We are very simple people. With very small rocket. We cannot achieve much with so small rocket. But you! Americans. Wow! Rocket so big! SOOO big rocket!
Legos have always been expensive, but a lot of people don't realize that there are plenty of used legos for sale. Ebay and yard sales are often full of them. A great deal of the time, the instructions are included or are available elsewhere.
I went in the other day to get an iPhone and change my plan that I've had for several years and they were surly as hell.
The guy who was waiting on me kept just walking away for a couple minutes at a time and wouldn't answer anything straight.
He wouldn't say when they were getting another shipment other than to say they could put me on a waiting list if I paid in full today and then it would be one to two weeks.
He never really looked me in the eyes and kept mumbling when I would talk to him.
Most questions were answered with "I don't know" and then when it came down to it, I had to dial 611 to change over my service because I was an old customer.
I still want to get an iPhone because it really is the perfect device for me and my mac based household, but I wish I had an Apple Store near me where I could have at least gotten decent customer service.
This is the problem I see: (from the March of Dimes website)
"Does the risk of Down syndrome increase with the mother's age?
Yes. The risk of Down syndrome increases from about 1 in 1,250 at age 25, to 1 in 1,000 at age 30, 1 in 400 at age 35, 1 in 100 at age 40 and 1 in 30 at age 45. Women over age 35 have been traditionally considered most likely to have a baby with Down syndrome. However, about 80 percent of babies with Down syndrome are born to women who are under age 35, as younger women have far more babies"
I think the competitive nature of scientific research and the risks involved in being an active experimental researcher in many fields force a lot of women to choose between having children (later or at all) and completing a PhD or postdoc in their field.
A number of women I know have taken a year off between undergrad and graduate school to have children or specifically have chosen a research lab in which they can be pregnant and still do research or have someone else (an undergrad researcher) perform the experiments for them when they are trying to conceive or are pregnant.
Poster's assessment on the other scientific fields is likely to be equally worthless.
Well, my specific experience is in chemistry. There ARE quite a few disciplines in chemistry where the points mpoulton raises are valid, and that's what I'm talking about. Just about any synthetic work involves exposure to teratogens. Ethidium bromide used in running agarose gels is a teratogen, as are most radiolabeling agents. Dioxins are teratogens, as are a whole lot of other things. Also, as a guy, if something messes up my gametes (sperm), my body will create new ones, but if a woman's gametes (ova) are harmed, that's permanent.
From the DIRECT Summary V 2.0.2.pdf file on the Jupiter site:
"This "DIRECT" Shuttle-derived launcher exceeds all VSE payload and safety requirements for Crew and Cargo missions to the International Space Station (ISS). It is capable of supporting all of the far larger VSE missions to the Moon, Mars, and Beyond. Compared to Ares, it significantly reduces development costs, schedule and risks, cuts the human spaceflight gap after the Shuttle retires in 2010 from 5 to 2 years, and retains the NASA and contractor workforce.
DIRECT achieves this by minimizing new technology requirements. The Jupiter re-uses the unchanged human-rated Space Shuttle 4-segment Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB), the USAF Delta-IV RS-68 main engines, and converts the current Space Shuttle External Tank (ET) into a Core Stage atop which flies the new Orion spacecraft. In contrast, Ares-I requires development of new 5-segment SRBâ(TM)s, new J-2X engines, new Upper Stage and all-new manufacturing and launch facilities."
You should check the designs before you criticize them. Ares I uses an extended solid rocket booster (upgraded from the Shuttle) and a J-2X engine (upgraded from the Saturn V second and third stages). Ares V uses extended SRBs and RS-68 engines (from the Delta IV).
Yeah, the Jupiter.pdf I read made it seem like a lot more stuff was being redesigned from the ground up and that the predominant advantage to the Jupiter craft was that it reused more already certified and proven technology.
As for Scaled Composites Tier 1b, it is a sub-orbital vehicle (good for nothing but tourists and hype). IIRC Tier 2 may be an orbital vehicle, but that is a long way off as well, since Scaled is working on Tier 1b (Ares is much further along in development).
Yeah, the more I learn about Scaled Composites, the less interesting they seem. Heavy on marketing, but light on actual new or innovative ideas.
Meanwhile, who does have the capabilities to put people into space right now? The Russians, on well-engineered, cheap-to-produce ballistic missile-style vehicles. And while NASA flounders around redesigning 30 year old shuttle derived technology, and watching their launch date slip out for years, if not decades, we will be dependent on the venerable Soyuz keep Americans in space.
That's one thing that has puzzled me. Why not use soyuz capsules to ferry people to and from orbit where they can meet up with a semipermanent vehicle which remains in orbit and is resupplied by cargo launch vehicles?
Supplying durable commodity goods to orbit, moving around while in orbit, ferrying humans to orbit, and returning them from orbit seem as though they would have vastly different needs as far as vehicles are concerned. Combining the crew to orbit and reentry vehicles makes sense because for every person sent to space, you hope to have one person return, but an orbiter vehicle parked in orbit in some sort of protective garage would seem to reduce the need to lift that heavy object every time and supplies are more expendable and often more durable than people.
Guys can have a child while doing research, but it is much more difficult for women. Pregnancy can mean that you have to stop doing certain types of research or it may just interfere with your ability to be competitive in your field. Putting off childbearing until after getting a PhD and postdoc will put most women firmly into their thirties when they have children, at which time birth defects and complications become more prevalent.
Some professors don't like women in their labs for this very reason. By the time a woman has completed her research, if she has had a child in that time frame, someone else may have already published it.
Science is competitive, and women are often at a disadvantage.
Can anyone explain why so little technology is recycled from current and previous generation spacecraft in designing the new generation craft.
It makes sense to use as much shuttle technology and durable facilities in constructing the next heavy lifting vehicle as the Jupiter people are proposing, so why wasn't that a goal from the start? The proven technology is well tested, and is well known by the folks who work on it, so why is there such a desire to change it?
Also, why are the scaled composites tier 1b and tier 2 vehicles not being considered for delivering crew to orbit, to the ISS, or to a separately launched craft for lunar expeditions?
Too bad they're all fakes picked up from the driveway outside a soundstage in southern california. All those so called "scientists" and "NASA" will look so silly once people actually make it to the moon and find that it really is made of cheese. Demand for the gourmet "moon cheese" will cause overmining of the moon and an eventual orbital shift sometime in 2012 which will cause all female mammals on earth to have a massively synchronized ovulatory cycle which will end with the death of all the males.
Other articles I've seen indicate that a fully positive diagnosis isn't really possible without a brain biopsy (typically performed after the patient has died).
This is true. Without a brain biopsy, diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease is not conclusive. Other neurodegenerative diseases can have similar symptoms to A.D., but A.D. is by FAR the most common in the elderly. So yeah, a diagnosis based on outward symptoms is inconclusive, but is generally correct.
I don't know what you studied in college, but for my chemistry degree, I had only a few books that were less than $100. Expensive books were the norm. In my last semester I bought 4 books which altogether cost a little over $600 new.
if possible compare it to CUDA since I know what that does.
You see, it's like a car... It takes instructions and makes something of it... like how a car takes steering and brakes and get you from point A to point B.
I would like to inquire exactly how you get these type of grants. I'm all ears. I'm a computer science major in college right now.
Do something where you use that kind of money to do meaningful research. This past year for example I was working on a small molecule X-ray setup which cost over $500k just in equipment.
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We are very simple people. With very small rocket. We cannot achieve much with so small rocket. But you! Americans. Wow! Rocket so big! SOOO big rocket!
Legos have always been expensive, but a lot of people don't realize that there are plenty of used legos for sale. Ebay and yard sales are often full of them. A great deal of the time, the instructions are included or are available elsewhere.
I went in the other day to get an iPhone and change my plan that I've had for several years and they were surly as hell.
The guy who was waiting on me kept just walking away for a couple minutes at a time and wouldn't answer anything straight.
He wouldn't say when they were getting another shipment other than to say they could put me on a waiting list if I paid in full today and then it would be one to two weeks.
He never really looked me in the eyes and kept mumbling when I would talk to him.
Most questions were answered with "I don't know" and then when it came down to it, I had to dial 611 to change over my service because I was an old customer.
I still want to get an iPhone because it really is the perfect device for me and my mac based household, but I wish I had an Apple Store near me where I could have at least gotten decent customer service.
And my comment was moderated...
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I guess the thought with the ISP's nowadays is that "everybody else is doing it, why can't we?"
Oui.
This is a thread about urination puns. Are you high on drugs or something?
Come on, America. Your nation needs you.
I've had enough of this crap, I'm going to go get pissed and play with my Wii.
This is the problem I see:
(from the March of Dimes website)
"Does the risk of Down syndrome increase with the mother's age?
Yes. The risk of Down syndrome increases from about 1 in 1,250 at age 25, to 1 in 1,000 at age 30, 1 in 400 at age 35, 1 in 100 at age 40 and 1 in 30 at age 45. Women over age 35 have been traditionally considered most likely to have a baby with Down syndrome. However, about 80 percent of babies with Down syndrome are born to women who are under age 35, as younger women have far more babies"
I think the competitive nature of scientific research and the risks involved in being an active experimental researcher in many fields force a lot of women to choose between having children (later or at all) and completing a PhD or postdoc in their field.
A number of women I know have taken a year off between undergrad and graduate school to have children or specifically have chosen a research lab in which they can be pregnant and still do research or have someone else (an undergrad researcher) perform the experiments for them when they are trying to conceive or are pregnant.
Poster's assessment on the other scientific fields is likely to be equally worthless.
Well, my specific experience is in chemistry. There ARE quite a few disciplines in chemistry where the points mpoulton raises are valid, and that's what I'm talking about. Just about any synthetic work involves exposure to teratogens. Ethidium bromide used in running agarose gels is a teratogen, as are most radiolabeling agents. Dioxins are teratogens, as are a whole lot of other things. Also, as a guy, if something messes up my gametes (sperm), my body will create new ones, but if a woman's gametes (ova) are harmed, that's permanent.
From the DIRECT Summary V 2.0.2 .pdf file on the Jupiter site:
"This "DIRECT" Shuttle-derived launcher exceeds all VSE payload and safety requirements for Crew and Cargo missions to the International Space Station (ISS). It is capable of supporting all of the far larger VSE missions to the Moon, Mars, and Beyond. Compared to Ares, it significantly reduces development costs, schedule and risks, cuts the human spaceflight gap after the Shuttle retires in 2010 from 5 to 2 years, and retains the NASA and contractor workforce.
DIRECT achieves this by minimizing new technology requirements. The Jupiter re-uses the unchanged human-rated Space Shuttle 4-segment Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB), the USAF Delta-IV RS-68 main engines, and converts the current Space Shuttle External Tank (ET) into a Core Stage atop which flies the new Orion spacecraft. In contrast, Ares-I requires development of new 5-segment SRBâ(TM)s, new J-2X engines, new Upper Stage and all-new manufacturing and launch facilities."
You should check the designs before you criticize them. Ares I uses an extended solid rocket booster (upgraded from the Shuttle) and a J-2X engine (upgraded from the Saturn V second and third stages). Ares V uses extended SRBs and RS-68 engines (from the Delta IV).
Yeah, the Jupiter .pdf I read made it seem like a lot more stuff was being redesigned from the ground up and that the predominant advantage to the Jupiter craft was that it reused more already certified and proven technology.
As for Scaled Composites Tier 1b, it is a sub-orbital vehicle (good for nothing but tourists and hype). IIRC Tier 2 may be an orbital vehicle, but that is a long way off as well, since Scaled is working on Tier 1b (Ares is much further along in development).
Yeah, the more I learn about Scaled Composites, the less interesting they seem. Heavy on marketing, but light on actual new or innovative ideas.
Meanwhile, who does have the capabilities to put people into space right now? The Russians, on well-engineered, cheap-to-produce ballistic missile-style vehicles. And while NASA flounders around redesigning 30 year old shuttle derived technology, and watching their launch date slip out for years, if not decades, we will be dependent on the venerable Soyuz keep Americans in space.
That's one thing that has puzzled me. Why not use soyuz capsules to ferry people to and from orbit where they can meet up with a semipermanent vehicle which remains in orbit and is resupplied by cargo launch vehicles?
Supplying durable commodity goods to orbit, moving around while in orbit, ferrying humans to orbit, and returning them from orbit seem as though they would have vastly different needs as far as vehicles are concerned. Combining the crew to orbit and reentry vehicles makes sense because for every person sent to space, you hope to have one person return, but an orbiter vehicle parked in orbit in some sort of protective garage would seem to reduce the need to lift that heavy object every time and supplies are more expendable and often more durable than people.
Guys can have a child while doing research, but it is much more difficult for women. Pregnancy can mean that you have to stop doing certain types of research or it may just interfere with your ability to be competitive in your field. Putting off childbearing until after getting a PhD and postdoc will put most women firmly into their thirties when they have children, at which time birth defects and complications become more prevalent.
Some professors don't like women in their labs for this very reason. By the time a woman has completed her research, if she has had a child in that time frame, someone else may have already published it.
Science is competitive, and women are often at a disadvantage.
Can anyone explain why so little technology is recycled from current and previous generation spacecraft in designing the new generation craft.
It makes sense to use as much shuttle technology and durable facilities in constructing the next heavy lifting vehicle as the Jupiter people are proposing, so why wasn't that a goal from the start? The proven technology is well tested, and is well known by the folks who work on it, so why is there such a desire to change it?
Also, why are the scaled composites tier 1b and tier 2 vehicles not being considered for delivering crew to orbit, to the ISS, or to a separately launched craft for lunar expeditions?
At least I know I'm safe because I run... Oh, crap.
Seeing that you post on Slashdot, I highly doubt that you run.
Or that you get laid on a regular basis, for that matter.
Oh well, my karma's been maxed out for years now.
Too bad they're all fakes picked up from the driveway outside a soundstage in southern california. All those so called "scientists" and "NASA" will look so silly once people actually make it to the moon and find that it really is made of cheese. Demand for the gourmet "moon cheese" will cause overmining of the moon and an eventual orbital shift sometime in 2012 which will cause all female mammals on earth to have a massively synchronized ovulatory cycle which will end with the death of all the males.
Other articles I've seen indicate that a fully positive diagnosis isn't really possible without a brain biopsy (typically performed after the patient has died).
This is true. Without a brain biopsy, diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease is not conclusive. Other neurodegenerative diseases can have similar symptoms to A.D., but A.D. is by FAR the most common in the elderly. So yeah, a diagnosis based on outward symptoms is inconclusive, but is generally correct.
I don't know what you studied in college, but for my chemistry degree, I had only a few books that were less than $100. Expensive books were the norm. In my last semester I bought 4 books which altogether cost a little over $600 new.
Yeah, and nowadays Unicomp is manufacturing them.
They even have some that are much quieter, but still with the good feel.
if possible compare it to CUDA since I know what that does.
You see, it's like a car... It takes instructions and makes something of it... like how a car takes steering and brakes and get you from point A to point B.
So, it's like a Hemi 'cuda?
Those things are pretty expensive nowadays.
http://dealinworf.ytmnd.com/
I would like to inquire exactly how you get these type of grants. I'm all ears. I'm a computer science major in college right now.
Do something where you use that kind of money to do meaningful research. This past year for example I was working on a small molecule X-ray setup which cost over $500k just in equipment.Also, writing grant proposals helps.