I'm right. You're wrong. Ergo, I'm smarter than you. Admitting you're right would mean you're at least as smart as I am, possibly more. So wallow in your wrongness you peasent.
On what I'm not going to be buying this year. Sadly, it's mostly stuff I wouldn't buy anyway. Budweiser and Pepsi. Oh, and I guess I'll just sneak into the Matrix reloaded...
Give NASA a goal, a date to achieve it and the threat of a budget cut and they'll work wonders. All they need is something to work towards. Why not Mars?
Uh, because if Congress got the fainest whiff NASA was spending *any* money on a manned Mars program, you'd be able to hear the sound of the blood spurting out of their budget.
The shuttles have IBM AP-101(S?)s. They *have* been upgraded since the ships were originally built. Hell, they even got rid of the core memory in '95!:-) And last I heard (ok, a couple years ago) they were working on getting rid of the tapes in favor of something a little more modern. Most stuff like payloads/experiments/whatnot use (gack) Win98 laptops.
Seriously? Well, the bucks go to stuff that congress critters think will get them re-elected. So...write'em all and ask why we don't have a space Hilton yet. This *is* the future, isn't it?
You gotta wonder why NASA aren't cranking out Shuttles like Boeing crank out 747s. Any first year MBA will tell you that the key to funding any development that requires substantial upfront investment is to realize economies of scale in production. If there was a weekly - or even more frequent - shuttle run to LEO, that anyone could buy passage on, and shuttles with life support in the unpressurised cargo bay, the economic exploitation of space would happening orders of magnitude quicker than it is today. And ultimately, space exploration has got to pay for itself if it's going to happen.
Well, that's the problem innit? There's just no reason to have hundreds of shuttles. Hell, we got 4 and they want to fly'em less, even tho' it saves little or no money. AFA tourism goes, is there really a market? A very small one, capable of paying the kind of $ it takes nowadays. Definately not the kind of critical mass you need.
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt, wrong answer. It wasn't cheaper, and it could put A HELL OF ALOT more payload into orbit. The real shame is that the Saturn V only had one production run, if they'd kept making them there would have been improvements, and who knows what we could have come up with to do with them?
> In out-lifting any rocket built, they must have > really taken a subset of available rockets. It > doesn't outperform the Ariane 5 [arianespace.com] > either.
Well, duh. They just leave out the word "american", and all sorts of press releases start looking better.
Heh, I actually live in Cape Canaveral. The Atlas V launch was beautiful, and the sound hit me just as the rocket passed behind a very large cloud. Good show.
And btw: http://www.geocities.com/loosechanj/STS-99/v abme.j pg http://www.geocities.com/loosechanj/Tour/FD801 003. JPG
I worked a trade for the 3.0 CD's. (Don't worry, they were paid for legally.) Once I get a steady source of income I'm gonna order a poster and a shirt. And is it just me, or does X run alot quicker? Didn't upgrade *any* of it either, just the base system.
> Blaming marketing or second-rate programmers is not > the way to go it should be a team effort wo win > because not many games are played solo like tennis > or golf.
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What makes you think they'd have been any more socially adept or attractive if they'd had more time to work with their computers?
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I'm right. You're wrong. Ergo, I'm smarter than you. Admitting you're right would mean you're at least as smart as I am, possibly more. So wallow in your wrongness you peasent.
The crew of 107 wasn't, and they didn't.
On what I'm not going to be buying this year. Sadly, it's mostly stuff I wouldn't buy anyway. Budweiser and Pepsi. Oh, and I guess I'll just sneak into the Matrix reloaded...
Someone register peace.mil
Uh, because if Congress got the fainest whiff NASA was spending *any* money on a manned Mars program, you'd be able to hear the sound of the blood spurting out of their budget.
I imagine that 20+ minute lag would be the killer.
The shuttles have IBM AP-101(S?)s. They *have* been upgraded since the ships were originally built. Hell, they even got rid of the core memory in '95! :-) And last I heard (ok, a couple years ago) they were working on getting rid of the tapes in favor of something a little more modern. Most stuff like payloads/experiments/whatnot use (gack) Win98 laptops.
Seriously? Well, the bucks go to stuff that congress critters think will get them re-elected. So...write'em all and ask why we don't have a space Hilton yet. This *is* the future, isn't it?
Well, that's the problem innit? There's just no reason to have hundreds of shuttles. Hell, we got 4 and they want to fly'em less, even tho' it saves little or no money. AFA tourism goes, is there really a market? A very small one, capable of paying the kind of $ it takes nowadays. Definately not the kind of critical mass you need.
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt, wrong answer. It wasn't cheaper, and it could put A HELL OF ALOT more payload into orbit. The real shame is that the Saturn V only had one production run, if they'd kept making them there would have been improvements, and who knows what we could have come up with to do with them?
And it'll never fly again.
You're the 1,000,000th Linux distro!
*throws confetti*
This would be a perfect article for a 1,000 hours free ad.
Still too close. I've suggested "Feenicks" elsewhere.
I feel they should re-name it to "Feenicks".
I'd tell you how to make one, but then I'd have to kill you.
> Energia [astronautix.com] was actually launched
> and could carry 22000 kg to Geosynchronous orbit or
> 88000 kg to LEO.
It's a damned shame it only flew once. And don't even think about possibly suggesting it might again.
> In out-lifting any rocket built, they must have
> really taken a subset of available rockets. It
> doesn't outperform the Ariane 5 [arianespace.com]
> either.
Well, duh. They just leave out the word "american", and all sorts of press releases start looking better.
Heh, I actually live in Cape Canaveral. The Atlas V launch was beautiful, and the sound hit me just as the rocket passed behind a very large cloud. Good show.
v abme.j pg1 003. JPG
And btw:
http://www.geocities.com/loosechanj/STS-99/
http://www.geocities.com/loosechanj/Tour/FD80
Na na, na na NA!
Is it really discovering something when you *create* it? It's like elements 110 & 111 were just bumped into in the supermarket parking lot.
I worked a trade for the 3.0 CD's. (Don't worry, they were paid for legally.) Once I get a steady source of income I'm gonna order a poster and a shirt. And is it just me, or does X run alot quicker? Didn't upgrade *any* of it either, just the base system.
It's not the amount of time, it's the quality. Oh, sometimes it's the quantity too, on a good day.
> Blaming marketing or second-rate programmers is not
> the way to go it should be a team effort wo win
> because not many games are played solo like tennis
> or golf.
How do you play tennis solo?
Love to know how you're planning on convincing Congress to spend them $'s on people other than the ones who voted for them.