair styles for the girls, Tektronix test equipment for spacecraft instrumentation, computer graphics by Commodore 64s, etc.
On the first remake what caught my attention was Cylons infiltrated colonial battlestars and fighters with software "kill switches." Since everything was networked together then this virus can spread to other computer systems. Damn, I'm thinking that is what can happen to us as all computers and cellphones are designed and made outside USA.
On the remake, Adama (Edward James Olmos) Battlestar was not infected because he was an old duffer who didn't modernize his systems (none of the Galactica's PDP-11s were networked, all his Vipers used Mocom 70s).
from the good, the bad, and the marginal with obvious exceptions of classified material. There is lots of techie stuff that video guys can take and post on NASA-TV (ya know the good "streaming" video that is broadcast quality like you get from ENG cameras). Techie stuff? Things that go on at test labs, facilities, maintenance guys fixing stuff, scientists dabbling with chemicals, engineers struggling with laser flowviz techniques, etc. But don't bother to make it pristine, at least white balance the camera.
OK so some people will bitch it is boring, there's no sexy chicks, no bombastic hosts,... but then NASA does work not entertainment.
How many of you techie types got such interests? It probably began when you saw something techie and thought, "that's cool! where can I get me one of those?!?! (I guess I'll have to learn how to build it)." It might be very inspirational for children. However, I heard NASA employees (civil servants) cannot videotape minors unless they get permission from parents (which squelches things like county fairs) but it is ok for contractors.
I probably deviated from original story of this post and (like 99% of commenters) didn't RTFA.
> flying delorean... something unrealistic about the plot of that movie?
Yes, flying cars are unrealistic. We've been waiting for years and all attempts from Taylor Aerocar to Moller have all failed. But there is the roadable airplane.
It has nothing to do with gravity.
But then these three movies are very entertaining and good story which is difficult when using time travel plots. Even for fiction, the writer has to have plausible actions and results of the protagonist, time travel is an easy cop-out to make story "work" for a good ending. BTTF movies has suspense even though writer(s) can manipulate the space-time continuum.
I also miss characters like Doc Brown. Smart, quirky, ultimate DIY guy instead of only buying cheap junk made overseas.
Sex is like oxygen. When you're not getting it, nothing else matters. When you are getting plenty of it, you don't pay attention to it.
Apollo flight controller responsible for EECOM wrote about instrumentation problems, "it's like an orgasm, you know it occurred but it is difficult to describe." He also wrote, "the water is not missed until the well runs dry."
Speaking of video quality, I remember seeing 2001 and Moonraker when they were shown in theatres. There were scenes where you can read print that is unreadable with reduced resolution on video. i.e. the space shuttle launched by the USA when they detected Drax's space station (when James Bond shut down station's radar jammer), the shuttle had "Marines" written on side (yep, a USMC shuttle staging an amphibious assault on Drax's space station).
OK, what does it all mean? It depends what and when is video quality required. If watching a movie, high quality may be very important. If you can't read and see certain details, you are missing the story. If you have a low res camera on a highway, that may be good enough to see if the roads are jammed or not.
It seems almost all articles of music production, shows, CDs, whatever, has all kinds of legality stuff attached. Can't do this, can't do that, so-and-so is being sued for this-and-that...
Come to think of it, there has been no "new sound" in 25 years (rap and hip-hop are not new, it began in the 1980s). And number of big entertainment companies is down to four (from about 30 from what I heard in 1981).
With everything centralized like in Soviet Russia maybe that's why there is no "new sound" (but lots of new ways of presenting i.e. youtube). But maybe that's how The Business works, it's all plagerism beginning with Shakesphere (and even he stole material from others).
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"Shoulders of Giants" refers to NASA, Von Braun, Goddard, and key people that developed rocket science and infrastructure.
Teancum, thanks for the reply.
oops, I meant to say "I have NOT RTFA or all websites."
nasawatch.com has lots of discussion of HLV. Some, I believe Dennis Wingo would be one, have said campaigning for HLV is a non-starter. Reason is developing a HLV is so expensive there is no way it will ever receive congressional approval (examine now and past 30 years it is difficult to get huge boost in NASA funding).
Therefore, look to other methods using smaller launch vehicles than Saturn V. May not be that great (and the launches not as spectacular as a 350+ft rocket) but you may get some funding.
Dragon has one advantage over Orion is the launch system does not have an "aggressive launch profile" like Ares rocket (which is a screamer in lower atmosphere and has really high dynamic Q). Oh, there is consideration of another launch vehicle but some have written "it has to be done with solid rocket technology!" (somebody needs to read up on what Goddard and Oberth worked on in the 20th century).
Because it has always been done (speaking of manned spacecraft) beginning with McDonnell building Mercury. I'm not sure if Explorer and Vanguard were built by companies but just about every satellite was built by private companies. There is no US Govt Rocket & Spacecraft Manufacturing Plant.
One exception is O/OREOS that was built by Ames and SCU.
> last time I checked Lockheed Martin wasn't giving us any sweet deals on the F-22 or F-35.
Interesting observation. F35 was introduced as CALF (common affordable lightweight fighter), it is now CLF.
Thanks! I found much discussion on this topic, didn't answer my question directly but gave me a better sense of direction to find a solution (i.e. forget Premeire, get Vegas instead).
This site has lotsa video discussion, good and informative articles (but have to be careful not to spend too much time reading at work!).
Another example of getting better knowledge by word-of-mouth.
1. No spam
2. No ads (popup,popunder,popover, etc.)
3. No having to wait for other advertisements on webpages (I hate seeing "waiting for adyieldmanager.com")
4. When downloading large files, I want constant download speed. Not when first downloading it is 230kbps to then later slow to 15kbps.
I could care less of broadcast TV, not much on it anyway these days.
And "surfing the web" or "googling" is becoming just as worthless. Not to go OT, I was trying to find where I can chop the upper and lower black portions of 4:3 video footage for a true 16:9, all the sites I found are bankrupt forums describing using the crop mode in Adobe Premeire (which doesn't work) or useless answer such as "google for instruction manual" (there is none).
Most websites I found are either ones I know of for past few years or from word-of-mouth.
I bet it a real shower and a real bath feels great after 6 months. And a real girl too.
There is also packet on 145.825, I haven't tried that yet. I was monitoring it one time, a ham in Hayward, CA kept trying to get ISS to reply (an automated system) but it kept replying with another callsign from New Mexico (probably someone with beam blasting lots of power).
I thought that went out years ago in the 20th century.
but will they get sued by the MPAA or RIAA? If so, such secrets will be revealed during court trials? Doesn't seem like a good idea to tap wifi, you''ll get sued by the MAFIAA.
I read someplace scientists were concerned about bringing celestial matter to earth because this would require recalculating atomic weights in the periodic table. Any chemists want to comment on this?
I get "Firefox can't find the server at www.wopr.gov."
well call the Brits... damn, they just lost their best agent in Hong Kong. OK, what's all them ships carrying lox (salmon?) to a port in Japan?
Is this why my comments rarely appear on forums? Seriously, I leave a comment and many times it never appears, is it simply a placebo, or worse a place to harvest email addresses?
Maybe his mom doesn't have a basement and this illustrates that mothers and basements are not needed to defeat military defense systems.
I sometimes wonder above "cruise missile coordinates" (lat,long) displayed for my callsign but those show map location off by a few miles anyway. Maybe that's why they call it "missile" instead of "hittiles."
With all the anti-immigration attitudes of this country, lotsa luck ET will land in USA, they will choose another country.
Cylon kill switch anyone?
On the first remake what caught my attention was Cylons infiltrated colonial battlestars and fighters with software "kill switches." Since everything was networked together then this virus can spread to other computer systems. Damn, I'm thinking that is what can happen to us as all computers and cellphones are designed and made outside USA.
On the remake, Adama (Edward James Olmos) Battlestar was not infected because he was an old duffer who didn't modernize his systems (none of the Galactica's PDP-11s were networked, all his Vipers used Mocom 70s).
OK so some people will bitch it is boring, there's no sexy chicks, no bombastic hosts,... but then NASA does work not entertainment.
How many of you techie types got such interests? It probably began when you saw something techie and thought, "that's cool! where can I get me one of those?!?! (I guess I'll have to learn how to build it)." It might be very inspirational for children. However, I heard NASA employees (civil servants) cannot videotape minors unless they get permission from parents (which squelches things like county fairs) but it is ok for contractors.
I probably deviated from original story of this post and (like 99% of commenters) didn't RTFA.
Yes, flying cars are unrealistic. We've been waiting for years and all attempts from Taylor Aerocar to Moller have all failed. But there is the roadable airplane.
It has nothing to do with gravity. But then these three movies are very entertaining and good story which is difficult when using time travel plots. Even for fiction, the writer has to have plausible actions and results of the protagonist, time travel is an easy cop-out to make story "work" for a good ending. BTTF movies has suspense even though writer(s) can manipulate the space-time continuum. I also miss characters like Doc Brown. Smart, quirky, ultimate DIY guy instead of only buying cheap junk made overseas.
Sex is like oxygen. When you're not getting it, nothing else matters. When you are getting plenty of it, you don't pay attention to it.
Apollo flight controller responsible for EECOM wrote about instrumentation problems, "it's like an orgasm, you know it occurred but it is difficult to describe." He also wrote, "the water is not missed until the well runs dry."
Speaking of video quality, I remember seeing 2001 and Moonraker when they were shown in theatres. There were scenes where you can read print that is unreadable with reduced resolution on video. i.e. the space shuttle launched by the USA when they detected Drax's space station (when James Bond shut down station's radar jammer), the shuttle had "Marines" written on side (yep, a USMC shuttle staging an amphibious assault on Drax's space station).
OK, what does it all mean? It depends what and when is video quality required. If watching a movie, high quality may be very important. If you can't read and see certain details, you are missing the story. If you have a low res camera on a highway, that may be good enough to see if the roads are jammed or not.
Come to think of it, there has been no "new sound" in 25 years (rap and hip-hop are not new, it began in the 1980s). And number of big entertainment companies is down to four (from about 30 from what I heard in 1981).
With everything centralized like in Soviet Russia maybe that's why there is no "new sound" (but lots of new ways of presenting i.e. youtube). But maybe that's how The Business works, it's all plagerism beginning with Shakesphere (and even he stole material from others).