This is the worst kind of Gerrymandering I have seen. You get to vote and then try to vote in how your vote will be counted? And all because it could have won the election for you in 2000. Please. As others have pointed out its not even the legal way of doing this, as the legislature has to determine how the vote will be counted as outlined in the Constitution. To allow this to work would require an amendment to the constitution, and that wont happen between now and November.
Has anyone run the numbers to see how this would have changed the 2000 election? Remember even the electoral college vote is not distributed purely by population. Everyone gets 3, so states like Wyoming and Hawaii have more than they would if it were purely done by population.
No this is just another land mine for a repeat of the 2000 battle for the white house. I think were just getting tired of the lack of a media circus here in Colorado now that the Bryant case is over.
Nope. It would be the first. The others, Maine and Nebraska, divide up in a winner take all based on the voters district. This is why Nebraska went all for Bush in 2000.
But as to why do we care under this Topic, he runs VOOM, the HDTV satelite company. As to how he got rich (cribed from askmen.com
Cuban founded MicroSolutions, a computer consulting firm, in 1983, which went on to become a leading National Systems Integrator. By 1990, his company was grossing $30 million per year, but the real payoff came when he sold his company to CompuServe and bagged millions of dollars.
Actually its the other way around. The batteries will be external (and live on the booster module that will be attached to the telescope for when it needs to be deorbited) and go in through a port that the shuttle used to power HST when its in the bay. The Gyros are going to be on WFC3, which is the on axis insturment...a simple pull it out and plug the new one in replacement. COS requires opening a side door, and astronauts have had problems closing these doors after they have warped in space due to the extreem environment. As for the other parts of SM4, I don't know if they are still on the table, especially with the new rocket motor on the back end (e.g. the cooling shroud may not be needed if the motor can act as a heat sync).
Each shuttle launch used to cost between 500 and 1000 million. This one would cost more as to satisfy the CAIB report a second shuttle and team would have to be on the pad, ready to go just in case there was a problem. They would have to train the second crew in rescue and have its support team prepped and ready to go. So really the cost of going to Hubble with a shuttle and with DEXTER is about the same in the end.
The benefit of DEXTER is that it is out of the loop of the CIAB and the refit of the shuttles. As the shuttle refit is largely being done for IIS, it would probably take some priority over HST. Then you start bumping into the end of life for HST. If the batteries fail you cannot control the telescope and hence cannot dock with it. So really the slight extra cost is outweighed by the benefits.
Now the question if can the robot really install the COS is a different question (the hardest part of the proposed mission). But thats what the next year of studies are about.
If they build it...it wont work. Sort of that field of dreams meets a 64 bit bus.
$ realplay
(realplay.bin:8666): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "bluecurve", Failed to load pixbuf file:/opt/RealPlayer/share/realplay/icon.png: Unable to load image-loading module:/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-p ng.so:/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-p ng.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I believe this is correct. The phone network was not created so you could have the wire connected but no dialtone. So to get DSL the line has to be connected, and hence you have to have at least local phone service.
At least this is how it has been explained to me (by Verizon mind you).
Up and until this past week I would have agreed with this. I have speakeasy DSL on a QWest phone line. Good service from the former. The later has a real bad track record.
I started to get dropped carriers on my DSL starting two weeks ago. It would go out for some time and then come back. The worst kind of problem...intermitancy. The first time it went out they saw it out and started the dispatch of COVAD. When it came back we canceled. The second time I was out of town and couldn't do anything at home so we canceled (and then it came back). The third time it went out they dispatched COVAD and then it came back. COVAD came out anyway and fixed the problem (the dsl modem was dying). I had an old DSL modem that we put in its place and things came back up and signals were all strong.
Now I know QWEST would have never done anything if I had a connection and it was their DSL service. And they certainly would not have let me use an old DSL modem I owned with thier service. Having lived in Texas I know Southwestern Bell, now SBC, would be in the same boat (along with any cable company I know of). They are all worried about keeping prices low and service to match (and keep it profitable). Being able to choose my DSL service allows me to get one that costs a little more ($10 a month plus more for static IP), but gets me the service I need for running a business from home.
All I can say is Fedora Core 2 is a giant step UP on my new AMD64 box. Dual boots perfectly (I upgraded from the rag they called Core 1 for x86_64). And, unlike its predecesor, its 32 bit mode actually works. NFS mounts to my OS X laptop work (under core 1 it would often overwrite files with files of no lenght and never flush the buffer).
Of course I use KDE so the Gnome 2.6 stuff is not an issue.
Well I was about to toss my new AMD64 machine into the drink with Core 1 (which was a late add-on to the effort released after the fact). NFS problems, Java from sun failed to run, automount was rather flaky. Is still see some minor problems with window resizing under KDE but other than that its been smooth.
I understand the legal issues that keep things like mplayer and such out of the distro. However it would be nice of we could start getting some RPMs for x86_64 out there.
This is a tough one to comprehend but heres a shot. It doesnt matter where you look. Its everywhere, and here is why:
When you look away from the earth, you are looking back in time. This is due to the fact that photons travel at the speed of light. So if you look at the moon, you see the moon a half a second ago. Mars is several minutes ago. Alpha Centari is about a year ago. So the futhrer out you see, the further back in time.
Now think of the universe as expanding. If you look out a to a distance where the light is half as old as the universe, you see the universe as it was at that time. But the universe was much smaller then so the galaxy you look at seems bigger than it should given how they look today. So the expansion of the universe and the traveling of photons acts as a lense making things look bigger as you look back further (theres less universe to fill the sky so objects look bigger).
OK so then you look all the way back. The big bang then fills the sky. It is everywhere. And we see it. Its what is refered to as the 3 degree Kelvin background radiation. And in the radio, no matter where you look, you see it.
Now this is not actually the big bang itself. The universe was too dense for anything to be seen. So what we see is what is referred to as the universe at the time of last scattering, when the light from the big bang was finally able to escape as the universe had expanded enough that it was not so dence to capture all the light. So when you hear about people studying the fluctuations in the background radiation, they are actually studying this period of the universes expansion.
But of course there is a signifcant cart horse problem here. Why is there psudoscience here that is so popular? Is there some mysterious PR department deep in the Nevada desert pumping out articles and videos to keep funding up? Or is it simply that when there is something of interest to people in general there is interest in it from all angles, both good and bad?
I agree with some of the issues about Rocketry hitting a wall here (though we do have ion drives and nulcear propulsion is comming soon) However to say that NASA benefits directly from the psudoscience is misleading. Interest in space is what creates both of these things.
So whats the censorship here. I can take a black magic marker and get rid of all the bits of my books I dont like. Thats not censorship. So whats the hoopla here about buying a device to do that for movies that I own. Thats not censorship. Thats me using my things the way I want to.
Apparently, the scientific community think that the Hubble has become limited in usefulness. Uh...no. There are some that think that Hubble funding might benefit other programs were it diverted to that and might make for better science in their eyes, but I doubt you could find anyone who can honestly and unbiasedly claim that Hubble is of limited usefullness today.
Going top station was only ONE of the possible solutions. Further, as many others have pointed out, that can only solve one problem even if you are going to the station. To satisfy CAIB you have to have a way to do on-orbit rescue/repairs whithout the Station even for Station missions as in the event of a launch or landing failure, going to Station will not be an option.
This is not true. When Hubble comes down there will be no replacement. There are no UltraViolet/Optical telescopes on the drawingboard for at least 15 years that could do what Hubble does. And contrary to popular belief, one cannot do the same science from the ground.
The successor of Hubble, the JWST, is an infrared telescope. It does completely different science. It is also not a servicable telescope as it will be at the Legrange point between the Earth and Moon (L2). And it is still in the design phase now and will not see space until 2012 at the earliest.
Before we start hunting down another directory for selling out, remember much of the reason that the extended versions were delayed was to give Jackson time to finish them. They were not just the ususal "hey look at this footage I found on the floor, lets edit it in" directors cuts but completely scored and sometimes relooped versions. This takes time people.
Will there be a boxed set, of course. New Line wants cash. Will it be anything more other than interviews and other box set stuff you watch once or twice and move on? No. Jackson wants to do something outside of Middle Earth for a while (even if it is just a large stinky ape).
One more point. Unlike most data archives the HST data are really reused. On average each data set is retrieved 3 or more times during its life. This meens the data, which become public after 1 year, are used by people other than those that proposed to take it. As far as I know, no other astronomical archive can come close to making that claim.
And none of them pony up for the $500 million shuttle launches. That falls fully on NASA. Is kind of like being a teenager and having your parents not give you the keys to the car to go on a date on Saturday night. Your not getting very far without them.
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This is the worst kind of Gerrymandering I have seen. You get to vote and then try to vote in how your vote will be counted? And all because it could have won the election for you in 2000. Please. As others have pointed out its not even the legal way of doing this, as the legislature has to determine how the vote will be counted as outlined in the Constitution. To allow this to work would require an amendment to the constitution, and that wont happen between now and November.
Has anyone run the numbers to see how this would have changed the 2000 election? Remember even the electoral college vote is not distributed purely by population. Everyone gets 3, so states like Wyoming and Hawaii have more than they would if it were purely done by population.
No this is just another land mine for a repeat of the 2000 battle for the white house. I think were just getting tired of the lack of a media circus here in Colorado now that the Bryant case is over.
Nope. It would be the first. The others, Maine and Nebraska, divide up in a winner take all based on the voters district. This is why Nebraska went all for Bush in 2000.
Didn't we go through this with less angst for
Hurricane Floyd?
Actually its the other way around. The batteries will be external (and live on the booster module that will be attached to the telescope for when it needs to be deorbited) and go in through a port that the shuttle used to power HST when its in the bay. The Gyros are going to be on WFC3, which is the on axis insturment...a simple pull it out and plug the new one in replacement. COS requires opening a side door, and astronauts have had problems closing these doors after they have warped in space due to the extreem environment. As for the other parts of SM4, I don't know if they are still on the table, especially with the new rocket motor on the back end (e.g. the cooling shroud may not be needed if the motor can act as a heat sync).
Each shuttle launch used to cost between 500 and 1000 million. This one would cost more as to satisfy the CAIB report a second shuttle and team would have to be on the pad, ready to go just in case there was a problem. They would have to train the second crew in rescue and have its support team prepped and ready to go. So really the cost of going to Hubble with a shuttle and with DEXTER is about the same in the end.
The benefit of DEXTER is that it is out of the loop of the CIAB and the refit of the shuttles. As the shuttle refit is largely being done for IIS, it would probably take some priority over HST. Then you start bumping into the end of life for HST. If the batteries fail you cannot control the telescope and hence cannot dock with it. So really the slight extra cost is outweighed by the benefits.
Now the question if can the robot really install the COS is a different question (the hardest part of the proposed mission). But thats what the next year of studies are about.
If they build it...it wont work. Sort of that field of dreams meets a 64 bit bus.
/opt/RealPlayer/share/realplay/icon.png: Unable to load image-loading module: /usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-p ng.so: /usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-p ng.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ realplay
(realplay.bin:8666): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "bluecurve",
Failed to load pixbuf file:
(realplay.bin:8666): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 762 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
(realplay.bin:8666): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 762 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
And of course I can't get the source and build from scratch so...we'll probably have to wait for Fedora 3.
I believe this is correct. The phone network was not created so you could have the wire connected but no dialtone. So to get DSL the line has to be connected, and hence you have to have at least local phone service.
At least this is how it has been explained to me (by Verizon mind you).
Up and until this past week I would have agreed with this. I have speakeasy DSL on a QWest phone line. Good service from the former. The later has a real bad track record.
I started to get dropped carriers on my DSL starting two weeks ago. It would go out for some time and then come back. The worst kind of problem...intermitancy. The first time it went out they saw it out and started the dispatch of COVAD. When it came back we canceled. The second time I was out of town and couldn't do anything at home so we canceled (and then it came back). The third time it went out they dispatched COVAD and then it came back. COVAD came out anyway and fixed the problem (the dsl modem was dying). I had an old DSL modem that we put in its place and things came back up and signals were all strong.
Now I know QWEST would have never done anything if I had a connection and it was their DSL service. And they certainly would not have let me use an old DSL modem I owned with thier service. Having lived in Texas I know Southwestern Bell, now SBC, would be in the same boat (along with any cable company I know of). They are all worried about keeping prices low and service to match (and keep it profitable). Being able to choose my DSL service allows me to get one that costs a little more ($10 a month plus more for static IP), but gets me the service I need for running a business from home.
All I can say is Fedora Core 2 is a giant step UP on my new AMD64 box. Dual boots perfectly (I upgraded from the rag they called Core 1 for x86_64). And, unlike its predecesor, its 32 bit mode actually works. NFS mounts to my OS X laptop work (under core 1 it would often overwrite files with files of no lenght and never flush the buffer).
Of course I use KDE so the Gnome 2.6 stuff is not an issue.
Have XP and Core 2 on a home brew AMD64. All windows partitions are fat32, so maybe my retro windows formatting has saved me?
I also dont cross mount Dos to Linux partitions very often, so maybe thats part of the cure as well?
Well I was about to toss my new AMD64 machine into the drink with Core 1 (which was a late add-on to the effort released after the fact). NFS problems, Java from sun failed to run, automount was rather flaky. Is still see some minor problems with window resizing under KDE but other than that its been smooth.
I understand the legal issues that keep things like mplayer and such out of the distro. However it would be nice of we could start getting some RPMs for x86_64 out there.
This is a tough one to comprehend but heres a shot. It doesnt matter where you look. Its everywhere, and here is why:
When you look away from the earth, you are looking back in time. This is due to the fact that photons travel at the speed of light. So if you look at the moon, you see the moon a half a second ago. Mars is several minutes ago. Alpha Centari is about a year ago. So the futhrer out you see, the further back in time.
Now think of the universe as expanding. If you look out a to a distance where the light is half as old as the universe, you see the universe as it was at that time. But the universe was much smaller then so the galaxy you look at seems bigger than it should given how they look today. So the expansion of the universe and the traveling of photons acts as a lense making things look bigger as you look back further (theres less universe to fill the sky so objects look bigger).
OK so then you look all the way back. The big bang then fills the sky. It is everywhere. And we see it. Its what is refered to as the 3 degree Kelvin background radiation. And in the radio, no matter where you look, you see it.
Now this is not actually the big bang itself. The universe was too dense for anything to be seen. So what we see is what is referred to as the universe at the time of last scattering, when the light from the big bang was finally able to escape as the universe had expanded enough that it was not so dence to capture all the light. So when you hear about people studying the fluctuations in the background radiation, they are actually studying this period of the universes expansion.
But of course there is a signifcant cart horse problem here. Why is there psudoscience here that is so popular? Is there some mysterious PR department deep in the Nevada desert pumping out articles and videos to keep funding up? Or is it simply that when there is something of interest to people in general there is interest in it from all angles, both good and bad?
I agree with some of the issues about Rocketry hitting a wall here (though we do have ion drives and nulcear propulsion is comming soon) However to say that NASA benefits directly from the psudoscience is misleading. Interest in space is what creates both of these things.
There goes the paperless office.
And just when I had migrated all my paper tape to DVD too.
So whats the censorship here. I can take a black magic marker and get rid of all the bits of my books I dont like. Thats not censorship. So whats the hoopla here about buying a device to do that for movies that I own. Thats not censorship. Thats me using my things the way I want to.
Apparently, the scientific community think that the Hubble has become limited in usefulness. Uh...no. There are some that think that Hubble funding might benefit other programs were it diverted to that and might make for better science in their eyes, but I doubt you could find anyone who can honestly and unbiasedly claim that Hubble is of limited usefullness today.
Going top station was only ONE of the possible solutions. Further, as many others have pointed out, that can only solve one problem even if you are going to the station. To satisfy CAIB you have to have a way to do on-orbit rescue/repairs whithout the Station even for Station missions as in the event of a launch or landing failure, going to Station will not be an option.
This is not true. When Hubble comes down there will be no replacement. There are no UltraViolet/Optical telescopes on the drawingboard for at least 15 years that could do what Hubble does. And contrary to popular belief, one cannot do the same science from the ground.
The successor of Hubble, the JWST, is an infrared telescope. It does completely different science. It is also not a servicable telescope as it will be at the Legrange point between the Earth and Moon (L2). And it is still in the design phase now and will not see space until 2012 at the earliest.
Before we start hunting down another directory for selling out, remember much of the reason that the extended versions were delayed was to give Jackson time to finish them. They were not just the ususal "hey look at this footage I found on the floor, lets edit it in" directors cuts but completely scored and sometimes relooped versions. This takes time people.
Will there be a boxed set, of course. New Line wants cash. Will it be anything more other than interviews and other box set stuff you watch once or twice and move on? No. Jackson wants to do something outside of Middle Earth for a while (even if it is just a large stinky ape).
A good source of energy is the equivelant of a good hot cup of tea.
Valet Parking. It will be the big "growth industry" in New Mexico.
Not Janet Jacksons breast again! Damn you Viacom.
One more point. Unlike most data archives the HST data are really reused. On average each data set is retrieved 3 or more times during its life. This meens the data, which become public after 1 year, are used by people other than those that proposed to take it. As far as I know, no other astronomical archive can come close to making that claim.
The Europeans and Canadians already do support it (ESA supports Hubble to about 15% of it anual opperating budget). However none of them own it, nor can they go and fix it.
And none of them pony up for the $500 million shuttle launches. That falls fully on NASA. Is kind of like being a teenager and having your parents not give you the keys to the car to go on a date on Saturday night. Your not getting very far without them.