I wonder, could we take a B-52 and reskin it with composites and call it a day? It would likely require quite a bit more than just that to make it more stealthy, but the B-52 (BUFF) does still have its fans and it does the job asked of it.
Spec changes, unforeseen problems that somehow the government gets to pay for...
So, you advocate for the engineers to work for free to fix issues with the requirements? Who else would be expected to pay when the requirements change and therefore "unforseen problems" are found?
Sounds like a minuscule problem, there are 300m people in the US. The question is, why are they homeless. When you look into that you might find that it is mental illness and/or drug addiction. No matter what you do for those people, they will remain homeless. Unless you are advocating for institutionalizing people against their will, which is essentially the opposite of freedom.
Elements other than hydrogen and helium might be a good thing. Saturn doesn't have much in the way of heavier elements, so how exactly would it work to have life without heavy elements?
Then perhaps one of the dozen or so prototypes scattered around in museums would serve the purpose rather than this 8000 lb 21 ft x 15 ft behemoth? This one didn't look anything like the real rovers, it was a test unit for a direction that wasn't taken.
Here are the locations of the existing prototypes, I am sure the Smithsonian would allow some people to take measurements if needed to make a new one: http://www.collectspace.com/ub...
The invasion of Iraq was not about oil, that is a conspiracy theory, and is frankly so asinine as to be on the same level as the moon hoaxes. Saddam would have loved to sell the US oil, we were refusing to buy his oil, so he had to find other buyers. Before the attack on Iraq, Saddam was acting like he was building a nuclear weapon, and was refusing access to the nuclear inspectors to the sites that were suspected of being bomb making sites. It was a widely held belief by many in government that he really did have WMD, not just some rumor that originated with one person.
This guy goes through and cites tons of quotes of people talking about the WMD including Clinton. Are you calling Clinton a liar?
Saddam also had already previously shown that he was more than willing to use WMD of a different type when he gassed the Kurds, an ethnic group in the area that has been routinely put down by most countries in the area, including Turkey who is currently letting ISIS kill them due to their hatred of them.
Stop acting like your total lack of knowledge about world affairs gives you the right to try and call Bush a liar. Learn history, look at the events surrounding the invasion of Iraq. But then again, you were probably a child when the invasion happened.
Just look at the treatment to Lee's battle flag recently, that is pure racism against the people who fought for state's rights. (hint, the average southerner had nothing to do with slavery, the slave owners were too wealthy to fight in the war).
Racism is ok (to the Democrats) when it is white people that are the butt of the joke, they also don't like Asians for some reason, so making fun of natives of India, and China, is perfectly acceptable, but talk about how 90% of gang violence is black people, or that there are crimes being committed against the Hispanics crossing the border (as Trump did), and suddenly you are a terrible racist.
Did you read the comment I was replying to? AmiMoJo was talking about when cubesats get better optics. Sats of any kind can only get so good with optics, there is a limit on what you can do while looking through the atmosphere, no matter how good the optics, and that site shows some real sat imagery. This is the same reason that Hubble was put up, adaptive optics can only do so much to deal with atmospheric aberration.
Then the next thing flying into your property will be the police coming to arrest you for assault with a deadly weapon and possibly second degree murder.
The reason the guy shot down the drone is that it was hovering over his backyard where his teenage daughters were sunbathing. They saw the drone hovering, and alerted dad, it flew off and when it returned and started hovering again it was shot with a load of bird shot.
I saw a documentary where a fire extinguisher was used as a propulsion method by a artificially intelligent trash compacting robot, and also by a woman who was trapped in space.
SuricouRaven also uses a hosts file [slashdot.org]
What point are you trying to make? He actually says he uses DNS block lists, not Hosts, but you can try to claim they are the same thing if you like. APK doesn't think that DNS servers are worth running and seems to believe that somehow Microsoft Active Directory can run without DNS. He also doesn't have an account, so can't see your signature without creating one.
It has happened, and I am not sure what the solution to it is. These drones are autonomous, and even airplanes with pilots have problems with seeing power lines.
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I didn't know the figures so trusted others saying that. That "begs the question", why do we use the B-52 at all.
https://www.google.com/webhp?s...
Yeah, because if everyone paid 70k minimum, that is 15k over the GDP/person, so we would have a massive economic crash.
Good on Gravity Payments that it worked for them, but it won't work in general because there isn't enough money generated by the economy for it.
https://www.google.com/webhp?s...
The per capita GDP of the US is 53k, I don't think it would be possible to pay everyone 70k without some kind of massive debt.
If only I had mod points. That is hilarious.
Yes, when cybering, it is a known issue that you have no idea if that is a male or a female on the other end of the keyboard.
B-52 - 70,000 lbs of bombs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
B-1 - 125,000 lbs of bombs (75k internal, 50k external)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
B-2 - 40,000 lbs of bombs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The B-52 is kept around because it costs less to operate, not because it carries so much more. The B-1 is king of armament capacity.
I wonder, could we take a B-52 and reskin it with composites and call it a day? It would likely require quite a bit more than just that to make it more stealthy, but the B-52 (BUFF) does still have its fans and it does the job asked of it.
Spec changes, unforeseen problems that somehow the government gets to pay for...
So, you advocate for the engineers to work for free to fix issues with the requirements?
Who else would be expected to pay when the requirements change and therefore "unforseen problems" are found?
Sounds like a minuscule problem, there are 300m people in the US. The question is, why are they homeless. When you look into that you might find that it is mental illness and/or drug addiction. No matter what you do for those people, they will remain homeless. Unless you are advocating for institutionalizing people against their will, which is essentially the opposite of freedom.
Elements other than hydrogen and helium might be a good thing. Saturn doesn't have much in the way of heavier elements, so how exactly would it work to have life without heavy elements?
Why have windows that don't open? Wouldn't you want to open the windows when it gets too hot to allow the cold of space in a little?
The Umbrella Corporation is working as fast as they can, give it time...
Then perhaps one of the dozen or so prototypes scattered around in museums would serve the purpose rather than this 8000 lb 21 ft x 15 ft behemoth? This one didn't look anything like the real rovers, it was a test unit for a direction that wasn't taken.
Here are the locations of the existing prototypes, I am sure the Smithsonian would allow some people to take measurements if needed to make a new one:
http://www.collectspace.com/ub...
http://www.collectspace.com/ub...
There appear to be many of them around, the Smithsonian Air and Space museum has one, and ironically Marshall in Huntsville, Alabama has one.
The invasion of Iraq was not about oil, that is a conspiracy theory, and is frankly so asinine as to be on the same level as the moon hoaxes. Saddam would have loved to sell the US oil, we were refusing to buy his oil, so he had to find other buyers. Before the attack on Iraq, Saddam was acting like he was building a nuclear weapon, and was refusing access to the nuclear inspectors to the sites that were suspected of being bomb making sites. It was a widely held belief by many in government that he really did have WMD, not just some rumor that originated with one person.
http://politics.slashdot.org/c...
This guy goes through and cites tons of quotes of people talking about the WMD including Clinton. Are you calling Clinton a liar?
Saddam also had already previously shown that he was more than willing to use WMD of a different type when he gassed the Kurds, an ethnic group in the area that has been routinely put down by most countries in the area, including Turkey who is currently letting ISIS kill them due to their hatred of them.
Stop acting like your total lack of knowledge about world affairs gives you the right to try and call Bush a liar. Learn history, look at the events surrounding the invasion of Iraq. But then again, you were probably a child when the invasion happened.
According to this site:
http://www.astronautix.com/cra...
It weighs 450 kg, a little less than half a ton. Maybe he disassembled it and shipped it home one piece at a time?
Just look at the treatment to Lee's battle flag recently, that is pure racism against the people who fought for state's rights. (hint, the average southerner had nothing to do with slavery, the slave owners were too wealthy to fight in the war).
Racism is ok (to the Democrats) when it is white people that are the butt of the joke, they also don't like Asians for some reason, so making fun of natives of India, and China, is perfectly acceptable, but talk about how 90% of gang violence is black people, or that there are crimes being committed against the Hispanics crossing the border (as Trump did), and suddenly you are a terrible racist.
Not in the least, perhaps you didn't see that I was replying to the guy's signature.
Did you read the comment I was replying to? AmiMoJo was talking about when cubesats get better optics. Sats of any kind can only get so good with optics, there is a limit on what you can do while looking through the atmosphere, no matter how good the optics, and that site shows some real sat imagery. This is the same reason that Hubble was put up, adaptive optics can only do so much to deal with atmospheric aberration.
Then the next thing flying into your property will be the police coming to arrest you for assault with a deadly weapon and possibly second degree murder.
The reason the guy shot down the drone is that it was hovering over his backyard where his teenage daughters were sunbathing. They saw the drone hovering, and alerted dad, it flew off and when it returned and started hovering again it was shot with a load of bird shot.
Considering this is an example of the latest spy sat imagery, I am not too concerned.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
Those close ups in Google Maps/Earth, those are done with airplanes and don't even have the resolution to tell what kind of car is parked in a space.
I saw a documentary where a fire extinguisher was used as a propulsion method by a artificially intelligent trash compacting robot, and also by a woman who was trapped in space.
SuricouRaven also uses a hosts file [slashdot.org]
What point are you trying to make? He actually says he uses DNS block lists, not Hosts, but you can try to claim they are the same thing if you like. APK doesn't think that DNS servers are worth running and seems to believe that somehow Microsoft Active Directory can run without DNS. He also doesn't have an account, so can't see your signature without creating one.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com...
It has happened, and I am not sure what the solution to it is. These drones are autonomous, and even airplanes with pilots have problems with seeing power lines.