Heh, the UI is one thing, but there's also the bit where they went: Ok, so let's take a bunch of features that by any right should be an external plugin a few people would use and integrate them into the browser. Then let's take a bunch of basic features out so people have to replicate them in plugin form. Oh, and then obviously, let's deprecate our plugin API and replace it with Chrome's, so that after the UI changes the only thing differentiating us from Chrome will be how much our browser crashes and leaks memory.
I'm sure they have a lot of former NASA employees on their payroll, not sure what that has to do with anything.
They're scheduled to make roughly one launch a month, so if all goes to plan they should soon have plenty of rockets to run tests with, they just want to keep the first one as a souvenir.
I was wondering about something related to this. Would the escaping particles be equal measures of matter and anti-matter? And if so, if the black hole was originally made up predominantly of matter, would the radiation process change the ratio of matter and antimatter in the universe (or at least locally)? Or is there some force or field that would only let same-charge particles to escape, allowing you to determine what it was originally made of?
As far as I know, there's still not official word from the FAA approving land-landing, only from the Airforce.
Also, depending on the mass of the payload, and with the Full Thrust upgrade, they should have enough propellant margin to attempt landing every rocket they send up from now on, but not necessarily enough to redirect all of them back to the launch site.
And when the Falcon Heavy finally takes flight, while the side boosters should be able to return to the launch site, the central core will probably need to land on the barge far out at sea.
I hope you're aware we're discussing a sport where a bunch of people take turns sliding a piece of polished granite with a handle towards a circle on an ice-covered floor and some of the people are allowed to sweep the path in front of the stone with a mop to alter its path. Aren't sports by definition a bunch of silly arbitrary rules that some guys back in the annals of history thought would make for a fun way to spend an afternoon and have evolved to huge lucrative opportunities to find people who happen to be predisposed to this particular combination of rules and use them to sell advertising spots on TV?
I like the idea of a space tug that can refuel and move satellites in orbit, but this role seems to be at odds with bringing cargo to the ISS which is the goal of the CRS(2) contracts.
From what I understand the plan goes like this: On the first flight Jupiter (the tug) and Exoliner (the cargo vessel) go up together, once they are in orbit Jupiter adjusts the orbit to reach the ISS, after the cargo is offloaded and garbage is loaded Jupiter puts Exoliner on a path to burn up in the atmosphere while it itself stays in orbit to pick up the next Exoliner that's launched alone, as well as other tug duties.
So the problem as I see it is this: For a tug you'd probably want a much more efficient ion drive to avoid refueling often, fuel boiling off and the like, you probably want the robotic arm that grabs on to wayward satellites.
For supply deliveries you probably want liquid engines because some of the supplies and experiments are perishable and can't afford to wait the weeks or months it would take an ion engine to boost them to ISS orbit. And the grabby arm is redundant mass because the ISS has its own arm that's quite proficient at berthing other vehicles like the Dragon or Cygnus.
So it looks like a compromise of design that's intended to get NASA to pay with the cargo delivery contract for unrelated functionality.
Israel has very low rates of gun violence too, but many people are packing.
As an Israeli I can tell you that no, not many people are 'packing'. Soldiers, police and security guards carry firearms but the civilian population generally doesn't (and the security guards don't carry their weapons when off duty), and from what I hear it's quite difficult to acquire a license.
From The Washington Post:
Israel limits gun ownership to security workers, people who transport valuables or explosives, residents of the West Bank, and hunters. People who don't fall into one of those categories cannot obtain a firearm permit. Moreover, Israel rejects 40 percent of firearm permit applicants, the highest rejection rate in the Western world. Both Switzerland and Israel require yearly (or more frequent) permit renewals to insure that the reasons are still applicable.
Also, while doing mandatory military service weapons training and safety is drilled into you, which I assume doesn't hurt compared to some 16 year old who borrows his dad's shotgun to shoot some womprats.
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They're planning on selling a $35K model in around 2-3 years, after their battery factory opens.
Meanwhile, there's no shortage of demand for the existing models.
So when are we going to see the show about zombies coming out of hiding now that they have an artificial source of nourishment, and their various sexy adventures?
So they're planning to build a rocket based on the same engines they're going to sell to ULA, which I'm sure comes as no surprise to anyone who's been following this stuff. I guess it just speaks to ULA's desperation, to design their new rocket based on engines supplied by their future competitor.
So what's the real reason then, I assume just general unease with the concept? Some sort of slippery slope argument?
Because "claiming that only a small percentage of cloned offspring survive to term, and many die shortly after birth." sounds like exactly the sort of thing that would make the whole thing impractical in the first place, making the ban redundant. And I don't suppose they will just lift the ban once research has solved these problems.
I'm hoping that in this ocean of excrement a few decent shows might sneak by and float to the top, and some do, but not enough for me to have one to watch every day of the week. Netflix and HBO certainly manage to do it consistently.
Maybe the execs should stop greenlighting the same trope-ridden bullshit stuck together with minimal effort writing they think is sufficient to hold a semi-coherent narrative.
If all you're producing is the entertainment equivalent of white noise, even the lowest common denominator you're targeting is not going to stick with it because it's interchangeable with the white noise everyone else is producing.
This is a program that has been in development for several years, and people won't be flying in it any earlier than 2017. There will be several unmanned missions before there are people on them. And Boeing also has a capsule and they hadn't had any rockets exploding recently.
SpaceX is running their investigation, NASA is making an announcement about astronauts being selected for training for future flight. So what's your point exactly?
I'm not raging against anything. I don't see why I should care if it was an 'American idea' even if I thought that was a meaningful distinction. I do like most of Elon's projects and I don't think he would have used a system like this because he's looking to build a rocket that could potentially land on Mars, but that's irrelevant.
I merely object to this design being presented as 'simplified' and having 'no need for extra rocket fuel'.
I personally find the SpaceX approach more elegant and I don't think that because we've had a hundred years of air flight experience that makes it any simpler or better of a solution.
So they bolt on a pair of wings, add some propellers that have to be deployed from a casing that protects them during launch, oh and another stage separation event, a mechanism for separating the fuel tank from the engine. And that's supposed to be simpler than some hydraulic landing legs and grid fins? And carrying all those additions to space doesn't cost them any extra fuel?
There's a popular snack in Israel called Bamba, which consists of puffed corn coated with peanut butter. Pretty much everyone eats it, and it's pretty common for parents to feed it to children as soon as they can handle solid food.
So I was wondering how that affects the allergy rate for Israelis. And apparently a study shows that when comparing Israelis to UK Jews of a similar background, the Israelis had a tenth of the peanut allergy rate compared to the UK group.
I didn't realize things are getting so bad in the US that merely knowing the location of a traffic cop puts their life in danger. I wouldn't even expect that to be the case in most third world countries. That sounds like some Mad Max shit. No wonder they're acquiring all that surplus military equipment.
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Hey, hey, where did 'ethical' come from?
We're discussing legality here.
Yeah, it's a bad sine for the local economy.
Heh, the UI is one thing, but there's also the bit where they went:
Ok, so let's take a bunch of features that by any right should be an external plugin a few people would use and integrate them into the browser.
Then let's take a bunch of basic features out so people have to replicate them in plugin form.
Oh, and then obviously, let's deprecate our plugin API and replace it with Chrome's, so that after the UI changes the only thing differentiating us from Chrome will be how much our browser crashes and leaks memory.
Don't forget the four-leaf clover on their mission patches.
Ah, that must explain why they tend to be so weird and misshapen.
I'm sure they have a lot of former NASA employees on their payroll, not sure what that has to do with anything.
They're scheduled to make roughly one launch a month, so if all goes to plan they should soon have plenty of rockets to run tests with, they just want to keep the first one as a souvenir.
I was wondering about something related to this.
Would the escaping particles be equal measures of matter and anti-matter?
And if so, if the black hole was originally made up predominantly of matter, would the radiation process change the ratio of matter and antimatter in the universe (or at least locally)?
Or is there some force or field that would only let same-charge particles to escape, allowing you to determine what it was originally made of?
As far as I know, there's still not official word from the FAA approving land-landing, only from the Airforce.
Also, depending on the mass of the payload, and with the Full Thrust upgrade, they should have enough propellant margin to attempt landing every rocket they send up from now on, but not necessarily enough to redirect all of them back to the launch site.
And when the Falcon Heavy finally takes flight, while the side boosters should be able to return to the launch site, the central core will probably need to land on the barge far out at sea.
I hope you're aware we're discussing a sport where a bunch of people take turns sliding a piece of polished granite with a handle towards a circle on an ice-covered floor and some of the people are allowed to sweep the path in front of the stone with a mop to alter its path.
Aren't sports by definition a bunch of silly arbitrary rules that some guys back in the annals of history thought would make for a fun way to spend an afternoon and have evolved to huge lucrative opportunities to find people who happen to be predisposed to this particular combination of rules and use them to sell advertising spots on TV?
I like the idea of a space tug that can refuel and move satellites in orbit, but this role seems to be at odds with bringing cargo to the ISS which is the goal of the CRS(2) contracts.
From what I understand the plan goes like this: On the first flight Jupiter (the tug) and Exoliner (the cargo vessel) go up together, once they are in orbit Jupiter adjusts the orbit to reach the ISS, after the cargo is offloaded and garbage is loaded Jupiter puts Exoliner on a path to burn up in the atmosphere while it itself stays in orbit to pick up the next Exoliner that's launched alone, as well as other tug duties.
So the problem as I see it is this:
For a tug you'd probably want a much more efficient ion drive to avoid refueling often, fuel boiling off and the like, you probably want the robotic arm that grabs on to wayward satellites.
For supply deliveries you probably want liquid engines because some of the supplies and experiments are perishable and can't afford to wait the weeks or months it would take an ion engine to boost them to ISS orbit.
And the grabby arm is redundant mass because the ISS has its own arm that's quite proficient at berthing other vehicles like the Dragon or Cygnus.
So it looks like a compromise of design that's intended to get NASA to pay with the cargo delivery contract for unrelated functionality.
Israel has very low rates of gun violence too, but many people are packing.
As an Israeli I can tell you that no, not many people are 'packing'.
Soldiers, police and security guards carry firearms but the civilian population generally doesn't (and the security guards don't carry their weapons when off duty), and from what I hear it's quite difficult to acquire a license.
From The Washington Post:
Israel limits gun ownership to security workers, people who transport valuables or explosives, residents of the West Bank, and hunters. People who don't fall into one of those categories cannot obtain a firearm permit. Moreover, Israel rejects 40 percent of firearm permit applicants, the highest rejection rate in the Western world. Both Switzerland and Israel require yearly (or more frequent) permit renewals to insure that the reasons are still applicable.
Also, while doing mandatory military service weapons training and safety is drilled into you, which I assume doesn't hurt compared to some 16 year old who borrows his dad's shotgun to shoot some womprats.
They're planning on selling a $35K model in around 2-3 years, after their battery factory opens.
Meanwhile, there's no shortage of demand for the existing models.
So when are we going to see the show about zombies coming out of hiding now that they have an artificial source of nourishment, and their various sexy adventures?
Funny, I was under the impression it's the collection of thoughts, memories and emotions that makes us a person.
So they're planning to build a rocket based on the same engines they're going to sell to ULA, which I'm sure comes as no surprise to anyone who's been following this stuff.
I guess it just speaks to ULA's desperation, to design their new rocket based on engines supplied by their future competitor.
So what's the real reason then, I assume just general unease with the concept? Some sort of slippery slope argument?
Because "claiming that only a small percentage of cloned offspring survive to term, and many die shortly after birth." sounds like exactly the sort of thing that would make the whole thing impractical in the first place, making the ban redundant.
And I don't suppose they will just lift the ban once research has solved these problems.
I'm hoping that in this ocean of excrement a few decent shows might sneak by and float to the top, and some do, but not enough for me to have one to watch every day of the week.
Netflix and HBO certainly manage to do it consistently.
Maybe the execs should stop greenlighting the same trope-ridden bullshit stuck together with minimal effort writing they think is sufficient to hold a semi-coherent narrative.
If all you're producing is the entertainment equivalent of white noise, even the lowest common denominator you're targeting is not going to stick with it because it's interchangeable with the white noise everyone else is producing.
This is a program that has been in development for several years, and people won't be flying in it any earlier than 2017.
There will be several unmanned missions before there are people on them.
And Boeing also has a capsule and they hadn't had any rockets exploding recently.
SpaceX is running their investigation, NASA is making an announcement about astronauts being selected for training for future flight.
So what's your point exactly?
I'm not raging against anything.
I don't see why I should care if it was an 'American idea' even if I thought that was a meaningful distinction.
I do like most of Elon's projects and I don't think he would have used a system like this because he's looking to build a rocket that could potentially land on Mars, but that's irrelevant.
I merely object to this design being presented as 'simplified' and having 'no need for extra rocket fuel'.
I personally find the SpaceX approach more elegant and I don't think that because we've had a hundred years of air flight experience that makes it any simpler or better of a solution.
So they bolt on a pair of wings, add some propellers that have to be deployed from a casing that protects them during launch, oh and another stage separation event, a mechanism for separating the fuel tank from the engine.
And that's supposed to be simpler than some hydraulic landing legs and grid fins?
And carrying all those additions to space doesn't cost them any extra fuel?
I think it's safe to assume any word used to describe something at that scale is at best an analogy to what it means at the human scale.
And Wernher von Braun started his career as a Nazi responsible for the deaths of countless Brits and still became and American hero.
I don't know if PayPal exercised the same questionable practices back in 2002, but I guess I don't really care much either way.
There's a popular snack in Israel called Bamba, which consists of puffed corn coated with peanut butter.
Pretty much everyone eats it, and it's pretty common for parents to feed it to children as soon as they can handle solid food.
So I was wondering how that affects the allergy rate for Israelis.
And apparently a study shows that when comparing Israelis to UK Jews of a similar background, the Israelis had a tenth of the peanut allergy rate compared to the UK group.
'Al' means 'The' in Arabic.
I didn't realize things are getting so bad in the US that merely knowing the location of a traffic cop puts their life in danger.
I wouldn't even expect that to be the case in most third world countries.
That sounds like some Mad Max shit.
No wonder they're acquiring all that surplus military equipment.