Our 20 lb tabby (no fat) would bring us live gifts in the AM.
When you opened the door, if he ran past, it meant that he had a gift for us and 9 out of 10 x, it was very live.
These were Birds, Squirrels, Fish, Chipmunks, Rabbits, baby raccons (very dangerous for that car), 1 small hawk, and even 1 adult Canada Goose (live, but flyer could not carry him in fast enough; easy to stop).
I saw him toying with a number of animals and when I came to rescue, he would snap their necks (grab by the head and whip them).
Yes, he would eat some. Buy many were just toys, or gifts for us.
I have no issue with the Russians. I have an issue with depending on one group to provide a critical item ( launch ) for so long.
The GOP makes a big todo of using Russian, but continue to gut spending on commercial space while increasing our money flow and dendancy on Russia. Total insanity.
I want to see the iss group go to the moon. But to do that, we need multiple shlv, multiple manned launchers, multiple base builders, etc.. IOW, we should not depend on any one group for more a year. And right now, the neo-cons have broken that rule by many times over.
LOL.
Uh no. Cats hunt for food AND for fun. It does not matter if they are wild or domesticated.
In addition, a well-fed cat will NOT eat the animal. They will play with it until they decide to kill it. In fact, I see this same behavior with zoo animals. I have seen a tiger and polar beer catch and play with birds and they do NOT eat them. But they sure as heck kill them.
I should rate you as overrated, but will answer you instead.
It is mostly another anti-AGW myth that large numbers of big birds are being killed by wind generators. One site has a serious issue and others have a small issue.
Now, with that said, BATS do suffer greatly at this. Not any particular bat, but all of them seem to not see the blades even though they have the ability to track small fast things. This might help save them.
Personally, I would be far more interested in seeing what the $/KW are on this, along with what kind of winds are required to move it.
So many things wrong here.
1) you mentioned that russian parts are used in western rockets. There are exactly TWO rockets that have any major Russian parts. That is OSC and ULA's Atlas. Delta actually has some Russian made parts, or did. And nothing else in Europe uses Russian made, except for your providing a launch site for them and then marketing them.
2) you are right that we cooperate. However, for the last 10-15 years, America has been cut out of the competition because Boeing, L-Mart and then ULA were worthless. Now, along comes SpaceX and they are destroying EVERYBODY out there. By next year, there is a real good chance that ArianeSpace and all of the various Russian launch systems will be launching only their gov. systems and nothing more.
Basically, SpaceX will own 100% of commercial space by the start of 2016. The reason is that not only will FH be live, but so will F9R. In addition, they are SpaceX is currently launching at a rate of about 1 every 3 weeks. In 2016, they will bring that down to 1 every 2 weeks or less.
This is not about YOU vs. US. In fact, I have said here and elsewhere, that I want to see Europe spend some money on building up a CHEAP launch system. SpaceX has done that, and is doing more. BUT, if we are going to the moon and mars, then Europe needs to have a CHEAP and RELIABLE system.
NASA had nothing to do with Constellations failure (and Ares was part of Constellation).
Constellation failed because it was grossly underfunded by neo-cons for 6 years.
First off, Russia had has ALWAYS had issues. Far more than is acknowledged.
Secondly, Russia had quality issues prior to the embargo. This is not their first loss of a progress to the ISS, or now a loss of a sat.
BTW, that article was from more than a year ago, and was wrong.
it was NOT Obama that lobbied for the monies. O lobbied to allow ULA to be allowed their current order. ULA and OSC continue to push to be allowed to buy and use Russian engines. Oddly, the GOP is split. About 1/2 of them are pushing it, and the other half are joining O and the dems in saying NO.
And you have it wrong.
When the shuttle was stopped, W started paying Russia for launching our astronauts.
We have been doing it eversince. The problem is, that the GOP would rather pay MORE money to Russia for launching humans, then pay less money to our private space program to get multiple launchers off the ground.
And it is the house GOP that is gutting our private space again, and actually pushed for more flights with Russia.
No doubt, when Russia loses a manned flight, then the GOP will wonder what went wrong and tell ppl like you that they had nothing to do with the massive movements of CCxDev money to fund their SLS and Russian flights.
LOL.
First, All of America's gov. sats use American launchers. 2 launchers use Russian parts, of which 1 of them blew up several months ago.
Secondly, SpaceX's F9 is SAFER, and MUCH CHEAPER than the Russian Rockets. In addition, within another year, they will be even cheaper again. Right now, SpaceX has over 1/2 of the commercial launch business that is available for the future.
The GOP continues to gut funding for development of manned private space launch, but will continue to pour money into the SLS, AND having Russia do the manned launches. Fucking insane
Oh, the dems have done a GREAT job on pork.
However, it is the GOP that have continued to gut the new space programs. They killed off COTS-D, and keep trying to kill CCxDev. Oddly, they scream about using Russian launches, while they are the ones that force us on them.
Actually no.
The far right wingers are the ones pushing for global destruction.
The left wingers are turning this into a political battle when it should not be.
Yes, I DO understand it. China continues to grow their coal=>electricity emissions, while the far left screams about nations that have been working at lowering it. Mostly it is about America that they bitch.
Oddly, America has emitted far less CO2 over the last millinium than has either Europe OR China.
And with the far left metrics, they have loved to use total levels, until 2006, which is when China emitted more than America. Then they switched to using the emissions since 1850, which THIS YEAR, China will become the number 1 emitter. The problem is, that ANY time before 1850 is a contest between China and Europe for emissions.
Yet, the far left will do less than the far right on solving this.
the fact that the head guy at Baidu now, came from Google. Basically, he took Google's technology and then was funded by China's gov ( who is behind Baidu's funding on this ).
Hopefully, someday soon, the west will realize that hiring Chinese means simply giving your technology over to the CHinese gov.
Time to blame the west which alltogether accounts for less than 1/3 of all emissions.
At the same time, the far left will allow the single nation that is over 1/3 or 33% and growing fast, to continue to grow its emissions FASTER than the west can cut.
Actually, you can thank idiots, like yourself.
W killed the shuttle and stopped all manufacturing lines by 2007. Had O restarted the shuttle program, at a cost of half of NASA's budget, the very first flight MIGHT have been this year.
OTOH, had the neo-cons not killed off cots-d , we would have had manned flights back in 2013 or earlier.
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Our 20 lb tabby (no fat) would bring us live gifts in the AM.
When you opened the door, if he ran past, it meant that he had a gift for us and 9 out of 10 x, it was very live.
These were Birds, Squirrels, Fish, Chipmunks, Rabbits, baby raccons (very dangerous for that car), 1 small hawk, and even 1 adult Canada Goose (live, but flyer could not carry him in fast enough; easy to stop).
I saw him toying with a number of animals and when I came to rescue, he would snap their necks (grab by the head and whip them).
Yes, he would eat some. Buy many were just toys, or gifts for us.
I have no issue with the Russians. I have an issue with depending on one group to provide a critical item ( launch ) for so long. The GOP makes a big todo of using Russian, but continue to gut spending on commercial space while increasing our money flow and dendancy on Russia. Total insanity.
I want to see the iss group go to the moon. But to do that, we need multiple shlv, multiple manned launchers, multiple base builders, etc.. IOW, we should not depend on any one group for more a year. And right now, the neo-cons have broken that rule by many times over.
LOL.
Uh no. Cats hunt for food AND for fun. It does not matter if they are wild or domesticated.
In addition, a well-fed cat will NOT eat the animal. They will play with it until they decide to kill it. In fact, I see this same behavior with zoo animals. I have seen a tiger and polar beer catch and play with birds and they do NOT eat them. But they sure as heck kill them.
I should rate you as overrated, but will answer you instead.
It is mostly another anti-AGW myth that large numbers of big birds are being killed by wind generators. One site has a serious issue and others have a small issue.
Now, with that said, BATS do suffer greatly at this. Not any particular bat, but all of them seem to not see the blades even though they have the ability to track small fast things. This might help save them.
Personally, I would be far more interested in seeing what the $/KW are on this, along with what kind of winds are required to move it.
So many things wrong here.
1) you mentioned that russian parts are used in western rockets. There are exactly TWO rockets that have any major Russian parts. That is OSC and ULA's Atlas. Delta actually has some Russian made parts, or did. And nothing else in Europe uses Russian made, except for your providing a launch site for them and then marketing them.
2) you are right that we cooperate. However, for the last 10-15 years, America has been cut out of the competition because Boeing, L-Mart and then ULA were worthless. Now, along comes SpaceX and they are destroying EVERYBODY out there. By next year, there is a real good chance that ArianeSpace and all of the various Russian launch systems will be launching only their gov. systems and nothing more.
Basically, SpaceX will own 100% of commercial space by the start of 2016. The reason is that not only will FH be live, but so will F9R. In addition, they are SpaceX is currently launching at a rate of about 1 every 3 weeks. In 2016, they will bring that down to 1 every 2 weeks or less.
This is not about YOU vs. US. In fact, I have said here and elsewhere, that I want to see Europe spend some money on building up a CHEAP launch system. SpaceX has done that, and is doing more. BUT, if we are going to the moon and mars, then Europe needs to have a CHEAP and RELIABLE system.
Nope.
ILS is nothing but a marketing arm for using proton vehicles. ILS has NOTHING to do with the ISS.
10% failure rate is HORRIBLE.
How did you get modded up?
NASA had nothing to do with Constellations failure (and Ares was part of Constellation).
Constellation failed because it was grossly underfunded by neo-cons for 6 years.
The house GOP is the one gutting private space. They continue to cut funding for CCxDev, while pushing funds for SLS and Russian launches.
What you posted had absolutely NOTHING to do with funding, but 1 bill that was put forward in a committee and will likely not clear the senate.
Soyuz and proton-m have 10% failure rates.
most ppl will continue to ignore the fact that the proton-M has over a 10% failure rate. That is a pretty high rate.
It would be considering that American companies have pretty much stopped using Russia due to Russian quality issues.
OTOH, SpaceX is much cheap and safer than Russia.
First off, Russia had has ALWAYS had issues. Far more than is acknowledged.
Secondly, Russia had quality issues prior to the embargo. This is not their first loss of a progress to the ISS, or now a loss of a sat.
Russia was the cheap safe bet 2 years ago.
Right now, everybody is jumping on SpaceX. Rightly.
BTW, that article was from more than a year ago, and was wrong.
it was NOT Obama that lobbied for the monies. O lobbied to allow ULA to be allowed their current order. ULA and OSC continue to push to be allowed to buy and use Russian engines. Oddly, the GOP is split. About 1/2 of them are pushing it, and the other half are joining O and the dems in saying NO.
And you have it wrong.
When the shuttle was stopped, W started paying Russia for launching our astronauts.
We have been doing it eversince. The problem is, that the GOP would rather pay MORE money to Russia for launching humans, then pay less money to our private space program to get multiple launchers off the ground.
And it is the house GOP that is gutting our private space again, and actually pushed for more flights with Russia.
No doubt, when Russia loses a manned flight, then the GOP will wonder what went wrong and tell ppl like you that they had nothing to do with the massive movements of CCxDev money to fund their SLS and Russian flights.
LOL.
First, All of America's gov. sats use American launchers. 2 launchers use Russian parts, of which 1 of them blew up several months ago.
Secondly, SpaceX's F9 is SAFER, and MUCH CHEAPER than the Russian Rockets. In addition, within another year, they will be even cheaper again. Right now, SpaceX has over 1/2 of the commercial launch business that is available for the future.
First, A progress using the same rocket as manned launches failed last month. That progress is the same as a Soyuz.
Secondly, all of the companies are suffering from the same problem over there: quality control.
Thirdly, the quality issues started long before the embargo.
Finally, the GOP is putting loads of money into SLS. Why? Because they view NASA as a jobs bill for themselves.
The GOP continues to gut funding for development of manned private space launch, but will continue to pour money into the SLS, AND having Russia do the manned launches. Fucking insane
Oh, the dems have done a GREAT job on pork.
However, it is the GOP that have continued to gut the new space programs. They killed off COTS-D, and keep trying to kill CCxDev. Oddly, they scream about using Russian launches, while they are the ones that force us on them.
Actually no.
The far right wingers are the ones pushing for global destruction.
The left wingers are turning this into a political battle when it should not be.
Yes, I DO understand it. China continues to grow their coal=>electricity emissions, while the far left screams about nations that have been working at lowering it. Mostly it is about America that they bitch.
Oddly, America has emitted far less CO2 over the last millinium than has either Europe OR China.
And with the far left metrics, they have loved to use total levels, until 2006, which is when China emitted more than America. Then they switched to using the emissions since 1850, which THIS YEAR, China will become the number 1 emitter. The problem is, that ANY time before 1850 is a contest between China and Europe for emissions.
Yet, the far left will do less than the far right on solving this.
the fact that the head guy at Baidu now, came from Google. Basically, he took Google's technology and then was funded by China's gov ( who is behind Baidu's funding on this ).
Hopefully, someday soon, the west will realize that hiring Chinese means simply giving your technology over to the CHinese gov.
Time to blame the west which alltogether accounts for less than 1/3 of all emissions.
At the same time, the far left will allow the single nation that is over 1/3 or 33% and growing fast, to continue to grow its emissions FASTER than the west can cut.
Yeah. Go China.
Are you sure that it was not on Dr. Demento?
Actually, you can thank idiots, like yourself. W killed the shuttle and stopped all manufacturing lines by 2007. Had O restarted the shuttle program, at a cost of half of NASA's budget, the very first flight MIGHT have been this year.
OTOH, had the neo-cons not killed off cots-d , we would have had manned flights back in 2013 or earlier.