"Uh.. have you ever seen a Fiero in a major accident? The bodies shatter into little peices. "
The Pontiac Fiero, being popularly known as being "made entirely of fiberglass," is wrongly accused of being unsafe in a collision. The Fiero, with its unique plastic body-on-spaceframe design, helped the Fiero achieve a NHTSA NCAP frontal crash test rating of five stars, the highest rating available. Survivability in a Pontiac fiero is a lot higher than any other car from it's era, a lot of safety features were pioneered on that car like side impact beams in the doors that spread the impact energy to the front and rear of the car around the passenger.
and the panels don't "shatter into little pieces" unless it is 22 degrees below zero or the driver hit a liquid nitrogen semi truck. The Chevy corvette is covered in the exact same panels as the pontiac fiero, in fact the current years owe their body components to the fiero as they pioneered the soft plastic nose and rear bumper on that car platform first.
Whoever told you they "shatter" did not know anything at all about the pontiac fiero, let alone anything about cars in general.
I have a 1986 Pontiac fiero that is safer at 100+mph than any BMW sold in the last 4 years is. Except any of the racing or super cars with racing setup. Age of the car means nothing.
IF a special license is required for it. Most car drivers out there cant handle a car at 70 let alone 120. It takes skill (that most of you DO NOT have) to drive at speeds above 80mph in traffic. There should be a separate license for driving on the highway compared to cities, and then another tier above that for no speed limits on interstates.
But one caveat.... IF you get in ANY accident where you hit another car, you are automatically at fault. IF you drive going 50mph faster than the other traffic you have to drive with all your senses set to 11. Any dipshit driving at 120 and texting should be executed on the side of the road by the state trooper.
not really. $199 for a nexus 7 that is guarenteed to be rootable easily and rom'd easily. I'll pay an additional $50.00 to not have to screw around. And get better hardware to boot.
"Why would I give up one walled garden to go to another? With Android you have choice."
With the properly chosen android device you have choice. Please dont sugar coat it, the Kindle Fire is android and it has NO choice unless you hack it. In fact the only tablets I know of that give you freedom of choice is the nexus 7 from google. Unlocked bootloader and pure Jellybean os with no crap installed. Unlike the Xoom.
I have been waiting for the A board to be released. I want the 1/2 power use and all the useless stuff removed. Please guys? release the A board soon! I have an alarm clock project and a car stereo project that is dying for the A board.
Because it's a show of wealth. Only the rich buy apple headphones to display their wealth, anyone else with a grain of sense or any desire for audio quality will buy something better like senheiser.
Then you have the trendy kiddies they wear that "beats" crap.
If apple made a change it had damn well better be a magsafe connector. If it's still a craptastic plug like the current 30 pin their engineers need to be beaten with socks that have doorknobs in them until they cant stand anymore....
So you are telling me they can figure this out a month before launch? Why dont you send them your resume' as it seems you are a lot smarter than the scientists that work there. Nahh dont do any testing and trials, just guess and push the launch button!
"That pretty much destroys your entire argument I believe.", only to the armchair drive by commenter it looks that way.
There is not 100% water recovery. that is completely impossible unless we are using star-trek unobtanium technology. They still resupply the ISS with water on every resupply launch. A MARS mission will have no resupply launches, and the cost per pound if they even though of a resupply launch would be 9,000X more expensive than lifting it to low orbit for the ISS. So if you screw up and guess wrong and 6 days away from coming home they run out of water... Crew is dead. or if the purification system has lower efficiency due to some issue, crew is dead.
NASA is interested in getting a crew there and back, and to do that you need to carry water, ration water, and do everything to manage water. If you knew anything at all about the space program you would know they do this already. I really suggest you look it up and read up the technology and the process behind it, its as fascinating as the designs of the latest rocket engines.
You want calorie dense nutrient dense foods. I can fit in a single backpack all the food needed by one person for 30 days. Problem is they will go insane eating the same ration day in and day out.
The other aspect is also choosing foods that have a higher conversion factor so the waste elimination is compact and less frequent. You cant go high protein as you have a limited supply of water and you have to have water to process protein. So it 's a balance that is hard to figure out.
The article summary is very wrong, " Imagine having to shop for a family's three-year supply of groceries all at once and having enough meals planned in advance for that length of time." is really easy. Imagine having to shop for a family's three-year supply of groceries all at once and having enough meals planned in advance for that length of time that dont use too much water from your finite limited supply of water and reduces the excrement output of the entire family to be as small as possible.
THAT is what NASA is trying to do, it's massively harder than planning a 3 year grocery list.
When I got a new android phone, I turned it on, logged into my google account and everything started to appear on the phone. dont need a memory card. Even the apps started to appear, all my songs in the play cloud, etc...
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"I also emit more carbon dioxide than the chair I'm sitting on,"
and a lot more methane... Lay off the burritos man... we can smell you 3 cubicles over.
"More likely age and familiarity with technology.
Republicans tend to skew dumb."
I fixed that for you.
"I think they are throwing shit at the walls and seeing what gets them more page views."
You must be new here, Taco patented that technique back in 1999.
Pestilence Pony?
"Uh.. have you ever seen a Fiero in a major accident? The bodies shatter into little peices. "
The Pontiac Fiero, being popularly known as being "made entirely of fiberglass," is wrongly accused of being unsafe in a collision. The Fiero, with its unique plastic body-on-spaceframe design, helped the Fiero achieve a NHTSA NCAP frontal crash test rating of five stars, the highest rating available. Survivability in a Pontiac fiero is a lot higher than any other car from it's era, a lot of safety features were pioneered on that car like side impact beams in the doors that spread the impact energy to the front and rear of the car around the passenger.
and the panels don't "shatter into little pieces" unless it is 22 degrees below zero or the driver hit a liquid nitrogen semi truck. The Chevy corvette is covered in the exact same panels as the pontiac fiero, in fact the current years owe their body components to the fiero as they pioneered the soft plastic nose and rear bumper on that car platform first.
Whoever told you they "shatter" did not know anything at all about the pontiac fiero, let alone anything about cars in general.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwUWRuOGHUQ one crashing here, note that it does not explode into tiny bits of plastic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Fiero here is a lot of facts about the car.
I thought that is what redbull was for. Shotgun a 6 pack and you are ready to drive!
I have a 1986 Pontiac fiero that is safer at 100+mph than any BMW sold in the last 4 years is. Except any of the racing or super cars with racing setup. Age of the car means nothing.
IF a special license is required for it. Most car drivers out there cant handle a car at 70 let alone 120. It takes skill (that most of you DO NOT have) to drive at speeds above 80mph in traffic. There should be a separate license for driving on the highway compared to cities, and then another tier above that for no speed limits on interstates.
But one caveat.... IF you get in ANY accident where you hit another car, you are automatically at fault. IF you drive going 50mph faster than the other traffic you have to drive with all your senses set to 11. Any dipshit driving at 120 and texting should be executed on the side of the road by the state trooper.
Then NASA needs to switch to Diet Coke and mentos for the initial boost rockets...
not really. $199 for a nexus 7 that is guarenteed to be rootable easily and rom'd easily. I'll pay an additional $50.00 to not have to screw around. And get better hardware to boot.
"Why would I give up one walled garden to go to another? With Android you have choice."
With the properly chosen android device you have choice. Please dont sugar coat it, the Kindle Fire is android and it has NO choice unless you hack it. In fact the only tablets I know of that give you freedom of choice is the nexus 7 from google. Unlocked bootloader and pure Jellybean os with no crap installed. Unlike the Xoom.
Kindle DX2 please. 11 inch screen with this new screen tech please.. I know a LOT of people that would kill for an A4 size screen.
cancel your order and get it from MCM.. in stock and I'm getting them 2 days after ordering.
I have been waiting for the A board to be released. I want the 1/2 power use and all the useless stuff removed.
Please guys? release the A board soon! I have an alarm clock project and a car stereo project that is dying for the A board.
It's just you.
Because it's a show of wealth. Only the rich buy apple headphones to display their wealth, anyone else with a grain of sense or any desire for audio quality will buy something better like senheiser.
Then you have the trendy kiddies they wear that "beats" crap.
If apple made a change it had damn well better be a magsafe connector. If it's still a craptastic plug like the current 30 pin their engineers need to be beaten with socks that have doorknobs in them until they cant stand anymore....
So you are telling me they can figure this out a month before launch? Why dont you send them your resume' as it seems you are a lot smarter than the scientists that work there. Nahh dont do any testing and trials, just guess and push the launch button!
"That pretty much destroys your entire argument I believe.", only to the armchair drive by commenter it looks that way.
There is not 100% water recovery. that is completely impossible unless we are using star-trek unobtanium technology. They still resupply the ISS with water on every resupply launch. A MARS mission will have no resupply launches, and the cost per pound if they even though of a resupply launch would be 9,000X more expensive than lifting it to low orbit for the ISS. So if you screw up and guess wrong and 6 days away from coming home they run out of water... Crew is dead. or if the purification system has lower efficiency due to some issue, crew is dead.
NASA is interested in getting a crew there and back, and to do that you need to carry water, ration water, and do everything to manage water. If you knew anything at all about the space program you would know they do this already. I really suggest you look it up and read up the technology and the process behind it, its as fascinating as the designs of the latest rocket engines.
Bah, MRE's are for pussies.
Mainstay 3600 calorie bar is less space than 1 MRE and counts as TWO meals. Enjoy your lemony doom for 180 days....
we will be leaving a trail of turds in space to mars. do you think they will carry it there and back?
You want calorie dense nutrient dense foods. I can fit in a single backpack all the food needed by one person for 30 days. Problem is they will go insane eating the same ration day in and day out.
The other aspect is also choosing foods that have a higher conversion factor so the waste elimination is compact and less frequent. You cant go high protein as you have a limited supply of water and you have to have water to process protein. So it 's a balance that is hard to figure out.
The article summary is very wrong, " Imagine having to shop for a family's three-year supply of groceries all at once and having enough meals planned in advance for that length of time." is really easy. Imagine having to shop for a family's three-year supply of groceries all at once and having enough meals planned in advance for that length of time that dont use too much water from your finite limited supply of water and reduces the excrement output of the entire family to be as small as possible.
THAT is what NASA is trying to do, it's massively harder than planning a 3 year grocery list.
What are you smoking?
samsung phones havent came with a uSD slot for some time. Google Nexus for example, are you that out of touch?
When I got a new android phone, I turned it on, logged into my google account and everything started to appear on the phone. dont need a memory card. Even the apps started to appear, all my songs in the play cloud, etc...