Although Russians did it in one go, it took some sub-orbital flights of monkeys to get John Glenn where he was... Alan Shepherd was the first american in space, not John Glenn.
Burtan and co still have to work out the mechanics of orbital flight, finding each other in space, matching orbits etc. Although it is no longer rocket science, apart from Americans and Russians, no one has tried it, yet.
I don't mind dying trying to reach space. I do mind dying while crossing the road.
Some of the others were serious contenders. Unless you research the "wacky" theories as well, no one will find some new rules. Submarines: Huh, everyone knows metals sink in the water. Heavier than Air travel: Duh, of course impossible (according to much reowned Lord Kelvin, discoverer o many thermodynamic rules).
Flying from baloons is quite viable, especially when you are talking about really big payloads. I hope daVinci team will manage to get to space, eventually.
Come on.... If your logic is true, then checking the code into a RCS would constitute as redistributing code. Contractor was contracted to do some work, in such cases copyright of the work belongs to the contractor, not contractee. "Distributing the code to the contractor" doesn't mean anything because they already own the code.
I work in an office far away from our head office. When I check code in to our RCS, do I distribute my code? Bollocks.
I have a P100 and P200 acting as firewalls, so what? I have many 486 and early Pentium boards lying around. Try to find a non-EDO 72 pin ram. Unless I'm dumpster-diving, I can't get them. Last dumpster-diving trip ended with around 50 chips but none of them were non-EDO. If you try to buy trough the proper channels (Crucial.com etc.), be ready to pay a lot.
But your cost doesn't. You could buy a $1000 PC ten years ago and it would have been a 386DX40 with 4MB. Now you can buy a $1000 PC now and get, I don't know, an Athlon XP3000 with 256MB?
The technology has advanced, so what? You can buy components and build something for $400-500 as well, it would be just smaller and less cost effective (especially in hard drives). You can go out and buy a 600cc 25hp equivalent PC. What you can't buy is really obsolete hardware and there is no point. Since you won't be able to get components when needed... Usually old components' prices go up after they hit the bottom because they become "rare".
The United Kingdom... As the commons are fighting about the most important matter in the world, the fox hunting bill, I am here, listening to BBC, completely free, on a digital radio, hassle-free, propoganda-free, payment-free... Free...
I always get suprised how people in America live with being charged for everything like watching ads on TV and listening to radio.
Sorry guys, in every country I've lived in, listening to radio was free.:) I just can't understand the concept.
Thanks. From the web page: WINNER: Hugo Award Best SF Short Story 1985... So that means I must have read it ages ago or I have recently re-read the Hugos somewhere.. Darn. I can't remember. Anyway, thanks for the link, now I know where to look at.:-)
I remember reading a quite striking short story about a crystal shell surrounding every solar system and it can only be broken from inside. It works like a semi-permeable interface, preventing aliens coming/communicating inside. A civilization will only manage to get outside of the shell by breaking the "egg". I can't remember the writer of the story nor the name but I think I read it on either Asimov or Analog in the last couple of years. Can anyone recall this story and remind me of its writer please?
BIOS updates? Last time I did it, it was from an El Burrito CD. Who needs a real floppy when an emulation is good enough? What virus recovery? I use Linux and I don't have any virii.
System/crash recovery? Ever heard of Knoppix? Works like a dream. If you're wedded to MS, there is BartPE CD.
Real modems don't have drivers. They support Hayes command set and just work. Also they tend to arrive in small boxes with external power supplies, which gets plugged into serial ports. If you don't have enough serial ports, these days an USB to Serial port adapter costs a nickel.
You didn't go for the lower TOC solution, you went for the crappy solution. Don't come back crying when your toy modems start breaking up or underperform.
the star was only 14 million years old. Although it is pretty long for us, it is an blink of the eye for evolution. It we are talking about native life, they wouldn't have been more than single celled bacteria. Life was just like that for 3.5 billion years on earth. Everything happened in the last 500 million years.
If they weren't native, then probably they had the means of travelling between star systems, no contest, it's just like a huge Florida evacuation, only 14 million times larger.:-)
The one happened before "casted shadows", not lighted up the night as if it were day. It's not the same thing.
Venus can cast shadows and it is pretty bright but it doesn't make it as it were day. Neither full mooon, which is the brightest object in the sky by far but it makes the terrain visible pretty easily.
Good question. Although neutrinos are fast, they are still not as fast as light. 1987a was pretty close, I'm not sure how much later than the actual explosion they would hit us. On the other hand, this supernove was detected more than a couple of days ago, someone must have been observed by now.
The other thing I wonder is will we be able to see the light echo of this supernova, it would be pretty great to see the surrounding layers of gas.
p.s. Yes, I know that is a color image -- they probably took 3 grayscale images with red,green,and blue filters.
Bingo! Hubble takes grayscale pictures and these gets converted to false colour later. The reason? Hubble doesn't shoot with real colour because it would be useless for science. Instead, it uses some filters to pick up radiation from some certaion ionized atoms, hence HII (Hydrogen two) reference in the annoted picture. Now, looking at this picture, certain hue (like red) can represent HII. As a result, anywhere red occurs, you know there is lots of hydrogen. This helps with the amount of science can be obtained from a very pretty picture (after someone tweaks the colours to look pleasant for non-scientists).
Hubble Heritage Project is an awesome project and they should release more pictures. All of the HHP pictures are for real science but coloured for our pleasure as well. Hubble time is so rare and expensive, you can't waste it on snapshots.
I was thinking of the same thing lately. I went to my local bookshoop and bought 5 books by some 'new' writers (post-1990). So far I can recommend only some guy called Jeff Noon but I don't think you'll find him in US, he is quite an UK man, almost all of his stories take place in Manchester city. I am completely satisfied. Out of five random writers, I managed to satisfy myself with a very pleasant evening, reading his book called "Vurt". So not all hope is lost.
I don't need a TV, you insensitive clod. I sold mine ages ago and I'm happy without makeover programs, sports channels and rubbish news. I have my DAB radio and I'm happy.
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Ah, did he do more than the monkeys during his short fly? probably not. :-)
I believe Amstrong didn't said "a large step for Americans" but "mankind". Even NASA gets it right sometimes, don't they?
It will get cheaper mate... The actual (non-R&D) costs are not that much, compared to a rocket launch.
Burtan and co still have to work out the mechanics of orbital flight, finding each other in space, matching orbits etc. Although it is no longer rocket science, apart from Americans and Russians, no one has tried it, yet.
Some of the others were serious contenders. Unless you research the "wacky" theories as well, no one will find some new rules. Submarines: Huh, everyone knows metals sink in the water. Heavier than Air travel: Duh, of course impossible (according to much reowned Lord Kelvin, discoverer o many thermodynamic rules).
Flying from baloons is quite viable, especially when you are talking about really big payloads. I hope daVinci team will manage to get to space, eventually.
I work in an office far away from our head office. When I check code in to our RCS, do I distribute my code? Bollocks.
I have a P100 and P200 acting as firewalls, so what? I have many 486 and early Pentium boards lying around. Try to find a non-EDO 72 pin ram. Unless I'm dumpster-diving, I can't get them. Last dumpster-diving trip ended with around 50 chips but none of them were non-EDO. If you try to buy trough the proper channels (Crucial.com etc.), be ready to pay a lot.
The technology has advanced, so what? You can buy components and build something for $400-500 as well, it would be just smaller and less cost effective (especially in hard drives). You can go out and buy a 600cc 25hp equivalent PC. What you can't buy is really obsolete hardware and there is no point. Since you won't be able to get components when needed... Usually old components' prices go up after they hit the bottom because they become "rare".
I always get suprised how people in America live with being charged for everything like watching ads on TV and listening to radio.
Sorry guys, in every country I've lived in, listening to radio was free. :) I just can't understand the concept.
Thanks. From the web page: WINNER: Hugo Award Best SF Short Story 1985... So that means I must have read it ages ago or I have recently re-read the Hugos somewhere.. Darn. I can't remember. Anyway, thanks for the link, now I know where to look at. :-)
I remember reading a quite striking short story about a crystal shell surrounding every solar system and it can only be broken from inside. It works like a semi-permeable interface, preventing aliens coming /communicating inside. A civilization will only manage to get outside of the shell by breaking the "egg". I can't remember the writer of the story nor the name but I think I read it on either Asimov or Analog in the last couple of years. Can anyone recall this story and remind me of its writer please?
Two astronauts do the kiss of life, transferring oxygen between each other because American astronaut won't let the oxygen cylinder go.
oh damn. Try to be clever and always be the fool. :-) That's me!
System/crash recovery? Ever heard of Knoppix? Works like a dream. If you're wedded to MS, there is BartPE CD.
You didn't go for the lower TOC solution, you went for the crappy solution. Don't come back crying when your toy modems start breaking up or underperform.
Are we talking about optical detection or optical observation?
Oh fuck. I did RTFA and it is wireless but I don't believe it at all, it is just a funny article. I just don't believe it, it's probably a fake.
It wasn't wireless and it wasn't TCP/IP...
If they weren't native, then probably they had the means of travelling between star systems, no contest, it's just like a huge Florida evacuation, only 14 million times larger. :-)
Venus can cast shadows and it is pretty bright but it doesn't make it as it were day. Neither full mooon, which is the brightest object in the sky by far but it makes the terrain visible pretty easily.
The other thing I wonder is will we be able to see the light echo of this supernova, it would be pretty great to see the surrounding layers of gas.
Bingo! Hubble takes grayscale pictures and these gets converted to false colour later. The reason? Hubble doesn't shoot with real colour because it would be useless for science. Instead, it uses some filters to pick up radiation from some certaion ionized atoms, hence HII (Hydrogen two) reference in the annoted picture. Now, looking at this picture, certain hue (like red) can represent HII. As a result, anywhere red occurs, you know there is lots of hydrogen. This helps with the amount of science can be obtained from a very pretty picture (after someone tweaks the colours to look pleasant for non-scientists).
Hubble Heritage Project is an awesome project and they should release more pictures. All of the HHP pictures are for real science but coloured for our pleasure as well. Hubble time is so rare and expensive, you can't waste it on snapshots.
They don't have to go that far, ending somewhere in between, preferrably in an exploding rocket sounds fine to me.
I was thinking of the same thing lately. I went to my local bookshoop and bought 5 books by some 'new' writers (post-1990). So far I can recommend only some guy called Jeff Noon but I don't think you'll find him in US, he is quite an UK man, almost all of his stories take place in Manchester city. I am completely satisfied. Out of five random writers, I managed to satisfy myself with a very pleasant evening, reading his book called "Vurt". So not all hope is lost.
I don't need a TV, you insensitive clod. I sold mine ages ago and I'm happy without makeover programs, sports channels and rubbish news. I have my DAB radio and I'm happy.