I've played a lot of UT2004 Assault- (I'm a good player, not exceptional, but good- 200th worldwide).
I find that if you are just playing ad-hoc, then yes, teamwork isn't necessary; although having the same number of good players in each team is critical.
However, if you are a member of a clan, a *team* will nearly always win.
Doesn't that depend on where you get the energy from in the first place? If they are right next to a nuclear power plant or a windmill or a hydroelectric generator and they use that power then there is no net carbon dioxide production.
Still, they haven't produced a crystal that survives at STP- as soon as they remove the pressure it goes back to being gas again- I don't know about you, but I don't usually carry a diamond anvil around in my car. It isn't a practical fuel, or energy storage technique at present.
Actually, if you are a US citizen launching anywhere in the world, they have legal jurisdiction over your launch.
The international laws on space launch that were hammered out a few decades ago make the nation that the person is a member of responsible for any damage they do, so the US laws are written to demand a launch license to be obtained if any of their citizens launch, wherever you happen to be, even from the Russian launch complex in the middle of Kazakstan (although in that case it's a formality, pretty much).
The mistake you seem to be making is assuming that space is all about 'exploration' and 'research'.
Ultimately, space is more to do with transportation, and I would argue that Rutans R&D has pushed forward transportation aspects of spaceflight more than any other single project of NASA.
SS1 actually points towards profitability; no government space project has ever been profitable.
Profitability is crucial for space to grow- with profitability exponential growth can occur- with only government funding it will remain flat for the foreseeable future.
"Technically this use of another's works are illegal" Use of another's works is 100% *legal*- IF you have their permission. This license is just a way of giving permission; in exactly the same way that GPL gives permission in the software domain.
Actually; there is atmosphere at the altitude of the spacestation, and the junk will drift off into a different orbit and reenter in a few years/months.
Also, jettisoning at certain times, for example before station reboost, the chances of the station seeing the junk come back are vanishingly small.
The biggest problem is where it might land. There's about a 1 in a million chance that any heavy metallic stuff will land on someone's head; and this is per item that can survive reentry. Controlled deorbit is essential.
There's no evidence that I'm aware of that *any* of the technology used on SS1 was ever descended from development work by NASA.
I've got a feeling that RCS predate NASA by quite a way, and there are R&D paths that don't go through NASA at all. For example, it's possible that Rutan bought his RCS off Russian suppliers. (I don't expect he has, but he certainly could have done.)
The risk of traveling by plane is lower than by car even if you compute it per mile travelled. It's not lower because you fly by plane less often. You are a lot less likely to die on a 400-mile plane trip than you are to die on a 400-mile car trip.
True. But if you commuted to work by plane, the chances would be about the same that you would die on the plane trip as if you die in a car trip.
The per-trip danger is about the same for a car and a plane- which is why aeroplane manufacturers nearly always quote per mile (since aeroplanes normally travel further per trip, it makes them look better).
To claim that private companies will invest the money necessary to generate a similar body of data making the next leap in space commerce possible is foolish.
So you are saying that the X-prize that generated SS1 was foolish? But it has worked!
Business will need to be convinced that they can make a profit for their investment.
Apparently you missed the announcement. Funnily enough, a few days ago, Branson just announced that he had agree to pay for the R&D of the passenger version of SpaceShipOne, Virgin Galactic.
Looks like the X-prize has worked. That's exactly the situation that it was intended to create. The whole point is to improve the confidence factor for businesses to invest in space tourism. If suborbital is even halfway successful, orbital should be right behind it.
In some ways it is cheaper than suborbital- you get orders of magnitude more zero-gravity time per dollar.
You're not listening. The question was whether NASA did any of the fundamental research that lead to the SS1. The answer seems to be no. If you can think of some, let us all know.
Of course Rutan didn't perform any of the fundamental research that lead to the first manned flights, so his efforts are piggy-backing on those of NASA.
Let's see fundamental research:
- flying (see Wright brothers- not NASA)
- rockets in general (see Chinese/Goddard/Germans)
- reentry feather tail (Rutan- not NASA)
- jet engines (Whittle- not NASA)
- hybrid rocket motors (irc Bevin, not NASA)
- supersonic flight (X1-US Airforce- not NASA)
In fact, I can't think of any technology on SS1 or WhiteKnight where the fundamental research was by NASA. Anyone?
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I'm waiting for the 3rd party cases:
'I worked all day in starbucks and all the coffee smells so good; I couldn't help but get addicted. I'm asking for $100 million dollar damages- it has ruined my life.';-)
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I think you may be able to do the individual sub calculations modulo base 16, or something like that. That way you are only doing the calculations for the last digit, which is the n'th digit of PI.
So I'm sure that there's a trick to it.
You still have to do ~n calculations for the nth digit, but you don't have to store the whole number while you are working on, so it should be very fast.
Lynx (OK, not a text editor) - Great cat, lots of fun, worked for years, then disappeared, presumably coyote food.
Nah, most cats eat dogs for breakfast, or they atleast give a damn good account of their selves. Being almost literally armed to the teeth helps a lot.
It was probably catnapped. As in, somebody started feeding it, and it st(r)ayed. They are like that, cats, always looking out for the number 1 mealticket.
Uh-uh. It's Kevlar. Sure, it's plastic. But it's used in bullet proof vests, to stop bullets. And Kevlar has an amazing strength/weight ratio- meaning it's stronger than aluminum/titanium/whatever for the same weight of material.
That's why they want to use it, it's a better material for holding air in. And the Kevlar won't tear if punctured, it will just leak (gently, until you patch it up.) Big holes are unlikely (and instantly fatal whatever vessel you are in)- it's mostly just flecks of paint and micrometeorites they are worried about.
I'd like to see you try to keep in the atmosphere of a space habitat entirely with your little finger:-)
It does actually matter that you have *lots* of inches. And the energy stored in the compressed gas is pretty high- you'd certainly know it if one of these things burst.
Allow the structure to cure, and you've got yourself air-tight, super-strong walls that can be repaired from pretty much any damage just by spraying more foam!
You can start to get respect for these inflatable structures when you realise that normal atmospheric pressure is just about 10 *tonnes* per square meter.
These structures seem to be made from a woven kevlar material.
They also have to be able to survive impact from debris in LEO and micrometeors without simply popping.
I think that that is a general problem with web browsers, not gmail.
The problem is that AFAIK, the request to open the http connection is not repeated. If that request gets lost, then the web page never loads; and times out after 30 seconds. Once the connection is open then both sides use retransmission and the connection is reliable.
I *think* that that is the same problem with gmail, and presumably hotmail would also suffer from the same problem.
The chances of getting this problem depends on how many packets are lost. On a well run network, there would be none; but the internet isn't that well run:-)
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Well, that's where it came from in the first place...
I find that if you are just playing ad-hoc, then yes, teamwork isn't necessary; although having the same number of good players in each team is critical.
However, if you are a member of a clan, a *team* will nearly always win.
Quake II, Half Life, Unreal, Unreal tournament etc. etc.
But, for some reason, you seem to mean 'stick and ball team games'.
Why? This isn't real life! You simply don't have to be bored like that online. You can have fun! :-)
Still, they haven't produced a crystal that survives at STP- as soon as they remove the pressure it goes back to being gas again- I don't know about you, but I don't usually carry a diamond anvil around in my car. It isn't a practical fuel, or energy storage technique at present.
The international laws on space launch that were hammered out a few decades ago make the nation that the person is a member of responsible for any damage they do, so the US laws are written to demand a launch license to be obtained if any of their citizens launch, wherever you happen to be, even from the Russian launch complex in the middle of Kazakstan (although in that case it's a formality, pretty much).
Ultimately, space is more to do with transportation, and I would argue that Rutans R&D has pushed forward transportation aspects of spaceflight more than any other single project of NASA.
SS1 actually points towards profitability; no government space project has ever been profitable.
Profitability is crucial for space to grow- with profitability exponential growth can occur- with only government funding it will remain flat for the foreseeable future.
"Technically this use of another's works are illegal" Use of another's works is 100% *legal*- IF you have their permission. This license is just a way of giving permission; in exactly the same way that GPL gives permission in the software domain.
Also, jettisoning at certain times, for example before station reboost, the chances of the station seeing the junk come back are vanishingly small.
The biggest problem is where it might land. There's about a 1 in a million chance that any heavy metallic stuff will land on someone's head; and this is per item that can survive reentry. Controlled deorbit is essential.
I've got a feeling that RCS predate NASA by quite a way, and there are R&D paths that don't go through NASA at all. For example, it's possible that Rutan bought his RCS off Russian suppliers. (I don't expect he has, but he certainly could have done.)
True. But if you commuted to work by plane, the chances would be about the same that you would die on the plane trip as if you die in a car trip.
The per-trip danger is about the same for a car and a plane- which is why aeroplane manufacturers nearly always quote per mile (since aeroplanes normally travel further per trip, it makes them look better).
That wasn't what I asked. I asked if the particular RCS thrusters used on the SS1 vehicle were developed for the Mercury capsules?
LOL!
Oh, and the RCS thrusters were developed by NASA for use in the Mercury capsules.
Do you have a reference for that? Note that the Russian manned spaceflight predated NASA, and had RCS as well. It's not like NASA invented RCS.
So you are saying that the X-prize that generated SS1 was foolish? But it has worked!
Business will need to be convinced that they can make a profit for their investment.
Apparently you missed the announcement. Funnily enough, a few days ago, Branson just announced that he had agree to pay for the R&D of the passenger version of SpaceShipOne, Virgin Galactic.
Looks like the X-prize has worked. That's exactly the situation that it was intended to create. The whole point is to improve the confidence factor for businesses to invest in space tourism. If suborbital is even halfway successful, orbital should be right behind it.
In some ways it is cheaper than suborbital- you get orders of magnitude more zero-gravity time per dollar.
Oh you mean the thing the Russians invented. Yeah, NASA helped them a lot, I'm sure. Not!
No sir, they didn't do shit.
Backing away from the crazy person...
Let's see fundamental research:
- flying (see Wright brothers- not NASA)
- rockets in general (see Chinese/Goddard/Germans)
- reentry feather tail (Rutan- not NASA)
- jet engines (Whittle- not NASA)
- hybrid rocket motors (irc Bevin, not NASA)
- supersonic flight (X1-US Airforce- not NASA)
In fact, I can't think of any technology on SS1 or WhiteKnight where the fundamental research was by NASA. Anyone?
'I worked all day in starbucks and all the coffee smells so good; I couldn't help but get addicted. I'm asking for $100 million dollar damages- it has ruined my life.' ;-)
"learn.arc.nasa.gov is down for emergency maintenance. A hardware failure occurred on Thursday (9-30-2004) due to increased server load. We are building a new server and expect to be online by Tuesday (10-05-2004). Web pages and forums will be unavailable until then. -Randy Kim, NASA Learning Technologies"
We killed it!
So I'm sure that there's a trick to it.
You still have to do ~n calculations for the nth digit, but you don't have to store the whole number while you are working on, so it should be very fast.
Nah, most cats eat dogs for breakfast, or they atleast give a damn good account of their selves. Being almost literally armed to the teeth helps a lot.
It was probably catnapped. As in, somebody started feeding it, and it st(r)ayed. They are like that, cats, always looking out for the number 1 mealticket.
That's why they want to use it, it's a better material for holding air in. And the Kevlar won't tear if punctured, it will just leak (gently, until you patch it up.) Big holes are unlikely (and instantly fatal whatever vessel you are in)- it's mostly just flecks of paint and micrometeorites they are worried about.
It does actually matter that you have *lots* of inches. And the energy stored in the compressed gas is pretty high- you'd certainly know it if one of these things burst.
You can start to get respect for these inflatable structures when you realise that normal atmospheric pressure is just about 10 *tonnes* per square meter.
These structures seem to be made from a woven kevlar material.
They also have to be able to survive impact from debris in LEO and micrometeors without simply popping.
The problem is that AFAIK, the request to open the http connection is not repeated. If that request gets lost, then the web page never loads; and times out after 30 seconds. Once the connection is open then both sides use retransmission and the connection is reliable.
I *think* that that is the same problem with gmail, and presumably hotmail would also suffer from the same problem.
The chances of getting this problem depends on how many packets are lost. On a well run network, there would be none; but the internet isn't that well run :-)
Fallopian tube. He grew up for a while in a uterus.