This has been the case since the Industrial Revolution. The solution back then was to ban child labor and reduce work hours. Today they are doing the opposite because they could care less about how the "poor people" live.
The problem is the weight of the reactor especially if the car needs to carry live humans inside. They had enough trouble with nuclear propulsion in the atmosphere with Project Pluto in the 1960s. The Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion in the 1950s tried to do this for bombers but even there the weight was an issue.
PS: Probably most of the people doing computer science already had established teams for years by now and she expected to get a group by doing nothing. Things are more complicated than that.
When I got to the 2nd year a lot of the people I used to group with had given up on computer science. I simply ASKED people which I deemed suitable in the first couple of days of the new semester. I never had spoken with them before and in fact they previously were attending a different schedule. I continued working with these people in an on/off basis until I finished my degree.
That is a typical male response to avoid group envy. Plus to protect the female. Of course if she wanted to work with someone she could try ASKING. I am not very social and I did that more than once.
Arianespace is the premier commercial launch company in the world and they delay launches all the time. It is better to delay a launch than to have an unsuccessful launch. Quite often the launch company has to wait for the satellites to be completed before the launch and I bet that is where a lot of the delays are. Also SpaceX has needed to ramp up production and procure more launch sites to satisfy their quite hefty order log. That cannot be done in an instant.
In fact the customer of that secondary payload which crashed on reentry was NOT the government but a private company called Orbcomm. They were so dissatisfied with SpaceX in that case, which was covered by insurance BTW, that they continued their contract their SpaceX. SpaceX successfully launched 6 of those same satellites for Orbcomm on July 14.
That was a partial failure and the only reason the satellite was not deployed at the proper orbit was because NASA, which had the primary payload in that mission, requested that their payload not be delayed to deploy that satellite. That was a test satellite, the launch cost was peanuts as it was deployed as a secondary payload, and they still managed to test most of its systems in space before it crashed down. So to call it a mission failure is a misnomer.
The Space Shuttle Main Engines used Liquid Hydrogen and Liquid Oxygen which was stored in the External Tank. The Solid Rocket Boosters are the ones which used Aluminum. Hydrazine was used in the Reaction Control System and Orbit Maneuvering System.
rules are different for them than they would be if NASA themselves built the rockets
NASA does not build a damned thing. ULA (Lockheed Martin, Boeing) builds the EELV rockets. SLS is being build by ATK while Orion is built by Lockheed Martin.
This is just ULA being afraid they will lose their iron rice bowl.
This is why the world "renewable" is such a misnomer. Oil is also a renewable resource. It formed naturally on the Earth and is continuously replenishing itself. Some say the replenishing rate is higher than our current consumption rate but that does not make it any less renewable. Same thing for coal.
Both solar pv and windmills are powered by the energy of the sun so they are both ways of harnessing a natural fusion power source.
'Renewable' fuels are a misnomer. The sun will run out of fuel too sometime. When that happens you can forget about solar panels or windmills.
Of course that's in geological timescales so it does not matter. There is enough nuclear fission fuel to last for thousands of years so that is irrelevant as well. As for oil we have been using it for over a century by now and it seems we haven't ran out of it yet.
The main back story plot point of the botched first contact was fine. You have to remember their leader died in that first contact. Wars start for all sorts of stupid reasons. As for the number of fatalities being low that is explained as they mostly fought in the colonies or in space where few people actually lived. If they actually started bombarding Earth as they planned then the fatalities would increase a lot.
There's a lot of useless land to stick waste into. Besides solar pv cell manufacturing is not clean either as it uses a lot of solvents. Most of them are manufactured in China and you know how well the Chinese care about dumping acids in the river.
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This has been the case since the Industrial Revolution. The solution back then was to ban child labor and reduce work hours. Today they are doing the opposite because they could care less about how the "poor people" live.
The problem is the weight of the reactor especially if the car needs to carry live humans inside. They had enough trouble with nuclear propulsion in the atmosphere with Project Pluto in the 1960s. The Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion in the 1950s tried to do this for bombers but even there the weight was an issue.
Would the fact that I'm a woman help me?
Probably.
Suppose I dropped hints that I was a lesbian. Would that help my chances of getting hired?
Yep.
Suppose I dropped hints that my grandfather was from Mexico. Would that help me?
No way.
PS: Probably most of the people doing computer science already had established teams for years by now and she expected to get a group by doing nothing. Things are more complicated than that.
When I got to the 2nd year a lot of the people I used to group with had given up on computer science. I simply ASKED people which I deemed suitable in the first couple of days of the new semester. I never had spoken with them before and in fact they previously were attending a different schedule. I continued working with these people in an on/off basis until I finished my degree.
That is a typical male response to avoid group envy. Plus to protect the female. Of course if she wanted to work with someone she could try ASKING. I am not very social and I did that more than once.
Somehow I bet most of the non-male, white, non-asians no-college degrees are 'Geniuses' at a store at best.
Arianespace is the premier commercial launch company in the world and they delay launches all the time. It is better to delay a launch than to have an unsuccessful launch. Quite often the launch company has to wait for the satellites to be completed before the launch and I bet that is where a lot of the delays are. Also SpaceX has needed to ramp up production and procure more launch sites to satisfy their quite hefty order log. That cannot be done in an instant.
In fact the customer of that secondary payload which crashed on reentry was NOT the government but a private company called Orbcomm. They were so dissatisfied with SpaceX in that case, which was covered by insurance BTW, that they continued their contract their SpaceX. SpaceX successfully launched 6 of those same satellites for Orbcomm on July 14.
That was a partial failure and the only reason the satellite was not deployed at the proper orbit was because NASA, which had the primary payload in that mission, requested that their payload not be delayed to deploy that satellite. That was a test satellite, the launch cost was peanuts as it was deployed as a secondary payload, and they still managed to test most of its systems in space before it crashed down. So to call it a mission failure is a misnomer.
The Space Shuttle Main Engines used Liquid Hydrogen and Liquid Oxygen which was stored in the External Tank. The Solid Rocket Boosters are the ones which used Aluminum. Hydrazine was used in the Reaction Control System and Orbit Maneuvering System.
rules are different for them than they would be if NASA themselves built the rockets
NASA does not build a damned thing. ULA (Lockheed Martin, Boeing) builds the EELV rockets. SLS is being build by ATK while Orion is built by Lockheed Martin.
This is just ULA being afraid they will lose their iron rice bowl.
Imagine if I covered the sun with a Dyson sphere blanketed with solar panels. Would solar power stop being a "renewable" then?
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This is why the world "renewable" is such a misnomer. Oil is also a renewable resource. It formed naturally on the Earth and is continuously replenishing itself. Some say the replenishing rate is higher than our current consumption rate but that does not make it any less renewable. Same thing for coal.
Both solar pv and windmills are powered by the energy of the sun so they are both ways of harnessing a natural fusion power source.
Nothing new considering William Gibson wrote Neuromancer in the 1980s.
Go to Wikipedia and read the entry on Entropy.
'Renewable' fuels are a misnomer. The sun will run out of fuel too sometime. When that happens you can forget about solar panels or windmills.
Of course that's in geological timescales so it does not matter. There is enough nuclear fission fuel to last for thousands of years so that is irrelevant as well. As for oil we have been using it for over a century by now and it seems we haven't ran out of it yet.
The main back story plot point of the botched first contact was fine. You have to remember their leader died in that first contact. Wars start for all sorts of stupid reasons. As for the number of fatalities being low that is explained as they mostly fought in the colonies or in space where few people actually lived. If they actually started bombarding Earth as they planned then the fatalities would increase a lot.
But by collecting the data and storing it they make it available to government requests asking for it.
They probably use it as a unique id to identify users. Apple and Google do the same.
don't use an address book, memorize your friends numbers
Useless since they keep logs of who you called.
don't have more than two friends. That will minimize your exposure
It also means you can be safely disposed of without anyone caring a fuck.
He also was CEO of Pure Software. The guys who did the Purify malloc debugging tool for UNIX. Being in the board of directors does not mean much.
There's a lot of useless land to stick waste into. Besides solar pv cell manufacturing is not clean either as it uses a lot of solvents. Most of them are manufactured in China and you know how well the Chinese care about dumping acids in the river.
Use gas e.g. propane for water heating.
It is doable. For example read about the Fischer–Tropsch process, hybrid sulfur cycle, carbon dioxide reduction.