He doesn't use batteries, you insensitive clod! But be careful about running a vacuum cleaner near his grave or he'll start flipping over randomly. (If you're not old enough to know about clicker remotes and vacuum cleaners, GET OFF MY LAWN!)
You didn't google for "spacex merchandise"? http://spaceksc.blogspot.com/2012/04/spacex-swag.html (which is also a pretty good blog about KSC stuff, with lots of photos to give you a serious nerd boner) I suspect that JSC Houston probably has a visitor complex with merchandise too.
That's an interesting idea, but there is no need for it. Once a Soyuz is up, it doesn't cost any more to get down. Even the custom-fitted Soyuz seat is needed for the ride up. One of the rules on ISS is that every crew member has to have a seat on an escape vehicle, so the Soyuz that they rode up on stays docked. Even crew that was brought up on Shuttle and left behind on ISS had a Soyuz seat ready, because the shuttle took someone else back to free up that seat. And there's no other way up right now, so everybody has a Soyuz seat ready.
On the other hand, this will mean that we will now have a decent downmass capability. Soyuz had very limited downmass, and theoretically you could put cargo return capability on a Progress, but nobody did it, because it was cheaper to just let the "trash" burn up. Now they can afford to return stuff that wasn't worth returning before, allowing more reuse and analysis of what had to be classified as "trash" before.
In the end, the one thing the Shuttle could do that Crew Dragon or Falcon Heavy won't ever be able to do is return full-size modules. It will only be able to return what you can stuff through the hatch, but that's not too bad of a limitation.
he exponential-growth problem alone means terrible hardships if we cannot emigrate off of this planet.
I've got news for you. The population curve isn't exponential. It tapers off as society modernizes, when there is no advantage to producing a large number of children due to pre-adult mortality and child labor. Japan has already gone to negative population growth, and immigration is the only thing keeping the US growing. The problem is that the two most populous countries, China and India, haven't reached that point yet, though China did try to put on the brakes with a one-child policy.
I can't tell you what their plans are, but I can tell you that they are NOT launching from 39A/39B (the Shuttle pads). They are launching from pad 40 (I think) which is in the CC Air Force Station, somewhere to the south of 39A/39B. Gut feeling tells me that it's probably at the north end of the AFS, but I have no idea which pad that is because I didn't find a map of CCAFS pads.
And isn't this only the third Falcon 9 launch? Of course it's going to be bigger than the Falcon 1 launches. But yeah, it's no Shuttle.
I think that in ten years, the important question won't be who NASA is using, but who isn't NASA that is using SpaceX, OSC, etc., and if they are even taking off from a NASA launchpad.
Right, but this launch leads to a fuel-intensive test. So they really only want the optimal launch time to ensure the capsule has as much fuel as possible when on orbit in range of ISS.
and now that is almost half-owned by foreign companies.
One of the main goals of the COTS program is to use U.S. companies for LEO cargo and crew capability. Right now, we're completely dependent on Russia, EU, and Japan for crew and cargo launches to ISS.
And it's not about just privatizing a lot of space stuff. It's really more about (IMHO) pushing the "frontier" for NASA to be responsible for exploration out beyond LEO, and let LEO get commercialized.
I hope you're just trying to be funny and failing. The launch has to be exactly when it's set for ("instantaneous launch window") so that it can have the lowest-fuel path to the space station. If it reached orbit in the wrong place, it would have to use the capsule thrusters to catch up, but it needs all its fuel for all the planned maneuvers. And the opportunities only happen once every three days. This is because of the need to rendezvous with something already on orbit. It's not like the days of pre-ISS shuttle missions when they could (and did) pick just about any time they felt like to make people on the ground happy.
That being said, tomorrow is Saturday, so I'm just going to get to sleep early with the room light on and a TV too so that i can wake up at 3AM CDT so I don't miss the countdown. On the west coast, the launch is just before 2AM, so they can just stay up late.
Presumably they know what IP was being checked for DNS. All an ISP has to do is spoof that IP internally with a manual route to their own DNS server. That should save a few truck rolls.
Need I point out the most dangerous of all chemicals, Dihydrogen Monoxide? Especially with this year being the 100th anniversary of the Titanic incident, where a large number of the fatalities were actually due to DHMO poisioning, a fact that the One World Government has covered up?
If you really, really, want to make sure it will still be there paper is still the only medium that has the longevity track record.
Paper may have a decent track record for longevity, but not color inks. Even single-color handwriting fades with time, but color fades on the order of decades, and the different color components will fade at different rates.
More like 10-20. But the "lifetime" of an LED isn't a measurement of them failing completely, it's based on how long it takes the light output to decrease to a certain percentage of the original. LEDs continuously fade with use, but it's slow enough to take years. The only ones that I've seen fail outright are the ones in traffic signals, but those are exposed to the weather.
turns into a bunch of imaginary billing by people with fake degrees and no experience and no communication so it ends up costing more and barely working but when you fire them you discover that the code is a twisty piece of crap with WTFs everywhere and it would be easier to start over from scratch.
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It's not the disk space I'm complaining about. It's the key space. There are people out there obsessed with putting a feature on every control/command key combination, whether it's useful or not. "Oh look! There's a key that doesn't have a function bound to it! Quick, let's find something for it to do!" Seamonkey is still nowhere near as bad as, say, emacs.
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And Gordon Cooper is riding shotgun, too.
He doesn't use batteries, you insensitive clod! But be careful about running a vacuum cleaner near his grave or he'll start flipping over randomly. (If you're not old enough to know about clicker remotes and vacuum cleaners, GET OFF MY LAWN!)
Sounds like the title of a Three Stooges movie. Hmm, I wonder what new ways they could figure out to abuse each other in microgravity...
More: http://www.thespaceshop.com/spacex.html which means they did eventually get that stuff on their web site.
Also, the linked blog entry has a comment that says the Apollo Saturn V Center (also at KSC) has the merch.
You didn't google for "spacex merchandise"? http://spaceksc.blogspot.com/2012/04/spacex-swag.html (which is also a pretty good blog about KSC stuff, with lots of photos to give you a serious nerd boner) I suspect that JSC Houston probably has a visitor complex with merchandise too.
That's an interesting idea, but there is no need for it. Once a Soyuz is up, it doesn't cost any more to get down. Even the custom-fitted Soyuz seat is needed for the ride up. One of the rules on ISS is that every crew member has to have a seat on an escape vehicle, so the Soyuz that they rode up on stays docked. Even crew that was brought up on Shuttle and left behind on ISS had a Soyuz seat ready, because the shuttle took someone else back to free up that seat. And there's no other way up right now, so everybody has a Soyuz seat ready.
On the other hand, this will mean that we will now have a decent downmass capability. Soyuz had very limited downmass, and theoretically you could put cargo return capability on a Progress, but nobody did it, because it was cheaper to just let the "trash" burn up. Now they can afford to return stuff that wasn't worth returning before, allowing more reuse and analysis of what had to be classified as "trash" before.
In the end, the one thing the Shuttle could do that Crew Dragon or Falcon Heavy won't ever be able to do is return full-size modules. It will only be able to return what you can stuff through the hatch, but that's not too bad of a limitation.
he exponential-growth problem alone means terrible hardships if we cannot emigrate off of this planet.
I've got news for you. The population curve isn't exponential. It tapers off as society modernizes, when there is no advantage to producing a large number of children due to pre-adult mortality and child labor. Japan has already gone to negative population growth, and immigration is the only thing keeping the US growing. The problem is that the two most populous countries, China and India, haven't reached that point yet, though China did try to put on the brakes with a one-child policy.
I can't tell you what their plans are, but I can tell you that they are NOT launching from 39A/39B (the Shuttle pads). They are launching from pad 40 (I think) which is in the CC Air Force Station, somewhere to the south of 39A/39B. Gut feeling tells me that it's probably at the north end of the AFS, but I have no idea which pad that is because I didn't find a map of CCAFS pads.
And isn't this only the third Falcon 9 launch? Of course it's going to be bigger than the Falcon 1 launches. But yeah, it's no Shuttle.
I think that in ten years, the important question won't be who NASA is using, but who isn't NASA that is using SpaceX, OSC, etc., and if they are even taking off from a NASA launchpad.
Right, but this launch leads to a fuel-intensive test. So they really only want the optimal launch time to ensure the capsule has as much fuel as possible when on orbit in range of ISS.
and now that is almost half-owned by foreign companies.
One of the main goals of the COTS program is to use U.S. companies for LEO cargo and crew capability. Right now, we're completely dependent on Russia, EU, and Japan for crew and cargo launches to ISS.
And it's not about just privatizing a lot of space stuff. It's really more about (IMHO) pushing the "frontier" for NASA to be responsible for exploration out beyond LEO, and let LEO get commercialized.
I hope you're just trying to be funny and failing. The launch has to be exactly when it's set for ("instantaneous launch window") so that it can have the lowest-fuel path to the space station. If it reached orbit in the wrong place, it would have to use the capsule thrusters to catch up, but it needs all its fuel for all the planned maneuvers. And the opportunities only happen once every three days. This is because of the need to rendezvous with something already on orbit. It's not like the days of pre-ISS shuttle missions when they could (and did) pick just about any time they felt like to make people on the ground happy.
That being said, tomorrow is Saturday, so I'm just going to get to sleep early with the room light on and a TV too so that i can wake up at 3AM CDT so I don't miss the countdown. On the west coast, the launch is just before 2AM, so they can just stay up late.
Hint: They haven't been that HP since 1999.
Presumably they know what IP was being checked for DNS. All an ISP has to do is spoof that IP internally with a manual route to their own DNS server. That should save a few truck rolls.
Wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Maybe if they had come out with something more like an Arduino (or an ET-3400) than a radio?
Need I point out the most dangerous of all chemicals, Dihydrogen Monoxide? Especially with this year being the 100th anniversary of the Titanic incident, where a large number of the fatalities were actually due to DHMO poisioning, a fact that the One World Government has covered up?
Tools -> Add-ons Manager -> Java Plug-In -> Disable
Sure, that only disables it in the browser, but the interwebs is where this crap is coming from.
Now shut up and let me get back to Minecraft.
If you really, really, want to make sure it will still be there paper is still the only medium that has the longevity track record.
Paper may have a decent track record for longevity, but not color inks. Even single-color handwriting fades with time, but color fades on the order of decades, and the different color components will fade at different rates.
because they're composed of hundreds of LED's
More like 10-20. But the "lifetime" of an LED isn't a measurement of them failing completely, it's based on how long it takes the light output to decrease to a certain percentage of the original. LEDs continuously fade with use, but it's slow enough to take years. The only ones that I've seen fail outright are the ones in traffic signals, but those are exposed to the weather.
Yes, but living in the state of California causes cancer, right?
You heard it here, folks, Al Gore wants to be the next CEO of Yahoo.
turns into a bunch of imaginary billing by people with fake degrees and no experience and no communication so it ends up costing more and barely working but when you fire them you discover that the code is a twisty piece of crap with WTFs everywhere and it would be easier to start over from scratch.
I see you didn't bother to link to even one of them.
Good comment! I truly love how it is easy on my eyes and the data are well written. I’m wondering how I might be notified whenever a new post has been made. I’ve subscribed to your RSS feed which must do the trick! Have a great day! P.S. MicrosoftUggLiveBoots!
It's not the disk space I'm complaining about. It's the key space. There are people out there obsessed with putting a feature on every control/command key combination, whether it's useful or not. "Oh look! There's a key that doesn't have a function bound to it! Quick, let's find something for it to do!" Seamonkey is still nowhere near as bad as, say, emacs.