In 1961, when shit wasn't invented yet and people fought bears for vital food, President Kennedy had the balls to give NASA less than nine years to get to the moon. In this day and age, when there's metric shitloads of technology all over the place and the internet makes valuable porn as free as air, President Bush gives it twelve years. What a tool.
Now I am reading more, and the deadline is actually 2020. That's seventeen years.
See, Kennedy had the balls to lay a firm deadline down. "You bitches will put a man on the moon before January 1, 1970 or I will come back from the grave and kick your ass," he said. He knew he was going to get shot. That's how hardcore he was. He also got crazy laid by Marilyn Monroe.
President Bush says, "You ought to think about just possibly putting a man on the moon sometime during this five year period."
President Kennedy showed us that you have to slap NASA around a little bit to get them to do anything worthwhile with manned space exploration. You can't be all lovey-dovey and set long gradual timetables.
And Bush mentions "the goal of living and working there for increasingly extended periods." So we'll have another Skylab ISS, but on the moon. The only differences will be that it won't crash into Australia like Skylab (it will crash into the Moon instead - that might sound hard to acheive since it would already be on the surface of the moon, but they will find a way to do that), it will leak more than ISS, and since it won't even be international we won't be able to bum rides from the Russians.
If Kennedy was alive in this day and age he would have said, "Fucking NASA, I am still alive in this day and age so you assholes better have a self-sufficient Mars base by the year 2013. Also make me a space elevator. And resurrect Marilyn Monroe." Then NASA would complain that it is not their job to resurrect people and Kennedy would punch NASA in the eye.
I bet the "Crew Exploration Vehicle" is going to blow the fuck up about twenty times too. You can probably trace the suckiness of manned space exploration to the decision to switch from cool names like "Mercury" and "Apollo" to crappy names like "Skylab" and "STS." When the Apollo blew up they fucking fixed it and came home, but when the Space Shuttle gets fucked up they make Powerpoints about it and ignore the problem.
You're batshit insane. Eating the plastic won't harm you, and from what I can look up styrofoam might increase your risk of cancer like smoking a cigarette. Both are much better than shit.
Capsela - Cool plastic spheres with gears and motors inside them and various wheels and such to attach. The coolest part was that they had float attachments so you could make boats. I made some of these into a robot for a final class project just recently.
Old School Erector Sets - these things are valuable collectors items now. I seem to remember the instructions giving you basic structural engineering tips. The motor they had was badass.
There is only an "LED flicker" if they are run directly by AC. If they are run by DC there is no flicker, at least for lighting applications (display applications would be another story.)
If I claimed that George Bush sucked Colin Powell's cock while Karl Rove buttbanged him, the newspapers would be free to report my claims, if there was any reason to: "Random Guy Accuses President of Rampant Homosexuality!"
And yes, the U.S. media has the freedom to be bland and insipid, if that's their choice. That's one of the principles of our freedoms - they are still upheld even if excercised poorly. So the KKK has the right to hate speech and the media has the right to suck.
In fact, the media can be as bland and insipid as they want, but it doesn't lessen my freedom of speech.
That's because you have less free speech. Like when you try and call the Prince gay in a newspaper. To a US point of view those restrictions are abhorrent.
Fact is, though, that you can touch a computer's cooling fan without getting injure. It doesn't even hurt. In fact, I just touched my case fan and my cpu fan just to prove the point.
Independence War, Elite, X-Wing/TIE Fighter, Wing Commander, Freespace...
Great genre of games that hasn't done well these past several years. When I fired this B5 game up for a few minutes I could see the influences from Independence War (Newtonian motion!!!) and Freespace immediately.
My joystick's in another city, so I won't be playing this for a while, but I did take a look at the graphics, which are great. He even wrote in motion blur which makes things amazing, but unfortunately it takes my framerate to about 5.
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In 1961, when shit wasn't invented yet and people fought bears for vital food, President Kennedy had the balls to give NASA less than nine years to get to the moon.
In this day and age, when there's metric shitloads of technology all over the place and the internet makes valuable porn as free as air, President Bush gives it twelve years. What a tool.
Now I am reading more, and the deadline is actually 2020. That's seventeen years.
See, Kennedy had the balls to lay a firm deadline down. "You bitches will put a man on the moon before January 1, 1970 or I will come back from the grave and kick your ass," he said. He knew he was going to get shot. That's how hardcore he was. He also got crazy laid by Marilyn Monroe.
President Bush says, "You ought to think about just possibly putting a man on the moon sometime during this five year period."
President Kennedy showed us that you have to slap NASA around a little bit to get them to do anything worthwhile with manned space exploration. You can't be all lovey-dovey and set long gradual timetables.
And Bush mentions "the goal of living and working there for increasingly extended periods." So we'll have another Skylab ISS, but on the moon. The only differences will be that it won't crash into Australia like Skylab (it will crash into the Moon instead - that might sound hard to acheive since it would already be on the surface of the moon, but they will find a way to do that), it will leak more than ISS, and since it won't even be international we won't be able to bum rides from the Russians.
If Kennedy was alive in this day and age he would have said, "Fucking NASA, I am still alive in this day and age so you assholes better have a self-sufficient Mars base by the year 2013. Also make me a space elevator. And resurrect Marilyn Monroe." Then NASA would complain that it is not their job to resurrect people and Kennedy would punch NASA in the eye.
I bet the "Crew Exploration Vehicle" is going to blow the fuck up about twenty times too. You can probably trace the suckiness of manned space exploration to the decision to switch from cool names like "Mercury" and "Apollo" to crappy names like "Skylab" and "STS." When the Apollo blew up they fucking fixed it and came home, but when the Space Shuttle gets fucked up they make Powerpoints about it and ignore the problem.
Tim
Fuck that noise. The kibibyte, mebibyte, etc line of standards is good for no one but hard drive manufacturers.
Tim
Our needs will expand.
Tim
I think those are some sort of protective lens covering that was ejected after the lander landed.
Tim
Team Fortress had grenade keys years ago.
Tim
Quaoar.
Big space rock.
Tim
Oh god. Half my connectors have bite marks. So I'm not the only one...
Tim
You're batshit insane. Eating the plastic won't harm you, and from what I can look up styrofoam might increase your risk of cancer like smoking a cigarette. Both are much better than shit.
Tim
Two more:
Capsela - Cool plastic spheres with gears and motors inside them and various wheels and such to attach. The coolest part was that they had float attachments so you could make boats. I made some of these into a robot for a final class project just recently.
Old School Erector Sets - these things are valuable collectors items now. I seem to remember the instructions giving you basic structural engineering tips. The motor they had was badass.
Tim
What color do you want?
White
LEDs are:
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple
Pink
Along with invisible infrared and ultraviolet. And three colors can be combined in one package to make an RGB system that can reproduce many colors.
Tim
Radio Shack gives you the shaft on components. It's really not valid to compare them there.
Tim
There is only an "LED flicker" if they are run directly by AC. If they are run by DC there is no flicker, at least for lighting applications (display applications would be another story.)
Tim
This one time I made some smoke emitting transistors.
Tim
They just need to demodulate the primary power coupling so they can use it to create an inverse antitachyon pulse.
Christ, don't you know anything?
Tim
Once on the Simpsons, Homer mentioned his AOL screenname - and people who e-mailed that address got replies...
Tim
Dude, I built a fucking robot with 555's. It is a kick ass chip.
Tim
If I claimed that George Bush sucked Colin Powell's cock while Karl Rove buttbanged him, the newspapers would be free to report my claims, if there was any reason to: "Random Guy Accuses President of Rampant Homosexuality!"
And yes, the U.S. media has the freedom to be bland and insipid, if that's their choice. That's one of the principles of our freedoms - they are still upheld even if excercised poorly. So the KKK has the right to hate speech and the media has the right to suck.
In fact, the media can be as bland and insipid as they want, but it doesn't lessen my freedom of speech.
Tim
That's because you have less free speech. Like when you try and call the Prince gay in a newspaper. To a US point of view those restrictions are abhorrent.
Tim
Regarding Hogan's Heroes - I was told they had to dub over all the "Heil Hitler" lines in the show...
Tim
Fact is, though, that you can touch a computer's cooling fan without getting injure. It doesn't even hurt. In fact, I just touched my case fan and my cpu fan just to prove the point.
Tim
The motion still reminded me a lot of I-war. And the lines on the HUD as visual cues for motion are definitely from I-war.
Tim
It works!
Tim
Independence War, Elite, X-Wing/TIE Fighter, Wing Commander, Freespace...
Great genre of games that hasn't done well these past several years. When I fired this B5 game up for a few minutes I could see the influences from Independence War (Newtonian motion!!!) and Freespace immediately.
Tim
My joystick's in another city, so I won't be playing this for a while, but I did take a look at the graphics, which are great. He even wrote in motion blur which makes things amazing, but unfortunately it takes my framerate to about 5.
Tim
If I brought a computer with Linux on it for someone I bet they would never give me a gift or invite me to their Christmas party again.
Tim