Hmm...apparently Gus Grissom was the guy on Liberty Bell 7. After the capsule started sinking and he bailed out, his suit then started filling with water as well.
He was also one of the 3 astronauts who died in the Apollo 1 ground fire. Guy sounds cursed.
there are lots of examples of non-shuttle launch vehicles exploding and capsules reentering in non-survivable ways too
I'll like to see some examples. There were a lot of rockets that exploded over the years, and that one Salyut flight where the 3 guys died during reentry, but both of those were Soviet. Both sides had a terrible track record of getting to Mars and being useful once they got there, too, but I'm not sure whether you're counting unmanned missions.
Wikipedia lists Soyuz 1 (the story goes that Yuri Gagarin tried to volunteer instead because he knew the mission would fail and the brass wouldn't risk his life as a national hero) and Soyuz 11, where due to bad design, the 3 cosmonauts suffocated during reentry when their capsule depressurized.
If you count that one Mercury flight or whatever where the guy had to go for a swim to avoid drowning, that was obviously survivable (because he did), but even with that we're talking only 3 capsules.
In the German, or the English version? Because I've heard the English version and there's no "dirty" in there. And if it's the German version, he should have quoted that instead of the English lyrics.
Oh God I'm turning into a giant pedantic asshole noooooo
Taking pictures of yourself does not, on its own, show intent to use them as child pornography.
Well, you're demonstrating the intent to generate pictures that the courts define as child pornography (unless you drop the camera and it accidentally goes off I suppose). Or is CP defined by distribution?
Cf. software licensing where you can take GPL code and fuck it five ways from Sunday but as long as you don't distribute your changes nobody cares.
Because someone accused of pedophilia saying they're innocent always works so well, yeah.
that should otherwise be raised to think in better terms than "arrest everyone when they do wrong".
I know what you're trying to get at, but it's a better idea to make the law actually work than to sometimes just ignore people who are breaking it, which is what you're saying.
Dude. It's in the second sentence of the summary. Or do you make it a habit of typing people whose names you don't recognize into Google Image with SafeSearch turned off for some reason?
I made no claim about what the software needs to run.
A) I read "mockup" as "nonfunctional version." If it works, I would've said something more along the lines of "they hacked up a X-compatible." B) Saying "hardware X" tells me that it specifically *doesn't* have all the required software to act functionally similar. If it did, you'd just call it "an X."
From Wikipedia:
In manufacturing and design, a mockup, or mock-up, is a scale or full-size model of a design or device, used for teaching, demonstration, design evaluation, promotion, and other purposes. A mockup is a prototype if it provides at least part of the functionality of a system and enables testing of a design.[1] Mock-ups are used by designers mainly to acquire feedback from users.
Note that if it were functional, it would be called a prototype, not a mockup. It sounds like mockups are only really useful for wind tunnel tests, general design feedback, etc.
makes very specific assumptions about the hardware it runs on... so a "hardware mockup" is required
bought a hardware mockup of an Xbox One that the group built using source code stolen from Microsoft's Game Developer Network Portal
*twitch* You don't make a hardware mockup out of source code. An editor somewhere needs to be slapped.
Either it's a "hardware mockup" and it doesn't work because it doesn't have the software, or it's just a "mockup" and maybe it does work. Next, they'll be telling me it's Digital and has All The p's.
In March 2008 the IFAB attempted to standardise the size of the football pitch for international matches and set the official dimensions of a pitch to 105 m long by 68 m wide.[5] However, at a special meeting of the IFAB on 8 May 2008, it was ruled that this change would be put on hold pending a review and the proposed change has not been implemented.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that AFAIK in most U.S. cars, the MPH scale numbers are usually bigger and on the extreme top edge of the dial. I'm sure I would be constantly catching myself having to squint down at the smaller KPH scale squished underneath, which would take longer and by definition be more dangerous.
re-educating people to think of fuel consumption in litres/100 km
I'm waiting to hear why anybody thought using such a wacky form of measurement was a good idea. "X over 1Y" (miles per 1 gallon, or gallons per 1 mile would work too, technically) is as simple to use for converting as possible because you don't have to muck around with an arbitrary scalar.
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Shuttle was not suffiently automated to fly unmanned, DC is full-automated and can be operated manned, or unmanned depending on mission
To be fair, the Buran's sole flight was fully automated and unmanned. By accounts, it landed beautifully.
Granted, they didn't launch it on top of a rocket per se.
Oh, damn...apparently the design of the A1 hatch was because he had complained that the hatch on LB7 had fired without his action. Blackly ironic.
Hmm...apparently Gus Grissom was the guy on Liberty Bell 7. After the capsule started sinking and he bailed out, his suit then started filling with water as well.
He was also one of the 3 astronauts who died in the Apollo 1 ground fire. Guy sounds cursed.
there are lots of examples of non-shuttle launch vehicles exploding and capsules reentering in non-survivable ways too
I'll like to see some examples. There were a lot of rockets that exploded over the years, and that one Salyut flight where the 3 guys died during reentry, but both of those were Soviet. Both sides had a terrible track record of getting to Mars and being useful once they got there, too, but I'm not sure whether you're counting unmanned missions.
Wikipedia lists Soyuz 1 (the story goes that Yuri Gagarin tried to volunteer instead because he knew the mission would fail and the brass wouldn't risk his life as a national hero) and Soyuz 11, where due to bad design, the 3 cosmonauts suffocated during reentry when their capsule depressurized.
If you count that one Mercury flight or whatever where the guy had to go for a swim to avoid drowning, that was obviously survivable (because he did), but even with that we're talking only 3 capsules.
In the German, or the English version? Because I've heard the English version and there's no "dirty" in there. And if it's the German version, he should have quoted that instead of the English lyrics.
Oh God I'm turning into a giant pedantic asshole noooooo
I would have done a Google Web or Wikipedia search. Is what they look like more important than who they are?
Taking pictures of yourself does not, on its own, show intent to use them as child pornography.
Well, you're demonstrating the intent to generate pictures that the courts define as child pornography (unless you drop the camera and it accidentally goes off I suppose). Or is CP defined by distribution?
Cf. software licensing where you can take GPL code and fuck it five ways from Sunday but as long as you don't distribute your changes nobody cares.
Well, technically one could argue that the President is the leader of the Republic, so yeah.
Captain Pedant, awaaaaay!
MMS does indeed transmit pictures.
That may not be how the kids send them these days, though. I wouldn't know.
Because someone accused of pedophilia saying they're innocent always works so well, yeah.
that should otherwise be raised to think in better terms than "arrest everyone when they do wrong".
I know what you're trying to get at, but it's a better idea to make the law actually work than to sometimes just ignore people who are breaking it, which is what you're saying.
Only when a teenage child of a lawmaker go to prison and have their futures ruined by
You're both correct. Sometimes demonstrating the stupidity of a rule by rigidly upholding it can cause it to be changed.
Technically the lyric is, "Oh, those Russians..."
Presumably the editors do.
Dude. It's in the second sentence of the summary. Or do you make it a habit of typing people whose names you don't recognize into Google Image with SafeSearch turned off for some reason?
I made no claim about what the software needs to run.
A) I read "mockup" as "nonfunctional version." If it works, I would've said something more along the lines of "they hacked up a X-compatible."
B) Saying "hardware X" tells me that it specifically *doesn't* have all the required software to act functionally similar. If it did, you'd just call it "an X."
From Wikipedia:
In manufacturing and design, a mockup, or mock-up, is a scale or full-size model of a design or device, used for teaching, demonstration, design evaluation, promotion, and other purposes. A mockup is a prototype if it provides at least part of the functionality of a system and enables testing of a design.[1] Mock-ups are used by designers mainly to acquire feedback from users.
Note that if it were functional, it would be called a prototype, not a mockup. It sounds like mockups are only really useful for wind tunnel tests, general design feedback, etc.
makes very specific assumptions about the hardware it runs on... so a "hardware mockup" is required
Or, presumably, an emulator.
bought a hardware mockup of an Xbox One that the group built using source code stolen from Microsoft's Game Developer Network Portal
*twitch* You don't make a hardware mockup out of source code. An editor somewhere needs to be slapped.
Either it's a "hardware mockup" and it doesn't work because it doesn't have the software, or it's just a "mockup" and maybe it does work. Next, they'll be telling me it's Digital and has All The p's.
don't know where you got those numbers
the Wikipedia article, the caption to the graphic on the right.
In March 2008 the IFAB attempted to standardise the size of the football pitch for international matches and set the official dimensions of a pitch to 105 m long by 68 m wide.[5] However, at a special meeting of the IFAB on 8 May 2008, it was ruled that this change would be put on hold pending a review and the proposed change has not been implemented.
Well, it's Wikipedia so who knows.
Yeah, and I'm 788,400,000 seconds old, give or take.
I swear, sometimes metric people are purposely trying to make things impossible for me to visualize intuitively.
Too :)
105 by 68 metres (115 yd × 74 yd)
Who came up with these numbers? Ew. They don't work out nicely in either scale.
And why is it a "pitch"? It takes place outside, on grass. I would think "field" would make more sense than a word that refers to a kind of tar.
To paraphrase Serenity (a quote for every occasion!), "Well, what [the law says] and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar."
We got into a drag-out fight last time, so I'll just leave it at that.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that AFAIK in most U.S. cars, the MPH scale numbers are usually bigger and on the extreme top edge of the dial. I'm sure I would be constantly catching myself having to squint down at the smaller KPH scale squished underneath, which would take longer and by definition be more dangerous.
re-educating people to think of fuel consumption in litres/100 km
I'm waiting to hear why anybody thought using such a wacky form of measurement was a good idea. "X over 1Y" (miles per 1 gallon, or gallons per 1 mile would work too, technically) is as simple to use for converting as possible because you don't have to muck around with an arbitrary scalar.
Only one man would dare to give me the raspberry jam.
*canon
Although technically Tetris doesn't have cannons, either.