Shouldn't we allow the market to handle this? Once the efficiency vs up-front cost gets in the right place, the $$$$ should take care of it, right?. (assuming any externalities are accounted for some way...)
The man builds houses for the poor brown peoples for Habitrail for Humanities majors. He's an engineer. A nuklear engineer. Hell, that's almost a rocket sciecetamist or brain sturgeon. He put solar panels on the Whitehouse roof and raised awareness of the conservation of energy. He was elected in reaction to Nixon. Aside for the supporting the Palestinians (wait isn't support for Israel on of the tenants of the evil corrupt machine?...), the guy doesn't seem like a agent of the lizard people.
Buzz Aldrin should fly to Alaska, punch this guy in the nose, and recover the moon rock for the benefit of Mankind. And let a camera crew from the History channel tag along for the lulz.
yeah, but... Thomas Edison used that thar evil alternating current electricity to electrocutedogs! DOGS!!! It could just as well be your CHILDRENelectrocuted next! And if you don't listen to Thomas Edison, he might electrocute an elephant next! An ELEPHANT!!! And I read on the facebook that Thomas Edisonelectrocuted kittens! Sweet little fuzzy remorseless bird-killing machine kittens! disgusting!
Thomas Edison should be dug up from his grave and locked up in jail, or else Thomas Edison might try to electrocuteYOU!!!
This public service warning brought to you by the society to prevent Thomas Edison from electrocuting everybody.
sorry, I was just running with shadowfaxcrx 's analogy. You're right, the situation is more like my putting out a request for bids for a custom car with a lifetime support contract for $162 / year, that seems like an even sweeter deal. Anyhow, I'm not sure how informative it is to model a country's budget as an individual's expenses, but it is amusing. Does make Unka Sam look sort of like a irrational psychopath though.
Challenger happened mainly because of the Congress because they wanted to build the solid rocket boosters in a far far away state. Then the only was was to ship them by barge. To be able to do that, they had to be in segments. And hence they needed O-rings.It's all about poli-ticks.
To be fair, I don't believe anyone has built a one-piece solid rocket the size of the shuttle SRBs and there are some significant technical issues with large solid rockets. The usual failure mode seems to be a massive explosion rather than a leak.
Wrong, and how!
The #1 & #2, largest single rocket motors ever fired were monolithic SRBs. Look up the Aerjoet AJ-260 program from the early sixties. (sorry, Astronautix is offline right now) NASA dropped the idea once they had the kinks adequately worked out of the liquid fueled engines.
Their competitor in the program never managed a successful firing, blowing up their prototype, and then went on to lobby congress for the contract for the only certified astronaut-killing SRBs in the world. niiiiiiceee....
If we had kept at it another 5, 10 years, I'm sure we'd have 'em if we wanted them.
your analogy is broken dude.
GDP : space shuttle program:: my salary : cost of new car
I seriously doubt I would even for a instant consider hitchhiking to work for three years if a new car was going to cost me $160 (~0.25% of GDP). Shit, for that, I could justify buying a minibike to play around with that I only use on nice weekends in the summer.
Instead, I'm using 90% of my salary to pay off my credit card interest, pay for health insurance (not actual health care...) and buy M80's to blow up the neighbors with. Man, am I a jackass...
1. We need an agency to to scientific research and develop new technologies. It was a mistake for NASA to get ensnarled in running daily operations of getting payloads into orbit. 2. Congress should just provide the goal and the budget, not specify the means of accomplishing the goal. (no gerrymandering the pork across districts to buy votes) This should go for the military, too. 3. The shuttle program is a camel and a fiscal failure. But it was what we had.
As a side-effect, you get a real big-boy space program and a fueling infrastructure for starships. Yeah, you're right, why invest in building the future when we can just hand our taxes to the bankers and military contractors.
ooohhh great, you just had to drag PKD into the muck! meh, he probably invented the TSA and had VALIS beam the idea into John Ashcroft's head, serves him right
The review queue is probably in a dark basement, at the bottom of a set of broken stairs, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.
QA has always been considered the bastard children of software development. I've never worked on a project where they weren't treated like shit. I'm guilty too; which is really bad because I started out in QA/QC.
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Shouldn't we allow the market to handle this? Once the efficiency vs up-front cost gets in the right place, the $$$$ should take care of it, right?.
(assuming any externalities are accounted for some way...)
Did he get to meet Sam Elliot?
Oh wait, that was Jeff Bridges...
Carter? CARTER?!!!
The man builds houses for the poor brown peoples for Habitrail for Humanities majors.
He's an engineer. A nuklear engineer. Hell, that's almost a rocket sciecetamist or brain sturgeon.
He put solar panels on the Whitehouse roof and raised awareness of the conservation of energy.
He was elected in reaction to Nixon.
Aside for the supporting the Palestinians (wait isn't support for Israel on of the tenants of the evil corrupt machine?...), the guy doesn't seem like a agent of the lizard people.
Holy fuck, I think we found an even more useless endeavor than the original story!
whoosh
It's not looting to go through trash.
ooohhhhh, I see how it is! When it's a white guy doing it, it's "finding".
Buzz Aldrin should fly to Alaska, punch this guy in the nose, and recover the moon rock for the benefit of Mankind. And let a camera crew from the History channel tag along for the lulz.
It's python, and hence, relevant to nothing.
yeah, but...
Thomas Edison used that thar evil alternating current electricity to electrocute dogs! DOGS !!! It could just as well be your CHILDREN electrocuted next!
And if you don't listen to Thomas Edison, he might electrocute an elephant next! An ELEPHANT !!!
And I read on the facebook that Thomas Edison electrocuted kittens! Sweet little fuzzy remorseless bird-killing machine kittens! disgusting!
Thomas Edison should be dug up from his grave and locked up in jail , or else Thomas Edison might try to electrocute YOU !!!
This public service warning brought to you by the society to prevent Thomas Edison from electrocuting everybody.
sorry, I was just running with shadowfaxcrx 's analogy.
You're right, the situation is more like my putting out a request for bids for a custom car with a lifetime support contract for $162 / year, that seems like an even sweeter deal.
Anyhow, I'm not sure how informative it is to model a country's budget as an individual's expenses, but it is amusing. Does make Unka Sam look sort of like a irrational psychopath though.
Challenger happened mainly because of the Congress because they wanted to build the solid rocket boosters in a far far away state. Then the only was was to ship them by barge. To be able to do that, they had to be in segments. And hence they needed O-rings.It's all about poli-ticks.
To be fair, I don't believe anyone has built a one-piece solid rocket the size of the shuttle SRBs and there are some significant technical issues with large solid rockets. The usual failure mode seems to be a massive explosion rather than a leak.
Wrong , and how!
The #1 & #2, largest single rocket motors ever fired were monolithic SRBs. Look up the Aerjoet AJ-260 program from the early sixties. (sorry, Astronautix is offline right now) NASA dropped the idea once they had the kinks adequately worked out of the liquid fueled engines.
Their competitor in the program never managed a successful firing, blowing up their prototype, and then went on to lobby congress for the contract for the only certified astronaut-killing SRBs in the world. niiiiiiceee....
If we had kept at it another 5, 10 years, I'm sure we'd have 'em if we wanted them.
your analogy is broken dude. :: my salary : cost of new car
GDP : space shuttle program
I seriously doubt I would even for a instant consider hitchhiking to work for three years if a new car was going to cost me $160 (~0.25% of GDP). Shit, for that, I could justify buying a minibike to play around with that I only use on nice weekends in the summer.
Instead, I'm using 90% of my salary to pay off my credit card interest, pay for health insurance ( not actual health care...) and buy M80's to blow up the neighbors with.
Man, am I a jackass...
probably partially so they're not too crowded at the ISS if they have to hole up there until the Russians can ferry them back down.
I hope the Russians can keep the ISS up on their own. As soon as Atlantis pulls away from it to return to Earth, the betting pool opens.
1. We need an agency to to scientific research and develop new technologies. It was a mistake for NASA to get ensnarled in running daily operations of getting payloads into orbit.
2. Congress should just provide the goal and the budget, not specify the means of accomplishing the goal. (no gerrymandering the pork across districts to buy votes) This should go for the military, too.
3. The shuttle program is a camel and a fiscal failure. But it was what we had.
I don't want to go to jail because there are robbers and rapers and rapers who rape robbers!
oh, wait, maybe not...
SPSS -> cyclotron -> antimatter -> ??? -> profit^W energy!
As a side-effect, you get a real big-boy space program and a fueling infrastructure for starships.
Yeah, you're right, why invest in building the future when we can just hand our taxes to the bankers and military contractors.
ooohhh great, you just had to drag PKD into the muck!
meh, he probably invented the TSA and had VALIS beam the idea into John Ashcroft's head, serves him right
Harvey Dent :
he said "Twice as big as you can imagne"
Tell me that 9/11 isn't just a cheap ripoff of a comic book from 1986.
Why does the Joker hate our freedumbs?!!!
The review queue is probably in a dark basement, at the bottom of a set of broken stairs, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ' Beware of the Leopard '.
Why in gods name are you running >50 foot HDMI runs.
Signal source in one room, display in another. Some Slashdot users seem to think that's the best way to run a home theater PC.
That way, you aren't subjected to the godawful din made by the cooling fans, let alone the whine from spinning disks.
I sure am glad I don't have any friends so I don't get sucked into any of these corporate loyalty scams and have my identity stolen.
QA has always been considered the bastard children of software development. I've never worked on a project where they weren't treated like shit. I'm guilty too; which is really bad because I started out in QA/QC.
Partially because QA is mostly made up of bastard children /jk
We're going through a process of dumbening.
as predicted by Art Bell in Highlander 2!
hey, that's still like one 9 reliability!