Show me one commercial launch of relevant throw weight that costs less than a million dollars. So no dinky little sounding rocket with a cubesat at the tip. I mean heavy lifters, twenty tons to LEO/ten tons to GTO. The cheapest of the bunch is probably the Proton, but that's still near $100M.
That SpaceX heavy lifter they keep talking about would actually be more expensive than the Proton, if their website is to be believed.
I think that by "sub-stellar body" they mean something not orbiting a star.
From the summary (not even the article!): "The object known as SDSS1416+13B is in a wide orbit around a somewhat brighter and warmer brown dwarf, SDSS1416+13A"
Obviously you're literate in the most basic sense. So why not put that ability to use, genius?
I'm sure they mean the speed of sound at his particular altitude.
Joe Kittenger reached 614 mph during his freefall in the 1960, which is roughly Mach 0.8 at sea level. At around 35,000 feet the speed of sound drops to around 650 mph. At higher altitudes, the speed of sound actually increases for awhile.
Because everyone that has nuclear reactors also builds bombs
That's ridiculously inaccurate. There are dozens of national nuclear programs that have reactors for power generation and research which don't build bombs.
I have many interests and often find myself spending half an hour or more on Wikipedia every day...usually looking at articles that have nothing to do with what I initially searched for (I think everyone has been sucked into that pattern). I don't make edits anymore. One of the few topics on which I feel that I have enough knowledge to contribute is naval history, and have made lots of significant edits (and created new articles) in the past...but I started having edits reverted in what seemed to be a knee-jerk reaction from a few moderators: innocuous edits, sometimes adding one new line to clarify an already-made statement, get reverted within five minutes and I receive a terse note from the moderator scolding me for not bringing my potential edit up in the discussion page. When I look at the discussion page for the article, it hasn't been edited in months. So, what, I need to pose a question to a micro-community that doesn't exist and wait around for approval from some mod? To make a one-line addition to an article about the Battle off Samar or whatever? Or face a scolding from some supercilious asshole who has been given mod powers by some other asshole?
Yeah, I don't make edits anymore.
Everything else aside, I'm honestly shocked that she's been given a year and a half of what amounts to welfare due to a diagnosis of major depression.
I, too, suffer from depression, and find myself jealous that this woman is able to get her insurance company to give a shit at all.
I had similar problems with CFLs (and regular bulbs, FTM) dying at my old house (which was exactly that...an old house). When I moved two blocks to my equally old, but more recently renovated home, I've had no problems with CFLs. I suspect the wiring in the old house was to blame. Heat and humidity? Shadow of Eternity lives in Florida, I live in New Orleans. We've got plenty of both.
I think $75,000 dollars per episode is a completely ridiculous amount of money for a 20-odd minute cartoon. I don't know the details about how it's all done, and I'd love to know if a/.er has the inside story of voice talent, but it seems to be there's *maybe* 5 minutes of actual voice recorded per character per episode. They don't really need to memorize the script. They probably need to be coached on how to deliver the lines, but really, how much prep time do they need? So let's say they're in the studio for three hours and get free drinks and sandwiches. They need $75,000 for that?
Over 26 episodes that comes out to nearly $2 million dollars. For voice acting? On cable?
Fuck it. I like the show, so pay the goddamn assholes.
We build video security DVR machines and frequently we have customers request SSD drives. I've timed the OS/software installations for both the SSDs and HDDs, and the largest improvement I've seen is on the order of 2 minutes out of an hour and a half. I'm not impressed.
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Show me one commercial launch of relevant throw weight that costs less than a million dollars. So no dinky little sounding rocket with a cubesat at the tip. I mean heavy lifters, twenty tons to LEO/ten tons to GTO. The cheapest of the bunch is probably the Proton, but that's still near $100M.
That SpaceX heavy lifter they keep talking about would actually be more expensive than the Proton, if their website is to be believed.
From the summary (not even the article!): "The object known as SDSS1416+13B is in a wide orbit around a somewhat brighter and warmer brown dwarf, SDSS1416+13A"
Obviously you're literate in the most basic sense. So why not put that ability to use, genius?
That's a big twinkie.
I'm sure they mean the speed of sound at his particular altitude. Joe Kittenger reached 614 mph during his freefall in the 1960, which is roughly Mach 0.8 at sea level. At around 35,000 feet the speed of sound drops to around 650 mph. At higher altitudes, the speed of sound actually increases for awhile.
If my calculations are correct, it's 623 ergs/quartic coloumb-acre.
Yeah, I would feel a *lot* safer knowing my email account is hosted in Russia.
Sailors, I guess.
That's ridiculously inaccurate. There are dozens of national nuclear programs that have reactors for power generation and research which don't build bombs.
VLC would be great -- if they integrated support for MCE IR receivers. It can't be that hard to do. WTF?
I thought jet engines produced something more like a continuous deflagration rather than periodic explosions.
Avaition Week? Why, that's my faovrite peroidical!
You'd think that people would be able to find something else to write about these days.
Okay, okay, you're both linguists. But are you cunning?
I have many interests and often find myself spending half an hour or more on Wikipedia every day...usually looking at articles that have nothing to do with what I initially searched for (I think everyone has been sucked into that pattern). I don't make edits anymore. One of the few topics on which I feel that I have enough knowledge to contribute is naval history, and have made lots of significant edits (and created new articles) in the past...but I started having edits reverted in what seemed to be a knee-jerk reaction from a few moderators: innocuous edits, sometimes adding one new line to clarify an already-made statement, get reverted within five minutes and I receive a terse note from the moderator scolding me for not bringing my potential edit up in the discussion page. When I look at the discussion page for the article, it hasn't been edited in months. So, what, I need to pose a question to a micro-community that doesn't exist and wait around for approval from some mod? To make a one-line addition to an article about the Battle off Samar or whatever? Or face a scolding from some supercilious asshole who has been given mod powers by some other asshole? Yeah, I don't make edits anymore.
Everything else aside, I'm honestly shocked that she's been given a year and a half of what amounts to welfare due to a diagnosis of major depression. I, too, suffer from depression, and find myself jealous that this woman is able to get her insurance company to give a shit at all.
Coolest thing I've heard today.
People still use Second Life? Wow. Perhaps they should consider getting a First Life.
Reduce the recording interval, or use any decent compression algorithm to compress the text that the gps log file consists of.
Dude, you failed miserably. Did you forget the units you were using? Or were you just being cute? 2040 FEET / 30 SECONDS = 68 ft/s = 43 miles / hour.
how is babby formed?
how girl get pragnent?
I had similar problems with CFLs (and regular bulbs, FTM) dying at my old house (which was exactly that...an old house). When I moved two blocks to my equally old, but more recently renovated home, I've had no problems with CFLs. I suspect the wiring in the old house was to blame. Heat and humidity? Shadow of Eternity lives in Florida, I live in New Orleans. We've got plenty of both.
People still play Second Life? Maybe they should get, ya know, a First Life.
Over 26 episodes that comes out to nearly $2 million dollars. For voice acting? On cable?
Fuck it. I like the show, so pay the goddamn assholes.
I smiled. A little.
We build video security DVR machines and frequently we have customers request SSD drives. I've timed the OS/software installations for both the SSDs and HDDs, and the largest improvement I've seen is on the order of 2 minutes out of an hour and a half. I'm not impressed.