which shows they really did not care about the "equality" issue all that much
I think you are putting far too modern a "spin" on it. There was apparently a bit of a long term plan (or more like a dream really) to have large space stations some day equivalent to a small town, so there was some curiousity to see if anything unexpected would happen with a woman in space. File it with the much later missions where they kept cosmonauts in space for over a year to see what would happen.
Tereshkova had no training as a pilot prior to becoming a cosmonaut
The US space program had very close links to a series of aircraft test programs and that's really why the Mercury astronauts were test pilots despite nearly everything being controlled from the ground. They didn't really need to be pilots (apparently) until Gemini and Apollo. The Russians didn't really need trained pilots for their early capsules either.
in danger during the flight. An engineer got the calculations wrong
There was a lot of that with most of the early NASA flights since mistakes sometimes don't become obvious until they contact reality. The Mercury, Gemini and even some Apollo missions had a long list of serious problems solved one after the other. Neil Armstrong came very close to blacking out in a Gemini mission when a faulty thruster kept putting the craft into a spin.
Not only did you ignore the subject you've now ignored what I quoted. Perhaps it would have been better for everyone if you had ignored my post above entirely instead of jumping on it in some attempt to prove your superiority.
s really "not very long at all" in the world of gas pipelines
Take a look at the wikipedia article on HVDC or ask your Dad. A distance of 2,385km seems to be very long to me.
Actually I was quoting my dad... an engineer who designs power grids for a living.
Yes I have an uncle who did that for around fifty years but I do not pretend to speak for him, I'm speaking for myself with only a few years experience in the electricity industry and a couple of decades elsewhere - but really we are discussing this at high school level anyway so you should be able to stand on your own two feet here.
Pretending HVDC is some magic bullet
I did not do that. I suggested you consider what the losses actually are. Perhaps you should read the subject heading since you appear to have missed it. I put it there in an attempt to make it more clear that I was not suggesting some not yet existing perfect magic bullet like your superconductor strawman.
It was also extremely offensive when you got this portion of mountain out of the tiny molehill "if you discovered some kind of power generator that produced enough power for the whole world at near-zero cost, but it only worked in one place (yeah, I'm not even going to guess what that might be)" WTF is it with that attack? All I did is mention something that has less losses than the average coder thinks are in electricity transmission. Why build your mountain out of that molehill?
How about you read about the magnitude of those losses (clue: it is not large)and then you'll get a bit of an idea about what is being discussed. There is no need to go off into a tangent about discussing superconductors and pretending a failure there means losses are a total showstopper for any sort of long distance transmission, take a look at what is already being used. Generators do not have to be right next to major cities to be viable.
HVDC isn't that new anyway
Yes. Perhaps you should find out more and you will know why I mentioned it. There is no point attempting to lecture somebody on a topic that they have mentioned when you know very little about the topic yourself, it tends to annoy a great deal. Please take another look at wherever you pasted some text from.
trying to extract as much energy as possible as fast as possible
Considering how expensive various bits of the process are whether you are aiming for a trickle or a flood the only thing that comes anywhere in the ballpark of economic sense is to get as much as you can out of it. Those low power nuclear solutions used in satellites etc still have incredibly expensive to produce fuel. It may be worth getting at least a high school level understanding of the topic before saying "Engineers can be real ass clown geeks".
It sort of should make a lot of sense for Japan due to Japan's reliance on energy imports, but it's been so badly run there that people are not putting up with it. Everywhere else it's a side benefit of a nuclear weapons program with civilian costs lower in places where the weapons program is large and can do a lot of the economic heavy lifting. It's worked better in France, Russia etc than in the USA IMHO because governments were able to push some progress internally. In the USA companies like Westinghouse were happy to just slap a bit of green paint on a 1970s design and court politicians with hookers and blow (MASSIVE PR budget) in the hope that taxpayers money would be thrown at their "private sector" operations. If they actually innovated they could have made a reactor good enough to be able to borrow from a bank to build it.
Self inflicted - this folks is exactly what happens when you spend far more on PR than on R&D. Westinghouse could be rolling in cash selling something far better than their antiquated AP1000 design to an energy hungry China, but they chose instead to slap some green paint on something from the 1970s and call it done.
Westinghouse lobbied AGAINST government nuclear research during the Clinton administration because it was using Thorium and Westinghouse wanted to use their Uranium designs as long as possible. They saw Thorium as a threat to their business model. The US nuclear lobby ate their own children and this is the expected consequence.
The entire point appears to be to pretend that all ills come from "SJWs" whatever the fuck that means today. Meanwhile in reality a very traditional American right wing boss who thinks he owns people after they have gone home, and is a puritan to boot, has done exactly what Henry Ford (or Rockefeller or Hearst if you prefer them instead), would have done back in the day.
Not just photos and video, there was a guy that ran a wildlife sanctuary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fleay_Wildlife_Park) who was very proud of the thylacine teeth marks on his buttocks. Sadly he is also extinct.
The common name is "Tasmanian Tiger" and you can have it in Queensland just like you can have "Texas Chilli" in Castle Rock Maine:)
in one, and only one, location
Things have been seen in a lot of places in Australia. They are probably just large dogs but get mistaken for other stuff up to and including panthers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_cat).
I heard about this project a few days ago. It's a camera trap survey to see what is out there and someone half-jokingly mentioned a thylacine since people claim to have seen them in the area. It's nice to dream and think that maybe some thylacines survived because dingoes generally don't live in rainforest but if they had it's almost certain that someone would have noticed them by now (probably a hungry dingo).
You are also conflating 'conservative' with 'religious'
There are a lot of God-botherers (they don't act in a Christian way, the "Jesus hates poor people that's why they are poor" bunch) who are in it for the politics and power and just put on the badge of religion for convenience. Take note of all the "evangelicals" who tried to pretend that Church-going Hillary was not religious, but somehow Trump was. So they do it themselves. Also the badge of 'conservative' is a fiction - they are fucking reactionaries.
You're agreeing with the far left histrionics that lead to this guy getting fired
Massive reading comprehension failure - or did you reply to the wrong post - or are you just pretending to be stupid for the sake of having someone to attack? I agree with YOU that the action of kicking the guy off the project for what he does in his off hours is ideological bullshit - puritan bullshit in this case of fuckwits who think they should enforce what is done in bedrooms and right wing bullshit in the case of bosses thinking they own employees outside of work hours. Far side of crazy - not conservative, middle or left.
This asshole shares your ideology
Bzzt - wrong. You not only have no idea of my ideology (since I was talking about others) but you've got the tiny little bits I've written about ideology utterly backwards. I agree with you about the action, I'm only pointing out that you are trying to blame it on the sort of people that would also agree with you about this action. It appears that in your anger you've decided that there are only two ideologies, right and wrong, so you are blaming everything you see as wrong on the same bunch of people whether they also see it as wrong on not. I don't think you are really that dumb when you are not angry.
You're agreeing with the far left histrionics that lead to this guy getting fired, but blaming it on the far right.
No, you've got it utterly backwards. I'm pointing out that this is puritan bedroom enforcement shit from the far side of crazy but people are blaming this on the left who do not care what you get up to in your bedrooms.
It's this sort of puritan fsr right shit that makes people shake their heads and say "only in America".
there is no way to justify villifying someone because of their private and consensual bedroom activities
.I agree with you on that (as you should have worked out from reading my post).
You're on the wrong side of this argument.
How about reading what I have written instead of putting words in my mouth. I'm arguing AGAINST this puritan shit combined with a boss thinking they own somebody in their off hours - both very much an affliction of the nasty end of the far right (not conservative - reactionary) and the complete polar opposite of anything to do with social justice.
I don't mind getting modded down to zero but what sort of idiots modded the whining Godwin rant above up to 5? Comparing a guy getting kicked out of a project to mass murder - how is that insightful?
"Nominally" is the important word. A combination of bosses that think they own you after hours and a puritan streak strikes yet again. While it happens in a other places it's still a very American problem and is kind of expected. Those who call themselves liberals still gasp at something as trivial as a bare nipple at the superbowl and would hound breastfeeding women out of their workplace - so exact same thing because they are the exact same thing apart from cosmetic factors.
The main point is SJWs ignore all context and focus on emotional arguments instead of logical ones
We have a new personal definition folks! So there it is, a meaningless substitute for the insult of "commie" that also fits any situation depending on what the insulter wants it to mean at the time. The irony should also be noted considering what the AC poster is doing and what definition they have give for SJW - what's more emotional than a substitute for an expletive?
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I think you are putting far too modern a "spin" on it. There was apparently a bit of a long term plan (or more like a dream really) to have large space stations some day equivalent to a small town, so there was some curiousity to see if anything unexpected would happen with a woman in space. File it with the much later missions where they kept cosmonauts in space for over a year to see what would happen.
The US space program had very close links to a series of aircraft test programs and that's really why the Mercury astronauts were test pilots despite nearly everything being controlled from the ground. They didn't really need to be pilots (apparently) until Gemini and Apollo. The Russians didn't really need trained pilots for their early capsules either.
There was a lot of that with most of the early NASA flights since mistakes sometimes don't become obvious until they contact reality. The Mercury, Gemini and even some Apollo missions had a long list of serious problems solved one after the other. Neil Armstrong came very close to blacking out in a Gemini mission when a faulty thruster kept putting the craft into a spin.
Not only did you ignore the subject you've now ignored what I quoted.
Perhaps it would have been better for everyone if you had ignored my post above entirely instead of jumping on it in some attempt to prove your superiority.
Take a look at the wikipedia article on HVDC or ask your Dad. A distance of 2,385km seems to be very long to me.
Yes I have an uncle who did that for around fifty years but I do not pretend to speak for him, I'm speaking for myself with only a few years experience in the electricity industry and a couple of decades elsewhere - but really we are discussing this at high school level anyway so you should be able to stand on your own two feet here.
I did not do that. I suggested you consider what the losses actually are. Perhaps you should read the subject heading since you appear to have missed it. I put it there in an attempt to make it more clear that I was not suggesting some not yet existing perfect magic bullet like your superconductor strawman.
It was also extremely offensive when you got this portion of mountain out of the tiny molehill "if you discovered some kind of power generator that produced enough power for the whole world at near-zero cost, but it only worked in one place (yeah, I'm not even going to guess what that might be)"
WTF is it with that attack? All I did is mention something that has less losses than the average coder thinks are in electricity transmission. Why build your mountain out of that molehill?
Yes. Perhaps you should find out more and you will know why I mentioned it. There is no point attempting to lecture somebody on a topic that they have mentioned when you know very little about the topic yourself, it tends to annoy a great deal. Please take another look at wherever you pasted some text from.
Considering how expensive various bits of the process are whether you are aiming for a trickle or a flood the only thing that comes anywhere in the ballpark of economic sense is to get as much as you can out of it.
Those low power nuclear solutions used in satellites etc still have incredibly expensive to produce fuel. It may be worth getting at least a high school level understanding of the topic before saying "Engineers can be real ass clown geeks".
Somebody needs a dictionary instead of "Atlas Shrugged".
HVDC has become a "real thing" since you went to school (or it was under the radar of your teachers). It's not just computers that have progressed.
Look up HVDC. It is on wikipedia now.
Isn't it lucky that we already have a lot of them and that more are being built all of the time.
It sort of should make a lot of sense for Japan due to Japan's reliance on energy imports, but it's been so badly run there that people are not putting up with it.
Everywhere else it's a side benefit of a nuclear weapons program with civilian costs lower in places where the weapons program is large and can do a lot of the economic heavy lifting. It's worked better in France, Russia etc than in the USA IMHO because governments were able to push some progress internally. In the USA companies like Westinghouse were happy to just slap a bit of green paint on a 1970s design and court politicians with hookers and blow (MASSIVE PR budget) in the hope that taxpayers money would be thrown at their "private sector" operations.
If they actually innovated they could have made a reactor good enough to be able to borrow from a bank to build it.
Spending more on PR than R&D for a couple of decades and sacking most of the people who know how to design reactors was a bad idea.
Self inflicted - this folks is exactly what happens when you spend far more on PR than on R&D.
Westinghouse could be rolling in cash selling something far better than their antiquated AP1000 design to an energy hungry China, but they chose instead to slap some green paint on something from the 1970s and call it done.
Westinghouse lobbied AGAINST government nuclear research during the Clinton administration because it was using Thorium and Westinghouse wanted to use their Uranium designs as long as possible. They saw Thorium as a threat to their business model.
The US nuclear lobby ate their own children and this is the expected consequence.
The entire point appears to be to pretend that all ills come from "SJWs" whatever the fuck that means today.
Meanwhile in reality a very traditional American right wing boss who thinks he owns people after they have gone home, and is a puritan to boot, has done exactly what Henry Ford (or Rockefeller or Hearst if you prefer them instead), would have done back in the day.
Not just photos and video, there was a guy that ran a wildlife sanctuary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fleay_Wildlife_Park) who was very proud of the thylacine teeth marks on his buttocks.
Sadly he is also extinct.
No those things would be fine. It's the eagles that ate them you'd have to watch out for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haast%27s_eagle
Things have been seen in a lot of places in Australia. They are probably just large dogs but get mistaken for other stuff up to and including panthers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_cat).
I heard about this project a few days ago. It's a camera trap survey to see what is out there and someone half-jokingly mentioned a thylacine since people claim to have seen them in the area.
It's nice to dream and think that maybe some thylacines survived because dingoes generally don't live in rainforest but if they had it's almost certain that someone would have noticed them by now (probably a hungry dingo).
Nice strawman you've got there kid. Shame that it doesn't exist.
WTF did you people do in school? Ever thought to crack open a book?
There are a lot of God-botherers (they don't act in a Christian way, the "Jesus hates poor people that's why they are poor" bunch) who are in it for the politics and power and just put on the badge of religion for convenience. Take note of all the "evangelicals" who tried to pretend that Church-going Hillary was not religious, but somehow Trump was. So they do it themselves. Also the badge of 'conservative' is a fiction - they are fucking reactionaries.
Massive reading comprehension failure - or did you reply to the wrong post - or are you just pretending to be stupid for the sake of having someone to attack? I agree with YOU that the action of kicking the guy off the project for what he does in his off hours is ideological bullshit - puritan bullshit in this case of fuckwits who think they should enforce what is done in bedrooms and right wing bullshit in the case of bosses thinking they own employees outside of work hours. Far side of crazy - not conservative, middle or left.
Bzzt - wrong. You not only have no idea of my ideology (since I was talking about others) but you've got the tiny little bits I've written about ideology utterly backwards. I agree with you about the action, I'm only pointing out that you are trying to blame it on the sort of people that would also agree with you about this action.
It appears that in your anger you've decided that there are only two ideologies, right and wrong, so you are blaming everything you see as wrong on the same bunch of people whether they also see it as wrong on not. I don't think you are really that dumb when you are not angry.
No, you've got it utterly backwards. I'm pointing out that this is puritan bedroom enforcement shit from the far side of crazy but people are blaming this on the left who do not care what you get up to in your bedrooms.
It's this sort of puritan fsr right shit that makes people shake their heads and say "only in America".
.I agree with you on that (as you should have worked out from reading my post).
How about reading what I have written instead of putting words in my mouth.
I'm arguing AGAINST this puritan shit combined with a boss thinking they own somebody in their off hours - both very much an affliction of the nasty end of the far right (not conservative - reactionary) and the complete polar opposite of anything to do with social justice.
I don't mind getting modded down to zero but what sort of idiots modded the whining Godwin rant above up to 5? Comparing a guy getting kicked out of a project to mass murder - how is that insightful?
"Nominally" is the important word. A combination of bosses that think they own you after hours and a puritan streak strikes yet again.
While it happens in a other places it's still a very American problem and is kind of expected. Those who call themselves liberals still gasp at something as trivial as a bare nipple at the superbowl and would hound breastfeeding women out of their workplace - so exact same thing because they are the exact same thing apart from cosmetic factors.
We have a new personal definition folks!
So there it is, a meaningless substitute for the insult of "commie" that also fits any situation depending on what the insulter wants it to mean at the time.
The irony should also be noted considering what the AC poster is doing and what definition they have give for SJW - what's more emotional than a substitute for an expletive?