Hey man, you and the rest of the hang the spammers crowd need to realise that it cuts both ways. If you want a free and open Internet you have to accept the spam. Don't like spam? Then don't give out your E-mail address to people likely to spam you. Still get spam? Write yourself a spam filter.
I don't like spam, but I'd rather have spam than an over-regulated Internet and I think that spending 5 minutes of my time each day dealing with the spam that gets through the filters is much better than some guy having to go to prison with all the psychological torment that might/will cause, not only to him but his innocent family and friends as well. Not to mention that sending people to prison harms the economy.
My old Warfdale 750 lets me fast forward/skip the intro and whatever else I like. It was sightly disappointing when I found I couldn't do that on my new one.
I suppose what I'm getting at here, is that with careful choice you may be able to skip the intros on DVD players too.
I hope they make provision for the amateur bands and we (radio enthusiasts) don't have to club together to buy them. I wonder if licenses will be required still?
I'm not an Medical geek, but the "yellow lung granule" sounds to me like it could be a tonsillolith.
Tonsilloliths are some times called "tonsil stones". I'm aware that he maintains the granule came from the lung, but I'd be interested to examine the throaght and tonsils throughally to eliminate that posibility. I'm also aware that tonsilloliths or similar objects can form much further down than the tonsils.
I'd be interested in whether the paitent had a history of tonsilitus, ear infection, post nasel drip or other sinus trouble.
I'd try to find an ENT (Ear nose and throaght) surgen to discuss that with (and if s/he hasn't heard of tonsil stones go somewhere else or take some info from the web). Next stop would be a lung specilist, and someone to investigate the stomach and esophagus.
Does anyone have an E-mail address where we can contact him if we can't call him by telephone?
Yup:) Can't land in an exactly predetermined location without them though and wings also generally mean a gentler landing (with no pesky parachutes to fail deploy a-la Genesis). Generally though if a capsule had a sterable parachute and was only needed for transporting men and equipment that can stand a bit of a bump on landing then it would make sence to use one and of course capsules are generally cheaper. It's very much a case of using the right tool for the job. Personally I'd like to see winged craft for ground to orbit flight and then capsule type craft for transfer from Earth orbit to Lunar and Mars orbit. (If dreams had budget considerations I might think differently however:) )
Just FYI, you don't have to have all shuttles in a belly to belly configuration - Hermes was intended to be lauched purched on top of Ariane because side-by-side mounting caused all sorts of aerodynamics issues. The first picture I could find showing this clearly is here.
The ESA's been doing space missions for what, over 10 years now?
Very true. The ESA was formed in 1975/1976, so it is almost 30 years old.
Before the formation, the member states had various space programs of their own, and there were already various technology sharing programs - before ESA there was ESRO (European Space Research Organization), which was formed in 1964, as per an agreement in 1962.
Actually, ESA has a roadmap and a program already in place for the manned exploration of mars - and did long before it was announced NASA might be going. I applied to a well known UK university to work on the program for my PhD.
This isn't the first European spaceplane, back in the 70's/80's/90's we had a project called Hermes running, but there were a lot of re-designs and eventually the project was closed down due to bloat and ever changing requirements.
The PR spin on this story (the bit the Joe public will pick up on) is that Barbara Morgan is your average teacher. However, article says she's not a teacher anymore and is now a "full-time astronaut", meaning she's on the NASA payroll and not really a civilian.
While seeming to be getting the taxpayers... err, sorry, public into space, NASA has its doors shut as tight as ever.
I want to see space travel for the masses before I die and would love to see NASA taking real members of the public up as crew on missions, but in this case it seems they are trying to pull the wool over our eyes.
Wouldn't dust storms of this magnitude seriously hamper future Mars colonies? If such a storm were to set-in whilst our people were away from shelter then they would have to dig-in, but I doubt that they could survive for long enough.
Also, I suspect that surface buildings would be quite badly damaged (sandblasted windows anyone?) and our solar panels wouldn't last long either.
Perhaps colonising Mars under the surface is the way to go - that could resolve some of the problems due to the temperature as well.
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you can bet it is for googlegrid (domain names already purchased).
Maybe your 0-000-000-0000 is similar.
Hey man, you and the rest of the hang the spammers crowd need to realise that it cuts both ways. If you want a free and open Internet you have to accept the spam. Don't like spam? Then don't give out your E-mail address to people likely to spam you. Still get spam? Write yourself a spam filter.
I don't like spam, but I'd rather have spam than an over-regulated Internet and I think that spending 5 minutes of my time each day dealing with the spam that gets through the filters is much better than some guy having to go to prison with all the psychological torment that might/will cause, not only to him but his innocent family and friends as well. Not to mention that sending people to prison harms the economy.
I suppose what I'm getting at here, is that with careful choice you may be able to skip the intros on DVD players too.
Yup, UK amateurs do indeed provide emergency communications:
RAYNET.
I hope they make provision for the amateur bands and we (radio enthusiasts) don't have to club together to buy them. I wonder if licenses will be required still?
Tonsilloliths are some times called "tonsil stones". I'm aware that he maintains the granule came from the lung, but I'd be interested to examine the throaght and tonsils throughally to eliminate that posibility. I'm also aware that tonsilloliths or similar objects can form much further down than the tonsils.
I'd be interested in whether the paitent had a history of tonsilitus, ear infection, post nasel drip or other sinus trouble.
I'd try to find an ENT (Ear nose and throaght) surgen to discuss that with (and if s/he hasn't heard of tonsil stones go somewhere else or take some info from the web). Next stop would be a lung specilist, and someone to investigate the stomach and esophagus.
Does anyone have an E-mail address where we can contact him if we can't call him by telephone?
At 0.00005c, a second on the vehicle would be 1.00000000125 seconds at rest! That's pretty impressive!
Yup :) Can't land in an exactly predetermined location without them though and wings also generally mean a gentler landing (with no pesky parachutes to fail deploy a-la Genesis). Generally though if a capsule had a sterable parachute and was only needed for transporting men and equipment that can stand a bit of a bump on landing then it would make sence to use one and of course capsules are generally cheaper. It's very much a case of using the right tool for the job. Personally I'd like to see winged craft for ground to orbit flight and then capsule type craft for transfer from Earth orbit to Lunar and Mars orbit. (If dreams had budget considerations I might think differently however :) )
Just FYI, you don't have to have all shuttles in a belly to belly configuration - Hermes was intended to be lauched purched on top of Ariane because side-by-side mounting caused all sorts of aerodynamics issues. The first picture I could find showing this clearly is here.
Here's a link to the ESO press release.
Interesting points about TVoIP though. I can see the day when all the communications into homes come through a single connection.
The ESA's been doing space missions for what, over 10 years now?
Very true. The ESA was formed in 1975/1976, so it is almost 30 years old.
Before the formation, the member states had various space programs of their own, and there were already various technology sharing programs - before ESA there was ESRO (European Space Research Organization), which was formed in 1964, as per an agreement in 1962.
Actually, ESA has a roadmap and a program already in place for the manned exploration of mars - and did long before it was announced NASA might be going. I applied to a well known UK university to work on the program for my PhD.
You can find out about the Aurora project here.
This isn't the first European spaceplane, back in the 70's/80's/90's we had a project called Hermes running, but there were a lot of re-designs and eventually the project was closed down due to bloat and ever changing requirements.
Check out the Hermes space plane at Astronautix
I seem to remember a news article about a police case where the suspect's movements (or rather, phone) had been tracked in this manner.
Additionally, radio amateurs have been using this method for years in so call "fox hunts". It has also been used for tracking down radio "pirates'".
While seeming to be getting the taxpayers... err, sorry, public into space, NASA has its doors shut as tight as ever.
I want to see space travel for the masses before I die and would love to see NASA taking real members of the public up as crew on missions, but in this case it seems they are trying to pull the wool over our eyes.
Also, I suspect that surface buildings would be quite badly damaged (sandblasted windows anyone?) and our solar panels wouldn't last long either.
Perhaps colonising Mars under the surface is the way to go - that could resolve some of the problems due to the temperature as well.
According to "Philip's Guide to Stars and Planets" by Patrick Moore (ISBN 0-540-07235-4), the Earth and Mars will be even closer in 2005 than in 2003:
on Aug 28th 2003 minimum distance will be 56 million km.
on Nov 7th 2005 minimum distance will be 43 million km.
The arm collided with a stationary space station coming the other way.