The drone ship was only a few hundred nautical miles offshore, not a few thousand like the Azores. The thing with the shuttle was that once you lit the SRBs, you were committed to flying, at least until the SRBs were exhausted. Given the amount of thrust and duration, that would put you within range of the Azores.
Also, hitting the Azores would require the rocket to be launched on a specific azimuth, which isn't a due-east launch like what is done for Geostationary.
If you need to do that, just pay the $25 to have it delivered, or rent a truck for $100. Far cheaper than wasting $20k on a vehicle you rarely use. I mean, FFS, how often does the average Joe Sixpack need to haul a stack of plywood or sheetrock? Once a year, at most?
I was once in India for work, and failed to follow through on some bureaucratic paperwork that no one told me about. Once I figured things out, and went and filled the paper work, the bureaucrat goes "Oh, Mr. Strider-, there is a fine because you failed to fill out the paperwork." "How much?" "300 Rupees" "done."
If you don't support fission you don't support clean energy.
This is WA. They're already running 85% Hydro Electric, and have significant capabilities to add wind in the south-eastern part of the state. The hydro system actually has the capacity to power the entire state, but can't as it would be using the water unsustainably. Add in Wind/Solar, and you can use the Hydro as a large battery, buffering the output from these more intermittent sources. When the wind is blowing, the sun shining, you spin down the hydro plants, and let the water store up. When the wind goes calm and the skies are cloudy, you run the Hydro hard, and draw down on your reservoirs.
That map is missing a lot of stuff. For example, Chelan and Douglas counties both have PUD fiber, which supplies gigabit FTTH to virtually every address in these rural counties, for an extremely reasonable price. Once you have the fiber installed, the citizens have a choice of some 10 ISPs, 6 or 8 TV providers, and a dozen telephone companies. Total access fee for the fiber is something like $15/mo, and the ISPs are about $20.
No, section 7 of the British Columbia Motorvehicle Act prohibits the use of wearing both headphones. They can only be worn in one ear, and only used for hands-free communications.
I'm not sure why the judge went through the legal gymnastics either.
Bingo. The hash is part of the URL, so it's delivered securely, but the body of the download isn't.
This is how Microsoft (and apple I think) do their updates. The control channel is secured via https, but the mass download of the updates is not. I always know when a big update is put out, as the effectiveness of my WAAS setup goes up dramatically for a few days.
Is that we could all agree on some sort of standard whereby from a secure site you could initiate a download, have that download be unencrypted, but the download link would include a sha256 checksum that would be checked automatically by the browser once the download was complete.
This would allow popular downloads to be cached closer to the user, while providing for verification of the download integrity.
It's actually part of a trilogy. The other two films in the series are "Objectified" (about industrial design) and "Urbanized" (about architecture and urban design). All three are definitely worth a watch if you are at all a design nerd.
It's pretty clear that the person who submitted the article is Canadian. The Canadian media referred to MOST as the "Humble Space Telescope" in their coverage of its launch and commissioning, thus making it the generally known nickname for the craft.
Sorry for the confusion this caused, but it's not our fault that you didn't pay attention to our news media.
You should have seen the time I had to haul 8 laptops through security... Among my roles is that of "Technical Trainer" so I need to bring training laptops with me. Previously, we had a nice, well padded and protective Pelican case holding the 6 laptops. This was highly secure, and protected the laptops from damage. Later, they prohibited them from the cargo hold and suddenly I had to hand-carry them through security.
The US regularly conducts missile tests, both from land based solos and submarines. There is typically one or two launches a year to verify operational readiness. The missiles used are pulled from active service, have their warheads replaced with dummies, and fired at Kwajalein.
And these content providers wonder why piracy still exists. I'm sorry, but a person shouldn't have to subscribe to more than one or two streaming services to get the content they want. Any more than that is a market failure. It's far too easy to just toss the wanted series or movie into Sonarr or Radarr, and magically have it appear in your library. The best part of this is that it will never disappear from your library when a licensing deal expires.
What we need in the video world is mandatory, non-discriminatory licensing for content, similar to what exists in music. Netflix should be able to provide whatever they want, and just pay the same licensing fee as everyone else. Same thing goes for Netflix produced content.
This has been know since time imamorial. The "Three Rs" have always been "Reduce, Reuse, Recyle" in that order. Recycling should be the last resort.
Where I live, bottled beer is sold in industry standard beer bottles. The brewery gets their bottles from the consortium, sticks their labels on it, fills it with beer, and puts their cap on it. At the other end of the waste stream, I turn in my beer bottles, get my $0.10 deposit back, and then the consortium takes the bottles, inspects them, cleans them, and sends them back to the brewery. On average, a given beer bottle will make it through the system 12 times before it gets lost, broken, or otherwise fails inspection.
We could do the same thing with all sorts of other products, but we don't.
It does, but as soon as they let go, the MCAS kicks in again, because it's still active, so if the pilot doesn't catch what's going on, they wind up fighting the aircraft all the way into the ground.
Well, airliners should be flown with instruments. But sometimes you can't, such as what happened with the Gimli Glider (a 767 that ran out of fuel at altitude). The only instruments they had left after the fuel ran out were the pneumatic airspeed indicators, and the barometric altimeter, both of which are purely mechanical devices. The pilot landed it safely, and the aircraft spent another 30 years in revenue service after being refueled (and minor repairs due to a collapsed nose wheel).
So, that was a pilot error (and, that's probably what will be determined to be the main problem here, with contributing factors).
As someone who's a technical trainer (in a different transportation field, but still mission critical), this sounds to me like a design failure compounded by insufficient training, rather than pilot error. Training is incredibly important, but it also shouldn't be making up for poor design choices.
I doubt we would have seen a return to a Gemini/Titan type rocket... The age of Hypergols for main propulsion is pretty much gone due to the toxicity and difficulty in handling the propellants. When you fundamentally change the propellants for a given rocket, you're pretty much stuck with designing a whole new rocket. Also, Titan is too small of a diameter to fit anything larger than a two person capsule on top.
The better option, had they gone that way earlier, would have been to design/build a capsule to put on top of either Atlas or Delta launch vehicles.
Well, not quite. NASA launches require significantly more verification and checkout than standard F9 launches. NASA also required certain changes (new COPV design among others) to permit the "Load 'n Go" style launches, and to avoid an AMOS-6 type RUD.
The difference is how much in the way of specifications, drawings, and input were given to the contractor. In the case of the Apollo era capsules, NASA and the various contractors were tightly integrated from beginning to end. Much of the manufacturing (especially of the larger pieces of the rockets) was conducted at NASA owned facilities.
When it comes to the Dragon, NASA set various requirements (Must carry x Astronauts, compartment must meet y environmental requirements, must use the IDA, etc...) and otherwise stayed out of the design.
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The drone ship was only a few hundred nautical miles offshore, not a few thousand like the Azores. The thing with the shuttle was that once you lit the SRBs, you were committed to flying, at least until the SRBs were exhausted. Given the amount of thrust and duration, that would put you within range of the Azores.
Also, hitting the Azores would require the rocket to be launched on a specific azimuth, which isn't a due-east launch like what is done for Geostationary.
If you need to do that, just pay the $25 to have it delivered, or rent a truck for $100. Far cheaper than wasting $20k on a vehicle you rarely use. I mean, FFS, how often does the average Joe Sixpack need to haul a stack of plywood or sheetrock? Once a year, at most?
I was once in India for work, and failed to follow through on some bureaucratic paperwork that no one told me about. Once I figured things out, and went and filled the paper work, the bureaucrat goes "Oh, Mr. Strider-, there is a fine because you failed to fill out the paperwork." "How much?" "300 Rupees" "done."
If you don't support fission you don't support clean energy.
This is WA. They're already running 85% Hydro Electric, and have significant capabilities to add wind in the south-eastern part of the state. The hydro system actually has the capacity to power the entire state, but can't as it would be using the water unsustainably. Add in Wind/Solar, and you can use the Hydro as a large battery, buffering the output from these more intermittent sources. When the wind is blowing, the sun shining, you spin down the hydro plants, and let the water store up. When the wind goes calm and the skies are cloudy, you run the Hydro hard, and draw down on your reservoirs.
This isn't rocket science.
That map is missing a lot of stuff. For example, Chelan and Douglas counties both have PUD fiber, which supplies gigabit FTTH to virtually every address in these rural counties, for an extremely reasonable price. Once you have the fiber installed, the citizens have a choice of some 10 ISPs, 6 or 8 TV providers, and a dozen telephone companies. Total access fee for the fiber is something like $15/mo, and the ISPs are about $20.
No, section 7 of the British Columbia Motorvehicle Act prohibits the use of wearing both headphones. They can only be worn in one ear, and only used for hands-free communications.
I'm not sure why the judge went through the legal gymnastics either.
Yes, but the British Columbia Motor Vehicle Act prohibits the use of earphones, except when integrated with a communications system on a motorcycle.
Bingo. The hash is part of the URL, so it's delivered securely, but the body of the download isn't.
This is how Microsoft (and apple I think) do their updates. The control channel is secured via https, but the mass download of the updates is not. I always know when a big update is put out, as the effectiveness of my WAAS setup goes up dramatically for a few days.
Is that we could all agree on some sort of standard whereby from a secure site you could initiate a download, have that download be unencrypted, but the download link would include a sha256 checksum that would be checked automatically by the browser once the download was complete.
This would allow popular downloads to be cached closer to the user, while providing for verification of the download integrity.
It's actually part of a trilogy. The other two films in the series are "Objectified" (about industrial design) and "Urbanized" (about architecture and urban design). All three are definitely worth a watch if you are at all a design nerd.
It's pretty clear that the person who submitted the article is Canadian. The Canadian media referred to MOST as the "Humble Space Telescope" in their coverage of its launch and commissioning, thus making it the generally known nickname for the craft.
Sorry for the confusion this caused, but it's not our fault that you didn't pay attention to our news media.
And when it comes to the X-rays used in these scanners, they don't re-radiate anything at all. Ever. Full stop.
You should have seen the time I had to haul 8 laptops through security... Among my roles is that of "Technical Trainer" so I need to bring training laptops with me. Previously, we had a nice, well padded and protective Pelican case holding the 6 laptops. This was highly secure, and protected the laptops from damage. Later, they prohibited them from the cargo hold and suddenly I had to hand-carry them through security.
Fun times.
The US regularly conducts missile tests, both from land based solos and submarines. There is typically one or two launches a year to verify operational readiness. The missiles used are pulled from active service, have their warheads replaced with dummies, and fired at Kwajalein.
If it's cheap enough for me to not want a receipt, it's not worth my time to return it.
And these content providers wonder why piracy still exists. I'm sorry, but a person shouldn't have to subscribe to more than one or two streaming services to get the content they want. Any more than that is a market failure. It's far too easy to just toss the wanted series or movie into Sonarr or Radarr, and magically have it appear in your library. The best part of this is that it will never disappear from your library when a licensing deal expires.
What we need in the video world is mandatory, non-discriminatory licensing for content, similar to what exists in music. Netflix should be able to provide whatever they want, and just pay the same licensing fee as everyone else. Same thing goes for Netflix produced content.
Never mind the IIfx... When introduced in 1990, it cost $9000 to $12,000. That's $17,500 to $23,000 or so in today's dollars.
This has been know since time imamorial. The "Three Rs" have always been "Reduce, Reuse, Recyle" in that order. Recycling should be the last resort.
Where I live, bottled beer is sold in industry standard beer bottles. The brewery gets their bottles from the consortium, sticks their labels on it, fills it with beer, and puts their cap on it. At the other end of the waste stream, I turn in my beer bottles, get my $0.10 deposit back, and then the consortium takes the bottles, inspects them, cleans them, and sends them back to the brewery. On average, a given beer bottle will make it through the system 12 times before it gets lost, broken, or otherwise fails inspection.
We could do the same thing with all sorts of other products, but we don't.
Never mind that the modern renewables are already cheaper than coal. Coal's days are done.
It does, but as soon as they let go, the MCAS kicks in again, because it's still active, so if the pilot doesn't catch what's going on, they wind up fighting the aircraft all the way into the ground.
Well, airliners should be flown with instruments. But sometimes you can't, such as what happened with the Gimli Glider (a 767 that ran out of fuel at altitude). The only instruments they had left after the fuel ran out were the pneumatic airspeed indicators, and the barometric altimeter, both of which are purely mechanical devices. The pilot landed it safely, and the aircraft spent another 30 years in revenue service after being refueled (and minor repairs due to a collapsed nose wheel).
So, that was a pilot error (and, that's probably what will be determined to be the main problem here, with contributing factors).
As someone who's a technical trainer (in a different transportation field, but still mission critical), this sounds to me like a design failure compounded by insufficient training, rather than pilot error. Training is incredibly important, but it also shouldn't be making up for poor design choices.
I doubt we would have seen a return to a Gemini/Titan type rocket... The age of Hypergols for main propulsion is pretty much gone due to the toxicity and difficulty in handling the propellants. When you fundamentally change the propellants for a given rocket, you're pretty much stuck with designing a whole new rocket. Also, Titan is too small of a diameter to fit anything larger than a two person capsule on top.
The better option, had they gone that way earlier, would have been to design/build a capsule to put on top of either Atlas or Delta launch vehicles.
Well, not quite. NASA launches require significantly more verification and checkout than standard F9 launches. NASA also required certain changes (new COPV design among others) to permit the "Load 'n Go" style launches, and to avoid an AMOS-6 type RUD.
The difference is how much in the way of specifications, drawings, and input were given to the contractor. In the case of the Apollo era capsules, NASA and the various contractors were tightly integrated from beginning to end. Much of the manufacturing (especially of the larger pieces of the rockets) was conducted at NASA owned facilities.
When it comes to the Dragon, NASA set various requirements (Must carry x Astronauts, compartment must meet y environmental requirements, must use the IDA, etc...) and otherwise stayed out of the design.