but in terms of the rocket going where it's supposed to, and coming back safe: it's not like the astronauts are anything but spectators to a programmed series of events.
Apollo 13. Yeah, the real heroes were the guys on the ground, but as I recall, one of the astronauts had to actually pilot the thing in a completely unplanned maneuver or three.
For that matter, Apollo 11 LM had to do an unplanned manuever or two, when they realized it was coming down onto a boulder field....
...as to the normal period between paychecks in these households.
My wife gets paid every two weeks, so two months of every year she gets three paychecks instead of the usual two. So a 50% uptick in income two months of every year.
A weekly paycheck means that four months of the year you'll get five checks instead of four. Note that that frequency conveniently maps to a 25% uptick in income four months of every year without any instability at all.
Not going to bother running even preliminary numbers for a household with two jobs, one paid weekly, one biweekly, but I expect that most of the income instability they saw could be accounted for that way.
Caveat: I'm not trying to imply that all the income instability was illusory, but it's certainly possible that a good chunk of it was an illusion produced by monthly spending and weekly/biweekly income....
Someone needs to explain to me why taxpayer dollars freely go to public transportation systems - highways and airports - while taxpayer dollars for internet services go to private corporations whose only perceived purpose is legalized monopolization.
What, noone ever explained to you that highways and airports are built by private corporations?
The actual work, I mean. Government says "we want an airport here with the following specifications", and then they start issuing contracts to diverse corporations to do the actual work of building the airport/highway/etc.
What I'm curious about vis-a-vis this article is why the comparison between a government-run regional system and a $45M contract to provide service to an entire State? It's not like the $45M is going to only provide access to the area around Chatanooga or anything, though you wouldn't know that from the headline....
A small handful of e-mails (in comparison to the bulk sent from that server). I would personally attribute that to her being stupid and not remembering which account she was sending from.
He then proceeded to dismantle the healthcare system with the blessing of his voters despite the fact that millions of people are killed by curable illness every single year.
The CDC doesn't agree with you, it seems. Our annual deaths from curable illnesses is more like 200K than "millions".
Pkus there's the whole "dismantle the healthcare system" thing. No, he didn't. he didn't even dismantle the ACA part of the healthcare system. He asked Congress to do so, they didn't....
SpaceX will probably never do a launch for quite as low as $1M
Probably. On the other hand, a Falcon 9 puts something like 100x as much to LEO as this thing will.
Given the design goal of being able to put a small satellite up on 24 hours notice, this thing seems designed for either short-term spy satellites or small nuclear warheads...
Umm, we've been more or less at war with Syria for years.
And fighting alongside Syria for the same time.
Yes, we've been fighting on both sides of Syria's ongoing civil war - helping some of the rebels, while attacking other rebels. Specifically, we attack the rebels backed by Daesh & co, while helping the Kurdish rebels.
Net effect: shooting at Daesh rebels means that Syria has more force free to fight the Kurds. At the same time, arming the Kurds makes them tougher, requiring Syria to use more resources against them, thus helping the Daesh rebels.
So, we've slightly upped the ante in our ongoing supprt for both sides in the Syrian civil war. Big fat hairy deal....
Note that it's not a "nuclear power" accident if someone falls off a building that will, someday, have a nuclear reactor in it.
As to the mining of uranium, you prolly don't want to go there - coal mining deaths are, again, orders of magnitude more common than deaths from mining uranium, if only because we use megatons of coal, but only tons of uranium....
We wouldn't put up with a 1% catastrophic failure rate for aircraft or cars,
And yet, more people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than in civilian nuclear power accidents in the USA.
Note that qualifier "civilian". Three people died while doing maintenance on a military reactor due to release of radiation when one of the three did something really stupid. Noone outside the room was harmed in any way.
Now, if we include Chernobyl and Fukushima, we're talking more deaths than in Ted Kennedy's car. But we're talking fewer deaths (so far) than died in auto accidents in the USA in 1901! And about three orders of magnitude fewer than died in traffic accidents in the USA in 2016.
Note, by the by, that if worst case projections hold true, Chernobyl will result in about 1/8th the deaths that traffic accidents produced in 2016. And over the years since Chernobyl, traffic accidents in the USA have produced about two orders of magnitude more deaths than Chernobyl's worst case is expected to be.
Jaysus H. Tap-dancing Christ, they'll get all the math they want when they start seriously getting into STEM in university. Trying to weed out people in High School is NOT the solution to the problem.
If anything, de-emphasizing the math might be a (partial) solution. Amazing how seldom you actually use higher math when coding (mind you, an engineer or scientist had better have more than a nodding familiarity with higher math)....
But throwing up more barriers isn't going to make it more likely to get women interested.
Oh, well, it gave some more guys a chance to find out they could handle this whole math thing, so we'll have more STEM candidates by and by....
Excellent advice when you have an author looking after your interests who will ensure things work out in the end.
Just FYI, that particular line wasn't from one of his stories, it was part of the "collected wisdom of Lazarus Long", which were meant to be just interesting bits that described his (Heinlein's) mindset.
You're assuming that it's the pedestrians who are at fault in not looking where they are going, but it's more likely that it's car drivers using phones and not concentrating on what's happening on the road.
And of course you have some evidence that "it's moe likely that it's the car drivers"? If so, could you provide it?
Note that if it's the car drivers, one might expect a similar spike in traffic accidents, which we haven't seen....
hernobyl was a failure induced by the USSR's response to cold war pressures
Chernobyl was caused by a test. Specifically, someone wanted to know how much power they could extract from a reactor during a meltdown to fight the meltdown.
So, they pushed the reactor as far into meltdown condition as they could safely do for the test. And then found out they were wrong about how far "safely do" was...
In other words, no, it wasn't an unsafe design. It was an insande decision by a bureaucrat somewhere....
On the plus side, everyone learned a lot from Chernobyl. Including that the "radioactive wasteland" that a meltdown was supposed to produce was an imaginary problem....
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No, you have to worry about "what if the guerrillas take my water-making gadget?"
No, it wouldn't infer any such thing. It might, however, IMPLY the existence of "dark matter".
Note, by the by, that your statement above allows me to infer that you don't know the difference between "imply" and "infer".
Alternately, in your statement above, you are implying that you don't know the difference between "imply" and "infer"....
Apollo 13. Yeah, the real heroes were the guys on the ground, but as I recall, one of the astronauts had to actually pilot the thing in a completely unplanned maneuver or three.
For that matter, Apollo 11 LM had to do an unplanned manuever or two, when they realized it was coming down onto a boulder field....
My wife gets paid every two weeks, so two months of every year she gets three paychecks instead of the usual two. So a 50% uptick in income two months of every year.
A weekly paycheck means that four months of the year you'll get five checks instead of four. Note that that frequency conveniently maps to a 25% uptick in income four months of every year without any instability at all.
Not going to bother running even preliminary numbers for a household with two jobs, one paid weekly, one biweekly, but I expect that most of the income instability they saw could be accounted for that way.
Caveat: I'm not trying to imply that all the income instability was illusory, but it's certainly possible that a good chunk of it was an illusion produced by monthly spending and weekly/biweekly income....
What, noone ever explained to you that highways and airports are built by private corporations?
The actual work, I mean. Government says "we want an airport here with the following specifications", and then they start issuing contracts to diverse corporations to do the actual work of building the airport/highway/etc.
What I'm curious about vis-a-vis this article is why the comparison between a government-run regional system and a $45M contract to provide service to an entire State? It's not like the $45M is going to only provide access to the area around Chatanooga or anything, though you wouldn't know that from the headline....
So, you want a stupid President, then?
The CDC doesn't agree with you, it seems. Our annual deaths from curable illnesses is more like 200K than "millions".
Pkus there's the whole "dismantle the healthcare system" thing. No, he didn't. he didn't even dismantle the ACA part of the healthcare system. He asked Congress to do so, they didn't....
Probably. On the other hand, a Falcon 9 puts something like 100x as much to LEO as this thing will.
Given the design goal of being able to put a small satellite up on 24 hours notice, this thing seems designed for either short-term spy satellites or small nuclear warheads...
And you know this how, exactly?
And you know this how, exactly?
Well, when it's with one of your employees, it's Sexual Harassment by definition. Which is a crime in the USA.
Hmm, I'd have assumed most of the students were using their parents' account....
Umm, we've been more or less at war with Syria for years.
And fighting alongside Syria for the same time.
Yes, we've been fighting on both sides of Syria's ongoing civil war - helping some of the rebels, while attacking other rebels. Specifically, we attack the rebels backed by Daesh & co, while helping the Kurdish rebels.
Net effect: shooting at Daesh rebels means that Syria has more force free to fight the Kurds. At the same time, arming the Kurds makes them tougher, requiring Syria to use more resources against them, thus helping the Daesh rebels.
So, we've slightly upped the ante in our ongoing supprt for both sides in the Syrian civil war. Big fat hairy deal....
Note that the characters you refer to above are the "good guys" in the movies.
Note that those are the "bad guys"....
that this list is really complete and conclusive? Or is this just what MS is saying is the complete list?
Don't think it's the #rightwingnuts who are busy saying "we'd rather have coal and gas than nuclear for our baseload"....
IOW, when the alarmists start calling for new nuclear construction, I'll start taking them seriously....
Note that it's not a "nuclear power" accident if someone falls off a building that will, someday, have a nuclear reactor in it.
As to the mining of uranium, you prolly don't want to go there - coal mining deaths are, again, orders of magnitude more common than deaths from mining uranium, if only because we use megatons of coal, but only tons of uranium....
And yet, more people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than in civilian nuclear power accidents in the USA.
Note that qualifier "civilian". Three people died while doing maintenance on a military reactor due to release of radiation when one of the three did something really stupid. Noone outside the room was harmed in any way.
Now, if we include Chernobyl and Fukushima, we're talking more deaths than in Ted Kennedy's car. But we're talking fewer deaths (so far) than died in auto accidents in the USA in 1901! And about three orders of magnitude fewer than died in traffic accidents in the USA in 2016.
Note, by the by, that if worst case projections hold true, Chernobyl will result in about 1/8th the deaths that traffic accidents produced in 2016. And over the years since Chernobyl, traffic accidents in the USA have produced about two orders of magnitude more deaths than Chernobyl's worst case is expected to be.
Yes, you do. You get to say whether you wear a VR headset or not. Just like now you can decide to watch TV or not.
For instance, I watch Netflix. Haven't seen an ad in years....
So, not enough women are getting into STEM?
Obvious solution? Make it harder!!
Jaysus H. Tap-dancing Christ, they'll get all the math they want when they start seriously getting into STEM in university. Trying to weed out people in High School is NOT the solution to the problem.
If anything, de-emphasizing the math might be a (partial) solution. Amazing how seldom you actually use higher math when coding (mind you, an engineer or scientist had better have more than a nodding familiarity with higher math)....
But throwing up more barriers isn't going to make it more likely to get women interested.
Oh, well, it gave some more guys a chance to find out they could handle this whole math thing, so we'll have more STEM candidates by and by....
Just FYI, that particular line wasn't from one of his stories, it was part of the "collected wisdom of Lazarus Long", which were meant to be just interesting bits that described his (Heinlein's) mindset.
Well, at least it's not a month point....
And of course you have some evidence that "it's moe likely that it's the car drivers"? If so, could you provide it?
Note that if it's the car drivers, one might expect a similar spike in traffic accidents, which we haven't seen....
Recovered twice now also. Wonder if they plan to use it again, later....
Must have.
And you've proved me wrong about what group(s) the semiliterates were drawn from....
Chernobyl was caused by a test. Specifically, someone wanted to know how much power they could extract from a reactor during a meltdown to fight the meltdown.
So, they pushed the reactor as far into meltdown condition as they could safely do for the test. And then found out they were wrong about how far "safely do" was...
In other words, no, it wasn't an unsafe design. It was an insande decision by a bureaucrat somewhere....
On the plus side, everyone learned a lot from Chernobyl. Including that the "radioactive wasteland" that a meltdown was supposed to produce was an imaginary problem....