If they just leave it to die, it will die by falling to earth on it's own. Better that they aim it away from land then let it fall wherever it happens to fall.
Ill pay a million pesos to shoot down Mir with a high powered missle. It would be a lot cooler than just sinking the poor moldy basterd into the ocean.
That might make a nice light show, until the millions of little pieces that are left whizzing around in orbit start taking out satellites...
Anyway how much damage can something that big can do on impact?
None, unless they are WAY off target. The pacific ocean isn't exactly a small target.
What he needs to read is a physics book. The cost of launching something the size of mir out of earth orbit would make even the biggest environmentalist say "just drop the fucker in the ocean."
Other than color, the prism also offers the same new cpu that the platinum has, a newer version of palmos, and a rechargable battery. It's not just a visor deluxe with color.
I haven't looked around to verify this, so it's just a guess. Maybe the new one is heavier because it has built in batteries, and they don't count battery weight in the original?
Also, there is one more selling point. It runs at 33 Mhz, the standard visor is 16 Mhz.
actually if it broke in the middle, the bottom half would fall to earth and the top half would be flung into a higher orbit. If it broke high enough, it would reach escape velocity and leave orbit completly.
Did they say they wanted to restrict it? I only skimmed through the article, but it seems that they are just using alzheimers patients are the first target for trials, not the only ones.
They also pay off in ways we can dream of. There are thousands of spinoff technologies from the space program in everyday use by ordinary people. I can't remember the url, but nasa has a page listing some of the more major ones, including things (iirc) like artificial heart valves and velcro.
If I remember it correctly, they weren't directly descended from that original race, what happened was that the race had added their own dna to the native species of each planet to speed up evolution. I haven't seen that episode in year though, so I could be wrong.
If you're thinking of the Tunguska explosion, it's been known for a while now that it was an asteroid that exploded entering the atmosphere, not a black hole or anything that rare. And it wasn't shit size of a weak nuke, it knocked down hundreds of square miles of trees and the shock wave set off seismographs on the oposite side of the earth.
I had no problem with bell atlantic, since they never even saw my pc. The hardware was delivered a few days before they were schdualed to do the install, they came and installed the splitter on the line, and when they came for the pc setup, I already had it up and running. The technician was happy to not have any work to do when he got here. =]
I was more impressed when the patch for the nestea exploit was released 2 days BEFORE the code to exploit it was released. It would be nice of everyone who found a bug wrote a patch for it instead of an exploit.
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If they just leave it to die, it will die by falling to earth on it's own. Better that they aim it away from land then let it fall wherever it happens to fall.
I hope you don't call yourself a geek too. If you were a geek you'd remember skylab, and the big chunks of it that landed on australia.
Ill pay a million pesos to shoot down Mir with a high powered missle. It would be a lot cooler than just sinking the poor moldy basterd into the ocean.
That might make a nice light show, until the millions of little pieces that are left whizzing around in orbit start taking out satellites...
Anyway how much damage can something that big can do on impact?
None, unless they are WAY off target. The pacific ocean isn't exactly a small target.
What he needs to read is a physics book. The cost of launching something the size of mir out of earth orbit would make even the biggest environmentalist say "just drop the fucker in the ocean."
Other than color, the prism also offers the same new cpu that the platinum has, a newer version of palmos, and a rechargable battery. It's not just a visor deluxe with color.
Well than one of us needs a new scale, because mine says 6.4 oz, with batteries and cover. And I just checked it with a known mass, it's accurate.
I haven't looked around to verify this, so it's just a guess. Maybe the new one is heavier because it has built in batteries, and they don't count battery weight in the original?
Also, there is one more selling point. It runs at 33 Mhz, the standard visor is 16 Mhz.
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actually if it broke in the middle, the bottom half would fall to earth and the top half would be flung into a higher orbit. If it broke high enough, it would reach escape velocity and leave orbit completly.
Those were 2 different sets of bars. The ones he bent were the door, the ones he tore out were the window on the other side of the cell.
I caught that too, but nobody I mention it to seems to know wtf I'm talking about. :)
Did they say they wanted to restrict it? I only skimmed through the article, but it seems that they are just using alzheimers patients are the first target for trials, not the only ones.
They also pay off in ways we can dream of. There are thousands of spinoff technologies from the space program in everyday use by ordinary people. I can't remember the url, but nasa has a page listing some of the more major ones, including things (iirc) like artificial heart valves and velcro.
Because we don't have machines as smart as astronauts.
If I remember it correctly, they weren't directly descended from that original race, what happened was that the race had added their own dna to the native species of each planet to speed up evolution. I haven't seen that episode in year though, so I could be wrong.
If you're thinking of the Tunguska explosion, it's been known for a while now that it was an asteroid that exploded entering the atmosphere, not a black hole or anything that rare. And it wasn't shit size of a weak nuke, it knocked down hundreds of square miles of trees and the shock wave set off seismographs on the oposite side of the earth.
I had no problem with bell atlantic, since they never even saw my pc. The hardware was delivered a few days before they were schdualed to do the install, they came and installed the splitter on the line, and when they came for the pc setup, I already had it up and running. The technician was happy to not have any work to do when he got here. =]
I was more impressed when the patch for the nestea exploit was released 2 days BEFORE the code to exploit it was released. It would be nice of everyone who found a bug wrote a patch for it instead of an exploit.