Actually, the orange suits the astronauts wear do contain a G suit. Its not used for ascent, but descent. After spending a week or 2 in microgravity, the suits are used to help the astronauts during reentry. The shuttle only reaches ~2G during reentry, but the suits are there as an insurance that no one gets dizzy or passes out as the blood in their head rushes back down to their legs/feet.
I seriously doubt you would need one of these suits for a 2 hour ride. You wouldn't be in zero g for more than 30 minutes if the trajectory is ballistic.
Wasn't this the story about some courier girl that found a pair of sunglasses, and it if you turn them on, they give information about your surroundings? Peoples names, faces, backgrounds. Prices of objects your looking at, etc.
I think to be useful in that sense the resolution would need to be higher, and you would need some kind of object for pattern/face recognition.
Sleep works amazingly well on my G4 powerbook and osx. Its the only computer that I've owned that I can repeatedly put to sleep and expect to 'wake up'.
No. FM will just flake out when it can't find a good signal. PCM has the option to lock controls in a certain orientation. So you can chop the throttle, put it in a spin if it looses signal. Or not. I'm not getting into that argument here.
There are a few 'autopilots' on the market that will automatically right an aircraft, but none that I know of that will follow a pre determined course. Have to build those yourself.
The reason the rocket went off course in the first place is that the first stage didn't seperate completely. When the 2nd stage ignited, the rocket deviated from its intended course.
There have been a lot of problems with stages not staging correctly over the years.
Right. This is why each participant in the EVA is attached to 2 thethers at all times. Either 50' or 85', depending on where they are and where they're going.
The backpack is a tritary backup in case both tethers are released.
Computer simulation only takes you so far. You can't simulate something if you have no idea what the numbers should be to start with. At some point you have to test real hardware in real conditions.
Its a lot easier and more cost effective to test in a wind tunnel than build a full scale testbed everytime you change something in your design.
You can only get so much data out of those images. when you polish those images, you're just amplifying the noise in the image. Making out details that might or might not exist. Its best not to 'polish' them too much or you might infer details that really arn't there.
It could be like the weather channel. Put up neat graphics of internet usage, zoom in on 'hotspots'. Put up forecasts and such. Put some elevator music behind it.
It depends on the battery type used. If your laptop has older NICd batteries, you want to drain them as much as you can before charging. This is because NICd batteries will retain a 'memory' of how they're used. If you don't drain them, they think they are fully depleted when at a higher voltage. This reduces their life prematurely, as you now only have, say 2 hours of charge instead of 4.
NiMH's are a bit better. They have no memory problems, and they hold a charge a lot longer than NiCd (I've had nimhs show full voltage a month after being charged). You can recharge them whenever you want without worry about damaging them, but you now have to worry about overcharging (which laptops have circuitry to keep from happening).
LiIon are the same as NiMH, they're a bit more volatile, you have to be careful not to run the batteries under a certain voltage, and you really don't want to overcharge, but you can put them on a charger whenever you want. Again the laptop/cel phone/device will have circuitry that will prevent under and overcharging, so you don't need to worry about it.
Soyuz capsules havn't been changed much since the 60s. They're still launched from the same pad that launched Yuri Gagarin in 1962.
Only now is there a replacement for the small soyuz capsule in the design Stage. Called the Klipper, it will be able to carry 6 people and 1 metric ton of cargo into orbit. It uses a lifting body design and will land with a parachute.
Ironically the foam is there so that condensation ice doesn't form on the external tank. The ice would break off at liftoff and could potentially damage the orbiter.
There have been a number of rockets that were originally designed as ICBMs and then used for commercial and other purposes, it's not that uncommon. The original Redstone rockets used for Mercury came right from the USAF. Instead of being loaded with a nuclear payload they recieved a capsule. Same with Gemini and its Titan rockets.
Sealaunch uses Zenit for the first stage in their launcher. They wre originally designed as a quick launch ICBM by the Soviets. The launch facility was a truck and the whole system was designed to fit inside of a rail tunnel, to stay out of sight from american spy satellites.
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1738. With bernoulli and newton, quite a few things could be explained.
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/tech/fluids/bernoul.htm
Actually, the orange suits the astronauts wear do contain a G suit. Its not used for ascent, but descent. After spending a week or 2 in microgravity, the suits are used to help the astronauts during reentry. The shuttle only reaches ~2G during reentry, but the suits are there as an insurance that no one gets dizzy or passes out as the blood in their head rushes back down to their legs/feet.
I seriously doubt you would need one of these suits for a 2 hour ride. You wouldn't be in zero g for more than 30 minutes if the trajectory is ballistic.
Wasn't this the story about some courier girl that found a pair of sunglasses, and it if you turn them on, they give information about your surroundings? Peoples names, faces, backgrounds. Prices of objects your looking at, etc.
I think to be useful in that sense the resolution would need to be higher, and you would need some kind of object for pattern/face recognition.
Would be neat if this survives.
Sleep works amazingly well on my G4 powerbook and osx. Its the only computer that I've owned that I can repeatedly put to sleep and expect to 'wake up'.
No. FM will just flake out when it can't find a good signal. PCM has the option to lock controls in a certain orientation. So you can chop the throttle, put it in a spin if it looses signal. Or not. I'm not getting into that argument here.
There are a few 'autopilots' on the market that will automatically right an aircraft, but none that I know of that will follow a pre determined course. Have to build those yourself.
There is a huge difference between a suborbital hop lasting 15-20 minutes, and a 1 or 2 week stay in microgravity.
20million is cheap.
There is a large thread with much laughter and skepticism over at rcuniverse.
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http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_3729699/mpage_1
Being more marketable generally means recieving higher pay for your work, not doing more work for the same money.
The reason the rocket went off course in the first place is that the first stage didn't seperate completely. When the 2nd stage ignited, the rocket deviated from its intended course.
There have been a lot of problems with stages not staging correctly over the years.
Right. This is why each participant in the EVA is attached to 2 thethers at all times. Either 50' or 85', depending on where they are and where they're going.
The backpack is a tritary backup in case both tethers are released.
Computer simulation only takes you so far. You can't simulate something if you have no idea what the numbers should be to start with. At some point you have to test real hardware in real conditions.
Its a lot easier and more cost effective to test in a wind tunnel than build a full scale testbed everytime you change something in your design.
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...Emacs is already an operating system.
I thought Emacs was a religion.
It can be all that and more!
Beacuse its too easy to always equate free = no money and make a joke out of it.
Its called an E6B flight computer.
You can only get so much data out of those images. when you polish those images, you're just amplifying the noise in the image. Making out details that might or might not exist. Its best not to 'polish' them too much or you might infer details that really arn't there.
Uh. Space is a near vaccum. What turbulence are you going to experience?
F=MA is the driving force of the cosmos. This comet isn't going to make a u-turn towards earth because a 800lb projectile hits it.
Why not look at the actual orbit of the comet, vs earths orbit and compute the DV required for the 2 orbits to intersect.
Tempel-1 isn't even a NEA. The orbit doesn't even cross the orbit of the earth.
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It could be like the weather channel. Put up neat graphics of internet usage, zoom in on 'hotspots'. Put up forecasts and such. Put some elevator music behind it.
It depends on the battery type used. If your laptop has older NICd batteries, you want to drain them as much as you can before charging. This is because NICd batteries will retain a 'memory' of how they're used. If you don't drain them, they think they are fully depleted when at a higher voltage. This reduces their life prematurely, as you now only have, say 2 hours of charge instead of 4.
NiMH's are a bit better. They have no memory problems, and they hold a charge a lot longer than NiCd (I've had nimhs show full voltage a month after being charged). You can recharge them whenever you want without worry about damaging them, but you now have to worry about overcharging (which laptops have circuitry to keep from happening).
LiIon are the same as NiMH, they're a bit more volatile, you have to be careful not to run the batteries under a certain voltage, and you really don't want to overcharge, but you can put them on a charger whenever you want. Again the laptop/cel phone/device will have circuitry that will prevent under and overcharging, so you don't need to worry about it.
Soyuz capsules havn't been changed much since the 60s. They're still launched from the same pad that launched Yuri Gagarin in 1962.
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Only now is there a replacement for the small soyuz capsule in the design Stage. Called the Klipper, it will be able to carry 6 people and 1 metric ton of cargo into orbit. It uses a lifting body design and will land with a parachute.
http://www.photocenter.ru/myphoto/films/eu6gN6F3c
Ironically the foam is there so that condensation ice doesn't form on the external tank. The ice would break off at liftoff and could potentially damage the orbiter.
There is an officially liscenced amiga emulator package. For $30 you get a suite of emulators, a bunch of apps, and the AOS 1.3 and 3.1 roms.
You can get it from http://amigaforever.com/.
There have been a number of rockets that were originally designed as ICBMs and then used for commercial and other purposes, it's not that uncommon. The original Redstone rockets used for Mercury came right from the USAF. Instead of being loaded with a nuclear payload they recieved a capsule. Same with Gemini and its Titan rockets.
Sealaunch uses Zenit for the first stage in their launcher. They wre originally designed as a quick launch ICBM by the Soviets. The launch facility was a truck and the whole system was designed to fit inside of a rail tunnel, to stay out of sight from american spy satellites.
AmigaVision it was called. It came with my A500, but without a HDD and 2 megs ram it was pretty useless.
I saw some pretty impressive presentations done with it.