Apples, Oranges. Her name was leaked by the US Government to discredit her husband who was against the Iraqi invasion. Wikileaks is not the US Government and they are obviously against a war in a land where Empires go to die.
Wikileaks must release all of the documents which clearly show a dirty war which is not covered by any western media in a meaningful way.
The development & testing phase of SOFIA shows that it probably wouldn't be up there observing enough to be efficient and cost-effective. It's not clear why they keep SOFIA still in development when they were cancelling other projects left and right. Probably some serious pork barreling is going on around that project.
Cheap mounts are mostly OK with vibration as long as you let it settle for a minute and don't have any wind (that's the killer). Otherwise they're OK for short shots (a couple of minutes). You are more likely to have a misalignment or having periodic errors on the gears. They won't matter for wide and short shots. You can still do reasonably good quality pictures within those scenarios.
If you are using an SLR, invest on an IR remote and before you start shooting use a dark cardboard to block the light, not touching the scope hit the remote, wait for the vibrations to die down and then remove the carboard, then when you want to stop, hold the cardboard in front of the scope, hit the IR remote button again.
Way back when I was in the uni, I skid on ice, fell and cracked my HP48g's LCD and I had to borrow my brother's graphical Casio for an important final exam. Bad mistake. After years of RPN'ing, Casio's algebraic method completely failed me. Not all calculators are interchangeable and can be used for quite complex calculations, there's a learning curve.
You should never say anything like sign me up. I tend to ask for whom they are calling and tell them never will do business with them ever again. I would love to waste their time, unfortunately my time is more expensive than theirs.
NASA building hardware is a very popular myth. It's all designed and built by subcontractors like Boeing and it has been like that all the time. In 60s NASA put humans to orbit on ICBMs, military designs. The only non-military design ever was Saturn, which was itself derived from von Braun's military rockets. The reason the Shuttle was such a disaster was the insistence of military requirements (wings, single polar orbit flights).
All NASA does is spend the pork barrel and shell out the contracts and take all the glory.
Certainly robotic deep space missions should not be a mission of NASA/ESA. That's why we have research institutes like universities which have the expertise on the science and technology all around the world.
Last year we flew from Luton to Budapest for a week's holiday. Took a train from Budapest to Vieanna for less than 30 euros return. The whole thing was enjoyable apart from the flight from Luton to Budapest and back. I'd love to do it on train all the way. Most pleasurable way to travel available to mankind.
"Nordöstersjökustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranläggningsmaterielunderhållsuppföljningssystemdiskussionsinläggsförberedelsearbeten"... is too long a word. Try using a shorter word.
So either a typo or pictures or it doesn't exist. Google says so.:)
Reminds me of the Gemini project. A lot of people conveniently forget that the Gemini project was born out of USAF's manned space programme and was inserted into NASA's plans. That's why it flew on Titans. Originally there was no spacecraft between Apollo and Mercury projects. Gemini was the most successful projects of all manned flights where a huge number of firsts were established.
In the end MOL got cancelled, Military space programme was cancelled and NASA's budget was cut and eventually most of the Apollo projects were cancelled even before Apollo 11, more after that. Don't blame Obama for NASA's state, blame Bush with his lofty targets and no additional budget for the named targets... The result was a useless spacecraft - does anyone remember the original spec of 7 astronauts? It couldn't hardly do four as its last design, decades after Apollo.
What does it have anything to do with Obama? Constellation is a Bush project and it's the Congress that's preventing the cancellation. Obama inherited the white elephant and trying to get rid of it and others are preventing that.
Well, England is only one of the nations of United Kingdom. there's also Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (although that's in dispute for a while). Scotland and NI already have their own devolved parliaments and Wales will get one at one point.
I'm sure you'd be very popular in the north of the border and call the place England.
I think the most successful Jupiter, Saturn and multiple Mars missions that have happened way after Apollo era (i.e., since 1990) would differ with your statistics (don't get me started about the unsung heroes of incredibly successful ESA and NASA missions to Venus).
The only missions that was funded around cancellation of the Apollo era (early 1970s) were Voyagers and Vikings. Half of Apollo missions were cancelled right after Apollo 11.
It's all about pork-barrel income and this is why NASA has failed to do anything on the manned spaceflight for decades... At least UK doesn't have that much money sunk in manned spaceflight, yet. The existing-but-soon-on-its-way Government have decided to have an astronaut and has cut many science projects already.
It costs around a billion to build a Hubble. It costs around a billion to spend a space shuttle to do maintenance. Which one would you fund if you were NASA, a programme which has no involvement in your money-grabbing manned space programme or something that makes the monkeys feel worthy?
Hubble was a waste of space (hahah, I kill me) until its first upgrade which fixed the optics. Even now, there are earth-bound satellites producing images almost as better as Hubble pictures. For the cost of the Hubble, at least tens, if not hundreds of observatory projects could have been funded, with massive mirrors and technological advances. Hubble became the great scientific work horse it is now after its first round of upgrades and the latest upgrades are truly impressive. On the other hand, it is holding up other advances. Instead of having multiple Hubbles with different optical capabilities (near and far IR for example), each costing around a billion or less, US and Europe spent over 7 billion on this machine. ESA's latest IR telescope is an incredible success so far.
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Apples, Oranges. Her name was leaked by the US Government to discredit her husband who was against the Iraqi invasion. Wikileaks is not the US Government and they are obviously against a war in a land where Empires go to die.
Wikileaks must release all of the documents which clearly show a dirty war which is not covered by any western media in a meaningful way.
The development & testing phase of SOFIA shows that it probably wouldn't be up there observing enough to be efficient and cost-effective. It's not clear why they keep SOFIA still in development when they were cancelling other projects left and right. Probably some serious pork barreling is going on around that project.
No wonder my favourite serial killer, Dexter, gets away with his murders.
For some weird reason every time I go out at the time for Perseids and shoot the sky, I get a featureless gray picture. Damn you British weather!
So the best advise must be: move to the North Pole, shoot only straight ahead, avoid naughty elves and polar bears. :)
Cheap mounts are mostly OK with vibration as long as you let it settle for a minute and don't have any wind (that's the killer). Otherwise they're OK for short shots (a couple of minutes). You are more likely to have a misalignment or having periodic errors on the gears. They won't matter for wide and short shots. You can still do reasonably good quality pictures within those scenarios.
If you are using an SLR, invest on an IR remote and before you start shooting use a dark cardboard to block the light, not touching the scope hit the remote, wait for the vibrations to die down and then remove the carboard, then when you want to stop, hold the cardboard in front of the scope, hit the IR remote button again.
A friend of mine is a scientist and says "bollocks" and then runs away screaming "Anectode is not a replacement for data!"...
Way back when I was in the uni, I skid on ice, fell and cracked my HP48g's LCD and I had to borrow my brother's graphical Casio for an important final exam. Bad mistake. After years of RPN'ing, Casio's algebraic method completely failed me. Not all calculators are interchangeable and can be used for quite complex calculations, there's a learning curve.
You mean it doesn't? Damn it! DAMN IT! After so many years... Why didn't anyone tell me?
You should never say anything like sign me up.
I tend to ask for whom they are calling and tell them never will do business with them ever again. I would love to waste their time, unfortunately my time is more expensive than theirs.
NASA payload, Orbital Sciences rocket, not designed and operated by NASA.
NASA building hardware is a very popular myth. It's all designed and built by subcontractors like Boeing and it has been like that all the time. In 60s NASA put humans to orbit on ICBMs, military designs. The only non-military design ever was Saturn, which was itself derived from von Braun's military rockets. The reason the Shuttle was such a disaster was the insistence of military requirements (wings, single polar orbit flights).
All NASA does is spend the pork barrel and shell out the contracts and take all the glory.
Certainly robotic deep space missions should not be a mission of NASA/ESA. That's why we have research institutes like universities which have the expertise on the science and technology all around the world.
Last time I looked at a map Canada was in North America as opposed to the South American bits.
The country you're thinking is called United States of America, not North America or just America.
Almost all helicopters use jet turbines so they can be affected by the ash clogging the engine.
Last year we flew from Luton to Budapest for a week's holiday. Took a train from Budapest to Vieanna for less than 30 euros return. The whole thing was enjoyable apart from the flight from Luton to Budapest and back. I'd love to do it on train all the way. Most pleasurable way to travel available to mankind.
Tried translating it.
"Nordöstersjökustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranläggningsmaterielunderhållsuppföljningssystemdiskussionsinläggsförberedelsearbeten"... is too long a word. Try using a shorter word.
So either a typo or pictures or it doesn't exist. Google says so. :)
Reminds me of the Gemini project. A lot of people conveniently forget that the Gemini project was born out of USAF's manned space programme and was inserted into NASA's plans. That's why it flew on Titans. Originally there was no spacecraft between Apollo and Mercury projects. Gemini was the most successful projects of all manned flights where a huge number of firsts were established.
In the end MOL got cancelled, Military space programme was cancelled and NASA's budget was cut and eventually most of the Apollo projects were cancelled even before Apollo 11, more after that. Don't blame Obama for NASA's state, blame Bush with his lofty targets and no additional budget for the named targets... The result was a useless spacecraft - does anyone remember the original spec of 7 astronauts? It couldn't hardly do four as its last design, decades after Apollo.
I guess you mean "Steptoe and Son", the original.
What does it have anything to do with Obama? Constellation is a Bush project and it's the Congress that's preventing the cancellation. Obama inherited the white elephant and trying to get rid of it and others are preventing that.
Well, England is only one of the nations of United Kingdom. there's also Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (although that's in dispute for a while). Scotland and NI already have their own devolved parliaments and Wales will get one at one point. I'm sure you'd be very popular in the north of the border and call the place England.
I think the most successful Jupiter, Saturn and multiple Mars missions that have happened way after Apollo era (i.e., since 1990) would differ with your statistics (don't get me started about the unsung heroes of incredibly successful ESA and NASA missions to Venus). The only missions that was funded around cancellation of the Apollo era (early 1970s) were Voyagers and Vikings. Half of Apollo missions were cancelled right after Apollo 11.
It's all about pork-barrel income and this is why NASA has failed to do anything on the manned spaceflight for decades... At least UK doesn't have that much money sunk in manned spaceflight, yet. The existing-but-soon-on-its-way Government have decided to have an astronaut and has cut many science projects already.
It costs around a billion to build a Hubble. It costs around a billion to spend a space shuttle to do maintenance.
Which one would you fund if you were NASA, a programme which has no involvement in your money-grabbing manned space programme or something that makes the monkeys feel worthy?
Hubble was a waste of space (hahah, I kill me) until its first upgrade which fixed the optics. Even now, there are earth-bound satellites producing images almost as better as Hubble pictures. For the cost of the Hubble, at least tens, if not hundreds of observatory projects could have been funded, with massive mirrors and technological advances. Hubble became the great scientific work horse it is now after its first round of upgrades and the latest upgrades are truly impressive. On the other hand, it is holding up other advances. Instead of having multiple Hubbles with different optical capabilities (near and far IR for example), each costing around a billion or less, US and Europe spent over 7 billion on this machine. ESA's latest IR telescope is an incredible success so far.