That's unfortunate. The general population knows nearly nothing about space travel, and fears any kind of radioactive substance greatly. Even, if through some blind quirk of chance, Cassini did come crashing into the earth, it would burn up in the atmosphere and dispurse plutonium dust over several hundred thousand kilometers. It would be spread so that that sensitive instruments probably wouldn't able to rest it. After all, the population tolerates nuclear testing, right? That released much more (by an order of magnatude or two) more radiation into the atmosphere than Cassini would have. There is absolutely no reason NOT to use RTGs unless you are within the orbit of say.. Mars, in which case solar power *could* be sufficient. Damned reactionaries.
If I'm not mistaken, Pioneer was slower than Voyager was, and thus was overtaken. Pioneer's control systems and power output have decayed to such a point that it would be nowhere near useful now, anyway.
False, AFAIK. The DoD wanted to try something like this, but by the time they did, the cat was already out of the bag, so to speak, so they could not. At least not officially. The NSA might say something different..
Anyway... you could always build your own GPS receiver.
I, too, use Optimum Online... I've had outages since it was installed, but at least they don't have that evil firewall anymore. I certainly hope they don't impliment an upstream/downstream speed cap. Then again, I'd rather have a speed cap than an outright, and arbitrary, download limit. They should upgrade their connection to the backbone, not limit user's speed.
It's all a government conspiracy, I tell you. The NSA is probably involved in Echolon... thnk about the connection here! With high speeds, Echolon computers cannot scan and store inernet traffic fast enough... so they try to limit the speed of a download.
"When the government[or company, for that matter] no longer meets the needs of the people, the people have a right and a duty to rise up and replace it."
Even if the government does ban this, there is no way that they can enforce it. They would be better off not trying to control it at all. They would save money.
You claim Amirica is a Democracy? It appears, to me, anyway, to be more of an oligachary. It would deny crucial information to the population with the excuse of "The proletariat could never understand, it's too 'secret'". Bah.
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And what, specifically, about Judeo-Christian values make them inherently superior?
That's unfortunate. The general population knows nearly nothing about space travel, and fears any kind of radioactive substance greatly. Even, if through some blind quirk of chance, Cassini did come crashing into the earth, it would burn up in the atmosphere and dispurse plutonium dust over several hundred thousand kilometers. It would be spread so that that sensitive instruments probably wouldn't able to rest it. After all, the population tolerates nuclear testing, right? That released much more (by an order of magnatude or two) more radiation into the atmosphere than Cassini would have. There is absolutely no reason NOT to use RTGs unless you are within the orbit of say.. Mars, in which case solar power *could* be sufficient. Damned reactionaries.
Why *not* release the source code, then?
If I'm not mistaken, Pioneer was slower than Voyager was, and thus was overtaken. Pioneer's control systems and power output have decayed to such a point that it would be nowhere near useful now, anyway.
By this formula, a state of zero energy cannot exist! n/0 is undefined, not infinity.
Something needs to be done... public housing seems like an acceptable alternative to.. this.. I wonder why the prices are so high to begin with...
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False, AFAIK. The DoD wanted to try something like this, but by the time they did, the cat was already out of the bag, so to speak, so they could not. At least not officially. The NSA might say something different..
Anyway... you could always build your own GPS receiver.
I, too, use Optimum Online... I've had outages since it was installed, but at least they don't have that evil firewall anymore. I certainly hope they don't impliment an upstream/downstream speed cap. Then again, I'd rather have a speed cap than an outright, and arbitrary, download limit. They should upgrade their connection to the backbone, not limit user's speed.
It's all a government conspiracy, I tell you. The NSA is probably involved in Echolon... thnk about the connection here! With high speeds, Echolon computers cannot scan and store inernet traffic fast enough... so they try to limit the speed of a download.
"When the government[or company, for that matter] no longer meets the needs of the people, the people have a right and a duty to rise up and replace it."
Even if the government does ban this, there is no way that they can enforce it. They would be better off not trying to control it at all. They would save money.
/.. Please excuse any of the more obvious incongruities. Thank you.
You claim Amirica is a Democracy? It appears, to me, anyway, to be more of an oligachary. It would deny crucial information to the population with the excuse of "The proletariat could never understand, it's too 'secret'". Bah.
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