Yes, it is very expensive, and of course there is always the chance that someone will flip the wrong beits and not correlate for Doppler shift etc. This almost happened with Cassini!!
I really think we need to stop focussing on sending signals. Instead send smaller "nono probes" inside a larger mother ship. Get the nano probe(S) to return to earth directly with the data - expensive I know but I think it's worth the cost.
Should be especially useful for a mision like phobos where the cost of the return trip would be relatively cheap!
yeah Zonk fails it..often..we know. What can we do?
AMD: Anyway, send in the lawyers.
IP department: What? WE're all out. We can't cover Japan too.
AMD: Thats ok we're working with Honda on a new kind of cyber lawyer A_SUE_ME
IP department: Ooo, I don't work for you anymore. Those guys'll undercut me
Well, wasn't the cliche that he was '50 years ahead of his time'... (I know I know..thats in there with the 640 k of memory is all we'll ever need! ). So, we should have got 42 50 years ago : ) (relative to our time fram on earth)
I think we have too many smart people chasing their tales in the internet world today. We have become more concerned with the internal..
Aside: I read the lin in you sig.
"suppose you have written an artificial intelligence engine, let's call it a call-center psychiatrist, how would you go about knowing if it was working okay?"
Maybe another wuestion is. "How do you know if you would be better qualified to tell if its working than itslf..or one of IT'S OWN subroutines??
The first five posts are all riffs on the same theme -- dilation of time. Does that say more about the level of education among Slashdotters, or about our lack of creativity..
or lack of relativity.. ; )
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"I see you have constructed a new lightsaber." -- Darth Vader in ROTJ wielding Luke's new lightsaber. Luke lost Annakin's old lightsaber because it was still being held by the arm that fell onto Bespin in ESB.
If I remember correctly though, it wasn't so much the significance of it being new as in "new car"... but "new" as in modified. Wasn't the handle much larger in his new light sabre in ROTJ, with a magnet 'thingy' on it or something...
you can find my incredible browser, Lynks.
Its a cross between Links and Lynx. Im quite sure its more popular than IE but it identifies itself as IE so theres really no way to tell you see. I also like magic tricks.
But really, I don;t like to knock Opera. It is the best browser in the world!!!
I'm also looking forward to when Dexter invents a missile that can reach the sun and shut down its thermo nuclear reactions hence causing it to die.
I subsequently look forward to Dexter (Dexter is lets see...Russian..why not?) releasing the manual on how to build his missile to Dimitri who unsuccesfully bribes the world for money and hence launches the missile into the sun... I for one am thankful to see space science fail!! : )
..but that exact attitude is EVERYEHERE. How many reatards have you met tht have the notion that if you let people walk all over you they will be walking all over you forever.. ehhhh.. whos doing the walking??
Hackers arm the very people they should be trying to suppress. Its really dishertening. Not all do I know. Some (the good guys) are giving them nettles!!. But there really is too much loose morals these days. Allot of it comming from East of the Caucus (Yural?)mountains unfortunately. There are many Russian black hats. Make no mistake - they are not the hackers you see in the movies. They are dirty seedy people that would sell their mothers for a quick buck....
Even as a liberal, I find I have more and more admiration for DRM and anti-distributed networks. Maybe the black hats should think about the long term damage they are doing. The are arming the very people that make them have to hack and hurting the very people that would want them to have a fair chance.. : (..
Yeah, its stange. I once thought I should create geat things but I soon realised it is literally arming retards with sub machine guns. You have a resposibility not to create in this world. Its disgusting the amount of imps that are getting a hold of technology and twisting it. I call on all hackers who havent seen the light to grow up. Knowledge is not power you retards - its the same crap as before... the imps have the power..you will always be their pawn (their imp factory worker). Dont arm them...pity them..or punish them if needs be
If they don't have experience living with the impact of their decisions, they can be worse than useless.
I understand, but O am I tired of living with the impact of someone elses mistakes. The world is that in a nutshell already, why would I want that doubled? I'm content enough teaching at the moment. Enjoy your car service and repair job, good sir,
essreenim
.. only the failed stealth startups suck. The rest are successful!
You are trying to graft logic onto statistics. While I agree that the parent post is ambiguous, it should be obvious that he is commenting on the statistical liklihood of a stealth startups failure being relatively high..
Actually, I think the more cutting edge it is, the more stealth like it's startup should be..
Well terraforming of the moon would be ideal, but the moon doesn't have the mass and subsequent magnetic field to sustain an atmosphere - end of story..
Japan is doing some really neat stuff with robotics. Theyre every there.
You know to what extent if (like me) you ended up there (Fukuoka - nice city) and saw a piano playing itself, with passers by just ignoring it..
Perfectly playing a number of lovely pieces. It really is embarrasing that a robot can play the piano so much better than me... wven if it is all automated.. and all so hidden as well. the workings are all inside the piano. its like a ghost is sitting down playing it...
Do you honestly think that the occupation of east germany would have stopped just there without our atomic weapons of mass destruction? The USSR was poised to keep on fighting and I honestly don't know if we would have had the resources and manpower to take on the red army at the end of WWII. Technologically we could have had an upper hand, but WWII was still fought more or less man to man and we were greatly outnumbered.
wow, you are naiive. the Soviet Union at that time was on its last legs after repeated German onslaught. It was aonly a long cold Russian Winter that saved them from Nazi domination.
This all misses the point anyway. The real question is: Do you welsome our new Monn robot overlords. I for one.. do not..especially not if they were Nazi robots
I guess it just shows you that no matter what happens, no matter what the evil stuff is, there always really is hope... unless the lunar space robots are really a ploy to get back at us? Fear the space robots!
Yes, the future of mankinds best hope is...not mankind its 'robots'.. please
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Just like Eart is tilted during rotation, so too is Saturn and hence the plane of its rings..
A waist of about 10 billion dollars?
I really think we need to stop focussing on sending signals. Instead send smaller "nono probes" inside a larger mother ship. Get the nano probe(S) to return to earth directly with the data - expensive I know but I think it's worth the cost.
Should be especially useful for a mision like phobos where the cost of the return trip would be relatively cheap!
: )
Come on now. You like all of us are angry at how /. editors are now a team of team gang raping green lizards, aren't you?
AMD: Anyway, send in the lawyers. IP department: What? WE're all out. We can't cover Japan too. AMD: Thats ok we're working with Honda on a new kind of cyber lawyer A_SUE_ME IP department: Ooo, I don't work for you anymore. Those guys'll undercut me
I think we have too many smart people chasing their tales in the internet world today. We have become more concerned with the internal..
Aside: I read the lin in you sig .
"suppose you have written an artificial intelligence engine, let's call it a call-center psychiatrist, how would you go about knowing if it was working okay?" Maybe another wuestion is. "How do you know if you would be better qualified to tell if its working than itslf..or one of IT'S OWN subroutines??
or lack of relativity.. ; )
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Nothing has equalled special relativity in 100 years? has it
If I remember correctly though, it wasn't so much the significance of it being new as in "new car"... but "new" as in modified. Wasn't the handle much larger in his new light sabre in ROTJ, with a magnet 'thingy' on it or something...
Lets see that parliamentarian jedi do that!!..
I knew they were in it with the hamsters. Nice to see they didn't take it all too seriously. Or, maybe it was an infinite improbability drive..
But really, I don;t like to knock Opera. It is the best browser in the world!!!
The submitters have a story with no link. Someone adds the link (which IS the story) and it is redundant!.
If thats redundant then what are /. submitters. Hopefully unemployed-style redundancy await them soon!!! : )
God bless the special people!
Keep reaching for the stars. You are special!!
I subsequently look forward to Dexter (Dexter is lets see...Russian..why not?) releasing the manual on how to build his missile to Dimitri who unsuccesfully bribes the world for money and hence launches the missile into the sun... I for one am thankful to see space science fail!! : )
commence negative modding..
Hackers arm the very people they should be trying to suppress. Its really dishertening. Not all do I know. Some (the good guys) are giving them nettles!!. But there really is too much loose morals these days. Allot of it comming from East of the Caucus (Yural?)mountains unfortunately. There are many Russian black hats. Make no mistake - they are not the hackers you see in the movies. They are dirty seedy people that would sell their mothers for a quick buck ....
Even as a liberal, I find I have more and more admiration for DRM and anti-distributed networks. Maybe the black hats should think about the long term damage they are doing. The are arming the very people that make them have to hack and hurting the very people that would want them to have a fair chance.. : ( ..
I understand, but O am I tired of living with the impact of someone elses mistakes. The world is that in a nutshell already, why would I want that doubled? I'm content enough teaching at the moment. Enjoy your car service and repair job, good sir, essreenim
You are trying to graft logic onto statistics. While I agree that the parent post is ambiguous, it should be obvious that he is commenting on the statistical liklihood of a stealth startups failure being relatively high..
Actually, I think the more cutting edge it is, the more stealth like it's startup should be..
You know to what extent if (like me) you ended up there (Fukuoka - nice city) and saw a piano playing itself, with passers by just ignoring it..
Perfectly playing a number of lovely pieces. It really is embarrasing that a robot can play the piano so much better than me ... wven if it is all automated.. and all so hidden as well. the workings are all inside the piano. its like a ghost is sitting down playing it ...
wow, you are naiive. the Soviet Union at that time was on its last legs after repeated German onslaught. It was aonly a long cold Russian Winter that saved them from Nazi domination.
This all misses the point anyway. The real question is: Do you welsome our new Monn robot overlords. I for one.. do not..especially not if they were Nazi robots
Yes, the future of mankinds best hope is ...not mankind its 'robots' .. please