You should upgrade your spaceship and get a proper Infinity Drive. The voyage is a bit unsettling but the destinations are truly great! I'd truly recommend the further side of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains.
Backfire? That was the best thing that could have happened. Now the people don't have to use an application with obnoxious licencing terms and we have the Git among other excellent similar opensource software. All win apart from the guy who tried to force down an ugly EULA.
You're not only forgetting Mir, Salyuts 1 to 7 will be solely missed as well. Salyut 1 was on 1971 so when US was winding down their moon programme, Russians were already busy building space habitats. Only after Salyuts' success, NASA decided to have a go at it.
The main point is using a slow but a powerful vehice to lift you outside the thick bit of the atmosphere, where normal rockets spend most of the fuel (i.e., first stage) to accelerate the whole lot through that thick, resistive column of air in front of you. That's why they can use a tiny amount of fuel (compared to any orbital rocket) to get a relatively large vehicle to 100km. When you think about it, the mass of fuel used in Alan Shepard's first flight into space is way more than what the X-15s used to burn, even including the carrier. SS1 is a natural extension of the same idea (with more people on board, slightly better performance).
I think the residents of sunny(!) Cambridge, England will disagree with you. I've never seen so many grannies cycling in rain in my life. And studends, and everybody else.
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Well, the best thing about Ubuntu is - now I can get on with the work I'm supposed to do as opposed to tinkering with things here and there! It was fun way back - now I want to stop bothering about why the graphics card doesn't work or why the network layer is kaput and start coding and compiling and building. That's what these nicely packaged stable distributions provide - and just because of that I love Ubuntu and CentOS/RHEL.
Ditto, I didn't create an account until I really had to (proxy servers, idiot users and not being able to post as ACs).
Way back posting as an AC was just fine... I must have signed up around 2001 since I got my current radio licence about that time (hence M1FCJ). When I was in the uni, there was plenty of time to spend reading and posting in/.
Gnome - the only windowing environment where functionality decreases as time goes.
I sometimes wonder these Gnome app developers go around and think what functionality they should rip off for this release. Almost every single GTK app I use come with less usability. Yuck.
I am a big metal fan since late eighties and Justice was the last Metallica I bought and the Black album was the last one I actually bothered to listen.
Metallica can beg their former followers to come and buy an album for a penny but I am not 16 anymore, I have political views as well as musical taste and in both aspects Metallica fails my standards.
If anyone says music is nothing to do with politics, they're wrong since birth of Punk.
If NASA followed von Braun's strategy, by now we would have a permanent moon base already. Instead NASA went for a big-bang project, after initial success, scaled it down very quickly and abandoned everything for a flawed plan and left us with a shuttle which would truck stuff to nowhere. Now they have a place to go (ISS) but they are canceling the shuttle with no spacecraft to replace it. I wouldn't be this bitter at least they had something replacing it.
Europeans (inc. Russia) will have to step up and replace NASA when they completely abandon ISS in a couple of years and ATV is a step in this. The Chinese and Indians might come aboard pretty soon as well. The world will not need USA for space exploration any more and NASA's current plans are doomed with the budget cuts and everything - all it needs is a pretty failure in one of the first flights and that's it, USA won't have access to human spaceflight anymore - they hardly succeed with their current fleet of vehicles.
You are free to not to answer the phone. Note the caller ID, route them to the voice mail or simply make them phone back.
The whole thing about answering the phone ASAP was a successful campaign conducted by the phone companies to reduce the overhead and usage rates to free resources.
The phonograph is actually a prime example of the Great Man idea. No one was really working on the idea of recording sound until Edison invented the phonograph.
Unfortunately this is not true. Well before Edison it was tried and even patented (check Wikipedia if you don't believe me or other "more trustable sources" if you like).
Edison had the breakthrough of having something that actually worked and easy to manufacture and cheaply. That is the main difference.
Soyuz 11 Cosmonauts died not because of a landing. They'd die even if they landed on the water. The accident happened just after the command module separated from the service module. Soyuz 1 was an unsafe, untested spacecraft, the astronaut would die even if it hit the water - the parachutes did not open and the spacecraft crashed at terminal velocity and burned. The STS-51L cabin did the same on water and completely disintegrated but it is more likely that the astronauts died because of the low air pressure at the altitude the accident happened. At least a couple are assumed to be awake when the cabin hit the ocean.
One of the Geminis were almost lost because of the same problem Gus Grissom had, spacecraft started getting water in (it was quite rough in the sea apparently) and was almost lost. An Apollo capsule had its door blown out in the ocean and water got in, again, similar to Gus Grissom's accident.
One near disaster with the Soyuz landings happened when a returning Soyuz capsule hit a lake, broke the surface ice and plunged down into the lake. The Cosmonauts almost died - again a water landing (albeit into the lake this time).
The problems with the land-landing attempts is the once-in-a-while hard landing where the Cosmonauts actually got hurt because of the landing crash. Otherwise it is significantly safer.
Two reasons comes to my mind. I hope I am not being redundant here. Anyway, here we go.
The problem with the first one is the failed flights - what if you can't make to the ISS for any reason. No landing bags mean a nice crash.
The problem with the second one is the speed. When you are coming back from the moon, you are actually traveling quite fast. Apollo did not do any major breaking on the way, the atmosphere did it for them. If you are not doing it like this and want to try to match orbits with ISS, you have to plan the return trip extremely carefully and need to carry all that fuel to slow yourself down to do this. It is simply not practical.
To put it simply, ISS is a useless political tool, if they were doing some science up there I'd be much more tolerant but with only three people on board, they can hardly keep the damn thing running. Where are the 7 permanent astronauts promised years ago - missing because some idiot in NASA killed the CEV. Marvel at the stupidity of political attendees!
It's funny, if you can't convince some random people, you're not allowed into the race. USA is not that free, is it? Probably it's the sign of the times.
In UK we have parties like Monster Raving Loony Party and The Blah! Party, they are allowed in all of the electoral races and if they get the majority, one of their people can be the Prime Minister. In all cases the Royal family is a basket case so maybe we're all used to it now.
That's SLES you are talking about, it's a different beast - just like the difference between Fedora/Fedora Core vs. Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Much longer support and release cycles, stable and out-of-date code, just like Debian (grin).
Pakistan has always been a major US ally. India, on the other hand, was always more symphatetic towards Russia. If you want to check this, compare the military equipment both country has - India had/has lots of Migs, Pakistan had/has American make fighters. Currently they have a decent fleet of F-16s. On the other hand they have been purchasing some Chinese aircraft lately, mainly because they are cheaper to buy. Indian Air force has loads of Mig-29s and some British made light fighters.
I think you'll find that old metalheads have an affinity to the classical music genre, especially Bach and his era. I think it is because (as mentioned here numerously) metal has quite complicated rythm and tune sections and tends to be quite technical, which you can find similarities with the classical tunes. You shouldn't forget that for each classical music composer we know and listen right now, there were thousands gone and forgotten. We are listening to the best of the best. Most of the metal (or nu-metal) bands around know won't be even mentioned in annals of history in 200 years, apart from some really good ones. I wonder if Slayer's Reign in Blood will be considered as a classic in 2 centuries, at least right now, it is, for the speed metal genre.
Don't worry, if the tubes get blocked in UK, we'll just call a Polish plumber and he'll do his eastern-european magic and interwebs will start flowing again.
Indeed... To quote the great master Tom Lehrer: "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun
Von Braun is obviously famous for his V2 rockets and Saturn series but a lot of people forget that he wasn't working for NASA, he was working for the US Army until 1960 and when he and his team launched America's first satellite, they did it by using an Army vehicle and personell. NASA wasn't formed until about 6 month after the launch. Until Saturn V, NASA always hitched rides on vehicles originally designed for US Army, including Titan rockets (which were, originally, ICBMs).
Same goes for Russians - Sputnik didn't shock America because Communists managed to get a satellite out there - it meant that any time Russians could drop any amount of bombs from orbit, with almost no notice.
I find it quite funny that Americans have lost their history and understanding of their Glorious Nation.
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You should upgrade your spaceship and get a proper Infinity Drive. The voyage is a bit unsettling but the destinations are truly great! I'd truly recommend the further side of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains.
Backfire? That was the best thing that could have happened. Now the people don't have to use an application with obnoxious licencing terms and we have the Git among other excellent similar opensource software. All win apart from the guy who tried to force down an ugly EULA.
You're not only forgetting Mir, Salyuts 1 to 7 will be solely missed as well. Salyut 1 was on 1971 so when US was winding down their moon programme, Russians were already busy building space habitats. Only after Salyuts' success, NASA decided to have a go at it.
Where do I apply?
Mine will be named Alphonse...
Unfortunately they don't follow and believe in a lot of things. For example, evolution. Scary.
Continents drifting.
It was accepted well into 1950s although the theory was around for significantly longer and laughed by geologists.
The main point is using a slow but a powerful vehice to lift you outside the thick bit of the atmosphere, where normal rockets spend most of the fuel (i.e., first stage) to accelerate the whole lot through that thick, resistive column of air in front of you. That's why they can use a tiny amount of fuel (compared to any orbital rocket) to get a relatively large vehicle to 100km. When you think about it, the mass of fuel used in Alan Shepard's first flight into space is way more than what the X-15s used to burn, even including the carrier. SS1 is a natural extension of the same idea (with more people on board, slightly better performance).
I think the residents of sunny(!) Cambridge, England will disagree with you. I've never seen so many grannies cycling in rain in my life. And studends, and everybody else.
Well, the best thing about Ubuntu is - now I can get on with the work I'm supposed to do as opposed to tinkering with things here and there! It was fun way back - now I want to stop bothering about why the graphics card doesn't work or why the network layer is kaput and start coding and compiling and building. That's what these nicely packaged stable distributions provide - and just because of that I love Ubuntu and CentOS/RHEL.
Ditto, I didn't create an account until I really had to (proxy servers, idiot users and not being able to post as ACs). Way back posting as an AC was just fine... I must have signed up around 2001 since I got my current radio licence about that time (hence M1FCJ). When I was in the uni, there was plenty of time to spend reading and posting in /.
Gnome - the only windowing environment where functionality decreases as time goes. I sometimes wonder these Gnome app developers go around and think what functionality they should rip off for this release. Almost every single GTK app I use come with less usability. Yuck.
I am a big metal fan since late eighties and Justice was the last Metallica I bought and the Black album was the last one I actually bothered to listen.
Metallica can beg their former followers to come and buy an album for a penny but I am not 16 anymore, I have political views as well as musical taste and in both aspects Metallica fails my standards.
If anyone says music is nothing to do with politics, they're wrong since birth of Punk.
If only...
If NASA followed von Braun's strategy, by now we would have a permanent moon base already. Instead NASA went for a big-bang project, after initial success, scaled it down very quickly and abandoned everything for a flawed plan and left us with a shuttle which would truck stuff to nowhere. Now they have a place to go (ISS) but they are canceling the shuttle with no spacecraft to replace it. I wouldn't be this bitter at least they had something replacing it.
Europeans (inc. Russia) will have to step up and replace NASA when they completely abandon ISS in a couple of years and ATV is a step in this. The Chinese and Indians might come aboard pretty soon as well. The world will not need USA for space exploration any more and NASA's current plans are doomed with the budget cuts and everything - all it needs is a pretty failure in one of the first flights and that's it, USA won't have access to human spaceflight anymore - they hardly succeed with their current fleet of vehicles.
You are free to not to answer the phone.
Note the caller ID, route them to the voice mail or simply make them phone back.
The whole thing about answering the phone ASAP was a successful campaign conducted by the phone companies to reduce the overhead and usage rates to free resources.
Unfortunately this is not true. Well before Edison it was tried and even patented (check Wikipedia if you don't believe me or other "more trustable sources" if you like). Edison had the breakthrough of having something that actually worked and easy to manufacture and cheaply. That is the main difference.
Soyuz 11 Cosmonauts died not because of a landing. They'd die even if they landed on the water. The accident happened just after the command module separated from the service module. Soyuz 1 was an unsafe, untested spacecraft, the astronaut would die even if it hit the water - the parachutes did not open and the spacecraft crashed at terminal velocity and burned. The STS-51L cabin did the same on water and completely disintegrated but it is more likely that the astronauts died because of the low air pressure at the altitude the accident happened. At least a couple are assumed to be awake when the cabin hit the ocean. One of the Geminis were almost lost because of the same problem Gus Grissom had, spacecraft started getting water in (it was quite rough in the sea apparently) and was almost lost. An Apollo capsule had its door blown out in the ocean and water got in, again, similar to Gus Grissom's accident. One near disaster with the Soyuz landings happened when a returning Soyuz capsule hit a lake, broke the surface ice and plunged down into the lake. The Cosmonauts almost died - again a water landing (albeit into the lake this time). The problems with the land-landing attempts is the once-in-a-while hard landing where the Cosmonauts actually got hurt because of the landing crash. Otherwise it is significantly safer.
Two reasons comes to my mind. I hope I am not being redundant here. Anyway, here we go.
The problem with the first one is the failed flights - what if you can't make to the ISS for any reason. No landing bags mean a nice crash.
The problem with the second one is the speed. When you are coming back from the moon, you are actually traveling quite fast. Apollo did not do any major breaking on the way, the atmosphere did it for them. If you are not doing it like this and want to try to match orbits with ISS, you have to plan the return trip extremely carefully and need to carry all that fuel to slow yourself down to do this. It is simply not practical.
To put it simply, ISS is a useless political tool, if they were doing some science up there I'd be much more tolerant but with only three people on board, they can hardly keep the damn thing running. Where are the 7 permanent astronauts promised years ago - missing because some idiot in NASA killed the CEV. Marvel at the stupidity of political attendees!
It's funny, if you can't convince some random people, you're not allowed into the race. USA is not that free, is it? Probably it's the sign of the times.
In UK we have parties like Monster Raving Loony Party and The Blah! Party, they are allowed in all of the electoral races and if they get the majority, one of their people can be the Prime Minister. In all cases the Royal family is a basket case so maybe we're all used to it now.
Meh... The French... Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!!! Pfffttttt!
That's SLES you are talking about, it's a different beast - just like the difference between Fedora/Fedora Core vs. Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Much longer support and release cycles, stable and out-of-date code, just like Debian (grin).
it's a long string and all of the galaxies are tied to it, like beads...
Pakistan has always been a major US ally. India, on the other hand, was always more symphatetic towards Russia. If you want to check this, compare the military equipment both country has - India had/has lots of Migs, Pakistan had/has American make fighters. Currently they have a decent fleet of F-16s. On the other hand they have been purchasing some Chinese aircraft lately, mainly because they are cheaper to buy. Indian Air force has loads of Mig-29s and some British made light fighters.
I think you'll find that old metalheads have an affinity to the classical music genre, especially Bach and his era. I think it is because (as mentioned here numerously) metal has quite complicated rythm and tune sections and tends to be quite technical, which you can find similarities with the classical tunes. You shouldn't forget that for each classical music composer we know and listen right now, there were thousands gone and forgotten. We are listening to the best of the best. Most of the metal (or nu-metal) bands around know won't be even mentioned in annals of history in 200 years, apart from some really good ones. I wonder if Slayer's Reign in Blood will be considered as a classic in 2 centuries, at least right now, it is, for the speed metal genre.
Don't worry, if the tubes get blocked in UK, we'll just call a Polish plumber and he'll do his eastern-european magic and interwebs will start flowing again.
Indeed... To quote the great master Tom Lehrer:
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun
Von Braun is obviously famous for his V2 rockets and Saturn series but a lot of people forget that he wasn't working for NASA, he was working for the US Army until 1960 and when he and his team launched America's first satellite, they did it by using an Army vehicle and personell. NASA wasn't formed until about 6 month after the launch. Until Saturn V, NASA always hitched rides on vehicles originally designed for US Army, including Titan rockets (which were, originally, ICBMs).
Same goes for Russians - Sputnik didn't shock America because Communists managed to get a satellite out there - it meant that any time Russians could drop any amount of bombs from orbit, with almost no notice.
I find it quite funny that Americans have lost their history and understanding of their Glorious Nation.