launching into space and coming back safely is nothing short of a miracle to begin with. NASA did a spectacular job having the success rate they did. Unfortunately, in that industry, minor flaws immediately become major issues. if you get a flat tire while driving your car, you call AAA. if your engine won't start while parked in LEO, you are stuck. If a crack forms in a booster during launch, thats it, good night. The fact that that particular incident only occurred once should be seen as a feat, not a death trap. Over a 30 year span, there were exactly 2 major incidents, I'd say thats pretty good. Some people are invloved in car accidents more than twice a year.
the phone itself was useless, but the article goes on to say that the phone could receive phone calls still using blue tooth in the owners truck. The point was that the hardware inside the phone survived the shock of high speed impact even though the screen busted
This isn't always possible in some engineering or math courses because either the professor relies on the book too heavily or moves to quickly for adequate notes to be taken. Too often I have looked through my notes and wondered what I wrote down only to refer back to the text to verify...
The amount of nukes around today is just insane. There is no real need for the amount that exists. Keep the nuclear submarines and then have a few land based nukes on ICBM:s and you will have enough.
If we (The US) were the only country with nukes, I would agree with you. But since Russia also has just as many, and other countries (like China, NK, Iran, and others) are spending so much to develop nuclear weapons of their own, having a large arsenal of them will keep this conflict to nothing more than a war of attrition, which is a war the US is more than happy to fight. The moment we drop the number of nuclear devices in our arsenal, we open ourselves up to attack and there will be nothing to stop these other countries from firing on us.
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launching into space and coming back safely is nothing short of a miracle to begin with. NASA did a spectacular job having the success rate they did. Unfortunately, in that industry, minor flaws immediately become major issues. if you get a flat tire while driving your car, you call AAA. if your engine won't start while parked in LEO, you are stuck. If a crack forms in a booster during launch, thats it, good night. The fact that that particular incident only occurred once should be seen as a feat, not a death trap. Over a 30 year span, there were exactly 2 major incidents, I'd say thats pretty good. Some people are invloved in car accidents more than twice a year.
good thing i said 2 out of 135 launches and not shuttles right?
with unreliable history of that death trap, might be the last shuttle to burn up, the last crew to die
2 Failures out of 135 launches makes it an unreliable death trap?
More seriously, when did they find the second and third moons? I honestly don't remember ever hearing about them, last I knew Pluto just had Charon.
2005, Hubble found them.
you still have weight in orbit... gravity is the reason you can park in orbit
If that were the case, maybe a couple of guys could hitch a ride, and Russia would win the space race to Mars...
"Using a highly elliptical orbit of around 340,000 km"
this in no way describes the eccentricity of the orbit. It simply tells us that the apogee is 340,000 km...
the phone itself was useless, but the article goes on to say that the phone could receive phone calls still using blue tooth in the owners truck. The point was that the hardware inside the phone survived the shock of high speed impact even though the screen busted
Didn't you take notes in those courses?
This isn't always possible in some engineering or math courses because either the professor relies on the book too heavily or moves to quickly for adequate notes to be taken. Too often I have looked through my notes and wondered what I wrote down only to refer back to the text to verify...
The amount of nukes around today is just insane. There is no real need for the amount that exists. Keep the nuclear submarines and then have a few land based nukes on ICBM:s and you will have enough.
If we (The US) were the only country with nukes, I would agree with you. But since Russia also has just as many, and other countries (like China, NK, Iran, and others) are spending so much to develop nuclear weapons of their own, having a large arsenal of them will keep this conflict to nothing more than a war of attrition, which is a war the US is more than happy to fight. The moment we drop the number of nuclear devices in our arsenal, we open ourselves up to attack and there will be nothing to stop these other countries from firing on us.