Yeah, I'm sure there wouldn't be a substantial weight penalty incurred by making the ENTIRE EXTERNAL TANK SHELL a pressure vessel. That won't be really, really heavy or anything.
It might be safer, but so is sitting on a park bench. Making Shuttle even heavier is not the way to make it work better.
"Or would you rather they rushed a half-assed design out the door?"
Nope. We've been using a half-assed design for 20 years now, and you see where that's gotten us.
There are LOTS of smart people working on next-generation manned spacecraft. The fact that NASA can't find its ass without guidance from Mission Control and a huge articulated arm from Canada doesn't mean that somebody else can't do the job.
E=mc^2 IS the Special Theory of Relativity, and there are no numbers at all in it, round or otherwise.
You're VERY confused.
The formula isn't in terms of joules, kilograms, and meters. It's in terms of the physical phenomena we measure with the units of joules, kilograms and meters.
1 Joule is one kilogram meter squared per second squared. If you want to measure energy in slug miles squared per leap year squared, that's fine. You just have to use a conversion factor. Let's see if we can derive it.
1 slug is 32.2 lbs mass, and 1 lb mass is 2.2 kg. So to convert kg to slugs, you get 16.1 slugs per kilogram.
1 mile is 5280 feet, and a foot is.3048 meters. So 1 mile is about 1609 meters.
Leap year is 366 days, 24 hours/day, 60 minutes/hr, 60 s/minute. So a leap year is 31 662 400 seconds. (that number is going to get pretty gnarly when I square it.)
OK, so how many kilogram meters squared per second squared in a slug mile squared per leap year squared?
1 J= (31622400^2)/(16.1*1609^2) slug mile squared per leap year squared. Multiply that out, and you get 233991184 and change.
Dimensional analysis is your friend.
You can define your units how ever you like, as long as you carry the conversion factors with you. The metric system has simple conversion factors, because that's how it was designed. There's nothing magical about it. Meters aren't scribed on the fabric of the universe, they're just what we use to measure stuff.
Uh huh. Free markets only work when there's competition, and with the FCC's recent decisions to maintain the monopoly status of cable plants, and to return DSL to the Baby Bell's monopoly, there's going to be not as much competition, which will drive prices up, and decrease service levels.
It's currently not possible to buy residential broadband service with non-horrible customer service. This situation will now get worse.
I'm not talking about having the government providing Internet service (again, I wonder who you think you're arguing with)...I'm talking about having the FCC give some thought to the consumer instead of their corporate masters from time to time.
I can't get FIOS (Jesus, what planet are YOU on?), satellite is horrible latency, I don't have wifi uplink to the Internet, or broadband over power lines. DSL at my house is SDSL, 128k up and down, for crazy big money.
So, if I want "broadband", I get cable, and I'm lucky to have it. I live well within the borders of a good-sized city.
In many places in America, any particular carrier does in fact have a monopoly on broadband access.
Why do you even mention dial up? Are you confused about what discussion we're having here?
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"
I'm not trying to tell you that you weren't allowed to enjoy the movie. I'm telling you why I didn't enjoy it.
The Laws were bolted in. They weren't central to the story. The positronic psychologist had about four seconds of screen time, and then became the generic "chick that needs to be saved" for the rest of the movie.
It was a mediocre sci-fi shoot 'em up tarted up with Asimov's name, and I didn't enjoy it. Sorry...
Oh yeah, Paycheck was the same movie and it sucked too.
No, actually, it was a completely different story with a completely different world with some names from Asimov's book pasted on because some marketing flack somewhere thought it would be a good idea. The movie was already in production under the title "Hard Wired" or something, until they did the hack job on it.
Wasn't Starsiege more of a RTS sort of thing? I don't recall...I've slept since then.
I guess I'd say that it's wise to evaluate things like games and movies on their own terms. I happened to like the new remake of The Italian Job more than I liked the original. Would it have been a better movie had they not paid homage to the original? Don't know, but regardless of what had gone before, I had fun in that movie.
Conversely, I loathed Starship Troopers and I, Robot because they seemed expressly designed to obliterate their source material.
Tribes is a great game. Sequels to great games are sometimes great games. (and sometimes not so great.) Either something is fun and entertaining, or it's not. I'm not sure whether there's a strong correlation between crappiness and sequel-arity.
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Yeah, I'm sure there wouldn't be a substantial weight penalty incurred by making the ENTIRE EXTERNAL TANK SHELL a pressure vessel. That won't be really, really heavy or anything.
It might be safer, but so is sitting on a park bench. Making Shuttle even heavier is not the way to make it work better.
"shuttle is a proven platform"
*eyebrow*
"the ISS will likely never be finished."
I can live with that.
"Or would you rather they rushed a half-assed design out the door?"
Nope. We've been using a half-assed design for 20 years now, and you see where that's gotten us.
There are LOTS of smart people working on next-generation manned spacecraft. The fact that NASA can't find its ass without guidance from Mission Control and a huge articulated arm from Canada doesn't mean that somebody else can't do the job.
When a judge deprives a person of their due process rights, they are committing a crime that's certainly greater than Mitnick was accused of.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it a capital crime, but it's certainly up in the grand larceny arena.
Yeah, we should totally have a legal system where only people who aren't nitwits get due process. Everybody who IS a nitwit should just rot in jail.
Who picks the nitwits?
What the hell is the matter with you? Everybody knows that "nurple" rhymes with "purple". What, did you skip fourth grade or something?
Frank and Alan Moore wrote the comic books, Larry and Andy Wachowski did the movie. What more could you possibly want?
(it's a joke, people.)
In the same way that a Mini Cooper is like a Hummer H2, yeah.
What's your point?
E=mc^2 IS the Special Theory of Relativity, and there are no numbers at all in it, round or otherwise.
.3048 meters. So 1 mile is about 1609 meters.
You're VERY confused.
The formula isn't in terms of joules, kilograms, and meters. It's in terms of the physical phenomena we measure with the units of joules, kilograms and meters.
1 Joule is one kilogram meter squared per second squared. If you want to measure energy in slug miles squared per leap year squared, that's fine. You just have to use a conversion factor. Let's see if we can derive it.
1 slug is 32.2 lbs mass, and 1 lb mass is 2.2 kg. So to convert kg to slugs, you get 16.1 slugs per kilogram.
1 mile is 5280 feet, and a foot is
Leap year is 366 days, 24 hours/day, 60 minutes/hr, 60 s/minute. So a leap year is 31 662 400 seconds. (that number is going to get pretty gnarly when I square it.)
OK, so how many kilogram meters squared per second squared in a slug mile squared per leap year squared?
1 J= (31622400^2)/(16.1*1609^2) slug mile squared per leap year squared. Multiply that out, and you get 233991184 and change.
Dimensional analysis is your friend.
You can define your units how ever you like, as long as you carry the conversion factors with you. The metric system has simple conversion factors, because that's how it was designed. There's nothing magical about it. Meters aren't scribed on the fabric of the universe, they're just what we use to measure stuff.
You can use furlongs per fortnight if you want to. It doesn't matter, as long as you use consistent units, or include appropriate conversion factors.
Please tell me you didn't seriously think that you'd break the Special Theory of Relativity by changing unit conventions...
Everything is an approximation. The only difference is how many assumptions you have to make.
"Let them eat cake!"
Uh huh. Free markets only work when there's competition, and with the FCC's recent decisions to maintain the monopoly status of cable plants, and to return DSL to the Baby Bell's monopoly, there's going to be not as much competition, which will drive prices up, and decrease service levels.
It's currently not possible to buy residential broadband service with non-horrible customer service. This situation will now get worse.
I'm not talking about having the government providing Internet service (again, I wonder who you think you're arguing with)...I'm talking about having the FCC give some thought to the consumer instead of their corporate masters from time to time.
I can't get FIOS (Jesus, what planet are YOU on?), satellite is horrible latency, I don't have wifi uplink to the Internet, or broadband over power lines. DSL at my house is SDSL, 128k up and down, for crazy big money.
So, if I want "broadband", I get cable, and I'm lucky to have it. I live well within the borders of a good-sized city.
In many places in America, any particular carrier does in fact have a monopoly on broadband access.
Why do you even mention dial up? Are you confused about what discussion we're having here?
Socialism is dumb, but unregulated monopolies on utilities is far dumber.
Have you not been paying attention to who's running the show right now?
Yeah, his name is Floyd. Creepy dude.
Thanks for asking.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"
That'd be Number 4.
Violating a contract is not a violation of law. It's a violation of a contract.
Was Rowling saying that, or was her money grubbing publisher saying that?
That word...I donno think it means wha you think it means.
Unfortunately, aerospace engineering degree + no experience = no job. Classic catch-22.
Thanks for the tips, though. Maybe the whole nuts-trading thing will work out for me...
Obviously, it wasn't fun for me. Therefore...
I'm not trying to tell you that you weren't allowed to enjoy the movie. I'm telling you why I didn't enjoy it.
The Laws were bolted in. They weren't central to the story. The positronic psychologist had about four seconds of screen time, and then became the generic "chick that needs to be saved" for the rest of the movie.
It was a mediocre sci-fi shoot 'em up tarted up with Asimov's name, and I didn't enjoy it. Sorry...
Oh yeah, Paycheck was the same movie and it sucked too.
If there's one person in modern-day aeronautical engineering who deserves as big an ego as he can swing, it's Rutan.
I've never seen any evidence of said ego, though. In interviews he comes across as a pretty down-to-earth (no pun) sort of guy.
I'd give very, very serious thoughts to trading both nuts to work in his shop.
No, actually, it was a completely different story with a completely different world with some names from Asimov's book pasted on because some marketing flack somewhere thought it would be a good idea. The movie was already in production under the title "Hard Wired" or something, until they did the hack job on it.
"Good yarn"? Did you see the same movie I did?
Wasn't Starsiege more of a RTS sort of thing? I don't recall...I've slept since then.
I guess I'd say that it's wise to evaluate things like games and movies on their own terms. I happened to like the new remake of The Italian Job more than I liked the original. Would it have been a better movie had they not paid homage to the original? Don't know, but regardless of what had gone before, I had fun in that movie.
Conversely, I loathed Starship Troopers and I, Robot because they seemed expressly designed to obliterate their source material.
Tribes is a great game. Sequels to great games are sometimes great games. (and sometimes not so great.) Either something is fun and entertaining, or it's not. I'm not sure whether there's a strong correlation between crappiness and sequel-arity.
And Tribes, of course, was the first game where you "shoot" things from a first-person "point of view".
I say that not to contradict you, but to point out that enjoyable games are not always original ideas.