Nonsense, you've got all kinds of choice: Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Darrell Castle, write in somebody else, or just leave that space on the ballot blank.
People who insist on holding their nose and voting for whichever of the two major party candidates they dislike least because they don't want to "waste their vote" are part of the problem -- and are wasting their votes.
Most recent Presidents (Carter, Reagan, Bill Clinton, GW Bush) had a background as a state Governor before becoming President. Makes sense, that's an executive position rather than a legislative one, just like the presidency.
While Obama was a less-than-one-term US senator when elected President, he was running against McCain who had 3+ terms as a senator and two as a representative, which seems to have put McCain at a disadvantage. Second time around, Romney had been a Governor, but Obama had the incumbent advantage and trounced him in the Electoral College vote although the popular vote was much closer.
So yeah, agree with your point that having actually worked in Washington is generally not a thing that's going to help on the campaign trail. Disadvantage Clinton there with 1.5 terms as Senator and her, um, tainted stint as Obama's Secretary of State, but while Trump has an executive background, it's been in the private sector, not as a governor.
The RP-1 was already loaded. RP-1 can happily sit there forever at ambient temperature (it's just high-grade kerosene), it won't boil off like liquid oxygen. The LOX is loaded last because of that boil-off concern.
The firefall of burning kerosene is plainly visible in the video. OP is an idiot.
The good news is that this thing uses an existing processor core, OpenSPARC T1 (SPARC V9), so there's plenty of software around for it. (Yes, it runs -- or I imagine it will soon -- Linux.)
The bad news is that this thing uses an existing processor core, instead of a more secure architecture (say, something segment based with tag bits, like the B6700 among others) which would render it much more resistant (dare I say immune?) to things like buffer overflows and such.
Pretty much by definition, anything post-Singularity will be incomprehensible to anyone pre-Singularity, so any story actually based post-Singularity will either be faking it or be incomprehensible.
From the looks of that summary, they've got a pretty good start on the latter....
You left out astronaut candidate, past president (among other offices) of two L5 chapters, participant in the Citizen's Advisory Council on National Space Policy, and author of a few papers appearing in AIAA publications, among other things.
Still, not bad web surfing for a guy who once helped animate the Genesis simulation sequence in "Wrath of Kahn".;-)
(Oh, and more than "one-time" unless you mean that in a generic "once and future" sense. Just taking Analog, they've published me at least five times, but it has been a while. I've been focusing on a novel series.)
Depending on the specific problem, with number-crunching big databases you may be running into the limits of Amdahl's Law, not Moore's.
If part of the algorithm is inherently serial (ie, can't be parallelized), then that's going to be the bottleneck no matter how many cores you throw at it (although faster memory and I/O may help). CPU clock speed has been stuck around 2-4 GHz for many years now, throwing more transistors at the problem isn't going to help much. What we need there is not more transistors but faster ones, which means moving away from silcon to e.g. GaAs or micro vacuum tubes or whatever. One 1-THz CPU will blow away 250 4-GHz CPUs (memory bandwidth permitting) because it gets around Amdahl's Law.
Oh, well, if reddit users say it is so, then it must be true. [eye roll]
Argument from authority? Really?
The "east takes you up" phrasing is just a handy mnemonic for epicycles, which are a useful (in some cases) simplification of elliptical orbits (which is what a circular orbit becomes if perturbed). Fairly useless for accurate orbital modelling, or for (significantly) suborbital trajectories. (Both of which apply if you're trying to land a booster on a barge or parking lot.)
Orbit is a freefall where the horizontal* component of speed at apoapsis is sufficient to avoid hitting the source of gravity at or near periapsis. The first stage booster doesn't come anywhere near fast enough at its apogee.
*horizontal: i.e, perpendicular to a line drawn between the object and the center of gravity of the system.
Yeah, many of us here have read Niven's Integral Trees too. The thing is, the Falcon 9 first stage is nowhere near orbit (in velocity terms), so "I think you'll find that turns out not to be the case."
Food and gas, and even postage, are pretty much necessities.
A video feed is optional. If you must watch something on a screen (rather than, say, read a book), most public libraries these days have pretty good DVD collections.
Since the incidence of identical (monozygotic) twins is a lot higher than that (about 3 per 1000 births)(for fraternal twins it's even higher), there's a math error someplace. Possibly in the assumptions.
The bad news for law enforcement is that not only will identical twins match on facial recognition (barring some environmentally caused disfigurement, eg scars), they'll also match on DNA evidence. (They won't, however, match on fingerprints.)
"Is the surface of a planet really the right place for an expanding technological civilization?" -- O'Neill, 1969
Earliest source of this quote is widely claimed to be an interview by Stewart Brand in 1975. His (O'Neill's) paper on space colonization appeared in Physics Today in 1974. The original question seems to have been raised (in 1969) by O'Neill in a freshman physics course he taught at Princeton.
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So, about the time fusion power becomes commercially viable then?
Nonsense, you've got all kinds of choice: Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Darrell Castle, write in somebody else, or just leave that space on the ballot blank.
People who insist on holding their nose and voting for whichever of the two major party candidates they dislike least because they don't want to "waste their vote" are part of the problem -- and are wasting their votes.
Most recent Presidents (Carter, Reagan, Bill Clinton, GW Bush) had a background as a state Governor before becoming President. Makes sense, that's an executive position rather than a legislative one, just like the presidency.
While Obama was a less-than-one-term US senator when elected President, he was running against McCain who had 3+ terms as a senator and two as a representative, which seems to have put McCain at a disadvantage. Second time around, Romney had been a Governor, but Obama had the incumbent advantage and trounced him in the Electoral College vote although the popular vote was much closer.
So yeah, agree with your point that having actually worked in Washington is generally not a thing that's going to help on the campaign trail. Disadvantage Clinton there with 1.5 terms as Senator and her, um, tainted stint as Obama's Secretary of State, but while Trump has an executive background, it's been in the private sector, not as a governor.
Nope, it's a disinformative post.
The RP-1 was already loaded. RP-1 can happily sit there forever at ambient temperature (it's just high-grade kerosene), it won't boil off like liquid oxygen. The LOX is loaded last because of that boil-off concern.
The firefall of burning kerosene is plainly visible in the video. OP is an idiot.
Jules Verne was a space nutter.
Imagine, sending people to the moon by shooting them out of a cannon? The acceleration would kill them.
Solid scientific principles of the day? That's nutter talk. No, it's impossible, Newton said so.
Resistance is futile.
Which Prime Directive are you referring to? Was that the Federation Prime Directive, the Klingon Prime Directive, or the Borg Prime Directive?
We'll be fine. Assimilated, but fine.
You want Brexit? Because this is how you get Brexit...
The good news is that this thing uses an existing processor core, OpenSPARC T1 (SPARC V9), so there's plenty of software around for it. (Yes, it runs -- or I imagine it will soon -- Linux.)
The bad news is that this thing uses an existing processor core, instead of a more secure architecture (say, something segment based with tag bits, like the B6700 among others) which would render it much more resistant (dare I say immune?) to things like buffer overflows and such.
I don't know how much number crunching was actually involved here. I suspect the problem comes from using a spreadsheet as a database.
Because databases are, you know, hard.
And "errands" creep in all over the place. ;)
Pretty much by definition, anything post-Singularity will be incomprehensible to anyone pre-Singularity, so any story actually based post-Singularity will either be faking it or be incomprehensible.
From the looks of that summary, they've got a pretty good start on the latter....
Yeah? So how do you feel about systemd? ;-)
You left out astronaut candidate, past president (among other offices) of two L5 chapters, participant in the Citizen's Advisory Council on National Space Policy, and author of a few papers appearing in AIAA publications, among other things.
Still, not bad web surfing for a guy who once helped animate the Genesis simulation sequence in "Wrath of Kahn". ;-)
(Oh, and more than "one-time" unless you mean that in a generic "once and future" sense. Just taking Analog, they've published me at least five times, but it has been a while. I've been focusing on a novel series.)
Cheers,
Don't store your passwords on anything which requires electricity.
I'm way ahead of you. I keep them on a Post-It note cleverly hidden under my keyboard.
Depending on the specific problem, with number-crunching big databases you may be running into the limits of Amdahl's Law, not Moore's.
If part of the algorithm is inherently serial (ie, can't be parallelized), then that's going to be the bottleneck no matter how many cores you throw at it (although faster memory and I/O may help). CPU clock speed has been stuck around 2-4 GHz for many years now, throwing more transistors at the problem isn't going to help much. What we need there is not more transistors but faster ones, which means moving away from silcon to e.g. GaAs or micro vacuum tubes or whatever. One 1-THz CPU will blow away 250 4-GHz CPUs (memory bandwidth permitting) because it gets around Amdahl's Law.
Oh, well, if reddit users say it is so, then it must be true. [eye roll]
Argument from authority? Really?
The "east takes you up" phrasing is just a handy mnemonic for epicycles, which are a useful (in some cases) simplification of elliptical orbits (which is what a circular orbit becomes if perturbed). Fairly useless for accurate orbital modelling, or for (significantly) suborbital trajectories. (Both of which apply if you're trying to land a booster on a barge or parking lot.)
Oh really?
Explain highly elliptical (eg cometary) orbits then.
Orbit is a freefall where the horizontal* component of speed at apoapsis is sufficient to avoid hitting the source of gravity at or near periapsis. The first stage booster doesn't come anywhere near fast enough at its apogee.
*horizontal: i.e, perpendicular to a line drawn between the object and the center of gravity of the system.
Yeah, many of us here have read Niven's Integral Trees too. The thing is, the Falcon 9 first stage is nowhere near orbit (in velocity terms), so "I think you'll find that turns out not to be the case."
James Bond had one, Little Nelly, in You Only Live Twice, although come to think of it that was four briefcases. Well, okay, suitcases.
Some assembly required.
Food and gas, and even postage, are pretty much necessities.
A video feed is optional. If you must watch something on a screen (rather than, say, read a book), most public libraries these days have pretty good DVD collections.
It's possible to OD on anything, even water or oxygen. The dose makes the poison.
If someone tells me that it's IMPOSSIBLE to OD on substance X, they're either ignorant, mistaken, or are lying because they have an agenda.
Since the incidence of identical (monozygotic) twins is a lot higher than that (about 3 per 1000 births)(for fraternal twins it's even higher), there's a math error someplace. Possibly in the assumptions.
The bad news for law enforcement is that not only will identical twins match on facial recognition (barring some environmentally caused disfigurement, eg scars), they'll also match on DNA evidence. (They won't, however, match on fingerprints.)
"Once is an accident. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."
-- Ian Fleming
We're way past three.
I am Groot.
"Is the surface of a planet really the right place for an expanding technological civilization?" -- O'Neill, 1969
Earliest source of this quote is widely claimed to be an interview by Stewart Brand in 1975. His (O'Neill's) paper on space colonization appeared in Physics Today in 1974. The original question seems to have been raised (in 1969) by O'Neill in a freshman physics course he taught at Princeton.
The students decided on the answer "no".