Basic math skills. I mean, come on, if you can't see that a result is obviously off by several orders of magnitude ("gee... what's magnitude?") by having a rough idea of the desired result in your head...
And learning the difference between kilometers and miles wouldn't hurt... Earth to Mars... oops, missed the damn planet!
And joke theory - for example, "If it takes 3 minutes to cook 1 3-minute egg, how many minutes does it take to cook 3 3-minute eggs?" If you can't see the direct relationship between this question and scheduling several activities that involve waiting on a device or service in parallel, you're in the wrong field.
Some basic reading and writing skills wouldn't hurt, either ("OMG I don't want to write any documentation... the code is the documentation!"... 6 day/weeks/months later... "I haven't got a clue how this works. Who wrote this piece of shit? Me? Oops...")
Well, if someone were to simply use the "man in the moon" image as their earth bound corporate logo, then the work of putting that on the moon has already been done. Of course there could a prior use argument here about using that logo.
He bluffs that he has been offered a large sum to turn the Moon into a massive billboard using a rocket which scatters black dust on the surface in patterns [1]. To the owner of the "Moka-Cola" company he implies that the culprit is the rival soft drink maker "6+". To a fervent anti-Communist, he suggests that the Russians may be capable of printing the hammer and sickle across the face of the Moon if they get a lead in rocket technology.
You seem to forget that this is an ideal way to experiment with micro-payloads, autonomous spacecraft, etc., as well as slove the garbage problem. Also, if it works, you're tracking fewer garbage payloads, for less time before they fall out of orbit.
You didn't say a "closed combustion chamber" You said "combustion chamber" - and those are definitely available and work in space.
As for "Amazingly little is known about how a standing fire (as opposed to a burning jet of gases) behaves in low gravity.", not all that much is known about a candle flame on earth, either, despite several millennia of experience. Buckyballs were only discovered in 1985, and it was only years later that people figured out that candle flames produced them naturally.
Re: cost of solar sail - anything that adds to drag by reflecting sunlight would work. How about packaging material - mylar was used for echostar... turn it into one of those micro-experiments by asking students to design a system that weighs under 100 g and can de-orbit 1 kg.
And I want a link that doesn't crash Firefox 3 times in a row...
I don't know what's on the page that's so evil for Firefox under Linux, but I had to open it in Epiphany to see... meybe its another hint for me to get SuSE off my hd ASAP.
I don't think so. While Java isn't as fast as C, it also doesn't peg my cpu at 100% on a regular basis. If Novell made their deal with the devil^H^H^H^H^HMicrosoft to protect Mono, they screwed up.
This is interesting enough that I'm going to hit the book store for some more O'Reilly - for some Struts, Hibernate and Spring.
eComStation is fully OS/2 compatible and will run your existing OS/2 applications!
...
"Serenity Systems' new release of eComStation will demonstrate to people running OS/2 applications that support for their desktop still exists and that the technology is still being enhanced". - Bob St.John, Director of Business Development,Serenity Systems International (full text)
Why do I have to be totally beholden to the maker of my Linux distro for all my software, if I don't want that software to feel like a crufty and poorly installed kludge?
When Firefox 2.0 comes out, I should be able to get it from Mozilla, install it, and not break things.
When GNUcash 2.0 comes out, I should be able to get it from the GnuCash folks, install it, and not break things.
Instead, I must choose between waiting for my distro to provide these (from a repository update or even a new major distro release), hacking up my distro to install software from other 3rd party software sources related to my distro, or adding cruft by manually dropping files into place.
Or look for statically-linked packages. With a 320gig hd costing just over $100, its not like you need to worry about saving space - one of the reasons to use shared loadable libraries. Static linking means that there are no library dependancies - every function you call is included in your binary, rather than having to be loaded for a shared object / dll.
Microsoft Vader: How much is your soul?
Novell Spaceballs Skywalker: $380 million and change, and we'll throw in SuSE.
Microsoft Vader: You fool! We would have paid you 10x as much.
Surprisingly, compared to other online encyclopedias, Wikipedia more than holds its own. The well-known and respected Encyclopedia Britannica averages three mistakes per topic in comparison to Wikipedia's four mistakes on the same topics, according to The Chronicle.
If you want to say the Wiki is crap, so is the britannica. But at least the Wikis are updated (sometimes within the hour of someone planting a false story) as you'll see from the links.
And I'd like to see a citation that Britannica is "the worlds' most authoritative encyclopedia". For the article I'm talking about, you'd have to go into the back stacks of the Montreal Gazette, circa the late '70's.
Now if you want to have some fun, go and read one of those 1970's editions of Britannica. They contain a multitude of howlers that even a high school student knows aren't true. Facts aren't supposed to be mutable.
Its hard to give attribution for stuff in the public domain - a lot of times there IS no known original author. But the most prolific author ever in human history is some guy named Anonymous.
The SRBs were a disaster from day 1 - they were pure pork-barrel politics, and should never have been considered.
The simple fact is that there was no need to make them with joints - military-grade srbs are made in one piece. However, since NASA is a civilian program, it was necessary to get support by farming out parts of the program to contractors in other states, and ship the sections by barge for final assembly. This pork-barreling cost people lives.
None of the astronauts ever had faith in any "escape system scenario" ever developed by NASA for use in an aborted launch. They said as much.
Better to go to the clipper ships and SSTO. Cheap, quick, modular. But failing that, re-invent the Saturn series. You have a clear target, you still have people who knew how it was done, and you can be darned sure that there are unauthorized copies of the plans hanging around somewhere - just ask the Ruskies for a copy.
Bullcrap. That's the same line of reasoning used in redoing every software project - "It is quicker to redo it from scratch" - but then it turns out never to be true.
Considering that an audit of dead-tree encyclopedias hasn't been done, we can't say. What we CAN say is that its foolish to make a comparison with Britannica, when an audit of Britannica found 10% of 600 articles to be non-factual. The sources cited in those 10% disavowed the articles' contents.
This isn't all that surprising either, when you think about it. People cite people who cite people, and someone somewhere will mis-interpret what someone else wrote, or come to different conclusions while still citing the original author.
The LEO capability of the Saturn 5 was 118,000 kg. The LEO capability of the Aries 5 is, as I state, only 10% more.
Adding the Aries 1 + Aries 5 to get a "total" of 150,000 kg to LEO requires 2 launches, not 1, so your math doesn't work out.
Moreover, by splitting the crew from the cargo versions you get several benefits:
* You only have to human-rate the Ares I saving significant mass and development and operational recurring costs for the cargo version
* You can now "fork" the development to minimize the gap in human spaceflight (also probably reducing the overall schedule and budget risk)
* Improve crew safey and mission assurance by allowing each Ares V to be checked out on orbit prior to launching the crew.
The Saturn 5 wasn't human-rated? The Saturn 5 is going to incur development costs? Its already developed, its old dependable technology, and its relatively cheap.
As for a 2-launch program, use a Saturn 5 and a Saturn 1. Cheaper - already developed, proven tech. Shave at least a decade off the schedule.
As for the budget, remember that the whole space program from the Mercury sub-orbital flights to the moon landing was 25 billion. Each Saturn 5 was about $100 million. Think of it - 5 launch vehicles for the cost of one shuttle mission. Aries is a contractors' pork bone.
Also, nobody intents for any of the escape systems to actually work. They're there for public perception. the astronauts pointed this out themselves. From the "slide down a wire rope" system to the current proposal, these are basically public relations ploys. How many deaths have been prevented by them? Zero.
The space shuttle was a disaster for NASA, sucking money out of every other program. Aries will be more of the same. The 2020 target date for returning to the moon is longer than the whole from-scratch space program, and you can be sure the date is going to slide.
Do it with old tech, old school know-how, and you can be back there in 5 years, with a permanent base in 7, and on to Mars in 10.
... and after an investigation of some of those by Wikipedia, it was found that some were in the public domain, some were culled from government sites, and some were copied from the wiki, and not the other way around. Of those 12,000, we can now say that the wiki is at least as clean as Ivory soap (99.44%).
Actually, the death penalty is less punishment than life in prison would be.
He figures that in death he's at least some sort of martyr. Dying alone and forgotten of old age in some solitary cell as he watches his country move on (or fall apart or whatever happens) without him denies him even that.
It also means we don't sink to the same level. You don't want to become the very thing you're fighting against.
I'm going to fucking stab you in the eye. Maybe then you'll learn.
Do not poke my eye with your spork;
Do not poke it out, you dork;
Do not poke it with a beer;
Do not poke it with a deer;
Do not poke it with your dick;
That just makes you one mean prick;
Do not poke it, it won't heal;
I'll have to call DrCowboyNeal;
Do not poke it on a train;
Do not poke it on a plane;
The DHS will suspend your right;
For poking my eye out on the flight;
Poke my eye out and you'll be;
Poked in Gitmo for E-TER-NI-T;
By some guy named Bubba who;
Will poke your 3rd eye sore boo-hoo;
So don't poke my eye out Mr. A.C.;
Or the next goat.dot.cx you'll be.
I fail to see where any kind of validity to this post is. I used combinations of FAT and NTFS for a while, even upgrading from 98 to ME to 2000 and even once or twice to XP. Sounds like some serious user error going on here if you can't get two completely compatible file systems to coincide on the same machine.
Its not a user problem when a patch solves it. Of course, how are you supposed to get the patch if your machine continually BSODs...
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Basic math skills. I mean, come on, if you can't see that a result is obviously off by several orders of magnitude ("gee ... what's magnitude?") by having a rough idea of the desired result in your head ...
And learning the difference between kilometers and miles wouldn't hurt ... Earth to Mars ... oops, missed the damn planet!
And joke theory - for example, "If it takes 3 minutes to cook 1 3-minute egg, how many minutes does it take to cook 3 3-minute eggs?" If you can't see the direct relationship between this question and scheduling several activities that involve waiting on a device or service in parallel, you're in the wrong field.
Some basic reading and writing skills wouldn't hurt, either ("OMG I don't want to write any documentation ... the code is the documentation!" ... 6 day/weeks/months later ... "I haven't got a clue how this works. Who wrote this piece of shit? Me? Oops ...")
Look at the logo on a bar of Ivory Soap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procter_&_Gamble#Logo _controversy
Heinlein - The Man Who Sold The Moon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_ Moon
Moka-Cola and 6+ (analogs for Coca-Cola and 7-UP)
You seem to forget that this is an ideal way to experiment with micro-payloads, autonomous spacecraft, etc., as well as slove the garbage problem. Also, if it works, you're tracking fewer garbage payloads, for less time before they fall out of orbit.
The bit depth IS 24 and I AM running Flash 9. that's not the problem ...
And I want a link that doesn't crash Firefox 3 times in a row ...
I don't know what's on the page that's so evil for Firefox under Linux, but I had to open it in Epiphany to see ... meybe its another hint for me to get SuSE off my hd ASAP.
So the moon landings really were a hoax?
Gee, next you'll be saying that rockets can't work in space because "there's no air for them to push against."
And, btw, the ISS does have to be nudged on occasion, because its orbit DOES decay with time due to drag.
A solar sail could safely deorbit junk at minimal cost.
I don't think so. While Java isn't as fast as C, it also doesn't peg my cpu at 100% on a regular basis. If Novell made their deal with the devil^H^H^H^H^HMicrosoft to protect Mono, they screwed up.
This is interesting enough that I'm going to hit the book store for some more O'Reilly - for some Struts, Hibernate and Spring.
All you had to do was click the middle image on the page - it sends you here: http://www.ecomstation.com/
You can download a livecd demo from this page: http://www.ecomstation.com/democd/
Or look for statically-linked packages. With a 320gig hd costing just over $100, its not like you need to worry about saving space - one of the reasons to use shared loadable libraries. Static linking means that there are no library dependancies - every function you call is included in your binary, rather than having to be loaded for a shared object / dll.
Microsoft Vader: How much is your soul?
Novell Spaceballs Skywalker: $380 million and change, and we'll throw in SuSE.
Microsoft Vader: You fool! We would have paid you 10x as much.
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If you want to say the Wiki is crap, so is the britannica. But at least the Wikis are updated (sometimes within the hour of someone planting a false story) as you'll see from the links.
And I'd like to see a citation that Britannica is "the worlds' most authoritative encyclopedia". For the article I'm talking about, you'd have to go into the back stacks of the Montreal Gazette, circa the late '70's.
Now if you want to have some fun, go and read one of those 1970's editions of Britannica. They contain a multitude of howlers that even a high school student knows aren't true. Facts aren't supposed to be mutable.
Its hard to give attribution for stuff in the public domain - a lot of times there IS no known original author. But the most prolific author ever in human history is some guy named Anonymous.
The SRBs were a disaster from day 1 - they were pure pork-barrel politics, and should never have been considered.
The simple fact is that there was no need to make them with joints - military-grade srbs are made in one piece. However, since NASA is a civilian program, it was necessary to get support by farming out parts of the program to contractors in other states, and ship the sections by barge for final assembly. This pork-barreling cost people lives.
None of the astronauts ever had faith in any "escape system scenario" ever developed by NASA for use in an aborted launch. They said as much.
Better to go to the clipper ships and SSTO. Cheap, quick, modular. But failing that, re-invent the Saturn series. You have a clear target, you still have people who knew how it was done, and you can be darned sure that there are unauthorized copies of the plans hanging around somewhere - just ask the Ruskies for a copy.
Bullcrap. That's the same line of reasoning used in redoing every software project - "It is quicker to redo it from scratch" - but then it turns out never to be true.
Considering that an audit of dead-tree encyclopedias hasn't been done, we can't say. What we CAN say is that its foolish to make a comparison with Britannica, when an audit of Britannica found 10% of 600 articles to be non-factual. The sources cited in those 10% disavowed the articles' contents.
This isn't all that surprising either, when you think about it. People cite people who cite people, and someone somewhere will mis-interpret what someone else wrote, or come to different conclusions while still citing the original author.
The LEO capability of the Saturn 5 was 118,000 kg. The LEO capability of the Aries 5 is, as I state, only 10% more.
Adding the Aries 1 + Aries 5 to get a "total" of 150,000 kg to LEO requires 2 launches, not 1, so your math doesn't work out.
The Saturn 5 wasn't human-rated? The Saturn 5 is going to incur development costs? Its already developed, its old dependable technology, and its relatively cheap.
As for a 2-launch program, use a Saturn 5 and a Saturn 1. Cheaper - already developed, proven tech. Shave at least a decade off the schedule.
As for the budget, remember that the whole space program from the Mercury sub-orbital flights to the moon landing was 25 billion. Each Saturn 5 was about $100 million. Think of it - 5 launch vehicles for the cost of one shuttle mission. Aries is a contractors' pork bone.
Also, nobody intents for any of the escape systems to actually work. They're there for public perception. the astronauts pointed this out themselves. From the "slide down a wire rope" system to the current proposal, these are basically public relations ploys. How many deaths have been prevented by them? Zero.
The space shuttle was a disaster for NASA, sucking money out of every other program. Aries will be more of the same. The 2020 target date for returning to the moon is longer than the whole from-scratch space program, and you can be sure the date is going to slide.
Do it with old tech, old school know-how, and you can be back there in 5 years, with a permanent base in 7, and on to Mars in 10.
... and after an investigation of some of those by Wikipedia, it was found that some were in the public domain, some were culled from government sites, and some were copied from the wiki, and not the other way around. Of those 12,000, we can now say that the wiki is at least as clean as Ivory soap (99.44%).
Actually, the death penalty is less punishment than life in prison would be.
He figures that in death he's at least some sort of martyr. Dying alone and forgotten of old age in some solitary cell as he watches his country move on (or fall apart or whatever happens) without him denies him even that.
It also means we don't sink to the same level. You don't want to become the very thing you're fighting against.
Do not poke my eye with your spork;
Do not poke it out, you dork;
Do not poke it with a beer;
Do not poke it with a deer;
Do not poke it with your dick;
That just makes you one mean prick;
Do not poke it, it won't heal;
I'll have to call DrCowboyNeal;
Do not poke it on a train;
Do not poke it on a plane;
The DHS will suspend your right;
For poking my eye out on the flight;
Poke my eye out and you'll be;
Poked in Gitmo for E-TER-NI-T;
By some guy named Bubba who;
Will poke your 3rd eye sore boo-hoo;
So don't poke my eye out Mr. A.C.;
Or the next goat.dot.cx you'll be.
*cough* Diebold *cough*
He wanted death by military firing squad. They refused. Hanging is considered less honourable.