Which makes me wonder how much fun and games would have erupted had some Wiley Hackist been able to perform a similar trick, being sufficiently careful to conceal the payload (unlike the dingdongs behind this one), which would then have DDoS's something similarly large at midnight on the first day of the year 2000.
Looks damn good on paper, and you can bet that certain quarters in DOD are slavering over it, but the Radiation Problem is not going to go away. People just HATE radiation and there's nothing that anybody can do about it. Any gain that extremely long loiter might give would surely be offset by worldwide outcry over the fact that the thing was spewing radiation (and it really doesn't matter how little might be actually spewed) the whole time, and could concievably dump a serious load of the stuff on somebody's head if it was to fall out of the sky in a nonscheduled way.
The article mentions that creatine is a natural component of meat. So, that begs the question. Do most of us geeky smart asses ingest a higher proportion of meat in our diets than the average dummy? Is that why we stink and think? Inquiring minds want to know.
Among all the other interesting fallout that may come from el cheapo diamond by the kilo, I kind of wonder what optical instruments (telescopes in particular) might wind up turning into?
Diamond has a very high index of refractivity. It's also pretty hard.
A rucksack 'scope with uncoated optics that I could safely clean the objective lens using sandpaper sounds pretty cool. Rugged as all hell and tack sharp in the visual department. I like it!
If it's good enough for TR, then it's good enough for me.
Nowadays, with all the stick-making that's going on all over the place, one can't be too careful. Best make sure the stick in your own hand will do the job, eh?
Linux doesn't need improving is dogmatic nonsense.
Nicely spoken, and highlights the unrelenting weirdness that computer operating systems seem to engender in otherwise more or less rational minds.
I'm beginning to think that the hyper-rationality that's required to make something as complicated (and prone to gross fuckuppery should ONE little link in the chain be faulty) as a computer system actually WORK, utterly expends such stores of rationality as those minds who work on computer systems possess.
The sonofabitches close their little coding operation or whatever, and instantly morph into wild-eyed looneys, foaming at the mouth and spouting crazed nonsense.
Hubble is in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). It's got an orbital velocity of around 4KM/Sec.
Off by a factor of two, give or take. 8 km/sec for a typical LEO velocity would be better.
The Earth orbits the sun at around 30KM/S, give or take.
This one's right where it ought to be.
The fastest any object has left the earth is around 8KM/S for the interplanetary probes
8 miles per second it is. Chalk it up to a conversion error.
Otherwise your post is on the money. Yeah yeah, I know I know, it's a damnable bit of persnickityness, but no sense in giving folks bad numbers when good ones are just as cheap, eh?
In Florida: Kennedy Space Center. The tour operator has attempted to Disnify it with middling success, but the fact remains that you'll be looking at that place on this earth where folks departed for the moon, and machines have been hurled all the way out of the Solar System. Nowhere else on the planet does such a place exist. Astronaut Hall of Fame nearby is also worth a bit of your time, since you're already in the area.
Also, in Fort Myers: Edison Museum. Nevermind what kind of guy TAE really was, the stuff in that museum is well worth your time. Ditto Henry Ford's place next door.
In Orlando, Pinecastle Air Field has become Orlando International Airport. Pinecastle was where the piloted drop tests (unpowered) of the Bell X-1 that was to go on and become the first manned craft to break the sound barrier, were conducted. For whatever reason, there is nothing whatsoever in the entire metro Orlando area that would lead you to believe that this crucial set of drop tests were conducted locally.
In St. Petersburg the Dali Museum (world's largest collection of the gentleman's works) can't properly be called technological, but since you're in the neighborhood you'd best not miss it.
a collision with even a small object in retrograde orbit could ruin your whole day
A collision with anything in a PROgrade orbit would likely be little fun either. Closing velocities of a mere few tenths of a mile per second are sufficient to scuff up the paint job quite well, among other things. If the colliding object in question is a full size payload, or perhaps upper stage, then things have gone just about as far down the flusher as they can go when it comes to your health and well-being, immediately post-collision.
Well... uh... yeah, I guess we oughtta cancel squeaky clean, endlessly renewable energy if it's gonna interfere with something as crucial as recreational boating. Yeah. Of course. Silly me.
I was thinking more along the lines of a sort of Wi-Fi FidoNet or something. Hobbyists, being hobbyists, will cheerfully GIVE AWAY unused bandwidth and pay a surprisingly high price for the privilege of doing so, all just for the fun of it.
And like FidoNet in its glory days, it will be spotty, prone to quirkiness, aggravating, and loads of fun.
Or perhaps not.
The major fly in the ointment will be the corporate bastards who will attempt to stifle such expression in the name of preventing âoepiracyâ or some such damnable claptrap.
Watched it go from the top of the Cocoa Beach Surf Company parking garage. Haze rendered the gantry invisible (odd, considering that it was clearly visible earlier in the morning from farther away down at PAFB where I was surfing [Crystal went by on her longboard on one wave and MOONED me. Funnier'n hell!]) but just as soon as they lit the solids, it was VERY obvious that a shot was on. Nominal everything all the way up and out using my Mark I eyeballs. Good loud rumble. Nice to see we're on our way. Cross your fingers and hope the next one goes up just as cleanly.
they had to shoot the foam at a completely unrealistic number to get the results they "forced". The foam wasn't falling from very high, and as foam would have an extremely low terminal velocity even if it did. The rocket was just taking off and so wasn't moving very fast, and the foam was moving up at the same speed until it fell.
Huh?
Am I missing something here?
Foam broke loose and hit left wing eighty some odd seconds into the mission. Shuttle going like a bat out of hell by that time. Foam in slipstream hits wing at impressive velocity.
The rocket was just taking off and so wasn't moving very fast, and the foam was moving up at the same speed until it fell.
Be glad you don't live there. From the link: The city currently lacks a wastewater collection and disposal system; virtually all domestic and industrial wastewater discharges through some 600 random discharge points into the two rivers, which run through the city. Since these two rivers are the source of the city's drinking water, the lack of wastewater management facilities gives rise to a daily risk to public health.
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Which makes me wonder how much fun and games would have erupted had some Wiley Hackist been able to perform a similar trick, being sufficiently careful to conceal the payload (unlike the dingdongs behind this one), which would then have DDoS's something similarly large at midnight on the first day of the year 2000.
Looks damn good on paper, and you can bet that certain quarters in DOD are slavering over it, but the Radiation Problem is not going to go away. People just HATE radiation and there's nothing that anybody can do about it. Any gain that extremely long loiter might give would surely be offset by worldwide outcry over the fact that the thing was spewing radiation (and it really doesn't matter how little might be actually spewed) the whole time, and could concievably dump a serious load of the stuff on somebody's head if it was to fall out of the sky in a nonscheduled way.
Hmm. Don't spend much time in restaurants, do we?
The article mentions that creatine is a natural component of meat. So, that begs the question. Do most of us geeky smart asses ingest a higher proportion of meat in our diets than the average dummy? Is that why we stink and think? Inquiring minds want to know.
Diamond has a very high index of refractivity. It's also pretty hard.
A rucksack 'scope with uncoated optics that I could safely clean the objective lens using sandpaper sounds pretty cool. Rugged as all hell and tack sharp in the visual department. I like it!
Theodore Roosevelt
If it's good enough for TR, then it's good enough for me.
Nowadays, with all the stick-making that's going on all over the place, one can't be too careful. Best make sure the stick in your own hand will do the job, eh?
Nicely spoken, and highlights the unrelenting weirdness that computer operating systems seem to engender in otherwise more or less rational minds.
I'm beginning to think that the hyper-rationality that's required to make something as complicated (and prone to gross fuckuppery should ONE little link in the chain be faulty) as a computer system actually WORK, utterly expends such stores of rationality as those minds who work on computer systems possess.
The sonofabitches close their little coding operation or whatever, and instantly morph into wild-eyed looneys, foaming at the mouth and spouting crazed nonsense.
Windows is THE GODHEAD!
Linux is THE GODHEAD!
WhatEVER!
Hmm. I'm getting the impression that it's the Robber Baron Variant.
I'm also getting the impression that Bill Gates secretely owns SCO.
and it should have been posted under "privacy" (or the dangerously increasing lack thereof).
Off by a factor of two, give or take. 8 km/sec for a typical LEO velocity would be better.
The Earth orbits the sun at around 30KM/S, give or take.
This one's right where it ought to be.
The fastest any object has left the earth is around 8KM/S for the interplanetary probes
8 miles per second it is. Chalk it up to a conversion error.
Otherwise your post is on the money. Yeah yeah, I know I know, it's a damnable bit of persnickityness, but no sense in giving folks bad numbers when good ones are just as cheap, eh?
Also, in Fort Myers: Edison Museum. Nevermind what kind of guy TAE really was, the stuff in that museum is well worth your time. Ditto Henry Ford's place next door.
In Orlando, Pinecastle Air Field has become Orlando International Airport. Pinecastle was where the piloted drop tests (unpowered) of the Bell X-1 that was to go on and become the first manned craft to break the sound barrier, were conducted. For whatever reason, there is nothing whatsoever in the entire metro Orlando area that would lead you to believe that this crucial set of drop tests were conducted locally.
In St. Petersburg the Dali Museum (world's largest collection of the gentleman's works) can't properly be called technological, but since you're in the neighborhood you'd best not miss it.
A collision with anything in a PROgrade orbit would likely be little fun either. Closing velocities of a mere few tenths of a mile per second are sufficient to scuff up the paint job quite well, among other things. If the colliding object in question is a full size payload, or perhaps upper stage, then things have gone just about as far down the flusher as they can go when it comes to your health and well-being, immediately post-collision.
Bottom line: We're ALL idiots and if we wish to communicate with the idiot next to us, we must shift gears and use that idiot's idiom.
Pacific.
Recreational boating.
Recreational boating.
Well ... uh ... yeah, I guess we oughtta cancel squeaky clean, endlessly renewable energy if it's gonna interfere with something as crucial as recreational boating. Yeah. Of course. Silly me.
Recreational boating.
Yes, we went to the moon.
No, you can't see ANY of the stuff we left there with ANY telescope. Too small. Too far away. Good thing we also left the laser reflectors, huh.
Carry on.
BOOOOOM!!
Ducking.
And like FidoNet in its glory days, it will be spotty, prone to quirkiness, aggravating, and loads of fun.
Or perhaps not.
The major fly in the ointment will be the corporate bastards who will attempt to stifle such expression in the name of preventing âoepiracyâ or some such damnable claptrap.
Bring on the Anarchists, says me.
Watched it go from the top of the Cocoa Beach Surf Company parking garage. Haze rendered the gantry invisible (odd, considering that it was clearly visible earlier in the morning from farther away down at PAFB where I was surfing [Crystal went by on her longboard on one wave and MOONED me. Funnier'n hell!]) but just as soon as they lit the solids, it was VERY obvious that a shot was on. Nominal everything all the way up and out using my Mark I eyeballs. Good loud rumble. Nice to see we're on our way. Cross your fingers and hope the next one goes up just as cleanly.
"Fat Chance"
Frickin' HILARIOUS! Apologies, no mod points at this time. Others, however, will mod you to minus five hundred - heretic.
Huh?
Am I missing something here?
Foam broke loose and hit left wing eighty some odd seconds into the mission.
Shuttle going like a bat out of hell by that time.
Foam in slipstream hits wing at impressive velocity.
The rocket was just taking off and so wasn't moving very fast, and the foam was moving up at the same speed until it fell.
Just HAD to look at that again.
Huh?
Be glad you don't live there. From the link: The city currently lacks a wastewater collection and disposal system; virtually all domestic and industrial wastewater discharges through some 600 random discharge points into the two rivers, which run through the city. Since these two rivers are the source of the city's drinking water, the lack of wastewater management facilities gives rise to a daily risk to public health.
Phew. No thanks.
Actually, I do it for free. Call me a karma whore if you will.