Before using the "Cry wolf" argument, please remember that in the original fable, eventually the wolf did come.
Maybe we'll take this next round of automation in stride, we'll adapt to the technology, and the economy will adjust. Maybe the cries of "Wolf!" will be just cries, again. But maybe not. To say that the cries of "Wolf!" will NEVER be valid is actually a bigger and harder to prove conjecture than that at some point the cry will be valid..
Whatever became of the whole helium-3 thing? Not that many years ago helium-3 was a common enough thought that it even made it into "Iron Sky". Haven't heard spit about it, lately.
The November date is really a soonest-possible date, I suspect. In early discussion after the incident, I saw it mentioned that Pad 40 will likely be out of commission for a year, and that the next option would be Pad 39A, which is supposed to be ready in November.
I suspect the hope is that by the time the pad is ready they will understand the failure and have taken remedial action. I doubt they'd be permitted to launch anything without some sort of root cause and remedy.
Ironically, Bigelow may now be the party with the most demonstration applicable to the contract, with three test articles on-orbit. (BEAM plus I believe they've separately orbited two others.)
They're only permitting the naughty-bits of human bodies in settings "generally recognized as art." It's just so much more dangerous to society to see the image of a female nipple or other male/female naughty-bits than it is to see live-streamed images of graphic violence. (Notwithstanding the fact that we all have those same bits ourselves, simply covered by clothing.)
I'm not advocating anything-goes - I'm not sure what I'm advocating. But I know something is out of balance, here.
I haven't seen anyone who publishes acting as Hillary's lap dog, lately. Perhaps government functionaries seem to be acting that way, but certainly not anyone who puts anything in the press or online. The only good things I've seen printed about her character have been niche liberal postings, but certainly nothing in mainstream press and nothing in the more visible online.
Gee, you've completely missed Russia and China. Of course both of those nations would probably applaud such a move on the part of the US, because it makes pursuing their desires easier.
It's time to remember the classification of encryption as a weapon, and invoke our second amendment rights, "If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption."
My impression is that satellites have been using this as part of their attitude control for quite some time. More specifically, they have gyros that they use to change the attitude. Periodically the gyro gets near the limits of what they can do. When that happens, they reset the gyros back to a neutral setting, and offset that with a matching torque against the Earth's magnetic field so the attitude remains constant.
The gyros can move the satellite faster and more easily than the magnetic torquing system, so that's what's used for normal attitude control.
My wife and I recently went to England with friends, and one of our stops was at the London Science Museum to see the Babbage Difference Engine #2. (with built-in printer) I wasn't aware that there were enough drawings generated to even attempt the Analytical Engine.
Of course now when you got the the movie theater, you get to see commercials too, and it's not just those movie commercials normally called trailers. We see car, jewelry, and bank commercials, too.
>At least some of those people already had a history of mental health issues.
And the surprising thing is that it seems we can't keep guns out of their hands, either. I don't think anyone would stand up and argue for the rights of the mentally ill to carry firearms, but that has been the side effect of what we have actually practised.
Prior to the development of the sanitary napkin, most women between the ages of approximately thirteen and somewhere in their fifties had to at least partially withdraw from society on a monthly basis. Now the participation limits on women are societal norms and part of pregnancy / infancy. I suspect the societal norms are the more restrictive of the two.
I was in college at CWRU when Viking was launched, and still there when it landed. After launch and during transit, the engineering teams are pretty much on hiatus, so some go on the talk circuit. I went to see one of the Viking engineers came to the Wade Museum at the CWRU campus to give a talk on the design and engineering of the lander.
Later, after Viking had had its first peeks at Mars, Carl Sagan went on tour with the findings. I went and saw the presentation on campus at the Amasa Stone Chapel.
More recently, after Spirit and Opportunity had given their first batch of results, one of the scientists was touring a book (at least partly a picture book) of the results, and came to the UVM campus. Saw that, too.
The next step is to realize that we should be sending a robotic mission with this stuff a few years earlier. That way whenever the first people get there, they'll find a cleared landing field and radio guidance towers, as well as a place to stay after they debark.
Of course the fly in the ointment is that you send robots and have them spend a few years building your base. Then someone else comes in before you and claims "rights of salvage" over all of that "abandoned property" they just found.
...and one key fob for the door locks of one car, and another fob+key for the other car. The fob+key is a real pain, because the key on the end makes it big and awkward on the ring.
I'm generally in favor of free market capitalism, but sometimes I'm not sure that's what I'm seeing right now. I also think that problems arise when revenue and profit become the number one goal, especially at the expense of the products and services that are supposedly being sold for that revenue and profit.
I've heard this point before, with the obvious comparison of Shuttle wings. The counter is that wings are absolutely dead weight on liftoff, plus you've added an entirely new structural mode to the airframe. It has to have the correct structural strength for both vertical ascent and horizontal landing. Both wings and bimodal structure add weight.
Landing the F9 on it's tail, it's practically empty, a fraction of it's initial weight. I'd be interested in seeing the math between F9 and Shuttle, but I suspect SpaceX has done their homework on this.
Of course the science fiction idea of landing anything that can then take off is just that - science fiction. The LEM did it, but then again, only half of the LEM - the bottom was left behind.
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Before using the "Cry wolf" argument, please remember that in the original fable, eventually the wolf did come.
Maybe we'll take this next round of automation in stride, we'll adapt to the technology, and the economy will adjust. Maybe the cries of "Wolf!" will be just cries, again. But maybe not. To say that the cries of "Wolf!" will NEVER be valid is actually a bigger and harder to prove conjecture than that at some point the cry will be valid..
Whatever became of the whole helium-3 thing? Not that many years ago helium-3 was a common enough thought that it even made it into "Iron Sky". Haven't heard spit about it, lately.
Even if it's real, even if it's not a honey-pot, anyone want to bet that everybody's metadata collection systems aren't watching for bids?
Thanks, though I did quickly get to that information once I decided to look.
Looking at google images, The Apollo 5 looks basically like a Saturn Ib launcher. Was it ever used for anything other than Apollo 5 and Apollo 7?
The November date is really a soonest-possible date, I suspect. In early discussion after the incident, I saw it mentioned that Pad 40 will likely be out of commission for a year, and that the next option would be Pad 39A, which is supposed to be ready in November.
I suspect the hope is that by the time the pad is ready they will understand the failure and have taken remedial action. I doubt they'd be permitted to launch anything without some sort of root cause and remedy.
Story by David Brin, using Shuttle external tanks. Whaddya know, the whole story is on the web: http://www.davidbrin.com/tankf...
Ironically, Bigelow may now be the party with the most demonstration applicable to the contract, with three test articles on-orbit. (BEAM plus I believe they've separately orbited two others.)
The SS United States figured prominently in one of his Dirk Pitt (Yes, somehow I spent some time reading several of them.) books.
They're only permitting the naughty-bits of human bodies in settings "generally recognized as art." It's just so much more dangerous to society to see the image of a female nipple or other male/female naughty-bits than it is to see live-streamed images of graphic violence. (Notwithstanding the fact that we all have those same bits ourselves, simply covered by clothing.)
I'm not advocating anything-goes - I'm not sure what I'm advocating. But I know something is out of balance, here.
I haven't seen anyone who publishes acting as Hillary's lap dog, lately. Perhaps government functionaries seem to be acting that way, but certainly not anyone who puts anything in the press or online. The only good things I've seen printed about her character have been niche liberal postings, but certainly nothing in mainstream press and nothing in the more visible online.
Gee, you've completely missed Russia and China. Of course both of those nations would probably applaud such a move on the part of the US, because it makes pursuing their desires easier.
It's time to remember the classification of encryption as a weapon, and invoke our second amendment rights, "If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption."
My impression is that satellites have been using this as part of their attitude control for quite some time. More specifically, they have gyros that they use to change the attitude. Periodically the gyro gets near the limits of what they can do. When that happens, they reset the gyros back to a neutral setting, and offset that with a matching torque against the Earth's magnetic field so the attitude remains constant.
The gyros can move the satellite faster and more easily than the magnetic torquing system, so that's what's used for normal attitude control.
My wife and I recently went to England with friends, and one of our stops was at the London Science Museum to see the Babbage Difference Engine #2. (with built-in printer) I wasn't aware that there were enough drawings generated to even attempt the Analytical Engine.
Of course now when you got the the movie theater, you get to see commercials too, and it's not just those movie commercials normally called trailers. We see car, jewelry, and bank commercials, too.
Oh joy, really draws me to the theater.
>At least some of those people already had a history of mental health issues.
And the surprising thing is that it seems we can't keep guns out of their hands, either. I don't think anyone would stand up and argue for the rights of the mentally ill to carry firearms, but that has been the side effect of what we have actually practised.
Prior to the development of the sanitary napkin, most women between the ages of approximately thirteen and somewhere in their fifties had to at least partially withdraw from society on a monthly basis. Now the participation limits on women are societal norms and part of pregnancy / infancy. I suspect the societal norms are the more restrictive of the two.
"going to" ???
That boat has already sailed, some time in the past year.
I was in college at CWRU when Viking was launched, and still there when it landed. After launch and during transit, the engineering teams are pretty much on hiatus, so some go on the talk circuit. I went to see one of the Viking engineers came to the Wade Museum at the CWRU campus to give a talk on the design and engineering of the lander.
Later, after Viking had had its first peeks at Mars, Carl Sagan went on tour with the findings. I went and saw the presentation on campus at the Amasa Stone Chapel.
More recently, after Spirit and Opportunity had given their first batch of results, one of the scientists was touring a book (at least partly a picture book) of the results, and came to the UVM campus. Saw that, too.
They're already out there, but the Magratheans aren't selling them.
The next step is to realize that we should be sending a robotic mission with this stuff a few years earlier. That way whenever the first people get there, they'll find a cleared landing field and radio guidance towers, as well as a place to stay after they debark.
Of course the fly in the ointment is that you send robots and have them spend a few years building your base. Then someone else comes in before you and claims "rights of salvage" over all of that "abandoned property" they just found.
...and one key fob for the door locks of one car, and another fob+key for the other car. The fob+key is a real pain, because the key on the end makes it big and awkward on the ring.
I'm generally in favor of free market capitalism, but sometimes I'm not sure that's what I'm seeing right now. I also think that problems arise when revenue and profit become the number one goal, especially at the expense of the products and services that are supposedly being sold for that revenue and profit.
Really, at the moment I have voice-only on a smartphone, through a third-party provider. I use wifi for data, but would welcome FM for such purposes.
I've heard this point before, with the obvious comparison of Shuttle wings. The counter is that wings are absolutely dead weight on liftoff, plus you've added an entirely new structural mode to the airframe. It has to have the correct structural strength for both vertical ascent and horizontal landing. Both wings and bimodal structure add weight.
Landing the F9 on it's tail, it's practically empty, a fraction of it's initial weight. I'd be interested in seeing the math between F9 and Shuttle, but I suspect SpaceX has done their homework on this.
Of course the science fiction idea of landing anything that can then take off is just that - science fiction. The LEM did it, but then again, only half of the LEM - the bottom was left behind.