Going to the moon is not like going to Disneyland. There's zero reason to "refuel". And getting fuel from the moon is orders of magnitude more expensive than getting it from Earth.
This isn't either, but closer to a cosmic ray, just lower energy. Pointing a particle accelerator at warheads to fry their electronics. Which it would. We did precisely this for NASA as part of a systems we built and am very familiar...or was a long time ago...with radiation damage and failure modes to electronics in space. Sometimes the shielding can make things worse. Instead of going straight through a transistor, a collision can occur upstream sending a spray of other particles with the right energy to do damage. There are parts of the upper atmosphere that are more radioactive than the area above or below.
I don't know what the statistics are now, numbers are very difficult or impossible to find, but around 2000 it was estimated that 97% or so of all computing systems, toasters, pace makers engine controllers, building control, power systems, satellite probes, oil tanker navigation, etc, were not PC or mainframe class computers. iTRON from the university of Tokyo was running was the worlds most popular OS and was running on billions of devices (and nobody ever heard of it). There was something like a 37:1 embedded CPU to PC ratio.
Maybe for you, but not necessarily for everyone. I've worked on at least a dozen linux systems, none of which supported graphics of any kind or even a keyboard interface.
This was proposed as an SDI weapon in the 1980. And it wasn't just the US. Russia too, unless you don't believe they do stuff like that or have the capability.
This has all been known for over 30 years. I knew about it before I knew what it meant because the old timey computer magazines lie BYTE! had articles about it.
Are people really less knowledgeable about computers now than they were in the 80's?
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Ten years ago this was still the norm for all of my asian friends until they got married
but what do you gain from doing that.
You can't turn on a gopro remotely.
Apollo was never crew rated. Neither was the shuttle until after Challenger.
Why do you need astronauts in space?
To fix the toilets when they break
And the *really* hard part is finding a good reason to do it.
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Lots of things are possible, but why do that if it's 80 times more expensive than sending it from Earth?
Maybe for one rover vs one base, but not if you consider that for the price of one base you could have 320 rovers.
There's orders of magnitude more science to be done for the same price by remote sensing. All the scientists and even NASA admits this.
Second rule in government spending, why send water from earth at $22k/kg when you generate water on the moon for $220k/kg?
Going to the moon is not like going to Disneyland. There's zero reason to "refuel". And getting fuel from the moon is orders of magnitude more expensive than getting it from Earth.
This exact argument was made to justify the ISS.
This isn't either, but closer to a cosmic ray, just lower energy. Pointing a particle accelerator at warheads to fry their electronics. Which it would.
We did precisely this for NASA as part of a systems we built and am very familiar...or was a long time ago...with radiation damage and failure modes to electronics in space. Sometimes the shielding can make things worse. Instead of going straight through a transistor, a collision can occur upstream sending a spray of other particles with the right energy to do damage. There are parts of the upper atmosphere that are more radioactive than the area above or below.
I don't know what the statistics are now, numbers are very difficult or impossible to find, but around 2000 it was estimated that 97% or so of all computing systems, toasters, pace makers engine controllers, building control, power systems, satellite probes, oil tanker navigation, etc, were not PC or mainframe class computers.
iTRON from the university of Tokyo was running was the worlds most popular OS and was running on billions of devices (and nobody ever heard of it). There was something like a 37:1 embedded CPU to PC ratio.
I've been saying this for twenty years, but usually get booed off stage. It seems to be the popular opinion in this thread. What changed?
Maybe for you, but not necessarily for everyone. I've worked on at least a dozen linux systems, none of which supported graphics of any kind or even a keyboard interface.
It's just shifted more to professional/hobbyist knowledge than something that every operator is required to know.
Isn't that implied by the site we're on?
This was proposed as an SDI weapon in the 1980. And it wasn't just the US. Russia too, unless you don't believe they do stuff like that or have the capability.
Cosmic rays penetrate many km into the Earth. Very energetic ones can pass straight though the Earth. A metal Faraday cage is not going to help much.
Are people really less knowledgeable about computers now than they were in the 80's?
None of us are as dumb as all of us.
I used to use radios, but now use pundit lights.
would have been a more appropriate name.
They need to 3D print it and connect it to the internet so that it's part of the iot!
Anyone eve have a Heathkit?
You aren't working 250 times as hard as someone in The DRC.