It would be very interesting to get the Russian data on this... they're the endurance bears when it comes to long stays in space.
That presumes the Russians have the data... In general, they weren't really diligent about biomedical protocols and record keeping.
And your expertise of the subject comes from where????
Of course the Russian flyboys would probably have been just as reticent as our own. Because no matter what your nationality, creed, or whatever, they're still flyers.
... which would be unprofessional and probably reckless behaviour on behalf of the astronauts. One can understand the emotional reasons, but the huge efforts made for their safety would be in vain if they are not honest about their capabilities.
It would be nice to be able to separate out the emotional component.
However the last time I checked, American Astronauts are not imported from the Planet Vulcan.
Reminds me (sadly) of the Arthur C. Clarke short story "Superiority" which describes a country at war that keeps developing ever more astonishing weapons in fewer and fewer quantities eventually leading to its defeat by its technically inferior enemy. (Probably was written before WWII where huge technological leaps clearly affected the war's outcome: A-bomb, radar, enigma).
Actually it was the Nazi's who were doing most of the innovations at the time, Germany was the country that had invented the tank, they invented long range missiles, and jet planes. However they were both heavily out-produced by the Allies, (in particular America which wasn't having it's factories bombed on a daily basis), and Hitler made the fatal mistake of fighting a two front war with one of them being a winter campaign in Russia.
You should also realise that the Enigma machine was a German invention. The major reason that the Allies were able to crack the code was that despite procedure an intact Enigma was recovered from a surrendering German submarine.
What won the war.was PRODUCTION.
Opportunity is still running. There's an article on the NASA site on the memorial picture it took for 9/11. (there's a piece of the WTC in it's construction.) At this point it's entering Endeavour Crater for a look at the oldest Martian surface it's come across. It just passed Spirit Point, named in honor of it's deceased sibling.
... which would be unprofessional and probably reckless behaviour on behalf of the astronauts. One can understand the emotional reasons, but the huge efforts made for their safety would be in vain if they are not honest about their capabilities.
That's all nice and logical from the armchair, but take it from their point of view. They're Air Force pilots, who've spent years, maybe decades to get tht shot. Knowing that Deke Slayton was grounded for the better part of a decade for a minor heart flutter, you're simply not going to take the chance if you think it's not stopping you from doing your job. That's part of "Right Stuff" mentality. The very kind of personality you recruit for the job tends to foster that kind of disposition.
It would be very interesting to get the Russian data on this... they're the endurance bears when it comes to long stays in space.
It's the nature of internet fandom in an era where talk is effortless, cheap, and without any form of consequence. It's the inherent need to feel superior by bashing someone else, or at least the choices they made.
Can you break your contract? Sure.... you'll pay the penalty for doing so of course.
You're still going to need phone/data service from someone, and by now, THEY ALL CAP.
Save that the technology to find you out is getting better by the day.
Part of the blame goes to the data hogs who insisted on abusing this feature when it wasn't blocked. You know who you are.
Do we really need these telcos anyway? Wouldn't it be possible to establish a network of cheap transceivers throughout neighborhoods and cities for at least the purpose of carrying voice and video communications? Then population centers could be connected by a few larger transceivers jointly managed by both communities. Heck, I'd bet we could implement higher fidelity audio data too.
Caps are arbitrary limitations for the purpose of stealing as much profit as possible from consumers; these communications companies who put on caps are basically saying: "Actually, we aren't any good at communications."
[Disclaimer: I don't really know what I'm talking about, which I'm sure someone will point out.]
To be succinct and precise, No it wouldn't. Telecommunications more than just stringing up a bunch of routers, it's a massive infrastructure undertaking, plain and simple.
The best 802.11n home routers right now are the Apple Airport Extreme and the Cisco E4200. The key feature to look for is dual-band: you want to keep 802.11a/b traffic on 2.4Ghz and 802.11n on 5.0Ghz. That will allow you to achieve 802.11n's upper bound of 450 Mbps without baggage from 802.11a/b. If you want the most effortless setup, get the Airport Extreme; the accessory Airport Express devices will also allow you to extend the wireless range of your network.
The advice above is pretty good, assuming you're not looking to reach devices that aren't N capable such as wireless printers, or other computers/devices on your network which aren't N capable. The Airport has the usual Apple advantage of being dog easy to setup and generally reliable, as well as having a decent set of features. You'e going to be a bit less than happy with it if you have a tinker urge that you have to scratch. My old Airport Extreme bit the dust recently after several good years of service, I replaced it with a Netgear D600 which was available at a good sale price and it's what I'm using right now. I'm not sure that OPERNWRT really offers any advantage other than scratching that tinker itch... A worthy goal in and of itself but in most cases not any real difference as far as what is delivered as end product.
Star Wars is not Science fiction, it's Arthurian Legend. Star Trek is about a possible future of our world/universe and the progress of secular Humanity, and the triumph of reason and science
Actually Star Trek looked backwards more than forward. Roddenberry piched it as "Wagon Train to the Stars" and based it's main character on Horatio Hornblower, an 18th century sailing captain. The worldviews expressed were firmly locked in '50's paternalism and the show was generally more of an Establishment reaction against the progressive movements than for it. Finally if you think that Star Trek was that grounded in science find a physicsist that won't break out in laughter everytime someone mentions a "Heisenberg Compensator". Pretty much, classic Star Trek was a reflection of the manifest destiny of a strictly American frame of reference than that of Humanity as a whole.
Star Wars never claimed to be science fiction. it was a simple park your brain outside the door and enjoy the classic space opera of boy rescues princess. (and if only one movie had been made, that's how we would have remained seeing it.)
Both Star Wars and Star Trek were uneven, the sequel movies suffered from the fact that Lucas can't write dialogue to save his life, but the Expanded Universe novels are generally very good works. Star Trek, particularly the original series, had a wide range of episodes that ranged form truly insightful to simplly awful. It benefited from having more development time, (several series of a few years length each) but to argue about which one was better is a complete waste of time. Besides being under the increasingly meaningless descriptor of science fiction, they're essentially two different things that aim at different areas. If you look at the expanded works however, you'll find them roughly equal in their own way.
Star Trek was science fiction. Star wars was science fantasy. If you don't know the difference you have to pay more attention.
Actually with all the wish fulfillment tech in Star Trek and things that simply just don't make sense, it's just as much science fantasy.... it just doesn't own up to it.
...Carrie Fisher's standup routine is a lot funnier, and more insightful than William Shatner's any day of the week. Mark Hamill has a far greater voice range and has a great track record as the voice of a couple classic animation villains, The Joker, and Fire-Lord Ozai of "Avatar the Last Airbender". Shatner seems to be redeeming himself as an actor in Boston Legal, but I can't keep a straight face in those rare times I'm exposed to an episode of "T.J. Hooker." So there.
On the other hand, Rutgers University like most schools of it's size runs it's own police force (as an adjunct of the NJ State Police, as I understand it, and at a certain size it's simply a necessity rather than burdening local police with managing a community of 50,000 people outside the local population.
Teachers are in a special position, they need to be examples and they have a special area of importance to their students. They shouldn't be forming cults of personality on places like Facebook or MySpace. They are obligated to keep relations with their students on a strictly professional level. It's not that much more different than the strictures against socializing with your students.
It was too little too late out the gate. Considering that Windows 7 tablets are having such a hard time being 3rd out the gate, the TouchPad was DOA being 4th.
WebOS is the AmigaOS of 2011. they should have gone with either Android or Windows 7 (despite being a distant third place, Microsoft won't give up that easy)
The total number of Android phones may be higher than iPhone sales but none of them alone are greater than Apple's figures. And iPhone's popularity isn't showing signs of cresting. It's just that the market is expanding and Android phones are available from more carriers and have cheaper options like the Optimus.
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Taco probably made a deliberate choice of framing his article that way in order to grab your attention.
If you're reading this, it worked.
Here's one thing you need to understand.. the moon has a relatively small area of gravitational dominance, so lunar orbits have to be low about 9-10 miles high maximum. They're low enough that pertubations by mascons result in tugs that perturb the orbits of anything over the moon. It's very much like atmospheric drag, within a few weeks an unmaintained orbiter impacts the surface.
There's also no point to an untended station. An ISS which is not continually habited gets uninhabitable very quickly and that can make it a risky proposition on re-inhabiting. If the cooling system goes off baking of the plastics can produce a very toxic gas. When the first Skylab crew boarded the station the first thing they did was check for such gas that might have been produced when the lost of the thermal blanket caused the station to dangerously overheat. The other problem is that an untended station start tumbling and you really don't want to approach an object that large when it's tumbling.
Look up mascons in wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_concentration_(astronomy)
and a quote from this one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_orbit
Gravitational anomalies slightly distorting the orbits of the Lunar Orbiters led to the discovery of mass concentrations (dubbed mascons), beneath the lunar surface caused by large impacting bodies at some remote time in the past. These anomalies are significant enough to cause a lunar orbit to change significantly over the course of several days.
The ISS has no real use now. it's critics rightly pointed out that it had no real mission when it was launched and never truly acquired one that merited all the effort that went into it's construction.
As to the final say. it comes down to this. With the United States no longer maintaining the space station or an active space program it falls to those countries running the station to either actively keep it up or bring it down in a controlled manner. It is simply not a structure that can be mothballed and left unattended.
It is not possible to assume a stable orbit around the moon. The orbit has to be pretty low or it gets yanked out by either the Earth or the Sun and because of mascons you get drag which eventually slows down any object placed there so you wind up with impact within a month or so unless actively maintained.
Right now there is no private company that has the neccessary tech or resources to maintain the space station in orbit. Maintennce would require both a constant manned presence, supervision, and manned orbital capability, needs that can't be met by any company in existence today.
The only choice once the ISS mission is complete is either a controlled deorbit or an uncontrolled one a la Skylab.
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That presumes the Russians have the data... In general, they weren't really diligent about biomedical protocols and record keeping.
And your expertise of the subject comes from where????
Of course the Russian flyboys would probably have been just as reticent as our own. Because no matter what your nationality, creed, or whatever, they're still flyers.
That presumes the Russians have the data... In general, they weren't really diligent about biomedical protocols and record keeping.
And your expertise of the subject comes from where????
... which would be unprofessional and probably reckless behaviour on behalf of the astronauts. One can understand the emotional reasons, but the huge efforts made for their safety would be in vain if they are not honest about their capabilities.
It would be nice to be able to separate out the emotional component. However the last time I checked, American Astronauts are not imported from the Planet Vulcan.
Reminds me (sadly) of the Arthur C. Clarke short story "Superiority" which describes a country at war that keeps developing ever more astonishing weapons in fewer and fewer quantities eventually leading to its defeat by its technically inferior enemy. (Probably was written before WWII where huge technological leaps clearly affected the war's outcome: A-bomb, radar, enigma).
Actually it was the Nazi's who were doing most of the innovations at the time, Germany was the country that had invented the tank, they invented long range missiles, and jet planes. However they were both heavily out-produced by the Allies, (in particular America which wasn't having it's factories bombed on a daily basis), and Hitler made the fatal mistake of fighting a two front war with one of them being a winter campaign in Russia. You should also realise that the Enigma machine was a German invention. The major reason that the Allies were able to crack the code was that despite procedure an intact Enigma was recovered from a surrendering German submarine. What won the war.was PRODUCTION.
Opportunity is still running. There's an article on the NASA site on the memorial picture it took for 9/11. (there's a piece of the WTC in it's construction.) At this point it's entering Endeavour Crater for a look at the oldest Martian surface it's come across. It just passed Spirit Point, named in honor of it's deceased sibling.
... which would be unprofessional and probably reckless behaviour on behalf of the astronauts. One can understand the emotional reasons, but the huge efforts made for their safety would be in vain if they are not honest about their capabilities.
That's all nice and logical from the armchair, but take it from their point of view. They're Air Force pilots, who've spent years, maybe decades to get tht shot. Knowing that Deke Slayton was grounded for the better part of a decade for a minor heart flutter, you're simply not going to take the chance if you think it's not stopping you from doing your job. That's part of "Right Stuff" mentality. The very kind of personality you recruit for the job tends to foster that kind of disposition. It would be very interesting to get the Russian data on this... they're the endurance bears when it comes to long stays in space.
It's the nature of internet fandom in an era where talk is effortless, cheap, and without any form of consequence. It's the inherent need to feel superior by bashing someone else, or at least the choices they made.
Can you break your contract? Sure.... you'll pay the penalty for doing so of course. You're still going to need phone/data service from someone, and by now, THEY ALL CAP.
Save that the technology to find you out is getting better by the day. Part of the blame goes to the data hogs who insisted on abusing this feature when it wasn't blocked. You know who you are.
Do we really need these telcos anyway? Wouldn't it be possible to establish a network of cheap transceivers throughout neighborhoods and cities for at least the purpose of carrying voice and video communications? Then population centers could be connected by a few larger transceivers jointly managed by both communities. Heck, I'd bet we could implement higher fidelity audio data too.
Caps are arbitrary limitations for the purpose of stealing as much profit as possible from consumers; these communications companies who put on caps are basically saying: "Actually, we aren't any good at communications."
[Disclaimer: I don't really know what I'm talking about, which I'm sure someone will point out.]
To be succinct and precise, No it wouldn't. Telecommunications more than just stringing up a bunch of routers, it's a massive infrastructure undertaking, plain and simple.
The best 802.11n home routers right now are the Apple Airport Extreme and the Cisco E4200. The key feature to look for is dual-band: you want to keep 802.11a/b traffic on 2.4Ghz and 802.11n on 5.0Ghz. That will allow you to achieve 802.11n's upper bound of 450 Mbps without baggage from 802.11a/b. If you want the most effortless setup, get the Airport Extreme; the accessory Airport Express devices will also allow you to extend the wireless range of your network.
The advice above is pretty good, assuming you're not looking to reach devices that aren't N capable such as wireless printers, or other computers/devices on your network which aren't N capable. The Airport has the usual Apple advantage of being dog easy to setup and generally reliable, as well as having a decent set of features. You'e going to be a bit less than happy with it if you have a tinker urge that you have to scratch. My old Airport Extreme bit the dust recently after several good years of service, I replaced it with a Netgear D600 which was available at a good sale price and it's what I'm using right now. I'm not sure that OPERNWRT really offers any advantage other than scratching that tinker itch... A worthy goal in and of itself but in most cases not any real difference as far as what is delivered as end product.
Star Wars is not Science fiction, it's Arthurian Legend. Star Trek is about a possible future of our world/universe and the progress of secular Humanity, and the triumph of reason and science
Actually Star Trek looked backwards more than forward. Roddenberry piched it as "Wagon Train to the Stars" and based it's main character on Horatio Hornblower, an 18th century sailing captain. The worldviews expressed were firmly locked in '50's paternalism and the show was generally more of an Establishment reaction against the progressive movements than for it. Finally if you think that Star Trek was that grounded in science find a physicsist that won't break out in laughter everytime someone mentions a "Heisenberg Compensator". Pretty much, classic Star Trek was a reflection of the manifest destiny of a strictly American frame of reference than that of Humanity as a whole. Star Wars never claimed to be science fiction. it was a simple park your brain outside the door and enjoy the classic space opera of boy rescues princess. (and if only one movie had been made, that's how we would have remained seeing it.) Both Star Wars and Star Trek were uneven, the sequel movies suffered from the fact that Lucas can't write dialogue to save his life, but the Expanded Universe novels are generally very good works. Star Trek, particularly the original series, had a wide range of episodes that ranged form truly insightful to simplly awful. It benefited from having more development time, (several series of a few years length each) but to argue about which one was better is a complete waste of time. Besides being under the increasingly meaningless descriptor of science fiction, they're essentially two different things that aim at different areas. If you look at the expanded works however, you'll find them roughly equal in their own way.
Star Trek was science fiction. Star wars was science fantasy. If you don't know the difference you have to pay more attention.
Actually with all the wish fulfillment tech in Star Trek and things that simply just don't make sense, it's just as much science fantasy.... it just doesn't own up to it.
...Carrie Fisher's standup routine is a lot funnier, and more insightful than William Shatner's any day of the week. Mark Hamill has a far greater voice range and has a great track record as the voice of a couple classic animation villains, The Joker, and Fire-Lord Ozai of "Avatar the Last Airbender". Shatner seems to be redeeming himself as an actor in Boston Legal, but I can't keep a straight face in those rare times I'm exposed to an episode of "T.J. Hooker." So there.
Rutgers University police are a branch of the NJ State Police.
On the other hand, Rutgers University like most schools of it's size runs it's own police force (as an adjunct of the NJ State Police, as I understand it, and at a certain size it's simply a necessity rather than burdening local police with managing a community of 50,000 people outside the local population.
Teachers are in a special position, they need to be examples and they have a special area of importance to their students. They shouldn't be forming cults of personality on places like Facebook or MySpace. They are obligated to keep relations with their students on a strictly professional level. It's not that much more different than the strictures against socializing with your students.
It was too little too late out the gate. Considering that Windows 7 tablets are having such a hard time being 3rd out the gate, the TouchPad was DOA being 4th. WebOS is the AmigaOS of 2011. they should have gone with either Android or Windows 7 (despite being a distant third place, Microsoft won't give up that easy)
The total number of Android phones may be higher than iPhone sales but none of them alone are greater than Apple's figures. And iPhone's popularity isn't showing signs of cresting. It's just that the market is expanding and Android phones are available from more carriers and have cheaper options like the Optimus.
Taco probably made a deliberate choice of framing his article that way in order to grab your attention. If you're reading this, it worked.
Here's one thing you need to understand.. the moon has a relatively small area of gravitational dominance, so lunar orbits have to be low about 9-10 miles high maximum. They're low enough that pertubations by mascons result in tugs that perturb the orbits of anything over the moon. It's very much like atmospheric drag, within a few weeks an unmaintained orbiter impacts the surface. There's also no point to an untended station. An ISS which is not continually habited gets uninhabitable very quickly and that can make it a risky proposition on re-inhabiting. If the cooling system goes off baking of the plastics can produce a very toxic gas. When the first Skylab crew boarded the station the first thing they did was check for such gas that might have been produced when the lost of the thermal blanket caused the station to dangerously overheat. The other problem is that an untended station start tumbling and you really don't want to approach an object that large when it's tumbling.
Look up mascons in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_concentration_(astronomy) and a quote from this one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_orbit Gravitational anomalies slightly distorting the orbits of the Lunar Orbiters led to the discovery of mass concentrations (dubbed mascons), beneath the lunar surface caused by large impacting bodies at some remote time in the past. These anomalies are significant enough to cause a lunar orbit to change significantly over the course of several days.
The ISS has no real use now. it's critics rightly pointed out that it had no real mission when it was launched and never truly acquired one that merited all the effort that went into it's construction. As to the final say. it comes down to this. With the United States no longer maintaining the space station or an active space program it falls to those countries running the station to either actively keep it up or bring it down in a controlled manner. It is simply not a structure that can be mothballed and left unattended.
It is not possible to assume a stable orbit around the moon. The orbit has to be pretty low or it gets yanked out by either the Earth or the Sun and because of mascons you get drag which eventually slows down any object placed there so you wind up with impact within a month or so unless actively maintained.
Right now there is no private company that has the neccessary tech or resources to maintain the space station in orbit. Maintennce would require both a constant manned presence, supervision, and manned orbital capability, needs that can't be met by any company in existence today. The only choice once the ISS mission is complete is either a controlled deorbit or an uncontrolled one a la Skylab.