Odd how mind and memory work or don't; how could I have left out something such as Sputnik I in October '57? For that matter, Nautilus' transpolar trip of '58? Not to mention Nautilus herself? So many new things, now faded, occupying various dusty shelves and corners of the brain.
Reminds me a bit of my mother's father, who as a child walked behind a mule plowing fields and watched as automobiles (and tractors!) became common, for whom the airplane of the Wright brothers et al were new and wondrous, and who lived just long enough to watch Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the Moon.
On being a geezer and related: oh, yeah; half the stuff we have now from all the sci-fi read starting late Fifties, the rest of it I'm still waiting for. But the perspective, and having lived through all the things that were then brand-freaking-new and now taken so for granted as to be background.... gets a bit weird at times.
Seeing Star Trek when it first aired. Watching Destination Moon (1950) in 1951 when a print made it to the post theater outside of Augsburg. There was a year when I was still an engineering student that I routinely carried a slip-stick and a calculator - and for years after still used my slide-rules for a lot of general use. Microwave ovens in general restaurant and even home use. Chains instead of snow tires. Automatic transmissions becoming widespread. Somebody on the block getting a color TV. FM radio for music. Digital-input touchpads instead of knobs and switches. Lot of stuff, man, lot of stuff.
No, ISS needs thrusters mostly for attitude control (in conjunction with gyros, I believe), although it can manage enough thrust to do some of its own orbital adjustments and for debris-avoidance.
Most boost is done by visiting craft. Whatever the source, boost is used to raise orbit as a counter to air resistance, not to counter gravity.
Free fall is free fall, orbit is orbit - the latter defined as balancing velocity between lowering or raising orbital path. So far as I know, all orbital decay is due to atmospheric drag (I'm ignoring solar pressure due to its much smaller effect because of surface area vs. density ratio of most satellites.)
Oh, and "micro-gravity" stems from _all_ mass, not just Earth. It's a specific term for specific use and along the way has become a politically-correct term for more general usage; for general purposes such terms as "weightlessness" and "zero-g" work just fine in conversation because that is the sensation that people experience and describe as observable effects on objects.
I used "vomit comet zero g time span" as search term in DuckDuckGo and got plenty of good hits. Four of the six I looked at reported "25-30" seconds, the same as one result from NASA; the others may use those figures but didn't specify source. I'll go with NASA's numbers because they're the ones who've done more of these flights than anyone else.
Right on. Well said. The 'net ought to be open. If some folks want to close their content a bit with a security measure that's their call, and has no place in a web standard. Seems to me that incorporating a procedure to do DRM as part of HTML standards just shifts things around a bit. People will pay for good content at a fair price, DRM or no, while some will go to any lengths to not pay. (Whether "people will pay" holds up in a few more generations is unknown, but I still don't see that including a mechanism to help trying to enforce paid content into a web standard, as distinct from what is used now, ends up helping anyone.)
Yes, and we value our right to free speech and assembly so much that now we set aside and assiduously enforce special zones for the practice thereof, safely removed from those to whom such speech is directed. Permits to use such zones can be applied for and granted in a timely manner; for instance, I've read of some universities that offer quick turnaround of less than six months, even.
Yup, guy lived not too far down the road, Ovshinsky, he of amorphous crystalline structure solar cells, earlier (late 70s?) demonstrated tanks filled with basically steel wool. Stored a lot of hydrogen safely. As a demonstration he pierced a full tank with a bullet from his deer rifle. Couldn't see the flame in the bright sunlight, just the heat shimmer. That's all it was, a small flame, no boom. He still couldn't get investors for it at the time, although now it's a big business - he was finally vindicated.
So, take the 'empties' back to exchange them for re-manufactured ones at a goodly discount.
Depending on application and needs I see this as distinct advantage over batteries, which eventually wear out (although nice thing about most lithium-ion is that they're readily reclaimable, if I understand correctly). I'd like to see figures on power density beyond what's in the article, and on operations envelope. So far, though, looks interesting; I suppose follow-up will be if Mike can get these to market.
Or it could be that flowers are an efficient way to make pollen and produce pheromones.
I seem to recall reading way back that there was some evidence to suggest that early flowers were insipid by current standards and that they became more colorful with the rise of winged whoosits. Also, now I think of it, pheromones waft nicely on air currents. Doesn't hurt to have several navaids, coarse to fine.
I started with "Red October" when it came out in paperback and read through to "The Teeth of the Tiger". I was interested enough in how things turned out next after "Debt of Honor" to buy "Executive Orders" in hardbound, totally blowing that month's discretionary fund. I also bought and read the first half-dozen or so Net Force, Power Plays, and Op-Center paperbacks. (Somewhere in all that I also had The Hunt for Red October for my Atari ST.) I also had several of his non-fiction books, including the ones with Fred Franks and Chuck Horner.
Sure, there were things I could find fault with. But a combination of good research and later good access viz. military et al allowing rich detail, rousing stories, interesting plots and characters, kept me pretty well captivated. "Cardinal of the Kremlin", for instance, was one of the last Cold War-era novels that seemed to me to capture some of the feel of it. I never felt the need to analyze stuff to a fare-thee-well, simply enjoyed the reading.
Tom Clancy told good tales. I enjoyed them. I miss that, and him.
What also struck me at the time was Condoleeza Rice saying that "no one could have imagined" using planes to hit buildings. On my bookshelf at the time were three books with just that plot element, Clancy's "Debt of Honor" among them.
Years back Clancy was on Charlie Rose and was asked why the U.S. has so many idiotic policies. "Because we keep electing idiots." (I also took away the under-current: it takes idiots to elect idiots.)
From reading an article on this before coming here, I'm still flabbergasted that he was using servers in the U.S. Color me naive but I don't see where that made sense.
Second thing, after reading more, is why the blazes did he have anything to do with SR sent directly to himself?
I realize 20-20 hindsight and all, but c'mon, seems to me that's all 'security 101' stuff, no?
Thanks. I was wondering how things actually worked for her, and I appreciate your explanation. My intent re dried dates was that my understanding was that they were the most compact and efficient way of delivering high sugar content speedily in a way that is convenient for many. (Full disclosure: I like 'em anyway; I find them tasty, and good for a quick energy hit.)
I got hipped to the glycemic index thing from a diabetic housemate who bought the book, not really knowing what he might be getting or asked to understand; he gave it to me to read, trusting that I might somehow magically be able to explain it to him. So I read, read some more, got online, etc. Told him that some people did some real research as distinct from 'common knowledge' and found some things which seemed to work reliably over time for a bunch of people. Said that making small changes in what he ate (choice of bread, for example) and making a few adjustments for total intake of what over the course of a day might help him even things out (his levels often spiked badly more days than not.)
Had him talk to his doc about it. Took some doing, but upshot was that at the end of six months of peripatetic practice, and with doctor's eventual blessing - and change in insulin brand or type, I fergit which - the guy was able to make adjustments, find he liked the change in foods and doing some actual daily effort to meal planning to arrive at an overall daily balance, he got his readings to stay steady and within target range - for the first time in close to ten years. I thought that in the main the stuff made sense but was nervous as hell about trying to advise the guy (again, after I talked to his doctor, for his approval, mostly), but was glad that it worked.
Oh, the cookies. Funny, 'cuz I know two diabetics in the house who routinely carry a baggie of cookies. Not cheap, but ubiquitous, and it's one of those "everybody knows" solutions. I like the point you make about the fat content.
I have enough things on my own plate at the moment and truly hope that diabetes is not someday added to the mix; I have sympathy and respect for anyone having to deal with that disease; anything which is invented or done (the gene stuff, for instance) to help gets my interest and my hopes that it works well.
"Here is something concrete that you could ask for...." Not a bad idea, since it remains to be seem if the relevant prosecutors will, you know, do their jobs.
LOVEINT isn't quite the issue, tho it's part of it. Just how does mapping social connections of US citizens protect them from terrorist attack? Buehler? Buehler?
Dude testifying before Congress committee, saying all this data vacuuming has prevented 50 attacks, another time, 100 attacks. In my mind I keep remembering hearing McCarthy saying he's holding in his hand the names of commies and fellow-travellers in the government. At least Gunner Joe had some names - and provided them.
"These leaks have simply pushed the discussion into the open, so that people who don't care can continue not holding people accountable." Lovely turn of phrase, thank you, and a fair description as well, although I see few major news sites covering that discussion.
Your third para is, I fear, precisely the outcome.
You, the/. resident hippie? Shucks, there's times I thought you were downright reactionary. (Don't mind me, for the past week I keep remembering Donald "It's the vibes, man." Sutherland in Kelly's Heroes.)
Btw, it's a very small sample, so discounted, but the few mercs I knew way back when were particular from whom they got their pay and in aid of what. But today's version, I place no bets.
He didn't say that he had met these people; said his wife had.
People at any rung of a bureaucracy are enjoined to represent official policy - it's part of the job description, to carry out policy. Excusing them by virtue of incompetence is not an excuse. If there's been an erroneous conclusion, I'd say it's yours.
"The day before, they could have intercepted some "baby in a sling" attack scenario and had orders to check those more thoroughly."
Right. As much as TSA loves to blow their horn, you think such an attempt would not have gotten widespread airing? Perhaps it's one of those many attacks they've prevented that they haven't told us about - to protect their methods of scanning, inspection, and groping. Oh, wait.
And if normal inspection of baby-in-sling caught one attempt, why not continue normal inspection? Just how sophisticated can such an attack attempt get via that "scenario"? Besides, after the first slung baby attack failed, they're gonna keep trying it over and over until they get it right, right?
For the third item, I fail to see where a person lives has to do with hassling a mother and baby elsewhere. Seems more like cheap attack, reminder, or threat, or just general bloody-mindedness. Here's the thing: guy could be on the ten-most-wanted, doesn't matter, you do not mess with family as a tactic, and you don't mess with mother and baby on normal moral grounds.
A profile? For living overseas? This is supposed to be the now-accepted normal? Jesus wept. If that's the kind of shit that's gonna keep us safe, we'll never be safe, not from attacker nor defender.
Maybe you were just trying to be fair to TSA but seems more like something else to me.
I read that most efficient delivery food was dried dates, don't know if you've seen this or if it's so. Also saw it listed on a glycemic index chart, at the top. I think honey is right up there as well, but if the container leaks it's hellacious sticky compared to a bag of cookies.
The rational human in me agrees. I've long argued for the legalization of most recreational drugs. Caveat is combined with good education and better recovery/rehab/training/counseling. Main rule would be "do not operate under the influence" be it vehicle or in the workplace of power machinery.
Intervention gets interesting. Do we intervene when someone seems bent on self-destruction to the point of death or decides while "drug addled" to commit suicide? So we sober them up. What if they still decide to die? I think we have to allow that choice. Making suicide a crime bespeaks a jealous god.
C. Wright Mills, "The Power Elite", 1958, may serve as a good introduction to the present. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Elite is worth reading in its entirety for a good summary.
for background there's always Richelieu and Machiavelli; depends on how much you want to stretch concept of feudalism, I suppose.
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Odd how mind and memory work or don't; how could I have left out something such as Sputnik I in October '57? For that matter, Nautilus' transpolar trip of '58? Not to mention Nautilus herself? So many new things, now faded, occupying various dusty shelves and corners of the brain.
Reminds me a bit of my mother's father, who as a child walked behind a mule plowing fields and watched as automobiles (and tractors!) became common, for whom the airplane of the Wright brothers et al were new and wondrous, and who lived just long enough to watch Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the Moon.
On being a geezer and related: oh, yeah; half the stuff we have now from all the sci-fi read starting late Fifties, the rest of it I'm still waiting for. But the perspective, and having lived through all the things that were then brand-freaking-new and now taken so for granted as to be background.... gets a bit weird at times.
Seeing Star Trek when it first aired. Watching Destination Moon (1950) in 1951 when a print made it to the post theater outside of Augsburg. There was a year when I was still an engineering student that I routinely carried a slip-stick and a calculator - and for years after still used my slide-rules for a lot of general use. Microwave ovens in general restaurant and even home use. Chains instead of snow tires. Automatic transmissions becoming widespread. Somebody on the block getting a color TV. FM radio for music. Digital-input touchpads instead of knobs and switches. Lot of stuff, man, lot of stuff.
No, ISS needs thrusters mostly for attitude control (in conjunction with gyros, I believe), although it can manage enough thrust to do some of its own orbital adjustments and for debris-avoidance.
Most boost is done by visiting craft. Whatever the source, boost is used to raise orbit as a counter to air resistance, not to counter gravity.
Free fall is free fall, orbit is orbit - the latter defined as balancing velocity between lowering or raising orbital path. So far as I know, all orbital decay is due to atmospheric drag (I'm ignoring solar pressure due to its much smaller effect because of surface area vs. density ratio of most satellites.)
Oh, and "micro-gravity" stems from _all_ mass, not just Earth. It's a specific term for specific use and along the way has become a politically-correct term for more general usage; for general purposes such terms as "weightlessness" and "zero-g" work just fine in conversation because that is the sensation that people experience and describe as observable effects on objects.
20-30 seconds is more like it.
http://www.gozerog.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Experience.How_it_Works
"For the next 20-30 seconds everything in the plane is weightless."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_gravity_aircraft
"giving them about 25 seconds of weightlessness out of 65 seconds of flight in each parabola"
I used "vomit comet zero g time span" as search term in DuckDuckGo and got plenty of good hits. Four of the six I looked at reported "25-30" seconds, the same as one result from NASA; the others may use those figures but didn't specify source. I'll go with NASA's numbers because they're the ones who've done more of these flights than anyone else.
Right on. Well said. The 'net ought to be open. If some folks want to close their content a bit with a security measure that's their call, and has no place in a web standard. Seems to me that incorporating a procedure to do DRM as part of HTML standards just shifts things around a bit. People will pay for good content at a fair price, DRM or no, while some will go to any lengths to not pay. (Whether "people will pay" holds up in a few more generations is unknown, but I still don't see that including a mechanism to help trying to enforce paid content into a web standard, as distinct from what is used now, ends up helping anyone.)
Serves me right for not reading the whole thing. Thank you.
Mod up. He gets the article.
Yes, and we value our right to free speech and assembly so much that now we set aside and assiduously enforce special zones for the practice thereof, safely removed from those to whom such speech is directed. Permits to use such zones can be applied for and granted in a timely manner; for instance, I've read of some universities that offer quick turnaround of less than six months, even.
I think you kinda missed the sarcasm.
Yup, guy lived not too far down the road, Ovshinsky, he of amorphous crystalline structure solar cells, earlier (late 70s?) demonstrated tanks filled with basically steel wool. Stored a lot of hydrogen safely. As a demonstration he pierced a full tank with a bullet from his deer rifle. Couldn't see the flame in the bright sunlight, just the heat shimmer. That's all it was, a small flame, no boom. He still couldn't get investors for it at the time, although now it's a big business - he was finally vindicated.
So, take the 'empties' back to exchange them for re-manufactured ones at a goodly discount.
Depending on application and needs I see this as distinct advantage over batteries, which eventually wear out (although nice thing about most lithium-ion is that they're readily reclaimable, if I understand correctly). I'd like to see figures on power density beyond what's in the article, and on operations envelope. So far, though, looks interesting; I suppose follow-up will be if Mike can get these to market.
Or it could be that flowers are an efficient way to make pollen and produce pheromones.
I seem to recall reading way back that there was some evidence to suggest that early flowers were insipid by current standards and that they became more colorful with the rise of winged whoosits. Also, now I think of it, pheromones waft nicely on air currents. Doesn't hurt to have several navaids, coarse to fine.
I started with "Red October" when it came out in paperback and read through to "The Teeth of the Tiger". I was interested enough in how things turned out next after "Debt of Honor" to buy "Executive Orders" in hardbound, totally blowing that month's discretionary fund. I also bought and read the first half-dozen or so Net Force, Power Plays, and Op-Center paperbacks. (Somewhere in all that I also had The Hunt for Red October for my Atari ST.) I also had several of his non-fiction books, including the ones with Fred Franks and Chuck Horner.
Sure, there were things I could find fault with. But a combination of good research and later good access viz. military et al allowing rich detail, rousing stories, interesting plots and characters, kept me pretty well captivated. "Cardinal of the Kremlin", for instance, was one of the last Cold War-era novels that seemed to me to capture some of the feel of it. I never felt the need to analyze stuff to a fare-thee-well, simply enjoyed the reading.
Tom Clancy told good tales. I enjoyed them. I miss that, and him.
What also struck me at the time was Condoleeza Rice saying that "no one could have imagined" using planes to hit buildings. On my bookshelf at the time were three books with just that plot element, Clancy's "Debt of Honor" among them.
Years back Clancy was on Charlie Rose and was asked why the U.S. has so many idiotic policies. "Because we keep electing idiots." (I also took away the under-current: it takes idiots to elect idiots.)
From reading an article on this before coming here, I'm still flabbergasted that he was using servers in the U.S. Color me naive but I don't see where that made sense.
Second thing, after reading more, is why the blazes did he have anything to do with SR sent directly to himself?
I realize 20-20 hindsight and all, but c'mon, seems to me that's all 'security 101' stuff, no?
Thanks. I was wondering how things actually worked for her, and I appreciate your explanation. My intent re dried dates was that my understanding was that they were the most compact and efficient way of delivering high sugar content speedily in a way that is convenient for many. (Full disclosure: I like 'em anyway; I find them tasty, and good for a quick energy hit.)
I got hipped to the glycemic index thing from a diabetic housemate who bought the book, not really knowing what he might be getting or asked to understand; he gave it to me to read, trusting that I might somehow magically be able to explain it to him. So I read, read some more, got online, etc. Told him that some people did some real research as distinct from 'common knowledge' and found some things which seemed to work reliably over time for a bunch of people. Said that making small changes in what he ate (choice of bread, for example) and making a few adjustments for total intake of what over the course of a day might help him even things out (his levels often spiked badly more days than not.)
Had him talk to his doc about it. Took some doing, but upshot was that at the end of six months of peripatetic practice, and with doctor's eventual blessing - and change in insulin brand or type, I fergit which - the guy was able to make adjustments, find he liked the change in foods and doing some actual daily effort to meal planning to arrive at an overall daily balance, he got his readings to stay steady and within target range - for the first time in close to ten years. I thought that in the main the stuff made sense but was nervous as hell about trying to advise the guy (again, after I talked to his doctor, for his approval, mostly), but was glad that it worked.
Oh, the cookies. Funny, 'cuz I know two diabetics in the house who routinely carry a baggie of cookies. Not cheap, but ubiquitous, and it's one of those "everybody knows" solutions. I like the point you make about the fat content.
I have enough things on my own plate at the moment and truly hope that diabetes is not someday added to the mix; I have sympathy and respect for anyone having to deal with that disease; anything which is invented or done (the gene stuff, for instance) to help gets my interest and my hopes that it works well.
"Here is something concrete that you could ask for...." Not a bad idea, since it remains to be seem if the relevant prosecutors will, you know, do their jobs.
LOVEINT isn't quite the issue, tho it's part of it. Just how does mapping social connections of US citizens protect them from terrorist attack? Buehler? Buehler?
Dude testifying before Congress committee, saying all this data vacuuming has prevented 50 attacks, another time, 100 attacks. In my mind I keep remembering hearing McCarthy saying he's holding in his hand the names of commies and fellow-travellers in the government. At least Gunner Joe had some names - and provided them.
"These leaks have simply pushed the discussion into the open, so that people who don't care can continue not holding people accountable." Lovely turn of phrase, thank you, and a fair description as well, although I see few major news sites covering that discussion.
Your third para is, I fear, precisely the outcome.
You, the /. resident hippie? Shucks, there's times I thought you were downright reactionary. (Don't mind me, for the past week I keep remembering Donald "It's the vibes, man." Sutherland in Kelly's Heroes.)
Btw, it's a very small sample, so discounted, but the few mercs I knew way back when were particular from whom they got their pay and in aid of what. But today's version, I place no bets.
He didn't say that he had met these people; said his wife had.
People at any rung of a bureaucracy are enjoined to represent official policy - it's part of the job description, to carry out policy. Excusing them by virtue of incompetence is not an excuse. If there's been an erroneous conclusion, I'd say it's yours.
"The day before, they could have intercepted some "baby in a sling" attack scenario and had orders to check those more thoroughly."
Right. As much as TSA loves to blow their horn, you think such an attempt would not have gotten widespread airing? Perhaps it's one of those many attacks they've prevented that they haven't told us about - to protect their methods of scanning, inspection, and groping. Oh, wait.
And if normal inspection of baby-in-sling caught one attempt, why not continue normal inspection? Just how sophisticated can such an attack attempt get via that "scenario"? Besides, after the first slung baby attack failed, they're gonna keep trying it over and over until they get it right, right?
For the third item, I fail to see where a person lives has to do with hassling a mother and baby elsewhere. Seems more like cheap attack, reminder, or threat, or just general bloody-mindedness. Here's the thing: guy could be on the ten-most-wanted, doesn't matter, you do not mess with family as a tactic, and you don't mess with mother and baby on normal moral grounds.
A profile? For living overseas? This is supposed to be the now-accepted normal? Jesus wept. If that's the kind of shit that's gonna keep us safe, we'll never be safe, not from attacker nor defender.
Maybe you were just trying to be fair to TSA but seems more like something else to me.
Petrogen, impressive indeed. If I heard it correctly, cuts 10" for 10hrs. on two gallons of fuel. Multi-fuel, at that.
I read that most efficient delivery food was dried dates, don't know if you've seen this or if it's so. Also saw it listed on a glycemic index chart, at the top. I think honey is right up there as well, but if the container leaks it's hellacious sticky compared to a bag of cookies.
The rational human in me agrees. I've long argued for the legalization of most recreational drugs. Caveat is combined with good education and better recovery/rehab/training/counseling. Main rule would be "do not operate under the influence" be it vehicle or in the workplace of power machinery.
Intervention gets interesting. Do we intervene when someone seems bent on self-destruction to the point of death or decides while "drug addled" to commit suicide? So we sober them up. What if they still decide to die? I think we have to allow that choice. Making suicide a crime bespeaks a jealous god.
Oh, yeah, forgot: None Dare.... sucked when it came out, it didn't get better with time.
C. Wright Mills, "The Power Elite", 1958, may serve as a good introduction to the present.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Elite is worth reading in its entirety for a good summary.
for background there's always Richelieu and Machiavelli; depends on how much you want to stretch concept of feudalism, I suppose.