The commercial transportation program started out when Bush Jr. was President. Obama just expanded it a bit because its cheaper than paying the Russians. That is all.
Bullshit. They gave gave more money to SLS (which isn't going to fly anytime soon) than the NASA request while underfunding the Commercial Crew program. They gave more money to SLS than what they cut on Commercial Crew. They also cut the NASA science budget in the process. SLS is about as likely to fly as Constellation was.
It's pork barrel politics nothing else. The sad thing is this only helps the Russians and their own pockets.
However the reasons where clearly due to Space X's failure to get their act together and provide confidence that they will be human rated in time to take over when the contract with the Russians was set to end. So NASA really doesn't have much choice, because if Space X isn't ready when the current seats we have from the Russians end, we'd be in a place where no US crew replacements would be possible.
If the project has had any delays so far it has been purely because of continued Congress underfunding. They keep cutting it below what NASA asks. While the pork barrel SLS just got itself a budget increase.
Quoting http://mic.com/articles/11354/... : At $60 million-a-seat, the aging Russian Soyuz program will hopefully soon be eclipsed by the $20 million-a-seat Dragon.
1. Orion is too heavy so it can't be launched on anything less than a Delta IV Heavy. That's assuming its weight doesn't increase further. 2. ULA is cutting Delta IV core production. 3. Delta IV Heavy is not man-rated. The rocket just ain't reliable enough.
The old ones they licensed from Westinghouse seem to work fine. It's this new POS (ahem) MARVELOUS 3rd generation reactor design they made with the Germans that ain't work. Not that I find it surprising.
Well ever since the French state changed the way the plants are built and handed off construction to Areva (power plant designer) instead of EDF (electricity distributor) these little shitty details keep piling up. I'm guessing Areva gets paid for each little fix they make while EDF would actually see those fixes rebated on their final lifetime power generation profits...
Then there is the fact that there simply isn't that many people left in working age with actual experience building nuclear power plants and shit like this happens. Cost overruns and delays.
Don't worry. The Chinese built nuclear reactors for that French electric power company to be constructed in the UK proper are going to be a LOT after? Right? Doh.
Bzzt. Wrong. Not if you include the cost of inverters, backup storage, and other little things like that.
You are right about city farming being increasingly possible though. You can increasingly see industrial farming and livestock facilities around the world. One good example is fish farming: http://www.theglobaleducationp...
If the trend continues pretty soon most consumed fish will be farmed rather than caught in the wild.
They could simply get an ARM license and design an ARM server CPU with their FPGA in the same chip.
The manufacturing could be done in Samsung or Globalfoundries since they aren't competitors and are probably going to have the next best manufacturing process next to Intel.
It's quite dumb if they though there was no trade. I mean the Nile river goes there in Ethiopia. It's hardly surprising there was a trade route from Egypt to that part of Africa.
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The commercial transportation program started out when Bush Jr. was President. Obama just expanded it a bit because its cheaper than paying the Russians. That is all.
Bullshit. They gave gave more money to SLS (which isn't going to fly anytime soon) than the NASA request while underfunding the Commercial Crew program. They gave more money to SLS than what they cut on Commercial Crew. They also cut the NASA science budget in the process. SLS is about as likely to fly as Constellation was.
It's pork barrel politics nothing else. The sad thing is this only helps the Russians and their own pockets.
However the reasons where clearly due to Space X's failure to get their act together and provide confidence that they will be human rated in time to take over when the contract with the Russians was set to end. So NASA really doesn't have much choice, because if Space X isn't ready when the current seats we have from the Russians end, we'd be in a place where no US crew replacements would be possible.
Bullshit. SpaceX recently did a test of their crew escape mechanism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.nasa.gov/press-rele...
If the project has had any delays so far it has been purely because of continued Congress underfunding. They keep cutting it below what NASA asks. While the pork barrel SLS just got itself a budget increase.
Orion costs 320x more than Commercial Crew (SpaceX AND Boeing capsules):
http://mic.com/articles/11354/...
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http://mic.com/articles/11354/...
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At $60 million-a-seat, the aging Russian Soyuz program will hopefully soon be eclipsed by the $20 million-a-seat Dragon.
The Dragon is the name of the SpaceX capsule.
4. It's expensive like heck.
1. Orion is too heavy so it can't be launched on anything less than a Delta IV Heavy. That's assuming its weight doesn't increase further.
2. ULA is cutting Delta IV core production.
3. Delta IV Heavy is not man-rated. The rocket just ain't reliable enough.
No it's going to be cheaper to launch using US launch services. Especially with SpaceX. That's the *really* interesting bit.
The old ones they licensed from Westinghouse seem to work fine. It's this new POS (ahem) MARVELOUS 3rd generation reactor design they made with the Germans that ain't work. Not that I find it surprising.
The accident rate still seems to be like one meltdown a decade (worldwide) regardless of what they do. So yes it seems to have brought nothing.
Well ever since the French state changed the way the plants are built and handed off construction to Areva (power plant designer) instead of EDF (electricity distributor) these little shitty details keep piling up. I'm guessing Areva gets paid for each little fix they make while EDF would actually see those fixes rebated on their final lifetime power generation profits...
Then there is the fact that there simply isn't that many people left in working age with actual experience building nuclear power plants and shit like this happens. Cost overruns and delays.
Don't worry. The Chinese built nuclear reactors for that French electric power company to be constructed in the UK proper are going to be a LOT after? Right? Doh.
Neat. Get ready for a gigantic coal sludge spill like the one that happened at the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant then.
China is still increasing their coal electricity generation. Germany keeps building new coal power plants.
If you're going to do that measure the external costs of solar as well.
solar is cheaper than coal now
Bzzt. Wrong. Not if you include the cost of inverters, backup storage, and other little things like that.
You are right about city farming being increasingly possible though. You can increasingly see industrial farming and livestock facilities around the world. One good example is fish farming:
http://www.theglobaleducationp...
If the trend continues pretty soon most consumed fish will be farmed rather than caught in the wild.
Then there's Vertical Farming or City Farming:
http://www.gelighting.com/Ligh...
http://www.lighting.philips.co...
Great they just need to make one with a GOOD ARM processor then. Like the A15 or better.
They could simply get an ARM license and design an ARM server CPU with their FPGA in the same chip.
The manufacturing could be done in Samsung or Globalfoundries since they aren't competitors and are probably going to have the next best manufacturing process next to Intel.
There were some claims that the 'fizzle' nuclear test the North Koreans made a couple of years ago was actually an EMP nuclear device test.
Eventually they'll run out of other people's money and the US will run out of schmucks who are underpaid as well.
How should Germany defend itself with a population of 60 million at that time against an army of 60 million?
Same way Israel manages to do it. See simple.
It's quite dumb if they though there was no trade. I mean the Nile river goes there in Ethiopia. It's hardly surprising there was a trade route from Egypt to that part of Africa.
Not necessarily. They probably just assumed whatever the damage was it wouldn't breach the containment. Which it didn't.
C has been around since 1972.
Swift is Apple's Visual Basic.