I don't know about you, but I've never heard of a "University of Boston". Are they neighbors with Caltech University or Georgia Tech University perhaps?
Or University of Indiana.
Damn, nobody told me about the name change. I wonder if the expense form I'm filling out is still valid....
Look like you might take something rather than have something taken from you. It's remarkably easy, and it helps you avoid people that judge others by their appearance...
Except maybe police and security personnel, who are notorious about that sort of thing.
I'm not sure how a 17" display would be relevant to MP3 or PDA devices. Nor, on the other end, how a display small enough to fit on a pen would be of much use.
The whole point of this announcement is BIG. BIG means CRT and LCD replacement. I can see more use for a 17" OLED in, say, one of the much-reviled net-enabled refrigerators or similar devices where a large screen and low duty cycle is required.
The honor code still covers a lot of that, though. One of the things I find highly admirable about Tech--you're expected to behave like rational human beings and are given the freedom to do so. Which extends to access to the tunnels as long as you aren't really up to anything, and stay away from the motion sensors.
The customer finds out that it's because of your driver, that they're unhappy. They decide to not buy any more of your crappy undocumented winmodems. You pay a price in the market.
Which is exactly the reason for this "feature" in the first place. Selling more winmodems is not a compatibility reason to justify defrauding the customer.
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If we were in danger of being overrun by the enemy..., we were supposed to haul the crypto gear and all storage media out to the parking lot, smack the hell out of it with sledges, pile thermite on top and melt it into slag.
Gee, they expected you to have quite a bit of warning before being overrun, eh? "Hmmm, the enemy might be here in eight hours or so. Better get started." (six hours pass) "Okay, all done--wait, they got turned back?"
You think it's funny, but the Holiday Inn Express is probably the best place to stay in Los Alamos. Scientists don't exactly travel on a huge budget....
I think I read it in a Marie von Savant(sp?) newspaper article.
I hate to use the term "dumbass," but she comes close. Many (if not most) of her articles range from very misleading to flat-out wrong. Yet people believe the self-proclaimed "world's smartest person."
Regarding the balls-in-a-box: are the "bigger" balls the same density? It's density that matters, not size--if you put a ping-pong ball and a similarly-sized ball bearing in a box of sand and shake it, the ping-pong ball will "float" and the ball bearing "shrink." The system is seeking a state of minimal energy, which occurs with the maximum amount of mass (i.e. the densest objects) furthest down in the gravity well. Has nothing to do with big or small, just whether something's denser than sand.
There's already plans for a nuclear fission powered rocket - the JIMO project (Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter). The tech's been around since the 60s, it's just never been launched. Too much concern over what a launchpad explosion would do.
JIMO is not a fission rocket, as you imply. It will use an ion drive, with a fission power supply. The tech hasn't exactly "been around since the 60's" as Deep Space 1 was the first full-up test.
Let me just say that every 4 months or so somebody writes a paper that tries to explain black holes as something other than black holes.
One of my professors (Ken Brecher) used to me in that camp, too; with the q-star people at MIT. The thing that finally convinced him without a doubt of at least a galactic supermassive black hole was the paper (including animated GIF!) that showed stars near the galactic centre orbiting a 10^6 solar mass object with a maximum radius of 19 light-hours. This paper was published last summer, well after this whole "Gravastar" thing came up. I'd like to see a gravastar explanation of *that* phenomenon.
The concentration of geeks is sufficient to support a sci-fi/fantasy-only bookstore in Cambridge
For what definition of "support"? Pandemo's been hit pretty hard by the Harvard Square slump and they had to lay off some part-timers. I don't think they're going under anytime soon, but times have been rough.
Mars probes are frequently from newer teams/agencies than others. They aren't as overengineered (shorter flight time). In the US case, they're often part of the "faster cheaper better" (pick any two) program.
That's why they design the radioactive parts of the craft to survive such an event with minimal collateral damage. This, and not some crap about "they know where things are going", is the real thrust of their nuclear safety planning.
That's the thrust of safety planning for launch, sure (also why the reactor won't be functioning until after launch). However, people paint all kinds of scenarios of gravity assists going horribly awry, or the probe suddenly dropping out of the sky onto Europa. *That*'s bogus; our understanding of orbital dynamics is much better than that.
BU's Center for Space Physics had a seminar speaker talking about this a month or so ago. So, to answer questions: -The reactor will be started up in orbit and, like all missions carrying nuclear material, it's well-shielded and, even if it weren't, basically huggable without detrimental effects -The goal here is to provide a deep-space probe with a much larger energy budget than possible with RTG's. It's not really a LOT of power; just that RTG's are very little power. One interesting consequence of this design is the propulsion: ion drive, as tested on Deep Space 1. -Instrument package is by no means finalized yet; it's basically pie in the sky. That includes what exactly will happen with a lander -"What if something goes wrong" scenarios tend to be based on the idea that stuff can "fall out of the sky." It can't. The people running the mission know where things are going -To the poster who said "small cheap missions are better": the manned program tends to be the money sink (as were all the examples you quoted). The really small cheap unmanned missions have a sadly high failure rate. This is more like Galileo or Cassini or Magellan: big, expensive, and incredibly valuable in scientific return. There's a place for small and cheap, but outer planets missions are expensive no matter what. You can't afford two baskets, so you make a *really good* one.
In short, this is a chance to do a pure science probe the likes of which we haven't seen before. It's incredibly exciting and pushes our true exploration of the solar system further.
A metre is exactly the decimal fraction 10^-7 of the distance along the meridian from the Equator to the North Pole.
No it isn't (and you forgot the "through Paris.") 1 metre is the distance light travels in 1/299792458 second.
You're slightly full of it. Give in the rear brake cable doesn't mean a damn thing if your brakes are properly adjusted.
For normal cycling, you want to hit the front brake approximately three times as hard as the rear. The front brake stops you; the rear keeps you from skidding. This is partly because of the very weight-shifting effect you mention.
Hop over to Project Gutenberg and look at old issues of Scientific American (which really hit the crapper in the last decade), or Punch, or Atlantic Monthly. Good stuff ^^
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What do you want, little dials on the dashboard to set the gear ratio? Nevermind that regenerative braking and a clutch wouldn't get along well....
Or University of Indiana. Damn, nobody told me about the name change. I wonder if the expense form I'm filling out is still valid....
Look like you might take something rather than have something taken from you. It's remarkably easy, and it helps you avoid people that judge others by their appearance...
Except maybe police and security personnel, who are notorious about that sort of thing.
I'm not sure how a 17" display would be relevant to MP3 or PDA devices. Nor, on the other end, how a display small enough to fit on a pen would be of much use.
The whole point of this announcement is BIG. BIG means CRT and LCD replacement. I can see more use for a 17" OLED in, say, one of the much-reviled net-enabled refrigerators or similar devices where a large screen and low duty cycle is required.
The honor code still covers a lot of that, though. One of the things I find highly admirable about Tech--you're expected to behave like rational human beings and are given the freedom to do so. Which extends to access to the tunnels as long as you aren't really up to anything, and stay away from the motion sensors.
(and yes, Scurves do rule)
Which is exactly the reason for this "feature" in the first place. Selling more winmodems is not a compatibility reason to justify defrauding the customer.
Gee, they expected you to have quite a bit of warning before being overrun, eh? "Hmmm, the enemy might be here in eight hours or so. Better get started." (six hours pass) "Okay, all done--wait, they got turned back?"
11P 17 Dec 03 first powered
10G 4 Dec 03
09G 19-Nov-03
08G 14-Nov-03
Maybe they've updated the page since you looked, but they're all clearly there right now.
Uh. Twelve FLIGHTS before. All the same craft.
You think it's funny, but the Holiday Inn Express is probably the best place to stay in Los Alamos. Scientists don't exactly travel on a huge budget....
the updated prediction was closer to reality, unless we all missed a 30 m asteroid impact.
So THAT's what happened to my back yard...
I hate to use the term "dumbass," but she comes close. Many (if not most) of her articles range from very misleading to flat-out wrong. Yet people believe the self-proclaimed "world's smartest person."
Regarding the balls-in-a-box: are the "bigger" balls the same density? It's density that matters, not size--if you put a ping-pong ball and a similarly-sized ball bearing in a box of sand and shake it, the ping-pong ball will "float" and the ball bearing "shrink." The system is seeking a state of minimal energy, which occurs with the maximum amount of mass (i.e. the densest objects) furthest down in the gravity well. Has nothing to do with big or small, just whether something's denser than sand.
You'll pardon me for not trusting WPI :)
JIMO is not a fission rocket, as you imply. It will use an ion drive, with a fission power supply. The tech hasn't exactly "been around since the 60's" as Deep Space 1 was the first full-up test.
One of my professors (Ken Brecher) used to me in that camp, too; with the q-star people at MIT. The thing that finally convinced him without a doubt of at least a galactic supermassive black hole was the paper (including animated GIF!) that showed stars near the galactic centre orbiting a 10^6 solar mass object with a maximum radius of 19 light-hours. This paper was published last summer, well after this whole "Gravastar" thing came up. I'd like to see a gravastar explanation of *that* phenomenon.
You're playing NWN wrong, then :)
For what definition of "support"? Pandemo's been hit pretty hard by the Harvard Square slump and they had to lay off some part-timers. I don't think they're going under anytime soon, but times have been rough.
Which in the end killed him, as it didn't give enough control. The Wrights had this accident very much in mind when designing their machine.
Mars probes are frequently from newer teams/agencies than others. They aren't as overengineered (shorter flight time). In the US case, they're often part of the "faster cheaper better" (pick any two) program.
Basically, lots of secondary issues.
That's the thrust of safety planning for launch, sure (also why the reactor won't be functioning until after launch). However, people paint all kinds of scenarios of gravity assists going horribly awry, or the probe suddenly dropping out of the sky onto Europa. *That*'s bogus; our understanding of orbital dynamics is much better than that.
BU's Center for Space Physics had a seminar speaker talking about this a month or so ago. So, to answer questions:
-The reactor will be started up in orbit and, like all missions carrying nuclear material, it's well-shielded and, even if it weren't, basically huggable without detrimental effects
-The goal here is to provide a deep-space probe with a much larger energy budget than possible with RTG's. It's not really a LOT of power; just that RTG's are very little power. One interesting consequence of this design is the propulsion: ion drive, as tested on Deep Space 1.
-Instrument package is by no means finalized yet; it's basically pie in the sky. That includes what exactly will happen with a lander
-"What if something goes wrong" scenarios tend to be based on the idea that stuff can "fall out of the sky." It can't. The people running the mission know where things are going
-To the poster who said "small cheap missions are better": the manned program tends to be the money sink (as were all the examples you quoted). The really small cheap unmanned missions have a sadly high failure rate. This is more like Galileo or Cassini or Magellan: big, expensive, and incredibly valuable in scientific return. There's a place for small and cheap, but outer planets missions are expensive no matter what. You can't afford two baskets, so you make a *really good* one.
In short, this is a chance to do a pure science probe the likes of which we haven't seen before. It's incredibly exciting and pushes our true exploration of the solar system further.
DOH! That's what happened! They wrote if($linuxcode = $scocode){litigate();}
A metre is exactly the decimal fraction 10^-7 of the distance along the meridian from the Equator to the North Pole.
No it isn't (and you forgot the "through Paris.") 1 metre is the distance light travels in 1/299792458 second.
For normal cycling, you want to hit the front brake approximately three times as hard as the rear. The front brake stops you; the rear keeps you from skidding. This is partly because of the very weight-shifting effect you mention.
Hop over to Project Gutenberg and look at old issues of Scientific American (which really hit the crapper in the last decade), or Punch, or Atlantic Monthly. Good stuff ^^