So two failures on the Falcon 9. Not bad for 28 launches
You're right. A 7.2% failure rate is horrible. (The Delta IV has a 3% failure rate, the Atlas V only 1.5% and the Ariane V a 2.3% rate. Only the Proton is worse, at 13% but that's since 1965.)
It's as though the astroturfing on SpaceX has kicked up recently.
Are you accusing me of being a paid agent of United Launch Alliance?
Instead of the ambition to send people in giant ships to Mars, how about the ambition to fix the God damned space ships he's got now that regularly fail to get into LEO?
1) 90% of our cells are bacteria. 2) The other 10% have endsymbionts (aka mitochondria) in them. 3) Much of our DNA has been "infected" by viruses. 4) Most people on the planet are content to live like sheep (do what their fathers did, and their fathers before them, while happily following a strong leader).
The number of energy sources is great, but at what wattage are they sending them (I bet "low"), and how many are directed beam?
Remember that of all the energy that stars send out (the Sun emits 3.8 x 10^26 watts), only a minuscule fraction of photons reach us. How many photons from a 1,000 watt source will arrive at Gliese 823?
would know that TV and radio -- except for AM -- transmitters are designed so as not to radiate energy where it's wasted (like, for example, towards the sky). Plus, of course, the transition to fiber optics reducing EM emissions even further.
If we figured that out pretty soon after inventing radio, it stands to reason that ETs would have also.
If you're smart enough to realize you live in a flawed society, you should be smart enough not to do things that have a high-enough profile they're almost guaranteed to get the jackboots standing on your neck.
10% of all Tor traffic is used by such people. The rest are people engaged in some degree or another of crime. (Unfortunately, I can't find the citation.)
Seeing that there's no longer blah blah blah, the 2nd no longer has justification.
Since there's no longer anyone alive who was born a slave in the US who needs to become a citizen, the 14th amendment no longer has justification either.
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Or are you just one of those retards who thinks everybody should work on the same thing at the same time?
No organization has unlimited resources. At some point, "other projects" distract from the mission that pays the bills.
"I didnâ(TM)t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."
But was he selling those first 1,000 bulb variations at US$50M to paying customers?
So two failures on the Falcon 9. Not bad for 28 launches
You're right. A 7.2% failure rate is horrible. (The Delta IV has a 3% failure rate, the Atlas V only 1.5% and the Ariane V a 2.3% rate. Only the Proton is worse, at 13% but that's since 1965.)
It's as though the astroturfing on SpaceX has kicked up recently.
Are you accusing me of being a paid agent of United Launch Alliance?
I respect his ambition and his vision.
Instead of the ambition to send people in giant ships to Mars, how about the ambition to fix the God damned space ships he's got now that regularly fail to get into LEO?
1) 90% of our cells are bacteria.
2) The other 10% have endsymbionts (aka mitochondria) in them.
3) Much of our DNA has been "infected" by viruses.
4) Most people on the planet are content to live like sheep (do what their fathers did, and their fathers before them, while happily following a strong leader).
Baa-aah.
We don't have any clue how to cross large distances in space
Sure we do. It (generation ships) just takes *lots* of money and a *lot* of time.
That's a lot of energy being directed into space.
The number of energy sources is great, but at what wattage are they sending them (I bet "low"), and how many are directed beam?
Remember that of all the energy that stars send out (the Sun emits 3.8 x 10^26 watts), only a minuscule fraction of photons reach us. How many photons from a 1,000 watt source will arrive at Gliese 823?
As long as my offspring get to transmit their DNA in relative peace and prosperity...
9,000 miles (London to Cape Town, a month on a steamship) isn't too comparable to interstellar travel.
Squirrels *are* tasty. But more to the point... traveling 16 light years to catch some squirrels seems pretty expensive.
would know that TV and radio -- except for AM -- transmitters are designed so as not to radiate energy where it's wasted (like, for example, towards the sky). Plus, of course, the transition to fiber optics reducing EM emissions even further.
If we figured that out pretty soon after inventing radio, it stands to reason that ETs would have also.
If you're smart enough to realize you live in a flawed society, you should be smart enough not to do things that have a high-enough profile they're almost guaranteed to get the jackboots standing on your neck.
10% of all Tor traffic is used by such people. The rest are people engaged in some degree or another of crime. (Unfortunately, I can't find the citation.)
Don't change the subject.
the country would have been Slashdotted.
Seeing that there's no longer blah blah blah, the 2nd no longer has justification.
Since there's no longer anyone alive who was born a slave in the US who needs to become a citizen, the 14th amendment no longer has justification either.
(See, two can play at that game!)
Print the code for the lower receiver in a book.
That was certainly true in the 1950s. I wonder if it's also true in 2016.
If I wanted an operating system to watch YT videos, I'd use Hurd!!!
Your attitude is why Russian hackers are stomping all over US computers.
First thing I thought was "prime enemy target".
Then, "WW1 observation balloons", which were also prime enemy targets.
A mental health issue is ...
so broad as to be meaningless.
The UK generally accomodates mental health issues in prison.
Asperger's is a mental disease?
His defense team wants to set a precedent that Asperger's Syndrome is a Get Out Of Jail Free card.
Airplane (and ship) pilots are highly trained with years of "apprenticeship" as co-pilot.
Automobile "pilots"? Not so much.