There is no way to slowly glide into the atmosphere without having to be fire and melt proof.
Your sentence is twice as long as it ought to be. If you could manage to slowly glide into the atmosphere, you wouldn't need to be fire and melt proof. The problem is, you simply can't slowly glide into the atmosphere to begin with. Among other things, until you enter the atmosphere, you can't glide at all, and you're likely to be coming in at near orbital velocity, and even if you did slow down before hitting the atmosphere, gravity will helpfully~ accelerate you back up to ludicrous speed.
In any case, that's a long solved problem. A single-stage to orbit craft has to solve much more difficult problems than surviving reentry. There's a reason that even the space shuttle still used an external launch rocket. Being able to get to orbit without the vast majority of your launch weight being devoted to getting into orbit is a far, far more difficult problem.
I would guess they don't worry about efficiency at low speeds, since they don't plan to fly at low speeds for very long. As long as it's not so inefficient that it can't accelerate past the problem into its "comfort zone", of course...
I think to develop a warp drive we may need a laboratory that is no where near a gravity well. Otherwise it would be like trying to develop fan technology while in a category five hurricane.
Since most engineering is done indoors, assuming the building is strong enough, this isn't really that difficult.
Now you are telling me that since forcing me to get a vaccine makes you.00001% less likely to get an infection you want the governmental to force it on me?
Your made-up statistic is ridiculously low, and yes, when you make decisions that have the very real possibility to harm your neighbors, your neighbors do have a say in the matter. They have as much a right to protect themselves as you do, and that includes protecting themselves from you.
Why not improve the gnome classic desktop from gnome 3 instead? This zombie-gnome2 effort seems like a waste of time to me.
Then don't contribute to it. Some people watch NASCAR in their spare time. There are plenty of ways people "waste time" these days -- as far as "wastes" go, this is by far and away one of the least wasteful, even if there are others that would be even less so IMHO.
What I want to know is, why did they choose a data center in the middle of the city? Why is any data center in the middle of the city? The beautiful thing about the internet is that the datacenter can be located where ever you want. Also, very few people are actually needed on-site to keep a data center operational. Most of the people who actually administer the systems could easily work offsite, possibly from home.
If the concern is that the datacenter might be overloaded, you may need to rethink this notion that you'll be able to administer anything from home...
"Yah, sure, I can adjust things so we're not consuming so much bandwidth that it takes five hours to login. It'll take me all of ten minutes... well, from here, five hours and ten minutes... assuming the congestion doesn't get any worse during the next five hours while I'm logging in..."
Conservatives want less of that, progressives want more of it.
Completely false. Conservatives want less of it in some areas, and more of it in others. Progressives want less of it in those areas conservatives want more, and vice versa. For the most part, I prefer the progressives, because the conservatives ideas make for a far more intrusive government, in some cases, literally intrusive.
Someone should tell the Republicans about the Streisand Effect. On second thought, no, nobody should tell them. It's better if they don't know.
Heh, yeah, TFA makes the same point:
The publicity the case has generated cannot please the California GOP, which was likely seeking to minimize the sway Hernandez' astronaut background might hold in the voting booth, said space history expert Robert Pearlman, editor of SPACE.com sister site collectSPACE.com.
"This had everything to do with using 'astronaut' as a political advantage," Pearlman told SPACE.com. "If you didn't know he was an astronaut before, you probably do now."
If we're talking temperature, fahrenheit is not the first choice.
Depends on where you are and who you're talking to. Go to Paris and explain to the residents that their language should be their first choice in communicating with the person next to them, due to it not being the most logically constructed language nor most commonly used one in the world. Granted, it may not be the best choice of them to talk to you, just as the Fahrenheit scale might not be your first choice for someone relating temperatures to you, but once you get past this notion that you're the center of the universe and everyone should tailor their language to your preferences, you might be able to see that, indeed, there are other ways of communicating, and their often the best choice for whomever is doing the communicating and for whomever their target audience is.
It used to be my favorite window manager. Then, in one release, they removed nearly all the features I liked, or at least removed their options from the settings -- apparently they could still be set by using some regedit-like interface or something, I don't recall exactly, but making it simpler and easier to use was the apparent justification for making it incredibly more complicated and difficult to use. I stopped using it after that.
After several weeks of trying to come up with a good name for the game, we finally decided not to learn from previous experiences and pick a name that's already kind of in use by a huge existing franchise.
After playing around with names like "Elight", "Wind Commander", and "Steve Online", we finally settled on the very catchy name "Mars Effect".
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There is no way to slowly glide into the atmosphere without having to be fire and melt proof.
Your sentence is twice as long as it ought to be. If you could manage to slowly glide into the atmosphere, you wouldn't need to be fire and melt proof. The problem is, you simply can't slowly glide into the atmosphere to begin with. Among other things, until you enter the atmosphere, you can't glide at all, and you're likely to be coming in at near orbital velocity, and even if you did slow down before hitting the atmosphere, gravity will helpfully~ accelerate you back up to ludicrous speed.
In any case, that's a long solved problem. A single-stage to orbit craft has to solve much more difficult problems than surviving reentry. There's a reason that even the space shuttle still used an external launch rocket. Being able to get to orbit without the vast majority of your launch weight being devoted to getting into orbit is a far, far more difficult problem.
I would guess they don't worry about efficiency at low speeds, since they don't plan to fly at low speeds for very long. As long as it's not so inefficient that it can't accelerate past the problem into its "comfort zone", of course...
I think to develop a warp drive we may need a laboratory that is no where near a gravity well. Otherwise it would be like trying to develop fan technology while in a category five hurricane.
Since most engineering is done indoors, assuming the building is strong enough, this isn't really that difficult.
Cue the platitudes that could be generically posted into half the articles on /. without reference to the article supposedly being commented on.
Oh, I see you're way ahead of me. Carry on...
Iran is no threat? The country where they all come together and shout "Death to America" every single day?
Indeed. Look at the huge death toll all this shouting has caused all across the United States. The shouting must be stopped!!!1!
It would take a lot longer to look up Romney. You'd have to search all 5 or 6 of his houses.
Five or six? You don't know how many houses he has?
That's okay, he's probably not sure either...
We've got emulators for the platforms Leisure Suit Larry ran on. Why port the game?
They're not.
Convincing Al Lowe himself to come out of retirement for this top-to-bottom re-imagining of his 25-year-old creation. DONE!
Call it a "reboot" if you like, but it certainly isn't going to be a port.
Now you are telling me that since forcing me to get a vaccine makes you .00001% less likely to get an infection you want the governmental to force it on me?
Your made-up statistic is ridiculously low, and yes, when you make decisions that have the very real possibility to harm your neighbors, your neighbors do have a say in the matter. They have as much a right to protect themselves as you do, and that includes protecting themselves from you.
Why not improve the gnome classic desktop from gnome 3 instead? This zombie-gnome2 effort seems like a waste of time to me.
Then don't contribute to it. Some people watch NASCAR in their spare time. There are plenty of ways people "waste time" these days -- as far as "wastes" go, this is by far and away one of the least wasteful, even if there are others that would be even less so IMHO.
What I want to know is, why did they choose a data center in the middle of the city? Why is any data center in the middle of the city? The beautiful thing about the internet is that the datacenter can be located where ever you want. Also, very few people are actually needed on-site to keep a data center operational. Most of the people who actually administer the systems could easily work offsite, possibly from home.
If the concern is that the datacenter might be overloaded, you may need to rethink this notion that you'll be able to administer anything from home...
"Yah, sure, I can adjust things so we're not consuming so much bandwidth that it takes five hours to login. It'll take me all of ten minutes... well, from here, five hours and ten minutes... assuming the congestion doesn't get any worse during the next five hours while I'm logging in..."
Don't drink much bourbon do you? :)
Funny, reading his comment, I suspected he drank too much bourbon. ;)
Assuming it's American commercial beer, the additional water content from melting ice is statistically insignificant.
Conservatives want less of that, progressives want more of it.
Completely false. Conservatives want less of it in some areas, and more of it in others. Progressives want less of it in those areas conservatives want more, and vice versa. For the most part, I prefer the progressives, because the conservatives ideas make for a far more intrusive government, in some cases, literally intrusive.
"...so that everyone comes away happy."
"A" for their algorithmic cleverness. "F" for their understanding of human nature...
Someone should tell the Republicans about the Streisand Effect. On second thought, no, nobody should tell them. It's better if they don't know.
Heh, yeah, TFA makes the same point:
The publicity the case has generated cannot please the California GOP, which was likely seeking to minimize the sway Hernandez' astronaut background might hold in the voting booth, said space history expert Robert Pearlman, editor of SPACE.com sister site collectSPACE.com.
"This had everything to do with using 'astronaut' as a political advantage," Pearlman told SPACE.com. "If you didn't know he was an astronaut before, you probably do now."
Yeah... I saw a play the other day, and the house these people lived in was missing an entire wall.
If we're talking temperature, fahrenheit is not the first choice.
Depends on where you are and who you're talking to. Go to Paris and explain to the residents that their language should be their first choice in communicating with the person next to them, due to it not being the most logically constructed language nor most commonly used one in the world. Granted, it may not be the best choice of them to talk to you, just as the Fahrenheit scale might not be your first choice for someone relating temperatures to you, but once you get past this notion that you're the center of the universe and everyone should tailor their language to your preferences, you might be able to see that, indeed, there are other ways of communicating, and their often the best choice for whomever is doing the communicating and for whomever their target audience is.
In short, get over yourself.
It's more "proof" in the scientific sense than the mathematical one. Over five sigma... that sort of thing.
It used to be my favorite window manager. Then, in one release, they removed nearly all the features I liked, or at least removed their options from the settings -- apparently they could still be set by using some regedit-like interface or something, I don't recall exactly, but making it simpler and easier to use was the apparent justification for making it incredibly more complicated and difficult to use. I stopped using it after that.
Single window mode hasn't been a standard feature of OS X since the public beta in 2000 [...] IIRC, the feature is still there
Oh-kay...
I love it how, when stupid people encounter people who aren't stupid enough to agree with them, it's obviously "fanboyism"... XD
Shit April fools has started early...
Not early. Notch lives in Europe.
RTFA:
After several weeks of trying to come up with a good name for the game, we finally decided not to learn from previous experiences and pick a name that's already kind of in use by a huge existing franchise.
After playing around with names like "Elight", "Wind Commander", and "Steve Online", we finally settled on the very catchy name "Mars Effect".
That should explain it completely...
Why did his group want him gone?
"His group" did not want him gone. Some members did, but when a vote was taken to oust him, it failed.
You act like you're new here.
They are... :p