People are all messed up in how they think about this because we are so misguided by metaphysics and religion. Consciousness is not a real thing. "You" are a story that your brain tells itself. The way your brain and body actually work have little to do with that story.
Nobody would blink an eye at restarting a machine after it was long idle and rotted parts were repaired. But when they consider it happening to a human being, they get tripped up in metaphysical stuff that isn't real.
Does anyone really think a foldable color touch-screen was a good idea? For this to fail before it was even shipped to customers would be no surprise at all.
It wasn't physically possible. The side boosters came back to Florida, but the center booster was going too fast to land anywhere but in the Atlantic.
They will fix the problem, which was that the robot which locks down recovered boosters did not work with the center one from a Falcon Heavy.
Your display might be good for 10 years. The "smart" part is going to be good for 2. Plugging a smart device into HDMI makes about 1000 times more sense.
NORAD can't tell you how small an object they can actually track, or how many of them. What they have actually disclosed is probably only the tip of the iceberg.
Google had a social network called Orcut, after an engineer there who was named Orcut and is still trying his hand at social networking. That was Google's social network before Google+. It played well in South America, I think, but didn't catch on as much elsewhere. I don't remember how it finally played out. We just have to wait a while, and Google will do it's third social network.
You can charge a phone that quickly, as long as it's in a freezer. 100 watts is a good deal of heat, and has to go somewhere. Getting it to charge that way at room temperature is a much larger challenge.
I have a device called Tel-Lynx, which is a call screener and reliably stops any call without a human being, and announces the ones it hasn't been programmed to allow through immediately. Of course one can program this into one of the Open Source phone systems or a microprocessor, it was just a matter of time for me - too many projects and too little Bruce. Tel-Lynx is sort of clunky, for example it doesn't provide net access to your voicemails or a web interface to approve numbers. But no nusiance calls.
The frequency shown on the bandscope is not within authorized ham radio frequencies. The people mentioned are not licensed radio amateurs. The communication would have been illegal under two different Amateur Radio rules, one regarding encryption for the purpose of obscuring the meaning of a communication, and one regarding communications for remuneration.
I was a part-time researcher at a college in Norway for three years. I'd come out in the summer and work for a month or so. There were 2 or three hours of darkness at night. But this was obviously a lot less of a burden than the 9 hour time change every time I flew there and back.
These days it is not unusual for me to go from California to Europe every month, or at least to another US time zone. You learn jet-lag regimens, how to time your flights, you get the right drugs from your doctor (never Ambien - I think it makes people sleep-drive and kill their children). I wonder if these people complaining about a 1-hour change never even cross the country.
I was around the last time the USA got rid of daylight-savings time, in 1973-1975. It was total hell. Children went to school in pitch darkness and bitter cold, and people drove to work in the dark. I can't imagine who would want this again. You get rid of a one-hour change for a much worse difficulty every day for months on end.
These days, many more working people travel regularly than in 1973, when jet travel was so unreachable for the common man that rich people were called the "jet set". Most working people today deal with much worse than a one-hour change on a regular basis.
SpaceX is always trying to make things less expensive. Their original plan was to test propulsive landing on cargo missions, so they'd essentially get the rocket and Dragon for free. NASA stopped that, saying the return cargo was too valuable to put at risk. And because SpaceX did not budget to test propulsive landing with separate missions (as Boeing did) they lost out. Also, the feet were supposed to go through the heat shield, which made NASA engineers nervous. However, NASA had an entire hatch through the heat shield for Manned Orbiting Laboratory: photo.
Demo 2 is now NET July, not November. I didn't consider the abort test, as that goes up to Max-Q and then aborts, doesn't get close to orbit. Interestingly, they think there might be a chance to get the first stage back after the Dragon detaches at Max-Q. At that point, it's still attached to the second stage.
William Proxmire's grave is in Lake Forest Cemetery
Lake Forest, Lake County, Illinois, USA. Piss on it for me, please.
Yes, cowardly, craven American politicians including Mr. Proxmire cancelled the last three Apollo missions when we already had the spacecraft for Apollo 18 sitting around, essentially ended manned space exploration for three generations (earth orbit is not exploration), and as far as I can tell achieved no real purpose with the money "saved", other than fighting stupid wars that cost much more than any space program. The Saturn V at the Saturn V Center in Florida is mostly the vehicle that should have flown as Apollo 18. There are also some pieces from Skylab missions, made to look like the Apollo versions.
Cargo Dragon berths, which means the Canadarm catches it and it is bolted to a berthing port. Berthing ports have a larger opening than the International Docking Adapter, and you can get larger diameter cargo through the door. Crew vehicles dock so that a crew can abandon the ISS or board the uninhabited ISS - nobody would be on board to operate the arm and bolt the vehicle to the berthing port.
A berthing port can have an IDA attached to it, and then becomes a docking port.
Crew Dragon docks autonomously without needing assistance from the ISS or the crew on board the Dragon.
PEOPLE NEXT TIME! Two astronauts will fly in the Crew Dragon demo 2. That will be the first time since 2011 that a US space vehicle took astronauts to ISS.
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People are all messed up in how they think about this because we are so misguided by metaphysics and religion. Consciousness is not a real thing. "You" are a story that your brain tells itself. The way your brain and body actually work have little to do with that story.
Nobody would blink an eye at restarting a machine after it was long idle and rotted parts were repaired. But when they consider it happening to a human being, they get tripped up in metaphysical stuff that isn't real.
Does anyone really think a foldable color touch-screen was a good idea? For this to fail before it was even shipped to customers would be no surprise at all.
It wasn't physically possible. The side boosters came back to Florida, but the center booster was going too fast to land anywhere but in the Atlantic. They will fix the problem, which was that the robot which locks down recovered boosters did not work with the center one from a Falcon Heavy.
Apparently not enough that anyone wants to launch using it. There are no known missions.
And of course you can only watch NTSC composite video, right?
Your display might be good for 10 years. The "smart" part is going to be good for 2. Plugging a smart device into HDMI makes about 1000 times more sense.
NORAD can't tell you how small an object they can actually track, or how many of them. What they have actually disclosed is probably only the tip of the iceberg.
Oops. Wrong spelling: Orkut.
Google had a social network called Orcut, after an engineer there who was named Orcut and is still trying his hand at social networking. That was Google's social network before Google+. It played well in South America, I think, but didn't catch on as much elsewhere. I don't remember how it finally played out. We just have to wait a while, and Google will do it's third social network.
You can charge a phone that quickly, as long as it's in a freezer. 100 watts is a good deal of heat, and has to go somewhere. Getting it to charge that way at room temperature is a much larger challenge.
Don't forget the Lectron blocks.
I have a device called Tel-Lynx, which is a call screener and reliably stops any call without a human being, and announces the ones it hasn't been programmed to allow through immediately. Of course one can program this into one of the Open Source phone systems or a microprocessor, it was just a matter of time for me - too many projects and too little Bruce. Tel-Lynx is sort of clunky, for example it doesn't provide net access to your voicemails or a web interface to approve numbers. But no nusiance calls.
The frequency shown on the bandscope is not within authorized ham radio frequencies. The people mentioned are not licensed radio amateurs. The communication would have been illegal under two different Amateur Radio rules, one regarding encryption for the purpose of obscuring the meaning of a communication, and one regarding communications for remuneration.
He doesn't need to be a lawyer. The rules are really clear in prohibiting encryption and use for remuneration.
It really is illegal to send a message with encryption intended to obscure the meaning on Amateur Radio.
I was a part-time researcher at a college in Norway for three years. I'd come out in the summer and work for a month or so. There were 2 or three hours of darkness at night. But this was obviously a lot less of a burden than the 9 hour time change every time I flew there and back.
These days it is not unusual for me to go from California to Europe every month, or at least to another US time zone. You learn jet-lag regimens, how to time your flights, you get the right drugs from your doctor (never Ambien - I think it makes people sleep-drive and kill their children). I wonder if these people complaining about a 1-hour change never even cross the country.
So, you don't travel, do you?
I was around the last time the USA got rid of daylight-savings time, in 1973-1975. It was total hell. Children went to school in pitch darkness and bitter cold, and people drove to work in the dark. I can't imagine who would want this again. You get rid of a one-hour change for a much worse difficulty every day for months on end.
These days, many more working people travel regularly than in 1973, when jet travel was so unreachable for the common man that rich people were called the "jet set". Most working people today deal with much worse than a one-hour change on a regular basis.
SpaceX is always trying to make things less expensive. Their original plan was to test propulsive landing on cargo missions, so they'd essentially get the rocket and Dragon for free. NASA stopped that, saying the return cargo was too valuable to put at risk. And because SpaceX did not budget to test propulsive landing with separate missions (as Boeing did) they lost out. Also, the feet were supposed to go through the heat shield, which made NASA engineers nervous. However, NASA had an entire hatch through the heat shield for Manned Orbiting Laboratory: photo.
Two stages from Apollo 18 are at Johnson, but the second stage from Apollo 18 is in Florida. See this detailed explanation.
Demo 2 is now NET July, not November. I didn't consider the abort test, as that goes up to Max-Q and then aborts, doesn't get close to orbit. Interestingly, they think there might be a chance to get the first stage back after the Dragon detaches at Max-Q. At that point, it's still attached to the second stage.
William Proxmire's grave is in Lake Forest Cemetery Lake Forest, Lake County, Illinois, USA. Piss on it for me, please.
Yes, cowardly, craven American politicians including Mr. Proxmire cancelled the last three Apollo missions when we already had the spacecraft for Apollo 18 sitting around, essentially ended manned space exploration for three generations (earth orbit is not exploration), and as far as I can tell achieved no real purpose with the money "saved", other than fighting stupid wars that cost much more than any space program. The Saturn V at the Saturn V Center in Florida is mostly the vehicle that should have flown as Apollo 18. There are also some pieces from Skylab missions, made to look like the Apollo versions.
Cargo Dragon berths, which means the Canadarm catches it and it is bolted to a berthing port. Berthing ports have a larger opening than the International Docking Adapter, and you can get larger diameter cargo through the door. Crew vehicles dock so that a crew can abandon the ISS or board the uninhabited ISS - nobody would be on board to operate the arm and bolt the vehicle to the berthing port.
A berthing port can have an IDA attached to it, and then becomes a docking port.
Crew Dragon docks autonomously without needing assistance from the ISS or the crew on board the Dragon.
PEOPLE NEXT TIME! Two astronauts will fly in the Crew Dragon demo 2. That will be the first time since 2011 that a US space vehicle took astronauts to ISS.
I've been informed that it is not necessary to register on the Wiki, and you can post comments anonymously. Uh-oh. Might be a lot of work for the OSI admin tomorrow. Please be gentle to him and post serious questions to the candidates.