I agree with you on the one hand, but on the other: let him paddle his own canoe. In my case, my girlfriend and I are planning a long bike trip next year; I'm debating the merits of picking up a small wireless system with which to 1) document the trip and 2) 'borrow' internet connections for the checking of email & the like. Seeing the system this dude uses for kayaking is somewhat thought-provoking.
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Isn't it officially summer everywhere as of yesterday?
That is the very reason SpaceShipOne cost $20 million instead of $2 billion. If we ever want space flight to be within the reach of the average person, NASA is NOT going to get us there. It's private programs like this that will make the cost reasonable.
To expand on your point, that is the way it should be. Governments should not be spending tax dollars on building amusment rides for the public. How much did whats-his-name (tito?) spend to ride on Soyuz up to the space station? Not enough, if you ask me, the the Russians apparently disagree. If the common man is going to space, it is private enterprise that should get him there.
One more metric occurred to me. Apparently the average formula one team is spending about $40 million a year. Ferrari spends $400 million. Anyone know what a NASCAR team spends? You wanna go racing, or you wanna go to space?
This says quite a bit about......the pilot's skill.
It does. Though I'm not sure what it says about his judgement. I certainly have the highest respect for Melville as a pilot - he's been testing for Burt for decades. However, when you look at the flight - he noticed control anomalies immediately after separating from White Knight, but chose to continue the flight - maybe he did indeed get very lucky. What caused the bang? What caused the control problems both early and late in the flight?
In flight training, my instructor called it 'get home-itis'. When you're close to home you're a lot more likely to press on in deteriorating circumstances than if you're still far from home. With the public & press invited to this launch, was there too much pressure on Melville to make the flight despite early signs of possible problems? I hate to second guess a professional of his caliber, but it feels like there was a lot of luck involved in this flight.
I read an article somewhere - sorry I forget which - that they intentionally do not need all their fuel to reach 100km. There was not a motor failure, at least in the coverage I've seen. This article mentions a 'loud bang' and minor damage to (from what I can tell) the aft fuselage.
Correct. I believe money to be a corrupting influence in democracy, particularly the amounts being shoveled into PACs. Mr McCain may be onto something with the idea of federally funded presidential elections, though seeing tax dollars spent this way is unappealing.
I think there should be minimal requirements for political contributions:
Must be eligible to vote
Limited $ amount an individual may spend per candidate
Limited total $ amount to # of candidates on your ballot, per election cycle
I believe your post does not accurately reflect the state of the Libertarian Party in the US. The US Libertarian party leans more towards Jeffersonian principles than the libertarianism that you describe (which sounds more like anarchy to me). Meanwhile, the us Constitution Party is probably where the religious right belongs. They want to follow the US Constitution based on its roots in Biblical Law.
DCX is another project Rutan was involved with, BTW. The gov't cut funding, but its still a very interesting technology. More interesting that a bunch of computer geeks are making it work. I can't give the armadillo guys enough credit for their tenacity.
As noted in the article, the team analyzing data gets to see things that would be impossible to relay to the driver via gauges. The example cited involved an exhaust leak in shumacher's car. They knew it was an exhaust leak by monitoring pressure in the engine & exhaust. They knew it wasn't going to cause a critical suspension error by monitoring the temperature of various components throughout the car. Pretty cool stuff actually.
Ever had roo meat? It ain't bad. Seriously. Grilled some up at Ayer's rock a couple years back. The trick is to not overcook it - rare is good, well-done is tougher than an old boot.
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One question though, what do you do about money? Somehow you have to eat, and I kinda doubt you carry 6 months food on your back. Even if you do though, where/how did you get the money to buy it? How did you pay your rent for your junk? Who took care of your wife and kids?
First and foremost: everyone's situation is different. For me, once I decided to go, I essentially stopped spending money on frivolous crap. This enabled saving. Not having credit card debt is very helpful. I rented my house out. I didn't have a wife or kids.
Bills can be setup for auto-pay. Or, if you don't trust computers, find a trustworthy friend / family member to handle such things for you. For how long will you be leaving? If you're leaving for more than 6 months, I'd consider putting your stuff in storage so you either aren't paying rent or can rent out your home. If you're making payments on a car, sell it. Get rid of as many bills as you can. I wouldn't recommend an extended absence from work (and thus income) if you have a lot of debt, particularly high-interest credit card debt.
If you have a family consider taking them with you. If you can't or won't and they can't support / take care of themselves, you're asking the wrong forum for advice.
For food, the AT hikers resupply on average every 5 days or so. It doesn't take much money. I recall hearing about $2 per mile as an average, or, $4300 for the whole thing. Considering thats all expenses for around 6 months, it ain't bad (obviously exclusive of bills at home). It also doesn't take much money to travel overseas. The plane tickets are the most expensive piece. Buy them round-trip in advance. Once you're there stay until your money runs out (note that non-US airlines typically don't charge you an arm and a leg to change flight dates & will sell open-ended round trip tickets). Many younger travellers (i.e. 18-25 yr olds) don't have a pot to piss in when travelling; they'll stop & find a job (often illegal) to save up enough money to keep travelling. When you live out of a backpack, expenses can be kept surprisingly low. More info on overseas travel available here.
Step 1: Decide to go. The rest will follow.
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But who gets to decide what is moderation? To you, apparently, the personal challenge of planning and executing the row across the atlantic is too extreme. I'd venture to guess that she learns a hell of a lot more about herself in those 90 days in a boat than most working stiffs learn in years.
To me, sitting in front of a computer 8 or more hours a day for 20 or 30 or 40 years straight is too extreme. So I do that for a while, then quit & do something interesting. In my case, the last time was walking the Appalachian Trail. Why the hell would somebody spend nearly 6 months walking over 2000 miles? It certainly serves no purpose in the grand scheme of things. It's certainly not 'moderate'. But I'll tell you this: It beats the hell out of working.
Man, I wish I had the balls to do this. Boats are so cool. Well, boats without motors, anyway. In fact, things built by people with their own hands designed to do something crazy are cool in general. I'd love to build my own sailboat and sail from the southern tip of Japan to the Philippines. That's not even a huge distance, and I'm still too chicken to do it... storms scare me.
Well, Mr. A. Coward, may I ask you what you have done to grow the balls you need to embark on such an undertaking? Let me tell you this: the hardest part is deciding to go. Once you decide to go - and I mean really mentally commit to going - the rest falls into place. Maybe you could start by learning to sail (assumption on my part that you don't know how). Storms shouldn't scare you; start sailing with people who know their shit & learn what to do when the wind and/or seas are a little rougher than you think you can handle. Sail boats are pretty damn durable, its just a matter of understanding what you have to do to make it through the storm - run before it gets to you or batten down the hatches & ride it out. You might end up puking your guts out bouncing around belowdecks, but it ain't gonna kill you.
There is still a risk. The whole point of the article was that when memory is cached on disk, it is accessable from disk for an indeterminate period of time - possibly years before its overwritten. So when your Pastor program un-obfuscates your data, where is it? In RAM? In cleartext? Maybe Mac's don't have this problem (though I doubt it).
Which, to an XP user, probably looks like gibberish. Get yourself a Knoppix CD or install cygwin on your system. Use the above command to poke around on your drive. I think, but am not certain, that windows will not let you do so with normal windows tools.
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I agree with you on the one hand, but on the other: let him paddle his own canoe. In my case, my girlfriend and I are planning a long bike trip next year; I'm debating the merits of picking up a small wireless system with which to 1) document the trip and 2) 'borrow' internet connections for the checking of email & the like. Seeing the system this dude uses for kayaking is somewhat thought-provoking.
To expand on your point, that is the way it should be. Governments should not be spending tax dollars on building amusment rides for the public. How much did whats-his-name (tito?) spend to ride on Soyuz up to the space station? Not enough, if you ask me, the the Russians apparently disagree. If the common man is going to space, it is private enterprise that should get him there.
One more metric occurred to me. Apparently the average formula one team is spending about $40 million a year. Ferrari spends $400 million. Anyone know what a NASCAR team spends? You wanna go racing, or you wanna go to space?
I believe some models of Lear are capable of FL 580 or 550. As they say, "close enough for government work."
I wonder what the cost is compared to the mercury capsules that also didn't make orbit?
Sign me up. I'd literally give my left nut for a ride to space in that thing. Not that Melville needs more balls.
greywar is correct. SS1 is a 3-passenger vehicle. parent of his post needs to do a little more research.
It does. Though I'm not sure what it says about his judgement. I certainly have the highest respect for Melville as a pilot - he's been testing for Burt for decades. However, when you look at the flight - he noticed control anomalies immediately after separating from White Knight, but chose to continue the flight - maybe he did indeed get very lucky. What caused the bang? What caused the control problems both early and late in the flight?
In flight training, my instructor called it 'get home-itis'. When you're close to home you're a lot more likely to press on in deteriorating circumstances than if you're still far from home. With the public & press invited to this launch, was there too much pressure on Melville to make the flight despite early signs of possible problems? I hate to second guess a professional of his caliber, but it feels like there was a lot of luck involved in this flight.
Thanks for sharing. That was a better read than all the news stories.
I read an article somewhere - sorry I forget which - that they intentionally do not need all their fuel to reach 100km. There was not a motor failure, at least in the coverage I've seen. This article mentions a 'loud bang' and minor damage to (from what I can tell) the aft fuselage.
Last time I heard anything about OSes in Rutan craft, it was Apple(scroll down to 'General Aviation's golden years').
More info here.
Correct. I believe money to be a corrupting influence in democracy, particularly the amounts being shoveled into PACs. Mr McCain may be onto something with the idea of federally funded presidential elections, though seeing tax dollars spent this way is unappealing.
I think there should be minimal requirements for political contributions:
I believe your post does not accurately reflect the state of the Libertarian Party in the US. The US Libertarian party leans more towards Jeffersonian principles than the libertarianism that you describe (which sounds more like anarchy to me). Meanwhile, the us Constitution Party is probably where the religious right belongs. They want to follow the US Constitution based on its roots in Biblical Law.
Have you ever seen a privately owned & operated aquaduct? Collisseum? No? Thats because there were LAWS man, LAWS.
Where's the +1 Naive mod when I need it?
DCX is another project Rutan was involved with, BTW. The gov't cut funding, but its still a very interesting technology. More interesting that a bunch of computer geeks are making it work. I can't give the armadillo guys enough credit for their tenacity.
As noted in the article, the team analyzing data gets to see things that would be impossible to relay to the driver via gauges. The example cited involved an exhaust leak in shumacher's car. They knew it was an exhaust leak by monitoring pressure in the engine & exhaust. They knew it wasn't going to cause a critical suspension error by monitoring the temperature of various components throughout the car. Pretty cool stuff actually.
They're difficult to store. Helium ain't cheap. Airship pilots are rare.
Ever had roo meat? It ain't bad. Seriously. Grilled some up at Ayer's rock a couple years back. The trick is to not overcook it - rare is good, well-done is tougher than an old boot.
First and foremost: everyone's situation is different. For me, once I decided to go, I essentially stopped spending money on frivolous crap. This enabled saving. Not having credit card debt is very helpful. I rented my house out. I didn't have a wife or kids.
Bills can be setup for auto-pay. Or, if you don't trust computers, find a trustworthy friend / family member to handle such things for you. For how long will you be leaving? If you're leaving for more than 6 months, I'd consider putting your stuff in storage so you either aren't paying rent or can rent out your home. If you're making payments on a car, sell it. Get rid of as many bills as you can. I wouldn't recommend an extended absence from work (and thus income) if you have a lot of debt, particularly high-interest credit card debt.
If you have a family consider taking them with you. If you can't or won't and they can't support / take care of themselves, you're asking the wrong forum for advice.
For food, the AT hikers resupply on average every 5 days or so. It doesn't take much money. I recall hearing about $2 per mile as an average, or, $4300 for the whole thing. Considering thats all expenses for around 6 months, it ain't bad (obviously exclusive of bills at home). It also doesn't take much money to travel overseas. The plane tickets are the most expensive piece. Buy them round-trip in advance. Once you're there stay until your money runs out (note that non-US airlines typically don't charge you an arm and a leg to change flight dates & will sell open-ended round trip tickets). Many younger travellers (i.e. 18-25 yr olds) don't have a pot to piss in when travelling; they'll stop & find a job (often illegal) to save up enough money to keep travelling. When you live out of a backpack, expenses can be kept surprisingly low. More info on overseas travel available here.
Step 1: Decide to go. The rest will follow.
But who gets to decide what is moderation? To you, apparently, the personal challenge of planning and executing the row across the atlantic is too extreme. I'd venture to guess that she learns a hell of a lot more about herself in those 90 days in a boat than most working stiffs learn in years.
To me, sitting in front of a computer 8 or more hours a day for 20 or 30 or 40 years straight is too extreme. So I do that for a while, then quit & do something interesting. In my case, the last time was walking the Appalachian Trail. Why the hell would somebody spend nearly 6 months walking over 2000 miles? It certainly serves no purpose in the grand scheme of things. It's certainly not 'moderate'. But I'll tell you this: It beats the hell out of working.
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Well, Mr. A. Coward, may I ask you what you have done to grow the balls you need to embark on such an undertaking? Let me tell you this: the hardest part is deciding to go. Once you decide to go - and I mean really mentally commit to going - the rest falls into place. Maybe you could start by learning to sail (assumption on my part that you don't know how). Storms shouldn't scare you; start sailing with people who know their shit & learn what to do when the wind and/or seas are a little rougher than you think you can handle. Sail boats are pretty damn durable, its just a matter of understanding what you have to do to make it through the storm - run before it gets to you or batten down the hatches & ride it out. You might end up puking your guts out bouncing around belowdecks, but it ain't gonna kill you.
There is still a risk. The whole point of the article was that when memory is cached on disk, it is accessable from disk for an indeterminate period of time - possibly years before its overwritten. So when your Pastor program un-obfuscates your data, where is it? In RAM? In cleartext? Maybe Mac's don't have this problem (though I doubt it).
AC says:
Which, to an XP user, probably looks like gibberish. Get yourself a Knoppix CD or install cygwin on your system. Use the above command to poke around on your drive. I think, but am not certain, that windows will not let you do so with normal windows tools.