But lordygawdamighty, you shouldda seen them babies FLY!
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It would be nice if people on slashdot did not say the obvious thing, or at least did not mod up the obvious thing - otherwise Slashdot will in the end just model the most commonly held assumptions which are often also the dumbest ones
So....115197 finally dropped dead and you just inhereted his/. account?
Looks like more than just mpa files are becoming corrupted. Slashdot moderation is looking a little green around the gills too.
Wonder how long it would take a dedicated corporate group to work their way into the modding group to a point where they could actually begin to influence what shows up on/.?
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Such devices look very interesting the day they launch but get oudated in six months or so
Concur.
But a reasonable extrapolation of "outdated" every six months takes us to some pretty interesting country in fairly short order.
Consider, if you will, a roll of wallpaper with a ribbon cable coming off of one edge. Or perhaps small antennae along the back side, every meter or so. Trimmable, ten feet in width, coming in rolls up into the hundreds of meters in length, they soon colonize interior and exterior wallspace everywhere you look.
They work just as well for folks interested in proportion and harmony, as they do for large corporations and folks with an agenda.
We will love our new vistas and will wonder how people got along without them for so long.
A lot of really good materials science got accomplished on that mission. That information is incorporated into present hardware design. So yes, there was a definite demand for that information. And any new materials that get developed for future on-orbit applications can always stand a little real world testing prior to the execution of large acquisition contracts, too.
After all, the environment outside Earth's atmosphere is different, especially when it comes to long duration exposure of materials to that environment. The behavior of materials in a novel environment, over protracted periods of time, isn't a pat hand by any means. Stuff needs to be tested to ensure that it will work and keep on working, pure and simple.
You might be willing to bet your ass on some designer's predictions of how something will behave after months or years in space, but I wouldn't. Not only would I not be willing to bet my ass, I also wouldn't be willing to bet my program budget, either.
Well then, it must all be related to your point of view. From here on the beach this one was extremely sexy.
Absolutely gorgeous day with crystal clear weather and a light breeze coming in off the Atlantic.
Pad 37 is way back up north past the end of ICBM Row and the tip of the cape, so the bottom half of the vehicle was obscured by intervening vegatation as it sat on the pad, but as soon as they ignited the engines, the flash of orange light and the discharge of smoke from the flame deflector made things abundantly obvious as to what was going on.
This particular bird rose at an excruciatingly lethargic pace, and even well after it had cleared the tower, it was still taking its sweet old time. Probably the slowest liftoff I've ever watched, and I've watched a bunch going all the way back to the 50's.
The alignment of the CBC's placed them 'face on' from my point of view, and all three of them looked quite spectacular, front lit by a late afternoon sun, each core producing a beautiful orange pillar of flame.
Finally, it really got going and started to move out like you would expect. As it did so, it reached an altitude where the LH2/Lox exhaust produced a pure white contrail that stood out in stark relief against the deep blue sky. At about the same time, the rumble arrived and it was a fine, deep-throated one that bespoke of the power being released quite well.
For those of us used to things like The Shuttle or any of the large Titan's, outboard CBC separation seemed to take forever to finally occur. The vehicle was well downrange when this happened, but with optical aid the sudden plume as they separated was easily visible, as well as the CBC's themselves, slowly tumbling end over end as the core continued to accelerate on away from them.
There hasn't ever been a shuttle mission which required taking a satellite out of orbit and landing it on earth.
Incorrect. Mission 51-A and mission STS-32 both did exactly that.
There isn't any utility in doing so either.
While I have to wonder about the cost effectivness of bringing a pair of comsats back down for refurbishment and relaunch, the LDEF experiment absolutely REQUIRED that it be brought back down.
Disregarding the odds for a particularly severe thunderstorm actually reaching the altitude of the blimp (it happens), I'm curious about what happens when the blimp gets in the line of fire of one of these, or some of the other stuff that occasionally occurs way up yonder.
Breaking into a computer system is a non-violent crime. It involves monetary damages.
You break into a computer and steal my money, and it's going to become a violent crime when I break into your face and cause some non-monetary damages. Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect two-hundred dollars.
By "real" do you mean that there really are ice crystals on Quoaor? So then " how long could things remain more or less intact," i.e. in crystalline form, before they degrade back to "normal" - i.e. a non-crystalline form?
Yes. Exactly that.
The possibility of a continuous presence of ice crystals on Quoaor as a result of regular collisions is f a s c i n a t i n g
Concur.
Once we have enough information about the material density of the Kuiper Belt we could have a better estimate of that probability
Actually, we may be able to turn that concept around 180 degrees, and extract useful information. If a reasonably good fix on the gravitational and surface area cross sections of Quoaor and enough other Kuiper belt objects can be had, along with a proper applied understanding of the physics of water ice out that far, we then MAY be able to start seeing if we can set some lower bounds on the frequency of collisions required to give Kuiper Belt objects their observed (got some serious telescope time ahead of us till that little item gets sufficiently nailed down) mix of water ice morphology, and thus get a much better handle on a minimal bracketing figure for exactly how much stuff is out there.
Just this: Presuming that the effects are a.) real, and b.) the result of a collision, then how long could things remain more or less intact before they degrade back to their "normal" state?
In other words, how much time may be allowed to leave things as they are, following a collision, and will this amount of time render the unlikelihood of a collision some time during that permitted time frame a little more likely?
Humph! As far as I'm concerned, things went directly to hell just as soon as I was no longer able to simply tell the story and had to start scratching them damn marks in those doubly damnable clay tablets. Once that shit started, we lost all control of the medium. And ever since then, it's been one disaster after another. Scrolls, books, photographs, phonograph records......pfaugh! I'm going back inside my cave and I'm not coming out again until all this stuff blows over.
> I personally top-post because, during my days
> as a bottom-poster, many people couldn't be
> bothered to learn the interface and "scroll
> down" to where my message was.
Actually, you'd be better off breaking the material into sensible bits, and then addressing each bit sequentially. Of course, this involves a bit more key tapping than some people are willing to indulge in. However, the extra work is definitely worth it when it comes to clarity of presentation.
> So they'd simply assume I sent them nothing.
They'd be wrong then, wouldn't they?
> It saves both of us time if I just type the
> email the way I know they'll read it,
It might be a bit presumptious of you to say a thing like that.
> even if it isn't the preferred format
See above, re: presumption and clarity.
>:)
Knock it off with the goddamned motherfucking smiley faces!!!!!!!!
Shame they didn't take this opportunity to rid the home world of an equal weight of plutonium.*
*No, actually I do not wish to hear about what would happen if the rocket blew up during liftoff, and neither do I wish to hear about what would happen to somebody attempting to assemble that much plutonium into a single piece, or if the Bad Guys got hold of it prior to launch, or the terrible health effects on the poor techs who have to work with it, or...... ah, fuckit.
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Absolutely right!
But lordygawdamighty, you shouldda seen them babies FLY!
So....115197 finally dropped dead and you just inhereted his /. account?
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Looks like more than just mpa files are becoming corrupted. Slashdot moderation is looking a little green around the gills too.
Wonder how long it would take a dedicated corporate group to work their way into the modding group to a point where they could actually begin to influence what shows up on /.?
/tinfoil hat
It is undead. It will come back to life on its own. Kill it all you like, it doesn't care.
what the problem was with these whiners. I mean, it's not like they couldn't just get in the car and drive down to the 7-eleven, right?
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Good riddance.
NAH!
with those old boxes, how in hell did they ever make it to the moon and back alive.
Too funny! The idiots will be going around, black boxing themselves !
Rely on it to happen.
Everybody except those interesting people that anybody else would actually give a shit about.
Concur.
But a reasonable extrapolation of "outdated" every six months takes us to some pretty interesting country in fairly short order.
Consider, if you will, a roll of wallpaper with a ribbon cable coming off of one edge. Or perhaps small antennae along the back side, every meter or so. Trimmable, ten feet in width, coming in rolls up into the hundreds of meters in length, they soon colonize interior and exterior wallspace everywhere you look.
They work just as well for folks interested in proportion and harmony, as they do for large corporations and folks with an agenda.
We will love our new vistas and will wonder how people got along without them for so long.
A lot of really good materials science got accomplished on that mission. That information is incorporated into present hardware design. So yes, there was a definite demand for that information. And any new materials that get developed for future on-orbit applications can always stand a little real world testing prior to the execution of large acquisition contracts, too.
After all, the environment outside Earth's atmosphere is different, especially when it comes to long duration exposure of materials to that environment. The behavior of materials in a novel environment, over protracted periods of time, isn't a pat hand by any means. Stuff needs to be tested to ensure that it will work and keep on working, pure and simple.
You might be willing to bet your ass on some designer's predictions of how something will behave after months or years in space, but I wouldn't. Not only would I not be willing to bet my ass, I also wouldn't be willing to bet my program budget, either.
Well then, it must all be related to your point of view. From here on the beach this one was extremely sexy.
Absolutely gorgeous day with crystal clear weather and a light breeze coming in off the Atlantic.
Pad 37 is way back up north past the end of ICBM Row and the tip of the cape, so the bottom half of the vehicle was obscured by intervening vegatation as it sat on the pad, but as soon as they ignited the engines, the flash of orange light and the discharge of smoke from the flame deflector made things abundantly obvious as to what was going on.
This particular bird rose at an excruciatingly lethargic pace, and even well after it had cleared the tower, it was still taking its sweet old time. Probably the slowest liftoff I've ever watched, and I've watched a bunch going all the way back to the 50's.
The alignment of the CBC's placed them 'face on' from my point of view, and all three of them looked quite spectacular, front lit by a late afternoon sun, each core producing a beautiful orange pillar of flame.
Finally, it really got going and started to move out like you would expect. As it did so, it reached an altitude where the LH2/Lox exhaust produced a pure white contrail that stood out in stark relief against the deep blue sky. At about the same time, the rumble arrived and it was a fine, deep-throated one that bespoke of the power being released quite well.
For those of us used to things like The Shuttle or any of the large Titan's, outboard CBC separation seemed to take forever to finally occur. The vehicle was well downrange when this happened, but with optical aid the sudden plume as they separated was easily visible, as well as the CBC's themselves, slowly tumbling end over end as the core continued to accelerate on away from them.
All in all, quite the sexy launch, if you ask me.
Concur.
There hasn't ever been a shuttle mission which required taking a satellite out of orbit and landing it on earth.
Incorrect. Mission 51-A and mission STS-32 both did exactly that.
There isn't any utility in doing so either.
While I have to wonder about the cost effectivness of bringing a pair of comsats back down for refurbishment and relaunch, the LDEF experiment absolutely REQUIRED that it be brought back down.
Next time, check your facts a little closer, eh?
Disregarding the odds for a particularly severe thunderstorm actually reaching the altitude of the blimp (it happens), I'm curious about what happens when the blimp gets in the line of fire of one of these, or some of the other stuff that occasionally occurs way up yonder.
You break into a computer and steal my money, and it's going to become a violent crime when I break into your face and cause some non-monetary damages. Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect two-hundred dollars.
Yes. Exactly that.
The possibility of a continuous presence of ice crystals on Quoaor as a result of regular collisions is f a s c i n a t i n g
Concur.
Once we have enough information about the material density of the Kuiper Belt we could have a better estimate of that probability
Actually, we may be able to turn that concept around 180 degrees, and extract useful information. If a reasonably good fix on the gravitational and surface area cross sections of Quoaor and enough other Kuiper belt objects can be had, along with a proper applied understanding of the physics of water ice out that far, we then MAY be able to start seeing if we can set some lower bounds on the frequency of collisions required to give Kuiper Belt objects their observed (got some serious telescope time ahead of us till that little item gets sufficiently nailed down) mix of water ice morphology, and thus get a much better handle on a minimal bracketing figure for exactly how much stuff is out there.
Just this: Presuming that the effects are a.) real, and b.) the result of a collision, then how long could things remain more or less intact before they degrade back to their "normal" state?
In other words, how much time may be allowed to leave things as they are, following a collision, and will this amount of time render the unlikelihood of a collision some time during that permitted time frame a little more likely?
Humph! As far as I'm concerned, things went directly to hell just as soon as I was no longer able to simply tell the story and had to start scratching them damn marks in those doubly damnable clay tablets. Once that shit started, we lost all control of the medium. And ever since then, it's been one disaster after another. Scrolls, books, photographs, phonograph records......pfaugh! I'm going back inside my cave and I'm not coming out again until all this stuff blows over.
Concur. But after sorting out the less than helpful "help" I verified that this XPSP2 Firefox 1.0 box shows the vuln loud and clear. Phoo.
> as a bottom-poster, many people couldn't be
> bothered to learn the interface and "scroll
> down" to where my message was.
Actually, you'd be better off breaking the material into sensible bits, and then addressing each bit sequentially. Of course, this involves a bit more key tapping than some people are willing to indulge in. However, the extra work is definitely worth it when it comes to clarity of presentation.
> So they'd simply assume I sent them nothing.
They'd be wrong then, wouldn't they?
> It saves both of us time if I just type the
> email the way I know they'll read it,
It might be a bit presumptious of you to say a thing like that.
> even if it isn't the preferred format
See above, re: presumption and clarity.
> :)
Knock it off with the goddamned motherfucking smiley faces!!!!!!!!
In my own humble world, I've found that invoking the * function in AdBlock, along with a judiciously updated hosts file seems to do the trick.
But then again, it all probably depends on where you tend to go, url-wise.
Mark my words, five years from now, over half the things that this budget sets forth as worthy goals will have somehow gone aglimmering. Sigh.
This is silly. All seven dates have individual words or phrases to handle them and there's no ambiguity at all.
A really long time ago
A while back.
Yesterday
Today
Tomorrow
Later
Never
Shame they didn't take this opportunity to rid the home world of an equal weight of plutonium.*
*No, actually I do not wish to hear about what would happen if the rocket blew up during liftoff, and neither do I wish to hear about what would happen to somebody attempting to assemble that much plutonium into a single piece, or if the Bad Guys got hold of it prior to launch, or the terrible health effects on the poor techs who have to work with it, or ...... ah, fuckit.