O'l Adam answers your question. What it boils down to, is to prevent war, the defence capability of a country has to be commensurate with its wealth, in order to make an attack by a neighbour unproffitable. Get his book from Project Gutenberg and educate yourself a little.
Howzat you say? Well, the sun is a fusion source that makes the grass grow, that powers the sheep that eats the grass, causing you to have mostly short grass.
(If all the grass is short, then the sheep will go hungry and you'll have to add additional feed - so then a farmer somewhere will have mostly short grass.)
You'd have more trouble with the freezing point of the plastic. Space is very, very cold on the lee side. Therefore, plastics will tend to become brittle in space. Also, you'd probably use different craft for landing and only use this one in orbit.
It would have to be freakin enormous. A field doesn't work like a mirror, bouncing the incoming radiation off - it slowly deflects or bends the path of the incoming radiation. That works fine on a planetary scale and the earth's magnetic field extends several planet diameters into space. Generating an earth sized magnetic field around a space ship would be no mean feat.
Considering how much spam and other crap the net is shoveling, it must be really good. The net is the equivalent of an off-road vehicle driving along a mud track to deliver a bunch of flowers once in a while.
They tried to go to the Moon first, when the rest of the world was already walking on Mars.
Automated baggage handling is nothing new, or revolutionary. This was just a crappy design and crappy execution, by people who were so insular and myopic that they didn't look at the rest of the world and therefore still think they were the first.
Considering all the 'net is growing at 100% per week' crap that Worldcom was spewing, it is no wonder that things 'slowed down'. All that happened is that the numbers are finally catching up to reality.
Yes, there are zillions of listed jobs. However, The vast majority of those listed jobs do not really exist, since they are either stale and already filled, or prelistings for projects that will never happen. Either that, or HR has such a bad filtering system that they reject all the good candidates.
I have worked on military systems for >10 years. Northrop Grumman alone has >2500 jobs open. You would think that ONE of those would fit my resume like a glove right?
is one of the biggest reasons why jobs are coming back. The outsourcing numbers are not so compelling anymore, so sanity is beginning to win over beancounting again.
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That has something to be said for my reflective tinfoil hat...
O'l Adam answers your question. What it boils down to, is to prevent war, the defence capability of a country has to be commensurate with its wealth, in order to make an attack by a neighbour unproffitable. Get his book from Project Gutenberg and educate yourself a little.
Global Warming - Woohoo! Bring it on, man bring it on... We just had Summer Snow - Snow, August, Snow - Global Warming? MUHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!
Remember that they are also doing the dealing. A player bot coupled to a dealer bot is the ideal combination for a perfect rip-off situation.
Solar powered aircraft have been done actually. You just don't have enough money to buy one.
Fusion powered lawn mower? Get a sheep.
Howzat you say? Well, the sun is a fusion source that makes the grass grow, that powers the sheep that eats the grass, causing you to have mostly short grass.
(If all the grass is short, then the sheep will go hungry and you'll have to add additional feed - so then a farmer somewhere will have mostly short grass.)
Well, you know, if you only compare two of the essential parts of the system with the kernel, eg. GCC and X, the kernel fades into insignificance.
;-)
So, it would be more fair to call the whole system GCC or X and do away with the Linux name...
Your point being? The shell of the craft would still approach -200 degrees eventually.
Anyhoo, plastic spacecraft is 'almost' old hat. http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/
You'd have more trouble with the freezing point of the plastic. Space is very, very cold on the lee side. Therefore, plastics will tend to become brittle in space. Also, you'd probably use different craft for landing and only use this one in orbit.
It would have to be freakin enormous. A field doesn't work like a mirror, bouncing the incoming radiation off - it slowly deflects or bends the path of the incoming radiation. That works fine on a planetary scale and the earth's magnetic field extends several planet diameters into space. Generating an earth sized magnetic field around a space ship would be no mean feat.
Just as I finally figured out how to draw a straight line with The Gimp, they want to change the UI again?
Considering how much spam and other crap the net is shoveling, it must be really good. The net is the equivalent of an off-road vehicle driving along a mud track to deliver a bunch of flowers once in a while.
They tried to go to the Moon first, when the rest of the world was already walking on Mars.
Automated baggage handling is nothing new, or revolutionary. This was just a crappy design and crappy execution, by people who were so insular and myopic that they didn't look at the rest of the world and therefore still think they were the first.
Poor sods...
Now they employ thousands of little grey bug eyed people to push the little grey carts around the 26 miles of dark underground tracks...
Considering all the 'net is growing at 100% per week' crap that Worldcom was spewing, it is no wonder that things 'slowed down'. All that happened is that the numbers are finally catching up to reality.
I am actually surprised that they haven't found an AOL floppy disk or CDROM on Mars.
We need to find dinosaur skeletons on Mars. Anything less would be rather unimpressive.
Yeah, if anything, Mars would probably have some nasty hard skinned parasites similar to Cryptosporidium in the water...
Yes, there are zillions of listed jobs. However, The vast majority of those listed jobs do not really exist, since they are either stale and already filled, or prelistings for projects that will never happen. Either that, or HR has such a bad filtering system that they reject all the good candidates. I have worked on military systems for >10 years. Northrop Grumman alone has >2500 jobs open. You would think that ONE of those would fit my resume like a glove right?
but C is still my favourite, most hated language and the first one of many, that I did NOT study at university...
is one of the biggest reasons why jobs are coming back. The outsourcing numbers are not so compelling anymore, so sanity is beginning to win over beancounting again.
Don't worry, the unique NYC Subway Urine Smell(TM) can be preserved using this thechnology: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/19/193216 &from=rss
is that 17,000 people then went looking for a way to turn the @#$%^*()! Bluetooth pop-up cr@p off...
Yes, and your post should link directly to your own webserver running on a 1MHz PIC processor...
Frist psot of course...