I know the probability of them having internet access is pretty low, but if that were the case, and they wanted to do astronomy without having to go out into the danger zone, maybe the astronomy community with robotic telescopes around the world would be willing to donate time to help amateur astronomers in war torn regions? I know I could probably find a few hours of time here and there on the robotic scope I have access to.
As someone who works on several NASA science mission directorate missions, I have to say I have mixed feelings about this. James Webb was going to be an amazing successor to Hubble, and would have been very popular with the general public as well as with scientists. However, it is way way over budget, and eating the budgets of other worthy science missions, and maybe there is something to be said for cutting missions who can't keep on budget. I was really looking forward to James Webb though, even if it was the 800lb gorilla of the science mission directorate.
I have always like Ron Paul, even though I usually vote Democrat. I think he deserves Kudos for consistently extending ideas like personal liberty, small government, and fiscal responsibility to areas that most other Republicans decide not to, like drug usage and military spending.
I have found many high quality apps for Android. I have developed for both platforms, and its no secret that I absolutely detest the process of building iPhone apps. For me to load a helloWorld program onto my iOS device took me $100.00 for the licensing fee, several hours to figure out Objective-C, and several days of reading blogs and tinkering to actually get the provisioning profile and app to sync up and ALLOW me to load code that I had written onto a device that I own. In contrast, it took me about 2 hours to get my development environment set up, download the SDK, write and load my program to my Android device. The moral of the story is that Android is a much more welcoming platform, and in my view quite superior.
Come on Slashdot, be reasonable. Maybe these topics don't represent what would be found in a traditional CS curriculum for college, but they sound like the very subjects that a pre-CS course at the high school level would be wise to teach.
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I know the probability of them having internet access is pretty low, but if that were the case, and they wanted to do astronomy without having to go out into the danger zone, maybe the astronomy community with robotic telescopes around the world would be willing to donate time to help amateur astronomers in war torn regions? I know I could probably find a few hours of time here and there on the robotic scope I have access to.
Yeah, but that's the very thing we launched Kepler to do, and it has a much better chance of finding it then JWST would.
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As someone who works on several NASA science mission directorate missions, I have to say I have mixed feelings about this. James Webb was going to be an amazing successor to Hubble, and would have been very popular with the general public as well as with scientists. However, it is way way over budget, and eating the budgets of other worthy science missions, and maybe there is something to be said for cutting missions who can't keep on budget. I was really looking forward to James Webb though, even if it was the 800lb gorilla of the science mission directorate.
I have always like Ron Paul, even though I usually vote Democrat. I think he deserves Kudos for consistently extending ideas like personal liberty, small government, and fiscal responsibility to areas that most other Republicans decide not to, like drug usage and military spending.
I have found many high quality apps for Android. I have developed for both platforms, and its no secret that I absolutely detest the process of building iPhone apps. For me to load a helloWorld program onto my iOS device took me $100.00 for the licensing fee, several hours to figure out Objective-C, and several days of reading blogs and tinkering to actually get the provisioning profile and app to sync up and ALLOW me to load code that I had written onto a device that I own. In contrast, it took me about 2 hours to get my development environment set up, download the SDK, write and load my program to my Android device. The moral of the story is that Android is a much more welcoming platform, and in my view quite superior.
Come on Slashdot, be reasonable. Maybe these topics don't represent what would be found in a traditional CS curriculum for college, but they sound like the very subjects that a pre-CS course at the high school level would be wise to teach.