They generally had cast iron plates on one corner of the building (the one closest to the street usually) and the main fireplace of the building if it had one, with the sigil of the "company". Part of the reason why the departments are called "company" IIRC.
Out of print means that the _publisher_ isn't running copies of the item, not that the creator of the item wants the item off of shelves.
It is a common publishing and recording industry tactic to stop publishing works from people whose work you have publishing rights to, and want to hurt financially (for speaking out, not selling a million copies in the first month, whatever lame reason).
So you're suggesting, just because the publisher doesn't want to spend the money on someone's work, that the owner of the I.P. should suffer? Why not make it a requirement that works be published on demand (at a premium if at a lower publishing rate) instead? That way the publisher gets some cash and the owner gets their work out on a holding pattern.
Two authors I know had to wait 7 years after the first run of their books to get the right reverted back to them to find another publishing house (and better contract) to finally get mass marketed.
"Noir" is a great book. For a majority of the book you think (well at least I did) he's actually pro-corporate control of everything the way he writes his characters...Dark as hell, with great props in a literary sense to noir pulp fiction and movies. Deals with the debt-ridden (the undead), corporate ownership, sharing (in all senses), etc.
Jeter's also got an essay up on his feeling re: corporate fascism. Good stuff.
In the 90's (I can't find stats on the aughts), prisons were either the 4th or 5th largest growth industry in the U.S. Obviously the tech and biomed sectors were larger, but still says a lot about our country.
Yeah... they hadn't made the current line just one part of the entire tether, so the puppy generated a load of current, arced and snap-fused the tether.
Yeah, I realized that once I posted... However, they have already constructed actual tethers, which is what I mean, instead of the 'we'll "Somehow" get carbon nantubes to work right" (though that's also looking promising).
Well the nice thing about the tethers they are talking about is that the don't require the strength to mass ratio that a space elevator does, since the systems are mostly out of any appreciable atmosphere by that point.
The propulsion for 'counterbalance' can come from chemical rockets, ion propulsion, solar sails or soemthing like the M2P2 plama sail.
Since the erm, 'craft' is in space, most of the propulsive methods can use engines with really good expansion ratios.
David Brin's shortstory on his website explains the eletric dynamic method, as does the www.tethers.com site.
While they aren't as 'no cost' as the elevator is, they also don't have the complication of trying to convince the world gov'ts or atmospheric drag.
generally the steps talked about for tethers are:
Cheap Access to Space (launching the 'ballast') Momentum Exchange Tethers with reboost capability Momentum Exchange Tethers that catch incoming as well as outgoing THEN the Space Elevator
That is one possibility, depending on wether or not the electro-dynamic concepts actually work... it is a safer bet than the electrical tether, but TUI has done a LOT of writing about dragging a conductive tether through the magnetosphere to help provide juice for the ion drives that might be attached to such a system... the kicker though is that they got the inspiration from the other major NASA tether experiment which was a momentum exchanger, but 'shorted'/arced current and snapped the tether.
Robert Forward was one of the principals at TUI [www.tethers.com] and was a contemporary of RAH, Clarke and Sheffield.
So he actually figured out how to make the damn things work, and spent about a decade trying to pitch it to NASA... but the failure of a single stranded Tether experiment made them really 'gun shy' of the technology, even though the Hoyt/Forward tether is multi-stranded.
The people making the tethers, TUI (www.tethers.com) are making it out of Spectra fibres. You can check out their website for the full gist, but they have fabrication down pat.
So, yes, this is the real deal, not something 'down the road 5 years'.
The tether system (more at www.tethers.com) decreases its potential energy after propelling the payload. Which is why they suggest a mix of tether technologies, one for the payload transport, and another electro-dyanamic propulsion. Brin wrote a story about the latter.
What is kind of sad is that Dr. Robert Forward was one of the originators of the technology but he never got to see his work in space.
Again, tethers.com explains it all much better than I can.
Well Carmack and ERPS chat back and forth on the ERPS list. And IIRC, the gizmocopter ERPS project has at different points referred to info from the sourceforge autopilot project, so while they aren't all hunkered down in the same workspace, they are riffing ideas back and forth.
Honestly I was suprised that the PSUS project wasn't mentioned in a thread on the ARocket list a while back... they were looking for ways to deal with the problems it looks like PSUS solved or at least dealt with.
Actually no, the new HSA provisions would make this rocket illegal to fly. Which is why John Wickman and others in the AmRocket community are getting Sen. Enzi and others to propose a realistic rocketry law.
And the HSA section is specifically there because some people equate propellants with explosives (even if some aren't even rated as such) and figure that any rocket hobbiest must be in league with some un-American activity.
Now, the provision that kicked in about two months ago DOES relate to shipping of black powder and other common rocket motor fuels, but it's already being lambasted by the fireworks companies... hard to be a patriotic 'Merican if you don't have anymore firework for the 4th, eh chief?
Actually a fair number of the XPrize entrants may not spend $10M in R&D and launch costs to get to their shot... so there is the possibility of it being a net benefit. Plus, first come first serve in terms of possibly being able to sell rides...
You might also check out the ERPS proposal for a series of similar federal prizes...
http://www.erps.org/papers/isdc2003.html
neat stuff, with escelation of prize monies the closer to orbit they git. keep in mind the Xprize is not a orbital infrastructure, but a ballistic shit... There are hurdles to get to orbital velocity.
Essentially Rutan is going 'Look at what I built, we're going to launch this for the X-Prize and none of you can HOPE to catch up'
The only things they have left are flight tests with the rocket suite. The White Knight is working and has flown some test flights... It's the SS1 that need some flight time before the X-Prize attempt.
It'll be interesting to see what XCor does in response to this.
I know you were just making a joke, but actually IIRC amateur rocketry is sfaer statistically than most other hobbies. Less hobby-related deaths/injuries than golf, for instance. Go figure.
Actually, you WILL find the kWh figures added into the costs of most current solar studies.
As you say, back about ten years, the solar people were getting lambasted for posting only operational and amoritized financial costs, and excluding the 'lifecycle' costs. They now usually make sure to post that information, though sometimes not in the sales literature, but almost always where investors can read it.
Yet most vets won't even tell you that it is a risk. This is why they now give the injections in different locations, they still aren't SURE how/why cats get VAS. Like how most paedetricians won't tell you that the vaccine regimine for children in the US MAY be linked to increased chances of regressive autism.
An alternative is to get your pet tattooed in the ear, mouth and/or belly.
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They generally had cast iron plates on one corner of the building (the one closest to the street usually) and the main fireplace of the building if it had one, with the sigil of the "company". Part of the reason why the departments are called "company" IIRC.
Out of print means that the _publisher_ isn't running copies of the item, not that the creator of the item wants the item off of shelves.
It is a common publishing and recording industry tactic to stop publishing works from people whose work you have publishing rights to, and want to hurt financially (for speaking out, not selling a million copies in the first month, whatever lame reason).
So you're suggesting, just because the publisher doesn't want to spend the money on someone's work, that the owner of the I.P. should suffer? Why not make it a requirement that works be published on demand (at a premium if at a lower publishing rate) instead? That way the publisher gets some cash and the owner gets their work out on a holding pattern.
Two authors I know had to wait 7 years after the first run of their books to get the right reverted back to them to find another publishing house (and better contract) to finally get mass marketed.
"Noir" is a great book. For a majority of the book you think (well at least I did) he's actually pro-corporate control of everything the way he writes his characters...Dark as hell, with great props in a literary sense to noir pulp fiction and movies. Deals with the debt-ridden (the undead), corporate ownership, sharing (in all senses), etc.
Jeter's also got an essay up on his feeling re: corporate fascism. Good stuff.
In the 90's (I can't find stats on the aughts), prisons were either the 4th or 5th largest growth industry in the U.S. Obviously the tech and biomed sectors were larger, but still says a lot about our country.
Yeah... they hadn't made the current line just one part of the entire tether, so the puppy generated a load of current, arced and snap-fused the tether.
Yeah, I realized that once I posted... However, they have already constructed actual tethers, which is what I mean, instead of the 'we'll "Somehow" get carbon nantubes to work right" (though that's also looking promising).
Well the nice thing about the tethers they are talking about is that the don't require the strength to mass ratio that a space elevator does, since the systems are mostly out of any appreciable atmosphere by that point.
The propulsion for 'counterbalance' can come from chemical rockets, ion propulsion, solar sails or soemthing like the M2P2 plama sail.
Since the erm, 'craft' is in space, most of the propulsive methods can use engines with really good expansion ratios.
David Brin's shortstory on his website explains the eletric dynamic method, as does the www.tethers.com site.
While they aren't as 'no cost' as the elevator is, they also don't have the complication of trying to convince the world gov'ts or atmospheric drag.
generally the steps talked about for tethers are:
Cheap Access to Space (launching the 'ballast')
Momentum Exchange Tethers with reboost capability
Momentum Exchange Tethers that catch incoming as well as outgoing
THEN the Space Elevator
errr, only if they're conductive. Spectra fibre is one of the candidates, as is Kevlar.
That is one possibility, depending on wether or not the electro-dynamic concepts actually work... it is a safer bet than the electrical tether, but TUI has done a LOT of writing about dragging a conductive tether through the magnetosphere to help provide juice for the ion drives that might be attached to such a system... the kicker though is that they got the inspiration from the other major NASA tether experiment which was a momentum exchanger, but 'shorted'/arced current and snapped the tether.
That's because the graphic for that is for the Terminator tether, which is used to deorbit space junk/ second stages.
Robert Forward was one of the principals at TUI [www.tethers.com] and was a contemporary of RAH, Clarke and Sheffield.
So he actually figured out how to make the damn things work, and spent about a decade trying to pitch it to NASA... but the failure of a single stranded Tether experiment made them really 'gun shy' of the technology, even though the Hoyt/Forward tether is multi-stranded.
The people making the tethers, TUI (www.tethers.com) are making it out of Spectra fibres. You can check out their website for the full gist, but they have fabrication down pat.
So, yes, this is the real deal, not something 'down the road 5 years'.
--foolish
The tether system (more at www.tethers.com) decreases its potential energy after propelling the payload. Which is why they suggest a mix of tether technologies, one for the payload transport, and another electro-dyanamic propulsion. Brin wrote a story about the latter.
What is kind of sad is that Dr. Robert Forward was one of the originators of the technology but he never got to see his work in space.
Again, tethers.com explains it all much better than I can.
--foolish
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the tethers.com guys have a subscription to Nature, but if they don't maybe they could use a short email... hmmm.
Propellantless space transport. Tasty goodness.
Well Carmack and ERPS chat back and forth on the ERPS list. And IIRC, the gizmocopter ERPS project has at different points referred to info from the sourceforge autopilot project, so while they aren't all hunkered down in the same workspace, they are riffing ideas back and forth.
Honestly I was suprised that the PSUS project wasn't mentioned in a thread on the ARocket list a while back... they were looking for ways to deal with the problems it looks like PSUS solved or at least dealt with.
Ah well. Back to werk.
Actually no, the new HSA provisions would make this rocket illegal to fly. Which is why John Wickman and others in the AmRocket community are getting Sen. Enzi and others to propose a realistic rocketry law.
And the HSA section is specifically there because some people equate propellants with explosives (even if some aren't even rated as such) and figure that any rocket hobbiest must be in league with some un-American activity.
Now, the provision that kicked in about two months ago DOES relate to shipping of black powder and other common rocket motor fuels, but it's already being lambasted by the fireworks companies... hard to be a patriotic 'Merican if you don't have anymore firework for the 4th, eh chief?
Anyways, just look S.724 at senate.congress.gov.
Actually a fair number of the XPrize entrants may not spend $10M in R&D and launch costs to get to their shot... so there is the possibility of it being a net benefit. Plus, first come first serve in terms of possibly being able to sell rides...
You might also check out the ERPS proposal for a series of similar federal prizes...
http://www.erps.org/papers/isdc2003.html
neat stuff, with escelation of prize monies the closer to orbit they git. keep in mind the Xprize is not a orbital infrastructure, but a ballistic shit... There are hurdles to get to orbital velocity.
Did you miss the fact these ARE full scale?
Essentially Rutan is going 'Look at what I built, we're going to launch this for the X-Prize and none of you can HOPE to catch up'
The only things they have left are flight tests with the rocket suite. The White Knight is working and has flown some test flights... It's the SS1 that need some flight time before the X-Prize attempt.
It'll be interesting to see what XCor does in response to this.
Errr, those are the windows. The front of both the White Knight and the SS1 have portholes encircling the forward sections of each compartment.
/.
There's a great view of the White Knight cockpit, but well... you'll have to wait for the mirrors.
Luckily I caught the news on nasawatch and the the arocket list before it got hit by
I know you were just making a joke, but actually IIRC amateur rocketry is sfaer statistically than most other hobbies. Less hobby-related deaths/injuries than golf, for instance. Go figure.
Actually, you WILL find the kWh figures added into the costs of most current solar studies.
As you say, back about ten years, the solar people were getting lambasted for posting only operational and amoritized financial costs, and excluding the 'lifecycle' costs. They now usually make sure to post that information, though sometimes not in the sales literature, but almost always where investors can read it.
--foolish
which is approx. 3% H202 by volume, full of chemical stabilizers that negate the utility of it for passing through catalyst packs.
oh wait. you were trolling. ne'ermind then.
Yet most vets won't even tell you that it is a risk. This is why they now give the injections in different locations, they still aren't SURE how/why cats get VAS. Like how most paedetricians won't tell you that the vaccine regimine for children in the US MAY be linked to increased chances of regressive autism.
An alternative is to get your pet tattooed in the ear, mouth and/or belly.
Erm, well you won't have any luck paging Forward. He died about 2-3 months ago from a Brain tumor/cancer.