Rocketdyne in Canoga Park, CA has an F-1 sitting in their parking lot. That baby by itself if fscking huge.
Of course, now they're tearing down the building to expand a shopping mall (thank you so much Westfield). I hope they move the F-1 to the new Rocketdyne site.
First for most orbital insertions they need a facility that faces the ocean to the east because that is typically the launch direction.
Canaveral.
Next, it can't be too far north or south unless its specifically designed for polar orbits (Hello NRO Keyhole spysats!!)
For Polar orbits, Vandenberg is ideally situated. You launch to the south, and you're over ocean, plus the rotation of the earth is such that it's taking everything south *away* from you, so that you don't have to worry about crash over populated areas.
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Yes, it makes predictions that are testable. Unfortunately, the means of testing it are beyond our current technology.
Q: How many lawyers does it take to violate someone's first amendment rights?
A:(from a lawyer): THAT'S NOT FUNNY!
A:(from anyone else): Just one.
What do you mean? This guy is singlehandedly responsible for over ONE BILLION DOLLARS (pinky-to-mouth) of our losses for the year!
</RANT>
"We come in peace ... shoot to kill"
He was funny in his Oceans Twelve cameo.
And I was off by 2 orders as well. Itranscribed from my pen and paper calcs badly.
That's 1.35 quadrillion.
You're off by 2 orders of magnitude.
225 light years * 6 trillion miles/lightyear = 135 quadrillion miles.
I know it's a link to an old story, but I just got a kick out of:
IBM wants to stem away from guys like this [msn.com] and IP Hoarding companies [slashdot.org]
Slashdot as an IP Hoarding company.... Oh wait, they didn't mean IP Bandwidth, did they...
Now that I think of it, it could be my third-party USB2 board (VIA chipset as well).
If you look at alt.os.linux.mandrake, you'll see that 10.1's USB on VIA is an abomination.
Now if only Mandrake could figure out how to work the USB ports on them.
MDK 10.1 chokes on my K7T266A (3 year old) chipsets USB.
Boeing (nee Rockwell) Rocketdyne in Canoga Park has an F-1 engine in front. At least until the wreck the building for a shopping mall.
I believe the second stage was H2/LOX. At least I seem to recall reading that in "Angle of Attack".
Sorry, I should have said F-1 (Saturn V first stage) Engine!
Rocketdyne in Canoga Park, CA has an F-1 sitting in their parking lot. That baby by itself if fscking huge.
Of course, now they're tearing down the building to expand a shopping mall (thank you so much Westfield). I hope they move the F-1 to the new Rocketdyne site.
Not to mention better USB support (are you listening Mandraksoft? 10.1 was an abomination!) and 1394 support.
Moderated +1 ZZ-Top tune
(TV Dinners)
On the other hand,
New DRM Scheme To Make Duplicate Slashdot stories Obsolete
Might just get some support!
No, you need a wheelbarrow! A holocaust cloak doesn't hurt either!
First for most orbital insertions they need a facility that faces the ocean to the east because that is typically the launch direction.
Canaveral.
Next, it can't be too far north or south unless its specifically designed for polar orbits (Hello NRO Keyhole spysats!!)
For Polar orbits, Vandenberg is ideally situated. You launch to the south, and you're over ocean, plus the rotation of the earth is such that it's taking everything south *away* from you, so that you don't have to worry about crash over populated areas.
Any UCSC'ers know if Sluggo's Pizza is still delivering on campus?
History lesson: in the early '80s, Sluggo's was the on-campus pizza parlor (based at Porter College nee College 5).
The buoys will try to date the gulls! The gulls, of course, will immediately call the buoys nerds and crap all over them.
to the Unix 16-bit clock overflow
I assume you mean the Unix 31-bit clock overflow? (time_t generally a signed 32-bit value).
warning: link has one of those fake windows messages as a pop-up. (Yes, Firefox blocked it, but I wanted to see what was blocked).
To hell with that. I'm still trying to figure out how Rodney King's Hyundai Excel got up to 110 mph (according to LAPD).
Actually, in a hybrid, you get *better* mileage in stop-and-go driving, because the brakes help to charge the battery.