From everything NASa has said, the minimum duration for the Mars rovers to be considered a "sucess" was 90 days.
It's clear, that like all good engineers, NASA folks designed it to exceed that length of time (who designs to just fit minimum requirements anyway?) if at all possible.
Will they last 30+ years? Probably not. Given that they do have human input, someone's going to tell a rover to do something stupid, and the rover will do it, dispite it's obstical avoidance software.
However, hats off to the NASA engineers of old, who have made things to last in an enviromnt where we still don't know a heck of a lot about.
Can it die the rest of the way, please?
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Been watching the mergeged G4TechTV this past week (free preview). All I can say, is it's crap. Right now there's something about the NBA All Star week, some clips from games... feh.
Heck, even TechTV was watered down from ZDTV, which was rather interesting to watch when it first started up. It suffered from lack of shows, so you had the same episode 4 times a day (plus repeats on weekends), but it was catering to a different viewership, but I guess to continue to exist, they needed to get sponsors, and to get that, they needed wider viewership... and thus, dumbing down the shows.
The relitively frequent implimentation of new chips doesn't leave that much time to push for optimisaions on a hardware level to make more efficent chips.
Game makers push the bleeding edge, without preforming the optimisations they were forced to in the past. Gamers want cards that play the games full out.
"More Power" and "Bigger is better" are phrases that people ned to be thrown out of the public's mindset.
1) Experiance need not be gained through slaughter. There's a lot of other ways to get experiance. Any problems with this land squarely upon the DM's.
2) Now the restictions arn't absolute. Nore are the inane. You can wear armour. However, due to arcane casters need to gesture when casting some spells, they occasionally fail. And due to being utterly inept with armor (you have not trained with it, eka taking a feat for it) you're not as effective attacking with it on. Same goes for the weapons. You've not taken the feat, you're not that great with it... you'll miss a bit more often.
While NWN doesn't do these things, they do exist within the D&D game.
Yes, and the same thing is sorta being done with Mega Man with bob and george (with a great deal of odd/unusual interludes between the events in games)
For an interesting Sci-fi war in books, I like David Webber and Steve White's "The Shiva Option" (don't know the name of the series, The Shiva Option is the second book... never seen the first). It's not about "a" battle, but a war. It's got some great parts with the humans and allies going up against a foe who doesn't care if they die, just as long as the objective's compleated.
The problem however is that Asimov himself also wrote stories that showed some of the problems with the 3 laws, and of course, introduced the 0th law... which could be the most frightening, as it evolved on it's own within robots... and allowed a robot to use lethal force against humans in limited situations.
I didn't see it there either (which is foolish, they should have a enviromental impact heading there.) I'm going by the stories from when the kid first developed it.
It doesn't need to be a dorky animation like the mars mission. Heck, more good press has been gained from the actual images that the rovers have sent back than the silly animations. The public I think is tired of those already.
Something as simple as NASA's "Image of the Day" can bring a lot of attention to the project, as it gets picked up by the media if the subject matter is deamed "of interest". Thier little blurbs about what's bening seen are much easier for the public to read and understand.
in contrast, most of the stations experiments you get an overview of, with no actual data of the findings to read though, even in a techincal sense.
It's easier to see a benifit in the Hubble for most people, even if they don't value knowing more about space, than it is to see value in a tin can that's gota few people floating around in it.
Read the status reports for ISS.
Meanwhile Foale spent more than three hours gathering and organizing clothing, some of it from previous crews, and stowing it in the Station's Unity node.
I don't have anything against the ISS. I think it's valuable, although extreamly costly.
Yeah, but who considers most of the representatives informed?
It's not for the preresentatives that the PR is needed, it's for the public. it's easy for them to dismiss the ISS, because they know very little of what is being done up there. And the public, should have some weight with thier representative... at least if the representative wants to sit in his comfy chair past next time the election rolls around.
Why doesn't the ISS have a PR department, or at least some form of publicity for the research that's going on.
Well, other than the fact that a lot of scientists are getting their shit in knots over the idea that someone may steal thier research data and put it to a practical use before they can.
You want to keep the public's eye on the benitits of the station, rather than the cost, or the latest stupid problem.
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From everything NASa has said, the minimum duration for the Mars rovers to be considered a "sucess" was 90 days.
It's clear, that like all good engineers, NASA folks designed it to exceed that length of time (who designs to just fit minimum requirements anyway?) if at all possible.
Will they last 30+ years? Probably not. Given that they do have human input, someone's going to tell a rover to do something stupid, and the rover will do it, dispite it's obstical avoidance software.
However, hats off to the NASA engineers of old, who have made things to last in an enviromnt where we still don't know a heck of a lot about.
Been watching the mergeged G4TechTV this past week (free preview). All I can say, is it's crap. Right now there's something about the NBA All Star week, some clips from games... feh.
Heck, even TechTV was watered down from ZDTV, which was rather interesting to watch when it first started up. It suffered from lack of shows, so you had the same episode 4 times a day (plus repeats on weekends), but it was catering to a different viewership, but I guess to continue to exist, they needed to get sponsors, and to get that, they needed wider viewership... and thus, dumbing down the shows.
There's a lot of sources to this.
The relitively frequent implimentation of new chips doesn't leave that much time to push for optimisaions on a hardware level to make more efficent chips.
Game makers push the bleeding edge, without preforming the optimisations they were forced to in the past. Gamers want cards that play the games full out.
"More Power" and "Bigger is better" are phrases that people ned to be thrown out of the public's mindset.
Make the gaming companies provide a -proper- rating.
There's a lot of games that aren't rated quite as they should be (I beleive that was the subject of a previous story)
But either way, the Manitoba film board goes and re-rates movies to thier own standards.
Been done.
Naw, I'm not an apologist. I just get a little annoyed when people open their mouths and flap about things they don't bother to understand first.
Seriously though, the rules don't say you can't, they just say that there's drawbacks if you do.
Actually, you've got a few problems here.
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1) Experiance need not be gained through slaughter. There's a lot of other ways to get experiance. Any problems with this land squarely upon the DM's.
2) Now the restictions arn't absolute. Nore are the inane. You can wear armour. However, due to arcane casters need to gesture when casting some spells, they occasionally fail. And due to being utterly inept with armor (you have not trained with it, eka taking a feat for it) you're not as effective attacking with it on. Same goes for the weapons. You've not taken the feat, you're not that great with it... you'll miss a bit more often
While NWN doesn't do these things, they do exist within the D&D game.
Yes. The da Vinci project looks to be making an announcement on the date of their attempt (the launch site has already been stated) on the 16th.
Damn little for them to hit in Saskachawan.
Not exacly. There's a number of sprite comics that don't just rehash the storylines of things. Few and far between, but they exist.
Yes, and the same thing is sorta being done with Mega Man with bob and george (with a great deal of odd/unusual interludes between the events in games)
For an interesting Sci-fi war in books, I like David Webber and Steve White's "The Shiva Option" (don't know the name of the series, The Shiva Option is the second book... never seen the first). It's not about "a" battle, but a war. It's got some great parts with the humans and allies going up against a foe who doesn't care if they die, just as long as the objective's compleated.
Actually, while you're logic's correct, it's not quite the same situation.
It's more like you have that $4000 bill to fix the truck, and while you can buy a new truck for $4000, you can't take delivery for a few years.
So, either you're without a truck, or you suck it up and spend the money to fix it in the mean time, while ordering that other truck.
Nope, it did allow lethal force. It came up in his books in the "Robots and Empire" series.
"A robot may not injure humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm."
A robot killed a human because his continueing actions would harm humanity in the robots esitmation.
The problem however is that Asimov himself also wrote stories that showed some of the problems with the 3 laws, and of course, introduced the 0th law... which could be the most frightening, as it evolved on it's own within robots... and allowed a robot to use lethal force against humans in limited situations.
Not to mention the fact that they said this car will never see production.
There's a number of reasons to -not- weld the hood shut.
For instance, it's a lot easier for the mechanics to access it if they don't have to go through a lengthy procedure.
It'd be hard to jump start properly.
It's got to be opened sometime. Maybe they'd -lock- it shut... but, anyone who's gota few tools can solve that in a hurry...
Um, the problem with that is the whole concept is to be dealing with targets launched from earth, at earth based targets.
Meaning they'd be pointing in the wrong direction.
There's the fact that they're not going to have to fire it too fact, considering they have gravity, when fireing towards earth to help speed it up...
Work, like in general, and just problems with sitting in front of the computer for who knows how many hours add up.
Find something to do that's differnt than what you normally spend time doing.
Sit and play with lego
Read a book
Work on a puzzle
Build a model
Walk around outside
Take some time and just wander around a nearby mall
Late 20th, early 21st. The project was started in 1974. Khan was of the 2nd generation.
I didn't see it there either (which is foolish, they should have a enviromental impact heading there.) I'm going by the stories from when the kid first developed it.
Something as simple as NASA's "Image of the Day" can bring a lot of attention to the project, as it gets picked up by the media if the subject matter is deamed "of interest". Thier little blurbs about what's bening seen are much easier for the public to read and understand.
in contrast, most of the stations experiments you get an overview of, with no actual data of the findings to read though, even in a techincal sense.
It's easier to see a benifit in the Hubble for most people, even if they don't value knowing more about space, than it is to see value in a tin can that's gota few people floating around in it.
Read the status reports for ISS.
I don't have anything against the ISS. I think it's valuable, although extreamly costly.
They've tested it... so far they haven't found that the frequency used affects other water creatures.
Honestly, this is something that the kid did well over a year ago originally. only news is that it's been comercialised.
Yeah, but who considers most of the representatives informed?
It's not for the preresentatives that the PR is needed, it's for the public. it's easy for them to dismiss the ISS, because they know very little of what is being done up there. And the public, should have some weight with thier representative... at least if the representative wants to sit in his comfy chair past next time the election rolls around.
Why doesn't the ISS have a PR department, or at least some form of publicity for the research that's going on.
Well, other than the fact that a lot of scientists are getting their shit in knots over the idea that someone may steal thier research data and put it to a practical use before they can.
You want to keep the public's eye on the benitits of the station, rather than the cost, or the latest stupid problem.