I hope that was sarcasm. Unfortunately that bait and switch is all too common; create a source of revenue for a purpose that most people support (e.g. Highway Trust Fund) then switch what it's used for on the assumption that "the American people are too stupid to understand the difference" (tm - Jonathan Gruber) .
For the weight of an RTG they could have dropped several different probes onto the comet, all of which could have very large solar panels. The lander they have was as much weight as they could deliver; the only thing that failed was the mechanism to attach it.
Yes, ion thrusters. Used to adjust from the original elliptical orbit to the final circular one (and yea, it takes a long time to do that compared to a conventional booster). They've been using these to maintain position for almost 20 years.
a wedding band would make breastfeeding seen in a better light?
Not breastfeeding, motherhood. The perception (perhaps incorrect, but still very real) is that no wedding band implies an unwed mother. And single motherhood is generally bad for both the child and society
Whether it offends me or not is irrelevant (I didn't post on either of the women's FB pages). It does offend many people. Not sure how you are connecting that to marital status, I agree they are not connected
The wedding band is important though. Are you really saying there's no difference between a married couple having a baby and a single woman having a baby?
First photo (black woman) breastfeeding in public with a race-baiting headline ("Black women do...") draws negative comments. Second photo of a woman apparently in private and wearing a wedding band draws positive comments. The editorial has both pictures cropped so you can't see if either woman is wearing a wedding band.
I wonder if the issue is not whether or not a manager is technically competent, but whether or not a manager is competent in the area in which that manager actually spends their time
I completely agree. A good manager does management functions (forecasting/budgeting, recruiting, team building, training, etc). If a manager tries to be the technical lead it rips the team apart; subordinates cannot make any decisions (or their decisions are overruled) and the other functions that a manager should be doing are ignored.
Not sure who "they" is but from a quick look at Fox's coverage it seems as good as other sites (and yea, they have the usual "comet is traveling really fast" comments).
even though it was originally a Republican idea put forth by Mitt Romney.
Well, if you ignore the plans pushed by Clinton and Daschle long before Romney signed the plan passed by the Massachusetts assembly (in fact before he was even elected).
FCC's purview to choose to switch broadband carriers from Title II classification as telecommunications services to Title I
The plaintiff wanted the FCC to call broadband Title II, but FCC declined to change it from Title I. But regardless of that decision, we don't know what the FCC had in mind this time around.
"Legal Person" just means the group of people who own the corporation can enter into contracts and other financial transactions jointly, same as in individual. You can form a corporation in Luxembourg or Bahamas and do business there, or you could (presumably) become a citizen of either. I don't see the problem.
Thanks for this post. I suspect the requester is on a fishing expedition since, as you point out, the police don't need to release anything interesting if they don't want to release it.
But the question is how much energy does it take to accelerate that object to Mars? (and you can't ignore the fact that you need to get out there with some kind of thruster and rendezvous with it, because that's what you suggest doing). You could use a gravitational slingshot to get there, but then you need to accelerate into that object's orbit. Voyager 1 is traveling roughly 17,000 meters per second, you would need to stop that velocity somehow.
Or take your simpler problem, a roughly one meter diameter rock from the Asteroid Belt. Consider the Rosetta spacecraft, it took an Ariane 5 rocket to get off Earth before you even think of getting to the asteroid.
The amount of energy it would take to launch from Earth (accelerate), rendezvous with an object (accelerate again), and provide enough energy to accelerate that object into a different orbit is more than we know how to engineer. If you really want a few gallons of water on Mars, send a cargo ship. Forget about steering an object with hand waving technologies like ion engines or heaters.
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I hope that was sarcasm. Unfortunately that bait and switch is all too common; create a source of revenue for a purpose that most people support (e.g. Highway Trust Fund) then switch what it's used for on the assumption that "the American people are too stupid to understand the difference" (tm - Jonathan Gruber) .
No need for that, just become a drombo for a few of the local monks
Second out of how many? There are thousands of successful space projects that use solar.
For the weight of an RTG they could have dropped several different probes onto the comet, all of which could have very large solar panels. The lander they have was as much weight as they could deliver; the only thing that failed was the mechanism to attach it.
Yea, when I read the part about "all its Windows Phone 8 devices broke today" I wondered how they managed to do that.
Windows that flip...
They'd probably crash. Although I suppose you could put some screens (preferably blue) to catch them.
Yes, ion thrusters. Used to adjust from the original elliptical orbit to the final circular one (and yea, it takes a long time to do that compared to a conventional booster). They've been using these to maintain position for almost 20 years.
It's comical how many times we see this suggestion - that somehow hopping onto a comet or asteroid will "carry" a spacecraft.
a wedding band would make breastfeeding seen in a better light?
Not breastfeeding, motherhood. The perception (perhaps incorrect, but still very real) is that no wedding band implies an unwed mother. And single motherhood is generally bad for both the child and society
Whether it offends me or not is irrelevant (I didn't post on either of the women's FB pages). It does offend many people. Not sure how you are connecting that to marital status, I agree they are not connected
The wedding band is important though. Are you really saying there's no difference between a married couple having a baby and a single woman having a baby?
First photo (black woman) breastfeeding in public with a race-baiting headline ("Black women do...") draws negative comments. Second photo of a woman apparently in private and wearing a wedding band draws positive comments. The editorial has both pictures cropped so you can't see if either woman is wearing a wedding band.
I wonder if the issue is not whether or not a manager is technically competent, but whether or not a manager is competent in the area in which that manager actually spends their time
I completely agree. A good manager does management functions (forecasting/budgeting, recruiting, team building, training, etc). If a manager tries to be the technical lead it rips the team apart; subordinates cannot make any decisions (or their decisions are overruled) and the other functions that a manager should be doing are ignored.
Not sure who "they" is but from a quick look at Fox's coverage it seems as good as other sites (and yea, they have the usual "comet is traveling really fast" comments).
even though it was originally a Republican idea put forth by Mitt Romney.
Well, if you ignore the plans pushed by Clinton and Daschle long before Romney signed the plan passed by the Massachusetts assembly (in fact before he was even elected).
FCC's purview to choose to switch broadband carriers from Title II classification as telecommunications services to Title I
The plaintiff wanted the FCC to call broadband Title II, but FCC declined to change it from Title I. But regardless of that decision, we don't know what the FCC had in mind this time around.
That could be it. Or maybe they heard Congress tell them not to make up laws on their own. Most likely it's some combination of the two.
vent excess heat outside
Uses your air conditioning to cool and exhausts heated air out the window. I've seen it done that way - very, very expensive.
I can't incorporate in Luxembourg or Bahamas.
"Legal Person" just means the group of people who own the corporation can enter into contracts and other financial transactions jointly, same as in individual. You can form a corporation in Luxembourg or Bahamas and do business there, or you could (presumably) become a citizen of either. I don't see the problem.
Thanks for this post. I suspect the requester is on a fishing expedition since, as you point out, the police don't need to release anything interesting if they don't want to release it.
Furthermore, a swarm doesn't increase the chance of a larger quake. It just makes us more aware of the possibility that has existed all along.
But the question is how much energy does it take to accelerate that object to Mars? (and you can't ignore the fact that you need to get out there with some kind of thruster and rendezvous with it, because that's what you suggest doing). You could use a gravitational slingshot to get there, but then you need to accelerate into that object's orbit. Voyager 1 is traveling roughly 17,000 meters per second, you would need to stop that velocity somehow.
Or take your simpler problem, a roughly one meter diameter rock from the Asteroid Belt. Consider the Rosetta spacecraft, it took an Ariane 5 rocket to get off Earth before you even think of getting to the asteroid.
? Not so much, since gravity falls off with the inverse cube of distance between the center of mass of the two gravitating bodies.
By the way, that statement displays a fundamental lack of understanding of orbital mechanics. Read up on a little something called "angular momentum"
You use a small object to gradually change the orbit of a progressively bigger one on up to a big comet
Butterfly Effect? Does that somehow trump Newton's Laws of Motion? Because that's what you are suggesting.
Since you know so much about this, let's see your calculations. You haven't provided anything yet.
The amount of energy it would take to launch from Earth (accelerate), rendezvous with an object (accelerate again), and provide enough energy to accelerate that object into a different orbit is more than we know how to engineer. If you really want a few gallons of water on Mars, send a cargo ship. Forget about steering an object with hand waving technologies like ion engines or heaters.
Here's a real world calculation for you:
CONCLUSION: A meteor has 100 times as much energy per gram as does TNT!