The lander does not have any capability to steer itself once released. The orbiter will reduce it's orbit down to 10km and the lander will be pushed away from the orbiter at walking speed, if there is a boulder underneath, there is no way to maneuver away to another landing location. This is why there is a lot of luck involved.Gravity is very low, if there were an astronaut on the surface they could jump off and achieve escape velocity. The lander does not have any way to slow down when it nears the surface and when it makes contact it will harpoon the surface and use screws to secure it down securely.
Never going to happen. The energy density of kerosene is at least fifty times that of lithium cells. Even with ten fold advances in battery tech it's simply not going to be feasible.
So even in a post oil world, we'd have to synthesize longer hydrocarbons to fly, I'd think.
I thought the Transparent Aluminum battery was capable of powering a jetliner ?
If you generate your own power and use it yourself then that is not a problem. but if you generate your own power and hook it up to a Grid Tied inverter, then you would be backfeeding into the grid, that is where the problem is.
Battery life does not directly relate to usage since the battery is used even when the device on idle or isn't being used. Plus, I wonder how much the battery is used by the battery monitoring application.
My guess is cost. Sending data via satellite is very expensive, and there's a lot of data recorded. As for ground stations, I'm not aware of any plane-to-ground data communications currently in use (other than radio for voice) so that would need a completely new infrastructure built.
The last jet that didappeared had the engines sending data to the satellites continously
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The lander does not have any capability to steer itself once released. The orbiter will reduce it's orbit down to 10km and the lander will be pushed away from the orbiter at walking speed, if there is a boulder underneath, there is no way to maneuver away to another landing location. This is why there is a lot of luck involved.Gravity is very low, if there were an astronaut on the surface they could jump off and achieve escape velocity. The lander does not have any way to slow down when it nears the surface and when it makes contact it will harpoon the surface and use screws to secure it down securely.
My God . . . it's full of stars
Regular glass doesn't contain any ions, in the same way that regular vegetables don't contain any genes.
I think that you misspelled that, it should have said "regular vegetables don't contain any jeans"
Never going to happen. The energy density of kerosene is at least fifty times that of lithium cells. Even with ten fold advances in battery tech it's simply not going to be feasible.
So even in a post oil world, we'd have to synthesize longer hydrocarbons to fly, I'd think.
I thought the Transparent Aluminum battery was capable of powering a jetliner ?
Are these drives pressurized with helium or at normal atmospheric pressure ?
I guess this needs to be reported, but, is it news anymore?
Yeah, I was thinking that they were planning to spread the disease intentionally
What are we going to see that we couldn't before?
Light traveling through a glass bottle
Roll Tide
If you generate your own power and use it yourself then that is not a problem.
but
if you generate your own power and hook it up to a Grid Tied inverter, then you would be backfeeding into the grid, that is where the problem is.
Battery life does not directly relate to usage since the battery is used even when the device on idle or isn't being used. Plus, I wonder how much the battery is used by the battery monitoring application.
Anyone else with a different pattern from the three above (including mine)?
I work on Weekends and Holidays . . .
I have never received a disk from Netflix on Monday anyway . . .
So , I guess that NASA isn't training astronauts anymore ?
Consider if your car had a black box, which it should.
Black Boxes for cars are coming . . .
http://news.slashdot.org/story...
My guess is cost. Sending data via satellite is very expensive, and there's a lot of data recorded. As for ground stations, I'm not aware of any plane-to-ground data communications currently in use (other than radio for voice) so that would need a completely new infrastructure built.
The last jet that didappeared had the engines sending data to the satellites continously
Sand in my batteries . . . Next they will try and convince me that Sand will improve the performance of my computers brain ?
The Tubes are made of people.
So then . . . the tubes are blood veins . . .
Are the tubes made of Glass or Copper ?
But how many people did they investigate ?
10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000ooooo..........
I thought the simplest explanation was that it was captured by Earths Gravity
With Deep Space Sprinkles on top
I'm going to build my Moon Internet Communications System with 11 lasers
and I'm going to hire sharks to aim them
I like my invasive species with garlic mustard widespread in Eastern U.S. forests
I use 10w40 tires, they adjust to the temperature