Unlike the Russian space program, few American capsules have tried overland reentries until the two extraterrestrial sample return missions, Genesis today and Stardust in 2006."
It's worth noting that overland collection happened in the US for catching film canisters from spy satellites:
After the cameras photographed the world from polar orbit, the exposed film was jettisoned back to earth near Hawaii, in a capsule fitted with a parachute designed to be snagged
by special planes.
From The Corona Story
I suspect one of the reasons the Russians focussed so much on overland catches is that they don't have many large bodies of water convenient to viable spaceport land. It's more an issue of necessity and convenience than expertise.
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As well. If you are still metamoderating stories that you don't recall seeing, perhaps they are journal entries, or you simply missed one/forgot/too busy to read more than the title, etc. (hey, if I don't know the reason for the problem, then the PEBKAC, right?:-)
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So - they're telling us that going back to -shudder- less than $1.00 per MHz is progress???
Dude, I know there's profit incentives out there, but you can buy a serious 2 way 64 bit machine for that much which would blow that thing out of the water, even running 32 bit windows xp professional.
$1 per MHz... They must seriously be pining for the old days. Let it go, man. Just let it go...
Access was originally designed as an application development tool. You can create your database, code, reports, etc, then use Access to create a runtime executable. End users can't modify the program, but if you need to make changes just redistribute the runtime.
It's just like compiling a program in visual studio. You can't redistribute visual studio, but you can distribute the programs you create with it.
Or you just didn't notice that the picture of the kid was on the grass and it faded with the sewer grate over the kid.
Perhaps you missed the kid's fingers wrapped around a portion of the sewer grate, and the bars of the grate blocking all but the fingers...
The way the photo is composed, though, suggests that the grate itself is vertical leading into a horizontal shaft. While it appears you're looking down I suspect it's just one end of a culvert.
Ok, let me further qualify my statement - any email critical to the sender is followed up with a phone call (or other verifiable delivery mechanism) by the sender.
There is no way for the recipient to decide what email is critical or not, and to make critical emails get through a lossy email system.
I can certianly understand that some people would rather sort the spam themselves to get that one extra sale per month or year that they would have otherwise missed, but if the sender considered the email critical, they would have re-sent it when they didn't get a reply, faxed, or called.
Email is a push mechanism. You cannot pull email through the system. All you can do is filter email that is pushed at you.
In some businesses that one sale may be worth the hour a day wasted on spam processing - for most businesses it is not.
Most users of email are now treating it as a lossy messaging system, and the users themselves accept that some messages simply don't make it. Critical business is always followed up with a call.
You forgot to mention the kid in the sewer under the grate.
Why anyone would take a picture of a kid in the sewer is beyond me, but posting it to a public website is just begging for attention from social services...
I, of course, am assumming it's a set up shot, and they didn't just see a kid in the sewer, take a picture, then walk away...
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The video shows a nice little crater, but they are saying something went wrong, so it may not be the pilot's fault...
-Adam
It's worth noting that overland collection happened in the US for catching film canisters from spy satellites:
I suspect one of the reasons the Russians focussed so much on overland catches is that they don't have many large bodies of water convenient to viable spaceport land. It's more an issue of necessity and convenience than expertise.
-Adam
I agree.
:-)
Saying that slashdot editors have a wide political spectrum is like saying that a goat and a woman represent a wide mammal spectrum.
I don't think I said it was a bad thing. It's somewhat pointless to represent, say, the whig party at this time...
-Adam
Sorry, you also have to check
:-)
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Visit your homepage preferences and uncheck all the section boxes. This will 'unhide' these sections from your main page.
-Adam
It's possible I'm just a rosy-glassed optimist, but I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope.
Obviously thinly veiled references to the rosary, cross, and christian 'hope', you sneaky troll.
Oh, wait, this isn't the religion section is it?
Politics?
Well that's essentially the same thing. Flame on!
-Adam
I have no doubt you have a diverse political spectrum - for an American. I doubt you have a very diverse spectrum in general, though.
There are more commonalities between a republican and a democrat than there are differences.
-Adam
Visit your homepage preferences and select Politics to avoid seeing these stories on your main page.
-Adam
Take a page from Jib Jab:
-1 Right Wing Nutjob
-1 Liberal Weenie
-Adam
Either the article info is wrong, or I misunderstand HDTV resolutions. According to the article, there are three CCDs:
Each CCD measures 960 x 1080 pixels.
1080 is supposed to be the vertical resolution, with horizontal at 1920. This is less than half the horizontal resolution.
-Adam
Most users ever online was 808, Today at 03:47 PM.
All times are GMT. The time now is 03:47 PM.
Yay slashdot.
-Adam
Those are great and all, but where do I go when Slashdot goes down?
-Adam
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So - they're telling us that going back to -shudder- less than $1.00 per MHz is progress???
Dude, I know there's profit incentives out there, but you can buy a serious 2 way 64 bit machine for that much which would blow that thing out of the water, even running 32 bit windows xp professional.
$1 per MHz... They must seriously be pining for the old days. Let it go, man. Just let it go...
-Adam
this achieves much of the same things [as the G4 iMac] in a different way and, we think, in a better way.
Ah. So instead of
Think Different(TM)
It's now
Think Better. We think...
-Adam
The High Speed Revolution will televised in the US ONLY.
In all other countries, it will be streamed in HD over 100Mbps connections.
That's only because NBC bought the rights, not because they couldn't stream it in HD and realtime, instead of a day late and tiny snippets of it.
-Adam
Access was originally designed as an application development tool. You can create your database, code, reports, etc, then use Access to create a runtime executable. End users can't modify the program, but if you need to make changes just redistribute the runtime.
It's just like compiling a program in visual studio. You can't redistribute visual studio, but you can distribute the programs you create with it.
-Adam
It's nice to know someone found Bin Laden's hideout - he's been hangin with Khufu!
Now the Egyptian Gov't just needs to stall long enough to let him make his way to the great wall of China.
-Adam
It's great for simple process visualizations.
Check out uncommon or odd designs for engines, which would be very difficult to imagine from a text description with a few small pictures.
There are others - google search animated gif "subject" to find useful illustrations for any process.
-Adam
And in case that goes down, here's the cache of the cache of google: http://google.com/search?q=cache:www.google.com/se arch?q=cache:www.google.com
It's not currently cached, though, so I submitted several times so Google gets it on its next search of its search of its search engine.
Once it goes through, we really ought to do it again for a fourth level of redundancy.
-Adam
This Guy is Falling
-Adam
Or you just didn't notice that the picture of the kid was on the grass and it faded with the sewer grate over the kid.
Perhaps you missed the kid's fingers wrapped around a portion of the sewer grate, and the bars of the grate blocking all but the fingers...
The way the photo is composed, though, suggests that the grate itself is vertical leading into a horizontal shaft. While it appears you're looking down I suspect it's just one end of a culvert.
Look again - lower left corner - behind the grate, not above it.
-Adam
Ok, let me further qualify my statement - any email critical to the sender is followed up with a phone call (or other verifiable delivery mechanism) by the sender.
There is no way for the recipient to decide what email is critical or not, and to make critical emails get through a lossy email system.
I can certianly understand that some people would rather sort the spam themselves to get that one extra sale per month or year that they would have otherwise missed, but if the sender considered the email critical, they would have re-sent it when they didn't get a reply, faxed, or called.
Email is a push mechanism. You cannot pull email through the system. All you can do is filter email that is pushed at you.
In some businesses that one sale may be worth the hour a day wasted on spam processing - for most businesses it is not.
-Adam
And you wonder why they don't write back...
-Adam
Most users of email are now treating it as a lossy messaging system, and the users themselves accept that some messages simply don't make it. Critical business is always followed up with a call.
-Adam
You forgot to mention the kid in the sewer under the grate.
Why anyone would take a picture of a kid in the sewer is beyond me, but posting it to a public website is just begging for attention from social services...
I, of course, am assumming it's a set up shot, and they didn't just see a kid in the sewer, take a picture, then walk away...
-Adam