At least they never dared launch anything as crazy as Starfish Prime.
They did they share of high altitude nuclear tests also. They just did it in middle of USSR and were more secretive about it. But they for example managed to set on fire power plant in Karaganda in one of their tests.
But yeah, neither Russia, nor US were particularly careful when in comes to safety of space.
Yeah, this was annoying me a lot for long time. From the point of view of somebody from US/Western EU it may seem that everybody has Paypal, but in reality, it's only available in few countries. They've just recently added Czech Republic (and only for sending money), and it's even been a member of EU for over a year. From what I've heard, they are actively refusing to register anybody from other countries, even when they happen to have US account/credit card. I know they're just trying to be careful, but why they can't just register anybody with reasonable credit card is beyond me.
Yep, Grand Challenge, sadly, was a great fiasco. However, in many ways, the Grand Challenge problem is orders of magnitude more difficult.
For one, you generally don't want your mars rover to be travelling many mph, as was the task in Grand Challenge. This means the vehicle can slowly crawl over smaller obstacles and avoid bigger ones, instead of jumping over them in hope that the hole on the other side won't be deep enough.
For two, the prize awarder for grand challenge simply wasn't big enough. Just building the vehicle able to drive at speeds required costed more, so there wasn't really much left to experiment with various kinds of sensors.
Don't get me wrong, it's not an easy task, and accidents are bound to happen, but the basic technology is there, sensors are there and prototypes that work, at least under ideal conditions, exists. So I am quite sure this is something that can be done in ten years time.
Besides, robot in this case doesn't have to be completely autonomous. It just should be more automated then it is now, so instructions from Earth aren't required for every single step.
Well, the trick is not to rely on just one type of sensor - actually, there are pretty good sensors out there for mapping terrain directly in front of robot. And that article talks about 10 years pespective, it's not like their planning to use the technology tomorrow.
Besides, as I mentioned in other post, as we start exploring places farther from the Earth, communication lag will start to get much bigger problem, until finally you'll either have to send humans or AI. And I bet AI, even with some risks associated. will be considerably cheaper, so it's better to plan ahead.
I don't think they're talking about completely autonomous robot. They just want it to do more work during its lifespan, since it won't have to wait for confirmation of each single step from Earth. Current state of robotics is getting better every day, and it's not in any way expensive technology, so I think it's pretty smart NASA is trying research in this direction too.
Besides, what we have now is maybe enough for Mars, but there are targets farther away, where communication lag will be bigger problem. Just thing about Jupiter moons.
Well, I guess you're right. I just know it was broadcasted life in at least some of the former Soviet satelitte states (since I happen to live in one), so at least in part of the Soviet block people knew quite well about Apollo landing. And communist goevermnets then had to find explanation why Americans landed succesfully on the moon while Russions only sent rover, so they came with the story I mentioned earlier, that seemed to outrage about half of the people around here.;)
Sure it was Soviet propaganda, there's no doubt about that. Period. I just pointed that out as interesting fact. While people in US didn't know about Russin rovers at all, people in USSR knew about US space program but were tought in school how inferior it is to the Russion one.
Also interesting is the fact that in Soviet Block, they were shown as a proof that USSR does care about pepole's lifes much more than US does, so rather than risking dnagerous human mission on the moon, they only sent robot, while astronauts stayed safely at home.
The missing radiation is in the region of visible light and infrared - radiation like the ultraviolet light increasingly penetrating the leaky ozone layer is not affected.
Somebody really has a wrong guy and it's not me.
Just look here or here. Ok, so he hasn't turned in both his parents but just his father. What's the difference?
Yeah, obviously,if anybody, companies manufacturing the system should be the ones to pay the fines. Poor user buys his first computer, the "best" operating system for it in good believe, connects to internet and next think he knows his computer doesn't work anymore shutting itself unexpectedly and on top of this frustration he is fined for something he doesn't have slightes what it is or how it could be prevented.
The problem with CDs is that you usually pay for one song you want to and 15 others you're not interested in. With movie DVD, you just pay for what you want.
The lucky thing is that this loss of interest in science fiction or space travel doesn't seem to apply to the whole world. Maybe it applies to the western culture, but where I live (Czech Republic, anyway) I wouldn't observe anything right that.
This is still quite close, so maybe in few years time this seatback will also reach us, but then there's still asia left and maybe the inspiration from them can some day sparkle the inspiration back in the west.
Furthemore, it strikes me, that just 22% of the people involved felt the differnce according to the article. This is not that much, meaning that majority of people don't seem to react to infrasound at all.
This is really very nice. They are actually doing it for free! What has always made me upset about all these conferences in my area of interest is that they cost huge amounts of money to just start with, so unless you have some rich institution behind you, you're probably screwed (this doesn't have to apply to all of you guys, but it certainly applies to poor student in poor country such as me).
So, interestingly unlike many well known companies, these people seem to believe that information should be free. Granted, it's still not the same as actually being there, but think about all those poor people in development countries that may have some way to access to internet, but certainly have no chance to get 1000 euros to go around visitng conferences, and thus are in big disadvantage against those lucky ones born in richer countries.
IMHO, this is something, where internet can really be of great help. Now, we just need more freely accesible publications.
That's why satellite grids are useful. If there's many satellites in the grid, they're much more redundant against collisions, since losing one or two satellites out of twenty shouldn't have that catastrophic consequences.
Besides, I hope space agencies are alreadz smart enugh at least not to put more debris on low earth orbit intentionally.
They're hardly doing this only in the US. In country where I live, about a year ago, there was a big show with Bill Gates coming and being portrayed as such a nice guy for giving away lot of computers with MS software on it for free or very low cost to high schools
Come on, they're big corporation, with lots of many to spare, and this is pretty smart thing on their part
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do you really want your heart status to be "broadcast out"?
I bet shop owners would pay a lot for ability to read this. They could monitor your heart rate as you walk around the shop and notice which products make jump it up.
Combine this with RFIDs and you've got very advanced system to monitor customer,s habits.
It was nice to see Japanese robot actually speak in Czech. He even apperared at the begining of the main TV news, when he said his greeting to population and not just the ruling few.
I was hoping to get to the show in national museum, but unfortunatelly, it was reserved only to journalists.
I suspect, if this research wasn't sponsored by some advertisement company. This is great technology for commercials. Everybody needs just a little training, and then, wherever they show appropriate fractal images on TV, all the people will run into the shops for their ice cream, destroying anything in their way
I wonder if this would work for other things than food as well.
Seriously, thought, what's with all this madness of making robot as close to a human as possible? Humans as such are quite imperfect and while it is quite a nice to impress people around, it's practicall applications are rather fare fetched.
Building robot that can intelligently mowe your lawn (without need for special costly installation), deliver pizza in a building etc.and dynamically react to it's enviroment is much more usefull and almost equally as hard.
These Japan guys should consider if they want to put their money into impressing the world or making usefull, althought not so ipmressive, technology.
Most dual-boot users wouldn't be considered common user base anyway. They either use windows and keep linux around only to give it occasioall try so they can say "been there, done it, bought T-shirt". Or they use linux and keep windows around just to be able to run games (and occasional proprietary software).
However, users with dual boot option sometimes through time migrate from first state to second state, and that's how linux grows into windows territory. This is slow, but it's quite common. OTOH, I am yet to here from anybody migrating from linux to windows.
The problem is that when you lower the voltage, you raise the current, and current increases heat as it gets higher. So, low voltage, high current power transmitted over CAT5 would be a big problem.
Last time I've seen the specification, they talked about some 14.2W maximum. Probably not enough to power 100W P4.
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They did they share of high altitude nuclear tests also. They just did it in middle of USSR and were more secretive about it. But they for example managed to set on fire power plant in Karaganda in one of their tests.
But yeah, neither Russia, nor US were particularly careful when in comes to safety of space.
Yeah, this was annoying me a lot for long time. From the point of view of somebody from US/Western EU it may seem that everybody has Paypal, but in reality, it's only available in few countries. They've just recently added Czech Republic (and only for sending money), and it's even been a member of EU for over a year. From what I've heard, they are actively refusing to register anybody from other countries, even when they happen to have US account/credit card. I know they're just trying to be careful, but why they can't just register anybody with reasonable credit card is beyond me.
For one, you generally don't want your mars rover to be travelling many mph, as was the task in Grand Challenge. This means the vehicle can slowly crawl over smaller obstacles and avoid bigger ones, instead of jumping over them in hope that the hole on the other side won't be deep enough.
For two, the prize awarder for grand challenge simply wasn't big enough. Just building the vehicle able to drive at speeds required costed more, so there wasn't really much left to experiment with various kinds of sensors.
Don't get me wrong, it's not an easy task, and accidents are bound to happen, but the basic technology is there, sensors are there and prototypes that work, at least under ideal conditions, exists. So I am quite sure this is something that can be done in ten years time.
Besides, robot in this case doesn't have to be completely autonomous. It just should be more automated then it is now, so instructions from Earth aren't required for every single step.
Besides, as I mentioned in other post, as we start exploring places farther from the Earth, communication lag will start to get much bigger problem, until finally you'll either have to send humans or AI. And I bet AI, even with some risks associated. will be considerably cheaper, so it's better to plan ahead.
I don't think they're talking about completely autonomous robot. They just want it to do more work during its lifespan, since it won't have to wait for confirmation of each single step from Earth. Current state of robotics is getting better every day, and it's not in any way expensive technology, so I think it's pretty smart NASA is trying research in this direction too.
Besides, what we have now is maybe enough for Mars, but there are targets farther away, where communication lag will be bigger problem. Just thing about Jupiter moons.
Well, I guess you're right. I just know it was broadcasted life in at least some of the former Soviet satelitte states (since I happen to live in one), so at least in part of the Soviet block people knew quite well about Apollo landing. And communist goevermnets then had to find explanation why Americans landed succesfully on the moon while Russions only sent rover, so they came with the story I mentioned earlier, that seemed to outrage about half of the people around here.;)
Sure it was Soviet propaganda, there's no doubt about that. Period. I just pointed that out as interesting fact. While people in US didn't know about Russin rovers at all, people in USSR knew about US space program but were tought in school how inferior it is to the Russion one.
Also interesting is the fact that in Soviet Block, they were shown as a proof that USSR does care about pepole's lifes much more than US does, so rather than risking dnagerous human mission on the moon, they only sent robot, while astronauts stayed safely at home.
The missing radiation is in the region of visible light and infrared - radiation like the ultraviolet light increasingly penetrating the leaky ozone layer is not affected.
So, maybe they're already using some filters.
Somebody really has a wrong guy and it's not me. Just look here or here. Ok, so he hasn't turned in both his parents but just his father. What's the difference?
This sounds like USA is slowly getting there too.
Yeah, obviously,if anybody, companies manufacturing the system should be the ones to pay the fines. Poor user buys his first computer, the "best" operating system for it in good believe, connects to internet and next think he knows his computer doesn't work anymore shutting itself unexpectedly and on top of this frustration he is fined for something he doesn't have slightes what it is or how it could be prevented.
The problem with CDs is that you usually pay for one song you want to and 15 others you're not interested in. With movie DVD, you just pay for what you want.
The lucky thing is that this loss of interest in science fiction or space travel doesn't seem to apply to the whole world. Maybe it applies to the western culture, but where I live (Czech Republic, anyway) I wouldn't observe anything right that.
This is still quite close, so maybe in few years time this seatback will also reach us, but then there's still asia left and maybe the inspiration from them can some day sparkle the inspiration back in the west.
Furthemore, it strikes me, that just 22% of the people involved felt the differnce according to the article. This is not that much, meaning that majority of people don't seem to react to infrasound at all.
Obviously, now they have compressed and hidden their whole page before slashdot crowd. So, it seems to be working.
This is really very nice. They are actually doing it for free! What has always made me upset about all these conferences in my area of interest is that they cost huge amounts of money to just start with, so unless you have some rich institution behind you, you're probably screwed (this doesn't have to apply to all of you guys, but it certainly applies to poor student in poor country such as me).
So, interestingly unlike many well known companies, these people seem to believe that information should be free. Granted, it's still not the same as actually being there, but think about all those poor people in development countries that may have some way to access to internet, but certainly have no chance to get 1000 euros to go around visitng conferences, and thus are in big disadvantage against those lucky ones born in richer countries.
IMHO, this is something, where internet can really be of great help. Now, we just need more freely accesible publications.
That's why satellite grids are useful. If there's many satellites in the grid, they're much more redundant against collisions, since losing one or two satellites out of twenty shouldn't have that catastrophic consequences.
Besides, I hope space agencies are alreadz smart enugh at least not to put more debris on low earth orbit intentionally.
They're hardly doing this only in the US. In country where I live, about a year ago, there was a big show with Bill Gates coming and being portrayed as such a nice guy for giving away lot of computers with MS software on it for free or very low cost to high schools
Come on, they're big corporation, with lots of many to spare, and this is pretty smart thing on their part
do you really want your heart status to be "broadcast out"?
I bet shop owners would pay a lot for ability to read this. They could monitor your heart rate as you walk around the shop and notice which products make jump it up.
Combine this with RFIDs and you've got very advanced system to monitor customer,s habits.
It was nice to see Japanese robot actually speak in Czech. He even apperared at the begining of the main TV news, when he said his greeting to population and not just the ruling few.
I was hoping to get to the show in national museum, but unfortunatelly, it was reserved only to journalists.
I suspect, if this research wasn't sponsored by some advertisement company. This is great technology for commercials. Everybody needs just a little training, and then, wherever they show appropriate fractal images on TV, all the people will run into the shops for their ice cream, destroying anything in their way
I wonder if this would work for other things than food as well.
Seriously, thought, what's with all this madness of making robot as close to a human as possible? Humans as such are quite imperfect and while it is quite a nice to impress people around, it's practicall applications are rather fare fetched.
Building robot that can intelligently mowe your lawn (without need for special costly installation), deliver pizza in a building etc.and dynamically react to it's enviroment is much more usefull and almost equally as hard.
These Japan guys should consider if they want to put their money into impressing the world or making usefull, althought not so ipmressive, technology.
Most dual-boot users wouldn't be considered common user base anyway. They either use windows and keep linux around only to give it occasioall try so they can say "been there, done it, bought T-shirt". Or they use linux and keep windows around just to be able to run games (and occasional proprietary software).
However, users with dual boot option sometimes through time migrate from first state to second state, and that's how linux grows into windows territory. This is slow, but it's quite common. OTOH, I am yet to here from anybody migrating from linux to windows.
Last time I've seen the specification, they talked about some 14.2W maximum. Probably not enough to power 100W P4.