Noo....3 cat6 per room at least. While it isn't an office...you would like to rearrange the furniture once in a while wouldn't you? Nobody likes to be tied to the damn wall jack. Remember, you can use that cat6 for phone too....run at least 3 lines per room, and you are guaranteed network and phone anywhere anytime.
On a side note - this dude is pre-approved for a home in NO that is gutted. Sort of sounds like your mid-early 20's kind of guy that doesn't yet know how to run wires let alone re-build an entire house...not to mention the issues of actually paying and managing that home. I think he might be a little over his head thinking about all he can do. Usually, you need to think more like this: What do I NEED to do?
Get your needs done...and make sure along the way you put $400 worth of cable in the walls and a $200 patch panel setup in the basement or comm closet. After that you have a lifetime to get the little things.
Well...lets take this thru to the obvious conclusion...
All of the people, and I mean ALL (lets be fair now), that have nice Law Degrees from Ivy League schools should now be stripped of their license if they had a compromising photo...or any photo really in a public place.
Now I'm sure we can count on the legal profession to take care of this themselves since they are obviously trying to uphold a most professional air.
Thats right...your Harvard education doesn't mean anything because you have a photo of yourself on the internet or your dormroom wall that shows you with a cup in your hand and the following Captions:
I don't care if French people all start oozing gold from their noses into tissue...they'll never even come close to an economic superpower.
A strong, vibrant economy is sure to be had...but superpower is just plain not possible when you are significantly smaller than say...all the other superpowers.
While perhaps their technical expertise is slightly exaggerated...All descriptions of life in general and surroundings are right on. Actually with a fairly light hearted point of view - very healthy. Their synopsis at the end is also right on.
-- Just my 2 cents...which is probably worth more than your 2 cents...
I work Communications. Satellite, phone, computer, solaris, microwave, voip, teleconferencing....everything he did. In the same place. Anaconda is ok...if you can ignore the irritating mortars that DO come in every single damn day(usually while you are sleeping or on the can it seemed). Unfortunately, I was military, and my pay was much less than his.
That 703 area code from viginia....yeah, try calling somebody else on base with that damn army phone. If you call from an army phone to an air force phone...it goes thru the satellite hop and fiber to get back to virginia, then runs around the world on the DNS phone network to the air force side. Calling from the army side to the air force side or vise-versa was significantly more laggy than calling back to the states.
The corporate friendly version with everything fully configured/implemented for you is a good decision. This requires some $$, and less time.
Or, you can roll your own with the smoothwall express 2.0. I run it with DanGuardian content filter - gets rid of ads and other pr()n and stuff. Also have several mods on it. Really, visit the homebrew forum and you can do anything with it. This of course, requires no $$, and more time.
As far as the other guy saying it takes forever....what exactly did you do before? Imaging the drive and doing necessary patches were still required. Still had to add machine to active directory. Still had to make sure the damn card reader worked so people could log in. SDC is just like everything else - different, but mostly the same.
personally, I wish we had a *nix standard desktop configuration...then it wouldn't slow down as time went on. It may still be slow, but at least I'd know it would work forever.
Oh yes....and isn't it wonderful reloading machines simply because they were overseas on the other domains and having them screwed up for life when they come back? I love that. I especially like users saying they need everything on it right after I wipe it.
I am fairly certain that OpenOffice would allow, if asked, Dell to become an authorized mirror. Simple. Bandwidth is then at least 'partially' paid for by Dell.
Load it on their machines by default. Load windows or whatever they want on the machine as the OS, but give them a full office suite so that they can do something worthwhile without having to pay for that moronic microsoft works program...or worse...pay $150 or more for something so stupid and basic as a functional word processor.
Really, do you think mom and pop want to spend $150 on word/excel/powerpoint combos? Unfortunately most aren't powerpoint rangers and the simple powerpoint viewer would probably be ok.
OO.org is way better...comes with more features than MSOffice...most will again be unused...but at least it is free and works out of the box.
And oh yes....the obvious...Dell could give the source as a download. Hopefully with a big disclaimer that says:"Regular users do not need this."
This is not a GPS repeater system at all. What this appears to be is a underwater application of common aircraft instrument landing system, or vortac/tacan stations.
Common runway ILS gives you a very exact radius and elevation angle...if only in one direction.
VORTAC/TACAN stations provide precise radii from starting point, and TACAN adds the elevation to the data for precise location....
Think about it, navigation in all three dimensions...we've been doing it for years. This is the same systems only placed under water.
One can purchase for moderate costs a gps repeater system...so that aircraft nav systems can have a fix -before- leaving the hanger. Not really useful for navigation purposes, but it does allow maintenance work and checks to be done on the nav systems while inside a metal building. This, however, is not anything like GPS...it may locate you underwater...but it isn't direct GPS. Computers could potentially take a known location and the 'pinged' location data and plot the difference/resulting position...but it is not pure GPS.
The codebase is exactly the same as XP. I obviously haven't taken the time to look, since its probably 'hidden' and not a simple file like in *nix....but I'd bet my left nut that the file that controls time shifts is identical in both 2k/xp.
My right nut says that this will be a simple 2 second download on a 1200baud connection to fix anything from a million different websites within 2 weeks of the actual 'change'. (read here - insignificant change to OS - not a big download or change)
This is nothing but a hint to the world to update to something...anything that is supported. The actual physical change is negligible.
"geared toward" is true....Me and 2k were a different market. However 2k is virtually identical to xp. Gaming is fully supported same as xp, as microsoft saw fit to allow directx installations on 2k. Previously DX was not allowed on nt4 boxen. I am that geek that has been running 2k at home for... 6+ years now. Never met a game it didn't like. The only 2 real difference between win2k, xphome, and xppro is marketing and domain services.
Again....95% of what is marketed as 'turbo-prop' is really a turbine engine that gears down and turns an outboard propeller. Allows slower airspeed and landings, with reliability that is close to clean turbine.
And explain to me again why it is that most private / pleasure aircraft are powered by piston engines? Oh yeah... they're much more complex and actually DO require more maintenance. And are much more expensive. Oh yes...because prop planes are cheaper.
If you have a turbine powered aircraft, suddenly you can reach 30,000 feet or more rather than topping out around 17-22,000.
Most people pass out when they don't have any oxygen...so you then need to supply a sealed, pressurized cabin. That requires significantly higher tolerances - think about it...air tight...or somebody dies and you get sued.
Turbines will push you faster, so pilots need to be trained to handle a different type of beast. They need to land a significanly hotter aircraft, and they need a longer runway to do it. Most private pilots don't want all that headache...and they surely cannot afford it.
You, my misguided attacker, have been foxed. You got lucky this time by fleecing several other people in the area, but you are blowing smoke, don't know what you are talking about, and used your stupidity to attack me.
12+ years USA Air Force....engine mechanic....on F-16s, F-15s...and for a short time C-17s.
Yes, some jets can be significantly more complicated, but some can also be far more simple. Did you know that you can technically make a turbine engine with only ONE moving part? Keep that lubed and you are good to go.
Engine maintenance on piston engines is measured by hundreds of hours. Turbine maintenance is measured by thousands of hours.
The original reason for switching military aircraft over to jets was simple - speed - but an unexpected benefit was that it hardly showed signs of wear even when run full out for weeks on end. Try running your Ford POS at 7000rpm for a day straight.
Civilian aircraft switched to turbines for maintenance costs.
Even current 'turboprop' aircraft....those propellers are driven by a small turbine, not a piston engine.
Your mechanic friend sounds so stupid I wouldn't let him change my tires.
All the airlines in the world are switching back to piston driven aircraft right now because maintenance on the turbine engine is sooooo frequent and burdensome.
Maintenance on a turbine engine the size required for a vehicle of 5000lbs or less is trivial: You remove the power plant, and place a new one in its place.
I agree that maintenance by my average mechanic would be troublesome and/or costly, you need to see where this would actually lead: It is far more cost effective to simply replace it as a sealed unit with a few coolant, fuel, and oil lines attached than it would be to open the thing up and repair a small component to the specifications required for reliable use.
Its pretty obvious that the turbine is a different beast...but it is also a fundamentally more efficient and trouble free beast.
If there were hundreds of thousands of turbine engine vehicles on the road, replacing the turbine powerplant would be no more common or difficult than replacing the alternator and a set of brakes.
Thats my 2 cents...which I'm pretty sure is a bit more enlightened than the parent's cents. I wouldn't trade my 2 for his 5.
My dog is a greater swiss mountain dog. They average between 90 and 135 pounds. They have extremely large doggy skulls...with brains to fill them.
My friend has a small size 13" beagle. Her head is about the size of my fist. Her brain the size of a peanut.
They are both equally intelligent and well trained. Both have very distinct personalities, and definite wants and desires.
Considering the peanut brain next to the orange size brain....
yeah.
size doesn't really matter much does it?
similar to the whole male/female brain mass difference. study after study say that size doesn't mean much.
What a futile experiment and study....guys with their doctorates and a team of undergrads and grad students are pooring their life into this pursuit...
only 140 something out of 12,000 articles were plagarized?
Wow.
I seem to remember from high school that the major dictionaries sometimes put made up words in their dictionaries in order to catch plagaristic competing dictionary makers. Similarly they'll add an extra fake definition to a word, and then watch over the next decade or two to see if another dictionary picks up the fake definition.
Encyclopedias do the same. Add some small tidbit of fake information to an article to see if it surfaces somewhere else.
I don't believe the dictionary and encyclopedia publishers do this by accident...they do it because they have experienced such things before and found this to be a very easy way to prove stupidity and plagarism on the other person's part.
Honestly...I think less then 200 our of over 12,000 articles is actually proving that it is quite good...and indeed non-plagarised. Especially considering that wiki articles tend to be significantly longer, more in depth, and with more recent and politically charged items in it...I think it proves quite a large degree of integrity on wikipedia's part.
I recently had the pleasure of attending a conference in Minnesota where Will Steger gave a talk. Some of the pencil necked may not know it, but his outward personna is that of the explorer that has crossed both poles by dogsled...the long way. Not the short trips across, just to say it was done, but the long way.
Actually, Steger impresses me as a scientist first, with unsurpassed real leadership and planning ability for the great outdoors. He made the comment that in the future he will not be remembered in history books for being "The first man to cross...." but rather he will be noted as "The last man to cross..." as those locations no longer exist.
Of his sharing, he talked about his trip across antarctica - the long way naturally. Those ice shelves that have fallen off and gone into the sea? Yeah...those were bigger than the state of Minnesota. Thats a pretty big hunk of ice. And now that the large part is gone, the warm air/water can now lap up farther inland and is melting those ice shelfs at an incredible rate. The long journey he took across antarctica doesn't exist anymore...its melted into the sea - HUNDREDS OF MILES OF IT.
On the Northern side...the polar bears are capable of swimming (don't quote me - examples only) up to 30 miles in the polar seas. They always feed close to land, and when it comes time they jump into the ocean and swim out to the ice...usually only 5-12 miles away. Now the ice shelves they are looking to swim to are over 60 miles away, so untold numbers of bears have plunged into the ocean as they always do...but this time they are simply drowning in it as there 'is no other side'.
He had a picture of a polar bear - you know...the coka-cola bears - that healthy and by bone structure should have weighed over 1200 pounds. It was dead - starved to death. It only weighed 70 pounds.
He had a video too...but didnt' show it as it was a bit gruesome. That hunger factor came in again...this time a full grown and hungry polar bear was eating one of the cubs since there was no other food around. Just picked it up and ate its own baby...which I guess they usually care for during a significant time period.
Pretty icky things from a man that has been there. A man that is more than qualified regardless of his political views to make sound decisions and observations on such matters.
Everybody so far commenting is simply complaining about wasting money, cutting jobs, reusing old stuff, rebuilding new stuff....you are missing the most incredible part of their proposal:
70 metric tons to orbit base 98 metric tons to orbit cargo vehicle
This compares to the current shuttle lift capacity of 16+ metric ton.
Son, packaged correctly, you could launch the entire remaining ISS sections into space at one time.
This is simply reusing some very basic lift parts and redesigning some new engines for the base of the fuel tank. Probably some reinforcement to the tank too for the added weight on top. Some new control and piping to the top for the rest of the vehicle....
I frankly don't know how they plan to get that much more thrust and lift capability out of those SRBs and new engines...but if they think they can do it, I'd be inclined to support them whole heartedly.
Even if they only made half their expected lift capacity, it would still a significant improvement.
How about launching 4 or 5 GPS satellites and a spy satellite all on one mission?
How about building a moon base?
How about putting a decent sized nuclear reactor in space to provide unlimited power instead of relying on solar panels?
This is an exciting setup...and I agree with his assertion that the OLPC (one laptop per child) is sort of like introducing millions of children to our inane weaknesses instead of our strengths. Really, I know that something like this wouldn't completely remove the need for a keyboard and such for many years, but it is a striking evolutionary step forward.
Just think how easy all those dramatic situations would have been in the 24th century if the Starship enterprise had some of these!
Enterprise support is availabe, but most of the time a qualified individual can search the KB articles just as fast the the dork on the other end of the phone in Microsoft.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but they are pair #1
Colors matter.
"middle wires"???
You got a color code there sparky? Wires are arranged by color for a reason....pins can change between A/B pinouts for example.
Noo....3 cat6 per room at least. While it isn't an office...you would like to rearrange the furniture once in a while wouldn't you? Nobody likes to be tied to the damn wall jack. Remember, you can use that cat6 for phone too....run at least 3 lines per room, and you are guaranteed network and phone anywhere anytime.
On a side note - this dude is pre-approved for a home in NO that is gutted. Sort of sounds like your mid-early 20's kind of guy that doesn't yet know how to run wires let alone re-build an entire house...not to mention the issues of actually paying and managing that home. I think he might be a little over his head thinking about all he can do. Usually, you need to think more like this: What do I NEED to do?
Get your needs done...and make sure along the way you put $400 worth of cable in the walls and a $200 patch panel setup in the basement or comm closet. After that you have a lifetime to get the little things.
Well...lets take this thru to the obvious conclusion...
All of the people, and I mean ALL (lets be fair now), that have nice Law Degrees from Ivy League schools should now be stripped of their license if they had a compromising photo...or any photo really in a public place.
Now I'm sure we can count on the legal profession to take care of this themselves since they are obviously trying to uphold a most professional air.
Thats right...your Harvard education doesn't mean anything because you have a photo of yourself on the internet or your dormroom wall that shows you with a cup in your hand and the following Captions:
"Drunken Pirate"
"Big Dawg Johnson"
"Carpet Layer"
"Lady's Man"
"Butch"
Oh yeah...I can see the world now...no attorneys!
Economic Superpower???
....
You mean like America, China, Russia, India
I don't care if French people all start oozing gold from their noses into tissue...they'll never even come close to an economic superpower.
A strong, vibrant economy is sure to be had...but superpower is just plain not possible when you are significantly smaller than say...all the other superpowers.
oops. AC is correct: DSN - Defense Switched Network
tough going between them both all the time.
While perhaps their technical expertise is slightly exaggerated...All descriptions of life in general and surroundings are right on. Actually with a fairly light hearted point of view - very healthy. Their synopsis at the end is also right on.
--
Just my 2 cents...which is probably worth more than your 2 cents...
I work Communications. Satellite, phone, computer, solaris, microwave, voip, teleconferencing....everything he did. In the same place. Anaconda is ok...if you can ignore the irritating mortars that DO come in every single damn day(usually while you are sleeping or on the can it seemed). Unfortunately, I was military, and my pay was much less than his.
That 703 area code from viginia....yeah, try calling somebody else on base with that damn army phone. If you call from an army phone to an air force phone...it goes thru the satellite hop and fiber to get back to virginia, then runs around the world on the DNS phone network to the air force side. Calling from the army side to the air force side or vise-versa was significantly more laggy than calling back to the states.
I second this vote for smoothwall.
The corporate friendly version with everything fully configured/implemented for you is a good decision. This requires some $$, and less time.
Or, you can roll your own with the smoothwall express 2.0. I run it with DanGuardian content filter - gets rid of ads and other pr()n and stuff. Also have several mods on it. Really, visit the homebrew forum and you can do anything with it. This of course, requires no $$, and more time.
SmoothWall Firewall
DansGuardian Content Filter
Domain Block of Ad-Servers.
Nope...I won't notice at all.
I work in the comm unit on base too.
SDC isn't a magic wand...but it does help.
As far as the other guy saying it takes forever....what exactly did you do before? Imaging the drive and doing necessary patches were still required. Still had to add machine to active directory. Still had to make sure the damn card reader worked so people could log in. SDC is just like everything else - different, but mostly the same.
personally, I wish we had a *nix standard desktop configuration...then it wouldn't slow down as time went on. It may still be slow, but at least I'd know it would work forever.
Oh yes....and isn't it wonderful reloading machines simply because they were overseas on the other domains and having them screwed up for life when they come back? I love that. I especially like users saying they need everything on it right after I wipe it.
Seriously. The stiff, insulation foam....it is dented.
Is this really going to cause the liquid fuel inside to change one bit? nope.
Is it going to cause big, ice covered, hunks to fall off? nope.
Is it going to save a dozen or two people's butts if something freakish did happen? Yup.
There you go. CYA.
No matter what, the government workers will ALWAYS cover their behinds.
CYA gentlemen.
I am fairly certain that OpenOffice would allow, if asked, Dell to become an authorized mirror. Simple. Bandwidth is then at least 'partially' paid for by Dell.
Load it on their machines by default. Load windows or whatever they want on the machine as the OS, but give them a full office suite so that they can do something worthwhile without having to pay for that moronic microsoft works program...or worse...pay $150 or more for something so stupid and basic as a functional word processor.
Really, do you think mom and pop want to spend $150 on word/excel/powerpoint combos? Unfortunately most aren't powerpoint rangers and the simple powerpoint viewer would probably be ok.
OO.org is way better...comes with more features than MSOffice...most will again be unused...but at least it is free and works out of the box.
And oh yes....the obvious...Dell could give the source as a download. Hopefully with a big disclaimer that says:"Regular users do not need this."
This is not a GPS repeater system at all. What this appears to be is a underwater application of common aircraft instrument landing system, or vortac/tacan stations.
Common runway ILS gives you a very exact radius and elevation angle...if only in one direction.
VORTAC/TACAN stations provide precise radii from starting point, and TACAN adds the elevation to the data for precise location....
Think about it, navigation in all three dimensions...we've been doing it for years. This is the same systems only placed under water.
One can purchase for moderate costs a gps repeater system...so that aircraft nav systems can have a fix -before- leaving the hanger. Not really useful for navigation purposes, but it does allow maintenance work and checks to be done on the nav systems while inside a metal building. This, however, is not anything like GPS...it may locate you underwater...but it isn't direct GPS. Computers could potentially take a known location and the 'pinged' location data and plot the difference/resulting position...but it is not pure GPS.
The codebase is exactly the same as XP. I obviously haven't taken the time to look, since its probably 'hidden' and not a simple file like in *nix....but I'd bet my left nut that the file that controls time shifts is identical in both 2k/xp.
My right nut says that this will be a simple 2 second download on a 1200baud connection to fix anything from a million different websites within 2 weeks of the actual 'change'. (read here - insignificant change to OS - not a big download or change)
This is nothing but a hint to the world to update to something...anything that is supported. The actual physical change is negligible.
"geared toward" is true....Me and 2k were a different market. However 2k is virtually identical to xp. Gaming is fully supported same as xp, as microsoft saw fit to allow directx installations on 2k. Previously DX was not allowed on nt4 boxen. ... 6+ years now. Never met a game it didn't like. The only 2 real difference between win2k, xphome, and xppro is marketing and domain services.
I am that geek that has been running 2k at home for
Again....95% of what is marketed as 'turbo-prop' is really a turbine engine that gears down and turns an outboard propeller. Allows slower airspeed and landings, with reliability that is close to clean turbine.
If you have a turbine powered aircraft, suddenly you can reach 30,000 feet or more rather than topping out around 17-22,000.
Most people pass out when they don't have any oxygen...so you then need to supply a sealed, pressurized cabin. That requires significantly higher tolerances - think about it...air tight...or somebody dies and you get sued.
Turbines will push you faster, so pilots need to be trained to handle a different type of beast. They need to land a significanly hotter aircraft, and they need a longer runway to do it. Most private pilots don't want all that headache...and they surely cannot afford it.
You, my misguided attacker, have been foxed. You got lucky this time by fleecing several other people in the area, but you are blowing smoke, don't know what you are talking about, and used your stupidity to attack me.
12+ years USA Air Force....engine mechanic....on F-16s, F-15s...and for a short time C-17s.
Yes, some jets can be significantly more complicated, but some can also be far more simple. Did you know that you can technically make a turbine engine with only ONE moving part? Keep that lubed and you are good to go.
Engine maintenance on piston engines is measured by hundreds of hours. Turbine maintenance is measured by thousands of hours.
The original reason for switching military aircraft over to jets was simple - speed - but an unexpected benefit was that it hardly showed signs of wear even when run full out for weeks on end. Try running your Ford POS at 7000rpm for a day straight.
Civilian aircraft switched to turbines for maintenance costs.
Even current 'turboprop' aircraft....those propellers are driven by a small turbine, not a piston engine.
Your mechanic friend sounds so stupid I wouldn't let him change my tires.
Right.
All the airlines in the world are switching back to piston driven aircraft right now because maintenance on the turbine engine is sooooo frequent and burdensome.
Maintenance on a turbine engine the size required for a vehicle of 5000lbs or less is trivial: You remove the power plant, and place a new one in its place.
I agree that maintenance by my average mechanic would be troublesome and/or costly, you need to see where this would actually lead: It is far more cost effective to simply replace it as a sealed unit with a few coolant, fuel, and oil lines attached than it would be to open the thing up and repair a small component to the specifications required for reliable use.
Its pretty obvious that the turbine is a different beast...but it is also a fundamentally more efficient and trouble free beast.
If there were hundreds of thousands of turbine engine vehicles on the road, replacing the turbine powerplant would be no more common or difficult than replacing the alternator and a set of brakes.
Thats my 2 cents...which I'm pretty sure is a bit more enlightened than the parent's cents. I wouldn't trade my 2 for his 5.
My dog is a greater swiss mountain dog. They average between 90 and 135 pounds. They have extremely large doggy skulls...with brains to fill them.
My friend has a small size 13" beagle. Her head is about the size of my fist. Her brain the size of a peanut.
They are both equally intelligent and well trained. Both have very distinct personalities, and definite wants and desires.
Considering the peanut brain next to the orange size brain....
yeah.
size doesn't really matter much does it?
similar to the whole male/female brain mass difference. study after study say that size doesn't mean much.
What a futile experiment and study....guys with their doctorates and a team of undergrads and grad students are pooring their life into this pursuit...
how sad.
only 140 something out of 12,000 articles were plagarized?
Wow.
I seem to remember from high school that the major dictionaries sometimes put made up words in their dictionaries in order to catch plagaristic competing dictionary makers. Similarly they'll add an extra fake definition to a word, and then watch over the next decade or two to see if another dictionary picks up the fake definition.
Encyclopedias do the same. Add some small tidbit of fake information to an article to see if it surfaces somewhere else.
I don't believe the dictionary and encyclopedia publishers do this by accident...they do it because they have experienced such things before and found this to be a very easy way to prove stupidity and plagarism on the other person's part.
Honestly...I think less then 200 our of over 12,000 articles is actually proving that it is quite good...and indeed non-plagarised. Especially considering that wiki articles tend to be significantly longer, more in depth, and with more recent and politically charged items in it...I think it proves quite a large degree of integrity on wikipedia's part.
I recently had the pleasure of attending a conference in Minnesota where Will Steger gave a talk. Some of the pencil necked may not know it, but his outward personna is that of the explorer that has crossed both poles by dogsled...the long way. Not the short trips across, just to say it was done, but the long way.
...." but rather he will be noted as "The last man to cross ..." as those locations no longer exist.
Actually, Steger impresses me as a scientist first, with unsurpassed real leadership and planning ability for the great outdoors. He made the comment that in the future he will not be remembered in history books for being "The first man to cross
Of his sharing, he talked about his trip across antarctica - the long way naturally. Those ice shelves that have fallen off and gone into the sea? Yeah...those were bigger than the state of Minnesota. Thats a pretty big hunk of ice. And now that the large part is gone, the warm air/water can now lap up farther inland and is melting those ice shelfs at an incredible rate. The long journey he took across antarctica doesn't exist anymore...its melted into the sea - HUNDREDS OF MILES OF IT.
On the Northern side...the polar bears are capable of swimming (don't quote me - examples only) up to 30 miles in the polar seas. They always feed close to land, and when it comes time they jump into the ocean and swim out to the ice...usually only 5-12 miles away. Now the ice shelves they are looking to swim to are over 60 miles away, so untold numbers of bears have plunged into the ocean as they always do...but this time they are simply drowning in it as there 'is no other side'.
He had a picture of a polar bear - you know...the coka-cola bears - that healthy and by bone structure should have weighed over 1200 pounds. It was dead - starved to death. It only weighed 70 pounds.
He had a video too...but didnt' show it as it was a bit gruesome. That hunger factor came in again...this time a full grown and hungry polar bear was eating one of the cubs since there was no other food around. Just picked it up and ate its own baby...which I guess they usually care for during a significant time period.
Pretty icky things from a man that has been there. A man that is more than qualified regardless of his political views to make sound decisions and observations on such matters.
Everybody so far commenting is simply complaining about wasting money, cutting jobs, reusing old stuff, rebuilding new stuff....you are missing the most incredible part of their proposal:
70 metric tons to orbit base
98 metric tons to orbit cargo vehicle
This compares to the current shuttle lift capacity of 16+ metric ton.
Son, packaged correctly, you could launch the entire remaining ISS sections into space at one time.
This is simply reusing some very basic lift parts and redesigning some new engines for the base of the fuel tank. Probably some reinforcement to the tank too for the added weight on top. Some new control and piping to the top for the rest of the vehicle....
I frankly don't know how they plan to get that much more thrust and lift capability out of those SRBs and new engines...but if they think they can do it, I'd be inclined to support them whole heartedly.
Even if they only made half their expected lift capacity, it would still a significant improvement.
How about launching 4 or 5 GPS satellites and a spy satellite all on one mission?
How about building a moon base?
How about putting a decent sized nuclear reactor in space to provide unlimited power instead of relying on solar panels?
Tonnage gets you everything.
This is an exciting setup...and I agree with his assertion that the OLPC (one laptop per child) is sort of like introducing millions of children to our inane weaknesses instead of our strengths. Really, I know that something like this wouldn't completely remove the need for a keyboard and such for many years, but it is a striking evolutionary step forward.
Just think how easy all those dramatic situations would have been in the 24th century if the Starship enterprise had some of these!
Mod parent up.
Enterprise support is availabe, but most of the time a qualified individual can search the KB articles just as fast the the dork on the other end of the phone in Microsoft.