The magnetosphere deflects solar wind. It is not powerful enough to deflect cosmic radiation. Cosmic radiation in LEO is 1/2 of interplanetary radiation because of occlusion of the galactic disc by the planet itself.
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If you read any of john leers stuff or any of the other "secret space program" people some of it actually sounds sort of credible considering the amount of missing cash (in the trillions) given to supposed black budgets........you really need to take all that stuff with the grain of salt though, but still pretty interesting. Leer did seem to tell stories of a folding feather craft design well before virgin began development of their tourist model (with a few photos on his wall that look strangely similar to virgins craft, but this was from the late 80s).
Also the abrupt closing of the vandenberg USAF shuttle launch site seemed to suggest they had some other alternate means of getting up there. The rabbit hole goes pretty deep on this stuff though (and so does the tin foil hatage).....
They made something else for getting up there. It was called Titan IV.
I'm personally against any missile defense program that doesn't operate by overwhelming international agreement. Russia should have been brought on board as a partner, as everyone else should have. If I recall correctly, they offered the use the Qabala radar in Azerbaijan. Having said that, the performance capabilities of the intercepters deployed in eastern Europe preclude interception of strategic weapons. If Russia's complaint is that they can't target Poland with IRBMs anymore, I don't have a lot of sympathy for their position. Being on the stick end of nuclear blackmail is the worst form of bullying. They know it from experience.
That's the fundamental problem here. Proprietary meddling by great powers has always ended up stomping on the small players whether it be in Central and South America, the Middle East, or Eastern Europe. This sets those weaker countries on the path of looking for a means of answering back. The legacy of these heavy handed policies pushed Poland, the Czech Republic, and the Balkan states into NATO's arms, just as similarly insidious policy from the US has created strong (sometimes violent) sentiment in various parts of the world.
The ideal for long term stability and security is to see all nations in the world equally held to account for the damage they do by their choices on the international stage.
You gain 100% flexibility in orbital plain. No launch restrictions because your launch point is completely flexible. This is a common feature with SeaLaunch. It would actually be very cool if SpaceX used a similar mobile launch platform for Falcon 9 as an additional facility. Certainly, reliability would likely be much better than Zenit.
Better to have a neutral way of process dependencies being defined, then have tools automatically translate into the configuration of your favourite init system. Alternately, sell upstream developers on the merit of a standardized init system conf file format and get them to adopt it.
But this isn't the problem. The problem is that un-forked udev is only shipped in tandem with systemd. ConsoleKit is deprecated and replaced with logind, which is only shipped with systemd.
It's like MS bundling newer versions of DirectX only with their latest flavour of Windows, although perhaps not for the same reasons. Same tactics, though.
Isn't it enough to teach people how to properly perform unit conversions (then show them the cell phone app)?
Within the context of science education, it is a much easier to focus on understanding the mathematical relationships which underpin theory using metric. Use of customary units (US or UK) will result in more students falling back on the use of memorized magic numbers and not proper derived constants. Understanding concepts of scale in science becomes an order more difficult as well.
For this reason, metric units (mks or sometimes cgs) units are by far dominant in scientific papers and texts. Imperial has some presence in engineering, possibly due to a more narrow focus and more resistance to change.
It's easier to use section breaks, for a variety of reasons. Of course, that's like saying it's easier to knife off your testicles with a scalpel rather than an axe.
The input energy for the heat engine is less than the total amount of energy transported. In an example of a heat pump acting as a chiller, there is significant waste heat which must be dumped into a heat sink.Total energy transported is more than the input energy, but overall energy is conserved.
1) Supercomputers are populated with x86 heritage CPUs because they're cheap. 2) The most power efficient supercomputers are made with IBM PowerPC SoCs. 3) ARM is coming to the data center with their new 64 bit variant.
While poking around a couple of weeks ago, I found a couple of HDL sources for MIPS R3000 cores. Would these run into licensing issues? They could be adapted to something similar, or perhaps other uses with the addition of on chip I/O and perhaps a vector unit, IMHO.
Atlas V uses a Russian RD-180 LOX/Kerosene motor in it's first stage. It's derived from the RD-170 used in the Energia booster, except it runs two combustion chambers (instead of four) off a single turbo pump.
The word everyone is looking for would be obsolescent. Just because a newer processor comes out, it doesn't mean that the old ones stop working en masse.
The statement isn't even true, however. Not as long as the older gear is still useful and the inconvenience of replacement outweighs the advantages.
The days of gentlemen skippers are long gone. America's cup teams now use professional crews and professional skippers. USA 17 (the current cup holder) was helmed by Russell Coutts. Larry didn't "command the crew", Russell did. Larry's most important task was to support Russell financially and organizationally.
I don't mean to take away from Larry's abilities as a sailor, but simply to point out the commitment required of sailors at the top levels of competition. It's no longer the hobby it was 30 years ago. It is a life and a career.
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The magnetosphere deflects solar wind. It is not powerful enough to deflect cosmic radiation. Cosmic radiation in LEO is 1/2 of interplanetary radiation because of occlusion of the galactic disc by the planet itself.
If you read any of john leers stuff or any of the other "secret space program" people some of it actually sounds sort of credible considering the amount of missing cash (in the trillions) given to supposed black budgets..... ...you really need to take all that stuff with the grain of salt though, but still pretty interesting. Leer did seem to tell stories of a folding feather craft design well before virgin began development of their tourist model (with a few photos on his wall that look strangely similar to virgins craft, but this was from the late 80s).
Also the abrupt closing of the vandenberg USAF shuttle launch site seemed to suggest they had some other alternate means of getting up there. The rabbit hole goes pretty deep on this stuff though (and so does the tin foil hatage).....
They made something else for getting up there. It was called Titan IV.
I'm personally against any missile defense program that doesn't operate by overwhelming international agreement. Russia should have been brought on board as a partner, as everyone else should have. If I recall correctly, they offered the use the Qabala radar in Azerbaijan. Having said that, the performance capabilities of the intercepters deployed in eastern Europe preclude interception of strategic weapons. If Russia's complaint is that they can't target Poland with IRBMs anymore, I don't have a lot of sympathy for their position. Being on the stick end of nuclear blackmail is the worst form of bullying. They know it from experience.
That's the fundamental problem here. Proprietary meddling by great powers has always ended up stomping on the small players whether it be in Central and South America, the Middle East, or Eastern Europe. This sets those weaker countries on the path of looking for a means of answering back. The legacy of these heavy handed policies pushed Poland, the Czech Republic, and the Balkan states into NATO's arms, just as similarly insidious policy from the US has created strong (sometimes violent) sentiment in various parts of the world.
The ideal for long term stability and security is to see all nations in the world equally held to account for the damage they do by their choices on the international stage.
You gain 100% flexibility in orbital plain. No launch restrictions because your launch point is completely flexible. This is a common feature with SeaLaunch. It would actually be very cool if SpaceX used a similar mobile launch platform for Falcon 9 as an additional facility. Certainly, reliability would likely be much better than Zenit.
Somebody with presidential ambitions would be good to become educated
FTFY
Mary Boas' Mathematical Physics book is pretty good, and the second edition was in publication forever.
Why not have this without the other baggage?
Better to have a neutral way of process dependencies being defined, then have tools automatically translate into the configuration of your favourite init system. Alternately, sell upstream developers on the merit of a standardized init system conf file format and get them to adopt it.
But this isn't the problem. The problem is that un-forked udev is only shipped in tandem with systemd. ConsoleKit is deprecated and replaced with logind, which is only shipped with systemd.
It's like MS bundling newer versions of DirectX only with their latest flavour of Windows, although perhaps not for the same reasons. Same tactics, though.
Isn't it enough to teach people how to properly perform unit conversions (then show them the cell phone app)?
Within the context of science education, it is a much easier to focus on understanding the mathematical relationships which underpin theory using metric. Use of customary units (US or UK) will result in more students falling back on the use of memorized magic numbers and not proper derived constants. Understanding concepts of scale in science becomes an order more difficult as well.
For this reason, metric units (mks or sometimes cgs) units are by far dominant in scientific papers and texts. Imperial has some presence in engineering, possibly due to a more narrow focus and more resistance to change.
Nope. Plasma physics was very young, and nobody had truly studied plasma turbulence.
It's easier to use section breaks, for a variety of reasons. Of course, that's like saying it's easier to knife off your testicles with a scalpel rather than an axe.
Compared to malice or corruption, I think sufficiently dangerous incompetence is equally undesirable. Bad results and bad methods are bad.
Please watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeGijutBSx0
Atom chips with their completely open PowerVR graphics chips?
Oh, wait...
The input energy for the heat engine is less than the total amount of energy transported. In an example of a heat pump acting as a chiller, there is significant waste heat which must be dumped into a heat sink.Total energy transported is more than the input energy, but overall energy is conserved.
1) Supercomputers are populated with x86 heritage CPUs because they're cheap.
2) The most power efficient supercomputers are made with IBM PowerPC SoCs.
3) ARM is coming to the data center with their new 64 bit variant.
Webkit had to be contributed to comply with the licensing of KHTML.
My Palm OS device preferred stylus, but could work (badly) with finger touch as well. Resistive touch screens.
Just use all that wonderful hydrogen to do this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Tropsch_process
While poking around a couple of weeks ago, I found a couple of HDL sources for MIPS R3000 cores. Would these run into licensing issues? They could be adapted to something similar, or perhaps other uses with the addition of on chip I/O and perhaps a vector unit, IMHO.
I take it nobody asked Douglas Rain to do the job?
Atlas V uses a Russian RD-180 LOX/Kerosene motor in it's first stage. It's derived from the RD-170 used in the Energia booster, except it runs two combustion chambers (instead of four) off a single turbo pump.
Yeah, I don't think he's suffered.
I mean, he did bone Princess Leia. Several times.
The word everyone is looking for would be obsolescent. Just because a newer processor comes out, it doesn't mean that the old ones stop working en masse.
The statement isn't even true, however. Not as long as the older gear is still useful and the inconvenience of replacement outweighs the advantages.
The days of gentlemen skippers are long gone. America's cup teams now use professional crews and professional skippers. USA 17 (the current cup holder) was helmed by Russell Coutts. Larry didn't "command the crew", Russell did. Larry's most important task was to support Russell financially and organizationally.
I don't mean to take away from Larry's abilities as a sailor, but simply to point out the commitment required of sailors at the top levels of competition. It's no longer the hobby it was 30 years ago. It is a life and a career.