C'mon, it's NASA. They spout well-formed (or at least tortured and over-extended) acronyms like a Tourette's sufferer curses*.
*Yes, I know, this is an extremely rare symptom, much more prominent in the stereotype of this disorder than justified by reality. Comedy is a cruel Muse, don't you think?
Again, we're talkin' Best Buy here. The basic warranty is 90 days. The extended warranty for the rest of the 10,000 years cost $OMGTHATSALOTOFMONEY.
And they won't sell you the clock without the warranty. "Nope, sorry, fresh out, we got a really small allocation from the distribution center. I think you passed the guy who bought the last one walking out of the store as you were walking in. Check at the other store (20 miles) across town. Kthxbye."
I think you're right, from a technical perspective; the Phoenix's engineering seems to have more to do with the Falcon than the Eagle. But like many things, history is written by managers; the heritage I've seen cited most often is the program heritage, which is in the U. S. Navy acquisition trace: Eagle -> Phoenix.
Part of the the radar and missile heritage probably does run from F-12 to F-14, if I can believe this article; the other part of the combat avionics suite was from the F6D Missileer/AAM-N-10 Eagle programs. This latter is usually counted as the Phoenix's official lineage.
But the F-14 airframe was pretty much "bastard love child of the F111B."
obHistoryPedantry: the safest thing one might say is that Sherman didn't so much pioneer it as perfect its practice on the North American continent. He wasn't even the first in the U. S. Civil War, really; Sheridan gave the Shenandoah Valley a taste of scorched earth a few months earlier, destroying the economy, foodstocks, and anything that might give the Confederate military logistical or moral support.
Particularly, don't forget the ancient practice of salting the soil of a conquered enemy.
"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land." -Jon Stewart
Well, we all know that counterculture role-playing games are just training grounds for crime. The obvious solution is raids on all their "publishers" (as the terror cells call themselves) and arrests of all their active trainees.
Please stand by. Agents of the DHS will be there shortly.
Uhhhh - actually, the "science" part is the real "meat" of any "science fiction" story. The people are peripheral, and expendable.
Lol, spoken like a true slashbot. (Although I admit to great impatience (and disappointment) when purported SF flies right past "Space Opera" into "Soap Opera." Battlestar Galactica, I'm looking at you....)
I'm curious, then; how do you classify (fer example) Poul Andersen? Many of his best stories are character-driven, although the science is as hard as hard SF can get.
I think you, like many Hard SF fans, are over-emphasizing that aspect, to the detriment of other critical factors (like characterization... the expendable people you speak of), but that's a pretty common criticism.
FWIW, I prefer hard SF, mostly, but just science-and-technology will never carry a story.
This started with the cult of the Baroque composer. Check this. (warning: PDF)
Johann Sebastian Bach was often criticized in later (post-18th-Century) critical literature for "borrowing" from other composers. If he or his son Johann Christian were starting out today, they'd be mixers, not composers.
once said "There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you." Evidently, his corrupt spirit continues to rule the dark kingdom of Mediopolis. Fair use is a legal right, at least within U.S. law, but it appears that corporate media copyright conglomerates will make you fight for that right, each and every you exercise it, until you give up.
Very good point, and probably the best answer to my admittedly pedantic POV. Probably the exact proviso GP poster should have made, since "all life" is pretty broad.
Where do you think most radioactives in any forming protoplanet wind up settling? (Hint: they're pretty dense.)
So, if you're trying to imply that Earth's core heat has something to do with the Sun, no, sorry, completely wrong. If you want to argue that it has something to do with an earlier generation star that bequeathed heavy radioactive elements into the Sun's nursery gas cloud, you'd be right but off-topic.
I never thought I'd have to use this in an astrophysics discussion, but "Correlation is not causation".
No aspect, characteristic, or behavior of the proto-Sun caused the Earth to form. Gravitational coalescence of a protoplanetary disk causes both planets and stars to form, starting at approximately the same time, although the star usually fires up before the planets are done.
No gravity, no protoplanetary disk, no Earth, no hydrothermal vents
In the immortal words of/., I've corrected that for you.
Slashdot Mirror
C'mon, it's NASA. They spout well-formed (or at least tortured and over-extended) acronyms like a Tourette's sufferer curses*.
*Yes, I know, this is an extremely rare symptom, much more prominent in the stereotype of this disorder than justified by reality. Comedy is a cruel Muse, don't you think?
Good point. It could have been "Seinfeld-Gates" II. I wouldn't wish that on MacOS, let alone an OS I like.
The correct solution is "Tether the space elevator with Cat x, for sufficiently high values of x."*
*Derivation of the value of x is left as an exercise for the reader.
Microsoft refuses to bankroll the "We Are Linux" marketing video campaign. Those monopolist bastages.
I suspect it's the unholy fusion of accounting and proctology.
Again, we're talkin' Best Buy here. The basic warranty is 90 days. The extended warranty for the rest of the 10,000 years cost $OMGTHATSALOTOFMONEY.
And they won't sell you the clock without the warranty. "Nope, sorry, fresh out, we got a really small allocation from the distribution center. I think you passed the guy who bought the last one walking out of the store as you were walking in. Check at the other store (20 miles) across town. Kthxbye."
I think you're right, from a technical perspective; the Phoenix's engineering seems to have more to do with the Falcon than the Eagle. But like many things, history is written by managers; the heritage I've seen cited most often is the program heritage, which is in the U. S. Navy acquisition trace: Eagle -> Phoenix.
Part of the the radar and missile heritage probably does run from F-12 to F-14, if I can believe this article; the other part of the combat avionics suite was from the F6D Missileer/AAM-N-10 Eagle programs. This latter is usually counted as the Phoenix's official lineage.
But the F-14 airframe was pretty much "bastard love child of the F111B."
increased the fuel's specific impulse by nearly 30%
That would make that fuel-development program much more successful than the borane fuel the Air Force was looking at the B-70 program.
BTW your joke didn't "Whoosh" because it was going supersonic. More like "BOoooooommmm!"
Mankind is the reflective stuff on road signs?
Yes. Soylent Red steet signs are PEOPLE!
So are Soylent Yellow lane dividing stripes.
obHistoryPedantry: the safest thing one might say is that Sherman didn't so much pioneer it as perfect its practice on the North American continent. He wasn't even the first in the U. S. Civil War, really; Sheridan gave the Shenandoah Valley a taste of scorched earth a few months earlier, destroying the economy, foodstocks, and anything that might give the Confederate military logistical or moral support.
Particularly, don't forget the ancient practice of salting the soil of a conquered enemy.
Dover?
"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land." -Jon Stewart
Well, we all know that counterculture role-playing games are just training grounds for crime. The obvious solution is raids on all their "publishers" (as the terror cells call themselves) and arrests of all their active trainees.
Please stand by. Agents of the DHS will be there shortly.
That's so weird, I'm Spartacus too!
So we're in serious trouble if the Sun's power level gets over 9,000(!).
Uhhhh - actually, the "science" part is the real "meat" of any "science fiction" story. The people are peripheral, and expendable.
Lol, spoken like a true slashbot. (Although I admit to great impatience (and disappointment) when purported SF flies right past "Space Opera" into "Soap Opera." Battlestar Galactica, I'm looking at you....)
I'm curious, then; how do you classify (fer example) Poul Andersen? Many of his best stories are character-driven, although the science is as hard as hard SF can get.
I think you, like many Hard SF fans, are over-emphasizing that aspect, to the detriment of other critical factors (like characterization... the expendable people you speak of), but that's a pretty common criticism.
FWIW, I prefer hard SF, mostly, but just science-and-technology will never carry a story.
This started with the cult of the Baroque composer. Check this. (warning: PDF)
Johann Sebastian Bach was often criticized in later (post-18th-Century) critical literature for "borrowing" from other composers. If he or his son Johann Christian were starting out today, they'd be mixers, not composers.
I'm afraid I don't understand your master plan.
He accidentally the submit button.
4chan ftw
once said "There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you." Evidently, his corrupt spirit continues to rule the dark kingdom of Mediopolis. Fair use is a legal right, at least within U.S. law, but it appears that corporate media copyright conglomerates will make you fight for that right, each and every you exercise it, until you give up.
Very good point, and probably the best answer to my admittedly pedantic POV. Probably the exact proviso GP poster should have made, since "all life" is pretty broad.
Where do you think the vent gets its energy? Where do you think the core gets its energy?
Radioisotopic decay.
Where do you think most radioactives in any forming protoplanet wind up settling? (Hint: they're pretty dense.)
So, if you're trying to imply that Earth's core heat has something to do with the Sun, no, sorry, completely wrong. If you want to argue that it has something to do with an earlier generation star that bequeathed heavy radioactive elements into the Sun's nursery gas cloud, you'd be right but off-topic.
I never thought I'd have to use this in an astrophysics discussion, but "Correlation is not causation".
No aspect, characteristic, or behavior of the proto-Sun caused the Earth to form. Gravitational coalescence of a protoplanetary disk causes both planets and stars to form, starting at approximately the same time, although the star usually fires up before the planets are done.
No gravity, no protoplanetary disk, no Earth, no hydrothermal vents
In the immortal words of /., I've corrected that for you.
the sun is the source of all life on this planet
All life on this planet?
"This one goes to 203."