Well, I guess it's as illegal for a librarian to take a bathroom break as it is for you to walk away from your TV during the commercials, or skip past them with a DVR or VCR!
Soyuz missions are launched by a derivative of the R-7 ICBM that is usually just also called "Soyuz". NASA spacecraft use Atlas or Delta IV rockets. This one is using an Atlas V.
Thanks. I didn't know my great-uncle that well but he was one of the few members of my extended family that I did have contact with, so it was still tough, especially since my grandmother died just a month before (and one of her friends just did... comes in threes, indeed).
Anyway, I got an answer back from the NASA engineer I got this from (they're handy to know!)
He unfortunately does not have a reference to cite, so he can't pin down specifically where it was from, but he did state that the information was from the late 1970s -- about the right time. Perhaps it was such a fleeting idea that it never got talked about much...
Not really. Enterprise doesn't have a real tile system, never had real engines, and so on. Some parts were removed by the CAIB for their investigation.
Enterprise, after being displayed at the 1984 Paris Air Show, and other places, and being used for miscellaneous tests, was put into storage in Washington, D.C.
Only recently was room available to place it on public display, and that only because a new building was built to house it and other items.
That doesn't mean that people consider it OK to use this as an excuse to swear every other word. I sure don't; I think it's ridiculous. While I don't agree that any words should be banned by the government (if you think the government should get involved in such things, you need to rethink it all over), I don't approve of the current mentality that swearing like a sailor is OK... especially not in polite company, or in online discussions. (I try to be polite, clear, and write as if I'm writing something for general public consumption... which I actually am).
I just don't think it reflects all that well on society, the overall 'believability' of what is being said, the attitude of the speaker, and how we perceive each other.
And thank you for the link. I'm enjoying reading it.
There is a sound suppression system built into the launch pad which is designed to prevent the infrastructure from being damaged from the sound waves generated beginning six seconds before liftoff when the orbiter's main engines ignite and run up to full thrust.
Watch launch footage carefully and you will be able to see that the clouds mentioned begin to appear at that point. While some of them are deflected exhaust from the aluminum perchlorate fuel used for the solid rocket boosters, most of the big clouds are actually water steam.
This can be confirmed by looking at footage of liquid-fuelled rocket launches. Liquid fuel doesn't produce those big visible trails the way solid fuel does -- the clouds are visible only at first and the rocket itself has no trail as long as it has no solid boosters. (The shuttle does indeed lose its trail after SRB separation, as do Deltas and Titans and others).
Hydrazine is only used in the Orbital Maneuvering System and Reaction Control System thrusters which are used only in space, so the impact of those is reduced. (The RCS can, however, activate lower than normal if the orbiter's aerodynamic control surfaces prove insufficient to control the vehicle, as was the case at the end of STS-107. This is controlled by the vehicle's computers, which automatically activate any systems needed to keep on course.)
A total of five space-ready orbiters were built. The missing two are:
OV-102 Columbia OV-099 Challenger
(I leave it to a fellow geek to tell me why Challenger's number looks wrong).
OV-101 was Enterprise which was built for approach and landing tests only. A conversion to space-readiness was considered, but in the end was never done.
You are correct. If we do not lower/eliminate use of fossil fuels by choice (which seems to be what is happening despite many, many people trying to raise the alarm, people who are more-qualified to talk about these things than the people who are making policies) we will be forced to stop using them when they are gone.
This will then reduce the carrying capacity of the land, at least until alternatives are found that can bring it back up, and who will look bad for doing something about it when there was a chance?
The uneducated fools who failed to listen to those who tried to warn us, of course.
They may; I'm not sure. It would not surprise me, though, since they're embedded Linux devices. So almost certainly someone will issue a patch for ntp and TiVo will roll it into an update, if they do indeed use that method.
That's also a good point. And we both ask a very good question: why are we bothering to change the spelling of a swear word to make it more "palatable" somehow? We all know it's a swear word!
I agree. Changing the spelling of swear words doesn't change the fact that they're swear words. People these days as a whole have gotten a lot ruder and swear left and right when it's far from acceptable. It seems like dropping a swear word into polite conversation doesn't even get the speaker a second glance anymore and anyone who takes offense at it gets looked like they're crazy.
Since when was it necessary all of a sudden to swear when talking about something like turning lights on?
If you are going to claim that conservation does nothing good, back it up with sources. While not every conservation project is as successful as originally hoped, to say that all conservation is useless is ludicrous. If it were totally useless, no one would do it -- and instead there are many, many people -- paid and unpaid -- who work to ensure that conservation happens.
The same is true for recycling programs.
Also don't forget that many projects have long-term effects and take some time for the true effect to be realized. Your recycling example, for instance. While recycling processes are different from raw manufacturing, there's more to it than just that. Consider, for instance, the long-term effect of cutting down mature forests in terms of oxygen production, erosion, destruction of natural beauty, the effects on the biosphere as a whole, the destruction of habitat for animals that live in those forests, and so on.
We can specifically point to the short-sighted actions of a logging company that destroyed the then-last-known habitat of the ivory-billed woodpecker -- in full knowledge of what they were doing as a result of information given to them by scientists. And look at how long it has taken to find out that the damage may not have been permanent after all -- but undoing their mess may not be possible if it turns out the birds have been wiped out to the point where the ones that have been sighted can no longer reproduce.
You fall into the trap that so many others do of failing to think of the long term and thinking only in the short.
Again, let's see some sources to prove those ridiculous accusations.
I know you're kidding, given the shows you list. However, this was one of the first things I thought of -- and TiVos automatically fetch their time setting from a central server. Since a TiVo has to be set up to fetch info from that server in order to work (program guides and the like), the server will just start sending corrected time info when the time comes. Or the TiVo itself will get a software patch that will change the behavior of the clock.
In fact, TiVo is requesting beta testers for an open beta of some new software that is coming in a few weeks (that's nothing that's covered by any NDAs and it's right in their own forums) and I would not be surprised if one of the things they add in the update is a change in the DST code that is triggered to start working when the year rolls over to whatever year the changes take effect in.
Actually, there is no real "one standard used in one place and nowhere else" except SECAM.
NTSC is used in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Japan. France uses SECAM. You can actually buy a "world VCR" that can record or play back any of these standards. And the one I've got right here has M-PAL and N-PAL selections as well.
You can also buy televisions that accept any signal and many DVD players also have a menu item that lets you select whether you want to use NTSC or PAL.
My digital camera does this in case I visit a country that uses PAL and my host doesn't have an auto-switching television for showing photo slide shows on. (I've never used the slideshow feature but I've seen others use it in a pinch).
Either my multiple sources are wrong (possible) or the system was changed (also possible, and quite likely; the STS has undergone numerous upgrades since 1981). I thank you for the info, and for also giving the source you used.
I live in St. Louis and there's still a fair number of pay phones, some of them the sort that allow you to use a laptop with their data ports, in the concourses. Some of them are even the type that will allow you to swipe a credit card.
I do not know what the rates are (as I use my cell phone), but they're still there. I've also never tried using WiFi in the concourse. I prefer to just carry a book and read it while waiting.
If there's anything that's screwed Lambert over, it's AA lying and swearing that they wouldn't lay people off, that TWA wouldn't be gutted after the AA takeover. They proceeded to precisely screw over TWA and its employees even harder than they screwed AA employees.
To this day, I refuse to fly on American if buying the tickets is under my control, thanks to what they did. I am flying out of town next month, actually -- on Southwest, from the far-easier-to-reach-gates, far-less-crowded, cleaner East Terminal.
I personally would like to discuss a story without (as much) mudslinging and namecalling and without stupid images being posted that bog down my (broadband) connection and make it take forever for the discussions to come up. It's also a lot easier to read on a forum that supports thread indenting.
I mean, c'mon, why do we need to see a bazillion copies of some stupid pirate? What does that have to do with whatever's being discussed?
Er... my local shop still does this. They just use a custom stamp for that particular store instead of stamps. It's not gone; it's just different. And the cards were for a particular store only before, so what are you losing?
Advice needed. I have a rebate that I submitted in good faith with the receipt to prove I bought the item but accidentally didn't include the UPC. This is for an item bought from Circuit City, and I submitted the rebate before the cutoff date. How can I contact them to follow up to find out where to sen d the UPC?
Being denied despite providing proof of purchase (the receipt and the form the store gave me) is ridiculous.
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Well, I guess it's as illegal for a librarian to take a bathroom break as it is for you to walk away from your TV during the commercials, or skip past them with a DVR or VCR!
Soyuz missions are launched by a derivative of the R-7 ICBM that is usually just also called "Soyuz". NASA spacecraft use Atlas or Delta IV rockets. This one is using an Atlas V.
Thanks. I didn't know my great-uncle that well but he was one of the few members of my extended family that I did have contact with, so it was still tough, especially since my grandmother died just a month before (and one of her friends just did... comes in threes, indeed).
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Anyway, I got an answer back from the NASA engineer I got this from (they're handy to know!)
He unfortunately does not have a reference to cite, so he can't pin down specifically where it was from, but he did state that the information was from the late 1970s -- about the right time. Perhaps it was such a fleeting idea that it never got talked about much
it's a "Rotational Hand Controller".
It was made by Thrustmaster, which later sold a version to the public that is usable with a home computer for flight simulation purposes.
Thrustmaster Millennium 3D Interceptor - Review
Not really. Enterprise doesn't have a real tile system, never had real engines, and so on. Some parts were removed by the CAIB for their investigation.
Enterprise, after being displayed at the 1984 Paris Air Show, and other places, and being used for miscellaneous tests, was put into storage in Washington, D.C.
Only recently was room available to place it on public display, and that only because a new building was built to house it and other items.
Bingo! It was a structural testbed. First flew in 1983 on STS-7.
There was no OV-100.
That doesn't mean that people consider it OK to use this as an excuse to swear every other word. I sure don't; I think it's ridiculous. While I don't agree that any words should be banned by the government (if you think the government should get involved in such things, you need to rethink it all over), I don't approve of the current mentality that swearing like a sailor is OK... especially not in polite company, or in online discussions. (I try to be polite, clear, and write as if I'm writing something for general public consumption ... which I actually am).
I just don't think it reflects all that well on society, the overall 'believability' of what is being said, the attitude of the speaker, and how we perceive each other.
And thank you for the link. I'm enjoying reading it.
There is a sound suppression system built into the launch pad which is designed to prevent the infrastructure from being damaged from the sound waves generated beginning six seconds before liftoff when the orbiter's main engines ignite and run up to full thrust.
Watch launch footage carefully and you will be able to see that the clouds mentioned begin to appear at that point. While some of them are deflected exhaust from the aluminum perchlorate fuel used for the solid rocket boosters, most of the big clouds are actually water steam.
This can be confirmed by looking at footage of liquid-fuelled rocket launches. Liquid fuel doesn't produce those big visible trails the way solid fuel does -- the clouds are visible only at first and the rocket itself has no trail as long as it has no solid boosters. (The shuttle does indeed lose its trail after SRB separation, as do Deltas and Titans and others).
Hydrazine is only used in the Orbital Maneuvering System and Reaction Control System thrusters which are used only in space, so the impact of those is reduced. (The RCS can, however, activate lower than normal if the orbiter's aerodynamic control surfaces prove insufficient to control the vehicle, as was the case at the end of STS-107. This is controlled by the vehicle's computers, which automatically activate any systems needed to keep on course.)
Actually, there are three:
OV-103 Discovery
OV-104 Atlantis
OV-105 Endeavour
A total of five space-ready orbiters were built. The missing two are:
OV-102 Columbia
OV-099 Challenger
(I leave it to a fellow geek to tell me why Challenger's number looks wrong).
OV-101 was Enterprise which was built for approach and landing tests only. A conversion to space-readiness was considered, but in the end was never done.
On the bright side we have a few billion years to get out of the solar system.
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And with a decade left to go, we'll still be saying "Our kids will fix it". You just watch
You are correct. If we do not lower/eliminate use of fossil fuels by choice (which seems to be what is happening despite many, many people trying to raise the alarm, people who are more-qualified to talk about these things than the people who are making policies) we will be forced to stop using them when they are gone.
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This will then reduce the carrying capacity of the land, at least until alternatives are found that can bring it back up, and who will look bad for doing something about it when there was a chance?
The uneducated fools who failed to listen to those who tried to warn us, of course.
Typical
They may; I'm not sure. It would not surprise me, though, since they're embedded Linux devices. So almost certainly someone will issue a patch for ntp and TiVo will roll it into an update, if they do indeed use that method.
That's also a good point. And we both ask a very good question: why are we bothering to change the spelling of a swear word to make it more "palatable" somehow? We all know it's a swear word!
Why do people never say what they mean anymore?
I agree. Changing the spelling of swear words doesn't change the fact that they're swear words. People these days as a whole have gotten a lot ruder and swear left and right when it's far from acceptable. It seems like dropping a swear word into polite conversation doesn't even get the speaker a second glance anymore and anyone who takes offense at it gets looked like they're crazy.
Since when was it necessary all of a sudden to swear when talking about something like turning lights on?
If you are going to claim that conservation does nothing good, back it up with sources. While not every conservation project is as successful as originally hoped, to say that all conservation is useless is ludicrous. If it were totally useless, no one would do it -- and instead there are many, many people -- paid and unpaid -- who work to ensure that conservation happens.
The same is true for recycling programs.
Also don't forget that many projects have long-term effects and take some time for the true effect to be realized. Your recycling example, for instance. While recycling processes are different from raw manufacturing, there's more to it than just that. Consider, for instance, the long-term effect of cutting down mature forests in terms of oxygen production, erosion, destruction of natural beauty, the effects on the biosphere as a whole, the destruction of habitat for animals that live in those forests, and so on.
We can specifically point to the short-sighted actions of a logging company that destroyed the then-last-known habitat of the ivory-billed woodpecker -- in full knowledge of what they were doing as a result of information given to them by scientists. And look at how long it has taken to find out that the damage may not have been permanent after all -- but undoing their mess may not be possible if it turns out the birds have been wiped out to the point where the ones that have been sighted can no longer reproduce.
You fall into the trap that so many others do of failing to think of the long term and thinking only in the short.
Again, let's see some sources to prove those ridiculous accusations.
I know you're kidding, given the shows you list. However, this was one of the first things I thought of -- and TiVos automatically fetch their time setting from a central server. Since a TiVo has to be set up to fetch info from that server in order to work (program guides and the like), the server will just start sending corrected time info when the time comes. Or the TiVo itself will get a software patch that will change the behavior of the clock.
In fact, TiVo is requesting beta testers for an open beta of some new software that is coming in a few weeks (that's nothing that's covered by any NDAs and it's right in their own forums) and I would not be surprised if one of the things they add in the update is a change in the DST code that is triggered to start working when the year rolls over to whatever year the changes take effect in.
Actually, there is no real "one standard used in one place and nowhere else" except SECAM.
NTSC is used in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Japan. France uses SECAM. You can actually buy a "world VCR" that can record or play back any of these standards. And the one I've got right here has M-PAL and N-PAL selections as well.
You can also buy televisions that accept any signal and many DVD players also have a menu item that lets you select whether you want to use NTSC or PAL.
My digital camera does this in case I visit a country that uses PAL and my host doesn't have an auto-switching television for showing photo slide shows on. (I've never used the slideshow feature but I've seen others use it in a pinch).
Either my multiple sources are wrong (possible) or the system was changed (also possible, and quite likely; the STS has undergone numerous upgrades since 1981). I thank you for the info, and for also giving the source you used.
I think the only place worse than Slashdot for such things ... is Fark.
Except that wireless jammers are illegal ...
I live in St. Louis and there's still a fair number of pay phones, some of them the sort that allow you to use a laptop with their data ports, in the concourses. Some of them are even the type that will allow you to swipe a credit card.
I do not know what the rates are (as I use my cell phone), but they're still there. I've also never tried using WiFi in the concourse. I prefer to just carry a book and read it while waiting.
If there's anything that's screwed Lambert over, it's AA lying and swearing that they wouldn't lay people off, that TWA wouldn't be gutted after the AA takeover. They proceeded to precisely screw over TWA and its employees even harder than they screwed AA employees.
To this day, I refuse to fly on American if buying the tickets is under my control, thanks to what they did. I am flying out of town next month, actually -- on Southwest, from the far-easier-to-reach-gates, far-less-crowded, cleaner East Terminal.
I personally would like to discuss a story without (as much) mudslinging and namecalling and without stupid images being posted that bog down my (broadband) connection and make it take forever for the discussions to come up. It's also a lot easier to read on a forum that supports thread indenting.
I mean, c'mon, why do we need to see a bazillion copies of some stupid pirate? What does that have to do with whatever's being discussed?
Er ... my local shop still does this. They just use a custom stamp for that particular store instead of stamps. It's not gone; it's just different. And the cards were for a particular store only before, so what are you losing?
Advice needed. I have a rebate that I submitted in good faith with the receipt to prove I bought the item but accidentally didn't include the UPC. This is for an item bought from Circuit City, and I submitted the rebate before the cutoff date. How can I contact them to follow up to find out where to sen d the UPC?
Being denied despite providing proof of purchase (the receipt and the form the store gave me) is ridiculous.