An Orion craft is still the best way to get massive amounts of equipment out of the earth's gravity well even if you are staying in the solar system.
Imagine building your entire lunar or martian base on earth and then launching it in one piece to its destination. That would be a much easier way to bootstrap a colony.
The biggest design above is the "super" Orion design; at 8 million tons, it could easily be a city.[6] In interviews, the designers contemplated the large ship as a possible interstellar ark. This extreme design could be built with materials and techniques that could be obtained in 1958 or were anticipated to be available shortly after. The practical upper limit is likely to be higher with modern materials.
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Later studies indicate that the top cruise velocity that can theoretically be achieved by a thermonuclear Orion starship is about 8% to 10% of the speed of light (0.08-0.1c).[1] An atomic (fission) Orion can achieve perhaps 3%-5% of the speed of light. A nuclear pulse drive starship powered by matter-antimatter pulse units would be theoretically capable of obtaining a velocity between 50% to 80% of the speed of light.
At 0.1c, Orion thermonuclear starships would require a flight time of at least 44 years to reach Alpha Centauri, not counting time needed to reach that speed (about 36 days at constant acceleration of 1g or 9.8 m/s2). At 0.1c, an Orion starship would require 100 years to travel 10 light years. The late astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that this would be an excellent use for current stockpiles of nuclear weapons.[10]
Based on the rate of change of the kernel it's safe to say that the versions that exist 5-8 years from now will be a complete redesign compared to the versions that exist today.
Yes, but the submission that got accepted has a bullshit headline.
Of course "Linux May Need to Continue Making Incremental Changes Like It Has Been Doing For The Last Several Years To Scale Beyond 48 Cores" doesn't draw in as many clicks.
In that case I'd refer you to Obama's illegal use of executive authority to ignore federal law and give the UAW a windfall at the expense of the preferred creditors.
When it really comes down to it there is no difference between those two presidents.
If those businesses had any sense they would use stateless autoconfiguration to assign addresses in which case there is no hassle of "giving out new IP addresses".
If they were really worried about addresses changing for something like internal DNS then the could always refer to the fe80:: address instead.
Why would you exclude Bush from "war and socialism"? Medicare part D is one of the largest expansion of entitlements ever enacted and by far the largest threat to long-term budget stability.
Chances are these guys stockpiled tons of gold while the price was closer to $400 an ounce than $1300 an ounce and now they're having a tough time getting rid of it all, so they're trying to dime-bag it out to the public.
Exactly.
Don't be dumb and buy anything when it is near historically-high levels. You'll only be the "greater fool" that allows those people who bought near the lows and rode the price up to cash out just before the price collapses.
Millions of people are discovering that they are effectively debt slaves for life because the pay prospects of their chosen career was vastly exaggerated when they choose to take on the loans.
Then there's the fact that only 20% of 2009 graduates got a job right after graduation.
If you actually do the math except for a handful of degrees, you're financially better off not going to college at all than taking out loans to go to college because the advantage of increased salary prospects during your working life is more than completely consumed by extra debt service.
By following the rules of the Film Actor's Guild, the world can become a better place; that handles dangerous people with talk and reasoning; that is the F.A.G. way. One day you'll all look at the world us actors created and say, "Wow, good going, F.A.G. You really made the world a better place, didntcha, F.A.G.?"
They also expose the fact that one country might consider an individual a competent adult while the country next door considers that individual to be a child.
Then there's the fact that two individuals might be old enough to legally consent to having sex but if they take a picture of the act both individuals are sex offenders for the rest of their lives.
The sentence, "A child was sexually abused" is information. A photograph depicting of the event is also information.
The law currently punishes people who possess certain information about specific subjects in certain forms for various nominal reasons that look to a lot of people like excuses for the fact that going after the people who actually abuse the children is a lot more difficult and dangerous than going after a bunch of people with forbidden JPGs on their hard drives.
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You've never set foot outside a big city, have you?
That happens with the government-run ones as well.
An Orion craft is still the best way to get massive amounts of equipment out of the earth's gravity well even if you are staying in the solar system.
Imagine building your entire lunar or martian base on earth and then launching it in one piece to its destination. That would be a much easier way to bootstrap a colony.
Everyone is forgetting about Project Orion.
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Based on the rate of change of the kernel it's safe to say that the versions that exist 5-8 years from now will be a complete redesign compared to the versions that exist today.
Yes, but the submission that got accepted has a bullshit headline.
Of course "Linux May Need to Continue Making Incremental Changes Like It Has Been Doing For The Last Several Years To Scale Beyond 48 Cores" doesn't draw in as many clicks.
I'm sorry, but if you can't see that the other organizations are just as guilty you're being willfully blind.
In that case I'd refer you to Obama's illegal use of executive authority to ignore federal law and give the UAW a windfall at the expense of the preferred creditors.
When it really comes down to it there is no difference between those two presidents.
That doesn't make any sense.
If those businesses had any sense they would use stateless autoconfiguration to assign addresses in which case there is no hassle of "giving out new IP addresses".
If they were really worried about addresses changing for something like internal DNS then the could always refer to the fe80:: address instead.
All the news companies are populated by lying sacks of shit (yes, even NPR). Why does FOX get singled out?
Why would you exclude Bush from "war and socialism"? Medicare part D is one of the largest expansion of entitlements ever enacted and by far the largest threat to long-term budget stability.
Exactly.
Don't be dumb and buy anything when it is near historically-high levels. You'll only be the "greater fool" that allows those people who bought near the lows and rode the price up to cash out just before the price collapses.
What are you, a bankster shill?
Millions of people are discovering that they are effectively debt slaves for life because the pay prospects of their chosen career was vastly exaggerated when they choose to take on the loans.
Then there's the fact that only 20% of 2009 graduates got a job right after graduation.
If you actually do the math except for a handful of degrees, you're financially better off not going to college at all than taking out loans to go to college because the advantage of increased salary prospects during your working life is more than completely consumed by extra debt service.
I'm pretty sure anyone can get a bank account.
Insurance is military only, however.
I haven't had an account for long enough to test how far back they will let you download but there is no obvious limit.
USAA is pretty awesome in general so I'd recommend it anyway.
The Film Actors Guild strikes again.
Because that person understands compound interest and what it means for student loan debt to be non-dischargable in bankruptcy.
Probability of recovering from being murdered: 0%
Probability of recovering from emotional issues: >0%.
If they really thought that being dead is better than living with lifelong emotional stress would they still be alive to beg to differ?
It's better than many of the other nuthouses in the world.
They also expose the fact that one country might consider an individual a competent adult while the country next door considers that individual to be a child.
Then there's the fact that two individuals might be old enough to legally consent to having sex but if they take a picture of the act both individuals are sex offenders for the rest of their lives.
Being alive with emotional issues is better than being dead.
It's not just pedantry.
The sentence, "A child was sexually abused" is information. A photograph depicting of the event is also information.
The law currently punishes people who possess certain information about specific subjects in certain forms for various nominal reasons that look to a lot of people like excuses for the fact that going after the people who actually abuse the children is a lot more difficult and dangerous than going after a bunch of people with forbidden JPGs on their hard drives.
It depends on which definition of the word you are using.
No one does, really. Unfortunately many men learn this after they've already done it.