This sucks. The audio is at a totally different level than the cockpit chatter, so I have to turn my volume all the way up to hear the commentary, then get defeaned by the occasional static bits.
"If it were left up to NASA, we'll still just be crash landing probes on Mars by the time my GRANDKIDS have grandkids."
Did you miss the whole new space plan? Humans on the moon, then on to Mars? NASA is foaming at the mouth to do this thing. If you're going to blame someone, blame Congress for not laying out the money, or the general public for not having the resolve to do this thing.
To expand on this further, my Mom's a nurse, and she gets lots of invites to nice vacations in exotic places paid for by big medical companies. They say they're for "conferences", but all anyone ever does is lay on the beach and drink free Champagne.
She doesn't take them because of the image it would portray, not because she thinks she'd sell out to such a scheme.
Yeah, definitely. Although usually people who think they have this sort of image problem don't take such donations because they tend to become PR nightmares.
Also, notice Boucher's contributions. Not a media company in the lot. Whether this is cause-and-effect is undeniable, but which came first? I'd like to think Boucher thought for himself, then all the media companies left him.
This may be useless information to you, but I was playing around with Office 2000 the other day and noticed a box buried in Options called "Don't use Office 2000-only features" or something similar. You can tell 2000 to be fully compatible with 97 if you want.
Sad, but understandable. Usually, the closer you live to something, the less you visit. I toured DC so much more in a few weekend vacations than I did the 4 months I lived there.
Yeah, it is pretty cool. I have reason to actually use Tek4014 emulation for some software we have here at work. I wish it was a more complete emulation though, like supported the graphics cursor and such. Then it'd be really useful.
You didn't mention patents, but I have an interested tidbit to add about that. People seem to like to quote a drop-off (or lack of) NASA patents. Here at NASA Langley, that was due to a policy stating "you can only file for a patent if your invention has real commercial possibilities". Why? Filing for patents is damn expensive.
Just this year, I believe, they changed the rule back to "you can file for a patent if your invention has some of of aerospace applicability." So we should start seeing an uptick (at least from Langley).
I'm an undergraduate aerospace student, and I'm working at NASA every other semester. Among friends, this plan is a big deal. I hear that NASA is gearing up to hire lots of young engineers, and from where I'm sitting, I see a lot of 20-somethings in my office. Whether this thing keeps going or runs out of steam will mean work or grad school (or another major) for a lot of current students.
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No idea. No mention on spaceflightnow.
This sucks. The audio is at a totally different level than the cockpit chatter, so I have to turn my volume all the way up to hear the commentary, then get defeaned by the occasional static bits.
RP10's not bad.
Oh, thank heaven for you. MSNBC, CNN, they're all sucking.
Yes, NASATV is covering it. They're also running interviews with Mike's wife, among other interesting bits.
Speaking of which, does anyone else notice how completely useless CNN radio is?
It's defined by NASA as 100km alt. Sounds arbitrary to me, but it's probably in the neighborhood.
Dammit, the radiocast I found is already down (9:48 EST).
Watch, no, but there's live coverage at SpaceFlightNow.
I've heard of it, but I've never read it. I'll get around to it someday.
"If it were left up to NASA, we'll still just be crash landing probes on Mars by the time my GRANDKIDS have grandkids."
Did you miss the whole new space plan? Humans on the moon, then on to Mars? NASA is foaming at the mouth to do this thing. If you're going to blame someone, blame Congress for not laying out the money, or the general public for not having the resolve to do this thing.
Wrong. The blueprints are at Marshall on microfilm.
To expand on this further, my Mom's a nurse, and she gets lots of invites to nice vacations in exotic places paid for by big medical companies. They say they're for "conferences", but all anyone ever does is lay on the beach and drink free Champagne.
She doesn't take them because of the image it would portray, not because she thinks she'd sell out to such a scheme.
Yeah, definitely. Although usually people who think they have this sort of image problem don't take such donations because they tend to become PR nightmares.
Also, notice Boucher's contributions. Not a media company in the lot. Whether this is cause-and-effect is undeniable, but which came first? I'd like to think Boucher thought for himself, then all the media companies left him.
Does anyone have a screenshot or something so I can see what all the fuss is about? I've only ever really used Office 2000.
This may be useless information to you, but I was playing around with Office 2000 the other day and noticed a box buried in Options called "Don't use Office 2000-only features" or something similar. You can tell 2000 to be fully compatible with 97 if you want.
I think he's making a play-on-words with Godzilla, which was originally Godzirra (I believe).
" The plans for the Saturn V were already destroyed as part of the space shuttle program"
Wrong. They're at Marshall on microfilm. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/space/controversy/ (scroll down)
Sad, but understandable. Usually, the closer you live to something, the less you visit. I toured DC so much more in a few weekend vacations than I did the 4 months I lived there.
Yeah, it is pretty cool. I have reason to actually use Tek4014 emulation for some software we have here at work. I wish it was a more complete emulation though, like supported the graphics cursor and such. Then it'd be really useful.
Another Mars lander that did NOT Jose itself, and that sent back kick ass pictures: 400 million dollars.
It can be done more cheaply than it has in the past, it's just a matter of effort and innovative thinking.
You didn't mention patents, but I have an interested tidbit to add about that. People seem to like to quote a drop-off (or lack of) NASA patents. Here at NASA Langley, that was due to a policy stating "you can only file for a patent if your invention has real commercial possibilities". Why? Filing for patents is damn expensive.
Just this year, I believe, they changed the rule back to "you can file for a patent if your invention has some of of aerospace applicability." So we should start seeing an uptick (at least from Langley).
I'm an undergraduate aerospace student, and I'm working at NASA every other semester. Among friends, this plan is a big deal. I hear that NASA is gearing up to hire lots of young engineers, and from where I'm sitting, I see a lot of 20-somethings in my office. Whether this thing keeps going or runs out of steam will mean work or grad school (or another major) for a lot of current students.