The 747 is used to cart shuttles back and forth across the US. Mostly when they land in California, to get them back to Florida for prep and next launch. If you look over here you can see at least Columbia and Discovery mixed in. Perhaps others if you search more thoroughly.
This is a particularly nice shot of Columbia getting seated on the special 747 you speak of.
My humble suggestion is that funds that would have been spent on Orbiter programs and maintenance could be set up for the new Crew Exploration Vehicle and the like. More human space exploration, better. I for one am all for it.
An article in New Zealand places the three orbiters in the Orbiter Processing Facility as of August 9th.
Additionally, it would have been Discovery, not Atlantis, hanging out in the VAB, which it is not currently doing. I was under the mistaken impression for some reason that the 114 were going to launch aboard Atlantis next year.
1. The words "move" and "quickly" cannot be combined in a sentence that references a shuttle orbiter. I don't know of any real event involving the program that can happen with less than 48 hours of planning and preparation.
2. If you so much as look at a shuttle funny at this point, you have to x-ray the air frame for microscopic fractures. Do you think that if an orbiter gets knocked around in this storm, it will ever fly again?
If you put one on a flat bed and roll it at 15 mph over a speed bump, it is done for. Our best efforts at preservation would be to saw each in half and send them on freight trains straight to the Air and Space Museum with as much dignity as possible.
1. The Vehicle Assembly Building is built to withstand a category 5 hurricane. The accessory and newer buildings are only built against a category 3. However, nothing will save the VAB from a category 4 that tears the roof off a nearby cat3 hanger and mashes it into the side of the VAB.
2. KSC at current projections is in the worst spot possible. The eye passing overhead would be merciful if it happens - the eye passing south is worse. The N.W. corner of a hurricane is the strongest in the northern hemisphere.
3. Otherwise, there is still a (anyone?) 30 foot storm surge to contend with.
4. Does anyone know if Atlantis is still in the VAB? I haven't checked. If you do check, make sure you shut the lights off when you are done.
Best case scenario - no one is hurt, and NASA files a gianormous insurance claim Monday morning for a new manned space program.
Call it a clear misunderstanding if you like, but that misunderstanding is on the part of law enforcement and the RIAA - there have been plenty of cases of people in the academic arena reverse-engineering to learn, not abuse, and they've gotten into serious trouble.
You can't do it to teach, but you can do it for profit? I thought these matters were supposed to be "zero tollerence" issues.
And I don't mean a suit by Apple - I mean the Fed and the RIAA.
What I can't beleive is that we have a company willfully admitting that they went out of their way to crack a DRM related schema, and that no arrests have been made.
I agree on all points - but I think part of this issue revolves around the fact that all this took place publicly. There is an expectation on part of the consumer that technology prices drop. A company tells your customers they want to sell you something that will halve the price - not a smart move IMHO, because an expectation that is already in place is now exagerrated. Ergo, you buy that chip, you had better cut your prices. But if you don't want to cut them yet, with the holiday season around the corner, then you don't by the chip. So Intel doesn't have customers for its chip, and holds off on selling them - which looks better than saying no one will buy them.
But, I don't manufacture HDTVs either! Which is another good point you made.
If I announce to your consumers that I can cut prices in half for a popular appliance, then you aren't going to let me do that, are you? Not until your competition takes me up on the offer.
But since both you and your.. eight? competitors (really 2 competitors under 8 names) are making great flipping wudges of money, you will tell me to take a walk... for now.
When the % of the margin is comparable to the current amount, and the market gets a little dry, we release a unit with "improvements" that costs half as much.
No doubt they have "dropped" this technology until someone else threatens to do it. Why kill the market? There are plenty of suckers out there willing to pay $50/mo for the rest of their lives to own a giant tv. Especially with the holiday season upon us.
Don't foret the x8086 machines, at some point, were $3000.
on a more serious note - you could design the craft to be neutrally bouyant at 4.9km depths. It will sink until it gets to that point, if need be, and a trigger could turn it on. Then you could go 4.9km linear horizontal, power down and pop a gas bladder to surface.
I was under the impression that there was only an "antenna in" and "antenna out" which I assumed was RF connectors.
If I am wrong, Hooray!- then I'll buy one.
So, certainly, never intentionally degrade your signal. However - if you watch most of your video from recording, then you'd want the recorder first to preserve the signal I think.
Antenna out is for the rest of your boxes, you insensitive clod!
But seriously, though - your source should go to your primary recorder, then out to any other inline devices, then to your tv. That way you get the best signal into the recorder.
For instance, You'd go from source, to the eyeTV, to your VHS recorder, to your projector, then to your regular TV, were you to have all those things.
My curiousity is this whole "but not with cable" thing. Just how does it block that?
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Princess of Mars, A (2006)
Announced, and in production as of March 2004, my friends!
And to start the rumors flying like a Sky Captain, I heard they are looking at Rena Sofer.
kulakovich
... its a space station.
kulakovich
And I am going to "forgoe" my election to Ruler of The World by eating this sammich.
kulakovich
Agreed on all points, especially that of Karma, in the non
Not to mention all the other partners in the ISS program not getting their wish lists fulfilled, which would also be a major dissapointment.
thanks,
kulakovich
Hi there -
The 747 is used to cart shuttles back and forth across the US. Mostly when they land in California, to get them back to Florida for prep and next launch. If you look over here you can see at least Columbia and Discovery mixed in. Perhaps others if you search more thoroughly.
This is a particularly nice shot of Columbia getting seated on the special 747 you speak of.
Cheers,
kulakovich
An here's me thinking "this guy is so wrong". As it turns out, cmowire, you're dead on!
Nasa Self Insures at Google Answers
Whereas commercial aerospace insures everything, NASA does not for itself.
Thanks for conveying this understanding!
kulakovich
My humble suggestion is that funds that would have been spent on Orbiter programs and maintenance could be set up for the new Crew Exploration Vehicle and the like. More human space exploration, better. I for one am all for it.
kulakovich
An article in New Zealand places the three orbiters in the Orbiter Processing Facility as of August 9th.
Additionally, it would have been Discovery, not Atlantis, hanging out in the VAB, which it is not currently doing. I was under the mistaken impression for some reason that the 114 were going to launch aboard Atlantis next year.
kulakovich
1. The words "move" and "quickly" cannot be combined in a sentence that references a shuttle orbiter. I don't know of any real event involving the program that can happen with less than 48 hours of planning and preparation.
2. If you so much as look at a shuttle funny at this point, you have to x-ray the air frame for microscopic fractures. Do you think that if an orbiter gets knocked around in this storm, it will ever fly again?
If you put one on a flat bed and roll it at 15 mph over a speed bump, it is done for. Our best efforts at preservation would be to saw each in half and send them on freight trains straight to the Air and Space Museum with as much dignity as possible.
kulakovich
1. The Vehicle Assembly Building is built to withstand a category 5 hurricane. The accessory and newer buildings are only built against a category 3. However, nothing will save the VAB from a category 4 that tears the roof off a nearby cat3 hanger and mashes it into the side of the VAB.
2. KSC at current projections is in the worst spot possible. The eye passing overhead would be merciful if it happens - the eye passing south is worse. The N.W. corner of a hurricane is the strongest in the northern hemisphere.
3. Otherwise, there is still a (anyone?) 30 foot storm surge to contend with.
4. Does anyone know if Atlantis is still in the VAB? I haven't checked. If you do check, make sure you shut the lights off when you are done.
Best case scenario - no one is hurt, and NASA files a gianormous insurance claim Monday morning for a new manned space program.
Kulakovich
So how is Apple compensated for Real's use of Apple's format, then?
kulakovich
Call it a clear misunderstanding if you like, but that misunderstanding is on the part of law enforcement and the RIAA - there have been plenty of cases of people in the academic arena reverse-engineering to learn, not abuse, and they've gotten into serious trouble.
You can't do it to teach, but you can do it for profit?
I thought these matters were supposed to be "zero tollerence" issues.
You crack a scheme, you break the law.
kulakovich
And I don't mean a suit by Apple - I mean the Fed and the RIAA.
What I can't beleive is that we have a company willfully admitting that they went out of their way to crack a DRM related schema, and that no arrests have been made.
Shouldn't Real Networks have its hardware seized?
Kulakovich
I agree on all points - but I think part of this issue revolves around the fact that all this took place publicly. There is an expectation on part of the consumer that technology prices drop. A company tells your customers they want to sell you something that will halve the price - not a smart move IMHO, because an expectation that is already in place is now exagerrated. Ergo, you buy that chip, you had better cut your prices. But if you don't want to cut them yet, with the holiday season around the corner, then you don't by the chip. So Intel doesn't have customers for its chip, and holds off on selling them - which looks better than saying no one will buy them.
But, I don't manufacture HDTVs either! Which is another good point you made.
Cheers,
kulakovich
If I announce to your consumers that I can cut prices in half for a popular appliance, then you aren't going to let me do that, are you? Not until your competition takes me up on the offer.
But since both you and your.. eight? competitors (really 2 competitors under 8 names) are making great flipping wudges of money, you will tell me to take a walk... for now.
When the % of the margin is comparable to the current amount, and the market gets a little dry, we release a unit with "improvements" that costs half as much.
Supply, demand, hunt, gather, it's all the same.
kulakovich
Touché !
the processor was 80x86. My extension is x8982.
Thanks for the help!
kulakovich
"double the profit on big-screen televisions"
No doubt they have "dropped" this technology until someone else threatens to do it. Why kill the market? There are plenty of suckers out there willing to pay $50/mo for the rest of their lives to own a giant tv. Especially with the holiday season upon us.
Don't foret the x8086 machines, at some point, were $3000.
kulakovich
I can't beeee-lieeeve you'd post that on slashdot!
ducks behind rock, awaits 900 post slogfest.
kulakovich
... a "fantastic voyage" if you will! Mwa-hey.
Admit it. You were thinking it.
on a more serious note - you could design the craft to be neutrally bouyant at 4.9km depths. It will sink until it gets to that point, if need be, and a trigger could turn it on. Then you could go 4.9km linear horizontal, power down and pop a gas bladder to surface.
kulakovich
achieve a terabit of data per square inch.
yeah. and transfer speeds approaching 1b/sec.
Any idea how slowly RNA encodes a datastream? It ain't quick.
kulakovich
Tommy, can you hear me now?
Good!
kulakovich
Yes. I am nuts.
I was under the impression that there was only an "antenna in" and "antenna out" which I assumed was RF connectors.
If I am wrong, Hooray!- then I'll buy one.
So, certainly, never intentionally degrade your signal. However - if you watch most of your video from recording, then you'd want the recorder first to preserve the signal I think.
kulakovich
Antenna out is for the rest of your boxes, you insensitive clod!
But seriously, though - your source should go to your primary recorder, then out to any other inline devices, then to your tv. That way you get the best signal into the recorder.
For instance, You'd go from source, to the eyeTV, to your VHS recorder, to your projector, then to your regular TV, were you to have all those things.
My curiousity is this whole "but not with cable" thing. Just how does it block that?
kulakovich
More proof that corporate patent attourneys sit around re-reading Popular Science magazines from 1990.
I think my dream of locking all of them into a single dentist's waiting room has become... a nightmare.
kulakovich
Mod me down for typing so damn slow that someone beat me to the punch!
Curses!