As far as I know there were none... here is a list of missions from NASA... note many of the Russian landers failed for unknown reasons... the longest a lander lasted was two hours, while one of the Soviet Vega baloon missions went for two days in the atmosphere.
Venus is far more difficult to land on than Mars. We have successfully sent several probes to orbit Venus, and even a few that "landed" on the surface. They lasted a very short time due to: high concentrations of Sulfuric acid (just like in your car battery), high atmospheric pressure, roughly 1500 pounds per square inch to the Earth's roughly 15 pounds per square inch, and not least of all temperatures hot enough to melt lead... up to 450 degrees C.
If we can learn to land on Mars with a much better track record, than perhapds will we be advanced enough to start building probes to explore Venus. But at 400 million a pop, I don't think anyone will want to pay for a whole five minutes of time on Venus just yet.
I remember Mission Critical... it was a lot of fun. I beat it with no hints!:) A few spots were rough though. The 3D combat engine during the drone phase was a precursor for Homeworld and it's ilk.
This might set off a BS-o-meter or two but this IS true. Several years ago, my friend got a hurried knock on the door, it was the land lord warning that they broke a water pipe while remodeling the unit next door. He went into his room which borders on the next unit's bathroom to find several inches of water coming from his closet where he kept his old 486/100 as a server. He said the water didn't last long before flooding most of his entire unit causing a lot of damage, but he did confirm it was half way up his desktop case (laying flat in his closet while his 14" monitor was elevated on the shelf). I asked him if there was anything on the screen, to which he explained that he was too panicked to turn the monitor on, only to rip the surge strip's cord from the wall socket. His system was on at the time and apparantly the water never reached the power supply. He took apart the case and found the motherboard had been completely submerged. It must have been so for at least two minutes, perhaps more as the water had not yet reached his living room when the landlord knocked. He called me that evening asking what he should do. I told him the board/cards were most likely shot and not even to try it, as he might cause a fire or damage the components that weren't submerged. As this was an old system he didn't care and wanted to try out of curiosity. He removed the HD (data was important to him) which wasn't submerged (or "barely wet"). After allowing a full day of motherboard and cards lying on his table to dry(and the contractors cutting out his drywall and carpet), we used a blow dryer on low to make sure the moisture was gone. Since the system was powered up when the disaster (Noah's second flood) happened, I didn't even think the thing would boot... and if it did, I thought smoke would surely soon follow. Strangely the sytem worked fine. It is still working as a Linux box many years later. I still can't believe it. Don't try this at home.
Exactly... Win2k is quite stable. Mac l-users are talking out of their collective arses when they blatantly state "windows isn't stable..." well, OS 7.x wasn't very stable! Can we say memory allocation/fragmentation problems? Try leaving a Max Os 7.x machine up for more than a week... ha!
The ballistics are much different. The 9mm round will simply bounce off body armor, the 5.7x28mm goes clean through. It's like throwing a brick at something versus a lawn dart (an exaggerated example). It actually carries 60% of the reciol of a standard 9mm pistol round, making the P90 in full auto mode very accurate and easy to control (MUCH better weapon than the HK MP5). Check out this link for info on the 5.7x28mm SS190 round Too bad these are illegal in the US, I would LOVE to target shoot with the Five-Seven pistol model that shoots the same rounds as the P90, 60% of the recoil of a 9mm and 20 rounds in one little clip??? WOW
Just don't fire any of SG-1's new P90 ammo inside the Serenity... the 5.7x28mm NATO round will penetrate 48 layers of kevlar, 20mm of titanium or a standard NATO flack helmit at 200 meters:) not to mention O'Niell's P90 hold 50 rounds in a single clip. See FN (the P90 manufacturer) web site:
P90
Ok... had to mix Firefly and SG1 somehow in this thread.
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Erm, the first flight was in 1903, WWI started in 1914... In fact the first flight Centennial day closely coincided with the release of RoTK....
How about 'XP Bloated'
As far as I know there were none... here is a list of missions from NASA... note many of the Russian landers failed for unknown reasons... the longest a lander lasted was two hours, while one of the Soviet Vega baloon missions went for two days in the atmosphere.
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http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chronology_v
If we can learn to land on Mars with a much better track record, than perhapds will we be advanced enough to start building probes to explore Venus. But at 400 million a pop, I don't think anyone will want to pay for a whole five minutes of time on Venus just yet.
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http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive
Yes, but now to the real question: can they make the Batplane?
I still play old DOS games like Kings Quest 3 on my XP box :) Yup, that was sure a selling point for my Wintel PC. (removing tongue from cheek)
I remember Mission Critical... it was a lot of fun. I beat it with no hints! :) A few spots were rough though. The 3D combat engine during the drone phase was a precursor for Homeworld and it's ilk.
This might set off a BS-o-meter or two but this IS true. Several years ago, my friend got a hurried knock on the door, it was the land lord warning that they broke a water pipe while remodeling the unit next door. He went into his room which borders on the next unit's bathroom to find several inches of water coming from his closet where he kept his old 486/100 as a server. He said the water didn't last long before flooding most of his entire unit causing a lot of damage, but he did confirm it was half way up his desktop case (laying flat in his closet while his 14" monitor was elevated on the shelf). I asked him if there was anything on the screen, to which he explained that he was too panicked to turn the monitor on, only to rip the surge strip's cord from the wall socket. His system was on at the time and apparantly the water never reached the power supply. He took apart the case and found the motherboard had been completely submerged. It must have been so for at least two minutes, perhaps more as the water had not yet reached his living room when the landlord knocked. He called me that evening asking what he should do. I told him the board/cards were most likely shot and not even to try it, as he might cause a fire or damage the components that weren't submerged. As this was an old system he didn't care and wanted to try out of curiosity. He removed the HD (data was important to him) which wasn't submerged (or "barely wet"). After allowing a full day of motherboard and cards lying on his table to dry(and the contractors cutting out his drywall and carpet), we used a blow dryer on low to make sure the moisture was gone. Since the system was powered up when the disaster (Noah's second flood) happened, I didn't even think the thing would boot... and if it did, I thought smoke would surely soon follow. Strangely the sytem worked fine. It is still working as a Linux box many years later. I still can't believe it. Don't try this at home.
Exactly... Win2k is quite stable. Mac l-users are talking out of their collective arses when they blatantly state "windows isn't stable..." well, OS 7.x wasn't very stable! Can we say memory allocation/fragmentation problems? Try leaving a Max Os 7.x machine up for more than a week... ha!
The ballistics are much different. The 9mm round will simply bounce off body armor, the 5.7x28mm goes clean through. It's like throwing a brick at something versus a lawn dart (an exaggerated example). It actually carries 60% of the reciol of a standard 9mm pistol round, making the P90 in full auto mode very accurate and easy to control (MUCH better weapon than the HK MP5). Check out this link for info on the 5.7x28mm SS190 round Too bad these are illegal in the US, I would LOVE to target shoot with the Five-Seven pistol model that shoots the same rounds as the P90, 60% of the recoil of a 9mm and 20 rounds in one little clip??? WOW
Just don't fire any of SG-1's new P90 ammo inside the Serenity... the 5.7x28mm NATO round will penetrate 48 layers of kevlar, 20mm of titanium or a standard NATO flack helmit at 200 meters :) not to mention O'Niell's P90 hold 50 rounds in a single clip. See FN (the P90 manufacturer) web site:
P90
Ok... had to mix Firefly and SG1 somehow in this thread.