Me too. Are you heterozygous or homozygous ( yeah be prepared for beavis and butthead jokes ) ? I met someone doing genetic research on HIV and mentioned this, and he was fascinated, because I was the only person he had met who knowingly had this mutation. It still doesn't get me to the head of the line in getting $$ for marrow transplants though. There is not organized system for handling this. Yes, I would want money for my pain and suffering. Call me selfish if you want but people with other mutations get money for it all the time, just not in this way.
Well, say goodbye to Chicago. A weakened city, brought to its knees. I wonder how many people who will freeze without proper heating will vote Demo/Green after this. Go Nuke or Go Broke.
Comcast has expanded rapidly in 2018 with lots of hiring, It completed building its 2nd skyscraper in Philadelphia. It continues to hire, and has good benefits. This doesn't excuse any other misdeeds, but please, criticize on something that's not patently false.
Carbon dioxide is released as lime is burned, to make calcium oxide, the primary component of regular cement. As the cement sets, it reabsorbs a great portion, if not all, of the CO2 originally produced. https://www.cement.org/for-concrete-books-learning/concrete-technology/concrete-design-production/concrete-as-a-carbon-sink
Because the CO2 is produced as a point-source pollution, and absorbed in a distributed manner, cement could become carbon-negative by doing the easy point of sequestering the carbon at its source. This is best done by use of a microbial reactor, that is, the gas bubbled into water containing algae and exposed to sunlight. The algae, or its oil, can then be used as fuel. See Boyrtrococcus braunii on wikipedia.
There's lots of SCADA and embedded stuff out there with Pentium (not even MMX) processors. This is bad news for them. Still, it's not doom and gloom, as some of the stuff I have seen is still running 2.6 kernels and fine with it.
"Well, I don’t think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error."
I'd like to see a more thorough investigation of this set of incidents. That means no one involved gets to skip out by Seppuku. One of the problems with having a number of backup systems is that people tend to think "well, if it breaks, there's a backup system" - not realizing that each time a backup system is added, complexity is added, and that overall reliability goes down, instead of up. I don't know if over-reliance of backup systems, and failure to manage complexity, was the cause here, but it's the only thing other than "bad luck" or "sabotage" that can explain this disaster from a country which has many talented engineers.
I've been following Professor McCullouch's works for a couple of years now. His theories make more sense than the alternatives. I suggest checking out is web-log at http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/ and getting his book.
I'd like to know what programming languages, operating systems, development methodologies, quality assurance, etc. are being used. COTS software is usually not designed to be used in the critical operations which NASA performs. Lots of software even says that it is not for such things in the license agreement.
We have to keep the typical moron programmer far away from NASA projects. It is customary for programmers to criticize MBAs and other managers for having no coding knowledge. Well, too often coders have to deep computer science or systems integration knowledge, and can't manage a project which has more than three people working on it.
IoT refers to an object that has no really good reason to be connected to the Internet, and a few reasons why it shouldn't, but will be anyhow. This is all in an attempt to use up all of the IPv6 IP address space.
look in the 'about' page, in the 'export compliance' section: "(c) for use in connection with the design, development or production of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, or rocket systems, space launch vehicles, or sounding rockets, or unmanned air vehicle systems."
More reason to develop software ex-US, so crazy export compliance doesn't hobble you.
We need better programmers, not more of them. Too many monkeys slinging stinky bits around. We need more doctors, nurses, and other health professionals.
I guess I should have learned by now, that the level of physics knowledge of Slashdot users ends at Newton, and they have unshakable faith in him. Ultraviolet Catastrophe is probably an alien term to many of them. But yet somehow they buy into the ideas of "dark matter" and "dark energy". I really don't have the patience or time to squabble on here. If anyone has a serious interest in this, and can plough through tons of posts by actual physicists on the matter, I will direct them to the NASASpaceFlight.com forums, and the emdrive.wiki website.
I am posting to Delt0r's comment, because it's one of those which is not anonymous, but I mean this to cover all of the putdowns I have received.
Solar panels work when you're got a fair amount of solar radiation to use. That's only really the case in the inner solar system (or the inner part of any star system). For other places, nuclear is needed. Fission fuels will be far more plentiful on the inner, 'rocky' planets - in our system, that's as far as the inner asteroid belt. outer, gas planets will have more deuterium and tritium, useful for fusion. Until fusion gets working properly, we're stuck with fission. That's ok, for now.
I can see why they're being cautious. I just wish they were a little less so. I never claimed any conspiracy, and even though the results were difficult to believe at first, and there continues to be doubt, no other explanation for the observations has been adequate. So, better experiments are performed. That's what's happening now. Because of all of the flak that the idea has, much of the work goes on in quiet.
If you're looking for a possible explanation, here is one: http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2015/PP-40-15.PDF
Note my slashdot id#: I've been here for a while. I've been using this nick for thirty years. Oh, maybe you have a real ID as well, but don't want to get downgraded for your choice of vocabulary and your tone.
Whatever. Here's the science you don't deserve. It's possible the EMdrive function is due to the Unruh effect. http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2015/PP-40-15.PDF
It's all so easy to come in here and throw around such grandiose claims as an anonymous coward. Why don't you log in with a real account, and details your claims of hogwash.
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Me too. Are you heterozygous or homozygous ( yeah be prepared for beavis and butthead jokes ) ? I met someone doing genetic research on HIV and mentioned this, and he was fascinated, because I was the only person he had met who knowingly had this mutation. It still doesn't get me to the head of the line in getting $$ for marrow transplants though. There is not organized system for handling this. Yes, I would want money for my pain and suffering. Call me selfish if you want but people with other mutations get money for it all the time, just not in this way.
Well, say goodbye to Chicago. A weakened city, brought to its knees. I wonder how many people who will freeze without proper heating will vote Demo/Green after this. Go Nuke or Go Broke.
Yes please hurry up Manhattan is in the middle of some very expensive real estate.
So as a male I should get to retire earlier . It seems only fair. I must be really old because I actually learned cobol.
Comcast has expanded rapidly in 2018 with lots of hiring, It completed building its 2nd skyscraper in Philadelphia. It continues to hire, and has good benefits. This doesn't excuse any other misdeeds, but please, criticize on something that's not patently false.
Carbon dioxide is released as lime is burned, to make calcium oxide, the primary component of regular cement. As the cement sets, it reabsorbs a great portion, if not all, of the CO2 originally produced. https://www.cement.org/for-concrete-books-learning/concrete-technology/concrete-design-production/concrete-as-a-carbon-sink
Because the CO2 is produced as a point-source pollution, and absorbed in a distributed manner, cement could become carbon-negative by doing the easy point of sequestering the carbon at its source. This is best done by use of a microbial reactor, that is, the gas bubbled into water containing algae and exposed to sunlight. The algae, or its oil, can then be used as fuel. See Boyrtrococcus braunii on wikipedia.
I wish I could be there to send or receive one of the last telegrams.
There's lots of SCADA and embedded stuff out there with Pentium (not even MMX) processors. This is bad news for them. Still, it's not doom and gloom, as some of the stuff I have seen is still running 2.6 kernels and fine with it.
"Well, I don’t think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error."
I'd like to see a more thorough investigation of this set of incidents. That means no one involved gets to skip out by Seppuku. One of the problems with having a number of backup systems is that people tend to think "well, if it breaks, there's a backup system" - not realizing that each time a backup system is added, complexity is added, and that overall reliability goes down, instead of up. I don't know if over-reliance of backup systems, and failure to manage complexity, was the cause here, but it's the only thing other than "bad luck" or "sabotage" that can explain this disaster from a country which has many talented engineers.
I've been following Professor McCullouch's works for a couple of years now. His theories make more sense than the alternatives. I suggest checking out is web-log at http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/ and getting his book.
I'd like to know what programming languages, operating systems, development methodologies, quality assurance, etc. are being used. COTS software is usually not designed to be used in the critical operations which NASA performs. Lots of software even says that it is not for such things in the license agreement.
We have to keep the typical moron programmer far away from NASA projects. It is customary for programmers to criticize MBAs and other managers for having no coding knowledge. Well, too often coders have to deep computer science or systems integration knowledge, and can't manage a project which has more than three people working on it.
Yes, I am a nuclear zealot.
ExxonMobile has rights. Stop trying to lock them out.
IoT refers to an object that has no really good reason to be connected to the Internet, and a few reasons why it shouldn't, but will be anyhow. This is all in an attempt to use up all of the IPv6 IP address space.
look in the 'about' page, in the 'export compliance' section: "(c) for use in connection with the design, development or production of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, or rocket systems, space launch vehicles, or sounding rockets, or unmanned air vehicle systems."
More reason to develop software ex-US, so crazy export compliance doesn't hobble you.
get rid of taboola. serve only appropriate ads,
We need better programmers, not more of them. Too many monkeys slinging stinky bits around. We need more doctors, nurses, and other health professionals.
I guess I should have learned by now, that the level of physics knowledge of Slashdot users ends at Newton, and they have unshakable faith in him. Ultraviolet Catastrophe is probably an alien term to many of them. But yet somehow they buy into the ideas of "dark matter" and "dark energy". I really don't have the patience or time to squabble on here. If anyone has a serious interest in this, and can plough through tons of posts by actual physicists on the matter, I will direct them to the NASASpaceFlight.com forums, and the emdrive.wiki website.
I am posting to Delt0r's comment, because it's one of those which is not anonymous, but I mean this to cover all of the putdowns I have received.
Drinking doesn't seem to have helped so far. Must drink more whiskey (Jameson)
I thought it would get better if I got drunk. But no improvement yet. More whiskey, me thinks.
Solar panels work when you're got a fair amount of solar radiation to use. That's only really the case in the inner solar system (or the inner part of any star system). For other places, nuclear is needed. Fission fuels will be far more plentiful on the inner, 'rocky' planets - in our system, that's as far as the inner asteroid belt. outer, gas planets will have more deuterium and tritium, useful for fusion. Until fusion gets working properly, we're stuck with fission. That's ok, for now.
I can see why they're being cautious. I just wish they were a little less so. I never claimed any conspiracy, and even though the results were difficult to believe at first, and there continues to be doubt, no other explanation for the observations has been adequate. So, better experiments are performed. That's what's happening now. Because of all of the flak that the idea has, much of the work goes on in quiet.
If you're looking for a possible explanation, here is one: http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2015/PP-40-15.PDF
Note my slashdot id#: I've been here for a while. I've been using this nick for thirty years. Oh, maybe you have a real ID as well, but don't want to get downgraded for your choice of vocabulary and your tone.
Whatever. Here's the science you don't deserve. It's possible the EMdrive function is due to the Unruh effect.
http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2015/PP-40-15.PDF
It's all so easy to come in here and throw around such grandiose claims as an anonymous coward. Why don't you log in with a real account, and details your claims of hogwash.