[NASA] probably resisted to Tito's space journey due to the fact Tito is untrained as an astronaut and could have caused catastrophic damage to the space shuttle, possibly killing the crew, even unintentionally.
Tito rode Russian vehicles; he didn't ride on a shuttle -- not on the way up, and not on the way down.
The article also has lots of good SciAm-style graphics.
Since when are SciAm's graphics good? I've always found them obtuse and esoteric. Other, less "elite" science publications have a graphics style that communicates concepts better.
I eagerly await the day when people realize clock rate means nothing when comparing different processor architectures. If you watched the keynote, you saw a G4 733 MHz kick the butt of a Pentium 4 1500 MHz. You can't explain that away with technobabble... why do you even try?
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Tito rode Russian vehicles; he didn't ride on a shuttle -- not on the way up, and not on the way down.
Since when are SciAm's graphics good? I've always found them obtuse and esoteric. Other, less "elite" science publications have a graphics style that communicates concepts better.
Is anyone with me on this?
I eagerly await the day when people realize clock rate means nothing when comparing different processor architectures. If you watched the keynote, you saw a G4 733 MHz kick the butt of a Pentium 4 1500 MHz. You can't explain that away with technobabble... why do you even try?
http://stream.apple.akadns.net/keynote_010901_ref
The quality of the streaming video is much better if you use QuickTime 5 PR2 (get it at apple.com/quicktime/preview).