So this device fits around an alkaline battery. I've got a Wensn decibel meter that has a battery compartment big enough for alkaline AAs, but too small for any of my rechargeable AAs. The rechargeables have a slightly bigger diameter (the difference is 0.2-0.3 mm). So there's a chance alkaline batteries using this device won't fit.
AIU, they use an explosive charge of their own, carefully configured and arranged to destroy the bomb's ignition source without setting off the explosives.
I did an internship at a telecom research facility around that time. They provided me with a 286 outfitted to run electronics simulations software. It had 2 MB RAM installed on an ISA card (or a predecessor thereof, it's a long time ago). It ran Windows 3.0, sort of. 2 MB was too little, and the thing crashed constantly. Combine that with the clumsy UI (File Manager and Program Manager, for instance) and the mess of applications that hadn't standardized yet (every program used different shortcuts), and the experience was less than stellar. The contrast with my own Macintosh was huge. If you think us Maccies are smug now, you should have seen us then.
I was in favor of replacing the current Dutch car taxing scheme with a PAYG scheme. At the moment I'm paying a tax ("ownership tax") with rates based on vehicle weight and fuel type. This is a fixed cost; I have to pay this even when my vehicle isn't driven for weeks at a time. This removes some of the financial incentive of not using the car. A PAYG scheme more closely couples my cost to the actual cost society incurs by my road usage, esp. when you include congestion charging. Congestion charging also gives me leverage. If my employer requires me to be at $congestion_prone_location at $congestion_peak_time I can hand him a bill. Employers don't care how much time their employees spend in traffic jams, maybe the financial consequences of those traffic jams will get their attention.
.nl doesn't have toll roads, and 'store everything' camera schemes were rare back then. They've become common since, with nary a peep from the population.
Depends on how you implement it. A PAYG tax scheme was discussed in the Netherlands a few years ago, tariffs would have depended on the environmental rating of your vehicle, i.e. an old diesel would be taxed more than a new Euro-5 compliant one.
Over here the big advantages of PAYG were seen as: - congestion pricing becomes possible - it'd replace taxes on ownership and car purchase with usage-related pricing, incentivizing people to drive less.
Some humans, sure. But as long as the planet remains habitable, ALL humans leaving seems rather improbable. Human populations tend to expand to cover all available ground, not move as a single herd from A to B.
Most of the US Navy's nuclear ships are setup to be refueled at least once in the expected lifetime
Yes, that's why I specifically referred to CVN 78 which no longer has that requirement. The latest nuclear submarines have also been designed to do away with the midlife refueling, since that's a horrendously expensive 2-year-long drydock job.
The Voyager RTGs are decaying, NASA expects output power to drop below the point where it can keep a single instrument going around 2025. The Pioneers are already long past the point where they can't send a strong enough signal to be detected. The latest nuclear power plants for the US Navy have been designed to run without refueling for the life of the ship. That's 50 years for aircraft carriers, so the USS Gerald R Ford (CVN 78) is capable of functioning until 2065. Now I don't know how stable a nuclear power plant is when left on its own, but potentially this'll live much longer than the Voyagers.
Nothing I've seen indicates this, and I've been following them quite closely. For one, the launch abort system is a required part of a manned Dragon that has been missing from all Dragon flights so far.
They have a Soyuz attached to the station and can use that to return to Earth if they need to. They're just postponing a scheduled crew change, which is possible because despite the Progress failure, they still have enough supplies to last them until the next scheduled supply run.
The LR weighed 210 kg on Earth, 35 kg on the Moon.
I don't think he's putting so much force on it he'd lift one wheel though: he's standing downhill from the vehicle and he's holding on to it above its CoG. He'd have to be pulling the vehicle to lift that wheel, but he should be pushing it to prevent it sliding down the hillside. More likely the rover is sitting on uneven ground and the right front suspension has bottomed out.
Exactly. From now on, no more version numbers greater than 10. So they'll have Windows 10.1 - 10.10, then they'll continue numbering at 10.10.1 - 10.10.10, then it's 10.10.10.1 etc. Until the Windows version string gets to be more than 256 bytes long and the version checking code breaks.
remember the Atari game? In one of the missions you had to launch from the surface. If you just went full throttle straight up (until the LM went offscreen), the launch profile looked just like this Dragon test.
The battery is shown installed hanging on a wall. Its dimensions are H: 1300mm W: 860mm D:180mm, so it's too wide to fit in a closet. You also can't fit it under e.g. a workbench (in any orientation), so your only installation option is a blank expanse of wall. It also looks like the front panel is curved, so you can't install it lying on its back and then put anything on top of it.
So once again marketing (hey, let's make a glossy design that stands out and is impossible to hide) wins over practicality (let's make a rectangular box that can be installed somewhere unobtrusive).
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and is using the reverse of the tried-and-true (when you're lost: bury a length of fiber, wait for the inevitable backhoe to show up).
If it's Google, it ain't free. You pay for it with your privacy.
In addition to the official ESA news channels, there's a Twitter account by the name of SarcasticPhilae.
(Can't believe I'm recommending anything from Twitter, I suppose this is the exception that proves the rule)
So what you're saying is, "that's no moon!"
This is bad advice. I've had an alkaline explode when I attempted recharging it.
So this device fits around an alkaline battery. I've got a Wensn decibel meter that has a battery compartment big enough for alkaline AAs, but too small for any of my rechargeable AAs. The rechargeables have a slightly bigger diameter (the difference is 0.2-0.3 mm).
So there's a chance alkaline batteries using this device won't fit.
AIU, they use an explosive charge of their own, carefully configured and arranged to destroy the bomb's ignition source without setting off the explosives.
I did an internship at a telecom research facility around that time. They provided me with a 286 outfitted to run electronics simulations software. It had 2 MB RAM installed on an ISA card (or a predecessor thereof, it's a long time ago). It ran Windows 3.0, sort of. 2 MB was too little, and the thing crashed constantly. Combine that with the clumsy UI (File Manager and Program Manager, for instance) and the mess of applications that hadn't standardized yet (every program used different shortcuts), and the experience was less than stellar.
The contrast with my own Macintosh was huge. If you think us Maccies are smug now, you should have seen us then.
I was in favor of replacing the current Dutch car taxing scheme with a PAYG scheme. At the moment I'm paying a tax ("ownership tax") with rates based on vehicle weight and fuel type. This is a fixed cost; I have to pay this even when my vehicle isn't driven for weeks at a time. This removes some of the financial incentive of not using the car.
A PAYG scheme more closely couples my cost to the actual cost society incurs by my road usage, esp. when you include congestion charging.
Congestion charging also gives me leverage. If my employer requires me to be at $congestion_prone_location at $congestion_peak_time I can hand him a bill. Employers don't care how much time their employees spend in traffic jams, maybe the financial consequences of those traffic jams will get their attention.
.nl doesn't have toll roads, and 'store everything' camera schemes were rare back then. They've become common since, with nary a peep from the population.
Depends on how you implement it. A PAYG tax scheme was discussed in the Netherlands a few years ago, tariffs would have depended on the environmental rating of your vehicle, i.e. an old diesel would be taxed more than a new Euro-5 compliant one.
Over here the big advantages of PAYG were seen as:
- congestion pricing becomes possible
- it'd replace taxes on ownership and car purchase with usage-related pricing, incentivizing people to drive less.
The big disadvantage was the privacy concerns.
That's an odd choice to add to the list. Truck drivers usually live in their cabs.
suppose humans decided to leave the planet
Some humans, sure. But as long as the planet remains habitable, ALL humans leaving seems rather improbable. Human populations tend to expand to cover all available ground, not move as a single herd from A to B.
Most of the US Navy's nuclear ships are setup to be refueled at least once in the expected lifetime
Yes, that's why I specifically referred to CVN 78 which no longer has that requirement. The latest nuclear submarines have also been designed to do away with the midlife refueling, since that's a horrendously expensive 2-year-long drydock job.
The Voyager RTGs are decaying, NASA expects output power to drop below the point where it can keep a single instrument going around 2025.
The Pioneers are already long past the point where they can't send a strong enough signal to be detected.
The latest nuclear power plants for the US Navy have been designed to run without refueling for the life of the ship. That's 50 years for aircraft carriers, so the USS Gerald R Ford (CVN 78) is capable of functioning until 2065. Now I don't know how stable a nuclear power plant is when left on its own, but potentially this'll live much longer than the Voyagers.
Nothing I've seen indicates this, and I've been following them quite closely.
For one, the launch abort system is a required part of a manned Dragon that has been missing from all Dragon flights so far.
They have a Soyuz attached to the station and can use that to return to Earth if they need to.
They're just postponing a scheduled crew change, which is possible because despite the Progress failure, they still have enough supplies to last them until the next scheduled supply run.
The LR weighed 210 kg on Earth, 35 kg on the Moon.
I don't think he's putting so much force on it he'd lift one wheel though: he's standing downhill from the vehicle and he's holding on to it above its CoG. He'd have to be pulling the vehicle to lift that wheel, but he should be pushing it to prevent it sliding down the hillside.
More likely the rover is sitting on uneven ground and the right front suspension has bottomed out.
Exactly. From now on, no more version numbers greater than 10.
So they'll have Windows 10.1 - 10.10, then they'll continue numbering at 10.10.1 - 10.10.10, then it's 10.10.10.1 etc.
Until the Windows version string gets to be more than 256 bytes long and the version checking code breaks.
remember the Atari game? In one of the missions you had to launch from the surface. If you just went full throttle straight up (until the LM went offscreen), the launch profile looked just like this Dragon test.
What were you thinking, putting an autoplaying video on the front page????
The battery is shown installed hanging on a wall. Its dimensions are H: 1300mm W: 860mm D:180mm, so it's too wide to fit in a closet. You also can't fit it under e.g. a workbench (in any orientation), so your only installation option is a blank expanse of wall. It also looks like the front panel is curved, so you can't install it lying on its back and then put anything on top of it.
So once again marketing (hey, let's make a glossy design that stands out and is impossible to hide) wins over practicality (let's make a rectangular box that can be installed somewhere unobtrusive).
Hawaii would be a good fit for the system outlined in this recent story.
Install enough renewables to have a large excess of power, and use the excess to generate diesel fuel and alleviate Hawaii's high fuel prices.
Traffic accidents are almost always caused by driver error. Mechanical failure is lost in the noise at less than 5% of all crashes.
Thanks!