This MIT class on the shuttle is very interesting. It appears that if done today the shuttle would have been able to perform much closer to its promises because they could have put diagnostics into the engines and saved themselves from having to take them out after every launch.
I would bet money that the Tesla Roadster has better handling, better acceleration, and is more fun to drive than your car. Oh and it's a full electric that can go 245 miles on a single charge.
Don't forget discharge rates, it's great if it can store a bunch of energy but if it can't discharge it fast enough to propel the airplane it's useless.
Oh come on not all cops are douches. What would you do if a cop came up to you and asked "hey can I talk to you for a second, we're looking for an old guy about this tall, white. Can you help me out at all?" Would you say "No I don't have to talk to you" as soon as he/she approached you or would you try to help?
Not sure how true it is but today I was talking about school with some friends (we'll be high school seniors in the fall) and one told me that all of RPI's hockey players are business majors.
Who needs a hybrid when Tesla can make a car with a range of 300 miles? Yeah I know that model is like 80k but their design philosophy is to start at the high end where $100k (Roadster) isn't ridiculous and then work down.
I was reading an article today about it, 5.2 million passengers per day which is double the total number of airline travelers and they manage to keep it safe an efficient. They use a system of bomb sniffing dogs, live cameras, armed personnel (everywhere, on the trains, in the terminal, and above ground), and they train their guys to be on the lookout for odd behavior and they have random bag searches. I think there are something like 600+ terminals and they are all safe, why can't the TSA learn from NYPD?
That's why SpaceX is still a private company. Elon Musk can do whatever the fuck he wants when he doesn't have shareholders breathing down his neck, and from the sound of it he truly believes in his companies mission
Isn't learning what it takes to build human habitats on other worlds valuable? Just the act of sending humans to Mars would teach us a lot about living in space, sure we won't really learn much about Mars but if we want to live on the planet someday we have to learn about putting humans in space. I don't think it's what NASA's main mission should be right now but putting humans in space is a science that's worth learning.
Just a thought, maybe the really smart people designing the escape rockets that will also serve as propulsive landing rockets have actually thought about the thrust requirements and are gonna maybe try to meet them.
The reason they exceeded expectation was because the expectation was low-balled, it was basically when enough dirt would accumulate to prevent the rover from functioning, turns out there's enough wind to blow the dirt off.
Isn't Social Security supposed to run a surplus until like 2040?
The biggest problem I see with Social Security is the mindset that it's a personal retirement fund, not that it's an investment by the younger generation in the well being of the elder generation. When looked at from that perspective it doesn't make sense that no money after 100k/yr has the Social Security tax.
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He couldn't hear it because he's on a spacewalk. Duh!
When I saw the headline I immediately thought it had to do with the Falcon line of SpaceX rockets.
You mean something like big dog?
This MIT class on the shuttle is very interesting. It appears that if done today the shuttle would have been able to perform much closer to its promises because they could have put diagnostics into the engines and saved themselves from having to take them out after every launch.
I would bet money that the Tesla Roadster has better handling, better acceleration, and is more fun to drive than your car. Oh and it's a full electric that can go 245 miles on a single charge.
Dept. of Homeland Security. I know it's only like 50 billion but you wanted something that could be cut.
Don't forget discharge rates, it's great if it can store a bunch of energy but if it can't discharge it fast enough to propel the airplane it's useless.
The second one, as a understand it a state like Delaware won't make the texbook printed make a custom run.
It's a shame so many Southern states are at the beginning of the alphabet haha.
SpaceX has said publicly that it will hold to it's published prices, if there are cost overruns they eat the cost.
No no no you need to use a script to select at random a distro to use.
Oh come on not all cops are douches. What would you do if a cop came up to you and asked "hey can I talk to you for a second, we're looking for an old guy about this tall, white. Can you help me out at all?" Would you say "No I don't have to talk to you" as soon as he/she approached you or would you try to help?
Not sure how true it is but today I was talking about school with some friends (we'll be high school seniors in the fall) and one told me that all of RPI's hockey players are business majors.
Who needs a hybrid when Tesla can make a car with a range of 300 miles? Yeah I know that model is like 80k but their design philosophy is to start at the high end where $100k (Roadster) isn't ridiculous and then work down.
I was reading an article today about it, 5.2 million passengers per day which is double the total number of airline travelers and they manage to keep it safe an efficient. They use a system of bomb sniffing dogs, live cameras, armed personnel (everywhere, on the trains, in the terminal, and above ground), and they train their guys to be on the lookout for odd behavior and they have random bag searches. I think there are something like 600+ terminals and they are all safe, why can't the TSA learn from NYPD?
That's why SpaceX is still a private company. Elon Musk can do whatever the fuck he wants when he doesn't have shareholders breathing down his neck, and from the sound of it he truly believes in his companies mission
Isn't learning what it takes to build human habitats on other worlds valuable? Just the act of sending humans to Mars would teach us a lot about living in space, sure we won't really learn much about Mars but if we want to live on the planet someday we have to learn about putting humans in space. I don't think it's what NASA's main mission should be right now but putting humans in space is a science that's worth learning.
They would need to emulate a tri core dual threaded PPC CPU on an x86 machine.....
Just a thought, maybe the really smart people designing the escape rockets that will also serve as propulsive landing rockets have actually thought about the thrust requirements and are gonna maybe try to meet them.
[SpaceX vs Constellation] You are presuming they are pursuing the same goal.
Putting humans on Mars?
SpaceX-Make getting into space profitable through lower costs
Constellation-Line the pockets of Congressmen and women who's districts might be able to make a part for it.
The reason they exceeded expectation was because the expectation was low-balled, it was basically when enough dirt would accumulate to prevent the rover from functioning, turns out there's enough wind to blow the dirt off.
Isn't Social Security supposed to run a surplus until like 2040?
The biggest problem I see with Social Security is the mindset that it's a personal retirement fund, not that it's an investment by the younger generation in the well being of the elder generation. When looked at from that perspective it doesn't make sense that no money after 100k/yr has the Social Security tax.
Just throw it north of the Arctic Circle in summer;)
Anecdotes != Data That sucks but the failure rate you've suffered isn't typical (I don't think so anyway).
Only if they make money on those units. I think they run a profit on each one now but I'm not sure. The real money in consoles is licenses for games.