NASA now has money for and is paying to produce Plutonium-238 for deep space power generation. (Note that the Curiosity MSL rover also uses this for power.)
Well, you have the first Orbital Sciences Antares launch to resupply the ISS, currently scheduled for September 17. That is a bigger rocket I believe and also should be quite a show.
Orbital's Antares team is targeting a launch time of 11:16 a.m., which is at the opening of an available 15-minute launch window.
WSJ is simply reporting what the gov't reported, it isn't like WSJ intercepted this with its crack reporters. It is the US gov't that I don't trust.
That is precisely what I see no reason to believe. WSJ is Murdoch, and the Murdoch press is totally unreliable, not to mention (to put it mildly) an unlikely target for an Obama administration leak, not that they would leak this anyway. This smells like another fake scandal, of the sort that the Murdoch press are continually promoting, and frankly, not worth serious consideration.
$14.5 million is basically the cost of bringing a case such as this to trial, so this is a moral victory only, the equivalent of being awarded $ 1 in small claims court.
having 'flunked' a lie detector test many years ago for a stupid shit job at radio shack, where i was 100% truthful, i know from my personal experience they are shit... on top of that, a couple of guys who I KNOW were lying, scamming, stealing, doping, snorting, salesdroid types, PASSED their lie detector tests from the same operator, in the same timeframe, for the same shit radio shack job... they went on to become managers...
Given what I know about modern American corporate management, I think it was working just fine.
It says 'part of.' Maybe that data is just a decoy.
It wouldn't matter though. In the UK, police have authority to demand a password - refusal is a criminal offense under the RIP act. So even if the password were not on a convenient piece of paper, the police would simply ask for it - then start jailing Guardian staff until they get it.
I, for one, look forward to the day when the current Prime Minister orders the police to start jailing Guardian staff wholesale. The resulting shitstorm would be very entertaining. As the PM just lost a critical vote in the House of Commons, the inevitable vote of confidence should be entertaining as well.
Peaceful American protesters in the 1960s *normally* didn't have to worry about heavily-armed forces showing up expressly to force them to leave, spraying them (even if they were sitting still) in the face with pepper spray, instigating fights, or seizing the cameras/phones of anyone (including journalists) they saw recording the incidents.
You obviously were not around for any of those protests. (Of course, back then the standard was tear gas grenades, not pepper spray, but...)
" because Havana, under pressure from Washington, said it would not allow the plane to land."
Are you serious. Cube caving to pressure from the United States? That is laughable. Russia maybe, the US...right
This was one of the things that set my BS detector off. You can say many things about the Castro regimes, but being susceptible to US pressure is not one of them. We are not going to invade Cuba over this, and what other leverage do we have?
This seems like clumsy disinformation to me. If they had said, say, that Aeroflot refused to carry him because the Airline was worried about losing routes to the West, or something like that, it would have been more believable (at least to me).
Note also that the Chief Justice has very little actual authority except deciding very minor things that can also be overturned by the other justices... he is just the "first among equals" and his only real additional authority is to preside over the U.S. Senate in cases of impeachment of the President or Vice-President of the US.... and even that doesn't give him a vote since it requires a 2/3rd vote to accomplish anything in that situation other than for minor procedural and parliamentary rule issues.
No, that is not true in regards to the NSA. When it comes to FISA the SCOTUS Chief Justice is definitely not first among equals, but stands alone. From the FISC Wikipedia article :
The FISA court's judges are appointed solely by the Supreme Court Chief Justice without confirmation or oversight by the U.S. Congress.
(Or, any oversight from the other Justices either).
I have seen nothing to confirm this, independently of Kommersant, in any of the flood of stories based on the Kommersant article. It certainly might be true, but it smells like disinformation to me.
Note that if he stayed at the consulate, it would have been easy for him to get travel documents from the RF. He could have made it to Cuba and on to where-ever before anyone knew he was moving. The Russians, I hardly need point out, have experience moving people and things around in the face of hostile interest from the USA. Now, he might not have known to insist on this, but Sarah Harrison sure should have.
Behrooz Amoozad gets part of it - the rest is that space communications always tends to be asymmetric, because commands going up almost always require much less bandwidth than data going down. Automatic satellites, after all, may generate high-def video but they do not watch it.
A modest suggestion - whenever you feel like someone has made a basic math error in their own field, or doesn't know basic facts about the technology in their own field, and they are a high-level professional in that field, say, a mission manager talking to the press, and you are not, you should consider the possibility that you might be the one who is mistaken.
I have talked with the people doing the laser comm experiment on LADEE - it is just a technology demo, and is not needed for the LADEE mission primary science goals at all. (That is the difference between a science mission, such as LADEE, and a technology demonstration mission, such as Deep Space 1, where the science is secondary and can depend on the successful working of the new gizmo.)
If it works on LADEE, then someone can propose doing it on a real mission (i.e., one that would depend on it), just as the ion engines from Deep Space 1 are now powering DAWN.
One of the weaknesses of the NASA science / PI driven culture is that engineering tests like this can take a very long time to fly, as they do not directly provide science and have no scientific community demanding them. Laser communications was proposed for testing on the space station (as a down-link site) in the 1980's, has made it close to getting into space several times, but every previous attempt to fly it was eventually canceled to save money. Now, finally, it will be tested (or, in NASA speak, achieve a TRL of 8).
As it is, numerous deep space missions are data limited, such as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which could take more pictures, if it could get the data back. Laser comms is badly needed, let's hope the LADEE test goes well and it can finally get deployed.
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NASA now has money for and is paying to produce Plutonium-238 for deep space power generation. (Note that the Curiosity MSL rover also uses this for power.)
You do realize that Hampton Roads is 90 miles from Wallops ? I wouldn't expect to hear anything.
Well, you have the first Orbital Sciences Antares launch to resupply the ISS, currently scheduled for September 17. That is a bigger rocket I believe and also should be quite a show.
Both the Washington Post and the Original Poster apparently do not understand the difference between deep space and outer space.
From Wikipedia:
Any orbit is in outer space, so the WaPo missed that one by almost half a century.
WSJ is simply reporting what the gov't reported, it isn't like WSJ intercepted this with its crack reporters. It is the US gov't that I don't trust.
That is precisely what I see no reason to believe. WSJ is Murdoch, and the Murdoch press is totally unreliable, not to mention (to put it mildly) an unlikely target for an Obama administration leak, not that they would leak this anyway. This smells like another fake scandal, of the sort that the Murdoch press are continually promoting, and frankly, not worth serious consideration.
If the Government said this, I probably would accept it. A Murdoch paper, not so much.
Get me another, independent, source. Otherwise, I don't care.
Ah, reading the CNET article, I see that Microsoft was suing for damages (presumably, court costs), and got 50 cents on the dollar.
$14.5 million is basically the cost of bringing a case such as this to trial, so this is a moral victory only, the equivalent of being awarded $ 1 in small claims court.
I guess the CIA training offered to Al Qaeda, back when they were our guys, didn't cover drones.
They don't want people who can get clearances, they want people who have clearances, and that means Amazon needs to go to headhunters.
If they are really desperate, they should start running audio ads on WTOP.
(I live in the DC area, and that's how it is done.)
having 'flunked' a lie detector test many years ago for a stupid shit job at radio shack, where i was 100% truthful, i know from my personal experience they are shit...
on top of that, a couple of guys who I KNOW were lying, scamming, stealing, doping, snorting, salesdroid types, PASSED their lie detector tests from the same operator, in the same timeframe, for the same shit radio shack job...
they went on to become managers...
Given what I know about modern American corporate management, I think it was working just fine.
It says 'part of.' Maybe that data is just a decoy.
It wouldn't matter though. In the UK, police have authority to demand a password - refusal is a criminal offense under the RIP act. So even if the password were not on a convenient piece of paper, the police would simply ask for it - then start jailing Guardian staff until they get it.
I, for one, look forward to the day when the current Prime Minister orders the police to start jailing Guardian staff wholesale. The resulting shitstorm would be very entertaining. As the PM just lost a critical vote in the House of Commons, the inevitable vote of confidence should be entertaining as well.
Peaceful American protesters in the 1960s *normally* didn't have to worry about heavily-armed forces showing up expressly to force them to leave, spraying them (even if they were sitting still) in the face with pepper spray, instigating fights, or seizing the cameras/phones of anyone (including journalists) they saw recording the incidents.
You obviously were not around for any of those protests. (Of course, back then the standard was tear gas grenades, not pepper spray, but ...)
From the government bureaucrat perspective, that sounds like extortion, and the government will not negotiate with terrorists or extortionists.
It is hard to take anyone seriously who says something so obviously false as this.
Robotics is not destroying jobs, the over-concentration of wealth in the hands of hte uber-wealthy is destroying jobs.
Well, maybe. The Russians are not known for giving up defectors.
Now Wang Lijun, on the other hand, definitely was a pawn. There is a backstory there I would love to know.
This was one of the things that set my BS detector off. You can say many things about the Castro regimes, but being susceptible to US pressure is not one of them. We are not going to invade Cuba over this, and what other leverage do we have?
This seems like clumsy disinformation to me. If they had said, say, that Aeroflot refused to carry him because the Airline was worried about losing routes to the West, or something like that, it would have been more believable (at least to me).
No, that is not true in regards to the NSA. When it comes to FISA the SCOTUS Chief Justice is definitely not first among equals, but stands alone. From the FISC Wikipedia article :
The FISA court's judges are appointed solely by the Supreme Court Chief Justice without confirmation or oversight by the U.S. Congress.
(Or, any oversight from the other Justices either).
I am sure this is what Subm was referring to
I have seen nothing to confirm this, independently of Kommersant, in any of the flood of stories based on the Kommersant article. It certainly might be true, but it smells like disinformation to me.
Note that if he stayed at the consulate, it would have been easy for him to get travel documents from the RF. He could have made it to Cuba and on to where-ever before anyone knew he was moving. The Russians, I hardly need point out, have experience moving people and things around in the face of hostile interest from the USA. Now, he might not have known to insist on this, but Sarah Harrison sure should have.
I thought that they were weeding the weak-minded out of the House of Lords.
Behrooz Amoozad gets part of it - the rest is that space communications always tends to be asymmetric, because commands going up almost always require much less bandwidth than data going down. Automatic satellites, after all, may generate high-def video but they do not watch it.
A modest suggestion - whenever you feel like someone has made a basic math error in their own field, or doesn't know basic facts about the technology in their own field, and they are a high-level professional in that field, say, a mission manager talking to the press, and you are not, you should consider the possibility that you might be the one who is mistaken.
I have talked with the people doing the laser comm experiment on LADEE - it is just a technology demo, and is not needed for the LADEE mission primary science goals at all. (That is the difference between a science mission, such as LADEE, and a technology demonstration mission, such as Deep Space 1, where the science is secondary and can depend on the successful working of the new gizmo.)
If it works on LADEE, then someone can propose doing it on a real mission (i.e., one that would depend on it), just as the ion engines from Deep Space 1 are now powering DAWN.
One of the weaknesses of the NASA science / PI driven culture is that engineering tests like this can take a very long time to fly, as they do not directly provide science and have no scientific community demanding them. Laser communications was proposed for testing on the space station (as a down-link site) in the 1980's, has made it close to getting into space several times, but every previous attempt to fly it was eventually canceled to save money. Now, finally, it will be tested (or, in NASA speak, achieve a TRL of 8).
As it is, numerous deep space missions are data limited, such as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which could take more pictures, if it could get the data back. Laser comms is badly needed, let's hope the LADEE test goes well and it can finally get deployed.