That's what I was thinking. Maybe he did, and it didn't do anything, and the mechanism is only meant to "activate" when someone is carrying around a buttload of these. Drug dealers, terrorists, etc...
NASA is a big lumbering bureaucracy all by itself. Add in a few dozen other countries/space agencies, it'd be a bloody miracle if it ran well. Hell, it's a bloody miracle they get anything done at all.
Microsoft learned their lesson from the huuuuuuuuge gaps between not only NT4 and Win2000, but between NT service packs. Forgot it for a little bit, and something must have reminded them. What they really need to do is get service packs back on some kind of schedule. Critical security fixes exempted of course. And quit calling them service packs when they're really (remember these from the DOS days?) step-up versions.
Quite the opposite. STS-2 made a completely manual landing, hand flown from entry interface. As far as controlling the ascent, it's not as impossible as you might think.
Utterly false. The Iran non-proliferation law prevents this. There was a one time exception made for the FGB (Zarya). Such things are very much the exception, not the rule.
Energia and Buran are both museum pieces now, and nothing more. Buran only made one flight, I'm not sure of Energia, but I think that only flew once as well. They just ran out of money. If it hadn't been for the Shuttle-Mir program, they would have had to abandon Mir several years before they actually did.
I keep seeing comments like this, and have to wonder...The russians are having a hell of a time meeting their ISS obligations, the U.S. isn't doing a single thing to force them to, and nearly every damn/.'er thinks this new spacecraft is all but built! So, how are those russian plans to land a man on Mars going?
And I don't on a viewgraph, I mean on a launch pad. The russians are great promisers, but lousy deliverers. Unless you've got the cash, as in right here, in a briefcase. Trouble is, they don't. So there's really no substance here beyond blue sky mining.
Oh yeah, it's on my list of Top 10 I.T. stories along with the new version of $MS_PRODUCT: is it worth the upgrade? and Linux: ready for the desktop? At least I was finally able to take off Latest Netscape skull raping by AOL off of it.
...the stuff we know about. We had a discussion about this at work recently, and noted that if you wanted to point a camera looking *forward* and *below* for any departing debris.
Goldin was a complete a$$, who fostered an environment of fear which contributed to the Columbia disaster. O'keefe has proven himself to be a capable administrator in other jobs, and I don't see him being any worse at his current position. Bean counters have their place, as do the dreamers.
Because if we (the US) had agreed to use Mir as some sort of construction base, in all likelyhood NONE of the russian ISS elements would ever have been launched. It wasn't a pure black & white decisions, there were reasons to do just as you say, but what I said above is what tipped the scales.
ISS was never intended to be a "jumping off point" to anywhere. The move to 51.6 to accomodate the russians was a political move. Thank Clinton, it was his bright idea to bring in the russians as full partners in the hope their missle techs wouldn't go somewhere else...like say Iran. Given ISS' mission (microgravity research, NOT a spacedock quit watching star trek) any orbit will do, but KSC's due east 28 degrees would be best case in terms of payload.
I actually turned down a chance to tour ISS elements in the processing facility.:-(
Amusing ISS historical anecdote: While preparing to close the payload bay doors for the launch of Destiny (the US lab), it was discovered the camera on the elbow of the shuttle's robot arm came within an *inch* of the labs hull. Much hemming and hawwing, and I forget what the final solution was, but I think it's a little amusing that after all the billions had been spent, all the test had been done, they got an "awwwwwwcrap" at literally the 11th hour.
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Wouldn't surprise me in the LEAST.
SCO just keeps getting crazier and cr...wait, this isn't SCO?!?
Yeah, I did note that the burnage ranged from small to fairly large. Sigh. It was a fun conspiracy theory there for 5 minutes.
I hope it's not me, I just installed slackware!
Hey, if he was working his way through college he mighta graduated!
That's what I was thinking. Maybe he did, and it didn't do anything, and the mechanism is only meant to "activate" when someone is carrying around a buttload of these. Drug dealers, terrorists, etc...
It's a lot harder than you'd think.
NASA is a big lumbering bureaucracy all by itself. Add in a few dozen other countries/space agencies, it'd be a bloody miracle if it ran well. Hell, it's a bloody miracle they get anything done at all.
Microsoft learned their lesson from the huuuuuuuuge gaps between not only NT4 and Win2000, but between NT service packs. Forgot it for a little bit, and something must have reminded them. What they really need to do is get service packs back on some kind of schedule. Critical security fixes exempted of course. And quit calling them service packs when they're really (remember these from the DOS days?) step-up versions.
#5 combo vs. Diet Coke?!? Worst...analogy...EVER.
It's no easier to bring back, they're both impossible. Gone. History.
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Quite the opposite. STS-2 made a completely manual landing, hand flown from entry interface. As far as controlling the ascent, it's not as impossible as you might think.
Utterly false. The Iran non-proliferation law prevents this. There was a one time exception made for the FGB (Zarya). Such things are very much the exception, not the rule.
Energia and Buran are both museum pieces now, and nothing more. Buran only made one flight, I'm not sure of Energia, but I think that only flew once as well. They just ran out of money. If it hadn't been for the Shuttle-Mir program, they would have had to abandon Mir several years before they actually did.
I keep seeing comments like this, and have to wonder...The russians are having a hell of a time meeting their ISS obligations, the U.S. isn't doing a single thing to force them to, and nearly every damn /.'er thinks this new spacecraft is all but built! So, how are those russian plans to land a man on Mars going?
ISS in just about the worst possible orbit for what you're proposing.
And I don't on a viewgraph, I mean on a launch pad. The russians are great promisers, but lousy deliverers. Unless you've got the cash, as in right here, in a briefcase. Trouble is, they don't. So there's really no substance here beyond blue sky mining.
Oh yeah, it's on my list of Top 10 I.T. stories along with the new version of $MS_PRODUCT: is it worth the upgrade? and Linux: ready for the desktop? At least I was finally able to take off Latest Netscape skull raping by AOL off of it.
...the stuff we know about. We had a discussion about this at work recently, and noted that if you wanted to point a camera looking *forward* and *below* for any departing debris.
Goldin was a complete a$$, who fostered an environment of fear which contributed to the Columbia disaster. O'keefe has proven himself to be a capable administrator in other jobs, and I don't see him being any worse at his current position. Bean counters have their place, as do the dreamers.
James Webb, arguably NASA's best administrator was neither an engineer nor a scientist. The administrator's job is politics, not technology.
The public story is hogwash. O'keefe is playing the safety card, to block the scientists from playing the "keep hubble alive forever" card.
Because if we (the US) had agreed to use Mir as some sort of construction base, in all likelyhood NONE of the russian ISS elements would ever have been launched. It wasn't a pure black & white decisions, there were reasons to do just as you say, but what I said above is what tipped the scales.
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ISS was never intended to be a "jumping off point" to anywhere. The move to 51.6 to accomodate the russians was a political move. Thank Clinton, it was his bright idea to bring in the russians as full partners in the hope their missle techs wouldn't go somewhere else...like say Iran. Given ISS' mission (microgravity research, NOT a spacedock quit watching star trek) any orbit will do, but KSC's due east 28 degrees would be best case in terms of payload.
I actually turned down a chance to tour ISS elements in the processing facility.
Amusing ISS historical anecdote: While preparing to close the payload bay doors for the launch of Destiny (the US lab), it was discovered the camera on the elbow of the shuttle's robot arm came within an *inch* of the labs hull. Much hemming and hawwing, and I forget what the final solution was, but I think it's a little amusing that after all the billions had been spent, all the test had been done, they got an "awwwwwwcrap" at literally the 11th hour.