1. Building public hype to go *back* to the moon is much harder than building hype to be the first to ever go.
2. No cold war. We are not currently afraid of another countries technological abilities, so we have no need to showboat ours. This was a big issue with both Congress and the public in the 60's.
3. The general public isn't interested in patriotism unless it has to do with winning a war or putting a yellow ribbon magnet on their cars next to the Dale Earnhardt memorial. And even then, most people nowadays seem to hate the current war.
4. The benefits of space development are not 100% crystal clear to the general public.
5. The first time we went to the moon that was 100% (or very close to) NASA's only objective. This means they had a larger percentage of their funding to throw in that direction. Now they have many other projects that need funding as well. In other to continue to operate these other operations it's a bit of a trade off in the time it will take to develop the new equipment for another moon shot.
Holy carp, I hope not. Verizon's data service to their cell phones at the moment is so far behind the times it's painful. Locked down phones with horrible proprietary browsers may be able to be resolved by Google's phone, but the absurd price scheme they use for data packages and constant disconnects from the wireless data network can't be fixed with just a new phone. Even when I am in a large city I cant get my Verizon based phone to stay connected with their crappy AIM client for more than 15 or 20 minutes.
I also get the "nothing for you to see here" error when logged in, normally around once or twice week. It's *always* on brand new stories (less than 10 comments).
(I'm not paying for stuff from a band i've never heared of)
Have you seriously never even *heard* of Radiohead? Thats a pretty impressive track record of ignoring popular culture. I mean, I may not know anything about DMX, but I sure as hell have heard of his name. I commend your ability to lead such a deeply sheltered lifestyle, for you must be the legendary fabled King Dork.
Yea, but really...Mario64 was refreshing and new, which made it a lot of fun. On the other hand Mario Sunshine sucked. I played through like 90% of it hoping it would get better as I went along, but really it was just repetitive and annoying-hard....not fun-hard. I just hope Mario Galaxy doesn't have the same curse.
....but is it just me, or does this sound like Mario64 and Mario Sunshine's basic theme of collecting stars after tasks, only on planets instead of "rooms" or "areas"? I was hoping for more innovation from Nintendo's main franchise and hope I'm proven wrong. Ah well, I'll download it and try it either way.
But it takes 4 minutes to evacuate these people. Does any disaster involving space travel and rockets have a 4 minute window for people to escape? Normally if a life threatening disaster occurs, it's so fast the people involved don't even know what hit them.
That said, it still looks like it'll be fun to train on.
I didn't mean first to give away music, I meant the donation based system.
If it was first to give away albums, I would have stated myself (haha!) as my bands have had exclusively free albums since everyone was still dialing up and mp3 was a fresh new buzzword. So obviously, Radiohead is ripping me off. Right?
Not that it's not admirable of Radiohead to do something like this, but they aren't the first musicians to work on an electronic donation based system. Here's another "record label" that is entirely donation based: http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/
A little more background info-- our German guys at Huntsville arsenal could have launched a satellite before the Russians. But our govt decided it would not be cool for the first thing in orbit to be pushed there by a rocket designed to launch a nuclear warhead. So our satellite program was required to start from scratch, with a completely peaceful launch vehicle.
Thats correct depending on your source. The US was apprehensive about publicly breaking international no-fly zones and setting a precedent that allows spacecraft to inhabit these regions as *altitude* of no-fly zones was never defined previously. Once the Soviets flew over our no-fly zones the precedent was established for the rest of the world.
Getting from LEO to the Moon is easy compared to getting from the ground to LEO, so I would expect more than a few years for that.
I dunno about that, man. Building a multistage (or multi-launch) rocket system with enough power for TLI is pretty freaking difficult, especially if you expect to make it "safe" enough for regular space tourism...not to mention the coming back to earth issue being much harder due to the higher velocities.
Not to troll, but do you have linkable "proof" that the soviets were actually viewing our Apollo landing sites at (or around) the time of the missions? Seriously, I've never seen a reliable source indicate they had monitored our activities on the moon from lunar orbit as opposed to just tracking radio signals sent back to earth.
Sonic the Hedgehog? Oh, so he was one of those weird "Sega" kids (if you don't know who I'm talking about, you probably are one). If his parents had bought him a SNES he'd probably have been normal. So obviously, his parents are to blame.
NASA is, of course, a huge financial black hole (sorry) in itself,
A large portion of that money is dumped right back into the US economy via NASA paying private sector contractors to do development and production of their many needs. All of the money doesn't just vanish.
Here's my belated Sopranos prediction: Within a few short months, certainly in time for Christmas, the alternate endings will appear on DVD. This will be heavily advertised. The base price DVDs will be a piece of crap. Ysou'll have to buy the collector's edition to get the alternate endings plus other "exclusive" content. The DVD will use a "better" encryption than ever before, followed by the inevitable posting of the decryption key or keys by some geek on digg.
And I will get a copy of it from tvtorrents. It's gonna be sweet.
I'd rather see a software upgrade to support SMB. Then my Wii could access files on my server. While we're at it, they could add a DivX channel for video playback. Oh yeah, and a Java VM... and a pony.
Dude, in this conversation you can't use the acronym "SMB" and have it mean what you intended.
I've been to the campus a few times and a good friend of mine lives and works there. Even if it was locked down....it's hard to find a student in amongst a huge crowd of their peers. And in that area, there are A LOT of places to hide. There is no simple solution.
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1. Building public hype to go *back* to the moon is much harder than building hype to be the first to ever go.
2. No cold war. We are not currently afraid of another countries technological abilities, so we have no need to showboat ours. This was a big issue with both Congress and the public in the 60's.
3. The general public isn't interested in patriotism unless it has to do with winning a war or putting a yellow ribbon magnet on their cars next to the Dale Earnhardt memorial. And even then, most people nowadays seem to hate the current war.
4. The benefits of space development are not 100% crystal clear to the general public.
5. The first time we went to the moon that was 100% (or very close to) NASA's only objective. This means they had a larger percentage of their funding to throw in that direction. Now they have many other projects that need funding as well. In other to continue to operate these other operations it's a bit of a trade off in the time it will take to develop the new equipment for another moon shot.
And the US was only 5 years behind the Soviets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_3
I have an LG VX9800.
Holy carp, I hope not. Verizon's data service to their cell phones at the moment is so far behind the times it's painful. Locked down phones with horrible proprietary browsers may be able to be resolved by Google's phone, but the absurd price scheme they use for data packages and constant disconnects from the wireless data network can't be fixed with just a new phone. Even when I am in a large city I cant get my Verizon based phone to stay connected with their crappy AIM client for more than 15 or 20 minutes.
I also get the "nothing for you to see here" error when logged in, normally around once or twice week. It's *always* on brand new stories (less than 10 comments).
(I'm not paying for stuff from a band i've never heared of)
Have you seriously never even *heard* of Radiohead? Thats a pretty impressive track record of ignoring popular culture. I mean, I may not know anything about DMX, but I sure as hell have heard of his name. I commend your ability to lead such a deeply sheltered lifestyle, for you must be the legendary fabled King Dork.
And this was on a submarine. No women. Limited cases of sexual harassment.
No women? Limited sexual harassment? As opposed to none? I suppose all the jokes about you Navy guys are true to some extent...
Yea, but really...Mario64 was refreshing and new, which made it a lot of fun. On the other hand Mario Sunshine sucked. I played through like 90% of it hoping it would get better as I went along, but really it was just repetitive and annoying-hard....not fun-hard. I just hope Mario Galaxy doesn't have the same curse.
....but is it just me, or does this sound like Mario64 and Mario Sunshine's basic theme of collecting stars after tasks, only on planets instead of "rooms" or "areas"? I was hoping for more innovation from Nintendo's main franchise and hope I'm proven wrong. Ah well, I'll download it and try it either way.
But it takes 4 minutes to evacuate these people. Does any disaster involving space travel and rockets have a 4 minute window for people to escape? Normally if a life threatening disaster occurs, it's so fast the people involved don't even know what hit them.
That said, it still looks like it'll be fun to train on.
Tell the floor sales guys at Best Buy about this. Every single one of them will try to cash in with a "sales pitch".
I didn't mean first to give away music, I meant the donation based system.
If it was first to give away albums, I would have stated myself (haha!) as my bands have had exclusively free albums since everyone was still dialing up and mp3 was a fresh new buzzword. So obviously, Radiohead is ripping me off. Right?
Not that it's not admirable of Radiohead to do something like this, but they aren't the first musicians to work on an electronic donation based system. Here's another "record label" that is entirely donation based: http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/
A little more background info-- our German guys at Huntsville arsenal could have launched a satellite before the Russians. But our govt decided it would not be cool for the first thing in orbit to be pushed there by a rocket designed to launch a nuclear warhead. So our satellite program was required to start from scratch, with a completely peaceful launch vehicle.
Thats correct depending on your source. The US was apprehensive about publicly breaking international no-fly zones and setting a precedent that allows spacecraft to inhabit these regions as *altitude* of no-fly zones was never defined previously. Once the Soviets flew over our no-fly zones the precedent was established for the rest of the world.
Getting from LEO to the Moon is easy compared to getting from the ground to LEO, so I would expect more than a few years for that.
I dunno about that, man. Building a multistage (or multi-launch) rocket system with enough power for TLI is pretty freaking difficult, especially if you expect to make it "safe" enough for regular space tourism...not to mention the coming back to earth issue being much harder due to the higher velocities.
Not to troll, but do you have linkable "proof" that the soviets were actually viewing our Apollo landing sites at (or around) the time of the missions? Seriously, I've never seen a reliable source indicate they had monitored our activities on the moon from lunar orbit as opposed to just tracking radio signals sent back to earth.
Sonic the Hedgehog? Oh, so he was one of those weird "Sega" kids (if you don't know who I'm talking about, you probably are one). If his parents had bought him a SNES he'd probably have been normal. So obviously, his parents are to blame.
NASA is, of course, a huge financial black hole (sorry) in itself,
A large portion of that money is dumped right back into the US economy via NASA paying private sector contractors to do development and production of their many needs. All of the money doesn't just vanish.
GEORGE: Oh, no no no. Course not. I got a great name for our kids. A
...especially a girl. Or a boy.
Real original. You wanna hear what it is? Huh, you ready?
SUSAN: Yeah.
George uses his finger to draw a number 7 in the air, accompanying the
Strokes of his digit with a two-tone whistle.
SUSAN: What is that? Sign language?
GEORGE: No, Seven.
SUSAN: Seven Costanza? You're serious?
GEORGE: Yeah. It's a beautiful name for a boy or a girl...
Susan scoffs.
GEORGE:
SUSAN: I don't think so.
GEORGE: What, you don't like the name?
SUSAN: It's not a name. It's a number.
Here's my belated Sopranos prediction: Within a few short months, certainly in time for Christmas, the alternate endings will appear on DVD. This will be heavily advertised. The base price DVDs will be a piece of crap. Ysou'll have to buy the collector's edition to get the alternate endings plus other "exclusive" content. The DVD will use a "better" encryption than ever before, followed by the inevitable posting of the decryption key or keys by some geek on digg.
And I will get a copy of it from tvtorrents. It's gonna be sweet.
I'd rather see a software upgrade to support SMB. Then my Wii could access files on my server. While we're at it, they could add a DivX channel for video playback. Oh yeah, and a Java VM ... and a pony.
Dude, in this conversation you can't use the acronym "SMB" and have it mean what you intended.
Once every car contains only one hermetically sealed individual we should be 100% safe.
Even at that, you'd have to limit the access driver has to his or her genitals.
....I used to have a truck that rode pretty high, I've seen things.
I've been to the campus a few times and a good friend of mine lives and works there. Even if it was locked down....it's hard to find a student in amongst a huge crowd of their peers. And in that area, there are A LOT of places to hide. There is no simple solution.
Yea dude. Robots rule.
"/var" didn't exist until long after "/etc" was created; so, you can't look to /var's use to provide a clue to /etc's origins.
/etc is exactly three months older than /var. Amazing!!
server / # ls -lah
total 72K
drwxr-xr-x 47 root root 4.0K Feb 11 10:23 etc
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4.0K May 11 2005 var
Wow, you're right.