Where you have industry, you also have to have (nearby) the people to operate the industry and the people who support them.
Apparently you've never heard of New York or LA. Can't afford to live with an hour of some places.
And yet, people do live within an hour 'some places'. And right in the heart of 'some places'. Or, in other words, why are you comparing chalk to cheese?
They should go ahead and rebuild the port and industrial infrastructure, then build some mass transit(light rail, it's cheaper per tile:) to the nearest STABLE and ABOVE SEA LEVEL region and put the residential & commercial there.
Stable and above sea level? There isn't such a place in the entire US.
It's below sea level in one of the most hurricane prone places on earth. Why are rebuilding and living there?
Economics - New Orleans is a major port that services nearly 2/3 of the land area of the US. Not to mention the petroleum industry, fishing, cruise ships, etc... etc...
Make it an industrial zone and be done with it. Use the money to permanently relocate the population
This isn't Sim City where you can just 'declare something an industrial zone' and call it good. Where you have industry, you also have to have (nearby) the people to operate the industry and the people who support them. Which means in turn, the whole infrastructure enchilada - roads, schools, hospitals, etc. etc.
f course, now that the story is propagating all over the Net, pretty soon everyone will know about the alleged security flaws (if not the details), and the CC companies and their legal eagles will look quite villainous. When will they ever learn?
Oh, they've learned. They've learned very well... 99% of these 'net meme' stories vanish without a trace in 72-96 hours.
A company whose livelihood is open source proposes that other businesses should subsidize open source... That's kinda like asking the RIAA and MPAA to sponsor a study on piracy.
I don't see any plans to fly a PCR detector - only to develop a PCR detector. Expanding the technology base for compact, low power, automated laboratory and detector systems will be useful as it could lead to any number of useful spinoffs. Like portable blood sugar analyzers, or pregnancy detection kits, or decreasing the time it takes to perform forensic DNA analysis...
'The' Saturn plant? I guess you don't realize this is a forum that covers more than just your neighborhood.
The length of high line you need is dependent on where the nearest existing one is - and that distance is a critical factor in site selection. Land cost is far, far from the only factor. Wind farms are not a special case of this, because the distance to the nearest high line doesn't determine where the wind blows.
At any rate, you seem confused as to the issue here - so I'll restate it. The problem isn't moving the power from a wind farm, its moving the power from dozens or hundreds of wind farms in the Midwest to the Boswash corridor, or the LA basin, or Dallas-Ft. Worth.
So (for a wind farm bigger than about twice the local load) you have to run some new lines. Just like you would if you built a new auto plant or aluminum smelter in the same location.
That's just the thing - they don't build new auto plants or aluminum smelters out the hell in the middle of nowhere for just that reason. They put 'em near the 'fat pipes' to hold that cost down.
AC power will still be around - but what about the lubricants in the hard drive and CD drive? The caps in the power supply? The battery? What about corrosion from any moisture trapped inside? What about the plastic parts starting to break down? (Yes, plastic will be around forever, but its physical, and more importantly electrical, properties can change over time.
Etc... Etc...
I agree with the advice given elsewhere - just print the photographs on archival quality paper using archival quality inks. There are just too many uncertainties with digital media.
today, with a billion "social networking" sites (read: you make the content, I make the profit) around, hammering out yet another one is about as sensible as creating the better mousetrap or the better search engine.
Only if you confuse 'social networking' with 'a site for everyone and his uncle doing everything under the sun that interests them' in the manner that Facebook/Live Journal/MySpace does. On the other hand, I'm a member of multiple niche social networking sites and they are excellent resources that are virtually all signal with no noise. (That they tend to be moderated rather than free-for-all sandboxen tends to help in this regard.)
They are especially useful because the various features of the site can be optimized for the special interest in question, like my current favorite woodworking site - Lumberjocks.
Reading the blog entry (TFA), I suspect the real problem with Gleemax is that they never promoted it, and that it ended up being just another set of gamer forums rather than an actual social networking site.
Think of what we could have included: the music that influenced generations, films that invoke anger, sadness, joy, books that literally changed the way that the world thought -- and not one bit of it can be reproduced, all because some assholes wanted to collect a check from an animated mouse.
Tons of it can be reproduced - because it is in the public domain due to it's copyright having expired. Or are you you arrogant and ignorant as to believe the only things that have so influenced mankind have only been produced within the last century?
WHY, with NASA having so much larger budget than before (even accounting for inflation), and so much better engineering than before, and so much better design and simulation tools than before, and VASTLY more experience than before...
WHY are we seeing so much more FAILURE than before???
Two reasons; First, today we have the internet, allowing failure to widely broadcast. Second because virtually of the books on Apollo skim over the millions of hours of tedious component and system research tests, development tests, proof tests, qualifications tests, verifications tests, etc. etc.
My suggestion: bureaucracy.
My suggestion: perception of a higher failure rate arising from near complete ignorance of how many failures NASA actually had back in the 60's.
Why, under conditions when you need extreme reliability, do we use parachutes?
Simple - because parachutes are extremely reliable.
can imagine that a simpler design that has lower chance of failure (like just a long streamer) would be preferable.
In the real world, a long streamer isn't going to be 'simple'. You need to be able to eject it from the craft, which is going to require a deployment bag for clean separation. Now you have to get the streamer out of the bag and cleanly deployed without exceeding either the structural margins of the capsule attach points or the fabric of the streamer itself. Decidedly non trivial.
Is it a weight-to-performance issue?
Pretty much - as a streamer doesn't have much capability of slowing things down.
Presumably Iran, as an Islamic republic, will send devout Muslims into space and will have to answer some interesting questions. For instance, if you orbit the earth every 90 minutes, you experience a very short day. If you are Muslim, how does that effect praying 5 times a day (every 18 minutes!).
Muslim astronauts have already been in space. IIRC their prayer schedule was based on a day as defined by their sleep/wake schedule and the clock in Mission Control and they simply faced the Earth. (Islam requires that you make a reasonable attempt to pray in the general direction of Mecca, it does not require laser like precision.)
This rocket has epic fail written all over it. If vibrations are an issue fixing those vibrations should be priority one, not mitigating them.
Mitigating them, either actively or passively, is how you fix them. The 'epic fail' here lies with the person tossing about buzzwords with no understanding of what they actually mean.
The fastest way to get up to speed would be to side with some country that has good rocket technology instead of trying to build it themselves.
Better is a very subjective term. When you compare objective qualities (like booster vibration, or safety) you find the difference between the US and other countries to be statistically insignificant.
First (I believe) aerodynamically unstable man rated launcher
Dunno about that one... The Gemini program's launch vehicles tended to suffer what was called the "Pogo" effect once they reached a certain speed and altitude. Tended to scare the shit out of the first astronauts to experience it.
The Apollo program had solved that.
Huh? First off, Pogo is experienced to some degree or another by practically ever booster of significant size. The best you can do is dampen it below danger levels, as it is an inherent mode of vibration in booster.
Secondly, Apollo didn't 'solve' it, they merely dampened it below problematic levels. Even so, that was only finally accomplished fairly later in the program - Apollo 13, for example, suffered extremely from Pogo. On that flight, Pogo was bad enough that it came right to the boundary of abort conditions. If Pogo hasn't caused the center engine on the stage to shut down, and thus reduced the vibrations, it's virtually certain the second stage would have disintegrated.
Only the last five flights (14-Skylab 1) didn't suffer from significant and potentially dangerous levels of Pogo vibration. (A fact NASA kept hidden for thirty years.)
That is exactly what I have been saying. Apollo was the heaviest lifter we had, it worked, and it worked great.
I'd hesitate to say it 'worked great', given the very few flights the Saturn V (to give it it's proper name) flew. They didn't mostly solve the vibration problems until Apollo 14, for example (they never did completely solve them), and they were making significant modifications right up to the last flight. In particular, they fiddled extensively with the retrorockets on the first and second stages to reduce weight while ensuring proper separation and no recontact.
What's wrong with pulling out the blue prints, updating some components and building a newer improved version of the Apollo system?
Mostly because it isn't a matter of updating 'some components'... For one example - the electronics in the Saturn V IU (Instrument Unit) are hopelessly out of date, you can't simply 'update them' because they interconnect with everything else on the booster. Even just updating the electronics on the IU means redoing the cooling system and wiring harness, not to mention that all the vibration, structural, cooling, etc. etc. analysis will have to be redone as well.
When it comes to the Apollo capsule itself, I've seen credible work that indicates that the weight of its power and electronic would shrink by over 90%! Which means the cooling system is now way oversized... The CG of the capsule also moves radically, which means rejiggering the RCS to account for the changed aerodynamic performance... Etc. Etc.
There's a reason why the Soviets update the Soyuz only infrequently.
Why is this so hard to figure out?
It's only easy when you don't understand the issues involved. Very few Slashdotters seem to know much about the history and engineering of the Apollo program beyond the extremely simplified panegyrics they read as kids.
You mean the well tested and proven capability we've had since the 1960's? Being laughably paranoid is one thing, but at least learn WTF you are talking about.
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And yet, people do live within an hour 'some places'. And right in the heart of 'some places'. Or, in other words, why are you comparing chalk to cheese?
Stable and above sea level? There isn't such a place in the entire US.
Economics - New Orleans is a major port that services nearly 2/3 of the land area of the US. Not to mention the petroleum industry, fishing, cruise ships, etc... etc...
This isn't Sim City where you can just 'declare something an industrial zone' and call it good. Where you have industry, you also have to have (nearby) the people to operate the industry and the people who support them. Which means in turn, the whole infrastructure enchilada - roads, schools, hospitals, etc. etc.
Oh, they've learned. They've learned very well... 99% of these 'net meme' stories vanish without a trace in 72-96 hours.
A company whose livelihood is open source proposes that other businesses should subsidize open source... That's kinda like asking the RIAA and MPAA to sponsor a study on piracy.
Of course, the current crop of key researchers were fresh college recruits once upon a time...
I don't see any plans to fly a PCR detector - only to develop a PCR detector. Expanding the technology base for compact, low power, automated laboratory and detector systems will be useful as it could lead to any number of useful spinoffs. Like portable blood sugar analyzers, or pregnancy detection kits, or decreasing the time it takes to perform forensic DNA analysis...
'The' Saturn plant? I guess you don't realize this is a forum that covers more than just your neighborhood.
The length of high line you need is dependent on where the nearest existing one is - and that distance is a critical factor in site selection. Land cost is far, far from the only factor. Wind farms are not a special case of this, because the distance to the nearest high line doesn't determine where the wind blows.
At any rate, you seem confused as to the issue here - so I'll restate it. The problem isn't moving the power from a wind farm, its moving the power from dozens or hundreds of wind farms in the Midwest to the Boswash corridor, or the LA basin, or Dallas-Ft. Worth.
That's just the thing - they don't build new auto plants or aluminum smelters out the hell in the middle of nowhere for just that reason. They put 'em near the 'fat pipes' to hold that cost down.
But that option doesn't exist for wind farms.
AC power will still be around - but what about the lubricants in the hard drive and CD drive? The caps in the power supply? The battery? What about corrosion from any moisture trapped inside? What about the plastic parts starting to break down? (Yes, plastic will be around forever, but its physical, and more importantly electrical, properties can change over time.
Etc... Etc...
I agree with the advice given elsewhere - just print the photographs on archival quality paper using archival quality inks. There are just too many uncertainties with digital media.
Civilization has survived quite well for thousands of years without nanny states or nanny corporations.
Heck, I'd settle for Google responding to Yahoo Mail's old interface.
Only if you confuse 'social networking' with 'a site for everyone and his uncle doing everything under the sun that interests them' in the manner that Facebook/Live Journal/MySpace does. On the other hand, I'm a member of multiple niche social networking sites and they are excellent resources that are virtually all signal with no noise. (That they tend to be moderated rather than free-for-all sandboxen tends to help in this regard.)
They are especially useful because the various features of the site can be optimized for the special interest in question, like my current favorite woodworking site - Lumberjocks.
Reading the blog entry (TFA), I suspect the real problem with Gleemax is that they never promoted it, and that it ended up being just another set of gamer forums rather than an actual social networking site.
Yeah, we allowed idiots acess to the internet.
Tons of it can be reproduced - because it is in the public domain due to it's copyright having expired. Or are you you arrogant and ignorant as to believe the only things that have so influenced mankind have only been produced within the last century?
Two reasons; First, today we have the internet, allowing failure to widely broadcast. Second because virtually of the books on Apollo skim over the millions of hours of tedious component and system research tests, development tests, proof tests, qualifications tests, verifications tests, etc. etc.
My suggestion: perception of a higher failure rate arising from near complete ignorance of how many failures NASA actually had back in the 60's.
Simple - because parachutes are extremely reliable.
In the real world, a long streamer isn't going to be 'simple'. You need to be able to eject it from the craft, which is going to require a deployment bag for clean separation. Now you have to get the streamer out of the bag and cleanly deployed without exceeding either the structural margins of the capsule attach points or the fabric of the streamer itself. Decidedly non trivial.
Pretty much - as a streamer doesn't have much capability of slowing things down.
Not to mention that the grandparent never seems to have studied the Apollo project and seen the varied and sundry test rigs they used back then.
Muslim astronauts have already been in space. IIRC their prayer schedule was based on a day as defined by their sleep/wake schedule and the clock in Mission Control and they simply faced the Earth. (Islam requires that you make a reasonable attempt to pray in the general direction of Mecca, it does not require laser like precision.)
Mitigating them, either actively or passively, is how you fix them. The 'epic fail' here lies with the person tossing about buzzwords with no understanding of what they actually mean.
Better is a very subjective term. When you compare objective qualities (like booster vibration, or safety) you find the difference between the US and other countries to be statistically insignificant.
Huh? First off, Pogo is experienced to some degree or another by practically ever booster of significant size. The best you can do is dampen it below danger levels, as it is an inherent mode of vibration in booster.
Secondly, Apollo didn't 'solve' it, they merely dampened it below problematic levels. Even so, that was only finally accomplished fairly later in the program - Apollo 13, for example, suffered extremely from Pogo. On that flight, Pogo was bad enough that it came right to the boundary of abort conditions. If Pogo hasn't caused the center engine on the stage to shut down, and thus reduced the vibrations, it's virtually certain the second stage would have disintegrated.
Only the last five flights (14-Skylab 1) didn't suffer from significant and potentially dangerous levels of Pogo vibration. (A fact NASA kept hidden for thirty years.)
I'd hesitate to say it 'worked great', given the very few flights the Saturn V (to give it it's proper name) flew. They didn't mostly solve the vibration problems until Apollo 14, for example (they never did completely solve them), and they were making significant modifications right up to the last flight. In particular, they fiddled extensively with the retrorockets on the first and second stages to reduce weight while ensuring proper separation and no recontact.
Mostly because it isn't a matter of updating 'some components'... For one example - the electronics in the Saturn V IU (Instrument Unit) are hopelessly out of date, you can't simply 'update them' because they interconnect with everything else on the booster. Even just updating the electronics on the IU means redoing the cooling system and wiring harness, not to mention that all the vibration, structural, cooling, etc. etc. analysis will have to be redone as well.
When it comes to the Apollo capsule itself, I've seen credible work that indicates that the weight of its power and electronic would shrink by over 90%! Which means the cooling system is now way oversized... The CG of the capsule also moves radically, which means rejiggering the RCS to account for the changed aerodynamic performance... Etc. Etc.
There's a reason why the Soviets update the Soyuz only infrequently.
It's only easy when you don't understand the issues involved. Very few Slashdotters seem to know much about the history and engineering of the Apollo program beyond the extremely simplified panegyrics they read as kids.
Its Google's fault you set everything up at virtually the last minute?
If you're willing to pay for it, you certainly can.
About 15 minutes ago. I'm not a professional chef - but they do it hundreds of times a day.
You mean the well tested and proven capability we've had since the 1960's? Being laughably paranoid is one thing, but at least learn WTF you are talking about.
Hint #1: "Enforcing someones legal rights (or punishing those who violate them)" != "Police State".
Hint #2: "Police state" != Fascism".