"...And even though, prospective investor, both national and international law is currently wildly ambiguous, we are fully prepared to use your money to challenge both the US government and the UN itself if necessary to... ahem... sir... I couldn't help but notice that you've stopped signing that cheque... hand cramp? Maybe? Little cramp in your hand?... Oh, are you gonna walk it off... okay, okay then... Will we just wait here then?... Yeah, we'll just wait here... I'm sure he'll be back soon... Sir?... Sir?.... Sir?"
Still, according to DSI experts, if 2012 DA14 contains 5% recoverable water, that alone -- in space as rocket fuel -- might be worth as much as $65 billion. If 10% of its mass It could mass which could range from as little as 16,000 tons or as much as one million tons -- is easily recovered iron, nickel and other metals, that could be worth -- in space as building material -- an additional $130 billion.
Which ignores that there is no market for raw metal "in space as a building material". And sadly, after 50 fucking years in space, there's still not even a market for propellant in space. The only current market might be to supply the ISS with water, (two tonnes per astronaut per year perhaps) but it's unlikely that they would trust asteroid-water unless they control the purification process.
So there's science value as the first sample return of its kind. There's maybe a few million per year for water for ISS. And you might be able to sell some of it as crude bulk shielding to a future project.
The outer space treaty says that nations can't "claim ownership" of space bodies and they can't use them for weapons testing. But AFAIK that doesn't prohibit commercial exploitation of an asteroid
But many (all?) launching nations have laws that any meteorites, space-craft, or space debris belongs to the government. Which would include any metals you return from space. And even if you drop them into international waters, and you don't get to them first, normal salvage rules probably apply. So you'll need a large landing/crashing area in a desert which you own mineral rights to, in a country that doesn't regulate the trade in meteorites.
A legal battle would arise if another company tried mining the same asteroid.
Legal? Damn you had me all excited there for a moment.
The length of the natural circadian rhythm varies between people. Most longer than 24hrs, some shorter. People generally adapt to 24hrs, some better than others.
There will be two groups who adapt best to the Martian Sol, those who have highly adaptable circadian rhythms, and those who have a natural cycle which is already 24hr40minutes long. For the latter group it will be like coming home.
Look at nearly any picture of the previous Pope in the last few years of his life and you're see the the man who became Benidict XVI in the same frame.
However, the surface is covered in cruft, baked in the sun, exposed to the atmosphere. Note the colour difference between the drill-hole and the rest of the surface.
By drilling down even a little, you are ensuring that you really are seeing raw bedrock. A pure sample, which you can compare with the surface of the same rock, subtract one from the other and be left with just the cruft. Now you can check whether you have been correctly... errr... correcting for cruft in your samples of rocks which are too far out of Curiosities path to reach with anything other than the laser-and-spectrograph.
You've just listed over 51% of the market that failed to buy Windows 7 and won't upgrade to Windows 8. People using XP failed to give Microsoft money for several years. And when you consider how much of the home PC market is really just consumption, those people will also stop buying new laptops and PCs and will be okay with their Apple/Android Tablets (in the same way that people stopped needing landlines when cellphones became ubiquitous. And even people with remaining landlines in their home probably haven't upgraded their actual plugged in phone for 10 years.)
However, if you're are locked in to that extent, you are likely also locked into a specific version of Windows, say XP or NT4, just as some commercial systems are still locked into IE 6. And that is not a way for Microsoft to get new sales, those sites are as locked out of Win8 as they are Apple or Linux.
Your solution is trapped by the previous pattern. You're trying to put a new fangled "engine" in your existing horse buggy. You need to go back to the original "problem" that the plasmas were used to solve. Management wants a pretty for their wall, one that makes them feel dynamic and modern. However, assuming you can't truly change the pattern, you can at least subvert it a little...
If the format of the display is fixed, commission a local artist-engineer to produce a moving mechanical display. Physical gauges and dials. Or oversized nixie tubes simulated with EL wire. Or a custom made animated neon sign. Or, since these corporate displays aren't used to actually monitor anything, something more abstract like a series of fountains (labelled if they insist) that represent the data currently displayed. Anything other than two big 5ms 1080P monitors showing a simplistic fixed format display updated once every 15 minutes.
I think the is the basic idea, which is why the whole idea won't work. Basically, they are sawing the motherboard in 2, where the CPU and memory are on the daugterboard, and the rest of the components (SATA,USB3, PCIe slots, sound, video outputs) are all that remain on the motherboard
Why would it work any less than a graphics card? Isn't that the same? GPU and memory on a daughterboard with a fast interface to the motherboard.
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Aye, but you call that living?
You're right, and not at all stupid to bring this up.
70% of US debt is owned by American investors and the SS trust fund. So you'd be "delivering" it to your own cities.
I haven't looked into Deep Space Industries all that much or what their business plan is,
Mostly they've come out with hype.
Mostly.
"...And even though, prospective investor, both national and international law is currently wildly ambiguous, we are fully prepared to use your money to challenge both the US government and the UN itself if necessary to... ahem... sir... I couldn't help but notice that you've stopped signing that cheque... hand cramp? Maybe? Little cramp in your hand?... Oh, are you gonna walk it off... okay, okay then... Will we just wait here then?... Yeah, we'll just wait here... I'm sure he'll be back soon... Sir?... Sir?.... Sir?"
FTFA:
Still, according to DSI experts, if 2012 DA14 contains 5% recoverable water, that alone -- in space as rocket fuel -- might be worth as much as $65 billion. If 10% of its mass It could mass which could range from as little as 16,000 tons or as much as one million tons -- is easily recovered iron, nickel and other metals, that could be worth -- in space as building material -- an additional $130 billion.
Which ignores that there is no market for raw metal "in space as a building material". And sadly, after 50 fucking years in space, there's still not even a market for propellant in space. The only current market might be to supply the ISS with water, (two tonnes per astronaut per year perhaps) but it's unlikely that they would trust asteroid-water unless they control the purification process.
So there's science value as the first sample return of its kind. There's maybe a few million per year for water for ISS. And you might be able to sell some of it as crude bulk shielding to a future project.
But one day... <sigh>
The outer space treaty says that nations can't "claim ownership" of space bodies and they can't use them for weapons testing. But AFAIK that doesn't prohibit commercial exploitation of an asteroid
But many (all?) launching nations have laws that any meteorites, space-craft, or space debris belongs to the government. Which would include any metals you return from space. And even if you drop them into international waters, and you don't get to them first, normal salvage rules probably apply. So you'll need a large landing/crashing area in a desert which you own mineral rights to, in a country that doesn't regulate the trade in meteorites.
A legal battle would arise if another company tried mining the same asteroid.
Legal? Damn you had me all excited there for a moment.
My circadian rhythm is about 25hrs long. So hardly an urban legend to me.
The length of the natural circadian rhythm varies between people. Most longer than 24hrs, some shorter. People generally adapt to 24hrs, some better than others.
There will be two groups who adapt best to the Martian Sol, those who have highly adaptable circadian rhythms, and those who have a natural cycle which is already 24hr40minutes long. For the latter group it will be like coming home.
I hear there are still 22 countries on Earth that have never been invaded by the British...
Or vice versa.
Look at nearly any picture of the previous Pope in the last few years of his life and you're see the the man who became Benidict XVI in the same frame.
That's sith for you.
...those who think "News For Nerds.Stuff That Matters" means:
(News For Nerds) AND (Stuff That Matters)
xor those who think it means:
(News For Nerds) OR (Stuff That Matters).
If god is all powerful, could he make a stone so heavy even he couldn't lift it.
Yes, moreover he can lift that stone, too.
Is there any company making actual carbonated fruit-juice?
(Ideally carbonated caffeinated fruit juice. But I'm just asking.)
However, the surface is covered in cruft, baked in the sun, exposed to the atmosphere. Note the colour difference between the drill-hole and the rest of the surface.
By drilling down even a little, you are ensuring that you really are seeing raw bedrock. A pure sample, which you can compare with the surface of the same rock, subtract one from the other and be left with just the cruft. Now you can check whether you have been correctly... errr... correcting for cruft in your samples of rocks which are too far out of Curiosities path to reach with anything other than the laser-and-spectrograph.
Oh don't worry, I got plenty slapped for that you/your in the title.
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You've just listed over 51% of the market that failed to buy Windows 7 and won't upgrade to Windows 8. People using XP failed to give Microsoft money for several years. And when you consider how much of the home PC market is really just consumption, those people will also stop buying new laptops and PCs and will be okay with their Apple/Android Tablets (in the same way that people stopped needing landlines when cellphones became ubiquitous. And even people with remaining landlines in their home probably haven't upgraded their actual plugged in phone for 10 years.)
However, if you're are locked in to that extent, you are likely also locked into a specific version of Windows, say XP or NT4, just as some commercial systems are still locked into IE 6. And that is not a way for Microsoft to get new sales, those sites are as locked out of Win8 as they are Apple or Linux.
Your solution is trapped by the previous pattern. You're trying to put a new fangled "engine" in your existing horse buggy. You need to go back to the original "problem" that the plasmas were used to solve. Management wants a pretty for their wall, one that makes them feel dynamic and modern. However, assuming you can't truly change the pattern, you can at least subvert it a little...
If the format of the display is fixed, commission a local artist-engineer to produce a moving mechanical display. Physical gauges and dials. Or oversized nixie tubes simulated with EL wire. Or a custom made animated neon sign. Or, since these corporate displays aren't used to actually monitor anything, something more abstract like a series of fountains (labelled if they insist) that represent the data currently displayed. Anything other than two big 5ms 1080P monitors showing a simplistic fixed format display updated once every 15 minutes.
Outside the ISS seems like the last place you'd want to practice refueling.
The simulated "fuel" is ethanol. So no one, particularly the Russians, are complaining.
I was actually trying to come up with a ReiserFS gag.
I think the is the basic idea, which is why the whole idea won't work. Basically, they are sawing the motherboard in 2, where the CPU and memory are on the daugterboard, and the rest of the components (SATA,USB3, PCIe slots, sound, video outputs) are all that remain on the motherboard
Why would it work any less than a graphics card? Isn't that the same? GPU and memory on a daughterboard with a fast interface to the motherboard.
"Reference" doesn't mean he has to tell the whole fucking story.
But, I do have a Raspberry Pi hooked up via RCA to a TV from the 1980s,
Quick, warn them about the faulty SRB on Challenger.