They should implement this in the military first as a test. It's always the biggest pain in the ass to hand-carry your medical and dental records when you undergo a permanent change of station. Of course, paper backups would be a great idea in the initial stages.
Let me clarify a bit, since I only hastily posted a link about the size of the Earth's atmosphere, which only answered #2.
I won't try and give a good answer to your first question, but here's a guess: they could probably figure out the corrosion/destruction rate of a ballute given the composition of that area of the planet's atmosphere. It might last sufficiently long to slow the vehicle enough. Rough answer, I'm not a materials scientist.
As for #2, the Earth's atmosphere extends "significantly" into low-earth orbit. Meaning that satellites in LEO orbits encounter significant enough drag from the atmosphere to require them to design station-keeping into the systems. Hope that helps, sorry for the crap explanation above.
I've been refreshing the page, hoping this comment gets modded up, but no joy. People get so wrapped up in what they think is the black and white issue to stop to think that maybe there's a damn good reason that domestic wiretapping is necessary at this time. Too bad you had to post as an AC for defending the possibility that both Bush and Obama had good reason to pursue this issue. God forbid Republicans and Democrats agree on something.
Try working in the DoD itself. You're presented with the full-retard breadth of bad acronyms on the daily. But when I try and be creative and come up with something like SADIST or SMEGMA, my boss just tells me to go back to my desk.
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Yeah, it was seriously time for me to get a life last night. So I went to Zangarmarsh and farmed up about 20 of them.
That's just a LEO snowplow. And, not to mention the fact that most space debris is on the order of a few centimeters traveling around 7 km/s (in that orbital regime). We're going to need a finer net...and one that would be able to stand up to an impact with a metal bolt blown off of a Chinese weather satellite without simply slicing up the netting. I think I've made my point, but how much do you think a 5km x 5km centimeter mesh net would weight and cost?
You're right. It's too easy for the contractor to milk their overruns and delays for all the extra money. In my experience, however, the government too is at fault for continuing to give riduclously high award fees--fees which are supposed to be awarded for meeting cost, schedule, performance--to these same contractors on the same contracts. It's a terrible way to build a quality system.
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Can we please come up with a better term than ED to describe how superawesome our TV sets are?
Robot: This is place where your papers are.
Subjugated Human: What is my home?
Robot: That is the incorrect question. Please follow me to a "processing station".
They should implement this in the military first as a test. It's always the biggest pain in the ass to hand-carry your medical and dental records when you undergo a permanent change of station. Of course, paper backups would be a great idea in the initial stages.
Flying Wing. For non-aero-nerds. It's the B-2 style.
Almost two hours later and it looks like you've been largely ignored. Things are starting to look up!
Earth. Kitler. 2009.
Sounds more like a fortune cookie aficionado.
They're implying it's "green" maybe?
Just a guess as I'm not familiar with this technology, but sounds like dropping it might actually charge it (if it falls onto a rigid floor).
Let me clarify a bit, since I only hastily posted a link about the size of the Earth's atmosphere, which only answered #2.
I won't try and give a good answer to your first question, but here's a guess: they could probably figure out the corrosion/destruction rate of a ballute given the composition of that area of the planet's atmosphere. It might last sufficiently long to slow the vehicle enough. Rough answer, I'm not a materials scientist.
As for #2, the Earth's atmosphere extends "significantly" into low-earth orbit. Meaning that satellites in LEO orbits encounter significant enough drag from the atmosphere to require them to design station-keeping into the systems. Hope that helps, sorry for the crap explanation above.
The exosphere extends pretty far.
It's a real drag...
Dude, go outside or something.
I've been refreshing the page, hoping this comment gets modded up, but no joy. People get so wrapped up in what they think is the black and white issue to stop to think that maybe there's a damn good reason that domestic wiretapping is necessary at this time. Too bad you had to post as an AC for defending the possibility that both Bush and Obama had good reason to pursue this issue. God forbid Republicans and Democrats agree on something.
This comment's even funnier when you hear about Shatner's attempts to get into the movie.
That's right. It's a celebration, bitches.
/rickjames
I was totally surprised, but Has Been was an outstanding, outstanding album. I don't know how much was due to Ben Folds' influence, but it's great.
Your facetious comment is meddling with my attempt to grasp this new concept, which I believe could be worthy of a medal if it turns out to be true.
I'm left handed, you insensitive clod!
A car analogy? Really? Well, I guess it works.
Try working in the DoD itself. You're presented with the full-retard breadth of bad acronyms on the daily. But when I try and be creative and come up with something like SADIST or SMEGMA, my boss just tells me to go back to my desk.
Yeah, it was seriously time for me to get a life last night. So I went to Zangarmarsh and farmed up about 20 of them.
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That's just a LEO snowplow. And, not to mention the fact that most space debris is on the order of a few centimeters traveling around 7 km/s (in that orbital regime). We're going to need a finer net...and one that would be able to stand up to an impact with a metal bolt blown off of a Chinese weather satellite without simply slicing up the netting. I think I've made my point, but how much do you think a 5km x 5km centimeter mesh net would weight and cost?
Looks like you forgot to check the "Anonymous Conservative" box.
You're right. It's too easy for the contractor to milk their overruns and delays for all the extra money. In my experience, however, the government too is at fault for continuing to give riduclously high award fees--fees which are supposed to be awarded for meeting cost, schedule, performance--to these same contractors on the same contracts. It's a terrible way to build a quality system.